J. h. PAGE SIXTEEN — MANCHESTER EVENING HERALD, Manchester, Conn., Tues., Jan. 8, 1974______ ^ Obituaries PZC Cortsiders Amending All Town Business Zones Manchester—A City of Village Charm Philip Verplanck Dies; DOUG BEVINS permission to go ahead with his tion of the proposed Buckland I’RICK: FIFTKKN GLIN'I’S (Herald Reporter). proposed amendments to the development is a one-million- MANCHESTER, CONN., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9; 1974, 1974— VOL., XCIII, No. 84 Father Noted Educator Members of the Manchester zoning regulatiohs, which will square-foot regional shopping rWENTY-EIGHT PAGES — TWO SECTIONS Planning and Zoning Commis­ affect all business zones in center. 'This proposed shopping sion (PZC) Monday night in­ Manchester asAwiell as the center is apparently the cause Philip B. Verplanck, 75, dry Knights Templar of Hart­ terrupted their discussion of a ♦massive $I00-m«ion Buckland for concern about controls over formerly of Manchester, died ford, Sphinx Temple, and a life proposed development at' development, iftipproved.. business development. Proponents 3“ 1 Over Opponents Sunday in Winter Haven, Fla. member of the Rockville Lodge Buckland to talk about possible Potter said he will schedule a Potter, pushing for rapid ac­ He was born May 11,1898, in of Elks. amendments to town zoning public hearing; as soon as possi­ tion on his proposed zoning ble, on the proposed amendments, said he wants the Manchester, the son of Fred A. Survivors are a nephew, a regulations which*would insure V and Anne Noyes Verplanck. His niece, and a cousin. comprehensive control over the amendments, which will give PZC to hold, a public hearing on the PZC power to control noise father was the first superinten­ ■ A Masonic service will be Buckland development. the amendments as soon as abatem ent, buffer zones-, dent of schools in Manchester. conducted Friday at 8 p.m. at PZC members were dis­ they can, and implement the lighting, parking, and other Verplanck School was named the Watkins Funeral Home, 142 cussing the Buckland develop­ controls. Mt. PuFchase items in commercial for his father. E. Center St. Burial will be ment at their first' business Potter said it wasn’t unusual developments. He had lived and worked in Saturday in East Cemetery meeting since public hearings that discussion of the Outgoing PZC chairm an Manchester many years. He with graveside services led by. on requested zone changes for amendments occurred in the Clarence Welti, discussing the was vice president^of the the Rev. Winthrop Nelson, the Buckland plans were con­ midst of discussion of the Buckland zone change requests Whitehall Co., Mining Division pastor of Center cluded last montm No decisions Buckland development, Monday night, said he’d have of the Bon Ami Co., for 39 years Congregational Church. were made on the zone changes, because his proposal to amend “no apprehension” about the until his retirement in 1957. He There will be no calling but PZC members agreed to the regulations has Jieen under / SOL R. COHEN conducted no other business. developer’s plans it comprehen­ The town’s $167,000 share its present, rough form and that was part owner of the New hours. , • meet with the developer at the consideration for several llerulil Reporter Board discussion and action sive business zone controls months, ‘ ’ would come from $96,043 any proposals for im­ England Explosives Co. Frierids wishing to do so may next meeting, Jan. 28. on the proposed purchase will were on the books. PZC member John Hutchin­ The Manchester Board of available in the Insurance Re­ provements or construction He was a member of the make memorial contributions PZC members also gave come at' its Jan. 15 meeting. One of the major features of son objected to consideration of Directors was caught by sur­ fund Account, $54,050 from 1972- there would Require a zone Manchester Lodge of Masons, to the American Cancer Society Town Planner J. Eric Potter The same night, the board will 73 General Fund surplus (Weiss change. t|ie 263-acre Mancheste(^ por- the amendments, contending prise Tuesday night at the un­ conclude most of its unfinished Delta Chapter of Royal Arch or the Masonic Home in said he anticipates the surplus Jules Karp, attorney for the that it would be unfair to im­ expected large turnout for a and new business. Masons, Washington Comman- Wallingford. will reach about $100,000), and Ansaldis, who constructed pose further restrictions on the public hearing on town acquisi­ Town Manager Robert Weiss, $16,907 available in the Capital developments adjacent to the Buckland developer, MAP tion of Case Mt., and had to after giving a history of the Associates, after the zone move its meeting out of. the Improvement Reserve Fund. 229.56-acre parcel, said his Charles P. Miner Mrs. Emmeline Chipman Police Report ^ '' 6 ' ' / steps taken toward the acquisi­ Weiss' explained that the clients are in favor of the change applications have been Municipal Building and into tion since the Conservation HEBRON - Charles P. VERNON — Mrs. Emmeline filed with the. PZC. Woodruff Hall of Center fresh-water spring, the pond, acquisition. Karp stressed the Miner, 70, of Rt. 66, died Sunday Chipman, 87, formerly of Ver­ Commission first proposed it, the existing access road, the need for prohibiting access “These applications should be Congregational Church.. explained the recommended at Windham Community non, died Monday night dt a Ji bridge and the falls are not in­ through Lookout Mt. and Tonica considered on their own funding as follows: Memorial Hospital in Williman- Manchester convales^ht //G oov. o \ Meskill visits with Herald Publisher Burl Lyons over a cup of coffee during his late The report was made by ^ • About 130 persons showed up cluded in the purchase agree­ Springs Rds. He urged it be MANCHESTER merits,” Hutchinson said. The total cost for the 229.56- tic. He was the husband of Mrs. home. She was the' widow oF' Llewellyn Pelletier of 108 High for the hearing and over 30 of ment. He said he has a written written into the deed as a condi­ morning visit to the plant at Herald Square. (Herald photo by Pinto) Peter J. Robba, 45, of 43 Ma p Associates, an invest­ acre parcel is fixed at $631,- Gladys Thompson Miner. William Chipman. St. He placed the value of the them spoke — with the count promise from Wells Case Den­ tion for the transfer. He Gardner St. was charg^ Mon­ ment partnership led by Arthur 622.50. The federal government He was born in Old Lyme. Mrs. Chipman was b o ^ July ♦ if motor oil at $50.25. better than 3 to 1 in favor of the nison, one of the owners, for proposed, also, that the Plan­ day night with threatening ^ M. Fischer of New York City, has set aside $298,953 and the Other survivors are a 16, 1886 in Vernon, daughter of % acquisition. The hearing took providing the town with a new ning and Zoning Commission following an alleged incident at has requested zone changes on state government already has daughter, Mrs. Robert Tandy; the late George add Marie a Spruce St. gas station. VERNON Rural Residence Zone tobacco ■ over two hours. The board took access from Spring St., just amend the maps of the Ansaldi a sister, Mrs. Harold Gray; and delivered a check for its share west of the spring. Talcott Goodrich.. ' Mark Leone of Andover, an Renee R. Yost of 19 Chestnut land to CUD (Comprehensive no action on the proposal and subdivisions,' to guarantee the five grandchildren, all of -$165,523.50. Survivors are a niece, Mrs. Meskill Tells Students attendant at Maple Super Ser­ St., Rockville, was charged Urban Development) Zone, In­ Weiss said a ne\y gravel road existing access will be closed. Hebron, and a gravel parking lot (for 30 Leon Thorp,/of Manchester; vice, reported to police that a with operating without a license dustrial Zone, Business 1 and Speaking in favor of the The funeral is Wednesday at to 50 cars) would cost-about and a grandnephew, Capt. An­ man in a red pickup truck in connection with the in­ Business 3 Z(ines. acquisition were Theresa 11 a.m. at thejPotter Funeral (Continued from Page One) ning to stand on one’s own two , Meskill explained the issue is $50,000, and that he will recom­ Parla, present chairman of.the son Thorp, serving with the pumped $4 worth of gasoline vestigation of a two-car acci­ Being planned is a Local Schools Home, 456 Jackson St., feet is what’s important, he •*& matter of guilt and innocence. mend that sum for that purpose Engineer Corps in Fairfield, into the truck and paid only $2 dent at Cottage and Prospect commercial-industrial- Conservation Commission; and Willimantic. Burial will be in marijuana. Although there is no said. He said he abides by the stan­ Sts., Monday. in the 1974-75 budget. He said past chairmen Dr. Frank Hor- Pa,' for it. Leone said when he residential development, split Maybe It Will Be Better Tomorrow St. Peter’s Cemetery, Hebron. scientific proof that it is not “ Anything to debilitate is dards set forth by the courts. access to the mountain will be tori. Dr. Frederick Spaulding , 'Graveside services will be i remonstrated, the man told him Police said the Yost car between Manchester and Soutli To Open Doors Friends may call at th^ Wednesday at 1;30 p.m. in harmful, he said, he doesn’t wrong,” he added. “Isn’t abortion murder?” a struck a parked car owned by limited to pedestrain traffic on­ and Lemuel Miller; also, student fired at him. he was armed with a pistol and Windsor, which would be built There’s not much difference between standard time and right.