Fitchburg Sentinel (Newspaper) - October 27, 1970, Fitchburg, Massachusetts SENTRY ANSWERS YOUR PROBLEMS WRITE BOX 507 FITCHBURG 1838 Vol CXXXI FITCHBURG MASS 01420 THE WEATHER Cloudy See Report On Page 2 TUESDAY OCTOBER 27 1970 10 CENTS Political Front Great Debate Out In State BOSTON Kevin H While says he will not in the charade that Gov Francis W Sargent has proposed in place of a debate Sargent told newsmen day thai he would not pate in a face-to-face television debate with White the cratic nominee for governor Sargent originally proposed the debate but said Monday Instead he proposed a join television appearance White Thursday night with with each candidate to be questioned by newsmen for half an hour Speaking at a news confer ence immediately after announced his plan White who renewed the debate challenge last Thursday two days before he was released from Massa General Hospital where that White's recent illness might he underwent surgery for a per make such a melodramatic confrontation Drinan Charges A Distortion By McGlennon BOSTON Hey Robert F Drinan Democratic nominee for Congress from the 3rd District says his can opponent is distorting the meaning of a speech Drinan ples the berg trials for political State Rep John A Glennon of Concord opponent has statement in Marlboro when I rare situations when a moral man must bey an immoral Drinan told newsmen Monday The speech was delivered last April 5 political tising claims that my support of this principle means that my candidacy teaches disrespect for the Drinan said He said the Nuremberg ciple established during the trials after World War II of the most cherished and noble legal aspirations of mankind has been dragged into a cal campaign in a way which can only jeopardize respect for the American legal system ulcer charged Sargen with copping out He said such a format wouk be a to football game where the Pa play the first half the Giants play the second and the referee decides who is the win ner Sargent said he proposed the revised format because it could be a no holds barred press conference He said he fel that with White's recent illness he would have to pull his The way the stories were going around about the debate Sargent said It was made to appear that the mayo might appear in his and slippers with a ter in his hand Sargent said he felt the ne format would-be a better way t the issues because h did not White toug questions and face the ty of the mayor turning pal and asking for a glass of wate or Katheryn Mrs White for handkerchief At his own news conference White played a tape of Sargen speaking at a rally while th mayor was in the hospital Th tape Sargent said he hope White would be well soon be cause I want a chance to de bate Noting that Sargent issued th original challenge White sai one of the primary difference between the two candidates is courage Memory Wizard David Roth author of books on how-to improve ory performs memory feats as he sits in his Los Angeles home on his birthday Roth demonstrates he still can repeat the phone numbers of all 600 members of his Rotary Club or cite the days of the week for any date from 1752 to the year 3000 AP Call Fire Station Study City FD Issues Said Confusing By EDWARD R HORGAN Staff Writer The Public Safety Committee Of the City Council will hold an- other meeting prior to making a recommendation on the ing of the Water Street Fire Station in order to eliminate g t Nor testimony man M confusion followin of Fire Chief Public Safely An- thony Nigro said the committee would meet again next Monday night at 7 p.m in Central Fire Station to unravel the confusion that seems to exist before the regular meeting of City Council Wednesday Nov 4 Overtime Issue Chief Flechtner told City Councilors Monday he could keep the department's present seven companies operating with reduced manpower il overtime Is allowed during working fires Councilor Nigro commented today that if this is so why close either the Water Street or Summer Street stations said confusion has to be He moved before the Public ty Committee can make a Also in attendance at day's meeting were Councilors John B Chittick and Robert II Bean members of Public ty and Council President J Harold Lemay and Councilor Gerald Beloin The present Fire Dept Table of Organization calls for 127 men The department is ing eight men under the TO at 119 men Mayor liam G Flynn proposes the present active force of 119 men would be further reduced to 112 plus a public works and a clerk The mayor mends the closing- of Water Street station which would minate one engine from Choice said that the city would have to decide the level of it will vide He said il was nol his recommendation lo take another company out of service The chief however stated that if he had to close a station he would prefer to close Summer Street Station rather than the Water Street company He based this on the of Central Station to respond to fires in the Summer Street area and the thai the Wa- ter company is in a ter position to cover the Great American Plastics Company along with densely populated Water Street wooden tenements He would also prefer to keep he Summer Street building un- to house a reserve der truck instead of completely closing Water Street The mayor this plan es the advantage of abandoning expense of upkeep on a ion He said an unmanned tion presents the situation where some one would have to unlock to respond with a fire apparatus that anything could have happened to if the building were not periodically checked Compromise The mayor however did not exclude the idea of a mise on the closing of S station when asked about the matter today FLECHTNER Page 11 Keating Plans Million Expansion In Lunenburg By JEAN E HOBBS Lunenburg Correspondent Plans for construction of a lion plant to produce a new type of material used in the construction were re- by Keating Co al a meeting with Board of Selectmen Monday night Some So people will be em- in the production and distribution of the product Described as rotary kiin expanded shale light aggregate the material of being finalized The P J Keating Co is the largest taxpayer in the and began operations in Lunenburg in 1945 with a sand and gravel plant Since then concrete and asphalt For Of Fear NEW YORK AP U Mayor It is the voice of national John V Lindsay has charged by writers that President Nixon is ally accountable for introducing the tactics of fear into efforts to eliminate his foes The President's 1970 political strategy has spread a cloud of suspicion and mistrust over our whole Lindsay said Monday night at the Family of Hilton Hotel This is one of the few in memory in which men apparently seek not merely to defeat their opponents but ally to eliminate them from pur public life mayor said Lindsay a registered can accused the Republican President and Vice President Spiro T Agnew of abandoning to claim that to their policies somehow is an incitement to un- rest and violence party p opposition researchers and senior advisers from the White House and by the President of the United he said It strangely echoes the frightening voice of the soft on com- was the all-purpose weapon Lindsay who has repeatedly switch his party affiliation de- I believe that America and the Republican party stand for honorable sought But when and his lieutenants tell us to be afraid when they pretend that respected candidates condone though men were running in this they are deserting the essential principles of both country and party Heads Win Tails You Lose Nixon Goes AM Ouf WASHINGTON AP dent Nixon is resuming his getic election after clearing the way for a verdict from the voters on Nov Well In advance ot Nixon's de- parture for Republican rallies 1 tonight in the Florida resort ies of Palm Beach and Miami press secretary Ronald L Ziegler spelled out for the first time the chief executive's precise campaign goal To can tighten the gap of tradition Those 11 words could mean Nixon is lowering his day sights and has abandoned hope of a Republican surge next Tuesday Or they could signal a White House effort to set the stage for claims of a triumphal Nixon intervention if GOP make only a respectable showing Ziegler stated Monday that traditionally the president's party loses about 30 House seats in balloting and doesn't fare well in the He noted has Nixon in some campaign speeches that 120 years have passed since an- other president lor entered the White is did face a Con- controlled by the party was Nixon is fighting uphill because all presidents elected from lor to went into elections with the benefit ol congressional majorities Thus it would seem the White House will be prepared to speak well of Nixon's efforts on the stump no matter what hap pens At the same time Republican hopes of gaining control of the Senate have in recent weeks Playing Fair AP President Spiro T Agnew launching a final campaign push in Dixie says the administration's So-called Southern strategy is simply It play the South That's what it is and that's all it Agnew declared Mon day night And playing fair Agnew some cheering cans in North Carolina Slat University's Reynolds Coliseum is exactly what we do weight concrete blocks and ied materials now in the de stage Approximately 75 acres of lowdrey Hill located opposite no company's operation on hirley Leominster Road con- ain the particular shale which vill be the source of the raw The proposed ng plant will he built on a cre site adjacent to the on and Maine Railroad tracks by the trustees of the under the will of Paul Keating and leased to bating Co Both sites are ently Rotary Kiln The plant will consists two rushing and screening ies similar to those now in operation by company iu he production of trap rock and and and gravd ami a used for c: hale The kiln as by J arid Paul Kro'mg will operate on a round the basis seven days a week jt a temperature de- grees This processing is said 0 be quiet and carried out at 1 very low noise level Dust and air control of the atest design will be included hey said The material is a result of research into products and ids and will be marketable all iver New England Kilns iar to what is being proposed are located in Kingston and loose and have been ted by representatives of the The complex design of the plant is in the It was announced an plication will be filed with the Zoning Board of Appeals for a permit to build the plant Board Chairman Normand J Thompson stated he had always considered the Keating Co to be a valuable asset to the town paving material plants learn of its plans for expansion Arrangements to this location improved and updated High Quality The proposal was outlined to the Board of Selectmen so they might be informed of the com- plans and the selectmen will be made for a meeting with the Planning Board and the Industrial Development Com mission so that while no cial action is needed Informa lion can be supplied It is hoped to place the plant could give their support and operation within one year News Digest Montreal Mayor Sees U.S Threat MONTREAL AP Theand members of mayor of Montreal who says he is marked for assassination thinks that if political kidnaping is allowed to continue in Quebec Province it will spread to the United States If we were to let them con- our diplomats said Mayor Jean Drapeau in an interview you can rest sured that those who have fal purposes in the United talcs do it Someone hearing about what has here will start Court Postpones Viet War Ruling WASHINGTON recess Monday until after- the election without ruling on I'd ami a pending test of a the raw etts law challenging the WASHINGTON AP alion shifting federal narcotics emphasis from ser to pusher be- omes law with President n's signature today Nixon scheduled the signing of he Drug Abuse Control Act of 970 at ceremonies at the own Washington headquarters Mass AP L research agency that has taking air samples over he East Coast since 1967 has a fixed blanket of hanging over on The forces that keep it in- Exiled Fugitive Timothy Lcary above Is in Algerian exile lie escaped last month from term on narcotics es In San Luis Calif He has been granted political asylum by tbc Algerian AP ty of the Vietnam war The was filed by he state attorney general Robert H Quinn under a law passed by the Massachusetts legislature earlier in year Drug Focuses On Drug Pusher of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs new law punishment of drug users in vor of educational programs aimed at preventing a person from taking up the habit It re- duces the possessing marijuana from a to a misdemeanor Dirty Blanker Hangs Over Boston tact defy wind and rain ing to the study Results of research by the Charles D Sias Laboratories of Brookline were to be made pub lie today at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association in Houston Tex Dynamite Bombs Found In Detroit Police say 5 sticks of dynamite and two pipe bombs have been found lidden in a black militant quarters near where shot to death The dynamite was Monday wrapped in tinfoil in a box on a police said on the inside Deputy Chief OK'd At Leominster Delay Liquor Hearing At Lunenburg Housing Plan At Leominster Almanac Amusements Page II Page 12 Page 11 Editorial 8 Obituaries 9 Sports Television 21 Women's Pages Bridge 21 Classified Comics 21 Crossword 21 Sentinel Telephone Connecting All Departments Seeing Eye To Eye 14 months son of Mr and Mrs Robert ot Carter Lake Iowa gazes into the eyes of a pumpkin that has hi en made ready for Halloween Other faces which will greet youngsters plus some gourds are in the display AP Insurance Rate Cuf Contested BOSTON Supreme Judicial Court has taken under advisement in- surance company contentions that a mandatory 15 per cent re- in property damage pre- Is unconstitutional in the new no-fault automobile insurance law Herbert P appearing for Aetna Casualty and Surely Co and other firms 80 per cent of all automobile property damage coverage in the slate told the court Monday that the legislature's mandatory rate cut was unfounded in fact or reason He said it amounted to illegal confiscation of company Wilkins said the Insurance companies lost million on property damage insurance in 1969 and expect to lose more this year Asst Atty Gen Walter H Mayo 3rd who represented state Insurance Commissioner C Eugene Farnam defended the constitutionality of the new law Mayo suggested a merit ing provision in the new with accompanying provisions for penalizing bad drivers up to 100 per cent of their premiums will result in an overall in insurance company Housing But Mortgage Rates Stay High MIAMI BEACH Fla AP Mortgage bankers seem to agree the long awaited housing upturn has begun and will go on Many of them predict high rates will continue nit some expect a slight easing soon Several experts Interviewed here at the Mortgage Bankers convention also said they see he federal government playing an increasing role in housing Some claim this is taking away incentive from the sector but others argue that private enterprise alone is un- able to meet the nation's ing needs I don't eel there be a big reduction in mortgage rates for a while to said ett Mattson senior vice dent with the mas Co Another banker Claude E Pope executive vice president with Cameron Brown Co of leigh predicted thai long-term mortgage rates will stabilize around current levels However outgoing MBA ident Robert H Pease said Tie anticipated a decline of between cent and per The effective mortgage rats for new single family houses was estimated last month at 8 49 per cent by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board This figure which includes initial fees and assumes that the agc will be paid off in 10 years 03 lower than he August rate Despite high mortgage costs housing starts are on the swing and the banking experts said they expected the trend to continue People are growing to the high cost of ey and they're beginning to realize that it won't do any good to sit around waiting for interest rates to Pope said Nobel Pize Paul A above 55 was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics The of professor Was honored for the scientific work through which he has de- static and dynamic theory and actively cd to raising the level of in economic the citation said AP Director Offers Way To Duck The Draff Draft helpful in gaining an Director Curtis Wj Tarr of the nation's a possible way lo duck cr he said military service for some lucky The dodge won't help ticket icket holders from the holders from the second draft first draft lottery last July however They will be in the group He established a draft day that permits men who drew o the JA numbers over 195 in the expose them her 1969 lottery to drop B lh wajt student occupational jn hood or hardship deferments probable andl and declare themselves 1A join the 1A fore the year ends manpower pool Exposure tq the draft for any The policy statement lilso part of year counts for the asks local draft boards to give entire year Tarr the prompt consideration to re- candidates are then moved to to drop less vulnerable category in Tarr said number 195 has Tarr warned deferred men been projected ai the highest that they must give proof in ad- number which anv local to their local draft boards can reach in and they want their student appear safe as agricultural Vietnam war dc escalates hood or hardship deferments it- The procedure also would be hewed
