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24 - EVENING HERALD. Wtd., Dtc 3, 1980 Church aiding Water tank location Downtown Christnvas section today quake victims in tune with zoning ( ^ MANCHESTER — Zoning approval, or would be preparing a written opinion MANCHESTER - The Church of Christ. 394 Lydall a public hearing, may not be needed to today answering the question. ilaurbPBtpr St. is participating in a nationwide effort by the Churches construct a two-million gallon water tank J f he finds the zoning definiUon applies of Christ to furnish financiai assistance to the victims of on Vernon Street. to the water tank, the land may be the devastating earthquake in Italy. The appeal is headed According to Thomas O'Marra, zoning purchased and the water tank constructed by the Sycamore View Church of Christ in Memphis, enforcement officer, "municipal facility without ZBA approval. Clear, cold Tenn. and is being shared by the nearly4,000 Churches of buildings are a permitted use In rural The tank must be built along a 380-foot Mostly clear and cold Christ in America. residential zones. Jay Giles, public works elevation, according to Giles. The tank is through Friday. Details on Eugene Brewer, minister of'the Manchester church, director, has identified two possible sites needed in the Vernon Street area, he has page 2. says the money collected across the country will be in rural zones, on Vernon Street. Town of explained several times, to provide WEATHER forwarded to a specially established bank account in ficials have not decided yet which parcel adequate fire protection and even dis Florence, Italy for distribution by the leaders of the would be best. tribution problems. YOVR HOMETOWN ISEWSPAPtW a Since 1881 Church of Christ in that city. The original site proposed for the water O'Marra said even if the water tank con I Vol. C, No. 55 — Manchester. Conn., Thursday, December 4, 1960 Mr. Brewer said, "Every penny of the molney that is tank construction was strongly opposed by forms to the rural residence permitted collected will be used for the relief of the earthquake vic neighbors of the vacant lot at 606 Vernon. use, the Planning and Zoning Commission tims. Not one cent will be used for ‘organizational' pur After the public hearing, the Zoning Board will probably still discuss it at their Mon r poses. ' ■ More than 10,000 people are believed to have been of Appeals denied the requested variance, day meeting, to establish an ordinance killed by the quake which struck Italy last week. saying sufficient hardship could not be specifically governing public utility con proven. struction. The ordinance, he said, was not Giles then suggested to the Planning and proposed solely for the water tank con Appeal on study Zoning Commission that perhaps throw n struction, as it has been considered for should have an ordinance governing ^ b lic some time. utility construction. Giles said at the time The two lots Giles has identified along Grasso resigns may be avoided he believed public facilities were only a Vernon Street for the water tank are in the permitted use in an industrial zone. Brookside Acres subdivision. MANCHESTEK — Jay Giles, town director of public Sign of victory A search of the zoning statutes deter works. Tuesday held out the possibility that a second mined public facilities are allowed in bisahility cited; decision effective Dec. 31 The new Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker gives thumbs up appeal of a state-ordered study of the Union Pond dam rural residence zones. The question is, DO IT DAiyA — Find out what’s the talk with Republican Majority Whip Ted Stevens as Baker hosted a party said O'Marra, whether the water tank is a be secured in a (ky or a week, but you two terms in the House before being could be avoided of the town 0 7 reading Towntalk every day HARTFORD (UPI) - Gov. Ella "municipal facility building." He said he may work toward it.” elected secretary of state, where she Giles said he was waiting for an estimate on what the for the new Senate leaders. Tuesday, Republicans selected their in your Evening Herald. Grasso, who has been battling cancer for L t. Gov. W illiam A. Her life was a study in that philosophy. remained for 12 years. By 1970 she was in study would cost the town, and would make his decision members who will lead'them in the 97th Congress. (UPI photo) seven months, resigned today, saying she O’Neill, who will succeed She was bom in the mill town of Wind Washington. on the appeal after reviewing the data did not have the "stamina or the en- Gov. Ella Grasso on Dec. 31, sor Lodks to James and Maria Oliva Tam- In a story that seems to be endless, the state Depart dutance" to continue in the office she has is considered a regular kind The Bailey touches by now were evi ment of Environmental Protection last month ordered J e a n s s u it Classic bussi. Immigrants from Tortuna in dent. She wore her eyeglasses up on her UNICO drawing tonight held since 1975. of guy. Story on page 2. northern Italy. James, a baker, had the town to conduct a second study on the stability of HARTFORD (UPI) - Grasso, the first woman elected gover head — a Bailey trademark. And she Shetland Sweaters modest ambitions for his only child, but Union Pond dam DEP said thd^pwn's first study, con MANCHESTER - Carroll Johnson be provided by the Dubaldo Brothers. Attorney General Carl R. nor of a state without succeeding her hus adopted one of his beliefs: "My enemies his wife had bigger dreams. ducted about.a .vear ago. did n o t\^ into a sufficient Brundrett, chairwoman of the Greater Manchester Chapter of UNICO Ajello says his office and band, revealed her decision in an official not have the stamina or the endurance for will live to fight again — on my side.” Mrs. Grasso won a scholarship to the analysis of the dam's strength Manchester Chamber of Commerce, has National, the largest Itallan-American the Levi Strauss Co. have ■ " A letter of resignation to Secretary of State the rigors of the new legislative session In her four years as a congresswoman, exclusive Chaffee School in Windsor and In .November 1979. the town co n tract^ with Glaston been chosen to draw the winning ticket for Civic organization in the United States reached a preliminary and the myriad problems which face the Mrs. Grasso compiled a solid, middle of Barbara B. Kennelly. went on to graduate Phi Beta Kappa from bury engineer Clarence Welti to study the dam DEP con the UNICO car raffle tonight will donate proceeds from the raffle to agreement to settle a 1978 "I hereby resign the office of governor administration of a vital and vibrant road voting record, but found few fans in 4 Mt. Holyoke College in 1940, acquiring a cluded Welti's study underestimated the dam's strength. The drawing for the 1981 Lincoln Town benefit the scholarship fund, mental price-fixing suit. of the slate of Connecticut by reason of state,” she said in a one-page statement at least one quarter. In March 1979 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers —acting Car Four Door will be held at The Colony. health and retardation and other charities 1 0 0 % Shetland Wool Grasso, as a politician, could hug voters master’s degree in economics and Under the agreement, physical disability effective at the close of The transplant to Washington didn't suit on a presidential order to study dams across the nation Route 83. The evening starts at 7 p m. with which UNICO supports. in an anaoiiment of rotor* and get away with it. sociology. Levi would pay 3100,000 to business Dec. 31. 1980,” the letter said. her, (”l hate not sleeping in my own bed,” —determined the dam was in danger of collapsing cocktails (cash bar) and door prizes will The seventh annual UNICO car raffle bv Anion only S27. She was the governor but she was also a The governor met her husBhnd, Tom, a charity for allegedly She will be succeeded by Lt. Gov. she said.). She returned to her own turf in Giles said the state issued a three-page report on be drawn throughout the evening until the tickets sold for 3100 each and the limit of ordering Connecticut neighbor and a friend. To her political retired school principal, while he was William O'Neill. working as a lifeguard to finance a doc 1974 by becoming the first woman elected Welti's first study, concluding that another study be con car raffle drawing at 9:30 p.m Music will 200 tickets has been sold retailers to fix prices of Grasso, 61, first assumed office as foes, she was a patient professional who torate in education. Later, as she began to governor in her own right and the state’s ducted The town's fist appeal was filed Oct 15. but DEP men's jeans between 1974 Connecticut's chief executive on Jan. 8. usually got what she wanted. climb the government ladder, he became first chief executive of Italian extraction. late last month denied the appeal and 1978, Ajello said 1975, and won a smashing re-election to a Mrs. Grasso adopted two credos in her Grange one of her testier defenders. Mrs. Grasse s early months in office The town Liaison Committee last week authorized the Tuesday. second term in 1978. She has two years left journey from an Italian immigrant family second appeal, expressing concern that another study Farmers warned to the throne of Connecticut politics — Mrs.