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Outside today No further signifiranl arruniulalion5 Inside today as snow ends this afternoon. Highs from Area 6-7 K Hartford 6^7 the mid 20s to low 30s. Variable 13 Family 2 rioudiness tonight with lows in the teen.s Manehe$U>r*-A City of ViUage Charm 13 Obiluarm 14 Partly sunny Wednesday with highs in the hUlitorial 4 Sports *« 20s. National weather map on page II FOI'KTKKN MANCHESTER. COW.. TtlESDAY, FEBRI ARY 7.1*711 - VOI,. No »Imi ••KHrKi *ni'KNTY tm rs i Blowing snow closes region -•fm Snow closes Town storm deadly; area towns roads being cleared Bv BARBARA RICIIMOM) f AM) IT Manchester and surrounding Crews will continue sanding and will ARKA CORRKSI’O.NDKMS towns, like the rest of the Northeast, attempt to widen some streets that closed down today to recover from have narrowed as snow has mounted Storm Larry, which dumped at least The Highway Department With the exception of snow plowing 16 inches of snow and then blew it employees, who have worked and emergency operations area into man-size drifts, some as high as straight since 7 a m Monday, towns literally closed downiast night nine feet probably will work well into tonight and today as the winter's worst A' One Manchester man died from a The Manchester area received 16 storm left impassable drifts, es heart attack suffered Monday nnight to 20 inches of snow from the storm, pecially on secondary roads. while shoveling snow. Manchester O’Sullivan said. The strong winds In all of the towns schools, town of Police and members of the resulted in some drifting problems, fice buildings, and most stores were ( i f ■ Northeastern Four-Wheelers worked particularly in the Windsor and closed to allow smoother plowing through the night helping motorists Burnham streets area, where drifts operations. Several grocery stores who were stranded or stuck in their were as high as nine feet, he said closed but many opened and gas vehicles. Weiss has decided to postpone stations on the main roads opened on The Highway Department worked tonight’s Board of Directors schedule this morning. through the night, and town roads meeting. The meeting will be held Coventry were reported in surprisingly good Wedne^ay at 8 p.m. at the Municipal Coventry’s road crew was called condition today. Building. Other town meetings Monday night to dig out the road and William T. Smyth, 53, of 42 scheduled tonight also are expected driveway of a Waterfront Park resi Knighton St. was pronounced dead on to be postponed or canceled dent who was in labor. With the help Getting home was rough arrival at Manchester Memorial Today’s rubbish collection in of a police cruiser the pregnant Manchester was canceled O’Sullivan Walking or driving home from work yesterday were, at best, rough (bores I’hi- Hospital Monday night. Police and woman was transported to Windham Fire Department personnel helped said that he is hopeful the collection Community Memorial Hospital in pedestrian and driver were on Lydall Street. (Herald photo by Pinto) perform medical treatment after can pick up Wednesday on schedule Willimantic. Smyth suffered a heart attack at O’Sullivan said that there were no Town manager Frank Connolly, about 8:15. major breakdowns in highway equip who did not yet have the details on Town Manager Robert Weiss, and ment during the storm cleanup the‘case, said he ordered the town’s Timothy O’Sullivan and George Other area towns reported no major highway department to give priority Ringstone of the Highway Depart problems, although stranded and to such emergencies cases. Grasso asks Carter ment took an hour-lonj tour this mor- parked vehicles created obstacles. Connolly said the roads near his I ning to inspect streets in Manchester Police ordered about own home in Coventry Hills were Manchester. 100 motor vehicles towed. Anyone still not passable this morning but “We didn’t come across any road whose car has been towed should call that the highway department had that wasn’t driveable,” O’Sullivan been working all night. He said he to send U.S. troops said. More work is needed, however. •See Page Fourlren was in constant touch with the town road crews and civil defense workers. HARTFORD (UPI) - Gov. Ella T. loaders and anything we can iay our Frank Mancuso, state director of “The biggest problem is drifting Grasso today asked President Carter hands on to push this stuff out of the civil preparedness, said to his snow,” Connolly said. He added that to mobilize federal troops to help roads," she said. knowl^ge such action had never Today’s summary he did not know if the town offices Connecticut open blizzard-buried State road crews were traveling in been taken before. Mrs. Grasso said she was taking the action under could be opened later today. roads to allow emergency equipment convoys plowing the major powers granted the governor in Another blizzard struck the to reach snowbound residents. highways. State policemen and tow The LaMons are now in jail and Dean Wiley, superintendent of Northeast today and officials in truck operators were unburying emergency situations. in a statement distributed to streets, said he had been on the job A runway at Bradley International Connecticut, Massachusetts. Airport in Windsor Locks, Conn., was abandonded cars — often by hand — Mancuso said in his “recent for more than 26 hours, when con Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. reporters Monday, said. “If tacted this morning. He said all of and then towing them out of the way. memory” the storm was the worst he kept open so equipment and man New York City and Boston protecting our daughter’s moral the equipment was put into service, More than 1,000 cars were reported had seen. power could be airlifted from other declared emergencies. Factories, values is a crime, then we are noting that the town’s six plows and to have been towed by noon today. High winds drove the snow into areas if the request is approved. businesses, schools and non- guilty. ” Harkaway said the Sanders plus some smaller trucks “The situation is beyond the In the southeastern part of the huge drifts that all but buried many parents will stay in jail until they vehicles and in many cases made essential government offices were on the roads. capabilities of state and local state more than 900 cars were es produce the girl, or until she turns visibility almost zero. were closed and in Pennsylvania Wiley said a large payloader had governments,” Mrs. Grasso wrote timated stalied in roadways. They 16— the age when she legally may and Rhode Island the National been rented by the town and that Carter. “It requires emergency were being dragged out and towed to Mrs. Grasso got sidetracked about leave school. Guard was mobilized to fight the some work was being contracted out. assistance in the form of equipment, shopping center parking lots and any 3:30 p.m. when her state auto tried to other available areas. get from the Governor’s Mansion on snow. He said the road workers were tired manpower and dollar reim Motorists were stranded by the FRANKFURT. West Germany and busy and had been out on the job bursement.” Two men drifted helplessiy all the West Hartford-Hartford town line (UPI) - A Czech engineering night in Long Island Sound more than to the State Armory. hundreds and power failures since 7 a.m. Monday. More than 300 National Guardsmen blacked out thousands of homes, specialist. Ladislav Molnar. 24. Only dispatcher Sunny Grady was 40 miles in 50-knot winds and Her state police cruiser could do no already were at work helping including entire Southern New commandeered a Soviet-built TU- available at the Coventry Police towering waves until their boat better than about one mile in 30 highway crews. England towns. The storm, the se 34 airliner on a flight between Department this morning since, all of miraculously beached near minutes in the snarled traffic. East Berlin and Prague, Monday, At least three persons died as a cond in less than three weeks, the officers were out on emergency result of the blizzard which Riverhead, L.I., about dawn today. Anxious to get to the comman(Lpost, and demanded to be flown to caused at least three traffic duty. “Private citizens are staying clobbered Connecticut with up to two C harles W. G reenleaf, 25, of she decided to walk, to the consterna Frankfurt. He faces air piracy deaths, two in Pennsylvania and offjhe streets,” she said. She added feet of snow and hurricane-force Stonington and Lance Elwell, 39, of tion of her driver. charges today. one in Massachusetts. there had been no arrests. winds. Noank were treated for exposure and “You can’t walk governor," he On the same plane was an East Chief Robert Kjellquist, reached at reported to be In good condition. said. A governor’s spokesman said U.S. WASHINGTON (UPI) - Presi German couple, who were aboard his home, said some cars were being They had set out from Noank in a “I told him ‘just watch me’.” she Army equipment, if approved, would dent Anwar Sadat Monday the plane with their child and ask towed out of snow drifts and that smalt boat with an outboard motor said moments after she arrived at be sent to the Norwich, New London followed up a hard-line speech to ed for permission to stay in West residents can call the police depart attached on a fishing trip to Fisher’s the armory, with cold feet and her Germany.