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the the the a a a a Rockville Coventry Man Awarded Divorce For Desertion ROCKVILLE, Oct. 3 (Special) -Albert B. Bouffard of Covenwas granted a divorce by Judge Howard R. Alcorn, in Tolland County Superior Court, on a cross complaint, charging desertions, of from Alice Coventry. V.

Bouf- Mrs. Bouffard was granted custody of two minor children and $10 per week support for each, with Bouffard having the right of reasonable visitation. Very little other business was done at the session Wednesday at which only court cases were scheduled. There will be a short calendar session Friday with four divorces and domestic relations cases scheduled. These include Verna S.

Lee vs. Frederic A. Lee, in which additional alimony, contempt and modification of custody are asked; Josephine M. Taylor vs. Harry A.

Taylor, motion to defendant's rights of visitation; Edith K. Scribner vs. William G. Scribner, alimony during litigation and counsel fees, and Doris F. Cromie vs.

John L. Cromie, contempt and modification of visitation rights. Tolland County members of the State Bar Association are urged to send in their cards as soon as possible for the annual meeting banquet at the Hotel Statler in Hartford, Oct. 22 and 23. There will be no court session held on Tuesday, Oct.

23. Mrs. William F. ho*ring Mrs. Clara Gebhardt ho*ring, 74, wife of William F.

ho*ring of 124 Prospect St. died Tuesday night at Rockville City Hospital after a short illness. She was born Oct. 3, 1872, in Germany, daughter of the late Karl and Wilhelmine Scheller Gebhardt, coming to this country as an infant, and living in Rockville for 63 years. She was a member of Union Congregational Church.

Besides her husband, she leaves a daughter, Harvey Miller of Wethersfield; a son, Harold ho*ring of Rockville; a brother, Henry Degenkolbe of Rockville: four sisters, Mrs. ArLudke, Mrs. Elsie Enes and Mrs. Francis J. Prichard, all of Rockville, and Mrs.

Anna Starke of Springfield, and five grandchildren. The funeral will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at the Ladd Funeral Home, with the Rev. Paul J. Bowman, pastor of Union Congregational Church officiating.

Burial will in Grove Hill Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home today from 2 to 9 p.m. Percy L. Cooley Percy L. Cooley, 63, of Boxford, formerly of Rockville, died suddenly Tuesday at the Yale Club in New York City where he was vacationing.

He was born in Rockville, Nov. 18. 1892, son of the late Frederick J. and Nellie Cady Cooley. During World War I he was a sergeant in the Army Medical Corps.

He had worked THE HARTFORD COURANT: Thursday, Oct. 4, 1956 are to be provided with the dens necessary. Parental is asked. There will be membership rally on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the Vernon Methodist Church on Route 30.

Scouts and Brownies The Vernon Town Executive Committee is planning a full program for Brownies and Girl Scouts this year. Mrs. Douglas Hess is committee chairman; Mrs. Charles Whisler, assistant chairman; Miss Marjorie Stephens and Mrs. John Rogers are in charge of arts and crafts; Mrs.

Julia Connor of publicity; Mrs. Vera Boucher, secretary, and Mrs. Norman Dunnells, treasurer. There will be five Brownie Troops and two Girl Scout Troops. Mrs.

George Poole will be leader of Brownie Troop 1 and Mrs. John S. Mason assistant; Mrs. Raymond Horton and Mrs. James Davis are co-leaders of Troop Mrs.

David Dougan leader of Troop 6, with Mrs. John B. Shea as assistant leader. Mrs. Noel Kloter will be in charge of Troop 4, assisted by Mrs.

Gilbert Hunt and Mrs. Arthur Poirier: and Mrs. Raymond Barr of Troop 7 with Mrs. John Stankovics as assistant. Girl Scout Troop 5 will be for fifth and sixth graders with Mrs.

Fred Recave as leader and Mrs. Edward Brace and Mrs. Matthew Petrue assisting. Troop 3 for seventh, eighth and ninth graders will be led by Mrs. Charles A.

Warren, with Mrs. John McLeod and Mrs. Ralph Tyler as assistants. Brownies and Girl Scouts will hold their first meetings Wednesday at the Vernon Elementary School. Anyone interested in helping with the program is asked to call Mrs.

Douglas Hess, as more volunteers are needed. Evening School Eighty-five persons registered for classes in the Rockville Evening School, Tuesday night, Supt. of Schools Raymond E. Ramsdell reported. Registrants requested courses in English, typing, sewing, woodworking, machine shop, accounting, mathematics, art and chemistry.

Classes will start Tuesday in woodworking, typing, and sewing. Registration in the other classes requested was not sufficient to warrant the establishment of a class at this time. If there are additional registrations in these subjects to warrant it, classes may formed, provided teaching, personnel can be obtained. Registrants in these areas are asked to watch the newspaper for further announcements. Windsor Locks Veteran Member Of Police Board Named Secretary WINDSOR LOCKS, Oct.

3 (Special Police Commistoday announced the appointment of veteran member Phalem U. Lynskey of Olive Street as the commission's recording, secretary. member of the board for the past 10 years, was named to assist the former secretary, Walter G. Burke, who asked to be relieved his duties last month because of the increasing demands of his private position as a public accountant. Burke, according to the commission, will remain on board's financial secretary and will continue to handle all the board's financial matters.

Lynskey's appointment to the companion secretarial post is to become effective immediately. Survey to. Begin The Community X-ray survey to be sponsored here by the Public Health Nurses Assn. in cooperation with the State Tuberculosis Commission will get underway Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Center Street High School.

X-ray units will be in operation at the school and Southwest School through Oct. 11 from 2 to 5 p.m. and 6:30 to 9 p.m. The survey will be open to all persons who live or work in town and are 15 years of age or older. According to the local X-ray committee, response to the vass held during the week of to appointment canSept.

16 was so great that for certain hours appointments requested exceeded the capacity of the X-ray buses. Because of the response, some appointments have been reassigned on the basis of time available rather than time requested, -according to the committee. The re-scheduling has been done, the committee said, with the hope that those persons affected will call and arrange, for given further appointment re-schedul- is not convenient. Appointments may be made or re-scheduled by calling NA 3-7233. Commission To Meet The Industrial Development Commission will meet Thursday at 10 a.m.

in the town office building to resume work on its program to attract additional industry to the town. According to Dexter D. Coffin commission president, the main purpose of the meeting will be to continue the reorganization of the group and determine what its next steps will be in the near future. A second item of discussion will be the list of the town's industrial advantages the commission is now preparing to be readily available to those industries expressing interest in locating in town. Homeowner's Meeting Five separate items will be taken under discussion at the monthly meeting of the Old Manor Homeowner's Assn.

scheduled for 8 p.m. Oct. 8 at the Southwest School. a a a a a a a a a a program on home and property improvement to be presented by the Windsor Locks Lumber items before the meeting will i include the Girl Scout Troop being sponsored by the group; plans for Saturday movies plans fo for for the children; association's preliminary nual minstrel show and the selection of the charity it will benefit; speed control the Old County Manor area; and progress on the group's move to have a specific fire code established in town for the use of the fire marshalConcerning the final item, the idea was first suggested to Fire Marshal C. Harold Wallace in a letter from a special.

Fire Protection Committee formed by the group early last month. The letter which was sent to the fire marshal Sept. 13, asked what action had been taken to establish a fire code "suitable and beneficial" to the town and requested a reply as to the possibility of such a code being established locally within the near future. According to association officials, no reply has yet been received. Post Speed Limit Signs setting a speed limit of 20 miles per hour will be posted this week on Center Street, police announced today.

The limit will extend from Church Street south to Elm in what is now posted only as a school zone. Dinner Meeting Success Chamber of Commerce officials termed tonight's Night" dinner sponsored by the chamber at the Villa Rose as a "complete success." The dinner, the first held this year, was attended by about 30 persons. Presiding officer was Angelo Alfano, chamber president. PTA to Meet The Windsor Locks PTA will begin its fall meetings with a "Get Acquainted Night" next Wednesday at the Union School on Church Street. The meeting will be preceded by a potluck supper to be served at 6:30 p.m.

Those wishing to attend and who have not been contacted are requested to call Mrs. John Jakubowski at NA 3-4935 or Mrs. Laurence Costello, NA 3-7723. Those attending are also asked to bring plate, cup, saucer and silverware. Huge Plane Crashes; 3 Airmen Die CHARLESTON, S.

Oct. 3 (P) -Three airmen perished in the flaming wreckage of a C124 Globemaster that crashed today while attempting an instrument landing at the Charleston Air Force Base. Seven crew members survived. The huge transport plane, inbound from Bermuda, made two instrument approaches in an early morning fog. The pilot radioed that he had lost one, then two, of his engines.

Battle Flames The Globemaster apparently hit a tree before it smashed to earth near the base administration building and tipped over on its left wing. Flames quickly consumed all but the tail fin. Fire trucks were standing by and battled the blaze for about 30 minutes. Visibility at the time was about half a mile, with cloud coverage at 15,000 feet. The plane was attached to the 1703rd Air Transport Wing at Brookley Air Force Base, Mobile, Ala.

The wing commander, Col. Herman Rumsey, flew here to join in the investigation. None of the seven airmen taken to the U.S. Naval Hospital here was believed critically injured. The pilot was Lt.

Col. Charles W. Kelso, 41, of Mobile, one of those hospitalized. He a native of Brandon, Iowa, and is married to the former Marina Isabel Garza of San Antonio, Tex. Other crew members were not identified pending notification of kin.

Ancient Indian Leaves For Native Colombia NEW YORK, Oct. 3 (-Javier Pereira, the little Indian who may be the world's oldest man, departed today for his native Colombia. As he left, he took a parting kick at news photographers, his pet peeve. Pereira was brought here two weeks ago to try to determine if he's 167 years old, as some people claim. New York Hospital experts on old age examined him and said there was no exact way to fix his age.

But they said he might be over 150. Last week at a news conference, the 4 foot 4 Pereira, who weighs 82 phers and their flash bulbs. He pounds, got, irked at photograslugged a reporter. Today, at Idlewild Airport, the flash bulbs again irritated him. He growled and rushed at the photographers, kicking at them until they gave ground.

Later, he calmed down and accepted a calendar with a galaxy of pinup girls on it. Shouting in glee, Pereira singled out one of the pictures and cried: "She's Big Selence Catch ROCKPORT, Tex. (P)-Scientbe good fishermen. On a recent 8-day cruise, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service exploratory vessel Oregon's crew landed 157 yellowfin tuna weighing from 42 to 177 pounds, 15 white skipjack, 14 blackfin tuna, 2 small broadbill swordfish, 14 white marlin, a blue marlin, 14 dolphin and 31 sharks, The crew also killed 53 whitetipped sharks around the ship.

The cruise was in the Gulf of Mexico. French Jet Makes Run PARIS, Oct. 3 (P-France's new twin commercial jet, the Caravelle, today flew from Paris to Nice--nearly 600 1 hour 15 minutes and returned in 1 hour 20 minutes. The plane, called Prototype No. 1, carried reporters.

A second model is intended to make a propaganda flight to America in February 1957. In its final version the Caravelle is expected to have a speed of labout 470 m.p.h. Thompsonville Women's Club To Honor State Vice-President THOMPSONVILLE, Oct. 3 (Special) The Women's Club of Enfield will open its 58th season Oct. 16 with a Federation Day luncheon at the Mountain Laurel.

The guest of honor will be Mrs. Fred B. Johnson, first vice president of the ConnectiFederation of Women's Clubs. The club president, Mrs. Robert B.

Mount, has announced her standing committees. They will be the following chairmen: Community service, Mrs. Donald E. Winter; current events, Mrs. C.

Rockwell Bridge; education, Miss Esther E. Liberty; garden and arts Mrs. Douglas H. Mallard; hospitality, Joseph C. Hutchinson, Mrs.

Francis Mullen, co-chairmen; literature, Mrs. J. Bernard Gates; membership, Mrs. Gates; music, Miss Barbara Magill; parliamentarian, Mrs. Harvey C.

Brainard; press, Mrs. James W. Duncanson; press book, Miss Helen P. Bridge; and ways and means, Mrs. Stuart Jordt, Mrs.

Charles C. Gaskell co-chairmen. Other Committees Special committees will be headed as follows: Building fund, Mrs. Sidney W. Bushnell, Mrs.

John A. Trappe, co-chairmen; building fund treasurer, Mrs. Harold H. McKinney; scholarship, Mrs. Edmund L.

Krochagreetings, Mrs. Chester E. Hathaway; transportation, Mrs. Gaskell; motion pictures, Mrs. D.

Lee; drama group, Mrs. J. J. Butler: and chorale group, Mrs. Glenn Bradish, Mrs.

Robert J. Jackson accompanist. Mrs. Mount will be assisted during her year as club president by the following staff of officers; Mrs. Gates, vice president, Mrs.

Walter W. Morris, recording secretary; Mrs. Sterling D. Tarbell, corresponding secretary, Mrs. Douglas H.

Mallard. treasurer; Mrs. Harold A. Moseley auditor; and Mrs. McKinney, Mrs.

Everett B. Doll, Jr. Mrs. Trappe, Mrs. Leo J.

Dowling, Mrs. Brainard and Mrs. A. Jackson Green. Employment Week The Thompsonville office of the Connecticut State Employment Service will observe the 12th annual "National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week" which will begin Sunday and continue until Oct.

13. Neil Sloane, local office manager said special count of the handicapped registered with CSES indicates there are 36 handicapped workers representing 20 different skills and occupations available for work in the Thompsonville area. Briefs Sunday School teachers and officers of the First Presbyterian Church will meet Thursday at 7:30 p.m. the home of Mrs. Richard King.

The Couples Club of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church will meet Thursday at 7 p.m. in the parishhouse for a potluck supper followed by a business meeting and program, The Hazardville Methodist Church furnishing and equipment subcommittee of the church building council will meet Thursday at 7:45 p.m. at the home of Mrs. and Mrs.

William Sturm. 'Y' Membership The Enfield Unit of the Hartford County YWCA will hold a membership rally at a meeting Monday at 8 p.m. The session will be at the home of Mrs. Arthur O. Huck of Pleasant Street, Warehouse Point.

Each member is asked to bring a new member. Co-hostesses will be Mrs. Richard Dunn and Mrs. Dorothy DeWitt. Baked ham and homemade pies will be featured at the Harvest Supper of the First Presbyterian Church Women's Guild Oct.

11 at 6 p.m.' Aprons and other handmade articles will be on sale. Mrs. J. J. Butler has charge of the event.

Reservations may be made with Miss Jessie Gourlie. Rotary Affair The annual harvest card party of the Thompsonville Rotary Club will be for the benefit of the Club Benevolent Fund. It will take place Oct. 17 at St. Andrew's Church parish house on Prospect Street.

Cider, coffee and doughnuts will be served and table and special prizes awarded. The evening will feature an auction of homemade pies and cakes. The general chairman, Milo D. Wilcox, has named the following committee to assist him: Robert Squires, Frank Ryan, George Merrill, Martin Lucas, Walter Furey, Abner Bristol, Harvey C. Brainard, Robert Payne, A.

Jackson Green, Clarence Moody, John Roddy, James Jackson, Robert Peters, Phillip E. Tatoian, Arthur Olmsted and Peter A. Crombie. Broad Brook The ETC Club of the Broad Brook Congregational Church will hold a food sale in the church parlors Friday from 3 to 5 p.m. The church Men's Club will meet Monday starting with a baked ham dinner at 6:30 p.m.

Movies will follow the dinner. Members are asked to notify the telephone secretary, Harrison P. Page. by Friday. World Wide Communion will be observed at the church Sunday at 11 a.m.

The annual budget meeting of the church will be held Oct. 17 starting with a roast beef dinner at 6:30 p.m. All members and friends of the church are asked to attend. The budget will be presented after dinner. The PTO will hold a reception for the teachers of East Windsor at the East Windsor High School Thursday at 7.30 p.m.

There will be no meeting. South Windsor Dr. Robert V. Williams has been named Board of Education chairman. He succeeds Gaylord L.

Paine. John T. Kearney is vice chairman and Frank Pierce, I secretary, Suffield Building Permits Are Issued To 6 For New Houses SUFFIELD, Oct. 3- (Special) -Permits for, six new houses were issued by Building Inspector James Cain in September. They were for: Joseph F.

Nai, Riverview Terrace: George and Virginia Rossi, Suffield Street; George Arnold, house and garage, Hill Road; Andrew Love Thompsonville Road, house and garage; Thomas Orr, Branch Road, house and garage; Russell Phelps, Copper Hill Road, house and garage. Other permits issued were: Paul A. Krause, South extension on porch; Raymond B. Hartford, Suffield Street, chicken house; Edward Rybeck, South Grand Street, two car garage and breezeway; Mrs. Claudin Curtis, Main Street, addition to garage; Julius Griffin Road, two car garage; Paul Matuck, Depot Street, alterations: Vincent and Saverio Gannuscio, Thompsonville Road, grocery store; Charles D.

Prunier, North Grand Street, close in porch. Certificates of occupancy were issued to Charles J. Bermani, South Street; Joseph Denise, East Street; George Arnold, Hill Road; The Berkland Co- East Street. two houses; Thomas Or East Street, two houses; Donald V. Hinckley, East Street, gas station.

Board of Assessors The Board of Assessors will be in session ths month to receive personal property lists from tax payers. This applies to both resident and non-residents subject to taxation. All personal property, other than real estate and registered automobiles, must be declared, Chairman Alfred C. Sheldon said. The property, list is taken from former and serial maps and the registered cars from the State Department of Motor Vehicles.

The board will be at the town hall each Thursday, starting this week, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on Nov. 1, from 7 to 8 p.m. Failure to declare personal property, which includes machinery, tools, livestock, produce and inventories, will result in a 10 per cent penalty tax, Fire Preventon Movies Captain Floyd J.

Young of the Fire Department will show three movies on Fire Prevention Thursday afternoon at the South Street School, and on Friday at the Bridge Street and Spaulding Schools. To Speak at Fellowship Arpad de Kallos, who is studying for his Master of Arts degree at the Hartford Seminary Foundation, will speak on "My Life and God" before the Rudder and Sail Fellowship of the West Suffield Congregational Church Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Forced to leave his native Hungary during World War II, he lived in Austria as a displaced person until 1950, when he came to this country and served in the U. S. Army for two years.

He studied at the Evangelical and Reformed Theological Seminary in Lancaster, in 1953 and became a citizen in 1954. He was chosen to represent American students in an Ecumenical Work Camp in Japan and received his Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1956. He is planning to enter the field of international missions. Interested townspeople are invited to attend. Briefs The Young Adult group of the Second Baptist Church will meet Friday at 8 p.m.

at the church. Election of officers will take place. The Girls Friendly of Calvary Episcopal Church will meet Friday after school in the Parish Hall. Warehouse Point Services in St. John's Church Sunday will include Holy Communion at 8 a.m., family, service and church school 9:30 a.m.

and Holy Communion and sermon at 10:45. On Monday at 8 p.m., plans for the annual every member canvass of the parish will be made at a meeting in the parish house. Joseph H. Cooper of Windsor Locks is the chairman of the committee and the heads of the various departments of the church are asked to present their needs for the coming year at this meeting. The autumn meeting of the Hartford Archdeaconry Woman's Auxiliary will be held Friday at Trinity Church, field.

Mrs. Raymond Antonacci and Mrs. Joseph Cooper are the delegates from the town parish. Some 30 junior and senior high school students from St. John's Parish are eligible to attend the Episcopal Youth Convocation in Hartford Oct.

28 at the State Armory. Rummage Sale The First Congregational Church at East Windsor will hold its annual rummage sale in the Scantic Parish House Oct. 20 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m, Those having donations may call Mrs. Ralph Collins, NA 3-5189.

The 50-50 Club of Wesley Methodist Church will meet at 8 p.m. Thursday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harold D. Bailey of 19 Crickett Rd.

The School will 9:30 Sunday with Vinsen Naegeli, the new superintendent, in charge. The Youth Fellowship will hold its first service of the season at 7 p.m. at the church. Wesley Church will join the worldwide observance of Holy Communion at 10:45 a.m. in the charge of the pastor, Rev.

Andrew T. Denholm. PTG Session The PTG of the Warehouse Point School will meet Monday at 8 p.m. in cafeteria of the school. The building will be open at 7:30 so that members of the school faculty can be introduced to the parents.

After the business meeting, a film, "Nike, will be shown. The following new officers will preside: President, Mrs. Irene Fesko: vice president, Patrick Keane; trea- surer, Mrs. Wanda Mazurek; and secretary, Mrs. Ann Merlo.

Refreshments will be served by Mrs. Jane Simineski, Mrs. Jean Ann Delton, Mrs. Lucille Flowers and Mrs. Evelyn Walion.

Resigns Commission William T. Lilley, formerly of Prospect Hill who has moved to East Hartford, has presented his resignation as a member of the East Windsor Industrial Research Commission, to First Selectman John L. Daly Jr. Lilley was a Democrat member of the commission. There will be a meeting of the East Windsor Republican Town Committee in the Town Hall in Broad Brook Monday at 8 p.m.

Masonic Activities Plans, Morning Star Lodge of Masons have been announced for the coming month by Secretary Clarence W. Lathrop. The Fellowcraft Degree will be conferred at a special meeting Tuesday night. On Oct. 9 there will be a regular meeting at which two 50-year pins will be presented.

A regular meting of the lodge will be held Oct. 23 and on Oct. 30 there will be a special meeting for the observance of past master's night and conferring of the master mason degree. Evening Star Chapter, OES, will serve a supper at 6:30 The Wayfairers Club of Hamilton Standard will confer the master mason degree Nov. 6.

Rockville Hahn Named New School Board Head ROCKVILLE, Oct. 3 (Special) -William R. Hahn was elected chairman of the Vernon Board of Education tonight as Republican members blocked a Democratic minority move to elect B. Flaherty Jr. to the post.

Hahn was elected by a "majority vote" taken by secret ballot. He succeeds Morgan I. Campbell, who declined to seek reelection. board officers were reelected. Campbell opened the reorganization session "Van reviewing what he tremed eventful year." He listed among other board accomplishments: institution of a school savings program; class for retarded children; extensive building repairs; and major improvements to playgrounds at two elementary Also the purchase of a school site in Vernon Center in a longrange planning move and the "improved administrative setup." Looking to the future, Campbell urged a study of guidance program of greater magnitude than the present one and a study and revaluation of the curriculum.

High School Plans A joint meeting of the boards of education and finance, high school building committee and the architects for the proposed new Rockville High School was set for Oct. 10 by the board. The meeting will be held the cafeteria of the Northeast School and will precede a seris of individual sessions to improve plans. The building group hopes to present the plans at a town meeting later this month. Special Report Mrs.

Lawrence K. Small, librarian at the high school, described the library program and the facility. Her brief report was first in a spies planned by the superintendent of schools to better inform the board of the facilities and programs within the school system. Committees Named Two committees were appointed. The first was a curriculum committee which included Mrs.

Alice G. Hammer, Mrs. Rose Ford and William Stiles. A "Sykes committee" named to meet with the trustees of the Sykes School includes Atty. Flaherty, John G.

Talcott Jr. and Winford Kloter. Custodian Pay Hike area at the County Home school resulted in the board granting a $200 increase to the janitor of the building. Because Veterans' Day falls on Sunday, this year, school children be given the following Monday as a holiday. The resignations of Mrs.

Emily Eisenhaure, homemaking teacher, and Miss Aristea aduros of Maple Street School, were accepted. The board referred to the town counsel a question related to Social Security benefits for lunchroom employes. It appears that the town may owe $1,562 in back payments, which it failed to make through a misunderstanding of the law, it was reported. Mrs. Henry Koelsch Mrs.

Leana Wolfmuller Koelsch, 83, of 52 Village widow of Henry Koelsch, died Wednesday. She was born in Berlin, Germany, and had lived in Rockville 48 years. She was a member of the First Lutheran Church and of the Ladies of Maple Grove, She leaves three sons, Arthur of Brooklyn, N.Y., Albert R. of Manchester, and Erhardt Koelsch of Tolland; and five grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 p.m.

at the White Funeral Home. The Rev. Gordon E. Hohl, pastor of the First Lutheran Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Grove Hill Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home Friday from 7 to 9 p. m. NOW IS THE TIME to seed the new lawn or rebuild the old one. Rich farm loam for sale. Approximate five yd.

plus tax. MI 9-4824 or TR 5-2975. -Advt. HELENA, Mont, (P -A young deer paid a visit to Montana's capital city but he wasn't very well received. Three policemen and a game warden chased the animal out of the city for its own protection.

Insurance Firm To Have District Office In Town MANCHESTER, Oct. 3 eial) -The Prudential Insurance Company will establish a district on Nov. 5. it was learned Wednesday night. Samuel Davis, manager of the firm's district office in Hartford and the branch office now located in the professional building on Main Street south of the State Armory, said that a district office is being located in Manchester "because of the growth in business in this area and to give better service to our policy holders.

In New Building The district office which will be separate from the Hartford office will be located in the new one story building' recently erected and owned by Atty. Philip Bayer and Irving Bayer at 637-639 Main St. Atty. Bayer said that the insurance company will occupy the entire building comprising about 2600 square feet under a two year lease with renewal options. The branch office now occupies 1196 square feet of floor space at its present location.

The branch office which has been located in Manchester for about half a century will be incorporated into the district office in which about 40 persons, including agents and clerical help will be employed, Mr. Davis said. was Main St. for The Prudential, branch office many years but moved to its present location early in 1950. Will Select Architect The Official Board of North Methodist Church announces that an architect will be selected prepare plans for a new church at a meeting to be held Oct.

16. Late last year the church purchased a five acre piece of land as a site for a new house of worship from Atty. Alexander L. Rothchild. It is located on the west side of Parker St.

near Jordt St. According, to the Alton Church's B. Cowles, Building Committee construction of the new church will begin in May, 1957. Monthly Report Collector of Revenue Paul Cervini Wednesday reported that property tax collections last month amounted to $14,132.97. Water rent collections for the same period totaled according to the report.

Collections in September from sources other than taxation were $27,468.59, he states. This includes $16,002.80 received in state assistance for operation of schools. The parking meter fund as of Sept. 30 amounted to $5,977.87 excluding $95,000 of these funds deposited in savings and investments, the report indicates. Public Records A bill of sale recorded Wednesday at the town clerk's office sells from Shirley Meacham, administratrix of the estate to Minecucci, interof Lawrence, R.

Meacham Sr. est right and title in the partnership of the M. and M. Oil Co. Purchase price was not indicated in the instrument and claims may be made to Atty.

John R. Mrosek, 923 Main St. John Weaver Jasper material handier, 42 Freemont Meriden and Jean Dolores Rosendahl, clerk, of 94 Bissell St. have applied for a marriage license at the town clerk's office. They will be married on Oct.

13 at South Methodist Church. Richard Boland, 15 Ashland St. Wednesday recorded a certificate of registration of trade name. He is doing business 63 East Center St. as Cooperative Oil Service.

Warrantee deeds recorded Wednesday convey property at 59 Trebbe Dr. from Jay E. Rubinow, trustee, to Raymond Rutkowski; property at 420 Hilliard St. from Camillo Gambolati to Rudolph L. Libby, et al; property at 40 Marion Dr.

from Jarvis Acres, Inc. to Alfred P. Werbner, et al, and property on Pine Hill Street from William Lessard to Gordon A. Harmon. Simon T.

Hildebrand Simon T. Hildebrand, 80 Linden St. died at Manchester Memorial Hospital Wednesday after a long illness. Born in Manchester he was a life long resident here and was a well-known barber although until his recent retirement he was employed at Pratt and Whitney. He was a member of the Manchester Grange.

He leaves his wife, Mrs. Ethel Hildebrand; a daughMarjorie Nicholas of Southington, two sons, Paul Hildeband of Coventry and Raymond Hildebrand of California: a sister, Mrs. Bessie Strickland of this town and two brothers, Edward Hildebrand, of Providence, R.I. and John Hildebrand of Manchester. The funeral will be held Saturday at 8:30 a.m.

from the Quish Funeral Home, 225 Main St. to St. James' Church at 9 Burial will be in St. James' Cemetery. Friends ray call at funeral home Thursday 7 to 10 p.m.

and on Friday from 2 to 5 and 7 to 10 p.m. Brief Items The public utilities commission will hold a hearing Oct. 16. at 11 a.m. in Room 85 State Office Building, Hartford, on a request by the Connecticut Co.

for authority to operate two way bus service from the Manchester Parkade shopping center on West Middle Turnpike to the Terminus via Center and Broad streets. The service is on a half hour basis and the request is for a three months trial period. The Manchester branch of the YWCA will hold a dessert card party and fashion show Thursday at 7:45 p.m. in the cafeteria of the new high school on East Middle Turnpike. Fashions will be shown by a Hartford department store.

The Men's Club of Temple Beth Sholom will stage a "Cabaret Night" Saturday starting at 9 p.m. at the temple. The program includes. entertainment, dancing and refreshments, Hospital Births Daughters were born Wednes- day at Manchester, Memorial Hospital Mrs. Neil Maccomber of 15 West St.

and Mr. and Mrs. James Moriarty of 235 Main East Hartford. Automobile Fire Cos. 1.

and 4 of the South Manchester Fire Department answered a box alarm Wednesday night from Cooper and West streets for an automobile fire. Police reported that wiring under the dash of a 1952 sedan short-circuited and caused a blaze. A car, it was reported, was owned by Ronald Butiewicz of New Britain. Damage was minor, firemen said. Shopping Parkade Party A former Ringling Barnum and Bailey clown and Paul Landerman's orchestra will entertain teenagers this weekend in Manchester shopping parkade's Festival Plaza.

The gram, sponsored by the Manwill chester recreation department, feature ex-circus performer, "Uncle Jim," from 3 to 6 p.m. Saturday from to 4 p.m. Sunday. Landerman's orchestra play Saturday from 8 to 11 a.m. Why battle the bridge? There are good jobs available right in Manchester at the telephone company.

We have openings for young women as telephone operators ages 17-35, high school graduates preferred, no ence necessary. There are also openings in our business office for service representatives--the young women who deal directly with customers in handling requests, answering their questions, making bill adjustments. Ages 18-38, high schhool graduates, business experience helpful but not essential. For complete information visit our ployment office at 808 Main Street, Manchester. Open Mondays, and p-m.

Thursdays or call from 9 Mitchell a.m. See Jarvis for your real estate problem. Jarvis Realty, 654 Center St. Phone MI 3-4112, MI Free estimtaes! Leo Adamik, caCatering Service -Large-Small! terer, BU 9-9891; BAldwin 318874. -Advt.

The new telephone number for the Manchester branch of The Hartford Courant is MI When you think of carpets "Think of us." Manchester Carpet Center, 308 Main St.Advt. Save the Savings Loan way, Manchester Savings Loan telephone MI Advt. NOW IS THE TIME to seed the new lawn or rebuild the old one. Rich farm loam for sale. Approximate five yd.

plus tax. MI for many years for the Stevens and when the local mills closed, he continued with the company as manager of the retail store in North Andover, Mass. He was a member of Fayette Lodge, AFandAM, and was baritone soloist at Union Congregational Church for a number of years, as well as being connected with other local musical groups. He leaves a brother, Leslie F. Cooley of Rockville; two sisters, Mrs.

Walter Matteson of Grass Valley, and Mrs. John S. Risley of Manchester; also several nieces and nephews, The funeral will be held Friday at 3 p.m. at the White Funeral Home, with the Rev. Paul J.

Bowman, pastor of Union Congregational Church, officiating. Burial will be in Grove Hill Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home Thursday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Sticka To Speak Charles Sticka, former Trinity College football player, will be the speaker for annual banquet of the Rockville Little League Oct. 13 at the PAC ballroom.

Sticka, a native of Natick, was an outstanding fullback at Trinity for three years, earning Little All-America selec-, tion in 1955. He played in the East-West game last year and distinguished himself in the contest. He was chosen by the Los Angeles Rams in the draft last year and reported to them this summer. Unfortunately, a broken leg suffered this past spring in baseball prevented him from making the team, but he has been asked to report again next year. Present at the banquet at which Ralph Gibson will De the master of ceremonies, will members of the regular Little League, farm teams and beginners' class, as well as ents and friends of the boys.

Sen. Bush Here Monday A day of campaigning Monday in Tolland County will be climaxed for Sen. Prescott Bush a dinner at 6:30 p.m. at the Kosciusko Club on Vernon Avenue at which he will be the principal speaker. Also invited to attend are Mrs.

Bush and State Sen. and Mrs. Robert L. Keeney, Mrs. Harry H.

Lugg is general chairman. Tickets may be obtained from Mrs. Winfred A. Kloter, Agnes Mrs. Woods, Franklin Mrs.

G. Welles, Edwin Maguire, Mrs. Fred Strickland, Mrs. George S. Wilson, Mrs.

Herman G. Olson, Mrs. Eugene Lisk, Mrs. Ralph H. Gibson and Miss Ruth Corbin.

Bush will be the guest of the Rockville Rotary Club at noon, Monday, and will be accompanled on his visit to Tolland County towns which will include stops at several industries, by State Central Committeeman John M. Mullen of Stafford Springs. Need Cub Scout Vernon Cub Scout Pack 96 Is in need of fathers or mothers, If the boys interested in Cubbing Bolton Valentine Given Permission For Seaplane Base BOLTON, Oct. 3 (Special)The Board of Selectmen has been notified by the State Department of Aeronautics that approval has been given to Robert D. Valentine of Vernon Road to use Bolton Lake for a landing area for a seaplane.

The approval was given subject to a public hearing if the town quests it, but Selectmen made reno plans for such a hearing at their meeting Tuesday. Approaches to the lake for takeoffs landings would not require passing over any buildings, Valentine said. Dr. Robert Bowen of Coventry, town health officer, has been reappointed for a four year term by selectmen. Driver Jailed Francis J.

Furphy, 46, of Newington, was fined $100 on a charge of drunken driving by Justice John Swanson Tuesday night. Furphy was also fined $10 for operating without a license and $15 for operating car with defective equipment. Since he was unable to pay the fines, he was sent to Tolland County Jail at $2 a day. Furphy was arrested Sept. 20 by Constable Bailey after the Coventry Safety Patrol had reported his erratic driving, PTA Executive Committee The last Monday of each month has been selected as night by the PTA meeting, committee.

Miss Josephine Leso, Grade 1 teacher, was named teacher representative and John Hagan Hebron Road, institutional representative of Boy Scout Troop 73, will serve as a member of the tive committee. The local PTA has to sponsor the troop. Boy Scouts. Girl Scouts and Brownies will put on a program at the February meeting. At the PTA meeting Tuesday at 8 p.m., the budget for the year will be presented.

It will also be the annual "open house" at which teachers will be present to explain their program plans for the year. WSCS Food Sale The WSCS of the United Methodist Church will sponsor a food sale at Hale's Store in Manchester beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday. Those wishing to donate food may leave it at the church between 7 and 8 p.m. Friday, or at the home of Mrs.

Ernest Howard. Bolton Notch, Friday Anyone who would like articles for the sale picked up should call Mrs. Rhugo Zelonis. The WSCS announced that contributions of home baked food will be welcomed not only from members of the Society but also from other church members and Sunday School pupils. Mrs.

Rhu. go Zelonis is chairman of the sale, A rail trip between Chicago and New York took hours in 1880. Average speed for the run now is hours..

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