Fitchburg Sentinel (Newspaper) - July 9, 1973, Fitchburg, Massachusetts ESt 1838 Vol CXXXIV FITCHBURG MASS MONDAY JULY 9 1973 MICf 15 CENTS WIK IJ Investi Hof Weather Can Be fun play ia of a at the Government Center u temperatures headed Inte Ur the day e a b n r g weekend tern ranted from a lew of 0 Saturday morning to a kick of M Sunday afternoon AP By FELIX B SELIGA Local and state are investigation of the of two men by gunshot wound in their rooms at 20 North St about p.m The victims by police as Otis Merrill 52 and loland P Schragel 64 Dr Joseph M Silver medical examiner reported it murder and suicide was and theorized Merrill allegedly shot and returned to his room and shot himself last murder in this city was March 7 police stated A report of the incident was received from John Sciabarrasi of 125 Summer St owner of the rooming house who entered the Merrill room to obtain an electric light bulb for another part ot the building Merrill who police said was the manager used his room as Lt William E Kuriger wati the first to arrive at the scene and informed headquarters ot the finding Other officers were ched to the scene Sgt Edward J Thurston checking other rooms on the second floor in an effort to obtain any information came fatally wounded in a chair The investigators were m- of the finding and was notified Chiel Brands R Doddy was called and came to the station calling n off-duty men and assigned them to guard the building Asst Dist Atty John M O'Connor was informed and requested the state police in Holden be notified Three detectives were sent here to the local squad Police said they found Merrill laid out over a bed and a shotgun between his legs a hole under the chin and face Schragle police said was found sunken in a chair with a hole in Ms head near and behind the left ear Police said it appeared Schragle was shot from the doorway of his room and fragments of a shotgun were found on the floor television was on In Merrill's room police said ther was a rifle rack with twp rifles Two shotgun shells wen found on the bed and not used and another on the floor Police said they believe Merrill was despondent over the death of his wife a short time ago and a friend who died July State police took custody of the guns shell fragments three live rounds Det Lt Henry was in charge of the probe for the Bureau ot Criminal Tech Board Vote Challenged Her By DOUG FLETCHER City Solicitor John M O'Connor has been asked to look into the composition of the Regional School Committee to determine if representation on the com- complies with the one Clifton J Regan of 115 Ashby State Road former Ward 4 councilor last week asked Mayor Carleton E Blackwell to obtain a determination of the committee's make-up Blackwell said today he has asked O'Connor to look into the nutter and report back In a letter to the mayor Regan said I feel that an injustice is being perpetrated by the present for Fitchburg's representation the Regional Vocational School Committee I have long been ocate of vocational Regan continued noting he the school while on the city council The concept of this regional school is still valid I am afraid that its school committee's electoral position is he Workman's No Car No Job Nor Sympathy EAST PROVIDENCE What kind of a crazy tity is Ken Donahue asked after his car was towed away and he was left the money to get it back Donahue a carpenter re- turned home Sunday from two days in Boston and discovered that his license plates had bee stolen and his car towed awa by order of police He went to reclaim it bu was told he'd have to pay a towing charge Donahue said h didn't have the money ant needed his tools to earn It They wen in the back seat o his car and he said he allowed to them I don't care that they town the car away ht said If was a cop and I saw a car on the street with no plates I probably do the same thing But why can't I have m Why can't they hold th worth at least give me my tools HO am I supposed to go to work without a craty What kind Fty is said Something Amiss If my vote as a resident of Fitchburg is according to the ne man one vote doctrine to have the same weight toward the ad- ministration of this school as et us say a person's vote from one of the smaller towns then something is amiss My vote as ne of in Fitchburg does not count as much as for a committee member in a town Likewise the fact that Fitchburg is paying proximately 47 percent of the costs for this school or almost one-half of the expenses and we have only two places on this committee out of 12 members s Regan said He explained that Fitchburg allowed two seats on the to Houses Selling Well By GEORGE R HOHMANN Sentinel houses in the area are sold as fast as they can be built according to a newly released Federal housing survey The annual Survey ot Unsold regional committee one vacant at this time Their Af Hall New Houses by the Depart ment of Housing and Urban Development HUD cover vity in subdivisions wher or more houses wer completed in 1972 HUD figure its survey covers two-thirds o all hew housing in the area There were five subdivision in the area where five or more home were completed in 1972 In those five subdivisions 4 homes were built Twenty o those houses were sold befor construction even began HU said The remaining 27 homes wer built on i they were not sold construction began Al however were sold eithe during construction or upo completion HUD said As of January 1 HUD sai 13 houses were under con struction and none had bee sold If the 1972 figures are bellweather the builders nee not worry City Council Prei Allen J Hamilton left chats with Mayor Carleton E Blackwell Hall before Blackwell left tar England Hamilton takes ever tor two weeks as acting mayor and has limited executive See story page t Sentinel by Dong Fletcker Peace Uganda Frees 112 Americans NAIROBI Kenya AP i resident Idl Amin today ered the release of 112 ans detained for two days in le eastern African nation of Uganda the U.S Embassy re- ported Amin an unpredictable strongman at odds with had the young can volunteers taken into dy Saturday after their plane made a refueling stop in Uganda on the way to Peace Corps posts in Africa Amin disclosed the release order in a message to the Embassy in the Ugandan capi tal of Kampala American spokesmen said i had not yet been decided when or by what route the volunteer would leave Uganda There was no immediate in dication what convinced Amin a N burly former boxer to let the Americans go He had said Sunday they would be held until he got assurances from the countries to which they were heading that they in deed were Peace Corps not mercenaries The young Americans women and 63 men Saturday night under spen guard at the Entebbe Airpor near Kampala They were transferred Sur day still under armed guard to a hotel on nearby Lake Vic ing dining and dancing with he few guards looking on A U.S Embassy official with he volunteers at Entebbe said here was no great f joy when he told the ans of the release order Shortly before the word came through one of the Americans said by telephone he would not mind staying on at the hotel a while longer Another day or two would be fine with said Ken Beck 25 of Walla Walla Wash We're all really having a good time The worst is over and is happy and Beck described chess games tennis matches guitar playing and rules against straying off the hotel grounds We are all eager to get to Zaire where we're going to teach but we're all having I good time he said In Washington the State De- listed 111 as being field There was no explanation for the discrepancy between the U.S figure and the 112 listed by the Uganda government Today the Americans slept talked by telephone with worried parents at home and complained because there was no water in the hotel's ming pool There were reports unconfirmed by U.S officials in Uganda that some of the young people hired taxis and went toria where they spent the into Entebbe to shop for represent while a town of Is allowed one com- seat He said that to be more representative committee composition should be changed or the committee enlarged to allow more representation from both and Gardner Riling He asked that O'Connor peruse the present committee arrangement and that if he tindi it lacking in represen tallon for the city that he request a formal ruling from tht state Attorney General's office Blackwell commenting on the request said I personally feel we should have more than two members representing us on the committee The number of people in the city and the number we send to the school as well as the city's share for cost seem to warrant fuller representation for News Digest Rogers Signs Accord With Czechs Nixon Papers Wanted PRAGUE Czechoslovakia AR Secretary of State liam P Rogers today signed the first direct consular between the United States Rogers called the agreement which was seven months in preparation an essential building block in the new we are constructing be- nist government and Czechoslovakia's tween Czechoslovakia and the United States Kozol Opposes Teachers President BOSTON AP Author Jonathan Koiol of South Boston Kozol accused Shanker of ag racial and religious sin he wlH a differences among teachers in campaign to prevent Albert Shanker president ot the New York City United ot Teachers from control of the largest teachers union in the country on the inside JAFFREY N R IS CELEBRATING Its sary See Page 13 RESTORATION GOAL SET by Townsend society See Page 15 i U S FOOD EXPERTS are a key higher food prices In this country See Page IJ PRESIDENT NIXON'S FRIEND In the purchase of his home managed to escape a probe of his activities See Page 3 15 H tl All Starts Television Pages the New York City school sys tern several years ago He warned of a potential loss of black and teachers If Shanker is put in control of the teachers union French Post Nuclear Area Warning PARIS AP France today commercial planes to stay from the Atoll starting Wednesday indicating that the first blast in its hotly disputed South Pacific atomic testa probably will come late this week An advisory Issued to civil airlines in London and Paris told pilots that a zone 200 miles around Mururoa as well as 500 miles to the east was forbidden to air navigation In the past such warnings were put out 4 hours before any explosion This meant the first test be expected anytime afte Thursday midnight Search For Lexington Family Called Off BEDFORD Mass The Massachusetts wing of the Civil Air Patrol has called off Its search for a Lexington ly ot five missing since last week In a plane traveling from Pennsylvania to Hanscom Field here Some 15 to 20 planes eastern Massachusetts the weekend in an effort cate M Chandler Crocker II 35 his wife Bernice 37 and their children M Chindler III 15 Matthew 12 and Scott t t M 13 Iraqu Plotters Executed BEIRUT Lebanon AP The Iraqi government an- today that 13 more men shot Sunday night as plotters against UK leftist This brought tn M the num her executed for the coup led by the country's ity chief Col Kassar WASHINGTON AP te Watergate committee ers are suggesting President Jixon will not be subpoenaed to but there was dis- greement today over what to o about presidential papers pertaining to Watergate One senator called the papers public records that belong to he American public Another aid he was not concerned about getting the that the committee could do its Job without them Nixon has told committee Chairman Sam J Ervin Jr D- that he will not appear before the panel under any circumstances or give it cess to the papers On a television view program Sunday com- members Sens Edward J Gurney and Herman on should make the papers available to the committee I've always thought that public records belong to the American Talmadge said He said the Senate should consider subpoenaing the pers if Nixon doesn't turn them over voluntarily Talmadge said that while he didn't think it would be possible for Nixon to be subpoenaed I E Talmadge said a committee ot Congress Cold Shoulder On A Hot Day Dan kat a klad a keii He werks at his tee heuse M Side In ease yw Bad a rf jwr recently H It Hke the ne AP as a right to look at public who was interviewed ith Talmadge on the ABC Issues and Answers rogram said he felt Nixon lould turn over com- all documents with et- her a direct or indirect ng on this Watergate affair nd who is involved and what In Connecticut Sen Lowell Weicker Jr R Conn r committee member wail in a newspaper inter- as saying that Nixon's re- usal to appear or turn over tha didn't bother him We're going to ante to ur job with or without Weicker said Through Press Secretary Ronald L Zlegler Nixon has aid that he will discuss ate in an appropriate forum utter the Senate committee con- eludes its hearings on UM Juno 7 1972 break-in at Democratic national headquarters Last week the which resumes its work day with testimony from for- mer Atty Gen John N chell formally asked for mission to examine and all White House gate files WATERGATE 1 Watergate at a lance are the latest de- in Watergate Gallup Poll says n per cent of those Nixon had vehement in the bugging cover-up and II per cent feel he should be removed from of- fice B Y R Majority Whip Robert C Byrd said Nixon's decision not to tract from Nixon's
