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PAGE EIGHTEEN — MANCHESTER EVENING HERALD, Manchester, Conn., Fri., July 12, 1974 Obituaries | I Scene Gertrude Rayner Dead; From Here Manrlifatpr lEumtng Ikralii MPHNA Ex-Supervisor I By Sol R. Cohen MANCHESTER, CONN., SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1974 - VOL. XCIII, No. 241 Manchester—A City of Village Ch^r FOURTEEN PAGES — TWO MINIS iM » PRICE: FIFTEEN CENTS Mrs. Mary Gertrude Rayner training at the Philadelphia of Dunedin, Fla., former super Visiting Nurses Association. visor of nursing service for the After graduation, she did two Manchester Public Health Nur years of private duty nursing in The next two weeks promise recommend them for adoption sing Association, died Thursday Hartford. She also was night to be hectic ones for the state’s by the State Convention. One at Mease Hospital, Dunedin. supervisor at Johnson Democratic and Republican would establish an Office of She was the wife of Joseph B. Memorial Hospital, Stafford delegates to a host of conven Local Government in the gover Rayner. Springs, and did private duty tionsincluding seven each for nor’s office. ’The other would Convicts Release 14 Mrs. Rayner, who retired in nursing for a year at Manchester’s Democrats and establish a Connecticut Young WASHINGTON (UPI) - Two armed The transfer appeared to go smoothly The convicts apparently feared the smiling at newsmen who were held behind 1959 after nearly 22 years as Manchester Memorial Republicans Citizens Corps. convicts holding seven persons hostage at with the inmat^kbeing released one by police might try to trick them if they police lines across the street. supervisor of nursing service Hospital. t 'ir; r Manchester Democrats face the U.S. Courthouse today released 14 one from the OTiblock. Justice Depart allowed the van to be lowered into the Reporters were not allowed to talk to for the Manchester Public She served for 14 years as a * iJf)! the following schedule: David M. Barry of other prisoners who had been held in ment spokesman John Russell said the cellblock and Gorham decided to send them. Health Nursing Association, nurse in the office of Dr. • July 18 — Hartford County Manchester, who is seekiiig the cellblocks awaiting trial when the convicts prisoners walked up the stairs from the them up one by one through “the front was born in Manchester and George A.F. Lundberg Sr. Convention, St. Paul’s Catholic Democratic nomination for cellblock and were searched and hand door.” seized the lockup. Agreement lived in the Manchester-Bolton before joining the Public Health High School, Bristol. Fourth District state senator, cuffed before being brought to the The prisoners were loaded into a car and Russell had announced the impending area until moving to Dunedin 14 Nursing Association. • July 19-M — State Conven has named Jerome I. Baskin, marshals’ room where they were searched two grey police panel trucks. Russell said release at 3 a m. He called it “an act of years ago. tion, Bushnell Auditorium, again. She is also survived by two also of Manchester, finance one was being taken to D.C. General good faith." In 1954, Mrs. Rayner received Hartford. News Capsules Woman Slays brothers, William Keating of chairman of his campaign com " 3 , . Hospital and the others to the D.C. jail. Burton's Woman of the Year Manchester and James Keating I • J u ly 22 — F i r s t mittee. Baskin is auditor for the V - Russell said a woman prisoner, who was The timing of the release was sub award for her oustanding ser of Bristol. Congressional District Conven Town of Manchester. not identified, had decided to remain in sequently changed several times. At one vice to Manchester. In 1957, she The funeral is Monday at 8:15 tion, KofC Home, Hartford. Barry has announced he Market Rallies the cellblock with the two convicts, Frank Onr Inniato llospilulizcd stage Russell.told newsmen "Its my un received a certificate of honor a.m. from the John F. Tierney • July 24 — ’Third Senatorial received ’ one contribution in NEW YORK (UPI) - Bouyed by op Gorham and Otis Wilkerson, alias Robert Russell said the inmate being derstanding that they want to see from the Connecticut State Funeral Home, 219 W. Center District Convention, East Hart June — $10 from Robert F. timistic financial news, th e z S f^ market N. Jones. hospitalized had been suffered a broken daylight." Nurses Association. St., with a Mass at St. James ford Courtroom. Blanchard — bringing to $510 rallied Friday for its sixth strongest one- Local radio station WASH said the con arm before the convicts seized the The release actually began about 8.15 A graduate of the Howard Church at 9. Burial will be in St. • July 24— Fourth Senatorial the total he has received in the day gain in history, bouncing back from a victs told them the woman was staying cellblock and hostages Thursday. General Hospital School of Nur James Cemetery. District Convention, five months since he announced low point earlier in the week. behind because one of the seven remaining The seven hostages remained in captivi a.m. and was completed within a half hour. sing, Philadelphia, Pa., she ob Friends may call at the Manchester Municipal his candidacy. The market apparently was reacting to hostages is female. The radio station has ty along with the unidentified woman in The convicts rejected a proposal Friday tained her public health funeral home Sunday from 2 to Building. news of sharply declining demand for been in constant phone contact with the mate who apparently decided to remain that they free their seven hostages and 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. • July 25 — Ninth Assembly business loans, coupled with a slowdown in convicts since the seige began Thursday. with the convicts of her’hwn free will. accept an airplane ride to the federal District Convention, Veterans’ rising interest rates and an easing of Gorham apparently rejected a proposal Russell said the transfer came off Delegates Named penitentiary in El Reno, Okla. They Clubhouse, East Hartford. wholesale price hikes. by the police to allow them to pick up the without a hitch. To Committee proposed that their relatives and Mrs. Katherine Gula Mrs. Marion Maule Herberger. • July 25 — Fourteenth t STT The Dow Jemes industrial average prisoners the way transfers are normally The police convoy, led by several squad members of their hostages’ families meet Mrs. Katherine Gula, 94, of Mr. Herberger was born July Assembly District Convention, The 42 delegates to the moved up 27.61 [mints to 787.23, the biggest made. In the normal procedure a police cars, sped away from the rear of the with Attorney General William Saxbe in 103 Starkweather St. died 2,1899 in Albany, N.Y., and had South Windsor Town Hall. Republican State Convention rise since the 29.42 points of May 24,1973. van is driven into an elevator, lowered to courthouse with the inmates peering an attempt to resolve the courthouse lived in Manchester for many Manchester Republicans who reside in the eight-town. the basement cellblock, loaded and through steel gratings in the vans, some Thursday at Manchester Truckload Sidewalk Sale The abrupt increase almost eras^ the siege. Memorial Hospital. She was the years before moving to have the following schedule: Fourth Senatorial District ^ heavy losses earlier in the week which saw returned to street level. Glastonbury 34 years ago. He • July 20 — First (including eight from widow of Albert Gula. Trying to save money can present problems and this the market hit its lowest point in 3t4 Mrs. Gula was born in Poland had been employed at Pratt <..id Manchester’s annual Sidewalk Sales Days continue Congressional District Conven Manchester) met in Glaston years. gentleman shopper appears to be pondering such decisions and had lived in Manchester Whitney Division of United Air through Saturday. This scene was at K-Mart shopping tion, Whiting Lane School, West bury Tuesday night and chose as “Do I really need one?” or “Are they cheaper by the most of her life. She was a com craft Corp., East Hartford, area. (Herald photo by Dunn) Hartford. the following representatives m Economy Concerns Senators from 1925 until he retired in dozen?” Whatever his choice, there are bargains galore as • July 22 — Third Senatorial on the convention’s various municant of St. Bridget Church. WASHINGTON (UPI) - Democratic Survivors are 7 sons, Andrew 1949 as head of the overseas District Convention, Raymond committes: Nixon, Ford to Confer Sens. Edward M. Kennedy and Henry M. license division. He attended St. Library, East Hartford. A. Paul Berte of Manchester, Gula of Manchester, John Gula Area Jackson agree that the economy —not SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (UPI) - Mary's Episcopal churh and • July 22 — Fourth Senatorial rules; Miss Margaret Jacobson for a major speech on the administration’s of East Hartford, Joseph Gula Watergate—is the issue Democrats should President Nixon began a planned two- still in the judicial process. was a member of the Albany, District Convention, Naubuc of Coventry, credentials; ><ua ja plans to combat inflation, expected in of Fairfield, Michael Gula and Progress Reported [Police Report take to the voters in next fall’s con week California vacation today and Nixon aides and his Watergate lawyer, N.Y. Lodge of Elks. School, Glastonbury. Emery Taylor of Hebron, about a week or 10 days. Peter Gula, both of Uncasville, gressional elections. scheduled an unprecedented sixth meeting James D. St. Clair, retracted statements Other survivors are a son, (Continued From Page 1) • July 23 — Fourteenth resolutions; and Robert Lyke Kfi'ping PoHicd Stanley Gula of Nashua, N.H., The two senators were among a proces this week with Vice -President Gerald made early Friday that indicated the and Edward Gula of Dedham, Charles Herberger Jr.