Board Gets Plea To Permit Later Hours for Pool Hall First Reports To Be Available Soon On Essex Junction, Essex Town Merger Burlington Aldermen heard plea Monday n.Rht to, abolmon of adjustment ot the city niaht-closing iule on billiard rooms Lawyer Charles Shea on behalf of the Hec Konm. a recreation establishment on Church Mieet across from Countv Court House asked that since bars and taverns are allowed to stav open until 2 a.m.. a later hour be considered for billiard rooms. Many shift workers who quit at midnight don want to go home, he said in the letter to receive a request from Alderman Donat M. Danis, D-5.
chairman of the License Committee, that the city review its rate structure on licenses, particularly the fee for blocking parking spaces. In other action during one of its shortest meetings of the year, the Board of Aldermen Gave Civil Defense Director W. Walter McCaffrey permission to attend a meeting. Approved the American Cancer Crusade's plans to fly flags in downtown Burlington and to told a tag sale. Filled vacancies among ward clerks and today's election, and later, sitting performed the same function among assisting ballot clerks.
problems, he said, pointing out a city-type charter gives more authority to local government. For example, with a city-type charter, such as Burlington's, the local tax rate is set each year by the board of aldermen, rather than by the voters. The voters, however, do approve a tax ceiling. Nuquist told the study committee that as an educator, he believes a merged, or consolidated, community is preferable to one that is separated. The Rev.
Alexander Smith is chairman of the study subcommittee investigating organization structures, assisted by Lamb. Mrs. Scott Gilman and David Robinson. First reports are expected this month from a special 12-man committee set up to gather facts and figures concerning either a merger or complete separation of the governments of Essex Town and Essex Junction. The study committee, headed by Edward Lamb and John Smith, was set up by the town and village planning commissions as an impartial fact-gathering group.
Aim of the planners is to bring the pros and cons of merger or separation to the people so the issue can be voted on and settled, once and for all. Lamb said the study committee hopes to wind up its investigation in about three months. Then it is planned to take a month or two for public information meetings on the committee's findings A special election is tentatively planned for July or August. Andrew S'uquist, of the University of Vermont political science department, was guest speaker at a meeting of the study committee, and told the group town government today has problems which cannot be solved by general statute. This is a problem that charters can fix, he said.
He told the group that whatever course of action the town and village decide on. they will need a new-charter, and he suggested a model charter, adaptable to either separation or merger. Certain charter provisions should be included to enable communities to cope with their to play calls for Chairman of the subcommittee studying financial structures is Briggs. with members of his group including John Smith, Mrs. Clifton Phalen and Dr.
John Scolan. Stephen Knight is chairman ot the subcommittee which is gathering information from communities of comparable size. Members of his subcommittee are Mrs. Harris Abbott, Clifford and Parker Irish. Lamb pointed out there actually are three courses of action open to the voters merge or separate the town and village governments, or continue as is, with the two entities sharing some services.
General dissatisfaction with this present setup, however, led the joint planning boards to set up the special study committee. me ooara. and they would be billiards except for the citv law midnight closing able that ine board turned the matter Drdinance Committee The Ordinance Committee also was Couture's Conscience After Endorsem*nt of Nixon Plans News Conference Tonight on European Journey Alderman Alfred V. Couture, 1-3, declared Monday night that while he may be finished in politics, he'll sleep at night after his eleventh-hour leap to the support of Democrat Mayor Cain. After a period of defiance that eioded into hedging and some 1 WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon, moving- quickly to report to the nation, scheduled an hour-long White House news conference for 9 p.m.
EST Tuesday, devoted solely to his European trip and U.S. foreign policy. Nixon plans with an opening statement to sum up his impressions of the eight-day visit to five European nations and lengthy talks with key leaders in each. The news conference, double the usual time, will be carried SIRHAN B. SIRHAN'S mother, Mrs.
Mary Sirhan, testified at her son's trial Monday, describing his hardships and conflict as a boy. (UPITelephoto) Sirhan Identifies Self As Assassin TV Apollo 9 Coverage NEW YORK (AP) The three major television networks gave this schedule of planned coverage of the Apollo 9 flight (Times are Eastern Standard and subject to change): TUESDAY ABC 11 p.m. Progress report on news shows. CBS p.m. Status report.
11 p.m. Progress report on news shows. NBC One-minute progress reports at 11 a.m., noon, 1 p.m., 2 p.m., 3:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. S.
Burlington Voters live on nationwide television and radio from the East Room in prime evening time. Reporters were told their questions must be limited to foreign policy and that no domestic problems would be discussed. The President scheduled a briefing with both Republican and Democratic leaders of Congress Tuesday morning on his first presidential diplomatic mission abroad. The European trip and the controversial antiballistic missile system question are on the agenda for a National Security want to negotiate from a position of strength." "For this reason we had to show them that such ambitions are an illusion," he said. He described the current Viet Cong offensive as "our vigorous response to the intensification of the war pursued by the Nixon administration." The next session of the peace talks will be on Thursday.
Cong Delegate Denounces Nixon's Meeting With Ky rove School Items Appi lived. "We had to rehabilitate the building. We had to cement it and whitewash it." he said. Sirhan couldn't recall having starvation pangs, but "if there had been more we could have eaten more." People in the neighborhood died of starvation, he said. Sirhan was still being questioned about his childhood in Jerusalem when the trial was recessed for the night.
He was expected to resume the stand Tuesday. In an emotional aside at one point, the 4-foot-ll mother said to the jury of four women and eight men: tell you we are lucky in this country. I want you to know this. We are blessed to be in this country, after what we went through." Sirhan listened quietly and at most times attentively as his mother testified in his behalf. Through his attorneys, he apologized to Superior Court Judge Herdert V.
Walker for an outburst last Friday. Shown Tonight 6:45 pm 9:15 pm NOMINATED FOR ACADEMY 1 '4 AWARDS including of the year! Romeo 7 MOVIE RATINGS Motion Picture Assn. of America GENERAL Audiences MATURE Audiences Parental Discretion Advised RESTRICTED DER 18 NOT ADMITTED These ratings apply to films released after Nov. 1 1 968, and are in advertisem*nts and at beginning of films. Films without ratings may have been released prior to Nov.
1, 1968 or may not have oeen submitted to the A. of A. for "ating. This message by theaters advertising on this age 10 ON CABLE TV OR UHF CHANNEL 33 9:45 Basic Machine Shop Practices Shop Math. Instructor vercoe shows how to add and subtract decimals using charts, and discusses the appli cation of addition and subtraction using simple chart drawinas, actual drawings, and using tol erances on dimensions Repeated at 2:00 and 6:00 P.M.
10: 15 The Owl Who Gave Hoot Entertaining car toon animals and birds bring to life the myriad problems of low-income consumers. 10:30 The Nth Dimension A dramatic documentary of sensory isolation experiments, this program was locally produced with support from the Air Force and NASA. Dr. Donald Forgays and Mr. James Levin of the University of Vermont discuss sensory isolation as a method for investigating problems of human motivation.
1 1 :00 Identity Students and adults tackle issues such as drugs acceptance or corporate life, the voting age, and morality of creativity and and civil rights and civil disobedience. 12:00 A Conversation with Justice William O. Douglas Justice Douglas, recorded on his last visit to the Burlington area, speaks informally with Hilton Wick, past president of the Vermont Bar Association, about conservation, pollution, and the Supreme Court A Vermont ETV production. 1 :00 NET Symphony- Conductor William Steinburg leads the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's Symphony 7 in A Major and the overture to Von Weber's 2:00 Basic Machine Shop Practices Repeat of 9.45 A 2:30 Experiment on 1 14th St New York's ghetto-like area on 1 1 4th St. is being cleaned up as a result of a cooperative venture involving federal and local governments and the people of the neighborhood 3:00 Understanding YourChil-dren Dr.
Dreikurs discusses with his class the outcome of the interview of mother with twin teenage boys. Repeated at 7:00 P.M. 6:30 Basic Machine Shop Practices Repeat of 9:45 A M. 7:00 Understanding Your Children Repeat of 3 00 P.M. 8:00 Identity Repeat of 11:00 A.M.
9:00 EEN Chronicle The Future of the University Several leading educators including McGeorge Bundy, president of the Ford Foundation, and Kingman Brewster, president of Yale University, review the problems of higher education and student un rest Audiences i UN IV 3 a. JULIET Essex Voters OK Sidewalk Program Council meeting Wednesday-morning. Nixon said on arrival home Sunday night he sensed "a new trust on the part of Europeans for the United States" as a result of open channels of communication. Nixon was back at his desk at 8:55 a.m. Monday after the 10.000-mile journey.
During the morning. Nixon watched the successful launching of the Apollo 9 spacecraft, calling it milestone in the journey of man into space." Nixon made a telephone call just before the launching to the wife of the spacecraft commander, Mrs. James A. Mc-Divitt. expressing his good wishes and saying that she could be proud of her husband's effort in the space prqgram.
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Both motions were defeated. Approximately 500 persons were present. Army Sergeant, Family Cross To East Berlin BERLIN iAP A U.S. Army sergeant who had been a guard at Checkpoint Charlie crossed into East Berlin with his German wife and two-month-old baby Saturday and they have not returned, a spokesman reported Monday. He said the sergeant, a military policeman in the Army's Berlin Brigade, apparently went into the Communist zone for personal reasons and he is listed as being absent without leave.
The soldier was identified as Sgt. Thomas E. Cavanaugh of Chicago. "Tie was no courier and had no clearance." the spokesman in Berlin said. This apparently meant the sergeant had no access to classified material.
Just how the family went to East Berlin was not disclosed. Soldiers at Checkpoint Charlie refused comment. I S. officials contacted Soviet authorities in Berlin in an effort to contact Cavanaugh. The Paddinqton Corporation.
Justcrini Brooks Founded 1749 Ik inspectors for as City Council, with vacancies South Burlington residents Monday night passed all three school articles without revision, but approved the town budget only after hacking out $26,000 earmarked for trash collection. Handling the school district business first in a departure from town meeting custom. Merlin Naylor of 42 Davis Parkwav presented dissension with the proposed budget in the form of three amendments which would cut certain items from the document. Naylor proposed the $96,648 in principals' salaries be reduced by $8,000. the $1,443,000 in teachers' salaries be cut by $175,000.
and employes' insurance be reduced by $15,000 from the proposed $43,800. The first two were trounced but the motion to cut the employes' insurance, which will all be paid by the school department for Blue Cross-Blue Shield Hospitalization, was defeated by only 145 votes. -The $2,773,666 school budget passed with no other opposition. "Article 2. requesting a town appropriation for f-A'ing the bus giii age floor, and article 3.
authorizing the school directors to establish kindergarten classes, both passed. Dish Gardens Help to make a house a home. A fine Gift, too. 184MainSt.UN4-9861 86 Proof Blended Scotch Whisky 1, Clear Cain stressed he and the mayor still have their diffe'nces. "I'm endorsing him," Couture said.
"That doesn't mean I agree with him on the sales tax, but the state tax isn't an issue in this campaign." "I've stuck my neck out," he said. "I may be finished, but I have a clear conscience now. "I said I wouldn't vote for Cain, and now I have to swallow that. But I was mad at the time and when you're mad you're apt to say anything." Couture had been under some pressure to support the mayor despite the differences between them, especially after it became clear some dissident Democrats were working against Cain. Couture, a Democrat until he beat the party's caucus winner a year ago as an Independent, had not endorsed Republican Lyle M.
Miller Sr. and had not worked against Cain. He said Monday that after thinking it over carefully, he felt the city would be throwing away four years of experience if Cain were not reelected. Where To Vote Here are the voting places in Burlington for today's election: Ward 1 Mansfield Avenue Fire Station. Ward 2 Wheeler School Auditorium, Archibald Street.
Ward 3 North Champlain Street Fire Station. Ward 4 Heineberg Club on Heineberg Road. Ward 5 South End Auditorium, 289 Flynn Ave. Ward 6 Adams School Auditorium, South Union Street. Girl Scouts In Winooski Plan Program The Winooski Girl Scouts will offer a program depicting various aspects and levels of scouting Sunday at 2:15 p.m.
in the Winooski High gym. The intertroop event will mark the opening of National Girl Scout Week. Girl Scouting began five years ago in Winooski with the formation of two Brownie troops and two Junior troops, and has grown to four Brownie troops, two Junior troops and one Cadette troop. Among the guests at the program wllbe the troop's sponsors: St. Stephen's Church.
Forest Hills Factory Outlet Store and the Winooski Jaycee Wives. Nation's Weather By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS High Low Pr. Albany, cloudy 36 25 .33 Boston, snow 33 30 .70 Buffalo, clear 38 22 Burlington, cloudy 29 20 Cincinnati, cloudy 47 22 Cleveland, clear' 39 23 Denver, cloudy 32 27 Des Moines, clear 39 9 Detroit, clear 49 23 Fairbanks, cloudy 20 -15 Fort Worth, clear 52 3ti .07 Helena, clear 17 -3 68 23 38 26 23 50 25 36 61 23 29 44 31 31 37 19 29 25 28 45 45 42 54 32 Honolulu, cloudy 82 68 .09 Indianapolis, cloudy 46 Jacksonville, rain 58 38 .59 Juneau, rain 34 26 .37 Kansas City, cloudy 42 Los Angeles, clear 61 Louisville, cloudy 46 Memphis, cloudy 48 Miami, cloudy 70 Milwaukee, cloudy 39 clear 37 New Orleans, cloudy 55 NEw York, cloudy 43 Philadelphia, clear 44 Phoenix, clear 71 Pittsburgh, clear 46 Ptlnd, cloudy 34 St. Louis clear 45 Salt Lk. City, clear 46 San Diego, clear 59 San clear 54 Seattle, cloudy 45 Tampa, rain 65 Washington, cloudy 51 .06 .60 MATINEE EVEN NGS GREGORY EVA MARIE PECK SAINT in Pakula Mulligan ProOuction of THE STALKING MOON LOS ANGELES (AP) Sirhan Bishara Sirhan took the witness stand at his murder trial Monday and quietly identified himself as the assassin of Sen.
Robert F. Kennedy. But he said that at the time of the shooting "i was not aware of anything." Did you on or about the fifth of June, 1968. shoot Sen. Kennedy?" asked defense attorney Grant Cooper as he began his examination of the young Jordanian Arab, who is on trial for his life.
"Yes sir," replied Sirhan in an even tone. Cooper then referred to the grand jury indictment which also charges Sirhan with the wounding of five bystanders in the Ambassador Hotel, the scene of Kennedy's slaying. The defendant testified that he knew none of them, bore no malice against them and when he was asked if he was aware of shooting them he answered: "I was not aware of anything." Cooper quoted from a page of the notebook found in Sirhan's home in which was written, My determination is more the more to kill Sen. Robert F. Kennedy." Q.
Did you write that? A. Yes I did. Cooper read a passage in which Sirhan had written RFK must die" and asked. "Is that your hand writing?" Sirhan said it was. He followed his mother.
Mary, to the stand. She testified he was exposed to childhood horrors that sent him into shaking fits. "How long would he shake," she was asked. "Two weeks," recalled Mrs. Sirhan.
Sirhan was the seventh defense witness in the nine-week-old trial. Cooper began leading Sirhan through a recital of the horror poverty that he experienced as a child in Jerusalem during Arab-Zionist warfare. The defense claims this is a key to Sirhan's emotional development and the state of his mind at the time he killed Kennedy. Sirhan referred to what he called frequent bombings in the area of his home. Sirhan told of huddling for heat around an open brazier in a bombed-out building where seven or eight other families Activities Calendar ESSEX March 5.
11:30 a.m.-3 p.m., Senior Citizens meeting at the Congregational Church. Essex Junction: lunch will be seived: hostesses will be women of Grace Methodist Church and St. James Episcopal Church; all retired persons welcome WILLISTON March 2:30 p.m.. Bake benefit sponsored Jaycee Wives at the Central School gym BLHLINGTO.N March 4. 8 p.m..
American Legion Auxiliary Burlington I nit 2 monthly meeting at the Legion Home at 35 North all members are asked to bring a gift for the 'social after the business meeting, refreshments. March LT'nion St. Jean de Baptiste Council 78 will hold their monthly meeting in St. Joseph's Hall on Allen Street; Stella Provost is in charge of the social after the meeting. March 9:30 a.m..
Breakfast meeting of DeGoesbriand Assembly 279. Knights of Columbus, in the K. of C. rooms at 150 Cherry James Antell. past president of Jaycees of America, will speak.
CD SfEIGEH PARIS (AP) The Viet Cong's chief delegate to the Paris peace talks denounced Monday President Nixon's meeting with Nguyen Cao Ky as a new step toward "intensification of the American war of aggression." He called Ky the "most warlike and most hated man in Vietnam." Tran Buu Kiem addressed a rally of 2,000 French Communists. Nixon conferred with Ky, the South Vietnamese vice president, for 45 minutes Sunday in Paris. The Viet Cong delegate, Tran Buu Kiem. told the rally the peace talks remained deadlocked "because our enemies pay for the project by promissory notes issued at a rate not to exceed 5 per cent. A proposed $3,000 appropriation to the Greater Burlington Industrial Corporation was the only other controversial issue of the i meeting.
Town resident Wolfe Schmokel questioned what benefit this donation was to the town. He said he could see how the village of Essex Junction benefits, since IBM was built on a GBIC location. Final vote on this issue was 90 in favor of the contribution and 76 opposed. The dissenters were mainly residents of the town who live outside Essex Junction. Today, the town voters will go to the polls to elect two new selectmen and other town officers.
Polls are open from 10 a.m. to 7 m. at both the Essex Center School and Essex Junction High. In other business Monday, town voters approved a tax rate of $1.07. the same as last year's; approved a $250 appropriation to control the spread of blister rust; approved a $750 allocation to the Brownell Library and the same amount to the Essex Free Library in Essex Center, and gave its approval to all other articles.
MORRISVILLE Notice I wish to announce that I will not be a candidate for selectman for the town of Morristown. I wish to thank everyone for their cooperation during the 15 years that I have served as your selectman Lawrence Gregory. Pol. Adv. ST.
JOHNSBURY CAKI) OF THANKS We wish to express our sincere thanks to our relatives and friends who helped to make our 25th Wedding Anniversary such a wonderful occasion The gifts, money, floral bouquet and many lovely cards are greatly appreciated Hoyt and Mil Gravctt. 5 Harrison St. Johnsbury, Vt. Adv. WAITSFIELD Card of Thanks We wish to thank our many friends and relatives for helping us celebrate our sixtieth wedding anniversary with cards, gifts, and beautiful flowers.
Grace and Frank Lovett. Adv EK3E ho would have cue-cnl Hcwicu iiief just 12 er geant 2.Tone Essex Town voters Monday night approved a proposed $60,000 sidewalk construction program for Essex Center, with the stipulation a public hearing be held prior to letting any contracts. An amendment to the original proposal stated the public hearing must be held "relative to location, cost and proposed maintenance of said sidewalks." The article authorized town selectmen to construct sidewalks where deemed necessary and to Special Forces Camp Attacked By Reds, Tanks KONTl'M. Vietnam iAP -An American Special Forces camp in the remote jungle along the South Vietnamese-Cambodian border was attacked early Tuesday by a North Vietnamese force using tanks. U.S.
officers reported. At least five tanks accompanied the attackers who asssault-ed the camp of Ben Het. 24 miles northwest of Kontum about midnight. Reports from the camp said at least one enemy tank and an ammunition vehicle were destroyed by the camp's defenders. It was the first reported use of tanks by North Vietnamese forces since a Special Forces camp at Lang Vei.
near Khe Sanh. was overrun, in Februarv 1968. The attack on the camp, manned by South Vietnamese irregulars and their American (ireen Beret advisors, was preceded by a heavy bombardment of mortars, recoilless rifle fire and 140 MM mortars. The bombardment scored hits on the camp's supply and arms bunkers, setting them afire. The camp defenders had reported just prior to the attack that they detected sounds of movement of heavy vehicles, both tracked and wheeled, to the west of the camp toward the border.
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