PAGE TWENTY - MANCHESTER EVENING HERALD. Manchester. Conn., Fri„ Sept. 20, 1974 Rec Administration Criticized - r J Parachutists Plan By EAKL YOST Crockett also asked the com­ He said he had contacted SI “I feel the recreation mission if it was aware of the Robert Weiss, town manager, Two Competitions ilanrl|ratrr lEumtng Mmlb program in Manchester is not many forfeits during both the and after two months received softball and basketball season, a reply, followed by a phone administered properly,” T.J. By DOUG BEVINS ticut National Guard Sport Crockett said at the comment and asked for the number, call from Mel Siebold, Rec MANCHESTER, CONN., SATURDAY, SEPT. 21, 1974 - VOL. XCIII, No. 300 • ■ H . ’W " Parachute Club. Manchester—A City of Village Charm which he said was a record for director. The latter invited Connecticut Parachutists Inc. FOURTEEN PAGES - TWO MINIS PRICE: FIFTEEN CENT.S session before last night's The Goldn Knights will be one summer. No answer was Crockett to his office to go over r; ri ! (CPI), a Manchester-based scheduled monthly meeting of .’W ' making four demonstration the Advisory Park and Recrea­ given on a specific number but the request but Crockett said he sport parachuting club, will be < .r . ■#• *7 jumps in Connecticut prior to Carl Silver, Rec program direc­ refused. host to skydivers from tion Commission meeting. the Sept. 28-29 competition in tor, acknowledged the fact Siebold presented a copy of throughout the U.S. and Canada “The rec program is lacking Ellington. This Monday, at 9:30 there were many no shows by Rec Department expenses but in competitions scheduled the administration in detail,” he a.m., the Army team will stage teams. it didn't show a complete next two weekends. said, “especially the basketball a performance at Manchester Honduran Officials Stunned Silver said that next year, in breakdown, which Crockett This weekend (Sept. 21 and and softball programs.” High School. an effort to cut down on wanted. The latter felt it was a 22), CPI is hosting ^ jumpers Crockett felt that many non­ Other Golden Knights forfeits, he would recommend public matter, not a private from Quebec in the third year residents were taking part in demonstrations — all of them that each team post a bond, issue, and should be discussed of competition between the the two summer programs and open to the public — are set for were depriving local residents, with a set amount to be at a commission meeting. local club and the Ottawa By Hurricane Fifi Death Toll Stonington, Hamden, and Stam­ deducted for a no-show. Two Crockett admitted he was Parachute Association. and taxpayers, from com­ ford. forfeits and a team would be miffed at the refusal of the Rec And next weekend (Sept. 28 t peting. He asked if the commis­ Tlie CPI-Ottawa competition sion was aware of this fact. dropped. Several entries in both to admit his basketball team to and 29), CPI is host club of the TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (UPI) - started in October 1972, when 30 coming in confirming them,” Vallecillo world. They need food, water, medicine, Sula, Honduras — where the committee The only person to appear and the softball and basketball the Senior League last National Parachuting Club Stunned Honduran officials said today 5,- CPI members traveled to St. said. “Whole villages were wiped out. Lit­ shelter and emergency supplies.” reported at least 75 confirmed dead — speak, Crockett said that the leagues this summer were summer after having played Championships of 1974. 000 persons have died in the wake of Andre Avellin, Quebec, and tle creeks became monstrous swollen Another official said the government said, ”I just watched four bodies being publicity of the Town Softball eliminated in this manner. several previous years. A total Both parachute meets will be Hurricane Fifi’s rampage across five Cen­ came back with four of the top rivers. The north section of the country is was certain of at least 1,500 dead in the buried in a communal grave. That’s very Tournament was not good. His Crockett also asked, "How of 37 teams applied for the held at CPI’s drop zone, tral American countries. awards in the invitational meet total disaster. This is one of the worst village of Choloma alone. frequent here. entry, incidentally, won the much money is spent on leagues and Crockett's was No. Ellington Airport on Rt. 83, The storm c a ^ in mountains, buried moments in the history of Honduras.” there. “Only the people on high ground were “The rains and winds broke off whole event. Recreation in Manchester?” 37 - and only 32 were admitted. Ellington. entire villages with mud, and swelled The “international” competi­ He said in the village of Quebrada Seca, saved,” the official said. “The whole town chunks of mountains and mud and sand Plans for the CPI-Ottawa J small creeks into deadly rivers. tion expanded shortly after the along the Ulua River, “almost nothing is was asleep before dawn Thursday when have washed down over the city by the competition include accuracy “Nothing is certain yet but we now first event, and CPI and Ottawa left. Even the church is buried by mud.” the river came crashing down on them tons. Bridges are out and there is a fuel events (in which parachutists calculate 10,000 missing and fully half of members exchanged several The highest toll was apparently in carrying mud, trees, and rocks. Nobody shortage.” try to land on a four-inch those dead,” said Lt. Roger Vallecillo of visits. Choloma, a town of 5,(X)0 near the source had time to run. Small government relief planes flew Rec Winter Indoor Program target) in three classes accord­ ‘W| the Honduran government’s National ing to level of jumping CPI won the National of the Ulua river, which is “usually just a Many Bodies F^uund over the floodstricken areas dropping food Parachuting Club Cham­ Emergency Comittee. trickle,” he said. experience: Advanced, in­ “We’ve been digging bodies out of the out with parachutes. Radio Honduras said. Will Have Several Changes “Part of a mountain caved in above the termediate, and novice. pionships in 1971, defeating host Hits Five Nations mud and debris, many of them naked or Planes carrying relief workers were un­ Greene County Parachute Club town, breaking a dam, sending water By EARL ^OST slimnastics class will be moved Manchester and this was The National Parachuting Fifi, propelled by 130-mile-an-hour still in their night clothes. There are a lot able' to land anywhere near the disaster in Ohio. After its defeat, the crashing over the town when the people There will be several major to the Verplanck School on blamed on one full week of cool Club Championships will con­ winds and lashing rains, cut a path of of small towns and villages in the same ZOI16S. f) i ««• • were still asleep,” he said. “It’s almost Plane Missing changes in the fall and winter Mondays. The Wednesday night weather in August, plus the fact sist of a broader range of Greene County Club (which had destruction across Nicaragua, Honduras, area that may have been totally been undefeated for the impossible to conceive of the damage A Nicaraguan Air Force C-47 cargo indoor programs conducted by Men’s Businessmen Basketball only residents were allowed to parachuting. Besides the ac­ El Salvador, Guatemala, and Belize, the destroyed. We have no sure reports. done. You have to see it to believe it, and plane still was reported missing after the Recreation Department. League will be switched from use the facilities at Globe curacy events, skydivers will national title for four years) former British Honduras, before it died “In the Sula and Aguan valleys we are discontinued sponsorship of the even then it’s hard.” flying into the torrential rains over the Mel Siebold, director, the high school to Thursday Hollow. Playgrounds, too, were compete in “relative work,” in % out over southeastern Mexico Friday receiving constant reports of more dead. Vallecillo also confirmed pilots’ reports afflicted area Friday morning. reported at last night’s Ad­ nights at Keeney St. School. less popular, with attendance which a team of four jumpers competition. night. We haven’t been able to count them all of hundreds of bodies floating near the U.S. relief forces flown from Panama visory Park and Recreation Siebold said that there will be lower than in previous years. leave the aircraft together and CPI members this year ‘‘Even to us the figures seem yet.” diii. mouth of the Motagua River along the were turned back by the storm Friday but Commission meeting that roller increased activities at the Teen Siebold said that Highland Park join hands to form a circle agreed to assume sponsorship exaggerated but nevertheless reports keep The U.S. Embassy in Tegucigalpa said it of the national meet to defend border between Guatemala and Honduras. planned another attempt today to land skating has been scratched Center building at the Nikt site, was the least popular and less while in free-fall. was trying to locate about 70 Peace Corps food, drinking water, clothing, medicine from the schedule. especially on Monday, Tuesday than 500 attended all summer. Among groups expected to at­ their uncontested title. The full Honduran Air Force was volunteers working in northeastern Hon­ CPI, formed in Manchester 12 and other emergency supplies at San "Interest dropped down and Wednesday nights. Belly He may recommend doing tend the championships are mobilized today to join U.S. and Central duras. Pedro Sula, the largest city in the area.