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12 BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE May 30, 1976 $oton (globe NEWS SECTION Economy 191024 1 ft I Budget approved by Mass. House is loaded with 'ifsr PEOPLE of New England He a warrior in the bug battle Tve seen, says exterminator in By Maria Karagianis -Globe Staff Ben Buono beamed his flashlight back and forth in lies with Dependent Children (AFDC) account by about $10 million. Administration officials also say that the $37 million the House included for a 5 percent cost-of-living increase for wel- fare recipients will not cover the full increase. When the administration first considered a similar cost-of-living increase, they said it would cost $63 million. if if 4- According to State House 'Sources, By Jonathan Fuerbringer Globe Staff The $3.8 billion state budget that' Speaker Thomas W.

McGee pushed through the Massachusetts House of Representatives in two all-day and all-night sessions last week, is full of "ifs." In a state budget, the "ifs" are. all money, and if they fall the wrong way, the budget, as some people are already predicting, will be millions of dollars out of balance. Republicans and some Democrats said the budget as approved will fall short of covering expenses and result in a defi- ciency budget next spring. The Massa-' chusetts Taxpayers Foundation predicted that the $3.8 billion. House budget is at least $100 million out of balance.

At the top of the list is the $1.27 billion welfare budget, which represents almost one third of the total state budget. The House cut $60 million from Gov. Michael S. Dukakis's $560 million request for the Medicaid portion of the Welfare budget. The administration said the $500 million is not enough.

Human Services Secretary Jerald L. Stevens is already saying the, cost-of-living increase may be for "only six months because of the cuts, The two savings measures for Medicaid were scrapped just before midnight vrv. i 1 the gloom of a Belmont cellar. Suddenly the light stopped on a six-legged creature doing the backstroke in a puddle. "There," he said.

With a swift gesture, he crushed the offender with his fingers. "In this business," said Buono, "what you need is eyes real sharp eyes. Why, sometimes I'm eating dinner in a restaurant with my wife and I'll spot a roach running 100 yards away. It's just something you Ben Buono is an exterminator, a warrior in the everlasting battle against household pests. It is a battle waged in ramshackle tenements and elegant town-houses, in rat-infested basements or country estates.

Cockroaches, termites, silverfish, earwigs, carpenter ants, bats, rats, mice, seagulls, wasps and bees are the enemy. Each year, they cost Massachusetts residents hundreds of thousands of dollars. And if that wasn't enough, most provoke in their unwilling hosts feelings ranging from repulsion to hysteria. "Some people get really uptight when they find roaches, hysterical even," said Buono. "Lots of times I have td calm them down, sort of like a doctor would." An affable, 30-year-old veteran of the Vietnam War, Buono sold insurance for a year, before becoming an exterminator five years ago with the Waltham Chemical Co.

"I was looking for a job with mobility," he explained. "I wanted something secure and a job where I could be pretty much my own boss." EXTERMINATOR, Page 14 hew 1 i 'Sri) p7 vivy 1 rrj Friday. The first was a freeze on rate increases for nursing homes or hospitals, I which eat up about $400 million of the Medicaid budget. The freeze was suddenly junked because the House leadership said it is apparently unconstitutional. It was replaced with a 5 percent limit on rate increases and a provision that any increase granted by the State Rate Setting Commission be approved by the Legislature.

Mb t. David Cox, 14, of South Boston lays memorial flags on graves at Mount Hope Cemetery in Boston. Story, Page 14. (Globe photo by William Curtis) The House also cut the Aid to Fami- BUDGET, Page 15 reak in water main floods downtown Salem SALEM An antiquated 36-inch water main burst in the downtown section here last night, leaving an estimated 1100 homes without water and flooding streets and a Boston Maine railroad tunnel. Rail service for most of the North Shore was disrupted.

Public works employees from Salem, Lynn, Beverly and Peabody were trying to find the source of the break, believed to be on Howard street near Bridge street The rpassenger runs on the route are all self-propelled Budd cars and are operated in conjunction with the MBTA; In the past when either the tunnel or the nearby Beverly-Salem railroad bridge have been out of service bus 'service has been established between Beyer-ly and Salem with trains servingfeach end. 1 In the 1961 flood it took nearly, two weeks for crews to pump the tunnel clear. In some sections the water was well over 10 feet deep. The tunnel, rebuilt and extended about 20 years ago, runs under the center of the city." Because the original tunnel, was not as high as the new hole, the had to maintain special lines through Peabody and Lynnfield to take "high freight" cars around the tunnel. using its own emergency water supply.

officials said rail service through Salem was halted. Commuters were being taken to the Salem line by, rail and then shifted to buses for the trip to Beverly, where Buddliner service resumed. A official said three pumps at the Salem tunnel were not operational and that service would not resume until today at the earliest. The Boston Maine line, which runs through the tunnel, is part of the eastern route. Trains from Boston go through Everett, Chelsea, Revere, Lynn and Swampscott into Salem before going through the tunnel on to Beverly.

At Beverly the line splits, with some runs going onto the Gloucester branch eventually to Rockport. Others continue on the eastern route to Ipswich. Freight service on the eastern route goes farther north to Portsmouth, N.H. tion of the city near Beverly Bridge. In 1961 the tunnel was flooded by another break.

Because of low pressure, fire apparatus from surrounding communities, including a 1000-gallon tanker from Beverly, stood by in case of fire. None was reported last night. Smedile said 100 men were working to find the break on Howard street, where water was running three to four feet deep. Flooding from the break would have been worse but for the nearby North River into which much of the flood water was running, according to Police Capt. Andrew Coughlin.

Smedile said workmen were trying to shut down the broken main but shut-off valves were old and were breaking down. The affected main itself, he said, is at least 100 years old. Salem Hospital reported that it was and the public works Civil Defense Director John S. Sme- dile said the break at 6:15 p.m. flooded a large section of Bridge street.

He said 10 to 15 percent of the city's homes about 1100 with 4000 residents were without water and that water pres sure was low in most of the rest of the city. Last night's was the city's third major water problem in recent years. In 1971 a water main break flooded a sec An effort to improve arm HpilllllilBilllllill health it evere Ben Buono at work battling household pests. His travels take him from ghetto apartments to elegant suburban mansions. (Globe photo by Charles Dixon) By Richard Knox Globe Staff While the Revere Memorial Hospital goes through what many local people consider its death throes, another effort to overcome the city's desperate lack of health resources is struggling to be born.

The Revere Community Health Center opened quietly about three weeks ago with a half-time pediatrician and high ambitions to become the centerpiece of a "network" of community-based family care resources for this medically impoverished blue-collar city of 44,333. The fledgling health center in the basement of the city, health department building still lacks its own telephone, but so far it has cared for about 25 children, 90 percent of them from welfare families. Meanwhile, Revere's attention has NEWS ANALYSIS been preoccupied with the fate of its only hospital, an anachronistic little institution on Proctor avenue that the state health commissioner declared last week to be unsafe for anyone who needs hospital care. Since April 11 when local residents read in the newspaper that one of the hospital's most active surgeons was being suspended from Medicaid because of allegedly improper medical care and irregular billing practices the talk of the town has been of Revere Memorial's fierce internal battles over who runs it, punctuated by periodic warnings from REVERE, Page 14 Court rules out school for girl, 4 N.H. decision called blow to handicapped United Press International CONCORD, N.H.

The New Hampshire Supreme Court yesterday refused to order assignment of 4-year-old Mauriah Swain to a publicly-supported pre-school education program to overcome her speech defect. The decision was seen as a blow to all pre-school handicapped children in New Hampshire whose parents want them to receive special training at an early age when experts say many defects' are more likely to be easily corrected. A recent state law requires that all handicapped children up to age 21 be assigned to special education programs; The court said the language of the law requires a child to attend an approved school or program if he is Dr. William R. Van Arsdell, of Revere health center, attends to visit from Kim-berley Kennedy, 2, and her mother, Mrs.

Andy Kennedy. (Edward Jenner photo) Adult book store influx leaves Vermont dazed assigned to one, but does not require that the school board make such an assignment. The court said it believed the legislature did not intend immediate blanket coverage of all handicapped children of all ages. "I think the decision is unfortunate. I don't believe it correctly expresses the legislative intent," said Rep.

By Richard H. Stewart New England Correspondent MONTPELIER Nine men walked into an "adult" book store in the little town of Williston and, surrounded by photos of nude men and women, began reading from their Bibles and chanting "Jesus, save this man." The store' manager, object of their pleas for salvation, finally had to summon police to remove them when the men refused to end their impromptu prayer meeting. The influx of such stores across this state has sent everyone from the attorney general to local boards of selectmen to the law books to find some way to prevent the spread. ferred to as marital aids. Each of the stores also has several movies booths which provide "peep shows" for 25 cents.

Napoletano has challenged the legal actions in every community and, thus far none of the stores has been closed pending the outcome of the court The ultimate legal test might come in the US Supreme Court. Consensus among many Vermont attorneys, including the attorney, general, is that the local communities are powerless to act against the stores. Atty. Gen. Jerome Diamond, who normally does not issue legal opinions for local communities, was forced to issue an "informal" opinion because of the outcry across the state.

I The opinion was not encouraging to the communities. In summary, it said that current Vermont statutes prohibit the sale, display, or distribution of obscene material to persons under 18 years of age but puts no regulations on It also pointed out that local officials cannot adopt ordinances that are inconsistent with state law. Rutland's ordinance, for example, went beyond the state statute by broadening the law to cover adults. Since 1974, Napoletano has operated a book store in the town of Pownal in the southwest corner of the state. No hue and cry ensued.

BOOKSTORES, Page 14 In Berlin, the selectmen, acting as the board of health, declared the store in their town a health hazard and ordered it closed. Rutland aldermen, acting to head off a proposed store in their city, adopted with dissent the first obscenity ordinance in the state. Owners of the several buildings in which the stores are located have gone to court to try to evict the book stores. And scores of cities and towns have directed their legal counsels to advise them as to how to prevent similar stores from opening in their communities. Target of the legal hassle is Nicola Napoletano, 28, of Worcester, operator of the cut-rate shops that sell magazines, home movies and devices re Anthony McManus (R-Dover), lawyer for Mauriah's parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Ralph Swain of Barrington. "I was there when the age limit was lowered to zero, and it was my understanding at the time the same provisions that had previously applied to school age children were now intended to apply to pre-school age children. The court seems to find a distinction in the statute that I don't think exists," McManus said. SWAIN, Page 13 i.