Presley Mourners Killed the City Has Hir^ Many Workers “There Is No Confidentiality
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PAGE TEN-B - MANCHESTER EVENING HERALD. Manchester. Conn., Wed., Aug, 17, 1977 City official compares views with neighbors The weather Inside today By MAL BARLOW recent change. Neighborhood groups Mrs. Fahey said, “Even then, Partly sunny with high in mid 70s. East Hartford Reporter have formed in recent weeks. there’s always one child in a family Fair, cool tonight with low in lower 50s. hditonal . .... 4-A An East Hartford resident who is Gaitor questioned how long those that goes bad, at least by that Mostly sunny Friday with high in 70s. lO-B Family ... .. 6-A also a Hartford city official dropped groups will last. “As soon as their family’s standards.” Chance of rain 10'S- today, near zero t!harm Gardening .... 8-A in on the August meeting of the East particular problem is solved, forget DePold said the young poor of tonight. National weather map on Page Obituaries .. tO-A them,” he said. today are not as lucky as children of 7-B. Comics....... Sports ... .3-5-B Hartford Human Relations Commis ^,^N N .,;ratos0A V . AtrobsT a f mwi- vcL xcvi;Tta.i^. i*h k :e , k ift ek n g en ts Dear Abby • 9-B sion (HRC) and sparked a lengthy poor immigrants years ago. talk on the woes of town and city peo Welfare woes “There were no federal programs ple. Mrs. Quinn said she is pleased to then which said, for example, no The HRC did not raise a quorum. see a new approach in Washington father in the home if you want Scheduled business was discussed towards welfare and work. She said a welfare.” but nothing could be done by those town system for local welfare has Mrs. Quinn warned, “If we don’t By hit and run driver present. They were Chairman Hans bother^ her for years. help each other as relatives, nor as DePold, Mack Hawkins, Marcella “If a man needs help and he is able neighbors, then we’re going to do it Fahey and Helen Quinn. to work, we give him a form,” she as taxpayers.” “We’re in hot water in Hartford,” said. “Every week he must go out Gaitor said, “There are all kinds of said Woodrow Gaitor of 51 Brook St., and get three signatures from poten programs for losers. Good kids don’t a guest of Hawkins and Hartford’s tial employers saying they can’t hire fit into any of these (government assistant to the city manager. him. program) slots. Presley mourners killed The city has hir^ many workers “There is no confidentiality. The "In the Depression, people were MEMPHIS, Tenn. (UPI) - A hit- reckless driving and public Many of the mourners drove hun through many federal programs. In form says ‘welfare’ at the top of it.” more family oriented. Values were Utley, and the officer was hurt slight and-run driver struck and killed two drunkeness. He was held without dreds of miles to get a final look at fact, it hasn’t hired but a handful of DePold said some people get taught. There are no values today. ly in the altercation. teen-age girls and critically inJured a bond. The Juvenile girls who were in their idol. Police said the crowd was standing workers to be paid out of the general caught in an environmental rut. They “Last year for the first time in 14 third today outside the ornate man the car with him were charged with Pat Christian, 30, of Bridgetown, in the parking lot of a shopping fund in recent years. are stuck in poverty. A friend years of living in East Hartford I sion where rock n’ rock king Elvis being accessories to second degree N.J., one of Presley's fans who center across the street from the iron Many of the programs were meant suggested the only way to break a locked my door. A neighborhood boy Presley’s body lay awaiting burial. murder. Their ram es were not stayed for the all-night vigil, said: "I gales to Graceland, where 80,000 per to run a short time. But the city child out of the rut is to put him in a had walked in and stolen my money.” About 2,000 mourners were main released. don’t have any place to stay so I sons gathered Wednesday to pay final needs the workers. It can’t afford to special day care center most of the He told how he had informed the taining an all-night vigil outside the ■ Private services were scheduled at might as well stay out here and pay them through general budget day. boy’s parents but nothing was done. respects to Presley. funds. Gaitor said. Mrs. Quinn said, "The only value gates of Graceland Mansion, where 2 p.m. CDT today in Graceland, the maybe something will happen " rile car seemed to swerve toward today is the buck.” Presley, 42, died Tuesday of a heart 18-room mansion owned by the one Miss Christian said she quit her job the crowd, sending dozens scattering Regionalism Family woes Mrs. Fahey said, "What has ailment, when the car swerved into time $40-a-week truck driver who as a waitress to come to Memphis. "I out of the way. No one was hit Then the crowd. was born in a small frame house in told the boss I'm going to see Elvis. " Woodrow Gaitor, left, makes a point with Mack Hawkins, member of the East Hartford "Things are going to go regional Statistics on rising crime and fami happened? Why is it parents can’t the vehicle swerved back into the ly problems were played down by the The driver of the 1963 Ford Tupelo, Miss, and grew up in The three girls struck by Wheeler s street and plowed into the three girls. Human Relations Commission. (Herald photo by Barlow) whether or not we like it,” said stand to be with their kids all day?” Gaitor, changing the subJect. group. DePold said, “If the parent is self- Fairlane, identified by police as Memphis. car were among the thousands of "I saw the car coming. The car 'T d like to see East Hartford or "I think these things have always centered, the child will be too.” Treatise Wheeler, 18. Memphis, was About 80,000 crying, perspiring, mourners who remained outside the seemed like it was leaning on its West Hartford or some other town taken place,” said Hawkins. “We He said his wife, a school social arrested by a policeman who chased Jostling persons had gathered outside mansion in an all night vigil. They side." said Nancy Mendola, 36, of him about a block in a patrol car begin to at least talk to each other Just see them more today,” worker in Hartford, suspects part of the mansion Wednesday, National were talking to a policeman, who saw Piltsburgh. "I heard the screaming, before stopping him Bolton may break law about mutual problems without ‘.‘You’re right,” said Mrs. Fahey. the problem stems from doing away Guard units were called in to aid the car coming and jumped out of the the hysteria. It was awful. ” "Lynch 'em. hang him up," the fighting over funds. Nobody 'really "When I went to school in Hartford, with breast feeding. Tbe mother does police and sheriff’s deputies in way, when they were struck. After Robert Walter, 32, a Detroit wants to carry the ball.” we had our troublemakers. In those not hold the child today. crowd shouted as Wheeler and three handling the mourners. Three slamming into the girls, the driver fireman, said he was talking with young girl passengers were taken to DePoId noted a 1969 town charter days they were all Italians.” Mrs. Fahey said, "When I had my helicopters hovered above the sped away. another mourner when “all of a on disposal of sewage amendment forbids East Hartford Someone said many of those children, my doctor told me to Jail. Cans of beer, two empty, were sweltering mass outside the gates of "The car came down the road, ” sudden I saw a girl fly up in the air found in the car. from joining anything that would Italians have since moved to East definitely not breastfeed. the 13-acre estate. said Police Capt. G.L. Utley. "He like a dummy, two to three feel Names of the victims were not The Town of Bolton may be Bolton's sanitarian, Calvin of $4,972 in federal anti-recession allow an outside agency to regulate Hartford and are concerned about “The training for parents is so Guards opened the gates from 3 swerved onto private property and above tlie car " released. The Nasvhille Banner violating state law because it doesn’t Hutchinson, told selectmen the funds. Selectmen Aloysius Abeam anything in town. peace and order in local schools. poor. And being a parent is so com p.m until 6:30 p.m. Wednesday to let then came back and hit the three The incident occurred around 4 reported the two dead girls were 19 provide a place for dumping sewage sewage disposal problem is serious, and Ernest Shepherd agreed to in "I mean Just talk,” Gaitor said. Mrs. Quinn said, “The best thing to plex. the mourners view the body. City ad ladies, who were in the middle of the a.m. years old and from Louisiana. from septic tanks in town, three sep ft’s not legal now, he said, and septic vestigate. “Just talk about things we don’t like do to change things is to give all the ministrative officer Richard Hackett road talking to a police officer.