Outside today Mostly cloudy, windy and cold with a chance of snow flurries. High Good morning temperatures in the 20s. Ciearing with diminishing winds tonight. Mostly sun­ Have a good day ny Sunday with high temperatures in the 20s. TWENTY PAGES Manchester—A e ity o f nUttge Charm TWO SECTIONS MANCHESTER, CONN., SATURDAY' JANUARY Jl. lO^^VOt. XCVII, No. 94 PRICEj f if t e e n CENTS WEEKEND INSIDE m rwi1 owns dig1 • out of snow By GREG PEARSON during work Friday. Snow removal Herald Reporter will continue today, he said. Manchestei and surrounding Fogarty said four-wheel drive vehicles and snowmobiles have been towns started to dig out from kept on call by the town in case they one of the largest storms in are needed, but they have not been years as precipitation con­ used yet. tinued to fall Friday night. Most businesses in the Manchester ■ area closed early Friday. The One Vernon man died and Parkade stores were all closed by 4 another was injured in two p.m. Only a couple of Main Street separate storm-related ac­ stores stayed open cidents Friday. The storm blasted many parts of The first storm-related fatality the country and caused several was reported in the Manchester area problems. S !- J ? ' late Friday afternoon. Alfred Snow was reported as far south as Krutainis, 64, of 23 Pinewood Drive, Georgia. Alabama and Mississippi. Vernon, suffered an apparent heart All airports in New England and attack at 4:15 p.m. while shoveling New York, as well as several others snow from his home's roof, Vernon across the country, closed for at least Police said. part of Friday. Joseph Mulvey, 53, of Vernon suf­ Several people were injured, fered two broken legs when he was though none seriously, Friday after­ Two ways to get through trapped under a mound of snow. Ver­ noon when two Massachusetts Bay non Police said he was loading his Transportation Authority subway Skiers were probably making better progress than picture late in the afternoon, had trouble driving back to The dumptruck with sand at the town’s trains collided in the Charlestown automobiles on this stretch of South Main Street in Herald in his car. Public Works Garage when a bank of section. Manchester Friday. Photographer Steve Dunn, who took the snow collapsed on him. Despite the size of the storm — 14 inches of snow and sleet had fallen by 5 p.m. Friday, Timothy Cities were National Guard called out O’Sullivan, Manchfester highway superintendent said; there were few other serious problems reported. ghost towns The mounting snow on flat roofs continued to concern town officials. HARTFORD (UPI) - Connecticut Grasso declares ‘emergency’ One scare occurred in the afternoon cities were turned into lonely white when a window broke and a couple of ghost towns Friday as most of the HARTFORD (UPI) - Virtually all ordered banks to close. Torrington Co. with interstate highways reduced to bricks fell off the Jarvis Building at state’s three million residents of Connecticut was brought to a fluf­ Mrs. Grasso said the state was Within 10 minutes seven volunteer a single lane of snail's pace traffic. the corner of Locust and Main responded to official appeals and fy halt Friday by the biggest “not falling apart, but in case the donors came forward and were The storm officially made January streets. common sense by staying home snowstorm to hit the state since 1969. situation worsens I want to be able to rushed to the hospital in police the snowiest ever in the Greater Hartford area by pushing the total to The building was checked by Fran­ while snow piled up outside. It was the third major storm in a ask for federal help." cruisers. cis Conti, Manchester’s chief Airlines canceled flights, commer­ Many drivers praised their CB more than 30.6 inches for the month. Eugene Lombard of Vernon said he week. building inspector, who said the cial truckers halted all but emergen­ radios. The previous mark was set in 1961. knew Thursday night the storm “I'm 6'6 and I can't see over the structure was secure. cy shipments, telephone companies "1 wouldn't be without my CB The greatest accumulation in a 24- would be severe even before he heard banks of snow in my driveway," said The roof at the K-Mart department reported jammed switchboards and hour period came on Feb. 9, 1969 a weather forecast. Bill Dunbauld. After struggling 90 radio — specially in weather like store, which had collapsed some thousands of homes lost electricity this," said Vince Forzano of when 15 inches was dumped on the "I saw a flock of wild geese and 1 minutes to get to work in Hartford, more Friday morning, continued to knew something was wrong. The Dunbauld had to turn around and go as the storm raged. Springfield, Mass., who was stranded state. A spokesman for the National sag. but no further damage was storm systems must have confused back home because his plant closed People resorted to cross-country in New London. Weather Service in Windsor Locks said. "This one is worse than that. reported by Friday night. them. They had to be lost. 1 never early. skis to get around in Danbury. The efforts of more than 800 state Scattered roof collapses were In Torrington, Charlotte Hunger- We've got reports of much more ac­ saw geese in January in Connecticut Gov. Ella T. Grasso declared a trucks were bolstered by 200 private reported in New England. An uncon­ ford Hospital pleaded with the contractors using bulldozers and cumulation than that." before in my life," he said. state of emergency and mobilized the firmed report said two persons were American Red Cross for an emergen­ payloaders in trying to keep roads “1 think we're in for what Buffalo, Some people spent hours fruitlessly National Guard to relieve exhausted killed when the roof of an industrial cy shipment of six pints of 0-negative open. But with 12 to 18 inches of fresh N Y., got last year," said John Brady trying to keep their driveways and state snowplow drivers clearing building collapsed in Wallingford, blood. The Red Cross appealed to the snow on the ground by nightfall, only of East Hartford. "But I love sidewalks clear. roads since 8 p.m. Thursday. She Conn. area's largest employer, the major roadways remained passable Connecticut, snow and all. " “I had my whole driveway ordered all state agencies closed. The storm delivered a near knock­ shoveled and then a plow came by The state banking commissioner out blow to the town’s budget for and I had to start again," said snow removal during the year. Thomas Clancy of Salem. "I should “We’re just going to be out of have just stayed inside and eaten hot money in most accounts after this stew." storm,” O’Sullivan said. The ac­ Cheryl DeLong of Hartford said Prof studies popular culture counts for purchasing salt and hiring she spent much of the day pushing contractors are depleted, he said, stuck cars. Sports, America’s lay religion, and year draws an audience of 80 to 90 Beatles’ records. Big Mac wrappers, ular culture — the stereotypes ol although the account for paying town “It was a case of you scratch my million,” Professor White points out. its high holiday, the Super Bowl, and television sets. female and minorities — that workers still has about $18,000, an back, and I’ll scratch yours’ because demonstrate the immense appeal "To ignore sports and other "To understand what is meaningful sparked the modern women's rights adequate amount, O’Sullivan said. I got stuck about a dozen times, too," and impact of popular culture and the aspects of our popular culture is to to large numbers of Americans and movement and continues to spur civil she said. need for its serious study. say that a great deal of life is to probe its content and gestalt are rights efforts," he adds. Refuse collection in Manchester The third major snowfall in a week This observation is made by David dominated by trivia,” he states. challenges for today’s scholars and Since the publication of Professor was canceled Friday. Regular routes paralyzed the state, closing schools, Manning White, professor of mass A systematic study of popular popular culture consumers alike," White's study of popular culture in are expected to be started today, courts, banks, businesses and communication at Virginia Com­ culture. Professor White believes, Professor White says. 1957, academic interest in the subject government offices. The second and monwealth University, who focused reveals much about contemporary weather permitting, O’Sullivan said. The negative facets of popular has multiplied. Today, there are Richard Sartor, Manchester’s deputy third shifts of the state’s largest academic attention on popular American life. culture and problems they pose are courses on popular culture offered at employers,-Pratt and Whitney Air-^^ “It is impossible to escape popular police chief, said storm problems culture more than 20 years ago. also worthy of study, according to hundreds of American colleges and were “not bad at all" considering the craft and the Electric Boat shipyard* culture; it touches everything and Professor White is also the coor­ Professor White. universities. severity of the storm. in Groton, were canceled. everybody,” he explains. “For exam­ dinator of Courses by Newspaper's “The rise of the mass media has He said the department received “I only had to work half the day, so ' winter series ‘‘Popular Culture; ple, if you ask someone about an im­ generated concern about the impact The newspaper series is the basis some emergency medical calls, and I went oqtside, played with my dog, Mirror of American Life.” The first portant event in his life, like his first of popular culture, particularly on of a three-credit course offered by a four-wheel drive vehicle was used took pictures and had a lot of fun,” article of this 15-part series appears date, he likely will mention the young people,” he explains.