PAGE SIXTEEN - MANCHESTER EVENING HERALD, Manchester, Conn., Mon., March 22. 1976 St. James Centennial SnTEENTAGES Manchester — id Gily o/ ViUage Charm TWO sam oN S MANCHESTER, CONN., TUESDAV, MARCH 23, 1978- VOL. XCV, No. 147 rites set PRICE* FIFTEEN CENTS By SOL R. COHEN Herald Reporter T h e A L L F R S St. James Church and Parish of Manchester will'celebrate is 100th Anniversary May 16 with Archbishop John F. Whelan of Today’s vote crucial the Hartford Dioscese the chief ceiebrant. Archbishop Whelan will participate in a 4:30 p.m. concelebrated Mass. At 6:30 p.m., a parish banquet will be held at The for Wallace, Reagan NOW account for people Colony, Talcottville. A highlight of the Centennial Celebration will be dedication RALEIGH, N.C. (UPI) - Presi­ year and second in the South — was promised to climb during the day. Point television station showed Ford of . a 40-foot-high steel tower dent Ford and Georgia’s Jimmy considered crucial to keeping alive Scattered early returns showed and Carter leading, but also disclosed (topped by a 6-foot-high cross) Carter put their presidential primary the badly damaged Reagan and more voting than anticipated, but in­ a large number of undecideds as late on the north lawn of the winning streaks on the line in North Wallace campaigns. dications were that the final turnout as last weekend. church. It will house a new Carolina today against upset Near perfect early spring weather would be under 40 per cent. Record carillon and the church's challenges from Ronald Reagan and dominated the state from the Atlan­ voter registration had showed high repaired and electronically George C. Wallace. tic coast to the western mountains. None of the candidates were in the interest in the presidential match­ state as North Carolina voted. Ford refurbished bell. The bell was The North Carolina primary — Early morning temperatures ups. knocked down during the 1938 sixth in the Bicentennial election hovered around 50 in most areas and was in the White House; Reagan was A late poll conducted for a High confused about NOW hurricane and has b ^ n out of campaigning in Wisconsin; Wallace commission ever since. The was home in Montgomery, Ala., and bell, carillon and tower will be Carter was headed for a fundraiser in 2 dedicated and blessed by St. Louis. Archbishop Whelan. Cost-cutting only reason The bell is in Cincinnati, Ford’s sweep of the primaries in being repaired by the Verdin New Hampshire, Vermont, Bqll Co. of that city. Massachusetts, Fiorida and Illinois St. James Church was for possible school closing left Reagan under intense pressure to dedicated in August 1876 with abandon the campaign and desperately hoping to turn the tide in 3 the Rev. Father James Kennedy listed the options because backs in case directors don’t restore By DOUG BEVINS North Carolina. Campbell the founder and first Herald Reporter Town Manager Robert Weiss cut the $300,000. pastor. He was the founder and $300,000 from the school board’s Plans to close South School aren’t "South School is a school close to Beaten in Florida and humiliated first pastor also of St. Bridget budget request. The manager’s new, Thomas said Monday night. “ It people’s hearts,” Board of Education in Illinois by fellow southerner Church. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. recommendation isn’t final and the (school closing plans) is something Chairman Allan Thomas said while Carter, Wallace banked on today’s Edward J. Reardon is the 1976-1977 school appropriation will be that always happens at budget time,” explaining why the board has con­ primary to recoup his fortunes and seventh pastor St. James decided by the Board of Directors, he said. sidered closing the school. keep him alive as a potential broker Church has had and has served but Kennedy said the school board Administrators estimated that "It’s a good facility. It provides a at the national convention. the church since 1963. should begin looking at possible cut­ good education. But closing it is one '■■■'.................. See Page Eight Attending the May 16 way to cut a budget,” Thomas said. An' G e t celebration will be several Thomas was answering questions ^Yvvt),e /> 0 former curates of St. James, raised by several people attending USA including retired Bishop Vin­ Monday night’s school board meeting cent Hines of Norwich. He was in which a variety of cost-cutting MHS students well prepared curator at St. James Church measures were explained by school and served also as principal of administrators. St. James School. An architect’s sketch of The possible closing of South The church and parish according to Kennedy report School — the smallest elementary numbered about 200 families the proposed bell tower 9g for St. James Church school in town with just 57 students in when they were dedicated in By DOUG BEVINS , graduation statistics for the Classes education, changes in Selective Ser­ which will replace one kindergarten through Grade 3 — was 1876. They number.about 2,000 among several alternatives listed by Herald Reporter of 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 and 1975. vice laws (avoiding the draft is no families today. '"iSTpi destroyed in the 1938 School Supt. James Kennedy as The Manchester High School From 1971 to 1975, the percentage longer a consideration), and a *»fVo hurricane. measures that could be taken to (MHS) program has prepared most of MHS graduates going on to further general “disenchantment” with a balance the 1976-1977 school budget. students for either the world of work study declined from 68 per cent to 61 college degree. sM per cent. Kennedy attributed the Students entering the armed ser- or further education, School Supt. * 1 / James Kennedy told the Board of decline to increasing costs of college See Page Eight .D o ti Education Monday night. ^ 6 !• ars In a continuing' report about stu­ o ? Coventry market destroyed dent learning and achievement, Kennedy said 93 per cent of the 1975 h a graduating class has been successful £ o o By MONICA SHEA located at the site of the present women’s auxiliaries from the Coven­ in furthering their education, News summary //* Herald Correspondent Tom’s 5 and 10. In 1965 the Zollo’s try fire departments. entering the armed services or Compiled from United Press Internetlonal Zollo’s Supermarket at the bought their own building across the Also on the scene this morning was joining the labor force. A Meadowbrook Shopping Center on street from Tom’s and operated a James Kemper, a representative of The learning and achievement Rte.44A was destroyed this morning store there until 1970 when they the Sweet Life Company and the reports began two weeks ago when SAN FRANCISCO - Patricia by fire. moved into Meadowbrook. Springfield Sugar Company, Zollo's Kennedy described testing and State Hearst’s lawyers failed in an The store had employed about 25 main supplier. With Kemper was the evaluation programs and said test Richard Cooper, chief of the North HARTFORD — Police were attempt Monday to prevent her persons, most of them Coventry company’s insurance representative results in Manchester are better than Coventry Volunteer Fire Depart­ planning today to start transfer to Los Angeles before residents. Elliot Steele. national averages. The reports were ment, said this morning, “We don’t replacing those pink parking sentencing for her bank Roger Bellard, chief of the South Neither man had any comment on prompted tjy "hard line” questioning know what happened. At this time we tickets they have been putting robbery conviction. Coventry Fire Department, said, the fire. are trying to determine the cause of by town directors studying the school on car windshields with 17,500 "We are trying to get the town to The fire alarm was called in by the blaze. board's 1976-1977 spending plan. appeals for public support of ASPEN, Colo. — Singer- require fire walls between all units of Police Officer Walter Solenski at “We called in Richard Galinat, the Kennedy’s report compared after- the police. The police had been actress Claudine Longet was new construction that would go 24 in­ about 12:40 a.m. town fire marshal who in turn called issuing tickets in an effort to told Monday she will face Here at First Federal Savings we’ve cleared the And to top it all, we pay you 5% on your NOW ches above the root line. The store and all the stock is total­ the state fire marshal. build sympathy for police in criminal charges of at least This fire here is a good example of ly destroyed. The roof of the store ’"There is very little damage to the their contract dispute with the misdemeanor neglect homicide air about NOW accounts, and what they really cost. account balance, so there’s always money coming in how good a fire wall is. There was collapsed into the building and the Inside today adjoining stores.When we got here the city: but a union official ad­ in the shooting death of her very little damage to the adjoining steel beam roof supports were store was fully involved and it took us mitted Monday, the blitz may lover, ski star Vladimir We’ve done it with the all-free NOW account. No its, even while you’re paying out. stores because of that tire wall.” twisted by the intense heat of the Area news.......11 Editorial ............4 five hours to get it under control.” have backfired. "Spider" Sabich. Coffee, donuts and breakfast was fire. Classified ... 13, 14 Family............... 6 The fire call came in at about 12:40 Comics...........