to - MANCHESTER HERALD. Tuesday. Pec. I, 1987 tons: Talfcfot, Police force Names in the News Engineer Directors rBviiTipjcleiffl^ent / page Alibrio chief threats retires In Woods at work Chicago: Veteren aldentian now mayor / pagie 8 for East / page 17 Vermont town LOS ANGELES (AP) - Emmy Award-winning actor James LYNDONVILLE, Vt. (AP) Woods returned to work on his — For 22 years, J. Leo latest film after being sidelined Desjardins and his wife, Ro­ for two weeks with pneumonia, a spokeswoman says. semary, ran the Lyndonville “He probably coujd have used Police Department in a reno­ anoUier week, but lie had to get vated wood shed off their back to work,” Andrea Jaffe said kitchen. Monday as production of "The Until they retired Monday. Boost” resumed. DesJardins was the chief and Woods, 40, was hospitalized for Mrs. Desjardins the dis­ a week with pneumonia. mauflinitrr patcher. They ran the depart­ itV "The Boost,” co-starring Sean ) MHiichiisliii A City iil Viilayf; Chan limlh ment with the help of a Young of "No Way Out” as part-time officer. Woods’ wife, has been described ‘Tve enjoyed meeting peo­ as a dark love story. Woods plays ple and I’ve epjoyed helping a New York hustler and tax- people, hut I would like to have shelter salesman who bums out in Wednesday, Dec. 2,1987 30 Cents my home to myself,” said Mrs. the fast lane and turns to drugs. :X Desjardins, 67. The film is being produced by ’ / She said her husband, who Hemdale Film Corp., the inde­ has been in law enforcement pendent company whose hits for 46 years, wasn’t so excited include “Platoon,” “Hooslers” about stepping down. Explosions■ rip■ and ’’The Terminator.” Hemdale JAMES WOODS B ETTY FORD “I’m tired and I’m glad I’m also produced “Salvador,” which .. pneumonia over . recovers at home retiring, but the chief isn’t,” earned Woods’ an Academy she said. ‘ ‘He liked what he was Award nomination for Best Robert Arnot as health corres­ Food Drive. doing, he did. He's going to Actor. miss it.” pondent and Robert Krulwich as The burglary apparently oc­ mills in Putnam Woods won an Emmy this year Desjardins, 70, said he will economics correspondent. Cha­ curred sometime during the long for portraying a mentally ill man holiday weekend, said police Lt. E miss providing protection to rles Osgood and Faith Daniels did in the television special newsbreaks. O.L. .Tol)iison. PUTNAM (AP) - Explosions set off a the complex where flames shot 60 feet the 1,700 residents of Lyndon­ y 'h “Promise.” raging blaze in a mill complex today as into the air. A flammable liquid set ville, but he admitted that Smith, a former Denver news at least 10 fire companies hampered by Kennedy Drive ablaze in the immediate anchor and talk-show host, has The food had been set aside for having the department in his needy city residents. Weaver dense smoke fought to contain flames area and the roadway was closed to home presented some Betty Ford home been with CBS since 1986. that shot 60 feet into the air. traffic. problems. LEO DESJARDINS AND HIS WIFE, ROSE said. RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. All employees working in the building The initial blast around 8:S0a.m. was “Its had its disadvantages, . police chief and dispatcher for 22 years LIFE hopes to collect five tons were accounted for and only two minor followed by smaller explosions, ob­ like having a holiday dinner (AP) — Former first lady Betty Tip ’ recuperating injuries were reported, hospital officials servers said. mont village, was sworn in Ford is home from the hospital of donated canned goods and and having some drunk wander breed,” the chief said. “The BOSTON (AP) — Form er other non-perishables in Opera­ said. ”It’s unreal. It went so fast,” Town new ones coming in, they don’t Monday night. after quadruple coronary bypass C in. That’s happened once,” he The fire In this depressed eastern Clerk Lillian Newth said from town hall surgery. House Speaker Thomas P. “Tip” tion Santa Claus, which begins said. want to be bothered with Dziobek won’t work out of his O’Neill Jr. was recuperating in Thursday, the actor said. Connecticut mill town near the Massa­ a few blocks away. He said several times a week having the department In^our “She’s doing very well,” Penny chusetts and Rhode Island borders sent Flames and smoke were visible from home, Mrs. Desjardins said. Circle, chief of staff for former good condition after his second he would be awakened in the home. I don’t think there’s the operation in two weeks, and flames 60 feet into the air and blanketed at least five miles away, observers said. middle of the night to answer dedication anymore.” Asked where the new depart­ President Gerald Ford, said the sky with smoke so dense it blocked ’’Billowing black clouds of smoke are Monday. “The president is with expects to go home in about a No more ‘Alice’ the sunlight. filling the sky, and we can see flames calls. Jim Dziobek, the new police ment will be in town, she said, week, his surgeon says. “We are the last of a dying chief in this north-central Ver­ “They don’t have any idea.” her.” WASHINGTON, Mass. (AP) - ’’The ... explosions were one after flickering in the distance,” said Pat Mrs. Ford, 69, underwent the O’Neill, 74, underwent surgery another — just boom, boom, boom, Hedenberg, a secretary at Day Kimball surgery to clear her right carotid Monday to remove 90 percent of Folk singer Arlo Guthrie ob­ boom,” said David Etoylan, a reporter Hospital. his prostate gland at Brigham served the 20th anniversary of and photographer for the local news­ Hospital spokesman Roger Leduc artery at Eisenhower Medical “Alice’s Restaurant,” the anti­ Center on Nov. 20. and Women’s Hospital. paper, the Observer Patriot. said that a worker in the burning Bing in U.S. She had expected to be released Tissue removed from the en­ war ballad of his Thanksgiving Officials were not able to say complex was treated for smoke inhala­ in time for Thanksgiving, but her larged gland appeared benign, Day arrest for littering, by immediately where the fire started but tion and another man was injured when doctor kept her in the hospital but tests were to be conducted pledging not to sing the song for Bud Shippee, owner of Shippee Pools he was struck in the chest by a cable. with wife to longer to make sure she had this week to confirm that diagno­ another decade. located 150 feet from the mill, sail) a The incident occurred near the recovered completely, Ms. Circle sis, doctors said. Guthrie sang the song Saturday firefighter told him that ”a chemical industrial city’s downtown section, settle affairs said. “The speaker is doing beauti­ before a full house at Carnegie barrel blew up near the furnace in the where several other businesses report­ The family visited her at the fully,” Dr. Jerome P. Richie, who Hall in New York. boiler room of Priority Finishing.” edly were evacuated. hospital on the holiday, Ms. Circle performed the surgery, said after He has no intention of singing it Priority Finishing Co. and Dimension Town Hall switched to emergency NEW YORK (AP) - Sir for at least another 10 years, the Sail Cloth Inc., a firm that supplied sail power after the ffre shut down an Rudolf Bing, the former Metro­ said. the 90-minute operation on the Massachusetts Democrat. 40-year-old singer said in Monday cloth for the Americas Cup races, are electric company substation, Newth politan Opera impresario de­ in an interview from his home in ajed in a three-story, 100,000-square- said. clared incapable of handling O’Neill is expected to be hospitalized another week to 10 this small western Massachu- tiiection of the old brick complex that ’’There’s a small substation right next his estate by courts here, has Morning TV wars Kwas engulfed in flames. to this building that they had to shut returned from England with days, Richie said. setts town. Dovid Koel/Monchaitar Harold NEW YORK (AP) - Veteran He received a permanent colos­ “I didn’t really sing it until this ’Three other businesses were evacu­ down,” Newth said. his wife to sort out their year/’ he said. “I stopped doing ated but were did not immediately catch ”My gosh, there’s a- lot of white financial affairs. anchorwoman Kathleen Sullivan tomy Nov. 18 after a -small fire, authorities said. smoke,” she said. ”Oh, the flames are and newcomer Harry Smith led cancerous tumor was removed that in 1972, but I brought it back Getting the scoop The 85-year-old Bing and his briefly when (President) Carter ”We heard a blast and everybody terrible again. Oh, my word. It just 48-year-old wife, Carroll, CBS’ newest team in the from his lower bowel. cahne outside then there were about four doesn’t seem possible anything can burn breakfast-time television wars O’Neill retired in January after started that registration deal,” Tim LeDoyt of Coventry checks bluj^prints While complete by Sei>teniber 1988, is being built by C.E. lid. Scott Burton,. A> eluded reporters waiting at he said, referring to selective Kennedy International Airport into battle as “CBS This Morn­ 34 years in Congress, and lives on construction goes orrsrbund him thismorhing St the Larson of Mancliester Development andlhs-Arbors - feLTvelding Ch. m ril^ Eaton oTGrubeCamera Shop ing” made its debut. Cape Cod with his wife, Mildred.