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MANCHESTER Condo garbage video list here Miami, Lions vie could be costly short but cheap for national title ... page 3 , ... page 11 ... page 14 anrlirBtrr Mrralft Manchester — A City ol Village Charm Friday, Jan. 2,1987 30 Cents ‘Vicious’ storm baby J -If'-.; of new year hits Northeast; came early Bv George Loyifg A coast in danger Herald Reporter Beverly Carvalho of Glastonbury said she had not expected to be a By Peter Brown sive," with flooding and beach mother until Saturday. That was The Associated Press erosion posing "serious threats to when doctors told her she would both life and property.” give birth to her first child. Authorities urged evacuations Today’s high tide — at 12:24 p.m. Nobody told her daughter, along Maine and New Hampshire’s — was expected to be 2-3 feet above however. N seacoast today as a fierce winter normal because of a rare alignment Danielle Telzina Carvalho be storm, coupled with high tides of the sun, moon and Earth. It has came the first baby bom in 1987 at caused by a rare astronomical occurred only three times since Manchester Memorial Hospital, alignment, swept up the East Coast 1912, the weather service said. the hospital announced today. into New England after causing six Sustained winds of more than 40 Danielle, weighing 6 pounds and 6 deaths and millions of dollars in mph were recorded at Isle of Shoals ounces, with blond hair and meas this morning, said John Gifford of property damage. uring 19 inches .was bom to Beverly the New Hampshire’s state Civil "Anyone living or working along and Daniel Carvalho at 5:48 a.m. on Defense agency. the immediate coast ... should Thursday. complete all safety precautions and In southern Maine, officials " It was a surprise,” Beverly said evacuate to higher ground inland as braced for heavy flooding in coastal this morning. She said she came to soon as possible," said a bulletin York and Cumberland counties. the hospital at 2 a.m., and thought from the National Weather Service In Massachusetts, Civil Defense that by that time another child had in Concord, N.H. officials opened emergency shel The bulletin called it "the most ters in Scituate, Quincy and Revere claimed the New Year’s baby vicious storm since February of and activated emergency offices in honors. 1978 when high tide records were Tewksbury, Belchertown, West- Beverly said she and her husband set and coastal damage was exten- boro and Bridgewater, but no had been hoping for a daughter coastal evacuation was ordered. since they were married two and a Police in coastal Scituate, how half years ago. The couple lives on ever, warned residents of flooded Main Street in southern Glaston Town Way, near the beach, to move bury. The mother said she plans to Snow, rain to the shelter, said Dispatcher eventually go back to her job as a Jacquelynn Morganelli. teller at Glastonbury Bank & Tmst "This is a classic northeaster, a Co. leave town real East Coast bomb,” said Mel Hospital spokesman Andrew Goldbtein, director of the Weather Beck said that although Danielle Center at Western Connecticut was not the first child to be bom in State University. the state or area this year, in past roads slick With the storm center off New years the hospital has had to wait Jersey at 9 a.m., the National until a couple of days after the new By John F. Kirch Weather Service reported minor Herald Reporter tidal flooding from tides 6 to 8 feet year had begun for its first baby. above normal along the state’s Beck said that in past years, the Manchester drivers crept southeastern coast. Manchester hospital’s New Year’s through slush, snow and rain today Braced for "worst-case" coastal babies have been bom to parents from a number of area towns, 2 as town highway crews tried to flooding there, forecasters said the clear the streets after Mother storm moved north faster than including as far away as Ware. Nature handed the state its first expected and didn’t coincide with Mass. winter storm of the new year. high tides. The weather service As the hospital’s first baby of About 1 inch of snow and another lifted flood warnings in four coastal 1987, Danielle is the winner of a inch of rain that began falling early counties at 6:30 a.m. contest sponsored by the Manches Herald photo by Tucker Thursday night covered the area by The storm, dumping heavy snow ter Herald and 14 of its advertisers. this morning. The National across much of the Northeast, also The Carvalhos will receive flowers, Weather Service at Bradley Inter prompted storm warnings for the Beverly Carvalho of Glastonbury holds Danielle, her first child, at 5:48 a.m. photographs of Danielle, a teddy national Airport in Windsor Locks New England coast, with winds of her daughter, Danielle, who was the first Thursday. Danielle weighed In at 6 bear, a dinner at a local restaurant, issued a winter storm warning for 30 to SS mph expected and coastal baby born at Manchester Memorial pounds, 6 ounces, and was reported to baby clothes, money, and a sub inland Connecticut through today. flood warnings issued from Connec Hospital In 1987. Beverly gave birth to be doing well today. scription to the Herald. A coastal flood warning was also ticut to Maine. issued for the state. Winter storm warnings also were Manchester should receive posted across much of Pennsylva another 3 to 5 inches of snow before nia, northeastern Ohio, southeast the end of the day. a spokesman for ern New York, northwest Connecti the weather service said today. cut, central Massachusetts, D^ath toll In hotel fire may reach 100 Temperatures should reach into the Vermont, New Hampshire and high 30s, he said. central and southern Maine. By Kernan Turner “ Up to now what we have done is A mix of heavy snow, sleet and Gale warnings were in effect for The Associated Press just pick up the bodies on the rain is expected to fall this the coasts of Virginia, Delaware surface,” said Edwin Medina of the SurvivoriB await afternoon and then turn to all snow and Maryland. SAN JUAN. Puerto Rico - Medical Center’s Forensic Medical by tonight and continue into the The storm hit hard along the word on victims Workers searching the bumed-out Institute. morning, the weather service spo Carolina, coast, washing away lower floors of a luxury beachfront A team of three forensic patholo — Story on page 4 kesman said. The storm is expected decks and sidewalks, causing hotel found the charred bodies of 60 gists from the U.S. Armed Forces to taper off by Saturday afternoon, beach erosion and dumping up to 10 people, but officials said more inches of snow inland. Institute of Pathology arrived at he said. bodies likely were hidden by debris this U.S. commonwealth of 3.2 Town officials said another snow The weather service lifted its offer. The union, which represents and that the toll could reach JOO. million people on Thursday to help storm could move into the area by winter storm warning for West about 250 of the hotel’s 450 em More than 100 others were with the investigation. Tuesday. Virginia, where Up to 7 inches of ployees, had said it would strike at injured in Wednesday’s blaze at the Officials did not release a casu The storm caused some havoc on snow fell on the northern mountains midnight if a settlement was not 20-story Dupont Plaza Hotel. Its alty list. The hotel’s registration Manchester roads, some of which overnight and up to 5 more inches reached. was expected today. cause was not determined imme desk and records were damaged by have seen minor flooding, accord diately, but Gov. Rafael Hernandez San Juan Mayor Baltazar. Cor- Morning rain in coastal sections the fire, and law enforcement ing to a town Highway Department Colon said Thursday an FBI-led rada del Rio said the fire started. of New York, Connecticut and, officials kept everyone but rescue official. investigation was focusing on arson workers out of the hotel Thursday. either in the casino on the mezza "W e’ve been going all night," Rhode Island was expected to turn because of recent labor unrest at Most of the 109 people hospital nine floor or In the ballroom or Highway Superintendent Keith to snow by midafternoon. the hotel. ized were released after being boiler room on the ground floor The high tides, expected to ZSl Chapman said. "What we have is a Union officials angrily rejected treated for smoke inhalation and directly below the casino. slush situation out there." continue through Saturday, are There were explosions, he said, 9 any suggestion of a link between the minor injuries, said Dr. (Carlos About 19 trucks have been out on produced by a rare alignment of the fire and the contrac^ispute and ment,” the New York Daily News Gomez, chief of staff at the Medical but it could not immediately be Earth, moon and sun known as a offered a $15,000 n v fS r ^ for infor quoted Rivera Cmz as saying. Center. determined if the explosions caused Please turn to page 10 syzygy. mation about the fire’s cause. Officials said 60 bodies, most But Danny Velez, a spokesman the fire or vice versa. Asked about reports that rem charred beyond recognition, were for Hernandez Colon, said Thurs Other small fires had broken out nants of three incendiary devices found by the time the search was day that 18 people remained at the hotel in recent days as the were found in the hotel.