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THE BOSTON GLOBE SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 11. 1984 21 Comics 26-27 TV Radio 26 Once-ineligible firm contracts has MET A -I mJ I By Kenneth J. Cooper Globe Staff A company the MBTA ruled ineligible in 1977 for contracts reserved for minority businesses has since received three such MBTA contracts on the Southwest Corridor project, according to the company's president. Even as the company is completing one of the contracts a $3.7 million job awarded in 1982 the MBTA this week rejected it for a fourth contract, again citing uncertainty about its minority status.

MBTA officials blame the confusion over determining the legitimacy of a 'firm's minority status on the authority's imprecise rulet, and lack of staff to enforce them. The MBTA re- tablished and controlled by a white contractor in order to skirt guidelines for jobs reserved for minorities. Yesterday afternoon an eight-man' crew of ironworkers employed by King Erectors was raising and lashing steel rods near the Dartmouth street, bridge over Boston's Southwest Corridor. The work is being done- under an MBTA contract awarded in 1982 to J.F. White Contracting Co.

of Newton. Five of the six ironworkers observed working for King Erectors appeared to be white; one was black. Anthony R. Doria, a Mexican-American who is president of King Erectors, said in a telephone interview Thursday that the company had received three contracts from the MBTA since 1977. He disputed charges his company is not legitimately owned and controlled by minorities.

The MBTA, however, this week gave J.F. White 15 days to replace King Erectors and two other minority subcontractors with firms certified by the state as minority owned. White had proposed using all three contractors on a $36.7 million project to build a new Forest Hills station. King Erectors and the two other companies in question, Taylor Associates of Boston and Craigwell-Collins Specialties Inc. of Roxbury, are not certified as being minority owned by the State Office of Minority Business Assistance (SOMBA), although Taylor applied on Jan.

30. Philip Bonnano, president of J.F. White, yesterday said the contractor would "comply with whatever directions we get from the MBTA." The Forest Hills contract, which has not' been awarded, was the MBTA's first job requiring minority subcontractors to be state-certified. "We had used the SOMBA state directory in the past, but not 'as a formal requirement," O'Leary explained yesterday. As recently as 1979, it was the MBTA that certified minority businesses.

The authority still has that option, but says it lacks the staff to check firms' financial records and operations. Only one MBTA employee is responsible for MBTA officials blame the confusion over determining the legitimacy of a firm's minority status on the authority's imprecise rules and lack of staff to enforce them. quires that a percentage of each contract be reserved for companies owned and controlled by minorities. Faced with questions about the minority qualifications of several companies. MBTA General Manager James F.

O'Leary this week ordered review of about $300 million in construction contracts let by the authority since 1979. The purpose, O'Leary said, is "to determine whether any minority contractors who are not qualified are doing work." The company that has been both accepted and rejected as a valid minority firm is King Erectors Inc. of Broomall, Pa. In 1977, when it was rejected, the MBTA ruled the firm was es- PHOTO BY MICHAEL QUAN Templeton Patrolman Wilfred Lavenski examines wreckage of plane. MBTA.

Page 22 4 bodies removed from wreckage of small plane near E. Templeton METROREGION KZWS I Pages 21-25, 55 Unpublished lion By David Arnold "and Chris Chinlund Globe EAST TEMPLETON The wreckage of a rented Piper Arrow airplane and the bodies of its four passengers were discovered In a remote and heavily, wooded area here ending a two-week search for the missing aircraft. The victims were tentatively identified as pilot Charles Perry, 55. of Brook-line, Robert Brewster, 37. of the Boston area.

Caroline Porter. 26, of Lee, N.H. and Boston, and Arthur Herbert, 28, of Lynn. Formal identification was de layed last night as rescue personnel worked under spotlights to transport the bodies from the site to Worcester Citv Hospital. The plane was discovered about 1 1 a.m.

one mile south of Gardner Airport by Carl Wilber, 40, and his daughter, Cheryl, of South Main street' who had been seaching the area for two days. Their search was prompted by an account in the local newspaper by witnesses who said they saw a small plane make a pass at the Gardner Airport on Jan. 28, and later heard a crash. The airplane, which had been rented from the Powell Aviation Co. of Mansfield, left the Mansfield airport at about 3 p.m.

on Jan. 28, according to David Graham of the Aeronautics Commission. It is thought to have crashed about 7:10 that evening en route to Manchester, N.H. Mary Herbert Chenery of Naples, Arthur Herbert's mother, said she believed her son and Caroline Porter, who were friends, were flying to New Hampshire to visit Porter's relatives. The young woman had moved from New Hampshire to Boston about five years ago, and recently had worked as an independent real estate agent, her PLANE CRASH, Page 25 HIGH JUMPER Robert Taylor Globe Staff lx Edgar Allan Poe's short story, "The Purloined Letter," a mystery's solution depends on noticing an object completely overlooked because it is in plain sight.

This week, a Connecticut College professor, Peter J. Seng, studying manuscripts at the Houghton Library of Harvard, discovered a hitherto unpublished out-in-the-open Wordsworth poem, which, like Poe's purloined letter, awaited only the right pair of "The poem was listed and described as a major find in Houghton's 1944 annual report." said Rare Book cataloguer Hugh Amory yesterday. "There was a catalogue available. It was iri our card index, an 'apparently-unpublished We advertised it Jn at least three places, and one might suppose that some enterprising graduate stu- dent would spot the opportunity and launch his career. But nothing happened." Enter Seng, embarked on a project of comparing Wordsworth's standard printed ver sions against the innumerable corrections made by the poet during his long career.

Compiling ah index of first-lines and variorum texts of poets before 1800, Seng tracked down the intriguing catalogue entry. He was astonished and delighted to find an unpub-; lished Wordsworth poem, not a sonnet but, consisting of 14 lines. Even more entries on the page in Wordsworth's hand revealed him trying out alternative versions -an insight into the poet's working proce-dures. Houghton has granted Seng publishing rights to the poem, and he will consult it in studying Wordsworth's artistic development. "It's a pity the Wordsworth manuscript had to wait 40 years before someone used it," Amory said.

years ago we discovered some completely unknown philosophical texts by Whitcliffe, but we're still awaiting a medieval scholar to take them on. Houghton is the first place I always encourage students to look into when they want to do research. Often they don't know what we have here." 3 charged in Dorchester harassment CostelloV friend quits city job; i Registrar fighting to keep hers vmt-f jt I tv. -w. rw Jf- ft tfc I i mmmmSmi.

I jr'" i i mi 0 -si4 By Gloria Negri Globe Staff Three juveniles were arrested yesterday by officers of the Boston Police Department's Community Disorders Unit and charged in connection with harassment of a Dorchester black family whose plight resulted in a visit to their apartment by Boston Mayor Raymond L. Flynn, Arraigned yesterday before Judge James Do-lan in Dorchester District Court, the juveniles, all boys, pleaded innocent to delinquency charges for violation of a person's civil rights and willful and malicious damage to property of Billy and Betty Dixon of Lonsdale street. Dolan set March 13 for the trial date and put the juveniles on pretrial probation in lieu of bail. They were released in the custody of their parents on condition they do not "bother, harass or intimidate the family In any way." If they should break their agreement. Dolan said, he would Impose bail.

Yesterday afternoon, Atty. Gen. Francis X. Bellotti, enforcing the state's Civil Rights Act, obtained a court order from Suffolk Superior Court Judge Hiller Zobel prohibiting the juveniles from "assaulting, threatening, intimidating, harassing or insulting on racial grounds the Dixon family or other black residents of Dorchester." Assistant Atty. Gen.

Joan Entmacher, chief of Bellotti's civil rights division, said it was the first case in which injunctive relief under the state's Civil Rights Act had been sought against juveniles. Entmacher told the Dorchester court the injunction was necessary because Betty Dixon had submitted to the court an affidavit stating that as a result of harassment and violence, the family has been living in constant fear. FAMILY. Page 24 KtETRCPQLITAH CSilFSHS The Globe's Metropolitan Briefing page, which has been appearing Saturdays, will appear in the Monday Globe from now on. 'i i- iimritrtiV nr ni again defended the promotion of his brother, Dennis, from a $470-a-week Job as a firefighter to an! $850-a-week job as acting superin-; tendent of maintenance for the; Boston Fire Department.

Interviewed at the West Rox- bury Area police station, where he was visiting as part of his campaign to improve police morale, Flynn again said that his brother is qualified for the Job and said that he did not intercede in any way to win the promotion for his brother, He also said he has not had time to review the facts surrounding the termination of Joanne Prevost An-zalone, the city registrar, who has charged that her firing is the result of "political discrimination." Anzalone, who was told Wednesday that she would be terminated as of Feb. 21. said she will fall two months short of the 20 years service she needs to qualify for a city pension. Anzalone, who met yesterday with attorney Nancy Gertner, said afterwards that she believes, she can wage a strong legal challenge to her termination. Anzalone also said 22 employees in the Registry Division had signed a petition requesting that she be kept on and planned to deliver it to Flynn on her By Joan Vennochi Globe Staff Francis J.

Costello, press secretary to Mayor Raymond L. Flynn, said, that yesterday was the last day of work for Ann O'Connor, a woman he describes as his personal friend, who was recently hired to work for Rdsemarie Sansone, direc- tor of business and cultural affairs. The Globe reported yesterday that O'Connor had been hired by Sansone and that her $300-a-week salary was being paid by the Bos- ton Foundation, a private, nonprofit corporation that disburses both city funds and money raised privately. Costello said O'Connor's Job, which included staff work for Sansone and part-time work at the1 Parkman House, always was intended to be temporary. He said, however, that when he was asked about the details of O'Connor's Job during an interview Thursday, he did not know then that "yesterday would be her last day of work.

Sansone said last night that O'Connor told her yesterday that she was leaving the Job because "she found( the position too Meanwhile. Flynn yesterday Maxfne appears to be walking on water but actually she's jumping 'toward a stick thrown by her owner, Cliff Travers, at Carson Beach in South Boston. globe photo by john tlumacki DENNIS FLYNN Promotion defended.