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The Brattleboro Reformer from Brattleboro, Vermont • 2

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Page 2 Brattlrboro iUformer, Friday, April 2, 1982 New England News Briefs ft Senate Committee Votes To Keep Act 250 Loophole MONTPELIER (UPI) A Senate committee has decided not to plug the so-called 10-acre loophole in Act 250, Vermonts major environmental protection law. The provision in question exempts subdivision lots larger than 10 acres from state review. Those who want it repealed say developers are getting around the law by selling off lots of more than 10 acres. The House has passed a measure closing the loophole, but the Seriate Natural Resources Committee voted, unanimously Thursday to delete that provision from the bill. Sen.

John Howland, R-Windsor County, said testimony failed to prove that the 10-acre provision has caused problems, and added action should be delayed pending a summer study into Act 250. But three committee members backed repeal of the 10-acre loophole. They said they went along with their colleagues Thursday because they favored other provisions in the bill, and said they may change their vote's when the bill hits the Senate floor next week. UPI BITING THE DUST These Indian statues are among the more than 8,500 items tagged for the auctioneers gavel in a six-day sale that extends through April 5 bringing to an end the 112-year-old Danbury Fair in Danbury, Conn. The fairgrounds are being cleared to make way for a $75 million shopping mall.

Panel Urges Changes In Way Vt. Lawyers Tested St. Peter Told To Reimburse Former Tenant RUTLAND (UPI) Superior Court Judge John Morrissey has ordered a Rutland landlord to reimburse a former tenant almost $5,000 in rent because he failed to maintain an apartment building properly. Morrissey ordered Stuart St. Peter to pay the money to former tenant Ella Hilder.

The case dates back to 1974 and the trial took place almost two years ago, but the decision was not handed down until this week. St. Peter repeatedly broke promises to repair Hilders apartment, where she lived with her three children and paid $140 a month rent, Morrissey said in his decision. 1716 judge said the premises were somewhat uninhabitable, did not comply with Rutland housing codes atid posed a threat to the health, safety and property of tenants. Morrissey also said St.

Peter threatened to throw Hilder and her family out in the street and have welfare authorities take away her children if she withheld rent. St. Peter, the unsuccessful 1974 Democratic candidate for secretary of state, has filed a motion asking that Morrisseys decision be reconsidered. .1 Woman Fined BURLINGTON (UPI) Angela Commo, 24, of Burlington, has been fined $75 after pleading no contest to a charge of prostitution. Ms.

Commo, sentenced Thursday in Vermont District Court, was one of four women charged last fall in connection with what police described as a prostitution ring operating under the guise of an escort service. Charges against another woman were dropped after a lie detector test indicated she was telling the truth when she said she believed she was applying for a modeling job. A third woman pleaded no contest this week and is awaiting sentencing, and charges against the fourth are pending. The accused operater of the ring, Glen Ward, 41, of Colchester, is awaiting trial on six felonies and three misdemeanors. Ward operated the Burlington-based Rendevous Escort Service, which authorities say was a front for the prostitution ring.

He and the women were arrested at a South Burlington motel by undercover police posing as Canadian businessmen. licensing fees, as well as a possible legislative allotment. The committees recommendations also include Limiting members of the examining board, generally experienced lawyers receiving a $30 honorarium for their service, to single four-year terms; Repealing the limit on how many times applicants may fail but remain eligible to take the next available test; Setting up an appeals process which allows applicants to compare copies of their essay tests with model answers; Revising the subject areas now tested and administering a separate test on legal ethics. Treating the multiple choice and essay portions of the examination independently, allowing an applicant to pass one portion at a time and not have to retake the other part to admitted to the bar. MONTPELIER (UPI) A special committee, appointed to review the way Vermonts would-be lawyers are tested, has come up with more than 50 recommended changes.

The study was prompted by a grading foul-up which affected applicants who took the July 1981 bar exam. The committee, headed by former Gov. Philip Hoff, issued a lengthy report to the Vermont Supreme Court Thursday that includes recommendations largely aimed at reducing the workload placed on the seven-member board of examiners and restructuring the way essay questions are prepared and graded. The grading error which triggered the review involved one examiner who reversed the scoring system on an essay question. The mistake resulted in some applicants, told they had passed the exam, having failed and others, told they had failed, having passed.

The committee rejected arguments, voiced at public hearings on the issue, that the bar examination should be eliminated altogether. The report recommends the appointment of 21 associate examiners lawyers with at least three years experience to help prepare and grade tests. In a letter to Supreme Court Chief Justice Albert Barney, Hoff acknowledged hiring the associates will cost money. He said the committee determined the attorneys appointed should not be paid less than $100 per day. The need to protect the public and to be fair to the examinees requires that these additional expenditures be made, Hoff wrote, adding appropriate revenue sources include increasing the exam or lawyers Anti-Drug Bill: Unenforceable MONTPELIER (UPI) Vermonts defender general says a proposed ban on drug paraphernalia would be useless as a way to combat drug abuse and has proven to be unenforceable in other states.

The Senate has passed a bill making it illegal to sell such things as marijuana pipes, rolling papers and cocaine spoons. Defender General Andrew Crane told the House Health and Welfare Committee Thursday the measure is too broad and could not be enforced. Moreover, he called such a ban completely useless and an exercise in futility. Rep. Ralph Wright, D-Bennington, a member of the committee, also protested the measure, calling it a stupid bill that represents an overly emotional legislative response.

And Barry Steinhardt of the American Civil Liberties Union warned the bill is unconstitutional and will not reduce drug use. Their testimony was countered by Essex Police Lt. Robert Yandow and a spokesman for the Vermont State Grange, both of whom backed the bill. There appeared to be strong committee support for the proposal, prompting Chairman Edgar May, D-Springfield, to predict the panel will endorse some type of drug paraphernalia ban next week. Dead Baby Found in Stale NORTHFIELD, Vt.

(UPI) Police were looking for clues to the identity of a dead newborn boy found in a garbage bag by four children waiting for a schoolbus. State Police Det. fton DeVincenzi said a white infant was found wrapped in a towel in a garbage bag on Mill Hill Road early Thursday after the children saw a dog drag the bag toward on of their homes. An autopsy showed the child had been born alive. But officials said no cause of death has been determined.

Police said it appeared the baby was thrown over an embankment sometime Wednesday or Thursday. DeVincenzi said investigators are looking for clues as to the identity of the baby or his parents. New Tax Eyed To Aid Civic Center Project BURLINGTON (UPI) City planners are looking at the possibility of imposing a local meats and rooms tax and using the revenue to build a new civic center. Mayor Bernard Sanders has proposed a meals and rooms tax for Vermonts largest city, but he wants to use the money to reduce property taxes and upgrade the police and street departments. Members of the Planning Commission said Thursday, however, the levy could provide a solution to a longstanding dilemma about how to finance a much-needed civic center.

Sanders said he is willing to consider the proposriH. but only after being assured public money will not be used for a pfroject that benefits only the business community. A Shoreline Development Bill Feared MONTPELIER (UPI) State environmental officials are fearful a bill being considered by the Legislature could lead to uncontrolled development along fragile shorelines of the states largest lakes. Water Resources Commissioner John Ponsetto said Wednesday one of 36 proposals from the Senate Agriculture Committee would lessen the states control over shoreline development. Existing law allows the state ttr regulate development inland to the so-called mean water line; th bill would push that closer to the lake, allowing control only up to the low? waterline.

Ponsetto said the issue is especially critical on larger bodies of watgr, such as Lake Champlain and Lake Memphremagog. If the bill becomes law, he warned, the state would have no control if someone wanted to build a home on the fragile shoreline between the low and mean water lines. Senate Agriculture Chairman Gerald Morse, R-Caledonia County, said his committee drafted the provision to bring state law into line with most deeds, which extend shoreline ownership to the low water line. Brain Injuries Cited Dognapper As Cause of Weeds Death Penalties Would Rise NEWPORT (UPI) Terry Weed, 15-, or Morgan, died last May of brain that he was not present with his lawyer. MONTPELIER (UPI) -Dognappers beware the Vermont Legislature is about to make things tough for you.

The Senate today was to pass a bill imposing stiff criminal penalties on anyone convicted of stealing, injuring or killing someone elses domestic pet. State law now provides for only a $25 fine. The bill, which got preliminary approval Thursday, calls for fines of between $100 and $400 and adds a possible 60 day jail term. Sen. Robert Daniels, D-Chittenden County, said petnapping has increased dramatically in some areas of the state.

Plainfield Man To Lead Schools In Greenfield GREENFIELD, Mass. (UPI) -The School Committee has chosen the Plainfield, school superintendent to head up Greenfield schools. John OBrien, 41, was picked superintendent of schools in the fifth round of voting Thursday night. Defense lawyer Duncan Kilmartin has said he will show that Willis was an emotionally disturbed youth driven to the killing by obsessive fear of social humiliation. He said when rumors of Miss Weeds pregnancy began circulating at her high school, Willis was taunted relentlessly by schoolmates who thought she was unattractive.

The crux of his defense, Kilmartin said, is that Willis did not understand the consequences of his actions. Prosecutors allege the killing was premeditated and in earlier testimony, attempted to show that after beating Miss Weed, Willis returned to a wooded area where she lay dying and struck her some more. The slides of her wounds were mostly viewed with stoney silence by the Newport jury of nine women and three men. But there was a gasp at a slide that showed cuts on the left side of Miss Weeds face. injuries after being struck in the head 14 times, Chief Medical ataiHlnW'TJir'raeandr McOufflen' told a Superior Court jury Thursday.

Mrs. McQuillen, who took the witness stand in the fourth day of the first degree murder trial of Wade Willis, 16, said four of the blows were severe enough to cause death. Prosecutors allege Willis beat Miss Weed to death with a baseball bat and shovel because he thought she was pregnant with his child. Mrs. McQuillen said that during an autopsy on the victim, a well-formed male fetus was extracted from Miss Weeds womb.

She said the schoolgirl was about 4 months pregnant at the time of her death. During an afternoon of grisly testimony, the jury was shown slides of the various wounds to Miss Weeds head. Willis was not in the courtroom during the display, marking the first time since the trial began on Monday Lottery Vt. Thursday 375 N.H. Thursday 1823 Mass.

Thursday 9356 CARD OF THANKS The family of William E. Sebert Sr. wish to thank all friends and relatives for food, cards, flowers and other acts of kindness. Also, the Brattleboro Lodge of Elks for their help and thoughtfulness Mrs. William Sebert and family Aprils Activists Ask Formula Co.

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Enjoy interesting sights such as Greenfield Village and Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, the new Gerald Ford Presidential Museum, Grand Rapids, and of course, the tulips, parades and festivities of the Holland, Mich. Festival. MAY 16 20: OTTAWA AT TULIP TIME 4 days. 3 million blossoms, a visit to Ottawa's Parliament buildings, city sights, dinner at The Mill, a night in Montreal. A Spring Fling.

MAY 24: CHESAPEAKE BAY 6 days. Visit Maryland's Eastern Shore, subject of Micheners "Chesapeake," including St. Michael's old waterfowling center and a boat trip to quaint Smith Island. Plus the "new" Baltimore, Annapolis Naval Academy and Ocean City. Monthly rent includes board and personal care.

For information about vacancies, please call the Rev. Donald D. Gardner, Administrator, at 254-4155. MONTPELIER (UPI) Activists concerned about the misuse of infant formula in poor countries told a Senate committee Thursday unethical promotions by companies like one planning to build a manufacturing plant in Vermont may be responsible for up to one million infant deaths per year. I dont think it has to be a choice between infant health in the Third World and jobs in Vermont, Kathryn Sikkink of the Minneapolis-based Infant Formula Action Coalition said today after testifying before the Senate Agriculture Coippittee.

She said Wyeth Nutntionals, a Pennsylvania-based company planning to build a $30 million manufacturing plant in Georgia, could easily abide by regulations set up by the. World Health Organization. Thats all the resolution asks, she noted, referring to a measure introduced by Sen. Mark Kaplan, D-Chittenden County, which asks Wyeth to meet Federal Drug Administration for product purity and urges them to adopt the WHO guidelines for exporting infant WHAT A DIFFERENCE IMPORT QUALITY MAKES! We carry famous Vera Imported Car Parts original quality parts imported from Japan, England, W. Germany, Sweden, France and Italy.

So whatever part you need, weve got the real thing to keep your import car at peak performance right fit, O.E.M. quality, and the right price! Call us. The unethical promotion of infant formula by companies like Wyeth in Third World countries can lead United Nations figures show to one million infant deaths per year. Ms. Sikkink said unethical promotions prohibited under the WHO guidelines include distributing free infant formula samples to hospitals or poor women who are often illiterateand may not boil the water used to mix the formula.

Samples get women who cannot afford the formula accustomed to using it, leading them to dilute their supply which results in babies dying from undernourishment, she said. Wyeth has said it agrees with the WHO guidelines in principle and denies it engages in any unethical conduct to promote its products. The firm says it uses trained professionals in distributing the formula and takes precautions to see it is not misused. Senate Agriculture Chairman Gerald Morse, R-Caledonia County, said today he is unsure when or if his committee will act on the resolution during this legislative session, which is in its final weeks. Morse said he supports encouraging all companies to manufacture wholesome products.

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