Fitchburg Sentinel (Newspaper) - February 27, 1970, Fitchburg, Massachusetts MSS 5 1838 Vol CXXXI FITCHBURG MASS 01420 FRIDAY FEBRUARY 27 1970 THE WEATHER Not So Cold SEE REPORT PAGE 2 10 CENTS Mayors Demand County Reforms MAYOR FLYNN Rises To Challenge By FLETCHER Staff Writer WORCESTER Mayor Ham G Flynn of Fitchburg ed up a verbal at his feet Thursday night by a special Legislative commission to study county government and soundly his challengers The action was at the county courthouse Flynn attended the debate which was billed by members of the commission as a hearing and told members he ed the abolition of county or at least would like to see a revamping of the which would leave it unrecognizable from its present standards Mayor Ralph W Grossman of while not asking for the abolition of ment made it clear hat more concern on the part of county commissioners for the cities and of the northwestern explained the of of the county is needed I county Both men along the county hospital was re- ster Councilor at Large cently changed inun a u igo Tocci and City Accountant hospital to a chronic care John R Tata attended the j facility He cited this chance ins at the invitation of the and the advent of higher mission county employes the Few Selectmen rew reason for increased Ux communi I Although all selectmen ties ors and other representatives of then spoke and no had hr his ju ty were invited to the toward ending few showed up Sterling and government as it now is than Lancaster were represented commission members begin The hearin was opened about him They first noted an hour late by Sen Denis youthful appearance then of Som fact that he has only srrv- of the commission ed as mayor for little more than After briefs remarks by two years na Sen Daniel Koley of Flynn however apparently noted that regional not trom his con- ning on a county level is needed viction about the system and ifor the 60 communities in the listed several of the county county and commissioner form County Commission Paul X of government 1 Several times Rep Lawrence I P Smith of Lawrence vice chairman and Rep James J of Springfield a mem bcr attempted to discredit his statements but Flynn noted in- to hack his conclusions He said the commission form of county government is dated and there is a need leadership He also cited a lack of communication from commissioners with j tit's in the county When his statements were ar- by commission members he sairi he did not come to j hatp thr but rather speak at a hearing noted the county tax represents only seven or cents per dollar on thr tax rate but indicated that even jat that small figure is not Getting its money worth in services Mayor Grossman then saying hP did not ask for the ending of county government but would like to see some changes He noted the dispensing of stale Chapter 90 through the county as one point which should be changed said of- are m constant touch with officials in Boston and are well aware more so than county of- of the needs for work in the city He noted a change in county lines might he lor the best of the area Crossman said towns such as Townsend Pepperell and Shirley share the common problems such as shua River pollution and if ed in the same county grouping as and could better concentrate efforts as solving common lems Questions Appointees The mayor said that county officials are elected and answer to the public every two years for their conduct in office hut indicated many ty appointments which are not elected officials are not fied for the they hold He called for Guidelines to be drawn concerning appointing of- to responsible positions when they know little about the duties Crossman a 1 d county com- consulting with communities before levying high county taxes HP noted Leominster's share of county taxes for UM- of the county pital have tripled in the past three years and he has to receive a proper explanation from commissions for the in- creases MAYOR CROSSMAN New Lines Needed Reagan Calls On National Guard To Quell Rioters SANTA BARBARA them opposition to the API California war opposition to the Guardsmen were activated capitalistic system and what der orders from Gov Ronald they regard as increasing police Reagan today and 300 repression and stifling o politi men moved in to reinforce local officers who battled with young cal dissent on the Santa bara campus and elsewhere in the nation I demonstrators for four days A guard spokesman said It consecutive tional troops were nj M manias the sheriff carapus o University hc at Santa Barbara The guard mobilization the turnout of 500 after all bin a few of the was about half as had dispersed following as the crowd the previous night a nightlong struggle for control when a Bank of America of the streets in the campus ing was destroyed by fire community There were 25 to 50 arrests m police said and minor was tran uiL in to to four officers and three aboul pm Thursday night Thursday in the demonstration Officials said one which takes in about one tor was run over by 9 police square mile of the campus squad car another by a munity of Isla Vista just off the campus policeman and a third university campus j injured in an undetermined fashion but nuni was believed seriously hurt The officials spokesman said in the stale that officers were ex capital at Sacramento that the caution 10 avoid Guard had been Rive force because the governor The demonstrators many them Ui do it yes armed with rorks and slicks lerday if and when they fell the cited various reasons for the necessity to have the National protests and for their anger Guard Ed Gray Gov Reagan's press Cherry Sheet Shock Tax Hike Seen By EDWARD R Staff Writer 844 Gain Joy Boundless In Leominster about reports that ry Sheet distributions were going eon lo be higher this year and that A tax rate increase in d inn wa n bc ranee d f time by Mayor a ac Flynn today following the re- c y of the Stale t which shows a net loss of increase non for this year js M and mayor said he was wju ess lnan in shocked by which win more were received m mail lf mscs MX from the slate Department of and Taxation and is a I was hoping we he loss get a couple r h However main a lower total One Of The Gang Twelve-year-old heroin addict Ralph sits at the table during a state legislative hearing in York During the hearing the youngster sitting on his doctor's lap de- scribed his heroin addiction and how he supported it The four-foot addict told the hearing I used tp see all my friends do it so I didn't want to hp left out He said he had had his last shot eight days ago AP making a net gain of this year It Charges IP ine over last year's used funds from the At thp Cherry js one nf Uic lurl about 52 on the tax rate isales tax and other sources figures show lhat county which will Tata saiti most communities arc this compared Mayor Ralph gained nn the school aid formula to last year a of had predicted a mn lost aboul 73 per cent on including the county hi 83 be receiving 01 58 pending receipt of the the cherry sheet figures He hilled the gain in the figures year to revaluation hv ihc city as well as increased build ing construction basis News Digest Slowed Desegregation Debated Gives Warning Tea Taster 55 May Lose Job In Government expense up from Thus the mayor the city have about more to raise this year in in the record budget nf Tho mayor forsce much hope left lhat the lax rale in- Charge Mayor On Bargaining With Custodians Mayor William G Flynn has NEW YORK APi at each of 39 cups could be held down to been lo a Labor Re- lower end ol his previously Commission hearing in staled lo Boston on a complaint brought budget tax lo bargain with hem in tea before him the lions lo increase available funtis only remaining increased valuations would The complaint WASHINGTON API The Senate reached the debate stage today on a billion ations carrying the sive issues of school de- segregation and new spending curbs to prevent a second veto by President Nixon Floor fights loomed on both is sues attached as amendments to the huge spending measure for the departments of Labor and Health Education and fare The Senate Appropriations Committee set up the fight over spending controls by adopting an amendment Thursday that gives Nixon discretion to cut the appropriation by 2 per cent Minority Hiring Pressure Eases WASHINGTON AP The feels such Nixon administration has ended sures amounts to discrimination all pressure on federal agencies in reverse to step up employment of He told reporters thai equal bers of minority groups employment mandates o pre- ing to the chairman of the Civil vious administrations sure had Service Commission the effect of putting pressure on Robert E Hampton said the agencies to hire minorities Boland Sees Laos Brink WASHINGTON AP A One Vietnam is enough Massachusetts Rep Edward P Boland D- warns that the United States said in Congress approaching the brink day The American people and of another full scale war representatives in Con- Southeast Asia and urges a gress will not tolerate another hall to American military action one in Laos I Seek Plane Saboteurs BERN Switzerland AP police said today Two Jordanians wanted for The police said they had re- bombing of an Austrian a West German warrant last Saturday also are suspected for the arrest of or of being involved in the Sufian and Mussa crash of he Swiss airliner Badawi both of bound for Israel the same day man Blacks Seize UMass Dorm AMHERST Mass AP so the building can be About 50 black students into a black cultural over a dormitory at the ter sity of Massachusetts this There were no reports of ing and demanded that the 70 so residents clear out by 5 New Englanders will be nate in that they shall be able to have a clear view of the Eclipse from Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard off Cape Cod The eclipse will begin at 10 M a m and will end at p m That will cover the en- tire phase The dramatic ment will occur at p m staff of the Alice G lace Planetarium the vital importance of not staring directly al the se The moon moving across the sun looks like a shadow but the infra-red and let rays are capable of severe eye damage unless the eye is properly protected The light continues to pass around the moon falling upon the observer is looking directly at the phenomena II is these invisible rays which are usually blamed for blindness The staff also cautioned that if the very young children of your home cannot be equipped with an exposed black x-ray negative and closely supervised they should he permitted outside the entire eclipse The National Society for the Prevention of Blindness warns that the only recommended safe way to view the the eclipse of the sun is indirectly Take two of while cardboard make a pinhole in one: and the sun at your hack focus the eclipse through the pinhole board onto the second board LOOK AT THE THROUGH LARS OR A TELESCOPE DI- He said he was prised by the figures as ed It indicates we can make a of approximately on the rate and the predicted boost will nol be as great as originally estimated The in- crease in school reimbursements also contributed to the overall net gain Rep inster in the mayor's office n He doubled that loo custodians in the the figures were studied probably have to retire many substantial cuts could be city added it's a terrific break for because I'm so highly made in the budget He said the The mayor said today that be the city said Robert H Dick 55 city would have to raise al least was charged with prohibitive Incomplete move hv collections before and report to Study Incomplete available funds could be hearing next Thursday a 1 City Accountant John R Tata were graduate students at Duke the tax rale p m said at noon lhat a study of the University some years ago winning lonMan cherry sheet figures has not been fully completed hut listed the The President by lea laster much Louis 1 Leblanc in the name plan lo tax rate They'll know now I satisfied he said The mayor was also bitterly charge he commented I daily deny the 1 Some people I was We gave them a five per cent kidding when I talked about the raise and apparently not net gain at 844 plans to eliminate the anticipated total receipts Federal Board of are 034 over a year agn Tea Tasters in the Food and from the state of which Drug Administration as part of must be paid toward a billion national economy i es due to the hike in the county move I assessment 1 Due lo a new formula in But j ting up the figures Tata said it SIMM a year as a may was not possible to list each item I yet keep his job under new to with the IMS flewe agement When the tea industry until all estimates have been heard about the studied plan it offered up Reimbursements from the annual cost of state for school aid this year board Scientists Round World Will Be Listening For A Shadow TODAY'S INDEX Almanac 2 Amusements 2 Bridge Classified Comici 15 Crossword IS Editorial 4 Obituaries S Sports Television IS Women's Page 5 NEW YORK AP sonic boom You won't around the world will be be able to hear it ta This unusual experiment one on f manj bc There'll be an eclipse of holts out the sun was sun that day as the moon described by Dr Richard K es slowly across the face chief of the the blazing sun darkening it I group of the Environmental And the cooling shadow of Services Administration moon will fall on the in In the attempt to detect the The scientists want to see boom if there is the shadow produces a ESSA scientists at nine lunar hoom They want to see win sot llp mir whether the shadow moving microphones several T 0 miles apart to listen measuring through the earths atmosphere l and speed 1 produces a sound wave msl stations are in an airplane moving faster Washington Boston Boulder the speed of sound produces San Galif Pull sonic boom Wash ColleRe Ala When the shadow of the Peru LaPaz Bolivia hits the atmosphere Tel Aviv Israel the idea it will result in a The eclipse will be the cooling of the air since IMS to he visible air would move in j within the continental United would drop and stales wave would bo produced I The shadow will touch down If the far in Pacific then move i does exist it won't be like the across Mexico eastern edges ol the United States and through interaction with the Scotia and Newfoundland magnetic field and atmosphere will leave the earth in the so studying the corona can he of North Atlantic i practical importance j If it isn't too cloudy millions j Franklyn M Branley of Americans and of the American Museum will he able to see the Hayden Planetarium in New total phase Partial phases points out an ifall on virtually all of North reason why much smaller and Central America and the moon can block out the sun so Northwestern section of South The diameter of sun is 400 prime observation post times the of the moon for astronomers however will The diameter of the sun is 400 be in the mountains of southern times two diameter of the I Mexico in the village of But the sun just happens to be I about 400 times farther away There at an elevation of 8.000 from earth than the moon 9.000 feet jn thin dry The diameter nf the moon is tain air the chances are miles the diameter of there'll be a clear view of The mean spectacle from earth lo the moon is The corona the gaseous the mean distance to part of the sun's sun is 92.3 million miles sketches out from the sun en- The eclipse however poses a the earth part of possibility out planet damage to the The through in its orbit American Association of storms and communications in fart calls it can be triggered by the I extremely hazardous Jail For His Valarie 19 In his home in where he In awaiting appeal on a sentence of one year In jail for wearing the American flag on the seat of his pants Goguen was sentenced under an law which forbids treating the flac in a manner A pnt up bail pending appeal said he sewed the flag patch after seeing same style In California
