PAGE TWENTY-EIGHT — MANCHESTER EVENING HERALD, Manchester, Cwin., Mon., June tt, ll>73 Plans Started in 1969 Childs Marvels' SESQUICENTENNIAL y For Lord Mayor Visit At Long Parade WEEK I SOL R. COHEN Richard Martin, then town VOL. x e n , No. 226 manager. He brought his two (Herald Reporter) MANCHESTER, CONN., TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1973 Hef and his family are addition to adopting budgets June 23 ■ 30, 1973 Manrhestvr^A City of Vilhfr,, Charth SOL R. COHEN To 92-year-old Richard S. daughters on that ^ i t . TWENTY-TWO PAGES PRICE: FIFTEEN CENTS required to move into the Town and making policy, ctmsists of Childs, vdio left his hometown He has the two daughters, Hall, where the living quarters the various agencies and com­ (Herald Reporter) of Manchester to 1892, “when it five grandchildren, five great- i include five bedrooms. missions required in city was a cattle town,” and who grandchildren and, “at last * Schedule of Events Although the City of The Lord Mayor and his wife government. The town clerk count, four or five great-great- Manchester, England knew returned Saturday to par­ have two daughters—21 and 16. and his assistants, in addition to ticipate to a celebration of a grandchildren.” four years ago that its Lord Lord Mayor Collis was in the administrating the city govern­ town “now grown up,” the His wife the former Grace Tuesday, June 26 Mayor and Lady Mayoress United States once before — a ment, have a great role in marvel of the long parade was Hatch, died 11 years ago. Mr. wouid be guests of few weeks ago, when he spent recommending programs to the “the remarkable popular and Childs lives to an apartment to Dean Quizzed four days in New York on council. Brooklyn Heights, N. Y. which Senators Manchester, Conn, the week volunteer turqout of the peq>le. Beard Judging Contest - VFW Home, 7:30 p.m. behalf of BOAC (British "It was a delightful overlooks the East River. A of its Sesquicentennial Bike Route Ride to Historical Markers - 7 - 9 p.m., starting •1-?. Celebration, it didn’t Overseas Airlines Cor­ experience for an oldtimer like housekeeper assists him. Population Drops at Municipal Building. know untii a month ago who poration). This is the first visit me, back to my hometown after This year, he received an for his wife. Ex-Counsel To President the Lord Mayor and Lord Boardman said the population so many years,” he said while honorary degree of Doctor of Band Concert by Salvation Army Band - Center Park - 7 Misses Work of what is known as the City has Laws from Lehigh University. watching the parade from the P.M. Premiere performance of Manchester Sesquicenten­ Lady Mayoress would be. Although thd Lord Mayor is dropped almost 200,000 in re­ Mr. Childs said he is proud he The English city’s 132- reviewing stand. “I’ve never nial march. Gives Version OLWatergate elected to a one-year term only, cent years, because of a low- seen anytotog like it. I saw one had something to do with member council elects a there are, at present, only 12 cost, low-income housing other parade as big as this in placing the council-manager Coleman Amusement Rides, Parkade, 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. Lord Mayor each year — for WASHINGTON (AP) - John living former Lord Mayors. redevelopment program under­ Moscow, but never before to an form of government in over 2,- Historical Exhibit - Whiton Library, 1 p.m. - 6 p.m. dent in. connection with ” ... It just became an Instant only a one-year term. This Lord Mayor Collis said he taken in the area. The housing American town.” 300 cities and towns. W. Dean 111 testified today that Watergate. Cheney Homestead - Special Exhibits, 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. he believes White House aides I way of life,” he said. ” ... And I year it elected Kenneth enjoys his position as a is being constructed in the sub­ Mr. Childs was to Moscow to “Towns have given it up and “My opiiiion is that he would participated in it.” He said he returned to it,” he said. “They probably relayed to President Collis, on the City Council welcome relief from the hustle urbs, under government loans. view the 50th Anniversary report everything he knew in acted on instructions from have changed their forms of Wednesday, June 27 Nixon information about the since 1951 and an alderman and bustle of politics. What he He said the average, monthly celebration of the Russian some form to Mr. Haldeman,” Haldeman, former White House does miss, he said, is his en­ rental for the hosulng Is |60, the Revolution. government because they dis­ An Evening with the Performing Arts (Manchester High Watergate wiretapping and im­ Dean said. since 1971. mediate cover-up. aide John D. Ehrlichman and Back in 1969, when plans forced year’s absence from his same ratio to wages as low-cost “Sure they had a big parade,” agreed with individuals ad­ School) 8 p.m. Dash then asked whether other officials. work. He is a mechanical American housing bears to ministrating the government. The ousted White House were being started for this he said. “But, for someone like Haldeman would have reported Dean said in retrospect he engineer, employed by American wages. Tliey found they were wrong, counsel clearly labeled that as me who’s people-oriented, Historical Exhibit — Whiton Library, 1 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. word of the wiretap and should have done more to stop year’s Sesquicentennial, AEIGES, an engineering firm He wasn’t asked about the and they returned. I can say an opinion, and claimed no there’s no comparison. Their Cheney Homestead - Special Exhibits, 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. coverup. to'toe President. the wiretapping plans when Nathan Agostinelli, then in Stratford. Watergate affair but parade was put on by the categorically that the council- firsthand knowledge that the “I believe he probably would mayor here, wrote to the manager government is the Colenjan Amusement Rides, Parkade, 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. President knew in advance of they were first proposed in his The 13!^member City Coun­ volunteered the observation, government — at it’s expense. have reported it,’’'Dean presence. Manchester, England City cil, whicn elected him Lord “Politically, the opinion is that, best toere is. I should know. toe Watergate operation. 2 Here, the people were involved replied. In a statement read befor^ Council and issued an invita­ Mayor, consists of 99 councilors if it had happened in England, I’ve lived with it more years Thursday, June 28 And later Dean told the — they planned it, they par­ After accusing Nixon and his the committee Monday, the (3 from each of 33 wards and the government would have than anyone else.” State Lottery drawing (Main St.) 10:30 a.m. Senate’s televised Watergate tion to the Lord Mayor and ticip ate to it and they spent top aides of covering i!|) toe fired White House counsel elected by the people) and 33 , fallen.” M. Childs was hosted by Mr. hearings that he thought it un­ Lady Mayoress to attend. money on it. It was an extraor­ Products Show (Manchester High School) 5:30 -10:30p.m. Watergate wiretapping affair. droned through his long- Authorised Visit aldermen (1 from each ward He said there has been little dinary exhibition.” and Mrs. Thomas Monahan Parachute Exhibition (Manchester High School) 7:30 p.m. fair to ask him for opinions on Dean returned to the witness while to Manchester, Saturday such matters. awaited account of how a third- The City Council voted to and elected by the councilors). reaction to Watergate among Mr. Childs said he was im­ chair to answer questions about and Sunday. Monahan is Historical Exhibit — Whiton Library, 1 p.m. - 6 p.m. rate burglary grew into a authorise the 1973 visit. It voted The 99 councilors serve for the general population in pressed by the horses — “not Nonetheless, under toe 245-page statement he read Manchester building inspector. Cheney Homestead — Special Exhibits, 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. questioning by committee massive conspiracy to head off also to authorize the visit of the three years and the 33 aldermen England. many of them around to toe ^ n a te panel Monday. Mrs. Monahfh’s father, the late counsel Samuel Dash, he a potentially disastrous scan­ town clerk or his agent. Town for six. Lord Mayor Collis, Boardman, commenting anymore.” Coleman Amusement Rides, Parkade, 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. Pressed about his own role in dal. when his one-year term is up,, further on the low-cost housing Mr. Childs, recognized Robert S. Binkerd, was to toe offered them. Cierk G. C. Ogden couldn’t Hike - Case Mountain - 5 p.m. the cover-up of campaign in­ “No one involved was willing will return to his duties as program in the Manchester, nationwide as the father of the Yale University class of 1904 Dean testified that Gordon volvement in toe wiretapping at arrange the trip for himself and with Mr. Childs. “Ten Nights in a Bar-Room” - 8 p.m., (Community Y, 80 N. to stand up and account for alderman. England area, said there was council-manager form of Strachan, aide to H. R. Democratic headquarters, toe he designated Leslie Board- Mr. Childs requested copies Main St. themselves,” Dean said. The Incidentally, he didn’t bring, much opposition to it among the government, has written a Haldeman, the former White former presidential lawyer said man, one of his five assistant of The Herald containing toe ar­ 34-year-old lawyer, by his own town clerks, to represent him.