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22 The Boiton Globe Thursday, November 23, 1978 MASSACHUSETTS NEWS IN BRIEF II Boston antiques dealer found guilty secession in Vermont For the fourth time in seven years voters in Essex A Boston antiques dealer was found guilty yesterday in Portland, Maine, of three counts of receiving stolen antiques transported across state lines. The US District Court jury convicted Charles B. Lalli, 40, owner of the Boston Auction Gallery, on three counts involving antiques worth an estimated $40,000. They included antique firearms, furniture and glassware, among other objects. Who will pay the Rep.

Charles Buffone (D-Worcester) said yesterday Junction, rejected a proposal to secede from the town of Essex. In a 1147-718 vote Tuesday, residents turned down the proposal which would have made Essex Junction an independent city. Worcester bus strike ends The 111-day Worcester bus strike ended yesterday after bus drivers overwhelmingly approved a three-year contract. Drivers voted 150 to 7 to accept the contract which calls for $.25 an hour wage increase and retains a cost-of-living increase. Mechanics reported to work immediately after the vote, and company officials said they hoped to have the buses back on the road by Saturday.

US court upholds bombing comiclion The US Court of Appeals yesterday upheld the conviction of Francis Salemme, who is serving 28-30 years for planting a bomb in the car of former Everett lawyer John E. Fitzgerald Jr. in 1968. Fitzgerald, who lost a leg when the bomb exploded, was the lawyer for Mafia informer Joseph (Barboza) Baron. Salemme's lawyer argued unsuccessfully that his client was convicted on a "guilt by association" theory because Fitzgerald was allowed to inject the names of reputed organized crime leaders Raymond Patriarca and Gennaro Angiulo into his testimony at Salemme's Middlesex Superior Court trial.

Arruda case to grand jury A grand jury will hear evidence next Monday on the slaying of 15-year-old Mary Arruda, Bristol County Dist. Atty. John A. Tierney said yesterday. However, Tierney said he did not expect indictments to be issued immediately in the case.

The body of the Raynham girl was discovered Nov. 11 tied to a tree in the Freetown State Forest about seven miles from where she disappeared Sept. 8. Tierney said he had no knowledge of a witness who reportedly contacted the Arruda family Monday. Adrian Arruda, the dead girl's father, said the man asked for a meeting at a Fall River doughnut shop.

He said the man told him he was picking mushrooms in the park the day the Arruda girl disappeared. Bird sightings that National Guardsmen who participated in the search for 4-year-old Andrew Amato, of Webster, still have not been paid. Buffone said that $20,000 was approved by Gov. Michael S. Dukakis to pay members of the Guard, but John R.

Buckley, the administration and finance secretary, said there is no money in the emergency fund to pay the men. 2 youths get 813,000 in holdup Police are looking for two teenagers who nervously held up the Raynham branch of the New Bedford Five-Cent Savings Bank yesterday. Police said one of the two young men held a .32 caliber handgun, but his hand was shaking noticeably. Police said the youths got away with $13,000 in cash, Police later found an abandoned automobile, believed to be the getaway car. Recent bird sightings in eastern Massachusetts, as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society are listed: At Horn Pond in Woburn there were 2 pied-billed grebes, 3 gadwalls, 13 American wigeons and 8 American coot.

In Concord at the Great Meadows National Wildlife Rehige there were 7 great blue herons. 39 gadwalls, 5 northern shovelers and 15 pintails. Five pied-billed grebes were seen at Heard's Pond in Wayland. An adult goshawk was observed chasing a morning dove In Littleton, and a pileat-ed woodpecker was seen in Lincoln. In East Brooktietd at Lake Quabog there were 17 common mergansers 4 canvas-backs, 20 common goldeneyes, 10 rlng-necked ducks, 2 ruddy ducks, 1 50 American coot, 20 pied-billed grebes, 9 greater scaup.

1 brant, and a black-bellied plover. At Cape Ann there were 50 great cormorants, 12 common goldeneyes, 50 buttle-heads, 9 old squaws and a greater yellowleg. At Niles Pond In Gloucester an Iceland gull was seen, and at Halibut Point in Rockport a thick-billed murre was observed. SNOWRISE Dick Hoisington of the Sugarbush Valley Ski area in Warren, tests one of the snow-making machines that until recently had been silent because of the unseasonably warm weather. (UPI photo) SAVE 20 to 50 something for everyone! Make a stop in our Stationery Department and you'll find some great gift ideas for those hard-to-shop-for people on your list.

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