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Page 2 The Reformer, Wednesday, March 3, 1971 Weather Eye Seale- Trial: illiam Bid for Foley Wins Rutland Mayor ermont and New England Legislature Goes To Work Today Jurors Now gins ordered the May 21, 1969 torture-slaying of a fellow party member, as charged by the state. Alex Rackley, 24, of New York, was found in a Middle-field bog in what police say was a party purge of informers. The Panthers have said Rack-ley was killed in a police plot to destroy the party. Sen. Cotton: MONTPELIER, Vt.

(UPI) -William Foley, who twice lost his bids for Rutland mayor, Tuesday night eked out a slim 72-vote plurality to win the top office of Vermonts second largest city. Mayoralty fights in the states three largest communities competed with other city and town meetings as Vermonters worked at grass roots democracy to de- cide the future and fiscal course of their governments for the coming year. Votes in Burlington and Montpelier gave evidence of strong taxpayer concern over the rising tax rate. City and school tax increases were vetoed in Burlington, while a single vote in Montpelier slashed 10 cents off the city tax rate, and a 28-vote margin defeated a move to cut 15 cents from the school tax. Travel Agency Opposes SST Program RUTLAND, Vt.

(UPI)-A Rutland travel agency has taken out newspaper advertisements opposing development of the supersonic air transport plane. The Northeast Travel Organization Inc. in the ad is urging Vermonters to write their congressional delegation opposing the SST. The firm charged construction of the plane will be financed by tax dollars since no airline can afford it. It said the money would be better spent for mass transit and intercity transportation systems.

Death Knell For Air Service from 21 to 18 for beer and wine, and another insuring Vermonters will be able to buy mail order prescription drugs from out of state, and that Vermont druggists will be allowed to advertise prescription prices. Both measures were given preliminary approval Friday, but their final passage could be delayed today by prolonged debate on the constitutional amendment. The House returns from the town meeting day layoff to tackle a relatively light calender today. The real action is expected to begin Thursday when the House begins debate on the $120 million fiscal 1972 omnibus appropriations bill. Advocates of increased state aid to education have vowed a floor fight to hike the Appropriations Committee recommendation of $28.2 million for state aid.

The snowmobile will be the subject of discussion at a hearing tonight in the House MONTPELIER, Vt. (UPI) -The Vermont Legislature returns to work today after a four day weekend, with the ac-tkon expected in the Senate where the fourth proposed constitutional amendment was to come up floor debate as a special order of business. As endorsed last week by the Senate Judiciary Committee, the measure provides for reform of the judicial branch of government. The committee decided to scrap the recommendation of a Constitutional Revision Study Commission that only the Supreme Court be given constitutional sanctions, with the lower courts open to legislative change. Over opposition from Sen.

Robert West, R-Rutland County, the committee agreed to keep the lower courts under the constitution, retaining county court side judges and probate judges as well. The Senate was also scheduled to take up a bill lowering the states legal drinking age BOSTON (UPI) A chance of snow flurries in northern sections and partly cloudy southern sections Friday with increasing cloudiness Saturday has been predicted by the National Weather Service in todays extended forecast. Rain is expected Saturday night and Sunday morning with temperatures ranging from the teens in the north to the 20s in the south. The highest is expected to be in the 20s in the north and in the 30s in the south. Davis Backs Bottle Ban MONTPELIER, Vt.

(UPI)-Gov. Deane C. Davis says he supports either a ban or a Special tax on nonreturnatile bottles as a means of reducing litter. Davis did not state a preference Tuesday, but said the matter was urgent and one which the legislature should act on. A bill now pending before the House Natural Resources Committee would ban the sale of the nonreturnable bottles.

The measure has run into heavy opposition from grocers and bottlers at recent hearings. A special task force probing the problem last summer recommended a special tax on the disposable bottles, and there are indications the natural resources committee may incorporate the recommendations intq the bill before it. CONFIRMED NOMINATION WASHINGTON (UPI) The Senate Monday confirmed the nomination of Donald W. White-head of Massachusetts as the new federal cochairman of the 13-state Appalachian Regional Commission, to succeed John B. Waters of Tennessee, who resigned.

CARD OF THANKS My sincere appreciation to all my friends, neighbors. K.rattleboro Firemen's Association, American Optical Rescue for their acts of kindness during my recent illness. Mrs. Lillian Goddard 1971 Brattleboro chosen not to so act. Rather the board once again has turned its back on the needs of northern New England for reasonable and adequate air service.

The CAB, in a 3-1 decision Monday, decided not to reconsider its earlier decision when it refused a Northwest petition to retain Northeasts Los Angeles to Miami route in the merger plan. Northwest has said it would drop the merger plan if it could not keep the southern route. Twelve Needed NEW HAVEN, Conn. Connecticut Supreme Court has refused to intervene in the kidnap-conspiracy trial of Black Panthers Bobby G. Seale and Ericka Huggins.

The states highest court Tuesday refused to hear an appeal by Panther attorneys to overrule New Haven Superior Court Judge Harold M. Mulvey who was to resume jury selection proceedings after a week-long recess today. In a two-page decision the five-member court let stand Mulveys denial of a defense motion that would have begun the Panther trial immediately with 11 jurors already chosen. The 12th juror and two alternates must now be picked. The supreme court of Connecticut denied by not hearing the case, motions by Seale, 34, and Mrs.

Huggins, 23, that murder, kidnaping and conspiracy charges be dropped due to adverse publicity and a third motion to obtain more peremptory The plaintiffs rights are fully protected by the remedy of appeal which is open to them at the conclusion of the case now pending in the Superior Court, the high court said. Lengthy jury selection proceedings that have summoned 1,350 prospective jurors since Nov. 17, was halted in its 15th week by Mulvey last Wednesday after the defense spent its 60 alloted challenges and asked for an immediate trial start with 11 jurors. Attorneys Charles R. Garry and David N.

Rosen representing Seale and Catherine G. Ror-aback representing Mrs. Huggins claimed they would be forced to accept jurors without choice even though some might be felt prejudiced by massive publicity surrounding the trial. Mulvey denied the motions but grahted two bonus challenges to the defense which quickly used them. The state still holds 25 of its original 60 challenges.

Six whites and five blacks have been chosen thus far to decide if Seale and Mrs. Hug- Vernon Continued from Page 1 possible relocation of the school WASHINGTON (UPI) The death knell has been tolled for improved air service for Northern New England, at least for the time being, according to Sen. Norris Cotton, Cotton, in a speech on the Senate floor Tuesday, criticized the Civil Aeronautics Board for its refusal to reconsider an earlier decision denying terms for a merger between Northwest Airlines 'and Northeast Airlines. The senator attacked Robert T. Murphy, CAB commissioner for sympathetic almost seven years but little action to bring better service to the area.

Murphy was one of the three board members, Cotton said, who cast a vote which resulted in preventing the merger of Northwest Orient Airlines and Northeast Airlines. An opportunity was at hand for the CAB to dispense with rhetoric, hollow promises, and discharge its long-standing debt to New Hampshire and its sister New England states, Cotton said. Unfortunately, it has SIGNS ACCEPTANCE CONCORD, N.H. (UPI)-Gov. Walter Peterson Tuesday signed acceptance of a $845,000 grant from the Department of Justice, completing the states $1.3 million allocation in federal funds from the department for fiscal 1971.

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CARD OF THANKS I wish to thank Drs. Becek and Powers and the nurses at Rockingham Memorial Hospital for the excellent care I received during my recent stays. Many thanks for gifts, cards and visits received from my relatives and many friends, and special thanks to Lyndal Densmore and son. Dennison. Mo "Kelly March3, 1971 Bellows Falls Nip And Tuck Race It was the cliff-hanger in Rutland, however, that topped the results in other parts of the state.

The sick and absentee ballots made the difference in a three-way race between Foley, rookie patrolman William Chapleau and 30-year-old veteran Alderman Joseph Abel. In the nip-and-tuck race, Chapleau led Foley by 31 votes when the machine tabulations for Rutlands nine wards were completed. Chapleau said he would ask for a recount. The final tally gave Foley 2,290, Chapleau 2,228 and Agel 1,317. Three-term Aldermanic President Gordon Paquette assured continued Democratic control at Burlingtons City Hall with a 4,430 to 3,808 margin over GOP contender Frank Dion, the 1970 campaign manager for Sen.

Winston L. Prouty, R-Vt. Paquette, an alderman for the past 12 years, succeeded retiring Democratic three-term Mayor Francis Cain. Incumbent Bernard Sumner was ousted as Winooski chief executive by Dominique Casa-vante, chairman of the Model Citys program. The margin was about 200 votes.

Unopposed were incumbent Mayor Richard Ogden in his re-election bid in Vergennes and Alderman Frank Spates in his first try as mayor of Newport. Largest School Bond Money votes saw Rutland voters okay a $990,000 bond, the largest school bond up for approval, as their share of a $2.4 million regional vocational educational school. Rutland voters also approved the loan of two lay teachers for Mount St. Josephs Academy, the, citys lone parochial secondary facility, to provide public support for the private school, and rejected continued fluoridation of the municipal water supply- Burlington voters pared money issues severely. They approved a $1.2 million bond to improve the Burlington International Airport, and a 16 cent special tax for street improvements.

Rejected, however, were a $1.5 million bond for a library addition, two school bonds, a 16-cent general city tax increase and a 44-cent school tax increase. Montpelier voters, 249-243, sliced 10 cents off a proposed $3.54 city tax, but a 21 vote margin kept a proposed $5.37 school tax. The final tax rate represents a 94 cent increase over last year. Earlier, Montpelier voters supported the strong city manager form of government. It rejected a proposal to give the City Council a veto over appointments made by the city manager.

Results Unclear Officials werent sure whether voters in the four-member Champlain Valley Union School District successfully voted to enlarge the unions school board from eight to 12. A reaction to a controversial 45-15 plan to divide the school year, three union towns, Charlotte, Williston and Shelburne, defeated the move by slim margins. Hinesburgs margin was large enough to give the proposal a one vote majority for the union. Officials are checking to determine whether each member town has to approve a union proposal or whether simple majority prevails. In other parts of the state, Marlboro voters, 52-31, instructed their town clerk to inform Gov.

Deane C. Davis that they protest nuclear power plants now and in the future in Vermont. Although not mentioning the nearby Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant specifically, the construction of the plant in Vernon was the reason for the inclusion of the article on the warning. Guilford passed over an article with a similar purpose. Concensus was that a protest would not matter since the plant was already built.

Northfield voted to ban non-returnable bottles as of July 1, and Randolph voters went on record as favoring the holding of a presidential primary in Vermont on town meeting day. If the Vermont Legislature were to adopt the Randolph recommendation, Vermont would have the first-in-the-nation presidential primary since Vermont town meeting day comes seven days before that of New are potential noise and fog from the cooling tower which has been erected to keep temperatures of water effluents into the Connecticut River at a minimum. (Although it was not mentioned at the Town Meeting, the proposed new site is adjacent to land owned by Anthony Cer-sosimo, whose application to subdivide land was turned down by the Windham District Environmental Commission for lack of proof of an adequate water supply and for possible water pollution). Turned down an article requesting the Selectmen to retain the services of an engineering firm for studies and preliminary plans for central sewage, sewage treatment and water supply systems. Voted $800 for Family and Child Guidance Services, Inc.

Voted $39,000 for a high pressure and volume fire truck. Passed over an amendment to establish a police department. Voted $3,000 for police radio and other equipment and services as needed. Voted $47,000 for additional construction at the town swimming pool now under construction. More than $265,000 has already been appropriated for the pool.

Voted $10,500 for the operation and maintenance of recreational facilities. All of the aSove votes were either unanimous or reached a level close to unanimity with the exception of the article on the feasibility study of sewage and water supply systems which was defeated 67 to 58. In another close vote, Vernon residents approved a salary of $6,400 for the town treasurer. Under state law, the treasurer could have received close to $9,000 in salary at 1 per cent of the towns annual expenditures. The new town treasurer is Rolland Marden, the business manager of Windham College, who defeated Ernest W.

Dunklee in the election. Dunklee was given a standing ovation for 25 years of service as the town treasurer. After much discussion voters also voted 66 to 47 to retain the system of collection of poll taxes on or before July 15 and of real and personal taxes on or before Dec. 1. proved a sum of $317,813.56 to defray the expenses and liabilities of the school district for the ensuing year.

Hie voting on town appropriations ran into little opposition from the almost 170 Vernon residents who crowded into the auditorium of the Vernon Elementary School. Unlike other towns in Windham county Vernon seemed almost more than willing to spend money. The town will receive huge benefits from the taxation of Vermont Yankee property. The discussion of school expenditures was heated and centered on the towns relations with the Windham Southeast Supervisory Union and, particularly, on its superintendent, Bruce C. Pulsifer.

The voters came close to formally asking members of the town board to push at the WSSU meeting next April 29 for a rejection of the renewal of Pulsifer contract. The move to have the school board formally urge the rejection of the contract followed what appeared to be a unanimous voice vote calling upon the Vernon board to support the rejection of Pulsifer $1,000 instate travel expense fund. The huge tax benefit of having a nuclear power plant in a towns backyard was revealed last night in statistics provided by Raymond H. Puffer, chairman of board of selectmen. Assisted by the towns three listers and using charts, Puffer showed that the towns Grand List would benefit this year from $55-million in taxable property of the Vermont Yankee corporation.

The town would tax half of this sum. The projected grand list figure at 1 per cent for 1971 less Vermont Yankee property was given as $35,350.47. The Vermont Yankee figure was projected at 1 per cent at $275,000. The total approximate Grand List at 1 per cent is therefore projected at $310,350.47, with Vermont Yankee listed at more than seven times the total valuation of all other taxable property in the town. In dividing up the tax revenue pie, town voters made the following decisions: Approved a $7,000 sum for the administration and maintenance of the Vernon Free Library.

This was $1,200 more than earmarked by the selectmen. Approved $770 for additional equipment and furnishings for the Free Library. Voted to authorize the Selectmen to act as agent to sell the Old Library building and land. Voted $25,000 for the completion of construction and landscaping of the Town Office Building. Puffer estimated that close to $265,000 had already been spent on the building, which was begun last year when the taxable property of Vermont Yankee was listed at about $33-million.

Voted to raise $39,000 to pick up the option on the 29-acre Streeter property in the Pond Road area. This property is to be set aside as the possible site of a new school. The present Vernon Elementary School is located across the street from the nuclear plant. Reasons given for school 54395 VALUE Bedroom Pictured 1 NIGHT STAND 1 FULL SIZE BED 1 CHEST 1 DOUBLE DRESSER AND MIRROR 1 STEARNS FOSTER MATTRESS AND BOX SPRINGS TRIPLE DRESSER AVAILABLE FOR $20.00 EXTRA HAMIIION $1 DURING OUR SALE 3 Save 570.00 Dartmouth Gets Grant Of $250,000 HANOVER, N. H.

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