Nashua Telegraph (Newspaper) - February 22, 1971, Nashua, New Hampshire Today's Chuckle Sign in a television repair it yourself then call Nashua Cele Hampshire's Largest Evening Weather Snow Likely Tonight Unsettled Tuesday Full Report on Page 2 VOL. 102 NO. 299 Continuing the New Hampshire Telegraph Established October 20. 1832 NEW FEBRUARY 22, 1971 Second Class Postage Paid At N. H. 24 PAGES Price TEN CENTS Houses Boys Play There has never been a lot of space for youngsters to play in the West End of the but this huge tract on Walnut cleared of a long row of old ment houses under the ban renewal vides a temporary The area will tually be used for relocating the street and erecting low income and commercial But for de- spite urban es they keep off the tract for their own the kids have room for a up game of pww i 11 i j v f vj Board To Reject Mississippi Tornadoes Make-Up Days Request irm 74. By CLAUDETTE DUROCHER school board be unable to resolve the make-up W da Members of Nashua's Board of Education will be advised tonight to reject the Nashua Teachers Union's request for 18 make-up school days to offset time lost during last September's The recommendation will be made by the finance committee which met with union officials Friday night to receive the union's Charles J. committee said his group will also suggest that individual tion be provided should any student feel he is encountering academic problems because of the 18-day Max president of Local 1044, American Federation of Teachers said the union has instructed J. Harold man of to contact Harvard University mediator John Teele mediated a settlement to the strike in September and Gowen said it was agreed then he would return to Nashua should the union and day No Such Agreement McCann said he was informed by last year's negotiating committee that there was no such He added the union is seeking services without the approval of the Gowen said the union seeks the make-up days for the He said the up time is desirable in view of a state education department report in September that the quality of education in seven schools was As to reports the union seeks the make-up time merely to recapture wages lost by teachers during the Gowen there are all kinds of It was he the union and board could have started to prepare plans for the make-up such as when they would be held and which classes would have He said the union would expect teachers conducting the MAKE-UP DAYS Page 2 Laos Push Still Stalled By GEORGE ESPER SAIGON More heavy Vietnamese attacks stalled the South Vietnamese drive into Laos today for the fifth successive Lead ments of Saigon's force were still only miles from the border they crossed two weeks Military sources said the also had not achieved its to cut the flow of my supplies down the Ho Chi Minh these sources the North had doubled the truck from to about per and diverted them to the west to routes be- yond the South Vietnamese ad- enemy conducted at least 10 indirect fire attacks with rockets and mortar rounds against South Vietnamese fire bases and field positions in the panhandle of Laos Hearing Set March 19 On High School A public hearing to allow ua citizens to express their views on the proposed million high school is planned 19 in the Spring Street Junior High School The session is recommended .by the of Education's com- munity relations which will officially present its suggestion to the full board at its meeting To be on hand at the hearing to answer questions on the posed school will be members of the Mather Lechner architectural firm is de- signing the Also to attend are members of supportive engineering and consulting It is expected the board will prove the public hearing Board members will meet at in the Broad Street School for their It will be open to the causing light over-all a South Vietnamese communique A spokesman said they were the heaviest enemy attacks since Saigon's troops moved into Laos Feb. 8. He would not disclose specific but over-all some units may have moderate or heavy The enemy attacks drove remnants of one South ranger battalion from a hilltop patrol base six miles in- side Laos after 298 of the ion's 450 men had been Wiled or wounded in The survivors carried 108 wounded with them but left be- hind 130 dead comrades and 60 other wounded to fend for Another ranger base a mile also under siege since was still holding out today under rocket and mortar But a U.S. helicopter got in to lift out an American ter crew Dennis Fujii of who was stranded at the other base last Thursday and manned a radio to direct U.S. air strikes against the my Fuji was reported wounded A South Vietnamese LAOS Page 3 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Dozens of tornadoes tore across the flat lands of the Mississippi River delta Sunday said today that 74 persons were dreds others were injured and thousands of homes and businesses were de- Texas Also Hit Sixty-eight of the deaths were in Mississippi and the other six in Twisters also hit two cities in east but no deaths were And another section of the Midwest was hit Sunday with a heavy Five persons were killed in sas and Missouri and many travelers were ing two lanes of cars more than long on the Kansas The death toll climbed ly early today when authorities reported additional victims in Mississippi's LeFlore County and in Miss. looked like a thousand exclaimed Willie a railroad employe who vived one of the first tornadoes near La. A National Weather Service spokesman at said there probably were 40 to 50 tornadoes in the 100-mile line of violent weather that raced across Mississippi after ing two twisters in northeast Mississippi officials reported 19 killed in- rural LeFlore 13 at eight at seven at Delta five in rural Humphreys three at Little two at Rome and two at The LeFlore deaths included 16 at Pugh City a deputy sheriff only seven of the 50 houses were left In near six persons died when a tornado lifted a frame house from its foundation and splintered it over a wide Some of the bodies were found 200 yards from the foundation of the communications were knocked out in some of the hardest hit areas in National Guard units were in several communities shelters were being set up for the About 50 emergency Red Cross workers were sent to the storm Sen. James D- asked President Nixon to declare the stricken region a federal disaster A spokesman for the ty of Mississippi at Oxford said 40 students were hospitalized after a tornado struck a trailer park on the edge of the He said 50 trailers were de- and 50 others Damage at a community of about sons about 90 miles northwest of was Hay a Civil De- fense worker who was helping to look for victims in the TORNADOES Page I Health Department Abolishes Clinics for Parochial Pupils White House Asks for Probe Of Emergency Alert System By JAY PERKINS WASHINGTON With the White House demanding an explanation of a weekend the Defense and the Federal tions Commission both say they will take a closer look at the the government warns the nation against nuclear The announcements Sunday came only hours before the emergency broadcast warning system malfunctioned for the second day in a The directed by the North American Air Defense Command NORAD in side Cheyenne Mountain near rado first failed TONIGHT IN THE TELEGRAPH Anderson Biossat Classifieds 13 21, 22, 23 Comics Cromley Crossword Dear Abby Editorial Financial Health Horoscope 9 Lawrence 4 Nashua Scene 4 Obituaries Sports Suburban Taylor Television Theaters Weather 18-19 4 20 20 2 Saturday when a technician in- the wrong tape into the broadcast wires of The Press and United Press The tape normally sent would have notified broadcasters NO- RAD was testing tlie In- it said the President had directed a notification of gency that all normal broadcasting was to stop that Downtown Store Robbed of Thieves ripped open a large safe at 201 Main time Saturday night and got away with more than Capt. Donald R. Boyer said the burglary was discovered about 4 p.m. yesterday when cer Paul on routine found a door unlocked in hallway of the second floor or the Boyer said the heavy safe had been ripped open with crowbars and He said mately in bills and coins was The store had closed at p.m. casters Were to transmit the The system failed again day when NORAD was unable to take over control of The Press teletype wires be- cause of a technical The lest was transmitted as usual over the UPI A subsequent test over the AP lines Sunday night Technicians from the telephone company and the AP said the cause of the earlier ure was An investigation into day's false alert was requested by the White A man said Sunday sible at NORAD will see that it does not happen Saturday's erroneous alert re- mained in effect 18 minutes though many stations did not shut Some stations did not see the teletype message and others doubted its an AP poll Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird said he has asked for a report on the false alert and FCC Commissioner Robert Wells said the FCC and the tional Industrial Advisory Com- ALERT SYSTEM Page I By CLAUDETTE DUROCHER Registration clinics for pupils entering the first grade in local parochial schools next ber have been abolished by the Nashua Health Elimination of the service will mean that parents will have to depend on their family cian to perform the required physical examination for their child and to get a mandatory smallpox It is expected that the men of the six local parish school boards will discuss the situation at their monthly ing tonight at at St. Joseph Health Department Director Phillip V. Hurley said the chial schools were notified last year that the department's standing practice of holding the registration clinics would be discontinued this Hurley said the department is halting the service to trate its physician services on referral work He said there was some tion as to how thoroughly ical examinations were done ing the registration clinics where great numbers of dren must be Having the family physician perform the Hurley should provide a more in-depth Physician Services The health he intends to use funds for physician services to State Highway Officials Seek Gas Tax Boost The Highway Department is soring legislation to increase the slate gasoline from seven to nine cents per gallon in addition to the four-cent federal The increase would yield more than million in the next two The is to be introduced by House Public Works Committee Chairman Rob have physicians work with pils in the parochial school tem who develop medical He said the department is also emphasizing its ics which concentrate on viding immunizations and ex- aminations for infants and pre- Hurley said if parents feel strongly about the loss of the parochial registration clinics they can probably take their child to a public tration clinic to have them ex- and immunized even though the child will not attend a public Assistant Supt. Emma Nicol said the school department has HEALTH Page 1 Merrimack Police Nab Counterfeiters MERRIMACK A Nashua man and a woman have been charged with counterfeiting offenses after their arrest in Merrimack Chief John er said the male has been charged with ing a counterfeit at the 20th Century Store in and the male with being an The arrest when Officer on patrol on the Daniel Webster noticed a tan-colored car matching the description of a vehicle involved in a counterfeit incident last The cle was heading and Officer Cote stopped it and took its three occupants into One of the three was later re- leased after it was determined he was not involved in the police The two will court action at a later lice asked that their identities be protected in order that can pursue further leads into the rash of local counter- feiting incidents in recent The two suspects have been linked to counterfeiting offenses in Hudson and as well as police Oliver J. 73, Former Park Official Dies A former longtime city Oliver J. 73, of 16 Arlington died Saturday afternoon in St. Hospital after a brief He was born in July 31, 1897, son of the late Achille and Hermance He was noted for his civic interests as chairman of the Park Recreation Commission from 1946 to 1958. He had also served as and man of the City Planning Mr. Dambroise was the er of the Anctil Realty the Anctil Dambroise Realty and the Realty for more than 30 He was a communicant of the Infant Jesus Church and a ber of the Nashua Country Survivors include his Mrs. Anno Y. of one Mrs. Richard of one Mrs. Alton P. of one Charles A. Dugas of several nephews and The Edmund F. Sweeney neral Home is in charge of ar- GET YOUR SAVINGS PROGRAM OFF THE GROUND You have a variety of plans to choose from at the Red Carpet INDIAN HEAD NATIONAL BANK Member WALLPAPER SALE NOW ON Tremendous Selection Nashua Wallpaper Co 129 W. Pearl St. 882-9491 Mon. thru Sat. Open Thurs. Til I Meet JOHNNY PESKY Former Rod Sox BE OUIl AT Sporting Goods 101 Kim Wed. Feb. 24, 3 to 5 p.m. And 7 to 9 p.m. Nashua High School Gym ENDS SATURDAY WALLPAPER CLEARANCE Values to 69c fo single roll CEILING List gal. Just Gal. Route 101, Milford Fri. 'til 9 1971 over cost on all models in stock NASHUA AUTO Co. 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