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The Boston Globe Monday, May 13. 1968 -LlllIIllIlllIIIIIIIIIlllllIlllIlinillllHlIlIIIIIllIIItlllilllllllllllllllllltllltlllllllll! Series readers by getting ansuers, solving problems, and cutting red tape. Phone any time, or write to'Ask the Boston Globe, Boston 02107. Ansuers uill be found in the Eiening Globe and in the Sunday Globe Magazine. Ask the GloHe Names in News Globe Wlr Service! 0 When does Revere Beach open up for the rides? D.S., Brighton.

A Many of Revere's concessionaires are local people and if the weather is warm and the crowd is large the rides and stands open on short notice. After May 30, weather or not, most of the rides are operating. A Quiet Mother's Day at LBJ Ranch President Johnson turns his attention to the problems of world peace today after a quiet Mother's Day celebration at his hill country ranch. The President, who flew here early Sunday morning from the White House, was expected to keep in close touch with the opening of peace talks in Paris between the United States and North Vietnam. Mr.

Johnson spent a quiet day Sunday at his ranch with Mrs. Johnson and their two daughters, Luci Nugent and Lynda Robb, after attending both Roman Catholic and Protestant church services. Why is Huntington av. only lighted in the middle? The sidewalks on either side of the street are too dark at night for pedestrians. J.L., Boston.

A The original intention was probably to give light to people using the streetcars in the center reservation. Improvements on Huntington av. are temporarily stalemated by gigantic plans for the area, including a four-level connector with the Southwest Expressway, and the Inner Belt, urban renewal in the Fenway area, and possible continuation of the M.B.T.A. trolley tunnel to South Huntington av. Nonetheless, city street lighting chief Charles E.

McCabe is meeting with B.R.A. officials to discuss whatever lighting improvements are possible at this time. When was St. Patrick born? L.N., Boston. A The exact date of the saint's birth near the Severn River in England is not known.

His death on Mar. 17, 461 A.D., after establishing Christianity in Ireland, is celebrated as St. Patrick's Day. Are scarlet tanagers found in this section of Massachusetts? O.B., West Mcdford. A The Massachusetts Audubon Society reports that tanagers are very common in all parts of Massachusetts, but are not often spotted because they nest high in the tops of trees.

Males are a brilliant scarlet with black wings and tail and the females are a greenish yellow. The first arrivals from the South are already here and many more birds will be coming during the next weeks. Does one have to be 21 to register to vote in the November elections? E. Roslindale. A No.

The age requirement of 21 applies to the date of the election. Thus a person in his 20th year can register to vote if he will be 21 on or before election day, Nov. 5 this year. I can only remember the names of six of the seven dwarfs from "Snow Doc, Sleepy, Sneezy, Grumpy, Dopey, and Bashful. Whom did I forget? H.E., Hull.

-The Old South Cemetery in Dorchester opposite the Carney Hospital has two entrances. I have been an abutter to the Washington st. entrance for 30 years and it has always been cared for and policed by the cemetery custodian. Lately it is a mess and fast becoming a public dump with rubbish left here. Has the Park Department abandoned this lane or will it be cleaned up? J.S., Dorchester A A spokesman for the Park Department Historical Cemeteries section says that the lane will be cleaned up immediately.

'V I ih fiiiiiiil'MTiWivril Mmbim LBJ A The best onel Happy. MRS. HUMPHREY I made an error in my 19fifi income tax return and I am due a refund. I have been writing to Andover for a year and they have sent me numerous forms to fill out. But I still have not received a check.

J.J., Norfolk. A The necessary action has been taken to allow you the additional credit claimed due to excess F.I.C.A. deductions. Your check will be mailed within the next two weeks, according to Norman E. Morrill, Director, Internal Revenue Service Center.

rn-x 2i sS 4- My landlord put up for sale the house in which I rent. When I tried to buy it, my bank refused to finance the purchase, saying the propertv was owned on a "blanket mortgage." What's that? L.H., Brighton. A A blanket mortgage covers more than one piece of property. You may need a release from the present owner's bank before your own bank will be interested. I paid the Registry of Motor Vehicles S50 in November to register a commercial vehicle for 1968.

The number plates and registration certificate were never used because the vehicle broke down and they were returned to the Framingham registry office. Why haven't I received my money back? I've written two letters to the registry but had no reply. F.L., Natick. A Your rebate, minus $1.50 handling charge, is being processed. You should receive the check in about a month.

miner nool-skatin? rink and service buildine will cover ROXBURY'S SWIMMING POOL nears completion. Construction workers speed up the M.D.C. building job to meet a June 15 deadline. The swim- 2.5 acres in the Washington Park renewal area. It will be part of a planned 16 acre recreational area.

(Photo by Joseph Runci) My town has been making plans for sometime to add a swimming pool to the high school. Has there been any action? What are the drawbacks? M. Arlington. A School Supt. Bert A.

Rowens says the idea of a swimming pool was considered and rejected several years ago when the new high school wing was built and that there is now no remaining land for a pool. The major drawback to a pool is the expense of building and operating it. Mrs. Humphrey Leaves Hospital Mrs. Hubert H.

Humphrey, wife of the Vice President, left Bethesda Naval Medical Center, Washington, D.C., Saturday after surgery May 2 for what was described as a nonmalignant pelvic disorder. Japan Confers Order on Adm Sharp The Japanese Government today conferred the Order of the Rising Sun first class on Adm Ulysses Sharp, commander-in-chief, U.S. Pacific Forces, for his contribution to the defense of Japan. Japanese Defense Agency Director-General Kaneshichi Masuda decorated Sharp when the admiral paid a courtesy call at the is in Tokyo to attend the eighth Japan-United States Security Consultative Committee meeting opening today. Widower Fulfills Vow, Enters Order John Paul Habiger says he and his wife had an understanding that the survivor of their marriage would give his life to the Lord.

His wife, Mildred, died in 1963, shortly after both of their sons, John Jr. and Henry Louis, had begun studies for the Catholic priesthood. Habiger followed them into the Benedictine seminary, and all three soon will complete their studies at Belmont Abbey at Belmont, N.C. They are from Salina, and will be ordained at St. Benedict's Abbey in Atchison, on June 14.

Monkee Visits Girl Who Lost Leg Rhonda Cook, 11, who lost a leg last week in a traffic accident, had a special visitor Sunday: television and recording star Davey Jones of the Monkees. "He flew in here (Phoenix, Ari.) in an airplane, and the first thing he did was give me a kiss." said Phonda, "and it was nice. It was like nothing else." Jones learned from a newspaper story that Rhonda was carrying the Monkees' latest album when struck by a truck while crossing a street. Diva Moffo Collapses on Berlin Stage American opera star Anne Moffo, making her first appearance Sunday night in West Berlin, collapsed while singing the role of Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata. A friend said later her doctors had told her to take a long rest and she canceled all engagements for three months.

Miss Moffo fell to the opera stage just before she was to sing the first-act drinking song. Conductor Lorin Maazel stopped the orchestra. The curtain came down. The audience was told Miss Moffo was being treated by doctors. She was replaced by singer Xeyde Thomas, who happened to be on hand and knew the role.

Roxbury Readies for the Plunge 1 In a recent Boston Globe article on Leonardo da Vinci there was a reference to Leonardo's famous and "neatly written mirror handwriting." What is mirror writing and its purpose T.F.M., South Boston. A Mirror waiting is a script that runs in an opposite direction to the normal, individual letters also being reversed, so that to be read it must be held up to a mirror. Most of Leonardo's writing was done in this fashion, as the accompanying sample shows, and at least two explanations have been expressed; that he did it to relieve an overworked right hand (even though he was said to be left-handed), or simply liked to do it for its own sake to mystify people. Another notable mirror-writer was Lewis Carroll, who did it to amuse friends and produced a page of it for "Through the Looking Glass." By LAURA GRIFFIN The coolest nickel buy in the city should be June 15. That's the deadline M.D.C.

officials have set for completion of a swimming pool-skating rink in Washington Park. The facility will be named in honor of Roxbury resident Melnea A. Cass and be part of a 16-acre park in the renewal area. "So far, it's right on schedule," said Mason Condon, M.D.C. engineer.

"There are a couple of bugs in it we have to get straightened out but the pool is all poured. I've got my fingers crossed It seems to be a bright picture." Sandcastles abound now at poolside, hut wait for mixers, not kids. Planks, hoses, tools and frames cover the pool floor. There ate fires ablaze npar the "warming room" but for rubbish, not skaters, and the smell of tar and sound of drill buzz fills the air. But the skeleton of what, will bp is readily apparent.

Barring bad weather. George Donahue, foreman of the inh for J. M. Construction expects they'll meet the deadline. "We started the pool in March and have had good weather since We've put men on and are working Saturdays but we had our date pushed ahead.

"We're trying hut there's highly honored, "I'm an old woman here in Roxbury." Those who meet Mrs. Cass or talk to her know this an understatement. Still very active, she frequently is speaking and working both in and outside the community. As a five-year-old Mrs. Cass emigrated with her parents to Roxbury "They were migating just as Ne-gros are today She graduated from Boston schools.

Her chief challenge is to racist attitudes. "The attitude of people the rank and file, has to change. It will not change overnight. It has to be done on a one-to-one basis." Mrs. Cass is frankly proud of today's militant young Negroes.

Her past and others like her form the groundwork for the modern black youth militancy. HELPED VETERANS She is a former president of the Boston Branch, N.A.A.C.P.; a board member of Freedom House, past president of the Massachusetts Union of Women's Clubs and the Friendship Club of the Robert Gould Shaw House. She was a national figure in veterans' service work and her community work in Roxbury is legion. When the pool is dedicated a veteran champion of Roxbury will be in the spotlight. The facility will cover only a small part of the 16-acre park scheduled.

Residents and legislators n't ee another 10-year battle to get the other promises kept a recreation building, basketball, tennis and volleyball courts, football-baseball field and picnic grounds. But if so, it's likely Mrs. Cass will be among the Despite Donahue's natural hesistance on promising completion, it does seem the 2.5-acre, million dollar facility will be ready for Summer swims, at a nickel for those under 18 and a dime for older persons. It will accommodate 1000 bathers at a time. Officials estimate 50,000 swimmers and 17,000 skaters will be registered the first season.

Many, of course, will be repeats. Both facilities are standard-size for the M.D.C. The pool's completion will mean victory for Roxbury legislators and residents who battled over a decade for it. "I came into the House in '60-'61." said Rep. Royal Boiling (D-Rox.) and started the fight then." But he noted two predecessors Rep.

Oswald Jordan, D-Rox. and Rep. Alfred Brothers, had been at it before him. Just five years ago, M.D.C. Comr.

Howard Whitmore was still telling legislators and city officials that a pool was not needed in the area. Then it was cleared in '66. ART PLANS REDUCED Last Summer was lost as Boston Redevelopment Authority (B.R.A.) and M.D.C. officials quibbled over the use of art work. Some concessions have been made to the B.R.A.'s request for art, but few.

The service building architecture is smarter than most M.D.C. facilities; the rink features a white roof, better lighting and arches. After the long battle, Roxbury legislators feel it fitting that it be named afer long-time champion of equal rights and Roxbury, Melnea A. Cass. 72, of Harold st.

Rpp. Boiling filed the state bill jointly with Rep. Michael Haynes and Rep. Franklin i If 1rT Could the city fix the hole in front of 417 Bunker Hill It's been there two months and is big enough for a kid to drown in. My state representative has done nothing.

W. Charlestown. A Robert P. Mehegan, executive director of the Boston D.P.W., says the catch basin was cleaned on May 1 and a private contractor repaired the basin and sunken opening this week. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii "Ask the Globe" will study every inquiry, but the number of calls and volume of mail are so great that it isn't possible to answer every question.

Answers will be chosen for general interest. Tlease don't include a self-addressed stamped envelope. If your question, your problem or your gripe is interesting, we want to share it with all the readers MOFFO JULIE ROXBURY facility will be named in honor of Mrs. Melnea A. Cass, 72, longtime civil rights activist and "Roxbury's elder states-women." Holgate, two more Roxbury Democrats, to honor Mrs.

Cass. "She has quite an enviable record, commented Rep. Royal Boiling, who described Mrs. Cass as a "give 'em Hell" rights activist. "She's very unusual just as young as any of the hippies in the streets today in attitude, but she certainly represented the fight when none of these things (civil rights) were recognized by the establishment.

Mrs. Cass, considered the "elder slaleswoman" of Jlox-bury, says sincerly she's Julie Felix Fined in Marijuana Case American folksinger Julie Felix, 29, today was fined 130 pounds ($312) at Uxbridge, England, for attempting to take marijuana and an illegal amount of currency out of Britain last month. The folksinger, one of the most popular in Britain, pleaded guilty to the charges stemming from Apr. 26 when she was arrested at London's Heathrow Airport while en route to Geneva. of the Boston Evening Globe and the Sunday Globe.

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Socy. in, iui ir uunc lot of sub-eonfrat'tnrs are involved and anything could hold it up." QUARTERLY Dividends Compounded iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiHiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiN "Ban 49th Gangland Murder Victim Talked Too Much, Police Say holdup of a Cranston, jutti were summoned to the jeweler and his wife in their Quincy police station, in-home and a Braintree house- eluding two brothers whose break. house he had visited minutes Several "friends" of Pre- before he was slain. tiftn-t- Mi mtr irirrhni linimni ir rr trw flint nun- 1 -g By ALAN H. SHEEHAN The failure of Gerard Presutti, 27, of Boundary Brockton, to learn a basic rule of the underworld code made him the 49th Greater Boston victim of gangland assassins.

Presutti, who Was shot and killed on Germain st Quincy, Saturday night had a "loose mouth," police said, and had been on the underworld "hit list" for over a year. Capt. Paul LaHive, head of the Quincy police detective bureau, said Presutti would go on a "job" with anybody and that he didn't have any close associates in particular. Therefore when Presutti began talking about his exploits, LaHive said, "he could have implicated a lot of people." rresutti, who was out on bail for the $.13,000 armored car robbery at tbe Sunbeam Bakery in Dorchester, was also a suspect in several Smith Shore home invasion mhherips and several South Shore armored car holdups. He also was free on bail on charges stemming from a over him and fired another shot into the back of his head.

Police said there were two men involved in the ambush. Presutti's car was searched for weapons but the only article of interest that was found in the auto was a ski-mask. Fresutti was not armed. Presutti was still alive when police arrived at the s.syins scene, but died two hours at 11:20 in Quincy City Hospital. Police said he did not regain consciousness.

None could shed any light on the murder or the reason behind it. Presutti had gone to the home of Jame and Wayne Smith at 74 Germain who are also out on bail after being charged with participating in the Sunbeam robbery. When he as informed neither brother weie home, Presutti left the second floor apatment by a side door. As he emerged, he was shot in the right side of his head and fell to the ground. The killer apparently stood TODAY IN WASHINGTON NO NOTICE REQUIRED for WITHDRAWAL GUf DIVIDENDS ARE NOT SUBJECT TO STATE INCOME TAX SAVINGS INSURED BY A U.s! GOV AGENCY SEND for FREE SAVE-BY-MAIL KIT is completed probably in early or mid-June.

SENATE HOtSE Meets in regular session. SUPREME COl'RT In recess today. To meet Commerce Commit- May 20 to hand down de- tee hears testimony from cisions, and each Monday Ralph Nader on public pro- thereafter until current term tection from radiation. 21 ST. Boston hu 2-O630 main DORCHESTER OFFICE 347 WASHINGTON St.

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