European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 19, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday february 19, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 Tombstone Faken in Simp a repossession of Leominster mais. A when Rose d. Dellechiaie went to the cemetery to visit her husband s grave she found the plot unmarked its 4-foot-High, 10-year old Tombstone gone. Carver Dante Battaglini says he repossessed the i ton Stone in october claiming he was never paid in full. He says the Marker will remain at his shop until he � paid in spite of a judge s order threatening him with criminal charges. This should be an open and shut Case Battaglini told the Worcester Telegram in an interview published monday. It was a simple repossession  Battaglini 65, Saia he and Louis j. Dellechiaie were Good friends. In 1975, Dellechiaie anted to pay $1,000 for a new Tombstone for the plot where his Parenti and grand Mother were buried and where he would be buried . Battaglini carved the names of six Dellechiaie family member of Ike Annite Stone and set it in the Ceme Tery in 1976. Louis Dellechiaie died in 1980. He said mrs. Dellechiaie had Given him Only a $300 Down payment and a few dollars now and then Over the next few years. On june 29, 1984, Battaglini sent a registered letter to mrs. Dellechiaie saying he had been patiently wait ing for the remaining s770 owed him. Because of our Friendship in the past 40 years or More i Felt this letter would be deserving to clarify any doubts you May have regarding repossession of said memorial he wrote. Mrs. Dellechiaie said that until she got the letter Battaglini had never tried la Contact her since her Hus band s death. Battaglini told the newspaper he had re Frainey from doing so out of respect for his dead Friend. I could t believe someone would Send Roe a letter 4v4 years  or. Dellechiaie said. Why did t he Send it to my husband while he was living or shortly after be died and such a tone to that letter. I called him up and told him he better not touch that  Battaglini said he sent a letter to other members of the Dellechiaie family on oct. 21, saying the Bill had increased to $900, including the charge for replacing the Stone and said he would sandblast the Stone and resell it if the Bill was not paid. The Dellechiaie family called the police and Battag Lini was arraigned for larceny of property Worth More than$100. Leominster District court judge David b. Williams last week gave Battaglini until May 1 to replace the Stone on the Dellechiaie plot or be tried on a criminal charge of larceny May 8. John j. Longo a lawyer representing mrs. Dellechiaie said Battaglini has no Legal options. If it s Correct that the deceased did t pay him and i have no reason to question that he should Hare pressed his claim while the Guy was still alive or at least within a year after his death Longo said. After that the statute of limitations ran out study predicts 25-50 % cuts under Gramm Rudman Washington a the Gramm Rudman budget balancing Law will require cuts of 25 percent to is percent in most Domestic Federal programs with even larger cuts possible in certain Law enforcement areas according to a private analysis re leased monday. The study by management information services inc. And the Center for defense information said the Impact of the Law would be far More severe than previously believed. The report said deep cab win occur even if Congress raises taxes and slashes defense spending. Management information services. Inc. Is a a i up firm that mfr private eco nomic Analyse Cor a wide Range of private and governmental clients. The Center for defense information is a private non profit organization that studies a variety of military issues am is a frequent critic of Reagan administration defense policies. Both Are based in Washington. It the Law s constitutionality if upheld by the supreme court and Congress does l subsequently modify it some Taw enforce ment areas including the Fri could suffer cats ranging up to 63 percent by 1990, the study said. The reason for this it said is that con Gress while shielding some sensitive pro Grams such a social Security from cuts neglected to make provisions for fully fond ing some critical Law enforcement pro Grams. But the study assumed that Congress would not permit a reduction in prison guards and Border agents or m the secret service Force protecting the presi Dent. Go fed in Pei 80% 75 70 65 go 55 50 45 40 35 30 25 20 19� latin Csc is and butter my spending for military and non military programs recent of total outlays per fiscal year non defense is so. V Dof Onset 17 68 -69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 7879 w81 "82 w w b5 iwo rate proposed. G tits crib Chart Sutok of of mugs Manl and butyl the report disputed the Reagan admin if ration s Contention that the most Bratth thus Inder term of the Law other Law enforcement areas especially the Fri the drug enforcement administration and the Bureau of alcohol. Tobacco and fire arms would Lake the Brunt of Law enforcement spending cuts the study con eluded this could amount to Cut of 63 percent by 1990 if Congress goes along with presi Dent Reagan s plans to increase defense spending by roughly 3 percent above inflation in each of the next four years it said. The study said it based its calculations on economic projections for growth inflation and interest used by the congressional budget office and most private economists. Urn traction Contention tha drastic effects of the Law would come in 1987 rather than in later years. While most attention has been focused on the impacts of the act on the fiscal 1986 and 1987 budgets these Pale in comparison to what is Likely to occur by 1990," it said. The Law requires a balanced budget by 1991 through a series of Large annual Defi Cit reduction instalments and provides for automatic across the Board Cut if Congress fails to meet the targets. The current year s deficit is expected to be s208 billion. The mechanism for the automatic cuts has been held unconstitutional by a three judge Federal court but is under Appeal to the supreme court. If the High court upholds the automatic Cut mechanism and Congress decides to put the budget on automatic Pilot defense spending would Bear a larger Burden of Init reduction than under other alternatives considered the study concluded. The report said that if the automatic spending Cut provisions were to survive in court supporters of the president s military buildup might end up pressing for a tax increase. The study also considered the Impact of meeting Gramm Rudman targets one third by Domestic spending cuts one third by military spending cuts and one third with a tax increase. Yet even with such a lax increase the study found most Federal programs would face Cut of about 15 percent More than three times the cuts that will take effect March i under the first is 1.7 billion round of Gramm Rudman spending cuts. Washington s advice read in nearly empty Senate Washington a the Senate marked George Washington s birthday As it has for the last 90 years  to the first president s parting advice stay out of debt avoid foreign entanglements and beware of entrenched political parties. Deh Mia newspaper run september 1796. The prophetic speech with its plea to North and South la ital United was first read in the Senate in 1888, and has been read there annually since 1896 on or around Washington s birthday. Carrying on the tradition monday was freshman sen. Jote Oroc Kercner in. , who said after his 44 minute recitation that the speech is an amazingly current document Taid the american people would be very in Ossed if they Ever listened to the 7.500-word address. As usual the ritual took place in a nearly deserted Senate chamber. Only sen. Phil Gramm a Texas who. Occupied the president s chair a few Senate pages and a stenographer were on the floor. A handful of reporters and 150 tour Ala listened from the mostly empty Baueries. The other senators were still away on a wee Uong recess that ended tuesday. Washington explained in his address i reasons for retiring after two term As president Thea went on to offer some advice to the Young Republic he had led in War and in peace. A United country he said offers greater Security from external danger and an exemption from those broils and wars Between themselves which so frequently afflict neighbouring countries not tied together by the same government a Strong onion he added will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military  virtue or morality is a necessary Spring of popular government Washington said. Promote then As an object of primary importance institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. Cherish Public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it As sparingly As possible avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it said Washington. When there Are debts to pay off it is essential that you should practically Bear in mind that towards the payment of debts there must be Revenue that to have Revenue there must be taxes that of taxes can be devised which Are not More or less inconvenient and unpleasant Rockefeller told reporters my mind moved Back about seven feet As i read those comments Back to where Gramm the co author of the new balanced budget Law was sealed. Washington also counselled against the to awful effects of the spirit of party and warned Bis country to avoid permanent inveterate antipathies against particular nations and passionate attachment for