PAGE SIXTEEN - EVENING HERALD, Tues., August 7, 1979 Area Students Metric Is the Way Piflraguay Aims to Annul Woodstock Generation: Violent Lightning StormStorr Pair of Arms Feature Finish Course Where Are They Now? Claims Traffic Signals Boston Red Sox Win ■AT. iiF But Costs Too Much Rights of War Criminal To Aid Nurses Page$ 6, 7 Page 10 - Page 11 WALTHAM, Mass. (UPI) - While I can’t believe they couldn’t learn in Page 2 MANCHESTER - Six area high Ny the debate continues over whether less than a month." school students recently completed America would lose or benefit by And so Webster dismissed the peo­ Manchester Memorial Hospital's converting Inches to centimeters; ple problem in metric conversion. High School Nurse Aide program and miles to kilometers; and quarts to And in testimony before the U.S. are now employed as aides on the liters, the president of a small Metric Board in June, he discounted iiaitrhpHtpr hospital's various patient care units. problems with capital equipment as The four-week voluntary course Massachussetts firm which manufac­ tures machine tools has already well. Clearing Today, was taught by the hospital's In- decided metric is the answer. “Our production machinery is Service Education Department and But the costs of metric conversion almost all numerically controlled or Sunny Tomorrow required nearly 105 hours of intensive have caused him to hold back, at equipped with digital readouts, which training in the basic skills for care of least for the time being. are easily converted to metrics,” he Detalle on page 2 the ill. Half the time was spent in the Peter Webster is president of said. ’’That expense in minimal.” classroom while the other half was Black and Webster, a manufacturer The major problem, however, in­ devoted to on-the-job instruction. of machine tools in Waltham. His volves retooling. Manchester residents completing firm employs 80 people, has an an­ “Every tool in our plant must be the course were Lori Daley, daughter nual sales volume of about $6 million, replaced with a metric counterpart. Dangerous Gas • A Family NEWSpaper Since 1881 • 20t Single Copy * 154 Home Delivered of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Daley, 1003 and is expanding sales to Japan and We have to purchase all new drills, CATANIA, Sicily (UPI) - Tolland Turnpike; Donna Grinavich, parts of Europe. Growth is projected taps and reamers. Every single daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Scientists said today dangerous at 25 percent annually, and the fastener — our entire inventory of gas pressures are building up in­ Grinavich. 250 Autumn St.; and Anne screws, nuts and bolts — must be prospects for continued success are side Mount Etna and the volcano, Marie Spaulding, daughter of Mr. good. changed,” Webster said. and Mrs. John J Spaulding, 69 “Many of our current machine which has been erupting for the If V <;» Yet Webster feels the time is near past five days and blackened Texas Beaches Face Tragedy Meadow Lane. '■*, W I I fixtures must be reworked to accom­ for his company to make the switch beaches with its ash, could From Glastonbury, the graduates your Italian salami?” “Faneuil Hall. The un­ modate metric drill bushings. All of the Bay of Campeche 500 miles south surf and we hope they continue to do The ads say it all: “Where else can you get to the metric system. explode at any time. SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas month before Pemex (Petroleos The tar balls began settling on the were Lanelle Bouchard, daughter of our inspection instrumentation must across the Gulf of Mexico. so.” your Easter outfit with Easter eggs, high common marketplace.” (UPI photo) “I think it’s crazy to buck the ’The warning came from a team (UPI) - Sticky tar balls, too sparse Mexicanos) can drill a relief well (at light brown sands Sunday but by Mr. and Mrs. Leon Bouchard, 72 be replaced,” he said adding that to permit aerial detection, washed Roger Meacham of the En­ the Ixtoc I site),” Hobby said As unsightly as they were, the tar fashion with your high jinks, Irish linen with trend," he says. of experts, led by volcanologist Tuesday still formed only a thin, Hope Lane; and Sherry Davis, “If you can do it and pick your own $100,000 may be a conservative es­ across Texas beaches overnight and vironmental Protection Agency ’Tuesday after touring the Padre broken line at the high-tide mark 100 balls constituted more of a footing daughter of Mr. Franklin Davis, 1392 Haroun Tazieff of Belgium, which time to do it, rather than having it timate. has been studying the 10,707-foot coated the sands with wide bands of described the tar balls as a product Island National Seashore and yards from high-rise hotels and con­ and fashion menace than an obstacle Manchester Road. forced on you, you’re going to be in a Despite all that, however, Webstw oily pollution. of a natural refining process, saying Mexican coast by air and boat. dominiums. Under a full tnoon the to swimmers. It was impossible to A graduate from East Hartford mountain since it began its most much better position.” urges the American people, and his spectacular eruption in 20 years Lt. Gov. William P. Hobby Jr. said they were the "ultimate breakdown” “We’re going to have another five or waves deposited countless thousands walk along the beach without coating was Sharon Rice, daughter of Mr. Liberty’s Cradle Touted Black and Webster, however, has own employees to “think metric as the situation threatened to turn into a of oil buffeted by weather, currents six weeks of oil pouring into the Gulf of the gummy discs, leaving feet or shoe soles with patches of and Mrs. John Rice, 903 Oak St. last Friday. and other deteriorating factors. black. But the tar balls did not not yet made a total switch to soon as possible.” So far the eruption has con­ disaster that would linger for at the rate of 20,000 barrels a day. treacherous footing to greet morning The graduates were presented with And he pledges his company will And the local tourism industry, "We’re going to have this (pollu­ beachcombers and sjvimmers. appear to be linked to the slicks or certificates for their accomplish­ metric. Webster acknowledges cost tinued without the escape of the months. is the No. 1 factor. make the conversion to the metric The Coast Guard said it presumed conceding a problem but hoping for a tion) problem for another year.... “We’ve had some cancellations, I sheens further off the coast. ment by Mrs. Marjorie Roach, assis­ gases Inside Etna,” Tazieff told The Coast Guard said a 12-square- Webster says the cost of converting system within several years. reporters. “This mass of trapped but still was unable to prove the tar miracle, today faced potential finan­ What we have now is a very can’t deny that,” said Ralph ’Thomp­ tant director of nursing, during brief As Urban Renewal Model mile sheen 160 miles north of the Rio his firm to metric would be $100,000 To add some incentive Webster balls came from Mexico’s runaway cial tragedy because of them. threatening situation that may turn son, vice president of the tourist pig posters, “Miss Piggy for gas could open new craters on the ceremonies. By MARCIA PARKER did. It was like a bird’s nest that had which equal his profits for one vear. .proposes . a series of tax credits for Ixtoc I well that blew out June 3 in “It’s going to be at least next into a disaster.” Grande near Corpus Christ!, began Successful completion of the High slopes of the volcano or perhaps bureau, who nevertheless urged fallen to the ground. It just had to be President” bumper stickers. “We could do it all in one day," he business, to offset 50 ^rcent of the vacationers to come to the resort. breaking into smaller sheens School Nurse Aide program has often BOSTON (UPI) — Two centuries raised up." A visitor is dazzled, their senses of cause a violent explosion.” says. “You just go around and pick expenses incurred^ inchanging over. The volcano, Europe’s “People are out there enjoying that Tkiesday. led to further nursing education. The ago, firebrand Bostonians would One of the iargest developers of sight, sound and smell tantalized. For the individuals who must convert up all the old tools, stick them in a mightiest and most tempestuous, hospital has several registered gather by lantern light in buildings suburban shopping centers in the na­ There's a sweet shop decorated in their own tools, he proposed offset­ barrei and throw them out,and put all was spewing lava from three nurses on its staff who received their along the waterfront to plot the tion, Rouse and Co. of Coiumbia, black laquer and flamingo pink with ting 75 percent of the costs, overthrow of British rule with such the new tools out. But you gotta’ separate craters, two of them initial clinical experience as nurse Md., spent $30 million to restore the rows of ceiling-high bins crammed “The world is metric,” Webster results as the Boston Tea Party and write a check for $30,(XX) or $40,(XX) near the summit and one lower aide graduates of this program. three handsome 19th century Greek with old fashioned butterscotch can­ says, “and 1 think it’s ridiculous to be the Boston Massacre. that day to pay for all of them.” down the slopes above the Revival buildings - the granite, dies. an island in this world." Schools Receive Black and Webster bas begun a Family Medicine Faneuil Hall and its surrounding Small crowds gather around a evacuated village of Fomazzo.