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24 THE HARTFORD COURANT: Sunday, June 19, 1977 Plaques Awarded Two Honored by South Green Council City Hearing Set On Pay Increases i VvV' fi KrVi S.v" I rar of Voters Nicholas C. Bo-nadies and Republican Registrar Howard J. Kaufman, up to and Democratic Deputy Registrar John T. O'Brien and Republican Deputy Eugene Cimiano, each up to $20,150. Salaries for Mayor Athan-son and City Council members are set at $17,500 and $4,000, respectively, by charter, and may be changed only by referendum.

The salary ordinances scheduled for hearing Monday also would raise the salary ranges for two positions filled by City Council appointees, City Manager James B. Daken and Corporation Counsel Mary R. By MICHAEL REGAN The City Council will hold a public hearing Monday at 8 p.m. at City Hall on proposed 6 per cent pay increases for nearly 400 Hartford employes, including elected officials, political appointees, top administrators and nonunion municipal workers. The raises, which would add more than $400,000 to the city payroll, would take effect July 3, the same day wage hikes of between 6 and 8 per cent negotiated last year for about 2,000 members of Hartford's four municipal unions take effect.

The elected officials in line for raises are Treasurer John J. Mahon, up to Democratic Regist- By J. GREG ROBERTSON Their work for the South Green neighborhood resulted in awards Saturday for Louis Beacon, who has lived in the area for many of his 92 years, and Maryann Diaz, a lifelong resident. Both are active in the South Green Neighborhood Council, which honored them with engraved plaques and an afternoon party in St. Peter's School at 160 Main St.

Beacon, who has lived in Hartford since "nineteen hundred and eight," lives at 52 Buckingham the last of a number of rooming houses and apartments around the South Green area in which he has lived for more than 40 years. He was employed for a long time at a South End hardware store. An active member and former official of the Horace Bushnell Church, he was honored for his "association and support in the community." He moved to Hartford after leaving a 6 a.m.-to-6 p.m., six-day-a-week job in a thread factory that paid $3 a week and a lunchcart job with equally long hours that paid $5 a week. "I did a lot of things and got very little money," he said in an interview. He stayed with the hardware store through a succession of different owners.

"Gee, I said, everybody wants to buy this store but nobody wants me to go. I got along with everybody." A chief regret of Beacon's is that the lively, theater-filled downtown area of early Hartford has changed. "Sundays the center's dead," he said. "You can't get a cup of coffee." In general, though, he said, "I have no complaints. I've met a lot of nice people in this city." And despite some recent falls and eye trouble, the "old bachelor" said, "I had good health and that's worth more than anything else." Mrs.

Diaz, who lives at 186 Park is a senior field worker in the Sheldon-Charter Oak area for the Community Renewal Team. The (Counnt Photos by Richard Borson) Award winners Louis Beacon and Mary Ann Diaz. 40-year-old woman grew up and until recently whom are relatively new Hispanic residents, worked in the South Green area. She also is a "This whole community has a chance of member of the Hartford Citizens' Assembly. being revitalized," the mother of two daughters "I have some strong feelings and attrac- and a foster child said, tions for the South Green," she said, adding that She was praised by Neighborhood Council she feels it can realize its potential by raising president Anthony Miano for her leadership the economic level of the people, many of and for being "a good worker, a hard worker." The maximum salary for city manager would be increased to $47,912, and for corporation counsel to $25,532.

The ordinances also would raise the maximum salaries for city manager appointees, department heads and higher, to between $26,858 to $38,694, depending on the position. Most of the remaining raises will keep nonunion employes at a par with union members in similar jobs. In a letter to the council, Daken said some inequities still exist in the relationship between salaries for supervisors and salaries for union members under them. Supervisors and professional employes, who recently unionized after their salaries were cut 5 per cent, in some cases make little more than their highest-paid subordinates. Daken said he will submit recommendations to correct the situation in the future.

Birthday Fest Set July 4 At City Park Mayor Athanson's AU-A-mericans Council will sponsor a "Birthday Party for America" July 4 in Hartford's Bushnell Park. The program for the event whose slogan is "Come to Hartford the city where you can have your cake and eat it too" will include ethnic demonstrations and games, a pot-luck picnic and contests. Among the attractions at the party will be hot-air ballooning by Bill Costen and Jim fsler, and music by Peacetrain. The party will start at 2 p.m. Motor Lodge Robbed; Amount Unknown WINDSOR A man who told the clerk he had a revolver robbed Carvilles Motor Lodge, 29 Windsor of an undetermined amount of money Saturday night, police said.

Details of the incident were sketchy, police said. The man entered the lobby, demanded money and fled after receiving the cash. What's Happening Around Hartford TODAY 8 p.m.: Dance Alliance Company at the Goodwin Theatre, Austin Arts Center, Trinity College. Sponsored by Trinity Alive Summer Arts Festival. Admission $4.

TUESDAY 10 a.m.: Preschool Story Hour at the Barbour Branch of Hartford Public Library. 10:30 a.m.: Preschool Story Hour at the Blue Hills Branch of Hartford Public Library. 2:30 p.m.: "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," performed by the Goodwin Players, for grades 2 to 6, at the Park Branch of Hartford Public Library. 8:30 p.m.: "Sleuth," a Summerstage Theatre Performance at Goodwin Theatre, Austin Arts Center, Trinity College. Sponsored by Trinity Alive Summer Arts Festival.

Through Saturday. Wednesday matinee at 2 p.m. Admission $4.50 and $5.50. WEDNESDAY Noon: Noon Repertory at the Center Church House. Piano and violin music by Richard Cooper and Eric Wen.

Admission $2 for lunch and performance. 7 p.m.: Plumb Memorial Carillon Concert at Trinity College. This week, Suzanne Gates, former master carillonneur of the Trinity Guild. THURSDAY 2 p.m.: "Cartoon time" at the Albany Branch of Hartford Public Library. All ages, i 3 p.m.: "A Drawing Contest" at the Barbour Branch of Hartford Public Library.

Ages 4 to 10. FRIDAY 2 p.m.: Movies at the Children's Department of Hartford Public Library. "The Hound That Thought He Was a Raccoon," and "The Lion and the Mouse." 8 p.m.: St. Hallvard's Boys Choir of Oslo, Norway, at Trinity College Chapel. Sponsored by Trinity Alive Summer Arts Festival.

SATURDAY 8 p.m.: Lisa Null and Bill Shute at the Sounding Board, Greater Hartford Folk Music Society Concerts, at St. Paul's Methodist Church. Admission $2.50. All events are free unless otherwise noted. Honored for Community Service City Woman Named Winner Of 4 All-Americans' Pageant Awarded NCPRW scholarships at the banquet were (not pictured) Nancy Morales, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Elias Morales, of 201 Nahum Drive, who will attend Hartford College for Women; and Zaida M. Chaparro, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andres Chaprro, of 12 Dorothy Street, who will attend Fairfield University (Courant Photo by Michael McAndrews).

Seven members were honored by the Hartford Chapter of the National Conference of Puerto Rican Women at the Hotel Sonesta in Hartford Saturday for outstanding community service efforts. They are, from left, Lucila Huertas of Hartford, Toni Ledesma of West Hartford, Gladys Hernandez of Hartford, Dr. Julia Ramos-McKay of Manchester, Angelica Velazquez of Bloomfield, Julia Collazo of Hartford and Nancy Maldonado of Hartford. Weaver Class of '42 Sees School, City in Decline see as a decline in the city and the school. Philip Dobruck and David Ermakovich both grew up in the North End, and both agreed that "Hartford's going down the drain." Dobruck now lives in Newing-ton, and said "I had to go, I couldn't stand it any longer." Ermakovich, a mailman in the South End, said Hartford politicians "are bending over backwards to please the minorities." The Class of '42 is predominantly white.

Mrs. Jo-hanie May Herd, of Bloom-field, innocent we were. We thought we were bad, but by today's standards we were good." standards we were good." Benjamin Dunn and his wife, Bea Harrison Dunn, both of whom grew up in Hartford, drove through their old neighborhood on the way to the reunion. "It was like driving through another town," Dunn Said. "One of the churches had become a bowling alley." Faye Krantz of West Hartford remembered Weaver "was the greatest school there ever was," praising "the close feeling of Weaver graduates." Her ties to her classmates are stronger than her ties to the school, she said.

"I only associated with a couple classes before me and a couple after nothing's left." fir MM! By PETER COY A handbook distributed at the 35th reunion of Weaver High School's Class of 1942 held Saturday night at the Imperial Restaurant in East Windsor contained a significant statistic: Of the class's more than 300 members, only 14 still live in Hartford. Their reasons for moving out of Hartford and thoughts of the city today were little discussed Saturday night apparently because those at the reunion knew what their classmates would have to say. When the subject was brought up, class members seemed resigned, and sometimes bitter, about what they Police News A 25-year-old Hartford woman Saturday won the $500 Miss All Americans Scholarship pageant, sponsored by Mayor Athanson. Virginia Cataldo, a five-foot six-inch professional model was the winner when points in the swimsuit, evening wear and question-and-answer competitions were totalled. First runnerup in the competition between eight area semi-fihalists was Diane Reddy, 20, of East Hartford, winner of a $250 scholarship.

The second runnerup was Holly Intravia, 20, of Rocky Hill, who won a $150 scholarship. Linda Joyce McCarthy, 18, of Simsbury was named Miss Congeniality by the other contestants. The competition is held annually by the five-year-old Mayor's Ail-Americans Council, composed of 63 ethnic groups. The program, held in the Hartford Insurance Group auditorium, also included dances by a 14-member Polish group and an 11-member Japanese group, a dancer from Barbados, two dancers from Peru, and a comic pantomime routine by Jo Johnson. Judges in the competition Saturday were Hartford City Councilman Raymond Mon-tiero, Steven Yatrousis of Wethersfield, and Stella Rustigian of Wethersfield, vice chairman of the council.

Preliminary judging in the beauty pageant was held May 21 at the Hartford Civic Center. Library Cuts Hours For Summer Months The Hartford Public Library and its eight branches will be closed Saturdays for the summer June 27 through Sept. 10. Summer hours for the library are: Central Library, 500 Main 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Monday and Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday and Friday; Albany Avenue Branch, Camp Field Branch, Goodwin Branch and Mark Twain Branch, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, noon to 8 p.m.

Wednesday, and noon to 5 p.m. Thursday, Barbour Branch, Blue Hills Branch, Dwight Branch and Park Branch, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, noon to 8 p.m. Thursday, and noon to 5 p.m.

Friday. City Briefs 'Nickel Entertainment Night The city's Western Hill Organization will present a night of "nickel entertainment" Wednesday 6:30 p.m. at Niles Street between Woodland and Gillett streets. Food will be sold for 5 cents and music will be provided. Social Security is Topic Social Security Commissioner James B.

Cardwell and U.S. Rep. William R. Cotter, D-lst a member of the House Social Security subcommittee, will discuss the system's dwindling trust fund Monday in Hartford. The talk is at the Hartford Graduate Center, 275 Windsor at 11a.m.

The program is the third in a series of Congressional Seminars sponsored by the Graduate Center's Corporate Affiliates program. Court Action Closes Carnival 'Suspicious' Fire Hits Station daymorning. The man, Ronald Bell of 190 Westland refused to give any details of the assault to police. Market Robbed Two men, one carrying a small revolver, robbed the Roman Market at 73 Hillside Ave. of about $700 Saturday night.

Juan Fieleciano, an employe, told police that two men walked into the store at about 7:30 p.m. and announced it was a robbery. The men ordered employes to put the money in a brown paper bag, and then fled west on Glendale. be turned over to the state fire marshal's office for further investigation. Station Robbed Two men wielding handguns and wearing silk stockings robbed a service station at 3108 Main St.

Saturday night of an undetermined amount of money. Police said the incident occurred about 10:30 p.m. The two robbers fled on foot in a westerly direction after robbing Bill's Self-Service Station. No further details were available, police said. A 27-year-old Westland Street resident was found bleeding at Barbour and Judson streets early Satur- A small fire of suspicious origin Saturday morning caused heavy water damage to the offices of WHCT-TV, Channel 18, police said.

Police and fire officials were dispatched to the offices at 555 Asylum Avenue at about 7:45 a.m. after a passerby reported smoke pouring from the building. Firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze which was started under a wooden-frame window. However, the smoke and heat set off the sprinkler system in the building, causing the water damage. Officials of the station could not be reached for comment.

Police said the matter will to' run through Saturday night. The attachment, totaling $90,000, was brought by Frank Hall and Texas insurance brokers against the Great American Shows Inc. of Jericho, N.Y. Carnival officials could not be contacted Saturday. MIDDLETOWN A carnival being operated on Factory Street next to Palmer Field for the benefit of the Middletown Collegians baseball team was closed Friday night by local deputy sheriffs because of unpaid insurance premiums.

The event, which opened Monday, had been scheduled Pageant Winner Smiling Virginia Cataldo, 25, of Hartford, holds roses and the trophy signifying that she has just won the Miss Ail-Americans Scholarship Pageant Monday night in the Hartford Insurance Group auditorium. She won a $500 scholarship. A professional model, the brown-haired, brown-eyed winner said she wants to study the performing arts (Conrant Photo by Anthony Bacewicz). More Local News Pgs.22,26,i5C rwiiii rr -in-rirr'iffiriniiiiii -j 00,1 A i -o ft itk 0 0 ojrfi.