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14 THE BOSTON GLOBE MONDAY. JULY 27. 1981 Pioneer pilot honored at 79 he's still flying K21TJS BC2C5FS Fire hits nursery, utilities A fire at a Woburn nursery yesterday after-- noon left 1777 Woburn homes without electric I power and about 300 residents without tele- phone service when it damaged wire and tele-. phone cables. The fire broke out at about 2 p.m.

at Mahoney's Rocky Ledge, a nursery located at I 100 Bedford a Woburn Fire Department spokesman said. The fire was confined to a barn, one of several buildings belonging to the nursery. Firefighters from Winchester, Burllng-. ton. Arlington, Lexington and Stoneham also responded to the 3-alarm fire.

Damage was esti- mated by officials in excess of $100,000. Electric power was restored by 5 p.m., but burned-out phone cables were taking longer to replace last night. I Maine dog-racing drive is on Maine is the only New England state that re-j fuses to legalize dog racing, but a petition drive it is under way to force a statewide vote on the issue. Bob Tardiff of Dayton said Sunday he is Associated Press HYANNIS Astronaut Eugene Cernan told John L. Polando on Saturday that he doubted he would have matched Polando's feat of flying from New York to Turkey a half century ago.

"I'm not sure I'd have done what you did 50 years ago, John. That's outstanding." said Cernan at Barnstable Municipal Airport on Cape Cod, where a plaque was unveiled commemorating the record-setting flight of copilot Polando -now 79 and still flying and Russell N. Board-man to Istanbul In 1931. "There are no words to describe what has been done here today," said an emotional Polando, "but I must give all the credit to Russ Boardman. I was just a copilot.

This (the celebration) is better than when we landed In Istanbul." Polando and Boardman made their world-record breaking trip in the "Cape Cod" when flying was still a novelty, just four years after Charles Lindbergh made the first solo flight across the Atlantic. Boardman died in 1933 when his Gee Bee racing plane crashed. Polando, who still flies almost dally for Hyannis Aviation, made the trip Saturday in a 1930 Stimson plane, similar to the one he and Board-man used for their overseas venture. He took off from the same embarkation point as before -Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn. N.Y.

but this time flew only to Hyannis. Earlier in the day, Cernan, who was the last man to walk on the Moon, in December 1972, compared his Moon flight with Polando's. "I would say they were on an equal basis. In their own time, both were an effort to lead this country forward. The flight that Polando and Boardman made was not only an adventure for them, it supplied advances in aviation for all of us.

Nothing happens by accident." The astronaut also was a guest speaker at a dinner for Polando attended by an estimated 1000 people. Lawyer F. Lee Bailey, a former Marine Corps pilot, served as master of ceremonies. It took Polando and Boardman 50 hours, 8 minutes to fly their way into the record books of their era. "We had no equipment," Polando recalled.

"It was a nervous take-off for me, but I relaxed more in the air. "The most satisfactory thing about it was the fact that the announcer said we were going to try to break the record by flying to Istanbul -and we landed in Istanbul." With little navigational equipment, the pilots relied mostly on dead reckoning, he said. Astronaut Eugene Cernan (left) walks with John Polando in Hyannis Saturday. Behind them is a replica of the plane Polando copiloted a record distance in 1931. ap photo convinced that dog racing could generate as much as $5 million for state coffers each year, and he is starting a petition drive as a step toward legalizing the sport.

Three previous attempts to establish dog racing have failed in Maine, where harness racing of horses is legal. Sen. Dennis L. Dutremble (D-Biddeford) said he will sponsor a bill during the next legislative to legalize greyhound racing. Park rides: Stricter mmWW77 safety codes pushed A -4 ''J Fairgoers ride "Yo-Yo." attraction at Rocky Point Amusement Park in Warwick.

GLOBE PHOTO BY SALLY KROEHNKE Mass. man dies in Vt. crash Vermont State Police said Paul Allard. 23. of Haverhill, was pronounced dead at the scene of a head-on collision with another Massachusetts motorist on Rte.

14 in Craftsbury, Saturday morning. Allard's van and a pickup truck driven by Pasquale Palmisano, 29, of Gloucester collided, police said. Palmisano was taken to Copley Hospital in Morrisvllle. A passenger in the truck, Diane Vecchione. 27, also of Gloucester, was reported in fair condition yesterday.

Three other people who were Injured were treated and released. Woman accidentally shot An 18-year-old Saugus woman was accidentally shot in the head yesterday afternoon by her 16-year-old step-brother in their home at 14 Myrtle st. The victim, Rene Todisco, was listed in critical condition at Massachusetts General Hospital last night. Saugus Police Sgt. Neil Mee-han said the boy, whose name was withheld, went up to his father's third-floor bedroom and brought down a handgun.

The two were "playing" with the gun on the back porch when it discharged, striking Todisco in the middle of the forehead from two feet away, Meehan said. Police said no charges have been filed against the boy, but the investigation was still under investigation. PARKS Continued from Page 13 v- because they are in one town one week, another the next; setting up equipment, taking it down. Spokesmen for the amusement park industry carefully dissociate themselves, however, from traveling carnivals, pointing out that amusement parks, because they stay In the same place, are safer. They also say that because they are largely dependent upon local clientele, they take extra precaution, inspecting equipment, dally, because they cannot afford the negative publicity when an accident happens.

John Bowen of Lunenburg, president of the New England Assn. of Amusement Parks, said. "Accidents cast a pall over the whole industry. From a personal point of view, it's tragic for the people and, from a business point of view, it's a bad public Image." Carnivals and amusement parks have been a fact of American life for decades. Every year, some 107 million Americans seek entertainment at the country's 508 permanent amusement parks, said Mary Ann Kreeger of the International Assn.

of Amusement Parks and Attractions in North Riverside, 111. Roily Larson of the Outdoor Business Assn. in Minneapolis, said more than two billion thrill ride tick ets 10 times the population of the United States are purchased annually- Larson's organization encompasses the traveling carnival, which was introduced to Americans in 1865 at the Chicago World Fair. Larson said that some 2500 fairs are held in the United States each year, with the carnival the major feature. That is why there are 500 traveling carnivals in the country.

The number of people attracted to the carnivals, Larson said, is "more than the' number who attend all the major league sports put together, no question about that. Obviously, a good share of them are repeaters." Why do people go to amusement parks and carnivals? Robert Blundred, executive vice president of the International Assn. of Amusement Parks and Attractions, said: "Amusement parks and their allure are a part of Americana dating back to the days of picnic groves at the end of trolley lines. Facilities offer entertainment that can be enjoyed by all age groups. It's a day in the fresh air, an appeal to the senses, and an escape to fantasy from the pressures of everyday life." Larson said: "It's the old cliche the smell of the grease paint, the roar of the crowd, the old 'sawdust in my Carnivals draw people who spend money on games, food, rides and sideshows.

It's a human magnetism for celebration." But the big thing over the last 15 years, he said, has been "the thrill rides." And it is the teenage market that has made it so. Meanwhile, A. M. Siciliano, father of the teenager Injured in the North Conway tragedy, a few days ago recalled that when local police called him at home and said his daughter had been injured in an accident at the carnival, "I knew exactly which ride she was on because the octopus was her favorite ride. She liked to go round and round, up and down." People in the industry say statistics show that more accidents happen In the home than at amusement park or carnival grounds.

Kroeger said that a 1980 study commissioned by the International Assn. of Amusement Parks and Attrac tions showed that only .00002 percent of 107 million Americans were affected by ride-related accidents In 1979. Statistics for 1980 from the US-Consumer Product Safety Commission show that 6700 amusement ride-related injuries were treated in US hospitals daring 1979. Of the 84 percent who suffered contusions, abrasions, strains, sprains, and lacerations, only 4 percent, or 268 53c-tims, were hospitalized. Ten people died.

"It's an accurate estimate of what happens," Larson said. "Not many are. seriously hurt." According to the American Insurance which last March published a list of the principal types of accidents in which the most deaths occurred in 1980: 51,500 from auto accidents; 13,800 from falls; 6900 drownings; and 10 deaths from thrill rides. Block party in Mattapan ends in violence We need to look at what we're says a victim 'l Man drowns on camping trip A man who drowned while on a family caihp-: ing trip at the Lake Champagne campground in 1 Randolph, was identified yesterday by Ver-' mont State Police as James Cox, 24, of North Troy. Police said witnesses told them the victim was about 50 feet from shore in water 10 to 12 feet deep Saturday afternoon when he began yelling for help.

The witnesses said they could not reach him before he went under a second time and disappeared. A local rescue squad found the body about an hour later. Mass. man's car hits train It probably will be a while before Marshal and Hazel McCarty forget their trip to Vermont. McCarty's station wagon was destroyed early Saturday morning when it crashed into a Maine Central freight train at the village crossing in Gilman.

then careened into a car parked nearby. State Police said. Marshal McCarty, 49, of Brockton, and Hazel McCarty, 43, of Fairhaven, both suffered minor cuts and bruises and were treated and released from a Lancaster. N.H., hospital. 2 escape airport crash Two persons escaped injury yesterday morn-J ing when a single-engine plane crashed right "Rafter takeoff from Mansfield Municipal Airport "on a flight to Middleborough.

The Piper Colt craft came down in brush about 80 yards from the airport runway, according to assistant air-: port manager Robert A. Curry. He identified the pilot as Ernest Baker and his passenger as Hec-r tor Rousseau. The crowd was dispersed and no arrests were made during the trouble, which lasted about one hour, police said. Surveillance in the area was Increased last night, according to Boston Police.

Some of the victims were willing to talk about the incidents yesterday, but only if their names were not published. One man said he and a friend were heading home toward Jamaica Plain about 1 a.m. when youths converged on their car near the intersection of Morton and Evans streets. "There was a mob of people lined up on both sides of the street," the 28-year-old man said. The windshield of his car was shattered, he said, and its sides were battered by bricks 'and rocks thrown by the crowd.

The man escaped with minor scratches, but a passenger was taken to Carney Hospital with a broken nose, head injuries and four broken teeth, he said. Yesterday, unable to speak because of his injuries, the passenger related the details of the stoning through his wife, who gave the following account: He was stopped at a traffic light and saw a gang of black youths on both sides of the street. They waved at him. He turned in his seat to look at them and they hit him with a brick. He was struck on the face two or three times by bricks that were hurled through the window on the passenger side and the windshield.

In other cases, police said, a Roslindale man's car was badly damaged by rocks and a man was beaten by youths as he was getting into his pajked car on Morton street. The windows of his car had been smashed. Another man sustained minor injuries when he lost control of his car and hit a fire hydrant after a brick was thrown at his windshield. MORTON Continued from Page 13 The disturbances occurred after the end of the block party in this predominantly black neighborhood, bordered by Blue Hill avenue, Morton street and River street. The area has many three-deckers and the rail line that takes Amtrak trains to New York runs by the edge of the Walker playground.

Police, who were still trying to determine what really caused the sudden violence, said last night the probe was still going on. Residents said that the Sunday morning disturbance was the first instance of vandalism in the area this sumnmer. One of a number of neighborhood youths questioned by The Globe said that some had become upset when the decision was made to shut off the music at midnight after the audience had been told it would be played to 2 a.m. if the group remained orderly. "It was really scary last night," said Errol Morrisson, 30, an area resident.

"Kids were turning over a Grenada with a U-Haul on it. There were a couple of kids spotting cars, and when a car with a white person in it was coming, they'd yell "whitey" or something." About nine people were injured in the stonings, according to Metropolitan Police. Five of them were treated at Carney Hospital for injuries received from splintering glass and rocks and bricks hurled at the occupants of the autos, said Dolan of the Metropolitan Police. Boston and Metropolitan Police for a time set up roadblocks and rerouted traffic away from the disturbance area to prevent further stoning of cars, police said. tion, and a group of youths ap- proached.

'They dragged us out of the car after breaking the window, grabbed at our jewelry and beat us," she said. "Then they took off with our car, with our purses inside. Later we found out they rolled it and demolished it." As they were being beaten, two teenage women fought their way through the crowd, diverted the assailants, and called for help from a young man passing by in his car. The man then drove them teethe nearest police cruiser, which brought them to Carney Hospital. "The important thing is that blacks attacked us and blacks rescued us," she said.

"The three who us out of there were really going up against people from their own community. We're pretty grateful." There was some good news yesterday, too. A Mattapan woman, walking her dog early Sunday, spied a piece of indentification on the pavement bearing the North Quincy victim's name. A short while later, her husband found another card with the victim's name. They decided to scour the neighborhood and by day's end had recovered the North Quincy woman's wallet (minus its cash), drivers' license and checkbook.

"This is going to make things a lot easier," she said. By Richard Higgins Globe Staff One of two North Quincy women beaten early yesterday morning on Morton street said that she was not going to let the attack turn her into a violent, hateful person. "We're worried that this incident could fuel already tragic racial tensions in that neighborhood," said the 37-year-old victim, who asked that her name not be used. 'What we're hoping is that the fact that blacks rescued us from attackers who were also black will remind people that this isn't just a black-white thing, that we're all responsible for our actions. All of us need to look at what we're doing." "The fact that we were victims is not nearly so important as the fact that violence has become so much a part of our daily lives, that this could happen again to almost anyone at anytime," she said.

"And we don't want this to turn into an ego trip for us." "As a Christian, I don't think responding to violence and hatred with violence and hatred is the answer," she said. Not that she wasn't angry early Sunday morning when she and her roommate were sitting in their car, which was "trapped" at an intersec Arson suspected in 2 fires Officials suspect arson in two fires that caused an estimated $35,000 damage to dental offices and a vacant apartment building in East Boston early yesterday. There were no reported injuries. Fire was discovered shortly before 1:30 a.m. in an alley between 1 and 3 Meridian st.

in Maverick Square, according to Deputy Fire Chief John Clougherty. A second fire started about the same time on the second floor of the East Boston Dental Building at 3 Meridian he said. The fire that started in the alley moved I up to the second floor of a three-story, vacant structure, adjacent to a building gutted by a 1 three-alarm blaze two weeks ago. Drowning victim found The body of a man about 50 was found float Checking out those games that people have sometimes played ing in. the Saugus River near the Point of Pines PARKER Continued from Page 13 manipulate his holdings to acquire all the money and to become the owner of all the stock." To win a game called "Society," also produced in the 1930s, a player earned "social points" by accumulating houses, yachts and fancy cars.

If the player suffered the disgrace of having his cook leave before a party, he would lose points. Monopoly, first manufactured in 1935. is the kingpin of all the Parker Bros, games, with more than 80 million sets sold worldwide. The game has been translated into 18 languages and distributed in 29 countries, lending an international appeal to real estate deals that happily land a player on Boardwalk or Park Place or less happily, in jail. Most of the games are exhibited behind glass cases, but several newer games are scattered casually on a table for the visitors' pleasure.

The computer games on the table invariably draw the children, as the older games on display attract their parents. There were cries of recognition among yesterday's visitors as they remembered games they played as children and young adults, in the days before television became the primary source of entertainment for most families. "There's said Irving Weohsler, of Pittsburgh, who came with his wife, Jackieand son, Robert, of Mar- blehead. "I played it 30 years We used to play that for hours." Jill Downey, of Somerville, said she came to the exhibit purely out of love for games of all descriptions. "I just love all kinds of games." said Downey.

"I would never sell any that we have at home, even though they're probably worth some money. This way. when my own kids come here, they can say, 'My grandmother has that Yacht Club in Revere about 1 p.m. yesterday. Police said the body had been In the river about a day before it was spotted by Michael Baronian of 139 Chestnut Lynn.

Dr. George Katsas, Suffolk County medical examiner, ruled that death was due to drowning..