J The Weather PAGE TWENTY-FOUR - MANCHESTER EVENING HERALD, iSianchester. Conn., Thurs., Feb. 15, 1973 Andover Democrats Temperature drops through the 20s airf into the teens tonight will pro*«Wy Endorse Candidates in slippery road conditions. Cold tonjpit See Page 3 with a few snow flurries. Zero to five, above. PRICE FII-TEEN CENTS SPECIAL SALE! SLEEP SOFA MANCHESTER, CdNN., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1973 — VOL.XCII, No. 116 Manchester— A City of Village Charm TWENTY-FOUR PAGES — TWO SECTIONS I C. Elmore Watkins | I SesquicentenniaVs | Transit Tax Passed I Honorary Chairman i Revised Bill Limits By JOHN A. JOHNSTON FMEXTMGOESR 0rai$T0SLEEP2 (Herald Reporter) Base For Gas Levy In tribute to a man who has help^ to create much of Manchester’s history and has seen a great deal more in his area transit district wouldn’t HARTFORD (AP)-The mayors of the state’s two I A L L SOFA BEDS NOW ONSALEI more than 90 years of residency, Manchester raise enough money to get General Assembly has put its largest cities and by most strike bound Connecticut Co. Sesquicentennial Committee has named C. Elmore stamp of approval on a bill that Democrats on Capitol Hill, was Watkins honorary chairman for the town’s observance of could bring a penny-a-gallon passed Thursday night by the buses rolling again. Guida said its 150th anniversary, June 23-30. gasoline tax increase to Republican-controlled General he spoke for the mayors of Special Re was bom in the family residents of Connecticut’s tran­ Assembly. Hamden, West Haven, East Council at one time \ served as a homestead on S. Main St., July sit districts.' Republican leaders said Gov. Haven and Waterbury. Hart­ trustee; and was the recipient 3, 1882, and for more than 60 The measure, opposed by the Thomas J. Meskill would sign ford Mayor George Athanson Pine Arm of an honorary doctorate in years has lived at 56 N. the bill into law. also said the bill would raise too 1953. In college, he was a choir little money. Lakewood Circle. The bill permits local transit Living Room and glee club soloist, and was a Senate Majority Leader It is hardly an exaggeration districts to levy the tax in their soloist and choir director in Lewis B. Rome of Bloomfield, to refer to Watkins as Mr. component municipalities, town and area churches for however, said the tax would Set 3-pc. Manchester Memorial beginning July 1, to support bus many years after graduating. News racse enough cash, at least in Rospital. After serving as subsidies and other m ass At one time, he had ambitions Hartford. Rome said the president of the Manchester transit expenses. The state to make singing his career. average driver would pay $7.60 • 249" Capsules government has offered to pay After working in several a year in the new tax. the full cost of bus subsidies out capacities in Watkins Bros. Sen. Joseph Fauliso, D- SOIA-CHAIR 42" Round Table With Four Tavern of its own pocket until July 1 if Furniture Store, founded in 1874 Hartford, called the bill an “ ab­ Choir* Maple Finish ^ m a noR the other problems that have ROCKER * by his father and uncle, Watkins dication of responsibility on the 1 Leaf SALE I ^ V Flying Home shut down much of took charge in 1915 upon the altar of distorted austerity.” TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Connecticut’s bus service are death of his father. During his He said the taxpayer was being Calif. (AP) — Three more resolved before then. tenure, the firm’s present planes carrying freed asked to “ pay and pay and pay” 9 Transit Official Endorses Tax Only two of the six Shop Wed., Thurs., Fri. Till P.M. quarters were erected at Main American prisoners of war while the governor already had metropolitan areas involved in and Oak Sts. The previous streaked across the Pacific the money and the power to end the state bus crisis, Bridgeport location was at Main and School Robert Swirner, at mike, chairman of the Greater Hartford Transit District, and a today, headed for a red-carpet the bus crisis. and Hartford, have transit Mrs. Alexander Chenard, left, and Mrs. Sylvio Beaulieu admire their sons’ new Eagle Scout badges. (Herald photo by Pinto) Sts. He is presently board majority of the district members have agreed to add a penny a gallon to the gasoline tax to California welcome for the Approval of the bill by of Manchester districts at present. chairman of the business, subsidize bus service. Senate Majority Leader Louis Rome, right, said Thursday, after the men. Meskill was not expected to ’oe T h e measure passed which is headed by his son, R. General Assembly approved a bill to allow the tax. Gov. Thomas J. Meskill would sign it. Today’s contingent of 60 will a cure-all for the state’s bus 810 MAIN STREET Thursday night was hurriedly Bruce. boost to a total of 123 the crisis. Those transit districts (AP photo) drafted to replace an earlier that now exist are without the On two occasions, Watkins number of former POWs to Scouts Earn Eagle Badges one that would have permitted operating contracts with bus received the All-American touch down on American soil a transit district to levy the tax companies and the state that Merchant Award, given by the since Tuesday. on all cities and towns within its would be necessary to get the National Retail Furniture Twenty more Americans Two 14-year-old scouts, David Dr. He is a Grade 9 student at football team. He is active in Greg Jones, Mike Caron, First P in e ., multi-town planning region. Association; was a member of Process, DevCo Plans liberated last Sunday night will buses rolling. Bennet Junior High School and the Civil Air Patrol and Class Scouts; Paul Asadorian, The planning region tax base, Beaulieu and Richard Chenard, remain at Clark Air Force Base a member of its Student Council member of St. Bartholomew’s Brian Chenard, Paul You’ll be the association’s executive which would have included in the Philippines another day received their Eagle Scout and track team. He is a Church. Phelopena, Greg McDermott, committee; and organized and communities outside the transit Amazed and will fly home Saturday. badges Tuesday night at the communicant of St. James Eagle Scouts Frank Keegan Mark Toomey, Second Class was the first president of the Placed On The Record district and without mass Area Solons And the North Vietnamese Church. and Steve Dawson formed an Scouts; Joe Green, Peter at this Connecticut Chapter of the transit service, was opposed by Boy Scout Troop 362 annual American Institute of Interior government announced Richard is the son of Mr. and honor guard for the Gaudreau, James Phelopena, C. Elmore Watkins both the Republican and potluck at St. Bartholomew’s Gretat been decided as yet, and this Thursday night that an ad­ -Mrs. Alexander Chenard of ceremonies. Tenderfoot Scouts. Designers. HOLLY GANTNER being talked about merely for Democratic legislative Chapter of the American Red will be up to the council. ditional 20 will be released Split Vote Church. Scott Dr. He is a Grade 9 stu­ Other advancement awards During the evening, 21 merit In 1927, he founded the Correspondent preliminary planning purposes. Colonial Cross during WWI, when the Saturday or Sunday in Hanoi. caucuses. David is the son of Mr. and dent at Illing Junior High were presented to Mike Downs, badges and 11 skill awards were first influenza epidemic swept Verplanck Scholarship Founda­ The General Assembly sent The Town Council last night The amount and type of land Asked if Process would be The release of another 379 has Mrs. Sylvio Beaulieu of Niles School and a member of its Star Scout; Philip Murray, presented. Bedroom Buyl the country and Cheney Rail tion, named for Fred A. the compromise bill to Meskill On Gas Tax held its first “ official,” on the acquired for the new willing to underwrite added been promised by the was converted to an emergency Verplanck, long-time after a 22-12 Senate vote and an record meeting with Greater community will influence the expenses to the town, for such Communists in the next six hospital for local victims, he Manchester superintendent of 83-61 vote in the House of When the General Assembly Hartford Process and DevCo, final figures, as will final personnel as consultants, as a weeks. < 2 9 9 . played an outstanding role in schools; was a charter Representatives. Sen. David Thursday approved an with the three and one half hour planning discussions with the result of Process’s current Enhance your bedreoM with the *Amn«ic« i SaHler.* lAilewily planning and constructing the member, director, and in 1967 Odegard of Manchester was the additional one-cent per-gallon Btyled with grained nrtrlt oed Iftotty efftett In plee telldi* question and answer session town. It was further brought out presence in the town. Cusick veneers and fine herdweodt. Lenf Kfe Is Msured original building on Raynes St. was elected a life director of only Republican to join Senate gas tax for towns in transit dis- . free ptotiie lops..Includes double dretter, ndiver^ d M m l recorded on tape for a perma­ that no actual physical planning said, no. Process would npt be Clash With Police panel bed. Anligwid Wm s porcelain pulls edd slieM* It was named in honor of those the Manchester Scholarship Dem ocrats in opposing the tricts, the vote among Foundation. nent record. ^ for the site has been done, willing to do this, and added ATHEF^S (AP) Students measare.