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0 The Transcript Friday July 14, 1972 i .,..1, H' Small town police must tdUo training BOSTONTApr- Police In com- munities of less than 5,000 population will be required to undergo a minimum J. Legislative committee chairmen get pay raises Si Cj six weeks training under a bill signed Thursday by Gov. Francis W. Sargent, i. Police in the smaller communities have been exempt from training requirements imposed on larger cities and towns.

The new training requirement also applies to Metropolitan District Commission police, MBTA police, Registry of Motor Vehicle employes with police powers and the Capitol Police. Sargent said, however, he was disappointed in the legislature's failure to pass bills to upgrade police training requirements. "As I stated in written testimony to the Public Safety Committee, hair- dressers have higher standards of training and competency requirements than do our police," the governor said in a statement. "Right now in the commonwealth the 1 vast majority of police receive only 320 hours of training from uncertified, part-time instructors in 17 local academies which are unevenly financed and often ill-equipped. "The legislature's failure to upgrade training robbed the citizens of the police protection and service they deserve and, -more importantly, robbed the police of the professional training they need to do -their job effectively and with the min- imum possible risk to their own safety and well-being." Other bills signed by the governor.

-Thursday includes: legislation permitting the Depart- ment of Public Works to the. removal of flashing lights on any billboard or sign if the lights threaten to distract drivers causing a safety hazard. a bill permitting the Registry of Motor Vehicles to revoke the automobile registration of any driver who fails to pay the excise tax on his car. an act to permit sale of state lottery tickets on Sundays. Police station robbed of 'pot' BOXFORD, Mass.

(AP) The police station here was robbed of some marijuana plants by four men, one pf them armed with a sawed-off shotgun. Paul M. Bates 23, a civilian employe of the four-man force, said a man wearing a mask entered the station about 4 a.m. Thursday and told him, to put his hands up and stand in a corner. Bates said three other men came in, tied him up and he was knocked unconscious.

About 250 plants, which were' being held as evidence after being seized in- a raid, were taken; Some marijuana seed- lings taken ia separate-raid wer4eft at the station. Arrested July 6 in connection with the seizure of the 250 plants were Leslie Fox, 26, of Medford and Margaret Stanley, 33, of Albany, Y. Both were charged with possession and cultivation of marijuana and Miss Stanley was also charged with possession of LSD. Both are free on $2,000 bail each. Referring to the robbery Thursday, Police Chief Douglas Warren said, "Whoever takes the risk of robbing a police station is hard up for marijuana." lUljii assistant floor leaders of both parties, the vice chairmen of the Ways and Means Committees, and the cochairmen of the Joint Committee on Post-Audit and Oversight.

That figures to be $18,040 per man for next year. The cochairman of all other joint standing committees, the chairmen of' each chamber's' Committee on Bills in Third Reading, and the House vice-chairman of the Post-Audit and Oversight Committee will receive one and a third times the basic pay level. That will bring their salaries to $16,036 next year. HEW fo probev charges about Bosfon schools BOSTON (AP) The federal government will begin a threeweek investigation July 24 into charges that the city of Boston operates separate school systems for black and white students. The charges were brought last November by the civil rights office of and Welfare.

Boston was the first major northern, city cited fori constitutionals-violations under the United States Civil Disvttn Ant 1 On another matter, U.S. District Court Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr. Wednesday refused to grant a motion to delay the federal court trial between the Boston School Committee and the National Association for the Advancement of, Colored People. The trial is set to get under way in late August.

The school committee also has a suit pending against the State Board of Education in which it is seeking thre release of $52 million in school aid. That suit is scheduled for August 14 in Suffolk Superior Court. BOSTON (AP) Legislation granting salary increases to a number of House and Senate committee chairmen was signed into law Thursday by Gov. Francis W. Sargent.

The measure is one of several pay raise bills the legislators passed for themselves this year on the theory that serving jn the House and Senate is becoming more and more a full time job. The legislature ended sixmonth 1972 session last weekend! Under existing law the chairmen of several important committees get increments over: the basic lawmaker's salary, set for next year at $12,027. Legislators' pay this year was $11,400, but a two-year pay raise bill passed earlier in the session provides a 5.5 per cent increase over each of the next two years. The law signed by the governor Thursday gives pay increases to those committee chairmen and other legislative leaders who weren't already getting more than their colleagues. Another measure, yet to be signed by the governor, gives substantial pay hikes to the speaker of the House and Senate With all of the new pay raise legislation in hand, here is how legislative salaries will line up next year: Speaker David Bartley, DHoIyoke, and Senate President -Kevin Harrington," D-Salem, will each get $32,500 intended to put them on a par with'the state cabinet secre'taries estab lished under state government 'reorganization Barlety and Harrington must be reelected to their posts, but it is all but certain they will be back to run the legislature next year.

ii4 The Democratic and Republican floor leaders in each chamber; and the chairmen of the House and Senate Ways and Means Committees will each receive one and three-quarters times the standard legislator's salary next year. That amounts to $21,047 a year. Salary levels equal to one and a half times the standard pay are slated for CONNECTED BY FINGERTIPS After almost 40 years of blindness and a lifetime of Louise and her brother, Bill53, no longer seem to care very much about the, world they know only by touch. Staff members at the Country House for retarded but trainable adults in Battle Creek, admit they know very little about the pair. They have been there about six years.

(AP Wirephoto) Blind brother and sister seem to care little about the BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (AP) After almost 40 years of blindness and a lifetime of silence Louise Selby, 60, and her brother Bill, 53, no longer seem to care very much about the world-i known only by touch. They usually sit together in the sunny living room, touching each other for 'Companionship and communication: times with fingers flying in conversation. But if one moves away without telling the other, there's visible panic in the searching hands that reach out in ever widening circles to regain contact with the other half of 'their world. i Staff members at the Country House here, a home for retarded but trainable adults, say they know very little about the pair.

Records indicate onlynames," ftv "anniversary ''N world 'occasionally snow a big sister's pique folding her hands in her lap and refusing to talk to Bill no matter how hard he tugs at her fingers. i' But, as suddenly and inexplicably as it starts, it stops. And, she reaches out and traces her finger across his arm, as if to apologize. Bill can communicate' only through finger talk, and most of the staff and 20 other residents can get simple messages across to him. But, if it's complicated, Louise becomes the interpreter, Since coming to Country House she's learned to read Braille and communicate through a Braille typewriter, a slow and tedious method but a skill that opens a little bigger door to the.

world. But, the only Braile books she ever asks for are Bible stories, which she reads over and over. committee liberals convention expecting' to give his first ballot vote to McGovern, but he now felt that blacks would make only "token" progress" as a result of his candidacy. Pitts, a black and one of the three Chisholm committed delegates to give up their votes on the presidential balloting, said in an interview Thursday that once the proposed party platform reached the floor, he could see the whole "scenerio" of the McGovern campaign changing. "What McGovern didn't want didn't get passed," Pitts said.

"Many of the things McGovern 's camps alluded to in the campaign began to change." Blacks, he said, "will come out of this convention with no more than they've come out of conventions iri the past." Pitts said blacks wanted to be "power brokers somewhat" at the convention, but "black political leaders already in the hip pocket of. George McGovern saw to it that that never happened." Top Democratic state posts go to maverick JQfv aXv ELIMINATE SEASONAL CHANGE-OVER II A brief diagnoses of m'eif condition and neaitn records since they were placed by their father six -years ago. Both were, born deaf mutes, and went blind about 40 years ago, officials said. In the six year's they've been wards of the state, Louise and Bill have been oblivious to happenings outside their immediate Wars, presidents, assassinations, even men on the moon are unknown to them part of a world in which they seemingly have no interest. Except for a brief schooling, the pair stayed at home and learned to take care of themselves.

Bill became adept at craft work and Louise learned the needle skills of sewing, embroidery and hemstitching. But today they seldom use those skills. Although Louise is normally even tempered and dispositioned, she does campaign of former Sen. Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota in 1968 and were sent as delegates pledged to Sen. George S.

McGovern to the national convention this year when the state's electorate gave the South Dakotan his first big primary victory of the current cam paign. Despite the delegation's commitment to McGovern and the Democratic nominee's victory in the state primary April 25, delegates have indicated that the South Dakotan had better not take Massachusetts Democrats for granted in November, Although McGovern received all 102 delegate votes from Massachusetts during the presidential balloting Wednesday night, several delegates gave up their seats to alternates because they did'fwant to vote.for him. James D. Pitts of Groton, a delegate who had run pledged to Rep. Shirley Chisholm, said he came to the three cameras filming the match for movie and Jelevision sales were removed from the hall.

Since the American challenger lost the game on Wednesday, referee Lothar Schmid's forfeit ruling gave Spassky a 2-0 Schmid said the third game of the 24- game match' would be held on schedule Sunday, but the future of the match, was very much in doubt. Schmid said it depends on whether Fischer continues his boycott. He added that the World Chess Federation FIDE could step, in at any time and, disqualify him. But Dr. Max Euwe.t president pf the oreanization, said Sch- rejected by MIAMI BEACH, Fla.

(AP) The torch has formally been passed from two regular Massachusetts politicians who have served as the state's Democratic national committeeman and committeewoman for the past four years to two maverick liberals with long experience in the Bay State's peace movement. Jerome Grossman of Newton and Helen Rees of Brookline, elected by their delegation, formally became Democratic committeeman and Democratic committeewoman when the journed early today. They replace John E. Powers, clerk of the Massachusetts Supreme Court and president of the Massachusetts CmBb onH Mrs Marv Fantasia nf Somerville, a'state representative, Grossman and Mrs. Rees were instrumental in the Massachusetts jv a A Complete Line of Aluminum Products IUto0ff Jl bhj' "SILVERTOP" PATIO COVERS GLASS SLIDING DOORS iW 1 JKT ALUMINUM SIDING COMBINATION DOORS I Ilfl'i I.

S' AWNINGS CANOPIES COMBINATION WINDOWS All F1' i. Fischer's protest of forfeiture j-J WHITE WINDOWS DOORS SHUTTERS CELLAR UNITS I A Wj'te? JALOUSIE PORCH ENCLOSURES I v. committee ruling 1 1-M inn Kit Ufiunnuit ir -mm EpX fMKZIWAT tfr --4 1 VUt yttBry Showroom I -iSURI? I i I'. I OPEN SUNDAY 1 To 3 is REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) An appeals committee rejected today Bobby Fischer's protest against his loss of Thursday's world championship f- chess game by forfeit. The four-man committee supported decision of chief referee Lothar Sch- mid to award the game to Boris Spassky -because Fischef failed to appear.

The decision left Fischer twogames down in a 24-game match where Fischer the eouivalent of 12 victories and a draw to take Spassky's tiUe. "Fiiher 1 stayed in his hotel room mid was still in charge of the match and must decide how to handle the American. A spokesman for promoter Chester Fox, -who bought the movie and -TV rights; for the match from the Icelandic Chess Federation, said the cameras had to stay because "the whole financial structure of the match depends on it." It was the prospect of movie and TV sales that allowed the Icelanders to-offer a record $125,000 purse to the two players, and Fischer and Spassky are also to divide a share of the movie-TV money estimated at a "minimum of $55,000. VVrO1' JSlU IN PtAINFltlD, MASS. CAU 634-S3H play unless and refused to.