Valley News from West Lebanon, New Hampshire • 2

TT Page A2 Valley Saturday March 27 2004 I Memorial Will Honor NH Gfv Knstm Proulx' i across The 227names are engraved in four columns across the two pages of the stone book with a separate section for the eight men whose remains been found Goulet and Rambeau predict the memorial will be installed at the Boscawen memorial walkway sometime in April Aded- The names pf the soldiere came from the federal monument but AnnGoulet needed to dp some research to determine which men were still considered missing in action or pris-1 oners of war was very very she said was awful to read about how old they were Sometimes I cried" Goulet and Rambeau used 'money raised by the veterans foundatkm to hire a Vermont -monument company Rock of Ages to build the memorial from gray and black granite-Soon it will be shipped to New Hampshire The granite memorial which depicts an open book flanked by Mack granite Hampsl bearing maps of New pshire and want to make sure that everyone knows these people are nut forgotten" said Goulet "This is our project for the ones who make it" "New Hampshire is one of the last states that have a monument like this" said Ram- beau embarrassing A kit of people feel enough monuments and sometimes 1 feel like that too but this is way overdue" With the support of the Granite State Vietnam Veterans Foundatkm (a group for which Ramheau acts as treasurer) the men wife Ann spent months researching the monuments in other states They had visited the wall hi Washington DC many times and wanted their memorial to evoke the same kind of emotional expedience 1 Both Goulet and Ramheau spent yearlong touts of duty in the Vietnam was an Army soldier in Cu Chi while ftanrieau served in the Air Force at Tan Son Nhiit Air Base They home physically unharmed butmany New Hampshire soldiers were not as fortunate From 959 to 1975 227 men from all over the state were proclaimed dead captured or missing in Vietnam The bodies of eight of those men still have not been recovered Their names appear on the Vietnam' Veterans Memorial wall in Washington DC and bock at home some of their names have been engraved on town plaquesi or monuments But ho memorial in New Hampshire contains all those names side by side Concord Monitor 1 Over the years New cities towns and veterans organizations have dedicated statues plaques parks and stone pillars to the memories of soldiers lost during the want of the 20thcentury But Ray Goulet and Dick Rambeau two veterans from Manchester decided it was time the state made a bolder statement about the men from New Hampshire who perished during one of histo- most recent ware The resulLs of their yearlong efforts to create a Vietnam Wir memorial will be unveiled at the New Hampshire State Veterans -Cemetery in Boscawen never found out whether their friend school buddy or co-worker returned alive from the war The GraniteStale VietnamVeterans dot ion is accepting donations toward the cost of the monument The foundation's address is POBox 109 Concord 03302-0109 and 13 feet Vietnam measures 6 feet NH Audit Was Promised to Avoid Prosecution of Catholic Church By Annmam Timmins Concord Monitor Concord A Concord lawyer is considering intervening with legal action if (he state Attorney Office does not soon begin its overdue review of the Catholic Church An annual audit which the church agreed to in order to avoid criminal prosecution was to begin in January pressure is what is needed we are willing to do whatever is necessary to see to it that ah audit occurs" said attorney David Braiter- -man who represents about 30 individuals and -a Catholic lay group as well as doctors and child advocacy organizations Braiterman has" requested meetings with the Diocese of Manch- ester and the Attorney Office to ask what has stalled the review Officials from both sides have said little since January except that they are discussing the scope of the review and who will pay its estimated $200000 cost In December 2002 the diocese church By not doing the annual agreed to let the Attorney review the two parties are violating spokeswoman for the diocese declined comment Wednesday saying she does not discuss Bishop John personal correspondence Attorney General Peter Heed hod not responded to request 8S of Wednesday but said he will would hope we would not have to Heed said would hope we could answer their questions" Both Heed and Quinlan repeated what they said nearly four months ago when asked about the overdue audit: They are in dialogue and committed to fulfilling their contractual agreement Braiterman said he will filea lawsuit only if nothing else persuades the state and the church to begin the audit in the neaj future Braiterman said his clients have a couple of options They could request the court to compel the Attorney Office to begin its review Alternatively Braiterman said he could approach it as a breech of contract between the state and the An Eye for Detail 'We're alf perfectionists here said Leslie Donahue of Lebanon at Heriloom Furniture Hospital in White River Junction1 She's while putting finishing touches on a refurbished chair yesterday worked there since August Valuy Chmstophbi Powers By Bob Hookwav yesterday in a telephone interview from Troop in Twin Mountain He said police had spent a lot of time trying tono to find the driver of a red truck that was seen near the Stage Stop their agreement with the public Braiterman said Anne Coughlin of Concord is one of the nearly 50 people working through Braiterman She declined to name the others but did say the New Hampshire chapter of Voice of the' Faithful a Catholic lay group has also joined on the most important (purpose) is to raise awareness" Coughlin said make sure the participants know that a lot of peopksre depend-1 ing on them to keep the promises they made It was a groundbreaking agreement but only successful to the extent that is Office review its handling of Sexual abuse complaints for the next five yean in order to avoid criminal prosecution for child endangerment The agreement never said who would pay for Jhe audit or what specifically it wouklentaU Braiterman said his hope is to heljp the conversation along with something short of legal action although hie predict what that would be has been ruled out but no decision has been made to initiate legal he said this week Braiterman said a diocesan lawyer had assured him the diocese will respond Diane Murphy Quinlan tributed this weekend in any case Asked if discouragement had set in among family members as winter turned to spring with no sign of their loved one he replied course dis- couraged desperate We just have to try to keep our spirits up and stay focused The theory is that someone picked Maun Murray up at the scene shortly after she got out of her car and has been preventing her from contacting her family not a belief that state police share New Hampshire State Police Lt John Scarinza said in a recent interview that investigators found the book Not Without Peril written by Nicholas Howe in 2000 in Maura car It offers 17 tales of people who from 1849 to 1994 got into trouble while hiking in the White Mountains Presidential Range with its often wild and unpredictable weather Most rtf them died Scarinza said he learned the book is Maura favorite and said it may offer a glimpse into her thinking the night she disappeared Her father two weeks ago immediately dismissed any theory that the book shed light on actions He said he had bought it for his daughter duringaneof their many hiking trips together to the 1 White Mountains Altlwugh he acknowledged it's of her he said he did not believe she would deliberately set out to lose herself in the rugged wildemes in winter Murray Valley News Staff Writer 1 4 Wells River Vf The family of a misting Massachusetts woman has not given up searching for the 2i-year-old nursing student even though it's been nearly seven weeks since MOura Murray left her car arid disappeared from a North Haverhill highway near the White Mountains National Forest' Her father Fred Murray and his daughter's siblings have launched a new campaign this weekend aimed at distributing another 1 500 fliers containing a photo of and information about the misting University of Massachusettsstudent Similar fliers have appeared throughout the North Country since Main vanished Feb 9 after running her car into a snowbank on Route 112 The new posters advertise that the reward for information leading to her safe return has reached $40000 Fplice meanwhile acknowledge struggling with few clues and fewer leads About a month ago Maura older sister Kathleen found a pair of underwear on French Fond Road in the general vicinity where Maura was last seen But a DNA test of the clothing came hack' negative this week as a match for the woman who abruptly left her classes at the Amherst Mass campus as well as her job at an art gallery in that area and headed north wish I bad some answers but there ire New Hampshire State Police SgL Tom Yorke said the night Murray disappeared a general store in the Bath village of Swiftwater just west of where Mack 1996 Saturn became disabled think somebody that went through here then and not even sure what type of truck it was It coukfve been a pickup truck with wooden stakes or a red dump truck with some sort of wood on the tides We do not have a real good description but spent a lot of time on Yorke said Police think the driver might be able to provide information In the days immediately after his daughter vanished Fred Murray set up a family search headquarten at the Wells River Motel across die river in Vermont When everyone had to retlim to their jobs the effort continued an weekends Fred Murray Jr 33 and Kathleen Murray 26 store at the motel last evening waiting for their father to arrive from bis job in Connecticut Maura older brother said the family had tentatively arranged for a searcher from New York with five specially trained dogs to be there this morning for a probe of the area beginning at die accident site a possibility We hope she comes' said brother who said the posters would be d- Maura Law Would Let Vt Towns Share Police Doria with taking checks cash and other assets including stocks from Umbrecht which Doriasaid he would invest in the North American Finance and Investment Company he converted these monies funds Securities and assets to hisown use and the use of the indictment read The indictment issued this week detaik how investigators from the FBI and Internal Revenue Service believe Doria concealed some of llmbrecht's money Doria would accept money from Unfaecht in the form of bank checks from Lake Sunapee Bank in denomi- nations of $10000 or less then obtain cash and checks from Windsor Orange County -Credit Union in exchange the indictment says He would then deposit the cash and checks into his own bank account In addition to founding Vermont Law School in South Royalion the only school granting law degrees Dufa was also a Republican candidate for U5 Senate By Anx Hanson Valley News Staff Writer 1 A federal grand jury has handed up more extensive cfauges against Vermont Law School founder Anthony N-Doria Last falLDoria pleaded innocent to a count of mail fraud and four counts of transporting stolen property The new indictment which the grand jury handed up Wednesday adds six counts of money laundering to the earlier charges The grand juty charged Doria with defrauding a Newport NH woman Barbara Umbrecht out of more than $115000 in the late 1990s An indictment is only i way to bring charges typically felonies to a state or federal court Attorney Peter Hall said in a written statement It is not proof of If convicted Doria could face a maximum sentence of 145 yeah in prison and fines of $425 million' (fall said: The initial indictment charged Montpelier (at) The state Senate has approved a bill that would allow towns to share police services Such pooling has been prohibited tidoe1993 Uw enforcement officiate praised the measure eood new for all of law enforcement in the state or Vermont" said Kerry Sleeper the com-nuMoner of public safety hoping this will provide communitfaswith some options that are more cost-effective than starting their own police Ifonisbprbves The condition of 59-year-oid Sandra Harris a Democratic state representative from Claremont has been upgraded from critical to serious according to a Dartmouth-Hitcb-cock Medical Center spokeswoman Her husband Joseph Harris 70 also a state representative from Claremont was transferred to a rehabilitation center yesterday morning hte daughter Annie Tuley said 'yesterday Thp Democrats woe driving home from the capital fart Thursday when their car went off the John Stark Highway in Newport N-H and hit a tree They suffered serious injuries and were transported by antulance to DHMC -Staff Report vices and many small communities do hot have the money to maintain their own police department The state police provide primary police coverage to 212 of the nearly 250 communities with 300 officers making police service spotty in some areas Sleeper said changing Vermont law to let communities pool financial resources to hire local police officers is a way for towns to increase police coverage have known for many yean that regionalization of law enforcement would be more efficient and cost-effective" Sleepetsaid arc so many communities now realizing (hfy ninwrl ariHitinniil hiiiMfiywnfjfrtiillieiHq of joining forcei with their neightxn is becoming more viable" department" The bill alt bill ateo creates a 12-menter Law Enforcement Advisory Board that will oversee law enforcemem policies and practices with the goal of making sure the money is well spent Currently the only way towns can share police resources tetocontnct independently with a coun-tydieriff Not all sberiffs want toprovide such ser- For intormstion on NH Democratic Town Caucuses REAL ESTATE PRELICENSING CLASSES Plymouth NH March 20-28 Lebanon NH 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