Fitchburg Sentinel (Newspaper) - January 10, 1966, Fitchburg, Massachusetts For 127 1838 Vol FITCHBURG MASS 01420 THl WEATHER Cloudy SEE REPORT ON PAGE Z MONDAY JANUARY 10 1966 ZU Second Class Paid Mais at Fitchburg Ma 10 CENTS Snowfall To Cost City SNOW CAN BE Mental anguish is registered here with junior in despair as he eyes drift around family auto and judges he'll never get it all shoveled out in time for to go sliding The storm caused many problems for motorists Legislature Most Costly Too BOSTON AP The 1965 Massachusetts Legi s 1 a t u r e spent more money on itself than any other in state history The cost of legislative tions mounted as a bitter tax battle made the session the longest in Massachusetts and lawmakers were among the best paid in state history The state budget signed into law Dec 31 put the cost of at million more than the appropriation recommended by Gov John A Volpe Financial records are not yet complete on the sion that shattered precedent by never finishing its work and by ending only when the clock etruck midnight on Jan 4 But if is clear that the sion cost million more than was anticipated when Volpe submitted his budget for the cal year that ends June 30 The governor's budget alloted million for the legislature and the budget passed by the House in May contained the figure million When it got to the Senate pay raises the lawmakers voted themselves and the added costs of a session that dragged on and on pushed the total needed tn million Because the budget Covers a period from July 1 1965 to June 30 1966 it is difficult to gate the cost of a session that ran from January of 1965 to January of this year In April the lawmakers voted themselves a salary increase of from to That item alone required an additional for Senate salaries and for the pay of House members The legislature also increased the annual expense allowance for members from to and the length of the session re- quired more travel and clerical expenses The Volpe budget called for in Senate expenses in- travel costs and 000 for the House Those amounts were increased in the final budget to for the Senate and for the House the total Senate tion was increased from to and the House Page 7 The first major snowstorm of the season blew into Fitchburg with gale winds and near zero cold during the weekend and buried this city beneath eight inches of powder snow and drifts up to five feet deep The storm will cost the payers of Fitchburg about one city official mated today Mopping up ations in the wake of the near blizzard will add to the total cost as will salt and sand for icy roads Wind gusts up to 60 miles an hour Saturday night and early Sunday sent the snow swirling in blinding sheets across the landscape blocked streets and highways with drifts and blew back as fast as it was plowed A total of 35 trucks graders tractors including all city ment plus hired contractor tled the storm Saturday night and Sunday when high winds made the job extremely cult The winds whipped the snow into the air giving the of a blizzard Highways Supt Raymond J Benoit said One city truck spent seven solid hours on the Burbank Hospital access roads Trucks were forced to replow many city streets and a blower was used to break through drifts over five feet deep on Alpine Road Elsewhere drifts ranged from three to five feet deep The weather forecasters missed the major storm which reached blizzard proportion Saturday night Officials said the snow finally stopped at about 12.30 a m Sunday but high winds continued The traveling Saturday night was extremely hazardous bul by early the following day most of the city's streets had been opened and in many cases re- plowed Supt Benoit reported that nearly all country roads had to be plowed up to as many as three or four times as the biting wind continued Not only was the entire way Department thrown into the fray but equipment from the Water Division and Parks De- was utilized as well as rented trucks and loaders The Parks Department used its trucks and a sidewalk plow to clear out city parks and around the Upper Common arid Monument Park While adults dreaded the covered streets their children were having a ball The storm brought the first good skiing of the winter season and Burbank Hospital Hill swarmed with skiers Sunday as the tow was put into operation One sight that is so common it doesn't warrant a second look is snowblowers With the first good snowfall many residents happily got out their new chines and went to work ily the snow was light and dery and the machines did a good job The Highway Division spread salt on the streets shortly after storm started but plunging temperatures near noon brought a change in tactics tures dropped to 10 degrees in minutes and by had dipped to single figures At 1 p m Saturday the division started plowing operations as it became obvious the storm was going to continue Sunday's weather continued cold but today cloudy and warmer weather moved in The forecast calls for a continuation of cloudy and warmer weather tomorrow colder weather at and general snow or rain next weekend Throughout New England the storm caused at least six deaths and many accidents Cataloguing City's Chuckles The year 1965 little more than history now But within that year there occurred scores of odd and humorous incidents which local policemen ers and District Court personnel may never forget For instance a visitor at the Woman's Dormitory of burg State College got a bigger greeting than he had expected nameplate on the doorr Fire Chief Norman M Flechtner Three teenage boys solicited donation for a nonexistent charity they called The Troops at the wrong house that of off-duty Ptl An- drew M Quinn Needless to say three arrests were made Along the same line another He pushed one of the two doctored trailer under a sign marked Visitors Bell Engines 1 3 4 and 5 Ladders 1 and 3 an ambulance and deputy fire chief's auto responded from three stations to alarm which sounded from Box 7223 On another occasion firemen responded to 130 Pratt Road on what they thought was a routine lion plate to read and put it on a car He might have gotten away with it too until Cruiser Ptl William E Godin Jr studied the new number for a was the number of Godin's own auto plates A man stopped by a state trooper gave a phony name fire call until they read the one which turned out to be far Those Old Wrecks And Where They Go Even the newest of cars tually become junk heaps If you have a wreck in your yard and the neighbors are starting to complain are you just going to let it sit there? You can be taken to court on the matter you know And you can lose To date about 200 cars have been hauled away since the sage of the junk car ment to the city ordinances in early 1965 I Fathered by Councilor Joseph j Albert the law strengthens any holes in the state law on the subject and prohibits leaving any partially dismantled non- operating wrecked or vehicle on any street or in the city Additionally no person in charge of any property in the owner tenant occupant or lessee may leave such a vehicle on said property more than 10 days unless the car is enclosed in a The chief of police the of public works other may order the removal of any violating vehicle Then the fun begins because who wants a junk Police Lt James 0 Brooks has the task of out these wrecks and serving notice that they must removed He doesn't go empty handed ever Raymond Walker of ing is doing an im- portant but little-known job For fee he comes with his truck and either dismantles the wreck on the spot or hauls it away He may take it directly to a used metals firm in Gardner or first to the Airport sand dunes for burning and cutting According to Lt Brooks Many people with junk cars don't know what to do with them They'd like to get them off their hands but the regular garages don't want them and charge much to take them away No case has been brought to court in the year the amended ordinance has been in effect most everyone approached by Brooks has complied One party however with many junks he calls antiques is making a fight of it His case the first one will appear before District Court on Thursday Jan 13 Should he lose the fines could be for each day the cars remain after the court ruling State fines for abandoned cars are even stiffer Penalties there start with a fine and a three-month loss of license I confine my activities to the center of the city and gradually work says and I use every legal subterfuge I can to move these nuisances Of course we'd like to clear the town of wrecks and make the place look generally better But every time I get one area cleaned up in another wreck behind by he slid more hazardous than his own The man was quickly arrested when police checked and found an outstanding federal warrant charging unlawful interstate flight to avoid prosecution for murder Fortunately the man's fingerprints exonerated him Res Ptl George F Miller could only chuckle after hearing this one: a man reported he re- turned home after a hard day's work showered and sank into chair to watch sion Then he noticed something was his television set had been stolen Res Ptl Ronald J Hamel probably figured the culprits in his attempted armed robbery investigation had been punished enough The victim said two assailants one brandishing a switchblade knife demanded Ms clarinet case The tim gave one of them the over the punched the second in the face Both be The victim ran off Do you believe in lice Youths in a fight told Corps Sgt Harold F briel Go ahead let the dog go We're not afraid of that mutt The officer released who took two good chomps and put a quick end to the ance Ptl Kenneth B Maynard or dered a man out of the cafe in which he was arguing with a woman When the man held up his glass of beer and asked Do you Maynard assumed the man wanted to finish his drink and said All right but hurry up With this permission the man poured the entire glass of beer over the woman's head A motorist suspected thing was wrong as he was ting air in a soft tire The tire was white-walled and his car doesn't have white walls It later turned out he had inad taken another man's car of the same type and color which his key also fit One woman really had She was evicted from her apartment and her landlord re- fused to give her her clothes and belongings because she was be- hind in her rent Then came the crowning touch Police arrested her for vagrancy Ftl Emery A LaPrade and Ptl Donald E Marble staked HUMOR Page 7 SNOW CAN BE FUN The other side of the coin was registered by these happy young people who swarmed out on Burbank pital Hill following the storm It was the first good snowfall of the winter and mas skis fot their first workout Viet Guerrillas Escape Triangle Knockout SAIGON South Viet Nam AP The largest U.S fighting force of the Vietnamese war demolished a honeycomb of Viet Cong fortifications on the edge of the Iron Triangle 25 miles northwest of Saigon day but the Communists ducked the knockout punch Most of the guerrillas kept away from the U.S and lian troops as they scorched the Communist stronghold on the third day of Operation Crimp Australians operating with the 1st Infantry Division and the Airborne Brigade ered a big weapons cache left by the fleeing Communists The haul included 47 weapons five of them 114 grenades rounds of small-arms ammunition 58 rounds 100 pounds of dynamite 20 tons of rice and a large store of medical supplies There were more than men in the Allied force but U.S military spokesmen reported only light contact with the my a force thought to be holed up in the 12 square miles of jungle and marshland The spokesman reported 22 Viet Cong killed 38 captured and 261 suspects mostly women and children detained Allied casualties were light they said Elsewhere on the ground U.S spokesmen reported few con- tacts with the enemy But the air war in the South continued unabated with 281 strike sions against Viet Cong targets by Air Force and carrier planes Four U.S planes were lost in the past 24 hours A Marine Phantom jet crashed 15 miles southwest of Da Nang because of mined causes The two men bailed out and were picked up by helicopter One man was wounded A transport carrying fuel caught fire Sunday night after landing at Tay Ninh 55 miles northwest of Saigon The escaped unhurt but the pounds of ammunition on was destroyed Another cargo plane a Hercules crashed while landing on a mail run Sunday to An Khe miles northeast of gon The crewmen were jured and the soldiers mail was saved A Air Force plane crashed 5 miles north of a helicopter lifted out the pilot by his gun belt the French Indo- broke and he plunged into a china fighting er Apparently he was killed i Although the huge Allied Spokesmen confirmed that force pushed to the Saigon ground fire had been er boundary of the We for two explosions that nist Iron Triangle redoubt it ripped apart a loaded with I did not cross the river and at- Aids Injured Fisherman BOSTON Boston said the fisherman would be tor dictated treatment by lifted from the cutter by early today to fellow and tfl a flight to Pleiku last Friday Five men were killed in the crash of the plane The suspension of bombing raids on the Communist North continued into the 18th day Some of the tunnels and caves blasted by the U.S lian troops in Operation Crimp tempt to sweep the triangle it- self Two hundred helicopters lifted the troops into action at dawn Saturday swarming like locusts over the jungle in the biggest display of whirlybirds of the war Hidden Communist ners knocked down two ters and mechanical trouble caused a third to crash Participating in the operation were units of the 1st Infantry Division paratroopers of the Airborne Brigade and the Royal Australian Regiment They were backed by VIET NAM Page 7 Doctor Broadcasts pulse rate is 70 and that if In- gram's rate were not checked soon he would not live Make up a sugar and water of a fisherman who suffered a deep head wound aboard aj Tne when trawler pounded by was determined there were and administer it by winds and high seas off with doctors aboard in the surgeon directed Cod immediate vicinity of the was to help increase the The fisherman Harry In- gram about 62 suffered a gash from the right ear to the right eye was bleeding badly arid was reported near death The Italian passenger liner Christoforo Colombo bound for New York was diverted from its course and headed toward the trawler and the Coast Guard Cutter was dered out from Provincetown a radio relay was set up be- j Mood volume and body energy tween the Public Health Ingram was in borderline tal the Coast Guard and Ratino said but re- at time with Ratino said he also relayed trawler Pack off the wound gauze or whatever type sterile bandage you have aboard wrap it tight and apply pressure and Dr John Ratino spoke in- to the hospital radio ter Dr Ratino the crewman A Coast Guard medical replied that they were having man was put aboard the Rush where he examined Ingram and then helped transfer him to the Acushnet There the fisherman was treated and reported stronger than expected He was given a small amount of soup the Coast Guard said Capt John Pendergrass of not immediately learned the Rush said Ingram had en against a shattered port hole during the storm A Coast Guard spokesman a very difficult time controlling the bleeding They dropped anchor but still the severe jarring motion of the boat in seas and 50 instructions to the medical corpsman aboard the Acushnet on what to do when he reached the injured man He told the corpsman to administer an in- tion A hospital spokesman said the arrangement is run by doctors qn off-duty hours That the is rotated among the members of the staff Similar situations arise reported Their identities were an-hour winds was making the spokesman said bleeding worse the fishermen Dr Ratino has two men at sea now he's taking care of The other one was a Coast Guardsman who suffered acute while aboard a cutter 900 miles at sea Now take his Ratino said One came back the reply Ratino said a normal heading for Newfoundland Will Fitchburg Become A Model For Christian Church In the ecumenical spirit of Dr E Stanley Jones world re- missionary and list who made a December visit to this community several Protestant churches in the city i are exploring the possibility of establishing a united parish in Fitchburg along lines yet to he determined i Rev Dr Russell C Murphy pastor of Calvinistic Church and Rev rence A Larson pastor of the First Methodist Church dis- I cussed this possibility in a pit exchange Sunday morning According to Rev Mr Larson in America ethnic groups built their own churches and that denominations were in competition with one another for strategic spots in the ex- panding downtown areas of city life while other denominations concentrated on the blossoming residential bedroom towns of the urban complex The competition reached ab- surd proportions as con- of the same filled in the picture of proliferation splitting over sons of social class tions or vested interests of members in the power city life is a world that he continued creates and destroys Then he stressed from the evolves and disintegrates field came the cry of laughs and weeps it is When the world of the drama of man andean Church facing hostile con- God However there are duplicated its own songs to be sung new life to be j forts wasted its leadership in WORLD AT HIS Chihuahua named Tiger appears content with his resting hip pocket of his owner Ray kins 21 of Nashville AP lived and new challenges to be faced There is a challenge to the Church that today not frustrating competition and saw that Jesus Christ had to be proclaimed in deed as well as morrow will be faced but word as the Giver of Peace the people who realize that j and then a new is not dead hut continues awakening emerged in the to work through man he said statement If you're in Christ and I am in Christ factors that are outlined in this distrust of the un- familiar habit sentiment ed interests institutional pride indifference historic isolation arc one What then does divide the I am afraid that what history love of status vides the Churches when we misrepresentations to a Federal Plan of Church ambition mental limitations operation is rather a number I revivalism and property the factors outlined in the book published by the The First Methodist minister Council of Churches entitled More Than Doctrine Divides the Churches There are the Today's Index noted that the United Parish of Lunenburg receives visitors from all over the United States since it serves as a model of Plan of Church operation for communities under What is he told the is a model for communities between 40 sand and 50 thousand at work forging a model of a Christian Church Center under the tural plan of a Federal posal We in Fitchburg through a of encouraging events are He told the congregation at Calvinistic Church that during the time of development and When E Stanley Jones was with us on Dec Rev Mr Larson continued he made the Almanac 2 Bridge 16 Classified Comics Editorial Movies 12 Obituaries Personals 2 now being offered the possibility Within the structures of a Christian Church Center a new relevance of the Church to ban life and secular man would Television 16 Through The Years Page 15 thrust itself upon the blankets of doubts that exist as to er or not the Church dares to accept the challenge of the Gospel to be God's social neer I would refer again to Dr closing remarks of Fitchburg unite You have nothing 10 lose but the walls that divide you If we hear those words as intentional Christians I am sure the ical word will be God made us alive together Christ In his sermon at the list Church Dr Murphy opened with Willy Loman tragic hero of Arthur Miller of a Salesman wins in trying to make sense out of his ifc said still feel kind of temporary about myself And after Willy dies his son summarizes his father this way He never quite knew who he was With these two dramatic lines Miller has touched the nerve of modern Dr We it in our personal social customs UNITY Page 7
