12—MANCHESTER HERALD, Monday, June 24,1991 Gunmen Little Miss 1565 J attack; finally laid to rest iianrljfBlPr SOUTHAMPTON, Mass. (AP) the Ringling Bros. Bamum & TUESDAY 9 dead — The body of 8-year-old NEWSSTAND; 350 Bailey Circus on July 6,1944. JUNE 25, 1991 t w e l v e p a g e s - TWO SECTIONS Manchester, C T ^ A City of Village Charm MEDELLB'^, Colombia (AP) — Eleanor Cook was buried in a As photographs of her beauti­ Volume 110, Number 227 HOME DELIVERED: 300 Hooded men shot and killed five family grave this weekend, ful, barely marked face appeared A S S A*ss V Ay .> v ^ ^ M -* * * people and wounded two others in a several months after the 1944 in newspapers year after year on working class neighborhood of Hartford circus fire victim known the anniversary of the fire, the Medellin early Sunday, police said. for decades only by her morgue child known as Little Miss 1565 They blamed anti-crime vigilantes. number fmally was identified. became a haunting symbol of the u In another attack, tour people “In this brief but intense mo­ tragic day. When she was not identified in Compost project could steal LL home were shot and killed, their bodies ment we say both ’Goodbye,’ and left just outside the city on the high­ ‘Welcome home,’” the Rev. the fire’s aftermath, she was By NICOLE LOZIER is adjacent to the current composting site. than ever before,” he said. way to Bogota, according to a police Robert Gardner said at the funeral buried in Northwood Cemetery at Hartford’s border, alongside five Manchester Herald Little League President Edward Dettore said he is confident The league had problems last year because a field in Buck- ■ Lots of money saved on report. Police said they didn’t know Saturday. “‘Goodbye,’ because the town would build another field to replace Leber, if the ex­ other unidentified victims of the land was too wet for use. who was responsible for that attack. we must; ‘Welcome home,’ be­ MANCHESTER — Town officials plan to meet with Little pansion is approved. bus contract.......... Page 3. fire. About the same time, some The present two-acre composting area is adjacent to the dog cause that is where you are. At League ^resentatives to discuss an expansion of the town’s Also, league officials are hopeful the replacement field will 50 miles away in Southampton, pound on Thrall Road, across from the town’s landfill. The Police said the assailants in the long last, we have fo u ^ you.” composting area, a project that would eliminate Leber Field. be accessible from the street like the other fields, said Dettore. ■ Council addresses ram­ her little brother Edward, 6, was compost area is mainly used for recycling leaves into a reuse- first attack were believed to be “We are just in the talking stages,” said Lee F. O’Connor Jr., Leber is set back in the woods and, because of its location, has pant drug abuse__ Page 3. EleandrCook lost not only her . buried in the family plot in Center able soil supplement for conditioning and fertilizing. N members of a vigilante group life but her identity in the 1944 highway and samtation administrator. “We are a long way from been a target for vandalism. An initi^ application has been sent to the state to request formed to rid the neighborhood of Cemetery. He had died the day fire that killed 168 and injured making a decision” on the possible expansion. However, Dettore does not want the expansion to be a source funding for the expansion project, which would not increase thieves, drug addicts and other after the fire, but no one knew the ■ Coventry to fete vets on 500. For nearly 47 years, she was Leber Field, with one baseball diamond, is one of two major of contention between the league and the town. “Our relation­ criminals. None of the victims were connection. July 4th........... Page 3. known as “Little Miss 1565” after league fields and 10 total Little League fields in Manchester. It ship with the Parks and Recreation Department has been better identified. Their mother, Mildred Cook, Please see LEBER, page 6. the number her body was given at now 85 and living in Eas- _ Th« A»tocW»d Pr**s the morgue. M A S S A C R E V IC TIM — Police officials prepare to remove the body of Hader Agudelo from The cartel’s leader, Pablo Es­ thampton. Mass., was unable to Eleanor was trampled to death attend her youngest son’s funeral the scene of a massacre in the slums of Medellin, Colombia, Sunday. Agudelo was one of cobar, surrendered Wednesday and is staying in a luxurious prison out­ by panicked spectators when the or identify her only daughter’s Woods rejected five young men killed in the same house overnight by a group of vigilante gunmen. side the city. fire broke out during a matinee of body. Stray spark Nation/World Briefs... in Coventry; caused blaze BOLTON — A spark from a welding torch has been iden­ Majiva Ngubane, his wife and four of their children search for 9,000 allied military personnel listed as miss­ Volcano spews ash cloud Bush on Sunday flashed a thumbs-iq) gesture and said, tified as the cause of a fire that were killed when gunmen burst into their house in Eden- ing in the cmiflict. “Yes,” when reporters called out to him, “Is Sununu stay­ MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Mount Pinatubo dale. Natal, the scene of repeated black factional clashes density marked gutted the Bolton Auto Body Coupled with the Communist government’s recent ing?” and “Will you keep Sununu?” shop and destroyed three cars blasted ash more thm six miles high today, darkening the in recent years. promise to allow international inspections of its nuclear But the president, returning from a weekend at Camp Friday, officials said today. sky as the last group of U.S. troops and dependents who A woman at the home also was killed, and the facilities, the transfer was seen as an indication of the reduction did not meet the town’s David, Md., did not stop to elaborate as he strode to the By RICHARD RANGCX3N A worker who was using the were ordered evacuated headed for home. couple’s 7-year-old son was seriously injured in Sun­ north’s desire to improve relations with Washington. White House from his helicopter. Manchester Hersdd required specifications. Also today, thousands of air travelers left Manila as day’s attack, police said. “We appreciate your efforts to unearth the remains,” Also, high water tables would be torch had shut it off and left it He has kept silent on new disclosures that Sununu had unattended near the car, said flights resumed after crews cleared nmways and equip­ Police confirmed 12 blacks killed in Richmond, also in said Sen. Bob Smith, R-NJI., at ceremonies at this bor­ COVENTRY — A proposal to vulnerable to the septic systems in furnished incorrect information to the White House legal Fire Marshall Peter Maassolini, ment of volcanic debris. the eastern province of Natal, on Sunday night. Peace der village 30 miles north of Seoul. “This may be a his­ construct a 63-lot subdivision off such a high density project, mem­ counsel regarding his travel on a corporate jet and had of the Bolton Volunteer Fire Today’s eruptions spewed ash up to 33,000 feet high talks scheduled for today in the area, between the rival toric occasion and a positive step to improve relations.” Merrow Road "was unanimously bers said. The plan infringed on part solicited use of the plane in violation of the counsel’s Department. and it rained down over the rich farmlands of Pampanga African National Congress and the Inkalha Freedom Smith said North Korea and the United States had defeated by the Planning and Zoning of a 75-foot regulated area to guidelines that he not do so. Before the worker left the and Tarlac provinces northeast of the 4,765-foot volcano. Party, were postponed after the killings. agreed in principle to form a committee to search for the Commission Monday evening. separate a wetland area from the Dozens of eruptions since June 9 have blanketed the Another three people were killed in a nearby township servicemen and women still unaccounted for from the Instead Bush left it Firiday night to the counsel, C, The commission rejected the 78- land to be developed. garage area to go to building’s countryside with deep ash and forced the evacution of on Saturday, police said. 1950-53 war. Boyden Gray, to clamp yet another set of restrictions on acre development, to be called According to Director of Planning office, he had been doing body Sununu’s travel. Clark Air Base, about 10 miles east of the volcano, home More than 6,(XX) blacks have died since 1986 in They include American, Canadian, Austrialian and Coventry Woods, primarily for Diane Blackman, the commission work on the driver’s side of the to 15,000 Air Force personnel and dependents. nationwide violence, with the majority of the deaths in British citizens. Administration officials say there is no sign the presi­ reasons stemming from excessive believes in the concept of a housing car, Massolini said. The spark Natal. dent will seek Sununu’s resignation. housing density, members reported. project comprised of single-family apparently ignited something in­ side the car. South African gunmen kill six Bush backs embattled Sununu But Newsweek magazine reported in this week’s issue The developer, Greenscape homes, but not with the specifica­ Development Corp., planned to tions submitted.