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16 - EVENING HERALD, Mon., June 2, 1980 Hospitality of Hartford impresses lady Texans Group home ilanriTFatfr ...m r By JACQUELINE HUARD political office. HARTFORD (UPI) — Barbara Green, eye catching in "We’re trying, but you must remember Texas is a very a scarlet Stetson, checkered shirt and red hand-tooied macho state,” she said. "But we feel we can impact so cowboy boots, looked a little peaked when the weekend we don’t have to settle on mediocre men. We can elect rolied around. high class men.” questioned Raising hell in Hartford was hard work. "Without us,” she continued, “they couldn’t raise the "We got here Tuesday night and I think the whole city money, have the functions, have the parties, run the cam of Hartford knew about it." she said Saturday. "The paigns. We’re the movers and the shakers. Let them be By MARY KITZMANN The 50 area residents attending did out on the firing line.” hospitality! It started right off the piane when the pilots Herald Reporter not question the home’s value or bought us drinks.” Mrs. Rivers said she’s right behind President Carter. need, but they were concerned on the I Vol. XCIX, No. 208 — Manchester, Conn., Tu^day, June 3,1960 MANCHESTER - Although no Mrs. Green and nine Lone Star State sisters flew into Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., she said, “is not my cup its effect on their neighborhood. one "opposed” locating a group Hartford from Houston. Texas, Tuesday night on the eve of tea. He’s a lightweight compared to his brother.” Roy Sanden, 56 Weaver Road, said home on Woodbridge Street, there of the annual convention of the National Federation of Mary Burke, an imposing looking Houston visitor he did not want his privacy disturbed were many questions and concerns Democratic Women. wearing a red straw cowboy hat, said she liked a lot of with "ten different people doing ten about privacy and property values. I9OOO delegates at stake Unlike other more conservatively dressed represen what she heard at the convention but thought "it was a different activities” in the backyard. The home, requested by MARCH tatives, the Texas delegation stormed the city in full little too feminist.” “It’s not like having a single family Inc., a community service group, Western regalia-Stetsons, cowboy boots and duds that "When you get into minorities, any minority, it as a neighbor,” he said. meets the requirements for the would have made Annie Oakley drool. splinters the party,” said Mrs. Burke, who used to run a He suggested a fence be put up Barbara's only complaint about the annual get-together rodeo with her husband in Simonton, Texas. She said special exception from Residence A between his property and the group was that they didn't get to see more of the town. Instead everybody has to make their own way. Alan Lamson, town planner, told the home’s. they got a steady schedule of morning and afternoon She muttered impatiently when she heard delegates Planning and Zoning Commission. complaining about women relegated to the envelope stuf The home, planned at 573 Wood- But the major concerns were Super Tuesday is here workshops and evening business meetings. She and 200 or so other delegates did get one meal out, a fing and postage stamp sticking side of politics. bridge St., for about 10 people, the property value, and the future of the maximum allowed by regulations, estate. Residents questioned whether cook's tour of the Hartford Civic Center, and a half-day “I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that,” said The 1980 primary season ends Going into the eight Democratic Mrs. Burke. "Someone’s got to pick up the garbage. If would be supervised by a live-in the special exception would remain if The United Press International the 26 primaries to date, predicted he bus trip down to Mystic Seaport on Connecticut's ' today with a shower of more than 1,- primaries, in which 696 delegates delegate count includes some shoreline. The Texans made do with nighttime partying. fundraising’s your game, then go out and do it.” staff, Robert Gorman, president of the home clos^. They were con would add California and New Jersey MARCH Inc. said. He noted the cerned that the state could use the 000 national convention delegates to were at stake, the president was only delegates still to be picked after the and have a chance to carry Ohio-the "We work hard and we play hard, but then, we can be Mrs. Green drew on a cigarette inserted into a plastic, be chosen in nine states. Super home’s hopes to provide a “family special exception for another 28 short of the 1,666 he needed to sew primaries but whose candidate only state Carter has campaigned in ladies,” said Pic Rivers, president of the Texas deiega- rhinestone studded holder. She looked worriedly at her Guest of honor Tuesday is here, but precious few atmosphere” in a country setting project. preferences were determined at all year. A Kennedy sweep would tion. Her voice was raspy with laryngitis, a direct result, bandaged and battered guitar (one her 27-year-old son candidates are left in the field to up renomination. Kennedy had 850 with city conveniences. However, the Planning and Zoning local caucuses earlier. mark an embarrassing end of the she said, of trying to keep her delegation in line. bought 14 years ago with his paper route money). Sister Patricia Barry, RSM, center, prin compete for its prizes. delegates. Richard Day, master of ceremonies; Mrs. Gorman verified the home’s need Commission reassured the residents primary season for Carter and con Mrs. Green didn’t have much to say about politics. She lugged the bruised instrument around all week and cipal of St. James School, Manchester, was The biggest primaries of the day Jeanette Day, president, board of education; with a recent survey which showed that under the town regulations the The political situation in the final The Republicans had nine siderably boost the Massachusetts She's strictly a volunteer worker. "When they call me every once in a while strummed the five remaining were in California, New Jersey and honored at a party Friday night at the Colony, Sister Barry; Mrs. Eugenie Barry, Norwich Manchester needs respite care area reverts to the previous zoning, primaries with 418 delegates, but senator’s delegate totals. and say they need me I go. The day I start getting paid is strings. The tape holding the front and back together was round of primaries contrasted sharp Ohio, but there was voting also in wearing through. Route 83. Sister ^ r r y will assume the dutie^^ facilities. which is Residence A, or single fami- the day it's not any fun.” and Sister Clarice, RSM, teacher, St. James ly with past election years, when one Ronald Reagan didn’t need any of Rhode Island, West Virginia, South “I ne«i some glue, some super glue,” she said. "And I Gorman explained the home would ly- or both nominations remained in them. California voters also will decide She’s more of a free-iancer, spending part of her time as superintendent of schools for the Diocerfe School. (Herald photo by Burbank) Dakota, New Mexico and Montana. the fate of 11 propositions including working as a tour guide and at a hamburger stand. The can’t find a drugstore.” of Norwich beginning June 39. From left. be used for mentally retarded per Although an appraiser was not pre doubt until the last votes were sons whose family could no longer Mississippi has a Republican only another tax-slashing initiative. long struggle to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, she sent to accurately answer questions counted. The former California governor primary. care for them, due to circumstances about declines in property values, Among those under consideration are said, "is a iot of work and falderal over nothing.” This year, Ronald Reagan already achieved the 998 delegates he needs measures that would cut the state in Mrs. Rivers, clad in a sedate black jacket and skirt or the parent’s age. Gorman responded to these concerns The home, if it receives the state saying it should not affect the area has the Republican nomination in the for the nomination more than a week Kennedy campaigned hard right to _with mud green cowboy boots, takes her politics a little bag and Jimmy Carter is close the end, starting Monday in New come tax in half, make it more dif more seriously. She started in the trenches when Presi license it applied for, would be state- any more than the veterinary clinic ago, and went into the final behind in his pursuit of the York, and going on to New Jersey, ficult to enact local rent-control or dent John Kennedy was assassinated in Dailas, Texas. funded for maintenance, Gorman near it. Democratic nomination. primaries with 1,071 delegates and Ohio and the West Coast. dinances and a 10 percent surtax on “Before that I was a talker, not a doer,” she recalled. said. But MARCH Inc. hopes to make Jerry Le Bel, 615 Woodbridge all major opposition on the sidelines. Kennedy, who has won only five of oil company profits. “But then I got scared and started knocking on doors.” Unprecedented... Radio it a “community showplace” with w ondered about the h o m e’s Although Carter made his first 1980 Mrs. Rivers, a fourth generation Texan who runs a con the help of the group’s religious residents’ safety.