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Portland Evening Express Tuesday June 17 15 Notebook By Hal Boyle AEC And Minnesota ace Nuclear Plant Showdown BY JOHN THORNTON of and threatened Ko THE PICK ftinch the i 220 nwcH I Monday by Queen municipal were and every re no this $29 this a of to fifth and building by police the the po hls by Quo price the with the they are duckweed Is the smallest flower in the world measuring less than 20th of an Inch nl di ameter for the whole plant It has either no roots at all or practically none ST PAUL Minn (AP) The State of Minnesota and the US Atomic Energy Commission ap pear to be headed for a show down on the question of state's rights In the nuclear power field sixth were late their anniversary Instead at Camp David in Western Mary md So they will 'be able to at the wedding The committee accepted resignation of Mrs Walkup teacher at the junior high school who is leaving the area The committee granted Mrs Kathleen Anbrosinl element ary school teacher a leave Mrs Anbronsinl has re ceived a full teaching fellow ship at the University of New Hampshire World Agency Inc of Port land was awarded the contract for student Insurance for the next school year Other Insurance plans were submitted by Budd Associates and Community Life Insurance ALL This boggy floating island aboutTOO yards long drifts across Lake Sadawga from main land mass in background at Whitington vt The SCARBOROUGH New teachers were hired by the Scarborough School Board last night Boards Association which has requested all Maine schools not to hire anyone from the Bid deford system The School Boards Associa tion action was In answer to the Maine Teachers Association imposition of a last month asking teach ers not to accept employment in Biddeford Teachers In Biddeford and the school board have been deadlocked in a wage struggle for several weeks Teachers are seeking $6100 base pay The city has offered $5850 The dispute Involves the ques tion of whether the state can Im pose its' own rules for the opera tion of nuclear fueled electric power plants The Atomic Energy Commis sion (AEC) says claiming Congress has given It sole jur isdiction over safety standards and operating procedures atomic plants In all states Gov Harold LeVander has torted that Minnesota feels obligation to abide by a mal of safetp re quirements and radioactive pol lution Northern States Power Co a Minnesota based firm has two nuclear plants under construc tion costing more than $30 mil lion: They will provide electrici ty for 16 million homes So far the power company Aiderman Robert A Touran geau suggested that the city follow the GPB In minimum pricing for Its initial sale of a park parcel but favored a ne gotiable price for further sales The asking price will allow the administration to talk specifics with prospective purchasers SCARBOROUGH The school committee last night in terviewed the four candidates for two vacant area school principal'posts The four have' been screened down from the original 16 applicants There was no Indication to day when a decision might be reached Meanwhile however the Express learned that one of the prime candidates for one of the two Scarborough prin cipalships Is curently in the Biddeford school system This system is now under sanctions from the State School island which was torn loose by a 40 mile an hour wind is held together by bushes and trees (AP) Australian Becomes Knight Of Garter WINDSOR England 1AP) Lord Casey former governor side consultants Including the International Association of Chiefs of Police The report said consultant can be valuable but warned that If used place of local participation the Safe Streets Act's objective of stimulating lo cal and state involvement In planning for reform will be sub A spokesman for the Justice Law Enforcement Assistance Administration which oversees the act said ac tion grants totaling about $4 million have been awarded to the Virgin Islands and Arizona California Pennsylvania Colo rado New Mexico Maine and Washington California and Pennsylvania were Included in the joint study as well as lorida Illinois Indi ana Massachusetts Michigan New Jersey New York North Carolina Ohio and Texas Congress appropriated $19 know whose rules will apply The plants use cooling waters from the Mississippi River and both will discharge what the company says Is a small and safe amount of ra dioactive waste Into the air and Into the river The greater part of the nu clear waste will be shipped out of the state in sealed containers for disposal In AEC dumping grounds Dr Glenn Seaborg chairman of the AEC says Its rules for construction and operation of nuclear plants are stringent enough to safeguard the public The Minnesota Pollution Con trol Agency set the stage for the fight with the AEC on May 12 when it Issued a permit for a plant at Monticello after a ser ies of stormy hearings The per mit Imposes standards general ly more stringent than required by the AEC Another nuclear plant Is scheduled to begin oper atlons In 1972 at Prairie Island LeVander has promised that the state standards be the basis They include Miss Jane Carlow Boothbay Harbor grade six at the junior high school Mrs Priscilla Martlkal nen Gorham grade three at Dunstan' School Miss Bonnie Rich Union home economics at the high school Mrs Ju dith Pelletier Portland' grade one at Blue Point School and Mrs Maryann Voucher Gor ham special class for mildly retarded children at Bessey School the Wanda happy for the final permit required for the Monticello an operat ing permit to be Issued by the AEC late this year It is this demand that Seaborg has rejected contending It could unduly burden the power com pany without any to public health and safety Le Vander has promised that Minnesota's legal re will be committed in support of the state require ments is Impossible for us to function under two divergent re gulatory authorities" com ments Earl Ewald chairman of the board of Northern States Power Seaborg says Minnesota should not compete for the lim ited number of qualified scien tists In the field In order to es tablish Its own regulatory pro gram LeVander counters: believe that anyone can make a sound sensible argument against a policy of greater safe ty for the WATERORD Conn The bodies of four of nine per sons killed In the collision of two light planes Saturday over the Long Island Sound shoreline have been recovered by the Coast Guard In the wreckage of one of the planes The bodies recovered Monday were identified as James Ritchey of Brooklyn NY and his three children Jamie 8 Elizabeth 6 and Georgia 4 The body of Mrs Ritchey was recovered the afternoon of the crash as were the bodies of four persons In the other plane Mr and Mrs Jack John stone and Mr and Mrs Donald Plumb all of San Juan Cap Calif The Ritcheys were summer residents of Cushing Island Maine The plane a red and white twin engine Piper Apache was lifted from some 15 feet of wa ter about 450 yards offshore by a 46 foot Coast Guard buoy tend er called In from New York City to assist In the search Navy scuba divers the Submarine Base at Groton aid ed in the recovery The bodies were taken to Me morial Hospital In New London James Meredith ound Guilty Of Harassing NEW YORK (AP) James Meredith a Negro prominent In civil rights campaigns has been found guilty of harassing the white tenants of an apartment building he in an attempt to force rent increases Meredith whose enrollment In the University of Mississippi In 1962 led to rioting and federal troop intervention was not in court Monday when the convic tion was registered He could be sentenced to a $25Q fine or 15 days In jail Tenants testified that Mere dith cut off hot water and eleva tor service In the six story building to enforce a demand for a 15 per cent rent hike NEW YORK Is like a musical Instrument of the mind In its repertoire are tunes both sad and merry They evoke the bygone days that haunt ev ery human the days that made us happy the days of loss that gave us a sore wisdom Unlike most musical Instru ments the memory cannot be kept' locked in a case or stored away In a closet It has a will of Its own It will creep Into our consciousness at times whether we will It or not and choose the tune It no matter what other selection we might prefer to hear But the music memory plays is the life of the soul and when that music can be heard no more the soul is dead Your own repertoire of memo ries Is pretty extensive If you can look back and remember About the wildest things col lege boys did was to stage dor mitory panty raids on spring nights when the moon was full The richest kid In grammar school was the one who had the most marbles or the biggest col lection of cigar bands The Navy could build a battle ship for what It now takes to build sink and refloat a subma rine You could be the life of any party If you could pluck a man dolin passably well Boys wore their hair cut so short that you could tell at a glance whether they had washed behind their ears that morning And If a child fibbed to its parents It Immediately had its mouth washed out with soap The only time families ate In the back yard was when they had a big reunion and there simply was too many for them all to eat in the house The two biggest symbols of authority In the land US Supreme Court nightstick carried by llceman on his beat A small lad could hanging around the front porch swing where his big sister was being courted by her beau If the suitor was cheap he gave the kid a dime to go away If he was a real sport he sprang fpr a quarter bribe A family was reckoned pretty prosperous If It had an Icebox In the kitchen so big It took a four bit chunk of Ice a day Instead of a two bit one A wise wife neyer Interrupted her husband when he was dis cussing baseball or politics sub jects about which she was ex pected to know nothing When entertaining company however she felt free to comment on the weather and the scandalous price of groceries A spendthrift was a guy who threw away a broken shoelace instead bf knotting It and contin uing to use It Before undertaking a trip of more than 30 miles In the family car you always stuck a measur ing stick In the tank to be sure you had enough gas to make such a journey Those were the days! Re member? Your name Is on the list of tentative gradu ates In June 1969 Please member that you must meet all of the requirements before you can 'graduate All fees must be paid" The bill totaled $6 Lefkow said commencement plans and charges were left to Individual principals In the Chi cago school system He said the federal court action would be dl rected against the state and county public aid departments School Supt James Redmond and principals of 10 schools At a news conference Mon day Virginia Mack a spokes man of the welfare rights organ ization said the Public Aid De partment should pay graduation fees for children whose parents are on welfare rolls Mrs Mack cited a section In a public aid manual stating that funds may be spent for Items for a partici pation in an educational experi ence Important to his develop 7 School officials were j1 not available for comment million for action grants the program and another mllllonfor action grants year Action funds are expected to rise to $200 million in fiscal 1970 The role In the pro gram came under attack earlier from another urban orlented or the National League of Cities The league said the program was dissipating planning funds without regard to need and fi nancing an additional level of bureaucracy The report noted the criticism and cited as an exam ple Indiana which it said failed to Include a representative of the Gary city government among Lake delegates to the state planning agency administration was omitted despite the fact that Gary has one of the highest over all crime rates" the report said AUGUSTA (AP) The Sen ate gave all but final approval today to the bloc grant 'state municlpal revenue sharing plan The action came without dis cussion and without a recorded vote The measure now goes back to the House which earlier In definitely postponed the bill which Is backed by the Maine Municipal Association A Senate amendment attached to the bill today gives It a $113 million price tag for the next biennium The amendment Is a would see all new revenues dis tributed to municipalities on the basis of the proposed bloc grant formula School subsidies now are based primarily on I local tax effort for schools and the number of pupils being educated The school subsidy program would continue at the level of funding already adopted for the next two years The bloc grant proposal would provide aid to municipalities on a comprehensive basis in pro portion to their population ablll The new general manager "of the Portland Symphony Orches tra to succeed Andrew Holmes will be announced by PSO trustees riday Holmes who has resigned to accept the position of headmas ter of Oak Grove School for Girls at Vassalboro was made a trustee of the orchestra at the annual meeting yesterday In City Hall Auditorium Louis Benoit who was Re elected president of the board of trustee for a second term said that the executive board had vo ted to hire a full time concert master In Steven Kecskemethy a member of the Vaghy String Quartet now In residence at Kingston College near Montreal He will be 'the first year round performing musician hired by the orchestra In Its history WESTBROOK The City Council last night voted a mini mum price of 12 cents a square foot or about $4800 per acre on the first parcel of land to be sold In the Spring Street Industrial Park Land for the park was sold by the city to the Greater Portland Bulldjng und and will Involve 95 plus acres on and around Saco Street' Another 25 acre strip was discussed by the G)B and the cltl aidermen Aiderman Raymond A Goozey opposed selling It for' $500 per acre worth at least 12 cents a Aiderman Andrew Metav ler proposed a measure one which would strip comparatively front parcels when sold fl 1 That 'HaiintThe Heart WASHINGTON (AP) Rep resentatives of the poor or mi nority groups are conspicuously absent from state planning agencies created under the $48 million Safe Streets Act an In dependent study maintains So are private businesses nonprofit organizations and offi cials of welfare health and manpower agencies whose con cerns relate closely to crime said the study released Monday by the Urban Coalition and Ur ban America Inc Interests must be In cluded if the plans are to serve the needs of the society at said the study entitled And which was based on a survey of planning cn 12 of the 50 states participating under the year old act process Is being domi nated to a considerable extent by professionals from law en forcement the courts and cor rections creating the danger that the plans will reflect only their internal needs without put ting them In the broader context of the criminal justice system and Its role In an urban socie the report said The act which Is just now en tering Into the action phase aft er month of planning Is also handicapped the report said by fragmented objectives a region al approach that waters down the impact on crime ridden ur ban areas and a lack of exper tise money Is now avail the report said er most states have had little or no experience planning for ffeform of the criminal justice system and lack the expertise to spend the money effectively Department guid ance to date has focused mainly on procedures and technical re quirements but there Is a conspicuous absence of guid ance on planning or As a result the report said some states have turned to out AP) Memory South Koreans Kill 6 Enemy Commandos CHICAGO (AP) Parents on welfare rolls demanded public aid today to meet school grad uating expenses of seniors In predominantly Negro slum areas A spokesman for the National Welfare Rights Organization said a federal court suit was planned as a result of com plaints by the poor that com mencement fees were beyond their means Cornelia Williams one of the parents who complained said her son Jessie received a bill for more than $33 a5 the price for full paitlclpatlon in graduation exercises at DuSable High School on the South Side Mrs Itemized bill: graduation exercises 50 cents: cap and gown $375 class gifts 75 cents announcements $140 year book $750 dinner dance $18 ribbon 75 cents contingen cy fund 50 cents Michael Lefkow of the Com munity Legal Council said the problem also existed at grade school level He said seniors at one elementary school received this letter: earn spending money Nixons To Attend Agnew Wedding PORTLAND Ore (AP) Pat Nixon says she and the President have decided they can make It to the wedding of Vice President Spiro daughter after all Pamela Agnew 25 Is mar rying Robert De Haven 25 of White Marsh Md In Towson Md Saturday Initially the Nix ons sent regrets because they planned to be in Key Blscayne la observing their 29th wed ding anniversary Mrs Nixon said Monday the President now finds himself too busv to cn fn Plnrida frn fha which filed anti trust charge last fall against Vermont Yan kee because the utility refused to sell them stock or allow them to purchase power directly from the Vernon plant Since then Vermont Yankee has joined with Its 10 sponsoring utilities and has offered to sell power to all New England utili ties who want to buy it based on current power usage rates As yet the Massachusetts municipals have not accepted the plan but It is expected they will shortly This has blocked Vermont Yankee from selling the long term bonds It needs to finance the Vernon facility and has caused the utility to borrow on a short term basis on the credit of Its sponsors to keep construction moving All of the person nel except music director Paul Vermel are engaged contractu ally on a per service basis for season A plan Is under way to eventually engage a string with the musi cians to lead the string sections A highlight of the meeting was the disclosure of several large gifts one of $20000 from the Bok oundation In Philadelphia The endowment fund is now at $32000 Vermel has been re engaged for another season with the PSO assuming his entire salary as the MIM (Music In Malne)t federally backed project' which had contributed part of his fee will come to an end this month Although many orchestras the country are facing desper ate financial situations the PSO not only met Its all time budget of $152860 but has a small cash balance of $42 tv and tax effort Eventually the present school subsidy program would be com pletely replaced by the grant packager In other matters during a brief morning session the Sen ate initial approval to a bill which woyld allow the gov ernor and Executive Council tot request annual extensions of service for the chief liquor In spector until he becomes 70 a measure which would require sprinkler systems 1 nail new hotels of more than three stories two bills from the office One deals with the powers and duties of" the attorney general The other sets up a program of tax relief for the elderly Senators requesting the re 4 calls said they were necessary to make technical corrections lit the bills as passed by the leg: Islature The House passed the order concerning the attorned general bill but tabled the other' Gorham Opens June 22 GORHAM (AP' The Upward Bound program at Gorham State College is scheduled to get un der way for Its fourth year on June 22 with a federal grant of $81000 4 A total of 69 students wlllj arrive at the college for a slx week program designed to en courage them to pursue a col lege education the school an nounced today According to Director Norman Lapointe of Auburn 13 tutor counselors are currently enrol led in a training course on Hur ricane Island off the coast of Rockland a carpenters union offl spoke of want to protect them here by lobby against pay car and labor SEOUL (AP) A South rean security force has found and killed six North Korean commandos who landed on Huk san Island after their speedboat was sunk riday the South Ko rean Central Intelligence Agen cy announced today A combined military police and militia force killed the six men in a gun battle on the is land Monday the agency said Also killed was a 50 year old South Korean civilian volunteer The 75 ton boat reportedly on a mission to pick up a spy and take him back to North Korea was sunk in a six hour sea battle riday morning Although all 15 crew members were first reported the six apparently made It ashore The CIA now says 13 have been killed and the other two are believed to have drowned Huksan Island is about miles southwest of Seoul Westbrook Council Okays Industrial Park Price Rules WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court has ruled out a 1 bld by New Hampshire to stop 1 construction of a nuclear power 1 reactor on the Connecticut Rlv I er 1 The" court Monday said noth Ing about the claim that the $120 million facility author Ized by the Atomic Energy Commission would create ther mal pollution that could destroy plants and animal life Nor did the court comment on New contentlon'the AEC had violated the rights of New Hampshire citizens to use the river for Industry and recre ation The contract au thorized the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp a group of 10 New England utility com panies to build a boiling water nuclear power facility at Ver non Vt New Hampshire which has jurisdiction over the river filed suit to try and stop construction of the plant on the Vermont side of the river The 540000 kilowatt plant Is more than 40 per cent complete and is to be operation al by late 1971 New Hampshire had also claimed the AEC violated the state's right to control the river by granting a permit for con struction of the atomic power plant over the objections of the Granite State The high court's decision left virtually only one legal stum bling block In the way of the plant Still unresolved te a dispute ree Swimming Lessons or Children Offered WINDHAM Swimming les sons free to all children in Windham will be held from 9 am to noon beginning June 30 and continuing four weeks at the cottage of Mrs Philip Hunt Brown Cove Road Little Seba go Lake1 Miss Maryann Hunt will be Instructor To register call 892 nnw $92 4658 or 892 4458 A second four week session win twain July 28 The program 1b' sponsored bythe United und House Rejects Order To Revive Several Teachers Engaged or Scarborough Schools Poverty Ridden Paren ts Demand GraduationCosts Bodies Of Ritchey amily Recovered Off Connecticut muoj ku iu rioriqa lor me general of Australia has be weekend and they will spend nnmn the ftrcl Australian in no I vumu wiv wv wv made a Knight of the Garter oldest order of Christis' chivalry The 78 year old politiclan lomat was Invested In the ord' Elizabeth sor Castle Blast Periled UC Lab Under Wary Watch BERKELEY Calif Campus police and firemen at the University of California kept an apprehensive watch early today on Latimer Hall where an experiment by chemist student got out control explode The fourth floors of the cordoned off Monday afternoon but Berkeley ire Chief Alfred Henson said early today he felt material would Three fire units from the Berkeley department left the scene about 12:15 am leaving one unit 'from the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory outside the science building rancis Wang 30 a doctor of philosophy candidate from Tai wan was piping 50 grams of dlaborane a highly flammable jet fuel through glass tubing wjjen the tubing developed a crack Wang quickly went through a series of shutting down procedures Which extin guished a small fire that developed then notified authori ties 4 Scarborough Principal Candidates Are Interviewed a private ceremony at Wind with a group of Massachusetts11 a) am 4m4 a nn wlfiC Wage Measure AUGUSTA (AP) The House rejected a Senate order today to revive a defeated bill requiring payment of standard wages on' all public construc tion projects over $10000 A statewide construction mini mum wage applies now on state projects This bill would have extended it to local and county projects Rep Roosevelt Susi Pittsfleld and Rep rank A Quimby Cambrldge both contractors opposed the recall order and Quimby said It would "help blow the cost of projects all out of Rep Paul A Couture Lew iston clal (who) selves this so they penters $165 an ers $150 to $160 Is a vacation state all right for those that have the Couture said the poor working people are down the drain completely and have been for years and The vote was 61 66 against re calling the bill from the legisla tive files Another Roadblock Cleared or Vermont Atomic Plant The plane carrying the two California couples a blue and white Debonair four seater had left Trumbull airport in Groton for Buffalo NY but was re turning due to poor visibility when the collision occurred The planes were about 300 feet off the water The Ritchey family was bound from Linden NJ for Westerly I where Mrs mother Ilves The Plumbs were former Ter ryville residents who moved to California some years ago They had been spending a few days with relatives in Giants Neck Ar Water Perils State House Phone Setup AUGUSTA (AP) or second time a crew is excavat ing around an underground ad dition to the state office build ing installed last year to house a new telephone system Engineer Howard McCartney of the Bureau of Public Im provements said the concrete walled room was enclosed with a of ma terial supposed to keep moisture from entering the enclosure with sensitive telephone equip ment some reason we have had he said serious as far as the building Is concerned but it has caused con for the telephone equip A contractor Is digging to find the source of the water and pro bably install more drains Mc Cartney said to channel it away from structure Study Says Safe Streets Program Is Too Lopsided Senate Is Near Approval Of Bloc Grant Measure New PSO General Manager To Be Announced riday r1 I 1 gal Aft a xw i i Mb Um iW.