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Ill KVKMNli IIKHALI). TufS . July 1. 1980 Town woman appointed Boy named ^poster chiW to head Hampton school MANCHESTER - Shawn Galen Handicapped Inc. She presently is His parents said that on Sunday Adams. 6, son of Mr. and Mrs. John serving on the Board of Directors. afternoons he can,be found kicking and splashing in the pool a t HAMPTON Donisf Proctor Memorial Hospital program for han C. Adams of 112 North Elm St., has She also serves on the board for been selected as the "1980 Poster Hockanum Industries Inc. a Manchester High School with Linda' HaurliPBtpr dicapped children .l.ici'bson nl Mancliosicr has been ap- Child " by the Connecticut Associa Weiss and Chad Whitdsell who are' pumicii h> Itio Hampton Board of sheltered workshop that recently School vote tion for Retarded Citizens. volunteer members of Instructors of Kducation as luU tinie principal of Ms Jacobson is the mother of opened in Vernon. Shawn was born July 3, 1973 and the Handicapped Inc. the Hampton Klcmontary School. three teen-age children and is Shawn, his parents said, is a very was diagnosed as Down's syndrome, During the summer months he will Ms Jacobson has served as acting married to the Hev. Stephen K. happy boy “who thinks the world mentally retarded and with other be attending . a six-week. principal ol the Ni'rthwest F.lemen- Jacobson, rector of St. Mary's loves him.” They said it seems that physical problems which made it his greatest handicap is the very “Maintenance of Skills” program un tary School m Stores during the past Kpiscopal Church in Manchester. She received her bachelor degree necessary for him to undergo surgery restricted diet he must live on. He is der the direction of Dr. Melvyn split urged ve a r Since 197fi she has w o rked as a IronT .lackson College of Tufts eight times. unable to even drink water from his Reich. rooms are not adquate for the 25 school psychologist lor the Mansfield Shawn's favorite activities are Cniversity in 1960 where she majored He has three brothers, Randy, own home or school due to the change By MARY KITZMANN varisity sports. £ tm ttn 0 Bi'ard ol Kducation riding his three-wheel motorcycle Her experience includes classroom in Knglish Literature and Elemen Kevin, and Tim and a sister Vicki, of balance in minerals. Herald Reporter He said spending the total $5.5 tary Kducation. She was awarded as around his yard at two miles an hour, leai'hing at all elementary grade k who are all teenagers. His father is a Shawn attends Keeney School in MANCHESTER - Advocates of million would “fix up a $25 million Vol. XCIX, No. 233 — Manchester, Conn., Wednesday, July 2, 1980 master's degree in educational psy- playing in and rearranging his 30 tons 1 e ■.,e I s m Connecticut and salesman at Dillon Sales & Service in Manchester and on weekends he par two referendum' questions for the asset for the next 25 years." chidogy by Southern Connecticut ticipates at the University of Connec af sand, and “playing house” with his Massachusetts She has taught Manchester and his mother Jo renovation of Manchester High Charles Senteio, principal of State College and has done advanced V ticut's Motor Development Clinic un Dwn grocery store shelves, stove, remedial reading at the Tults \ Adams is a founder and immediate School contend a separation should Keeney Street School, maintained f sink, refrigerator, table and items of .Cniversity Kducational Cljnic and graduate studies in school ad- { past president of the Tolland Area der the direction of Dr. James be made between “necessities" and that the entire renovation project is mmistralion at ihe Cniversity of Alarid. play food. Hias Worked as a therapist with pre- Association for the Retarded and “frills.” needed. “ Some persons imagine Connecticut Shawn (iaien Adams Trial school children in the New Britain The Building Committee maintains some of the requests are frills," he the one question recommended said. “But they are not frills, they already is a “bare bones budget." are necessities. People can afford to At the Board of Directors public do what needs to be done.” Monsignor Edward Reardon, St. accl^ess hearing Tuesday night, on the referendum's wording, several James Church, said the physical predicted the proposed bonding of deterioration of the building also $5,552,281 had little chance of caused problems. X- passage in November. They proposed “The building falling apart causes a choice of the 5.5 million figure and a collapse of the faculty’s spirit, backed which affects the students," Mon a lesser amount, excluding “frills." WASHINGTON (UPI) - The “I don't see why we don't have two signor Reardon said. “This problem Supreme Court ruled 7-1 today that questions," Frank Lupien, Sunset is more expense than the criminal trials must be open to the Street, said. “Otherwise we face the renovations." ' press and public unless there is an Robert Faucher', of the Manchester chance of losing the whole thing in "overriding interest " in closing one shot." Citizens for Social Responsibility, warned Manchester should not them. The Building Committee, and the Chief Justice Warren Burger, become like East Hartford, which Board of Education recommended to delivering the court’s opinion, said voted down an education bonding the Board of Directors only one ques there- is no specific provision in the tion, for the whole project, be set on referendum. Constitution guaranteeing access to BRINGING the November presidential election Shirley Juran, on the citizens ad trials. But he said: visory committee, said one question ballot. "'We hold that the right to attend The project was first estimated at was recommended to avoid confusing criminal trials is implicit "in the the voters. She said if two questions $3.1 million and then grew to $6.4 guarantees of the First Amendment , were presented the project could be million before the committee cut it without the freedom to attend such misunderstood and v o t^ against. PEOPLE to the present $5.5 million. trials, which people have exercised ” The committee first recommended However, Elizabeth Sadloski, of for centuries, important aspects of the Manchester Property Owner’s two questions in the middle of June, freedom of speech and "of the press Association said “people like a and later decided on one question. could be eviscerated.’” Paul Phillips, chairman of the choice." The majority declined to She said the voters should decide Building Committee, said one ques enumerate the circumstances under TOGETHER tion was recommended after the what is a needed to renovate the high which a trial could be closed except committee decided to cut the “frills" school. “Nobody is far apart in what to say that "absent an overriding in-, themselves. we would like to see done," she said. terest articulated in the findings, the Leonard Seader, chairman of the "We are all on the same wave trial of a criminal case must be open Board of Education Building Com length." to the public." mittee, noted that renovations are She maintained two questions In a footnote. Burger-said. We badly needed. He said the locker should be offered. have no occasion here to define the tm ik t... circumstances in which all or parts of a criminal trial may be closed to the public ... but our holding today < Reasons alike; does not mean the First Amendment rights of the public and represen tatives of the press are absolute Poof pfay "Just as a government may impose V. different reasonable time, place and manner aims restrictions upon the use of its Merideth Burrow, standing, of 37 Deerfield Pool under the watchful eye of Merideth s which houses several families. streets in the interest of such objec By MARY KITZMANN Several Main Street businessmen, Drive, Manchester, and Billy Sharp of 36 Edison aunt. Mrs. Jennie Pope. (Herald photo by Herald Reporter tives as the free flow of traffic so however, contend that the building is Road, Manchester, frolic in the Verplanck Pinto) may a trial judge, in the interest of MANCHESTER - The same an eyesore, and a key to the the fair administration of justice, im reasons were used to support revitalization of Main Street. pose ceasonable limitations on different viewpoints on which area of ‘‘I’ve seen the building access to a trial. " the Main Street intersection should deteriorate,” B.D. Pearl said. He said reasonable restrictions be taken for the planned reconstruc “There’s no return. I object to the STRIKES may be imposed in some situations, tion at the Board of Directors public taking of land by force, but 1 should where a courtroom is overcrowded hearing Tuesday night. think Mr. Carlson would be happy to The decision came one year to the 10 Some persons opposed tearing unload it. There’s no other answer to day after the court ruled in the down the Odd Fellows Building, at the intersection." • Nurses out second day Gannett Newspapers case that the corner of Main and Center The Chamber ol Commerce voted STAFFORD (UPI) - The first day Elective surgery was postponed, clause is the major dispute. ” judges had wide discretion to close streets, because it is a landmark. last month to favor the building's^ That clause would give the hospital pretrial hearings when all sides Others opposed the alternative of demolition as a part of the entire of a nurses strike at tiny Johnson but all emergency and essential ser vices remained in operation at the broad authority over hiring, agree shortening Center Congregational reconstruction of Main Street. Memorial Hospital in north central hospital, which serves six small com promotions and staffing.