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PAGE TWENTY - MANCHESTER EVENING HERALD. Manchester. Conn., Tues., May 23, 1978 Resort ready to gamble ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (UPI) - If $50 million Resorts International croupiers at the 82 gaming tables. Mickey Mouse were a gambling man Hotel-Casino allowed special guests Even the head of the New Jersey he would love AtlanUc City. to pretend to be big spenders at the Casino Control Commission dropped This decfeplt resort on the Jersey gaming tables with phony money. by in the wee hours Sunday and his shore is shaking with anticipation, The fun and games end Friday. wife got an itch to gamble. the kind that shook Anaheim, Calif., After that it will take hard money to "When I told my wife she can’t and Orlando, Fla., when Walt Disney gamble. play the slots she broke down and iJIanrl|f stpr lEupning Bfralh started building amusement parks. And this week's historic opening of c rl^ ,” said Joseph P. U>rdi. The 43,000 folks who live here are the first East Coast casino is James M. Crosby, the top boss of f A Family NEWSpaper Since 1881 lusting after a pot of gold, a jackpot expected to enrich Atlantic City like Resorts International, threw a party they are likely to find before the Disney World saved Orlando. when it was all over and predicted Vol. XCVII, No. 199 — Manchester, Conn., Wednesday, May 24, 1978 Single Copy 20 Cents week is out. Local leaders figure there could be his club will rank with the biggest in The high-rollers are coming. as many as four casinos in operation Las Vegas. There is little doubt that by Friday by 1980. Resorts International plans the first legal gambling casino east to open another hotel within three “We think we will compare with of Las Vegas will get down to serious years. MGM (the MGM Grand Hotel) in Las business. The new casino conducted its dry Vegas that did about $100 million,” It was a make-believe game over runs to test its 1,200 slot machines the businessman said. “We think we Center the weekend as the operators of the and train the card dealers and can do that and perhaps more.” French searching Youth cite Barry SEIKO: funding GLASTONBURY — State Sen. David Barry of Manchester recently received the Distinguished Service Award of the Friends of Glastonbury Youth. for white hostages sought The organization includes persons of diverse backgrounds who work with the young people of Glaston bury. KOLWEZl, Zaire (UPI) - Four “The hostages are clearly an. in in Kolwezi during the rebels’ nine- By GREG PEARSON Standing on %oV floor day occupation and the Foreign Biarry, whose district includes Glastonbury, part of hundred French foreign legionnaires surance against attack by the legion Herald Reporter Legion’s drive to regain it. Manchester and several surrounding towns, is chairman pursued retreating rebel forces Into naires,” a diplomat said. “But once The Town of Manchester has taken Members in Grades 2 and 3 of Unit A of home. Kraatz is a partner in K.T. Lear They said about 200 rebels were of the state’s Juvenile Justice Commission. He has spon the rolling bushland of Zaire’s the rebels reach the border, the killed in skirmishes with French its first step toward converting Manchester Green School with their teacher, Associates Inc., builder of the home on sored several successful legislative proposals regarding southern Shaba province today in whites will be a burden and they’ll Green School to a senior citizens 2 Mrs. Bonnie lerardi, listen to Ronald Kraatz Wetherell Street. The solar learning project juveniles and adolescents. their search for some 70 French have no further need for them." paratroopers in Kolwezi and about 100 — “possibly more” — in the center. Several other actions, in explain that under the brick flooring is a bed was part of the unit’s science curriculum. hostages believed held by the in French officials said one legion cluding approval by the Board of naire was killed and four wounded French followup operation in the sur ol stone which holds the heat directed to it (Herald photo by Tompkins) surgents. Directors, will have to be made Tuesday in a skirmish at a locality rounding countryside. Western diplomatic sources in before the school is converted, Irom solar units in the roof of this solar called Louis-Lou, about 5 miles out Kinshasa, the capital of the former Contrary to earlier reports, French however. side the copper and cobalt mining Belgian Congo, said the Foreign officials said isolated rebel snipers The town has applied for $12,807 in Legion is likely to try to head the town of Kolwezi. are still operating sporadically in federal funds to construct a ramp at Five rebels were killed in the ac A bo u t town THE TOWN column off. Kolwezi and said they were surprised the school and to alter toilet facilities tion, French officers said. 4 at the rebels’ tenacity. for handicapped persons. An adult Bible study will be con- general meeting tonight at 8 at Com The Golden Age Club will have a No. AH035M-$USm One diplomat said, “we fear the French officials announced the Wally Fortin, director of senior 17J, «tMl, No. DC039M-IIUI They said Zairean forces skir (iucted Wednesday at 10 a.m. at Zion munity Baptist Church, 585 E. Center OF MANCHESTER 17J, stainless steel, gray worst” for the fate of the hostages. death of another legionnaire in luncheon Wednesday noon at Willie’s tachymeter timer, citizens, said the money would be dial, adjustable bracelet. m ish^ with a rebel convoy west of Kvangelical Lutheran Church. St, The meeting is open to persons Steak House. internal rotating elapted The sources said the hostages were Kolwezi, bringing total French sought under Title V of the Older who are widowed, divorced, Will be sending Interviewers to all timing ring, 30 minute taken from Kplwezl by one of two casualties to 4 killed and 18 wounded. the important rail center of Americans Act, which provides funds recorder, yellow dial, Mutshatsha Tuesday, but said they Manchester Philatelic Society will separated or never-married and The mission —and ministry rcom homes in Manchester to conduct a adjustable bracelet. rebel of Shaba from Angola via Zam Western diplomats said “at least" for alterations to accommodate the meet tonight from 7 to 10 at Mott's having at least one living child. bia in the night of May 11. 200 whites and about 300 blacks died had no details. mittee of Emanuel Lutheran Church Citizen Survey. handicapped. Community Hall. will meet tonight at 7:30 in the If the grant is approved, it would The Women's Prayer and Study church library. SHKQ THE GIFT FOR be matched by funds from the town’s Manchester Chapter, Parents Group of South United Methodist Starting on May 24th, interviewers Community Development block Without Partners, will have a Church will meet tonight at 7:30 at The Rev. Newell Curtis, pastor of PROUD MOMENTS. grant. 1208 Main St. will be in the area bounded by Broad Hijack try thwarted Center Congregational Church, will Nothing makes a graduation more special The application for the federal lead a Bible study Wednesday at 1:15 St., Olcott St., Love Lane and Hilliard than the gift of a Seiko watch. funds actually was made before Mon call to the office. The man who had the bomb and gun in his hands p.m. in the Robbins Room of the St. MOSCOW (UPI) — An armed man day night's decision by the Board of Day/date calendars. Sports models. Wrist answered said he was “a member of when he entered the office deman Weight control lecture church. who said he was a member of the Education to close Green School this alarms. Contemporary and classic styles. All “Russian Liberation Army” seized the Russian Liberation Army” and ding a flight out of the country. The Dr. Sydney Nathans, member of Dr. Nathans, president of Life These interviews will take ap combining rugged elegance with Seiko's traditional embassy had constant contact with June. The pastor-parish committee of two hostages in Finnair’s downtown said he could not talk. “I cannot talk the American Bariatric Association, Style Nutrition and Health Inc., has superb quality and accuracy. to you. There is an attack here. There the office by telephone. The school was expected to be North United Methodist Church will proximately 30 to 45 minutes to com Moscow office today and demanded a closed in 1979, but, because of a tight will deliver a free lecture at the authored several hooks and Come in and find the special Seiko that will make plane to fly him out of the country. is no time to talk to you,” he said. Meadows Convalescent Center, meet tonight at 7 at the church. plete. Several hundred people stood along budget situation, the Board of Educa pamphlets on the subject of weight your favorite graduate proud for yeprs to come. Soviet militiamen captured him after According to Finnair Station the small street where the incident Thursday at 7:30 p.m. The lecture is controi, is a freQuent lecturer on the tion voted to close the school this The Manchester Garden Club will he fired a shotgun blast and the Manager Pertti loljonen, the man occurred. open to the public. topic, and presides over a fired the shotgun through the office year. leave from the South United hostages escaped. There is more than $100,000 Dr. Nathan's topic will be ‘‘Weight Massachusetts health spa for weight window and the two hostages, a man After the Soviet militia had cap Methodist Church parking lot Militiamen fired tear gas into the available to the Hartford region Control and Maintenance; the reduction.