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7 \ Panic spreads: Big aftershocks in i 7 | / eoowney ; California / p a g e 5 50: HlaurliPBtrr HrraI^ ) Manchester - A City nf Village Charm FR I Monday, Oct. 5,1987 30 Cents Surprise snow kills two, blacks out thousands 0 E s By The Associated Press dead at Sharon Hospital, said according to the National Weather eastern parts of the state, with 1.39 Ninety percent of the power “ It’s the last thing we expected. Trooper Tom Fallo. inches measured overnight at Service and meterologist Mel Gold outages were in the Danbury and The last we heard, we were only B\ A surprise snowstorm that hit Also injured in the accident were stein of the Weather Center at Bradley International Airport in New Milford area and the utility supposed to get rain and the next western and southern parts of Bernice Toomey. 36. and Brooke Western Connecticut State Univer Windsor Locks through 9 a.m.. the expected expect to have power thing you know we were calling Connecticut left two people dead Toomey. 2. Fallo said. Both were sity. Accumulations ranged from a National Weather Service said. restored to the majority of custo people In from church,” Keezing and thousands without power, taken to Sharon Hospital where the dusting in some areas to nearly a About 85,000 of Northeast Utili mers by midnight Monday. Kotkin fn said. Inl officials said. child was treated and released to foot in others. ties' 1 million customers lost power said. He said power to all customers United Illuminating, which c Edward J. Toomey III, S9. of the care of family members. The heaviest snowfall was re when the wet snow combined with was not expected to be restored serves about 294,000 customers in thi Watertown and Mary Camporesi, Bernice Toomey was transferred to ported in interior Fairfield and New gusty winds to knock down trees until Wednesday. the greater Bridgeport and New ca 71, of Litchfield, were killed when a Hartford Hospital where she was Haven counties while coastal areas and power lines, company spokes NU. the state’s largest utility Haven areas, reported about 2,500 mi huge tree limb feel and crushed the listed in stable but guarded condi experienced mixed rain and sleet. man Louis Keezing said. That company, opened Its Emergency outages. Company spokesman Jeff jfe roof of their car about 1 p.m. tion early Monday. Temperatures fell into the low 30s number had been reduced to 38,000 Operations Center in Meriden to Belmont said today that the com- 80i 51 Sunday on Route 7 in Canaan, state It was tbe earliest substantial in northwestern Connecticut. customers by 6 a.m. today, NU coordinate Its power restoration Ml police said. They were pronounced snowfall on record in the state. Heavy rain fell on central* and spokesman Jeff Kotkin said. effort. Please turn to page 10 T fo rk ’s ft Chilly Manchester chances i<V' rolls with punches By Andrew Yurkovsky least one Manchester merchant. are slim K' ^ \ Herald Reporter Phillip Beals, the assistant man ager at D&L in the Parkade. said \ Sunday’s early snowfall and low outerwear became a hot Item after WASHINGTON (AP) - Robert .1 temperatures probably weren’t last week’s cold spell. But sales 'eterans yet H. Bork’s chances of winning a record-setting for central Connecti really took off this weekend. play and get Supreme Court seat fell further cut. according to a forecaster at the "It had a strong influence on the horrendous today when formerly undecided National Weather Serylce. type of Items people started to buy. weekend, Sen. Dennis DeConcini announced^ In Manchester this morning, Our sweater sales increased signifi their teams h e would vote against reaction to the unseasonable cantly,” he said. ng paid this confirmation. weather ranged from Indifference Police and fire services in Man like started The announcement by the Ariz to surprise. chester reported no serious nder union ona Democrat was the seventh "I don’t think I study the weather weather-related incidents. But an declaration of opposition on the enough to giye you a good answer,” individual on Garden Street report sive end Ed 14-member Senate Judiciary Com said Manchester resident Lou Karl- edly received an electrical shock k Raymond mittee, making it impossible for berg. “ You just roll with the from a private electric line on Bork’s nomination to be sent to the w England; punches." Saturday night. id defensive full Senate with a favorable recom Karlberg. dressed in a wind- The resident's name and the mendation, unless someone pub e New York breaker. continued his brisk walk extent of his Injuries were not d knee, will licly changes his mind. down Main Street. known. It was not clear whether the Two other committee members. June Sawyer of East Hartford, incident was related to the weather. Sen. Majority Leader Robert Byrd, A forecaster at the Nhtfonal 08 Angeles who was shopping at the Manches D-W.Va., and Howell Heflin, D- Weather Service at Bradley Inter g convinced ter Parkade this morning, was Ala., are still publicly undecided, taken off guard by tbe early snow. national Airport reported that the on strike in and Byrd has said he would prefer “ I was driving out to Hebron and 1 high on Sunday was 39 degrees. the committee send the nomination was amazed to see rain falling one Today’s forecast calls for clear I amiliesand t o t h e floor with no minute and then snow the next.” weather tonight, sunshine on Tues {said, recommendation. she said. day and a chance of rain Wednes felt, and we A committee vote is set for The unseasonable weather day. Daytime highs are expected to B ll t as a team, 5 Tuesday, 'and discussions were caused business to pick up for at be in the 60s and 70s. icided to go under way today on the phrasing A1 Jtever we'll the question the members will vote ter, on. Jimi up almost On Sunday, President Reagan, (ro iT nes against Cold snap doesn’t rebuffing suggestions that he with threi irs and even draw the nomination, gave notice nose he will embark on a string of events canc i Cardinals designed to highlight support for hurt foliage color Hi m will go to the embattled jurist. Mild ir players. The president and his aides are Herald photo by Pinto !loy Green, By Andrew J. Davis storm, she said. day looking beyond Tuesday’s vote on hosp 1 Smith, the nomination in the- Senate Herald Reporter She said almost %s many tourists com lations I ’ve Judiciary Committee and are con And the crowds roar... visit the region In the fall as in the A ibbs, whose centrating instead on winning the The weekend cold snap may have summer months. ore than a Christopher Blake, 4, holds his ears to 550 people saw Manchester fall, 24-8. Plai nomination on the Senate floor. made for chilly nights, but it did not “ For some reason. New England without any Reagan, returning to Washington stifle the roar of the crowd during the Christopher is the son of David Fletcher, affect the changing colors of the in the foil has an air to it,” she said. Yell on Sunday on the eve of today's new Manchester-South Windsor football an assistant football coach at Manches leaves, said George R. Stevens, "People expect the colors (of the and ne you look Supreme Court session, said "no” chief of forestry and horticulture at leaves) to be brighter. People come spor game Saturday in South Windsor. About ter High School. the Connecticut Agricultural us so many when reporters asked if he thought from far and wide to see that.” ing his nomination of the conservative Experiment Station in New Haven. "We w England, appeals-court judge was dead. Temperatures fell to a record low She added that the changing of Bi w York Jets Asked whether he was consider of 36 degrees, according to the the colors Is such a big attraction last that hotels in the region are often luarterback ing withdrawing Bork’s name from Iraq attacks oil terminal National Weather Service in Wind dice sor Locks Stevens said tempera booked a year In advance. reett, wide Senate consideration, Reagan said: canc nJones and tures would have to fall at least 10 Tourists will still be able to get an " I ’m going to continue with his Cs gulf, and Iran’s ^Revolutionary more degrees before the leaves eyeful this year, Stevens said. nomination.” MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Iraqi tanks. There were no reported boy [ despite a casualties aboard either ship after 2 Guards reportedly intercepted sev would be affected. Leaves that have already begun Washington attorney Leonard warplanes attacked an Iranian oil the e Upshaw, terminal in the Strait of Hormuz p.m. attack. eral freighters in the southern part "Unless it got very cold In to change colors aren’t affected by Garment, a friend of Bork, called pres teiity. They The New York Times on Sunday to today, damaging the world’s larg Associated Press Photographer of the waterway. western Connecticut, ! wouldn’t cold weather, he said. Only leaves anticipate any damage.” he said. that are still green might suffer yeai celver J.T. say he was “ authorized by Judge est supertanker and setting another Greg English, riding a helicopter Iran and Iraq, foes in the from cold temperatures, he said. Whli lUbackEarl Bork to say that he will not ask the ship afire, marine salvage execu off the coast of the United Arab Barbara J Beeching, public 7-year-old gulf war, reported heavy information supervisor with tbe Temperatures, though, would have kick :k returner, president to withdraw his name tives said.