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a a a a a a a a a 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 a a a a Tent Cloth Fire Hits Farm at Broad Brook EAST WINDSOR (Special) Fire early Tuesday morning swept over about half an acre of tent cloth, covering foot-and-ahalf high tobacco plants at the Matulis Farm of General Corp. Fire in Chief Charles Staiger said Broad Brook. about four bents were destroyed. No estimate of damage was made. Cause was undetermined.

The plants were extensively damaged in the 1 a.m. blaze. Suffield Permit Issued For One House During June SUFFIELD (Special) Only one permit for the building of al house was issued during the month of June by Building Inspector Andrew Sweatland, and that was to Stefan Sych for al house on East Street. AH other permits were for repairs to dwellings. Certificates of occupancy were issued by Sweatland to Percy Buckley, Griffin Hebert Enterprises, Bridge Grawin Builders, Overbill Roger Ives, Thompsonville William Galvin, Randall Robert Dauphinais, South Stone St.

Dr. S. Paul Coates of North, Main Street is a patient at the Hartford Hospital. A Boy Scout Troop 66 committee will meet at 7 today at the West Suffield Congregational Church. All adults who plan to acthe troop on its forthcompany coming trip to Maine are urged to present, as trip plans will be discussed in detail.

Semi-Pro Team The Suffield Merchants, the town's newly organized semi-pro baseball team sponsored by the Spear Lumber will play the Willimantic Lakers at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Suffield High School. The team, composed of former Babe Ruth League players. is coached by Stanley Miela of the Suffield High School faculty, and is managed by Herbert Brooks, who managed the Babe Ruth team for several seasons. The Suffield Firemen's Association will meet firchouse at 8 p.m.

Wednesday. Bolton 245 Children Enrolled in Swim Program BOLTON (Special) Officials of the Bolton swimming program, sponsored by the Park and Recreation Dept. at the Bolton Lakehouse waterfront report that 245 children are now enrolled. The town has agreed to rent facilities at the lake for a thre-hour period. five mornings a week and ask the cooperation of parents attending not to abuse privileges extended to participants.

Children are asked not to swim before or after their scheduled classes and members of their families should not swim there unless enrolled in the program. Cars of those driving children to the lessons should be parked where designated and no cars should be parked in the front parking lot. Town Briefs The Hi Club of the Bolton Congregational Church will have a picnic and swimming party Thursday. The group will meet at the church at 9 a.m. The Bolton Volunteer Fire Dept.

will meet tonight at 8 at the firehouse. The Sheridan Oil and Bolton Dairy baseball tams will play tonight at 6 at the Bolton Dairy field in the first game of extended program. Fiano will Realty and and Oil teams play Friday at 6 p.m. at the Dairy team field for The junior softball girls 10 through 12 years-of-age will practice tonight at 6 at the school. A meeting of the Board of Education will be held tonight at 6 at the school to finish work on the 1960-61 budget.

The executive board of St. George's Episcopal church will meet at 8 tonight at the church. Switch in Time Saves Nothing EAST WINDSOR (Special) A switch in time doesn't save much of anything. said Constable Irving Annis after he saw Raymond M. Sheridan, 19, of Elms Plains, Windsor Locks, driving on Depot Street.

Broad Brook, Monday. Constable Annis said he stopped the car for a routine check, but, by that time. Sheridan wasn't driving. An unidentified passenger was. Sheridan was charged for operating while his license was under suspension.

He fur. nished $150 bond for Justice Court here Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. No charges were brought against the passenger, Annis said. ED THE HARTFORD COURANT: Wednesday, July 6, 1960 Thompsonville Police Chief Reports Unusually Quiet 4th (Special) -Walter Skower, Enfield's chief of police reported Tuesday that the past three-day Fourth of July holiday weekend was one of the quietest on record in the munity. Although traffic on Route 5 on Enfield Street, the town's busiest highway was reported congested and extremely heavy during most of the holiday, there were no lous accidents reported.

Several minor traffic accidents occurred, with no serious injuries resulting; Skower said that his augmented police staff totalling. 31 men issued 23 summons to motorists for motor vehicle violations, mostly for illegal passing. Regulars on the force were assisted by numeraries and members of Enfield's auxiliary police force of the town's Civil Defense unit. Three cruisers and several unmarked police cars patrolled the streets and highways in the town. No serious mishaps for other than traffic reasons were also reported.

The shooting of firecrackers which have been banned for several istent years in the was community. virtually non There was no vandalism of any kind reported during the long holiday period. Skower said that the town's police boat also patrolled the Connecticut River during the weckend for emergency reasons. Wawrzynick J. Zych Wawrzyniek J.

Zych. 71, of 911 Church proprictor of Zych's, Restaurant on Whitworth Street in Thompsonville's North End district for the past 40 years died Tuesday in Hampden, Mass. He was born in Poland July 1888, son of the late John and Frances' Zych. He was a member of the Polish National Alliance and Koscuiszko Society and was a communicant of St. Adalbert's Church here.

He leaves his wife. Anna Pita Zych: three daughters, Sally, Helen and Catherine all. of this town; two sons, Joseph of this town and Frank Zych of Springfield, a sister in Poland, two grandsons and several es and nephews. The funeral will be held Thursday at 8:15 a.m. at the Lecte Funeral Home on 125 Pearl Thompsonville, with a Solemn Requiem Mass in St.

Adalbert's Church at 9. Burial will be in St. Adalbert's Cemetery. Friends may call at the home today from 2 to 5 and 7. to 10 p.m.

Town Briefs The local Combat Support (pany, National Guard will leave! late this month for its annual two-week summer training period at Camp Drum, N.Y. Capt. Bruce Litke, commanding officer the unit will head the group comprised of 70 enlisted men and eight officers. New officers of the Washington Irving Council, Knights of bus were installed Tuesday night at the council rooms on Pearl Street. Charles Gagne of Rockville, district deputy, served as installing officer.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Picone of 163 Garden St. observed their 40th wedding anniversary Sunday, with a family dinner sponsored by their children at the Lido Restaurant in Springfield, Mass. The couple were married at St.

Patrick's Church here by the, late Rev. Thomas Preston and have lived in this community since. Mrs. Picone is the former Palma Lorina of this town and is member of the St. Joseph's Society auxiliary unit.

Her husband was employed by the Somerville Manufacturing Company before retiring several years ago. He is a member of the Sons of Italy and St. Joseph's Society. The couple have three children. thony J.

Picone of East Hartford; Samuel Picone and Mrs. Stanley Golemba, both of this town. Officials of the local Washing. ton Irving Council. KofC reported that construction work has now started on the new council home on Washington Road.

The two-level building will include a meeting hall and recreation rooms. An athletic field and a parking arca will be located on the grounds. The building is expected to be completed by fall. A public hearing will be held Thursday at 8. p.m.

at the Entield (nicipal courtroom by the Zoning Board of Appeals to act on an application of Dominick P. Musso of 7 Dune Rd. for a varilance to permit the an addition to the house on premises. The membership of the First Presbyterian Church will meet Sunday after worship services to act on the resignation of the tor, the Rev. Thomas H.

Hedges. The local minister will assume a new pastorate at Schoharie, N.Y. on Sept. 1. He will take part in rededication of the Church on July 10 which has been expanded and renovated.

Mr. Hedges is graduate of the Hartford Seminary Foundation and a member of the local Rotary Club. He came here to his assignment at the church three years ago from West Barnett, Vt. Windsor Locks Recreation Program Launched at 2 Parks WINDSOR LOCKS (Special The town's summer program moved into high gear Tuesday with the start of supervised recreation at both the Pesci and Southwest parks. The two main parks, along with smaller parks and the swimming pool on Center Street, will offer an extensive and varied program for the rest of the summer.

According to Recreation Director Albert Holmes, hours for the program at Pesci Park are from 9 a.m, to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. weekdays. Supervised hours at the Southwest Park are from 9 a.m. to noon. The remaining parks are open for parental supervision.

The recreation staff this sea. con has six full-time recreation supervisors: Judith Vallukaitus, Brenda O'Leary. Cecelia Agey, Robert Lee, Francis Beaudre and Joseph Friend. Events scheduled at the parks for the remainder of this week will include a picnic day from noon to 1 p.m. today at Pesci Park.

Morning activitics will include instruction in arts and crafts and practice sessions for the intermediate and senior baseball teams. Tennis lessons will be held for intermediates and sentors 10 years of age and over from 10:30 a.m. to noon. Afternoon activities will include mediate and senior soccer from 1 to 2 p.m. for boys and intermediate and senior badminton and junior croquet for girls from 2 to 3 p.m.

Intermediate and senlor boys will play badminton and wiffelball from 3. to 4 p.m. Evening activities will include basket. ball for boys and volleyball for girls. Competition Day Thursday will be Competition Day at Pesci Park with a full schedule of competitive from 9 to noon.

Contestants will be divided according to age. size and physical condition. Events will include running broad jump, DO yard dash, high jump, standing broad jump, shot put and 100-ly yard dash. The efternoon program at 1 will feature checkers and ta-' tennis for junior boys East Windsor Last Payment Voted For School Addition EAST WINDSOR (Special) The Old School Building Committee approved a final payment of about $10,700 for the Broad Brook School addition Tuesday night. said the group, members of the Chairman F.

James Welton Jr. board of education and First lectman John J. Daly would meet again July 19. The committee had planned the additions 1 to Broad Brook and Warehouse Point elementary school, and was convened to complete details. for their final acceptance from the contractors.

Funds for payment had been withheld pending final acceptance. At the meeting in two weeks, the committee will consider acceptance of the Warehouse Point addition. They will meet there. School Vacancies Three vacancies in East Windsor schools remain unfilled, cording to Board of Educationling chairman Robert J. Raber.

They are a seventh grade teacher, a chemistry physics teacher and a principal for the Warehouse Point school. Raber said the Warehouse Point position had not been officially placed open, pending the arrival of Dr. Rudolph J. Fobert, new school superintendent, in August. To Confer Raber said Fobert and present superintendent John Somes would probably confer on the appointment of a successor for Joseph Picano.

Somes will leave to take a position as an assistant superintendent in Colchester this month. The school board will meet tonight at East Windsor High School to form a school building committee. This group will plan a 1,000 pupil addition to the high school, which action was approved at a special town meetlast month. Raber. They Thompsonville Writ Filed To Block Multi- Dwelling Units THOMPSONVILLE (Special) A court action was filed Tuesday night against the Enfield Zoning Commission by two resident property owners in the Whit-Acres area.

The action was filed at the Hartford Court of Common Pleas by the local law firm of Dudek and Schober. The writ, returnable in court in early August, would restrain the commission from approving permits for construction of multiple dwelling units in sections of the town now zoned for that purpose. Plaintiffs are Arthur A. Landry and Ernest A. Paulman.

Relain Firth The Zoning Commission has retained the local law firm of Berand Alaimo to represent it. ger Atty. John Adams represented the law firm in the writ. The case will not be heard until court reconvenes from its summer recess in September. The plaintiffs allege there are most inadequate sections sewerage of the town tol facilities in serve multiple dwelling units; overcrowded in the that schools are most areas; and that property of values would 'eciate in areas ing where this type of building would lice be permitted.

if There has been little if any of this type building here in recent years. despite the heavy building boom experienced here in the last 15 years. The plaintiffs also allege that this type of building would tend to defeat the ultimate execution the of a comprehensive plan of town dled development now being studied by $75 the town planning commission. Ask Public Heating Atty. Adams requested a public, free hearing by the Zoning Commis- the sion 1 to change present zoning on regulations to prohibit this type of construction in the future.

The commission granted the request, but did not set a hearing date. The commission expected confer with its attorneys in the matter within a week. Suffield Leahey Seeks Opinion On School Site Petition SUFFIELD (Special) -Nol date has yet been 1 set for the special town meeting requested In the petition received Saturday by First Selectman Francis J. hey, he said Tuesday. The petition, signed by parents in the cast section of the town.

asked for a special town meeting with respect to instructing the elementary building committee to restrict its recommendation regarding the site of new elementary classroom to a location east of Main Street. According to Leahey, the pelltion hes been turned over to Town Counsel, H. Meade Alcorn, for legal advice on the point whether or not the building committee should be instructed by the voters before it has brought in its 3 own recommendation. May be Added to Call Should Alcorn rule such an instruction is legal, this matter may be added to the call for a special town meeting which has been issued for July 13. On the call for the meeting next Wednesday is a hearing of reports from the town hall and pension study committees, a townwide canvass of voters, propriations for fire safety measures in the local schools and mosquito control program.

and a possible change of the town's fiscal year. The Board of Finance has al. ready recommended an appropriation of $800 for the canvass by the registrar of voters, $15,000 for school fire safety and $2,000 for mosquito control spraying under direction of the health officer. Although the annual town meeting last October favored the change of the start of the town's fiscal year from September 1 to July 1st, actual vote on the Inatter was delayed by advice of the town counsel until after the tax rate for this year had been set. Town Notes Mr.

and Mrs. Lemuel Banks of Arlington, Va. have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Anne A. Banks, to William Bruce Lincoln, son of Mr. and Mrs.

William A. Lincoln of Taintor Street. Miss Banks is a student at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va. Mr. Lincoln was graduated last month from the same college and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

He will enter the University of Chicago graduate school in An early September wedding is planned. Miss Linsley H. Gregg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Winfield H.

Gregg of Day Avenue. is attending Young Lifer Camp at Star Ranch, Colorado Springs, Colo. for two weeks. East Windsor Hit the Books, Boys; Cars Yield to Studies EAST WINDSOR (Special) High schools seniors whose names listed on the honor roll will are gain a scholastic privilge this fall according to Board of chairman Robert J. Raber.

Other high school students won't be allowed to park their car the high school lot. "and every effort will be made to prevent their parking within a reasonable Raber said. Raber said the new policy was "'not given a warm when it was announced at- the final assembly of the school year." Raber said he hoped the new policy would "take some of the emphasis off cars and bring more emphasis back to Evaluated Resuits The Board of Education hasn't studied the correlation between cars and ranks among students, he's aid, "but we've accepted a lot of the results on such tests. "The board feels," he said, "that when a youngster. in high school has an auto to support, jont, Ohio and Mr.

Fannie Welch-1' er of Gainesville, and four grandchildren. The funeral will be held today at 1 p.m. at the John Clark Funeral Chapel, 2294 Main Hartford. burial will be in Ellington Cemetery. Thompsonville Business Up Without Lot Meters THOMPSONVILLE (Special) Several downtown merchants have reported a general increase in the volume of husiness in the past month since free parking was allowed on a trial basis at the nearby municipal parking lot.

motorists have been excellent cooperation in observing restriction. The parking lot is for the use shoppers oply or persons business downtown. The po commission will later the free parking will be al. lowed on a permanent basis. The municipal lot was built about 10 years ago at a cost of about $80,000 by the now defunct Enfield Parking Authority.

It holds about. 100 cars. Receipts from meters there in past year or two have dwinto a weekly average of from to $50 before the temporary moratorium was put into effect. Motorists are cautioned that the parking edict holds only for parking lot. Parking all downtown streets will continue in effect.

South Windsor The Enfield Police Commission on June away with tion of parking meters in the lot for a three-month trial period in an effort to stimulate business the downtown sector. The temporary edict was effected on the re. quest of a group of area mere chants. Police Chief Water Skower said that motorists and downtown. shoppers have not been abusing the free parking privileges during the first month of the trial period.

All day parking in the municipal lot is prohibited. So Work Started On Town's New Post Office The new post office, which is slated for completion sometime in late fall, will be a structure masonry construction. The building will contain 1.789 square feet of space with 370 square feet of sidewalk. 12,057 square leet of landscaping: and 252 square feet of platform. The facility will also have 1,483 square feet of driveway; and 7,700 square feet of parking and maneuvering area for vehicles.

Construction of the new olice was made necessary by the continuing expansion of the town. The present mail volume has completely outgrown facilities at the Bossen store. Church Bazaar Meeting The executive board of the St. Francis of Asisi Church "Gala Bazaar" will hold an open meeting tonight at 8 at the church hall. All parishioners wishing assist in the bazaar are invited to atend.

The session will begin with a brief interpretation of the state laws bazaars and raffles by Atty. John M. Casey. Also on the agenda will be the completion of assignments to staff the booths and reports by the I committees on program, tickets, and publicity. Zoning Appeals Hearing The Zoning Board of Appeals will hold a public hearing July 14 at 7:30 p.m.

at the Town Hall to act on the following application: Joseph Kizis of Long Hill Road requests an exception to operate an automoble repair business at now been started on the Initial construction work to has new post office to be located on Main Street adjacent to the pres ent office located in Passen's store. Preliminary site work has been nearly completed by the building contractor, Chester A. Zaniewski of North Haven, and work on the actual building is expected to begin soon. the Gulf Oil Station, Route 5. 3 Cars In Accident On Suffield Highway SUFFIELD (Special) An accident on Route 5-A damaged the three cars involved in the pileup, but no passengers were in-! jured.

According to police all three cars were traveling south Monday night when Alfred Busley. 65, of Wethersfield, stopped the car ahead of him to turn left at the River Boulevard intersection. The Busley car was rammed from behind a car driven by Muir. 37, Thompsonville, just as it started forward. Police said that Muir's car was hit in the rear by a car driven by David K.

Morrison, 17, of Hartford. Policeman Joseph Skorski charged Morrison with following too closely. He was summoned to appear in town court July 13. Woman 'Fleeing Robbers' Injures Highway Worker MANSFIELD (Special) Al woman driver who thought she was making, an escape from "highway robbers" caused serious injury to a state highway worker here Tuesday, State lice reported. The woman, Rita Boivert, 39, of Sanford, Maine, drove her car over a 30 foot tree which had just been felled by a bighway crew.

Tree Hits Man The tree whipped around by the impact of the collision and hit Joseph Hockia, 38, of Puddin Lane. He was reported in good Man, 53, Arrested After Auto Accident COVENTRY (Special) Louis C. Guertin, 53, of Shore Drive, was charged with drunken drivMonday night after his car hit a parked car on Lake Street. Guertin was summoned to appear in Town Court July 22 and released after posting a $200 bondState Police reported hit a parked car owned by Charles T. McKenzie, 54, of 45 Lawrence Drive, Wethersfield.

Police said no one was in the McKenzie car. Judge Tells Firm To Amend Alleged: Labor Offenses NEW HAVEN -A U. S. District Court judge Tuesday enjoined a Waterbury construction company from employe the practices Fair that allegedly violated Labor Standards Judge Robert P. Anderson acted on a complaint filed against the Grassino Construction Co.

Inc. by the U.S. Labor Dept. last April 29. The department claimed the alleged offenses involved four employes and were carried on since June 9.

1957. The judge ordered the company and its president and treasurer. Raymond L. Grassino: 1. Not to employ any workers' for a work week longer than 40 hours at a rate less than 14 times the regular rate: 2.

Nor to fail "to make, keep and preserve records for their employes. and of the wages, hours and other conditions and practicles of employment." 3 Men Jailed In Auto Chase, Girl Slapping WINDSOR LOCKS (Special) Three men presented on breach of peace charges were given day jail sentences and 8 thorloagh tongue lashing by Judge Philip H. Johnson during day night's Municipal Court session here. Sentenced were: Robert Case, (23, of 1420 Blue Hills Bloomfield: Anthony Theodore, 22, of 461 Woodland field; and Gerald La Fountain, 21, of 81 Webb Windsor Locks. (LaFountain was also fined $50) on a charge of reckless driving.

They were arrested in Suffield June 23 on the, complaint of Miss Marie A. DeMiola Bushnell Hartford. Miss DeMiola told police the car in which she and five companions were riding was forced off the road several times in Windsor Locks and Suffield by LaFountain's car. She told police also that the three used profane and abusive language during the pursuit and that Case struck her across the back while her car was stopped in Suffield. In hearing the case Tuesday night, both Court Prosecutor Mortimer J.

Lynskey and Judge Johnson lectured the three for their actions and their use of "foul and abusive" language. Prosecutor Lynskey subsequently recommended a minimum jail sentence of 30 days for each of the three, which was raised to 60 days by Judge Johnson East Windsor Pickets Back Full Strength At Broad Brook EAST WINDSOR (Special) Picket activity at the Hamilton. Standard plant went back to scale operation Tuesday at the early morning shift. Nearly dozen pickets replaced the pair who had filled the lonely duty on the Fourth of July holiday. Picketing was orderly, and no.

incidents were reported to police to mar the record of the "garden! spot," thus far without a single incident to blemish its record during the IAM strike. Church Renovations Interior walls' of the library room and kitchen at the First (Congregational Church are being dismantled. in preparation for remodeling of the church interior. Manchester contractor Ernest 'Ritchie has started the church addition. The project, due for completion this fall, will provide enlarged church school and church office facilities.

condition Tuesday night at Windham Community Memorial Hospital where he is being treated for a possible skull fracture. The highway crew told State PoPolice Stafford Trooper William barracks Russell that Springs they flagged the woman's car a halt just as the tree fell. Trooper Russell said the an told him she did not see "Men Working" signs along Rt. 32 near Coventry Road: Miss Boivert told the trooper she thought the crew were robbers who were attempting to stop ber car and rob her. 5-Year Plan For India Is Unveiled NEW DELHI, India (AP) Prime Minister Nehru's govern.

ment today took the wraps off an ambitious 21-billion-dollar fiveyear plan aimed at giving this tion of -400 million a self-sustained economy. It is India's third five-year plan and will cover the 1961-66 period. It has a five- fold goal: to (achieve self-sufficiency in food grains; raise the national income five per cent annually: expand basic industries such as fuel, steel and power; boost employ. ment: and achieve equitable distribution of wealth and income. Parliament and 15 state legislatures will examine the plan, due to begin April 1, 1961.

They and various development councils will put it in final shape. Here are some of the highlights: The plan envisages a total investment of 102 billion rupees, or $21,420,000,000. Outside aid was estimated at 22 billion rupees, with the United States the principal contributor. Highest priority is given to agricultural production in order to meet the food 'needs of a population expected to hit 480 million 1966. Present food grain produc-, is 75 million tons, 10 per cent short of basic requirements.

It envisages a target of 000 tons of steel ingots and million tons of pig iron by 1966. Present finished steel production is 2,600.000 tons, compared with million in 1950. Coal production target is 97 million tons, compared with the 60 million tons being produced an. nually now. Total power generating capacity was set at 11,800,000 kilowatts, compared with 5,800,000 now.

In the social fields. the goal is to establish free and compulsory 60-education for the 6-to-11 age group. and to provide drinking water and a school in each of India's 60,000 villages. 'Say Darling' Opens Run at Uconn Theater checkers and horseshoes for termediate and senior boys until 2. p.m.

Various games, checkers and table tennis compelitions will be held for junior, senior, and Intermediate girls from 2 to 3 p.m. The boy's program will be continued from to 4 p.m. The evening program will include movies at the Pesci Park tennis court beginning at dusk. Friday's activities will include a finish up program for arts and crafts projects begun earlier in the week from 10:30 to noon and practice sessions for the intermediate and senior baseball teams from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. An informal dance will be held at Pesci Park in the evening.

Municipal Court The following dispositions were made by Judge Philip H. Johnson at Tuesday night's Municipal, Court session: Robert Case of Blue Hills Ave. nue, Bloomfield, breach of peace, 60 days in jail; Gerald LaFountain of 81 Webb Windsor Locks, breach of peace, 60 days in jail, and reckless driving. $50: Anthony Theodore of 461 Wood. land Bloomfield.

breach of peace, 60 days in jail; Edward Lovkei of 4 Grove Windsor Locks, breach of peace. 30 days in jail, suspended, and Jerome Livingston of 479 Ash Wind. sor Locks, violation of road rules, $15. Scout Investiture Members of Girl Scout Troop 44 will receive their senior scout pins during a special candlelight investiture ceremony tonight at the Southwest School. The pin tation will be made by Mrs.

J. T. Hohmann, president of the Girl. 'Scout Council of Eastern Connecticut. The program will also include the presentation of senior service emblems.

5 Point Pins. membership stars, service numerals, World Association pins. and the Curved Bar Rank, the highest award in intermediate scouting. New Dividend Period began Ju1 at Windsor Locks Savings and Loan, 58 Main St. Save now through July 10th and earn dividends from July 1st.

Free customparking at STORRS -The efforts of the University of Connecticut Summer Theater cast were not enough to keep Richard Bissell's loosely-constructed comedy about. a musical, "Say Darling," from dragging Tuesday. The slow-moving story tells of the adventures and misadventures of a part-time author from Council Falls, lowa, whose best selling novel is to be made into a musical comedy. Songwriter Tops The author's change from a "corn" who rolls his own cigarettes to a member of the word of musical comedy who smokes tailor-made cigarettes is lleled by his brief and predictable romance with the show's star Irene Lovelle. Bissell adopted "Say Darling" from his novel of the same name with the assistance of his wife and Abe Burrows.

The materiel came from the author's own experiences in transferring his own novel Cents" to the comedy hit "Pajama Game." The show is held together by the fine performance of Henry who as song writer Rudy Lorraine, is the play's most vincing character. Luchan as press agent Schatzie Harris also does a convincing job. The author of the play. Jack Jordan, is handled well by George Wallace. But one is never quite convinced that he was ever in the "shash and business in Council Falls, Iowa, or that he is learning the ways of musical comedy.

Lenore H. Janis was at her best during the play's lively moments. Her performance in the musical and comical make one miss her performance as Kate at Stratford-on-Avon, The rest of the cast, especially Robert Wilson as director Richard Hackett. were professional but less than exciting in their roles. Roger Cornish tried just a bit too hard in the role of the boy producer, Ted Snow.

He overacted too much in a role which called for overacting. CHARLES V. GALLAGHER spends a great deal of time maintaining it and working to keep up its payments and expenses. He's almost invariably working at a job when he should 'be spending his spare time studies or in athletics. "When he gets older.

he realizes what he's missed." he added. The privilege accorded honor seniors "will be good incen-1 tive for the other students," Raber saidMrs Carrie J. Russell Mrs. Carrie Jarrett Russell. 63, of Rockville Road, Winsorville, died Thursday while visiting in Warren.

Ohio. She was the widow of Enos Russell. She was born in Jackson. and had lived in Connecticut for nine years. She leaves two sons.

John E. Russell of Milledgeville, Ga. and Samuel Russell of Warren, Ohio: daughter.Mrs. Lna Chney of Windsorville: three sisters. Mrs.

Matti Lyle of Springfield Ohio, Mrs. Maybelle Prather of Trem-1.

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