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2 Fitchburg Sentinel, Thursday, March 30, 1972 New England Roundup Harvard Professor Sentenced BOSTON (AP) a i a Judge VV. Arthur Garrity Prof. Samuel L. Popkin has I returned the finding Wednesday i a maxinwin 18 and Popkin was released in month sentence on federal civil'000 personal recognizance pend- i i i i i i i i charges re.suUintring the outcome, i his refusal to answer Dy law. Popkin can be con- i iuvy i the.fineri until he decides to answer I'n'iiiiwn Papers.

1 the questions, until the grand a i i a iiians. filed an appeal immc- jury studying the release of the A BI.LTFS. Mas? ranchers may soon papers expires, or for IE a U.S. District "Court'months maximum. Lobster Ranches Coming? state lobster research station.

more technology is i i i i i in a i i un'needed on how to feed and keep i.ie.ii'irurt ranges much like in captivity." i i i a sfne "What we need is an inter- si s.r.-s. (disciplinary group of people to tile biulnsv to raiseido it." he continued. "Food commercially," said I technicians, chemists, and of John H. Hughes, director of thelcourse. more money." Stormed-Wracked Beaches Cleaned Obituaries Gabriel Heatter, Newsman, Dies MIAMI BEACH (AP) Gabriel Heatter, who kept wartime audiences turned to their radios with "there's good news, tonight," died today at the age of 82 at the Miami Heart Institute following a five-year illness.

Heatter, whose deep baritone brought tlie London blitz and the Pacific jungle into American living rooms, died of pneumonia, said son-in-law Ralph Daniels. The pioneer newscaster tired from his national nightly broadcasts on the Mutual network in 1961. His last broadcast, over a Miami radio sta tion, was May 23, 1965. JOHN G. PARK GROTON John G.

Park. 63, of Strong Island Road, North Chatham, died Wednesday in Nashoba Community Hospital, Ayer. lie was born in Groton. Sept. 15.

1908. the son of Lawrence and Maria (Motley) Parks and lived in Groton from 1908 to 1930. He was a graduate of Kent School. Kent, Conn, and at- Ex-City Resident Dies In Blaze CHICOPEE Chop, Choo, There Goes Your Money (Continued From Page Ono) John W. say the idea came to them Soderberg, 67.

of 44 Bonneville from Amtrak. Officially, the Transportation most train's engineering track with the curves and highest in- a native and former resident of Fitchburg, was killed in a fire at his home about 4:30 i was dead Springfield Hospital. The son of John and Anna S. L. (Backman) Soderberg, he was born Nov.

12, 1904. and was'not designed for such a mis- a 1922 graduate of Fitchburg sion. High School and a 1927 graduate of Northeastern University. clines in the-United States. Department sources, however, concede the Turbo Trains were HIGHLAND BAPTIST The pastor.

Rev. Kenneth G. Duerr, and the deacons of the Highland Baptist Church will officiated at a Passion Week Communion Service at 7.30 p.m. Friday in the church sanctuary. GRADUATES Among those graduating from the A.

W. Chesterton Company a i a Seal School. Woburn, was Ruben Guerra of the Great American Chemical During its first days of oper- Soderberg and Miss Soderberg. both of ation on the route, the Turbo derailed once and several times had to be boosted over the mountains with deisel engines. Officials say they changed the Turbo's fuel mix and It now can cross the mountains under its own power.

When the Turbo was taken off the Boston run. Rep. Dan Kuykendall. and a member of Staggers's com- rnittee, told newsmen he had suggested to Amtrak officials "In a friendly fashion" that they ought to "fix up West Virginia." At the time Kuykendall said his statement "had a very deep meaning and they all knew exactly what I meant." "If I were chairman of this committee I would try to get one of these in my district, During" "Worid" War II hej A ARINE WEBSTER a 5ays he vt-rc Heache-i he usable' I see no reason why the re-! scr ved as a Major in the Army aa YSf-i. "itJS in for can't be completed by A ir Force Intelligence a STERLING Mrs.

Catharine made the st em TMt most conducted the Combat Webster. 78. in cheek without any tclligcnce School at Salt Lake'Jacksonville, a thing in mind. City Utah. resident of this town, died, Several 5 He leaves a sister.

in St. Luke that Staggers had a pr- George T. Skinner and meeting with Amlrak in her home since a week: brother. Thomas L. M.

been'ago. Police said her car was.boUi of Groton. Mr. Soderberg was a World War II Army veteran and a retired technician for Monsanto Chemical Co. of Springfield.

He was the husband of the ate Alice (Fuller) McKernon Soderberg. He leaves a stepson, William! McKernon of Chicopee: a brother, Evald H. Soderberg of Leominster: three sisters. Miss Sigrid Edith Fitchburg, and Mrs. Mabel S.

Berg of Hubbardston. Private funeral services will be held Friday at 10 a.m. in the Bosk Funeral Home. The Rev William Villaume of gnded Harvard College with the TM' nu Church will Class of 1932. ajor of Nantasket and Revere have.

Mr ark was a member Burial will be Fitch- in i i has started i a a been made." Tiemev faculty'fo? Hill Cemetery, ui'iv dean said. it's a matter of re-. a and at lr time of his burg. There are no calling (if sand hv severe winter construction of sea walls as director of Librariesjhours. siiM-ms.

und i i a were con- nthcr facilities, and getting the, Emeritus at Kent. i i a N'antaskct and Re- sand." hn nsnhlp' "i see no completed of minor repairs i summer," he continued. Found In River A A er of two who had been missing People, Corporation. DEAN'S LIST Three graduates of Fitchburj High School have been namet to the Dean's List at Colby College. Waterville, Maine.

They are Rosamond E. Teto, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace R. Teto of 308 Walton Street, a senior majoring in English; Christine A.

Legere, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Legere of 42 South Martin Street, a senior majoring In Classics, and Hugo B.

Wallgren son of Mr. and Mrs. Hugo B. Wallgren of 6 Park Street, a senior majoring in Government. LIBRARY CLOSED The Public Library will not he open on Easter Sunday.

Sunday hours and film program will be resumed April 9. al which time the library will be open from 1 to 5 p.m. and "91 Minutes of Chaplin, Lloyd, miiiiiiiiiiiiiiumiiiiiiiiiiiiiD Weather aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniuiiaiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuuiiiiiiliiliiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiii minium New England Forecasf Weather Elsewhere a THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Cloudy with chance of occasional drizzle and a few lifht showers tonight, lows in the 30s. Clearing Friday highs in the 40s. Easterly winds 10 to 15 miles per hour.

Probability of precipitation 50 per cent tonight, 20 per cent Friday. -0-Boston and vicinity--Tonight chance occasional drizzle or showers, lows in the middle 30s. Southeast winds around 10 miles per hour. Friday clearing, highs 45 to 50. Probability of precipitation 50 per cent tonight, 20 per cent Friday.

Eastport --0-- to Block Island- Winds 10 to 20 knots becoming southeasterly tonight and southwesterly Friday. Cloudy with showers tonight continuing north portion Friday and clearing south portion late tonight and Friday. Visibility improving to over five miles on Friday. Connecticut night, Clearing to the 30s. Mostly sunny Friday, highs 45 to Albany, snow Albu'quc, cldy Amarillo.

cldy Anchorage, clear Asheville, cldy Atlanta, cldy Birmingham, cldy Bismarck, snow Boise, clear Boston, snow Buffalo, cldy Charleston, cldy Charlotte, cldy Chicago, clear Cincinnati, cldy Cleveland, snow Denver, clear Des Moines, cldy Detroit, snow Duluth. Snow Fort Worth, cldy Green Bay, snow Helena, cldy Honolulu, clear Houston, cldy Ind'apolis, clear Jacks'ville, cldy Kansas City, clear Little Rock, cldy Los Angeles, cldy .24 .01 .12 a i tonight, Louisville, cldy Hlch Low Pr 51 33 .12 51 31 48 28 22 10 55 40 77 40 74 39 33 24 50 29 50 3C 49 35 64 57 54 49 38 23 54 32 .17 48 34 .12 36 39 22 39 31 33 22 :.02 60 45 33 29 36 29 83 61 68 51 42 29 66 58 1.06 49 27 54 34 68 50 53 35 :.02 ,54 chance of light snow north and east, mixed rain and snow in southwest, lows in the 20s. Keaton and C. Fields wil chance ot snow or Hurries be shown in the auditorium at 1:30 and at 3:00 p.m. north and east, partial clearing southwest Friday, highs in the Marquettu, snow Memphis, cldy Miami, cldy Milwaukee, clear clear New Orleans, cldy Body how- Nigro (Continued From rage One) "Because the city large i i i as a of Mrs.

Rita found Tuesday on a street a a i -W. of Lowell, a moth- the river. Police Officer Critically Wounded A Boston: The officer was identified as Services will be held Saturda; at 2 p.m. in the First Pa rish cumbered with such a debt, bond purchasers could Jhave second thoughts about the A native of Framingham. a President Roger Lewis dunngj a i i of the financcs daughter of.

Charles F. and he TUrbo; and forc city to pay llear -New York, cldy I Hampshire-Cloudy 'Okla. City, ctdy i tonight, chance of snow Omaha, snow Isnow and rain south, lows in.Philadphia cldy the high 20s. Mostly Phoenix, clear chance of snow north, partial! Pittsburgh, cldy cldy clearing south Friday, highs i a Me. 3 Church, Unitarian, in Groton.

Burial will be in Groton Cemetery. There are no calling hours. The Badger Funeral Home is handling BOSTON' (AP) officer was shot in the-Thomas J. McDermott 30 left i early this moming'The hospital official said; and was placed on the danger-McDermott was taken to the MRS. VERNE PARKER h-i at Massachusetts General hospital by two Metropolitan! KEENE, M.H.

The funeral Grace A. (Blake) Adams. run to Parkersburg in return; commercia intei est rat es for was the widow of James for committee approval of thei building projects. This i QiiHinriTfitmn Webster and lived in Sterling and Lincolnvilie Beach. Maine.

Amtrak authorization. "This was just a political fact dllU IjlilWUlllvlllc iJCQi-M. ll before moving to Jacksonville of life for Amtrak, said a Ho--pital, said. a hospital official District Commission police offi- 'cers. MBTA Office Robbed BOSTON" A Three men gun.

handcuffed two male tell- Massachnsefts Bayiers and a woman secretary to- TraiiFportalion A i i herded them into a cts robbed the MBTA then emptied cash drawer's office of $11,000 Wednes-jers and the vault, day. police said. They fled in a red car driven the gunmen, armed with two i by a fourth man. revolvers and a sawed-off shot-1 SDS Opens National Convention CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) and there had been in- Stucients for a Democratic dications some members 'of Society (SDS) was expected wanted to use the theater start i National Convention'without a permit.

at Harvard. Harvard Law School save the permission to use of Mrs. Dorothy (Sutton) Parker, 80, of 151 Court a former resident of Fitchburg, will be held in the Knight Family Memorial Chapel in Wiradland a member of Temple Chapter. Order of the Eastern Star, Leominster. She leaves a son.

John F. Webster of Jacksonville; a daughter. Mrs. Helen Driscoll of Asheboro, N.C.; a sister. Mrs.

Paul T. Stickeny of Dunedin, six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held She'at 11 a.m. Friday In Moss with the use smaller Ames Courtroom, school re- though, and SDS spokesmen in- this is where the con- Against Racism University today sible conflict over buildings at the solved. The SDS had been denied the vention will be held, use of Harvard's Sanders University Board Criticized BOSTON' (AP) The Mas-: Richard A.

Manley, executive sachusctts Taxpayers Founda-jVice president of the foundation Wednesday said the Uni-Uion, said in a statement that versity of Board I "by raising out-of-state tui- of Trustees has made "scape lions. U.Mass President Robert goals of ont-of state residents Wood and his trustees have by nearly doubling the i i done nothing more than create for undergraduates and political smokescreen that ig- ing the tuition for graduate stu- nores the more far reaching Calling hours at the Fletcher Funeral Home will be Friday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9p.m. Health (Continued From Page One) Dresser and McKec was not put out on bid. Under existing ordinances bid procedures are not required for engineering consulting fees. The Board's inquiry was also to include the cost of clearing the site.

Coulter said that a low bid of $14,480 was accepted for this phase of the operation. "We managed to get the bidding down considerably after the state allowed us in this case to do some outside burning of tree stumps," Coulter "said. However, it was reported at Clearwater, Fla. Burial will be in Sylvan Abbey Cemetery, Clearwater. MRS.

WALTER CLEMENT I Mrs. L. (Hardy) Clement. 44, of 109 Hale wife of Walter F. Wednesday Clement, in Elliott died Corn- Wednesday's meeting that the; Ann Morton of Brandon site charing- costs have climbed Harry Jenkm; Iproblems of financing higher in the com- dents." The action was taken by a i on board Tuesday.

'monwealth." Railroad For Rhode Island PROVIDENCE (AP) The-court action against the order. Providence and Worcester Co. Rhode Island will have a sec ond railroad for the first time 1 years. has received permission from the Interstate Commerce Com-i mission to take over the opcr-i ation of its 43-mile railroad i from the Pcnn Central Railroad. Unless Penn Central takes Deaths IIUOT J.

Huot, 52, ot 122 Lnurcl St. Llbera Service Friday at 11 a.m. In Immaculate 1 Conception cliurcii. calllnR hours In the Smith Funeral- Hople from 7 to 9 tonight, and 2 to 4 and 7 to fl p.m. Thursday.

Memorial Mass Monday at 11 a.m. in Immaculate Conception Church. EOnEIUtKllCJ In Chicopee, March 21'. W. SodeYberg, formerly of l-'ltchhurg.

Funeral Friday 10 n.m. Bo.sk Funeral Home. Private Service. No callinc. hours.

Births Brought to you By Stork Diaper Service Tel. 343-7977 Gift Certificates Available to over 520,000. "We thought we were going to save some money in this area," the health agent added, "but it appears weiof Winchcndon. munity Hospital, Keene, N.H. She was born in July 29.

1927 the daughter of Harry T. and Esther (Kirkland) Hardy and was a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, her husband and mother in this town, she leaves: three brothers, William Hardy of Baldwinviile, Charles and Frederick Hardy, both in California; three sisters. Mrs. Brandon.

of California and Mrs. Edward Kawabata in Tennessee and an, aunt. Mrs. William Chambers source inside the administration. means a new high school could eventually cost us twice as much as it would now," Nigro contended.

He said he also wants to know Lewis was not available for i where Mayor Carleton E. comment, and Staggers denied 1 a 11 stands on 'the Whatever the reason for the move, it is sure to cost the government a huge sum. The government leases both Turbo Trains from United Aircraft, the manufacturer, for $41,000 a month. Even when both financing of the bond issues. Nigro said.

"The mayor tells us the bonds will have to be paid for either on the general tax rate or through a sewer use tax. I want to know which plan he favors. He hasn't told, us, but rather asked the council I ootn trains served Boston at 1 it felt about the bonds full capacity, they operated we have a right to a deficit, though the nine round. would like to trips weekly brought in reve- nance TM nnn mnnth i nues totaling $109,000 a month. With Boston service now reduced to five round trips weekly, revenues are down to $60.000 monthly, a loss of 549J10J1.

This would be offset somewhat by also wants to know, he said, if the federal i a Protection Agency (EPA) has approved final plans for the treatment facilities. those plans are given revenues on the Parkersburg EPA approval, do a route, except these revenues thing about building the are more than cancelled by facilities: So what's costs of having to maintain big. rush? repair shops. Maintenance cost the govern- Hamilton letter President de yester- ment $148.000 a month when! day noted threats by "the state both trains served Boston and to withdraw grants-to build the only one repair shop was! west Fitchburg treatment plant, ieded. No one yet knows what But the part not made public ai fe at So just figuring half the leasejOf haven't." Funeral services will be held Coulter was directed to Friday at 2 p.m.

in the Fletcher request the mayor's office to Funeral Home with Rev. procedures in Gordon Hutchins officiating. developer; to Burial will be in Riverside contact both the Departments Cemetery. Calling hours at the of Public Health "and Natural Resources for whatever information they can supply on the subject, with the possibility this information would be available at next month's meeting. Also attending the session was Dr.

Joseph Addante, a member of the health board. funeral home are from 2 and 7 to 9 p.m. today. Published Hally Except Sunday 80S Main I-'itchbiirg, Phone 313-6311 Second Class Postage Paid. FltchbiirB, TERMS: Delivered by carrier, 70 cents a week.

SinKlo copy said at 15 cents. Outside the RTZ Zone, by mall S36.0I) per year payable In advance. Mai! cost in RTZ Zone is S36.nO per year. Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the use- for rcpubllcation oE all the local news printed In tilts newspaper us well as all AP news dispatches. AT BURBANK HOSPITAL i A daughter to Mr.

and Mrs. 1 James E. Walsh (Sharon L. Smith) 109 Normandy Road. I.

A daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Ryan S. Cooper (Rachelle E. Rainville) 92 Depot St.

A daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Raymond St. Armand, Jr. (Brenda A.

Hannula) 52 Boutelle St. WOULD YOU BUY AN A CITY FROM MAYOR LINDSAY? MIDWAY AUTO BODY RADIATOR SERVICE fi5 FALULAH RD. BAY OR NIGHT 342-5725 IMMACULATE CONCEPTION Confessions will be heard today at 3 and 6:30 p.m. and also Friday at 3:30 and 6:30 p.m. in Immaculate Conception Church.

LOOK Hani You Bien Like Thi Poor Chip Who'l Been In Hoi WaUr Ever Slncn Ho'l Been Trying to Flours Out TAYCC Especially I since they've changed the law and the forms If so, take a bit of good advice and see TIM MURPHY 615 South Mass. DI 5-4786 24 HOURS SERVICE-7 DAYS A WEEK CALL DAY OR NIGHT gers has said it will. Loss of the Turbo brought surprisingly little reaction from the New England congressional delegation. "We're not going to do any- EPA could even have some more recommendation to make. The state is telling us what we have to do.

They seem to have forgotten about Home Rule," thing to antagonize anybody." "I won't be browbeaten by he said. "The point is you've front page tactics," Nigro said, got to keep Amtrak alive to use "I'll make my decisions on my that one train -we've got left." own. and then live with them." Parkhill Plaza Fitchburg Seafood it! Besf Dining Cocktails Luncheons Private Parties Entertainment- Friday and Saturday, 7 to 11 Closed Sunday Your host and host-ess, Bob and lira Isabella Serving Easter Sunday 12-8 P. M. WE SUGGEST RESERVATIONS Money can't buy you happiness.

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