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By MARY KITZMANNHerald Reporter

M A NCH ESTER T o d ay 's predicted rainfall of one Inch,--the heaviest storm this winter, is hot expected to relieve the statewide drought that leaves Manchiester with about a 47-day water supply.

Jay Giles, public works director, who declared a ban on unnecessary water use in early October, still hopes for wetter weather to avoid mandatory use restriction like that imposed in Gremwich., .

Greenwich has a th r^w eek water supply left and across New England omununiUes face less than a 10o4ay 8U|q>ly of water.

Giles raised the possibility today that if Uk d ro u ^ t doesn't break the town may have to curtail supplying water to its largest customers, Cheney Brothers velvet mills, and Klock Corporation.

Cheney Brothers uses about 500,000

Phil hedges in forecast

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (UPI) - Punzsutawney Phil saw bis shadow today, and legend says that means we’re in 'for six more weeks o f ' winter. But, he’s hedging a bit.

The groundhog climbed out of his h o le a t G o b b le rs Knob in Pnnxsutawney at 7:28 a.m., an appearance delayed somewhat by rain and snow.

Phil, wearing a yellow ribbon in honor of the freed American hostages, hedged his forecast a bit, predicting the rest of winter would be mild.

"That was because Phil couldn’t q u ite m ak e up h is m in d ,” Punxsutawney Groundhog Club president Charles Erhard said.

Erhard, himself, seemed a bit con- fused*over how — or why — Phil was able to see his shadow.

On the one band, be swore that in the midst of the rain and snow the sun popped out for about 30 seconds — long enough to prod Phil from bis borrow. Others at the scene say they didn’t see any sunshine and Erhard then suggest^ it may have been television lights.

About ISO people showed up to watch Phil make his forecast for the Mth time.

As in the past, the eyes of America were on Phil today, waiting for the the critter to poke his furry head from the burrow and tell us just how much longer winter will last.

Phil, the most famous resident of his w est-central Pennsylvania hamlet, had another task at hand today.

The long-time Numero Uno of Grouiidhogs again bad to ward off challengers to his throne as a host of little bogsters, such as Buckeye Chuck of Ohio, made their own forecasts and tried to deflate Phil’s claim to fame.

gallons a day or 10 percent of the town’s total useage of 5.5 million gallons of water per day. Company officials have said it will have to close if the town suspends water service.

But Giles noted a number of uncertainties surramd the drought, before restricting use would be necessary including the w eather, tapping an unused well, and buying water from the Metropolitan District Commission.

Giles is about to schedule a meeting with the MDC officials to discuss buying water. This was pn^osed by a political leader, Ted Cummings, Democrat, several weeks ago.

Although the MDC water sun>ly is also down, about 70 percent of Its supply in re se rv o irs near the Massachusetts border, remains. Giles hopes the MDC may be able to supply enough water for the town’s industria l needs. If a deal is arranged, the town may continue to supply Cheney, Klock Corp. and other large users.

t^nchester's water supply is down 70 percent, with Howard Reservoir showing zero available water and others nbaring critical levels.

G ile s posed s e v e ra l o th e r possibilities to extend the town’s water supply including tapping an unused well and improving tiie pumping system. He estimates the towns wells, tapped to full capacity, could provide abmit 3 million gallons a day of the town’s needs.

Manchester could use its wells. If the water distribution system were improved. The town relies mainly on the reservoir while the distribution system, to use the wells, is being upgraded as part of a $20 million project.

The town has already began making changes in pumping a storage to use the water supply more efficiently, Giles said, including pumping into the Globe Hollow Reservoir for customers in the south end.

The department is also exploring using wells on Birch Mountain belonging to Robert Dennison, Giles has said.

But the situation is very unstable, Giles noted. “There are so many unknowns,” he commented. “ But while the drought continues we are trying to use every possibility for supplying water.’

’The National Weather Service said up to an inch of rain could fall today, but about five Inches are needed to make a dent in the water supply shortage.

About a quarter of an inch of rain fell during the night, with more expected today.

Records showed that a record low, .33 inches of rain, fell "during January, according to the Bradley International Airport readings.

Last month’s rainfall compared to a normal monthly average of 328 inches, and followed a dry December when the precipitation was the second lowest on record.

Giles has speculated that the area is in the third year of a five-year drought.

The cold winter weather has transformed a portion of the waterfalls at Highland Park

Into an Ice sculpture. Indicative of the winter season. (Herald photo by Pinto)

Grass© in, out of comaHARTFORD (UPI) - Former

Gov. Ella Grasso remained in c ritic a l condition at H artford Hospital today a fter advancing cancer sent her drifting in and out of a coma.

A hospital spokesman said Mrs. Grasso’s husband. Tom, and their two children, Jim and Susane, were with the former governor Sunday when

she first went into a semi- comatose state.

Spokesman James Battaglio said Mrs. Grasso, suffering from cancer of the liver and intestinal tract, became semi-comatose about 7 a.m. and drifted in and out of a coma throughout the day and into the night.

He attributed the change to deterioration of her liver.

“Mrs. Grasso’s condition has been downgraded (from serious)' to critical after she became semi- comatose,” Battaglio said. "Her vital signs are stable, but her overall condition has deteriorated. The governor is lucid when she is awake.”

Battaglio said a semi-comatose state “is one in which people lapse in and out of consciousness, as opposed to the patien t being fully unconscious, or in a coma.”

He said doctors considered the change in her condition Sunday aS' “serious.” Mrs. Grasso had been listed in serious condition for several weeks.

Mrs. Grasso was not in pain, Battaglio said, and “when she comes out of it (coma), she is extremely lucid.”

Doctors had planned to administer her fifth phase of chemotherapy in- traveneously this week if her condition had remained the same.

Mrs. Grasso “had a very good week last week and was quite comfortable,’’ Battaglio said.

In his report Saturday, Battaglio said Mrs. Grasso walked short distances in her room and sat up in a chair. She had slept comfortably compared to the previous week and was "very alert and cheerful” in the mOmings and rested in the afternoon.

Study predicts $2 gasoline

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WASHINGTON (UPI) - Decontrol of oil prices could shoot the cost of gasoline through the $2 barrier this year, but industry and government experts figure the increase probably won’t be that high.

The effect of decontrol alone, assuming no increase in the world price of crude oil, would add 15.1 cents to the average pump price of a gallon of regular leaded gasoline during 1981, an Energy Department"Study forecasts.

The study, released late last week, projects retail prices will range from a low of $1.48 to a high of $2.23 by year's end when adjusted for factors such as crude price boosts, demand patterns and inflationm

A base projection, falling between the high and low forecasts, put the 1981 year-end price at slightly more than $1.80.

Assuming no other factors but decontrol, and constant $35 per barrel world crude oil, the average price still would jump from $1.22 to $1.37 during the year, the study said.

The agency’s “Short Term Outlook” study was based on iiiformation available before December 1980, thus missing the latest round of OPEC crude oil price increases and President Reagan’s decision last week to decontrol domestic prices immediately.

But Murray Weidenbaum, chairm an of

Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers, said prices will reach the same levels by the end of the year under immediate decontrol as they would have under the gradual phase-out that would have ended Sept. 30.

Most experts believe the price-boosting effect of Reagan's move will be immediate, particularly with home heating oil, but that overall increases will be about the same as with gradual decontrol.

Consumer groups opposed to decontrol were warning of 12-cent hikes ih gasoline and beating oil prices. Dan Lundberg, publisher of an oil marketing newsletter, forecast 10 cents or more.

“I think that oil companies are going to raise prices in the short run.” said Dr. S. Charles Maurice, head of the Texas A&M economics department. “ But, in the long run, decontrol can't possibly cause prices to be higher than they would otherwise be, because they're going to increase the suppy of oil.

"The controls themselves have probably caused prices to be higher than they should, because they decreased the supply o$ crude.”

Maurice scoffed at consumer groiij) charges that decontrol Is inflationary, saying it "could possibly even keep prices from being a few pennies higher” over time.

Reagan to offer solutions if

Economy worst in 50 yearsWASHINGTON (UPI) - White

Houss chief of staff James Baker says the economy Is In the worst m en in 50 years and that President Reagan will begin explaining what he Intends to do about it this week.

Interviewed on CBS’ “Face the Nation," Baker was asked Sunday if the failure to declare a' state of emergency, as he had suggested before the inauguration, meant economic conditions turned out not to be as bad as expected.

“On the contrary, the economy was worse than we thought,” said Baker. “I think there is very little debate about the fact that ... the economy which this administration inherited Is the worst mess that we’ve seen in 50 years

Baker said Reagan, in an address to the nation Thursday, will “explain where we are, how we got into this mess, and — within a general framework — what we plan to do to get out of it."

Specific remedies will be outlined in the president’s State of the Union speech to Congress on Feb. 18, he said.

In a related comment. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Voicker said with the election of Reagan and a more conservative Congress, and changes in public understanding, “We really have a rare opportunity (to fight inflation)... and it’s terribly important that we take advantage of this opportunity.”

People have come to expect infla

tion, Voicker said, and “the problem is ag g rav a ted th rough wage s e t tle m e n ts , th rough p ric in g policies, through other elements of individual behavior.”

“Now if people begin betting in a different way, if they begin getting a little more confident that Inflation can a i^ will be brought down,” the econotoy can be controlled, he said.

Appearing on ABC’s “Issues and Answers,” Voicker, who was appointed by Jimmy Carter, said he was encouraged by his meetings with

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administration officials. He praised budget director David Stockman’s wore as a budget cutter and said, “there is more vigor and energy In this pr'icess than I’ve seen in my years in Washington.”

Meantime, Rep. James Jones, D- Okla., chairman of the House Budget Committee, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press" spending must be reduced before the administration goes ahead with Its proposed three-year, 30 percent tax cut.

“I think the first order of business is to try and get inflation under control and that means' we have to cut federal spendlng,“ '.Jqnes said.

“Large tax cuts,'no matter how they are structured. If we do not deal with the spending cut side of the budget... would be inflationary.”

One way to trim spendmg, Jones said, would be to negotiate a new strategic arms limitation agreement with the Soviet Union to curb costly buildups of nuclear arms.

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The 52 former hostagea continue to be welcomed iKune aa heroes, but the background grumble from Vietnam veterans is growing louder. Page 20. ,

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UpdateSoviets step up attack

MOSCOW (LTD - The Soviet Union today stepped up charges that the United States was the major terrorist power in the world and said the CIA was behind a series of assassinations, including the murder of President John F. Kennedy and his brother, Robert.

The running Soviet attacks followed U.S. charges last week that the Kremlin was training, funding and equipping international terrorists and was pent on an international communist state.

The official Tass news agency, in commentaries Sunday night and today, said the Reagan administration was using the charges to launch ‘a new anti-Soviet hostile campaign."t

Snow blows into MidwestArctic winds gusting across the Plains and Great Lakes

states piled newly fallen snow into large drifts and turned rain-soaked roadways into treacherous icp today. Alabama cleaned up from gale-force winds that uprooted

trees and knocked out electricity, ,At least nine highway fatalities were blamed on icy

roads — four in Iowa, three in Nebraska and two in Pennsylvania.

In Salt Lake City, a crosscountry skier rescued from a weekend avalanche in Utah’s Big Cottonwood Canyon died Sunday without regaining consciousness.

Daniel A. Lafave, 30, of Salt Lake City, was ski-touring with two teen-age boys near Cardiff Fork when he apparently triggered a snow slide. It took rescuers nearly one hour to locate Lafave's body, buried beneath 3 feet oil snow.

U. S. envoy loses jobU.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Robert E. White, who

criticized Salvador's ruling junta and encouraged reform efforts, has been fired by ^ r e t a r y of State Alexander Haig, two newspapers reported today.

The State Department and the White House refused to confirm or deny the reports in The New York Times and the Washington Post that the veteran career diplomat

was relieved of duties and was not offered another post.The Post said Haig told White he was no longer nekled,

making the contoversial exenvoy the first ambassador to be removed by the Reagan administation.

Union seeks to end strikeWARSAW, Poland (UPI) — The Solidarity labor union,

fresh from winning a promise of a 40-hour work week, moved today to end a strike by 200,000 members of a maverick local whose seven-day work stoppage hak crippled Bielsko-Biala province.

The bid to end the job action came after Solidarity, saying it would use labor actions only for national goals, pMged to use the strike weapon if the government took action against peasants seeking recognition of a Rural Solidarity farmers’ union. '

But despite Solidarity’s plea that strikes should have a national purpose, the maverick local seeking the ouster of local officials accused of corrputlon vowed to continue its general strike, the last major industrial unrest in the country.

Floe traps fishermanWASHINGTON (UPI) - White House chief of staff

James Baker says the economy is in the worst mess in SO years and that President Reagan will begin explaining what he intends to do about it this week.

Interviewed on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Baker was asked Sunday if the failure to declare a state of emergency, as he had suggested before the inauguration, meant economic conditions turned out better than expected.

“On the contrary, the economy was worse than we thought,” said Baker.

Baker said Reagan will address the nation on the economy Thursday.

Economy in bad messWASHINGTON (UPI) — Decontrol of oil prices could

shoot the cost of gasoline through the $2 barrier this year, but industry and government experts figure a median orice of $1.80 is more likely.

Peopletalk

75 youngHildegarde, the noted "mother superior” of cafe

society, blew out 75 candles to celebrate her being that many years young during the weekend.

Attending the birthday bash at Luchow’s restaurant in New York were her dear friends, Lillian Gish, Ethel Merman and Milton Goldman.

She has been a prominent figure in the nightclub scene since the 1930s and among her contributions to the social set was the formation of the "Tinkle Club" — so exclusive only those who tinkled their stirrers were allowed, thank you.

The "incom parable Hildegarde" was born Hildegarde Loretta Sell in Adell, Wis., in 1906. Sbe was named, she says, after a character in a novel her mother was reading during her pregnancy.

Ayyyy, the mayor.Toluca Lake, the lakeside village tucked away

between Universal Studios and The Burbank Studios that boasts a celebrity clustered who's who of entertainment personalities, has sworn in its new honorary officialdom.

Henry "The Fonz" Winkler is the new Honorary Mayor of Toluca Lake, and John "Dimples" Davidson is the Honorary Sheriff.

The inauguration took place last week at Lakeside Country Club, where Bob Hope's private fairway merges at about the 10th hole, and the neighborhood haunt of Andy Griffith. Jonathan Winters and Dick Van Dyke. '

Red hairingA phantom trooper with bright red locks had in

filtrated the force and Louisiana State Police were baffled.

An FBI agent and New Orleans department personnel couldn't catch him, even though he was rather conspicuous with bright red hair, a red mustache and red muttonchop sideburns.

But the suspected impersonator, Donald Artrup, made the mistake of listing the state police on his job resume and the bright locks and facial hair — forbidden by the police department — matched those of the intriguing phantom.

At his home, troopers said officers found a state police windbreaker, sbirt and badge.

Why did the phantom do it? Because “ it made him feel good and he was proud of it," officers said.

Quote of the dayActress Tatum O'Neal, daughter of actor Ryan

O'Neal, recently visited teen throb-pal Leif Garrett during the filming of a tanning salon sequence in Garrett's upcoming motion picture “Longshot.” "Somehow." Tatum quipped, "going to a tanning salon in California is like bringing coals to Newcastle."

Titanic artifacts may go on displaySPR IN G FIE L D , M ass. (U P I) — P ric e le ss

memorabilia from the ill-fated RMS Titanic — which struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage April 15,1912, and took 1,517 people to a watery grave — is hidden away in safe deposit Iwxes.

But the Titanic Historical Society Inc. wants the artifacts — such as the life jacket tied on Mrs. John Jacob Astor by her husband before he drowned, sailing papers of Frederick Fleet (a lookout who saw the iceberg too late) and wood from lifeboats that saved 705 persons — on display in a museum for everyone to see.

The society was founded in 1963 as the Titanic Enthusiasts of America to perpetuate the history of the British luxury liner, deemed by engineers of its day to be "unsinkable.”

Since then, members have tracked down postcards, menus, letters, pieces of carpet, rivets, a safety razor and countless other artifacts from the ship.

"This is the biggest collection in the world of actual original artifacts from the Titanic,” said Louis 0 . Gorman, the society’s treasurer, as he gently brushed dust from an original copy of the 1911 special edition of the British magazine “Shipbuilder,” which holds data on the Titanic's construction.

"I think we have an obligation to future generations. I want this preserved. I t’s a real segment of history,” Gorman said. ,

Negotiations are underway to house the collection in locations Gorman refused to disclose. But he said, “I would like a museum in a major seaport city ... New York, Boston, Philadelphia."

Edward S. Kamuda, one of the five charter members and current secretary of the group, said when it began gathering the materials from the Titanic 51 years after the ship sank, the action came not a moment too soon.

"We were finding out that a lot of-survivors were dying and that their keepsakes were being thrown into the trash,” Kamuda said. “We thought there was a museum somewhere where they housed some of these relics, but there wasn’t." '

Since its inception, the society has swelled to 2,000 members, ages 8 through 96, in 49 states and more than 20 countries around the world.

Included at present are 30 Honor Members, Titanic survivors who h^ve given the group first-hand accounts about the sinking of the 46,328 ton, 882 foot ship 800 miles south of Newfoundland.

"The (life) boat that rescued me had many women and children, but was not filled to capacity ... it could have taken a lot more,” said Gershun Cohen, who was 19 when he left his home to seek his fortune and boarded the Titanic in Southampton, England, along with tycoons, artists, artistocrats and emigrants. \

"When we were at a safe distance .. we heard the first explosion. It may have been the boilers, I don’t know.

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The Titanic Historiai Society has Its fingers crossed that a team of researchers and filmakers are wrong about locating the majestic oceanllner that went to Its watery grave 66 years ago. "If she stays on the bottom, she’ll always be the Titanic. The mystique will always be there," Jon W. Hollis, a society spokesman said. He was responding to reports that a team of

Then came the second explosion. Then the Titanic sank altogether,” Cohen said in an issue of the society’s magazine “The Titanic Commutator.”

“For several minutes, all was quiet, and then I heard cries of people drowning, which is never out of my ears,” Cohen said.

All survivors were rescued by the RMS Carpathia and taken to New York City.

“They did not realize the shock of the whole thing until they got to New York and realized there were no other ships coming,” Kamuda saidf

liie disaster sparked the creation.,of the International Ice Patrol and improvements in lifesaving equipment and regulations.

The society also delves into the history of the Titanic’s sister ships, HMS Olympic and HMS Britannic and has

researchers and filmakers aboard a search vessel believe they have made sonar contact with the Titanic which sank after - striking an Iceberg. It Is believed to be lying In a canyon under 12,000 feet of water. The tragic sinking of the liner In 1912 Is depicted In this scene by artist WIHy Stoewar. (UPI photo)

broadened its scope to include 19th and 20th century North Atlantic liners, especially from the White Star and Cunard Lines.

Society activities have included technical assistance to undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau in locating and photographing the wreck of the BriUnnic in the Aegean Sea in 1976.

The group also has helped in the research for several major television and film productions.

But an important aspect of the society still is to preserve the memory of what has been described as one the greatest maritime tragedies of all times.

Every year, on the anniversary of the disaster, the society and the U.S. Coast Guard’s memorial services lay a wreath on the Titanic’s suspected wreck site to remember those who died.

Bay State drug prevents chicken poxBOSTON (UPI) — Massachusetts public

health authorities have begun distributing a new drug to protect cancer-stricken children across the country from dangerous chicken pox infections.

The drug also will be available for children under treatment that Impairs their bodies’ natural immunity to disease.

Cases of chicken pox resu lt in pneumonia for 25 percent of those children

I and end in death for 7 percent, the Public * Health Department said.

The new drug, known as Varicella Zoster Immune Globulin, is produced by the department’s Biolo^c Laboratories Division using blood plasma donated by the American Red Cross Blood Services. The drug has been developed over the last three years by the division and the Sidney Farber Cancer Institute in Boston with the support of the U.S. Center for Disease Control in Atlanta.

The laboratory is licensed as the only producer of VZIG in the nation.

Sundav was designated as the starting

day for distribution of the drug, which will be available free to all Massachusetts physicians, laboratory Director Dr. George F. Grady said.

The su)»tance will be sold to health authorities in other states and the profits will finance continued production of the drug and of other disease-fighting vaccines, Grady said.

About 2,(XX) vials of the drug already have been distributed to 13 regional blood centers across the country; another 8,000 vials will be made available this year.

Three years of clinical trials have shown the drug reduces the severity of chicken pox by 75 percent in children under age 15 who have no natural immunity to disease.

Grady said the drug is not intended for use by healthy children who are exposed to chicken pox.

“The supply of VZIG is limited, and we want to make sure that those children who really need it are able to get it,” he said.

Weather AlmanacT oday’s forecast

Rain windy and mild today, rain possibly heavy at times causing urban and street flooding. High in the upper 40s and low 50s. Snow showers this evening. Partial clearing tonight. Turning sharply colder with lows falling into the teens. Partly sunny windy and cold Tuesday. Highs 10 to 16. Southerly wind 20 to 30 mph today northwest 20 to 30 mph tonight and Tuesday.

Extended ou tlookExtended outlook for New England Wednesday through

Friday;MuHHurhuHt'tib, Rhode iHliind and Uonnerliculi Fair

Wednesday and Thursday. Cloudy, chance of snow Friday Daytime highs in the 20s Wednesday and in the mid 20s to the mid 30s Thursday and Friday. Overnight lows zero to 10 above Wednesday and Thursday and mostly in the teens on Friday.

\i-riiion i: Partly cloudy with flurries north Wednesday, fair Thursday. Chance of snow Friday. Cold at first with highs 10-20 and lows 0-15 below rising on Friday to highs 20-30 and lows 0-10 above.

Muini' unil V h llumpHliire; Fair Wednesday and Thursday Clouding up Friday. Highs in the teens north and 20s south. Lows Irom 10 below north to 5 above south.

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U P t W E A T H C R F O T O C A S T Avon, spent $40,659, more than any other state legislator! to win re- election by 86 votes.

The average expenditure to win election to the state Senate was $13,- 270, and $3,960 to become a representative.

The total spending on races for the sta te Senate was $769,733. The average tor all candidates, winners and losers, was $9,868.

Records for spending in House races also were shattered.

Candidates for the House spent a total of $957,788, an average of $3,193 per candidate.

House Speaker Elmest N Abate, D-

Stamford, set a record for a candidate for state representative at $16,3St. He outspent his Republican opponent, M. William Greaney, 13-1, and easily won re-election.

The 187 lawmakers are each paid $21,000 in salaries and expenses over two years.

Abate said he expects campaign costs to continue to increase. He said Inflation has not exempted political campaigns, pushing up the cost of telephones, mailings, advertising, supplies and paraphernalia.

The legislative candidates’ final campaign finance reports are on file at the ^ r e t a r y of State’s office.

Leonhardt’s total spending easily surpassed the most spent by a single G eneral Assembly candidate . Former state Sen. William E. Strada Jr., D-Stamford, spent $26,|500 in his losing effort against Leonhardt.

Leonhardt was involved in the close 5th Senatorial District, which

^.includes West Hartford, Avon and part of Simsbury, winning 24,200 to 24.114. over form er sta te Rep.

Charles R. Matties of West Hartford.Matties reported spending $^,010,

and the state Republican Party paid $3,180 for a districtwide mailing for him as well. The battle between Leonhardt and Matties was the most expensive legislative race at the state level.

NOW claims conservatives

issuesHARTFORD (U PI)- A NaUonal

O rganization of Women board member says some conservative organizations are campaigning against abortion and women’s rights Issues to camouflage their efforts to influence other political causes.

Rosemary Trowbridge said a consortium of conservative groups, including some wealthy religious groups, were using the issues as a smokescreen.

She said the groups had a “hidden agenda” of right-wing political causes, such as repeal of the Panama Canal treaties and rejection of the s t r a t e g i c a rm s l im i ta t io n agreements, over which they hoped to exercise influence.

Ms. Trowbridge said the New

Labor backs child care

WEST ARTFORD (U P I) - Adequate child care is no longer just a women’s Issue, says a social services official for a major national union.

R u th A n t lo n i a te s . of th e Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workersn AFL-ao, said labor unions, government and industry must get more Involved in the child care provision issue.

"The labor movement has always felt it should be a societal responsibility. There should be more government involvement,” she told a symposium sponsored ^ t u r ^ y by

, the univerity of Connecticut School of Social Work.

“In the 1960s, we shouldn’t put child care on the back burner,” she said.

Right alliance of fundamentalist religion and conservative politics is a formidable opponent to liberal causes and politicians.

“They wanted to take control of the (U.S.) Senate by 1982, so they’re two years ahead of schedule with that one,” Ms. Trow bridge told a gathering of 35 women.

Speaking at a NOW workshop over the weekend, Ms. Trowbridge said the women’s organization must raise much more money and must register many young voters to counter conservative gains.

“Forty percent of the electorate is between the ages of 18 and 35,” Ms. Trowbridge said, “but only one-third of them vote.”

A major source of funds for the New R i^ t is the growing evangelical movement, Ms. Trowbridge said. “They have one television show that brings in $1 million a week,” she said.

Evangelical-political groups like the Moral Majority and the Religious Roundtable have worked to defeat politicians whose views are unacceptable, she said, often picking abortion and the Ek]ual Rights.

They promote fears that ratification of ERA would destroy families and they play to religious sentiments that equate abortion with murder, she said.

She cited the Mormons and the Roman Catholic hierarchy as two religious groups that have opposed ERA , and she sa id th e tw o organizations fear EIRA will destroy their patriarchal organizations.

Ms. Trowbridge said the Mormon Church channeled $10,000 each into six Florida state le^ la tiv e races backing antl-ERA candidates.

A competitor In the Ice cutting contest at the Brookfield, Vt., Ice Harvest, Sunday, loses his footing as he Is pulling his block from

the frozen pond and almost goes for an Ice swim. He did, however, regain his footing and completed the chore. (UPI photo)

Annual Vermont harvest produces a chilly product

Center boosts prices to help meet deficit

HARTFORD (UPI) — The prices of some concession stand items at the Hartford Civic Center have been increased to help meet the center’s projected $1.3 million deficit for the fiscal year.

The cost of a 14-ounce draft of beer foe fans attending the Hartford Whalers games was increased last week from $1 to $1.25. Pretzel and pizza prices went up a dime.

The Hartford Courant said Sunday its examirtatlon of the civic center’s finances last week indicated the center’s high fixed costs and the near impossibility of making money on its convention business vnll make it difficult to turn the projected $1.3 million deficit into a profit.

“You’d have to have everything working in your favor — a good economy, a lot of concerts, winning teams that are drawing lots of people, who are buying lots of beer and

lots of food,” said Frank E. Russo Jr., civic center executive director.

The city-owned civic center is the home of the Whalers hockey team and the Hartford Hellions Indoor soccer team. The Boston Celtics also play six basketball games in the center. However, the Hellions and the Celtics might not be back next season.

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BROOKFIELD, Vt. (UPI) - The crowd held its breath; there was a dull thud, a crack, and the huge block of ice broke away from the frozen pond, slowly drifting into the narrow channel.

T he p a rk a - c la d o n lo o k e rs applauded, and the 1981 annual Ice harvest had begun.

By the end of the ice cutting demonstration and competition Saturday more than a dozen huge chunks of ice lined the impromptu arena, making a convenient — if chilly — set of bleachers for some of the ISO spectators.

In the old days, as veteran ice harvester Wendell Savery told it, the ice blocks would have been hauled away in a horse-drawn wagon and packed in massive mounds of sawdust.

There they would sit through the sweltering summer months and well in to the fa ll a lthough they “ ’wouldn’t quite last until more ice formed the next winter,” he recalled.

Then the iceman would peddle his wares, going from house to house with huge blocks of ice gripped in iron tongs slung over his shoulder — and sponges in his back pockets to catch the meltwater that dripped down the back of his rubber apron.

The blocks sold for a nickel apiece, recalled Savery, “whioh wasn’t much pay but was better than nothing.”

That’s how it was done back in the “depression days of the 1930’s.” But Saturdays ice harvest was just for fun to kick off the bicentennial ce lebration for the town of Brookfield, population 760.

Times have changed since Savery’s ice-hauling days. To make the first cut in the two-foot-tbick ice covering the frozen pond — before the spectators arrived — a shiny orange and white Stlhl chainsaw was called in.

But there was a lot of oldtime spirit as people of all ages competed for the 1981 title of “fastest ice- cutter.”

Shedding coats, sw eaters ,and mittens, one by one they grabbed the old ice-cutting saw — a pointed, jagged-toothed tool that stood almost shoulder high to most of the contestants.

The record time for cutting a regulation size block of ice — roughly a foot wide, two feet long and two- and-a-half feet deep — came in at 50 seconds.

Besides showing the younger folks the fine art of ice carving by cutting the first piece himself, Savery—a 64- year-old farmer — told a few stories of the old days.

He was interrupted only once, when the ice on the pond let out a loud and startling creak. Before Savery could finish his sentence, many in the crowd panicked and headed for solid ground.

The oldtimers laughed and assured everyone it was just the ice settling — nothing worth worrying about.

Savery resumed his story about the time he and his horse fell through the ice.

Dirty fuel hurts lungsHARTFORD (UPI) — The Connec

ticut Lung Association says afunded summer meal programs for •'®®®**mi®**il8lion to allow utilities to eligible children in their com- higher sulfur fuel oil could munities. cause additional problems for 250,000

State Education Commissioner state residents with lung diseases. Mark Shedd said Saturday that about Thomas J. Godar, a lung specialist 28,000 children will receive one or with the association, said air pollu- more free meals a day during the tion caused, by the dirtier fuel would summer months under a food service cause aggravated symptoms and program approved by the state Board added problems for Connecticut of Question.

residents with lung diseases.The association has asked to voice

its concerns in an oral argument before state Department of Env ironm ental P ro tec tion Commissioner Stanley Pac, who usually agrees to such requests.

Godar said the association knew utilities could save money burning the high sulfur oil but the organization “will continue to hold the health

of those with existing lung ailments above economic considerations.”

A DEP hearing o fficer has recommended Pac allow Northeast Utilities and United Illuminating Co. to burn oil with a sulfur content of 2.2 percent, instead of the 0.5 percent to which they are now lim its .

The utilities claim they could save $160 million a year burning the cheaper, high sulfur fuel.

New clinic helps ‘elephant men’

Leonhardt said he agrees campaigns have become too expensive. He said he spent as much as he did because he was involved in a difficult race in an affluent swing district.

Two die in fires in stateBy United Preas InternationalTwo people died in separate

weekend house fires in (Connecticut.Police said a man discovered on

the second floor of his burning New Milford home died of smoke inhalation Sunday.

M ichael H. Sw ett, 18, was pronounced dead on arrival at New Milford Hospital. He was discovered in a second-story more than three hours after firefighters were called, officials said.

Police said four other people in the wood-framed house when the fire began at about 4:30 a.m. were not injured.

Two firefighters were treated and released from the hospital, police said.

In Norwalk, David Spain died Saturday night in a fire that heavily damaged a three-story rooming house he was living in.

Deputy Fire Chief Charles Smith said the fire apparently started on the third floor, lighting up the night sky and causing heavy damage to the roof and third floor and some damage to the second.

A nother room er, M ary Lee Forney, 35, was admitted to Norwalk Hospital with smoke inhalation and Sunday was listed in satisfactory condition.

A firefighter, A1 Wisniewski, also suffered smoke inhalation and was released from the hospital Sunday, Smith said.

Ms. Forney was at the window of her third-floor room on the westside of the building when firefighters arrived. Smith said, and was brought down by a fire ladder.

Spain was found by firefighters in h is e a s t s id e room b u t w as nronounced dead on arrival at the Norwalk Hospital, Smith said.

C rash k ills w om anCROMWELL (UPI) - Sherrry

Esposito, 27, of Middletown was struck and killed by a car over the weekend while she crossed Interstate 91 to seek help for a one-car accident.

State Police said Ms. Esposito was pronounced dead on arrival Saturday at Middlesex Memorial Hospital in Middletown.

Police said she was walking in a southbound lane of 1-91 when she was struck by a car driven by Anthony Wilkinson. 32. of Vernon. M emorial established

BRIDGEPORT (UPI) - The Billy Clarke Memorial Art Fund has been established dt the E aster Seal Rehabilitation Center of eastern Fairfield County in memory of the young artist.

WilUam “Billy” Clarke III, 32, of Fairfield had been a quadraplegic since a 1968 traffic accident left him paralyzed from the neck down. He used a wheelchair he controlled by a special mouthpiece.

His favorite occupation was sketching and painting with a mouth brush he learned to use at the Easter Seal Rehabilitation Center.

Massachusetts Qeneral Hospital neurosurgeon Dr. Robert L. Mar- tuza examines a patient prior to the opening of the hospital’s new Neurofibromatosis (Elephant Man’s Disease) clinic. Martuza who will serve as director of the clinic said the disease Is not curable or preventable and the treatment center was designed to treat the Illness’ symptoms. The clinic will be the first In New England and one of about five In the country. (UPI Photo)

BOSTON (UPI) — Victims of the disfiguring genetic disease featured in the play and motion picture “The Elephant Man” can now receive treatment at a clinic scheduled to open today at Massachusetts General Hospital.

T ne s p e c i a l i z e d t r e a t m e n t c e n t e r fo r neurofibromatosis is the only one In New England and one of about five nationwide, said clinic director Dr. Robert L. Martuza.

In its most severe forms, the disease can cause hundreds of tumors to form at nerve endings, elevation of the skin surface, enlargement of the head, disproportionate leg length and excessive folds of skin and tissue.

The central character in “The Elephant Man” is so severely afflicted with neurofibromatosis he is displayed' in a carnival freak show until a physician takes an interest in his case.

Martuza said the little-understood disease is not curable or preventable, and the clinic can only treat its symptoms: The many problems associated with the disease make centralization of services important, he said Saturday.

“Patients in the past have often had to travel from one doctor’s office to another,” he said of the illness which afflicts an estimated 100,1X10 Americans with varying degrees of deformity.

“Now, in a single setting, these patients have available the services of varied specialists. Each has studied the illness apd is equipped to treat whatever problem may be presented in his area of expertise,” he said.

Most v i c t i m s s u f f e r m i ld s y m p t o m s of neurofibromatosis; others undergo severe physical changes. One common characteristic is the formation of at least six pale, freckled birthmarks, Martuza said.

Surgery can sometimes be used for cosmetic improvements or to ward off serious Internal complications, such as encroachment on a bodily organ by a tumor.

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Students join in VITAMANCHESTER - A number of

business ca reer students at Manchester Community College are participating in VITA, a cooperative program with the Internal Revenue Service.

According to Alan Gates and Patricia Long, MCC faculty and acting coordinators of the program, VITA has been part of the MCC program since 1975 and is designed to offer income tax filing assistance to low income families, senior citizens,

and students.The assistance will be provided by

MCC students who have completed a 15-week federal-tax course at the college. Those students will receive a certificate for their participation as part of their portfolio resume.

In addition, some students will receive work experience credit.

Qualified'individuals interested in the free service can take advantage of the program on a drop-in basis, Mondays, Wednesdays or Fridays

from II a.m. to 2 p.m. or Tuesdays or Thursdays from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. from now through April IS. No appointment is necessary.

Individuals are asked to bring in W2 form s, tax bills and other material for the preparation of the income tax form.

The VITA students will provide assistance on either long or short forms.

For additional informaticm, call the college at 64M906. ext. 205.

Group creates scholarshipM A N C H E S T E R - D onald

Genovesi, president, Manchester Scholarship Foundation, has announced the establishment of the Richard Danielson Scholarship.

The scholarship will be presented each year to a member of the Manchester High School soccer team who ex h ib its need and best

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exemplifies the all-around input preached by Danielson.

Danielson served as soccer coach at Manchester High School for U years.

Persons interested in contributing to the scholarsh ip m ay send donations to the M anchester Scholarship Foundation, % Hartford Road. Manchester.

All contributions are tax deductible.

Applications for financial aid through the foundation are now available through the guidance departm'ens at Manchester High School. East Catholic High School. Cheney Technical School and the financial aid office of Manchester Community College.

Berman Senate p6$P,HARTFORD — The Democratic

Senate leadership of the Connecticut General Assembly has announced the appointment of Jon Berman of Manchester as a legal counsel to the Senate Majority.

Hie announcement was made jointly by Senate President Pro Toupore James J. Murphy Jr. and M ajority Leader R ichard F. Schheller.

Berman, a 1979 graduate of the University of CiHinecticut School of Law, is practicing law with the Manchester law firm Beck and Pagano.

“ I am honored to have an opportunity to work with the state Senate,” Berman said of his appointment, “ and I expect a most challenging session ahead.”

Berman is a member of the Connecticut Bar Association and the American Trial Lawyers Association. He andliis wife, Myra, live in Manchester. _______

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MANCHESTER - Dr. Wallace Winchell, assistant professor of English at Manchester Conununity College and authority on totallstic systems and religious communes, will appear as a guest on Channel 24’s “ C on necticu t P rim e T im e ,” Wednesday at 10 p.m.

With Winchell will be the featured guest. Moss Durst, president of the Unification Church.

The Unification Church was established by Sun Myung Moon, a onetim e business man from South Korea. Moon has been the subject of several articles which concern parental attempts to deprogram their children who have be^m e members of the Unification Church.

Whatever their purpose, there are over 3 million young Americans who take part in the various totalistic systems and religious communes throughout the U.S.A.

The MCC Fellowship Group, for

which Winchell serves as advitw, has sponsored several programs this past year on religious communes. The most recent such program, which took place in September, featured Steven Hassan, a one-time Moonie and currently the president of the Ex-Members Against Moon, Inc.Sunset Club

MANCHESTER - The Sunset Gub will meet Tuesday at 1 p.m. at the Senior Citizens’ Center. A social kitchen gam e will fo llow the meeting.

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Annual report lists programs

By NANCY CARR Exerulive Director

I would like to share with all of you my report which will be included in the MACC annual report for 1980. In the next several weeks I would like to share several of these reports, since so many of you are involved and contribute in one way or another to our work together in the community. Each year I try to focus on different aspects of our work together. Several years ago we acknowledged the life giving support of our many volunteers. Last year we focused on finances discovering almost to our own amazement that a dollar given to the core budget of the Conference is multiplied over and over much in the tradition of the loaves and fishes.

Loaves and FishesSome $11,500 was con

tributed to core budget last year by the churches and income derived from the Evening of Performing Arts. The tota l cash receipts of the Conference through community and church giving to special programs (Fuel, Pantry, Human Needs, e t c . ) , grants from the United Way of M a n ch ester , Department of Corrections. Department of Mental Health and CETA amounted to another $127,- 000 and at the very minimum, another $63,000 is contributed in inkind goods (food, clothes, furniture, etc.). You can add to that another $53,000 in estimated inkind personnel services (probably about half the time actually g iven to C o n fe re n ce works).

My calculator tells me that these figures total up to $243,000. Every dollar

. 'given to core budget in 1980 generated more than $21 in other cash, materials and service.Report of the Exerulive

DirectorThe concern of the

C hristian com m unity focused in MACC for the past five-six years on the least able and/or most in need in the community broadened into two new areas this past year. To be honest, perhaps I should say, was shocked into new priorities and activities as the a lre a d y c r i t i c a l h ousing sh orta g e in Manchester bore more and more visible fruit in human suffering and the exploding firebomb gouged holes in our belief that racism, at least in Manchester, was no longer a serious threat to th e p e a c e and brotherhood of the community.

The “ Room-ln-the-Inn” funding effort to provide m oney for em ergency housing for the homeless, the effort to encourage and supjibrt local churches in. form in g a n on -p rofit housing corporation to put up low income housing units for families, the spon

sorsh ip o f m eetin gs b e tw e e n co m m u n ity leadership and the Black community have all been recent responses to events in 1980.

Since there is no way to give a com prehensive report of all you have ac- c o m p lis h e d w o rk in g together as the Christian community in Manchester. I will only note some developing relationships between the churches and other institutions in the community as they seek cooperative ways to care for the human beings they exist to serve.

• The establishment of the Religious Education Program, a project cosponsored by the Division of Christian Education and Manchester Community College, is a hallmark event we herald and value.

• The new pastoral care position at the Meadows C on v a lescen t H om e, cooperatively funded by MACC and the Meadows is another most promising s i^ of future partnership w ith co m m u n ity in stitutions.

^ • The c o n tin u e d excellent rapport between the Town of Manchester and the Conference. We are particularly grateful to the Board of Directors which granted MACC permission to use the ground floor of the old Senior Citizens' Center for the Department of Human Needs.

Issues that we will continue to struggle with in 1981 as a Christian comm unity w ill b e : the growing plight of the poor, particularly in regai^ to housing, the effects of deinstitutionalization and what that means on our streets in terms of human helplessness and suffering, refugee resettlement (can we or can’t we?) and the upsurge of racism, antis e m it is m and o th e r manifestations of bigotry.

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ManchesterPanel may get new zone

MANCHESTER— A new zone, custom designed by the Planning and Zoning Department to develop the Cheney National Historic District, may be given to the PZC tonight.

If the draft of the new tone, called the Histaric Zone is completed, it' will be given to the commission, Alan Lamson, town planner said today. The planning department has been formulating the new zone for several months, and it still must be proofread and printed.

The Historic Zone will differ from conventional town zones, allowing a mix of multi-family, single family homes, plus business and commercial interests. This type of zone was suggested by the consulting firm of Anderson, Notter and Finegold Inc. which outlined possible development of the former factory buildings in an 87-page report released last year.

R oof robbers scalp model

MANCHESTER — Someone took the roof off a house Saturday morning and the Owners of the house want it back.

'The house is really a model. It sits on the lawn at 26 Porter St. and is a replica of the full-sized house behind it.

It has long been a familiar sight to motorists who pass the intersection of Porter and ^ s t O nter streets.

Som etim e between midnight Friday and 1 p.m. Saturday, someone apparently tried to take the house away. It weighs about 100 pounds, however.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Smith discovered their model house slightly damaged and minus its detailed roof. They would like to get' the roof back if anyone finds it in the neighborhood.

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The report suggested creating up to 1,200 homes, offices and small shops in the area.

A New York City developer, Abraham Rosen has already announced intentions of (renovati^ the Gock Tower Building into 108 homes.

There are five public hearings on the PZC agenda this evening including a request of Pressure Blast Inc. to create off-street parking on Chapel Street.

The firm requests rezoning about .40 acres at 4V and 12V Chapel St., from Residence B to parking. The parking would be used for its nearby plant. The firm owns the land.

Two requests for M zones, the only zone to allow construction of multifamily dwellings, from Raymond Damato will be aired tonight.

Damato, Manchester’s largest landlord, requests two acres of land at 562 and 568 Hilliard St., be rezoned from Residence A to Residence M.

The other parcel involves 4.6 acres on New State Road.

Damato requests 226 New State be rezoned from Residence A to Residence M.

For the second time, Charles Lindsey requests a business zone for a Doming Street property.

Lindsey requested a Business II zone and a M zone for a .5 acre parcel at 230 Doming St. in October. The PZC rezon ed the area from Residence Z to M for a portion of the property, but denied the business zone request.

Lindsey now seeks the change to Business II, a commercial trade area for general shopping.

A resubdivision request from Merrit Baldwin will be heard for 84V through 136v Still Field Road.

The PZC approved a subdivision for the area, but Baldwin wishes to alter the plan.

The meeting begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Municipal Building hearing room.

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Members of the decorations committee for the second annual Manchester GOP Lincoln Day Dinner prepared decorations Friday morning. The dinner will be Feb. 13

at Willie's Steak House, Manchester. Committee members include from left, Beverly Malone, Shirley Larsen and Judy Kargl. (Herald photo by Pinto)

Center changes its focusMANCHESTER — In response to

a survey of area wom an, the Manchester Community College Women’s Center will be concentrating much of its future planning on career enhancement and personal effectiveness training.

The center spent much of the fall 1980 semester evaluating the needs of women both in the school and the community. One method used to obtain the information was a questionnaire circulated among the community and the college population.

Of the 53 responses it received, the

center noted 82 percent said there was a need for career counseling. Consciousness raising and personal counseling also ranked high on the list.

Women answering the survey indicated they would like the center's programs on careers, personal effectiveness, and life-style and assertiveness repeated.

In age, the largest group of responders, 62 percent, were between 17 and 26. Fifty percent of the women were single. Sixty percent were full-time students and 20 per

cent worked full-time.Almost all of the responses came

from women who attended MCC.

According to this particular survey, the responses indicate the majority (72 percent) of the women would use the center frequently and only eight percent said they would hardly ever use it.

The center encourages women to phone or stop by with further comments or additional information. The number is 646-4900, ext. 232 and 286.

Vermont fire tragedy claims four in family

Fire damages one apartment

MANCHESTER — A Sunday morning fire burned through the second- floor frame of a Center Stieet home, causing serious damage to one apartment in the four-family dwelling.

The fire apparently started at about 2 a.m. Sunday when ashes from a wood stove burned through the plastic container In which they were being stored.

The fire was confined to a second- floor apartment, where damage was serious, but caused what ofFicials termed moderate damage to the entire structure.

Firefighters from the Manchester Fire Department tore into the h om e ’ s p 'etition ing and wood sh in g lin g to ex tin g u ish the smoldering fire. Although flames were shooting from a portion of the home underneath the roof, no one was injured in the blaze.

A hole on the second floor of the two-and-a-half family home was evident today in the area of the attic stairway where the ashes had been stored. Chief John Rivosa today said no evidence of an electrical wiring malfunction was found, and attributed the fire’s cause to the stored ashes.

Girl Scouts plan spaghetti dinner

MANCHESTER - Senior Girl Scout Troop 2 will sponsor a Spaghetti Dinner Feb. 3 at 6 p.m. to be held at Center Congregational Church, Manchester.

Tickets are available at $3.50 for adults and $2 for children under 12 years of age and can be bought at the dqor by calling Mrs. Richard Johnson at 6434)872.

The Scouts have had numerous fund raisers to finance a trip to Bermuda during the forthcoming Easter vacation. A future fund raiser will be the showing of a Walt Disney film Feb. 16 at Center Congregational Church. Show times are 12:30 and 3 p.m. and the price is 99 cents. Children under five years-old must be accompanied by an adult More information may be obtained by calling Mrs. Johnson.Ladies Aid

MANCHESTER— The Udies Aid Society of Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church will meet Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at the church. Pastor Charles Kuhl w ill lead a d iscu ssion . Refreshments will be served.

Volunteer firefighters of the Eighth Utilities District Fire Department raised $70 during the holiday season to help defeat neuromuscular disease. Fr6m left are Rick White, Bob Turcotte, and Don Moore, who volunteered their time to put canisters In M anchester stores. The M uscular Dystrophy Association supports research at Connecticut universities and cllnlgs at various Connecticut hospitals.

FAIRFAX, Vt. (UPI) - Vermont’s worst fire tragedy in five years has claimed the lives of a young father and three of his six daughters, trapped when fire swept their rural home.

Autopsies were scheduled today on Frederick Collier Jr., 29, and daughters Kari, 7, Mary, 3, and Heather, 9 months.

They died early Sunday when fire gutted the family’s woc^frame house on a hilltop above sparsely populated West Street in the northern section of town.

The children’s mother, Susan Collier, and three other children escaped. Mrs. Collier and Allison, 2, were in stable condition today at the Medical Center in Burlington.

Officials said Mrs. Collier injured her back when she jumped from a second story window holding the child, who suffered a broken leg.

Two other daughters, Laurie, 12, and Julie, 10, were not injured.

The fire was the worst in Vermont since Oct. 23, 1975, when a house fire in Rutland killed five children and an adult.

Fairfax Fire Chief Richard LeClair said they were able to escape and alert a neighbor because their bedroom was at the ground level.

L ^ la ir said Collier’s body was found in the basement. He had one child over his shoulder and was holding the other by the hand./ Firemen reached the house 10 minutes

after a call from a neighbor, LeClair said.But, he said their e fforts were

hampered because all the ponds in the area were frozen. He said water had to be trucked 5 miles.

Neighbors John Skutel and John Vowles ran to the house to help Mrs. Collier, drsfgging her away from the house because she was unable to rise.

Skutel went up the outside stairs to the first floor door.

“ I didn’t dare open it because I could see under the door that there were flames,” he said.

LeClair said the cause of the fire was under investigation, but "it ’s safe to say we’ll never know,” because the house was gutted.

He said the wood stove and the gas stove were both possibilities.

Veterans CouncilMANCHESTER - The Veterans Coun

cil of Manchester will meet tonight at 8 o ’clock at the Army and Navy Club.

Exclusively yoursHow well informed we are of the ac

tivities in Washington that have meaning to Manchester depends on our Washington news sources. Every week your Evening Herald gives you exclusive reports from our Washington bureau. Your Evening Herald, the only newspaper with its own bureau covering W ashin^n for news for Manchester.

Groups plan waste talks' The East Hartford and Manchester

chapters of the Connecticut Citizens Action Group plan a meeting Feb. 4 to discuss hazardous waste dumping.

East Hartford and Manchester landfills were both cited as likely hazardous waste dumping areas In a list of 255 dump sites submitted by the DEP to the'General Assembly’s Environment Committee.

The CCAG has endorsed several pieces of legislation to deal with the hazardous

waste problem including a bill that would place,a surcharge on producers of hazardous wastes. The money raised would fund additional DEP staff for dump inspections.

According to CCAG the DEP has only six Inspectors to check more than 3,000 dump sites.

The next meeting of the Manchester Citizen Action Group will be Feb. 4 at 7 p.m. at the West Side Recreation Center.

Self-defense course setM ANCHESTER— The W om en’ s

Center at Manchester Community College is planning to offer a course for women in self-defense.

Hartford Neighborhood Women Against Rape (NWAR) will provide the instructor for this eight session program. It will be free of charge.

Before the center may set the date to begin, it needs 20 individuals to make a commitment to come to the program.

The day of the week and the time of the class will be set according to the greatest demand.

Call the center bv Feb. 6 to register.

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Do us both a favor and please check to see if your name and address are listed properly In the WHITE PAGES of the Book of Names-your telephone directory. We’re getting ready to print the new phone book.

Now is the time to tell us if any changes are necessary. If a separate listing for your spouse, children or relatives is desired, order all your additional listings now. Unless you let us know otherwise, we’ll assume the present listing is correct. You won't have another chance to change it until next year.

The deadline for white page listing changes In the Manchester Book of Names Is February 13. Please call any necessary changes to us before the closing date at the appropriate Service Center listed below:

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People/Places

Geraldine Mayor wipes off her chair she is caning during classes at the Senior Citizens' Center in Manchester.

Eager seniors join class

Art of caning brings rewards Joseph Barre puts the final touches on the chair seat he is caning.By BETTY RYDERFam ilv/Travel Editor

Howard L. Miller of 62 Clinton St., Manchester, learned caning when he was just a young man.

Today, as a member of the Senior Citizens' Center in Manchester, he

lends his expertise teaching his fellow members the art.

"I learned caning years ago, and took a refresher course in the Adult Evening Class at Manchester High School a couple of years ago,” Miller said.

When the Center was looking for new ideas to keep its seniors busy, the idea of caning classes was suggested.

“ Now we have 26 m em bers enrolled in class. We conduct a six- weeks course, two days a week, Monday and Thursdays, from 9 a.m. to noon. I have a place where we buy the cane at a 10 percent discount and the members bring in old chairs and really enjoy working on them," he said.'

"One fellow said it had taken him 40 years to get around to finishing a chair for his wife. Others have brought in children’s rockers they found in the cellar or attic and they look so nice when they all have new cane seats.”

Miller says there are seven steps to caning. "Actually there are six, the seventh being the binding.”

From the interest shown at the Center, the class participants are eager pupils.

And while it may look complicated to a viewer with all its split rattan s trip s and pegs. M ilter says, “Anyone can do it.”

Apparently, it's never too late to learn. Vera Hooker untangles strips of rattan as her husband William

looks on.

Photos By Pinto

Chairs are lined up assembly line fashion as class participants compare notes with their Instructor and each other.

Violet England sits as she scrapes old paint from chair she Is refinIshIng. Howard Miller, Instructor for the class at gives a few words of advice to Mrs. M a rg e the Manchester Senior Citizens' Center, Cote. ”

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Sensuous evening gown, draped gold and black lame. Its hatter neckline cut clean to the waist, was one of the most cheered model presented by Yves Saint-Laurent for his spring-summer high fashion collection In Paris.'

Woman’s World

Still the world king of fashion, designer Yves Saint-Laurent, presented this mannequin twirling a cane as she parades in black and white pin-striped mannish tailored suit with flat, straight skirt, slightly squared shoulders, over a black and white soft blouse.

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For his 1981 spring-summer high fashion collection, Jean- Louis Scherrer kept the hemlines way below the knee for his Indian -Rajah show in Paris. His Ivory or white stiff silk or chiffon high-collared Nehru embroidered jackets over jodhpur or harem pants made a sensation.

fighting Margaret Sanger^s battle all over againQ tQ T O e Orwell's“ big brother”

society oT 1934, privacy is rare — even in families.

The state of the state, as author Orwell envisioned it, made squealing honorable and respect for privacy onerous. ^• Eleanor Smeal, president of the National Organization for Women, says passage of a proposed Human Life Amendment to the constitution could invade privacy in the bedrooms of America as nothing before — and before 1934.

She and other opposed to the H-L- A, as it is called, warn that husbands could squeal on wives who have abortions, or wives could turn into the local cop husbands who made them end a pregnancy . M urder or homicide would be the public charge — even in cases where certain forms of birth control were practiced, including use of an intra-uterlne device.

This is not bad science fiction, Smeal said.

“Rather, it is the kind of world that could come about as a .result of passage of the proposed Human Life Amendment,” she said.

i Proponents of„the>H-L-A say it is anti-abortion. Smeal says it is really "anti-woman and anti-birth control.”

Siding with Smeal and other feminists is Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights.

On the other side of the emotional battle^ound are Right to Lifers, Catholic bishops, and others who Smeal says seek to return America to an era of prohibition on abortion.

“An H-L-A,” she said, “like the constitutional amendment mandating prohibition of alcoholic drinks, would bring even more troubles than in the era of prohibition — a time when an attempt was made to force a single set of values on all Americans.

“Prohibition didn’t work because this is a pluralistic society. And it has not changed.”

The H-L-A comes in a number of versions Introduced in Congress over the last several years. Ms. Smeal said the one expected to get the most attention from the new Congress is called the “Paramount Right to Life Amendment, which says

“Tbe paramount right to life is invested in each human being from the moment of fertilization without regard to age, health, or condition of dependency.”

Imj)lied here is the fact that the “person” is to be granted all the protection the law can give life.

Implied also: taking that life would be murder. The person who did the “killing” would be a murderer and subjected to all the penalties the law reserves for same. Those who help taking that life would be accomplices to murder.

Ms. Smeal said the proposal could outlaw use of intra-uterine devices and birth control pills of the low-dose estrogen type — the most popular forms of birth control.

“The lUD doesn’t work until there is a fertilized egg,” she said.

"The same for the low-estrogen birth control pill.”

On the eighth anniversary of the 1973 Supreme court of the United States decision that legalized abortions, the coming potentially ferocious battle over the proposed H- L-A was the focus of renewed battle cries from both sides.

The date was Jan. 22. NOW members ran workshops, pushed neighbor’s doorbells and carried their warnings to shopping centers.

In Washington there was a March for Life led by Nellie Gray.

Gray and Smeal engaged in polite battle on the TODAY show that day.

Gray said: “The point is that it (the H-L-A) does not outlaw certain forms of birth control.”

She claimed:“People who kill a human being

from the moment of fertilization are committing homicide.”

A form of birth control the H-L-A would not outlaw is natural family planning. This is considered among the least effective unless used p e rfe c tly . S tud ies show th a t “perfect” use of the method is far from the norm.

In an interview Smeal raised the following questions, all within the framework of interference a fertilized egg being homicide:

— “Is miscarriage, then, in an era of an H-L-A, involuntary homicide?”

— “Is abortion to destroy a terribly defective fetus murder, tw ? ”

—“Where is the compassion if

abortion, performed on an 11-year- old pregnant by incest, comes under the classification of murder?”

The Param ount Human Life Amendment, co-sponsored by Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., and Rep. Robert K. Dumam, R-Calif., is the goai for pro iffers and target of those

who favor freedom of choice on abortion.

“The sweep of the language is from the moment of fertilization,” Smeal said.

“What is to be done about tubal pregnancy? If it is allowed to go on to te m, it wiil kill the woman.

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MANCHESTER - The Koffee Krafters of the Nutmeg Branch of the YWCA will meet Wednesday from 9:30 a.m. to noon at 78 N. Main St.

The group is interested in making c ra f ts . P a r t ic ip a n ts m ust be members of the YWCA and the Koffee K rafters. This meeting members wiil continue to work on making nylon Rowers.

Hostesses will be Mrs. Catherine R eneven to and M rs. G ladys

Merriman. Baby-sitting will be available during the meetings for those who call the YWCA office, in advance, at 647-1437.

BritanniaMANCHESTER - The Britannia

Chapter, Daughters of the British Empire, will meet Thursday at 11:30 a m. at the home ol Mrs. Thomas Wright, 162 Homestead St.

New officers for the coming year will be Installed.

A good source of ironBy LAWRENCE LAMBDEAR DR. LAMB -

Evidently I am low on iron. I would like to build up my iron the natural way, using foods that contain iron rather than taking pills. Could you send me a list of foods ^ a t contain iron? Also just why is a person tired when he is low on iron? I know, it causes an anemia but is there any other reason? Why do women need more iron than men? Will I always need to watch my iron or will I get over this tendency?

DEAR READER - I'm not sure how you know you are low In iron. If you are suffering from fatigue, that can be caused from many other factors other than ^anemia. And many people are low in Iron but

Lambdo not have noticeable fatigue.

W omen in th e childbearing .years usually need m o re iro n , presumably because they have an increased blood loss. The red blood cells are one of the chief stores of body iron. You can see how good your body is as a recycling machine when you realize that all of your re d b lood c e l l s a re replaced every 120 days. As the old cells break down the iron is recycled to make new red cells.

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ment that makes red blood cells red. You need protein to make hemoglobin, too, and some people have low hemoglobin levels because they are protein deficient rather than iron deficient.

Iron is also p a rt of cytochrome compounds in your cells used to break down food to carbon dioxide and water and to release energy. So if you are low on energy from an iron deficiency, it may not be just the anemia.

It is hard for a woman in the childbearing years to get enough iron from food. 1 am sending you The

Health Letter number 4-4, Iron and Anemia, which includes a list of the amount of iron in common foods and discusses iron blance. Others who want this issue can send 75 cents with a long, s ta m p e d , se lf- addressed envelope for it to me, in care of this newspaper, P.O. Box 1551, Radio City Station, New York. NY 10019.

One of the good food so u rc e s of i ron was cookware; the iron got in the food during cooking. Today with no-stick lin ^ u t e n s i l s and o t h e r cookware this source of iron in our diet has been lost or greatly decreased.

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Water conservation effortsWith last week’s alarming

news that Manchester could be in danger of running out of water within a month, it is vital that everyone do his part to conserve.

There are many common- sense conservation measures that can be taken to help the town through the crisis.

Every time a faucet is opened, water users should be concerned.

N aturally large volume water projects, like washing automobiles, should be put off until the crisis has passed.

In addition, making every

drop count will help. Making sure dishwashers and laundry machines are run with a full load will help.

Looking into the many devices that can cut down on the amount of water used in flushing the toilet also can make a significant difference.

Showers generally consume less water than baths. The shower should be the preferred route to personal cleanliness. The addition of flow constrictors in shower heads reduces the flow of water without significant discomfort to the person in the shower.

Time under the running water should be short and to the point. Languishing under a steaming shower head is a luxury we must forego, for now.

Even small things, like running water into a small conta in e r w hile shav ing or brushing teeth will make a difference. Whenever possible, the electric razor should be employed, rather than the blade type that requires water.

Even using the blade type; a shaver can achieve the same results with a cup or two of water, rather than a sink full.

EditorialEvery family probably has

its water wasters.. Water has been taken for granted for so long that most of us waste it without thinking.

The campers of the town can appreciate the value of water conservation.

Those frequenters of the forests, know how little water a person can use, especially

when it must be toted, or there is a very limited supply in a recreational vehicle.

Making every drop count is vital at this time.

We think town government should take an aggressive role in helping people conserve water.