PAGE TEN-A - MANCHESTER EVENING HERALD, Mancfaerier, Conn.. Thuri.. March 23. \ m Family keeps working OUtuariM M ideast (Continned from Page One) The weather Mrs. Laurel K. Nelson Kazimierz Kielian Two hundred and fifty Swedish of­ Clear and cold^ tonight with lows in ^ ELLINGTON — Kazimierz ficers were assigned the the 20s. Fair and cool Saturday with Mn. Laurel Kemmerer Nelson, 79, highs in the 40s. National weather after Wallenda’s death of 333 Bidwell St. died IlMsday at a Kielian, W, formerly of Abbot Road, northeastern sector in the area of the map on page 6B. Mancbeater convalescent home. died Wednesday at a Vernon area Christian town of Marjayoun, while Manchester—A City of Village Charm Phone 647-9946 Mrs. Nelson was bom in Hartford convalescent lume. 200 Iranians were scfaedoled to patrol TWENTY PACES SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (UPl) - balancing bar until his skull hit the Circus only hours after watching her and bad lived in Elmwood for more Mr. Kielian was bora Feb. 7,1891, the central sector. i TWO SECTIONS MANCHESTER. CONN., FRIDAY. MARCH 24, 1978 - VOL. XCVII. No, 147 for home delivery After so years of death-defying acts back of a parked taxi. grandfather die. than 40 years before coming to in Poland and bad lived in Ellington The U.N. troops will be stationed I I'RICE: TWENTY CKN'TS on the tightrope, 73-year-oId Karl He was dead on arrival at nearby In Concord, Calif., Steve Wallenda, Manchester two years ago. St« was a for more than 50 years. He bad betwen the Istmli lines and the A Wallenda is dead. But within hours of Presbyterian Hospital of "multiple another nephew, walked a high-wire member of the Elmwood Community worked as a farmhand for many Utani River, which runs 12 milesv/ his fatal plunge, his family resumed fractures and traumas." Witnesses over the Oakland Zoo's animal cages Church and its Women’s Daytime tobacco farmers in Uie area before north of the international border. Thjf , their daredevil walks through the said his head and upper body were in what he called a "memorial” to Fellowship. his retirement. Syrian peace-keeping force sky. crushed and mutilated. his uncle. She is survived by a son, Robert C. He is survived by a niece, Mrs. Lebanon is encamp^ on the northT The fearless Wallenda, senior His family, some of whom were "My uncle taught me from the age Nelson of East Hartford; and three Marshall Humphrey of Herlumer, bank. member of the Flying Wallendas watching, were stunned, but they of 3 to go on with the show,” he said, grandchildren. N.Y. Army Chief of SUff Lt. Gen. Budget plan shows 12.3% increase family and subject of the movie "The vowed to continue. after his 75-foot-high walk. "There's The funeral is today at 2 p.m. at the The funeral is private. Burial will Mordechai Gur told foreign cor­ Great Wallendas," died at 11:15 a.m. "The show definitely will go on, in no way I’d quit. I will do the same as Richard W. Sheehan Funeral Home, be in Ellington Center Cemetery. respondents touring Israeli frontline Wednesday when a gust of wind the finest of circus tradition,” his my uncle Karl did. I will probably die lOM New Britain Ave., West Hart­ The Ladd Funeral Home, 19 positions around the Lebanese port of swept him off a high wire strung nephew, Gunther, said from the on the wire.” ford. Burial will be in Rose Hill Ellington Ave., Rockville, is in Tyre an Israeli pullout might start . between two 10-story hotels in the Wallenda home in Sarasota, Fla. Wallenda, a naturalized U.S. Memorial Park, Rocky Hill. charge of arrangements. soon after deployment of the U.N. Proposal would mean heart of San Juan's tourist district. "That's how Kart would have wanted citizen who was born in Kaiser The family suggests that any There are no calling hours. forces in the south. Wallenda teetered for a moment, it.” Wilhelm's German empire, went memorial gifts may be made to the Miss l-enora Phillips Israel captured 700 square miles of , failed in a last attempt to grab the In San Juan, 17-year-old Rietta ahead with his stunt Wednesday Memorial Fund of Elmwood Com­ Lebanese territory between the tax rate of 37 mills wire and plunged 150 feet to his death Wallenda performed her own despite a stiff 12 mph wind gusting munity Church. ElAST HARTFORD — Miss Lenora Litani and teie border in a massive tightrope act at the Pan-American considerably higher. Phillips, formerly of 339 Forbes St on a pav^ parking lot, clutching his seven-day thrust against Palestinian By GREG PEARSOIN $25.5 million General Fund budget, "There was no way to tell him Mrs. Ruth P. Cooley died Monday at a West Hartford con­ guerrillas. ' valescent home. Herald Reporter which would result in a 9.43-mill tax what to do,” one of his grief-stricken Mrs. Ruth Parson Cooley, 89, increase. The directors reduced that co-workers said, "He was his own formerly of Manchester, died The funeral was this morning from Town Manager Robert Weiss to a $24.8 million General Fund Pride and Hhe ham’ Newkirk and Whitney Funeral Home, boss. He had done the same thing Tuesday at a Farmington convales­ B u c k la n d has recommended a General budget with a 2.12-miII tax increase. cent home. She was the widow of 318 Burnside Ave., with a mass at St! (Continued from Page One) many, many times before. He never Fund budget of $27,861,728 for The manager’s budget request in­ used a net.” Harry M. Cooley. Rose Church. Burial was in St. district always has provided fire cludes some new positions for town Mary’s Cemetery. kept Wallenda busy Wallenda made it two-thirds of the Mrs. Cooley was bom in Hartford protection to the area. the Town of Manchester during departments. Weiss has way across the 200-foot tightrope and had lived in the Manchester area Survivors include two brothers "Historically and factually, the the 1978-79 fiscal year. The recommended the following in­ Roxie Phillips of East Hartford and Hy IIAI, rilKKIINOTOIN about the tragic accident in Detroit when the wind made him lose his most of her life. town’s commitment to Buckland can­ request is a 12.3 percent in­ creases in staff: A building inspector in 1961: "That was the only real balance. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Carmen Phillips of New Hartford. not in any way be-construed to show Managing Editor crease over the present budget for the Building Department: a youth serious accident we have ever had,” "It was a horrible sight,” said Vic­ John Thompson of Exeter, N.H. In Memuriam an exercise of jurisdictional rights in and would result in a 37-mill services worker in the Police Depart­ "Pride, and the ham in me.” he said. tor Abboud, a tourist from Montreal. The funeral and burial will be the area,” the brief says. In loving memo'*v of Remiglo tax rate. ment; a part-time recreation atten­ That brought Karl Wallenda out of Wallenda recalled the Hartford cir­ Several women who watched the private. Hidolfi. who passed away March 23rd The brief says that there is no dant to staff the West Side Rec; and a retirement in 1968, and he has been in cus fire of July 6, 1944. drama until the end fainted. The Fitzgerald Funeral Home, 225 IMS proof introduced by the town that the Weiss also has proposed a $2,104,- full-time secretary for the General and out of retirement ever'since. "We were on the high wire at the The Boston Red Sox, in Puerto Main St,, is in charge of Gone but not forgotten. plaintiffs (the district) did anything 646 budget for the Town Fire District Services Department. The depart­ His remarks were made at Wiliie's time. We should have been among Rico for an exhibition game, were arrangements. that could be the basis for damages Special Fund, which would be a 10 ment now is serviced by a secretary Steak House on Tue.sday, April 16, Sadly missed by wife, the first casualties,” he said. staying in one of the hotels and seven There are no calling hours. sons and daughter. claimed by the town. percent increase over this year’s who divides her duties between 1968, when he was a guest speaker at Wallenda said that if the crowd of them, including Manager Don budget. The proposed fire tax rate is general services and the Disaster 4 the Omar Shrine Club. whistled or clapped in Europe, it Zimmer, witnessed the tragedy. 4.67 mills. Control Department. The "coming out of retirement" in meant they didn't like the act. When "I didn't see the man hit,” Zimmer The mill rates for both the General The budget also recommends that 1968 was for the Shrine Circus in John Ringling brought the Wallendas said. "I turned around while he was Fund and the Fire District Special THE AL SIEFFERT’S SAY ■■■ ■ the town reinstate an engineer-in­ / . y - ' F-. Hartford, when the Worth-Wallenda to New York in 1928 and they heard in the air and I never looked back. I Fund will decrease, but this is training position that has been dis­ Circus was performing for Sphinx the crowd cheering, they thought didn't want to see it,” because the town is completing a continued in the Engineering Depart­ 6^ ' Temple.