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The Weather H'«l;.jSf^'‘ Monday — Becoming partly sunny this after noon. Haighs around 70, 21 news ’ ^ C. Clear tonight. Lows in the upper 40s to low 50s. ilanrIjTHtTr tEuTiiing Brralft Tuesday mostly sunny. Highs 65 to 70. Probability G l Vol. XCVIII, No. 1 — Manchester, Conn., Monday, October 2, 1978 A Family ISEWSpaper Since IHUl of rain 20 percent today. Siebold Gets Weather map on Page 16. Coaching Post ✓ V The last vacant head coaching position at Manchester High has been filled it was announced by Dick Cobb, director of athletics late Monday morning. Simple Burial Set for Pope Mel Siebold, Town recreation director, has b^n appointed head Pope John elevated the former By JACK R. PAYTON reform and ecumenical work they pay tribute at the funeral Wednesday Roman Catholic church will be boys’ swimming coach repiacing VATICAN CITY (UPI) - Pope Albino Luciani to the rank of bishop had begun in the Second Vatican to the humble migrant bricklayer’s locked in the Vatican’s ornate Sistine Ted Brindamour, who resigned John Paul I, cut down by a heart at in 1958 and put him in charge of the Council that ended in 1965. son who charmed the world duirng Vittorio Veneto diocese in northern Chapel to choose John Paul’s after the end of iast year. Siebold tack after only 34 days of his reign, John Paul’s tomb is opposite that his brief reign with a ready smile and Italy. successor. Cardinals are saying.tliey^ also serves as coach of the will be buried in a simple marble of Pope Marcellus II, whose 22-day down-to-earth style. want another man like him "who can Manchester Rec Swim Team. tomb near those of the two Paul VI named luciani patriarch papacy in 1555 is the third shortest in President Carter’s mother. Miss reach out and win the hearts of Siebold’s appointment was con predecessors who gave him his name of Venice in 1969, gave him his red. the church’s two milennia. The yiiian, will head the U.S. delegation believers and non-believers alike. firmed Monday morning by Jacob and inspired his priestly life — John cardinal’s hat in 1973 and once em shortest reign of a crowned pope in in place of Vice President Walter “Everyone wants a pastoral pope Ludes, high school principal, who XXIII and Paul VI. barrassed the man who would be his . history was the 13-day papacy of Ur Mondale, who was prevented from like the one that has just passed, a approved Cobb’s recommenda The Vatican said Sunday work was successor on the throne of St. Peter ban VII in 1590. John Paul’s 34-day attending by a “pressing legislative pope speaking a language that tion. well under way on the marble sar by placing the red papal cape on his reign ranks fourth in brevity. agenda,’’ the White House announced everyone will understand,’’ said Car shoulders before a gathering in the cophagus in the grottoes under the The world’s leaders — presidents, Sunday. dinal Timothy Manning of Los main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica and lagoon city’s St. Mark’s Square. prime ministers and royalty — will Ten days later, the princes of the Angeles. Hearings would be ready for John Paul’s burial When he was chosen pope in this following a solemn outdoor funeral century’s shortest election conclave ' Tonight mass Wednesday. Aug. 26, Luciani took the un- ’The Planning and Zoning Com John Paul’s tomb is only a few presedented step of honoring his mission will conduct three public yards from those of John XXIII, who benefactors by taking both their hearings tonight including one for died in 1963, and Paul VI, who died names as his papal title. the proposed expansion of Lydail Aug. 6. He also pledged to continue the Inc. See page 4. Wins Back Pay Lebanon Strife A former employee of a local ambulance firm is awarded $40 by the state Labor Department. See page 4. Leaves 32 Dead BEmUT, Lebanon (UPI) - Syrian cease-fire advocated by President Review Highway troops and Christian militiamen Carter and U.N. Secretary-General today pounded each other with: Kurt Waldheim in a jojnt statement. _EAST HARTFORD - rcickets, mortar and a r t i l l e ^ ^ in ' Accurate casualty figures for Federal highway officials are the heaviest fighting the d^astated either side were impossible to obtain, reviewing the possibility of capital has seen in three years of but rightist officials said 32 people separating the Interstate 86/84 civil strife. were killed and more than 200 connector from the rest of the 1-84 ’The fighting shattered a day-old wounded today alone. project. A federal highway offical Residents of both east and west told Esther B. Clarke, the To\yn Beirut said the rocket, mortar and Council minority leader, that the artillery bombardments were in Federal Highway Administration Democrats tense and constant, surpassing (FHWA) is now re v ie ^ g the fighting during the 1975-76 civil war. final environmental impact state ■“’The shelling is continuing,” one ment for the 1-84 project. If the Close Ranks resident of a hill town overlooking FHWA decides to separate the HARTFORD (UPI) - Democrats the capital said by telephone. “All I connector from the rest of 1-84, it today stood in close ranks, buttressed can see is fire and black smoke com would, be reviewed sooner than by the announcement by Lt. Gov. ing out of Ashrafieh (a Christian sec J w - ' the rest of the project, Mrs. Robert Killian he will actively work tor in East Beirut.)” 0 John Thompson, former mayor, speaks at Clarke said. See Page 2. for the re-election of Gov. Ella The toll since the latest heavy William Cotter, Pascal Mastrangelo, chair Grasso in the November elections. round of fighting began 10 days ago Saturday’s dedication of the 40-unit Spencer man of the Manchester Housing Authority, Killian, the loser to Mrs. Grasso in was conservatively estimated to be Village housing for the elderly. Listening to and Dennis Phelan, executive director of the Sports a bitter Democratic primary less at least 100 dead and 500 wounded, Thompson are, left to right, U.S. Rep. MHA. (Jlerald photo by Pearson) Yankees and Red Sox in show than three weeks ago, publicly ended not including Syrian casualties, down today for AL East title. See their fueding over the weekend at a which officially are “heavy.” page II. Deocratic fund raising rally attended ’The battles ranged over a 17-mile Manchester High and East by Vice President Walter Mondale. long front, including Beirut and its “I’m for the Democrats. I’m for suburbs, the hilly region to the east C Catholic both score impressive Manchester Dedicates football victories. See page 12. Mrs. Grasso and the Democratic and Christian villages along the coast Steelers undefeated in NFL. Party,” Killian said at a cocktail par and in the mountains to the north and east of the city. Pats win. Jets, Giants lose. See ty Saturday honoring the governor page 13. and Mondale. The Syrian troops made extensive Mondale made a one-day visit to use of ^viet-made 12-bairel rocket Housing for Elderly Connecticut Saturday to help raise launchers, one of several versions of funds for Democrats at the cocktail the famous Soviet “Stalin Organ.” MANCHESTER - While 40 units of Mastrangelo said that the town has when the Spencer Village project, Index party and dinner in the Hartford They also used 9-barrel, 122mm mul elderly housing were dedicated an application pending for funding of originally was approved, was master Civic Center. tiple launchers. Saturday, the town looked to the 250 more units, a figure that Rice of ceremonies for the event.- He read Classified........ future and its need for more such un said is optimistic. Rice’s department letters from several persons, in Comics......... its. is in charge of distributing funds for cluding Gov. Ella Grasso and U.S. Blast Hartford feature U.S. Rep. William Cotter and many elderly housing projects in the state. Sen. Abraham Ribicoff. Editorial __ local officials attended Saturday’s Cotter presented Mastrangelo with Entertainment - Rice indicated that Manchester Family......... Three in Town dedication ceremonies for the an American flag which was raised probably will not receive funding MCC-MACC ... Spencer Village complex off Spencer in the complex’s courtyard. now for all 250 of the units it has Obituaries ....... Street. “Advocates of cutting government requested, but he added that the state Sports............ Pascpl Mastrangelo, chairman of spending have been curiously silent has made a commitment to fund such the Manchester Housing Authority, about expenditures for senior projects throughout the state. Defy Blue Law and W. James Rice, commissioner of •citizens,” Cotter told the audience of “Projects like this have given com the state Department of Community officials, residents and friends who munities a great amount of pride,” Toplop Court Bars By JUNE TOMPKINS Affairs, traded good-natured barbs had gathered. He said that spending he said. Vida Blue Case Herald Reporter Sunday and said they received a com about the amount of state funding for such projects as elderly housing Others who spoke included Town MANCHESTER — Police notified plaint that our store was open and available for future elderly housing draws support from all. Manager Robert Weiss, and Mayor WASHINGTON (UPI) - The three stores Sunday that they were that we were breaking the law. I projects. John Thompson, who was mayor Stephen Penny. Supreme Court today shut the breaking the state’s new Sunday have a lot of things on my mind and courthouse door on challenges by closing law.