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2nd ED. THE HARTFORD COURANT: SunJy, Septamber 17, 1972 1JC Mansfield Willimantic School Volunteers To Work MANSFIELD Use of volun- free of charge if a school-con- period in addition to the lunch teers in the schools was en- nected group such as the PTO period. dorsed Thursday by the Board sponsored the program, the Dr. Blade said the enrollment CATV Uses Concern Regional Planner of Education, which will contin- board said, but the board did report shows the number of stu- dents in Grades K-4 has ue to study the practice NRS project. WRPA began operations in 1j67, governed by a board of representatives from member towns, to provide policies and plans for regional development.

Unlike CATV franchise areas, the state's planning regions were designed around central municipalities with towns related to them, shopping and tele-pnone service areas, natural boundaries and other community factors taken into account, Young said. WRPA's towns are Windham (Willimantic), Mansfield (Storrs), Ashford. Willington. Coventry, Columbia. Lebanon, Chaplin, Hampton and Scotland.

quest with a press statement Wednesday saying there already has been "prolonged delay" of CATV service for the state, and denying his comment to WRPA that PUC had not seen the community impact and planning considerations" of cable television. Young said he will meet with PUC next week to discuss WRPA's concern about CATV. The planning agency also is or-! ganizing a meeting for officials and citizens in the region to re-: view the possible services CATV could bring, Young said. With even a minimal cable system, there would be enough television channels available to provide separate ones for continuous community announce-; ments, school systems, town; include the region's towns of Windham, Mansfield, Lebanon and Columbia, but not the colse-ly-linked town of Coventry. In addition, Colchester, a town outside the planning region, was included in the franchise.

"If they built up the kind of: wired community we're talking! about, it would be talking to it-! self, not the rest of the region," Young said. Elecronic Highway Of PUC, he said, "I'm sure they've done a good job as! they've seen it. Highway departments did good jobs of building highways, but they were also! building communities and wer-l en't paying attention to that. "I'm not blaming PUC for not being community planners, I'm; blaming planners for not paying: By ROBERT STEPNO WILLIMANTIC An area served by cabie television (CATV) could become "a wired An area served by a regional planning agency could become "a regional ccm-; munity," according to Windham Regional Planning Agency (WRPA) Director Robert Young. What upsets Young is that so far no attempt has been made to have CATV wires serve the same areas as regional planners' or to determine what those "wired" and communities can or should have in; common.

That's why last week Young sought and received the support of his 10-town agency on a pro-; posal to ask the state public! utilities commission (PUC) de-j lay setting a date for hearings i In a progress report at Thursday's board mee'ing. Chairman Caroline Lucal said Jean Rice is serving as volunteer coordinator for the elementary schools and the Middle School Parents Association has Marion Rollin serving as coordinator. The board adopted a resolution proposed by H. Gerard Rowe saying it "recognizes the value of volunteers in our schools and recommends encouragement of volunteerism in cooperation with the teaching staff and principals under the general supervision of the superintendent of schools." Addressing the board. Ann Johnson of Bundy Lane said basic guidelines as to what volunteers can and cannot do should be established here and for the state.

Potential volunteers may contact the coordinators, according to Mrs. Mary Beardsley, board to get a better signal" for commercial broadcast stations. I'm not sure I personally saw PUC's advertisements. If I did, I wouldn't have considered it any of my concern, he noted. No one was banging a gong and saying 'there are community interests except maybe educational community, making sure there would be channels available for educational use," Young said.

"We. (planners) should have ben watching this," he said. Rural Experiment In the past six months. WRPA has been involved in studies for the new rural society (NRS) project, a federally financed experiment in the potential of CATV and other electronic media to aid population distribution in rural areas like the Win-dram region. The NRS work has made WRPA's planners increasingly aware of "the community aspects" of CATV, Young said.

"The Windham region already has resources it could put to use With CATV," Young said, citing TV studios at Eastern Connecticut State College, the University ot Connecticut and Windham public schools, as well as the governments and broadcast of not want to set a preceder; of sponsoring such events itself. In other business, the board suspended its rules to allow further time to secure a town representatives to the Edwin O. Smith advisory council. Mrs. I-ucal will appoint a subcommittee to secure a representative.

The representative normally is chosen at the first board meeting in September. In personnel matters, the board approved the appointments to middle school of Nancy Hankins. part-time German teacher; Diane Capone. mathematics teacher and Anne Jas-kiewicz, part-time Latin teacher. A change of salary classification was granted to Gertrude Ogushwitz, middle school home economics teacher, who has completed her master's degree requirements.

A resignation, citing health reasons, was accepted from Joan Rolland, Grade 1 and 2 teacher at Northwest School. Age Groups In his report to the board, Dr. Gary Blade, school superintendent, said the multi-age grouping in the schools seems to be helpful. Last year's students already know the rules and the mew children pick up the rules from their example, he said. The atmosphere at the middle school has been helped since students may choose between the alternate program and the regular program, he said.

Scheduling and different table arrangements also have helped the atmosphere in the school 'cafeteria, Blade added. The I schedule has been worked out so Grades 5 and 6 have a recess dropped from 971 last fall to 924 this fall. Most of the decline :3 in kindergarten, he said, which reflects the lower birth rate in recent years. The high school enrollment is 806. about 12 students more than was projected.

Some unanticipated crowding may tale place at Middle School because the enrollment of 809 students is 42 more than projected, he said. The adult education program has 340 persons enrolled, compared to the 116 registered last fall. Blade also presented a report saying 26 out of 103 teachers, or 25.2 per cent, left the schools in 1971-72. The board authorized him to hire three to five teachers in anticipation of openings next year. At the next board meeting the superintendent will explain the criteria used in hiring staff, he said.

The transportation committee said an extra bus has been added to the high school run to re-jlieve overcrowding. 1 The Board approved the return of $36,136 to the town. The surplus resulted from fewer funds than anticipated being spent in the transportation and EOS tuition accounts. The board also adopted a re-soltuon declaring Buchanan School "surplus for school pur-: poses" and transferred it to the custody of the Town Council. The council plans to convert part of the building for library use.

The board will arrange a date 'with the Mansfield Education Association to begin negotiations on salaries and other con-I ditions of employment. attention to this issue, he said. "Since there is now no franchise in the Windhham region, I fell we still have time to be concerned and educate the public about CATV," he said. Young said he and other pro Shopping Center To Open WILLIMANTIC The Bridge Street shopping center is scheduled to open next month. Three shops, including a liquor store, ladies' apparel shop public meetings as well as entertainment programming.

"If you're giving this kind of community service, you want it identified with the community. We'd like to see as many community-building things as passible continuous with the regional boundaries," Young said. A CATV franchise granted in 1967, but later revoked, would on CATV franchises in the region until after WRPA researches the matter. Young also said the agency should investigate whether a public authority could run a CATV system for the region, turning its income into public service programming, rather than private profit. PUC responded to Young's re i secretary.

I "With the multi age grouping in some classes, it is helpful to have a second adult present," she said. Other Route The board denied a request by Paul Nuttall to sponsor a viewing center for a television program on the family. fessional planners may have ig-i nored publicity about CATVj when the first franchises were: being assigned in 1967 because: they only knew of it as "a way and a gift shop are expected to be the first of nine stores to open. Five spaces reportedly are still available in the center. Project developers are Edward Kaye and Albert Norman, 920 Mazzola Announces 49th District Candidacy Nuttall, an executive committee member of the Connecticut Council on the Family, said Connecticut Public Television has offered to show panel dis Wethersfield Hartford.

cussion programs on the family at viewing centers around the state. Viewers could have discussions, then spoke to panel members by phone. Board policy would allow the use of space at middle school WILLIMANTIC Republican 49th Assembly District when the present represen-Alan Mazzola charged Demo-j day. tative has met with local lead- crat state Rep. John Blake with Mazzola accused Blake oflers from the towns he insensitive and le-1 being "a representative in name! sents to attempt to iron out thargic representation" as he(only.

state-related problems," Mazzo- announced his candidacy for the i "I wonder if anyone can re-'la said. Hilsman Opens Headquarters Show of Karate Set Monday By Instructor Windham, Willimantic and Scotland comprise the 49th district. Mazzola said he would meet with local leaders, "and fight for every penny this district is entitled to." Mazzola criticized the property tax for "hurting" people on fixed incomes and those who want to invest in land instead of stocks. WILLIMANTIC A free kar Mansfield "I am a McGovern supporter UConn May Change Smith Board ate demonstration is slated Monday at 7:30 p.m. at Shafer Auditorium of Eastern Connecticut College (ECSC).

Paul Arel of Hartford, chief The state's property tax, which is primarily used to pay for schools, is the highest in the country, Mazzola said. He said he would "seriously MANSFIELD A proposal for a new board to replace the oresent Edwin O. Smith High; instructor at the International Academy of Karate and Jukia-do. and a group of his students ucation," Sanders said. The new board would still be under the trustees' authority but would have the power to "make firm recommendations," about matters such as hiring and firing of I School Advisory Council may be I will give the demonstration.

consider" any proposed state income tax and does not favor state-wide property tax. Capital Punishment acted upon by Uwersity ofj Connecticut trustees next month. had been done, Hilsman said, citing a nine per cent unemployment rate in the state. "Food prices are up while wages are down," he said. Hilsman said he had concrete proposals to give federal money to states and towns that would "give jobs to 500,000 people coast to 'No Action' "Steele talks about job losses in Eastern Connecticut, but there has been no action," he said.

During a press conference Saturday, Hilsman said Sen. Edward Kennedy, was going to come to eastern Connecticut "sometime in The demonstration will include self-defense techniques ard barehanded smashing of cement blocks. "If sufficient interest is shown all the way. I was the first congressional candidate to endorse McGovern," Hilsman said. Secretary of State Gloria Schaffer said Democrats should work to get people registered "in a non-partisan way." 'Democrats can take their chances," she said.

"We have the issues and the candidates on our side." State Rep. Audrey Beck of Mansfield said "President Nixon is hiding from the people while McGovern is 'telling it like it Mrs. Beck said today's situation is like 1948, when Democrat Truman upset Republican WILLIMANTIC Roger Hilsman of Old Lyme, candidate for U.S. representative from the 2nd District, said "all we need is organization and hard work" as Democrats opened their headquarters Saturday afternoon. Hilsman attacked incumbent U.S.

Rep. Robert Steele, R-Conn. for his "public relations facade." Steele also gets "fantastic amounts" of money from corporations, Hilsman said. "The only thing the Democrats have is the voters," he said. The "Nixon Meskill Steele" administration refused to institute wage and price controls until after much of the damage sented the committee's proposal to the trustees Friday.

The Board of Trustees is the Board of Education for E. O. Smith. It set up a very fine school, but it is very remote from the people in the towns," Sanders said Friday. The report, which the board will vote on at its next meeting, was unanimously approved by a committee of university, town and school representatives.

It would replace the present E. O. advisory Council with a group "more like a board of ed in Arel's activity, a self-defense employes, he said. The new group would differ from the E.O.S. Council in "some change in representation and a growth in its authority," Sanders said.

Proposals for a change have come from local residents and the Governor's Commission on Services and Expenditures. related course might be consid Mazzola also said he disagreed with Gov. Meskill's support of capital punishment. "Abortion shouldn't be handled by the legislators, but is a matter between a woman and her doctor," Mazzola said. He added, however, he would favor legislation stipulating how The new committee would act as a liaison between UConn.

which governs the school and Mansfield and Ashford, the towns it strves. William J. Sanders, commissioner of higher education and chairman of a trustee committee studying E.O. Smith, pre ered for inclusion in the col lege's physical education pro gram, a spokesman said. hospitals perform abortions.

If a woman needs an abortion for mental or physical reasons, Easlfford it can best be performed be Volunteers Needed for Field Work tween the 12th and 14th week Oi pregnancy, he said. Program Grant Allows Extra Year's Operation Boys Eligible For Wildcats Soccer Team WILLIMANTIC Boys in Grades 5 through 9 here are eligible for the Wildcats Junior Soccer Program, according to a program spokesman. The program starts Wednesday and will be run on Wednes Mazzola said New York abor EASTFORD Herman Mast tion hospitals were like "production lines in a General Mo of the Recreation Commission is seeking volunteers to assist in day and Saturdays through Oc Boat Trip Funds To Help Pay for Hospital Wing WILLIMANTIC Windham Community Memorial Hospital Auxiliary is sponsoring a boat trip to help pay for the recently-completed wing. The "fall foliage boat trip" will leave from the Essex town dock Sept. 28 at 10 a.m.

The "Dolly Madison" will cruise the Connecticut River, returning at noon. Tickets are $5 and may be obtained by contacting Nina Whal- the final g-ading ot the future Little League ball field on the Charles S. Bowen property on Rt. 198, south of Eastford Center. A Field Day will be staged Saturday beginning at 9 a.m., Mast said, and residents equip- chines for primaries and elections during the past two years, hr.s made it necessary for the Board of Selectmen to engage another qualified mechanic.

The secretary of the state has supplied a list of certified mechanics, which shows a number of men in nearby towns who may be available. Efforts will be made to arrange for one of these to take care of Eastford's machines and to be available if any emergency should arise on election day. made during the session. All community women are invited to attend a bible study meeting at the home of Mrs. T.

Loring White, Crystal Pond Road, Tuesday at 10 a.m. Membership in the group is not limited to members of the Eastford Baptist Church, according to the Rev. A. Theodore Ekholm, pastor. The recent death of Dalton Tower of Chaplin, who has prepared Eastford's voting ma tober.

the board. According to Haney, the grant is more than $25,000 below the present operating budget. He said ECDP members will probably turn to the community for financial help later this fall. Because of the cutback, Haney said, members of the Perception House staff have agreed to take a pay cut rather than de Interested boys in Grades 5 and 6 should register at Recrea WILLIMANTIC A $75,000 state grant to the Eastern Connecticut Drug Program (ECDP) sponsors of Perception House, will enable the drug rehabilitation program to continue functioning for another year, according to the secretary of-ECDP's board of directors. Dr.

John Haney, board secretary, said Thusda'y that ECDP's funds "literally ran out" and the program is being run on personal loans from members of tors plant." He said veterans should not be charged more tuition this year than last. Mazzola said proposed 1-84 was going to parallel Rt. 6, "and I can't see putting in a road where we have one already." However, the legislature has no control over 1-84, said Mazzola, 1-84 should have been stopped 10 years ago, if it was going to be stopped, he added. tion Park at 6 p.m. Wednesday.

Older boys should register at Iped with rakes and other tools the park at 7 p.m. crease the number of paid em will prepare the area for seeding, scheduled to take place before the coming of cold weather. Completion of the grading at this time is essential, to make ployes at their Walnut Street center. There will be a $2.50 registration fee to cover the cost of insurance. The program is sponsored jointly by the Willimantic Recreation Department and the Connecticut Wildcats Soccer Club.

Daily Campus Has New Offices, Finances Ellington Sandy Beach Vandalism Termed 'Frustrating' several years, "The idea that an independently produced radical weekly, a weekly published by the university administra we re in our own building is certainly consistent with the idea of becoming financially inde the field usable during the 1973 playing season, Mast said. Those helping in the project should bring their lunches. An effort is being made to secure a donation of soft drinks for those taking part. The Senior Youth Group of the Eastford Baptist Church will meet at the church today at 6 p.m. Officers will be elected and plans for the next year will be Rip Currents Narrow BOSTON Careless swim- tion, and new monthly papers from a black students' group and the Board of Governors, an entertainment-oriented student group seeking an alternative to pendent, he said.

Renovated Barbershop The floor and a half of new offices were renovated by the university from a former barber ELLINGTON Vandalism at Sandy Beach has been the most "frustrating" problem facing the Park Commission during the summer, according to Commission Chairman John Cronan. In a report to the commission, Cronan cited many examples of Senior Citizens Will Plan Trip WILLIMANTIC The Senior Citizens Club is scheduled to meet Tuesday at 1 p.m. to plan a trip to the Eastern States Exposition at the Elks Home. The trip is tentatively slated Wednesday at 9 a.m. for $3 per person, according to a club spokesman.

"A craft will be started at the meeting under the direction of Mary Marr, assisted by Rose Fredette," the club announced. shop and bookstore in a small STORRS The University of Connecticut's student-run daily newspaper has moved to new offices farther from the center of student activities on campus, while trying to maintain its "central" position with students and become financially self-sustaining. The Connecticut Daily Campus, which celebrated its 75th anniversary last winter, began operation this week under a new financing arrangement. It is now divorced from UConn's student government, which formerly funded the paper with part of students' activity fees. Last year, the Board of Trustees separated $1 from the students' $5 activity fee, and estab lished a finance board to administer the $1 per student to the paper and to study the possibility of the Daily Campus becoming financially independent.

Advertising is the paper's main source of income and student fees provide about a quarter of its total budget, which approaches $100,000. The paper is distributed free of charge to students on campus. "I think the finance board has helped us a lot in straightening out our bookkeeping, advertising-to-news ratio, budgets and advertising," Editor in chief Lincoln Millstein said. Although the new finance system is not the reason for the change to larger quarters, which it has been seeking for Cronan said the commission is hoping to erect a fence around the town-owned property at Crystal Lake. The fence, which the commission has established as its first priority, is estimated to cost between $5,000 and $6,000, Cronan said.

The commission is also considering initiating a sticker system in order to reserve the beach for town residents. Under that system, residents would pay between $5 to $6 a season for use of the beach. brick building at the northwest corner of campus. The Campus formerly used purchasing advertisements in the Daily Campus. "I don't see them as competition I think there is room for other forms of media on campus," Milistein said.

John J. Manning asso jmers caught in a rip current theft and damage of equipment at the beach including repeated! damage to the life guard stand, stolen kick boards, and damage four rooms on the mezzanine ciate dean for student affairs, are otten swept out to sea without realizing that this dangerous stream is seldom more than 10 to 20 feet wide and they could escape by swimming parallel to the beach. to picnic tables and the pay telephone, as well as the destruction of a slide donated by the Junior Women's Club. East Windsor said Friday the Daily Campus's new home and its new finance arrangements were not meant to give it an unfair advantage over students' attempts to start other publications. As the finance board continues its studies of the papers, the $1 fee could be reduced or eliminated, leaving more funds for other student publications, he said.

Meanwhile, the switch in offices will allow the university radio station to expand, and give rooms to some student organizations that "Really do depend on a university student fee subsidy," he said. floor of the UConn student union building, where it still has a business office. The new building, shared with a small restaurant, provides separate offices for the editor and managing editor, a machine room, photo laboratory and a large newsroom. The paper formerly borrowed darkrooms in the student union from a campus camera club, and had no office for the managing editor. The university divided the former barbershop into offices and installed plumbing and other facilities for the darkroom.

Partial Repayment UConn officials said the exact cost of the renovations has not been determined, but that the Daily Campus eventually will repay part of the expenses. The Campus will use the Cynthia Wilson To Seek Assembly District Seat HEBRON Cynthia Grinnellof my long interest in govern Congregational Church school starts today in Scantic. Nursery through Grade 1 meets from 11 a.m. to noon; Grade 2 through high school meets from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Babysitting services will be provided during church services.

A coffee hour follows the regular morning worship service. Youth Fellowships and the Junior Pilgrim Fellowship also meet today. Wilson of Walnut Drive has "I feel I can be an active spokesman representing these rural communities that are concerned with property i taxes and high cost of education among many issues," Mrs- NATIVE PEACHES APPLES and CIDER nounced her candidacy for the Democratic nomination for representative from the 55th Assembly District. The 55th District includes the towns of Hebron, Andover, Bolton, Columbia, Marlborough and a section of Vernon. Hebron was in the 52nd District before the new reapportionment.

In announcing her candidacy Saturday, Mrs. Wilson said, "I made my decision to run for the nomination after the encouragement of many area residents concerned and disappointed with current administration programs and policies and because FERRANDO ORCHARDS said. Mrs. Wilson is active in town government and is serving on the Board of Education, Conservation Commission and as agent of the town deposit fund. She is a justice of the peace, democratic deputy registrary and vice chairman of the Democratic Town Committee.

She has also served on the Recreation Commission. building on a rental basis after this school year, he said. June 1973 is also the deadline for a report from the finance board on the advisability of an independent Daily Campus. Other newspapers serving the university community include a weekly established by the stu-jdent government last year, now 'seeking other sources of funds, Located on Birch Mountain Road off Hebron Ave. (Rt.

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