PM3E FOURTEEN - MANCHESTER EVENING HERALD, Manchester, Conn., Tues., Aug. 3, 1976 O b itu a riM V i . , The weather ^ Inside today Sieplien A. MikoloWgky Mra. Christine N. Harvey William J. Turkington I - " ’ ^ :1 Fair tonight, low in the 50s. Mostly Stephen A. Mikolowsky, 19, of 41 Mrs. Christine Nelson Harvey, 82, William J. Turkington of Sarasota, * ■ . ••• -s J sunny Thursday, high in upper 70s, low Area news.......12 Family..........20 Alexander St. died as the result of in­ of 30 Griswold St. died this morning Fla., formerly of Manchester, died 80s. Precipitation probability zero Business...........,.27 Kitchen..........19 juries received when the motorcycle at Manchester Memorial Hospital. through Thursday. National weather Classified — 14-16 Obituaries ......... 18 Thursday at a motel in Georgia on his tjThe Bright : Comics............... 17 Sr. Citizens.........3 he was riding collide with a car Mrs. Harvey was born Dec. i 1893, way home from a visit in forecast map on Page 15. TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES early this morning on Center St. in Manchester where she lived all her Dear Abby.......17 Second Thought 19 Manchester. TWO SECTIONS MANCHEST»R. CONN., WEDNESDAY. AUOOSTH, UTO - VOL: XGV, No. 260 PR ItE i FIFTEEN CENTS Editorial ............4 Sports......... 10-11 life. The funeral and burial were in The operator of the motorcycle, Before her retirement many years Florida. Richard L. Brown, 21, also of ago, she was a timekeeper at Cheney Mr. Turkington was born in Manchester, was also killed. Bros. She also worked at G. Fox & Manchester and attended local Co. in Hartford and at Manchester schools. Scientists seek cause Mr. Mikolowsky was born March Memorial Hospital. 23, 1957, in Manchester. He was a He was employed with the U.S. She was active in Girl Scouts and Post Office in Manchester until member of the Class of 1975 of had served as a commissioner with Manchester High School. moving to Florida about 10 years the organization. She was also a ago. He was employed at Alcar Auto member of the American Association He was a member of Manchester Mystery disease toll Parts in Manchester. of Retired Persons and the Lodge of Masons, a past most He leaves his parents, Daniel J. Manchester Senior Citizens. excellent high priest of Delta and Olga Krenisky Mikolowsky. Survivors are a son, John Harvey Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, and a The funeral is Thursday at 9:30 of Atlanta, Ga.; a daughter, Mrs. past Grand Tall Cedar of Nutmeg a m. from the John F. Tierney Charles H. Hamilton of Manchester; Forest, Tall Cedars of Lebanon. continues to mount Funeral Home, 219 W. Center St., five grandchildren and four great­ He leaves his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth HARRISBURG, Pa. (UPI) - emphasized that no possible cause with a Mass at 10 at the Church of the grandchildren. Elleson Turkington; two sons. Dr. dition, Allegheny County Coroner Federal and state scientists working had been-ruled out. Assumption. Burial will be in St. The funeral is Friday at 9:30 a m. Roger Turkington and William Cyril Wecht Said an elderly in sealed laboratories today tried to Besides trying to pin down the James Cemetery. at the Holmes Funeral Home, with Turkington Jr.; a brother Austin Legionnaire died at 3; 15 a m. today isolate the agent responsible for the cause of the ailment, doctors were Friends may call at the funeral the Rev. Felix Davis of Second Turkington of Manchester, and two at Presbyterian-University Hospital home Wednesday from 2 to 4 and 7 to Congregational Church officiating. swift-acting disease that has killed at watching anxiously for possible in Pittsburgh. James Sikes, 78, had sisters. - J- - ' 9 p.m. Burial will be in Grove Hill ..r'- least 21 persons and hospitalized spread of the illness to those who attended the convention and Wecht The family suggests that those Cemetery, Rockville. scores of others in the wake of an were not among the 10,000 people, said the symptoms of the disease wishing to do so may make memorial Friends may call at the funeral American Legion convention. who attended the state American “fits the picture completely" of gilts to the Manchester Memorial home Thursday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 A b o u t to w n The first break in the around-the- Legion convention in Philadelphia previous deaths in the strange case. Hospital Development Fund. p.m. clock effort to solve the medical July 21-24. Physicians said most of those who The family suggests that those mystery was expected Thursday “We are praying right now that we died had high fevers and died in wishing to do so may make memorial when test tube analyses of tissue don’t have secondary shock with extensive pneumonia. gifts to the American Cancer Society The Westhill Gardens Club will specimens taken from victims should developments," said Dr. William E. The outbreak mushroomed Monday or the Cystic Fibrosis Association. meet Friday at 1:15 p.m. in Herr­ start producing results at state labs Parkin, chief of the epidemiology and health officials were puzzled by mann Hall on Bluefield Dr. in Philadelphia and the federal section of the state's communicable the severity of the symptoms. Infant McDonald Center for Disease Control in Atlan­ disease control office. “If this is Dr. Jay E. Satz, director of the Infant Casandra Mikel McDonald, • LM * • ■* ta. going to be something new and division of virology at the two months old, of 1911 S. Bryan St., exotic, we’d just as well not see it Philadelphia Bureau of Laboratories, Melbourne, Fla., died Thursday at Olympic hopefuls at Verplanck Pool Scientists said the scanty evidence again.” said he had never seen anything like New Friendly’s coming available suggested a virus of some The state Health Department said Brevard Hospital in South Brevard, Swimmers are again enjoying the refreshing waters of Verplanck Pool, which opened this before. He said the rapid series Fla. Charter Oak entrance project under way kind was responsible, but they 20 deaths had been confirmed and 115 of developments was “ new and Graveside services were held Mon­ A new Friendly’s is coming to Officer Ernest Machell said the Friday. The pool had been closed for resurfacing and repainting. The new paint has caused other cases had been reported. In ad­ frightening” day at Fountainhead Memorial Park, Manchester. parking and drainage for the facility the surface around the pool to become slippery when wet. Lifeguards have been warning Work has started on improving the entrance to Charter Oak Park. Director of Public Works Melbourne, on Monday. The proposed restaurant will face will have to be approved by Town swimmers to be careful and report that, although a few falls have occurred, there have Jay J. Giles said part of the roadway into the park is being shifted and the entire entrance is She was born May 14, 1976 at Center St., on property between Engineer Walter J. Senkow. been no serious accidents. An entrance ramp at the shallow end of the pool has been being repaved. Southeast Paving Co. of West Hartford is doing the work at Charter Oak Sniffer’ dogs used in search McKee and Dougherty Sts. The land Melbourne, the daughter of Mr. and covered with a rubber mat to prevent any slippage problems. Rizzo Pools, which did the Park, as well as repaving work at the the Municipal Building parking lot. Giles said both Mrs. Stephen W. McDonald. is now vacant. If this approval is granted, then the Other survivors are her paternal The building will cover 4,069 Friendly's Corp. will have to bring a renovations, said the surface should become less slippery once it is worn down. If not, they jobs should be completed within two weeks. (Herald photo by Pinto) grandmother, Mrs. Ruth McDonald square feet and a surrounding second plot plan to the Building will refinish it after the swim season ends. (Herald photo by Pinto) for bodies of flood victims of Palm Bay, Fla., formerly of parking lot will include 76 spaces. Department for granting of a building permit. Manchester, her maternal grand­ A preliminary plot plan of the LOVELAND, Colo. (UPI) - out and then dig them up with the into the canyon from the west. mother and her great-grandmother structure was filed with the Building Machell said the building will Block grant fund allocations Bulldozer crews followed specially bulldozers,” State Patrol Sgt. John Crews, using dynamite to blast the Department. Zoning Enforcement require no zoning variances. trained '‘snUfer’’ dogs through Big Kelly said. canyon walls into the flood plain, Thompson Cllnyon today to retrieve Permits to return to their homes pushed the road nine miles into the Town, banks discuss loan program more bodies from waist-deep mire were issued to residents of the area canyon. given okay by town directors and tangled debris along the river. and roadblocks were manned by the Searchers swept into the canyon State Patrol to prevent looting. Some Tuesday when the clouds finally Director of Human Services Alan $74,(X)0 for the program, and has block grant funds to pay the Survivors tried to find loved ones No discrimination reported the development of a transportation Phyllis Jackston said, "What is our residents returned to what was left of broke and found mud-caked bodies, N. Mason and Town Manager Robert applied for a secondary grant of difference between the bank’s rate By GREG PEARSON missing since the weekend flash system, monitor and improve the obligation to private property? We’re their homes and cabins to begin most of them women and children, B.