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new england Mssoasesaaaaasaiattm Page 2 jirattlf boro Reformer, Tuesday, April 14, 1911 Acid Rain Conference Scheduled in Maine news in brief Boston Schools May Be Closed Most Vermonters Favor Increased Military Spending AUGUSTA, Maine (UPI) Congress and the Canadian Pariamaat Khe dalad a joint bearing today on add rain, which pons a growing threat to marine life in states downwind Guv ti Briria E. Brennan headed a list of state and federal environmentalists planning to address the Sen. George J. Mitchell, D-Maine, was to co-chair the hearing with Parliament Member Ronald Irwin of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.

The problems of pollution from the Midwest and Canada felting on Maine and throughout New England in the form of add rain has bam a troubling phenomenon for years, but has only recently been considered a major problem," Mitchell said Monday in a speech to the Maine Legislature. No matter what we do in Maine to keep our air clean, it will have no impact incontrolling wtpt other states send our way," he said. We can only hope for a reasonable national solution. Maine Environmental Protection Commissioner Henry E. Warren said in an interview, "No one believes Maine or its neighboring states are falling apart today because of this pollution fallout, but long-range projections promise the problem will get a lot worse unless somkhing is done about it centrate all our efforts on keeping the schools open, union president Kathleen Kelley said Monday.

Also on Monday, the mayor's Office of Public Services closed four of Boston's 16 little city halls satellite offices scattered throughout residential neighborhoods and manned by-city workers. Offices in the North End. South End, Chinatown and Fenway were shut down in budget cuts the White administration says are due to Proposition 2 4, the tax referendum overwhelmingly approved by Massachusetts voters last November "Many of the people we serve are elderly, and obviously leaving their neighborhoods is a large inconvenience, said Office of Public Services spokesman James Frost Many of the remaining little city halls are being relocated to city-owned buildings over the next few weeks. The city halls are used to pay fees and obtain city licenses, and also popular as sounding boards for complaints and problems faced by people who don't wish to go downtown. White had considered scrapping the little city halls in the past, but neighborhood resistance kept them open.

also supported the Idea of making more money available by eliminating wasteful programs like the MX mtasile. In the arms control category, people were asked to chose one of five position statements that reflect their views. The questions ranged from dovish to hawkish," according to a statement from (he congressmans office. In general, about 30 percent said the U.S. should reduce its nuclear weapons capability, while more than two-thirds said the country should try to equal or surpass the Soviet Union in nuclear weaponry.

On the dovish end of the spectrum were 9 percent who called for unilateral reductions in nuclear weapons. Another 21 percent called for negotiation of arms limitations treaties that include a greater reduction of nuclear waeapons, while 34 percent called for treaties that keep the countrys nuclear weaponry at parity with the Soviets. Another 22 percent called for a treaty that gives the UJS. an advantage over the Soviet Union, and 14 percent wanted to discontinue the procession of negotiating arms control agreements with the Soviet Union. MONTPELIER (UPI) A survey by Rep.

James Jeffords, R-VL, shows a majority of Vermonters favor increased military spending and no concessions on arms control. The survey, which includes responses from nearly 9,000 Vermont households, was based on a questionnaire sent to residents three months ago. Jeffords said although the poll is not scientific, the large response makes it likely the results reflect public opinion in Vermont. A majority 55 percent of those responding supported significant increases in military spending, while 45 percent said spending should remain at current levels, or be reduced. The 55 percent who called for increased spending included 31 percent who want to greatly step up our national defense to attain military superiority over the Soviet Union.

Another 24 percent called for more military spending, but said "military superiority is not an attainable goal. Only 14 percent said military spending should be cut, and another 31 percent wanted to maintain the current spending levels. But the people who favored the current spending ceilings BOSTON (UPI) Boston's school system may shut down as early as Thursday for 64,060 students, but Mayo- Kevin H. White is about to release his own proposal to keep them open. The School Department is about $50 million in debt, and will run out of funds later this week unless new sources of revenue are found.

The system's 146 schools are scheduled to shut down for Easter vacation Thursday, and officials have said they may not re-open until the fall. The City Council has already approved a $75 million loan plan, but tacked onto it are provisions that would sharply curtail White's administrative power to control the city budget. The mayor was expected to offer his own plan today, which reportedly includes new tax plans and a proposal to allow recall of elected officials by city voters. If the school system is shut down, officials are working on contingency plans to provide volunteer instruction and home assignments for students to continue their studies. They also worked on plans to keep buildings protected with custodians or other employees once they're closed, and allowing access to shut-down schools to provide records needed by graduating seniors for admission to college or other programs.

Volunteer teachers for home study will not be found, however, among the ranks of the Boston Teachers Union, which voted last week not to offer its services in the event of a shutdown. What we should do is con Warren said research by his department and the University of Maine has shown pollution from coal-burning industries in the Midwest and Canada has traveled in the airstreams and dropped concentrations of sulfur on the Northeast in the form of rainfall. University of Maine geologist Stephen A. Norton said acidic fallout from out-of-state industry has already had a telling effect on Maine. There are several dozen lakes in Maine that cant support a reproducing fish population because of their vulnerability to acidic rain, he arid.

He said individual states have met the federal requirements for cutting down on rir pollution but the government has ignored the overall affect of their activities. They've got to take a broader look at their regulations, to see how one state's activities may be damaging another's. It's a difficult issue because It only affects states downwind -primarily New England, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania." he said. Attorney General James E. Tierney has threatened to bring legal suit against states determined to be the source of acid rain.

Sanders Chastises Aldermen BURLINGTON (UPI) Mayor Bernard Sanders has accused the Board of Aldermen of insulting the mayors office by voting to lay off Ms newly hired personal secretary After an hour-long executive session, the aldermen voted 8-3 Monday night to lay off Lind Neidweske, saying her employment violated hiring procedures and a citywide freeze on new positions. Co-op Will Invest In Seabrook Plant Hospital Security To Be Improved WATERBURY (UPI) Internal security will tightened in the maximui security ward of the stel mental hospital in Waterbur according to Mental Heali Commissioner Richard Surles. BRATTLEBORO REFORMER 71 Main P.O. Box 102, Brattleboro. Vt 06)01 UPS No.) Publiahud every day except Sunday a lid holidays SUBSCRIPTION RATES Single copy, atore and vending Me by earner It Vprr week By motor route 07 75 per month or 027 quarterly, payable advance BYMAIL Sheriff Loses License BARRE (UPI) Washington County Sheriff Ronald West has been fined $210 and his license revoked for up to a year for drunk driving on Interstate 89 last December.

West, who pleaded guilty to the charge last week, said Monday he has no complaints about the District Court sentence. "If anybody should have known better, I should have. I take my penalty like the rest, he said. Under the sentence, West can get his license back in 90 days if the takes the state "CRASH program in alcohol education. West said he plans to the course and in the meantime, his driving duties will be handled by deputies.

Alleged Attack Investigated WATERBURY (UPI) Vermont State Police have begun investigating charges a 14-year-old boy attacked the director of the state's juvenile detention center at the Waterbury State Hospital. The alleged attack by the young inmate of the detention center on center Director Ronald Boucher occurred last Friday. The youth's name was not released. Detective Cpl. Ronald Duhaime said Monday detention center workers have told him the youth has been involved in other attacks that were never reported to police.

Ban Angers Teachers MONTPELIER (UPI) A schoolwide smoking ban at Mount Abraham High School in Bristol has teachers fuming. Their union, the Mount Abraham Education Association, has asked the state Labor Relations Board to declare the ban an unfair labor practice. The board has scheduled a hearing next week. Until recently, teachers were allowed to smoke out of sight of students in the teachers' lounge. Last July, the School Board imposed the smoking ban, and made it apply to teachers as well as students.

According to the union, the School Board should not interfere with a teachers privilege of smoking in the privacy of the lounge. Workers Will Appeal RANDOLPH (UPI) Striking workers at the Waterbury Co. plant say they will appeal a ruling against them by the regional office of the National Labor Relations Board. last week, the regional office dismissed an unfair labor practice charge brought by the union against the company. The union accused Waterbury of trying to subvert a union decertification vote in March.

Tom Harrison, a spokesman for the local chapter of the Uniteqtq JVorkers, said Monday he-will appeal the case to the NLRB office in Washington. 'i 4 Air Route Awarded BERLIN (UPI) A new airline is expected to make its debut in central Vermont later this month. Precision Airlines, a company based in Springfield, will begin commuter service between Berlin and Boston on April 26. The Civil Aeronautics Board recently picked Precision Airlines to replace Air New England, which used to handle the run between Boston and Berlins Edward F. Knapp Airport.

Precision Airlines beat out two other companies Air North and Air Vermont which also wanted that route. Murder Charge Brought HYDE PARK (UPI) John Quesnel, 44, of Johnson has been charged with second degree murder in connnection with the stabbing death last fall of Mitchell Bishop, also of Johnson. Quesnel, a truck mechanic, was to be arraigned today in Lamoille County Superior Court in Hyde Park. He already has been charged with unlawful removal of a body in the same case, and has been held for lack of $3,000 bail. Bishop disappeared last fall, and in February Quesnel led authorites to the man's decomposed body, in a ditch near Cambridge.

An autopsy showed Bishop died of stab wounds. Documents on file in the court say at least one witness saw Bishop and Quesnel together the night Bishop disappeared. When first questioned, Quesnel allegedly denied he was with Bishop that night, but later Quesnels lawyer said Bishop accidentally fell out of the truck in which the two were riding. After Quesnel was questioned by police last winter, he allegedly fled to California, but returned and led police to the body. Death Investigated FERRISBURG (UPI) State police are investigating the death of Wilford Goddard, 71, of Arlington, whose body was found Monday in the back of a camper.

Police said they discovered the victim around 2 p.m. on Basin Harbor Road. A small stove was burning in the back of the truck, officials said, but there were no signs of foul play. An autopsy was ordered. Budget Committee Okays Legal Aid Budget Cut MONTPELIER (UPI) The Senate Appropriations Committee has voted to cut the states Legal Aid budget in half next year.

On a vote, the committee agreed to give the legal services group $21,690, instead of the $43,360 requested. Legal Aid provides attorneys to low-income people in dvll cases and sometimes sues the state and federal governments on behalf of poor people who feel they have bean afalrty Si county ISO 1I.N 00 71.00 county 7.76 22 00 ooo MM Single mailed copy, current Me back copy S6e For foreign country subscription, double the rate PoaUl regulations require payment In advance All charge orden muat be paid within IS days College atudenta, 20 dlacount Change of addreaa: To a void Interruption oiaenrtce, auhurnben by mulahould notify local poat office and the Reformer giving old addreaa aa well as new Second claaa poatage paid at Brattleboro, Vermont 06)01 CONCORD, N.H. (UPI) -The New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission has given New Hampshire Electric Cooperative permission to borrow $75.7 million to buy a 2.1 percent interest in the Seabrook nuclear power plant. The cooperative serves about 39,000 customers in several communities. At a hearing last month, a group called Co-op Members for Responsible Investment urged the PUC to deny the utilitys bid to buy the shares from Public Service Co.

of New Hampshire. PSC wants to reduce it shares in the plant from 50 percent to 35 percent. Co-op members argued that management had not given adequate notice of its intention to buy the shares and questioned the "advisability of investing in Seabrook. The PUC ruled Monday that management had sent out notices up to 14 months in advance of its intention to purchase the shares. It also noted that utility commissions in Maine and Massachusetts have conducted studies that show investment in Seabrook "is superior" to building new plants and is better than continued reliance on oil.

The commission said the small utility would qualify for financing under the Rural Electrification Administration at a rate that would be 50 percent lower than Public Service Co. could borrow the same money, Those opposed to the purchase argued that with rising construction costs, the $75.7 million might not be enough to cover the 2.1 percent share. Some studies have estimated that the cost of the twin generating unit might jump from $3.2 billion to $7 billion before it goes on line. But the PUC said contingencies would be built into the loan for inflation or unexpected costs. "No one has a crystal ball to determine the actual final coat of any plant, the PUC said.

It said the $75.7 million is a reasonable level at this time and at a cost rate significantly below that of any other New England utility. SsjQ, 9 Kvcry day. every hour, somebody needs your type of blood to go on living. A Healthy person can blood several times a year Be a regular bit sal donor Your blood counts Somebody needs you Call us Donate blood. Investigators Charge Coming Illegally Dumped Waste American Red Cross He said chemicals and solid waste left over from the tissue-making process can harm fish and plant life in the river.

The EPA sued Coming in 1977, charging the company with discharging pollutants without a permit. Coming agreed to Install pollution control equipment by July 1977 or face fines. Keogh said information about the recent alleged violations came from employees of the plant Pavarotti Film Debut in Boston BOSTON (UPI) Gov. Edward J. King says Italian opera star Luciano Pavarotti will appear in a movie to bt filmed in the Boston i WELLS RIVER (UPI) -Corning Fibers Inc.

has been illegally dumping untreated waste from its tissue paper plant into the Wells River through a secret piping system, investigators have charged. The pipes were found by FBI and Environmental Protection Agency agents during a raid Saturday, according to Paul Keogh of the EPAs Boston office. We had no record these pipes existed, Keogh said Monday. He said the pipes carried plant wastes directly into the river, without the treatment required by law. Any pipe in any facility that discharges into navigable waterway has to be noted in the facility's discharge permit, be said.

Assistant UJ5. Attorney Scott McGee said he expects to convene a grand jury soon to hear evidence against the New York-based company. Corning officials declined to comment Monday During the weekend raid. ff, If" The film, MGM'i Yes, Giorgio, is scheduled to be filmed during June and July the direction of Franklin THURSDAY, APRIL 16 at the Elks Home on Putney Road. 12 noon until 5:00 p.m.

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