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4 RUTLAND DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 24, 1981 Obituaries Helen Burbank Dies day morning at the Burlington Medical Center Hospital following a long illness. He was born in Duxbury, March 21, 1897, son of Charles and Annice (Mable) Corliss. Mr. Corliss had been employed as a farmer and logger in the Mad River Valley area For the past 20 years, he mad resided in Bristol with a sister, Mrs. Mable Henry.

Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Mary Ann Thurston of South Royalton; three sons, Rodney Corliss of Lebanon, Friends are requested to please omit flowers. Contributions may be made in her memory to the Visiting Nurse Association, 260 College St or to the First Con-gregational Church Memorial Garden, South Winooski both in Burlington. The Corbin and Palmer Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. George Gilmore WINDSOR George Gilmore, 72, died Monday morning at his home in Windsor Vermont Times Flood Watch Posted Again BURLINGTON The National Weather Service posted a small river and stream flood watch for Southern Vermont for Monday night and Tuesday.

A weather service spokesman said the watch was posted in anticipation of heavy rain which was expected to begin in Rutland County about 11:30 p.m. Monday and continue throughout Tuesday. Area rivers are already full to capacity because of melting snow caused by the unusually warm February weather over the past week and several days of heavy rain Weather forecasters predict the warm wet weather to continue throughout the week He was born August 22, N.H., Kendall Corliss of 1908, in Ireland, the son of Montpelier and Wesley Cor president of the Montpelier Business and Professional Womens Club, a member of the Montpelier Womens Club and the Vermont Retired State Employees Association. Active in Republican politics, she had been a delegate to the Republican national convention Survivors include a niece. Mrs.

Charles (Beverly) Purrier of Montgomery Center; a nephew, Robert D. Taisey of New York City and a grandnephew, Charles R. Purrier of Montgomery Center. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Trinity United Methodist Church.

Entombment will be in the Green Mount Cemetery vault pending burial in Mount Pleasant Cemetery in St. Johnsbury. Friends may call at the Barber and Lanier Funeral Home, 139 Main Montpelier, Tuesday from 7 to 9 p.m. Memorial contributions may be made to Trinity United Methodist Church, 137 Main Montpelier 05602. MONTPELIER Helen Burbank.

82. of Montpelier, the only woman ever to hold the office of secretary of state in Vermont, died Sunday in Central Vermont Hospital in Berlin. Miss Burbank was born July 27, 1898 in Otsego, N.Y., the daughter of Horace and Edith (Wicks) Burbank. She graduated from St. Johnsbury Academy and Business College.

Entering state employment in 1917, she began work in the office of the secretary of state in 1920. She was appointed deputy secretary of state in 1927 and served in that capacity until October 1947, when she was appointed to complete the unexpired term of Secretary of State Rawson C. Myrick following his resignation. In January 1949. she was again appointed deputy secretary of state and continued until her retirement in 1968 at the age of 70.

Miss Burbank was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church and the churchs womens society. She had also been vice raising for the Mount Ascutney Hospital and Health Center in Windsor, and participated in many other community service projects. Surviving are a son, Sher-man Howe Jr. of Woodstock, and two grandchildren. There are no calling hours.

The family suggests memorial contributions be made to the Woodstock Visiting Nurses Association or to the Mount Ascutney Hospital Auxiliary. Arrangements are under the direction of the Cabot Funeral Home in Woodstock. Margaret Coleman SPRINGFIELD, MASS. A memorial service for Margaret H. Coleman, 81, who died Dec.

28, 1980, will be held Wednesday at the South Church Chapel. She was born in Norwich, and lived in Springfield for many years. She was a retired secretary at the former Gilbert and Barker in West Springfield. Joseph L. Bisson Sr.

HOOSICK FALLS, Y. Funeral services for Joseph L. Bisson 57, who died Sunday at his residence, will be held Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. at the Robson-Decker Funeral Home, and at 10 a.m. at the Church of the Immaculate Conception.

Burial will be in St. Marys Cemetery in Hoosick Falls. He was born in North Pownal, son of Richard and Josephine (Roy) Bisson. Mr. Bisson was a World War II Navy veteran and served in the Pacific.

He had been employed by the Wood Flong Corp. for 34 years in the maintenance department. He was a member of the Hoosick Valley Post, VFW, and of the Church of the Immaculate Conception. Survivors include his wife, the former Florence Miller; two sons, Richard Bisson of Northboro, and Joseph Bisson Jr. of Ponce Vedra, two daughters, Barbara Bisson of Waterford and Mary Jane Rowland of1 Gloversville; a brother, Wilfred Bisson of Hoosick Falls; three sisters, Ida LeBlanc and Beatrice Brimmer, both of Bennington, and Merence Burke of Hoosick Falls.

Friends may call at the funeral home Tuesday from 7 to 9 p.m. The VFW wiU conduct a service at 7 p.m. Memorial contributions may be made to the Town of Hoosick Rescue Squad, in care of the funeral home. made to the Christopher Andrew Kelley Memorial Fund, in care of Bruce Gee, 95 Temple Rutland' 05701. Mary Gorham BRANDON Mary Brown Gorham, 87, died Monday at the Mary Fletcher Hospital in Burlington.

She was bom in Jacksonville, Nov. 3, 1893, the daughter of William and Mary Brown. Mrs. Gorham was a resident of Brandon for 54 years, moving here with her family from Waterbury. She was a member of the Monday Club in Brandon and St.

Thomas Episcopal Church. She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She and her husband celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in August 1980. Survivors include her husband, Marcus F. Gorham of Brandon; a son, William F.

Gorham of Berkeley Heights, N.J.; a daughter, Mrs. Ruth Gorham Rohde of Altadena, five grandchildren; three greatgrandchildren; and one cousin. Private funeral services will be held Wednesday at 11 a.m. at the Miller and Ketcham Funeral Home in Brandon. The Rev.

Arthur Parker, rector of St. Thomas Episcopal Church, will officiate. Entombment will follow the services. Burial will be in the Evergreen Cemetery in Rutland at a later date. There are no calling hours.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Brandon Area Rescue Squad, P.O. Box 232, Brandon, or to a charity of ones choice. Joseph of Rutland and Gawet of Center liss of Plainsboro, N.J.; a brother, Clarence Corliss of Southberry, three sisters, Mrs. Henry, Mrs. Susan Phillips and Mrs.

Almira Griffith, all of Bristol; eight grandchildren, three greatgrandchildren, nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Brown-McClay Funeral Home in Bristol. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery in Bristol. Friends may call at the funeral home on Wednesday from 7 to 9 p.m.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Bristol Rescue Squad in care of Mrs. Lottie Follansbee, Bristol, Vt. 05443. Edythe Howe READING A memorial service for Edythe Moser Howe, 82, who died Thursday in Mount Ascutney Hospital, will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. in St.

James Episcopal Church in Woodstock. The Rev. Richard Cockrell, pastor, will officiate. Mrs. Howe owned and operated the Sherman Howe Associates Real Estate and Reading Insurance Agency until her retirement in 1978.

She had worked as a director trustee of the Woodstock Visiting Nurses Association, was involved with fund Patrick and Ellen (Maloney) Gilmore. Mr. Gilmore received his schooling in Ireland. He came to the United States in December 1927 and lived in New York City. He married Lillian White on June 25, 1939, in New York City.

Mr. Gilmore was employed by IRT Motor-man Transit Authority in New York City. He retired in 1969 and moved to Windsor in 1970. He is survived by his wife, who lives in Windsor; a son, John J. Gilmore of Fairfield, a daughter, Mrs.

Ellen Nicewander of Plano, Texas; a brother, Thomas Gilmore of New York City; a sister. Miss Mary Gilmore of Yonkers, N.Y.; four grandchildren; several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 10 a.m. at the St. Francis Church in Windsor.

The Rev. James Burke will officiate. Burial will be held at a later date at the St. Francis Cemetery in Windsor. Friends may call at the Knight Funeral Home in Windsor on Wednesday from 7 to 9 p.m.

The rosary will be recited at 7:30 p.m. Howard E. Corliss BRISTOL Howard E. Corliss, 83, died early Mon- Miss Bujak Rites ingfield, Funeral services for Czachor Mary Bujak, 59, of Center John P. Rutland, who died Satur- Rutland, day, were held Monday at St.

Stanislaus Kostka Church in West Rutland. Celebrant of the mass of the services Christian burial was the Andrew PITTSFORD Christopher Kelley Funeral for Christopher Kelley, 20, who Rev. Brian Mead of Ver- died Sunday morning at the mont Catholic Charities in Mary Hitchcock Hospital Rutland. Entombment was following an automobile ac-in St. Stanislaus Kostka cident, will be held Wednes- Cemetery in West Rutland, with a spring burial pending in the family lot.

Organist was Miss ay at 10 a.m. at the United ethodist Church in Rutland. Burial will follow in the Cedar Grove Dorothy Blicharz. ac- Cemetery in Fair Haven, companied by the church Friends may call at the choir. Bearers were Steve Poc-zobut of West Rutland, Thomas Burke of Spr- Aldous Funeral Home Tuesday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9p.m.

Contributions may be Onetime IBM Manager Dies Important things to know BURLINGTON (UPI) -James Ritchie, who once served as general manager of IBM in Essex Junction, one of Vermonts largest employers, has died at the age of 58. Ritchie died Sunday at the Fanny Allen Hospital in He was a leader in Burl-Colchester. ington civic affairs, and The Burlington man was had served as president of chairman of the Governors the Greater Burlington In-Council of Economic Ad- dustrial Corp. and a visors under former Gov. member of the city Plann-Thomas Salmon and con- ing Commission.

Lillian C. Cook BURLINGTON -Funeral services for Lillian Casey Cook, 67, who died at her home here late Saturday evening following a long illness, will be held at the convenience of the family. Mrs. Cook was born in Pittsford, Sept. 29, 1913, the daughter of William J.

and Matha (McRae) Casey. She married Wendell Cook in Burlington on July 2, 1936. She was an accountant in the Financial Data Control Department of the University of Vermont. Mrs. Cook was a member of the First Congregational Church of Burlington.

She is survived by her husband; two sons, Bradley A. Cook and Rod Cook, both of Atlanta, three brothers, Harold and Raymond of Proctor and Fred of Jericho; a sister, Irene Casey; and four grandchildren. There will be no visiting hours. Located at the junction of Routei 4 end 7, Aldoui ii equally eaay for all your relatirea and frienda to reachfrom the north, south, east and west. Shopkeeper In Pursuit GEORGIA (UPI) Puro stopped Harland Georgia shopkeeper John Manning, 20, of Elmore, Puro, who does not wait for about one mile from his police when he thinks his store Sunday, store is threatened by thieves, successfully nUr- incident was not the sued a man he thought had Puro has tried to set off a burglar alarm defend his property.

Aldous Funeral Home 44 N. Main St. Rutland, Vt. 773-6252 Serving the Rutland Area Sister Navarro To Lecture M1DDLEBURY Sister Marjorie Navarro, who recently left El Salvador under the threat of expulsion. will lecture on Another Vietnam on Feb.

25 at 4:15 p.m. in Warner hemicycle at Mid-dlebury College. The public is invited. Now on a speaking tour of the United States, arranged by the Maryknoll Seminary. Sister Navarro spent four years at St.

Joseph's Cathedral in San Salvador She will be accompanied to the Mid-dlebury lecture by Yban Escobar, a lawyer and member of the Human Rights Commission of El Salvador. Sister Navarro, who opposes U.S. intervention in El Salvador, will attempt to disprove recent Reagan administration statements on the situation and will discuss the Church and its attitude in the Central American country. A brief question and answer period will follow her talk. Her lecture is sponsored by Concerned Middlebury Students for El Salvador.

Free Press Backs Paquette BURLINGTON (UPI) -Vermonts largest newspaper endorsed Burlington Mayor Gordon Paquette Monday for re-election to a sixth term The Burlington Free Press editorial staff said the endorsement came with some qualifications. The editors noted the danger of keeping one person in office for more than a decade, and said Paquette sometimes appears indifferent to the wishes of the citys neighborhood groups And, they said Paquette has neglected the pressing need for more and bet ter housing. The Free Press said Pa quettes most serious challenger is Bernard Sanders, an independent candidate attempting to build a coalition of support among the citys less affluent residents. Other candidates include Richard Bove and Joseph McGrath, both in dependents. Waterbury Dam Is Threatened WATERBURY (UPI) Water is carrying fine silt through the Waterbury Dam, threatening to erode the earthen structure, ac cording to an engineers report released Monday.

State Environmental Engineering Director Reginald LaRosa estimated it will cost $250,000 to $300,000, and require one to three years work, to prevent the problem from getting worse. He said the state will seek federal funds for the repairs. The reservoir, which is used for swimming, boating and fishing is an important recreation resource for central Vermont. In addition, the Green Mouptain Power Corp. has a hydroelectric station at the dam.

Last fall, when the structural problems surfaced, the big reservoir was drained. LaRosa said water is seeping through the structure, carrying with it fine particles of earth that erode the dam. MONTPELIER (UPI) -The Vermont daily lottery number Monday was 254. -30- WARNING LUDLOW TOWN SCHOOL DISTRICT MEETING March 2 and March 3, 1981 The legal voters of the Town School District of Ludlow, Vermont, are hereby notified and warned to meet at the Town Hall in said Ludlow at seven-thirty (7:30) o'clock In the evening on Monday, the 2nd day of March A.D. 1981, and on the 3rd day of March A.D.

1981, between the hours of 10:00 o'clock in the forenoon (a.m.) at which time the polls will open and 7:00 o'clock in the afternoon (p.m.) at which time the polls will close, to vote by printed ballot upon the following articles of business: Tuesday, March 3. 1981 Article I To elect a Town School District Moderator (Title 16, Paragraph 562, Powers of Electorate, Item 2, VSA.) Article II To elect a Town School District Clerk (Title 16, Paragraph 562, Powers of Electorate, Item 3, VSA.) Article III To elect Town School District Officers (school directors) for the ensuing year by Australian ballot. Article IV Shalt the Board of School Directors of the Ludlow Town School District be authorized to negotiate and enter a lease for a period not to exceed twenty-five (25) years for the transfer by lease of the former Black River High School building, now occupied and utilized by Union School District 39, with the land necessary for the effective operation, utilization and function of the same to the Union School District 39. Article For the purpose of financing the Ludlow Town School District's share of making certain public improvements to the Ludlow Elementary School, shall general obligation bonds of the Ludlow Town-School District in an amount not to exceed Fifty-five Thousand Dollars ($55,000.00) be issued for the purpose of financing the Ludlow Town-School District's share of the making of certain public improvements, viz; Renovations for the handicapped and as presently required by existing federal and state statutes and regulations, roof replacement over the gymnasium and the early addition of the elementary school, the addition of a resource room for special education and speech therapy, such improvements to have a total cost of One Hundred Thirty-four Thousand Seven Hundred Ninety Dollars Monday. March 2.

1981 Article VI To act on the reports of the Town School District Officers for the year ending June 30, 1980. Article VII To fix salaries of the Town School District Officers (school directors) for the ensuing year. Article VIII Will the Town School District vote a budget of $484,795.00 for the support of the Ludlow Elementary School. Any state aid received in the 1981-1982 school year will be used to reduce taxes necessary to support this budget. Article IX To allow the School Directors to borrow money as necessary in anticipation of taxes.

Article To see if the Ludlow School District will authorize its Board of School Directors to utilize and apply toward the cost of Improvements and new construction propose the Ludlow Elementary School, the sum ot ifteen Thousand Collars the sum having been heretofore voted and authorized by the Ludlow School District at its regular School District Meeting of March 3, 1980, as a local match for a potential grant to the Ludlow School District under the National Energy Conservation Policy Act (NECPA) Public Law 95-619, Title III, (92 Stat. 3206). Article XI Shall the electorate authorize the Board of School Directors to make available the school district's facilities and equipment to such individuals and organizations for such time as the Board deems in the best interest of the district. Article XII To transact any other proper and necessary business. Adopted and approved at a regular meeting of the Board of School Directors of the Ludlow Town School District, Ludlow; Vermont, duly called, noticed and held on the 19th day of January 1981.

Gray WARNING The legal voters of the Town of West Rutland Fire District No. 1, are hereby notified and warned to meet at the Multipurpose Room at West Rutland Elementary School on Tuesday, March 3, 1981, between the hours of ten (10) o'clock In the forenoon (A.M.), at which time the polls will open, and seven (7) o'clock in the afternoon (P.M.), at which time the polls will close, to vote by printed ballot upon the following Article of business: ARTICLE 1 Shall general obligation bonds of the Town of West Rutland Fire District No. 1 in an amount not to exceed Eight Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($850,000.00) be issued for the purpose of financing the District's share of making certain public improvements in the town of West Rutland, being water distribution, transmission, storage and treatment facilities, such improvements estimated to cost Eight Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($850,000.00) Adopted and approved at a regular meeting of the Prudential Committee of the Town of West Rutland Fire District No. 1 duly called, noticed and held on December 28, 1980. Received for record and recorded in the records of the Town of West Rutland Fire District No.

1 on January 25, 1981. TOWN OF WEST RUTLAND FIRE DISTRICT NO. 1 PRUDENTIAL MMITTEE By William F. Harvey, III By Joseph F. Skaza ATTEST- By Theodore J.Kramarz Mary T.

Bioty Clerk, Town of West Rutland Fire District No. 1 (Continued from Page One) By all accounts, Gray, too, has done a good job during his relatively brief three years in office. In that time, he made headlines by prosecuting Kristina Berster, allegedly a member of a West German terrorist group, who crossed the U.S. border illegally. She was defended by William Kunstler whose very presence ensures the attention of the national press.

It was a big case," he recalled, but really not an important prosecution. It was essentially a border violation from the our point of view. Of Kunstlers defense, Gray added: "Im not sure it was in the best interest of the client. Most border violations take three or four days to try. The sentences seldom exceed one to two months.

Kristina Berster resisted every step of the way so she spent nearly a year in jail before she returned to Germany voluntarily. Of all the cases which emanated from his office, he counts the prosecution of officials at the Space Research Corp. as the most important and complicated this office has ever done. It began with allegations by Joshua Nkomo, then the leader of a Rhodesian guerrilla group, who charged, during a Canadian tour, that South Africa was receiving illegal shipments of arms. The trail was picked up by a U.S.

Customs officer in Derby Line and then by three television networks. In this case, most of the investigation was done through the grand jury process," Gray explained. We established that Space Research had entered into contracts for the illegal shipment of arms. Gray categorized the case as an instance of white-collar crime, in that the contract was worth $28 million, although the Space Research officials were not accused of stealing any money. At the same time, he noted that the Carter administration had earmarked white-collar crime its number-one prosecutorial priority a fact which lead prosecutors to expand the scope of the category.

Both (Attorney General Griffin) Bell and (Attorney General Benjamin) Civiletti stressed white-collar crime and official corruption, Gray acknowledged. The feeling was that if equal justice under the law is to mean anything, it is important to try those cases. There has been a gradual recognition that economic crimes are a serious matter. They are also difficult to prosecute because the defendants tend to be powerful, well-educated and represented by sophisticated defense lawyers. For a combination of reasons, federal court is the best place to try those cases.

However, if he did uncover some white-collar crime, Gray said he came up short on cases of official corruption Vermont is blessed with a clean political environment and organized crime, the second priority set by the Carter people. To a great extent, what prosecutors can do is determined by investigative resources, Gray pointed out. Without the support of agencies such as the FBI, the Customs Service and the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration), it is difficult to make anything other than the most routine cases. Every good prosecutor should admit that some provable violations are not charged. Thats absolutely necessary in a world of limited resources." In the same world of limited resources, Gray also mentioned a little known fact: that the U.S.

attorneys office expends at least half of its collective energy on non-headline-grabbing civil work, especially collecting money owed to the federal government. What with student loans, mortgage foreclosures, collection of judgments and criminal fines, this office brought in more than $1 million last year. That makes us a profit-making organization. But money or no money, Gray considers staffing his greatest single accomplishment in the job which he considers the one of best a lawyer could hope for. This is the best lawyers job in Vermont far and away the most challenging professional experience Ive ever had.

We can pick and choose our criminal cases. Right now, my professional plans arent firm. I plan to stay in Vermont. Private practice, is a possibility, although potential conflict of interest makes it difficult to negotiate a job. But, yes, I would like to do this kind of work again someday.

A TRUE RECORD ATTEST: Janet H. Gerry District Clerk Ludlow Town School District sPeggy S. Marsh sGregory Trimboll Janet H. Gerry sLinda L. Tucker sBernard R.

Snow School Directors Ludlow Town-School District Received for record and recorded in the records of the Town of Ludlow, Vermont on this 23rd day of January, 1981. sJane E. Creaser Clerk, Town of Ludlow.