PAGE FOURTEEN-B— MANCHESTER EVENING HERALD, Manchester, Conn., Wed., Dec'. 22, 1976 MS The weather Inside today Mostly cloudy, chance of snow Area news .. .10-11 Family.............. 6 Three days before Christmas in Sam Jones^ doll house flurries, high in mid 30s. Partial Classified___ 15-16 Gardening........ 2 clearing tonight, lows 15-20. Partly sun- Dear Abby.......17 Sports...........U-U nv, windy, cold Friday, high around 30. Eklltorlal ............. 4 National weather forecast map on Page 1«. not a creature was stirring, not even a By BETTY RYDER purchased by area residents and then Huge oil slick moving scale and come complete with sent to their daughters or & When Sam Jones of Vernon found treads. himself out of work after 40 years in His furnishings include ladder-back grandchildren in St. Louis, Mo. and the transportation business, he just chairs with woven seats, four-poster Ohio. Locally, we are using the couldn't remain idle. So, he turned beds, dressers with drawers that Hidden Barn in Bolton as an outlet, toward Georges Banks his hand to making doll houses and open, kitchen cabinets, bathroom and did display some bf Sam’s work at the Hebron Fair," Irene said. miniature furniture. fixtures, and even fireplaces. knowledge. The Coast Guard turned Interest in miniature homes is NANTUCKET, Mass. (UPI) - The situation is as “serious as it That was two years ago, and now, "The quilts, sheets and pillows are Raw winter winds today nudged a the information over to the nation of growing, Sam says. possibly could be,” Regional En­ Sam, an. inspector at the Purdy Corp. made by my wife, Irene, and when an 100-mile-long oil slick from the Liberia, where the ship was "The National Association of vironmental Protection Agency Ad­ in Manchester, continues to bring joy item needs decorative painting, she crushed tanker Argo Merchant closer registered, for investigation. Miniature Enthusiasts had only 15 ministrator John McGiennon said to young and old with his reproduc­ does that also," he said. toward the rich fishing grounds of the William Schell, operations members in 1953; now it has 7,500.” Wednesday. tion of houses in various sizes and Irene works part time for Cronin- Georges Banks. The manager of Triship, the Greek manager for A.C. Lombard's and shapes. Cook Associates, Inc. in Ellington Someday, when he's armed with a 1 Polaroid camera, there's a house in Southwesterly winds whipping over agents of the wrecked oil tanker Argo Sons., Inc., the Boston agent for the "I always enjoyed woodworking," and shares her husband's interest in the oil-blackened Nantucket Shoals ship, Wednesday refused to comment Glastonbury that Sam hopes to get on Merchant, said today in Athens that Sam said. “When I found myself with woodworking. kept the slick, which resembles the captain of the vessel was not at about how the ship ran aground. “If time on my hands, I started making "The onlv trouble is 1 can't get him film. masses of 20-foot black pancakes, the owners have indicated that they “ I'd like to build one like it the helm when it ran aground and dis- miniature furniture and then houses. bobbing “in a roller coaster fashion” counted reports the ship was don’t want these matters public, then someday, but just haven't got around My father, who is 82 and lives in between the Georges Banks and the deliberately beached. I won’t teli,” he said. to snapping it yet," he said. If Framingham, Mass., is still busy Massachusetts resort coastline. “We hear all sorts of things when Rear Adm. William Benkert, chief building doll houses. Ambitious, as well as talented, A Coast Guard spokesman said an accident like this happens but they of the Office of Merchant Marine “I made 25 houses last year, 16 of Sam is going to make his own design are far from truth,” Capt. Stelios Safety, said Wednesday the Coast which were for Christmas," he said, for a salt box house. today there was an overnight shift in winds which "would push anything on Madias said. Guard received a telephone call from plugging in his radial saw in his "And someday 1 want to bujld a “We were not there to know all the a man who identified himself as 2 the surface of the water” to the workshop at his home at 92 Brent Rd, real Victorian house of the late 1800- details, but we know that when the either “M. Labir” or “M. Sabir,” a One of his most recently completed 1900 vintage with all the trimmings,” north-northeast in the direction of the Georges Banks. Navy divers ship ran aground, the captain was Pakistani national, and said he was a houses is Victorian-style which was Having talked with Sam and toured alleep in his cabin and the ship was crewman on the tanker. purchased by Alice McKay of 47 his comfortable workshop. I'm cer­ today were to examine the ocean floor near the tanker to see if oil has being skippered by a second mate. It "He stated that the vessel was old t White St. and she has all six rooms tain his authentic Victorian house sunk to the bottom. was during the 4 a.m. to 8 a.m. and leaking and may have been completely furnished. ». will soon become a reality. watch,” Madias said. deliberately beached, with the "It takes me about two weeks in to make a doll house for me. Just as Coast Guardsmen were to go A man who said he was a crewman owners’ knowledge,” the Coast my spare time to complete a house,” soon as he makes one, it’s sold," she aboard a section of the bow still on the Argo Merchant tipped the Guard said. 3 Sam said. "Of course, a lot depends said. above water to determine its condi­ Coast Guard Wednesday that the The Coast Guard confirmed that an on the type of house I'm building. Sam's houses average about 575 but tion and to see if oil was still trapped tanker may have been run aground M. Sabir of Pakistan was a member "For a while, the chalets were he has made several that cost many inside. deliberately, with the owners’ of the crew and was taken to Nan­ ‘SI quite popular, but interest is running dollars more. tucket from the stricken ship. toward the Cape Cods and the old "It all depends on the type of house The 23-year-old ship, with a record Victorian-style houses." he added. a person wants. Sometimes I have to Califano to head HEW of numerous maritime mishaps, was Sam is very particular about draw the plans myself; sometimes I 10 miles off course when it went details inside, as well as outside the work from a photograph.” aground on Nantucket Shoals, about house. "The one 1 made for Mrs. McKay 27 miles from Nantucket Island, last He makes actual window sills in­ is electrified and that involves more Wednesday. side so that plants may be placed on work," he said. Carter completes "We don’t have the authority or them, and his stairs are sized all to Doors are opened on the Victorian-style doll house built by Not much is left to the imagination responsibility to investigate this when Sam completes a house. Even Sam Jones and purchased by Alice McKay. because it happened in international the inside walls are papered or wood cabinet selections waters," Benkert said. “It is not in paneled. our jurisdiction.” If the Liberian "The furniture is made of cherry PLAINS, GA. (UPI) - Jimmy be approved by the Senate before government requests an investiga­ wood which I get from California, Carter today picked Washington taking office, tion, he said, the Coast Guard could and although I have done some up­ lawyer Joseph Califano to become Califano’s appointment left Carter step in. holstered pieces, I try to stick mainly HEW secretary, James Schlesinger with two women — one of them black In Liberia, a spokesman for Presi­ to wood furniture,” he said. — in his Cabinet. There are no other Familv/Travel Editor to help guide national energy policy dent William Tolbert said, “We have "Some of the houses have been and TTieodore Sorensen to head the blacks among the 11, although U.N. not heard of these allegations” and Central Intelligence Agency. Ambassador-designate Andrew would "refer the matter immediate­ At his sixth news conference in Young, a black, will hold Cabinet- ly to the maritime safety agency and nine days, the President-elect com­ level rank. it will be investigated.” pleted his 11-member Cabinet with Carter promised during his cam­ the selection of Califano to head the paign to appoint members of minori­ Department of Health, Education ty groups to high government posts. and Welfare. Califano, 45, was a He said recently there were many Post offices Great Society program adviser to assistant secretary and un­ Lyndon Johnson. dersecretary posts in government closing early agencies which could be filled by Former Defense Secretary minorities. Schlesinger, 47, will serve as “assis­ on Friday "Joe Califano will do an outstan­ tant to the President” in the White (Herald photo by Pinto) ding job of correcting defects in the If you have anything to mail, do it House to deal with a national energy Department of Health, Education An early Christmas present problems, Carter said. before 3 p.m. Friday. E and Welfare,” said Carter. All branches and substations will Schlesinger will help develop a “1 think HEW is the people’s close at that hour, said John It’s a real happy Christmas this year for Mr.