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II IUCA A Arts 67 At Wits End 29 Calendar 4 Classified 26 33 Comics 27 29 Crossword 27 DearAbby 29 Editorials 1011 Harness Racing 22 Movies 89 Obituaries 12 Religion 17 Sports 18 23 Sportsmen Say 22 Stock listings 18 WEATHER REPORT: Sunny coM today Oc casional mow Saturday ull report on Page 2 LOTTERY: Thursday's winning numbar was S2S VERSE: Let the beauty of the Lord our God bo upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us yea the work of our hands estab lish thou It (King James Ver sion) Battered wives Why do they put up with it? Let Nancy tell you Page 25 iJ Mm TO India in Birth of a nation TV Plus I UlnrmttQ wttitnn fe()7) 873 3341 Vol 81 Nd 246 WatervllleWlnslow Maine riday December 14 1984 34 Pages 30 Cents A i 4 Cocaine suspect shot dead A cruiser stands outside the Swanville house where Nor man Grenier was killed by a shotgun blast Wednesday In the in set at right behind the shattered window sash a police officer can been seen examining the room where Grenier was shot 1 Bsiife lloikw owl ry 5r5 RKigB I i W1 "I TmiJ I TI 11 Sentinel photo by uavld Loaming fcyGERRYBOYLE Sentinel Staff SWANVILLE A man arrested by feder al agents on cocaine trafficking charges at Robert Laleur Airport in Waterville Nov 20 was shot to death in his rented home here late Wednesday night Norman Grenier 29 a Rhode Island native who had reportedly lived in Swanville since July was found dead of what appeared to be a shotgun wound to the back in the liv ing room of his rented home here shortly af ter 11 pm authorities said According to investigators the shooting was reported by Susan Pierce 25 a former Clinton resident who lived with Grenier and was arrested with him in Waterville with what police charged were 24 ounces of co caine valued at about $36000 Assistant Attorney General Thomas Goodwin said Thursday it did not appear Ms Pierce was involved in shooting Grenier and Ms Pierce were indicted on the federal drug trafficking charges in US District Court in Bangor Dec 6 and were free on $50000 bond Ms Pierce will be ar raigned on the charges Tuesday as sched uled Assistant US Attorney Jay McCloskey said Thursday Deputy Attorney General ernand LaRo chelle said late Thursday afternoon that au thorities had not established that the shooting and the drug trafficking arrest were related No arrests had been made at that time and investigators including LaRochelle and Assistant Attorney General Thomas Good win refused to say whether there were any suspects I Authorities said Ms Pierce reported the shooting shortly after 11 pm calling state police from a house because the rented house had no telephone LaRochelle declined to say whether police had taken Ms Pierce into any type of custo dy not disclosing her hesaid Nor would LaRochelle elaborate on the circumstances surrounding the shooting saying only that Ms Pierce and Grenier the two of were alone in the bouse at the time But investigators and neighbors at the scene Thursday indicated that Grenier was shot from a porch through a living room win dow The shooting occurred off the Townsend Road in Swanville a town of about 900 sev en miles north of Belfast Town residents said they rarely saw the couple though they noticed frequent traffic to and from the house had no Idea of what either of them even looked said Swanville Town Clerk Bar bara Sholes who lives a half mile from the shooting scene never came in for a dog license a marriage license they registered to vote" Mrs Sholes said she first learned that Grenier and Ms Pierce lived in Swanville when she read of their indictment in a local newspaper last week One neighbor Brenda Philbrook said she often heard gunfire from the area of the Gre nier house but assumed that someone was target shooting or practicing for hunting sea son Neighbors said the house is owned by Kathleen Weggler of Swanville who could not be reached for comment Thursday At the time of their arrest at Laleur Air port Grenier and Ms Piercewere free after being arrested Aug 28 in Pawtucket RI More on GRENIER Page 12 Scribner: Lottery spent thousands improperly By NANCY PERRY Guy Gannett Service AUGUSTA The Maine State Lottery improp erly spent thousands of dollars in state money for liquor golf fees and expenses over a four year period that went undetected because they were in bills submitted to the state according to Rodney Scribner commissioner of the state Department of inance and Administra tion In addition Scribner claimed that Creative De sign the advertising agency under contract with the lottery threw a $1200 cocktail party for lottery employees this year in violation of its contract Lottery officials contending that the state is a mountain out of a said the charges were either exagerrated or untrue awfully hard to run anything like the lot tery by basic business rules and still follow all of the said William Varney chairman of the Lottery Commission But Scribner said that rules are rules and that several have been violated He said in an Interview Thursday that a detailed review of the books for the past four years which was prompted by a state audit pointing out violations of state spending policy will be presented to lottery officials for an explanation at a Wednesday meeting here we know now is what was spent got to find out why not sure what the intent was or who did what They will be given an opportunity to said Scribner Although the finance chief would not disclose the qieciflcs of his investigation or reveal what if any disciplinary action he would recommend as a result he said that records indicate that four annual lottery conventions held at Maine resorts over the past four years cost the state $27170 in cluding non allowable expenses for liqour golf fees and rooms and meals that reach into Those conventions were attended by Lottery Di rector Richard Carey members of the lottery commission agency field representatives department employees and their spouses Scribner said the improper expenditures went undetected because they were in the bills that were submitted to the state and said flatly that the Portland based advertising agency representing the lottery violated its contract by More on LOTTERY Pifce 12 No doll refunds required aw AUGUSTA Maine (AP) Stores have been ordered to stop selling Special Kids dolls but they do not have to give refunds to people who fry to return them state Labor Com missioner Patricia McDonough saidThursday Ms McDonough holding up one of the dolls and one of the hard to get Cabbage Patch Kids it is designed to look like said the state received many complaints from consumers about a petroleum like odor from Special Kids they had bought up to the store and custom to decide whether refunds are given she told a State House news conference I suppose most (stores) will take them Winslow IGA which sold six of the dolls is giving a full refund said Manager Robert Pleau Thurs day He said two women who bought three of the dolls had called to com plain about them only thing I know is what customers have told me" be said One of the women Diane Murray of 7 Libby Court Waterville said she bought two aous a tew days ago and noticed the odor but thought It was just due to the newness of the dolls Thursday night she saw a tele vision news broadcast that said the dolls might be unsafe she said got bum dolls I got bummed kids she said Labor Department officials said Wednesday that stores selling the Special Kids must remove them from their shelves It is estimated that thousands of dolls were offered tor sale around the state but it is un known bow many stares were selling them 0 BKrt Ma '7' iKSk raft a 'STM lIpwR Bl lfr 4 read the label or tag on any of these dolls to be certain that they know what they art said the commissioner who compared the Mnrww pnowoy LEEnwig Diane Murray of Waterville bolds the two Cabbage Patch doll look alikes she bought recently in Winslow The Special Kids dolls are being taken off store shelves because they have a Mareon DOLLS Page 12 petroleum like odor and are being tested for safety Seabrook PUC orders Maine utilities to sell off their shares in NH nuclear project By CLARK IRWIN JR Guy Gannett Service AUGUSTA Three Maine electric utilities are under orders to get out of Seabrook nuclear reactor project by sale or secession The Maine Public Utilities Com mission issued an order Thursday af ternoon requiring the utilities to find firm for their 10 per cent share of the Seabrook I reactor or else submit plans for without a sale The three commissioners were unanimous in their finding that pleting Seabrook I is uneconomic for all three utilities under credible as The affected utilities Central Maine Power Bangor Hydro Electric and Maine Public Service have committed $340 million of money to Seabrook I during the eight years it has been under construc tion If com Impact in NH Pg 4 pleted Sea brook I would cost about $45 billion more than twice the esti mate in 1976 by lead builder Public Service Co of New Hampshire that both reactors would cost $2 billion The Maine PUC has spent six months investigating whether the companies should be permitted to commit another $100 million as their share of the estimated $1 billion of work remaining (The Maine utilities have sunk an other $73 million in Seabrook II which the PUC did not address Thursday Work on that reactor stopped last spring) order said the Maine utilities can continue at Seabrook I only if they find buyers to take over their share when the plant is com pleted or by date which ever comes first The transfer date specified in the order but PUC Chairman Peter More on PUC Page 12 Milk panel bows to grocers but consumer would pay tab AUGUSTA The Maine Milk Commission Thursday removed some of the barbs small grocers felt from a proposal to let large volume sellers pay lower wholesale prices for their milk Two pricing proposals the commis sion agreed to consider adopting next week both retain the volume discount proposed for supermarkets and other large retailers Smaller scale retail ers packed a public hearing to protest the discounts two weeks ago Both new pricing proposals would increase the minimum consumer gee for whole milk by three cents to 03 a gallon They each would set wholesale prices in the $191 to $203 range 1 Commission members differed ByBOBDATZ Guy Gannett Service over other specifics at an Augusta work session With the grocer objec tions in mind they agreed to narrow the spread between prices paid by high and low volume stores by at least 6 cents a gallon The proposal brought to the hearing contained an 18 cent spread over four price levels based on volume deliverer! The change was also designed to eliminate another sore point of the previous proposal which forced small scale sellers to charge less than they paid for milk in order to match supermarket retail prices There is currently no difference in minimum wholesale prices based on the size of milk deliveries to a store But in more than a year of study the commission found it's significant ly more expensive for dairies to deliv er small orders than larger ones Certain of the dairies and su permarkets are quietly supporting the price differentials the smaller outlets are loudly opposing with some dairy support "In the real world generally the more you buy you get a discount of some sort on most products So I think a good move but I think going to have to recognize going to have some disruptive ef said commission Chairman Rick Brunette He and Commissioner Linda Bright of Winterport argued the dis ruptions would be less there were fewer price categories for milk dropped off at stores three instead of the four in the previous proposal But Carl Schwinn of Auburn wasn't convinced it would make any signifi cantdifference Brunette hoped to resolve the com internal differences so a Moreen MILK Page 12 14 mfr If.