Tht weathtr Intid* today Becoming partly tunny thii after­ Area newt . .1-2-8 EEdItorial ....... 4-A noon. High in mid 60i. Variable is }i^ Butlnett......... 8-A Family............ 7-A cloudineta tonight and Saturday. Lowi Clattified .. .4-p.B H. S. World ... I-A tonight 47-U. Chance of rain 10% 4 ^^®***lc*...........2-B Obituariet ... 10-A tonight and 20% Saturday. National ! Dear Abby .... S-B 8 p ^ ......... 8-0-A weather map on Page 5-B. City of Charm r ., roiDAV. mr- VOL icvi, no, m FMCXi nFTEEN CBMiB To plan 4.1 million expansion Funds approved for Cheney Tech in favor of a full-time program at the the school in increasing numbers By JUNE TOMPKINS technical school. each year. Herald Reporter The present structure on W. Middle Plans for the new programs are The state Bonding O)mmission this Tpke. was erected in 1962 and opened tentative, Garafalo said, but could in­ morning approved bonding for $163,- with an enrollment of about 300 clude air conditioning and refrigera­ 750 in funds to plan an expansion of students. tion, plumbing and heating, welding, Howell Cheney Regional Vocational At the school’s 50th anniversary electrical drafting, small engine Technical School. celebration, it was noted that the repair and oil and gas-fired heating. Gov. Ella Grasso had asked the school’s registration was “about 325, A lot of the new enrollment could commission for approval. close to its capcity of 350 students.” also come from an expanded elec­ The overall cost of the project As of this school year, about 450 trical and electronic departments would be about |4.1 million and it students are enrolled, an increase of and at auto repair. would provide for 42,000 square feet 17 over last year, and the largest With the expansion of the school’s of construction. Construction cost is enrollment ever in the history of educational program over the years, estimated at $3.25 million. Manchester’s technical school, and the athletic program has grown to in­ The items included in the program the school continues to turn down clude basketball, baseball, track, are: applicants every year. wrestling and soccer, in addition to I I • Second floor addition over 'The new facilities should increase activity clubs within the school. existing classrooms. the capacity of the school by about 50 Until 1968, students had to provide A new ^*Old Glory^^ waves fo r senior citizens • New two-story shop wing. per cent or to a total of 700 to 750 their own transportation to the • Parking area expansion. students when completed, Garafalo school from whereVer they lived in The Senior Citizens’ Center in Manchester officially opened its fall season of programs • Expansion of gym and cafeteria. said. Manchester and area towns. ’Then the Thursday. Highlight of the days’ events was the presentation of the American Flag to the This will be the first addition to the Garafalo plans for an expanded Board of Education approved bus center by the Dilworth-Cornell-Quey Post of the American Legion. Admiring the replace­ school which was built for $2 million educational program to meet the transportation for the students. and opened in 1962. The school serves needs of the technical field In recent years, a Parents Club ment for their tattered and torn flag, are, from left, Wally Fortin, center director; Peter a 12-town region and many students —programs with particular appeal to formed to support the school and its Peperitis and Ruth Johnston, members; With John Baer, the post’s service officer and are turned away each year for lack of young women who are enrolling at programs. state representative for Soldiers’, Sailors’ and Marines’ Fund. (Herald photo by Pinto) facilities. John Garofalo, director of Cheney Tech, said he hopes that construction will be under way within two years. /. C. Penney complex involved Manchester’s vocational education Carter announces program began in 1912 through the ef­ forts of Howell Cheney who es­ tablished a textile school on Hartford world tour plan Evironmental challenge Rd. From its beginning, the school was WASHINGTON (UPI) - President his wife Rosalynn, Secretary of State destined to grow to meet the Carter will make an 11-day trip to Cyrus Vance and other officials. demands of its students and industry. South America, Africa, Asia and They will go first to Caracas on trial to open Wednesday In 1915, the program was so Europe beginning Nov. 22 “ to Nov. 22. Then Carter will then fly to successful that it expanded to include promote the sort of world we all want Brasilia, Brazil, on Nov. 23; Lagos, instruction in carpentry, electricity, an ultimate deadline. to live in,” the White House an­ Nigeria, Nov. 25; New Delhi, India, By GREG PEARSON the major occupant in the proposed machine shop and mechanical draf­ Atty. Thomas DeMille of the Hart­ nounced today. Nov. 27-28; Tehran, Iran, Nov. 29; park, will apply next week to the ting. Herald Reporter ford law firm of Updike, Kelly & Zbigniew Brzezlnskl, Carter’s Paris, Nov. 30; Warsaw, Dec. 1, and Town of Manchester for a building With its need for more space and The trial that affects the proposed Spellacy, which represents Penney, national security adviser, said'the Brussels Dec.2. industrial park in Manchester now permit. better facilities, the school moved visits to four continents will un­ The Carters will leave Brussels for • Town manager Robert Weiss has said this morning that the company has been scheduled to begin will apply for the building permit into the Franklin Building of the derline traditional ties, expand the Washington late on Dec. 2. expressed concern about an expectpd Bennet Junior High School complex Wednesday with Judge T. Clark Hull next week. scope of America’s international second legal action connected with The visit to Nigeria will be the first presiding. “We are continuing to do all the and soon became known as the .^relations and symbolize cooperation the park. The effect that action will Manchester State Trade School. of a U.S. president to a black African This marks the third Superior things necessary to close the (land) with systems "different from ours.” have, particularly on the pending The next move occurred in 1924 country. Court Judge who has been assigned deal,” he said. Carter will first fly to Venezuela court case, is not clear at this time. when the school occupied a building Brzezinski said the administration to the case of the Manchester En- It was learned Thursday that a se­ and wind up the trip with a visit to • The fact that Penney will not constructed by the town especially considered Nigeria “a most impor­ I vironmental Coalition vs. Edward cond legal action, involving a group European Common Market and •purchase its land from the town by for training students for Industry. tant African country” which has had Stockton et al. The case originally called “Concerned Taxpayers of NATO meetings in Brussels in early Oct. 1 will mean a loss of about J80,- ’This new school was on School Street had been placed on the Superior Manchester,” apparently will be December. a “moderating influence” in African Court’s Sept. 5 trial list, but the start 000 in tax revenue, according to and in 1943 was named the Howell “It is to promote the sort of world politics. Weiss. taken within the next week. 'The of the trial has been postponed three plaintiffs, ^cording to their lawyer, Cheney Technical School in honor of we all want to live in,” Brzezinski The president will probably be ac­ • Penney had been eyeing an Oct. its founder. companied there by U.N. Am­ times. Atty. Raynald Cantin, are concerned told a news conference called to coin­ 15 date for breaking ground in In order to combine an academic Several other matters concerning that the town is planning to sell cide with simultaneous an­ bassador Andrew Young, officials Manchester, but an attorney program with the vocational instruc­ said. the industrial park have also property to Penney at a cost less than nouncements in foreign capitals. developed. These include: representing the company said that tion, a cooperative plan with The White House said the president On the homeward leg of the trip. the date was an estimate and is not the town’s purchase price. Manchester High School was begun Carter will stop in Poland, where his • J.C. Penney Co., which would be Cantin has suggested that his case will be accompanied on his second in 1946. TTiis was discontinued in 1955 national security adviser was bom. might be combined with the en­ overseas trip since taking office by vironmental case. Connors to replace DeMille said that he would be op­ posed to any delay in the starting of the environmental case. Weiss said, as he has in the past, Schaffer on ticket that he is concerned about any possi­ Today’s news summary ble delays involving Penney. Beldon Schaffer, a Democratic the race. He will be replaced by He also said that he feels the Compiled from United Preee Internetlonel member of the Manchester Board of Thomas Connors, who was proposed purchase price of 320,000 an Directors who had been nominated nominated originally as a candidate acre for Penney does represent the for re-election, has withdrawn from for the Board of Education. fair market value. The Democratic Town Committee “It’s a matter of what is the value State vehicle pollution inspections, officials hope it is only the first in will meet next week to approve the of the land weighed against benefits which the legislature has refused series of humanitarian actions on switch of Connors and to select a can­ to the community,” he said.