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Jandreau, long a leader in GE unions, dies at 73 Leo E. a major ure in General Electric Co. lafig- history and in the McCarthy era split that created the International Union of Electrical Workers, died Thursday at Ellis, Hospital in Schenectady, He was 73. Jandreau, who lived at 1174 South Country Club Drive in the Schenectady suburb of Niskayuna, was the business agent of Local 301 at the Schenectady GE plant for 28 years before he joined the international union's headquarters staff in 1965. He retired in 1969 as an adviser to Paul J.

Jennings, who was then the union's president. Jandreau had been an organizer of Local 301 in 1933 and became business agent of the United Electrical Workers (UE) local in 1937. He was accused before a Congressional committee in 1948 of having been a Communist. But he appeared before an Albany, N.Y., hearing of the House un-American Activities subcommittee in 1954 and flatly denied that he was or ever had been a Communist. His national union, the UE, had also been accused of being "a tool of the Communist party" and in 1949 was ousted from the Congress of Industrial Organizations for being Communist-dominated.

The following year, however, Jandreau led his local to a National Labor Relations Board election victory over the newly formed International Union of Electrical Workers (IUE) that, with -CIO sanction, sought to represent the 13,000 GE workers at the Schenectady plant and at other plants elsewhere. Although the IUE won control of a majority of UE locals, it did not get all of them. Jandreau's victory allowed him to keep his UE affiliation. Obituaries and Funerals Richard H. Rodgers, Jandreau, Leo E.

retired illustrator Jarrett, Robert L. Rodgers, Richard H. LENOX Richard H. Rod- gers, 78, longtime summer resident here on Under Mountain Road, passed away Thursday at the Boca Raton (Fla.) Community Hospital. He lived at 1015, Spanish River Road in Boca Raton.

A retired commercial illustrator, Mr. Rodgers had several exhibitions of his oil paintings and watercolors in Berkshire County and throughout the United States. A graduate of the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art, he studied illustration under Thornton Oakley and was for a time a freelance commercial artist in New York. He also wrote and drew a daily comic strip, "Snub, The Diary of Our Dog," for the Christian Science Monitor. Mr.

Rodgers was a member of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, of Pompano Beach, Fla. He was also a member of the Florida Watercolor Society, the Real Estate Board and the Rotary Club of Pompano Beach. He had made his winter home in Pompano Beach for 25 years until moving to Boca Raton three years ago. He leaves a daughter, Miss Susan Rodgers of New York City; a son, Michael D. Rodgers of Chicago, and two grandchildren.

Funeral services will be Sunday afternoon at 2 at the R. Jay Kraeer Boca Raton Funeral Home. Cremation will follow. City egg hunt is canceled for this year For the fourth time in 26 years the annual Easter egg hunt has been canceled by the Department of Parks and Recreation. The event had been postponed to tomorrow from last Sunday because of bad weather.

But Park Department found that the playing fields behind North Junior High the scheduled site were still wet. At the same time there remains too much frost below ground to allow the driving of the necessary posts for the snowfencing used for the pens in which the hunts take place. In addition, the weather forecast calls for rain, which would add to already wet and muddy conditions. The plastic eggs filled with jelly beans that were prepared for the hunt will be emptied out and the eggs saved until next year. The jelly beans will be distributed to organizations within the city.

The last time the hunt was cancelled was in 1975. Roy Kennedy to speak at banquet Roy R. Kennedy, former executive director of the Berkshire Hills Conference and now member of the guest services committee of the organization preparing for the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, N.Y., will be guest speaker at the annual banquet of the Winter Sports Committee. The banquet will be April 7 at the Polish Falcon Club. it closes out the Winter Carnival season directed by the Pittsfield Winter Sports Committee of the Department of Parks and Recreation.

Reservation deadline for the banquet is Monday, and reservations may be made by calling Mrs. Carl E. Peaslee at the Park Department office or at her 116 Shore Drive home after office hours. Lottery numbers Conn. number HARTFORD, Conn.

(UPI) The winning number drawn Friday in the Connecticut State Lottery was 875. The Berkshire Eagle. Saturday. April 1. 1978 -13 LeBlanc found guilty of attack The McCarthy era, Jandreau said in Pittsfield in 1948, "is the new inquisition.

I know. I've been submitted to it." He told workers at a rally in front of GE's main gate here that the best way for labor to protest was to vote for Henry Wallace, who that year was running for U.S. president as a candidate of the Progressive Party. "We can no longer vote the old party lines," he said. "The Republicans direct the union busting and the Democrats offer only empty In 1954, however, Jandreau pulled Local 301 out of the UE and joined it to the IUE.

An article in the November 1954 issue of "Sign," a national Catholic magazine, attributed Jandreau's switch to the eforts of a Catholic priest, the Rev. Joseph Lamanna of Mount Carmel Church in Schenectady. According to the article, Father Lamanna spent eight years UE leaders to leave the union. trying to persuade rank He approached Jandreau in July "Within amonth," the article said, "Leo Jandreau began thinking in terms of breaking off from Communist association. Whether this was due principally to his chats with Father Lamanna or equally to a change of heart on the part of the fiery Commie leader, Ruth Young, to whom he was married, need not be diagnosed at the moment.

Whatever the cause, Jandreau in June 1954 led his members out of the UE and into the IUE. Jandreau became a member of the IUE's GE negotiating committee but in 1960 was dumped from it for supporting an IUE strike against GE less enthusiastically than union leaders wished. The Schenectady local didn't join the three-week-long strike until it was a week old, then went back to work a week be- 1954 Leo E. Jandreau fore it ended. 1.

IUE President James B. Carey strongly criticized Jandreau and took him off the negotiating committee. He was returned to it in 1962, however, as the group prepared a new round of contract "Jandreau, with his vast experience, can contribute a great deal," explained John H. Callahan, a former Pittsfield IUE business agent who then was the GE Conference Board's chairman. Jandreau survived by his wife, Ruth Youkelson Jandreau; four daughters, Mrs.

Marion Peterson of Clifton Park, N.Y., Mrs. Karen Rose DonKonics of Narberth, Mrs. Karen Ann Simek of Louisville, and Mrs. Rosanne Jandreau of Clifton Park; a sister, Mrs. Grace Horstmyer of Niskayuna; and 10 grandchildren.

Funeral services will be private, and there will be no calling hours. But a memorial service will be conducted Wednesday at 8 p.m. at Leo E. Jandreau Hall, 121 Erie Schenectady. The family has asked that flowers be omitted.

Contributions in his memory may be made to the Jandreau Scholarship Fund, in care of IUE Local 301, 121 Erie Schenectady, N.Y. 12305. Fourth suspect is charged with holdup of pharmacy A fourth suspect in the Feb. 16 holdup of the T.F. Flynn Pharmacy, in which a quantity of prescription drugs were stolen, was arrested last night and charged with three crimes in addition to armed robbery.

Bruce D. Fillio, 23, of 9150 Gulf Freeway, Houston, Texas, a former Pittsfield resident, was arrested at 6:23 p.m. on West Street in front of St. Mark's Church on a warrant for his arrest on the' armed robbery charge, according to Sgt. Walter M.

Boyer. In searching Fillio's car, Parade group issues call for floats The Pittsfield Fourth of July Parade Committee is inviting groups to enter floats in the parade. Many are already making plans for floats, said Ronald L. Scace, the committee's recording secretary. Some vehicles have been committed for floats.

Those interested can contact the committee by writing to Post Office Box 621, Pittsfield. Seed money from the mayor and City Council and from other sources has assured that the parade will be held, said Scace. Musical groups from as far away as Canada have expressed interest in participating, Scace added. The parade committee's officers, board of directors and committee heads are meeting Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Veterans of Foreign Wars hall on Linden Street.

Realty sales Rhea J. Paquin to Nelson A. Carter. house and lot on Kibbe Point Road, Otis. Southern Berkshire Farms Inc.

to Kenneth E. and Karen L. Geiger, property on West Center Road, Otis. Southern Berkshire Farms Inc. to Ellen Switzer and others, property on West Center Road.

Otis. Matthew J. and Sarah V. Brophy to Stanley P. Dudek and Therese M.

Dudek. house and lot on Carson Avenue. Dalton. Men's, Ladies' TENNIS RACQUETS, CLOTHING ACCESSORIES WILSON DAVIS HEAD DUNLOP DAVIS SEAMCO YAMAHA PRINCE Professional Restringing Regripping North at Summer St. Ski Sport- Shop Downtown Pittsfield Continued from Page 1 tradiction of the judge's orders was also improper.

The Eagle referred to LeBlanc throughout the trial as a former Monroe inmate returned to prison currently for parole violation. LeBlanc eventually took the witness stand himself, however, and testified to having been at Walpole State Prison at one time and to having been on parole last September. Garabedian also said Flynn's practice of letting himself be interviewed on local radio news about who had testified during the trial was wrong. Garabedian said he felt Flynn's 20-year recommendation was "outrageous" and represented an attempt to penalize LeBlanc for crimes he had not been convicted of. The defense lawyer said LeBlanc was sentenced to prison in 1974 for armed robbery and there was "nothing like this in his past record." But Judge Tamburello said in passing sentence that "this was a vicious crime' that "will live with her (Miss Mowe) the rest of her For the record, the jury, also found LeBlanc guilty of assault and battery for trying to choke Miss Mowe, but the judge filed that conviction without additional penalty.

Leblanc was found not guilty of at- but maintained he was more concerned tempted murder by stabbing and by about being accused of a possible parole strangulation, armed assault with intent violation for other reasons than the accuto commit murder and attempted rape. sation of having attacked Miss Mowe. While arguing Thursday before the The prosecution also had offered as jury that his client was not in Miss evidence some of LeBlanc's clothing Mowe's 55 Olds- St. house at all when she with human bloodstains on them, alwas hurt, Garabedian also emphasized though no one was ever able to explain that of the 24 stab wounds she suffered, how a pair of blue jeans and a sweatsevere and that there was in- shirt with blood on them were found in sufficient evidence of a sexual assault to his apartment at 9 p.m. on Sept.

25 when support the allegation of a rape attempt. a police search of the place at 8 a.m. Miss Mowe had identified LeBlanc as failed to discover them. the man who attacked her the evening of The jurors who returned the verdicts Sept. 24 when she returned home from after the seven-day trial were foreman work at a Williamstown flower shop.

Thomas J. Ditello of 44 Shore Drive, Arthur E. Brassard of 385 Elm David Cohen of 34 Holmes Road, James D. There was evidence that she identified McKeever of 23 Williamsburg Terrace him shortly after the attack by his nick- and Deborah A. Wehry of 31 Hopewell name "Showboat" and as someone Drive, all of Pittsfield, as well as the store." He had been a custom- lores E.

Coons of 1267 Holmes Road and er there on several occasions. She also Herbert J. Pirzl Jr. of 12 Holmeswood testified she later picked his picture out Terrace, both of Lenox, and Sherman P. of a police photo lineup.

Hall of Larrywaug, Stockbridge; Ellen Flynn dwelt at length on evidence that Young of Brooker Hill Road, Becket; LeBlanc had fled his North Adams home Zoa M. Laska of Cottage Street, Housat 124 Brooklyn St. early Sept. 25, even Gladys DiMario of 112 Center though he knew the police were looking Lee, and Robert E. Hamm of 16 Broadfor him there.

He was captured in view Terrace, Dalton. Worcester County the next day in a va- Alternate jurors were Anne M. Milne cant house in Sterling formerly rented by of 10 Fairview Lenox, and Edward his brother. Turgeon of Cummings Avenue, WilliamsLeBlanc admitted fleeing North Adams town. Robert L.

Jarrett Robert L. Jarrett, 47, of 340 Wahconah St. died yesterday morning at his home after a long illness. A son of Leo E. Jarrett Sr.

and Viola B. Maxwell Jarrett, he was a native of Pittsfield and a 1948 graduate of Pittsfield High School. He was a Navy veteran of the Korean War, serving one of his four years in the Navy in Korea aboard the USS Wisconsin. He was employed by A.H. Rice Co.

and by Peter Francese Son and was later a lineman for Pittsfield-Dalton TV Cable retiring nine years ago because of ill health. Besides his parents, of Dalton, he leaves his wife, the former Beverly Kosche, with whom he observed their 20th wedding anniversary March a son, Ronald D. Phelps of Shaftsburv. two daughters, Mrs. Connie LaRouche Miss Gail L.

Jarrett, both of Pittsfield; a brother, Leo R. Jarrett Jr. of Pittsfield, and three grandchildren. Services will be at the Wellington Funeral Home Monday morning at .11 with the Rev. Gordon H.

Hohl, pastor of Zion's Evangelical Lutheran Church, officiating. Burial will be in Pittsfield Cemetery. Call; ing hours at the funeral home will be this evening from 7 to 9 and tomorrow from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9. Mrs. Anthony Nykorchuk The funeral of Mrs.

Anastasia Kowchuk Nykorchuk will be this morning at 9:15 from the Dwyer Funeral Home, with a Divine Liturgy at St. John's Ukrainian Catholic Church at 10. The Rev. Theodore Humanitzki, pastor, will celebrate the mass. Burial will be in St.

Joseph's Cemetery, where Father Humanitzki will say prayers at the grave. Bearers will be James M. Nykorchuk and Donald J. Dmytryshyn, both grandsons, and William R. Gavin, D.

Craig Stone, Ralph A. Soldato and William C. Lyon. Brian D. Adams Services for Brian D.

Adams will be Monday morning at 11 at Stephen's Episcopal Church, with the Rev. Andrew F. Wissemann, rector, officiating. Burial will be in the Maple Street Cemetery in Hinsdale at a later date. Calling hours at the Wellington Funeral Home will be tomorrow from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9.

Film on Bavaria planned at museum A color film and lecture by Howard and Lucia Meyers of Chicago, "Bavaria: The Magnificent World of the Mountain King," will be presented April 15 at 8 p.m. at the Berkshire Museum. The film tells the story of King Ludwig II of Bavaria, known as "Ludwig the his country and the castles he built during his late 19th century reign. One of them, Schloss Neuschwanstein, was the castle used as a model by Disney World. 60-day delay proposed by AFO committee before considering rehiring for 2 jobs Veronica Ferry and Barbara Paquette, Action for Opportunity outreach, workers facing possible their jobs in a reorganization of the antipoverty agency, have won a grace period from the AFO grievance committee.

The committee's decision to allow a grace period, AFO board president David MacPherson said, must still be approved by the full board of directors. They will vote on it at their to Wednesday evening meeting. He indicated that approval is expected. MacPherson said the committee, made up of the executive committee of the board, will recommend Wednesday that both women be retained in their present jobs for 60 days so the new executive director of the agency can evaluate their performance. In the area hospitals Berkshire Medical Center Jennifer Foley, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Ellis Foley, 10 Wilson St. John A. Brancazzu son of Mrs. Joan Hebler, 8 Cherry Lenox.

Jayson Barbarotta, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Barbarotta, 22 Club Circle. J. Dickson Roots, 69 Fairfield St.

Ezio Fruet, 820 East St. Mrs. Robert McColgan, 965 Holmes Road. Elizabeth Trabulsi, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Ronald Tabulsi, 185 High St. Adam E. Marauszwski, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Marauszwski, 18 Pine St.

Mrs. Dominick Lovallo, 18 Juleann Drive, Lanesboro. Hillcrest Hospital Mrs. Leonard Blake, 9 Leslie Ave. Mrs.

Mildred Beasley, Lake Onota Village. Fairview Hospital Mary Blackledge, Route 23, Otis. Beatrice Bunce, Allendale Road, Canaan, Conn. Walter A. Streeter, Keyes Hill Road, Sheffield.

Carol A. Raabe, Black Grocery Road, Hillsdale, N.Y. Crosby chess tourney winners announced Eddie Astore, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Astore of 299 Francis is the winner of the, first double elimination chess tournament sponsored by Room 109A at Crosby Junior High School.

Instructor Bertrand L'Homme said Astore won 12 of 14 games to place first. Second place went to Tom McCarthy of 127 Circular Ave. and third place to George Bliss of Seymour St. Pardon our renovation. We're still here and doing business as usual SQUAW PEAK TRAVEL AGENCY 954 Crane Ave.

499-1780 He said applicants who have responded to AFO advertisements for an outreach worker and a secretary will be notified by letter that selection will be delayed 60 days. The two staff members, who have been fighting for the jobs they have held for as long as 11 years since they received termination notices in January, were given a hearing on their grievance Wednesday night. They argued that the board had been unfair in redefining and readvertising their jobs and telling them they could join the pool of applicants for the positions. This action had been taken at the behest of Berkshire Community Action Council, the umbrella agency which distributes Local school custodians may switch their union Dissident Pittsfield school custodians have mounted a challenge to the national union that has been bargaining agent here since 1973, and the challengers have won an April 13 union election as a result. The challenging group is the Pittsfield Custodians Association, which represented the custodial workers here before 1973.

Sources in the custodial ranks said 56 of the 94 employees signed election authorization cards in January, substantially more than the 30 percent required under labor law. The election will be at West Side Community School from 2 to 5 p.m. on April 13, a Friday. The School Department's director of services, Charles R. Bordeau, said Friday that the state Labor Relations Commission notified him of the election after conducting a hearing in Boston March 20.

There are 94 employees 91 building custodians and three School Department bus drivers who are eligible to vote, he said. Discontent with representation by the present union, the National Association of Government Employees (NAGE), is said to be the main reason for the challenge. Several persons contacted said feeling has grown that Prospects for Boston TV 'encouraging' City Council President Angelo C. Stracuzzi says he is "encouraged" by Warner Cable's response to his quest for a Boston channel on the TV cable here: "We're looking into the possibility of getting a Boston Warner manager John Guachione said following a meeting with the council leader. "But it's still up in the air." Stracuzzi has said that he feels Pittsfield is shut off from Boston news telecasts on cable TV, while getting news programs from New York and Connecticut.

With the upcoming shutdown of Channel 32, which brings Bruins hockey and Red Sox baseball to Pittsfield, Stracuzzi said it is going to be increasingly important to Pittsfield viewers to get a Boston channel. there have been few from membership in NAGE. In periodic contract negotiations with the School Committee, "we've quite often ended up doing the negotiating ourselves," said one who did not want to be named. The closest NAGE representative is in Ludlow. NAGE won bargaining rights here in an election on Jan.

15, 1973, polling 76 votes out of 86 cast. The Pittsfield Custodians Association held bargaining, rights for the six previous years. It was the first time city school custodians had joined a national union. Custodians who vote April 13 will have three choices, the association, NAGE or no union. 'The election will be supervised by the Labor Relations Commission.

federal funds to three "delegate agencies" in north, central and south Berkshire, including AFO. BCAC is AFO's sole means of financial support. BCAC conducted an evaluation of AFO and recommended that new job descriptions be written for all three staff positions that of executive director, as well as the two outreach workers and applicants be sought. AFO agreed. But the agency vigorously denied that this was tantamount to an agreement to fire its staff, pointing out that the women who had held the jobs also could apply.

The first job put on the market, in accordance with the timetable set in the evaluation report, was that of executive director. Roberta Heath, former director of community programs for the Red Cross, got the job. was invited to help draw up new job descriptions for the staff, and ads were placed. But during this time friends of Mrs. Ferry and Mrs.

Paquette lobbied on their behalf. Their visible activities included a spate of letters-to-the editor and presence outside AFO headquarters while the grievance hearing was in process. If the board approves the grievance committee decision, it will toss the now prickly question of Mrs. Ferry's and Mrs. Paquette's future to Mrs.

Boyer said, police found a chrome-plated revolver and a hypodermic needle and syringe and charged him with carrying a firearm without a firearms identification card and illegal possession ion of a hypodermic needle and syringe. In addition, Fillio was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon in connection with a beating that took place in Lanesboro last June, police said. Fillio was expected to be arraigned on the four charges this morning in, Pittsfield District Court. The robbery at the 173 Elm St. pharmacy occurred shortly after 9 p.m., when a gunman entered the store and forced four employees to lie down in a back room while he filled a cardboard box with drugs.

On Feb. 18, police arrested Robert B. Johnston, 23, of Route 112, Cummington, in connection with the robbery, and the following day arrested Chester J. Johnston, 20, of 202 Dewey Ave. On Feb.

25, police arrested John L. Reynolds, 23, in connection with the robbery. The two Johnwho police said are not related, and Reynolds were charged with armed robbery. Boyer said he was assisted in Fillio's arrest by detectives William H. Mason and Richard W.

Delphia. New hours at landfill start today Operating hours at the Pittsfield landfill will change effective today, city Public Works Commissioner Gerald S. Doyle said Friday. The landfill will be open from 8 to noon Saturdays and from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Mondays through Fridays, Doyle said. It will be closed on Sunday. Depending upon weather, Doyle said, the landfill may be open all day on the last two Saturdays in April and the first two in May. If the full-day schedule is put into effect, Doyle said, a statement announcing it will be issued. Truckload Sale! NOWAX INLAID VINYL LINOLEUM FLOORS 399 to SQ.

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