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54 THE HARTFORD COURANT: Sunday, March 6, 1977 eadiedfor Opening This Week ispanic TIT Elderly for venter mm were brought to Hartford by their children who had already emigrated here, center organizers said. The center director is Fractuoso Santiago, who founded and directed a senior center in Puerto Rico. He is not a senior citizen himself but enjoys working with the elderly. Tm beginning to feel old myself and I'm beginning to wonder what's going to become of the old people in the future," he said.1:;,;,,.'.::'-: A staff of volunteer and part-time senior citizen aides also will help out at the center, which will be open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Some $20,000 in funds come from the city under the federal Housingand Community Development Act, but Escalera said the center also is seeking foundation support. The school site is temporary, until the end of June, when the center will have to find a new location. Funds for the project have been available since October. Since then, the center' has obtained needed city Board of Education approval, insurance, renovations (which were carried out by an ex-offenders' rehabilitation project and city and state building approvals. "Typical bureaucracy held it up," Escalera said.

ter's director, Yasha Escalera, because "the Spanish elderly have a problem feeling welcome and part of the existing elderly centers." Although integrated senior centers might be preferable, senior citizens usually like to socialize with persons of their own ethnic backround, he said. "You can't expect old people to change their ways," Escalera said. Central to the center program will be a daily Spanish-style hot lunch, served to 60 or 70 persons. The meals are part of a settlement of a federal lawsuit brought by Neighborhood Legal Services in Hartford against the stat a Department on Aging and the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

The suit charged the federal-state hot lunch program discriminated against the Hispanic elderly by not serving them lunches the Spanish-style lunches. A second Spanish-style lunch program will start in the South End in the summer, Escalera said. The center, besides social activities, also will attempt to teach the elderly to read and write in Spanish and English. Many of the senior citizens are from poor mountain areas in Puerto Rico. They have little formal education.

The men of ten worked in sugar cane in Puerto Rico and tobacco in Connecticut. Many of the elderly ByEUSSAPAPffiNO Sister Mercedes Irala was looking for a sewing machine for use by Hartford's Hispanic elderly. "Make sure you gej the kind with the (manual) foot pedal5 an elderly woman accustomed to that model lady urged her, so the sister found one. The old Singer stands in a corner of one of four rooms in a converted classroom outside the Arsenal School which will open as a center for the Hispanic elderly Thursday. The center, which will provide social and recreational activities, a Spanish-style, hot lunch and educational programs, will be the first center for the Hispanic elderly in the city and the second in the state.

The first is in New Haven. Puerto Rican senior citizens usually stay home, caring for their grandchildren, with few social activities of their own. "They need from time to time to be out," said Sister Mercedes, who is from Spain and works at Sacred Heart Church on Ely Street. The program sponsor is the San Juan Center, with a group of Hispanic senior citizensLa Edad de Oro (the Golden Age Club) serving in an advisory capacity. A separate program for the Hispanic elderly was needed, said the San Juan Cen- Meets With Block Club llill HI New Senior Center Fractuoso "Tito" Santiago, right goes over plans for new Hispanic center for the elderly with Fernando DeSpinola, left, who is helping establish the center at 1800 Main Hartford.

Santiago, director of the center, which opens Thursday, formerly ran a center for elderly in Puerto Rico. The Hartford center is temporarily located in a portable classroom outside the Arsenal School (Courant Photo by Art Warmsley). Realtor Agrees to Changes Ljf TT rrnars napi tening Martin and the block club have been at odds for several weeks, with residents unsuccessfully trying to arrange meetings with him ta discuss their concerns. Neighborhood residents staged protests at Martin's home and office to force him to change his tactics. Man Charged In Stabbing Of His Wife A 33-year-old Garden Street woman was stabbed repeatedly wth an ice pick by her irate husband Satur day afternoon, police said, following a family argument Carol Olds of 666 Garden St was listed in stable condition at Mount Sinai Hospital.

She was stabbed in the chest shoulder, and back. In addition, her left arm was broken. Charged with first degree assault in connection with the incident was the woman's husband, Tommie Olds, 136. He is being held on $50,000 bond and is scheduled to be presented in Common Pleas Court 14 Monday. He and members of the block club will go to City Hall Monday to seek the answer to that question, he said.

Block club members and Martin also agreed to work together to change his advertising of low down payment and federally backed mortgages for homes in the neighborhood, he said: Neighbors had complained that by advertising low down payment mortgages and ''handyman specials" Martin was creating a bleak picture of the neighborhood, which its residents regard as a healthy community. The telephone solicitation issue involves neighbors' charges that Martin was breaking a city law forbidding realtors from seeking business through telephone Shettle Heads State Chapter1 Senior Asst Corporation Counsel Richard W. Shettle has been named Connecticut chairman of the National Institute of Municipal Law Officers, according to the organization's monthly publication Municipal Attorney. Shettle served as Hartford's city manager for most of 1976 while City Council members searched for a replacement for former manager Edward M. Curtin.

He also acted as corporation counsel, the city's chief legal officer, during the year. ByBILLGRAVA A neighborhood group has won at least temporary concessions froma city realtor whom the group has charged with downgrading their area through his advertising and upsetting residents with telephone solicitations. The solicitation charge is still in dispute between Ronald Martin of Martin Realtors, 30 New Park and members of the Behind the Rocks Block Club, Martin said Saturday. But he said he has agreed to stop using telephone solicitation which he insists are legal until Hartford's corporation counsel decides if he is right. But Friday's meeting at St.

Lawrence O'Toole Church on New Britain Avenue was "very, very friend "I suess I've been pretty canvassing. Martin claimed that all famous in the past for advertising like that," Martin said, ly," which led to the tempo- but he promised to change the telephone solicitations he rary resolution of the dis- tne aavemsmg, ana saia maae invoivea nouses uui pine, mat uu mm. block club members had had been advertised for sale agreed to help him monitor in the past. The law allows. "It's an experiment," he any changes it makes in his phone solicitations of unex- said, "but we're going to give business fortunes.

pired real estate listings. it a try." Around Hartford MONDAY 10 a.m.: Preschool story hour with Gertrude Blanks, Mark Twain brnch of the library. 10:30 a.m.: Preschool story hour, Goodwin branch of the library. 'TUESDAY 10:15 Preschool story hour, Blue Hills branch of the library. 10 Preschool story hour, Barbour branch of the library.

WEDNESDAY 10 a.m.: Preschool story hour, children's department of the main library. THURSDAY 1 pm: Preschool story hour, Camp Field branch of the library. Noon: Free Thursday coffee concert, with Dave McLellan playing classical and modern solo guitar works, central library auditorium, Hartford Public Library. v'r FRIDAY 10 am: Preschool story hour, Dwight branch of the library. 3 p.m.: Three children's movies, "Sue Mei Wong, Who Shall I Be?" "The Man Who Wanted To Fly," and "Red and Black" will be shown in the children's department of the main library.

3:30 p.m.: Children's program, "I Can Write a Poem," with Pat Schartz, Park branch of the library. SATURDAY 2 p.m.: "A Step Into Fantasy," a puppet show by Annette Dieli and her "One Foote Theatre1', children's department of the main hbrary. WHCT-TV Airing Renins of Tax Battle WHCT-TV, Channel 18, continued broadcasting Saturday, offering videotapes of Friday's on-camera attacks on tax officials. They also said they have plans for live broadcasts over the weekend. A Friday 2 p.m.

deadline for settling a $77,000 tax bill from the City of Hartford passed without action. City officials say they will meet early next week to discuss the claim, which is disputed on separation of church grounds by Faith Center Inc. of California, the station's owner. Atty. Bruce Henderson, a California lawyer representing Faith Center President Gene Scott said the station would rely on videotapes until Scott was sufficiently rested from his 65-hour sleepless vigil part of it on-camera to appear again before the TV cam- eras.

Henderson said the city had not initiated any action bv Saturday afternoon. "I don't expect anything Common Pleas 14 an mi-mm aumnii, piHppMMK I U-j 'y I dry? -Mi, i nMt fr, iiMMHM rrr 11 1 mum Man Gets 6 Months i ill a. ii rfH. ne saio, dui uw uappeu, were urcpaieu. iuc -j WW 11 station's doors continued to be locked to prevent all In IM AW AI1 AinilTI but station emnloves from entering, he said.

Farmington Avenue and forced him to pull over, robbed him and drove off with the car. A man was sentenced to six months in jail Friday on a larceny charge arising from an alleged robbery in Hartford on New Year's day. Police said they spotted Efrain M. Correa, 18, of ue car later on sigourney Between 15,000 and 20,000 messages of support for the Faith Center operation's position have been re-cciv6d he sdid The names will be added to an "outrage-o-gram" to be sent Monday to President Carter and the governors of Connecticut and California, where county officials are pressing Faith Center for $80,000 in back taxes on its property. Woman, 61, Shot While Taking Walk 175 Sigourney St, pleaded street and took correa into guilty to a reduced charge of custody.

They also reported third-degree larceny and recovering the victim's Judge William B. Ramsey gSHLMi. gave him a year, suspended of in En st vision of probation. dyv MfchMl Butter, a of Wtt-land SU thlrd4grM larctity, flirt, month tmptndod, probation on ywr, nd William Mamon, It, I Earl St disorderly conduct, Udan, tuiponood. Bonnnli C.

Garland, XI. of IM Albany Av rclvd 111 day, supendod, pro-batto on yoar, for broach of pac and after six months, probation two years. Correa was arrested Jan. 1 on charges of first-degree robber? and second-degree Wotnand St larceny. Police said he rob- givi tSSmmmt, tmptndttwi tr bed a man at knifepoint of Oavtd Boyd, St, of Back to Backgammon ImaananatkM.

Joh A. Colo, SS, of 11 Irving StM flnod 15 for broach ofpoaco and Tho-dor Coulomb, of 1 Babcock St. r- $35 and also stole nis car. The victim, a West Hartford man, told police that Correa jumped into his car at Sigourney Street and About 100 players turned out for the Mid-Winter Backgammon Tournament Saturday at the Russian Lady Cafe, including Tony Gazzana of Rocky Hill, left, and Jan Moran of West Hartford. The tournament, sponsored by the Hartford Backgammon Association, continues today (Courant Photo by John Long).

clvd Mvon day, smptitdod, on riro Jam Watlaca. 30. of A Drtvo, wat flnod ta for tawing a bad Chief Eugene B. Rame said Although police did not know exactly how far the assailant was from the victim, Rame said the shot must have been fired "some distance away." The car left the scene after the shooting, and Rame said Saturday night police had "no leads yet" in the shooting. The woman was taken to Middlesex Memorial Hospital where she was undergoing emergency treatment A hospital spokesman described her condition as Alcoholism Council MTODLETOWN A 61-year-old woman, while walking Saturday night on Grand Street, suffered superficial wounds to her head from a shotgun blast fired by an unknown assailant who fled, police said Maria Savastra of 31 Grand St was walking on the north side of Grand Street Saturday about 6:30 p.m.

when a car pulled up at the nearby intersection of Grand and Pearl streets, police said An occupant in the unidentified car got out and shot a single blast at the victim, Police Senior Joins Finalists In Scholarship Testing Teen-Agers Charged fo Plot To Kill Police Sets Area Meeting Two staff members of the Eastern Area Alcohol Education and Training Program in Bloomfield will speak in Hartford March 16 at a meeting of the Greater Hartford Council on Alcoholism. Charles Sapp, director of the program, and David Powell, associate director of education and training, will speak at 11:30 a.m. The meeting will be at the YWCA building, 135 Broad St Participants are asked to bring their own lunch. G. Kevin Sadler, 17, a Hartford Public High School senior, has been named finalist in the National Merit Scholarship competition.

He is the only Hartford student to become a finalist since the 1974-75 school year. Selection of finalists is based on academic achievement and citizenship by the National Merit Scholarship organization. Sadler is the son of Dr. and Mrs. George Sadler of 788 Prospect Ave.

His mother, Come Sadler, is director of the School Readiness program for the city schools. Sadler has won several prizes at Hartford Public in recognition of his science and history achievement He has attended conferences at Briefs City Two Hartford teen-agers were arrested Saturday night in connection with a conspiracy to kill police officers, police said. Although police were unusually tight-lipped about the case, they said four rifles and two handguns were seized during an afternoon raid at an apartment at 17 WillardSt Charged with conspiracy to commit: murder were Mark Mallon, 16, of 17 Wil-lard St, and Angel Padilla, .18, of 515 Park St Padilla was also charged with inciting to riot and conspiracy to violate the state narcotics law. Both were being held in lieu of $50,000 baiL They are scheduled to be presented in Common Pleas Court 14 Monday. Police said the pair offered no resistance when officers, whose guns were drawn, made the arrests Saturday afternoon.

No additional information was available, police said Man 'Critical' After Assault A 50-year-old Hartford resident was critically wounded in a stabbing Saturday afternoon, police said James Welcome, whose address was listed as 169 Signourey St, was reported in critical condition at St Francis Hospital and Medical Center. Officials said he was stabbed repeatedly No further details of the incident were available. Motorist Grounded By 'Pothole? NEW LONDON The ground literally fell from under Dorothy T. Hullivan of 145 Glenwood Ave. Saturday afternoon.

Mrs. Hullivan was backing up her car out of her driveway onto Glenwood Avenue, when the road collapsed and Correction The physical fitness program for representatives from city corporations will be conducted at the YWCA, not the YMCA as reported in Saturday's Courant The program, which is also open to individuals at a $10 fee for city residents and $25 fee for nonresidents will begin Monday Monday at 9 a.m. Heart Symposium A on rtroRmanagement and mechanisms for physicians will be held Thursday at St Francu Hospital and Medical Center. Dr. Louis Caplan, assistant professor of neurology at Harvard medical school, will be the featured speaker at the 9 am session in the hospital amphitheater The American Heart Association of Greater Hartford if co-sponsor of the meeting.

G. KEVIN SADLER Yale University and West part of the body of the car Point offering programs in piano, guitar and trumpet, fell into a hole three feet in science and engineering. Sadler also worts in a jewel-diameter and four feet deep. a musician who plays ry store after schooL.