' •W W ->»3(9M - <, ' PAGE T E N -B - MANCHESTER EVENING HERALD. Manchester. COnn.. Fri.. Jan. 14, IB 77 ---- --------- . Joins Fitzgerald staff Town seeks truck bids The weather * ■ it'-- ■ Roy M. Thompson of 369 Birch Mountain Rd., former / The Town of Manchester associate director'of the Watkins Funeral Home, has Is seeking a bid for one Inside today become associated with the Fitzgerald Funeral Home of Partly sunny today, highs in upper four-wheel drive pickup 20s or low 30s. Low tonight in the teens. 225 Main St., Manchester. truck to be used by the Area news .... 1-B Editorial .........4-A Thompson, a licensed embalmer and funeral director, Mostly cloudy Sunday, some snow Business..........5-A Obituaries .... 6-A Highway Department. flurries possible, high in upper 20s or had been with Watkins since 1970. The firm is being sold Classified .. ,5-8-B Sr. Citizens........2 Highway Superintendent low SOs. National weather forecast map Com ics........... 6-B SporU ...........3-5-B to the Holmes Funeral Home of Manchester, with which Timothy O’Sullivan said on Page 6-B. Bright One** Thompson was also associated at one time. Dear Abby___6-B W ings.............. 2-B that the vehicle would be I O W -, BtaUBOAY. JANUARY 15. >977 - VOL. XCVL No. 89 Thompson, a life-long resident of Manchester, was used by the department’s PRICEt FIFTEEN CENTS graduated from Manchester High School in 1943 and the on-call foreman, who often New England Institute of Embalming and Funeral Direc­ iV . I has to answer trouble calls. ting in 1946. He is a World War II veteran. I The vehicle presently Thompson is a member of the Republican Town Com­ being used by the foreman mittee and is active in several local social and civic is "totally shot,’’ he said. News organizations. Bids for the truck will be From 1971 through 1976, Thompson served on the state opened at 11 a.m. on Jan. Mid-Atlantic coast takes brunt Board of Examiners of Embalmers and Funeral Direc­ 27 and should be mailed to summary tors. He is also past chairman of the New England Coun­ Roy M. Thompson M.A. Pass, Director of cil of State Boards for Funeral Directing. G e n e ra l S e rv ic e s , In 1976, Thompson testifed at a Federal Trade Commis­ M u n ic ip a l B u ild in g , sion hearing on alleged abuses in the funeral industry, Manchester. and he was at the center of an August controversy in f •.■■’/ A * ' State of winter’s third maior storm which he accused the Connecticut licensing board of ^ . - V doing little to protect the consumer. j WATERBURY — Three gypsy By United Press International Two-hour delays were reported at Business women and their seven children Jersey's Meadowland track, and a New York City was blanketed by 6 Kennedy Airport. spqkesman said it was doubtful there are guests in a motel at the Vi inches of snow today and the third Freezing rain and snow fell in expense of the city of Waterbury would be any action today. major snowstorm of the year brought Virginia, Maryland and the nation’s Light snow also fell in the west, UTC put $1.3 billion into state economy while their husbands sit in jail highway and air traffic to a near capital Friday night, causing one charged with stealing $12,000 covering Idaho, Montana and standstill on the East Coast. death and several minor traffic ac­ United Technologies Corporation northern Wyoming and edging into paid to the corporation's Connecticut committed to Connecticut include an Morris Bezzini, right, represents Bezzini Bros. Realty as he presents an easement agree­ from a supermarket. Police are Forecasts called for five to 10 inch cidents on glazed roads. In Virginia, contributed nearly $1.3 billion direct­ employes. seeking a four car with other South Dakota and northern $18 million jet engine experimental accumulations in New Jersey and A 12-car mishap and a five-car crash Nebraska. ly to Connecticut’s economy in 1976. ment to Spencer Cain, chairman of the Hockanum River Linear Park Committee.The ease­ suspects and the $12,000. United Technologies purchased research facility and a $10 million parts of New York state. In the sub­ which included a police car were The total is equivalent to nearly about $400 million worth of goods and automated production facility for ment to the Town of Manchester permits public access and construction of hiking trails But what was falling from the sky urbs of New York City, stalled and reported on iced roads. wasn’t nearly as important as what three-fourths of the entire state services from Connecticut suppliers turbine blade casting, both in along a major section of the Hockanum River east of Adams St. where the men are stan­ abandoned vehicles brought highway The storm belt continued up the was already on the ground, or water, operating budget of $1.8 billion for and sub-contractors during 1976. Middletown, and a $3.5 million engine ding. (Herald photo by Pinto) HARTFORD — Police today traffic down to 15 to 20 miles per hour coast, where New Englanders also in the Midwest. Rivers, their volume the current fiscal year. Tax payments made to the state control laboratory in East Hartford. were searching for the killer of a Friday, prepared for another attack, with lowered by recent drought, proved to Company expenditures averaging and to individual towns and cities in United Technologies made cor­ 26-year-old prostitute stabbed 40 “We have so many accidents we forecasts of up to eight inches of new be frozen obstacle courses for boats. $25 million a week in the state Went Connecticut exceeds $35 million for porate contributions of more than to 50 times in the head and chest. can’t keep track of them,” one Suf­ snow. Several school systems in The breakup of a towboat and the for wages and salaries, state and the year. M.2 million to health, educational, Bezzini s grant access to river She was found in a car in a hotel folk County, N.Y. police spokesman local taxes, purchases from parking garage. Massachusetts already have sinking of two grain-laden barges Of the corporation’s $144 million in cultural, and social service said. suspended classes for Monday, suppliers, capital investments, and capital investment in 1976, about 44 forced authorities to close to naviga­ organizations in Connecticut. Cor­ The Hockanum River Linear Park elude grading along the river to tackled in the spring. Dulles Airport in Washington shut expecting snows to be crippling. tion a 20-mile section of the ice- corporate charitable contributions. per cent or $63 million was spent for porate gifts to local United Way (HRLP) Committee has acquired of­ remove piles of dirt, removal of Long range HRLP goals Include STAMFORD — A federal ad­ down from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Friday, Schools also closed early Friday or clogged Mississippi River between The largest single outlay, $800 improvement of its Connecticut appeals in Connecticut totaled ap­ ficial access to another strip of land brush and accumulated junk and securing of easements or deeds to ministrative judge has stripped due to ice-glazed runways, and an Air stayed closed all day in Maryland St. Louis and Cairo, III. million, went for wages and salaries facilities. Major capital projects proximately $400,000. along the Hockanum River in addi­ clearing of a hiking trail along both preserve the entire seven-mile length Stamford radio station WSTC of France SST was sent to l^ltimore’s and Virginia. The towboat Mariner broke up near its license and granted it to a com­ tion to two adjoining strips. sides of the tiver with the assistance along the Hockanum River in Washington International Airport. Racing was canceled at New Cape Girardeau, Mo., Thursday peting group because it had not After several negotiation efforts, of local Boy Scout Troops and other Manchester in a natural undeveloped either because of the ice floes or the proven a record of superior ser­ Bezzini Bros, granted an easement civic groups. The project will begin state and to permit public hiking lack of properly placed buoys. Many Gulf head sure payoffs are over vice. An appeal to the full Federal for about 2,000 feet along the this spring. Project plans have been trails along both sides of the river of the buoys have been knocked out of Hockanum River. cleared by both the State Depart­ Communications Commission is President to urge place or buried by the ice. PITTSBURGH (UPI) - Gulf Oil where possible, from Vernon to East planned. In an interview with UPI, McAfee "Statement of Business Principles.” Previously, Allen Ward signed an ment of Environmental Protection Hartford. And only the channel remained Chairman Jerry McAfee looks back viewed his biggest achievement as It says that Gulf employes must easement to allow a trail for 700 feet and the inland-wetlands commission Anyone wishing to join the HRLP navigable early today in the ice- on the early morning hours of Jan. 14, promoting the old-fashioned work conduct business in "strict obser­ eastward from the Adams St. bridge. of the Planning and Zoning Commis­ committee and assist in river conser­ federal pay hike clogged Ohio River. The channel was 1976 with a determination that it ethic and projecting a moral tone of vance of both the letter and the spirit Mai Tool Co. also agreed to deed a sion.^ Regional kept navigable only by towboats won’t happen again. vation is invited to attend the leadership.