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PAGE TWENTY - MANCHESTER EVENING HERALD. Manchester, Conn., Thurs., Feb. 6, 1975 Marsh Will Conduct CPR Course FBI Arrests Bank Officer HARTFORD (UPI) - A Agents had sought Kelly since Richard Marsh of emergency medical care. The CPR program is limited anyone over age 18. Reser former mortgage loan officer Jan. 23, when he and a Manchester will conduct and EAST organizes, directs, plans to 75 people per session on a vations may be made by calling has been arrested by the FBI Burlington real estate agent, supervise a program designed or assists in the planning of first come, first served basis. 649-5261 and ask for CPR. and charged with conspiring to James T. McMahon, 41, were to instruct people in emergency seminars for specialized The whole program is open to The goal is for one member of WINTER SPORTS misapply |179,000 of the funds iitmrI|T0tpr EuTmng Irralh 'indicted on conspiracy charges. medical care. emergency medical teams. every family to have CPR I of his bank, Hartford National Arraigned before U.S. The program, car- EAST also works to promote training. Bank and iSiist Co. Magistrate ’Thomas F. Parker, MANCHESTER, CONN., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1975 - VOL. XCIV, No. 109 Manchester—A City of Village Charm t w e n t y -f o u r p a g e s — tw o sec tio n s dipulmonary resuscitation advancement of education in This entire program is volun Supervised coasting at Center Springs Park will be from Thomas William Kelly, 40, of Kelly was ordered held on a PRICE: FIFTEEN CENTS (CPR), has been developed by the field of emergency medical tary and offered as a communi 3 to 9 p.m. today. Bristol, turned himself in to the 825,000 bond previously set by a the American Heart Associa services for the public by use of ty service without any charge. FBI in Hartford Wednesday. federal judge. tion. It will be offered in community oriented Northview is open for skiing, and the hours are 6:30 to Manchester on a regular demonstrations. 9:30 p.m. monthly basis during the com This year more than 3,000 Park and Rec officials say skating is not allowed at ing year. people will lose their lives by Charter Oak Park or Center Springs Annex. They say the Weekend Special The CPR program is •jointly suffocation due to an obstructed areas will not be cleared. Jobless Rate Jumps One Point He Needed That sponsored by the Manchester airway. If a member of your Some skaters, however, aren’t waiting for clearing Ro$es dozen *2.83 Association of Independent In family choked or suddenly SULPHUR, La. (UPI) The operations to take place. Today’s front page photo shows surance Agents and the stopp^ breathing, would you case on the docket was that of a WASHINGTON (UPI) - Some 930,000 entered World War II. The government did The number of Americans left with jobs recorded in the construction industry; 10.5 skaters, at Charter Oak, under lights, and on uncleared persons lost their jobs in January, driving not began collecting monthly data on un Veterans of Foreign Wars. know what to do? The CPR man stopped for going 42 miles ice. in January totalled 84.6 million, about the per cent in the manufacturing industry an hour in a 35 m.p.h. zone. up the nation’s unemployment rate by a employment until 1948. same level of employment as August, 1973. The program will be program will teach you what to For outdoor winter sports information, call 643-4700. and 10.2 per cent among agricultural wage presented by instructors from do. When Judge E. W. Thompson full percentage point to 8.2 per cent—the Predicting the current meteoric rise in The department estimates that for each and salary workers. the Emergency Accident- Kenneth Lappen, president of asked how the defendant highest rate since 1941—the Labor Depart unemployment will peak at 8.5 per cent .1 per cent increase in unemployment ap The bureau reported that blue collar Illness Simulation Team, Inc. the Insurance Agbnts Associa pleaded, Thompson got out of ment said today. sometime in 1975, President Ford’s chief proximately 90,000 persons have lost their workers “bore the brunt of these employ his chair, m ov^ around to the With no relief in sight, the department’s economist, Alan Greenspan, conceded jobs. (EAST). Marsh is on the board tion; Ed Stickney, commander ■ Almost Made It ■ ment reductions” with some 1.7 million of of directors of EAST, and an of the VFW; and Kenneth other side of the bench and said Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that Thursday there is not much the ad Virtually all worker groups have been them losing their jobs between September assistant course coordinator for Ostrinsky, chairman of the “Guilty, your honor.” a total of 7.5 million persons were out of ministration can do to bring it below 8 per affected by the recession. Some 1.8 million to January. •h. NEWPORT, Ky. (UPI) - “He kept saying ‘pig, pig’ and cent in the next two years. emergency medical technicians CPR program, wish to remind •**lj Thompson returned to his work in January. Especially hard hit wer^ jobs were eliminated from September to The January unemployment rate for Samuel Oder almost got away (at first) I thought he was at Manchester Community the people of Manchester and chair and fined himself 817.50. the blue collar workers, whose unemploy Averages Forecast January—640,000 of them between adult men reached 6 per cent and the rate with calling two police officers talking to Kenny,” said College. surrounding towns to take ad “I felt I needed to be slowed ment rate rose to 11 per cent. Ford’s budget message last week in December and January—as the nation’s for heads of households was 5.2 per cent. “pigs” when he was arrested Policeman Charles Johnson, EAST was formed in order to vantage of this lifesaving down,” Thompson said The Ford administration has predicted cluded predictions the jobless rate would economy has contracted. Unemployment for nonwhites was 13.4 for being drunk and disorderly referring to his partner — improve the quality of technique. Richard Marsh Wednesday. unemployment will reach 8.5 per cent this average 8.1 per cent this year and 7.9 next per cent, and teen-age nonwhites Wednesday. Patrolman Kenneth Pigg. year and will average near 8 per cent over year when he plans to run for the presiden Hard Hit Areas experienced a 41.1 per cent unernployment the next two years. cy. A 15 per cent unemployment rate was rate. Highest Since 1941 ’The January rate, up from 7.2 per cent in December, far surpassed a 1958 peak of Computation Miscalculation 7.5 per cent and a 1949 high of 7.9 per cent. The unemployment rate has not 'exceeded 8 per cent since 1941, a year in which the average annual rate was 9.9 per Manchester HUD Block Grants cent as the nation began to shake off the While everybody^ talking about it, effects of the Depression and before it Entitlement Cut by $507,000 the bank that listens By DOUG BEVINS But the spokesman said Manchester 000, but revised figures place the three- NEWS would be in a favorable position to apply year entitlement at $2,997,000. f P V f Manchester will receive a half-million for additional discretionary money— over Among other towns affected by HUD dollars less than anticipated under a CAPSULES and above the promised block grants — errors are East Hartford, whose grants takes the first step three-year federal community develop because the town has proceeded in good increase from $1,317,000 to $1,320,000; and ment program, but town officials intend to faith under HUD’s original announcement. Hartford, where the grants drop from $30,- fight for the full amount announced last Ford Meets Advisors Cotter’s spokesman said the apparent 825,000 to $30,801,000. in doing something about it. fall. error in Manchester’s entitlement was The Community Development Act WASHINGTON (UPI) - President Ford The Department of Housing and Urban made during computations of federal signed into law by President Ford last meets today with senior advisers to dis Developmen (HUD) — which administers August makes funds available to com cuss future strategy to counter powerful programs between 1968 and 1972. The funds under the Housing and Community block grants now being awarded are based munities in four ways: First, the block congressional opposition developing Development Act of 1974 — has admitted a on the amount of federal grants received grant entitlements based on previous against his economy-energy program. He computation error which will reduce in those five years, and Manchester was federal programs; second, entitlements to Northview Night Skiing also is expected to attend the swearing in Manchester’s three-year entitlement from incorrectly attributed a federally-funded towns over 50,000 population based on of former University of Chicago President 81,410,000 to 8903,000. relative needs; third, discretionary funds The snow this week was welcomed by advantage of other winter Edward A. Levi as attorney general at the 8845,000 water-sewer program which took However, Manchester hasn’t been of place in South Windsor. available to towns under 50,000 population Manchester’s younger set, especially recreational facilities, too, and go ice Justice Department. The President may ficially notified of the HUD error and town Correction of the computation error, which aren’t entitled to block grants; and those who like to ski on the Northview skating and sledding.