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THE HARTFORD COURANT: Wednesday, April 19, 1989 D5 Eastern Edition EAST HARTFORD new beautification commission Tuesday night. Approved for the commission were Democrats Elizabeth Kilgariff, Sheila Tuller, Patricia Sirois, Antonio Russo and Russell Richards; Republicans Marylee Hickey, Frank Satin and Joanne Cooper-Novak; and unaffiliated voter Doris Suessman. In addition, the council appointed Democrats Diane Dagon to the town patriotic commission and John Johnston as alternate to the personnel appeals board. Police Chief Grover D. Howell was appointed to the town emergency medical services commission.

GLASTONBURY Program to explore nature, art, space Today and Friday, children in third through fifth grades will have a chance to explore art, nature and space in a two-part program called "The Right Stuff," sponsored by the Glastonbury Art Guild and the Connecticut Audubon Society's Holland Brook Center. Today's class is from 1 to 3:30 p.m. at the Holland Brook Center, 1361 Main St. Friday's class, at the Art Guild, 1396 Hebron is from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Participants must bring a T- shirt.

The cost of both classes is $18 for members of either group, or $20 for non-members. Those interested can register by calling the Holland Brook Center at 633-8402. support sought for orchestra A steering committee organizing this summer's Symphony at Salmon Brook is trying to attract broader town support for the annual event that features free performances by the Hartford Symphony Orchestra at Salmon Brook Corporate Park. For the past five years, the symphony and Glastonbury High School musicians and singers have performed for the community. This year the steering committee has said it wants to try to make the event one virtually run by and for the town.

Steering committee members include Anne Dichele of the chamber of commerce, Peter Evans and Peggy McKenzie of Keith Sue Galvin of the Friends for Music and Paul Haas of Allstate Insurance. The committee also has as members Leslie Jane Hunt, Glastonbury High School music director; Toby Toloki, director of the symphony orchestra operations; and Peter Tripp, owner of Blacksmith's Tavern and the Great American Cafe. Those seeking sponsorship or information may call the chamber of commerce at 659- 3587. Council to vote on capital budget The town council will take final action on the capital improvement program at its meeting Tuesday in the council chambers of town hall. Last week, council members indicated their preferences for a number of projects, but officials emphasized that those decisions were preliminary.

The capital improvements represent some of the town's major expenditures for the next fiscal year and include such items as repairing school roofs, reconstructing streets and buying equipment. The council will meet at 7:30 p.m. POLICE Council appoints commission members The town council appointed a EAST HARTFORD I Police arrested a Tolland Street man who they said fired a shotgun twice out of his second-floor apartment late Monday night. Robert Clark of 262 Tolland was charged with two counts of risk of injury to a minor and reckless endangerment. His brother-in-law, Scott Perkins, also of East Hartford, was charged with breach of peace.

Police reports say Clark and Perkins were in a fight with five other men on Tolland Street but the fighters dispersed. When police arrived at the scene, they found Clark and Perkins outside Clark's home and questioned them. The men then went inside the house and shortly afterward, Clark fired a shotgun twice into the air. More police officers arrived at the scene and told the men to surrender. Clark's bond was set at $10,000 and he was scheduled to appear in court BLOTTER KILLINGLY Student center opens at community college A student center has opened at Quinebaug Valley Community College in the Danielson section.

Room 106 at the college on Maple Street will serve as a lounge for students and a place for student meetings and activities. Members of the Student Government Association will be able to schedule meetings at the center. Information about scheduling meetings is available from Ann Jones-Arimond, student activities director, at 774-1130, Ext. 324. MANCHESTER Official to hear comments A representative of the town board of directors is scheduled to listen to comments from residents Thursday from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.

in the directors' office, first floor of town hall. Sessions are held the first Tuesday of each month, from 9 until 10 a.m., and the third Thursday of each month, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. SOUTH WINDSOR School officials plan to replace tiles School officials plan to replace worn floor tiles in Timothy Edwards Middle School with carpeting this summer because it is cheaper than new tiles, Superintendent of Schools Joseph L. Wood said Tuesday, Deputy Mayor Alfred G. Kupchunos on Monday asked why the board of education was looking for bidders for the carpeting, which he estimated would cost between $45,000 and $60,000, when the council earlier this year asked the board and town officials to trim costs.

Wood said the money for carpeting is included in the board's proposed 1989-90 budget because the carpeting would be installed this summer when school is not in session. The new fiscal year begins July 1. The board would like to replace the vinyl asbestos tiles, which are coming loose, Wood said. STORRS UConn opens center for surface research A new research center to study the atomic structures of the surfaces of materials has opened at the University of Connecticut. The Center for Surface and Interface Research, at the Institute of Materials Science, will pursue studies that could result in new technology for medical, industrial and consumer.

uses of materials. The center brings together 10 UConn faculty members in fields such as physics, metallurgy, chemical engineering and chemistry to study the relatively new subject of surface science. The goal of surface science is to create solid materials with unique surface properties, sald Theodore Davidson, head of the new center. The new center will also offer training in advanced technology for as many as 20 graduate students at a time. Recent applications of surface research have included arterial grafts for heart patients and the assembling of airplanes with adhesives rather than rivets.

VERNON Worker-pay bill caught in snag A bill that would toughen penaltles against employers who Tuesday. Perkins was released after promising to appear in court Monday. GLASTONBURY A Whitney Lane homeowner confronted a man prowling near the residence during an attempted burglary about 5 a.m. Tuesday, police said. Police have asked residents who have seen suspicious activity in the area to call Officer Andre' Croutch at 633-8301, Ext.

55. The area is near Whitney Lane, Grove Street and the Fox Run Mall. Police describe the suspect as a black male between 15 and 25 years old, between 5 feet 7 Inches and 5 feet 11 inches tall, of medium build and with acne scars on his face, Police also said the suspect was wearing dark-colored sweat pants and a nylon jacket with the letter on the front. 0 do not pay their workers has run into trouble in the state legislature, state Rep. Joseph Courtney, D- said Tuesday.

The bill, which Courtney sponsored in response to the closing of Roosevelt Mills last July, failed to win approval, from the legislature's judiciary committee before its Monday afternoon deadline for approving bills. The committee Monday was debating such matters as the state's death penalty and a proposed two-week waiting period before the purchase of assault weapons, so it was unable to get to the worker-pay bill, Courtney said. However, Courtney said there still Is some hope for winning legislative approval of his proposal this year. He said he' plans to get his bill added as an amendment to a related bill. Courtney's bill would not affect Roosevelt Mills owner John C.

Kelly, who is awaiting trial on charges that he failed to pay his workers for their final three weeks of work at the sweater factory. WINDHAM Community program names deputy chief Ingrid S. Walker, Interim executive director of the Windham Area Community Action Program, has been named the organization's deputy director. Walker, of Pomfret, had been the organization's director of and program development since 1985. 2 poets, activist to attend dinner A potluck supper is scheduled tonight at Curbstone Press for the public to meet threa people who are lecturing in Connecticut this week, Alexander Taylor, owner of the small publishing house, said.

The supper, at 6:30 p.m. at 321 Jackson Willimantic, will feature poets Jack Hirschman and Sarah Menefee, both of San Francisco, and Oscar Orellana, an activist in El Salvador, Taylor said. Hirschman and Menefee will read from their poetry at 5 p.m. today at Shafer Hall at Eastern Connecticut State University. That appearance is sponsored by the college's English department and "Dimension" magazine, Eastern's literary journal.

Orellana, a leader of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, the major party opposed to the Salvadoran government, will speak on human rights in El Salvador at 8 p.m. today in the University of Connecticut student union ballroom in Storrs. He also will speak Thursday at 1 p.m. in Founders' Hall at Central Connecticut State University's administration building in New Britain. HARTFORD Impostor steals money from YMCA A man posing as a Loomis Armored guard making a routine pickup at the YMCA in Hartford stole cash and checks worth at least $10,000 Tuesday.

About 11:30 a.m., a man dressed in a Loomis Armored Inc. uniform arrived at the YMCA at 160 Jewell St. in downtown Hartford and made the usual pickup for delivery to a bank, Hartford police Lt. Thomas R. Moore Jr.

said. Fifteen minutes later, the real Loomis guard arrived and the theft was discovered, Moore said. UNION Board working on new numbering plan The planning and zoning commission will meet tonight at 7:30 in the town office building, Commission members will continue working on a uniform numbering system for the town's houses to make it easier for emergency vehicles to answer 911 calls. Commission members expect to have the system finished by May 1. WILLINGTON Towns offering circus outing The Willington and Mansfield IN THURSDAY'S TOWN COURANT I People facing death get help, comfort from hospice group.

Alternative high school program marks 15 years in East Hartford. UConn graduate students oppose plans to raise rents. Edward Brecher, 77; writer had argued in favor of suicide Associated Press CORNWALL Edward M. Brecher, a writer who once argued in favor of the right to end one's life at a time and in a manner of one's own choosing, has died in what has been ruled a suicide. He was 77.

Brecher, who was found dead at home on Saturday, wrote "Opting for Suicide" for The New York Times Magazine in 1979 after he had been diagnosed as having cancer of the colon the previous year. A son, Jeremy, said Monday that Brecher left one note for family and friends and another for the police saying he felt the time had come for Rites set for Leon A funeral is scheduled Friday in Hartford for Leon M. Goldstein, 79, a longtime businessman in Connecticut. Goldstein died Monday at versity Hospital in Tamarac, Fla. He lived in Tamarac.

The service is scheduled at 11 a.m. at Congregation Ados Israel Cemetery, Zion Hill, Hartford. Goldstein joined his father, Jacob Goldstein, in the family businesses Ronnie Ehrenberg-Faulkner; Ronnie Ellen Ehrenberg-Faulkner, a psychotherapist who practiced in Hartford and Torrington and was active in civic affairs throughout Connecticut, died Tuesday at the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington. She was 36 Angelo Mikkelson; Angelo Mikkelson, 60, former owner of Mike's TV Antenna Works, died Tuesday at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford.

He lived in West Hartford. Mikkelson was employed by Connecticut Valley Hospital In MiddleSebastian J. Piazza; Sebastian John Piazza, a Tolland constable for 12 years, died Monday at home. He served one term on the Tolland Democratic Town Committee. He had retired from Emhart Corp.

in recreation departments are sponsoring a trip to the Ringling Bros, and Barnum Balley Circus at the Hartford Civic Center May 20. The bus will leave the Audrey Beck Building in Mansfield at 9 a.m. and the Hall Memorial School at 9:15 a.m., returning by about 2 p.m. The cost of the trip for residents of Willington and Mansfield is $14.50 and includes the bus and circus tickets. The cost for non-residents is $19.50.

More information is available from the Willington recreation department at 429-6501 or Mansfield recreation department at 429-3321. Grand jury indicts 3 on drug charges A federal grand jury Monday indicted three men from the Hartford area on a variety of charges involving cocaine sales, U.S. Attorney Stanley A. Twardy Jr. said.

Manuel M. Franco, 44, of Windsor, Daniel Ekstrom, 25, of South Windsor, and David Young, 34, of New Britain were indicted by the grand jury, which was sitting in New Haven, Twardy said. Franco was charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine and distribution of cocaine. Ekstrom was indicted on the same charges as Franco, plus an additional count of possession with intent to distribute cocaine. Young was charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 500 grams of cocaine and distribution of cocaine.

Judge rejects release of Crafts A Superior Court judge Tuesday refused to reduce bond and release a Newtown man accused of killing his wife and using a wood chipper to dispose of her body. Richard Crafts had sought a reduction of his $750,000 bond to $250,000 and had sought to be released Into the custody of friends in Newtown. Judge Martin L. Nigro in Stamford rejected the motion submitted by Crafts' lawyer, noting that other judges more familiar with the case had denied a bond reduction. Nigro also set May 30 as a tentative date for jury selection in Crafts' second trial.

Crafts' first trial in Superior Court in New London ended in July with a mistrial. Lotto winner collects prize The Meriden man who won Friday's $7.7 million Lotto jackpot said he will quit not only his job, but also his two-packs-aday smoking habit. Star, "I want to be around to collect," all 20 of my checks," Peter Naimo, 45, told lottery officials after claiming his winnings. Naimo purchased the prizewinning Quick Pick ticket with the combination 1, 6, 8, 13, 1 15 and. 37 at John's Tracy Food Mart in, Wallingford.

The former route salesman American Linen Supply of New Haven said he would retire, set up a trust fund for his two sons, donate a truckload of toys to Newington Children's Hospital, and travel. Naimo said he would keep $5: million of the prize and split the remaining $2.7 million among his mother, brother and sister. Teacher to face additional charges in Meriden A Meriden teacher facing 11 counts each of fourth-degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor is expected to have additional charges filed against him when he appears in Superior': Court May 2, officials said. Arthur J. Pfeiffer, 47, of East?" Main Street in Meriden, a at Nathan Hale School, had been.

tie scheduled to appear in court Tuesday on the 22 original counts. The appearance was postponed until May 2. Police Sgt. Charles West said he did not know how many additional charges would be brought against Pleiffer. The original charges stem from incidents with at least fifth-grade students, who claim that Pfeiffer molested them 1471 while in class, police said.

Wire reports are included in this column. Weather information; The Courant's local phone line for weather updates 647-9394: Got a bit of news? If you have a brief news item. that you would like to see appear la The Courant, call Mike Bartolotta at the Manchester regional news bureau, Henry Syer; taught at Kent School Henry W. Syer, who was chairman of the mathematics department at the Kent School in Kent, died Saturday at home at age 74. He lived on Route 45 in Warren.

He had retired in 1981 after 23 years at the school. He also was an author whose best-known book was Mitchell Galipeau; eucharist minister Mitchell H. Galipeau, who was a eucharist minister at St. Paul Church In Glastonbury, died Tuesday at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Newington. He was 75 and lived in Glastonbury.

He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II and a member of the Catholic War Veterans. He was past commander of the VFW St. Ann Post, past grand knight of the Knights of Columbus Bradley Council No. 1624 and a member of the 4th Degree Knights of Columbus Bishop McMahon Assembly.

Cards of Thanks A hearfelt thank you for all of those -friends and co-workers who attended and sent flowers to the wake and burial services for GLADYS FAYE DILLARD on April 7, 1989. Sincerely, The family of Gladys Faye Dillard In Memoriam None but the lonely could explain, The feeling in my heart. The deep despair that holds me, Since the day we've been apart. I miss you so very much. Your loving husband, Dante ROSE DILIBERO Happy Birthday In Heaven, Rose Our hearts still ache for you.

Your loving family ROSE (FUSCO) DILIBERO (April. 19, 1910) I remember how you loved us to your death, and I celebrate, for you STILL are with us here; And I belleve that we will see you when we come in God's Glory to His house; I remember, I celebrate, believe. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MA. Forget you NEVER. As always, with much love, Your Son In memory of my beloved wife ROSE DILIBRO April 19, 1910 Sept.

19, 1988 "Algebra 1," a standard textbook by private Ginn and schools Co. In that 1967.1 was him to end his life. Dr. Gurd Gudernatch, an assistant state medical examiner, said Tuesday that Brecher died by asphyxiation and his death has been ruled a suicide. For much of his long writing career, Brecher collaborated on books and articles with his wife, Ruth Ernestine Cook Brecher, who died in 1966.

He and his wife were the co-authors of "An Analysis of Human Sexual Response," published by the New American Library in 1966 as a version of "Human Sexual Response" by William A. Masters and Virginia E. Johnson, intended for the general public. Goldstein of Bacon Bottling Co. and the Holland Dry both beverage companies in Hartford, and became a partner in 1938.

He also was a partner in the Mother Goldstein Wine Co. In Hartford, in which the wine was named after his mother, the late Ida Goldstein. After his retirement, Leon Goldstein owned the Railroad Package Store in the Willimantic section of Windham. therapist and lived on West Boulevard In Hartford. She was active in the Litchfield County Hospice; the Hartford Kehllat Chaverim, a Jewish cultural organization; and the Montessori School of Greater Hartford.

had owned business town and Heublein Inc. in Hartford. Mikkelson was the husband of Elizabeth Sabatinello Mikkelson. He also leaves his father, Andrew Mikkelson of East Hartford; a son, Michael C. Mikkelson of Hartford; a daughter, Deborah L.

Plourd. was constable Berlin after 23 years. He also had retired as a security officer for New Britain General Hospital after 13 years. Born in New Britain, he had lived in Tolland since 1965. He was a U.S.

Army veteran of the Korean War. DEATH NOTICES CASERTA: A funeral service for' Frank J. Caserta, 77, of 31 Drive, Enfield, formerly of Hart-. ford, widower of Lucy (Spera) serta who died 1972, will be Thursday, 10:15 from the Leete-Stevens Entield Chapel, 61 South Road, Enfield, with a mass! 11 a.m., In Holy Family Church; Enfleld, Visiting hours: Wednesday, 6-9 p.m. Burial will be Mount St.

Benedict Cemetery Memorial donations may be made to the Holy Family Church, 23 Sin mon Road, Enfleld 06082, WINICK. Bernard 65, of 37 Florence Road, Bloomfield, died' Monday (April 17) at Mount Sinal' Hospital. Born In Hartford, he? lived in the Hartford area for all his life. was a retired building contractor, He was a U.S. Marine.

Corps. veteran of World War Uris and the John Hay Lodge-Knights, of Pythias. He leaves his wife, Berm nice (Berenson) Winick; a soR, Jeff Winick of California; stepchildren, Steve and Judyist Clark, both of Bloomfield; a broth? er, Frank L. Winick of Bloomfield and a sister, Mrs. Frances Spain of Newington.

Funeral service will be today, 11 a.m., in the chapel of the Weinstein Mortuary, 640 Farmington Hartford, with Ins terment in John Hay Memorial Park, Hartford. Memorial contri- butions may be made to the Heact Association of Greater Collins Hartford. WHITNEY. N. Earl Whitney, 56, of 148 Edgerton Manchester, passed from this life Tuesday (April 18) at Manchester MemorIal al Hospital.

He was employed by the Yellow Cab Co. and Cotter Limousine for 35 years. He Is sur: vived by his wife, Patricia (Kelly.) Whitney of Manchester; four sons, William of Hartford, Peter In sachusetts, Jay of Bristol, K.C. In! Florida; two daughters, Jacque, line Hanson of Collinsville, and. Patti Masse of Bristol; a sister.

Ada Grover of Greenfield, and eight grandchildren. Friends, can pay their respects at the hame of his son, William Whitney, 133; Adelaide Hartford on Thursday, 4-7 p.m, in lieu of memorial donations may be to the Oncology Department Manchester Memorial Hospital. The John F. Tierney Funeral, Home, Manchester, has charge of'. arrangements.

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