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2-P6rtsmouth Herald IN.H.) Fob. 2, 1977 What a relief Rkhard Thurlow gave a weary wave yesterday In Portland, after learning of agreement that ended a two-month strike by Casco Day Lihwr ferry cnptains. Tburlow, a management Maine Legislature official, has been working 15 hours a day, seven duys a wct'k, piloting ferries during the strike. (AI 1 Photo) Longley out lines tax options AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) lxiwitiakers have been asked by Gov. James B.Lcngley to use an 'anticipated $28 million surplus property tax receipts i to repeaJ an income (ax hike ot to further reduce real cslale taxes.

an open letter to legislators Tuesday, Longley outlined the options of repealing the $18 million income tax hike approved last, year and making a small reduction In the. uniform property fax, or reducing the property tax by $22 million. The governor had already suggestcdn $fi million decrease in the uniform property lax in his budget address last month. 'The uniform property (ax is "the leVy assessed by the slate on local communities as their share of half of the education costsacross the state. The $28 million is expecfcd lo go into state coffers because of I a I c- i revaluation, even though Ihe tax rate will drop slightly in the fiscal year Ixjginning July 1.

The mill rate is set by law to go from 13 mills to 12.5 mills, nut Longlcy has suggested using $6 million of the surplus to bring the rale to 12 mills. In calling for repeal of I income tax, Longlcy repeated his slum! Dial the hike was put into effect without the approval of voters. The tax increase was designed to shift the burden of support of schools away from the property tax. was aimed at middle and high income Maine residents, and at reducing the income tax burden of lower income families. Longlcy said the income tax decrease allow the Maine legislature, known historically for its fairness, lo provide fax relief and reduce (he per capital tax burden for WED.

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436-7008 the very group of our citizens who were assessed confiscatory taxes without opportunity for input. "A repeal of the income lax increase would represent dircrl million lax reduction for Maine people and would equate to a reduction of some $36 million in the property lax since we arc advised that approximately 50 per cent of the property tax is paid by businesses and oul-of-statu residents," Longley said. In addition lo the $fit million income tax repeal, Longlcy said another $1 million should he used lo further lower the mill ml P. If Hie legislature is restricted by law from reducing the income lax. Lonyley said he xvould support a drop in the property lax of up to $22 million, ahmit2mills.

Longlcy said of his plan, "This will enable Hie people nf the (owns and cities of Maine, not the governor and the legislature, to decide if they wanl to spend (his additional amount for education. "It Is important to understand (lint this noes not shift l.nx to local governments, it shifts the decision of whether or not to lax and spend more for education to (he local citizens rafher Hum h.ive a I i a ami a governor dictate any further tax hinlcn or dictate i-ven muri; education spending and higher spending per pupil," the governor added. Longlcy said he wants some legal quest ions answered before outlining his full lax proposal. Me said it may be another week before he will have a decision on education funding, the uniform properly tax nnd the inventory lax. Lnnglcy told legislators (hat the a must separate education financing from Ihe property tax because it has divided Maine communities iiilo two factions, those who pay out more in property taxes than they receive hack for their own schools, and those who get back more than they pay in.

The governor also said he will propose legislation requiring the Bureau of Taxation to appraise industrial properties in (he state and all operating public i i i subject to taxation with a valuation over $10 million. By the year 1985. the state would be appraising industries valued at $1 million or more. Longlcy said a tax plan should be tied into a governor's budget to put the tolal picture of state and local taxes into clearer focus. Longlcy said he is studying a recommendation by Education Commissioner II.

Sawin Millet! Jr. anil Ihe Stale Board of Education that the spending level lor schools in the coming year bo S290.fi million. Longlcy has until Feb. 15 to review the proposal and recommend a spending level to the legislature. Legislative loaders received the tax plan late Tuesday, and' inosl said they wanted time lo review Ihe proposal.

However, Senate Majority Lender Jerrnld Spcers, R- Winthrnp, and Assistant Senate Majority Loader David Huber. K- Ka I motit sa id hey don 'I want the stale to collect the $28 million. Huber, who is chairman of.the legislature's Appropriations Committee, said the state has gotten by with less than r0 per cent of education costs coming from the property tax. Speers said he was concerned (hat if the state turns over too much control over education to c.ities and towns, there will be a retreat from efforts to assure equal educational opportunities regardless, of the wealth of community. Hep.

Hicharri Carey, D- Watervillo. House chairman of Taxalion Committee, said he shares Spcers' concern about the potential erosion of equal education. Carey said he is also worried a Longlcy's proposals "would be shifting the burden away from ability to pay and back to the property owners." 980 LAFAYETTE RL), (ROUTE 1) Portsmouth, N.H Open 11 A.M. to 1A.M. IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC.BEER SERVED 438-0717 Also Serving Imported And Domestic Wino By The Glass Quick Glimpses Milk being dumped PEARL RIVER, N.

Y. (AP) New York State dairy farmers may lose thousands of dollars because snowbound farms have had to dump thousands of gallons of milk, according to the head of Dairylea Cooperative, the Northeast's larst milk coop. Kichard Redmond, president of Dairylea, called Tuesday for immediate government aid to clear roads so that tank trucks could reach farms and processing plants. MAC status changed WASHINGTON (AP) Defense Secretary Harold Brown on Tuesday announced a change in the status of the Military Airlift Command, designed to streamline direction of the nation's airlift resources. MAC was designated a "specified command" responsible directly to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, rather than to the Air Force in its operational functions.

The Pentagon said there are no present plans to change the structure of the airlift command or the number of military and civilian personnel under it. College president NASHUA, N.II. (AP) Executive Councilor Louis D'Allesandro, R-MancIiester, has been named president of Daniel Webster College and New England Aeronautical Institute. Previously, D'Allesandro had been executive vice president. He succeeds William Griesemer, who will slay on at the school on special assignment.

D'Allesandro formerly was associated with New Hampshire College in Manchester. Maine needs schools AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) There is a need for substantial school construction in Maine in the next decade, according to Maine's Department of -Educational and Cultural Services. A study released Wednesday said that 255 new projects are needed because of unsafe or obsolete housing, overcrowding or program needs. The estimated cost for new school projects is $182.9 million. Education administrators said $79.8 million is needed to repair or replace unsafe or obsolete school 'buildings.

An estimated $76.3 million is needed to solve overcrowding problems, and about $21.2 million is estimated for program needs. Maine Central income PORTLAND, Maine (AP) The Maine Central Railroad says income for the fourth quarter of last year was $97,497. This compares with earnings of fSVt.WA during the last three months of 1975. In its quarterly report Tuesday, the road said income for the 12 months of 1976 totaled $269,609, compared to $232,961 for the proceeding year. Natural gas drain eases but costs will be high By Tlic Associated Press a i a appear to be easing the drain on natural gas supplies, but the long run costs will bo high.

A fedora! energy official said today that factory, closings and layoffs that arc saving gas' this frigid winter could last until April. In Washington, meanwhile, the House and Senate were expected to approve a compromise version of the emergency natural gas bill today and send it to President Carter. The emergency bill is not designed to increase natural gas supplies, but to give the president the power to shift some gas from low-priority users to high-priority 'users through April 30. High-priority users include homes, hospitals, schools and small businesses. Low-priority users include industries.

Over thousands of miles of American countryside today, the misery of the harsh winter was evident. In paralyzed Buffalo, N.Y., which has had 16(1 inches of snow since the beginning of the year, 200 Army engineers were being flown North Carolina to help 500 National Guardsmen clcnr thn latest, and worst, storm's snow from the streets. Otherwise the streets were deserted. An occasional rescue vehicle passed, or a i i a helicopter droned overhead. Great chunks of ice choked Niagara Falls.

On the Chesapeake Bay and the Ohio River, fuel barges which were idled for up to two weeks were moving again. But their progress was tedious through floes of ice. In West Virginia and Kentucky, more than 30,000 coal miners were off the job, their mines shut down because of the cold. Thousands of schools and factories also were shut and about a dozen states had. declared energy emergencies.

On Tuesday, North Carolina joined the ranks of stales declaring such emergencies, and the- auto industry alone announced that 80,000 workers in the United States and Canada would join some 1.5 million persons, estimated to be laid nff around the nation. In the auto industry, parts shortages were i factor as well as gas shortages. The harsh weather has centered in the East, Midwest and South, but the problem was national in effect arid both the federal government and some distant areas were acting to help. Warm California, meanwhile, imposed emergency restrictions on the use of natural gas so state utilities could ship some of the fuel cast. And a spokesman for the Southwest Gas Corp.

said two utilities in Nevada had agreed to convert from natural gas to oil in a shared power plant, allowing their natural gas lobe diverted also. Cox joins legal team for Indians AUGUSTA, Maine AP The legal team representing two Maine Indian tribes in their claim to GO cent of Maine has received a boost from former special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox. Cox, a Harvard Law School professor, agreed Tuesday to serve as a consultant without fee for the Passamaquoddy and Penobscot tribes, who ha vc brought suit saying that 12,5 million acres of northern Maine was taken from them unjustly. The tribal governors said Cox will be a consultant on litigation brought by, or on behalf of the Indians, as well as on other matters relating to the land claim suit. "Our national honor requires that the claim be fairly tried and heard in the courts under present law that precludes the kind of legislation that some people have been proposing to wipe it out.

I feel very strong about that," Cox said in a telephone interview. Maine's attorney general has suggested that Congress pass a law to prevent the Indian's from seeking return of their land. Cox added, "They have a solid case and it deserves a fair hearing." Cox said he has agreed to be available to consult with the lawyers who.are handling the case on a regular basis. He said he is familiar with the Indians' claims, although so far, he has done little research on the case. Thomas Tureen, the Native American Rights Fund attorney who has led the Indians' case, announced the appointment of Cox on behalf of the governors.

mtrnlt NATIONAL WIATHM SEIVICI. NOAA, U.J. Otei. Rain is forecast today from the Gulf to Tennessee changing to snow through the Great Lakes and western New England. Cold weather Weatlier forecast is forecast east of the Mississippi.

Elsewhere, seasonable temperatures are expected. (AP Map) Fair tonight, snow Thursday New Hampshire Vermont Generally fair tonight, lows Increasing cloudiness tonight zero to 10. Thursday light snow and light snow most likely by in the mountains, increasing Thursday. Lows tonight five to cloudiness with light snow likely 10, but zero to 10 below some laterinthedayelscwhcre.highs mountain valleys; highs upper inthe20s. 20s and on Thursday.

Maine Increasing cloudiness in the mountains but fair elsewhere tonight, lows from five below far north to 10 above south. Thursday light snow in the mountains with increasing cloudiness and light snow likely later in the day elsewhere, highs mostly in the 20s. R.I., Conn. Clear tonight, lows near 20 along the coast, near 10 western hills. Thursday increasing cloudiness, chance of occasional light snow during the afternoon, possibly mixing with rain coastal sections towards evening, highs in the 30s, near and 20s.

40 along the immediate coast. possibly mixing with rain towards evening, high rain towards evening, highs upper 30s to near 40. Probability of precipitation near zero tonight, 30 per cent Thursday. West to northwest winds diminishing to 10 m.p.h. or less tonight; southwest winds 10 to 20 m.p.h.

Thursday. Southern N.E. Chance of occasional snow Friday, fair. Saturday and Sunday. Daily' highs in the 20s and 30s; overnight lows teens Central Clear tonight, lows in the teens.

Thursday increasing cloudiness, chance of light snow Boston and vicinity Tonight clear, lows mid to upper teens. Thursday creasing cloudiness, chance of The lawyers for the Native occasional light snow late in the rn the afternoon, highs mid 30s. American Rights Fund and the afternoon, possibly mixing with Probability of precipitation ra towards evening, highs upper Probability ol precipitation near zero tonight, 30 per cent Thursday. NOTICE BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN For tickets call 431-8080 adv. Washington D.C., firm of Hogan and Hartson also are working wi thoul charge in the case, The 64-year-old Cox has been a long-lime summer resident bf the (own of Brooksville on Penobscot Bay.

A one-time U.S. Solicitor- General, Cox was hired by former President Nixon as the near zero Umight, 40 per cent- Thursday. West to northwest winds diminishing to 10 m.p.h.. or less tonight; southwest winds 10 tozo m.p.h. Thursday.

FBI agents Southern. R.I. Zonal Clear mid teens to lower 20s. Thursday increasing cloudiness, chance of fr JERRT LEWIS CINEMAS Plenty of Free Parking Next to Bowl-A-Rama Road Phone. 436-3655 I -7, 9:35 HELD OVER 7th Wk.

IXOn aS thC "I 1 special Watergate prosecutor UlllClClltllICCl Sn aft 9 rnoon a 18,1973. Cox was fired by the president in trial the "Saturday Nigh! Massacre" of Oct. 20, 1973, and his dismissal resulted, forth? resignation of Atty. Gen. Elliot Richardson.

James SL was Nixon's lawyer in the Watergate investigation, is involved in another New England Indian land case. St. Clair is representing the town of Mashpee, in its dispute with Wampanoag- Indians over ownership of land on Cape Cod. A suit pending in U.S..District PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -The identity of FBI informants who contributed to the arrest of suspected bomber Richard J. Picariello apparently will remain a mystery to the federal -jury hearing evidence in the case.

U.S. District Court Judge Edward f. Gignoux Tuesday repeatedly sustained U.S. Atty. Peter Mills' objections to questions put to two F)BI agents million in and- the "by told the jury he had privately questioned "FBI agents and others as to whom payments may have been made" and had decided that "the names wouldn't be of use to the defense." "The Supreme Court has ruled that names of informants need not be furnished to the defense in a criminal case unless'the judge of-the court determines that tl U.S.

Justice Department considering recommendations by the Interior Department to also seek return of the land. The Justice Department, acting on behalf of the Indians, has until March 1 to inform the court of its plans to pursue the case. The Indians maintain that their land was taken from them by the state without federal approval, a violation of-a 1790 federal law. informants Maine Atty. Gen.

Joseph E. Brennan, who is in charge of the state's defense in the case, 'said he had no comment on Cox's, decision to join with the Indians. THE SHAGS? TECHBlHXjOB" HELD OVER! 2 AT 7:00 9:00 THE ENFORCER' KREtOPKRSOn fl StflR IS BORnd GIN. HELD OVER 2nd Wk. His whole life was a million-to-one shot.

Library notes YORK On Wednesday, Feb.9. the York Public Library will begin Afternoon Specials. Children in grades k-5 are invited to see the film, Zachery Zween, at 3:15 in the Children's Room. The Pro-School Story Hour is held every Friday at 10 a.m. Mrs.

Jody Askman is conducting the program and children ages two and a half to five are invited. More help urged for Maine PTJC AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -The Maine Public Utilities Commission would get additional personnel and a consumer complaint office under new legislative oroposals. Rep. Edward" C. Kelleher, D- Bangor, introduced a measure Tuesday providing $320,000 for up to 1U new positions in the regulatory agency.

Gov. James B. Longley, who has pointed out that the agency is understaffed and un- derfunded has suggested spending $150,000 in federal employment funds for new PUC personnel. "They need help, they know il, the legislature knows it," Maine has enough oil but conservation stressed AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) There will be enough home healing oil tor Mainers if the fuel is conserved, Gov. James B.

Longley says. Iflngley said Tuesday he has again reviewed procedures to assure that Maine families, regardless of their income, can get fuel to heat their homes. The. governor said a general assistance welfare money is available through town officials to help families unable to pay their oil bills. But, I.ongley said that conservation of fuel is needed to assure that shortages do not develop.

At the same time, the Commerce and Industry Council of Maine, business group, called for Congress to develop a national energy policy based on private sector involvement. And, U.S. Hep. David F. Emery, R-Maine, called for an end lo federal regulation of natural gas prices.

The Commerce and Industry Council, representing over 20,000 Maine businesses, called for federal action to stimulate domestic petroleum exploration and development by the private sector nnd to accelerate research in alternative energy. The group also called for voluntary conservation and elimination of controls which restrict investment in energy operations and facilities. Emery gave Congress part of the blame for current energy problems because of its failure to deregulate natural gas prices. While natural gas is not a major energy source in Maine, shortages have idled millions of workers nationwide. Emery said deregulation of natural gas prices would encourage its sale to regions remote from the supply.

Now, natural gas firms can make more money selling it within the boundaries of the stnte where it is produced, rather than shipping It In the regulated Interstate market, said Kelleher, who is House chairman of the legislature's Public Utilities Committee. Sponsoring the measure with Kelleher is Rep. Lawrence P. Greenlaw, D-Stonington. Three House members, Reps.

Barry Hobbins, D-Saco, Barry L. Valentine, D-York, and llarland C. Goodwin, D-South Berwick, sponsored a plan for a consumer complaint office within the PUC. The price tag for the division would be $30,000 a year, Hobbins said. The office would hear consumer complaints on the cut off of utility services, bill errors and other problems.

Hobbins said the plan would make utilities more accountable for the their service. He said would be recorded for use by the PUC in considering rate hike requests by gas, water, electric, telephone and transportation companies. He said the PUC now has one secretary who handles complaints. Under another plan introduced in the House Tuesday, a person who is fired because heisbeyond retirement age would have an opportunity to prove he is capable of performing his job. Other new legislation would require a lawmaker to abstain from voting when his profession, or organization membership poses a conflict of interest.

Also introduced was a proposal to distinguish mopcds, lowpowcred motorized bicycles, from motorcycles under motor vehicle laws, ass 1st the said. Gignoux' comments apparently undermine contentions by defense attorney Lewis Gurwitz that the government's witness Joseph Aceto was an FBI informant who "set up" Picariello. FBI agents have previously testified that they had received outside tips that led to increased surveillance at Picariello's home last July and to his arrest last October in Fall River, Mass. Accto, who fumed state's' evidence in return for the', promise of a new identity and a lenient sentence, has named" Picariello as the leader of a foursome responsible for a series of Massachusetts bombings last summer. Picariello is charged with interstate transportation of explosives used in the Massachusetts bombings on July 1-2 of a jetliner at Logan International Airport, a National Guard truck in Boston and a Newburyport courthouse.

He is also accused of transporting explosives in an unsuccessful plot to bomb an A warehouse in Boston and the Polaroid Corp. headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. Alleged accomplice, Everett C. Carlson, was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment last fall on similar charges. Still awaiting trial here is Edward P.

Gullion Jr. York accidents YORK Cars driven by Stephen Leslie, 22, Scotland Bridge Roa'd; and Raymond C. Avery, 23, York Beach, collided on Rt. 1 shortly after 1 a.m. Sunday.

Damage was placed at $500. Cars driven by Adolph W. Samborski, 72, York, and Harley 0. Day, 61, York Harbor, collided on Rt. 1A at 10 a.m.

Saturday. Damage was placed at $500. On Friday, cars driven by James J. Mason, 61, York, and John Parish, 41, Virginia Beach, Patricia Parish and Kelly Huckinson, both 11 and passengers in Parish's car, were injured, Damage was placed at $900. At 1:30 p.m.

the same day, cars driven by Mark Elkhorn, 17, York Harbor, and James A. Williams, 27, York, collided on Webber Road. Damage was placed at $1,150. i i The Greatest Discovery of Our Time High otop mountain In Eastern Turkey is giant 5.000 year old wooden ship containing hundreds of stalls and cages. IS IT NOAH'S ARK? SHOWN WEEKDAYSlT SATURDAY SUHDAT AT Deluxe Rocker Chairs Ultra Modem Decor Maine's Newest and Mosl Intimate Theatre THIS YEAR'S BEST! "RATED 98fc! ft FRI.

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