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4 Smith THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE MARCH 4, 1990 Ask the Globe Town, builder develop common ground 'Not going to impede' "We are not going to impede the process," said Kehoe, who is also the town's state representative. "I won't appear if I can't support an issue." Under the agreement, the town would use the senior citizens' center rent-free for 25 years but would pay maintenance and operating expenses. The center would be near the Route 1 exit from Route 128, on property where National Development may build an assisted-living facility for elderly people who need some nursing care but are not ill enough to require a nursing home. If the assisted-living facility is built, the developer agreed to supply limit- "It was a compromise," Selectman George Boylen said, crediting the company with wanting to be a good neighbor. "It was clear they could build what they wanted.

The town got a reasonable deal." While the proposed senior center is not as large as some had hoped, and it is in a corner of town near Route 128 where there is no public transportation, it is an asset Boylen said. The local bus may alter its route to include the center, or National Development may provide a shuttle bus from the center of town, he said. Although the selectmen promised to support the developer's re- as host of "Doorway to Fame," a talent show, which ran 1947-49. In. later years he emceed, hosted or announced many shows, including "Hold That Note," "Play Your -Hunch" and "The Jackie Gleason Show." QFor whom is the Juilliard School of Music named? C.L.

Quincy A The World Book Encyclopedia says the world-famous music school takes its name from Augustus Juilliard (1836-1919), a wealthy American textile merchant, financier, philanthropist and outstanding patron of music, who left a fortune estimated between $5 million and $20 million to establish the Juilliard Music Foundation. The school was established in 1926 with funds from the foundation. Juilliard was born at sea to French immigrants, grew up near Canton, Ohio, and later settled in New York City. Ask the Globe is researched and written by Reg Cox, Mary Meier and Paid O'Brien, Submit questions in writing to: Ask the Globe, The Boston Globe, PO Box 2378, Boston, MA 02107-2378, or call (617) 929-2990. Please provide us with your full name and address, including ZIP code.

If your question is published, only your initials will be used. Little-used rail station awaits increase in traffic DEVELOPMENT Continued from Page SOUTH 1 Board urges citizens of Dedham to raise questions, and demands an explanation of the terms of the agreement," the statement read. The board members, who are elected officials, said they would ignore the agreement "They made an agreement urging carte blanche," said Planning Board Chairman Paul D'Attilio. "We might as well throw the bylaw book away." D'Attilio resents a senior citizen center, among other perks, being held hostage to the agreement. "If the Planning Board will not go along with them, the town will not get a senior center, and we will look like the bad guys," he said.

Under the agreement, D'Attilio noted, the selectmen promised to recommend approval of a subdivision plan that the Planning Board already has rejected and National Development is challenging in court. According to the agreement with the selectmen, National Development would drop its suit once the subdivision is approved. But D'Attilio said his board has heard nothing from National Development along those lines. "We have not made any deals," D'Attilio said. The town conservation officer, Robert Sinclair, said he had never seen a situation in which the selectmen sided with a developer.

"I have to believe selectmen were privy to information we don't have yet," he said. Since the project is adjacent to wetlands and a pond, the commission has jurisdiction over what happens there. In addition, the project is subject to review by the state Department of Environmental Affairs, Sin-clair'said. The selectmen also promised to recommend favorable action when National Development seeks a building-height variance from the Zoning Board of Appeals. The company wants permission to exceed the 40-foot limit and build up to 75 feet The chairman of the Appeals Board, John Kearney, who is a lawyer, said the words "shall recommend" in the agreement were very strong language.

"People should have a lot of questions about the intent of both parties," he said. "I don't know if what selectmen got was all they could get, but from a public relations standpoint, they set themselves up to be criticized." Had he been negotiating the agreement, Kearney said, "I'd have made it pretty clear who was getting what." Although all five selectmen signed the agreement with National Development there are indications that the hand-holding is not entirely enthusiastic. to O'Neil, the bridge is a definite part of the project and would probably be among the first things built. Plans call for 12 to 14 office buildings totaling 1.3 million square feet and a commuter train stop and garage. A temporary transit station opened two months ago, but a permanent station is planned for the other side of the tracks, which separate one portion of the development from the other.

The project is expected to take 12 to 15 years to complete, O'Neil said. Permits are in place for the first building, which would take eight months to finish. The company would like to start construction this year, O'Neil said. Despite the sluggish Massachusetts economy, National Development is developing a half-dozen projects in the area, including the 143-acre Bridgewater Crossroads and Mansfield Corporate Center. The seven-year-old company is among the most active developers in the area and specializes in large suburban office parks and malls.

It is a division of National Development Corp. in Pittsburgh. Serious talks are under way with two companies that would be major tenants, O'Neil said. Delaying tactics The selectmen had used numerous delaying tactics to stall the project including refusing to issue a permit to raze an old building on the property and refusing to allow a sewer hookup. Negotiations between the selectmen and National Development got under way in early December during debate over the lawsuits the company had filed.

"Everyone came prepared to make decisions," he said, and in eight weeks the agreement was finalized. But townspeople who have been fighting the development will continue to do so despite the selectmen, vowed Edward McGonagle of the Dedham Community Action Committee. "We lost the selectmen's voice, and we will have to pick up the slack," McGonagle said. Even so, he was not opposed to the idea of the selectmen bargaining with the developer. "It's a fine line, and there might have been a point where we would get nothing," McGonagle said.

One group that is happy with the agreement is the Friends of the Council on Aging. "It's wonderful. They promised a senior center, and we have nothing now," said the group's president, Patricia Barletta. The site is not perfect but the group could raise money for a van, she said. As Selectman Boylen put it: "We didn't get a silk purse from a sow's ear, but we did get a rayon one." SCo.

ofi ude I Could you please list the cast a 1950s movie musical that luded the songs "Thinking of You" and "Nevertheless?" P.L. Milton A According to the Boston Public Library, the title to this movie is "Three Little Words," which premiered in 1950. The words and music to these two songs were written by Burt Kalmer and Harry Ruby. The singer of "Thinking of You" was Vera-Ellen, and Anita Ellis sang "Nevertheless," which became a best-selling record. Other actors who appeared in the movie were Fred Astaire, Red Skelton, Arlene Dahl, Keenan Wynn, Gale Robbins, Gloria de Haven, Phil Regan and Debbie Reynolds.

QIs television announcer Johnny Olsen still working? T.O. Milton A Olsen, one of television's best-known announcers, died on Oct. 12, 1985, at age 75. Tim Brooks, in his Complete Directory to Prime Time TV Stars, says Olsen was the man who "cheerfully intoned the introductions on What's My Line, I've Got a Secret and The Price Is Right," on which "Come On Down!" was his trademark line. In the 1940s, Olsen was a radio announcer on such noisy shows as "Break the Bank." His first television job was Psychiatric center "Jv EM BROKE -Pembroke 1 Hospital, a 115-bed acute-i lf care psychiatric facility, I has been granted a three-I year, full accreditation by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.

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The new station is scheduled for construction when the bridge is completed, Dimond said. The office park, which is in the planning stages, is being built by National Development Associates of Newton. It is to contain 12 quests of the Conservation Commission and the Planning and Zoning boards, Boylen said the agreement did not infringe on other boards' jurisdictions. "This encourages all boards to' look at the proposals objectively," Boylen said. He added that at hearings the selectmen may speak in favor of the plans but would not speak in opposition.

"We were dealing from a position of weakness," the chairman of the selectmen, Marie-Louise Kehoe, said of the agreement. "On the advice of our attorneys we agreed at least to try to put a package together that would benefit the town." Individual selectmen may speak-out in favor of National Development's proposals, but Kehoe said she could not commit herself in advance to such support. For one thing, she said, she might not be able to attend a hearing on a given night. Floral Designs for your wedding Package s189 00 Bouquet -Silk or Fresh Flowers ot Honor Bouquet Attendant Bouquet Best Man Father Boutonaires Boutonaires Mother Corsages Throw-Away Bouquet Carpet Custom Designed 200 to Packages Available $999 Special ONLY this ad with you $17.50 Invitations Stationery ACE Birth'-Thankyou's to 14 buildings, on both sides of Rustcraft Road and the train tracks next to the road. It is the second development project in which the MBTA and National Development are joining forces.

In Franklin, the developer donated land for a new station at its Forge Park industrial center, near Interstate 495 and Route 140. The commuter rail station opened in June of 1988, and the parking lot quickly filled, according to Dimond. A commuter rail stop on the office park's doorstep is a big advantage, according to Jack O'Neil, senior vice president of National Development "We hope some office park users will take the train from the city," he said. LISA BREMS ed van service from the center of town. The $1 million in "impact fees" will allow the town to do things it could not afford otherwise, Boylen said.

His tentative wish list includes improvements to recreation areas, such as the town canoe landing on the Charles River, and funds for a senior citizens theater group. The money would be paid over a period of up to 10 years, starting when the first building in the office park is completed. Access to the property would be from Route 1 and from a proposed bridge over Rustcraft Road. Motorists on Route 128 would get to the bridge directly from the East Street rotary and Allied Drive. The site is about a half-mile from the East Street exit off Route 128.

Traffic a concern Traffic generated by the development has been a source of complaints from townspeople. According levels bring rock outcroppings to the surface. Swimming there is also growing hazardous, as slippery algae beds replace sand at the lake's bottom and bacteria counts creep to unsafe levels. More and more each summer, the lake has an odor. "Billington Sea does not meet recreational criteria," said Lisa C.

Hendrickson, a biologist with the consulting firm of Gale Associates which has conducted diagnostic and feasibility studies of both Billington Sea and Foundry Pond in Hingham. "It's not only aesthetically unpleasing, it's dangerous to swim when you can't see the bottom of the pond," she said. The one-year study of Billington Sea, which cost the town $24,000 and the Clean Lakes Program $56,000, was completed in November. But it seems unlikely that the $500,000 to $700,000 in recommended improvements to the lake will be happening anytime soon. Although the most immediate solution, dredging, appears out of the question financially, the town plans to set up a committee to encourage voluntary measures to lessen the nutrient flow into Billington Sea.

Homeowners who live nearby will be urged to update their septic systems, many of hich empty into the lake. The cranberry growers who own bogs near the lake will be asked to find another place to flush wvUdtuide 670 WASHINGTON ST. RTE. 138 123 End of program threatens lake I 3 SOUTH 238-9858 or 1 800 242 Credit Cards leMlora 'Billington Sea does not meet recreational criteria, It's dangerous to swim when you can't see the bottom of the LISA C. HENDRICKSON Consultant for Plymouth DONTMISS OUT! State Treasurer Robert Crane's UNCLAIMED MONEY LIST A Special Tabloid Sunday, March 4 in The Boston Globe in III I -barMitzvans Announcements And more THRU MARCH 31 EASTON 238-8689 LILY By Phone SP 3390 cleanups chemical fertilizers, a potentially costly endeavor for them.

But in Plymouth, as in other towns, officials are not optimistic that volunteerism will save the lake. "The pond is certainly going to get worse and worse as time goes on, and I guess if we wait too long it will be a marsh," said Malcolm MacGre-gor, chairman of the Plymouth Conservation Commission. MacGregor added, "We started this project when Clean Lakes money was available, and I suspect we will have to wait until it becomes available again." Cleanup sought The sentiment is similar in Hingham, where residents have persistently called for a cleanup of Foundry Pond. The former fishing hole has become an unfit environment for the herring that used to spawn there. Flooding from the marshy pond has reached the basements of nearby homes, and one couple has sued the town twice because of water damage.

Both suits are pending. A diagnostic and feasibility study of Foundry Pond has recently been completed and is scheduled for formal presentation to the' town on March 12. But no one is getting too excited. "At this point it is rather unlikely that we will be able to do whatever is recommended," said Joe Stigliani, conservation officer in Hingham. "The town is not very keen on spending money on things right now." There may still be hope for towns such as Hingham and Plymouth, according to Hendrickson, the biologist and consultant A few federally spon-.

sored programs are still available for lake cleanup projects under certain criteria, she said. At lakes such as hntinued on next page LAKES Continued from Page SOUTH 1 were left partly done, and more than 50 requests to begin new projects were rejected. In more fortunate towns such as Weymouth, which applied early in the program for help in saving Whitman's Pond, all of the first phase and parts of the second phase were completed and paid for. But the most costly and necessary recommendations dredging and aerating the popular swimming spot were left undone, and town officials are at a loss as to where they will find alternate funding sources. The work, they say, is especially crucial because water from Whitman's Pond is used to supple-' ment the municipal drinking water supply.

"We are in the process of looking over the options for different funding, but right now it looks like dredging is going to fall by the wayside," said John F. Buckley, superintendent of the water and sewer department at the Weymouth Department of Public Works. But Weymouth officials acknowledge that they are luckier than administrators in towns such as Norton, which sought state help in restoring the Norton Reservoir. The town was promised $66,500 from the Clean Lakes Program for a diagnostic and feasibility study, but the grant money was never delivered and the project has been delayed indefinitely. "We had been waiting for more than two years for that money, and we are quite disappointed," said Kathy Romero, director of Norton's conservation department For years, the Norton Reservoir was used for all forms of recreation, but eutrophication subsequent weed growth have made the waters dangerous and prompted the town's Board of Health to warn against swimming, waterskiing and windsurfing there.

Eutrophication is a natural process in which a body of water becomes enriched with nutrients. In pristine settings, the process takes place gradually and slowly. In developed areas, the process can be accelerated by fertilizers, waste water, road runoff and other ingredients that are carried to a pond or lake. The excess nutrients encourage the growth of undesirable plants and algae, which turn clear bodies of water murky and, in sufficient quantity, can emit strong odors on hot days. In shallower areas, these plants impede swimmers and boaters.

When the growths settle at the bottom of a lake and decompose, they decrease lake depth and consume oxygen, which in turn can repel or kill fish. Unless this process is kept in check, a lake or pond will gradually fill in to form a marsh, or eventually dry up completely. One of the more dramatic examples of a lake that is choking on its own vegetation is Billington Sea, the second largest freshwater lake in Plymouth and a popular recreation area for year-round and summer residents as well as tourists. But waterskiing and boating on Billington Sea are becoming increasingly dangerous as defining water Check this Sunday's Boston Sunday Globe for a special 36-page tabloid magazine that gives you the names on State Treasurer Robert Crane's un claimed money list. Does the state owe you money? Look for your name in The Boston Sunday Globe and find out! hc Boston (Slobe For home delivery, call 466-1818 -i t-.