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Precipitation 2 inches snow. Sunset 4:57, sunrise 7:13. Benningto Bennington, Vermont, Friday, January 28, 1972 anner Weekly founded 1841, Daily 1903 22,372 15 Cents Selectman Frasier Bank resigns from post merger ByJOESWAYZE In a surprise announcement last, night, Edward Frasier resigned from the Bennington Board of Selectmen one year before his term was to expire. Frasier, a Democrat who was elected IS months ago in a special vote to expand the local board from three to six members, made the announcement at a brief emergency evening meeting of selectmen; Frasier said he was resigning because of "personal reasons." He did not elaborate. His announcement follows by one day party caucuses at which candidates for selectmen were nominated for the upcoming March Town Meeting vote.

Frasier said he regretted that he could not make his announcement before yesterday. "I would have preferred to have done this before the caucuses, but I was unable to "with regret" by his fellow board members, Chairman Alexander B.R. Drysdale, J.C. Jerome, Paul Sheridan and John Stone. J.

Duncan Campbell, on holiday in Caracas, Venezuela, was absent. The board is expected to announced Tuesday night that it will not appoint an interim replacement for Frasier, whose unexplred one-year term will now be up for grabs March 7. Frasier advised against the move. Responsible for coming up with candidates for Frasier's post from District 3-3 are the dies Antitrust law upheld by federal judge EDWARD FRASIER make my decision by then," he said. His resignation, effective immediately, was accepted By ELIZABETH DWYER BURLINGTON A federal judge has issued a summary finding that blocks the 'proposed merger of the County National respective town committees.

At Bank of Bennington and the the caucuses Wednesday night, Catamount National Bank with each committee was authorized headquarters in North Ben- by routine housekeeping motions rdngton. u.S. District Court Judge Sterry R. Waterman signed the order Thursday, which upholds arguments of the U.S. Justice Department in opposition to the to fill any vacancies that occur on their slates.

With Town Meeting just one month away, the party committees are expected to make Daley elected to Vt. Supreme Court their decisions quickly. Democratic Town Chairman Gerald Cornell said today "I've, got some guys interested in this post" Mentioned as a possible candidate is former Banner reporter David Scribner, a Democrat who lives In Frasier's district and reported municipal aff airs here for more than a year. By GEOFFREY CHAPMAN MONTPELIER The Vermont General Assembly, meeting in joint session this morning, elected Superior 'Court Judge Rudolph J. Daley to'the Vermont Supreme Court.

Judge Daley, senior judge on the Superior Court bench, was elected on the Brst ballot by a 12045 vote. He was nominated by Sen; Garry Buckley, R- Bembigton County. He fills the vacancy caused by the elevation.flf:former Chief Justice James Hoklen of North merger. The Justice Department had argued the proposed consolidation would be in restraint of trade under the Clayton Antitrust Law, in Slat it would eliminate competition between the two banks and substantially increase concentration in. commercial banking in the Bennington area.

The merger of the two banks Another name with more Guard after 30 years of service political clout mentioned is mat was approved by directors with the rank of colonel of Cornell, himself a former stockholders two years ago, and He and his wife Blanche have selectman. There is some approval was granted by the U.S. two sons and two daughters. One question, however, whether he Comptroller of the Currency, the daughter, Rosemary, works in would qualify since he, recently federal agency which oversees Sen. Robert T.

Stafford's moved from District 3-3. Washington office; the other, Meanwhile, Republican Charles Dewey was expected to let it be known today that he is interested in Frasier's job. Dewey was defeated by Frasier last The other selectman's slot from district 3-3 is also up for grabs in March; IHcuinberit Anne Marie, is a student at St. Joseph the Provider College in Rutland. Their son, the Rev.

Daniel P. Daley, teaches at Rice Memorial High School in Burlington, and another son Timothy is a freshman in high school at Newport is a Wisconsin native Republican-. Stone national bank operations, on Oct. 9, 1970. In a surprise move in November of that year the Justice Department Bled suit hi U.S.

District Court in Brattleboro to block the union of the two banks. U.S.- District Court Judge James L. Oakei disqualified himself 'to' me-case'because) of judge for southern Justice Percival Shangraw has been sworn in as Vermont's new chief justice. Judge Daley, 53, of Newport, defeated the only other nominee, attorney William 0. Moeser, 52, of Springfield.

The new justice has practiced law for 25 years, including appearances before the state and U.S. supreme courts, U.S. District Court and the Interstate Commerce Commission. He was elected to the Superior Court bench in February, 1959 after serving in the legislature. He became chief judge of that court abortion bul, leaving the state in May, 1966.

without a formal statute govern- A veteran of World War II and ing the termination of pregnan- Korea, Judge Daley saw service ties. on Guadalcanal with Judge The state Supreme Court ear- Holden. He served in the iier this month declared an 1846 legislature with Alexander B.R. abortion law unconstitutional be- Drysdale and Sen. Buckley, of cause it permitted pregnant Bennington.

women to have abortions but Judge Daley was also judge made it illegal for doctors to advocate of the 43rd infantry perform them, division, Vermont National the House action, in effect, Guard, and retired from the means physicians are regulated former member of the long-time DemocraUc party previous legal connections, and inherit State Colleges Board of worker, Virginio' "Max" the suit was heard in Burlington ustees. He has lived in See FRASIER SeeBANKMERGER Ve Trustees, Springfield for 25 years. Page 12, Col. 1 Page 12, Col. 1 House kills abortion bill, Senate set to revive issue MONTPELIER (UPI) by Common Law which allows Doctors can now legally per- abortions until the fetus quick- form abortions in Vermont up ens, usually at about 18 weeks, to the 18th week of pregnancy.

The Vermont House, by an overwhelming margin Thursday, turned down a much-amended There was an effort afoot today to revive the issue in the Senate where Sen. T. Garry Buckley, R-Bennington County, chairman the senate judiciary committee, promised his committee would come up with a proposal. But House Speaker Walter Kennedy, R-Chejsea, said the issue was dead 'as far as the House was concerned. He said any attempts to bring It back by way of the Senate will fall in the House.

Kennedy had harsh words for N.Y. grand jury probes payments for Hughes book NEW YORK (UPI)-Federal and New York County grand juries served subpoenas on author Clifford Irving today to appear for questioning concerning the Howard Hughes "Auto- better served by biography" case in which familiar with such in publishers' payments have disappeared. The new developments were announced by Irving's attorney, Martin S. Ackerman, who said he, was withdrawing as the author's counsel because Irv- ing'3 "best interests would be someone proceedings." He said Irving had retained Maury Nessen of the law firm ACLU backs Parent! in his fight with UVM BURLINGTON (UPI) condemning the trustees for Prof. Michael.

Parentt has won action, support from the Vermont Chap- The board failed to rehlre ter of the American Civil Lib- Parenti based on its judgment erties Union in his fight to keep that he had failed through pro- hU job it the University of Ver- fessional conduct to "fulfill the mont. special responsibilities which the The UVM Board of Trustees litt month refined to renew the controversial political science professor's two year contract despite recommewUtioni from the faculty and administration. The ACLU olrecton Thursday right endorsed a resolution which laid Parenti's constitutional rights to free expression and dissent "had been violated," but the; stopped short of in the courts. board expects of its officers of instruction." Lt. Gov.

John Burgess of Brattleboro, a member of the ACLU, and past president of the university's Alumni Association, said the board's reasons for firing Parenti were "damned poor." Parenti has hired an attorney aid plans to fight Ms dismissal of Nlckerson, Kramer, Lowen-' stein, Nessen and Kaimin to represent him before the investigatory juries which have power to make criminal indictments. Ackerman said he anticipated the civil suits against Irving would be held up pending the grand juries' investigation. On Thursday, it was disclosed that the U. S. Postal Service was investigating the Hughes case, apparently trying to determine whether the mails were used to send $650,000 in checks issued by McGraw-Hill Book Co.

to H. R. Hughes to Switzerland for deposit in a Zurich bank. Police in Zurich, Switierland, said Thursday they had asked the FBI to investigate the case, and had forwarded a list of questions to be put to author Clifford Irving and his Swiss wife Edith. The two are In New York for Irving's appearance today in court In connection with a $55 million libel suit against him by Femand Legros, an art dealer mentioned in "Fake," another See HUGHES BOOK Page 12, Col 6 End of the line for a torn loser', The body of hijacker Heinrich Von George lies on the runway of the Dutchess County Airport at Poughkeepsie, N.Y., after he was shot to death early Thursday by an FBI agent.

He had taken over a flight from Albany to New York, had the plane land at White Plains where the passengers were discharged and und a $200,000 ransom delivered to him, then after the plane had returned northward and circled over the Pittsfield, 1 airport he ordered the pilot to land at Poughkeepsie, where he was killed as he and his hostage, a stewardess, left the plane to enter a getaway car. See story of the man described as a "born loser" on Page 2. Somerset camp plan withdrawn, developer blasts Act 250 rules his House colleagues whom, he said, shirked, "the responsibility of acting to provide legislation." House action to kill all proposed legislation followed attempts to allow abortion on demand for 20 weeks, or for 12 weeks; to repeal the 1846 abortion statute and the Common Law; to allow abortions only to protect the mother's life, and to commit the issue to the House Health and Welfare Committee for further review. House Judiciary. Committee Chairman Frank Bunting, R- Brandoh, who offered his committee's bill to permit abortion on demand during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, called the final House action," "a step backwards 250 years." "The action leaves the state with an invalid law, and hi effect only the Common Law," he added.

A breakdown of the five votes cast during second day of debate on the issue follows: --First, to commit the measure to the health and welfare committee for further study, 74 to 67 not to commit. --The house then voted 80 to 64 in defeating a proposed amendment to allow, abortion on demand until the 12th week of pregnancy. --Members then approved a measure to strike a 20 week abortion on demand provision on a 83 to 60 vote. --A fourth vote to repeal an abortion statutes and the common law then defeated by 44 vote. By STEWART HANCOCK' BRATTLEBORO A West Dover developer yesterday withdrew plans for a giant public campground off Route 100 near Somerset Reservoir and charged that the project's success had been wiped out In an angry speech, Thomas Meade withdrew his Act 250 application before the Windham District Commission, and denounced several officials for what he saw as deception and misconduct as he explained how the state had imposed regulations that halted his proposal.

Meade's announcement to cancel plans for the 700-unit campsite development came at the third of. a series of commission hearings on the proposal. He said his decision came after state officials had testified that at least $66,000 worth of improvements must be made on the road leading to the 287-acre site. The state had proposed that Meade pay half the cost of highway construction into the area. Earlier, Schuyler Jackson, assistant secretary of Environmental Conservation, introduced testimony from fjve state employes who followed up Gov.

Deane C. Davfa's request for limitations and controls over the project. The governor, directly responsible for administration of municipal affairs in the unpopulated and unorganized town of Somerset, had asked that the initial phase of the project be limited to 250 units, and had questioned Meade's plans for a sanitary landfill dump and sewage disposal. Davis's strong "position on the Somerset development resulted from a 9u-day study he requested last October during the second commission hearing. Meade yesterday heatedly denounced the Act 250 procedures, claiming that the District Environment Commission hearing was "a blot on southern Vermont." "I found out that Act 250 and the local and state commissioners can change the rules at their own discretion.

I also discovered that Secretary Jackson can stop or stall any district commission when he wants to," Meade asserted. 'The developer claimed that the governor's position resulted from misinformation supplies by Jackson and other agency officials. He'said he had'notifled Sen! Stoyari Chrtstowe of Dover of Jackson's conduct, which Meade termed "unbecoming to a representative of the state." Meade also criticized Kenneth Senecal, former district commission coordinator who is now executive of the state Environmental Board, for misinterpretation "of the letter and scope of Act. 250." Meade said that Jackson and Donald Webster, secretary of the agency's environmental protection division, were responsible for rewriting the campsite regulations. "In May, Webster had sent me campsite rules and I proceeded under their guidelines.

Then, all of a sudden on Dec. 7,1 received a whole new set of regulations from the state," Meade said. The former lodge owner claimed that at this point he knew that "either no one in Montpelier knew what they were doing or that someone was throwing up another roadblock." Other persons Meade criticized included Joseph Teller of the Windham Regional Planning Commission, and.Ben- nington attorney Harvey D. Carter who represented an adjacent land owner. Meade charged that both had taken steps to "stall" his project.

"I leave the land to you, and to the campers who for years dumped their sewage on the ground, left their open fires burning, and their refuse to blow to the four winds," Meade blasted. He said that his option on the land has expired and that several other persons had expressed interest in buying it from Bart Jacobs of Winhall. Jackson made no official response to Meade's allegations, tut claimed that the state's involvement In the Act 250 See SOMERSET PLAN WITHDRAWN niiiniiiiiiiiitHiiniiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I i i I I I I Stans resigns from cabinet to be fund raiser for Nixon By RICHARD HALLOR AN N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON President Nixon accepted the resignation of Maurice H. Stans as Secretary of Commerce Thursday and nominated Peter G.

Peterson, the White House assistant for international economic affairs, to replace him. Stans, after he leaves the cabinet about Feb. 16, will be the chief fund raiser for Nixon's re-election campaign. He is thus scheduled to be the first of the President's senior political associates to move into a top campaign job. It has been widely speculated that Attorney John N.

Mitchell will leave the cabinet shortly to manage the campaign to re-elect Nixon. In a "Dear Maury" letter to Stans, the President said he accepted the secretary's resignation with "regret because you are leaving a post in which you have served with utmost distinction and gratitude because you will be playing a key role in the forthcoming campaign." The President told newsmen from the Republican National Committee but works closely with it. In a statement on the appointment of Peterson, the President said he had asked him "to focus major attention and energy on the ways In which America's competitiveness and productivity can be improved in the years ahead." "Toward that goal," the President said, "I am asking him to assume the chairmanship of the National Commission, on Nixon also noted that he had proposed the for- On the Inside Lentil soup is better than starvation; with a little imagination it can be lot better, Virginia Sandy suggest! Page 3. Sam Ogden reminisces about Scott Nearing --Page 4. Corporation unit personnel in hospital drive announced Page Hooslck Fills mayor and board disagree on allocation of sewer pint capital expense Page S.

Skune painting unveiled at Square --Page 6. Giants, send Tarkenton scrambling to Minnesota--Page 8. Neither mow, nor rain, nor Hack of night keeps those horses off the Pownal track tonight's the night Page 9. thitbefausene would not discuss mation of a new Department of partisan matters until after the Economic-Affairs and that "one nominating convention, he would of Peterson's assignments will be say only that Stans "will become to bring leadership to this thechancelloroftheexchequerof reorganization effort, one of the two major parties." proposed department Stans was director of the Bureau of the Budget In the administration of President Eishenhower, when Nixon was and headed Nixon's fund-raising efforts in the 1968 campaign. He is scheduled to policy Nixon announced on Aug.

15. After being introduced by the. President, Peterson told newsmen that "however necessary it is that we get an improved monetary system and improved trading system, ultimately how we fare in the seventies and eighties Is going to depend upon how successfully we can compete and how productive we have become." Peterson was chairman of the Bell Howell Company in Chicago before coming to Washington a year ago. become finance chairman of the Committee to Re-elect the The would include offices from the present Commerce, Labor, and Housing and Urban Development Departments. Peterson was the author of a major report to the President on the declining competitive position of American business in the work) economy and a key President, which Is separate adviser on the new economic Racing's on POWNAL Green Mountain Park announced this noon that racing will begin as scheduled tonight at 8, for the earliest opening date In the track's 10-year history.

Last night's snowfall threatened to delay the track's reopening, bul the decision was made this morning to go ahead..