PAGE SIXTEEN - MANCHESTER EVENING HERALD. Mmcheiter. C6nn.. Fri.. Jin, i, 1876 Directors to consider police, transpo needs The weather Obituaries The informal meeting the monitor and improve existing ser­ In the meeting with (3iief Lannan, pain this afternoon ending Umi|d>t. Manchester Board of Directors will vices and would establish long-range the directors will be briefed oo the becoming colder. High in iq>per SOs, conduct Monday has been moved out objective^ to the year 2000. At Ue range of services by his department, Suming IkraUi Mrs. Mae S. Von Deck Mrs. Marie Gauthier low In 20s. Sunday variable cloudiness, Mrs. Grace Sweeney on vacancies in the ^police depart-' COVENTRY - Mrs. Mae Strange of the Municipal Building and into the same time, it would develop short­ windy. H i^ in 20s. National weather Mrs. Grace Delano Sweeney, 73, of Mrs. Marie Aurore Gosselin Police Station (in the second floor ment, and on the status of the police Von Deck, 77, of School St. died this term plans to fit the long-range goals forecast map on page 8. Maneheiter—A City of Village Charm 14F McGuire Lane, died Thursday, at Gauthier, 67, of 204 Broad St. died classroom). morning at Windham Community in progressive steps. budget. Manchester Memorial Hospital. She Wednesday at Hartford Hospital. She At 7:30 p.m., the directors will Memorial Hospital, Willimantic. She was the widow of Harry W. Sweeney. was the widow of Louis Gauthier. meet with the Advisory Committee MANCHESTER, CONN., SATURDAY. JANUARY 3, 1976 - VOL. XCV, No. 79 TWELVE PAGES - WEEKEND INSIDE PRICE I FIFTEEN CENTS was the widow of Harry Von Deck. She was bom in St. Louis, Mo., and She was bom in Biddeford, Maine, on ’Transportation Needs, to discuss She was bom in Manchester and had lived in Manchester for the past and had lived in South Windsor the 50-page report which culminated had lived in Coventry for 15 years. 12 years. before coming to Manchester two- the committee’s year-long study. Survivors are 3 daughters, Mrs. She is survived by a son, Jerry B. and-a-half years ago. She was a com­ At 8:30, the directors will meet Report ‘CIA army Virginia Wagner of Coventry and Sweeney of Houston, Tex.; a brother. municant of St. Bridget Church. with Police Chief Robert Lannan, to Mrs. Helen Hill and Mrs. Sharon Sterling Delano of Larchmont, N. Y.; Before her retirement five years discuss the various facets of police I News I Pro-Western forces Ragoll, both of Willimantic; a sister, a sister, Mrs. Addie Farrell of New ago, she was employed as a machine operations and to hear Lannan’s Mrs. Helen Coleman of Coventry ; 7 operator at the former Whitney for Angola denied Rochelle, N.Y.; and two recommendations for future needs grandchildren and 11 great­ grandchildren. diain Co., now part of Dresser In­ and funding. I summary | grandchildren. dustries, Inc. She belonged to the United States.” The funeral is Saturday at 9:15 Tlie transportation committee has BOSTON (UPI) — Some American a.m. from the John F. Tierney ’The funeral Is Monday at 8:15 a.m. Manchester Grange, and Qiapter “According to these sources, who make gains in Angola recommended that a permament from the Potter Funeral Home, 456 ex-servicemen and South Viet­ are close to th U.S. Central CompHed from Funeral Home, 219 W. Center St., 1275, American Association of citizen committee be established for Jackson St., Willimantic, with a namese are being recruited into “he Intelligence Agency, the CIA is in­ United Pi%BS International with a Mass at St. Bartholomew’s Retired Persons. defining transportation needs, for By ERIK VAN EES demoralized. The prisoners reported­ the Benguela rail link. Mass at St. Mary’s Church, Coven­ CIA’s undercover ‘army’’’ for directly recruiting American ex- Church at 10. Burial will be in St. Survivors are a daughter, Paulette setting local standards and for United Press Internalional ly told interrogators that Cuban of­ The sources also reported the try, at 10. Burial will be in St. Mary’s Angola, The Christian Science servicemen, training them, dis­ James Cemetery. Kidd of Manchester; a brother, Rene working with other local, regional, Despite a massive arms buildup by ficers had to shoot some deserting seizure of large quantities of Soviet Cemetery. Monitor reported today. ’The govern­ patching them to southern Africa, Friends may call at the funeral Gosselin of Southin^n; two sisters, state and federal agencies. State the Soviet-backed forces in Angola, Popular Movement soldiers. weapons, including rocket batteries, Friends may call at the funeral ment said it’s not so. contributing towards their pay (via home tonight from 7 to 9. Mrs. Albina LeBel of Manchester and ’The committee concluded the town the civil war in the West African na­ About 500 Russian military ad­ armored cars, armored personnel home Sunday from 7 to 9 p.m. In Washington, both the White funds for Zaire and Angoia’s two pro- ^ s . Rose Boulanger of Hartford; should have a comprehensive, intra­ BRIDGEPORT - Ten tion appears to be swinging in favor visers are in Angola, but they stay House and Uie State Department West factions) and providing them carriers, antitank guns and mortars. ^nd five grandchildren. town, public transportation system Bridgeport companies slipped of pro-Western forces. well clear of fighting fronts, the cap­ Mrs. Mabel Swagirt issued statements saying te story and the indigenous forces with tight The allied military sources expect ’The funeral $s Saturday at 9:15 for servicing major employment $600,000 to city officials in ad­ Military sources with the pro- tured Cubans said. the Atlantic port of Amboim, 250 Mrs. Mabel Swagirt of 333 Bidwell Wilbur J. Hodge was untrue and "totally without foun­ and heavy weaponry,” the articte a.m. from the Samsel-Bassinger areas and major shopping areas. In vance tax payments to help Western army said Friday the recent In Moscow, the Soviet Union today miles south of Luanda, and the near­ St. died Wednesday at a Manchester Wilbur J. Hodge, 85, of 856 Tolland dation.” said. ’ Funeral Home, 419 Buckland Rd., addition, it would transport school them out of a cash-flow jam deaths of Cuban regulars fighting for called for an end to foreign military by town of Gabela to fall to the ad­ convalescent home. She was the Tpke. died Wednesday at a local con­ TTie front-page story by David South Windsor, with a Mass at St. children to some schools and would but then asked their names be the Marxist forces along with other intervention in Angola. widow of Irvin Swagirt. valescent home. He was the husband Anable was based on “contacts with “Some 300 Americans are already vancing pro-Western forces in the Bridget Church at 10. Burial will be meet heath, social and recreation kept secret because it was a strategic losses have demoralized The Communist party newspaper next few days. She was born in Auburn, Mass., and of Mrs. Ruth Noble Hodge. senior mercenary officers familiar operating within Angola,” the in St. Mary’s Cemetery, Hartford. needs. bad business practice. ’The city the Popular Movement for the Pravda said the Soviet Union was lived most of her life in Hartford and Mr. Hodge had lived in Glaston­ with the situation both in Angola and sources said. ‘"They all left the U.S. They said an armored column of Friends may call at the fu^ral The permanent committee would faces a possible $2 million Liberation of Angola. assisting guerrilla forces there only Farmington before coming to bury all his life before coming to within the past three months or so.” anti-Communist troops was bombar­ home tonight from 7 to 9. deficit by the end of the fiscal The sources said 90 Cubans have to thwart "aggressive en­ ding forward Cuban defenses around Manchester six years ago. She was a Manchester two years ago. Before year in June because of been killed and 16 captured since Oc­ croachments from outside.” (Quibala, a vital pointsin the Popular member of St. Mary’s Church, Far­ retiring 21 years ago. he was sagging property tax collec­ tober. They said at least 1,600 The tide of war in the former Por­ Movement defense controlling the mington. employed as a stationary engineer at tions. Popular Movement soldiers were tuguese colony appeared to turn with main access road to the site of a She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. the J.B. Williams Co. of Glastonbury. Mrs. Alice Gustafson killed and another 400 taken prisoner the capture of the railroad town of major hydro-electric station. Marion Stephenson of Bolton; four He was a member of St. James Mrs. Alice Gustafson, 63, of 14 I REDEEM THESE SUPER HARTFORD - State in swirling battles on three fronts. Teixelra de Sousa on New Year’s The sources estimated the current grandchildren and five great­ Church, Glastonbury. Lawton Rd. died this morning at auditors have criticized the In one assualt at Quibala, 250 miles Eve. fighting strength of the Popular grandchildren. Other survivors are a son, Alfred Manchester Memorial Hospital. She reinstatement of Drug Ad­ south of the Marxist-held capital of The victory gave the pro-Western Movement at some 25,00 men — ’The funeral was this afternoon Hodge of Manchester; a brother, was the widow of Arthur J. Gustaf­ FOOD MART COUPONS Luanda, 50 Cubans were killed on National Front for the Liberation of about 35 per cent of them foreigners, from the John F. Tierney Funeral Chester Hodge of South Glastonbury; son. visory Council director Walter Dec.