Feds Launch Pot Raids Across U.S

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MonchaHar iUanrl|ratfr Irra lh Phone; 643-1191 o« 643-1900 Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm Monday, Aug. 5, 1985 — Single copy: 254 For All Your Needs • Eoitbroeli Mall, Montfield Phone 456-1141 TRAVEL • INSURANCE iAsrtRN coNHtcricvrs 391 Broad 8t., Manchester B&L Enterprises 646-3425 ItAOtNO FUU S tevtct OFTiaANSI M6-709S ’ ALTERATIONS B&L ENTERPRiSES Ladles A Mens Clothing Done on Premises Feds launch MsHchMicr, Conn. ★ NOTARYITARY SERVICES ★* ^ • SPRAYING • TREE FEEDING « CARE • TREE REMOVAL CCOPIES O P IE S i n c "No Tree Too Small" pot raids • STUMP GRINDING B'/t/•xiroRflVixU" X i r OR 8Vi X 14" * ^ • SNOWPLOWING Ineuroo & Licanaad • Conn Arbonal *2170 Bruce Litvinchyk MANCHESTER MALL Manchester Wm KIv Auctlont • Antlgu* Coln» A Coll*c<lbl«_Shoei 6 4 6 - 3 4 2 5 across U.S. OVER 4 5 MANCHESTER By JudI Hasson interdiction of shiploads of mari YEARS United Press International juana from South America and 5 MEMORIAL CO. EXPERIENCE elsewhere. WASHINGTON - Federal Lawn said domestic growers, Opp Ea*t Cemetery CALL 649-5807 agents launched raids in 50 states many using federal lands as their today in a major program to wipe fields, have been known to place QUALITY HARRISON ST. out domestic marijuana crops booby traps near the crops, such as MANCHESTER harvested on federal lands, and eye-level fish hooks to deter MEMORIALS Attorney General Edwin Meese intruders. But Lawn denied there planned to accompany agents on would be any danger to the one raid. attorney general. B&L Enterprises of Manchester is your local stump grinding specialist. One reporter asked Lawn why “Serving Manchester For Over 50 Years" Justice Department officials, Bruce Litvinchyk, owner/operator takes great pride in workmanship serving Meese was going on the raid, and of however, denied that Meesc’s noted that Defense Secretary Downtown the community professionals and homeowners alike. presence on one local raid, accom Caspar Weinberger did not accom Manchester panied by a platoon of reporters pany Marines when they invaded Pentland The Florist and cameras, was a thinly veiled That is why I per.sonally handle all parts of any job which is performed by the Granada in 1983. 24 BIRCH ST. publicity stunt to dramatize the "This is an operation to indicate • Maternity Clothes* Uniforms company. I am always ready to service your needs from Spraying,Deep-Root TEL. 643-6247 federal government's drug en the intention of this administration forcement effort. • Loungewear • Bra & Corset Fittings Feeding, Tree Removal, Stump Grinding, Dump Truck Serviced 643-4444 to take a serious look at doestic • Breast form for Mastectomy I firmly believe in at least one spring spraying. Even il there is not a heavy in F.T.D. Meese was expected to join marijuana production,” Lawn We also carry the Goddess Bra and festation of any certain insect. There are so many insects that will cause dam MASTER CHARGE agents and fly by helicopter to"a said. "The attorney general’s WORLD WIDE Warners Le Gent Girdle AMERICAN EXPRESS remote area of Arkansas where presence shows the seriousness age to your trees, that could be prevented at this important time of the year. If SERVICE 631 Main St., M anchester 643-6346 there is the need for two applications I would advise it at that time. authorities planned to manually that we In law enforcement con uproot and destroy fertile mari sider this problem.” IDFORD juana crops surreptitiously Lawn said the D E A ’s marijuana 143 Elm Hill Rd., Vernon Trees oan add as much as 30% to the value of your property. There is also a ,OTORS planted by drug dealers. eradication effort was not a new dormant oil spray that will suffocate insects such as scales, mites, mealybugs, "This massive coordinated ef program, but this was the first Listed on Sunday—Sold "Msrk Midford wsnts to DPI photo thrips, psyllids, and certain aphids. To avoid not being serviced ple^ise book fort signals the resolve of the time that raids were being con \ your PersonsI Mschenic" on Monday! You get Action Reagan administration to deal ducted in all 50 states. A any sprays well in advance. Gypsy Moth spraying will assure being serviced at with Jack Lappen the proper time. All chemicals are E PA approved for all spray operations. All Friendly Auto Blast from the past effectively with widespread culti He said authorities hoped to sprays are used around my family, home, pets and neighbors. I will not sell any vation and sale of marijuana destroy 250,000 marijuana plants over a three-day period and service I would not use in my own yard. That 1 can guarantee to you! Garage grown within our borders,” Meese FOREIGN & Singers Joan Baez, left, and Judy Collins belt out an Saturday. It was the first festival in the historic town in 16 said in a statement continue the manual eradication DOMESTIC Please call me if you are having any trouble with your trees or to get your encore finale to the first day of the revived Newport Folk years. Story on page 2. ” We are sending a strong program for the remainder of the Free Estimate on any of my services. I am available to you year round, foryour GENERAL 6 4 6 ^ 8 6 8 Festival in Fort Adams State Park, Newport, R.I., message, both to the domestic growing season which ends some Call Now 643-4263 convenience. There is an answering service available to you 24 hours a day from REPAIRS l « WDOU TWNPKE Win. MMKMiSIBI producers of marijuana, and to the time In October. source countries outside our The raids were conducted on April 1st to Dec. 1st. From Dec. 1st to April 1st, please call any time preferable J bordf rs, that the U.S. government hundreds of preselected sites U Selling? Buying? Building? early mornings or evenings are the best tim e to find me in the office. I am in New England (kwntry Woodworidng, Inc. Thousands flock to Hiroshima takes very seriously the need to where marijuana fields were sured and a Conn. Licensed Arborist »2176. attack the production of this known to be under cultivation. At least 22 of the sites are in national Harris Hardwoods drug.” MARTIN & ROTHMAN. INC. forests and others are on private 260 Tolland Turnpike Meese also said that "too many REALTORS people regard marijuana lightly, property or in private homes. Manchester, CT 06040 EXPERIENCE KNOWLEDGE. TRUST Years fail to dim bomb’s memory wrongly believing it to be on a par The federal eradication effort (203) 649-4663 FOR OVER 15 YEARS with alconol.” directed by the DEA last year Manchester Has It, orial Park. More than 25,500 names walk out on the Geneva negotia Drug Enforcement Administra resulted in the destruction of 13 CALL HIROSHIMA, Japan (UPI) - Commercial & Residential of recently identified bomb victims tions as it did two years ago. tion chief John Lawn, who held a million marijuana plants and the G B Thousands of people streamed into Protesters place will be added to the park cenotaph. briefing Friday for reporters on arrests of 4,941 people. Woodworking & Supplier Hiroshima today to remember ” We encounter on the part of the An estimated 200,000 people died the raids code-named "Delta 9,” Meese is not the first Reagan MinchMter 646-4144 those who died four decades ago in West an absence of readiness to ribbons in capital said 25 percent of the marijuana administration official to person the atomic bombing that opened in the atomic bombing of Hiro achieve a complete prohibition and GENERAL OIL Has It — see page 5 shima when the United States liQuidation of nuclear arms,” consumed in the United States has ally accompany agents on raids. the nuclear age. Chisako Takeoka employed its ultimate weapon to been grown domestically. Labor Secretary Raymond Dono EVERYTHING IN GLASS Connecticut remembered two of them and Gorbachev said in reply to a letter " WE CANT HIDE BEHIND OUR PRODUCT" end the Pacific war, More than from the Japanese Council of He said drug dealers are turning van accompanied agents on a wept. Travel Services 140,000 more died in the bombing of to domestic crops because of the highly-publicized raid of sweat Takeoka was 17 on the morning Organizations of Victims of the Moriarty Oil Company Nagasaki three days later. federal government’s successful shops in New York City. (Inside D&L Store; Lower Level) of Aug. 6, 1945. She was getting hereditary effects of radiation Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima I.A. WHITE GLASS CO. Inc. came to light, Takeoka lost her Nearly 13,000 bomb survivors, or and Nagasaki. ready for a trip to the beach when a "hibakusha,” are expected to blinding light filled the sky and the first child, a son, to radiation The Kremlin leader argued that Manchester Parfcade participate in the ceremonies. unseen blast hurled her through sickness in 1947. a refusal by the West to completely Many still bear physical and 649-7322 Manchester, CT her house into a nearby field.

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