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THE SUN Lowell, Most. The Suburbs Blllerica Chelmsford Dracut Tewksbury Tyngsboro Friday, May 21, 1976 Page 13 Dracut library wins $1500 federal grant DRACUT The Moses Greeley Parter Library has beer; awarded a 31500 federal grant by the slate Bureau of Library Extension in be used to purchase large print materials for use by persons having difficulty reading the smaller type found in most printed materials. Residents of Dracut, Tynesbcro and Tewksbury, vs ho have need of larger print materials, have been invited to an informal meeting, which will include refreshments, at the library nexl Wednesday evening at 7:30 to discuss which kinds of ma.leria.ls should be purchased with the grant. Individuals with vision problems or their representatives are urged to attend. Those unable to be present, have been encouraged to phone or drop in at the library within Ihe next three weeks to make their views known.

Librarian Juan F. IMcionnn can be contacted any aflernoon between and fi p.m. Second reenactment May 27 in Chelmsford CHELMSFORD An encore performance of the reenactment of the March 4, 1776 Chelmsford Town Meeting will be held May 27 at 8 p.m. in the first Palish Unitarian Universallst Church, spnn nred by the board of selectmen and school department. The public is invited to take part and are en ouraged tu wear authentic Colonial costumes, i inssible.

since the even I will be subject lo both amateur and professional filming. A limited number of so.als are available, with tickets available at Chelmsford stthunls (for students) and at the offiee of the administrative assistant to the board of selectmen at lowii hall for adults). After the half hour performance, a special ceremony will take place In rcdedicate the town clock which sits on Ihe First Parish Church, Refreshments will also he served. The firsl performance the reenactment was widely received, providing buth a sense of history and lively entertainment to the audience. The encore performance promises more of the same.

The parts for the reenacliiienlare performed by town officials and well known residents. The current board ol selectmen will portray the board of 350 years ago. Among the issues al hand that the audience can watch and vote upon are the nomination and elec lion or oflicers (including deer reeves, tylliingmen and other exotic officers) a vote on where the schools should be placed (which was loudly opposed by schoolchildren al the First performance of the reenactment), a vote to allow swine lo run free throughout the town (complete with a dramatic debate by the and a vole as to whether anabaptists should he required to pay the minister's rate. Tyngsboro Democrats to meet tomorrow TYNGSBORO The Tyngsboro Democratic Town Committee will he holding an organizational meeting tomorrow at ID a.m. at Fire House No.

2 on Lakcview Avenue. Cincotta to launch candidacy tonight FROM THE SUN'S EAST CAMBRIDGE BUREAU EAST CAMBRIDGE Waltharn City Councilor Carl J. Cincotta will travel to Billerira. the home of his chief rival, to announce his candidacy lor Middlesex County Commissioner tonight. Cincotta, a 27 yearold Republican, is expected to direct bis efforts towards unseating incumbent Democratic Commissioner Michael McLaughlin of Billerica.

Should both candidates win their primary contests in September, Ihcy will face each oilier in the final election in November. In a speech to be delivered tonight at 7:30 at the First Parish Church in Rillerica, Cincotta charges that the Mclaughlin adminislration "is an operation strongly reminiscent or the old style politics of the pre reform days of 1972 Today, the particulars and Ihe individuals have changed but the issues, the attitudes and Ihe ahuses of county government remain the same." He urges the abolition of county government to he accomplished through a slate takeover of the house of correction, county hospital, and court system. "County government at its best is a duplication of what is already done al (he stale and local level," he says. "At its worst, it serves the interests of political hacks who use county government as their private employment agency and ready made campaign organization." CINCOTTA ALSO supports the employment of a counly manager administrator to replace the assistants, "obvious political who are attached to the counly commissioners. "There is no justification fur the excessive number of political aides hired by the commissioners." Al present.

Commissioner McLaughlin has three assistants, Commissioner John L. Danehy two and S. Lester Ralph one. Senior citizen center approved By huouge owkn Sun Staff DILLER1CA Alter a year of study, town representatives last anpiuved unding for a senior citizens cc Town mectinc ronrcscniiiives approved a SIM ooo appropriation lor rental ot a facility and S4.432 for operation costs over a Dne year An amendment to lhut action, brought by Howard Itnklon ol the Billerica Housing Authority and passed by town rcjirescn latlves, provides that the facility not be the Graham building, which was the site recom mended by a center study committee. Nicholas Rer.cicco and hi chilc r.

Dan rty, Malthow and Nitty vrtir wilVi the" neighbors Ralph and Arlells S'ctd' ic jio Crystal Lake victims or home near Crystal LaltD. An article on the patiol town moaling wfirrnrvt pTopcin that thelp homci ba token by 9ml nent doni llie aieti. lin, along with 37 atroi of land in Crystal Lake area residents worried by possibility of losing their homes Hy IW1B JELTSCH Sun SlaiT (JHfcXMSKORI tr the special warrant article to take lard in the Crystal LAKE AREA (JOKS THfiOIJfil! AT Monday special town meeting, the townspeople will eventually have a new beach more than twice the size of one lhat exists there now that is, alter the lake is restored. There will also he conservation land which will be a recreation area which will serve the whole town. The entire area will comprise about 37 acres Although many will enjay the swimming and recreation, there are some who won't lank forward to the activities.

They are tha few people who livr tr the area year round, whose homes and properly hi; tuVen by eaunpat domain if volcrs accept thp article Monday Their concern LS evident as Ihev talk ntinut the situation and ihey plan lo fight it lo the end. Their reasuns for objecting are several The first reason, obviously, IS that they don't want lo lose their homes. Rjlph and Arlette Klarkhnuse for instance, have lived there year round since 1S50. And Mrs. Stackhouse parents used it as a summer hnmebefore lhat AHhuugh (hey admit that the cumncnaatLon they will get is air, their home means more to (hem than dollars and cents.

"IT'S BEEN A place of happiness for a Ions; time." Mrs. Slactthousesays. Shear, her h'JS nd said that when her parents nought Ihe place her lather had heon sick, "but, when lie cime hue, lite came uilotus veins again. Dollars and cents can match the happiness and peace nr mind we've lir.d liere That's why wc jay under no circumstances will we sell." There are also practical roasnns wily they don't wantlo move. Mr.

Stacklwiusc, a retired grncery store clerk lias arthritis. "I don't thinV. Icould make it up a light ol stairs," in the event Ihey move into an apartmenL huildirig, lie says And Mrs. StaUhnusc who works in a plastics factory, has been ill with respiratory problems and has not worked tor some months. They don't, think they could afford lo move, much less buy a house or pay rent.

The Stackhouses' neighbor. Nicholas florcncca, a biotof professor at Ihe University ol Lowell, bought his cottage in September of 1971. tic says it was a shell when he bought it. But since then he paneled the entire inside and lurned a sereonpd in porch into a Vitchen, a dimcr, area and a study We had planned to pat in a hasp merit," he said, hut that's come tu a slop." feel like I've nuilt this place," he added. did it exactly Ihe way 1 wanted il.

This place is my lifeblodd." And he doesn't relish ihe possibility of moving his wife and our children into an apartment somewhere. The Stackhouses and Ihe nencriccas have other than sentimenlal rcasutis lor opposing the takeover, however. They see it as a had Health board involved in possible well pollution By TOM BOHIlfcN Sun Stuff DRACUT The Dricuf Buard ol Hrailh has been involvpri in a possible case ol hydrocarbons contaminating a drirVing vralpr supply, a case which has thus far involved Toupin lagging's wo Euel slnrage tanks ar.d the Exxon Tank Farm on Route 113 in as'. Dracut. The water supply, a 500 fODt arlcsian well owned by William and Betty Baroni o( 1057 Broadway Road, has a hydrocarbrm count oE 10 to 15 parts per million, according In F.wn company's enginee" Philip Chesarone Exxon ha.s employed the Massachusetts firm of Skinner and Sherman to determine il Exxon is responsihte for the contamination but the lirm's rcporli are.

thus lar inconclusive. "OUrt HES'ORT IS very inconclusive at Ihi.s jiuint," Chesarone said. We first sent a sarn pie to our n.n lab ar.d there was a slight trace, so slight we couldn't handle it. Skinner and Sherman took three samples one at the kitchen tap one at the bathroom tap and one at the holding lank. We found hydrocarbons at the faucels but r.nl at the Exxnn hopes tu take a sample dircclly from Ihe bottom ol the Baroni's water supply.

Hydrocarhnns are an organic compound found In petroleum, and would suggest a trace ol gasoline or oil According to Mrs. Baroni, her physician feels "no levels of hydrocarbons should he tolerated." Her water has a "kerosene like odor and a foul taste." Exxon oflicials explained that they have del stored gas al Ihe lank larm since Chesarone added that "with a well that deep, your waler could he getting hydrocarbons mm as far away as New Voile." Ray Toupiu of Tuupin Rigging lold the 1 hoard that he has two 4.000 galtun fuel storage tanks on his properly, one holding dirscl luel and the other gasoline. "We worh in small quantilios and we be ahle to delect a leak by discrepancies in our records. Since 1974 we've handled 40,000 gallons and wo ran I account for DO ot them in our bucks that's a very small Tnupni's water aUn contains hydrocarbons. The Barnni's put Ihe artesian well in las'.

October after road salts had thnrnughly contaminated his 20 foot deep hand dug well. One solution In the liydiocarbon conlaminatinn now present in their is a JEW. 5 filter jrrerning system that require changing the complete set filters every six months at th.fl rost of S6 per Isller. according to Mrs. Harani.

Other means may he available, she admitted. Health Board Member Henry Sjczcpanii poinlerl out that bnlh o( ihe contaminated wells, the Barnnis and Toupin's, were among the deepest wells in the area. Kvereii Penney raised Ihe question ul condemning the Baroni's home unlil the drinking waler dilemma is solved. Thus lar. the Barnni's have been gelling their drinking dialer Irom other sources i imiiiiiiiini iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Art show TEWKSBURY An culdoor arls nd crafts shuw will be heU by the Tewksbury United Meiliodlsl Church ot the corner el South and MoinSlKil! June rem 10 a.m.

lo p.m. (The rain dnlf Is June 26) llllllll'lllllllllllllllllll 'MIIIIIP TOWN OF CHELMSFORD NOTICE Ihfl following is iteduleH vrijle paper pit1' up by the Hqiv ay Dfpl ior Ihe recylirg program. WEEK OF MAY THRU WAY Ntwipaperj iaL iecjrely rri urid p'aced jeparoie from rubbish. lOUISRONCE ilJ Supl. of Slrel5 mnvn PCOnOO 1CU IV li: iu 1 ll roin the conservation viewpoint, whith is part of the Intent of the article.

Rencricca says on the surface Ihe purchase Inmks like a bargain, the price of the land bring only with SKfiilOfl entiling rom ihe conservation fund. But he pnints out lhat lhat is nnly or Ihis year. When Ihe recreation area is completed, a parking let with ncctss roads will he. there, street liglus, a bathhouse and a beach, all ol which will cost money. "AND ARE THEY going io keep Iher.n bnuses?" Kencricca asked.

"No. Tney.il have to pay for a demolition 'cam to knock these houses out and cart them away." "And they ain't gonna do it for peanu Is." added Stackhouse. Rencricca said it would heroine a million dollar project spread over a period of years, which will, ol course, reflect on Ihe tax rate. He also sees Ihe proposal as an unnecessary, a luxury in a year of cutbacks in the school department and other budgets. "1 wnuld have no objections il it were In build a puhlic highway, a hospital, or a school, because they are necessary, but a park isn't." He added thai a beach could he burst icguidless o) whether people stayed in Ihe area or not.

As slated in the article, arid by conservation commission chairman. John McCJomiack. the purpose is lo preserve wetlands, woodlands and open space and at the same time provide a recreation area tor the town, the lake being only one of two bodies ol water in the town suitable for swimming. BUT RENCRICCA sees the recreation aspect working at crnss purposes with conservation. With picnic lahles.and people going to the beach, he sees litter ar.d cans heing left no the ground which the lown would have lo spend money lo clean up.

It will alsn become a place, he says, for people (5 junk cars arid shoot guns at targets, as well as to ride motorcycles through and lo have wild parlies a I. "The conservation commission assures us thai this won't happen." be says, hut it will." "When yon increase human trail ic in any area you always diminish ihe ecolugical balance. People tend to pollute. He feels that if voters are "given Ihe lacls. and realize what ihe conserva lion commission is up lo," Ihe article will not pass.

And il it docs, or as he puts it "If the voters uf Chelmsford are oolish enough to accept this, will He It up in court lor years." He cited a grand lather clause in the deed which prohibits taking the house lor recreational purposes. And if he loses in Til mnvo nut of L'helmslord. hrrause I'll never support this." Crewel Needlepoint Larch hooking Macrame HaLslon suggested use of Ihe Brown L.l.dljw on River Street, across mm the elderly housing area. He told representatives lhat the authority had put down on the huilding and noted lhat the Department of Cominiinily Alfairs had advised that il may hflp Inward the purchase price The building will require renovation. Dorothy Winn, chairman ot Ihe scmnr ccntpr study committee, tcid representatives lhat a place for the elderly to meet ir lown was long overdue.

"IT tVILL NOT nnly be a recreation place bit it will support agencies needed by the scniur citizens," she said. She noted that the lacility vas needed tn expand programs, such as one for meals. We won' he allowed lo exps nd some th prog ra with oderal mon ies unless th tn makes a commitment (or a center," said Wirrn But an cxpansiun ol the program, which may in Ihe future mean additional ousts for the io was a ma jor reasun Eor oppositi on La Ike renter. finance rjommiilee. Member Charles MarH.innnlds, indicating he had passed the age oE 65, said that the program would cost the town mnrc money in the Eulurc 'You're only getting your n.nl in the doer and you will want more." He noted the cost furnishing ihe center, listing necessary items ar.d added lhat the cast of a janitor had not been laken inlo account.

'THE NEXTSTEP will he to hue buses and drivers to bring Ihe serine citizens to the center," said MacBannnlds. He suggested that thr re was cnLy a small group of senior citizens in favnr of liir cfriler. The senior citizens are nut being taken by Ihe hand, they are being embed by the tie said Anthony Saviano, president of the Clnlden Age Club for senior citizens before members cf lhat roup attending the Inwn me ting list emphasized the need lor a cenler "Any grown man wculii cry to know the situation llial some of these elderly live in." lie said Saviano added lhat Ibis year llie town had spent ovei $300,000 on youlh programs but was more enncorned abuut spending money on its elderly. Al Zemgals, senior ciliiens coordinator, I nld the representatives that they could spend SJIl.tlM for their pets, referring In .1 dnf pound appropriation, hut thai Ihey were afraid to give len cents for Iheir parents annl "Do not give sympaltiy to ino einoriy Geac hut to Ihe living elderly, Zaingals said 1 RELATEU ACTION, town representatives approved a change in the membership Hie council un aging The council will con sist nf seven members a pp muled by ihe selectmen from the voters ana residents of llie (own. At least our ot llie gioup will senior citizens.

The council will also consist ol ere representative from the hnusing authority, the board nf health and veteran's office. In other action voters defeated in article calling for a $4,500 appropriation for completion of sidewalks on tv.irnac Street l.nretla Walsh, who argued lot Ihe article detailed a history ol the situation, alleging lhat I he lack of the sidewalk was due lo Ihe illegal action of the planning hoard. She told the representatives thai a developer had been given a large portion or Ins bond lor the area by the planning hoard in an executive and that the sidewalk requirement had been waived. Representative Andrew .1. Ruwen noted that Ihe planning board's action of releasing a developers bond in executive session a week bflore residents were to be heard on such a mailer had heen a regular practice.

He suggesled lhatsucn aclicn should bring a recall of members on such a hoard a law suit against thern to pay fur if. The main opposition In the article was that other streets are in need of sidewalk repair and mere shnuld be nn special consideration yiveu to I hose on Summac. liliiiit i ei 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ci 1 1 1 in 1 1 ii 1 1 il 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Summer school HII.I.ERICA Shaw sheen Tech wilt he conducting a six week summer session again Ihls year, heglnning July 1Z, in 2t tSlllerenl vucatinnal areas. All but two Ihese rnurses are offered free lo all high schoal students from Wilmington, tlillenca, Burlington, Tewkshurj and Bedford, Including graduating seninrs, provided Ihey havp completed grade nine. Courser, include autobody repair, small enjine repair, carprntry reslauraul conking, baking and enkprfeeorn ling, electronics, machine shop, meial fahncnling, welding, technical drafting, technical Uluslrnliog.

automotive repnir, dietel and heavy eoulri menl repair, chemical lab technology, Institutional cooking, electrical, air enndition Ingand healing, masonry, plumhlngand pipe filling, secretarial science and typing, commercial art and graphic arls Two courses nre ollercd Tree of charge lo all studrnts who have complfied grade seven in junior highs In Ihe Shawsheen Tocb dulrict. They include: summer physical filness program and rJevelopmcelal reading Inh. For lurlhcr Information students should contact their own guidance offices. lllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllltUlllllllllllllllhlllllblllll Winit Thn Mm ei MnnfiMrinrnft Qhnn in I nuidll 151 1 I IXCVY llCCUICUiau Oliup luvyuii Opening Special 1 OFF Kifs of Yarn MANY SPEC IAUTIR0UGH0 Needlecraft Shoppe "OVER GEORGE'S TEXTILE" 362 MERRIMACK LOWELL 459 7830.