PAGE TWENTY - EVENING HERALD, Mon.. August 20, 1979 Meeting Slated t ‘Mother of Mulch’ Technology and Change Nyad Already Talking New Information Delays Red Sox Outfielders On Parking Lot Newspaper Course Topic About Swim from Cuba Hospital Budget Hearing Aim for Hitting Titles Doing It Her Way Page 5 Page 8 Page 9 VERNON -T h e Board of Directors of the Rockville Page 2 Area Chamber of Commerce will meet with the Pruden­ By JAMES V. HEALION ripe old age? tial Board of Union Congregational Church on Sept. 10 to “I don’t know if I ever thought of how REDDING (UPI) - Ruth Stout, the discuss the church board's decision not to allow use of old I would get, but I would have been sur­ "Mother of Mulch,” says living to a ripe church property as a means of egress from a proposed prised if I found out I was going to be 97 Hanrljratpr old age isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. “I’m town parking lot. and still be alive. I’m 97 and it is just too 97 and it’s jqst too old,” she says. Fair, Fog Tonight, The parking lot to be behind the Fitch Block on Union old. That’s pretty old, pretty old.” street is a project of the chamber and the chamber had Still she chuckles about it. > ' Sunny Wednesday “The way that I feel these days, is that Think of the changes you have seen. asked for the right-of-way through the parking lot owned “You are right. You’re right about by the church on Elm Street. if I knew there was a certain person that OatRlI* on pago 2 saved my life I would say, ‘My Lord, what that.” The chamber board wants to meet with the church Have you done everything you wanted board to provide further information and to answer f did they do that to me for?’” She lives in a 300-year-old house by the to? questions of members of the church. “There are a few things in life I haven’t side of the road with wide floor boards, a Lynn W. Anderson, church moderator, said he told the done and when people ask me why I lived-in look, and a stone fireplace. She chamber in a letter that it seemed to him that the haven’t — why I’ve never driven a car, I still keeps a garden with a little help from parishioners are primarily concerned about safety fac­ say ‘How do I know?’ I just don’t know. India Crisis tors. , , her friends. Mrs. Stout is famous for taking much of Just never got around to it. 1 guess I Anderson also said that the church must re-evaluate thought — and it probabgy would have NEW DELHI, India (UPI) - the use of the church annex due to the recent decision of the work out of gardening with her mulch President Neelam Sanjiva Reddy idea, which she first circulated in 1953. been true — that I wouldn’t be good at it. 1 <N8aww*-- the Rockville Public Health Nursing Association not to never did drive a car. Never in my life. met with a series of political use the building for its offices. She advocated using "spoiled hay” to keep leaders and constitutional experts gardens moist and weed free. It also No.” Lynn told the church board that he feels the issue is im­ She doesn’t believe in dwelling on that today to deal with the most U.S. Mulls portant enough so that members of the church and enriches the soil when it rots. which can’t be helped, a lesson learned in serious crisis since India gained It was one of organic gardening’s finest members of the chamber should understand the situation childhood when her grandfather saw her independence 32 years ago. clearly. ... hours. looking out a window and crying because The crisis was precipitated by He urges board members and church members to at­ Mrs. Stout has written several books, the resignation Monday of Prime among them “The Ruth Stout No-Work her brothers’ dog had been killed in the tend the meeting. road. Minister Charan Singh after Garden Book,” and “It's a Woman’s former Premier Indira Gandhi Policy for World,” the last written in 1960, the title He said he wanted to show her something and he pointed to some budding withdrew her vote an hour before expressing an independence that was hers a crucial vote of confidence in long before women’s lib was a gleam in its roses. Her mood swung once she saw them Pond Water Test Checking Data and grandpa said to her, “Thee was Parliament. founders’ eyes. looking through the wrong window” Singh had formed his govern­ Robert Parsons, is getting to be a familiar figure to Bolton residents She was one of nine children born to She was 16 when prohibitionist Carry ment only 23 days earlier, on the Palestinians Said Inadequate as he is about town these past few weeks checking on the data Kansas Quakers. Her brother, Rex Stout, strength of the support of 73 votes later became famous as the creator of Nation arrived in Topeka to put the fear of collected by the appraisers who are doing the town’s 10-years revalua­ God into some local guzzlers and point controlled by Mrs. Gandhi. Nero Wolfe, the outsize fictional detective Political observers say Reddy V T ' . SOUTH WINDSOR -Town Manager Allan 'Voung said tion. The appriasal work is being done by United Appraisal Co. (Herald them toward righteousness and the Glory WASHINGTON (UPI) - The ad­ be clear, well defined, and not who cultivated orchids. was seeking a way to form a new vague.” the testing of the water at Spring Pond was “totally in­ photo by Adamson) Road. , t e ministration today began an inten­ “I love for people to come here with a government without calling fresh But Israeli officials rejected the adequate” and recommended that the Recreation Ruth joined Carry and smashed a saloon sive review of its policy on the lot of questions. The reason 1 love it is that elections. A general election Palestinian issue and its effect on idea out of hand and said if the Department be stripped of its pool maintenance respon­ my answers may be terrible, but if they window. Carry went to jail, Ruth to Sunday could bring Mrs. Gandhi — who long-term peace prospects in the United States pressed ahead with it sibility. want to come here and ask me a lot of was defeated in 1977 and no longer they will withdraw from the current In a report to the Town Council, Young said Recreation Senority Last Issue school. volatile Middle East. questions — it makes it look as if 1 know holds a seat in Parliament — back Director James Snow should be responsible for the un­ Ruth Stout has had a variety of jobs. Special Ambassador Robert peace talks. what I’m talking about,” she said. to power. Strauss Monday returned empty- The deadline for the policy review sanitary water conditions at the pool. The unclean water What advice would you have for people Once she worked as a shill in a vaudeville forced the town to close its only public swimming area mind-reading act. When that folded, she handed from a three-day trip to is the scheduled debate in the U.N. in coping with life? Israel and Egypt and said both sides Security Council, set for Thursday. last week while workers drained and refilled the 1.6 On State Police Pact “Most people are awfully good at opened a tearoom in New York’s Energy Help By coincidence, the normal rota­ million gallon pond. Greenwich Village, where she met her object to new U.S. ideas on the about 150 state troopers to the State Police coping. I'm not trying to be funny, the only tion of the gavel means the council Young suspended Snow for a week, without pay, MERIDEN (UPI) — Negotiators for the late husband, Fred Rossiter. CLEVELAND (UPI) - More Palestinians. Training Academy. Ruffino said once the reason 1 believe that is because 1 just want president in the debate will be Am­ because Snow allegedly knew of the water’s conditions state and the union representing 900 state She once took it in her head to go to I than half of the 50 states are He arranged to meet at the White final contract is drawn up, negotiators to believe it. It would be terrible if it bassador Andrew Young, center of a and left for an out-of-town appointment without acting on police this week will discuss a kay issue Russia — the name of one of her books was providing local energy cost- House this morning with Vice Presi­ weren’t true.” llll^l"ll'3fii^ni*^iillll 11^ mil' I -■ swirling controversy over U.S. policy the test results. He also recommended that the town the union says must be resolved before will talk with small groups of troopers “I Did It My Way,” and the year-long trip assistance programs for the dent Walter Mondale, Secretary of Is writing bard work? toward the Palestine Liberation sanitarian and the Public Works Department be responsi­ troopers finalize a tentative contract. before the ratification vote. was just another reflection of her lifelong needy but there is no coordUiation Police cars and spectators gather in front Monday afternoon. Police have a young man State Cyrus Vance and presidential “ I don’t think so.