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The deficit has been es Greet Pope timated between $120,000 and put the cam eras in the $300,000 by town officials. rotunda of the Capitol The omnibus bill also contains (where Kennedy’s casket $150,000 for a feasibility study of lay) and we had only music rebuilding the Manchester-to- At Shrine in the background as Willimantic railroad line, State mourners filed by through Rep. Walter Joyner, D- CZESTOCHOWA, Poland (UPI) - the night. People a t home Manchester, said today. — knelt and said the rosary aloud. awoke, and they knew if Pope John Paul II faced the greatest Hundreds of people near him chanted they turned on their set, multitude of his pilgrimage to his it in chorus. Pope John Paul, arms the world was still there. It homeland today, a vast and vibrant open as if trying to embrace them gave them a certain sense Italians Vote throng packed from horizon to all, spoke of “the beating of the heart of security as they saw ROME (UPI) — Italians com horizon across the “Hill of Light.” of the church and that of the people passing the coffin pleted voting in parliamentary “I am here, I am here,” the first motherland.” and heard only music.” elections today andJirst scattered Polish pope murmured at the Jasna But what he said was this time less Gora monastery, a shrine of the Another, more recent returns showed' the second important than the fact that he, a milestone, is the develop Virgin Mary to whom John Paul has Pole on the throne of St. Peter, was ranking Communist Party was a particular devotion. ment of satellite transmis losing strength. among his own people again. But in the teeming crowd at least 1 “It is a miracle that he is back sion. “In 1977, we were able The two days of voting ended at million strong, where mothers held among us as our pope,” said a priest to take 220 incoming feeds 2 p.m. (8 a.m. EOT) and first at one time - signals from results came from precincts repor babies overhead for a papal blessing, on the fringes of the crowd. where women fainted from the crush The million or more Poles pressed the satellites.” ting on the contests for the upper Goodman sees cable ch^ber of Parliament. and heat and were passed back over so fervently toward the pope that the heads of the throng, an East Ger expanding, but he doesn’t One precinct in the northern civilian marshals and the man spoke for the people who flocked see it as doomsday for free city of Venice showed the Com monastery’s white-cassocked television. “I don’t see it from miles around to worship with Pauline monks had all they could do munists getting 15.93 percent of the man they call “our own pope.” knocking out free TV,” he the vote, more than 18 percent to hold them back. “It is a day of days,” he said, “a Women screamed. Some people aotes, predicting that as it below the party’s nationwide day of glory in our lives.” prostrated themselves on the ground, grows, it will face regula senate vote in the 1976 elections. It was the third day of the first visit pushing others aside to make room. tions. “I don’t see Con A precinct in the heavily Com ever by a reigning Roman Catholic gress letting people be munist city of Bologna showed the The crowd sang hymns and threw charged for what they now Communists with 25.84 percent of pope to a communist-ruled land — a flowers upward toward the scarlet tour given grudging cooperation by a get for free.” the senate vote, also down from and gold podium where the pope regime to whom it is an embarrass stood. their 1976 showing. Papal Audience ment at best — and tbe most strange In both precincts, the ruling Hours earlier, the same 59-year-old A girl in Polish national dress kisses the hand for early Mass at St. Anne’s Church, ly contrasting day of tbe tour. man kissed small girls, thanked his Christian Democrats were It began with a joking, jovial pope, holding close to their 39 percent of hand of Pope John Paul II in Warsaw, Poland, (UPI photo) drivers and the policemen guarding poking fun at himself for ad-libbing him, joked at his own expense and the senate vote th i^ years ago. Sunday, as the pontiff greeted the crowd on so much during sermons that, as he talked as if the day would have no put it, “soon they will take the end. microphones away.” Later he “Unfortunately,” he said, “the '*s D a y Hearings Resume switched quickly into a mood of in mouth cannot keep pace with the GOP Has Candidate tense emotion. heart.” WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Within the gigantic throng Senate Ethics Committee today In a speech in Gniezno Sunday, carpeting the steep hill beneath the John Paul, contending as he has e 17.. was set to resume disciplinary Jasna Gora monastery, women with throughout his visit against the hearings of Sen. Herman tears streaming screamed for a beliefs and policies of the communist Talmadge, D-Ga., with more For Treasurer Post blessing. regime, struck at its censorship by testimony on illegal financial An old man in a heavy tweed suit— appealing for a religious revival ; to give him transactions due from the the temperature was near 90 degrees his own use, senator's chief accuser. By GREG PEARSON ago. Board of Appeals. throughout Eastern Europe. He sees a need to make the public Daniel Minchew, formerly Herald Reporter There had been some rumors that > cherish for Talmadge’s top aide and now the Negro might not run again because more aware of the day-to-day duties major witness against him, has MANCHESTER - The local he recently started a pasta-making of the treasurer. The position, which bera on the witness stand for four Republican Party apparently will business with his wife. Negro, is elected every two years, is part- Assessor Leaves have a candidate for the town days so far, offering details of an however, indicated last week that he time. The treasurer oversees invest treasurer’s position this year — illegal money laundering scheme probably will run again. ment of town money and procedures rafted pine, Peter Sylvester of 43 Scarborough he claims was instituted with Sylvester apparently will be his involved with borrowing and bon- Road. with a warm Talmadge’s knowledge and ap challenger in the fall election. Manchester Job Party sources had indicated they proval. He said this morning there is “a “I think the treasurer s job needs a had a person interested in the GOP 'Talmadge’s lawyers planned to strong possibility’’ he will seek the lot of revamping. I want the people to seek again to discredit Minchew, candidacy for the treasurer’s posi treasurer’s slot. understand the position,” he said. By GREG PEARSON stack with the sole witness in a month of tion, which now is held by Democrat “It’s not definite yet, but I have a Although Sylvester said he has no Herald Reporter Roger Negro. hearings to point a finger of guilt strong interest,” he said. plans yet about making the public doors, two Sylvester this morning confirmed MANCHESTER - Ed Belleville, at the powerful Georgia Sylvester has been active in local more aware of the job’s respon that he is the one who is seeking the the town’s tax assessor since 1971, e shelves. In Democrat. Republican activities since joining sibilities, he said this is one objective position. resigned today to accept an out-of- The two most serious charges the town committee four years ago. he expects to deal with. ark pine, reg. Negro has served as treasurer . state job he feels will be more con involve the filing of fraudulent He has headed the party’s can “It’s the taxpayer’s money. They since 1971. He soundly defeated ducive to his health and his work as Senate expense claims and the didate selection committee and now should know what’s being done with Republican Betty Sadloski two years an assessor. conversion of campaign con is a member of the town’s Zoning it,” he said. Belleville will leave Manchester tributions to his personal use. each June 29 and will begin work as tax 179 assessor in Keene, N.H. in early Ju ly- Energy Update Gas Limit on Visitors While discussing his resignation, Belleville blasted state laws that he Beirut, Lebanont Saudi feels have taken away much of the r..RTE.3.EXtTl20R 13 1ROUOH.CONN. Arabia, rejecting denumds by authority of the assessors. He said he 3«,FRI. IM .SUN. 1.5:31^ Arab radicals for an oil embargo Would Mean Trouble feels assessors in Connecticut no or a production cutback to longer are filling the role the job is 1IN S TR E ET ■ROOK, CONN.