Rutland Daily Herald from Rutland, Vermont • 15

RUTLAND DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 20, 1981 15 socialist, and Snelling the Republican, are old political foes, who have a mutual respect for each others long-held beliefs. Administration Secretary Bill Gilberts decision to seek the governorship has put some pressure on the boss" to reach a decision about his political future. Gilbert wont run if Gov. Snelling seeks a fourth term, but he's not taking any chances and is lining up support as fast as possible, in the event the governor announces hes not running for governor. One early Gilbert backer is former Snelling aide and political confidant Chuck Butler.

Elmendorf who will be assistant education commissioner in the U.S. Education Office. The man pulling the strings is Wayne Roberts of Jeffersonville, former Vermont and then New England campaign coordinator for Ronald Reagan. Roberts is now assistant director of White House personnel. That's a fancy name for the people who screen patronage appointments for the White House.

Former GOP party chief Jack Lindley has the credentials to head the Farmers Home Administration in Vermont, but in the post the Reagan administration awarded him, hes still not exactly sure what hell be doing for his $50,000 a year salary. The job Lindley received was newly created to solve a political problem Reagans team had in placing both Lindley and former Reagan campaign worker Roland Vautour in patronage posts. Lindley has told a few people hell be responsible for reorganizing the FHA in New England and once thats accomplished in about a year, he may return to the private sector. The Capitol Eye By ARAUCARIA The presidential appointment of a U.S. Marshal for Vermont has come down to a choice between Gov.

Snelling's long-time security officer Cpl. John Moriarty of the state police and Rep. Chris Hansen, R-Brattleboro. There are a few Republican observers of the infighting for the job who believe the governor's recent comments that he'd be willing to challenge Sen. Stafford in a GOP Senate primary next year may have been the final blow to Moraritys chances to land the marshals post.

Several people connected with the review of the Medical Center Hospital of Vermonts proposed $64 million redevelopment project are wondering why former Democratic Gov. Philip Hoff has taken such an interest in the process. A practicing Burlington attorney, Hoff has spent many hours attending hearings on the hospital's project on behalf of Friends of Health Care, a group he formed to fight the redevelopment. There are some who feel Hoff might be using the review process to keep his name in the news in anticipation of a return to politics. Green Up Day 1981 came and went without much publicity, but one event that should have been recorded was Gov.

Snellings visit to the Queen City. For the governor it was an opportunity to thank Burlington Mayor Bernie Sanders for taking part in Green Up activities. Sanders, a The other Vermonter in the Reagan administration is John Mc-Claughry of Kirby. McClaughry is serving as coordinator to one of the cabinent councils, the one dealing with the departments of Agriculture, Housing Urban Development and Health Welfare. McClaughrys presence in Washington is not always appreciated by Vermont politicians.

Jim Jeffords thinks he sees some of McClaughry's tracks in Vermont in building opposition to Jeffords because the states lone congresman agonized so long before supporting the Reagan budget. The Eye was told that Jeffords went to the White House and asked political operatives there to call off McClaughrys anti-Jeffords campaign in Vermont. GOP National Committeeman Larry Wright is the Reagan administrations point man in Vermont, let there be no question about it. A Reagan loyalist, Wright has the final say over all appointments of Vermonters to appointed posts in the Reagan administration, and is the one person the White House contacts on a regular basis for advice in Vermont. Wright's influence, insiders report to the Eye, is much greater than that of Sen.

Stafford, Rep. Jeffords, Gov. Snelling and National Committeewoman Madeline Harwood combined. Our shameless competitor, the Washington Stars Ear column, reports that Rep. Jeffords received a $25,000 settlement after a legal battle with the owners of his old Washington apartment which was converted to a condominium.

Jeffords, you recall, moved out of his Capitol Hill apartment into his House office because he said he couldnt afford Capitol Hill rents. The settlement came after Jeffords and other displaced renters sued the owners of the apartment complex. The Jeffersonville Mafia is growing in influence in Washington. The newest arrival is former Johnson State College President Edward Is there is a new Sen. Leahy? Well not that new, but the states junior senator who suffered a near defeat in his bid for re-election seems to be taking life a little easier now that the Republicans control the White House and the Senate.

Leahy has told his staff and his family that he will not think about running for a third term until after the 1982 elections. After his near brush with defeat, Leahy went into a deep funk. He has now reorganized his staff and the Eye has been told he's not so uptight anymore. girls back into the girls world and some boys back into the boys world where God and mother nature wants them to be. In five letters to the editor 1 wrote to one Vermont newspaper 1 called this mixed up sex business a mental problem.

Being that I worked in a mental hospital for about two years it seemed to me some boys and girls were acting like some patients there. I wonder if signs of mental illness is being published in newspapers. Such things if a person hears voices that arent there or sees things that isnt there. I know of one lady who had depression and she imagined things that wasn't so. Sometimes she thought a fat man looked skinny.

She has taken a tranquilizer for about 15 years. I suppose if a boy thinks he is a girl and a girl think she is a boy that isnt so. It seems as if this all adds up to the old country is racking up with the times and a lot of people are cracking up with it. GERALD RHOADES Bellows Falls Letters WORK, NOT WORRY In response to Oren Blazure of Bomoseen Back 200 years ago people were allowed to take their guns to church for protection so even being a religious day they could use their guns for protection which the way things are going nowadays it would be wrong to prohibit guns on Sunday as they still might have to use them Is It worse for us Pop and Mom stores to run to death working seven days a week or drop dead because we can't have one day a week by having the big chains closed so we dont have to sorry so much when we get the extra business on Sunday to help us out. Maybe if we went backwards a few years things wouldnt be the mess they are in this country today The big chains get a cheaper rate on their electricity for their cooling and heating equipment than us Mom and Pop stores do so dont see why this is any big deal if they have to close Sunday I am sure us old Vermonters have the stamina to take care of any trade we might get from New York trade or in fact from any other state.

Work not worry is what keeps us alive. CECILE B.HEWES He wes Market Manchester CORPORATE DUTY The Postal Service usually answers complaints about its cumbersome operations by stating that continually rising labor and operating costs obviate better service. 1 offer a plan which would immediately wipe out any possible deficit and insure plenty of moola for the future. It is to issue stamps bearing the logos of companies like Exxon, GM, IBM, Mobil, IT AT, General Foods, etc. The funds realized from this advertising would be enormous.

Furthermore, Im sure these corporations would be happy to fulfill a patriotic duty and to pay any amount to help the Postal Service and, incidentally, have literally billions of pieces of advertising reaching millions of people every day. The plan would also reflect the desire of the public to honor these great corporations which do so much to make us all happy. After the novelty has worn off, another suggestion I have might be to print portraits of corporation heads on stamps. These would be underwritten, of course, by the individual company executives. They would also provide a sort of gallery for identification purposes, enabling us to recognize our benefactors.

Hope this reaches you some time this year. EDWARD LANDON Weston MISSING DAD My piece is about my Dad thats been missing since April 8. Id like to ask anyone who has seen him or know anything about him to please let me know. If my Dad reads this I wish hed please just let me know that he is O.K. thats all I want to make sure.

My Dad has always been a strict father but a loving one to me and my two brothers. Every since Dad has been gone I've looked and asked people if they have seen him but I havent gotten anything yet to know that he is in good health. If he doesnt want to come home thats okay but I just wish hed let me know that he is O.K. My little boy, C.J., always looks for his Papa whenever we go to my mothers. He cant understand why his Papa left us.

My Dad knows we all love and miss him very much so if anyone knows anything please let us know. My Dad is six foot two inches tall, has dark brown hair, blue eyes, with a mustache and beard. He weighs about 145 pounds. When he was last seen he was wearing a light blue jacket with two green patches sewed on the back, faded blue dungarees, and brown work shoes. My Dad's name is Edwin Clayton Peer but alot of people called him Manny.

Some of his friends even called him by his C.B. handle which is Cold River Kid. Please let me know if you know anything or have seen him. PATTY (PEER) LAPLANTE North Clarendon FOSTER CHILDREN WEEK It is ironical that Action for Foster Children Week (May 16 to May 24) traditionally falls between Mothers Day and Fathers Day. Perhaps the juxtaposition of these events can serve to heighten our awareness of the needs of youngsters separated from their own families.

There are many factors in our society that contribute to the physical and emotional problems which ultimately cause a child to be parted from his parents. We may not be able to solve these problems, but we do need to be working cooperatively to try to find solutions, and we do need to be able to offer all children stability and a caring home environment. A child whose emotional and physical needs are not met today has little chance of developing into tomorrow's responsible adult, let alone parent. Foster Care, nationwide, has been in the news with some well deserved criticisms. We all wish there was no need for foster care, but the reality is that there is a need.

The Upper Valley Youth Services answer to the criticisms is to work towards improving the quality of foster care by training prospective foster parents, offering 24 hour professional support to parents and children in care, lowering the caseload of our social workers, and by working continually with natural parents. Upper Valley Youth Services is one of several community-based agencies in this rural area which delivers service through the regions greatest resource its people. The UVYS foster care network, the Opportunity Center's network of family day care providers, and the Children At Risk Programs network of parent aids for families of abused and neglected children all provide support and training to these informal community helpers. Our communities have benefitted from the increased skills and service resources of our neighbors to whom we have turned for help. We urge all citizens to volunteer their energies and talents to support the work of our social services agencies, public and private, and our dedicated foster parents.

Let us work cooperatively with them to bring about better services for our foster children. JOANNE H.FOULK (Foster Care Coordinator) PHILIP BUSH (Associate Director, Upper Valley Youth Services) Lebanon. N.H. SOVIET DOMINATION The laugh of the century has got to be Soviet Comrade Brezhnevs make believe sympathy on the shooting of the Pope! The Communist tyrant daily orders the murder of Afghans, the illegal occupation of Catholic nations like Poland and Hungary and the maintenance of Soviet concentration camps! Soviet correspondence should be returned by the Vatican post office to Moscow as unopened junk mail! MERLE JACKSON. JR.

Bellows Falls CLIPPED FROM OTHER PAPERS VITAL ATHLETICS As a father of four very active boys, as a mental health professional, and as a high school varsity coach, I am acutely aware of just how vital athletics are to the emotional, social, and intellectual growth of scores of young men and women in our community. It is no exaggeration to state that a significant percentage of these kids would be emotionally and socially bankrupt were it not for the opportunity to blossom as an individual through their athletic experience. And I am certain the same can be said for the many students not participating in sports but involved in the arts and music programs. Are we really and truly prepared for all the dire consequences of the decision to drop these pregrams? What we will do to these involved students and its long range impact on them is surely bad enough. However, at least two other certain consequences severely compound the injury for allot us.

1) There are presently over 180 tuition paying students in Grades 9 through 12 at Rutland Junior and Senior High School with another 40 on our threshold. At roughly $2100 per student, the Rutland City School system stands to lose over $380,000 immediately. No responsible parent (myself included) will send their child to a school whose educational base is falling apart, and these families do have extremely good and viable options. If the school commissioners in particular, and the community at large, havent considered this in planning next year's budget, they have made a serious error. This is big money and it will not be there to spend.

Result: More teachers and programs cut over the summer. Please dont force my kids and so many others to transfer. They have been loving their school experience and prospering in so many ways as a result. Right now, they are hurting, anxious, and unsettled. Yet, they are mature enough to know that they cannot continue to grow as a total person in a school devoid of extra curricular activites.

They know they must leave Rutland High School should the tax increase be defeated on June 2 and that really hurts. 2) Eliminating athletics, along with the arts and music programs, will be the beginning of the end for Rutland High School and as a direct result, the beginning of the end for Rutland City as we have known it. I'm sure that most of us look to our homes not only as a secure haven from the perils of today's world, but also as by far and away our most major financial asset. Our homes have been a good investment because the Rutland community has been a great place to live for those of us already here and also a very desirable place for so many people to relocate. For whatever reason, what family will want to move to Rutland in the clear absence of a strong school system? Our property values will begin to decline and in a very short period of time the tax increase we have been asked to vote for even though it represents a terrific sacrifice for many of us will look like small change when compared to the decline in the underlying value of our property.

Far worse than that prospect for many of us, is the prospect that our own children wont want to move back here with their families in the future This has been their home as it has been ours. But if they dont feel that their children can get a fundamentally sound and broad education in the public sector here in Rutland, many, many of our children will decide not to return Speaking only for myself, that would be a very serious personal tragedy. With a crippled school system, the Rutland area may soon become a ghetto As much as it hurts all of us. we must now invest in the future of the place we love and, more importantly, ake an investment on behalf of our next generation I beg the voters of Rutland City to once again put their self interest aside, put their grudges behind them, and go to the polls on June 2 thinking of all the children in Rutland. If we must, we can get along without many of the services we are presently paying for.

However, it seems to me that we cannot deny our kids and must make the educational system in our community our highest priority. BARRY VAN GERBIG Rutland Town SEEN THE DOG-CATCHER? The Town of Fair Haven is going t6 the dogs! Literally, the dogs are taking over and I would like to know what happened to the dog catcher that we payed $4.00 extra on our dog license this year? Anyone who knows me knows that I love animals and prefer animals to some people that I'm acquainted with. I take care of my dog and provide a decent run for him. Some of the dogs that are tied up are left all day in all kinds of weather to cry and bark to annoy the neighbors while their owners are elsewhere. I can never understand people who have dogs and dont use them as friends and companions.

I've lived in this town for 30 years and have never lost as much sleep as I have the last few months what with dogs crying, barking and fighting during the night. Again I ask what happened to the dog-catcher? MRS. ALBERTA KOCH Fair Haven SENSELESS DEATH (Nashua Telegraph) Bobby Sands is dead. His was a senseless death that will accomplish nothing. It was a tragic loss of human life that should not result in the loss of one additional life.

A martyr's death is when one voluntarily gives his life for principle. Martyrdom becomes little more than self-aggrandizement when there are less violent means by which to further ones cause. The terrorism being waged against Great Britain by the Irish Republican Army and Bobby Sands' defense of that terrorism by self-imposed starvation stand as intangible but solemn monuments to the unwillingness of mankind to pursue avenues in the best interests of all. The thorn of civil war that threatens again to break out on the second largest of the British Isles, is the British presence in the northern six counties that go to make up Northern Ireland, a province of the United Kingdom But what will happen if the thorn is removed' Will the wound heal or will the province bleed to death The Protestant majority in Ulster wants no part of union with the Republic of Ireland. It feels that it will be swallowed up in a land where the population is less than five percent Protestant The Roman Catholic minority in Ulster, on the other hand, feels persecuted by the majority and is determined that all of Ireland will be united under a single flag the flag of the Republic of Ireland Ireland the republic and Ulster is the land of trouble If there is one region of the world where brother has more cruelly turned on brother than the Middle East, it is Ireland.

And in both regions religion has too often been used as an excuse for perpetuating the troubles." The IRA wants to be legitimized. It wants to be seen as a band of freedom fighters rather than the terrorists that they are. Thats what Bobby Sands' hunger strike was all about: an attempt to have himself and fellow prisoners afforded special treatment as political prisoners." rather than the murderers, thieves and arsonists that they are. GIRLS, BOYS Since my last letter to the Editor I have read a recent article in a magazine on the sexes. It appears to me the way the article reads some girls are being born with a boys mind and that is what is making some females act like boys.

They want to dress in boys clothes and climb trees and do other boy things. They have no interest in playing with dolls. It has something to do with hormones when their mother is pregnant It ssems as if when a female is dressed in a males clothes their mind would be on the male sex because of the male sex opening in the front of the pants I heard one news report around three years ago where a great many boys in the country like dolls. Maybe some boys are being born with a girls mind. It appears now psychiartrists have considered this mixed up sex business a mental problem and would like to find some way to get some.