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THE BOSTON GLOBE FRIDAY. APRIL 21, 1989 23 Lawmaker group Bridgewater patient dies; suicide seen new local income tax OBITUARIES Robert Amory 74; lawyer who held US government posts Gordon Benedict, 88 Retired investment counselor A memorial service for Gordon M. Benedict. 88, of Weston, retired Boston investment counselor and history teacher, will be held tomorrow at 11 a.m. in St.

Peter's Episcopal Church, Weston. He died Sunday at WalthamWeston Hospital after a brief illness. Mr. Benedict retired in 1975. He was associated with Harris Upham Company and before that with H.C.

Wainwright Co. He went into the investment field in 1949 after teaching history at Middlebury College in 1943, at Amherst College. 1944-48. and at Arizona State University in 1948. A lOth-generation descendant of Thomas Benedict, who came to this country in 1638, he was a native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and a graduate of Brooklyn Friends School, Harvard College in 1927, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and Harvard Graduate School A By Renee Loth Globe Staff A small group of legislators is advocating a plan for a new local income tax to raise more revenue for cities and towns, without tampering with Proposition 2Vt, the statewide property tax limit.

Sen. Richard Kraus (D-Arling- ton) said Wednesday he was proposing the tax to allow cash-poor communities to raise more rev enue for public schools and other local services. "Cities and towns should be able to raise their own revenue so that localities can provide their citizens with the services they deserve," Kraus said at a State House press conference. "Unless we restore the possibility of realistic revenue growth we will move to one of the least effective public school systems in the United States." Kraus' plan would increase the 5 percent tax on earned income by half a percentage point and the tax on unearned income by a full point, to 1 1 percent. Corporate excise taxes would also be increased.

but they would be offset by a corresponding decrease in corporate property taxes. The new revenue generated would be directed to city and town treasuries, many of which are strapped for cash as the state pares local aid. A special $100 million fund would be earmarked for schoolchildren at risk of academic failure. "Our children's future and the health of our brain-intensive economy demand that we act to give our public schools a sound fi nancial footing, and reduce their dependence on the vagaries of the state budget," Kraus said. Kraus was joined at the press conference by Sen.

John Houston (D-Worcester) and by Reps. Patri- cia Fiero (D-Gloucester) and Nicho-; las Paleologos (D-Woburn). Hous- ton called the plan "a lifeboat for: -local government." 1 But many key players wereYe? serving Judgment on the proposal- yesterday, including the Tax Equi-; ty Alliance of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Municipal Associ-r ation. and Senate Ways and Means Committee Chairman McGovern Kraus said his plan would shift --the tax burden for local services'; from the property tax to the in-come tax, which is seen as progressive because it hits hardest at higher income brackets. Cur1-rently, local governments can1- only raise money for police and fire departments, and pubHt schools from the property tax and from certain fees.

Under the Kraus proposal, all of the roughly $400 million raised by the new income tax in the first, year would be used to reduce prop- erty taxes, so that communities at" or near their levy limits could---have more "breathing room." In subsequent years communities would be allowed to raise property taxes at a rate equal to the aver- age growth in personal income. Kraus said the local income tax -J is intended to preserve Proposition; 2V2 by relieving the pressure on the 240 local communities at or 1 near their property tax ceilings to override the levy limit. But Barbara Anderson of Citi-. 4 zens for Limited Taxation, which sponsored Proposition 2V2 in" 1980, rejected that argument terday. "Proposition 2lh doesn't need protecting," Anderson said.

are the same people, of them, who did everything they 4 could to stop 2V2 and who would vote to kill it. Their concern for the taxpayer is very new and very phony." 'Gtizens' audit' proposed to curb waste in government ROBERT AMORY Jr. of the Spee Club. Two years later he graduated from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review. He was admitted to the New York Bar in 1939 and practiced for several years with the Manhattan firm of Cahill Gordon.

He was a veteran of World War II, entering the Army as a private in 1941 and leaving six years later as a full colonel. He saw action in New Guinea and the Philippines as commander of the 533d Boat and Shore Regiment. He was awarded the Silver Star Medal, the Bronze Star Medal and the Legion of Merit. A lifelong sailor, he was the author of "Surf and Sand," an account of his regiment's campaigns in the Pacific. Mr.

Amory was treasurer of the Washington Cathedral from 1969 to 1977 and a trustee of Washington's Arena Stage Company for 24 years. He was a member of the Cruising Club of America and the Cosmos, Metropolitan and Chevy Chase clubs. Mr. Amory leaves his wife, Mary (Armstrong); two sons, Robert 3d of Boston and Daniel Amory of Portland, Maine; a brother, Cleveland of New York City; a sister, Mrs. Thomas Sawyers of Clar-emont, Calif; and three grandsons.

A funeral service will be held Monday at noon in the Washington Cathedral. Boston lawyer, FHA office L. SHELDON DALY coached football at the University of Oklahoma in 1929, and later played on one of the country's first professional football teams, the Altoona Indians. He was a graduate of the Boston Law School and a former president of its alumni association. He was admitted to the bar in 1943.

Mr. Daly was a member of the Nehoiden Golf Club for 50 years. He leaves five sons, L. Sheldon Jr. of Hingham.

Timothy B. of Na-tick, Robert F. of Wellesley. William of North Scituate and David of Wellesley; a daughter, Mary G. Cahill of Wellesley; and 24 grandchildren.

A funeral Mass will be said in St. Paul's Church, Wellesley, on Monday at 10 a.m. Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery, Wellesley. I II. i ism i -vVV I i By Diane Lewis Globe Staff A convicted murderer who was committed to Bridgewater State Hospital after killing three per sons died yesterday morning in what sources have described as an apparent suicide.

Kenneth F. Harrison, 50, was pronounced dead at St. Luke's Hospital in Middleborough at 7:40 a.m. after ingesting large doses of an antidepressant drug, Elavil, a source close to the institution said yesterday. Katherine Robertson, a spokes woman at the Department of Correction, which runs the institution, said Harrison was still breathing when he was found in his room at the facility and transferred to St.

Luke's. "Preliminary information does indicate a possible overdose of drugs, but I cannot comment fur ther until an autopsy is done, she said. An autopsy was scheduled for late yesterday afternoon. Roderick MacLeish, a lawyer who represents several patients at Bridgewater, said he was informed by staff members that Harrison became depressed after learning that he was going to be transferred to Concord State Prison. Harrison was committed to Bridgewater in 1970.

Robertson acknowledged that clinicians discussed the transfer with Harrison, but said they did not place him under constant sur veillance because "there was no indication that he was depressed about the transfer. MacLeish, however, main tained that administrators should have kept close watch on Harrison because he was being transferred to a more hostile environment and probably was apprehensive and depressed. "I sure some people will say. Hey, he was a mass murderer; so MacLeish said. "My con cern is that this could happen to anybody and it should be a source of concern.

There have been five deaths at Bridgewater since 1987, including three suicides. News of the deaths placed the facility under intense scrutiny and resulted in increases in staffing and state funding, but critics say there are still problems despite those improvements. MacLeish, a staunch critic of the facility, has said the state's in ability to meet a March 31 dead line for ending the practice of housing the seriously mentally ill alongside patients accused or con victed of violent crimes has result ed in problems patients and staff. "The facility has more staffing. but it's still a tense place for any patient to live," he said.

"If the civilly committed were out, it would help to decrease the popula tion and ease the strain on staff. Harrison was convicted in No vember 1970 of first-degree mur der in the death of Kenneth Mar tin, 9, of Dorchester. The boy's body was found in a passageway in South Boston. A medical exam iner ruled he had been strangled. Harrison was sentenced to the state prison in Walpole.

He was imprisoned for six days and then transferred to Bridgewater for treatment. Two years later, Harri son confessed to second-degree murder in the deaths of Lucy Pal- marin, 6, of South Boston, and Clover Parker, 75. of the South End. Chinatown accident kills Newton boy Police yesterday identified Eric Wong, 4, of Newton as the boy 1 lied when he was hit by a car on Tyler Street in Chinatown Wednesday evening. The boy was struck at 7:50 p.m.

when he darted out from be tween two parked cars and ran into the path of a 1987 Toyota Ce- lica. Boston police spokeswoman Jill Reilly said. He was running to his mother, who was on the other side of the street, she added. "He was with his mother and brother," Reilly said. "She parked her car on Tyler Street.

They were going to dinner. The mother walked across the street with the two kids. She left the boys on one side of the street when she went to get something from her car. She said she heard her son yell She told her son 'Don move' and to stay with his brother. Eric broke loose from his brother and ran Into the street into the path of a car." After the accident, Betty Wong.

the boys mother, ran into her husband's store on Tyler Street. The father carried the boy to New England Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 8:45 p.m.. Reilly said. Police are inves tigating the accident. Reilly said, but no charges have been filed Robert Amory Jr.

of Washington, a retired lawyer who served the US government In various capacities during a distinguished career, died of cancer Wednesday at Georgetown University Hospital. He was 74. Mr. Amory, a native of Boston, had been secretary and general counsel of the National Gallery of Art; chief of the International Division, Bureau of the Budget; and deputy director of intelligence for the Central Intelligence Agency. He served for eight years on the National Security Council planning board and the Council on Foreign Policy.

As the CIA's deputy director of intelligence from 1952-62, he was openly critical of the Bay of Pigs operation, about which he had not been consulted, and made his views known in typically pungent style. He was awarded the CIA's highest honor, the Distinguished Intelligence Medal, when he retired. From 1962 to 1965. Mr. Amory was chief of the International Division of the Bureau of the Budget.

He then joined the Washington law firm of Corcoran Foley, Youngman Rowe, where he practiced for seven years. In 1973 he was made secretary and general counsel of the National Gallery of Art. He retired in 1980. A Harvard graduate, Mr. Amory was a professor of law at Harvard University from 1946 to 1952.

He developed the law school's first course in accounting and was the author of "Materials on Accounting." He also served Harvard in many other ways. He was president of the Harvard Alumni Association from 1961 to 1962 and a director of the association for seven years; a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard University from 1962 to 1969; president of the Harvard Law School Alumni Association; and chairman of the sesquicentennial campaign of the Harvard Law School. Mr. Amory was born in Boston and was a graduate of Milton Academy. In 1936, he was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard College, where he was a member L.

Sheldon Daly, opened city's first L. Sheldon Daly of Wellesley and North Scituate, a Boston lawyer for more than 45 years, died Wednesday in South Shore Hospital, Weymouth, after a long illness. During his private law practice, Mr. Daly opened the first Boston office of the Federal Housing Authority, was New England regional counsel to the War Labor Board, and general counsel to the Reconstruction Finance Corp. In 1954 he was appointed by Gov.

Christian A. Herter to the first Massachusetts Crime Commission and had served as a director of the Boston Evening Clinic for many years. He also had been president of the New England Trade Executives Association; executive secretary and legal counsel to the Massachusetts Funeral Directors Association; director-treasurer and legal counsel to the Columbia Chase Corp. of Braintree; and first grand knight of the Wellesley Knights of Columbus, which he helped organize. He also was a former Wellesley Town Meeting member and a founder of the Wellesley Boosters.

A native of Punxatawny, Mr. Daly graduated from Holy Cross College in 1928. In college he was a four-letter athlete in football, baseball, tennis and track and received the student athletic medal. In 1979 he was inducted into the Holy Cross Hall of Fame. Mr.

Daly was always proud of "scoring the winning touchdown in the 1926 Harvard-Holy Cross football game. After graduation, he Thomas P. Joyce, 66 Former airline supervisor A memorial Mass for Thomas P. Joyce, 66, of Sacramento, will be held In St. Joseph's Church.

Somerville. at a date as yet to be determined. He died April 12 in Mercy General Hospital, Sacramento, after a long illness. Before retirement, Mr. Joyce was a supervisor for American Airlines in San Francisco.

A graduate of Somerville High School, he served with the 8th Air Force in England in World War II. He leaves his wife. Isabelle (Burns): a son, Kevin, and a daughter, Dorothy Joyce, both of Sacramento; a brother. John P. Joyce of Somerville, former assis-vtant superintendent of Somerville Public Schools; and two grand- children.

I By Renee Loth Globe Staff In an effort to stanch what they called a "hemorrhaging of credibility with voters, several state senators yesterday proposed creating a commission to investi gate waste and ineiticiency in government. "We propose a healthy turning of the tables a citizens' audit of the state," said Sen. Michael Barrett (D-Cambridge), who cospon-sored legislation creating the com mission. He said the efiort is designed "to begin the slow but criti cal process of rebuilding faith in government. Designed after former Presi dent Reagan's sweeping Grace Commission, which identified potential savings of $400 billion in the federal bureacracy, the state commission would revisit such thorny management issues as civil service reform.

It would be given with a PhD in 1933. He owned and managed a textile mill in Alabama before going into teaching. He leaves his wife. Ruth (Buttner); a son, John G. Benedict of Brooklyn; two daughters.

Holly Holmes of Wellesley and Joan An-nese of Needham; and 10 grandchildren. FRANCIS X. MANNING Francis X. Manning Retired bindery manager; 76 Francis X. Manning of Canton, longtime employee of the Buck Printing where he served as bindery superintendent before his retirement in 1975, died yesterday at Norwood Hospital after a brief illness.

He was 76. Mr. Manning, a native of South Boston, lived in Dorchester for many years before moving to Can ton in 1962. He was a member of the Allied Printing Trades Union in Boston and of Father Flatley Council 2095 of the Knights of Co lumbus. Mr.

Manning leaves his wife, Mary (McCabe); three sons, Fran cis Jr. of Dennisport, Robert of Norwell, and Kevin of Wheaton, two daughters, Geraldine Hal- loran of Hanover and Mary Ann Manning of Canton; two sisters. Rita Watts of South Boston and Gertrude Danehy of Milton; and seven grandchildren. A funeral Mass will be said on Saturday at 9 a.m. in St.

John the Evangelist Church in Canton. L.atnerine uonovan ri aught Boston tor 4tt years Catherine F. Donovan, a teach er in Boston public schools for 48 years, died in her sleep Wednes day at her home in Roslindale. She was 81 and had lived in Ros lindale all her life. Ms.

Donovan graduated from Boston Teacher's School in 1930 and obtained her master's from there in 1948. She received her doctorate in education from Northeastern University in 1963. Ms. Donovan taught in Boston schools throughout her 48-year career, and taught children of all ages, from elementary to high school. She leaves one sister, Eileen Hayes.

A funeral Mass will be said to morrow at 10 a.m. in the Holy Name Church, West Roxbury. schools in Jamaica, having given up a career in civil engineering. He received a diploma in geog raphy from Southampton Univer sity. England: a bachelor's degree in geography from Queen's College.

Canada; a master's in educational administration from Toron to University: and a master's in geography from Boston Universi ty. He was a Fellow ot the Royal Geographical Society. England. Mr. Munoz-Bennett leaves his wife.

Lurline; three sons, Howard. Adrian and Peter; a daughter. True; two brothers. Maxi of Wash ington and Varseo of Jamaica: and two sisters. Joy of Florida and I .11111,.

i 1 Va Gty officer charged vith violations subpoena power to help pry sensi-; tive information from state agencies on contracting and employee, practices. The commission's 21 members would be drawn primarily fronv the private sector, with additional representatives from labor unions, universities, the state In-', spector general, the state ethics commission and the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation. It would be funded entirely through private donations. The senators said such ai "spring cleaning" of government inefficiency is a necessary prereq- -uisite to any talk of tax increases at a time of public skepticism toward the state budget process, don't think we have the credibility to ask for more revenue until we prove we can manage our resources effectively," said Sen. Wil- liam Golden ID-Weymouth), an-' other cosponsor of the commis1 sion proposal.

if he is found guilty of the allegations, a department spokesman said yesterday. On Feb. 6, Bean had driven one of three busloads of Portsmouth. N.H., schoolchildren, including her 8-year-old daughter, into Boston for a performance by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In Roxbury District Court on the Monday following Bean's arrest.

Judge Julian T. Houston found her innocent of charges that she failed to stop for police while operating a motor vehicle, disorderly conduct, assault and battery on a police officer and blocking the flow of traffic. Last June, Bean's Jo-seph Collins of Maiden, said Bean filed a complaint with the police department's Internal Affairs division, charging Broderick with civil rights violations and false arrest. suspected crack house of civil rights in bus driver arrest By Jerry Thomas I Globe Staff A Boston police sergeant will appear before the department's Internal Affairs division on a year-old complaint alleging that the civil rights of a New Hampshire bus driver were violated. Sgt.

William Broderick was charged by Kathleen Bean, 37. of Dover, in connection with her Feb ruary 1988 arrest following her refusal to immediately comply with Broderick's order to move her bus. which police said was parked at a busy intersection near Symphony Hall. Bean is also charging Broder ick with false arrest. A hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, after which a hearing of ficer will decide if disciplinary action should be taken against Broderick.

Broderick could be suspended Revere police raid Revere police last night raided a third-floor apartment owned by the city housing authority and arrested five persons in what was described as a house for selling crack. About $1,000 worth of the drug was confiscated. Authorities said a couple was making and selling crack, a highly addictive form of cocaine, inside the Thornton Street apartment and crack users came to the house both to buy and use the drug. Acting on a tip from neighbors, police had been watching the apartment for two weeks before Armand Munoz-Bennett, Metco coordinator A funeral service for Armand A. Munoz-Bennett.

63. coordinator of the Metco program in Walpole and a former schoolteacher in his native Jamaica, will be held tomorrow in All Saints Anglican Episcopal Church, Dorchester, at 1 1 a.m. He died Monday at the La-hey Clinic in Burlington after an illness of several months. Mr. Munoz-Bennett came to this country in 1973 and became active in the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity program.

He was made Its coordinator in Walpole in 1976. Before that he had taught geography and geology in various the raid. A couple who lived in the apartment. Kathy Cronin and Sal-vator Maniscatco. were each charged with possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and conspiracy to violate drug laws.

Three Revere men at the apartment were also arrested on cocaine possession and conspiracy charges. They were identified as William Lake. 27. Joseph Mercuric 21, and David Figliolini, 19. The five Jace arraignment In Chelsea District Court.

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