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PAGE SIXTEEN - MANCHESTER EVENING HERALD. Manchester, Conn., Tues., Sept. 16, 1974 OBITUARIES Apartment Zoning Change ticelli’s application. He said housing den POLICE REPORT Double Funeral Set (Continued from Page One) sity allow ^ in Residence M Zone is too lianrljpatFr iEumng Irralh great for the area. said title to the right-of-way was es Other Opponents For Crash Victims tablished by probate records when the MANCHESTER package store at 447 Main St. Monday between 4 and 6 p.m. MANCHESTER, CONN., WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 11, 1B74 VOL. XCIII, No. 291 Manchester—A City of Village Charm THIRTY-SIX PAGES — TWO SECTIONS PRICE: FIFTEEN CENTS variance was sought. Other opponents speaking Monday night Three black men, two age 24 over the weekend. Missing is from a rack outside of the included Harry Eggleston of 143 Hollister S— Papa presented a 54-signature petition and one 25, were observed over $300 in cash and two fifths lounge at the Manchester Coun Funeral services for Mrs. She was a production worker at St., Michael Melluzzo of 169 Hollister St., of area residents opposed to the zone soliciting money in front of of tequila. try Club. It belongs to Michael Elizabeth W. Babcock, 47, and Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Divi James MacDonald of 175 Hollister St., change on the basis of drainage, traffic King’s department store Mon Manning of Meriden. her daughter. Gale Ann Bab sion of United Aircraft Corp, in Alfred Vennard of 139 Hollister St., congestion, sanitary sewer problems, and day at 10:50 a.m. They were Michael Riley, 13, of 487 • All four tires on the Kar- Hospital Reports 13 Survivors cock, 23, of High Manor Trailer East Hartford. Thomas McKeough of 135 Hollister St., fire hazard. pushy and were annoying Keeney St., Glastonbury suf mann Ghia of Maxwell Jacobs Park, Rt. 30, Vernon, who were Survivors are her mother, Geraldine Kelley of 104 Delmont St., killed Sunday when an on Mrs. Elizabeth Porter Nelson Opponents List Objections customers coming out and fered minor injuries to his scalp of 73 Florence St. were slit at 3 Bruce Perry of 112 Princeton St., and Saturday at 2:10 p.m. when he coming car struck them as they of Hebron; two sons, Bruce C. Drainage, traffic congestion, and going into the store, police said. a.m. Monday where the car was Lawrence Moonan of 146 Inllister St. fell out of a pickup truck driven stood by the side of the road, Babcock and Curtis G. Bab neighborhood impact were also the Police noted they are the parked in his driveway. The basic objection vcnced by area by Roland G. Poitras, 22, of 15 will be Wednesday at 11 a.m. at cock, both of Hebron; and a reasons listed by ten citizens opposing same men complained about at • Over two dozen windows in residents appeared to be that they didn’t St. Lawrence St. the Holmes Funeral Home, 400 sister, Mrs. Gordon Rathbun of Ponticelli’s plans for apartments on the the Top Notch Plaza on N. Main North United Methodist Church want apartments in their backyards. One St., the Caldor’s shopping area The truck’s passenger door at 300 Parker St. were broken Main St. Burial will be in Hebron. north end of his seven-acre E. Middle man said he doesn’t like apartments and Gilead Cemetery in Hebron at Gate Ann Babcock was born on Toliand Tpke. and other was not latched as it went within the last two weeks by BB Jet Airliner Crashes Tpke. property, which afso has frontage on would move from the area. Parkade stores. They come around the corner at Wetherell shots. Most of the windows are the convenience of the family. in Meriden Nov. 30, 1950, and Hollister St. CHARLOTTE, N.C. (UPI) - An Charleston, S.C., to Chicago’s O’Hare Air ficulty reaching the site because of early Atty. Jules Karp, representing Pon- from the Springfield, Mas. and Horace Sts. Riley was Mrs. Barbara Cox, who lives about 5(X) Friends may call at the lived in Vernon the past 16 Richard Sweetnam of 198 Hollister St., on the south and east sides. Eastern Air Lines DC-9 jet crashed and port, via Charlotte. morning traffic jams. ticelli, said the property is already area. taken by ambulance to yards from the crash site, said she heard funeral home tonight from 7 to years after moving from Wind leading the opposition, presented a peti burned today while attempting a landing The plane went down in an open field A temporary morgue was set up near equipped for apartments and the reported Police warned them again to Manchester Memorial Hospital VERNON several planes flying very low and when 9. sor. She was also a production tion with 115 signatures of objectors. His in fog at Charlotte’s Douglas Municipal about two miles from the north-south the crash site and ambulances and police drainage problems would be eased by cease or face possible prosecu where he was treated and the last one went over “I thought that guy Mrs. Babcock was born in worker at Pratt & Whitney Air petition was countered by a favorable 44- Curtis Hall, 17, of 145 '.■'A Airport, killing 69 of the 82 persons runway at the airport. cars had to tread their way through completion of new storm sewers by Pon- tion for their acts. released. maybe was in trouble.” The plane burst Hartford Nov. 2, 1926, and had craft Division of United Air signature document produced by Pon- Washington St., Vernon was aboard. morning traffic to get to the scene and ticelli. arrested Monday on a warrant The Federal Aviation Administration into a ball of fire upon impact and smoke lived in Vernon 16 years after craft Corp. in East Hartford. ticelli. “We have received 13 victims from the rush survivors to area hospitals. The PZC reserved judgment on the Robert M. Kuzub, 22, of 302 Lorraine Goss, 31, of 358 issued by Circuit Court 12 said the plane went down at7:33a.m. EDT shot up several hundred feet into the air. having moved from Windsor. Sweetnam cited widespread dr^oage crash and we have been notified that this Witnesses said they heard several John \1. Burton rezoning requests. Charter Oak St. was arrested Adams St. was hurt Sunday at 5 charging him with first-degree while approaching Douglas Airport in the Witnesses said those who survived the problems and contradiction to the town’s is the total number of survivors,” Harold explbsions, before and after the crash. Monday at 8:30 p.m. at his p.m. in a motorcycle-car colli fog. crash were thrown free from the plane SOUTH WINDSOR - John M. master development plan in opposing Pon- assault. Green, administrator at Charlotte Black smoke billowed high into the air home on a Circuit Court 9 sion at the intersection of S. into a clump of trees. Charles Gessay Burton, 83, of 19 Long Hill Rd. Police said the arrest was Memorial Hospital, told UPI. Dense smoke billowed from the crash and charred wreckage was strewn over a diea Monday at a local con warrant charging him with Main St. and Spring St. She was made in connection with the in A hospital spokesman said most of the VERNON —Charles Gessay, The flight was Eastern 212, bound from scene and ambulances and police had dif- 200-yard-wide area near the edge of some survivors were burned and ail were 62, of 97 E. Main St. died Mon valescent home. issuing a bad check in taken by ambulance to MMH vestigation of an incident that where she was treated for mul wooids^ar the York Road exit leading to reported in critical condition. day in Rockville General Mr. Burton lived in South Middletown. Court is to be in happened on Phoenix St., Ver Intersfilfe highway 77. Middletown soon. tiple abrasions and released. non, on Aug. 25. The DC-9 is designed to carry a total of Hospital. He was a lifelong Windsor all his life. He was a A UPI reporter upon reaching the scene She was a passenger on the Hall was released on a $2,500 88 passengers, so the flight was filled resident of the Rockville sec former tobacco and strawberry ABOUT TOWN said it was “terrible.” grower. Donna L. Hoffman, 21, of 68 motorcycle driven by John non-surety bond for appearance almost to capacity. tion of Vernon. He was Ford Pledges Funds Calvin Kenley, 20, who lives just 600 A Federal Aviation Administration manager of the Prospect St. Survivors are three brothers, Strickland St. was arrested Bixby, 19, of 40 Olcott St. which in Circuit Court 12, Rockville, was passing the car driven by yards from the crash scene, said: “I saw spokesman in Washington said the plane Package Store until his retire Earl F. Burton of Thompson- The Lakota Council, Degree Monday at 1:55 a.m. on Main St. Oct. 1. The Pilgrim Choir of Center The executive board of the Stanley Sleminski, 16, of 180 - one of the survivors. He was just walking was approaching Runway 36 from the ment about two years ago. ville, Frank L. Burton of South of Pocohantas will meet and charged with operating un Congregational Church will Manchester Junior Women’s Avery St., South Windsor when around in the field in a daze. He wanted to south when it disappeared from the radar H e, was a member of the Windsor and Lewis C. Burton of Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in Odd der the influence of liquor or For 85,000 Jobs meet Wednesday at 3:30 p.m.