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Wpllirsfield THE HARTFORD COURANT: Wednesday, Flniry II. 197 tU. 0 Rorkv Hi II Ciilastonburv ft- ss Citizens Get Heated Over School Busing School Board Asks $4.9 Million Budget Council Votes oi Change A heated discussion of Project Hartford had had the funds and Concern aL Tuesday's Board of therefore might double the fig- A $4 91 million school budget, of the Town Council Monday. i Education meeting concluded m-e aeain for the 1970-71 year. The Town Council Tuesday which could increase local taxi According to Town Manager night recommended to the with assurances by the board proponents 0f Project Con-, that there ill be another puV rates by more than three mills Donald C.

Peach, the town Charter Revision Commission lie hearing on the program eu fore Wethersfield's tra Hartford nursmg director and a with the Hartford Board of Edu- wethersueld High bcnooi gra-cation comes up for renewal. dute now teaching in Hartford. At the close of the session ai-l me nev. cruce iv. Denanaer-inttpH fnr riti7Pn: tn snpak nine spoke in benalf of Wethersfield for the 1970-71 fiscal year, was second redevelopment plan win mat jt revise the charter so the hv Sunt nf 1)6 to lhe counci1 town's position comes under the unveiled Tuesday by Supt.

of ther Fpb lg or 23 depending'Mertt sem. The town clerk is Schools Hugh Watson. upon date of their comp'e-, appointed by the Town The budget, which will be pre- tion by Brown, Donald and Don- Council, sented to the Board of Educa-aid Planning Services of Farm- jhe commission had previous-tion Thursday along with a sug- ington. Iy voted three to three on mak- ested 184 day school calendar; To date, the consultant firm ing hjs change and therefore, for the coming year, is more has not submitted a final price not recommend the change of the 40 persons in the audience clergymen who endorsed the WFAf nivinAcal martin fl r--- 0 man nigner man uiai tor tne pian jts rjst recently presented to approved lor me euucauon ue- ever uie p.ujcu The uncil resoIu. partment for the current aca- people is estimated to be in ex- tion passed five to three.

The council also voted by a five to two vote to ask the Commission to reconsider its posi tion on removing tne word pro had spoken against projection- cern and five said they favored Tuesday altemoon. jt Objectors mentioned their Robbins Barstow, president of fears of "reverse busing" and the Wethersfield Equal Oppor educational regionalism, and tunity Council (WEOC) had sub- complained about high taxe milted a letter to the board sug- and a leaky roof at the Charles gesting that the program be in- Wright School. They said thou-creased to 150 students next ac- sands of hours are volunteered, ademic year. The contract for by local college students tutor-this year was for 39. but three ing Hartford children.

children have dropped out. One man said he attended in-. Under Project Concern, now tegrated schools and "it hasn't, in its second year in Wethers- done me any good." field, Hartford children are bus- Another prophesied that Pro-, ed to suburoan schools, with ect Concern is a "door opener' Hartford footing the bill. "final obscurity for the town Board Chairman Richard El-of Wethersfield." A regional, lis also concluded he would ask zoning board that will tear down the Rev. Richard A.

Battles. Main Street in Old Wethersfield demic year. of $500,000. According to a memorandum: Monday, both the Board of Fi-which will accompany the budg- nance and the council are et document the education budg-' scheduled to review the redevel-et was increased this year in opment plan at 7:30 and 8 p.m. view the "town's readiness for respectively, increase in the property tax." Following the council's review "Additional positions and ad- a public referendum will be ditional supplies, materials, and scheduled for late March or ear- Iir Annl Phnc muct ha cnhmit.

Scholarship Fund Drive Opens fessional" front section 901 and replacing it with the word "certified." This section deals with a Mer wife, David Holmes, chairman of the Alvin B. Wood Scholarship Dinner Committee, Joseph R. McCormick, co-chairman of the dinner committee, and Major (Courant photo by Arman Hatsian). it and Classified Service System Former Bloomfield Town Councilman Alvin B. Wood, left, presents the first donation for the scholarship created in his honor to Harry X.

Major, right, vice president of the New Britain Bank and Trust in Bloom-field. Pictured, left to right, are Wood, his fllonmfielil equipmen would no douot bring xBlYminA Presently excludes improvement to the sional employes of the Board of and Urban educational program," the Develop- Education from it. The Commission again voted that no significant additional Advisory three to three on making this The Citizens Advisory Com- revenues will be supplied from 'Hartford Board of Education and put up high rise apartments president, what the Hartford will ultimately result from Proj- mittee's (CAC) sub-committee change and therefore, did not 1 i i iL on community environment will recommend amending this sec- state sources. Three Mill Increase mo.i inn mht 7--)n iha lion oi uie cuai ier 10 me coun- Scholarship Fund Drive Begun By Donation from Namesake cil. iMeeng House, that the increase in the educa- I( board would suggest.

ect uincern, ne saia. Barstow's letter came in re-! Ellis said the board has taken sponse to a letter from the Rev. Wethersfield's and Hartford's Mr. Battles to the board, re- problems into consideration be miPRfinir WethprsfiplH's helo inlfore each Project Concern con- If the word professional is de- Items on tne committee tion budget would represent an inii.Hi leted then tne Board of Educa- agenda increase in local tax rates of studies of bUc safe. tion has the right to provide its proxmately three mills if the transDortation and circula-own pension plan for its non- expanding the program and re-, tract was negotiated, adding Negro Former Town Councilman Al- by-step climb up the ladder in even though they had a Hupind nctc 'aeain tnat citizens win nave me-.

society. F. s. itl0n icerimeo personnel (caieiena vin B. Wood officially opened modern American Changed.

I Work on Cnm.1 help, janitors and Secretary). thp srhnlarshin fnnrl rreafpH in Fnstpr pvnlainpd woman working for them," he, Most of t'hose objecting ap-! chance to speak to the board be--explained. Ipeared upset that the WEOC fore next year's contract is He staved with the Aetna foriSueeesH an increase to 150. made. v.

Development Action Plan I The comc' stalemated on a his honor Tuesday by donating B.A. Janitor DUaget, WalSOn Said, lhe Sum phad mntinn tn nW thp nmmiccinn tn mn i urArtj JimK iou ing to Assistant Town Man- leave the Board of Education's, Proceeds from the fund will when he graduated from Howard j-f that figure i -i- assuming Wether-! Ed's Package Store, 398 SilaS-f leld might have doubled the Deane Highway, number of students this year if Advt. Antnony ij shookuS) de. terms ot ottic as tney now are, be used to assist high school University in Washington, D.CJ 10 6XCeSS isP'te Poor attendance on the instead of making them all two students planning to continue; with a B.A in education and re-1 dollars million part of CAC members. year terms- I their studies in the field of edu-; turned to to find the "7" Board members opposed the cation.

only job he could get was as a me oniy reason I got the that U.S. The administrator explained however, that conferences with principals, department heads South Windsor Rep. Herman Kopplemann was ture, carpeting, and accessories there would De a lack ot conti- oped when a group of Negro ance Co. in rharpp. of annointments to ru- and staff members had led to a1 during the Feb.

furniture sale nulty- a militant tor tnose a and uuKinunan nowara j. residents, led by Homer oster, 'l was uii.iiucu uuugd, Bllll.il ia a.a rooH 3 ral post offices intervened reaa, ana KnUoif va I Wood said. now in nrflOTPCC at fal a nn Smith. Cm fh who made the motion, decided to honor the former times because uhn moHa the. mntinn t.

tn. 1 cent higher than that ap- m- nnoWo .1. u. my behalf, Uij IJUIIIOIUC ilVC, tuuiiv.uiuau mui a ivouniuiuai ivuuiuu i ni-up ii. Kooin Ulnrtintl for Women Voters to Hold School Budget Review The South Windsor League of i able, tickets' wll also be sold at; proved for the curent stated that two year terms dinner, only to find Wood was people automatically gave to' vZiJL could create the possibility of a opposed to the dinner unless the Negroes, regardless of Mar" r1 7hn SLt 'vont f- i 134 aS a leatner in me IVldlK 'Priorities were established.

East Hartford tratnr" mIC A rCuFlc elementary school. In tr'n he earned his Masters de- Women Voters will hold a mem-the door. iuc uLicarcu a uiuuuu me uoiiiuuuee planning uie ibkb tare 01 ine aim 1 wuuiu an- pHunatinn frnm Tpntral to have the town manappr an- Hinnor aitwM tn this pnnHitinn cu-or that nnlu uantpit an nnJSree 1" eaucauon I10II1 teu um Walter Burr, an assistant pio-- bership meeting tonight at 8 at 4u Connecticut State College and point the town welfare director and decided to organize the portunity to take care of my- fessor 'A the University of Coir necticut and a director of thf 1964 opened the Clark Street the home of Mrs. Richard ui- some goals set, and a realistic pattern for meeting these goals was undertaken," Watson said. More than 64 per cent of the proposed increase, he said, resulted from increases recommended in the instruction account of the budget.

Salaries of teachers, principals, directors, and clerical per Policy On News Criticized school as its principal. One year son, 105 Beelzebub Road. instead of the council in order to scholarship fund. self," Wood said, take it out of politics "We feel this is the least we "Even the Hartford school ad- Federation of Fly Fishermen, later he became the principal of Heading tne meeting conduct a flv tying pro-will be the Board of Education or tne gouth Windsor 1 1 i I ..1 1. Innnl x.iv vwiiiimooiuii tail iivT CI- ITUU1U UU 1UI II1C llldll nllU 1 JJ1 C-: lllllliau dllUII it IVdail I.

7- thn onnrnun n( oil tUa mmra.r 1- Ul I. 1 4 HT. I lStt In Bloomfield he was a mem- DUQgei uuueriaNen so a iu-ai mi ajjjiuvc ui an mo ouggc.T- sems uie uiauN peupies siep- icauy uj iiue a ixcgiu man, ed changes or only some of YMCA. ber of the Town Council from study item. Former Republican council them or none of them before re-.

111 noillf fold Burr, who has been teaching fly tying for 15 years, will con sonnel are included in the in 1961 to 1969, and served on the The budget study committee Human Relations Commission. win discuss such items as the submitting it to the council. ctn.Minnoi 9mnt inn with majnty leader Donald Pitkin duct classes from 7:30 to 9 p.m. formulation of the budget, types on five Monday evenings begin and the Transportation Committee of the Board of Education. of revenue and a comparsion of i Garden Club The River Valley Garden Club will meet today at 8 p.m.

at the home of Mrs. John Sword, 663 Brook St. Co-hostess will be the costs of textbooks, library! Tuesday criticized Mayor Rich-books, audio-visual BJackstone policy of hav-and teaching supplies. However, inS a11 towr news releases made according to Watson, the major through his office, portion of the increase in the ac-i Pltkin- who emphasized that services available to South i Persons wishing to contribute ning in March at the Pleasant' Valley School. The class will be limited to 15 Three New Committees Appointed by Council The Town Council appointed council committees.

to the scholarship fund can send Windsor children in comparison contributions to the Alvin B. to other towns. Committee; members. Registration fee he spoke "as a citizen holding i Mrs. Paul Schoener Wood Scholarship Fund, Pon members include Mrs.

Thomas checks of $7.50 for YMCA mem- no official dos on." sa d. "If he emer-ivioser riA count's budget resulted from recommended instructional personnel salaries. (Jttice Box 4bi, rsioomneiQ. Close, Mrs. James Hill, Mrs.

Ders ani $io for non-members (Blackstone) can't trust his ap In other action the council ap The dinner will be April 7 at Francis Coleman, Mrs. Edward should be sent immediately to pointees to make statements for Staff Addition proved the proposed duties for the Hartford Hilton. Corcoran and Mrs. Lo Mainel- Mrs. Roger B.

Cottle, secretary; three more citizen advisory committees during its regular meeting Tuesday. There will be one additional themselves, then he must have the Environmental Control American Field Service li. South Windsor YMCA, 78 Doe- Committee. This committee will staff member, which he will a pretty weak administration Sunday is the deadline for ap- Also on the agenda will be re wood Lane, South Widsor. Additional information may be ob William Smith, former Repub There will be an executive board meeting of the Center-Moser PTA today at 8 p.m.

at the Center Schooi library. Voter-Making Session A voter-making session will be held today from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Town Hall. For rides or babysitters, call Republican Jane Ussery, 358 Old Main plications to have an American ports on two meetings attended Field Service (AFS) I Dv the Human Resources Corn- tained by calling Mrs. Russell recommend will be a full-time instructor in health education.

"The position of the instructor has been deferred for the last Appointed by the council werejbe reSp0nsibie for investigating the Human Relations Commis- the nature and extent of factors sion, the Recreation Committee damaging the physical environ-and the Environmental Control of Bloomfield. The com lican town chairman, noted Monday that President Nixon has a similar news release sys- spend a year with a Bloomfield mittee in January. The first was Romeyn, 40 Brian Road, South. family. sponsored by the Regional i Windsor, after 7 p.m.

T1J 1 1- ATTIC rrt I- 1 two years," the superintendent! tern. He said, however, that mittee will also make recom-i limicc Wlil pointed out. "while the health Blackstone's line of comir.untca Committee unuer uie ftra jimgidin committee ot capitoi Lenten concert Thp PmmHi akn atrrpnH tn in lmendations 1o the counciI on eign student attends Bloomfield Leagues and featured Robert) The United Church Women ot me council, aiso agreea 10 to iirmrove the Dhvsical Hioh Sphnnl and livps with a AcMr- tho fanitni tv, rnnmvxtitinn.i rkumh been! tion with various department or Democrat Richard Tulisano, education curriculum has i wii vi kui, vuviivi.iik, 11 it. vvuci tcauuiiai vuui WI 12-A Colonial Drive heads was ineffective. cal family for a year.

This year: Region pianning Agency onof South Windsor are complet-Firmino S. deSiquiera of Brazil who discussed the lat-iine arrangements for a Lenten crease tne size of the Human environment. Relations Commission rom nine to 15 members. During thelGlastoillllirY is staving with Mr. and Mrs expanded." As envisioned by the school administration, the health education program should include aspects of family life education, consideration of the effects of est CRPA housing report.

i concert to be held Feb. 20 at The second meeting attended 7:30 p.m. in the church sane by the committee was 3 special tuary. The program will feature Such a system can allow prudent control over the news, Smith said. Monday, Blackstone said: "When we issue news, it's positive action that we are Wallace Smiley, 330 Runxis Ave.

Mrs. Merrill Powers, 37 Sell Police Station The Town Planning and Zoning Commission late Monday voted to recommend to the town council that the present police station on Forest Street be sold after the police move into new Woodland is chairman of Stale Conference Day Session on i the Parsonettes with Stanley drug abuse, as well as the de the selection committee and housing which featured Paul jHuckabay at the organ and Town Committee Urges Democrat To Senate Race velopment of personal health, going to do this or that." Davidoff, Director of Suburban! piano. said any family in town may ap public hearing on the proposed increase, Samual DuBosar said a larger commission was needed to enhance public interest in the commission work and to allow increased activity. Republican Councilman Moc-ris W. Banks drew a quick Democratic response when he quarters the town hall addi- habits and a basic understand When oueried about Pitkin ply and should contact her for further information.

remarks Tuesday, Blackstone tion now being constructed i recommendation was brushed them aside as "a politi Academic Honors Action, White Plains, N.Y., and The United Church Wometv Mrs. Ira Millstein, Greenwich, will nold their next meeting Conn, town planner. jFeb. 18 at 7:30 p.m. in the Metz- The committee, in addition, iger Chapel to evaluate the year will present a progress report and discuss new plans and proj on work of the local Housing ects.

made despite Town Engineer Manu Patel's suggestion that cal thing." A ornun nf Silver Lane resi David P. Kershaw and Jeffrey Kershaw, sons of Mr. and ing of ecology, the interrelationship of man and his environment. "To meet these demands," Watson said, "we need a full-time health instructor." Although increases in the Mrs. Harold E.

Kershaw, 17 dents and business people tormer scnooinouse be represented alternate proposals to gained by the town for use by thQ statP Hi uliwav Deoart-! youth or demolished for a neigh- East Wintonbury have Authority to obtain housing for Nursery school and full day been named to the Deans List at said he was opposed to large committees because of their inefficiency but that he would approve this increase "in order not to further delay committee appointments." Mayor Edward J. Stockton and Democratic Councilman Nasson College in Springvale, the elderly. Members of the committee include Mrs. James Devlin, chairman, Mrs. Richard Clinton and Mrs.

Stephen Kury- Maine, for the first semester. town's grand list are expected. ment's plan to widen Silver jborhood park. The old building to of fset part of the tax increase Lane was termed "basically sound" required by the budget, Watson; xhe' deadline for submitting bv Building Inspector Donald said possible teacher salary in- written comments on the plan Lawler. creases alone arrived at nas en extended indefinitely! St: Andrew's Church thrnntrh npiJntiatinirs rnnlH in-.

i n. tt; rvm-iJ Thorp will hp twn rplphrafiAns care, Mercer Nursery Schools open 6:30 p.m., 80 Pierce Road, South Windsor, 644-8393 42 Mer-; cer East Hartford, 528 Town Notes Any Bloomfield woman who i0. Daniel E. Harris responded that has completed two or morej Guests are invited to the pro-years in an accredited college gram. crease area taxes by some L0ior r.PnrPpTonklina.

The of Holy Communion at the has not been delay Plumbing and heating repairs with at least a i average Benefit Marionette Show ing committee appointments may apply tor tne uioomtieio. The South Windsor Teachers' ano installation, no jod too They explained that the coun three mills. I deadline' was originally set for -church at 10 a.m. and 7 Salary rates of personnel pre-! t0(w There has been strong P-m. Ashes will be available at sently employed by the educa-1 opposition to the plan by area: both services for those who de-tion department have been the commissioner! sire them.

Junior Woman's Club's Phipps Scholarship Committee will; small. Call Page Sons, Inc cil was reviewing the entire The Glastonbury Democratic Town Committee Tuesday night passed a resolution urging Secretary of the State Ella T. Grasso to make herself available as a candidate for the U.S. Senate. This marked the first town committee support for Mrs.

Grasso since she was urged to run recently by the town committee in her hometown, Windsor Locks. Democratic Town Chairman John Tubiak said the committee also passed a resolution urging U.S. Rep. Emilio Q. Daddario to announce his candidacy for governor.

The committee, according to Tubiak, also passed a resolution urging State Sen. David M. Barry, D-Manchester, to run for Daddario's congressional seat should the 1st District Democrat run for the gubernatorial nomination. Memorial scholarship. two performances oti Mo-ms, Advt.

scholarship will assist women committee structure and had to appoint the citizen advisory committees for the Capitol Re tended and incremented with u-q iau that mnrp time, was Church "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" featurins the Syrotiak Tremendous savings on furni- trying to complete their formal oaiu nv- j.v-iv An Ash Wednesday service of gion Planning Authority education. Interested persons Marionettes Saturday at the lo- i ture, carpeting, and accessories should contact Mrs. Francis Cal hish school. Performances 'during the Feb. furniture sal Holy Communion will be today (CRPA) before appointing the McHugh, 4 Foothills Way.

will be given al 1 and 3 p.m. now in progress at Calano Fur-Dr. Harvey Glass, a child psy-1 Donation will be 50 cents for niture, 525 Burnside the current "on-step" system needed to study alternate pro-for the 1970-71 year, --Watson said- News Notes 'Negotiations ofr teachers' The McCartin PTA will hold a salaries are still in progress," board meeting today at 7 p.m. he said, indicating that state aid Following the classroom visits to education did not cover any and a taik Dy Supt. Eugene negotiated increase in salaries.

Djggs the library will be dedi- "Based on salary levels this cated'in honor of Miss Louise chologist in Harttord. will be, both children and adults. East Hartford. Advt. at 7 p.m.

in the sanctuary of the Methodist Church. A nursery and crib room will be provided. Recreation News The adult ballroom dance class will meet today from 8:15 to 9:15 p.m. at Center School. The Men's Basketball and Vntlmrhall onmrn mill wnl- -v Weather Hinders Hunt for Missing Explorer Scout the guest speaker at the meet- The Syrotiak Marionettes, un-ing of the Metacomet School jder the direction of owner-pro-PTA Monday at 8 p.m.

in thejducer David Syrotiak presented school auditorium. "Beauty and the Beast" several All Town offices will be closed weeks ago. Thursday but there will be no Tickets for Saturday's per-change in the trash and garbage formancer are on sale at local Pastel colors have predominated on the island of Curacao', Netherlands Antilles, ever since an early Dutch official banned white houses because theif glare in the sun hurt his eyes, year, town residents win pay kweetland. -former principal. approximately 70 per cent, or The East Hartford Emblem GATLINBURG, Tenn.

(AP) $3.57 million, of. the bu4get," he'nh wni hold its annual Sno- srhnni fimiL iSearchers, hampered by 3-foot avail-'National Geographic says. collection. I elementary schools. If Square dance lessons for fm'iis wjnter weather, said- a 1 1 dinner-dance Saturday.

"Each three per cent increase iThere are no further tickets in salaries granted through ne-lavaiiable gotiations," Watson said, "will Dr, pa'ul Aziz, Assistant Pro-increase the town's tax rate by fpnr nf FWiish at Trinitv Col- sixth, seventh and eighth grade "Te" luesaay a East Hartford old Explorer Scout, missing students will be today from 7 to three days in the Great Smoky 9 p.m. at the Grisw'old Junior Mountains wilderness. High School cafetorium. Bus Line Sues School Board for $1 Million Geoff Hague vanished Sunday one mill. leg6) Win give a reading and Redevelopment Plans discussion of modern poetry Plans for the redevelopment Monday at 8 p.m.

in the Ray-of Center Glastonbury may Library lounge, 840 Main on a hike along the Appalachian Trail The East Hartford Board of The company had its three-jwellbeing" of any pupil. 1 coverage Dec. 24. Intermittent snow, tempera This last clause was invoked He also claimed that as a re Education has been sued for $1 year contract canceled by the reviewed at a special meeting public is invited to at tures in the teens and wind million bv Eastern Bus Lines. suDerintendent and the board! when the contract was ranr-pled.

sult of "unfounded complaints tend this free lecture. gusts up to 20 m.p.h. impeded inc The Board of Education Dec. 9. Negro claims that failure to of bus safety" early in Decem- All branches of the East Hartford Public Library will be closed Thursday in observance Local Man Is First Girl's School Head LITCHFIELD Stowell approximately 100 rangers, res- an(j Ehgene Diggs, superinten- The principal issue was that carry the required insurance ber his company received "sub-cue squad members and others dent of schools, are to appear in Eastern Bus Lines did not carry! does not damage the physical, jstantial adverse publicity." in their search.

Hartford Superior Court March 1 sufficient insurance on its buses mental or moral well being of; Negro has six other school The youth, son of Mr. and 3. as required by the contract, ac-'anv pupil. ibus jontracts. and stated that W.

nf Lincoln's Rirthdav. Would-Be Holdup Man Rejects $20 as a Joke MEMPHIS, Tenn. A man walked into a service station Tuesday, pulled a pistol and ordered attendant Danny Adams to hand over his money. Adams complied. The bandit counted it, found only $20 and shoved it back.

"This isn't enough to go to jail for," he said. "Let's you keep it and say it was a joke." The man put his pistol away and walked out. Mears, of Litchfield, is the first The Town Hall will be closed male headmaster ever to be ap-xhursday and wil reopen Fri-pointed in the 77-year history of at a.m. cording to the board. Thus, according to Negro, the this publicity "caused numerous The contract states the board board breached the contract oy inquiries" about the safety of may cancel the contract on five its immediate cancelation on the company's operations and Mrs.

William W. Hague Jr. of Morristown, got lost Sunday morning as he and two other scouts and their scoutmaster, In the summons served Tuesday, George Negro of Manchester, the company's owner, claimed the board breached its Rogers Hall, a girl's prep school Thursday's rubbish collection in Lowell, Mass. Dec. 19.

its insurance coverages. days notice if the bus contractor will be picked up Friday, and contract with his firm. This i fails to fulfill any of his obliga- Eugene Smith, were hiking from a trailer shelter where breach of contract cost $100,000 tions. The board may, however, His wife has been named dean Friday's collection will be of students. They are the for- picked up Saturday, mer headmaster and headmis-j The Incinerator and Landfill In his complaint against the) Negro also cited two failures board Negro claimed he was the board to make the aware that his insurance cover-'monthly payment to the compa-age was not sufficient, and thatny on time, as stipulated by th they had spent Saturday night in lost profits and $126,000 for! cancel the contract immediately used if continuance would endanger investments in new and tress of the Foreman School in area will be open on Thursday to Newfound Gap, their start I the "physical, mental or moral he obtained the proper required! buses, Negro claimed.

Litchfield. flrom 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. ing point..