Eloise Brings Rains, Floods to Northeast
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p a g e tw e n t y - MANCHESTER EVENING HERALD, Manchester, Conn., Tues., Sept. 23, 1975 -Bridge lessons offered- Teaching The weather Gifts to hospital total $22,200 assistant Rain, occasionally moderate today, high in Richard A. Bunce, son of Mr. low 60s. Rainy tonight, low in 50s. Thursday, A second session on bridge VERNON and Mrs. Alfred Bunce of 342 cloudy with rain likely, high in 60s. 100th birthday, a Jobst extremity pump Slater St., South Windsor, has SOUTH WINDSOR logic will begin Nov. 18. A Gifts, with a total value of $22,200, have During Mrs. Rowe’s year as president, a The South Windsor Recrea committee was established to set up a was donated for use in the physical been awarded a teaching prerequisite for the bridge logic been donated to Rockville General therapy department. Miss Fitch is the MANCHESTER, CONN., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1975 - VOL. XCIV, No. 302 Manchester—A City of Village Charm tion Department will begin its class is completion of in Hospital this year by the hospital’s scholarship fund through which the assistantship in the field of auxiliary will award scholarships of $250 auxiliary’s oldest living charter member. organic chemistry at the bridge lessons Tuesday termediate bridge lessons or auxiliary. evenings at the high school. to a graduating senior from each of the The auxiliary will have its annual University of Wisconsin where one must be an experienced In a final report to her executive board, meeting and election of officers, Oct. 8 in Room 115, starting Oct. 14. three area high schools,, Rockville, he is attending graduate school. bridge player. Mrs. Ann Rowe, president of the auxiliary, the hospital cafeteria starting at 6:30 p.m. SSSSS5® 5:iW ::ft¥S55:;:;a:5;:55;% 55:% % ;;;;;^. said the auxiliary donated two-bed cardiac Tolland, and Ellington. The money will go He graduated from Rockville All classes will be restricted toward their education in the health-care The business meeting and election of of High School in 1ST71 and from Lessons will be from 7-8:30 monitors for the Intensive Care Unit, ficers will precede a buffet dinner which p.m. and run for eight con to 20 participants. field. Marietta College (Ohio), valued at $9,000; an internal blood will be served at 8 p.m. secutive weeks. magna cym laude, last May. pressure monitoring device, $4,000; a Also during the year the auxiliary On Nov. 13, from 2 to 4 p.m., an awards News Eloise brings rains, Judy Pyka of Manchester, a Bennett MA I volume ventilator, $5,200; He is a member of Phi Beta registered and certified in presented a new wheel chair for use in the tea will be conducted in the hospital and an operating room light, $4,000. Kappa and was winner of the Bridge logic classes will be structor, will conduct classes. emergency room. ’This was donated in cafeteria to honor all in-hospital The money for the gifts was raised LaValle Award for being the offered from 8:30 to 10 p.m., Preregistration is required memory of Laura Phelps. It adso donated, volunteers. Volunteers are always needed. summary through projqpts planned by the Ways and outstanding senior chemistry also on Tuesday evenings. and may be done by calling the a sewing machine for use in the hospital’s Anyone interested should contact Mrs. major of the 1975 graduating These classes will run for Means Committee and through the sale of sewing room, in memory of Leila Griffin floods to Northeast Peggy Zowada, director of volunteers, at reception desk between 8:30 class. This award is made by Compiled from four consecutive weeks, star gift items in the Auxiliary Gift Shop at the and in honor of Miss Marietta Fitch’s the hospital. a.m. and 3:30 p.m. the Upper OhioiValley Section, United Press international ting Oct. 14. hospital. American Chemicai Society. FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (UPI) - rain and flash flood alerts to much of the walked into the Kentucky Tavern west of Tropical storm Eloise, a weakening mass Northeast. Panama City, Fla. of strong winds and heavy rain, pushed far Along the Florida coast, many of the No one had. Panama City Beach, Fort Walton Beach inland today, leaving a trail of wreckage 100,000 residents who fled the 140-mile-an- State and Destin twk the brunt of Eloise, a and shattered buildings along the Florida hour storm Tuesday came back to pick up rejuvenated hurricane that killed 42 per Panhandle. their lives. HARTFORD — Connecticut’s ^ Eloise, downgraded from a hurricane as sons in Puerto Rico, the Dominican famous display of autumn foliage it rolled into Tennessw, West Virginia and “Has anybody seen the rest of my Republic and Cuba. S may be short lived this year because ijlj Pennsylvania early today, brought heavy trailer?” one man asked Tuesday as he There were no reports along the coast of g of the steady rainfall that began g death or serious injury directly attributed •j;; Tuesday and is expected to continue to the storm. Henry Passinger, 73, of Point ji:; through Friday. Foresters say the g Clear, Ala., was electrocuted while trying § rain may dampen the brilliant to store his boat Monday and a Fort % foliage that brings out motorists by Omnibus energy bill Walton Beach man died of a heart attack $ the thousands for drives through the ;$ a shelter. countryside. ^ But the signs of damage enacted by House everywhere: ^ WATERTOWN - More than 200 | — Some 19 planes at Fort Walton Beach and Destin airports were destroyed. teachers today denied a court in- ^ WASHINGTON (UPI) - After months President Ford wants to phase $ junction and went into the third day — More than 30 boats moored in Destin of wrangling, the House has passed an om domestic price controls over § of a walkout over seniority rights. were either destroyed, sunk or washed nibus bill which Democrats say is the proximately three years. j:* State Education Commissioner ;i|: ashore. Piers were swept out to sea. answer to President Ford’s energy The legislation also would force car ij*: Mark A. Shedd has asked both sides — More than 200 commercial buildings (Herald photo by Pinto) program. It calls for stiff controls on oil makers — under penalty of fines — to to return to the bargaining table. were unroofed in Fort Walton Beach. prices and an end to gas-guzzling autos. produce 1978 models averaging 18.5 miles per gallon of gas and manufacture even — A sea wall collapsed at Panama City But Rep. Clarence Brown, R-Ohio, called Beach, severely damaging two motels Democratic hopeful visits Herald it “veto b a it... an exercise in futility.’’ more economical cars in succeeding owned by W.A. Hill. “I don’t know where I Regional The energy bill, approved 255-148, is years. I’m going to be able to start from or when To former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter, a Democratic presidential hopeful, sure to be vetoed if it reaches Ford’s desk Gasoline rationing would be allowed in I’ll be able to rebuild,” he said. assassination attempts are a fact of political life. However, said Carter in a :;|i AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine At- ■ without wholesale changes. Brown said. emergencies, a billion-barrel civilian visit today to The Manchester Herald, if he were in President Ford’s shoes, stockpile of fuels would be set, up and Mayor Dan Russell of Panama City ;|:j torney General Joseph Brennan | The Senate has passed a widely differing he’d spend more time in Washington minding the store. Shown here with ;i|; plans to challenge the postal rate in- ; version, and a compromise must be appliances would have to meet energy ef Beach estimated damage in Bay County Herald political writer Sol R. Cohen, Carter averages six days a week cam ;$• crease announced by the Postal Ser- • worked out in conference committee if ficiency standards. alone at $50 million. paigning and already has visited 43 states since he lett the governor’s office ;§ vice. He claims the increase will : neither house accepts the other’s bill. cost the state between $300,000 and ^ Final House action on the measure in January. He told Cohen he opposes the prohibition of citizens to own guns, ;J:j $500,000 a year. Tuesday was almost anticlimactic after favors the registration of handguns and is for prohibiting ownership of guns the often emotional debate since the bill Agoslinelli credits GOP by people who have been involved in any sort of a crime using a weapon. S' Carter spent a whirlwind eight hours in Connecticut, stopping in Vernon and liji BOSTON — Rain-drenched first came up July 18. With fewer than 50 members on the Hartford, in addition to Manchester — where he formally opened Jimmy members of the Boston Teachers floor, an amendment was approved by for low debt-service cost Union walked the picket line for the Carter for President Headquarters at 164 E. Center St. voice vote to save fuel by barring the g third day today in a strike that now busing of school children beyond their aume g costs their union $5,000 a day. The Republican Town Chairman Nathan Said Agostinelli, “I would like to public neighborhood schools. Liberals got a roll fine was ordered Tuesday by a state ly thank former Republican Mayor Harold call vote on that section later, but it still Agostinelli is attributing Manchester’s g court which prohibited the strike, Turkington, Harlan Taylor, Francis ca rrie d , 204-201, although several favorable debt-service cost — the lowest in which is illegal under, Directors to discuss members decided to switch sides at the the state — to “the far-sightedness of DellaFera and the many dedicated Massachusetts law.