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Lowell Sun (Newspaper) - June 27, 1972, Lowell, Massachusetts All the news of Lowell and its suburbs the Lowell Sun City tax Rote to drop from Day to Day assault victim Given 34 stitches David Gregiore 20 Lawson st. Was Given 34 stitches at st. John s Hospital today for injuries he received when he was beaten by three men Early this morning. Gregiore told police at st. John s that he had been making his Way Home at about . When he was approached by the three men in a station Wagon. He said the men offered him a ride Home which he accepted. Instead of taking him Home they allegedly took him to Tanner Street where the three pulled him from the car and began beating him. Gregiore told police he had no Money on him at the time of the assault. Several business establishments were the targets of thieves last night police said today. After gaining entry through a Side window of Chet. Kelly. Son inc., 61 Willie st., thieves escaped with an electric typewriter an adding machine and two air conditioning units. The total value of the missing items was placed at thieves also entered minnies stables 700 dul breaking a Side window. They left with a television six stuffed dogs and some change after they broke the lock on the front door with a Hatchet. The missing items were valued at fifty dollars was taken from a Cash Register of 738 Merrimack police said today. Entry was gained by dropping through a suspended ceiling. Charles Bartlett 14 st., told police today that thieves entered his Home some time yesterday and took a portable television Sev eral cigarettes and four fishing reels. The items were valued at police said. In Robert Pauliat 8, 72 Chestnut st. Received minor injuries when his bicycle came into a ear driven by Patricia t. Richard 395 Methuen st., Dracut on Stackpole Street yesterday at . Miss Richardson stated the boy Cut in front of her vehicle suddenly giving her no time to avoid the collision. The Case of Leonard h. Spinney 29, 55 Agawam st., charged with assault and Battery with a dangerous weapon threatening and malicious damage was ordered continued at Lowell District court today to july the charges against Spinney Stem from an incident during which he allegedly assaulted a woman on Agawam Street with a Rifle threatened her and broke a screen door to her Home. Harold Durkin reported in line for seat on election commission Lowell City Hall insiders Are now predicting confidently that Harold j. Durkin 148 Midland st. Will be named to the election commis Sion to replace the retiring Robert j. Desmond. Desmond will not officially retire until july 31 the City retirement Board approves his request this week. There had been some pressure on the City manager to name another attorney to the election commission but such. A move is now considered unlikely. Sullivan will not comment on the appointment except to say that he does not expect to act until late in june and that he will review the resumes of All qualified applicants. Ltd student Dies As a result of Rte. 128 crash Lowell a 20-year-old Lowell tech Stu Dent has died As a result of injuries suffered in an automobile Accident on route 128 in Burlington saturday. A spokesman at st. Elizabeth s Hospital Brighton said that no Yee Bun his address listed As Box 1669, Lowell tech was admitted to the Hospital saturday. Bun received serious injuries when his car came in Contact with another motor vehicle reportedly being driven the wrong Way on route 128 at . Saturday. The operator of the car reportedly going the wrong Way was identified As Grace l. Burtt 29, of 135 Russel st., Waltham. She received multiple fractures and lacerations in the Accident and was reported to be in fair condition at Choate memorial Hospital in Woburn. Meeting on recycling plan Lowell City officials and representatives of the state Public works department and the fed eral environmental Protection administration were still meeting during the afternoon on the City s up plication for million in Federal funds to build a waste recycling Plant at the City incinerator. The meeting which began shortly after 10 .j was slated to take up final details in the a Lowell is Lone of three cities in the nation in the running for the Grant. Washington . And Chicago Are the others. By Jeff Northrup Sun staff officials Are expected to ask the stale Bureau of accounts thursday to approve a tax Rale decrease of for 1972. Although City manager James l. Sullivan refuses to discuss the tax Rale figure in Advance of thursday s meeting in Boston the Sun has Learned the City will propose a 1372 lax Rale figure of As compared to the 1971 of the last time the City s lax rate decreased was in 1955 when the figure dropped 40 per thousand dollars valuation. Sullivan refuses to discuss the figure in Advance of the thursday meeting scheduled for 1 a. He says the state Bureau of accounts has the Power to change the figure depending on its interpretation of the City s Cherry Sheet receipts projected receipts from other sources and total assessments. This year is listed to receive million More in Cherry Sheet reimbursements than it did last year but will also appropriate slightly Over million More than it did in 1971 if the City Council tonight approves nearly in appropriating orders submitted by the manager. Included in the is an order for to continue Meta service for the remainder of the year and a figure designated As a Reserve Sullivan intends to have the Reserve fund on hand of cover any possible unexpected fund ing requirements and possibly u use for additional Street repair work. Councilor Philip l. Shea has a motion on file for tonight s Council session seeking a appropriation for extra Street repair work this year. Since equals roughly on the Council disapproval of the Reserve fund could mean another Dollar decrease on the 1972 rate although it is not considered Likely that the appropriation will be disapproved. In private Sullivan has been predicting All year that Given a reasonable Cherry Sheet Dis. Tri Bulion the City could reduce its . Publicly however he has Only said that the fax Fate will show less than a state distribution formulas for school Aid As Well As projected receipts from the state lottery have combined this year to account for much of the million Cherry Sheet increase. There has also City officials say been a revamping in chapter 90 Road reconstruction fund distributions to favor older cities like Lowell As opposed to More wealthy towns which benefited greatly under the old system. City auditor Leo f. Morris also would not project a tax Rale figure today saying Only that it looks very lie said that normally the state Bureau of accounts will accept the City s figures so Long As justification for them is presented. citizen panel Lowell mayor Ellen a. Sampson today requested that All citizens interested i being appointed of be citizens committee to interview the final five candidates for school superintendent submit heir applications to her office by Friday. The school committee of expected to Nar Row the held to five candidates at its july 12. Meeting. Morris does not know of a Case concerning Lowell in which the state refused to accept the City figure. Other than this year s projected figure and the 1955 drop the also decreased in 1944 when it dropped according to Sullivan Many tax Rales throughout the country dropped during the world War ii years. Sun staff by on the High bars Miki Gray and Tilton Curtit test the equip Street As the Sun finally broke through the Merit the vast pocket Park on Cross Days Long gloom Over Lowell. Nomination deadline nears by prank a whups Sun staff Lowell the election commission is about the busiest office in City Hall this week As a Covey of political office seekers Are already piling up their nomination papers before Tomor Row s deadline. Candidates for state representative state Senate county commission county treasurer and registrar of probate have until tomorrow at s . To have the papers bearing lists of Regist ered voters signatures filed in the election of Liliee. So far the commission has certified enough signatures for High t slate representative in the two major districts in Lowell. They Are All democrats. One missing nomination paper for state representative is that of supt. Of schools Wayne r. Peters who today said he has decided not to seek the seat in the 31st District having Given a serious also interesting is the number of candidates for county commissioner including a Billerica resident with a greek american name similar to that of Reform county candidate Paul Tson Gas of Lowell. George Tsoukalas an employee of the Boston and Maine co., said he did not want to comment on his candidacy having just gotten out of the Hospital. Ill comment next he said. Other county commission candidates who have filed nomination papers with the election commission Are Kenneth Manning from Wal Ham Francis r. King from Lowell and James f. Adams of Watertown mayor s. Les Ter Ralph of Somerville commissioner Freder ick j. Connors and City councilor Tsongas All democrats. Nomination papers received for county treasurer Are incumbent. Thomas b. Brennan of Medford Paul Concord and Chester Cooper of also All democrats certified for nomination for stale representative in the 30th District Are incumbent Raymond Rourke George Pilato and Edward j. Early All democrats. There Are yet no Republican Nomi nation papers. For slate representative in 31st District Are incumbent Cornelius t. Kiernan Philip l. Shea Raymond Gendron James r. O Connor and Victor Forsley All democrats. There were no Republican papers. In the 29lh District which takes up Ward nine and the town of Dracut Only incumbent Nicholas Lambros has filed papers. For state Senate Only incumbent b. Joseph Tully and Richard p. Howe Haye filed for the democratic nomination so far. There were no Republican papers. Hearing vote on connector of night defeat almost foregone conclusion by Carol Giacomo Sun staff Public hearing and vote on a connector route is still scheduled for tonight but there is increasing talk mostly from City councillors who have been committed to the controversial cd route of the futility of the Assembly and vote. That the route which has drawn the ire and organized opposition of the South end neigh boyhood will be Defeated has already been As at the Public positions against the Road taken by five of the nine councillors. Coupled with what seems the inevitable Fate of the route is the feeling of some coun Milors specifically among the minority who have been committed to the route that it would never receive state or Federal approval anyway and so it is not a viable plan. This position was somewhat obscurely articulated by stale department of Public works commissioner Bruce Campbell at a meeting in Lowell Friday. Survey shows opposition to connector route Lowell an Altitudinal Survey of Resi dents of the South end has revealed that nearly 50 per cent of those questioned would oppose the. Connector even if the proposed route does not require them to move from their neighbor Hood. The Survey composed by students of Lowell technological Institute professor Irwin Shapiro was. Distributed of residents via mail and Ana lazed by Richard Abodeely head of the City manager s computer research division. Manager James a Sullivan had refused of make the results Public until a Public hearing on the connector Issue convenes his evening at Lowell memorial auditorium. Should the proposed routing of the Road re quire Ihm to move 68 per cent of those responding would oppose the Road the Survey showed. Because of these developments it is considered possible one or More of the four coun Milors expected to Vole for the Road could change his vote and add to tie predicted margin of defeat. It is considered doubtful the vote will be unanimous however. A similar connector plan was last de bated in the Council four years ago and Defeated on an 8 to i vote. Seen As one councilor with a potential to switch and cast a no vote is councilor Robert b. Kennedy Wilh whom a pro connector stand was an Issue in his election to the coun cil in november. Kennedy in fact has been the Council s most outspoken supporter of the connector. Before a june 6 Public hearing he plugged the cd route that was designed to Cut through the South end and result in the taking of to structures. After that the councilor walked the neighbourhood and talked to a number of persons who vehemently opposed the Road and the loss of their Homes. Since then he has investigated a connector route mentioned by state rep. Raymond Rourke at the hearing and subsequently outlined to City officials at a meeting last Friday. Kennedy now favors this alternate route which depends on the upgrading of several exist ing streets construction of a new Bridge across the Concord River and construction of limited Access highways from the new Bridge at Green and Charles Street to the French Street Extension. Councilor pad e. Vingas Alse among the connector proponents said this morning he will probably vote for the route tonight More As a Symbol of concern for the need of some connector than anything else. Tsongas expressed serious concern however about the dilemma the Council has been forced to face. It became obvious to me Lime Tsongas said that something had to be done for the downtown. I be done what i could in that regard in other Council decisions and Al was prepared to make the hard decision about the connector although for the first time i was finding ideologically in an position that is being but now Tsongas continued the Council finds that it was presented with questionable we were told the neighbourhood was in favor of he he said but that is not so. And now from the state we learn that even if the route is passed it will never be t mind being zapped if the end result la the second term councilor Emp a to the political pressure from various groups and individuals on the connector Issue. Tsongas was critical of the City develop ment authority for failing to inform the Council of the existence of alternative connector routes like the Gorham Street Green Street arterial route outlined by the state Dpi Friday. The cd had worked with the stale in pre paring the six month report made Public by Dpi commissioner Campbell at that time. We got the word the stale would Only fund the original route or a modified Tsongas stated and now we find that s not Irue at All. The Gorham Street route is the obvious councillors Charles a. Gallagher and Philip l. Shea have been the other two Voles in favor of the Road. Gallagher is expected to maintain that position tonight it is Uncertain How Shea will vote. L besides Telephone Calls letters and Chance meetings with cons Tut ends on the Street the City Council has received a message of Over whelming opposition to the conned or from the results of a Lowell Sun referendum on the Issue and an Ali Luminal Survey of the South end neighbourhood. There is growing feeling in some City groups that the connector Issue Shoul never have been allowed to develop As it did thrust into the political Arena for a involves a single route before All the alternatives were considered. The dimensions of the debate have been Nar rowed within the Public forum to the Choice for or against a particular route. Within the confines of this Choice councillors who May be amenable to some connector route but not this particular one May be recorded in opposition. The Council is expected to begin consider ing alternative routes for providing smother and quicker Access in and around downtown tonight the 1w1 tax. Bate of was up from the preceding year which in turn had gone up from the 1969 figure. Last year Lowell was one of the few cities in the slate which did not show a major increase. Many like Boston Cambridge and Law rence showed hikes in the Range. This year however Many cities and towns expect to hold the line on Large increases be cause of the new slate distributions for Educa Tion and the game. Bill would end Rule two Ltd trustees be alumni from the Sun s state House Bureau state House the House yesterday advanced through its Early stages a Bill eliminating the requirement that at least two Lowell tech trustees be alumni. In place of the two alumni the new draft of the legislation would substitute two members of organized labor one of whom shall be a Mem Ber the Lowell Central labor Council. In addition the wording changed the requirement that among the sex offi Cio members would be the commissioner of education. In place thereof the new Bill states one of the sex offi Cio members must be the Chancellor of the Board of higher education. This takes cognizance of the fact that the Board of higher Edu cation supersedes the education commission in ultimate responsibility for higher education in Massachusetts. The original draft was sponsored by trustee chairman James t. Curliss. The n Eye draft came from the ways and Means Cony Milter of which rep. Paul sheeny is a Lowell member informed on educational matters particularly applying to Lowell tech. J Ltd president Everett Olson said this morn ing he would attempt of restore the evolvement when the trustee Bill reaches Jum Senate. His original intention in pressing for changes in the trustee makeup was to include a member of Ltd s faculty. He had no objection to labor inclusion nor to the possibility thai the total membership be increased to 21 to accommodate the new members. At present there Are 15 appointive members and three sex offi Cio members. Another House Bill was engrossed yester Day naming the new skating rink to be built in Lowell by the department of natural resources As a memorial of the late rep. John j. Janas. A state designates City As site for experimental school Boston the slate Board of education 10 Day approved a one year planning period for Lowell s experimental school. The Board action came while slate Educa Tion officials raised some serious questions about the continuation of the experimental school in Boston. On a recommendation from state education commissioner Neil v. Shuivan the boar ii agreed to form a common Center for experimental a group which will Revie w funding and proposals for the existing Boston facility and the two new experimental schools approved in Lowell and Springfield. F. Lowell Model cities officials must now Goti ate a planning budget with the ways aed Means committee. It is expected that the Lowell experimental school will receive be tween and for the planning period. One year the Board of education approval a limited designation for Lowell As an experimental school site. After a year s planning stages Lowell officials will have to come Back for another designation As an operating school. Plans for the experimental school began More than three years ago when Model cities educational component director Patrick a Mogan first conceived of the idea of a Schigol without rep. Paul Sheehy aided in obtaining Lowell s designation As an experimental school site. Final poll total shows 606 for against by George Mcguane Sun staff a Lowell the total official vote in Lowell Sun conned or poll was casting ballots and there were Many others who sent in Bijl lots that were not counted. Some requested heir names not be printed others failed to indicate whether they were for or while others did not a Fleck out As registered the election commission office in City considering the number of voters in the City it was not a Large showing. No doubt one of the drawbacks was the printing of the names in the Sun of those who voted. Many who had Strung convictions on the Issue whether pro or con did not want to ii Jet the feelings of friends and associates. Even indicated they did not sign their for fear of retaliation in some form or Otler. While Many used the ballot printed in Pijie Sun a majority of votes came in on duplicated or hand made forms. Tonight the ballots and a copy of each Day s listing in the Sun will be brought to the Public hearing in the memorial auditorium and the total tabulation presented to officials

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