ilanrIjPBtpr Ipralb Thursday, Nov. 23, 1989 Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm Newsstaixl Price: 35 Cents f V Make it a Christmas Road Race 50 $ -jg 9o highlights Puritan "Soft Orion" Sweaters....... • 100% Dupont Orion • Wnshable • 10 Colors the holiday $2490 Robert Bruce Cotton Sweaters. Over 7,000 runners expected *100% 8 t '.iinr*:'. -I argo X Large to participate in 53rd event $ ®° By Len Auster Woolrich Chamois Shirts. 2 2 and Jim Tierney Traditional spaghetti dinner Manchester Herald kicks off the race. Page 14 ~ ' / ' - o i g h t $' 1 As always, Thanksgiving Day in Race has grown tremendously Manchester is very special and very since its inception. Page 15 busy. $2790 The two main events in town Haggar Corduroy Slacks. today will be the 53rd running of the Connection.” jdU. Manchester Thanksgiving Day Road Today’s race could be a clash be­ Race which answers the gun at 10 tween the early ’80s champs (Cogh­ Ultra Suede Sport Coats a.m. sharp on Main Street and the lan and Treacy) versus the late 80s 15th annual East Catholic- champs (Doheity and Greg(»ek). $ 3 6 9 0 Luxurious chammy by Kingsridge $32990 Manchester High football game Also a threat to the Road Race •8 Colors in stock which begins at 11 a.m. at crown will be Irishman Gerry Haggar Tri-Blend Slacks.................. • Reg., Shorts, Longs Manchester High’s Memorial Field. Reg. $400 O’Reilly, who defeated Trcacy in A record field of over 7,000 run­ the Pittsburgh Great Race lOK in ‘ W.ashabK> F"'; ■ . tght - R ty. $ >5 ners is expected for the Road Race. September. The winner will be a difficult call Judi St. Hilaire, the defending Cashmere Blend Top Coats this year with several past cham­ women’s champ and course record pions in the field. Four-time winner $3490 CHARCOAL, NAVY, BLACK holder, is the women’s favorite. Sl B.D. Baggies............. ....................... $25990 and course record holder John Hilaire will be challenged by Raivi •38 to 46 Reg., 38 to 44 Short, Trcacy is back along with fellow Tikkanen of Finland. 40 to 46 Long countryman Eamonn Coghlan, the Treacy set his course record of iOO-t Colton Sport Shirts * Reg. $40-45 Reg. $325 Reginald Plnto/Manchester Herald world record holder for the indoor 21:26 in 1979 while S t Hilaire es­ mile and three-time Manchester tablished her record mark of 24:26 HOLIDAY GREETINGS — First-grader Ashley McGregor, Campfield Road, and Behrman, 5, of 14 Summer St., took Road Race champion. dressed as a Pilgrim, chats with Clayton Behrman, a kinder­ part in Wednesday’s Thanksgiving festivities at the Church of last year. $4490 Botany "500" Navy Blazers For Coghlan, ^is will be his first Despite the weather forecast Pendleton Wool Shirts. garten student guised as an Indian. McGregor, 6, of 82 the Assumption School. All grades participated. appearance in the Road Race since which calls for some sort of • ALL SIZES 1983 when he edged Treacy. Cogh­ precipitation. Race coordinator •M $11990 lan is 3-for-3 in Manchester, having 100%Vlrgln VIT^I • Solids <»falds • Reg. $56 REG. - SHORT - LONG - XLONG Dave Prindiville said the race will Reg.$160 also won in 1981 and ’82. go off at 10 a.m. sharp, and recom­ Defending champ John Gregorek mends ruimers allow themselves and two-time champ John Doherty, JTWKT- extra time to arrive for the start if Shuttle in orbit for secret mission who have accounted for the last necessary. three Road Race victories, are also Process from the Manchester By Harry F. Rosenthal reached orbit nine minutes after launch center as a very bright star in fourth in 28 years of manned space in the field. Gregorek’s victory in There*s No Place Like Regal*s launch and then the system went Road Race enter Muscular The Associated Press the sky even when it was more than flight. Discovery’s timetable was 1988, in the second fastest time Dystrophy research in Connecticut silent. 650 miles away and traveling about dictated by the cargo and its mis­ (21:30) in race history, snapped a For The Holidays “Liftoff of space shuttle Dis­ A total of $30,000 was donated a CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — 6,800 mph. sion. siring of eight consecutive victories Space shuttle Discovery blasted off covery for its Thanksgiving Day As the 100-ton spacecraft rock­ Sources said the 2i/2-lon, $300 by members of the famed “Irish Please see RACE, page 14 ■Jr on a secret military mission Wed­ flight,” said Launch Control’s eted away, the ground at the space million satellite cradled in Dis­ nesday night, staging a brilliant George Diller. Indeed, the center shook and windows rattled. covery’s cargo bay is capable of lis­ astronauts were carrying five meals OPEN SUNDAYS 12 TO 4 'TIL CHRISTMAS ThanlMgiving-eve fireworks show as Clouds of steam billowed out of the tening in on military and diplomatic it rode twin 700-foot geysers of fire of turkey and gravy in their food flame trenches below the shuttle as communications — voice and into orbit. locker. 100,000 gallons of water a minute telemetry — broadcast from Soviet Bush to Gorbachev: “Everything is operating normal­ Night turned into day over the poured out to douse the fire. military installations. The satellite’s ly,” said Billie Deason at Mission central Florida coast as Discovery Discovery’s mission is to put a duty post is to be 22,300 miles over •*7igi|v-'[rif . Control in Houston. flashed to life with a light twice as spy satellite into orbit, but the Air the equator, with line-of-sight to the End the cold war The shuttle lifted almost straight brilliant as the sun. The sky was I^rce gave no details. NASA was Soviet Union, China, the Middle up and headed out over the Atlantic cloudless, the sight dazzling. under instructions to say nothing East, Africa and all of Europe. Ocean, its booster rocket fire carv­ Liftoff occurred at 7:23 p.m. after By Terence Hunt proposed, “we will remain in further about the mission, except to A similar satellite was released on Europe as long as our friends want ing two trails in the sky. a blacked-out countdown made give advance landing notice. a shuttle flight in 1985. The Associated Press Nothing was heard over the public just minutes before launch. and need us.” ^ w M e n’s S h o p The exact schedule, like everyth­ On the last launch after d;irk, the Bush hailed Gorbachev as “the public communications channel At two minutes after liftoff, the ing else about this 32nd shuttle mis­ fiery trail of the shuttle’s two solid WASHINGTON — President from Col. Frederick D. Gregory, the spent booster rockets fell off; ships Bush, calling the changes sweeping dynamic architect of Soviet reform” “Quality and Style Since 1940" sion, was secret. rocket boosters could be seen alone and said that in Malta, “I will assure shuttle commander. NASA provided were wailing below to recover them. a 700-mile strip from Chailcston, Eastern Europe “a joyful end to one This was the third night launch in him that there is no greater advocate launch commentary until Discovery The shuttle still was visible at the the shuttle program, and only the S.C., to Key West, Fla. of history’s saddest chapters," on 903 Main St., Downtown Manchester Wednesday urged Soviet President of perestroika than the president of Mikhail S. Gorbachev to work with the United States.” Perestroika is Thanksgiving Weekend: Open Fri. and Sat. 'til 5:30, Sun. 12-4 him at next week’s summit to “once Gorbachev’s beleaguered program 1 and for all end cold war.’’ to restructure his country’s faltering economy. There*s no need to be alone and hungry In a Thanksgiving-eve speech broadcast to the nation from Camp Bush said that as the nation heads into a new decade. “I am reaching come families, the retarded, people with physi­ David, Bush pledged there would be By Nancy Foley serve all those people. The menu will also in­ “no surprises sprung on our allies” out to President Gorbachev, asking Manchester Herald cal disabilities and the elderly. clude imported cheese and caviar, homemade him to work with me to bring down Many of the elderly who have attended in the at the shipboard summit in the fish chowder, fruit salad, carrots, peas, yams, waters of the Mediterranean off the last barriers to a new world of It will cost you only one smile to attend the past have families that care about them but who potatoes, gravy, stuffing, homemade bread, freedom. live out of slate, Kissman said. In some cases, Malta. Community T ^ksgiving dinner this year and homemade desserts, cider and orange sherbert. “We will miss no opportunity to organizers promise you’ll get more in return. senior citizens come from convalescent liomcs. All of the food for the meal has been donated Though a Thanksgiving dinner is provided at expand freedom and enhance the The annual dinner, sponsored by the and will be cooked by volunteers, Kissman said. peace. And to those who question Manchester Area Conference of Churches, will the homes, they prefer to come to the com­ Guests will be allowed to take home any left­ munity dinner because of the entertainmont our prudent pace, they must under­ TODAY be held at St. James School, 73 Park St., at over food and will also be given gift packages stand that a time of historic change 12:30 p.m.