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THE LOWELL SUN Xf I lV a frank hanchett BWBf Dunstable Regional member Will have operation Leonardo Gavilan, I I William McCawley aft nedy Airport Tuesday fr Tha boy's right the donkey two years ago comforted by Father ing at New York's Ken hii home in Paraguay. two and one half inches shorter his left and fractured as a result ot a taU from a Dr. Joseph Mulle, a New Yerk orthopedic surgeon, has offered his services lor an operation en ihe leg. Background is Martin Freiwirth, director of Mary Immaeulale HospitaS in which volunteered facilities. Al righf is Leonardo's father, Guillermo Gavilan.

Gunplay damage Rosemary Fichea, manager of the Medford Savings Bank, examines bullet hole in teller's window after two mnn held up the bank. One of the bandits was shot and killed by police, the other was taken into custody after being wounded in the hand. AP Wlrtnhjlo Bound for the bank Pescual Martinez shows off $75,000 check for winning New York State Lottery last month his daughter in law, Mrs. Maria Martinez looks over his shoulder. Martinet won $100,000 but Connecticut Welfare Department arranged to have withheld since ha has been receiving welfare support for past five Dunstable approves regional Bishop's death sentence changed to life term YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) President Ahmadou Ahidjo committed, lo life imprisonment todav the death sentence pronounced against Msgr.

Albert Ndongmo, Roman Catholic bishop of Nknng samba, Radio Cameroon announced. The bishop had been found guilty of plo'ling a coup d'etat in im against Ahidjo's government. The broadcast said Ahidjo also commuted to life imprisonment the death sentences against Celestin Takala and Mathicu Njassep, who had been convicted of plotting against the government and rebellion as a memher of the banned Union of Cameroonian Peoples UPC. He did not, however, alter the death sentences against UPC leader Ernest Ouandie, Raphael Fotsing, a prominent UPC member, and Gabriel Tabeu, alias Wnmbole Courant, who led the Holv Cross for the Liberation of Cameroon, which 'allegedly plotted the 1063 coup. The radio did not announce any alteration in the sentences on "2 other persons, who received terms ranging from five years lo life in connection with the UPC and' Holy Cross trials, which were held during the Christmas and New Year holidays.

The softening of the sentence against Msgr. Ndongmo had been widely expected here. The decision of a military court to sentence him to death aroused protest abroad, and widespread appeals to save his life Youngsters found hanged from tree in Houston HOUSTON (AP) Two young boys with their hands tied, hanging by the neck from opposite ends of a rope over a tree limb, were found dead in a suburban back yard Wednesday night. They were Travis Donald Stuekey, 12, and James Roland Miles, 11. Police said a nylon rope with a noose in each end had been thrown over a limb seven feel from the ground in the Stuekey boy's yard.

Police Lt. Charles rioit sain young oiuun.cy hands were tied behind him and he was Almost iin Hmim The Miles bnv's hands were tied in front of mm Hip hovs could have jumped, It appeared to be an accident, he said, but added, "We just don't know. We haven't been able lo round up a single witness," Noah Sanders, stepfather of the Miles boy, said he fell it was an accident. "I think one bov fell and when he did it raised the other off 'the ground," Sanders said. "They had been playing with that rope for the lasl couple of days, tying each other up with it." 20 cops out with the "blue flu" in Springfield SPRINGFIELD (AP) Twenty policemen, members of a union deadlocked in contract talks with the city, developed "blue flu" Wednesday night and reported sick for heir midnight to 8 a m.

shifts. Approximated 35 officers are assigned to that shift. Sergeanls and other officers in the police depariment worked extra hours to handle the duties of the patrolmen who reported sick, Neither Mayor Frank Frecdman nor Police Chief John F. Lyons was available for comment Wednesday night. The patrolmen, members Df local 5rtl.

Service employes International, AFL CIO, have been without a contract since Dec. 31. Some 250 patrolmen belong to the union. The policemen met Wednesday and raised their request of a 3A a week wage increase over a two year period lo f3fi a week. A $36 increase would bring their wage lo $200, By CA11ULYN I.

MIEGEL and GLADYS CRAVEN DUNSTABLE Some 92 Dunstable residents last night put the Greater Lowell regional school on Hie map, giving their unanimous support to an $18.5 million bond issue (or construction ol the 2000 student vcaliona! school. The Dunstable approval, coupled with overwhelming votes in Dracut, Tyngsboro and the Lowell city council, ends seven long years of regional planning and makes way for the opening of the innovative school in 1072 or 1973. The 02 0 Dunstable vote came in an hour long special town meeting where very few questions were asked about the school's Financing or program. Dunstable regional committeeman Finns Hanchett, also a selectman, moved approval nf the bond after a favorable recommendation was made by the town's advisory committee. Regional chairman Harold O.

Bell of Tyngsboro and superintendent director Robert H. Reeder explained the financing and pin gram lo the town residents. lleeder said "the postponing of maturity in our country has gone mi too long" and explained the regional school's curriculum will enable students "to move al their own speed and make Ihcir own decisions about their future." He pledged "the ward failure will nnl be used and the slow students will not be srrccnei out but able lo go at his own rate, picking up 'in the fall where he left off in the spring." Lowell will pay 77 per cent of Die school construction costs; Dracut 17.7a per cent; Tyngs boiD 3.76 per cent and Dunstable 1.3 per cent, vour is paying per student." When the regional school is in nil operation in 1974, Dunstable is expected lo have students enrolled, compared to Lowell's 1544. Bell cited stale laws which make the regional school venture financially attractive including a 15 per cent increase in each communities cherry sheet reimbursements for membership in I he region. Some 75 per cent ol the bond's principal will be reimbursed by the School Building Assistance Bureau and the vocational education department.

The reRion has also filed tor $4.11 million in Economic Development Administration funds, citing the extensive adult education program planned for the school. But Bell and Rccder told Dunstable residents last night the region did not expect lo get the full request "but had a good chance of getting $1 million." THE ONLY QUESTIONS came from Vincent Best and Selectman Lloyd Kibcrd during the Dunstable special meeting, Best cited the decreasing cost to the town for the construction bond and the financial advantages of Ihe state reimbursements. The regional school began its planning in 19S3 as Bell and Lowell's George U. Koutoheras, Helen G. Droney and others pushed for the formation of the vocation school district, including based on the student populations of each com Dracut, Tyngsboro, reppcreu, Lium muie uu nlUnn.Vi im nnniahlo residents "thai your The first city wide referendum in Lowell, 3 per cent may not sound like much, but it is however, defeated the regional school question much as everyone' else In 1967, the regional school vote won by a small fair share and as much as everyone margin in 1 owell and an appointed regional school committee set about 10 write a curriculum and hire a superintendent.

Put in the spring of 1069 troubles developed, with Peppcrcll withdrawing from Ihe region. It took almost Tour months to gD through Ihe complicated legal procedures of striking the small town from the district and re establishing a four community region. In the summer of the Arthur D. Liitlo Co. completed the individualized curriculum ot the school, at a cost of $50,000 to the district.

Once completed, approved by the school committee and sent to the slate department of education, the curriculum hit snag in Boston until last February, when Ihe now superintendent arrived in Lowell. After four months of squabbles with the state department and a visit to Commissioner Neil V. Sullivan's office, by Ihe regional com mifle, the curriculum was approved by the state, giving district architects the green light for the design of the school. The architects brought back a 521 million cost estimate in December, which was pared down by Reeder to the U8.5 million figure approved by the regional committee Dec. 1C.

The body of Creec Cenfofanti street after he was shot anc 52, lies in killed by MALDEN OJPI) Crocc Ccntnranti, 52. whose police record dales from 1034, was shot between the eyes and killed Wednesday in an aborted bank holdup. Annihpr susnrcr in the Sl.500 robbery of the Holdup ends in death police following a hoidup at the Medford Savings Bank, in Medford. An accomplice AP Wlrepfiolo was taken into custody after being wounded by Centofanti ends career shof between the eyes as holdup partner is arrested was on his feet but MedfOTd savin.es Bank branch on Main Slreel, Kennedy hits plan to move So. Viet refugees FROM THE SUN'S WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTON Plans to relocate up to 200,000 South Vietnamese refugees to safer areas hundreds of miles from their homes proves the bankruptcy of present policies, Sen.

Edward Kenedy said in a statement yesterday. Kennedy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on refugees, said he had asked John Hannah, administrator of the agency for international development, about plans to move up to a million refugees from the northern provinces of South Vietnam to more secure areas in the Mekong Delta. KENNEDY saiif for months we have been hearing that the refugee problem was practically solved. "Now," he said, "we hear an admission that the refugee problem continues in massive proportions and hundreds of thousands of these hapless pcopfe are going to be moved (Tom provinces that a week ago were listed as having very few or 'zero' refugees." THIS ACTION calls into questiim the accuracy of official statistics Kennedy said. It also tells us about official policy.

"It is bankrupt," he said. Policies aimed al, the strategic movement of people have long been discredited in Vietnam and throughout Indochina, Kennedy said "Such movements have not only proved to be insensitive to the needs and asplratoms or Ihe people involved, but have, never really accomplished their strategic objectives," he said. William Smith, 28. of Quincy, was arrested nearby trying to gel a taxi. He was to be arraigned today in District Court.

Police said they had hcen lipped a robbery was planned for the bank and stationed Patrolman Christopher Sarno S3, in a back room. The officer said he saw two men standing at a teller's window and heard one say "give me your money." The bank's security system showed one man thrusting a bag over the counter at Mrs. Rosemary Fichcra 46, the branch manager and told her to fill the bag. She said Sarno "slithered almost on his hands and knees out of the back room, shoved mc aside and yelled 'hit the "He fired through Ihe tellers window and told me to call the station. hit the floor with the bag of money, pulled Ihe alarm and called the police station." Centofanti, officers said, ran out the door and grabbed a car and sped away.

Officers chased him and forced the car lo stop near the First National Stores warehouse in neighboring Somerville. The short, pudgy man jumped out of it and "went for his gun," officials said. Police fired and shot the man later identified as Centofanti. Smith, police charge, got another teller to put money in another bag and he ran away, slipping into the doorway of an apartment building on Willis Avenue. Mrs.

Anna L. Smith, 57, said her doorbell buzzed and a man asked her to call a cab for him. She called the cab while the man, who told hushar ri his name was Smith, talked in Ihe living room. As he weni out to get into the taxi, w(ls he was arrested. Police say he had been wounded in the hand.

Centofanti has had a police record since he was in and his adult record begins in 1934. He has been convicted of breaking and entering, larceny, armed robbery, robbery, auto theft, carrying a gun and escaping rrom a penal institution. Officials say Cenlofanli wounded two policemen in a gun battle with 50 officers in 1955. Surrounded in an East Boston tenement, officials say Centofanti yelled through the locked door, "Come on in, copper. We've got something for you." CROCE CENTOFANTI The daily overage ncl paid circulation of The LoiceU Sun for December 52,449 'flic weekly average ncl paid circulation of tha Lowell Sunday Sun for December teas: 42,989.