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3 1 The Boston Globe Monday, January 25, 1971 Rte. 128 center to aid unemployed opens Wednesday initio- 's 'It If L-fV -4 A job placement center will be opened Wednesday on Rte. 128 in Waltham to help unemployed engineers and scientists find work, Gov. Sargent announced last night. The state and private busineses have formed the Professional Service Center to give as "much help as possible" to persons thrown out of work by the sharp increase in unemployment, Sargent said.

"What is needed is to move all these talented people back into the economy, whether as employees of existing private firms or the government, or possibly as operators of their own new businesses." Sargent, citing "a serious shortage of jobs," said that thousands of firms have been asked to list job openings with the center's job bank. Government openings also will be listed. Interviewers and counselors from the State Employment Service will staff the center. Advisers from other government agencies and some private firms will also be on hand. The center, funded by the Department of Labor, is located at Trapelo road and Rte.

128. The center will offer job counseling, help in preparing resumes, the job bank listings, commercial bank advice on home mortgage problems and the starting of new small businesses, and advice from universities on how to take further courses of study to expand job skills. Sargent said U.S. Margaret Heckler helped coordinate Washington action that led to development of the center, and that Raytheon Co. submitted the idea to Lt.

Gov. Donald R. Dwight. Honeywell Inc. donated computer time free of charge.

Associated Industries of Massachusetts said it' will ask its 2000 member firms to list their openings, and a number of other government and private agencies are cooperating in the venture. Applicants looking for-jobs can telephone 899-7100 for an appointment. DEANNA LaVALLE TAKES A WINTER'S WALK ACROSS THE MUDDY DAY. (Frank Wing photo) RIVER BRIDGE IN THE FENS YESTERDAY. (Frank Wing photo) Thousands mail letters to POWs9 captors Polaroid foes ask expanded boycott Lt.

Joseph Dunn, has been missing in China since 1968, helped coordinate the Needham post office drive. Both the Greenes and Mrs. Dunn are members of the National League of Families of Prisoners of War, which has some 40 Massachusetts members. Mrs. Dunn said the Bay State is the first state to send letters not only to North Vietnam, but on behalf of prisoners in Laos, China and South Vietnam as well.

One of the areas of greatest activity was Needham. Some 3000 letters were collected at the main post office there, under the guidance of superintendent Gerard D. Driscoll. Selectmen, Red Cross and Post Office officials and veterans organizations joined in the drive. Mr.

and Mrs. Charles Greene of Needham, parents of Charles E. Greene a prisoner of war, and Mrs. Maureen Dunn of Randolph, whose husband, Navy K533 There are reported to be 400 prisoners in North Vietnam, 600 in South Vietnam, 200 in Laos, five in China, with no count for Cambodia, she added. At the Needham dump on Saturday, Boy Scouts from two Needham troops collected more than 700 letters which were mailed yesterday.

A special Mass is scheduled in Newton's St. Bernard's Catholic Church next Sunday as the drive ends. In Wellesley High School social studies classes, slides were shown this week and students were asked to write letters. Wednesday has been designated by Postmaster Walker as the day 14,000 postal workers in greater Boston, will conduct their drive to write letters to Hanoi. The campaign began last month in Hingham and developed into a statewide movement when Gov.

Sargent proclaimed January POW month. High School students in Milton, Quin-cy, Easton and Abington have joined in the drive. A Post Office official said letters mailed yesterday will be processed and counted today at the South Boston Postal annex. Post office lobbies will continue to call attention to the drive all week, Walker said. By Evelyn Keene Globe Correspondent Thousands of airmail letters and aerograms, urging humane treatment of American prisoners of war, were mailed to Hanoi from 40 Greater Boston post offices during "POW Sunday" yesterday.

Postmaster George K. Walker said greater Boston post offices remained open from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. yesterday for the start of a week of intensive letter writing initiated by the Greater Boston Red Cross. Form letters, prepared by the Red Cross and the postal service and addressed to the president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in Hanoi, urged neutral inspection of all prison camps, identification of all prisoners of war, the release of sick and wounded, and a free flow of mail between prisoners of war and their families.

A special letter by Archbishop Hum-berto S. Medeiros urging cooperation in the drive was published in the newspapers of the Boston Catholic archdiocese and read to 1,800,000 parishoners of 407 churches yesterday. In other churches and synagogues, prayers for America's prisoners of war were said and worshippers were asked to participate in the letter-writing campaign. with sunglasses) and Charles Green (holding box at right) have relatives who are missing in Southeast Asia. (William Ryerson photo) LETTERS TO HANOI Organizers of Needham drive gather in front of town's Post Office.

Mrs. Maureen Dunn and son Jody of Randolph (in center By John B. Wood Globe Staff The Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement last night announced plans to take "direct action" against the Polaroid Corp. to protest what it calls the company's continued involvement with apartheid in South Africa. Kenneth Williams, a former Polaroid photographer, called on "all right-on thinking people" to boycott Polaroid products, protest the sale of Polaroid products in neighborhood stores, and refuse to be photographed by Polaroid ID-2 equipment.

"If your store won't take Polaroid off the shelf, put a big white 'X' on his window, and we'll take care of him," Williams told a meeting of 50 persons at the Roxbury Boys Club. The Workers Movement claims ID-2 equipment is used to produce the passbooks South Africa's 16 million nonwhites are required to carry. Polaroid admits selling $1.5 million worth of equipment to a Johannesburg distributor, but maintains it has uses other than passbook production. Last week, Polaroid announced it would continue high Svas set' pupils to attend double sessions after $2m fire to trade with South Africa, while conducting an "experiment" in social action there. The company promised to aid black education and to pressure its distributor to dramatically increase salaries of black employees.

"We don't want to be a sociological experiment any more. You can't experiment with human lives," Williams said last night. He said the Workers Movement "has not tried to push the brothers and sisters at Polaroid into rising up, because we know the hardships. We know they're the first ones to get fired and the last ones to be hired." The Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement last night announced plans to take "direct action" against the Polaroid Corp. to protest what the group called "continued involvement with apartheid in South Africa." Rev.

Renford Gaines of the Arlington Street Church and several other black ministers expressed support for the Workers Movement last night. Meetings are scheduled tonight and Tuesday at the Cambridge Community Center, 5 Callendar St. hockey star at Woburn High, Carpenter is employed as a postal worker in Lexington. His father, Frederick, is associated with the state department of Public Works. The Carpenters have two other sons, Robert, 17, a senior at Woburn High, and John, 13.

Carpenter collapsed in his home Friday night after being taken ill on Thursday in downtown Woburn. Medication was being administered to hospital, police and postal personnel who might have had contact with Carpenter and members of his family. Meanwhile, Kenneth Donahue, 13, of Grasshopper lane, Scituate, is undergoing treatment for a meningitis infection at Massachusetts General Hospital. He was also stricken on Friday. He was reported improving yesterday.

A re-, port on the exact type of meningiti has not been released. Earlier this month, a 19-year-old Hull boy and an 8-year-old boy from Na-hant died of spinal meningitis. Meningitis strikes again but 'no need for alarm' MEMS If i 'I I f' mm "4 I 1 1 Jb r-fci trnmt fy mmm I "The fire is an awful setback to the children's education," said school committeeman William Egan. "I am very upset to say the least. The only possible solution is the double session." All day yesterday and well into the night scores of Norwood residents looked at the remains of South Junior High School.

"I just don't believe it," said Nancy O'Connor, a French teacher at the school. "Everything is ruined, just unbelievable." Craig Caldwell, a music teacher at South Junior High, said will hurt all the kids. Now they will have to attend double sessions at another school. It is just a shame." Norwood junior high pupils attended double sessions at the South school until 1st February, when construction was completed on the North Junior High. Garrete Lee, 13, of 151 Winslow an eighth grader at South, said: "At first I thought it was funny, but then I started to feel sick.

This school was real homey. I don't want to go on double sessions." Another eighth grader at the school, Steven Flagg of Blaze at junior Norwood By George Regan Jr. Globe Correspondent Seven hundred fifty pupils from Norwood South Junior High School, which was gutted by a $2 million general alarm fire Saturday night, will start double sessions with the pupils at North Junior High later this week. Norwood Fire Chief Irving J. Dobson said yesterday, after a preliminary investigation: "The fire was definitely set." He said separate fires erupted almost at once in three locations, the principal's office, room 203 on the second floor and a math room on the third floor.

The fire continued to smoulder last night, as firemen poured thousands of gallons of water into the ruins of the 51-year-old four-story, brick building. While pupils from the school were getting a brief vacation, Norwood municipal officials started facing the task of planning for the construction of another junior high school. The $3 million North Junior High, -which all Norwood junior high pupils will now attend, was completed only a year ago. Prior to its completion the town had to hold double session at the crowded South school. "It could have been a lot worse," said Chief Dob-son.

"We were damn lucky we were able to save at least part of the building." He said the first alarm was turned in at 7:45, but it wasn't until early yesterday morning that the blaze was brought under control. Two firemen from Norwood were injured in battling the blaze. Thomas Collins of 182 Sunny Side road was held for observation at Norwood Hospital after suffering what was apparently a heart attack. Pvt. William Gorman broke an ankle in a fall inside the school.

Fire companies from 16 communities as far away as Boston and Plainville aided the Norwood department. School committeeman Dr. Thomas Couch made the announcement about classes yesterday, after a meeting between selectmen, school department personnel and school committee members. He said the school committee had no choice but to hold double sessions. Students now attending North Junior High will attend school in the morning, and students from the burned-out South Junior High will attend classes from noon to 5 p.m.

Dr. Couch said arrangements would be made to transport students by bus to North Junior High School. There will be no classes today for South Junior High School pupils. Dr. Couch said that until the double session program is worked out, announcements will be made on a day-to-day basis on whether there will be school.

He estimated damage to be more than $2 million to the contents and the building. There is insurance on the facility, but officials declined to sa how much. A 19-year-old Woburn postal worker was listed in critical condition at Choate Hospital in Wobun last night the fourth reported victim of meningitis in Massachusetts this month. Two youths have died of spinal meningitis and a third, a Scituate boy, is undergoing treatment at Massachusetts General Hospital. Massachusetts Department of Public Health officials say, however, there is no cause for alarm.

There are 30 to 40 cases reported across the state each year, they said. Studies are being made by the DPH of each of the cases reported this month, but no connection has been found in any of the cases. The latest case of spinal meningitis reported is that of Frederick Carpenter of IT Sonrel Woburn, who is under care of specialists from both Choate and Massachusetts General Hospital Last night he was reported responding to treatment, although still unconscious. former baseball and I 1 STUDENTS LOOK AT FIRE DAMAGE. (Bill Ryerson photo) 49 Oak said: "I am real- 31 Roxanne st- said: "Now structure, investigaatora ly upset.

The kids always I suppose our tax rate will continued to probe the de-joke about the school burn- increase. It just has to. I bris-looking for clues, ing up, but no one ever still can't believe it School department offi-wanted it to. Even the though." cials said the fire was the tropical fish were killed." As icicles started to form first in the town's history Mrs. Francis Haggerty of on the stair wells inside the in a public school building.

Boy, 10, reports babysitter to police for smoking pot last year and had learned to recognize its appearance from programs on television. The police went to the house and took into custody the babysitter and three young men. They are scheduled to appear in court today on charges of various violations of the narcotic laws. SPRINGFIELD A 10-year-old boy reported his babysitter and three other teenagers to the police Saturday night for allegedly smoking marijuana. Police said yesterday that the boy called headquarters to report that a pot party was going on in the house He reportedly told the officers he had learned to detect the smell of marijuana at a state police exhibit.