FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1698 PAOB T^nSNTr-FOUR Defiy Net Pram Ran St. John’s Polish National Fair' Hie Week Ended ' T he Weather About Town Catholic Church will have the April «, IMS Fair tonight. Low near 60. Sun­ Blessing of the New Fire, Holy Straughan to Retire; ny and warmer tomorrow. I9gh Junes B. McCtovem Jr., son Water and Candle tomorrow at 76 to 80. 7 ;S0 a.m. at the church. On Sun­ ot Hr. end Mrs. Junes B. Me* 15,425 day, there will be the Proces­ Testimonial May 3 Mtmehe»ter— A CUy of Village Charm Govern of S7 Elsie Dr., has been sion of Christ Resurrected be­ bledged to Adelphlkos Fra­ fore the 6 a.m. Mass, and a Assistant Fire Chief Sedrick J. Straughan is retirtag ternity at Grove City (Pa.) Col­ VOL. L X X X V n , NO. 165 (TWELVE PAGES—TV SECnON) MANCHESTER, CONN., SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1968 AdverUehig on Flaee t) PRICE TEN CENTS high Maas will be celebrated at April 80 after 45 years of consecutive sendee mth the lege. A 1M7 graduate of Man­ 10:80. chester High School, he Is South Manchester and Town Fire Depptmenw. Straughan, who is 65, began his career as ^fireman in majoring in business admini­ The executive board of the stration. Women’s Club of Manchester 1923 with the South Manchester Fire Department will meet Monday at 8 p.m. at which became the town department in 1966. Miss Ellen Boatman of 14 the home of Mrs. George Cave- His friends and associates B52s Hit Enemy Hawthorne St. has been named don, 206 Ludlow Rd. Mrs. John are honoring him with a tesrti- Clues Found to the dean’s list for the first Fletcher will be co-hostess. mnnial. May 3 at 7 p.m., at the semester at Butler University, Manchester Country Club. The Indianapolis, Ind. Sunset Rebekah Lodge will everrf is open to men and wom­ en. Tickets may be obtained at In Five Air Strikes meet Monday at 8 p.m. in Odd any o f Mancheater’a firehousee Airman Robert C. Keenan, Fellow Hall. Refreshments will SAIGON (AP) — American The raid was aimed at soften­ and from Clarence Foley, at 85 ing up an enemy troop concen­ In King Case son of Mr. and Mrs. Allan R. be served. Members are re­ B62 bombers pounded enemy Hollister St. The general chair­ Keenan Sr. ot 202 Hollister St., minded to bring articles for a positions up and down South tration for an attack by a South recently completed Air Force man o f the testimonial is Fire­ Vietnamese regiment. When the bingo. Vietnam In five missions today Basic training at L>ackland man Ray Thompson. government troops moved inp MEMPHIS, Tenn. (A P)— ^FBI agfents have uncovered Chief Straughan knew in sdter killing 200 Viet Cong sol­ AFB, Tex. He has been assigned Members of Sunset Rebekah they clashed with an enemy “very substantial” physical evidence as they work 1913, when he was 10 years old, diers In a rare strike In the Me­ to the Air Force Technical Lodge will meet tonight at 7 :80 force of unknown size and re­ “around the clock pursuing every lead” in the search that he was destined to be a kong Delta, the U.B. Command Training Center, Chanifte AFB, at the Holmes Funeral Home, ported killing 12, taking five for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassin, says Atty. fireman. In that year, he was a said. 111., for training as an aircraft 400 Main St., to pay respects prisoners and destroying an en­ Gen. Ramsey Clark. student at the old Ninth Dis­ The B62s, which fly too high mainentance specialist. to the late Mrs. Mary L. Craw­ emy radio station. Government “The FBI is devoting every possible resource to this trict School, which stood oB^Ed- to be seen or heard from the losses were reported as one ford, a member.- , ucatlonal Sq., Main St., where investigation,” Clark said. While it remains impos­ Re^rvatlons for the Omar ground, dropped tons of explo­ killed and four wounded. sible to predict when the killer will be arrested, I re­ Bennet Junior High now stands. sives Friday on enemy troop Shrine Club special meeting The executive committee of So far in the war, the Strato­ main hopeful that it will be soon.” A fire broke out in the 23- concentrations, weapons posl- Tuesday at Willie's Steak House Nutmeg Forest, Tall Cedars of fortresses have flown perhaps A Justice Department spokes­ room school and, by the time it are still being accepted. The Lebanon, will meet Monday at Uotu and a storage area In Vinh only a dozen or so missions In man said the statement issued ^vas brought under control, the speaker will be Karl Wallenda 7:80 p.m. at the Masonic Tem­ Btnh Province, 74 miles south­ the delta. One of today’s raids In Washington Friday night, school and two adjoining of circus fame, the "Flying west of Saigon, military spokes­ (Jlark’s first public pronounce­ ple. houses had burned to the was an attack deep in the delta Wallendas." The meeting is at men said. Girl Marine ment on the case In' five days, ground. He decided then and against an enemy base camp 6:30 for a social hour, and din­ Jehovah’s Witnesses will have SedrM c t . Stiwgliaii South Vietnamese troope re­ was In response to newsmen’s there to be a fireman. training area and bunkers near ner at 7:80. Reservations can ported finding 200 Viet Cong queries. a service of the Lord's Last modem Manchester history and Rach Gla, about 140 miles be made with Hal Turklngton Meal tonight at 7:80 at King­ Straughan is a Manchester bodies when they swept through In P ro test is often consulted for unrecorded southwest of Saigon near the But Clark, like FBI officials, or Herb Kingsbury at The native, the son of ihe late Way- the area four hours after the dom Hall. events. He is much sought af­ Gulf of Slam. refused to answer newsmen’s Herald. land K. and Ruth E. eight-engine Stratofortresses Straughan. He is a 1921 grad­ ter for master-of-ceremonlcs as­ The other raids today were questions. “ All I can say is no Gibbons Assembly, Catholic struck. against enemy buildup areas Loses Rank comment," said Robert Jensen, The Teen Dance scheduled for uate of Manchester High signments. Ladies of Columbus, will meet On Dec. 81, 1928, he was mar­ If their count Is correct, it is west of Kontum City In the cen­ .... ________ special agent In charge of the tomorrow at the Manchester Tuesday at 7:48 p.m. at Wat­ Scihool. WASHINGTON (AP) —An at- Memphis FBI office. He became a volunteer fire­ ried in Southfield, Mass, to the the largest number of enemy tral highlands near the Cambo­ Teen Center has been canceled. kins Bros., Main St., to tour the tractive 21-year-old blonde Ma­ man In 1923 and a part-time reg­ former Marlon Ward of that trooTM ever reported killed in a dian border, near Khe Sanh and In New York, the Daily News The next Teen Dance will be newly decorated store. Miss town. The couple resides at 114 single B62 mission In the nearly southwest of Hue. rine who refused further mili­ reported today It had learned held Saturday, April 20, and ular in 1937, when he served as Barbara Savitsky will speak on Washington St. three years the giant bombers tary service on grounds she op- Lbat the FBI had definitely es- the dances will be held each a "bunker," sleeping In the fire­ In air raids against North “ Interior Decorating," after the The Straughans have twro have been supporting allied tabllshed that the white Mus­ Saturday night until the end of house at night and driving the Vietnam, U.S. headQuarters poses war and killing, has b e e n ................................................. .. tour. truck to fires. He was appointed daughters: Mrs. Charles F, forces in South Vietnam. tang sports car abandoned in July. ssdd the new F lllA swlng-wlng ordered restricted to barracks, a full-time, paid fireman in 19- Young Jr. of 136 W. Vernon St., But many B62 raids are not fighter-bombers resumed com AUanta was the same car seen The Rev. Walter Loomis, pas­ fined and demoted for disobey­ 39 and, in 1954, was appointed and Mrs. Kenneth Gordon of followed up by allied ground bat missions after being ground­ driving away from the murder Manchester Rotary Club will tor of Community Baptist assistant chief. Vernon; and six grandchildren. sweeps. The B62s have concen­ ing orderk. scene after the assassination. meet Tuesday at 6:80 p.m. at Church, will conduct a service ed since March 80. He calls the Wells St. Armory trated (»i enemy strongholds In Cpl. Mary Elizabeth Burns The Dally News said wit- the Manchester Country Club. Sunday at 8:16 a.m. on radio The suspension of F lllA com­ fire in March 1969 the most the central highlands and the was convicted Friday In a sum- messes in Memphis gave InvesU- After the supper meeting, the station WINF. The service is bat missions came after two of (Herald photo by Bucelviclus) spectacular he has fought and northern border area. mary court martial held In gators the licenser enumber of the group will leave for a tour of sponsored by the Manchester the $6 million aircraft were lost nearby Arlington, Va. rates a twrin fire in the Main The U.S.