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24 - THE HERALD. Thurs . June 11. 1981 Berman in on meeting ... page 8 Serving the Manchester, Conn. Manchester area Friday, June 12, 1981 for 100 years Hawhratpr Ifralb 25 Cents Encounter club to move Into Main St. home By Pat Courtney Pinehurst Grocery, just north of the regulates encounter clubs, a new Herald Reporter intersection of Middle Turnpike and name coined by several former Main St. MANCHESTER - Close En massage parlors in the wake of Walter P. Gorman, the owner of adoption of the town's tough licen counters, a massage-parlor-tumed- Pinehurst Grocery, said "It's going sing ordinance for massage parlors, "encounter club” at 525 Main St., is to hurt the neighborhood for sure. A which was passed in 1977. moving to the first floor of 286-288 lot of people are upset about it.” O’Bright, co-owner of the club Main St. A neighbor who asked not to be with Stratton under the business Gerrold Stratton, co-owner of the identified commented, “The first name "J.P. Associates,” defined an club with Paul O'Bright, both of few days after I realized what was encounter club as “a place.where Grissom Road said Thursday that a happening, I thought to myself, it's people get together for a meeting of July 1 opening is planned. like a nightmare to think that I the minds, shall we say, not as a The club is being forced to might feel I have to move because a massage parlor.” relocate because it is currently in massage parlor is coming in...” Records of the building purchase the block of Main Street buildings Stratton and O'Bright were at the in the town clerk’s office show that which will be demolished to permit Main Street building Thursday, O Bright and Stratton purchased the Close Encounters, no\« located at 525 Main St., will be relocating The spirit of Mailboro in a low tar dgarette. reconstruction of the street there. where work is in progress to convert house from Dr. Vat Tung Tse, 353 The new site of the club is the first to the first floor of this two family house at 286-288 Main St,, ac the former apartment to four rooms Main St., for $79,900. In a quitclaim New location cording to club owner Gerrold Stratton, (Herald photo by floor of a two-family ’house which for operation of the business. abuts the parking lot of the There is no town ordinance which Plrase turn lo page 8 Tarquino) ECHS ceremony has new meaning By Nancy Thompson clustered to greet the new graduates jet and touch people from Siberia to human result of loving. “If you look global problems, because "In the spirit has opened you to looking and Herald Reporter In a flurry of flashbulbs, u r s were El Salvador, pluck meaning from with love and respond to the real midst of death you are constantly loving, " Saunders told the class decorated with blue and white the sun or a soqata, look Into (he with awasy liboc;«f your being and discovering and rediscovering life — "You will leave East open lo other.s. HARTFORD - r A special slgn- streamers, strings of beer cans, and mind of philosophers from Plato to are totally turned to others, you will in a glance or a touch or a song or a “Looking and loving, you can ficance surrounded the East signs saying “just graduated.” modem Britain and share their tor poem,” Saunders aid. Catholic High School Class of 1981 as laugh,” he said. leave East laughing “Prior to this evening’s gradua tured search for what is real and A person can laugh, in spite of "A high school that values the they received their diplomas tion ceremony, we seniors have what is true. Thursday evening. spent the past couple of weeks in "I mean the experience of In addition to marking the end of relaxation, recreation and ac mystery,” Saunders continued. "I their high school years, the tivity," said class president mean the realization that reality is ceremony In the Cathedral of St. Jeremiah Brown Jr. in his incredibly complex, from the inner Joseph in Hartford was the final welcoming address. "Wc may have you to outer space. Reality is not iran money promise gradiution under the guidance of the sat back and thought to ourselves reducable to some far-off abstract Rev. Robert E. Saunders, principal how strange it feels to be finally God In the sky. Reality Is pulsing of ECHS since 1970. graduating; but for most of us, the people, fire and water, a rainbow Saunders, who resigned because full impact of what is occuring now after a summer storm.” of ill health, will be replaced July 1 has yet to be felt.” Saunders told the graduates that by the Rev. William Charbonneau, a "The past four years have the essence of love is to be open, to to go to high court 1905 graduate of ECHS. developed and molded us into per give oneself completely to others. "I tried to think of what to say to sonality types which we shall “I am most human when I share this class, after almost four years of irobably keep for the rest of our not what I have but what I am, ” WASHINGTON (UPI) - The The U.S. and Iranian governments held Carter's power to enter into the making announcements to you each fives... We are now entering the Saunders said. “Today's world tells asked the high court to consider the financial arrangements with Iran day,” Saunders said. Supreme Court has agreed to un world as young adults,” Brown said. us that no definition of love can tangle the legal confusion over the case quickly in order to have a deri But other lower courts have ruled "I would hope that you would Saunders, who received a lengthy solve these problems (of hunger, op financial deal that freed the 52 sion by the July 19 deadline for the agreements unconstitutional, in leam In life what might well be the ovation from the graduates and pression ai^ poverty), only people American hostages in Iran. transferring Iranian assets out of cluding a New York federal judge ' very secret of life — to be alive, audience after his speech, discussed In love can do that. The justices announced Thursday the United States. who issued a ruling Thursday which means to look, to love and to the things East has tried to teach its “You are not In love if your they would immediately review At stake are hundreds of cases in U.S. District Judge Kevin t Duf laugh,” Saunders said. students'— "to look, to laugh and to horizons are narrow, if you are un fy said Carter had no authority un TTie solemn atmosphere inside the presidential orders suspending which American companies are love.” willing to risk. American claims against Iranian seeking to recover money owed by der the Constitution or the Inter cathedral, with the dignity of the "You should go through life "The gut issue of the 20th Century Iran or lost when the revolutionary national Emergency Economic blue and white robed graduates assets and authorizing a funds looking for the beautiful in things,” is you,” he said “Can you honestly transfer out of the country. government of Ayatollah RuhoIIah Powers Act to suspend damage highlighted by Latin hymns sung in Saunders told the graduates. answer the question, ‘Who are you?' Khomeini came into power. claims against Iran harmony by the school chorus, con In a brief order, the justices said “Only if my mind is open, can I be with ‘I am for others’? The gut issue they would hear arguments in the Under agreements signed by Duffy ruled specifically on a case trasted sharply with the jubilant at alive and find life not endurable, but is, whose hand ean you touch in case .June 24. Only Justice William President Jimmy Carter just before brought by the Marschalk Co . a mosphere outside the cathedral, entrancing. With this mind, you can love.”' Rehnquist opposed the court’s ac be left office, claims against Iranian New York-based advertising com where families and friends speed over oceans faster than any Saunders said laughter Is the tion but he did not explain why. assets frozen after the hostages pany that promoted the interests of The action emphasizes the impor were seized were suspended. The Iran Airlines The firm argued in' part that the president s action con . i-.v ,• . - •, . ■ -• tance of the case since'the court has accords provide for settlement of all not taken up anything this late in its claims by an international tribunal stituted a taking of private property term since July 1974, when it heard Lower courts have split over without just cornpen.sation arguments involving President whether Carter had the authority to Richard Nixon's release of the take such action. Watergate tapes. Two U.S. appeals courts have up 5^*" ■■ ■ • ■ <'■* Njrllx -.4: Inside today's Hera ■"■V: 1 ;. 1 1 m A In sports Baseball strike today. Mike John.son drafted by ^ ■' ■, i w . j2 '''^ ' •' Texas. Page *) MCC's Steve Roath draft pick. Yankees lose se cond straight. Page 10. Sunny today Hazy sunshine today, clear tonight, vvarm and j. humid Saturday. 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