a™.'.!.'.;.'.'..'i J « 1 « »« M 1 » f f f t NY Town c(ops aid if in h i^ in c 1 bust .^p.,. 2 illanrhpHtpr IpralJi MUST EALI Saturday, Sept. 24, 1988 Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm 30 Cents BLE <-------------- 1 CAR-TRAIN CRASH FATAL Young driver dies in collision on Tolland Turnpike . page 2 i3«» >S. ENT (QOO roof Yl'- PA )W ER liarge with In Stock 3 18 Piirtek Flynn/ManohMtor Harild FATAL CRASH SCENE — Firefighter hoses down the wreckage of a car after it hit a 9A train on Tolland Turnoike late Friday night. The driver of the car was killed. x2 ;k 0-88 Dr. Crane’s Quiz man killed wheii State muet ‘wait in iine’ foi^ Merriil 1. Which fruit is largest in size? By The Associated Press charges in connection with an attack wait in line,” the detective said. showing up drunk and refusing to CONCORD GAGE JONATHAN DUKE on a South Windsor woman. work. A Connecticut state police detective He sSid Merrill was scheduled to be 2. Which type of cloth is not derived directly from car collides with train But, Lacaprucia said, it could be Authorities checked the name — a living plant? prepared Friday to head to Toronto to sometime before Merrill is returned transported Friday from Fredricton, John Sisam — Merrill was using interview the state’s most notorious New Brunswick to Toronto. LINEN SILK NYLON MUSLIN By AAlchele Noble collided with the train head-on at to Connecticut because Toronto au­ through crime computers. They found But O’Marra said, “ To my escapee, whose iife on the iam ended 3. To refer to an old cow as "A hovine maiden of 16 Manchester Herald 9:43 p.m. thorities have a warrant for his arrest Merrill was captured Thursday that it was the name of a man whose knowledge, they (lights) proba- this week in an apple'orchard in the on charges stemming from a house summers” illustrates which one of these? The driver was pronounced afternoon by the Royal Canadian wallet was stolen in the Toronto biy weren’t working at the time. ” Canadian province of New burglary. SIMILE ANACHRONISM A young man was killed late dead at the University of Connec­ Mounted Police in the orchard where housebreak in which Merrill is a The train was traveling east Brunswick. He is also a suspect in several other EUPHEMISM HYPERBOLE Friday night when his car coi- ticut Medical Center in Farming- he worked in Hampstead, New suspect, police said. toward the J.C. Penney complex. Detective Louis Lacaprucia said he burglaries and sexual assaults in the 4. The term "snake eyes" suggests which one of lided with a train at what may ton at 11:50 p.m. The state Brunswick, state police said. Corporal Timothy LeDrew donned these? The front end of the Honda was wouid be armed with an arrest Toronto area and in Peterboro, have been an unlighted railroad medical examiner’s office is an apple picker’s apron, went into the crunched towards the rear of the warrant charging Frederick Merriii, Ontario, a Toronto suburb, state Police said Canadian authorities orchard and sidled up to Merrill. MICE SPICE RICE DICE crossing off Tolland Turnpike located at the UConn Medical 5. God helped Joshua by driving out two kings and vehicle from the impact. 41, of Toiland with first-degree police said. In addition, Canadian were called to the orchard around 1:45 Jeffery Adam, an officer who assisted near the J.C. Penney warehouse, Center. escape. Merriii escaped more than a immigration authorities are prepared p.m. Thursday after receiving reports their armies by means of which one of these? More than 25 firefighters from in the arrest, said he and LeDrew police and fire officials said. The lights at the crossing were year ago from the state’s maximum- to charge Merrill with violating work of an argument between a man later HORNET HONEYBEES SNAKES LIONS the Eighth Utilities District Fire pointed a shotgun and a .38-caliber The Manchester Police Depart­ covered because Conrail is in the security prison at Somers, where he laws, Lacaprucia said. identified as Merrill and his foreman, Department responded to the revolver at Merrill’s head when they Answers in Classified section ment refused to release informa­ process of replacing them, ac­ was awaiting trial on sexual assault “ So I think basically we’re going to who said he had fired Merrill for surprised him. tion on the man pending notifica­ cording Eighth District Fire scene with two engine trucks, a tion of his next of kin. Officials at Department spokesman Thomas rescue truck and a utility truck. the scene described the victim as O’Marra. Attempts to reach A crowd of more than 50 Connecticut Weather a young man. ConRail officials for comment watched from an open field off the Bush, Duke^ Police at the scene said the were unsuccessful. street as police blocked off the driver of the 1988 Honda was Police refused to answer ques­ area. Police turned away traffic Manchester and vicinity: Today will be mostly apparently attempting to race the tions over whether the lack of beginning at the Burr Comers sunny. High in the middle 70s. Tonight, partly train before it crossed the rail­ lighting contributed to the shopping center on Tolland prepare for cloudy. Low 43 to 48. Sunday, mostly cloudy with a 40 road crossing when his car accident. ’Turnpike. percent chance of rain. High in the 60s. Jr jto Hyfflr first debate West Coastal, East Coastal: Today will be mostly Good man, drink kept her going sunny. High in the middle 70s. Tonight, becoming By David Espo mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain late The Associated Press at night. Low 50 to 55. Sunday, cloudy with a 50 LEBANON, Ohio (AP) —Callie Young, an avid “ She just said she didn’t ever want to be. She baseball fan and a woman who was outspoken percent chance of rain. High in the 60s. moved around all the time and didn’t want to about her independence, has died at the age of have a husband to tie her down,” her grandson George Bush took a turn at bat as Reagan 112. said. administration diplomat and -Michael Dukakis - Northwest Hills: Today, mostly sunny. High played catch with a member of the Boston Red Sox Ms. Young’s prescription for a long life Miss Young, an avid Cincinnati Reds fan was around 70. Tonight, partly cloudy. Low 40 to 45. wouldn’t sit well with medical professionals. on Friday as they loosened up for Sunday’s Sunday, mostly cloudy witt a 40 percent chance of just seven years younger than the bail club itself "She told me a good man and a good drink Until a few years ago, she hadn’t missed an high-stakes debate in the race for the White House. rain. High in the 60s. Neither candidate did much heavy lifting in always kept her going,” said her grandson, o p tin g day in almost 50 years, her grandson i Booker T. Young of Lebanon. "And she smoked said. And she wasn’t the kind of fan to take a A,.--':. V"— - public, preferring to spend most of the day with up until two or three years ago.” game sitting down. aides preparing for the nationally televised Miss Young died Thursday at the Lebanon 90-minute confrontation in Winston-Salem, N.C. The Lottery Nursing Home, where she celebrated her 112th “ She liked to shout and scream and holler ” '.£ 4 debate begins at 8 p.m. EDT. birthday last week. Young said. “ She’d call them her boys.” Each candidate staged an early njorning, ^ " 7 She had three children, all deceased, but never She last attended a game four years ago when made-for-television scene before repairing to the married. privacy of his debate class. The vice president goes Connecticut daily Friday: 884. Play Four: 0811. her grandson took her to opening day. into the debate holding a modest lead in most public Connecticut Lotto Friday: 8, 10,19, 84, 89, 35. opinion polls, although the same surveys show that a substantial percentage of the voters remain either uncommitted or only loosely committed to a Manchester police assist candidate. Index Bush invited reporters over after his breakfast meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze and Secretary of State George Shultz. “ We had a substantive discussion on where R i m l r i A * * 1 OTfif n i^w ff .... 9 1 . 7 FBI in biggest drug bust n h iir r ^ h A * 1 A .1 K Obltuart*tt A things stand on the bilateral relationship between H p i n l n n _ 1 9 -1 q the United States and the Soviet Union,” said the By AAlchele Noble fickers in Manchester and New n o m i c * Senior Citizens 7 other evidence was seized from a vice president, who stressed his involvement in AAanchester Herald nnnrm HIriit A.Q Snorts 1 9 - l f l Britain. In late 1987, the New Corvette and Cadillac owned by U.S.-U.S.S.R. diplomacy. Focus 17-32 U.S./World __ 3,10-11 Britain Police Department deve­ Mariano. These vehicles, a mo­ “ It is a pleasure for me to see Mr. Shevardnadze Federal investigators used in­ loped information that Mariano torcycle and a speed boat were AP photo once again,” said Biish, who occasionally has used formation supplied by Manches­ was trafficking cocaine, FBI also seized.