The Republican from Springfield, Massachusetts (2024)

April 24, 1990

Publication:

The Republicani

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Springfield, Massachusetts

Issue Date:

Tuesday, April 24, 1990

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66

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UNION NEWS TUESDAY APRIL 24 1990 Deaths elsewhere Nation mourns to state costs Rev and the Professor in p*rn case seeks retirement i Gordon Halls owned Highland Machine Judge Classified Springfield Other obituaries Newspapers nnbaiyRcpnbliran il federal changes present Coretta were Scott input from DePaul amily Enfield swimming and baseball 50 per cent of student activities which will be decided by principals in dustrial arts home economics and classroom music at Birchland Park community service mean ing anyone using facilities after school hours would have to pay for heat lights and police 50 per cent of maintenance for school grounds transportation for chil dren except kindergarten students who live within one and one half mile of school and the program for gifted and talented students The second round of cuts would include: the rest of student athlet ics and activities audio visual supplies all maintenance of grounds significant portions of equipment and textbook allot ments 25 percent of the library budget reduced curriculum coor dination 50 percent of teacher in service programs a custodian foreign language librarian and guidance at Birchland Park re duction in physical education and the loss of the assistant principals at the high school and middle school Gordon Halls 67 of Spring field 42 year co owner of the Highland Machine Co in Spring field died Monday in Mercy Hos pital A lifelong resident of Spring GENEVA (AP) Paulette Goddard the wide eyed wai flike actress who co starred with husband Charlie Chaplin in films such as "The Great Dicta and "Modem died yesterday at her home in south ern Switzerland A municipal employee in the village of Ronco said official records show the actress was born June 3 1905 making her 84 However reference books give her year of birth as 1911 or 1915 The employee Pia Della Mora said the exact cause of death was not known "but one could assume she died of old A member of her house hold said the actress had a brief illness Ms Goddard born Marion Levy in Whitestone NY began her career on stage in the New York show Her Hol lywood debut came with a small part in Girl in 1931 the first of 40 plus mo vies As a member of the Hal Roach Studio stock company she starred with Chaplin in two of his classics in 1936 and Great Dicta in 1940 Their marriage her second ended in divorce in 1942 turned out to be a fine Bob Hope said yester day from his Los Angeles home was everything She was beautiful She was Hope appeared with Ms God dard in the movies Cat The Longmeadow legislator said her position has nothing to do with any just her belief that voting rights should be upheld She added that if the Springfield bill is approved in committee and sent to the floor of the House she will oppose it there However Sen Brian Lees East Longmeadow a member of the Election Laws Committee said he supports the Springfield bill as he supports other home rule bills that are sent to Boston respect Rep posi tion" Lees said the city has asked me for my support and I will support He said he expects the measure will receive a favorable recom mendation from the committee by tomorrow the deadline for com mittee action on 1990 legislation Unless an extension is secured any bills not acted upon after to deadline automatically receive unfavorable reports Paulette Goddard By GLENN A BRIERE Statehouse bureau chief BOSTON State Rep Iris Holland Longmeadow urged a legislative committee yesterday to reject a home rule bill that would allow the Springfield City Council and School Committee to fill vacancies on their respective bodies She complained that the bill constituted with de Holland whose district includes one precinct in Ward 6 told members of the Election Laws Committee that council and School Committee vacancies should be filled by the candidate with the next highest number of votes in the previous election Under law City Council vacan cies are filled by the top unsuc cessful vote getter in the previous election while School Committee vacancies are filled by a joint convention of the council and School Committee A bill to make the School Com Rose Anderstrom Rose (Sears) Anderstrom 93 formerly of 36 Alvin St Spring field died Saturday in a local nursing home Born in the Willi mansett section of Chicopee she had lived in Springfield most of her life She was a communicant of Our Lady of Hope Church and a member of its Ladies Sodality the American Legion Auxiliary and the Springfield Golden Age Club Her husband Arvid Ander strom died in 1982 She leaves a son Edward A of Hilton Head Is land SC eight grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren The funeral will be Saturday morning at the TP Sampson Co Liberty Street Parlors and in the church with burial in Calvary Cemetery Holyoke Calling hours will be ri day afternoon and evening Memo rial contributions may be made to any charity ATLANTA (AP) The Rev Ralph David Abernathy was carried to his crypt yesterday on a wave of praise riding in a plain mule drawn wooden wagon flanked by his sons and colleagues in the civil rights movement The famous and the humble piled shoulder to shoulder in side a southwest Atlanta church for the four hour service for the man who was longtime chief lieutenant in the civil rights movement Afterward two mules pull ing a green wooden wagon bearing casket set out from West Hunter Street Baptist Church where Aber nathy was pastor for Lincoln Cemetery body was carried to its resting place by a mule drawn wagon after he was assassinat ed in 1968 at the suggestion of Abernathy who considered it symbolic of humility Relatives said Abernathy wanted the same for himself bier traveled in a Carmen Quinones Carmen (Sanchez) Quinones 56 of 97 Washburn Sl Springfield died Monday in Mercy Hospital Born in Anasco Puerto Rico she had lived in Springfield 27 years Her husband Ramon Quinones died in 1976 She leaves three sons Reynaldo Perez Jose Quin ones and Pedro Quinones three daughters Virma Santiago Iris Negron and Inez Velez all of Springfield her mother Carmen Rivera of Puerto Rico two broth ers Jose Valentin of Springfield and Juan Sanchez of Puerto Rico four sisters Miriam Valentin Sara Valentin Josefa Valentin and Nelly Sanchez all of Puerto Rico and seven grandchildren The funeral will be Thursday morning at the Edward O'Don nell and Phaneuf McCarthy neral Home and in Blessed Sacra ment Church with burial in Oak Grove Cemetery Calling hours will be Wednesday evening mittee vacancy process identical to the councils was unsuccessful in last legislative session This year the City Council approved a new home rule bill supported by Mayor Mary Hurley that would allow each body to determine who should fill out unexpired terms But Holland said the voters of Springfield should have that power by having the election re sults determine who is to move up to vacant seats messing with democracy" she said of the home rule bill far as concerned a basic right to vote and to have your voted counted I believe the peo ple should elect not that that the City Council or School Committee should Although local home rule bills usually pass in the Legislature without opposition Holland told the committee that this measure was hotly contested and was approved by the City Council by just a 5 4 vote Laura A ischer PALMER Laura A (Dufault) ischer 84 of East Palmer Park Drive a retired 35 year co owner of ischer Inn Restaurant died Monday in a local nursing home She retired in 1966 Born in Ste Victoire Canada she had lived in Palmer 51 years and was a com municant of St Thomas Church Her husband Karl ischer died in 1984 She leaves a son Carl of Palmer two sisters Rose Laval lee of West Warren and Alice Har rison of Hampden and a grand daughter The funeral will be Wednesday morning at the Beers and Story uneral Home and in the church with burial in the par ish cemetery Calling hours are afternoon and evening Memo rial contributions may be made to' Wing Memorial HospitalWright Street Palmer 01069 essary regardless of an override vote is no list I could come up with that would please every Drinkwater said tell peo ple I cut and continue to provide good education If people in this town think we have excess money in our budget they are wrong I am at wits end as a su Drinkwater said the committee is faced with making people knowledgeable about the school budget about state and requirements and about in needs He also said according statistics the school system has one ot tne lowest per pupil in the state and local area The cuts were based on from a committee the principals and his own beliefs Drinkwater said He said he tried to minimize increases in class size The first round of cuts would include: football ice hockey basketball gymnastics golf By CYNTHIA SIMISON Westfield State College profes sor Weston Dyer already con victed in Connecticut of harassing four teen age girls and awaiting prosecution here on charges for the mailing of p*rnographic materials to another youth is ne gotiating a with the college his lawyer told a judge yesterday Dyer who received a one year suspended prison term and two probation in Connecticut 2Vz weeks ago is also negotiating a possible plea bargaining agree ment for disposition of his case in Hampden County Superior Court Josephine SOUTH HADLEY Josephine Keough) 98 70 Bridge St died Monday in Ho lyoke Hospital Born in South Had ley she was a lifelong resident and attended the local schools She was a communicant of St Pa Church She was the widow of John who died in 1946 She leaves three nephews Robert Keogh of Illinois Paul Keogh of New Jersey and James Healy of Chicopee five nieces Mary Hardy of Bristol Conn Dorothy Weissbrod Campton NH Charlotte Bachleda of Cali fornia Miriam Schiffer of Madi son Conn and Marita Campbell of Chicopee The funeral will be Thursday morning at the Ryder uneral Home and in the church with burial in St Rose Cemetery Calling hours will be Wednesday afternoon and evening Vmcenza Curcio ENIELD Vincenza Curcio 102 formerly of 140 Pleasant St died Monday in a local nursing home Born in Naro Italy she had lived in Enfield most of her life She was the wife of the late Diego Curcio She leaves a daughter Sadie Marrone of Enfield two grandchildren six great grandchildren and six great great grandchildren The funeral will be Wednesday morning at the Leete Stevens Enfield Chapels and in Holy amily Church with burial in Thompsonvillle Ceme tery Calling hours are this eve ning Memorial donations may be made to the St Vincent Society in care of Holy Church Simon Road 06082 William Simons of the poten tial retirement yesterday when case was the subject of a pretrial conference in Superior Court in Springfield Simons granted request to move trial which had been scheduled for May 7 to June 13 Dyer a resident of Granby Conn has pleaded innocent to charges of dissemination of visual materials of a child in a state of nudity or sexual conduct and pos session of obscene matter with intent to distribute The charges involve the mailing of p*rno graphic materials to a teen age girl in Southwick last November according to attorney Henry Riga li Meanwhile college officials said yesterday that Dyer 56 re mains on an extended sick leave that he began in November when he was indicted here The WSC faculty union contract allows the college president to ini tiate termination proceedings against an employee who faces criminal prosecution A college spokesperson said that no such proceedings had been started salary is $44572 He is a 19 year member of the political science faculty Dyers lawyer iniormed John Muller HOLYOKE John Muller 42 of 494 Appleton St an employ ee of the Nonotuck Paper Co died Sunday at home A lifelong resi dent of Holyoke he attended local schools and was an Army veteran of the Vietnam War He was a member of the Veterans of or eign Wars Post 323 of Holyoke He leaves his mother Helen (Gotts man) Muller of Holyoke a broth er ranklin of Joplin Mo and four sisters Martha Gorden and Lillian Greeley of Chicopee Ellen Hans of Brooklyn NY and Dorothy Deville of Holyoke The funeral will be Wednesday after noon at the Dillon uneral Home with burial in orestdale Ceme tery Calling hours are this after noon and evening By DEAN LUNT EAST LONGMEADOW More than $960000 in proposed school budget cuts including nearly 40 staff positions and all student ath letics and programs were unveiled last night Superintendent John Drink water presented his proposed cuts to the School Committee which will examine (hem before meeting next Monday 1 Drinkwater developed two lists for his recommendations The first list detailed a $432000 cut requested by the Appropriations Committee: and the second list was an additional $517000 in cuts necessary if the June 5 Proposi tion 2 override referendum fails The School Committee sub mitted a budget request of $96 million but the Appropriations Committee recommended a bud get of $92 million on the Town Meeting warrant Unless the rec ommended amount is amended upwards the $422000 cut is nec OR YOU CALL 788 1234 to place your classified ad Union News Walter Pienkowski WESTIELD Walter Pienkowski 65 of 13 Parker Ave 25 year custodian for the West field School Department died Monday at home Born in West field he was a lifelong resident and a communicant of St Joseph Polish National Catholic Church He was a member of the Veterans of oreign Wars and the Ameri can Legion Post both of North ampton He leaves a brother Stan ley of Westfield four sisters Stella Chrzanowski and Wanda Jaszek both of Westfield Sophie Pyne of Springfield and rances Gogulski of Suffield Conn The funeral will be Wednesday morn ing at the Czelusniak uneral Home Westfield with burial in St Cemetery Calling hours are prior to the funeral field he was a graduate of the for mer Springfield Trade High School and a member of Grace Church of Christ He was an Army veteran of World War II having fought in the Italian Campaign He leaves his wife the former Dolores A Molella a son Jeffrey of Westfield a daughter Lisa Galaska of Longmeadow a broth er Norman of Springfield a sis ter Irma Halls of Springfield and two grandsons The funeral will be Thursday morning at TP Sampson Co Chapel of the Acres with burial in Hillcrest Park Cemetery Calling hours will be Wednesday after noon and evening Memorial contributions may be made to the church 336 Spring field St Springfield 01104 or to any charity Susan Byrne HAMPDEN Susan (Creamer) Byrne 95 of Spring meadow Lane died Monday in a local nursing home Born in New Castle New Brunswick Canada she lived most of her life in Springfield 12 years in California and then 11 years in Hampden She was a communicant of St Church She leaves a brother Hubert Creamer of New Brunswick two sisters Loretta Clancy of Derby Junction New Brunswick and Beatrice Lanzillo of Springfield three grandsons a granddaughter and two great grandchildren A daughter Joan LaRose died in 1977 The funeral will be Thursday morning in the church with burial in St Mi Cemetery Springfield Calling hours at Hafey Springfield Chapels will be Wednesday after noon and evening NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS (SITEWORK) COMMONWEALTH MASS DEPT ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT DIVISION PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT 225 RIENDSTREET BOSTON MA 02114 TEL (617)727 3160 AMHERST TEL (413) 549 1461 PROJECT NO: DEM Contract Number649 90 TITLE: Construction of Chain Link ence LOCATION: Campbell alls State Park Campbell alls Road New Marlborough MA Sealed proposals submitted on a form furnished by the Depart ment will be received until 2:00 pm on May 10 1990 at the De partment of Environmental Man agement orests and Parks Re 4 Headquarters off ommonwealth Avenue through parking lot 25 Umass Campus Amherst MA office and will at that time and place be publicly opened and read Each proposal must be enclosed in a sealed enve lope dearly endorsed with the name of bidder project number and title Plans and specifications are avail able at the Boston office of the De partment of Environmental Man agement or Region IV Headquarters located off Com monwealth Avenue through park ing lot 25 Umass Campus Am herst and may be examined there and obtained on deposit of $1000 in the form of a check or money order payable to the Com monwealth of Massachusetts De posits for specifications shall be refundable upon return in good condition A pre bidding conference for respective bidders will be held at 1:04 o'clock local time on April 30 1990 The location of the meeting for all interested parties will be at the Campbell alls State Park Campbell alls Road New Marl borough MA The project consists of new con struction of 72 Inch Galvanized Chain Link ence (pipe top rail) The work is to be accomplished within 30 days of a notice to pro ceed Liquidating damages In the amount of $100 00 per day will be assessed for each day beyond the completion date necessary for the accomplishment of the work Each bid must be accompanied by a bid deposit in the form of a bid bond or certified check on or a treasurer's or cashier's check is sued by a responsible bank or trust company payable to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts In the amount of 5 (five percent) of the total bid The Department reserves the right to waive any Informalities In or to reject any and all bids if it be In the public Interest to do so Bids are subject to the provisions of MGL Chapter 30 Section 39M and Chapter 149 Section 44A to inclusive Wages are subject to minimum wage rates as per MGL Chap ter 149 Section 26 to 27D Inclusive Richard Kendall Commissioner ot Environmental Management (Apr 24) PAULETTE GODDARD and the in 1939 Ghost Breakers" in 1940 and But the in 1941 Other films in which the ac tress had leading roles included Love a Diary of a Cham and a 1947 British production Ideal Hus Her last TV film was Snoop Her third marriage to American actor Burgess Mere dith broke up in 1944 In 1958 she married Erich Maria Remarque the German born American novelist He be came famous in the 1920s for his anti war Quiet on the Western which was banned in Nazi Germany i Lillian Hebert HOLYOKE Lillian (Beau champ) Hebert 92 of 68 Cabot St died Sunday in a local nursing home She was a lifelong resident of Holyoke and a former commu nicant of the old Precious Blood Church Her husband Leo He bert died in 1973 She leaves two sons Roland and George of South Hadley two daughters Vi vian Harrelson of Clearlake Calif Constance arrell of Rock ville Md eight grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren The funeral will be Wednesday morn ing at the Messier uneral Home and in St Church with burial in Precious Blood Ceme tery both in South Hadley Calling hours are this afternoon and eve ning Rev Abernathy two hour procession of 22 lim ousines that passed dilapidated buildings and drug infested communities along the street named in honor of King Groups of people some with children and pets lined side walks as the wagon inched along in a sea of 150 suited marchers including Aber sons Kwame and state Rep Ralph David Abernathy III and movement associates Andrew Young Jesse Jackson Among those widow King and three of her children King's sister Christine King arris Benjamin Hooks head of the NAACP US Rep John Lewis Ga Robert Kennedy Jr Archbishop Eugene Marino and Health and Human Services Secretary Louis Sullivan Abernathy who was closest friend and adviser died April 17 of a heart attack in duced by a blood clot He was 64 COMMONWEALTH MASSACHUSETTS HAMPDEN SS PROBATE COURT No 86D1 161D1 Summons by Publication and mailing ROBBIE JOHNSON Plaintiff vs cl*tON JOHNSON Defendant the above named Defendant A complaint has been presented to this Court by your spouse ROBBIE JpHNSON seeking for conveyance of real personal prop erty located within the Common wealth You are required to serve upon Atty Helena riedman plain tiff's attorney whose address is 260 Worthington Street Spring field Ma 01103 your answer on or before May twenty fifth 1990 If you fail to do so the Court will proceed to the hearing and adju dication of this action You are also required to file a copy of your answer in the office of the Regis ter of this Court at 50 State Street Springfield Ma 01103 Witness JOSEPH RODGERS Esq irst Judge of said Court at Springfield March 26 1990 JOHNP O'BRIEN Register of Probate (Apr 10 17 24) 32 SE COMMONWEALTH MASSACHUSETTS HAMPDEN SS PROBATE COURT No 90D0686 D1 Summons by Publication and mailing NANCYMARIEOSTER Plaintiff vs STEPHONCHIRVINE OSTER Defendant To the above named Defendant A complaint has been presented to this Court by your spouse NANCY MARIE OSTER seeking to dissolve the bonds of matrimo ny for custody of and allowance for minor child You are required to serve upon Atty Joseph Richards plain tiff's attorney whose address is 145 State Street Suite 306 Spring field Ma 01103 your answer on or before July sixth 1990 If you fail to do so the Court will proceed to the hearing and adjudication ot this acllor You are also required to file a copy of your answer in the office of the Register of this Court at 50 State Street Springfield Ma 01103 Witness JOSEPH RODGERS Esq irst Judge of said Court at Springfield March 23 1990 JOHNP O'BRIEN Register of Probate (Apr 17 24 May 1) COMMONWEALTH MASSACHUSETTS HAMPDEN SS PROBATECOURT No 90D0720 Q1 Summons by Publication and mailing MARGARITA VEGA Plaintiff vs HIRAM LAMBERTY Defendant Totheabove named Defendant A complaint has been presentee to this Court by your spouse MARGARITA VEGA seeking fc dissolve the bonds of matrimony for conveyance of personal prop erty located within the Common wealth You are required to serve upor Atty Theodore Cooledge plaintiff's attorney whose ad dress is 80 Maple Street Spring field Ma 01105 your answer on or before July sixth 1990 If you fall to do so the Court will proceed to the hearing and adjudication of this action You are also required to file a copy ot your answer in the office of the Register of this Court at 50 State Street Springfield Ma 01103 Witness JOSEPH RODGERS Esq irst Judge of said Court at Springfield March27 1990 JOHNP Register of Probate (Apr 17 24 May 1) HAMPSHIRE COUNTY INVITATION TO BID 274 Bituminous Concrete Cold Patch Liquid Asphalt Material PeastoneTraprock Processed Gravel Sealed proposals for the coopera tive annual supply of Bituminous Concrete Cold Patch Liquid As phalt Material and Peastone Traprock Processed Gravel for Participating Hampshire County Municipalities will be received by the Hampshire County Commis sioners until Thursday May 3 1990 at 4:40 when they'll be public ly opened and read Blds should be placed in SEPARATE sealed envelopes marked Bituminous Concrete Bid274 or Liquid Asphalt Bid 274 or Cold Patch Bid 274 or Peas tone Bld 274 in the lower left corners and mailed to Hampshire County Purchasing 99 Main Street Northampton MA 01060 Call 413586 6133 for Specifi cations Wages to be paid employees used for Bituminous Concrete and Liq uid Asphalt Material Applied In Place shall be In accordance with the Minimum Wage Rates as es tabished by the Department of Labor and Industries The collective Boards of Select men from the participating mu nicipalities reserve the right to accept or reject any and all bids in total or in part as they may deem to be In the best Interest of their individual or collective towns EXEC COMM HAMPSHIRECOUNTY COMMISSIONERS: Chp Joseph A Wiihelm III Allen Torrey Raymond LaBarge David Bridgman Marilyn Bigelow (Apr 24) Drinkwater unveils plan to trim $960000 from schools budget Holland voices opposition to vacancy home rule bill ADVERTIsem*nT CITY SPRINGIELD MASSACHUSETTS PURCHASING DEPARTMENT THE CITY SPRINGIELD OERS OR SALE TIMBER AT COBBLE MT RESERVOIR AT BLANDORD MA PER BID 1919 SEALED PROPOSALS WILL BE RECEIVED BY THE CHIE PRO CUREMENT OICER 233 ALLEN STREET SPRINGIELD MASSACHUSETTS UP TO MAY 16 1990 AT 2:00 PM AT WHICH TIME THEY WILL BE PUBLICLY OPENED AND READ IN THE PURCHASING DEPARTMENT BID ROOM A 10 CERTIIED CHECK LET TER CREDIT OR BOND PAY ABLE TO THE CITY SPRING IELD MUST ACCOMPANY EACH BID SURETY BONDS WILL ONLY BE ACCEPTED ROM SURETY COMPANIES LI CENSED BY THE DIVISION INSURANCE TO TRANSACT BUSINESS IN THE COMMON WEALTH MASSACHUSETTS THE TIMBER WILL BE SHOWN BY BAY STATE ORESTRY SER VICE IN MAY 9 1990 AT TIMES PER BIDSPECIICATIONS SPECIICATIONS AND PROPOS AL ORMS MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE OICE THE CITY CHIE PROCUREMENT OI CER THE CHIE PROCUREMENT ICER RESERVES THE RIGHT TO REJECT ANY OR ALL BIDS RAYMOND TURGEON CHIE PROCUREMENT OICER 233 ALLENSTREET SPRINGIELD MA01108 (Apr 24 25 26) LEGAL NOTICE The Longmeadow Zoning Board of Appeals will hold a public hear ing on TUESDAY MAY I 1990 at PM in the TOWN HALL on the application of GRANDE MEADOWS TENNIS AND HEALTH CLUB seeking to amend a special permit of the Zoning By Laws Article IV Sec tion Sub section 62 regarding property at 170 DWIGHT ROAD LONGMEADOW MA LONGMEADOWZONING BOARDO APPEALS BLAIR CHAIRMAN (Apr 17 24) leading lady at 84 aL '3.

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