Wilbert Snow Dies SPRUCE HEAD, Maine (UPI) - 1946, Defeating Chester Bowles for Doing It, Don't Do It
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The weather Inside today Partly ninny, cool today, high In mid Area news 1-2B Milorial 4A 60*. Fair tonight with low in 40*. Friday Classified 5-8B Family 8-9A mostly sunny with highs in mid to up Comics . SB Obituaries . lOA per 60s. Chance of rain 1Q% through Dear Abby S B .Sports 3-5B Friday. National weather map on Page 7B. Poef, teacher^ former governor ■ VM \ w ^ V rt • • ■ Wilbert Snow dies SPRUCE HEAD, Maine (UPI) - 1946, defeating Chester Bowles for doing it, don't do it. If your number Wilbert Snow, 93, a one-time Maine the nomination. He lost the election one happiness does not come out of lobsterman who went on to become a to James L. McConaughy, however. the job of doing a thing, don't try and poet, English professor and governor Snow was governor for 13 days, do it. of Connecticut, died Wednesday beginning Dec. 27, 1946, when Gov. "Most Americans don't have time while watching a televised ballgame Raymond E. Baldwin, a Republican, off to themselves. They're driven. at his. son’s home. resigned to serve in the United States They're so interested in playing the Snow, a resident of Middletown, Senate. game of life that they've never On Saturday Conn., where he taught at Wesleyan Snow was a familiar figure in stopped to ask the purpose of life.” University for more than 40 years, Middletown, Conn., and was ad He said his teaching career was was vacationing at the home of one of dressed almost always as "gover haphazard at first. At one New his three sons, Nicholas, at Spruce nor" by residents and storeowners England college, “I was there one K Columnist Head, south of Rockland a few miles into his last days. week and they offered me $80 if 1 from Thomaston where he went to When he first came to Wesleyan in would leave." school as a boy. 1921, he and his wife who were to be When he joined the faculty of a adapting A spokesman for the family said married the next year were looked midwestern university, the president Snow, a gentle man, died quietly. down upon because of Snow's called him to his office. He told Snow Snow was a contemporary and homespun ways, but he endeared he talked "too plain about politics to change friend of the late poet Robert Frost, himself to the faculty and scores of and religion in class." another New Englander, and many students through the years. "I said to the president, "I thought When you read your church times people confused the two. Frost Snow and his wife, Jeanette, were that's what college was for."' visited the Snows for two weeks in often seen eating together in the un page column Saturday morning by Snow said leaching is "the best job 1926, three years after Snow’s first iversity's Downey House, even Cliff Simpson, you will be reading you can have because there's a three volume of poetry was published, recently. He is survived by his wife, Wings of Morning, not Wings of months' vacation when you can think Evening. ” rhose were the most wonderful 14 and sons Nicholas, John and Charles. days of my life. We were up to 4 in He was the author of many poems. your own thoughts, store up your own "It seems appropriate to batteries." change the title,” The Rev. Mr. the morning, talking. I had to be at a A biographical work, "Codline's Simpson said. 9 o’clock class, but Frost slept until Child," published by Wesleyan He said poets were not necessarily In his column Saturday, he noon.” .University Press, was his most re the best students recalls verses from Isaiah Snow was known for his poems cent effort. "I always had a certain doubt explaining the meaning of about New England, especially "If you want to make money, write about the Straight A' boy He might be all right as a clerk, but could he "wings." The phrase Wings of Maine, and for his soft-spoken plain prose. Poetry you do just for the love look beyond the grindstone and see Morning is taken from another talk. of it," Snow once said in an inter verse of scripture, the 139th A Democrat, Snow was elected view. the brook beyond the field or the Psalm "...If 1 take the wings of lieutenant governor of Connecticut in "If your main drive is not love of trees beyond the brook”" the morning...” The Rev. Mr. Simpson's column will continue to be a Saturday feature of the church page. Buckland park trial Listening to Gov. Grasso Former Gov. Wilbert Snow, who died today in Maine at the home of his son, is shown as he listened to a speech by Gov Ella gets under way Grasso in January 1975. (Herald photo by Dunni Fall foliage By GREG PEARSO^ Updike, Kelly & Spellacy, which tiffs, Michael Dworkin and Edith Herald Reporter represents Penney. Schoell, as the first witnesses. viewing said The trial in the environmental case The defendants agreed that some Dworkin said this morning that his Terrorists free affecting the Town of Manchester’s of the items will be presented as testimony will concentrate on the almost ideal proposed industrial park began today evidence, Spellacy said. Others will formation of the Manchester En in Hartford’s Superior Court. be marked and opposed by the defen vironmental Coalition. five hostages BOSTON (UPI) — The upcoming In an opening statement Judge T. dants at the time of presentation as Those appearing in court this mor weekend "should be ideal” for Clark Hull said that he expects the evidence, he said. Hull will decide ning included Town Manager Robert DACCA, Bangladesh (UPI) — dent activist deported to Japan from viewing fall foliage in the mountains trial will take more than three days. whether the contested items will be Weiss, Town Planner Alan Lamson, Heavily armed Japanese terrorists Canada last December, said his of New Hampshire and Vermont and ‘Tve looked over the file and it included as evidence. ^ockton and Charles Duffy, assis today freed five hostages, including views differ from those of the five central Maine, the Massachusetts appears to be an immensely com The attorneys for the plaintiffs ap tant commerce commissioner. two Americans, but threatened to kill armed Red Army guerrillas who Division of the American Automobile plicated case,” he said. parently will call two of the plain- 151 other persons aboard a hijacked hijacked the Japan Air Lines DC8 Association reported today. The case— The Manchester En jetliner unless Japan meets their jetliner over India Wednesday and "Color will be at peak in northern vironmental Coalition vs. Edward deadline for freeing nine fellow diverted it to Dacca. New Hampshire and about 75 percent Stockton et a l—involves the claim by terrorists and paying $6 million ran "I was surprised to hear the established in the White Mountains,” the plaintiff that Stockton, the state Farm bill signed som. terrorist group wants my release, " A U.S. businessman and a weeping Omura was quoted as saying by his the AAA said. “In northern Vermont commerce commissioner, did not ping the requirement that par WASHINGTON (UPI) - President American actress were in the first lawyer. "I have a different ideology fall color will be at peak. Northern properly weigh environmental ticipants first buy stamps for cash. Carter today signed into law higher group of hostages to be freed by the Maine will be showing peak color; effects when he approved the Tighter eligibility requirements are from them. I am not suited to support prices for the nation’s grain Red Army guerrillas who set mid militaristic institutions like theirs. 1 Rangeley and Moosehead Lakes proposed J.C. Penney Co. catalogue expected to weed out 1.5 million of farmers and changes in the mul night (2 p.m. EDT) as the deadline have no intention of going to Dacca." regions 90 percent; Baxter State distribution center. the current 16.2 million participants. tibillion dollar food stamp program for compliance with their demands. The lawyer, Takeshi Matsumoto, Park 80 percent." Penney will be the major tenant in Target prices for the 1977 wheat for the poor. The Japanese government agreed said he met with Omura at the Kyoto Foliage colors qre 25 to 50 percent the town’s proposed 393-acre in The $11.5 million compromise crop jump to $2.90 a bushel while the to meet their demands but said it was prison where he is being held on advanc^ in more southern sections dustrial park in Buckland. loan rate goes to $2.25 a bushel. This measure included crop supports "impossible" to deliver the hostages charges of violating the explosives with peak expected later in the Attorneys for both parties met in is expected to trigger a record $1.2 higher than the White House wanted, and cash before the deadline. And a season, the AAA said. chambers with Judge Hull to review billion in support payments for this control law and forging a passport. but it also implemented Carter ad new hitch developed in Tokyo, where The Japanese justice ministry, 'The AAA said heavy raffic was evidence the plaintiff plans to submit year’s wheat crop. ministration reforms in the $5.6 one of the nine imprisoned radicals meanwhile, officially informed the expected on major highways this in the trial. The corn target price and loan rate billion food stamp program. whose release was demanded said he various prisons and detention houses weekend, especially through the As of noon today, the group had will be $2 a bushel for this year’s would not take up the offer of holding the nine prisoners of its plan mountains, and advised caution with reviewed about 25 proposed items of The food stamp changes will crop, with more modest increases in to release them, according to Kyodo rest stops to view the fall leaves’ evidence, according to Atty.