Misses U.S. avoids embarrassrrient as Kimball doesn’t qualify /II Hanrhpatpr Ipralb Monday, Aug. 22, 1988 Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm 30 Cents One survey done, another due on Main Street Bv Nancy Concelman is complete but the results where large malls exist, Pelle­ help downtown compete with the Street Approach program is to Pellegrini said there are cur­ Manchester Herald haven’t yet been tabulated. grini said. mall are increasingly important. launch a public relations cam­ rently no plans to renovate any of A presentation on the survey, The “Main Street Approach,’’ The reconstruction of Main Street paign to draw shoppers’ attention the buildings. After Labor Day, Main Street sponsored by the Greater Man­ sponsored by the National Trust is also scheduled to begin in to downtown. A directory of “Restoring the buildings is shoppers can expect to find chester Chamber of Commerce for Historic Preservation, is a spring 1990. downtown Manchester busi­ always important, but the ques­ survey forms in the stores asking and the Downtown Manchester 10-year-old program designed to The Main Street Approach nesses was completed last week tion is is that the most important them to identify downtown Man- Association, will probably be revitalize and promote down­ began as a pilot program in three and is available to the public. thing right now,” he said. chester’g strengths and wea­ scheduled for next month, said town. Although Manchester isn’t towns and now is used by more Pastorelle said. Pastorelle said she would like knesses to help downtown com­ Veronica Pastorelle, coordinator directly involved with the pro­ than 400 municipalities in 29 One part of the Main Street to see some work on the buildings pete with the Pavilions at for the downtown association. gram, “We’re using their ap^ states. Approach program that Pasto­ in the future, but for now, work on Buckland Hills. The surveys and other strate­ proach right now,” Pellegrini The program begins with or­ relle said she would like to see Main Street’s appearance will be Meanwhile. Planning Director gies for Main Street are based on said. ganization to bring merchants, Manchester adopt is improving confined to keeping the downtown Mark Pellegrini said today a a national program created to With the $70 million Pavilions business owners, town officials the appearance of downtown by area clean and continuing with separate survey of Main Street aesthetically and economically at Buckland Hills scheduled to and civic groups together. upgrading buildings, storefronts, the chamber’s Main Street plant­ business owners and landowners upgrade Main Streets in areas open in spring 1990. strategies to The second step of the Main signs and landscaping. ing program. Family OK after fire Solidarity in Bolton starts strike By Andrew J. Davis and Andrew Yurkovsky Manchester Herald BOLTON — The cause of a fire at shipyard that forced a family from their West Street home Sunday night is still under investigation. Fire GDANSK, Poland (AP) — he said workers laid down tools in Marshal Peter Massolini said About 400 workers carrying Pol­ some departments. today. ish flags and chanting “Solidar­ A management spokesman at The fire, which was reported at ity” seized control of the Lenin Ursus who did not give his name shipyard today, joining a wave of confirmed an unsuccessful at­ 10:24 p.m,, caused extensive strikes that poses the most tempt to strike at the plant, but smoke and structural damage serious challenge to communist made no mention of police and throughout the house at 33-35 authorities since 1981. said work continued normally. West St. and left it uninhabitable, The Lenin shipyard became the In southeastern Poland, Solid­ Massolini said. No one was 13th enterprise in a week to go on arity organizer Ewa Kuberna reported injured. strike for higher pay and govern­ said workers rallied at the The fire was brought under ment recognition of Solidarity, 18,000-employee Stalowa Wola the trade federation that was steel mill and heavy machinery control about 1'.^ hours later, and plant, and a strike was launched firefighters left the scene at 12:02 suppressed under martial law in 1981. by 2,000 of the workers. a.m., Massolini said. Firefighters At least 10 coal mines in Government spokesman Rys- from Andover, Hebron, Vernon, southern Poland and transit and zard Straus said people might be North Coventry and South Coven­ dockworkers in Szczecin re­ standing around at Stalowa Wola try provided assistance, he said. mained on strike on the seventh but it did not necessarily mean a “It needs quite a bit of work.” day of the labor unrest, which has strike. Massolini said. “It needs clean­ idled more than 76,000 workers. Opposition spokesman Woj- Some Gdansk port workers also ciech Maziarski also reported ing throughout.” were striking as of today, accord­ new strikes or partial strikes at At home at the time of the fire ing to reports from Western the Cegielski turbine works in were George and Deborah Cato- journalists. A Solidarity spokes­ Poznan, the Huta Warszawa steel lane and their 4-month-old son, man, Jacek Kuron, said 3,000 mill in Warsaw and the Railroad Craig, and 5-year-old daughter, Gdansk dockworkers were on Construction Enterprise of Keira, Massolini said. He said a strike. Szczecin. teen-age son, Datson, was not Aside from the shipyard, which A spokesman for Huta Wars­ Patrick Flynn/ManchMtar Harald employs 10,000 people, no new zawa mill, technical director home at the time of the fire. Stanislaw Zalesny, said about 50 Deborah Catolane reported the strikes were confirmed by au­ TINSELTOWN TOGS — Virginia Nar­ a 1930s dress that Narkon wore in a film thorities today. But there were people tried to mount a strike but fire. Contacted today at the called “Mr. North” that opened in many opposition reports of labor it failed. Straus said he had.no Manchester residence of her kon, left, of Dartmouth Road, and hdr mother, Barbara Yencha, right, show off Hartford last week. unrest nationwide. information about any stoppages father-in-law, George D. Cato­ Activists in Warsaw reported at Cegielski or the Szczecin lane, said the fire caused heavy an attempt to start a strike at the railroad enterprise. damage to the second floor, attic 14,000-worker Ursus tractor plant There was no police interfer­ and roof. outside the city. A rally at the ence as workers marched around The fire began in the back A star is born plant was dispersed by police the Gdansk shipyard carrying bedroom of the second floor and during the morning shift, result­ Polish national flags and took spread to the attic and roof, How an old dross helped land a movie role ing in three detentions, said Catolane said. activist Maciej Jankowski, But See POLAND, page 10 The first floor does not have fairy world," as an extra in the film featuring structural damage, but there is By Nancy Pappas Manchester Herald Anthony Edwards, Lauren Bacall and Robert heavy smoke, water and heat- Mitchum, which was being was shot in Newport, related damage, she said. Some people might aim for a glittering, R.I., where her family has a second home. One-third of Nepal “Flames started engulfing the high-tech look when trying to impress a film Narkon, a friendly looking grandmother, said house," she said. “No one was director. she had never been particularly attracted by the hurt, (but) you can’t live in the But Virginia Narkon of Dartmouth Road got glamour and glitter of ’”rinseltown.” “That’s devastated by quake house. We really don’t know how her Hollywood break looking as out-of-date as why everyone is so surprised that I did this,” she said. “It’s really so strange, it’s the first thing the fire started.” possible. She stepped Into a 50-year-old gray The quake, centered almost on Massolini concurred that the crepe dress that belongs to her mother, Barbara I’ve ever tried out for. But I’m really interested KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — in the old days, and this picture, it’s set in 1926, so Rescuers searched through de­ the India-Nepal border, regis­ fire began in the back bedroom on Yencha, added long gloves and a hat, and landed bris today for victims of an tered 6.5 on the Richter scale. the second floor. He said that the a walk-on role in “Mr. North,” a picture which it really caught my imagination. I decided I had Indian television today showed to go for it.” earthquake that ravaged one- cause of the fire had not been opened last week in Hartford. third of this country’s territory the devastation in the Indian state For three very hot days last summer, Narkon f determined and that authorities See MOVIES, page 10 and parts of India, killing at least of Bihar: crumbled buildings, would investigate the scene spent 11 hours a day in what she describes as “a 650 people and injuring makeshift morgues lined with today. thousands. rows of bodies wrapped in white The death toll was expected to shrouds, damaged hospital wards climb from Sunday’s pre-dawn packed with survivors. quake on the India-Nepal border, Medical teams in India carried Coventry library backers celebrate which triggered landslides and medicine and other supplies to floods and was the mountainous overcrowded hospitals and the District, and state Sen. Marie Ryan and Chairman Lawrence region’s deadliest in 38 years. army was deployed to help search By Jacqueline Bennett which gave us the courage to keep Mickel, Town Manager John Officials in both countries said Manchester Herald trying,” said Michael Donahue, Herbst, D-Vemon, of the 35th See QUAKE, page 10 resident of the library board.