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Boston Evening Globe Wednesday, May l'J71 Huntington av. trolley, paving to get face lift Comr. Kelly urges closing of Girls High By Frank Mahoney, Globe Staff 1 Boston's Fire Comr. James H. Kelly has urged Maycr White to close Girls High School in Roxbury and transfer I i i the students to other schools.

His action was prompted, he said, by the high cost of maintaining firefighters, police officers and truant officers at the school which, he says, is the only troublesome school in the city. Comr. Kelly said the city is paying out $600 a day for the extra protection' being afforded at the school. V- A4LJt.A.....r( fn v. a ng "flit-le- UiffV Viae rri ctr i 1 By A.S.

Plotkin, Globe Staff Three years ago the City of Boston and the MBTA agreed that traffic and trolley transit conditions on Huntington av. beyond Symphony Hall were a mess and required early and massive improvement. Present conditions are, if anything, City Public Works Joseph Cassa said this week that the one-third of a mile of the avenue beyond Brightam Circle had "the worst pavement in the city." Now there are solid plans to make improvements from a point opposite Prudential Center to South Huntington nearly two miles. It will take place in stages. The first, on which work should begin in a month or two, will involve replacement by the MBTA of 1600 feet of double track, from Brigham Circlf to Parker Hill av.

They are flush with the pavement, and it will mean ripping out rotted ties, stone ballast and similar chores. New' rail already has been ordered. (Making the MBTA's job easier will be use of a powerful new multiple-use machine. It cost $57,000 when recently bought for initial use on Commonwealth av. work, and speeds the job of removing an laying new materials.

With this done, the city's public works department will lay down a thin (one inch) blacktop layer on the badly-scarred and pot-holed, street surface. Casazza would prefer a total reconstruction, but funds are lacking. The bigger, more important, phase requires close liaison with the state Public Works Department and the Federal Bureau of Public Roads. The reason is that the original plan, by the Boston Redevelopment Authority, assumed that a multi-faceted job of widening the street, moving rails, widening the median strip and what not, would be paid for by Federal renewal funds. But these dried up, and the Huntington av.

project was slioved to a back burner. Now comes a new Federal source of cash and it is in the Federal Bureau of Public Roads (a division of the Department of Transportation.) Its name is TOPICS (for Traffic Operations to Increase Capacity' and Safety). Inflation, and some job changes, have boosted the original cost estimate from $1.2 million to $2.8 million. It also involves much more red tape. Public hearings will have to be held, since about 35,000 square feet of land will have to be taken, and questions of environment will SOLID PLANS are progressing to repair and replace trolley tracks and road surface on Huntington avenue (above).

To handle the project, MBTA will bring in its new $57,000 "multipe-use monster machine," shown here at work on a Commonwealth avenue project. capacity of 1200 students," FIRE COMR. KELLY Kelly pointed out. "But only 400 pupils are enrolled and of these nearly 100 are absent each day," he told the Despite the added protection in the school, ComK Kelly said, false alarms are still being sounded and trou ble abounds in the corridors. Firefighters answering the alarms are still subjected to abuse, rock throwing and theft from their apparatus, he reported.

Only a month ago, the commissioner told the mayor that unless the situation in the schools was brought control he would act under public safety laws to close them. Comr. Kelly said that when apparatus has to answer false alarms in school Sections of the city are left without adequate fire protection for a period of time. In the past months, he said, actual fires have broker! (Photo above by Charles Dixon) out while apparatus was tied up at schools on needles! calls. "When this happens, apparatus has to respond to the actual fire from distant locations and of course the dam-age is more severe than it should have been.

Fortunate? we have not lost any lives, yet, but this is a grave possibility," he warned. i The commissioner said that by closing Girls High ail of his men could be returned to firefighting duty and the1, police officers, stationed in the school, could also return to, regular duty. "If the hard core of troublemakers are dispersed into' other schools, it is fair to assume that our troubles at Girls' High will disappear with them," Kelly concluded. the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston State College and Peter Bent Bringham Hospital. The project contemplates widening some of the service roads along the Eastern side of the street next to the overpass at Massachusetts a relocation of Evans Way, in anticipation of future construction by the state installing a chain link fence in the median strip to prevent college kids from darting across the busy avenue.

And numerous other jobs. The MBTA has been faced with a minor dilemma. For years it had toyed with the idea of replacing at least some of the trolley car service along Huntington av. with buses out to the Arborway terminal. This might make for speedier service, economics and flexibility.

But this is touchy politically. And it would mean a change of vehicle, from bus to trolley and vice versa, for riders. So for the. forseeable future, trolleys will continue to roll along the busy artery. The third pair of tracks near Northeastern will be moved back into the widened median strip, eliminating that obvious hazard.

The interruptions to movement along the avenue will be a nuisance, while they last. But the news ought to be welcome to long-suffering residents and users in the long run. also be considered. "Most of the land, in the form of long harrow strips, will come from the property of Northeastern, Wentworth, Frl Curran takes off collar, makes news in mo re than one wa -V 1 the first newspaper of its kind in the.whol church," Fr. Curran said.

"We print everything, good bad, about the Jesuits in the New England Province, what they're doing and how they're doing it." The paper operates so freely that when Fr. Williant Guihdon, S.J., the provincial superior, had a complaint about editorial content, all he could do was write the editor" a "He had good words for the paper generally," Fr? Curran said, "but he accused us of bad taste in the use of of missionary work in Jamaica, has a lot of reasons for wanting to be a newspaperman, as well as a priest. "I was brought up in the business' he said. "My father (the late Michael Curran) was editor of the Woburn Times for 40 years and served as correspondent for all the Boston papers. "He needed a lot of help so, from the I was 12 or so, I was calling in stories to Boston or running to get pictures on a bus to meet an edition." But there is more to his career as a "worker priest" than a nostalgia for boyhood's carefree time.

"I don't feel the church, as an institution, is as interested in the secular media as it might be and should be," Fr. Curran said. 'Editing a couple of weekly newspapers gives me a unique opportunity to carry out, in a very effective way, the Jesuit mission of social change. "If, as happened last year, the life style of people is threatened by something like a waste disposal plant, I'm in a position to fight it editorially." Fr. Curran said the fact that he is a priest enhances greatly his effectiveness as an editor.

By James Stack, Globe Staff Fr. Tom Curran is just like every other Jesuit priest, excep that he puts on a shirt and tie every morning and goes off to work. Fr. Curran, weary of the conventional ministry, sought permission to become the first genuine "worker priest" in the New England Province of the Society of Jesus. He is now editing two secular weekly newspapers on the South Shore the Weymouth News and the Quincy Paper.

So the Jesuits, famed for notable achievement in practically every sphere of human activity, are now represented in small town journalism. "And we're not doing that badly, either," he said. "We've alreaady chalked up a successful editorial campaign to prevent installation of a waste disposal plant in Weymouth." Another editorial campaign initiated by Fr. Curran resulted in the state's cancellation of a one-way traffic plan that would have diverted 35,000 commuter cars into Weymouth Landing every day. Fr.

Curran, 45, whose background includes six years "I find that, because I'm a priest, people with whom I deal give me credit for being sincere and well-motivated," he said. "I can talk to legislators, for instance, and they know I'm not grinding any axes." Fr. Curran says his work in secular journalism complements his priesthood in many ways, but chiefly because it enables him to enunciate Christian principles. "This is not to say that everything I write is a sermon," he says. "Preaching takes many forms." Newspaper work also makes him available for counselling troubled people with whom he would ordinarily have no contact, Fr.

Curran says. "This is just a fringe benefit, I kow," he said, "but when it gets around that a priest is putting out the local paper, he gets a lot of calls from people who need help." Much as he likes weekly editing, though, Fr. Curran is moving slowly away from it to do justice to a journalistic chore closer to his Jesuit heart. This involves running "S.J. News," a monthly newspaper devoted to recording with complete editorial freedom from superiors, the life and times of the 1100 men who make up the Society of Jesus in New England.

a couple of cartoons in which a couple of fellow Jesuits were needled." Fr. Curran lives at a Jesuit residence on Newbury but is seldom there, except to sleep. "You can't produce any social change sitting in cloister," he said. "You have to be where the people are." So Fr. Curran has gone to the people, seldom relying-on a clerical collar for a warm reception.

"I wear a shirt and tie because I am more comfort-' able that way and, by and large, other people are, too," he pvnlainpH "And if people want to criticize me for not wearing; a Roman collar, then they've got to criticize St. Francis, Exavier, the Jesuit saint after whom so many American, Catholic children are named." Francis Exavier, Fr. Curran said, was a "real pro" being, according to his own motto, "all things to all "He could dress like a king if he had to, or like a bum, when the occasion called for it," Fr. Curran said. "Or he: could dresj like a courier, which he really was.

But he really stayed close to the people." boston P.M. Window box high on Hill likely to be higher still Cook sent back a copy of the concert schedule and an invitation. the Boston Ballet Co. last weekend, on the same stage as the recently defected Russian ballerina (Kirov Ballet) Natalya Makarova. "I'm often asked what I get out of being a ballerina," Anamarie said.

"And it's very simple, I dance for the joy of physical outlet. And even though I do classic ballet Swan Lake," I prefer modern ballet. I feel more at home in it, probably because it's less artificial than dancing some of those old ballets "Naila," etc.) that were set to music by the yard. Last year, Anamarie danced in Boston for Summer-thing and at Jacob's Pillow in the Berkshires. She did summer stock a couple of seasons back in "The Music Man" and "Guys and Dolls," but from here on in that's out.

"It's was pretty depressing," she recalled. "The only places and people we saw were hotel rooms and kitchen help." By Ron Wysocki, Globe Staff With the coming of spring, a girl resident new to Beacon Hill, wanted to brighten her surroundings by planting a window box garden. Her intent was to sow parsley and basil. She also had a practical bent and planned to reap her crop for some dinnertime flavoring. Seeds and soil were no problem.

What she needed was a window box. So down the Hill she skipped to a local store. There she was met by a variety of boxes in several sizes. She chose one of the smaller ones. "Are you sure that will be big enough?" inquired the proprietor.

She, unsuspecting, said that it would be ample. He didn't think so. Most of his other customers needed the larger sizes because that's where they grew their supply of "grass." "But I want to grow parsley and basil," she said. "Oh," said he. giving her a nudge and an unbelieving wink." That's what you call yours, huh?" Donald Gramm, in town rehearsing for the Opera Co.

of Boston's presentation of "Norma" at the Blue Hills Reservation in Milton June 11 and 13, stopped to browse in a downtown bookstore. He was thumbing through a copy of "Lady Chatter-ley's Lover" in which he found many of the pages still un-sliced and attached to one another and asked a clerk about it. The quick reply was "That's the uncut version." QUICK NOTES: Bob "Alexander, guidance counselor at Brookline High, has been appointed manager of the Charles River Park summer pool and cabana club. He received his professional training in health, phsical education and recreation at Baldwin-Wallace College and picked up his master's degree in education at Kent State New locks have been installed on doors at Middlesex Probate Court in hopes of putting and end to petty pilfering from the building. Ever wonder how the leadout boys at the dog tracks get the greyhounds back after they chase swifty.

Well, there's usually a plain box situated on the track infield. The dogs congregate there after the race. Some aficionados think they talk things over. But what is really going on is that a half-dozen of Swifty's brotners and sisters are in the box to attract the racing dogs for easy pickup. A curtiin hiding they from view during the race is puiied back at the conclusion.

jfr. Fame of the Boston Pops concerts at the MDC Hatch Memorial Shell has spread thousands of miles to Saudi Arabia. Milton Cook, coordinator of events at the shell, received a letter from Donald K. Cameron Jr. of Saudi Arabia, addressed to the manager of Hatch ShelL The letter said that Cameron and some friends planned to vacation in Boston soon and wanted to attend the open air tn in i nr There's an old standard, "Dance Ballerina, Dance," that fits Ar.amarie Sarazin like a pair of tights.

She is a North Attleboro girl who has been "on her toes" the past 15 years. She appeared in three performances staged by FR. TOM CURRAN "worker priest" (Paul Connell photo).