Word: petitioners
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Another petition would make various changes in the state income tax, the state sales tax and local property taxes.
"In some places, there were people lining up to sign the petitions," said Dorothy M. Lohmann, public information coordinator for the Planned Parenthood Committee, which originally sponsored the petition.
The Committee to Save our Cities and Towns said they garnered 70,000 signatures for a petition designed to guarantee the state's cities and towns a 40 percent share of the state's new growth revenues.
The petition comes as the Dukakis administration has threatened deeper cuts in local aid. The initiative would provide "a guaranteed formula that returns to the cities and towns a fair share of tax dollars...the basic services every community needs," said Peabody Mayor Peter Torigian, the committee's chair.
Cameron said he thought the letter was harshlyworded because the masters were hurt by thestudent petition, which he said the Pfisters sawas "going behind their back." He added, however,that despite the masters' dislike for the events,he did not think the house would do away with itstradition kindly.