Igrasso Remains in Good Spirits
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20 - EVENING HEKALU. Tucs . Nov 25, 1980 HOLIDAY EDITION ^■4 iiaurhpfitrr Fair, cold Fair and cold tonight; partly sunny Thursday. WEATHER Details on page 2. ^ 9 : Eornitts Ibralft YOUR HOMETOiriy NEWSPAPER <i ' Vol. C, No. 49 — Manchester, Conn., Wednesday, November 26, 1980 • Since 1081 • 20«. b A - 7 * iGrasso remains y'S'i, ■■ in good spirits Earthquake rescue Destruction HARTFORD (UPI) - Gov. Ella referred to the malignancy as "our Related story on page 2. Rescue workers carry an elderly woman than 2,000 lives in the region of Avellino, Ita An aerial view of the destroyed hospital in earthquake that struck southern Italy Sun Grasso, who faces an uncertain illness." from the wreckage of her home Monday ly, Sunday, (UPI photo i Sant’ Angelo Dei Lombardi, Italy. The day. (DPI photo) future and chemotherapy treatment Although she lost a considerable following the eartluiuake that claimed more hospital was flattened by the major for cancer of the liver, was in good women governors in the nation and amount of weight and appeared spirits today and has spoken with the first woman to be elected without drawn and tired, Mrs. Grasso twice V idf President Walter Mondale, a suceeding her husband, has main has angrily denied speculation she spokesman said. tained a part-time schedule since would resign before her four-year "She's fine,” hospital spokesman April 3, when she tnderwent a term expires in January 1983. James Battaglio said today. "She's hysterectomy for removal of a In fact, she’s been adhering to an Earthquake toll above 3,000 in Italy in good spirits. She’s working. I un cluster of cancerous cells on an earlier vow to seek another term. derstand that around 8:30 a.m. she ovary. An eight-week series of radia "A third term is alive and well,” was already going over papers — tion treatments following the surgery NAPLES, lUly vUPIi - Italy’s dead, buried under debris from the cries, the townspeople found sobbing she said in her most recent comment business as usual." has left her weak and suffering from stale radio network today reported a Sunday evening quake that rumbled 5-year-old Ivo Falivena, clinging to on the rumors Nov. 6. "1 can't im He said Mondale called Mrs. nausea and gastritis, an inflamma death toll of 3,020 in Italy's monster through more than 100 communities. his dead mother Olga and sister An- agine who the medical experts are Grasso, who was honorary chairper tion of the stomach lining. earthquake, which struck with a "We've asked the authorities to tonella. who are making these decisions. I son of President Carter’s campaign Mrs. Grasso, known for her strong- force 50 times stronger than the send us 500 coffins, ' said a city The women of the town, huddled see no need to resign" Hiroshima A-bomb. worker in Laviano. one of the towns around a nearby campfire to keep in Connecticut, on Tuesday. Mrs. willed, dominating style in office, Other sources said the figure could ravaged by the quake. "Whole warm, began swaying rhythmically Grasso is the first woman in the na has authorized only two news con Mrs. Grasso. the daughter of an not be confirmed, but observers families are missing and they’re all and broke into the keening wails tion elected governor without ferences by her physician, Hartford immigrant family, was also the first pointed out the deatli toll reported by under the debris" common to southern Italy and cried, succeeding her husband. gynecologist Dr. Joseph Russo, since Italian elected governor of Connec the Naples correspondent of the As the city worker spoke of the "He has abandoned us. God has aban Battaglio said he didn’t know when the surgery. At the first briefing ticut. She was elected to her first radio network RAI was read on three need for coffins, the frail voice of a doned us." Mrs. Grasso would be released from following the operation she dryly term as governor in 1974, successive newscasts and the State woman could be heard calling out the hospital. A statement Tuesday Radio did not contradict it. from beneath a pile of concrete and In the village of Balvano. 75 miles said she would be home sometime ■‘The overall figure of deaths in the stone, "Help me. Help me." east of Naples, where the village this week. He did say the governor earthquake is now 3,020,” the The government-run radio and TV church collapsed on 300 worshippers will spend Thanksgiving Day at the reporter said without giving a source confined themselves to reading long attending vesper services, the hospital. for the report, but Monday night, lists of towns and villages ravaged by church's priest Don Salvatore Mrs, Grasso, 61, who underwent rescuers said they feared the toll the quake — Senerchia, Morra de Pagliuca moaned. "I don't know why surgery for ovarian cancer in April, would climb past 3.500 Santis, Carife, Gesualdo, Teora, us. These people have enough trouble began chemotherapy for the new The Interior Ministry's latest of Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi, Lioni. as it is." malignancy Tuesday. Battaglio said ficial. but provisional, tally, given at Solopro e Mcnteforte, Battipaglia, no surgery was planned and the around 10 p m (4 p m EST Mondayl Sordino, Laviano, Castelnuovo, San- More than 100 were killed in the governor will continue the was 1,012 tomenna . village, most of them in the church treatments later as an outpatient. In a grim litany, radio and TV an .Ninety percent of the buildings in In Rome. Vaticah officials said Battaglio said the liver cancer was nouncers listed 97 specific cities and Laviano were destroyed, leaving only Pope John Paul II would fly by detected Monday during routine tests villages destroyed or severely two houses and a discotheque still ' helicopter to the devastated region at the hospital where the governor damaged by the quake, which standing Eighty percent of during the day, stopping at several had been treated since Nov. 16 for measured 6 5 to 6 8 on the open-ended Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi was destroyed villages to pray with sur phlebitis of the left leg. Richter scale and hit with the force flattened, including a modern vivors He said he did not know how long of a million tons of TNT exploding at the chemotherapy treatment would hospital Lioni and Santoremma The main quake was followed by once, or 50 times the force of the last or what the prognosis was. were similarly devastated. more than 100 aftershocks, some of P'/ bomb dropped on Hiroshima in World Almost all of Laviano's victims However, the Merck Manual, an them measuring up to 6 on the Mer- authorative physicians’ reference War II. The Hiroshima atomic bomb were believed to be women, since calli scale of intensity. exploded with the equivalent force of most of the town's men work in West book, says "the prognosis (for liver.- cancer) is poor since surgical treat 20,000 tons of TNT Germany and northern Italy Professor Giuseppe Panza of the ment is mechanically difficult." Besides the 1,012 confirmed dead As darkness fell over the village, seismic observatory of Bari It says radiation therapy is of no Mass mourning by Monday night, about 2,500 people which was flattened in 60 seconds by predicted the shocks, and possibly value in treating the malignancy and were missing from four isolated the tremor, the survivors picked more strong earthquake Jolts, would that any other treatment is merely Unaware The women of Balvano. Italy, crying in one years nearly devastated this small mountain villages east and south .of Naples — through the debris with their bare continue in the region for some time prescribed to make the patient more ot the open squares where they gathered for town Sundav and killed at least 150 persons. Laviano, Santoremma, Sant'Angelo hands, by makeshift lights. "If this quake follows the normal Not aware of their fate, the more than 3,000 turkeys at del Lombardi and Lioni— and rescue Working feverishly to remove comfortable. Roperti’s Turkey Farm in Livonia, Mich., are only five-and-a- saletv alter Italv s worst earthquake in tour i l P lM patterns there will be more shocks Food drive succeeds But Lt. Gov. William O’Neill, who workers said thev were believed debris from a spot where they heard over the next few days,” he said. No Herald MANCHESTER - The "Even in this economically dif talked with the governor twice by half to six-months-old when they are dressed the day before Manchester Area Conference of ficult year, residents came through telephone after the diagnosis was you pick up your order. (UPI photo) Churches Thanksgiving drive like this It really says a lot about Thursday made, said Mrs. Grasso was deter netted enough food to fill every this community, " Mrs. Carr said. mined to beat the disease and has no Search continues for MGM hotel fire victims needy home tomorrow, and enough She said the generosity of this plans to give up her official duties. The Herald will not publish season will allow MACC workers to 1..AS \E(>.AS ,\c\ I I’l S(K)t- I'hese violations are always The records contained a series of number of minor violations went un canned goods to satisfy the Christ Thursday, Thanksgiving Day. "She’s convinced she's going to Release in stages covered workers still search the .serious despite fears the casino ceiling might The suit filed Monday charged the mas food drive.