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Boston Sunday 6lobe NOTABLE About 135 companies in Massachusetts sponsor day care for children of their employees, only a few of them located south of Boston. Overall, about 800 Bay State companies offer some type of child-care assistance. INSIDE Ask the Globe 8 Business 15 Calendar 11 Dining Out 13 Letters 2 Opinion 2 Sports .16 DECEMBER 10, 1989 9n WFlfCIY ivy Disputes remain after wild '87 bash From a teen-age party gone awry, hosts and police trade accusations Rise in support buoys the GOP in south region Opportunity is sensed as candidates emerge and registrations increase By Amy Callahan CONTRIBUTING REPORTER fl fTESTWOOD It was July 31, If 1 If 1987, and the Bean boys wanted to Ifillff.hnvA an evpninor harhppne with gently by letting the three boys have an unsupervised party and that Joseph Bean and his cousin, John T. Curran, assaulted him. Sheehan is seeking compensatory and punitive damages.

Sheehan says his back was permanently injured when he was thrown against a radiator in the Beans' dinette area while trying to break up the party. The party came during a raucus period in the lives of Westwood teen-agers, when wild house parties and a buzzing party network called the Westwood Wire were in full swing. While that era PARTY, Page SOUTH 5 the confusion and violence of the night, Joseph Bean, then 17, and two cousins were handcuffed, taken away in cruisers and charged with disorderly conduct. Today, the legal repercussions of that party are still very much a part of the lives of those involved. The stale pretzels and the flat beer were not the only leftovers.

In December 1988 a year and five months after the party Westwood police Sgt Dennis M. Sheehan filed a civil suit in Norfolk Superior Court contending that Charles Bean 3d and his parents, Charles Jr. and Elena Bean, acted negli their cousins and a few friends. Their parents, who were vacation ing on the Cape, gave them permission. About 25 people were invited.

By the end of the night, however, more than 200 teen-agers were partying and fighting in the yard around the Beans' large farmhouse on Clap-boardtree Street. The police were called, and in By Brian McGrory GLOBE STAFF Despite the excitement, Republicans are still vastly outnumbered by Democrats in the legislative districts that make up the region, where the minority party is sometimes outnumbered two, three and even four to one. i III "fit? i-f lt -4 VT i Sk 6 A As the state budget crisis worsens, Republicans see their support mounting throughout Southeastern Massachusetts, where party leaders are boldly predicting victory in several key legislative races next year and building the foundation that could support their ambitions. The Plymouth County Republican Club has increased its membership five-fold this year. Town Republican committees in Hanover, Norwell and Sharon have revived after years of cobweb-covered dormancy.

And town hall istration figures show Republicans gaining in numbers while Democrats are stagnant "We have risen to life from nothing," said Leslie Molyneaux, the chairman of the Hanover Town Republican Committee. Spurred by Gov. Dukakis' dismal presidential defeat and by the Legislature's failure to resolve the state budget crisis, the Republicans regard the next election as their best chance in a generation to create at least the semblance of a two-party structure. Even in deepest Democratic Brockton, Republicans have begun to see signs of a possible victory as a popular Democrat has converted to the minority party and will likely run for the state House of Representatives. The goal: a candidate to challenge every Democrat in the region.

"We have a lot of people considering running, which is unbelievable a year before the election," said Linda Teagan, the chairman of the Plymouth Town Republican Committee. "It is something I never remember. The feeling is that every Democrat is vulnerable, every one of them. And people know it" Rising enrollment figures over the past four years Republicans gained 1,643 members in Plymouth County, while Democrats lost 3,537 and a solid show of support for President Bush in his 1988 victory have solidified Southeastern Massachusetts as' one of the most Re-publican areas of the state. The area has one Republican state senator Edward P.

Kirby of Whitman and seven Republican state representatives, many of whom were recently elected. "You have Sen. Kirby and a number of elected Republicans who have been in that area, and a number of blue-collar people who have moved from Boston and believe in working values," said Alexander Tennant, the Republican state chairman. GOP, Page SOUTH 7 i GLOBE PHOTO LANE TURNER Neighborhood children hang onto Timothy Gomes of Brockton as he Girls Clubs. They and other citizens of the community have been chats with Joseph MacDonald, regional service director for Boys and working to make Boys and Girls Club of Brockton a reality.

To save youths, judge helps organize a club' By Judith Montminy SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE ROCKTON- Juvenile Court Judge I j) Mark E. Lawton learned the hard way Rail, office project fought in Dedham Residents cite traffic concerns in opposingtrain station, park uiai giving a yuuiig criiiuiuu a uiean 1 and returning him to the streets can I be a death sentence. He found that out guilt with me." More often than he would like, Lawton said, he was forced to lock young men up "as the only to keeping them alive." Lawton thinks there should be more choices for him and the young people who stand before him accused of a crime. The paucity of options for many youths in his native Brockton, where he was assigned to the district court for six months, a year and a half ago, persuaded him and others to start the Boys and Girls Club of Brockton, which was incorporated a year ago. For the past few weeks, Lawton and others -local merchants, high school students and church groups have been sweeping pigeon droppings out of the second floor of the old Corcoran supply building on Montello Street The building is being cleared out so hundreds of boxes of School Department supplies can be trucked there from the Armory on Warren Avenue.

Once the Armory is cleaned out, the club can begin moving in. By spring, it is supposed to be open7" "Brockton is labeled as a troubled city," said Stephen F. Bernard, 40, president of the club's 40-member board of directors. "We're trying to get to the root of the problem. We want to get to the kids before the streets get to the kids." From his vantage point in juvenile court, Law-ton has seen a parade of young people whose lives are circumscribed by poverty and other disadvan-CLUB, Page SOUTH 9 in May of 1988 with Reggie Ballard, a bright, 17-year-old from Boston.

Instead of sending him to a juvenile facility on a robbery charge, the judge set him free. A week later Ballard was dead, shot in the head near Madison Park High School in Boston. "If I had committed him he wouldn't have been said Lawton. Tve carried that By John Stevens SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE And they suspect a commercial 'Z project of some kind will eventual- ly be built at the site of the pro- posed Dedham Corporate Center, even if this proposal were denied, because of its quick access to Route 128. They hope at least to influence the final scope of the pro State cuts delay sewer work Towns await environmental funds to complete projects Sewer projects DEP budget shortfalls have left the following towns with unfinished andor finished projects and still owed money by the state.

State By John Stevens SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE projects Massive cuts in this year's state environment budget are taking their EDHAM Residents A opposed to a planned III office park and com-J muter rail station here if will deliver a pointed, though possibly futile, message to state environmental officials tomorrow night Stop dumping on Dedham. Citizens and local officials have tried to block construction of the proposed Dedham Corporate Center, a $150 million mega-office park, and an adjacent rail station since plans were first aired more than a year ago. And they continue the verbal fight though the odds of winning seem long. "Dedham has done its share over the years; we've got Route 128, Route 1," said Paul D'Attflio, Planning Board diairman. Everything goes through us; everybody runs us over." Still, as the state Department of Environmental Protection formally begins its review tomorrow, many opponents have come to realize the rail tation wDl likely go in, regardlessitf their opposition.

ject i Residents are mainly concerned about traffic as many as 5,000 cars a day. They argue that local roads feeding the project which will abut a residential neighborhood, are already jammed with commuters traveling between Routes 1 and 128. Ed McGonagle, a leader of the Dedham Community Action Com- mittee, which opposes the project lives less than a half-mile from the site. He fears for his children's safety and worries that such a massive project could forever alter the character of this town of 23,000 people. "I live in a nice area.

It's frustrating to see something so big come in and change a town," he 7 said. "But I just want to make sure my children can walk out and not get hit The developer is proposing Abington $1.2 million Hull $1 million Whitman $2.8 million finished State Abington $32,000 Milton $16,000 Norwood $98,600 Rockland $3,000 Scituate $250,000 Westwood $128,000 Whitman $175,000 are not only shortchanging environmental protection, but these communities rely on having good sewer systems in place in order to have economic growth," said Daniel Green-baum, commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. The DEFs capital budget for sewer, solid waste, water supply and recycling projects was cut from $170 million last year to $70 million for fiscal 1990, which began in July. At the same time, the department expects to receive $200 million in bills this year from communities to which the state has promised money. As a result, payments will be delayed up to two years, according to Greenbaum.

An additional $50 million that DEP officials said is necessary to. complete vital projects cannot be provided now or in the foreseeable future. Hull, like Abington and Whitman, does not have enough money in its own capital budget to finish a $2.6 million extension of sewer lines along the bay side of the Alphabet streets section. The lines are needed to tie some 480 homes into the town's waste-water treatment facility. Many of the homes are converted cottages with overtaxed septic systems that are leaching into the nearby bay, caus-; ing bacteria counts to occasionally violate state and federal water qual- SEWERS, Page SOUTH 8 toll in communities south of Boston.

Hull, Whitman and Abington cannot finish projects needed to protect river and ocean water being polluted by overtaxed septic systems. Budget cuts have also delayed state payments to seven other towns for work already completed or under way. Sewer officials in the three towns are frustrated, especially since construction costs are lower now but "jf likely to go up the longer work is postponed. "If we wait on thgse projects, we Massachusetts Department of ErMronmental Protection PROJE1T, Page SOUTH 15 Globe staff cftart.