A8_JTHE SUNDAY SUN, LOWELL, MASS., APRIL 18, 1976

Carter outflanks rivals in Pa.By JOSEPH LELYVELD

(C) New York TimesPITTSBURGH. Pa.-Jim-

my Carter has stolen a marchon his Democratic rivals byraising enough money for afairly intensive television andradio advertising campaignin the week leading up lo thec r u c i a l P e n n s y l v a n i aprimary.

The commercials for theformer Georgia governorstarted on television stationsin Pittsburgh Friday night.By Monday they will be on theair in each of me slate's fiveTV markets. A day later, aheavy campaign of farterradio ads is due to begin.

D.ngged by financial andorganizational problems. SenHenry M. Jackson and Rep.Morris K. Udall have yel tomake any firm plans for thepurchase of s igni f icantamounts of TV and radiotime.

With a headstarl of at leastseveral days on the tube.Carter has won an importanttact ica l ' advan tage . Hestarted off here as the can-didate who had received themost exposure, by far. onnetwork news programs,simply because he had run inmore primaries than either ofhis two main rivals.

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didale with advertising oirTV. he continues lo get Hiemost exposure. The lack ofcornpelilion can only enhancethe effectiveness of his ads.

An early starl in TV adver-tising was an important cle-ment in Carter's victory overCov. Genrge C. Wallace inHIP Florida primary lastmonth, '

The closely knit Carterorgani?alion, which has cometiiis far without manifestingnoticeable schisms, seems Inhave been the only one thatmade an early decision on itsadvertising plans for HieApril 27 primary.

l is more crucial, nowdial federal matching fundsliHve stopped flowing lo thecand ida tes , the Car te rorganizat ion also madecareful plans to raise themoney il would need. Thepresent plan is lo spend$154.000 at least SRO.OOO ofwhich would go for TV.

In hand-to-mouth fashion,the money is being transfer-red lo Pennsylvania TV andradio stat ions almost asquk'kly ^s it is raised. Twentythousand dollars went out onThursday. $57.000 on Friday.A c c o r d i n g I o R o b e r tl.i ps h u tz . t h e f i n a n c echairman, these funds weremainly raised in Georgia andNew York. Further transfu-sions of dollars, he said, areex peeled early next weekfrom, iund-raising efforts nowunder way in California.

THE CARTER commer-cials have been redesignedfor Pennsylvania in order lodeal witb the accusation thaihe avoids clear-cut stands onissues. Each of his 30 and 60second spots now leads offwith an announcer and aprinted title both connectingthe candidate 's name asclosely as possible to theword "Issue."

- If nothing else, the vieweris left with the impressionthat he has heard Carter on

the issues. So long as hisrivals have no advertising ofIheir own, Carler may even*eem to have Ihe issues all tohimself.

Academic studies have in-dicated that voters actuallydo learn more annul the issuestands of candidates from TVspot's than they do from TVnews programs, whicli lend tot'luphasi/e campaign events,(he daily crossfire of accusa-tions a IK) Ihe forecasts of nan-tlicappers.

Carter's issue stands aregenerally broad enough to ac-cmnodale most voters. In thespot on "The Issue ofChange." . which was filmedonly Ibis week, lie is shown atan airport, standing besidehis cliHrlcred jet airliner. An

e x t e n d e d hand holds amicrophone before the can-d i d a t e ' s f a c e , t h e r e b ysimulating a TV news inter-view. •

S P E A K I N G INTO I h emike. Carter declares: "Thefundamental question in thisrace is whether we're goingto have major changes in theway the country's run. We'renol giiing lo get those changessimply by shifting around (he'same group of Wellington in-siders The insiders have hadIhi'ir chance and they haveridt delivered . , ."

The candidate s voice thenlades, and an announcer'scomes <m to remind theviewer Hint, once again, hehas heard C a r t e r on a"critical issue."

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Old Mother HubbardReacting to a long history of complaints, city officials today moved to close down O ld Mother Hubbard Dog Food Co. on Rogers Street. Neighbors to the plant have complained about foul smelling

emissions from the facility. C ity health officials served notice on the company at noon yesterday that it would have to shut down.

Lowell pet food factory closed due to 'very sickening odor'By PAUL MCCUE Sun Staff

LOWELL - The city health d e p a r t m e n t W e d n e s d a y o rde re d the Old Mother Hub­bard dog and cat food factory to shut down immediately because of noxious odors being emitted into adjacent neighborhoods.

“It’s a very sickening odor,” said Heal th Inspector Robert Desmarais , who del ivered the shut-down order to plant offi­cials at 11:45yesterday morning.

City officials decided to close the Rogers Street plant - which employs abou t 35 workers - dur ing an emergency meeting yes te rday morning which was prompted by a City Council vote Tuesday night

At the council meeting. Coun­cilor Brian Martin introduced a motion to close the plant, citing a lack of cooperation from the owners of the plant.

"We just are not getting coop­e ra t ion from the owners who live in Andover If they lived in

t h e n e i g h b o r h o o d we th in k t h e y 'd ac t d i f f e r e n t l y , ” said Martin,

James Scott is president oft he f am i ly -owned bus in e s s , said Assistant City Manager James Cam pbe l l . Company officials could not be reached for com ment.

Mart in , who lives ne a r the plant, said the odors periodical­ly keep residents of Belvidere and the Grove sections of the city from opening their w indows or staying in their yards.

At a news conference in City Hal l Wednesday. Mart in and Campbel l said the shut down was necessary due to the "no­xious” odors.

"We feel we have to take this s tep to protect the people in the neighborhood,” said Campbell.

Based on complaints from re ­bidents who have t rouble brea ­thing due to the odors, Campbell said officials consider the prob­lem a health hazard rather than simply a nuisance

Officials said odors from the p l a n t s have g e n e r a t e d com­p l a i n t s s in c e t h e p l a n t was opened on Rogers Street in 1982 In F e b r u a r y , t h e c o m p a n y signed a court order draf ted by a c o u r t - a p p o i n t e d m a s t e r in which they agreed to install new odor-control devices as soon as possible.

Although the company has been moving to acquire and in­stall the new equipment , plant personnel regularly open win­dows at the plant and allow the noxious odors to escape, said Campbell.

Cam pbe l l and Mart in said windows in the plant are opened to cool down the plant when dog and cat food is being prepared and to prevent heat-detecting fire a larms from sounding

According to Campbell, Old Mother Hubbard is a national company and a mult i -mil lion dol lar operat ion. The owners, he said, "have the resources to stop the problem.”

Lowell moves in to clean out abandoned waste at SearsBy PATRICK COOK Sun Staff

LOWELL - A Rhode Island hazardous waste c lean-up team Monday moved nearly two dozen ba rrels of waste left behind at t h e n o w - e m p t y S e a r s a n d Roebuck automotive cente r on Plain Street.

But the effort has come far too late, officials say, since they feel the drums should have been r e ­moved more than a month ago.

Sears, which closed its Plain Street business last month when it o p e n e d a new s to re at the P h e a s a n t Lane mall in Tyng- sb o ro , c o n t r a c t e d C l e a n h a r - b o r s , a h a z a r d o u s w a s t e re- moveal company of Kingston, R I., to r e m o v e t h e b a r r e l s , according to Assistant City Man­ager James Campbell.

Campbell , along with health i n s p e c t o r R obe r t Desm ara i s , Monday morning supervised r e ­moval of the oily l iquids from a storage area behind the automo­tive center.

Campbel l said the l iquid in the drums is a combination of gas, anti freeze, motor oil, and t r a n s m i s s io n f luid, which he s a y s m a k e s f o r a “ h i g h l y - combust ible, volatile combina ­tion.”

Campbell said the l iquids we­r e n ’t going to be removed from the s ite unt il hea l th officials from the s tate Depa r tm en t of E n v i r o n m e n t a l Q u a l i t y E n ­gineer ing (DEQE) could analyze the l iquids and authorize their removal.

Cleanharbor workers locked the drums in a fenced-in area behind the automotive center.

Campbell said DEQE officials may fine the Sears company for leaving the waste exposed.

D e s m a r a i s s a i d he a s k e d S e a r s offic ia ls to remove the ba rre ls last Thursday and F r i ­day, but didn t receive any r e ­sponse.

D e s m a r a i s a n d C a m p b e l l were at the scene last Thursday morning while investigating the or igin of two drum s found on Boston Road Wednesday night.

They had visited the site to see if the ba rre ls found on Bos­ton Road had or igina ted from the Sears store.

The pa ir . us ing e q u ip m e n t used at the Boston Road spill, conducted a field test of the li­q u id s and d e c l a r e d it h a z a r ­dous, Desmarais said

Today, pu d d le s of black l i ­quid sur rounded the bottom of t he b a r r e l s , as w orke rs s c a t ­

te red sand over the spills.The workers, clad in protec­

tive suits, used pumps to t rans ­fer the contents of the barrels into safety ba rrels supplied by Cleanharbors.

“ T h i s is s o m e t h i n g t h a t

check on the barre ls and found workers taking down signs out­s ide the building.

"I t was obvious that getting these out of here was low prio r­i ty ,” C a m p b e l l s a id . “ S e a r s showed total disregard for the

'This is so m e th in g tha t s lm tild h a ve b e e n d o n e o v e r a m o n th ago . (wetting th ese o u t o f h e re sh o u ld h a ve b e en th e first p r io r i ty fo r S ears . T h ey n e v e r sh o u ld h a ve b e e n le ft th e re in th e firs t p lace."

— J amen C am pbell

should have been done over a m o n th a g o ,” C a m p b e l l said. “ G e t t i n g t h e s e o u t o f h e r e should have been the first pr io r­ity for Sears. They never should have been left there in the first place.”

Campbel l said he was pa r t i cu ­larly angered last Fr iday when he r e t u r n e d to t h e s c e n e to

people of the city of Lowell.” Campbell said the area where

the drums were a bandoned was “ a c c e s s ib l e to c h i l d r e n ” and posed a safety threat to the com­munity. H ea lsocom pla ined that oi ls l eaking from the b a r r e l s could flow into ne a rb y Hales Brook, loca ted less th a n IOO yards away.

Cleaning upAssistant C ity M an a g e r James C am pbell supervises cleanup at the Sears Automotive Center on Plain Street. At left, Cleanharbors worker Jim N ardozzi sweeps away sand placed over liquid spillage. At right is George Man­ton. also of Cleanharbors. (Sun photo by Dave G regory)

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Cash, checks takenin cycle shop break

APPROXIMATELY $200 in cash and some checkbooks were Uken in a weekend break into theLowell Cycle Shop at 353 Central St. ProprietorCharles C. Merrill told police that a safe wasbroken into and the money taken. Entry was gainedby breaking a window.

BETWEEN $700 and WOO worth of cigaretteswere stolen in a weekend break at the CumberlandFarms store on Rogers St. A rear door was forcedto gain entry.

A POCKETBOOK BELONGING to MaureenLesperance was taken in a weekend break into herapartment at 207 Hildreth St. She reported to policethat the purse contained about $53 in cash and twobankbooks. According to police, the front door wasforced open.

A WEEKEND HOUSEBREAK at 104 BoylstonSt. netted thieves an undetermined about amountof merchandise. Owner William Krawczyk toldpolice the house was empty for an hour last night.Police found a television set in Uie backyard whichwas apparently dropped and damaged. A rear doorwas forced to gain entry.

UNKNOWN THIEVES were frustrated in aweekend attempt to break into the refreshmentstand at the Lowell Drive Inn Theatre on Paw-tucket Boulevard. The lock mechanism on two reardoors were damaged, but a the attempt to gainentrance was not successful.

LORRAINE M. SOUZA was ordered to enroll inthe court's Alcohol Safety Action Program todayafler appearing in District Court on a charge ofoperating a motor vehicle under the influence of li-quor. She was arrested on Porter Street followingan accident on Saturday.

By SUSAN TREBACHSun StafI

LOWELL - The city or Lowell is one o( thetop ten urban areas in Massachusetts hardesthit by tuberculosis. State officials recentlywarned that the long-lasting disease has nolbeen conquered and continues to alllicl peoplein economically depressed areas.

Thomas J. Reams, asssistanl to the directorof the state's TB Control Division, said thismorning that Lowell is one ol 18 cities in theBay State with a high incidence of TB.

"Lowell is above average," said Kearns.There were 13 new cases of tuberculosis inLowell in 1975. and 14 hospital admissions forTB treatment. To date in 1976 there have been21 new cases.

"TB is a disease of cities because people arein close contact and the disease is airborne soit is more apt to spread from one person toanother," Kearns explained.

People spread tuberculosis by sneezing,coughing or talking in close quarters. Dropletscontaining the bacteria are propelled into theair and inhaled by others.

Use of antibiotics radically changed thecourse of the disease over Ihe last fif teenyears. Once people were relegated tosanitariums for years, giving Iheir bodies timelo fight the bacteria. Today patients canresume normal lives in a mailer of weeks,provided they continue a two-year course oldrug treatment.

The slate sanitariums for TB have be«nphased out and generally replaced by TBwards and clinics in local hospitals. LowellGeneral Hospital is authorized to admit TBpatients in the Greater Lowell area and has aTB clinic as well.

Dr. MarX Bown of Chelmsford runs theLowell General diagnostic and follow-up ser-vices. The combined total of new cases lorGreater Lowell in 1975 was 21.

Kearns explained lhat Middlesex CountyHospital in Waltham still admits the far-advanced and difficult cases from the GreaterLowell area.

THE LOWELL Board of Health runs a TBscreening clinic and coordinator Lillian Hol-lingworth reports the testing service is verybusy.

"TB is quite a serious problem and cases aredefinitely on the increase," asserted Hol-lingworth, a public health nurse. "In fact,we've had several cases just in the last fewweeks."

Screening for TB involves a simple skin testto see if the individual has been exposed to theTB bacterium. Lowell's screening clinic testsall persons who have had contact with knownTB victims, new immigrants, nursing homeworkers, and all school personnel, "from busdriver to principal."

The stale-funded screening program alsoprovides a satellite clinic for Lowell's sur-rounding towns. Skin tesls are free of chargeto any Massachusetts resident.

The city and state share the cost of treat-ment for TB patients. If the individual cannol

afford treatment and does nol have insurancecoverage, the stale and cily split Ihe medical

"""'spokesman for Ihe Lowell Health Depart-mc,,l said Ihe city allotted 130,000 for TBpavmenlss Ibis year. Bui she did nol know if

thai f igure would be exceeded when all Ihemedical bills arc forwarded.

Statewide Ihe total cost of TB runs about Hmillion a year, with $5 million for medicalcare and S3 million in lost wages and other hid-den cosls. A f t e r th i rd pa r ty payments

(including Medicaid and Medicare), taxpayerssupply ?1 million yearly.

Health officials say there is one new case ofTB in the Uay Slate every 12 hours, lotallng 720per year. In 1975,450 patients spent 26,000 daysin hospitals for TB Irealrnenl.

OLD MOTHER HUBBAHD DOG FOOD PLANT. has baun cited In court case tor odors

LOWELL — Residents oi Perry and RogersStreels have complained lhat the Old MotherHubbard Dog Food Company emitting odorsand their complaints have led lo a suil by theattorney general office.

Company officials and lawyers from Ihe at-torney general's ofiice will meel today to dis-cuss ihc court action brought Iwo months agoafler neighbors complained that the smell ofbaking dog food was a nuisance.

Company sales manager Lou Whitaker,however, says "We're concerned about it am!we inlend lo lake sleps lo correct it.1

The firm has brought in consultants and ex-perts from the Univerisity of Lowell seeking tofind ways lo prevent the odor which has dog-gedly escaped smell control methods so far.

Bruce Maillet of Ihe stale's Air PollutionControl office in Tewksbury said Old MotherHubbard liasr.'t been cooperating so far.

He said the suit was brought after residentscontinually complained about the cdor fromthe baking dog food There were repeated at-tempts by his office lo get the company to cor-rect the problem, he said.

"Residents were complaining about foul andn a u s e a t i n g odors p e r m e a t i n g t h eneighborhood. We told Old Molher Hubbard on

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manv occasions that their odors were causinga nuisance and to please stop doing itThey didn't stop," so a suit was brought citingthe company for violation of slate air pollulionlaws.

MAILLET SAID Ihe suit asks Ihe court toprevent Ihe company from causing Ihe odors,either by requiring control devices or shutting.the faci l i ty down.

"If they choose to put a control device on,that would solve Uie problem, if they close up,lhat would solve the problem," he said.

Maillet said "we're looking to get rid of Iheodors. It they can clean up the odors, they'll hein business." He said a counter-suil filed byUie company protesting the state air pollutioncontrol laws was thrown out by the court.

The suit has been filed in Superior Court andis awaiting a hearing date.

Complainls have become so numerous thatCity Councilor M. Brendan Fleming andMayor Lto Farley have also asked CityManager William Taupier to assisl in curbingIhe odors.

Taupier has the cily's health department as-sisting bul says (here's little the city can donow that action is being brought by Ihe stateoffices.

Fleming said "Ihe odor has been tremen-dous," because of the various renderings usedin Ihe dog food being cooked wilh the gasesemilled.

"When they're baking it Ihe odor is reallyverv strong and hard to take," he said.

Farley said he was awakened at 1:30 a.m.one morning last week wilh a call from a resi-denl who said the smell was unbearable. Resi-dents earlier this year gathered a petition andpresented it lo Maillet's office asking (heodors be slopped.

They've also warned they'll inarch on CilyHall demanding more action unless the smellsabale, adccording to city officials.

The company, one of the oldest in the nationaccording to Whitaker, was founded in 1926 inGloucester where it originally made hard-tack[or ships.

It moved to Tanner Street, a non-residentialneighborhood in Lowell, in 1969.

Last spring Uie company moved to its newaddress hi a residential neighborhood andcomplaints began.

Whitaker said the company would like lostop the odors because business has been goodand "we're growing." He said the number ofemployes has gone from three to 36 since mov-ing .

THE CASE OF Ruthia A. Glenn of Boston, ar-rested Sunday morning for disorderly conduct, wascontinued until March 11 in District Court today.She was arrested after a disturbance at theCelebrity Lounge.

ANDREW JDDD of 26 Grove St., Billerica, wasordered to enroll in the ASAP program followingan appearance in Lowell District Court today on acharge of operating under the influence. He was ar-rested on Dutton Street early Sunday morning.

THE CASE OF Bruce R. Donnell of 120 ThisseelAve., Dracut, arrested Sunday morning on avariety of motor vehicle charges, was continued to-day until January 10. Donnel is charged withoperating under the influence, operating so as toendanger, running two red lights, failing to stop onthe signal of a police officer, and speeding.

DONALD GORDON, JR., of 220 West MeadowRd., Lowell, was arrested early Sunday morningand'charged with disorderly conduct. Gordon wasarrested on Market Street after becoming involvedin a disturbance in a bar.

ALLAN F. CHAMBERUN of 1 Dutton Rd.,Pelham, was ordered to enroll in the court's ASAPprogram following his appearance in LowellDistrict Court today on charges of operating underthe influence. Chamberlin was arrested on MarketStreet on Sunday morning after allegedly hittingfour other motor vehicles in his automobile.

AN 18-YEAR-OLD Lowell woman was hurt earlytoday when the car she was driving struck a parkedcar on Richardson Street. Police identified thewoman as Judy Hurley of 22 Liberty Street. Shetold Officer Richard Marchand that she lost con-trol of her car while negotiating a turn.

MARK HARBOUR. OF 790 Merrimack St.,pleaded innocent to charges of driving a motorvehicle while under Ihe influence of liquor anddriving without registration in possession. His casewas continued to Jan. 25. He appeared as a result ofhis arrest by Tyngsboro Police Officer AlbertBrackelt on Frost Road early Sunday morning.

Interview forbusiness postLOWELL—The three top candidates for the posi-

tion of business manager in the Lowell SchoolDepartment will be interviewed by the schoolboard at 6 p.m. tonight.

Though the school committee had been poised toappoint the number one candidate on the civil ser-vice list last Wednesday nighl, four members even-tually voted to interview the top three at the re-quest of Patricia A. Molloy.

The interviews tonight would appear to be proforma, since Daniel P. Kane announced last weekthat he would support the election of Claude A.McBride, a Lowell native who placed first on thecivil service list.

In addition to McBride, the board will also inter-view Michael J. Pandiscio of Filchburg and JosephJ. Gavin of Newburyport.

SolomonCenter lacesmoney crunch

LOWELL — Despite surveys indicatingLowell has been severely underfunded forstate mental health services, the Office of Ad-ministration and Finance last week recom-mended an $11 million budget cut that wouldcrush all local hopes for sorely-needed mentalhealth programs.

Solomon Mental Health Center ad-ministrators and other concerned residentsare mobilizing to fight the recommendationthai would eliminate aboul »500,000 in newmoney ear-marked for 20 Lowell mentalhealth services.

Governor Michael S. Dukakis is expected todecide on A and F's recommendalion thisweek and will be petitioned directly by con-cerned residents on the budget issue.

"Lowell is very high in need and very low inresource dislribution," said Solomon AssistantAdministrator James O'Connor. "We thoughtIhe Deparlment of Mental Health would try lomake the situalion more equitable for Region3 (including Lowell."

He said that because Lowell never receivedits fair share, this year he'd expected an ad-ditional J470.000 above Solomon's $1.7 millionbudget,

Solomon Administrator Kenneth Bryant saida special problem for Lowell is in caring forresidents who have been released Irom stalemental inslitutions.

"Lowell has returned all of its state hospitalpopulation from Worcester and the communityic trying lo maintain Ihem locally," Bryant ex-plained. "But our program is the lowest or thesecond lowest funded in the slale."

DEPARTMENT OF Mental Heallh Com-missioner Robert L. Okin, according toBryant, was "trying to bring some equity lothe siluation" to provide better services."This will seriously undermine our capacity toprovide better services for the ex-hospitalpat ients who are already here," heemphasized.

Bryant predicted an overall deterioralion inthe conditions of both adults and children inneed of mental health services in this com-munity if Ihe extra funding is not forthcoming.

Aboul half of the anticipated new fundingwas slated for existing programs worth ex-panding or renewing, including the PrematureParent program, the Pinch-hit Parentprogram, school support systems and theLowell Industrial Center.

An importanl day-care program for childrenof recently deinstituUonalized people will becul unless the funding is reslored. A programlo reduce the number of children sent out ofLowell for special services by providing localeducational and human services would be im-possible without the new money.

"It looks as if some of the new mental retar-dation programs will be knocked out loo," con-linued Bryanl.

"Both the economic and social impacl is go-ing to be profound."

9By TOM REN WORTHY

Sun StallLOWELL—The attorney lor the plaintiffs

who won a suit which sought to force therestoration of a $750,000 contingency fund tothe school budget have asked the judge in thecase lo order the city to appropriate the fundspending an appeal of the original decision.

Tully filesbill to collectillegal N.H. taxLOWELL-Stale Sen. D. Joseph Tully has

filed legislation which would enable Ihe stateattorney general to bring legal action on behalfof Massachusetts residents to recover taxespaid by those citizens to New Hampshirethrough that state's so-called commuter tax.

Though the commuters tax has beendeclared unconsiitulional by the U.S. SupremeCourl, efforls by Massachusetts to begin legalproceedings againsl New Hampshire in Ihename of the Commonwealth have nol been suc-cessful. It has been determined that the Com-monwealth is not a proper parly in such acase.

That procedural problem would apparentlybe overcome il Massachusells brings aclion inDie name of individual cilizens.

II such a suit is successful, the state couldcollect as much as K million.

Under Ihc legislation filed by Tully, SO percenl ol the money recovered would be paid tothe individual taxpayer and 60 per cent to thestale treasury.

Since the Supreme Court decision severalmonlhs ago, Tully said today, "a lot of peoplehave been calling my office" inquiring how toget the money returned.

The commuter tax, which Tully estimatedwas enforced for about a year, was collectedby withholding funds from the paychecks ofMassachusetts residents working in NewHampshire.

"When Attorney General Francis X. Bellotliwent lo court to collect the money," Tullysaid, "he was lold thai Ihc money was nottaken from the state of Massachusetts" andthus could nol lit- collected by the slate.

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City Manager William S. Taupier has ap-pealed the October 26 decision by SuperiorCourt Judge Francis J. Larkin that the cilyrestore the {750,000, plus pay a 25 per centpenalty of JIB7.000.

How quickly thai appeal will be heard by IheMassachusetts Court of Appeals is not known,but Asst. City Solicitor Thomas Sweeney saidtoday ii could take several months.

Pending that appeal, Jeffrey Freedman, at-torney for . the taxpayers who originallybrought the suit, has asked Judge Larkin for anexeeulion to enforce his judgment of October26.

Judge Larkin will apparently consider themolion when he relurns to Middlesex CountySuperior Court. He is currently sitting in Nan-tucket.

If Freedman's motion is successful it couldexpedite on-going negotiations between theLowell School Commillee and the LowellTeachers Organization.

THE $750,000 contingency fund was placed inthe school budget last winter to cover an-ticipated salary increases for teachers, unit Badministrators and school department clerks.Taupier subsequently removed the con-tingency and was sued by 48 local tax payers,most of them school departmentemployes andtheir spouses.

Since the issue has been in court, negotia-tions between Ihe school commiltee and IheLTO have essentially been stalled. Unable todiscuss salary increases, negoliators for bothparlies have reportedly been bargainingprimarily over the language of the contract.

Lowell school teachers have been workingwithout a contract since September.

In his October 26 decision, Judge Larkinruled that a contingency fund is protected by

the principle of the fiscal autonomy of schoolcommittees. Taupier had argued that reserveor contingency funds arc Ihe responsibility ofIhe municipal authority.

School committee fiscal autonomy is a wellestablished principle in Massachusetts law,and even though (here appears to be con-siderable support in Ihe stale for taking lhataulonomy away from school boards, it is un-likely that Ihe judiciary would rule against theprinciple. It is probable that the courts willleave that issue lo the legislature.

It would therefore be diff icult for (he city'sattorney to argue the issue of fiscal autonomyon appeal. A more likely strategy is for thecily lo argue more technical points, rathertha'n against Ihc fiscal aulonomy issue.

CONSIDERING THE backlog at the appealscourt level, it is not unlikely that Judge Larkinwould honor Ihe request by Freedman thai Ihe$750,000 appropriation be made pending the ap-peal.

One local attorney said today there areprecedents for such enforcement judgments intaxpayers' suits.

If Judge Larkin does order the city to ap-propriate the funds, the city would have to bor-row money because the tax rate has alreadybeen set.

With Ihe approval of a three-member statepanel composed of Ihe state treasurer, slaleattorney general and the director of accountsin the Bureau of Corporations and Taxation,Ihe cily council may make an emergency ap-propriation. To do so, Ihe cily council wouldhave lo borrow funds, which would be repaidthe following year from lax revenues.

Judge Larkin coutd not be reached today losay when he would rule on Uie motion filed byFreedman.

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Lounge owner will comply with nude dance ban law

By KEVIN LANDRIGAN Sun S taff

LOWELL - City officials took steps this morning to break Lowell’s contract with heating and fuel oil supplier Macheras Oil Co. after its top executive said dem ands for needed energy over the weekend would be refused.

Facing the potential of unheated buildings and public safety vehicles w ithout the fuel to cope with an emergency, Assistant City Manager Jam es Campbell said the $250,000 c o n tra c t w ould be aw arded to another firm unless George Macher­as, company president, retracted his threat.

The city and Macheras have had a rocky business history since 1977 when the Broadway Street oil firm was first awarded the municipal con­tract. A similar threat of supply shu­toff occurred last year

"Mr. (George) Macheras is holding a gun to our head and threatening the public safety of this city,” Camp­bell said today following a meeting with all department heads on im­mediate oil needs.

City Purchasing Agent W alter Flynn said that, "barring a severe em ergency,” reserve oil supplies should be enough to get through the weekend but not much longer.

At presstime, city officials were hopeful the dispute with Macheras could be settled today.

But Macheras told The Sun that the city will only receive supplies if it agrees to pay $49,000 in disputed costs.

"Pay those bills and they will get product. I wouldn’t answer anything to anyone,” Macheras snapped when asked if he’d respond to city demands for energy this weekend.

Macheras declined further com­ment on the feud and his attorney, Robert Smith of Boston, was unavail­able for comment.

The dispute centers on whether the city was overcharged $49,000 since July I by Macheras for deliver­ies of No. 2 heating oil and diesel fuel.

That issue will be the subject of a civil hearing in Middlesex County Superior Court in East Cambridge on March 12.

B ut M acheras reportedly told Flynn yesterday that there would be no further deliver a unless the city paid those disputed bills.

Calling Macheras a "volatile indi­v id u a l,” F lynn specu la ted th a t Macheras would not follow through on his th rea t if a city order was actually placed.

"If George got a call that that the city was in a box, in my opinion he would deliver,” Flynn rem arked. "But I can’t live with this situation, not even for five minutes.”

Following the department heads meeting, Campbell sent a letter to Macheras, informing him the city would break the con trac t if the Lowell firm refused any request for more supply.

Emergency purchase orders of up to $5,000 for heating oil and $10,00 for diesel fuel were signed in the event th a t M acheras formally re­sponded he was shutting the city off as a customer.

"We just aren’t going to sit back and be held hostage,” Campbell answered. "We’re prepared to pass Mr. Macheras right over.”

The dispute involves whether the city should have to pay the same price for its supplies during a con­tract year or the "going rate” per- gallon cost, officials said. M arket price for this energy has fallen "five or six times” since last July, Camp­bell explained, and those reductions would total a $49,000 "savings.”

Macheras insisted the contract re­quires the city to pay a stable gallon price and the civil suit has resulted.

"There certainly are two sides to this legal dispute,” agreed Assistant City Solicitor David Fenton. "Bi^t he’s (Macheras) required to supply oil on demand as ordered and, if he refuses, tha t’s a breach of contract.”

At today’s City Hall strategy ses­sion, Assistant Public Works Com­m issioner Donald Doubleday re­ported the 10,000-gallon diesel fuel tank for city vehicles is "running very low.”

But Fire Chief John Mulligan said his division has 2,100 gallons of fuel on hand and it could provide some to other departments if need be.

Campbell was meeting later today with Dr. Patrick Mogan, superinten­dent of schools, to calculate the school department’s immediate ener­gy need.

"I feel we’re now prepared to hand­le an em ergency,” Cam pbell de­clared. "He’s trying to squeeze us and we’re not going to stand for it.”

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•nd Ifs SuburbsFriday, Feb. 26, 1982 Page 9

LOWELL - Three Copper Men on Adams Street may be Boid because of the city’s recent adoption of a law banning nude dancing, according to one of the two owners of the bar.

John Doulames of St. Petersburg, Fla., said the other options would be to have dancers a t the bar keep some of their clothes on when performing or change the emphasis of the bar to a rock night club.

The onwer could not predict exact­ly which route the business would

Commuter lives in fear of 'the boot'By JAMES ROSS

Sun StaffTEWKSBURY - Tom Billcliff

knows th a t sooner or later the law’s going to catch up with him.

For three years, he’s beat the system and now he’s getting ner­vous.

It’s only a m atter of time until his luck runs out and the Boston Police nail shut h i s 'carpentry business with a Denver boot.

Billcliff, a 25 County Road, Tew ksbury, residen t, has col­lected 40 Boston parking tickets - tickets he can’t afford to pay.

"I work with my head out the door. I feel like an animal, a cri­minal. This is how I have to work. I don’t have the money to pay it. If they boot my truck, I’m dead. I’m out of business,” he says.

So, every 15 or 20 minutes, the carp en ter checks his truck to make sure it hasn’t been fitted with a Denver boot.

If he spies a police officer, Bill­cliff scurries outside to move histruck.

The problem, he says, is there is no place near his work sites where he can legally park.

When Billcliff has a load of sup­plies he needs on the job, he parks illegally near the building.

After all, he explains, it’s tough enough to carry plywood to the third or fourth floor without lug­ging the stuff a half mile before he gets to the building.

"I th in k th e y ’re being out­rageous. I have nothing against ticke ts , bu t th ey ’re not using reason,” he says.

When they see a truck with commercial plates full of building supplies parked near a building undergoing refurbishing, meter maids and police officers should use discretion, he argues.

Discretion and reason, howev­er, are foreign words in a city hun­gry for revenue - especially money from parking tickets.

Billcliff says he saw one motor­

ist show a meter maid that his meter was broken. She didn’t give him a ticket.

A halfhour later another driver parked in the same spot. The same meter maid issued a ticket - even though she knew the meter was broken, he says.

"The M assachusetts motorist has been badgered enough, he doesn’t need this,” he says.

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In the last year and a half Bos­ton police have badgered Billcliff with 40 parking tickets - at a charge of a t least $15 each, he says.

At a rally sponsored by talk show host Je rry W illiams last Tuesday, Billcliff won the dubious d istinction of owing the most parking tickets - of the hundreds who attended - and a $100 prize.

"I’m not proud of it, but I’m cer­tainly not alone. I know theres a lot more people out there who have more tick e ts th an th a t. They’re just afraid to say any­thing,” he says.

Billcliff says he’s not intimi­dated because he’s sick and tired of being beaten. The choice, he says, was a simple one: pay the parking tickets or not pay his bills.

It’8 time, he says, for somebody to speak out.

"I’m not afraid to talk about it. You c a n ’t h u r t m e. I ’m so badgered and beat now,” Billcliff said.

But, what do you do when you owe about $800 and have only $100?

"I keep paying ’em and paying ’em. What else can I do? I’m going to put the money ($100 winnings! in the bank and see if I can negoti­ate a reduction,” he says.

In the meantime, Billcliff says he has little choice. The only thing he can do is to keep "playing hide and seek.”

"It’s a lousy way to work, but what are you going to do? We all have to work for a living,” Billcliff says. "I know that sooner orer they’re going to get me.”

take, and said he disagreed with the lo, w

But he will not fight it. "We will comply with the law IOO percent,” he said.

But he did say the bar will suffer because of the new law which was adopted Tuesday night by the City Council.

"I think it’s going to hurt busi­ness,” Doulames said.

Lowell is the first area community to adopt the nude dancing law, Chap­ter 606 of the state General Laws. It bars owners of establishments hold­ing liquor licenses from allowing peo­ple to appear nude on the premises.

Doulames, with Nick Sabatakis of 2 Stevens St., Lowell, owns Three Copper Men, but the bar has not al­ways featured strippers.

Several years ago, Doulames said, he operated the club on Adams Street and featured rock ’n’ roll bands.

But he said problems with trouble­some crowds forced a switch in enter­tainment.

He said exotic dancing was decided upon to get away from rowdiness and drug problems, which he said accom­panied the rock scene.

Doulames said since the switch there have been few difficulties.

"It was nice and quiet,” Doulames said. "I had no problems.”

The owner explained that most of his patrons were middle-aged or elderly and caused no trouble.,

"We weren’t really bothering any­body,” he said. If one attended the bar, he said, "You would have found an elderly crowd, lonely people and no problems whatsover.”

And at first, the bar was only offer­ing exotic dancing where perfomers did not remove all of their clothes.

"We were operating like that and I was very happy with it,” he said.

However, he said, bars in neigh­boring communities were putting on totally nude shows and Doulames said regular patrons left Three Cop­per Men in favor of the other clubs.

Three Copper Men started featur­ing completely nude dancing to com­pete, he said.

But the options facing the owners now are not favorable, Doulames said. The club could go back to a rock format, but Doulames said he wanted to avoid the "riot and drug” problems that plagued the bar in the past.

He said exotic dancing could still be featured but the performers would not be allowed to expose their body’s private areas.

- TERRENCE WILLIAMS

State to probe fire at dog food firmBy KEVIN LANDRIGAN

Sun Staff

LOWELL - State environmental inspectors will be asked to step up their monitoring of foul odors a t Old Mother Hubbard Dog Food Inc. in the wake of a two-alarm oven fire there this morning.

City officials described as "slow but steady” the company’s response to its persisting odor problems and said they’d be looking into whether the blaze was related to health viola­tions cited against the firm last November.

Thomas Scott, company opera­tions manager, said production of dog food at the facility will resume with­in a week following the blaze in which damage was largely restricted to the oven area.

The company’s work force of 70 employees will continue working on cleanup and packing functions until the oven is repaired, he said.

"It (the fire) wasn’t as bad as it sounded,” Scott maintained.

Fire Chief John Mulligan said the fire broke out at 4:30 a.m. and was apparently caused by dog food which ignited on a conveyor belt inside the oven.

B ut Scott responded the fire’s cause hasn’t been determined and won’t be known until an insurance investigation is completed.

Mulligan said the second alarm was required because ventilation was poor inside the building and trucks with additional air tanks were needed.

"In the case of a fire, it’s a helluva job ventilating that place,” Mulligan remarked. "They’ve bricked up all the windows except a few and it’s a problem for us.”

The fire was under control in about an hour and water damage was sus­tained to the production area, Mulli­gan added.

W hat’s unclear about the blaze is whether the oven fire was a result of the same conditions which produced th re e h e a lth v io la tio n s lodged against the firm by the state Depart­ment of Environmental Quality En­gineering (DEQE).

H ealth inspector John B aratta said he would contact DEQE officials about the Mother Hubbard fire and expected they would visit the firm to help probe its cause.

In November. DEQE inspections and local health officials had found, among other violations, that temper­atures inside the large oven were IOO degrees hotter than the allowed max­imum.

Jam es Scott, president of the com­pany, insisted tha t violation was the result of a malfunctioning gauge on the oven and a second follow-up in­spection did find tem peratures in compliance.

B aratta said the city had been waiting to receive a report on the odor problems by a consultant hired by Mother Hubbard before addition-

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>y Ja1 inspections would be made.

But, ironically, this fire could help speed up the correction of foul odors from the local dog food plant, he said.

"We’re trying to get this taken care of before the summer starts and odors get a lot worse,” Baratta ex­plained. "Who knows? Maybe this is a godsend; p erhaps it will help straighten things up over there.”

A ssistant City M anager Jam es

Campbell said the s ta te DEQE’s probe has slowed in the past few m onths because odor com plaints from residents have declined.

"It’s moving slowly, let’s put it that way,” Campbell said. "They weren’t

moving as quickly as we’d like them to, but we haven’t been receiving many complaints.”

M other Hubbard officials have been cooperative in solving the prob­lem, however, Campbell added.

Stoklosa to lead investigation of special education operation

Sun Staff Photo bv Die* HuntEveryone into the pool IStudents at the Greater Lowell Re- swimming lessons from instructor structural problems in the building,gional, Vocational School in Tyng- Pat Feeney. The pool, which was has finally re-opened after repairssboro are once again receiving closed for more than a year due to were completed.

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By PETER AJEMIAN Sun Staff

LOWELL - School Committee member K athryn Stoklosa will head an investigation into the special education departm ent designed to help prevent procedural errors such as the recent loss of $200,000 in state reimbursements.

Stoklosa said today the depart­ment could be reorganized as a result of the effort, which she said is backed by Supt. Patrick Mogan.

It was Stoklosa who requested a report on the steps that led to the procedural violations resulting in lost funds.

The committee received that re­port at Wednesday’s meeting before assigning Stoklosa to the ad hoc com­mittee with members William Kir- win and George O’Hare.

Stoklosa will meet with Acting Special Education Director George Tsandikos Monday to request in­formation and later, with Kirwin and O’Hare.

“(The special educa­tion department has) been in a little corner o f th e world over there. ”

- Kathryn StoklosaShe labled the errors leading to the

loss of funds "one of the sloppiest pieces of work” she has seen.

"It’s intolerable that this can hap­pen,” she said.

But she said school officials - as well as City Manager Joseph Tully - have said they’ll inquire about possi­ble avenues to get the funds back.

The state Department of Educa­tion in December upheld an earlier audit which found required informa­tion lacking on many students’ indi­vidualized educational plans (IEPs) regard ing transpo rta tion for the 1979-80 year.

Stoklosa said publicity of the rul-

I ing prompted her to act.Although services were provide<

these youngsters, officials neglects certain steps such as - in man; cases - simply signing in a desig nated spot on the IEPs.

Officials only filled out separate forms on transportation rather thar including information on the IEPs.

She said the overall foul-up was actually "the tip of the iceberg” wit! mistakes made for that year. In some cases, Lowell officials failed to locate the entire IEP forms - something the state could have also found faull with.

She said she thinks a "very, very lax” attitude had existed in the de­partment, which she has repeatedly said needs overall attention.

"They’ve been in a little corner of the world over there” at the depart­ment offices located at Rock and Wil­lie streets.

She said it is likely the ad hoc com­mittee will recommend significant changes in the departm ent’s orga­nization.

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By MEAGHAN WIMS Sun Staff

HUDSON, N.H. —The New Hampshire Liquor Com­mission has stripped The Zone Entertainment Complex of its liquor license, saying the bar had become a public hazard and its owner didn’t do enough to keep it safe.

Town officials contend the Zone was a hangout for motorcycle gangs and that bar employees may have instigated a double shooting outside the bar last summer.

The commission, in a rul­ing Wednesday, said that Zone owner David Daigneault’s management team “created and promoted an environ­ment which welcomed patrons who engaged in con­duct and behavior that war­ranted police intervention.

“The testimony of wit­nesses and the record clearly demonstrates the licensee engaged in unlawful behavior by serving alcohol tointoxi- cated patrons,” the ruling continued. “They allowed intoxicated patrons to loiter on their licensed premise and they tolerated and allowed a disorderly premise on many occasion.”

The commission wrote that Daigneault, of Chelms­ford, failed to improve the sit­uation.

“We are not persuaded by the testimony of Mr. Daigneault that suggests the development of problems both inside and outside the

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This Hero Lost One Nation, F ound Glory in AnotherStanislaw Szymczak fought Nazis, then left Poland behind to rebuild life as an AmericanBy DAVID PERRY Sun Staff

LOWELL — He was a deco­rated soldier in one of his­tory’s most noble causes.

But even after the war that defeated the Nazis, Stanislaw “Stanley” Szymczak couldn’t return to his Polish homeland.

He would have been killed.Yet Szymczak, who died at 91

Sunday, was among those immi­grants who savored with zest the bounty America offered.

His son, Ted, 56, recalls him walking into the kitchen of the family’s Lowell home one day to announce: “I can’t believe this. It’s the greatest country in the world. You can go to the store and buy any

kind of food you want, and there is so much of it!”

When he was a hero without a country, this one became his.

Born on a farm in Poland in Stobiesko Miejskie in 1 9 1 3 ,Stanley’s family grew wheat andpotatoes. He served in the Polish Army in 1 9 3 4 and 1 9 3 5 . The fol­lowing year, while working at the State Tobacco Company, he met

MEDALS, MEMORIES: When Stanislaw "Stanley” Szymczak came to the United States in 1948, he carried with him memories of his life in Poland and his years fighting Hitler’s Germany. He is shown, at left, as a Polish soldier, as a young man with his wife, Emilia, and in Lowell decades later, with his wife and son, Ted. s u n /j u l ia m a l a k ie

Tadeusz Rurak, who would become a lifelong friend.

When Nazi troops stormed Poland in 1 9 3 9 , at the beginning of

World War II, Szymczak was called back to service. Poland fell quickly, and Szymczak and Rurak returned

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MASTER & COMMANDERBillerica craftsman makes art of model shipbuilding

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troops should leave Iraq “as early

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Joins Meehan in seeking timeline for Iraq troopsBy EVAN LEHMANN Sun Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — Sen. Edward Kennedy implored the president yester­day to negotiate a full military with­drawal from Iraq, saying America’s pres­ence has created “a pervasive sense of occupation.”

The withdrawal’s timeline should be announced sometime after the Iraq elec­tions this Sunday, said Kennedy, a Demo­crat from Massachusetts and a leading critic of the war.

“America’s goal should be to complete our military withdrawal as early as possi­ble in 2006,” Kennedy said in a speech at

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COMING TOMORROWWinter escapeAs the choruses of “White Christmas” fade awayanew refrain is being heard from the lips of winter- weary New Englanders:“I’m outa here”They’re booking their trips now

COMING SUNDAY A battle for the skylineA developer wants to build a $1 million penthouse in downtown Lowell. Neighbors want to keep their views

By MATT MURPHY Sun Staff

BILLERICA— It’s been a good week for roofers.

Too bad you can’t say the same thing for local homeowners.

Besides the hours spent shoveling out from underneath mounds of powdery snow mea­sured in feet rather than inches, residents have seen piles of the white stuff mount on their roofs, finding its way into cracks and leaking into their windows, walls and ceilings.

The root of the problem? Ice dams.

“Can you hold on one

minute,” said Kari Landino, owner of Patriot Roofing in Billerica, as she clicked over to another phone line. “That was

one of the 9 0 calls we got today about ice dams.”

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Petfood firm plans to close Lowell plantBy REBECCA LIPCHITZ Sun Staff

LOWELL — After more than four decades in Lowell, the Old Mother Hubbard plant will stop producing its pet food by June, leaving IOO workers without jobs.

The family-owned com­pany has struggled to make the operation more efficient, but the Rogers Street plant, a former knitting factory, made this difficult and offered little manufacturing flexibility, Chief Executive Officer James Scott Jr. said.

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Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. “The war in Iraq has become a war against the American occupation.”

Kennedy’s proposal came two days after another Democratic Mas­sachusetts lawmaker, Rep. M arty Meehan of Lowell, called for a phased withdrawal to be complete by mid-2006. On Capitol Hill, a growing number of lawmakers from both parties are voicing concern about the effectiveness of U.S. mili­tary operations in Iraq.

Meehan, who last night discussed the issue on ABC’s Nightline with Ted Koppel, said yesterday he dis­seminated a 20-page report outlin­ing his own exit strategy to every member of Congress. And he applauded Kennedy, whose speech seems to bolster M eehan’s effort to ignite a national debate aimed a withdrawal.

“A consensus is building th a t America needs a realistic exit s tra t­egy,” Meehan said in a statem ent. “I look forward to working with Sena­tor Kennedy and our colleagues in

Congress to reverse our failed policy and put Iraq’s future in the hands of Iraqis.”

M eehan, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, also met with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Wednesday.

Rumsfeld’s meeting with the panel is classified, but M eehan responded by sending him a letter yester­day outlining his concern about “reports th a t the U.S. plans to m aintain a num ber of perm anent mili­tary bases within Iraq.”

Meehan also outlined his plans for a withdrawal, telling Rumsfeld that “an exit strategy is long overdue.”

Bush has resisted dis­cussion of decreased troop strength. In a press conference Wednesday, he said American troops are facilitating democracy through their training of Iraqi security personnel and contin­uing battles with insurgents.

“I th ink the Iraqi people are won­dering whether or not this nation has the will necessary to stand with them as a democracy evolves,” Bush

M eehan ... pushing for exit strategy

said. “The enemy would like nothing more than the United S tates to pre­cipitously pull out and withdraw before the Iraqis are prepared to defend themselves.”

Kennedy and Meehan contendthe insurgency is fueled by anti-American sentim ent, ra ther than disdain for the country’s move toward democracy.

“Our m ilitary and the insurgents are fighting for the same thing — the hearts and minds of the people — and th a t is a ba t­tle we are not winning,” Kennedy said.

Lawmakers and officials roundly agree the training of Iraqi security personnel

needs to occur before a full w ith­drawal can occur. Kennedy and Meehan say th a t can be done in a year or 18 months.

But a w ithdrawal th a t phases down the am ount of American forces would be a “phenomenal recruiting tool” for the insurgency, said Rep. John W. Olver, D-Amherst.

“In th a t kind of w ithdrawal, the

last ones to withdraw are dead ducks,” Olver said. “If you’re going to withdraw, you’ve got to w ithdraw in a hurry.”

But th a t could prompt an “enor­mous bloodbath” among Iraq’s sects, he said.

“This is a terrible conundrum ,” Olver said. “This is a terrible disas­ter for us. And no one in the adm in­istration is even adm itting there’s a m istake.”

Kennedy called the adm inistra­tion’s Iraq policy “reckless and dan­gerous,” and warned against repeat­ing hard-learned lessons th a t led to years of fighting in Vietnam.

He said the current number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq — 1,377, accord­ing to the Associated Press — and wounded — estimated at over 10,000 — reflect the casualty counts of 1965.

“We thought in those early days in Vietnam that we were winning,” Kennedy said. “We thought tha t vic­tory on the battlefield would lead to victory in the war, and peace and democracy for the people of Vietnam.”

He added, “We cannot allow th a t history to repeat itself in Iraq.”

Lowell man fought Nazis lost country, rebuilt life

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to work at the Tobacco Farm, now under Russian rule.

Rurak, 92, says the two men agreed to search for a spot to cross into Rumania, then escape. On Feh IO, 1940, the Russians took Rurak and his family, among other Poles, to Serbia. Nine days later, Szymczak crossed a frozen river into Ruma­nia, alone.

Rumania, now sympa­thetic with the Germans, arrested him and kept him for seven m onths in solitary confinement.

Szymczak was released, and he trekked to Palestine to re-join Pol­ish forces. For the next six years, he and his Polish Army brethren in the Sec­ond Corps fought under the British command. They fought in Iraq, Palestine, Egypt and Italy, including combat at Monte Cassino. He was wounded three times. Szymczak ascended in the ranks, to lieutenant, captain and eventually major. The medals piled up — the Polish Army’s highest honor, Virtuti Military the Cross for Valor, the Cross of Monte ( 'assino, the Service Star, the S tar of Africa, the Star of Italy, and the British Army’s Medal of Defense.

With the end of the war and the Nazi defeat, Szymczak was a man without a country, unable to savor the spoils of his valor.

Poland had fallen under the iron- fisted grip of Josef S talin’s Commu­nist regime.

“Had he returned ,” says his son, “he would have been executed.”

He remained in Italy, and sm ug­gled his fiancee — Emilia M aria Sochacka, whom he’d met years ear­lier while both worked at the S tate Tobacco Farm — out of Poland to Italy. They were m arried in Rimini in 1946. After living in England in housing for displaced Polish sol­diers, where Ted was born in 1948, they boarded the steam ship Wash­ington for New York. There was a

“Until the very end, he

would not eat until I had. ”

Ted Szymczak, on his father,

Stanislaw, who died Sunday at age 91

trunk and a couple of suitcases, and his modest possessions included some old Polish songbooks.

Rurak, who had reconnected with Stanley during the war, was already here and happy to help his friend. The Szymczak family lived with Rurak on Read Street for a time before settling in their own home.

There were no public assistance programs then, so Stanley worked where he could, cleaning chicken coops, in mills, the Ford Motors plant in Somerville.

“All sorts of odd jobs, anything,” said Rurak. “Poor fellow. I remember him coming back from work one day, sitting on the stairs, and saying, ‘well, this is it.’ I felt he was probably sorry he

came to the U.S.” They headed to a bar, had a couple of beers, and things seemed better, says Rurak.

While working days, Szymczak took a mechanical drawing night course a t the former Lowell Techno­logical Institute (as Rurak had before him), and spent 25 years with Lawrence Pump Inc. before retiring.

Stanislaw Szymczak celebrates his 91st birthday with his son, Ted, last April.

Stanislaw “Stanley” Szymczak and his wife, Emilia, made their home in Lowell after years of turmoil in Europe. c o u r t e s y p h o t o s

The farmer in him never retired.For more than tw'o decades, the gar­den in his small yard on Fulton Street bloomed bright with floral yellows and oranges, lavender. He grew crisp cucumbers and fat, beefy tomatoes.

“I think when he finally had a good job, he was all right. Happy, yes,” says Rurak.

In 1974, Szymczak finally returned to his beloved Poland.While visiting his hometown, still under Communist rule but open to visitors, he learned the thatched- roof home of his youth had been burned to the ground by Nazi troops. He found a sim ilar home, snapped a picture of it. But a Com­m unist sym pathizer spotted him and reported the photograph. Szym­czak was arrested and fined.

“He was very upset,” says his son.“He said, ‘I fought for this country, and I had friends who died for it. I wanted to come back where my fam­ily was, and I get arrested .’”

He never returned. And he never got the film back.

But he had rich memories and deep pride. He would tell his son about the w ater from the well on the family farm.

“He would say how incredible it was, how cold, and that he never found water th a t tasted th a t good again,” says Ted. He was “crazy about mushrooms,” says the son.“He’d picked them as a boy. He found them for a while in Dracut.He knew right where to look. He

would dry and cook them .”Stanley was involved in Lowell’s

Polish community. He participated in Polish Constitution Day a t Lowell City Hall, proudly laying a w reath at a monument. He was the finan­cial secretary for the Polish National Alliance, a member of Pol­ish American veterans, and the Pulaski Club and Dom Polski, where he (like Rurak) taught Polish his­tory. He was a member of Holy Trin­ity Polish Church in Lowell.

After 51 years of marriage,Emilia Szymczak died in 1998. Ted left a sales job two years ago, to care for his father, who first suffered from congestive heart failure, then from Alzheimer’s Disease.

Always, says Ted Szymczak, he was concerned with being a provider. The family didn’t have a car until Ted was in high school.Food and shelter first.

And Stanley Szymczak, still remembering the tough times and ration lines of his first country, ate last.

“Until the very end, he would not eat until I had,” says Ted. “I’d have to eat in front of him sometimes before he would.”

“He was a very honest man, extremely honest,” says Rurak. “A quiet man, honorable, a hard-work­ing person. As I call it, an officer in all the ways.”

David Perry’s e-mail address is dperry@lowellsun.com.

Lowell pet-food manufacturer to dose by JuneFACTORY/From Page I

ing,” Scott said after yester­day’s announcement. “We tried pretty hard to make it work, and we ju s t couldn’t. It was a sad day.”

Scott said he plans to offer all the help he can to employ­ees, some of whom he has known for more than 25 years.

“I was so im pressed with the way they received (the news),” he said. The announcem ent brought tears and hugs, and Scott praised his employees for their skills in m anufacturing in an out­dated setting.

The company was founded in Gloucester in 1926 by the A. Hubbard and Sons Bakery. in 1961, the company was purchased by Scott’s father, Jam es Sr., who moved it to

Tanner Street in Lowell. In 1974, the operation was moved to its current site, the former Cooper Knitting building at the corner of Rogers and Perry streets.

Scott took over the com­pany from his father more than IO years ago.

The 65,000-square-foot Rogers S treet plant worked well as a knitting factory, but not so well for m anufacturing pet food, Scott said yesterday. The three-story brick build­ing allowed little flexibility and w asn’t very efficient, he said.

The company’s adm inistra­tive offices will remain on Mill Road in Chelmsford. Scott would not say where other m anufacturing plants are, but did say the company had “strategic partnerships” that m anufacture its products.

The company makes pet food for dogs and cats under the Old Mother Hubbard and Wellness brand names. More than 45 percent of its busi­ness is on the West Coast, Scott said.

The company employs 230 people overall. The IOO m anu­facturers losing their jobs by June will have severance pack­ages and extended benefits, and access to career counseling and job assistance set up in offices at the plant, Scott said.

“We’re very connected with our people and we’ll do the right thing,” he said.

During the 1980s, neigh­bors complained of the smell wafting from the Rogers S treet plant. The company made changes to emissions system to minimize the odor.

A year ago tomorrow, the company announced a part­

nership with a private-equity firm and consultant Catter- ton Partners, which it hoped would boost growth of the Old Mother Hubbard and Wellness brands.

Since July, the company has hired sales m anagers to handle territories in Califor­nia, New Jersey, northern New England, and Long Island, N.Y. Over the past few years it has doubled the n amber of independent retailers it serves, Scott said, but at the same time reliance on the Lowell plant has been reduced until “the manufac­turing side was the smaller piece of the business.”

The Gloucester bakery where the company was founded began making hard ­tack sea biscuits th a t a sailor threw to his dog, which “hap­pily gobbled it up,” according

Commission, citing bad record, pulls club licenseCLUB/From Page I

business were both sudden and unanticipated. The record reflects a trend of problems th a t developed and ‘m atured’ under the supervi­sion of Mr. Daigneault.”

Daigneault yesterday called the ruling “totally shocking.” His lawyer appealed the deci­sion yesterday.

“We proved our case beyond a total reasonable doubt and they went with the police,” Daigneault said. “We proved th a t a lot of it was exaggerated.”

The town had petitioned to the liquor commission last month, calling the Derry Road bar a “public nuisance” and asking the commission to revoke its license.

The town cited the Aug. 21 shooting, when suspected motorcycle gang members Wayne “Tommy” Marcus and Victor Vicente were shot in the parking lot. The town claims Zone employees may have been involved in the shooting. Daigneault subse­quently fired the employees and banned gang members and gang colors from the club.

The police responded to the Zone 34 times since it opened a year ago, Police Chief Richard Gendron told the commission a t its Jan . 13 hearing on the petition.

Daigneault m aintains the club hasn’t had any incidents since the shooting.

“A lot of the police calls weren’t for me,” he said. “I’m targeted by the local police. I cleaned it up. I’m running a nice, clean, family establish­ment. It’s all wrong.”

D aigneault said he was forced to close his bar Wednesday afternoon after the ruling announcement.His appeal halts the license revocation and Daigneault re-opened the bar yesterday.

If his appeal is denied, Daigneault said, “All the employees are gone. I’m totally bankrupt. I lose everything.”

This was the first time the liquor commission had made such a ruling under a sta tu te allowing communities to seek license revocations for “nui­sance facilities,” said Aidan Moore, the liquor commis­sion’s chief of enforcement. Hudson is the first to petition under the statute.

“We’re pleased that the commission has agreed with our view that The Zone Enter­tainm ent Complex is not an appropriate organization to have a liquor license and we’re gratified that they agree with our view that the Zone has been a problem for the town, a drain on our resources, and has been putting in jeopardy the safety of the residents of Hudson,” said Stephen Buck­ley, a lawyer for the town.

Meaghan Wims’e-mail address is mwims@lowell-sun.com.

to company lore. Today, the company bakes all of its dry pet food, which makes it more nutritious and digestible and requires no

added fat to make it taste better, the company says.

Rebecca Lipchitz’s e-mail address is rlipchitz@lowell- sun.com.

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The Old Mother Hubbard pet-food factory, on Rogers Street in Lowell, is scheduled to shut its doors, s u n / r e b e c c a u p c h i t z

THE SUNDAY SUNLowell, Moss.

June 14, 1970V

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Spotlight falls on liquidity

Government debtaffects housing

By GAEL, W. HITTER

Copley News Service

The savings and loan (S&L) industry knowshow Damocles felt when he was seated for dinnerunderneath a sharp swordheld by a single strandof hair.

A modern-day sword identified as upcominggovernment monetary policy could fall upon S&Lsat any time. The savings-loan industry is watchinganxiously for the course government will take inrefunding $130 billion of federal debt before year-end.

If government debt instruments come out de-signed to attract money at eight per cent orhigher, according to Franklin Hardinge Jr., execu-tive vice president of the California Savings &Loan League, his industry, nationwide, could behurt severely.

The S&Ls probably would experience a re-hewed outflow of savings through what the in-dustry terms "disintermediation," which is littlemore than a fancy way of saying savers wouldseek a better return elsewhere.

If government pays no more than seven percent, Hardinge believes the S&Ls could competefor savings successfully.

THE INDUSTRY IS ALREADY miffed be-cause the federal government came out recentlywith an 18-month note in a §1,000 denomination.

Earlier, in what Hardinge said in an interviewwas "a step in the right direction" aimed at helping'the housing market financed mostly by S&Ls, thegovernment had quit issuing Treasury bills in

Hardinge said there is considerable public$1,000 and 85,000 denominations,misunderstanding regarding savings-loan profitunder present money conditions.

"Some people misconstrue the cost of savings,about 5% per cent of S & Ls on average, againstinterest rates of nine per cent or more," the S&Lexecutive said. "They feel that this is a substantialprofit margin.

"Despite higher (mortgage loan rates fortwo or three years, so many loans had been nego-tiated earlier at a round six per cent that the aver-age return on total loan protfolios of associationshas increased little more than one-fourth-of-one-percent."

HARDINGE SAID S&L profits this year arerunning behind those of 1969 because of a higherceiling permitted in 1970 on dividend payouts andthe continuing struggle to attract funds to savingsinstitutions.

Noting one effect of tight money conditionson housing, Hardinge commented: "It was easy forthe blue-collar worker to own his own home priorto 1966, but since then he has lost ground. To someextent, mobile homes may offer a solution nowthat associations can lend on them."

He also said he believes four out of five blue-collar workers these days are priced out of conven-tianal new housing. Condominiums, he suggested,will become more popular.

Hardinge advised home-buying by any familythat can afford it, because there is little prospectof land costs, labor costs, taxes or mortgage costsdeclining so long as the Vietnam war continues

By ROBERT J. REGANUPI Business Writer

NEW YORK (UPI)-The revolving stage ofeconomic troubles turned the corporate liquid-ity problem toward stage center this week asthe spotlight fell on Penn Central Co.'s financialdifficulties.

Simply stated, liquidity is a measure of theability ol a company to raise enough cash tomeet debts as they mature. More important thanthe cash, or short-term investment that cnn beeasily converted to cash, is its relationship tothe debts that have to be paid off.

Ilie top-level shakcup at Penn Central,which saw Stuart T. Saunders replaced as chair-man and chief eiecutive officer by Paul A.Gorman plus a number of other high levelchanges, came fess than two weeks after thePennsy withdrew an unsuccessful $100 milliondebenture offering. The accompanying prospec-tus had disclosed the road has to pay off $106million in maturing long-term debt this year,plus another $75 million of commercial papermaturing before June 30.

Anxious to prevent any repercussions thePennsy's troubles might spread throughout thefinancial community, the Nixon administrationquickly fashioned a rescue plan that apparentlyis heading for difficulty on Capitol Hill.

THE PLAN involves defense departmentguarantee of bank loans of up to $200 millionfor the road, plus a transportation department

bill that wouM provide $750 million for the ailingPennsy and other roads in financi?! difficulties.Scattered, but potent opposition in Congresssuggested this may be a drawn-oul affair.

Ling-Tcmco-Vpught (LTV) which has beenselling off subsidiaries to alleviate its liquidityproblems, this wt-ek got a clear track to pro-ceed with its acquisition of Jones & LaughlinSteel Corp.. the only major steel producer toreport a net loss for the first quarter of 1979.

Federal Judge Louis Rosenburg in Pitts-burgh consented to the merger after extractinga guarantee from LTV that the conglommeratemake no changes in the steel company's em-ployee pension or other benefit funds withoutapproval of the justice department.

The Reading Co., with liquidity problems ofits own, has asked the interstate commercecommission to approve deferment of paymentof $8 million on outstanding indebtedness, due in$2 million chunks on July !, 1970 through 1973.The railroad also has asked its bondholders toease terms of mortgage security in order toprovide more working capital.

IN ANOTHER development, an (ICC) Inter-

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Ostroff made soleUSA distributorfor Canadian firm

1x30 OSTROFF MADELOWELL — Sidney Ostroff of Ostroff's on

65 Middlesex St. has signed a five-year contractthat makes him the sole USA distributor fora Canadian line of Skimobile suits, accessoriesand other cold-weather and outdoor equipmentHe said the American market for skimobilesuits alone will be "In the range of $7M in thenext few years.

He has formed a company called "DeepFreeze, Inc." (r). He will warehouse the gearin Boston. Ostroff has already lined up majorAmerican resident buyers, he said. They willsell the products of the Canadian Zer-0-Zone(R) company of Canada under the Deep Freeze,Inc. ((R) label in all 50 states.

The Canadian firm employs 500 and has 14warehouses in Canada.

He stated, "This is the first contract of itskind and a new concept. The Canadian firmwill buy all,product materials in the UnitedStales. It will make the equipment there. Wewill then add our label here and wholesale theequipment.

"This is only the start," said Ostroff, "Thecompany also makes boat cushions, sleepingbags, life preservers, swim vests, lounge cotsand camp cots among other equipment."

He cited the Canadian skimobile suits asthe first waterproof, dry-cleanable productavailable anywhere.

Ostroff is now opening up Boston and NewYork offices. "Retail chains are already con-tacting me," he said.Along with the first ship-ment of suits will go gloves, warmup pants andCanadian rubber cold-weather shoes.

"If we can work with our Canadian neigh-bors," he said, "and not go to Japan, it'll bebetter for both our countries."

American firmstudies underseapipeline ideaSAN FRANCISCO (UPI)-The feasibility of

an 850-mile natural gas pipeline from an islandoff the coast of Siberia to Tokyo is being studiedby a San Francisco firm.

The pipeline would include a 34-mile under-water crossing of Soya Straight between SakhalinIsland and the Japanese island of Hokkaido anda 17-mile underwater crossing ot TsugaruStraight between Hokkaido and the main islandof Honshu, on which Tokyo is located.

stale Commerce Commission examiner clearedthe proposed merger of the Illinois Central andthe Gulf, Mobile i Ohio Railroad. The examinersaid the merger, which now requiivs full ICCapproval, would save the road $10.8 million ayear.

Economy through merger was one of theprincipal reasons for the kingsized merger (ef-fective July 1) of Francis I. Dupont 4 Co. andHirsch It Co. The combination, which takes placesimultaneously with the merger of DuPont andGlore Forgan Slaats k Co., will create the world'ssecond largest brokerage firm.

Another Wall Street merger appeared to bein the wind with talks said to be nearing comple-tion between Thomson & McKinnon AuchinlossInc. and Blair & Co.

Over in the copper industry, long-standingcombinations of producers and fabricators cameunder fire in an antitrust suit filed against fivelarge integrated companies by Triangle Indus-tries Inc. of Newark, N.J.

The company filed suit seeking treble dam-ages against Kennecolt Copper Corp., PhelpsDodge Corp., Anaconda Co., Ccrro Corp., and

American Smelting & Refining Co.

GOODYEAR The & Rubber Co., which thisweek set price increases of five to six per cenlon tires and lubes for the replacement market,found itself in an unexpected race with the B.F.Goodrich Co. for control of a large Dutch tiremanufacturer, N.V. Rubbcrfabriek Vredestein.

In May, Vredestein agreed to issue and sellto Goodyear new shares equal to a controllinginterest. Goodrich on Thursday disclosed it hadbeen buying Vredestein slock quietly on the openmarket. Goodyear, which said it believes Good-rich's holdings are near the 50 per cent mark,set plans to take the matter to court in TheNetherlands.

Goodyear's tire price hikes are expected tobe followed by other tire producers.

Deflation hit the stock market this week,letting out some of the buoyancy from an earliersix-session runup that carried the Dow JonesIndustrial Average about 83 points higher.

Most of the business news was of the summerstock variety and traders spent more timereading the billboards than buying.

Demoulcts brand name award

Old Mother Hubbard dog foodgets new "leash" on life

By LEE WOOD

LOWELL - It used to be that "a dog's life"was synonomous with a sad, dreary existence.Not true today. Chances are the family dog getsa better all-round diet than the family.

Industry figures show the American petmarket has 25 million dogs and 20 million cats.Pet owners spend $800, million a year on foodalone. With bedding, accessories and boardingits a belter than $2B business annually.

Naturally, there is fierce competition in thedog food business. This has put all but two orthree independent operators in America underthe tutelage of giant conglemerates.

BUT, JAMES SCOTT, president of OldMother Hubbard Dog Food, Inc., hasn't capitu-lated yet. Somehow, Scott, despite not a fewperiods when the cupboard was indeed bare, hasmanaged to fake a good bite of the businessaway from the giant firms. He sells productsundw both Old Mother Hubbard and Ajaxlabels.

His Lowell operation, at 143 Tanner St., justgot going full blast in April. Sales have alreadydoubled. He says "we should hit $500,000 annual-ly by this time next year." He employs 12 full-time and eight-part-timers. Annual salaries total$125,000. The business has already outgrown the12,000 square foot plant. He rents three full-size1 ruck-trailers for storage. He ships 200,000 Ibs.of pet food monthly, enough to feed 8,000 dogs.

SCOTT specializes in selling to kennels andpet shops. He doesn't sell to individual petowners. He hopes to be able to tap a largersupermarket trade in the near future. His bestadvantage is the firms flexibility. Customerscan ask for small lots of speciality pet foods.

He's the only manufacturer selling five-fla-vor assorted biscuit bones in bulk to graindealers and pet shops. And he can offer cus-tomers one-day tunaround on special-run bakedgoods. The dies, which stamp out the biscuits,can be changed in 10 minutes flat.

Knowledgeable visitors are surprised thathis baked dog food can be on the way in fourdays. The industry average is nearer ten days.This, the 60-foot continuous belt baking oven,is the heart of his business. Baked productscomprise 70 per cent of his sales. The 500 Ib.balche of dough mix hold 200 Ibs. of water.The trick is to reduce the moisture content toless than 10 per cent or the food spoils too fast.This is done in giant drying bins.

Nothing is wasted. Broken biscuits are madeinto Kibbled dog biscuits, of various sizes, dogmeal, and even the powder is used for pet fishfood. Each dough batch contains a premix for-mular that guarantees all the necessary vita-mins and minerals for pet health.

SCOTT'S FIRM SELLS a complete pet line.There's canned dog and cat food, dry cat food,laboratory animal speciality diets for swine,chicks, opossums, rabbits, rats, mice and guineapigs. He wholesales steamed bone meal fordogs, dried skim milk, liver meal, dog vitaminmix. He distributes Sard-litter for cats, Ab-Sorb-Dri animal bedding and redwood cedar shavingsfor pet cage lining. He also distributes Big Redlaboratory diets for Agway. The firm is the onlycompany that sells Christmas stockings full ofbaked dog bones. He also ships primate foodfor monkey and chimps all over the country.

IT'S BEEN A tough grind. He bought outthe Gloucester firm in 1961. It made three-differ-ent major types of dog foods. These were soldin supermarket* or bought by pet owners. They

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Sampion, left, weighing ISO Ibs. and oneof only 308 purebred Bull Mastiffs in theU.S. seems to approve of a just-baked dogbiscuit. James ScoH, doing the honors, ispresident of Ofd Mother Hubbard OogFood Company on Tanner St., a new Lowellbusiness. His balced-dog-food oven is the

included expanded dog food (puffed up like oats,wheat and rice breakfast cereal) called"chunks," baked dog food and dog meal. (Thebest buy if you know how to feed a dog. Allhuman grade flour was and is used. All foodmust be registered with the State Feed ControlServices.

Business had increased 30 per cent by 1966.That year, in July, he bought out the Ajax DogFood Company of Dedham. Then, a disastrousfire destroyed his plant. Only a few hundredsacks of food were saved. He lost 50 per centof his business. He, the wife and four kids mean-while almost lived the old nursery rhyme onwhich the company name is based.

So he rented a warehouse and sold premixformulas and a complete pet line. Four monthslater he negotiated to have the baking done outwest. Then much later, while louring the areafor plant sites he met Thomas Markham of Low-ell the then regional director Of the EconomicDevelopment Administration. Markham tippedhim off to the present Lowell plant building,then vacant. It took Scott till 1969 to pay offhis creditors.

Scott arranged a Small Business Adminis-tration (SBA) loan through Union National Bankand moved in in March 1969. "This was an idealSBA loan," he said, "and it put Old MotherHubbard right back on all four paws."

He continued wholesaling, told dealers hewas back in business in Lowell. He promiseddelivery of baked goods by November. But the

only one in the Northeast. Scott's companyoffers a dog, cat, and fish food line thatgives animals » better balanced diet thanmost humans. Sampson is owned by RichardBerrner, a company salesman. The dog haswon best-of-breed honors at two recentareawide dog shows.

oven didn't arrive. Delay after delay held it up.First production on a trial basis finally startedin March 1970.

"BRAND LOYALTY was unbelievable," besaid. "It's really hard to believe how good thesepeople have been. Of course, I immediately lostthe two giant food chains, my major accountsafter the fire. But this taught me to diversify.Now we have hundreds of small accounts."

The oven now bakes from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.Scott's firm is the only Northeastern U.S. bakeddog food maker left. He's also the largest manu-facturer of dry dog food in the New Englandarea. Not bad, considering the competition ofQuaker Oats, Purina, and the National Biscuitcompanies. His private label business is grow-ing.

"We've been able to come back because ofour pet food quality," he said. "No matter thename, if it hasn't got quailty, it doesn't sell."

Scott praised Educator Biscuit Companyhighly. "When my assembly line gear went out,they supplied me with parts," he said.

Being a small company has its advantages,he said. "The wonderful thing is that the aver-age buyer feels he's got a friendly little firmto do business with. He can get on the phoneand gel results, so, he gives us a Iry. We'rehungry for business. Buyer know this. We workhatd and it pays off."

Looks like Old Mother Hubbard should, soonhave a full cupboard again.

The shape of jobs to come

Jamet Welling and V/alfer Dronzek, leff, ofDemoulai Supermarkets Inc., received a Certi-ficate of Distinction in th» food stores—Clats I• ategory at the 27th Annual Brand Names Re-

tailer of the Year Awards competition fefe atNew Yorii City. Nathan B. Ancell, Brand Namo»Foundation Director presented tha award.

By MILTON MOSKOW1TZNEW YORK—Where are the jobs going to

be in I960?From the forces already at work in the

economy, we know where Ihey will be—and ifyou have sons and daughlers in school you cantell now whether they're headed for an expand-ing or a conlracting field.

Herbert Bienstock, who's Middle Atlanticregional director of the Labor Department'sBureau of Labor Statistics, has delineated for usthe shape of the I960 job market.

Industries that provide a service rather thana physical product will continue to leap ahead.Government jobs of all kinds will grow mightily.While collar office workers will be in demand.

On the other hand, there will be no greatexpansion of jobs in manufacturing companies,where a physical product is produced. Blue col-lar laborers will Rot be in demand. And backon the farm, the labor force will continue to bedecimated.

The most striking employment trend of thisctnlury has been the exit from agriculture,where mechanization has made possible greateroutput with fewer worker*. As recently as 1940,

we had some nine million peoPle working onfarms. This has now declined to a litde morethan three million and by 1930 it's expected toshrink further—to about two and one-half million.

DO YOU KNOW which is the fastest-growingsector of employment? Surprise! It's govern-ment—federal, state and local. Come to thinkof it, if you keep in mind your mushrooming taxpayments, this is no surprise at all.

Back in 1950, we had a total of 6.4 millionpeople working in government—roughly one-thirdof them in the federal agencies. (This mind you,does not include the armed forces.) This figurehas since doubled and by 1980 it will reach nearly17 million, which means that one out of everysix workers in the country will be employed bya governmental unit.

The explosive growth has come at the slatea.Td local levels. We now have about threemillion persons working in the federal bureauc-racy (the Pentagon, incidentally accounts formore than 40 per cent of this total) but employ-ment by slates, cities, counties and other localbodies has more than doubled in the past twodecades.

Thus we now have such boxcar figures as1.3 million people in California working for gov-ernmental units, 1.1 million in New York, 620,000in Illinois, 620,000 in Texas, 600,000 in Pennsyl-vania. Schools account for roughly one-third ofthis stale and local employment.

BY CONTRAST, the largest single employerin the private sector is American Telephone &Telegraph, the Bell System, whose employmentrolls have just passed the one million mark (andthe service is still horrendous).

Government is, of course, part of what'scalled the "service-producing industries'' asdistinguished from such entities as manufactur-ing, mining and construction, where crops orproducts are turned out. Also in the' servicesector are restaurants, banks, stores householdemployment, insurance, airlines, public utilities.

At the turn of the ccnlury, Bicnstock pointsout, we had only three out of every ten personsworking in the service area. We were then pro-duction-oriented. By 1950, the split was 50-50.Today, six out of every 10 workers are found inservice industries. By 1980, 70 per cent of thelabor force will be busy providing service*.

THE SUNDAY SUN, LOWELL, MASS., MAY -25, ; 1975 B3

Sullivan: LHS "looks good" after 40 yearsBy PRUDENCE BRIGHTON

Sun StaffI/WELL -. High School

Headmaster Raymond A. Sul-livan, now approaching retire-ment after more than 40 yearsin the school system, lastweek said his "biggest satis-faction" has been the recentrenewal of the school's.accre-ditation for a two year period.

In an interview Friday, Sul-livan said, "It was great toget continued membership inthe New England Associationof Schools and Colleges fortwo years. "We'll have this(the. association's recommen-dations) on the.road in twoyears. Thai's the biggest sa-tisfaction I have."

Sullivan began his career inthe Lowell public schools in •1929 at the old Boys TradeSchool which was located inan old wooden building at thecorner of Broadway and Dum-mer Streets where the NorthCommon bousing project isnow. He was there only oneshort year before moving tothe Lincoln School as its prin-cipal. He was elected LowellHigh School Headmaster inMay, 1938.. .•

His retriefent from the po-sition takes effect June 30 -the official end of the schoolyear. He said, however, hewill be available after that tohelp his successor, if needed.

For several years, he said,people have asked him whenhe planned to retire. Thisweek he explained, "I haledto walk out before the evalua-tion, although it isn't uncom-mon to retire just before anevaluatoin."WARNED IN 1M4 thai the

next evaluation of the highschool for accreditation wouldhave to take place in an ade-quate facility, the s c h o o lpassed muster again in 1974with only some renovations tothe building. With an add i I ion

' still a long way frof the con-struction stages, the highschool nevertheless received

accreditation for two years.Sullivan said he believes the

'accreditation was g r a n t e d"because everything e l s elooks good." '.

While not all the recommen-dations made by the evalua-tors in 1964 were followed,many were, In order to beaccredited in 1976, the highschool will again have to fol-low the recommendations orpresent good reasons for notdoing so, according to (heheadmaster.

If he were returning to thehigh school in the fall, his firstorder of business would be togel "committees organizedunder the department chair-man lo implement the recom-mendations as quickly as pos-sible. This would be the firstIhing I would do afier schoolopens."

He is now working wiihHigh School Masier StanleySloklosa on implementing theevaluators recommendationsfor a health program. Thelack of a health program at -the high school fell under se-vere criticism in the'evalua-tion report.OF PRINCIPLE concern to

the evaluates was the inade-'quacy of the physical plant.The limitations of the plantprevent the school from meet-ing its state philosophy andobjectives, t h e evalualorssaid. They emphasized a hopethat the proposed addition amirenovation project would re-move the limitations.

In his tenure as headrnas-ter, Sullivan has seen numer-ous campaigns for a new highschool or an improved facility..Efforts were underway in the1930's to build a new school'after the state department ofpublic safety threatened toclose -the current facility.

Sullivan explained the highschool in the 1930's was moreovercrowded than it has everbeen when lie took over in1B38 "it was during the yearsof the depression. The enroll-

LOWELL HIGH SCHOOL HEADMASTER RAYMOND A. SULLIVAN. retiring offer 40 years in system, but "will b« available", for his successor

Parades, services(Continued from Page B3)Street and to Chandler ..Street.. The parade will then go to

the Tewksbury Cemetery onEast Street for ceremonies,move down Main Street .to'Pleasant Street, pass the bandstand and return lo the CenterSchool.

The American Legion willconduct a parade in Burling-ton on Monday at 2 p.m. Theparade will begin at CenterSchool and slop at the TownCommon Band Stand for serv-ices before proceeding lo theOld Burial Ground on Lexing-ton Road.THERE \YILL BE 20 units

marching in the Acton paradewhich-will start at 11 a.m. to-morrew. G r a n d MarshalTheron Lowden will lead thetwo divisions from CharierRoad d o w n MassachusettsAvenue and along Main Streetto Acton Center, where a briefceremony will be held. Therewill"be a carillon concert atthe end of the exercises fromthe Acton center Congrega-tional Church.

In Bedford, Memorial Dayobservances will be celebratedin much the same way as pre-vioius years with p a r a d emarchers starting off fromthe Great Road Shopping areast 9:30 a.m. Monday.

They will proceed to theShawsheen cemetery with amember of the local clergydelivering a brief message incommemoration of tse de-ceased. The marchers willstop at each memorial andcemetery to place wreaths inrecognition of those men andwomen who died while servingthis country.THE CONCORD Memorial

Day parade on Monday beginsat 2:30 p.m. on Ash Street andmarch to St. Bernard's andSleepy Hollow Cemeteries forbrief ceremonies.

Formal ceremonies will behe ld ' a t Monument Squarearound 3:30 p.m. The ConcordNational Guard Company andConcord Independent Batterywill pass in review on theMilldam. and Grand MarshalCol. John K. Damon and his5taf f will review the parade onStow Street in front of Emer- ]son School before it disbandsat .the Armory.

In Ayer today, a memorialservice will he held at St. An-drew's Episcopal Church atI0i'i5 a.m. The annual parade,beginning at 10 a.m. willnrocced Ihroueh t o w n toWoodlawn Cemetery and (hento-Sandy Pond where the an-nual naval tribute will be con-('ii-M hv Lesion Chaplin

.Maurice Naparatek.The festivities will conclude

with a chicken barbeque inthe pine grove behind, the le-gion post at noon. The publicis invited.

Boxborough's Monday pa-rade will start from the NorthCemetery on Hill Road at 8:45

menls were the largest we• ever had. There were a largenumber of post graduatesmany of whom were taking^advantage of the school be-cause they were unem-ployed." Graduating classesat (he time were well in ex-cess of 900 where this year's,graduating -class is approxi-"mately 770.

As a result, classes were be:ing held in every availablespace in Ihe high school. Someclasses were even held out-doors. Sullivan said the de-partment of public safely tookstrong exceplion to the wayspace was being utilized anilthreatened to close the school.

Enrollments dropped duringWorld War II but afterwardsshot up again as the "school be-gan running " v . e t e r a n s 1

schools. Many students whodropped out during the warcame back lo continue theireducation," the headmastersaid. The school was againovercrowded and the drive fora new high school was restart-ed.

THE PUSH WAS to noavail. "At the lime, it washampered by a fire at the

Bartlett School. For a time,we had the Bartletl Schoolhere on a second sift from1 p.m. to 5 p.m."

At the lime people began toconsider a new high school,the slate did not reimbursecities and • lowns for schoolonstruction. The plan in the1930's and 194fl's called for theconstruction 'of a new highschool and the conversion ofIhe current facility into a cen-tral junior high shool.

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ReceptionLOWELL — A city-wide re-

ception lor retiring LowellHigh School Headmaster Ray-mond A. Sullivan will be heldThursday night at the SpeareHouse.

Sullivan is retiring at theend of this school year aftermore than 40 years in theschool system.

Reservations for the recep-tion may be made by contact-ing Michael Earle, FrankGentle, Jr., Paul Mann, Mrs.Marie Sweeney or Eugene N.Wood.

Sullivan recalls t h a t ' 20years ago Mayor J o s e p hDowns based his campaign'onthe need for a new highschool. •; • ; •

- With all the effort to get 3new building, nothing ever'materialized: "something., elsealways seemed to get prior-ity," he said. ;'

The current plans for a.$10 -million addition and-renova-tion project "is the closestwe've ever been." Other planswere never as defined as theplans now before the staleSchool building AssistanceBureau for approval.

"The cost of a complete newhigh school just staggered citymanagers, mayors and citycouncils. Bui (hen we were,talking at the most $4 millionlo $5 million. Now a complete-ly new high school would cost$20 million to $25.million, butyou would get . reimburse-ments. . • . " •

."I think we are on the roadlo something now. "-If we'renot, I would not want lo be

the headmaster in two yearswhen the accreditation coniesup again.". '

ASSESSING Lowell H i g hSchool's strengths, Sullivansaid, "1 would have to'say thetype of students and-: facultywe have here." He describedthe. student body as ."honora-ble, honest and ambitious"and the faculty as "dedicatedand well-qualified". The highquality of the faculty-he attri-buted, at least partially, to theMcCarthy Bill which "has giv-en .us teachers who have morethan j minimum qualifica-tions".

The McCarthy Bill has pre-vented ' Lowell from hiringteachers who "were fakers orpeople who were appointedcompletely politically".

Recalling his first year's atLowell High. School. as evi-dence of the staff's dedicatin,Sullivan said, "We had pay-less paydays, d u r i n g t h edepression years but therewas never a school closed.Thanks to Franklin Delano

^Rossevelt t h o s e t h i n g schanged."

As, headmaster, he once per-mitted two women teachers toleave the building a I noon

• fime.^They had heard from atel€i>h'6ne switchboard 'opera-tor that there was a bank runat one of the local banks."Then the FBI was on me.They asked me if I was con-tributing to a bank run. All Ihad thought about was thesetwo wonderful women whosaid all they had in the worldwas in that bank.

"In the high school, some-tremendous teachers' h a v epassed through. The kids werealso • wonderful. Now, I amseeing some of their grand-children come through here."

EDUCATION HAS changedconsiderably in 40 y e a r s."There has been a big changein the curriculum," Sullivansaid. Students are no longerrapidly cofpartmentalized andare given greater freedom inthe election of s u b j e c t s ."Looking back, .the old track-

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ing system seems foolish."The content of courses has

changed, too. "We are nowteaching what would havebeen at least on the freshmancollege level." Students havemet the challenge of increas-ingly complex subject matter,however.

There is a trend back tomore traditional approachesto education, Sullivan be-lieves. "We've come alongway from ' t h e ' traditionalschool lo the open campus andI.didn't think we'could comeas far back from the opencampus as we have."

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CorrectionLOWELL — In a story, yes-

terday about a fire at 95-97Andover Sireet, Grand RealtyCorporation1 was mistakenlyideniified as the owner of thebuilding. H is owned by LIKOCorporalion. . •

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Old Mother Hubfaard Dog Food Co.in Gloucester was acquired by Mr.James Scott in.1961. . .

Following a fire which totaffydestroyed ihe plant, the operationwas moved to Lowell in the spring of1969. The sale of Mother HubbardPet Foods hos increased with eachpassing year.

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MASSACHUSETTS EYE ASSOCIATES, P.C.Robert C. Lawlor, M D. David M. Tracy, M D. David G. Perkins, M D. Marc W. Richman, M D.

Announce new office hours commencing September I, 1978

Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. at botii office locations.

Saturday 9:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. at Lowell office only.

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Giving handicapped a chance to work

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Enjoying themselves...at the pre-movie "FLICKS” champagne Eugene O’Neill, Gloria Ellis, and Susanparty were, left to right, Valerie Roberts, McGilvery.

Lowell, Moss.October I, 1978 Page DI

‘Full house’ at “King of Hearts’’

By MARY SAMPASSun Correspondent

LOWELL — “ King of Hearts” is a film that is a bouquet to madness, a paean to its sweetness when the lunacy is innocent, naive, and loving The line between the sane and die insane is finely drawn, even in real life, and though this is not the first movie to indict that other kind of madness, war, ( “ All Quiet On The Western Front” made an elo­quent statement on that, long ago) i f s the first great comedy to do so. And it does this so powerful­ly that its m essage stays with you in a haunting way. It is no wonder this is “ the original cult film ” , and that it played for seven years at the Central Square theatre in Cambridge. When “ FLIC K S!” presented it as the premiere attraction this week the Olympia s Zorba Room was filled to capacity, and many of the members were seeing it for the 3rd. 4th or 5th time

Made in France in 1967, directed by Philip DeBroca, “ King of Hearts” stars Alan Bates as the British soldier assigned to locate the enormous bomb planted in a French town by the Germans, towards the end of WWII. All the residents have fled, but everyone has forgotten the inmates of the insane asylum, who now descend to the town and make a kind of carnival of joy, playing out their illu­sions that they are noblem en, churchm en, courtesans, etc. They are charming lunatics, with a kind of prettily twisted logic: The “ barber” can ex­plain to Alan Bates why HE pays his customer, and not they him, “ I get more customers this way.” ...

OLIVER W ENDELL HOLMES said that In­sanity is often the logic of an accurate mind over­taxed," and you think of this when the inmates refuse to follow Bates out of the doomed town because. “ It is dangerous out there — there are wild beasts waiting.” From “ out there,” the British and the German soldiers come, and the inmates think they are watching a parade, a play, as the two enemies, maintaining ordered positions, kill each other to the very last man. “ I think they are overac­ting,” says one disillusioned madman. And when the French liberators enter, and leave again almost immediately because they “ have to blow another town to b its ," the inmates decide to return to the asylum, where no such madmen live. And where Alan Bates decides to join them ...

A champagne “ get-acquainted” party preceded the filming, in celebration of the doubling of the society’s membership list. Bartenders were board! members Channon Scot and Paul O’Loughlin, gus­sied up in ruffled shirts and tuxedos, pouring the bubbly at a candelabra-ed table laden with pastries and cheese and crackers. A brief speech of welcome by the president, John Finnegan, was followed by some vintage Walt Disney cartoons ...

Dr. and Mrs. Mario Aste were there — he, head of ULowell’s language department, was seeing ” K. of H ” for the fifth time. This was true, too, of Pat Pestana, with Richard McNamara. She said she finds " I t s uplifting. It gives me a very good feeling.” Enjoying themselves were City Librarian and Mrs. Philip Northway, Linda Diefendorf and Jack Baldwin, Beth Egan, Patricia Kelley, John Doherty, Carol Barbera, Linda Maryland, Lor­raine Joubert.

Former Lowellian Georgia Tavoularis Moser, now of Rabat, Morocco, where her husband, Herbert, is Charge d’Affaires in the Swiss Em bas­sy, was there with her sister, Elizabeth Tavoularis, and Pat Mangiavas, the Norman Reekies of E. Pep­perell, Karen Carpenter, Julia Byam, Eda Webster, who was ju st back from a trip to Italy and Greece, the Atty. Dick Donahues, fresh from London, where they celebrated their silver wedding anniversary, Dick Herbert, Pat Pendergast, Dean Contover, At­ty. Lou Saab and Dickie Boyle were late arrival:

They'd been to the Yorick Club opening party.Also there: the Dave Brows, the City Library’s

Bob McLeod, who’s putting together a very fine Jack Kerouac bibliography, Mrs. Peter Geftea^, Tula Laganas, Karin Codd, from Hampton, N.H., Christine Larkham, the lissome downtown mix­ologist who looks like a Ziegfeld showgirl, the G eorge D uncans. Bernie Sheehan, the Bob Malaviches, the Ed Roches, the Atty. Victor Forsleys, Charlie Panagiotakos, who served as pro­jectionist. Gardner Brooks, Brian Callahan, who is surely one of the most fervent film buffs in town.

By B IL L W E B E R Son Staff

LO W ELL — “ There is a vast, untapped reserv o ir of manpower in this country. People who can work People who lean t jo b s,” begins a pam phlet aim ed to encourage business ow ners to hire m entally retarded people. The pam phlet, published by the National A ssocia­tion for Retarded Citizens I NARC I. say s there a re three million people in this available w orkforce and argues that m isconceptions about physical handicaps and m ental re tard a­tion keep som e very cap ab le workers from finding jobs.

In recent years attem p ts have been m ade to in crease public aw aren ess about the needs of the m entally and physically handicapped It began a few y ears ago with affirm ativ e action plans that tried to force com panies with federal contracts to hire and train handicap­ped workers.

• The idea behind any affirm ativ e action plan, of course, is a good one — it gives a group of form erly neglected people the chance to live like the rest of us That m eans a chance to work and earn money, and to develop self- r e s p e c t t h r o u g h o n e s p e r s o n a l a c ­com plishm ents.)

The pushiness of the original affirm ative a c ­tion plans has softened with the years Now there are private and government-supported program s availab le to train retarded and physically handicapped people so they can com pete for jobs again st non handicapped w orkers. Encouragem ent to hire the handicap­ped still ex ists in the form of tax incentives and subsidized sa la r ie s, but they are subtle and leave the em ployer room for choice.

IN TH E G R E A T ER -LO W ELL area som e 40 m ental health and public serv ice agencies deal with the problem s of the handicapped.

Som e, like Goodwill Industries Inc,, work only with the hard-core m entally retarded O thers, like the M assach u setts Rehabilitation Com m ission attem pt to channel people with any sort of handicap to appropriate p laces where they can get train ing, em ploym ent or education.

E ach client who is referred to M ass Rehab. by a private agency is given a physical check­up and a battery of te s ts to evaluate the level of his or her disability . With the test resu lts a counselor and the client work out a rehabilita­tion plan which can involve placem ent directly in industry, placem ent in an on-the-job or workshop training program , or enrollm ent in high school, vocational school or college.

U ltim ately the goal of M ass. Rehab and sim ila r agencies is to get people ready for em ploym ent. This year M ass. Rehab, found job s for 353 handicapped people in area busin esses.

“ SE L F-C O N FID E N C E isn 't som ething you can ju st breathe into som eon e.” say s Lowell regional director P eter Slipp.

" I f a person has been dum ped on for y ears because of a handicap, and then if they have the chance to go through a workshop and get com fortable with the routine of a job and get­ting a paycheck, then they’re going to say Heh, I ve m ade som ething of m y se lf ! ’ I can

say for sure that m ost of our clients stay on their jobs longer becau se they are m ore ap­preciative of their position .”

The biggest difficulty in getting jobs for han­d icap ped people, S lip p sa y s , is finding em ployers who understand what "h an dicap­ped” or “ retarded” m ean s for an individual and a com pany, plus have the willingness to bring these people into the com pany environ­m ent

“ There are a lot of m argin ally disabled peo­ple that you'd never know had a handicap,” he explained When it com es to interviewing som eone with a physical handicap, em ployers seem to have an e a s ie r tim e envisioning the person a s an em ployee

“ It s a m atter of (the em ployer’s) knowing what lim itations the person has. We m ight have a quadraplegiac person who is the best accountant going With the adequate tools he could be worth every nickel of his sa la ry ,” Slipp said.

BU T FE A R O F the unknown is helping m aintain the job b arrier for m entally retarded w orkers. E m ployers who have had little or no contact with retarded people expect to be forced to deal with sudden uncontrolled out­bursts, irrational behavior, f its and seizures, Slipp said.

“ Ju st try to talk an em ployer into hiring a person with even m inor ep ilepsy ,” he com ­plained wearily.

But that is the job of M argaret M cAllister, a job placement counselor a t Goodwill In­dustries. She spends two day per week acting a s a liason with local industry.

“I go to com panies to try to set up job developm ent program s so we can train our people for com petitive placem ent in availab le w ork,” she explained. She say s she runs up again st a lot of m isconceptions in the process.

The information M cA llister gathers is used by Goodwill to upgrade its training program . At the Goodwill o ffices on F ir s t Street about IOO retarded clients daily a re trained to work

...in the packing department at Old Mother Hubbard Dog Food Com­pany, Mike Hassett, center, sorts

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Sealing bags...is a job many non-handicapped peo­ple might consider too tedious. But for a mentally retarded person the routine of the work is satisfying. Just being employed is a big achievem ent. Above, Maria Souza, a Goodwill c o u n s e l o r , w o r k s wi th N a n c y Robinson on a heat sealer.

a t low-skill industrial and production-line jobs which Goodwill con tracts from local industry. The jobs range from packaging p lastic drink­ing g la sse s to repairing e lectrical appliances.

W HILE WORKING at Goodwill, c lien ts take part in “ personal ad justm en t train ing,” which is an integral part of their job there, say s Mike Endyke, director of operations.

This involves periodic evaluations ( including occupational testing and counseling), plus in­struction in work relationships, work ad ju st­ment (how to punch in and out, how to re la te to one’s supervisor), and daily living tools (how to take the bus to work, tell tim e and ca ll in sick ).

As Goodwill "e m p lo y e e s ,” clients are paid by-the-piece according to actual industry ra tes and are prom oted to successive levels of responsibility until their sk ills qualify them for competition on the job m arket.

The advantage to this program , M cA llister tells com panies, is that “ we can provide a good worker who will do a good job and won’t quit right aw ay.” Additionally, for com panies that o ffer on-the-job tra in in g , funds a re av ailab le from NARC to pay for Vi to Va of the person ’s sa lary for the first eight w eeks of employment.

Som e firm s react positively to the offer, while others shy aw ay, M cA llister say s.

"W ITH SOME you don’t even get in the front door,” she com plained. “ I can understand that. But there are som e that play along for a while, and then when it com es tim e to actually hiring one of our people they say they can ’t be bothered. There s one com pany that sends us job ord ers for n u c le ar tech n ician s and engineers. Now rea lly ! Who do they think we a r e ? ”

“ Most com panies don’t really understand the idea of the p ro g ram ,” adds Ja n ice Irvine. Goodwill’s d irector of rehabilitation. “ They think it ’s ch aritab le to hire retarded or physically handicapped people. But w e’re providing a real serv ice . By placing our people

broken pieces of dog biscuits. Work­ing with him are Richard Lambert and Mary Devine. Hassett is one of

three G oodw ill-tra ined m entally retarded people employed by the company.

...Margaret McAllister, a job place­ment counselor, talks with retarded employees at the Goodwill Service Center as they package cassette

there we are providing these com panies with stable em ployees. They do work that som e people find tedious or boring But our people are happy about their jo b s .”

That is exactly what the m an agers of S e ars Roebuck and Co. in Lowell learned a few months ago when they hired a Goodwill trainee for a m aintenance job.

“ You know, you don’t get m any walk-ins that want to com e in at 5 a m . to sw eep floors,” say s M arilyn M ancuso, personnel director of Sears. “ But the m an from Goodwill who works for us now, he m ay be a little slow som etim es, but he does his job dam n w ell.” The store also has two physically handicapped em ployees for whom she had equally high praise.

Old Mother Hubbard Dog Food Company in Lowell has had sim ilar su ccess with severa l m entally retarded people they have hired for the packing departm ent. Allen M iller, person­nel director, and Jo e Sousa , supervisor, talk

tapes. They are part of Goodwill’s tra in ing program that prepares retarded people for work in private in­dustry.

en th u sia stic a lly about how the m en tally retarded men and women they have employed over the past two y ears have been real a sse ts to their com pany.

“ TH E PACKING JO B is so tedious that we had a lot of trouble with turnover,” Miller says. "B u t since we started hiring people from Goodwill w e’ve got no m ore turnover problem. They seem to like the routine, and they do their jobs w ell.”

“ I never have any problem s with them ,” adds Sousa. “ They show up for work every day, on tim e. You know how it is with som e people who can do good work but don’t? Well, these people m ay not be the fa ste st w orkers, but they work h ard .”

“ The biggest thing a s fa r a s w e’re concerned is ju st to give them a chan ce ,” M iller said . “ We have one guy who afte r he is done sweep­ing the floor he’ll ask Jo e did I do a good jo b ? ’ All he w ants is a little encouragem ent and he’s happy.”

4 THE MIDDLESEX C ITIZEN, SU N ., OCT. 15. 1978

Giving the handicapped a chance to work

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The Courageous BoyWho Battles Allergies with His “ Magic” Helm et

With every step he takes, five-year-old Jared Reisman is making medicai history. Jared is so severe­ly allergic to airborne particles tha t five minutes of in ­haling unfiltered air could make him sick for weeks. Three years age, doctors told Jared's parents the hyperallergic ch ild should be institutionalized — they could do noth ing for him. But today, thanks to a mother and father who wouldn't give up and a m iracle of biomedical engineering, Jared is a happy, in­quisitive child looking forward to starting school. Jared’s passport to the outside world is a shiny, plastic helmet containing an air-purification system that provides him w ith a portable allergy free environ­ment. Learn more about Jared’s world in this week’s F a m i l y W e e k l y .

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By BILL WEBER Citizen Staff

LOWELL — “ There is a vast, untapped reservoir of manpower in this country People who can work People who w ant jobs." begins a pamphlet aim ed to encourage business ow ners to hire m en­tally re ta rd ed people The pamphlet, published by the N a tio n a l A sso c ia tio n fo r Retarded Citizens (NARC), says there a re three million p eo p le in th is a v a i la b le workforce and argues that m i s c o n c e p t i o n s a b o u t physical handicaps and men tai re ta rd a tio n keep som e very capable w orkers from finding jobs

In recent years attem pts have been m ade to increase public aw areness about the needs of the mentally and physically handicapped It began a few years ago with a f­firm ative action plans that tried to force companies with federal con trac ts to hire and train handicapped workers

'T he idea behind any a ffir­mative action plan, of course. is a good one — it gives a group of form erly neglected people the chance to live Uke the rest of us That means a chance to work and earn money, and to develop self­respect through one s p e r­sonal accom plishm ents.)

T h e p u s h i n e s s of th e orig inal a ff irm a tiv e action plans has softened with the years Now there are private and governm ent-supported program s available to train retarded and physically han­dicapped people so they can com pete for jobs against non­handicapped w orkers E n ­couragem ent to hire the han­dicapped still exists in the form of tax incentives and subsidized salaries, but they a re su b tle and leave th e employer room for choice

IN T H E G R E A T E R - LOWELL area some 40 m en­tal health and public service a g e n c ie s d e a l w ith th e problems of the handicapped.

Some, like Goodwill In­dustries Inc., work only with th e h a r d - c o r e m e n ta l ly re ta rd ed O thers , like the M assachusetts Rehabilitation Commission attem pt to chan­nel people with any sort of h a n d ic a p to a p p ro p r ia te places w here they can get t r a in in g , e m p lo y m e n t o r education

Each client who is referred to Mass. Rehab by a private agency is given a physical check-up and a battery of tests to evaluate the level of his or her disability With the test results a counselor and th e c l i e n t w o rk o u t a rehabilitation plan which can involve placem ent directly in industry, placem ent in an on- the-job or workshop training program , or enrollm ent in high school, vocational school or college

U ltim ately the goal of Mass. Rehab, and sim ilar agencies is to get people ready for employment. This year Mass Rehab, found jobs for 353 han­d ic a p p e d p e o p le in a r e a businesses.

“SELFCONFIDENCEisn t something you can just breathe into som eone,” says L ow ell re g io n a l d i r e c to r P e te r Slipp,

“ If a person h as been dumped on for years because of a handicap, and then if they have the chance to go through a workshop and get com for­table with the routine of a job and getting a paycheck, then ♦hey re going to say Heh, I ve m ade something of m yself! ' I can say for sure tha t m ost of our clients stay on their jobs longer because they a re m ore a p p r e c i a t i v e o f t h e i r position "

The biggest difficulty in get- t.ng jobs for handicapped peo­ple, Slipp says, is finding em ployers who understand w h a t “ h a n d ic a p p e d '' o r “ retarded means for an in­dividual and a company, plus have the willingness to bring these people into the company environment.

" T h e r e a r e a l o t o f m arginally disabled people tha t you d never know had a h a n d ic a p ," he ex p la in e d . When it comes to interviewing someone with a physical han­dicap, em ployers seem to have an easier tim e envision- in g th e p e r s o n a s an employee

“ I t s a m a t te r of ( th e e m p lo y e rs ! knowing w hat lim itations the person has We might have a quadraplegiac person who is the best accoun­tant going With the adequate tools he could be w orth every nickel of his sa la ry .'' Slipp said

BUT FEAR OF the un known is helping m aintain the job b a r r ie r fo r m e n ta lly retarded workers Em ployers who have had little or no con­tac t with retarded people ex­pect to be forced to deal with sudden u n co n tro lled o u t­bursts, irrational behavior. fit* and seizures. Slipp said

" J u s t t r y to t a l k an employer into hiring a person with even minor epilepsy,” he complained wearily.

B ut th a t is th e jo b of M argaret McAllister, a job p la c e m e n t c o u n s e lo r a t G oodw ill In d u s tr ie s . She spends two day per week acting as a bason with local industry.

“ I go to companies to try to s e t up job d e v e lo p m e n t program s so we can tra in our people for com petitive place­ment in available w ork ,” she explained She says she runs up against a lot of m isconcep­tions in the process.

The information McAllister gathers is used by Goodwill to upgrade its training program At the Goodwill offices on F i r s t S t r e e t a b o u t IOO re ta rded clien ts daily a re trained to work a t low-skill in­dustrial and production-line jobs which Goodwill contracts from local industry The jobs range from packaging plastic drinking glasses to repairing electrical appliances

WHI LE WO R K I N G a t Goodwill, clients take p a rt in " p e r s o n a l a d j u s t m e n t training,” which is an integral part of their job there, says

Mike ELndyke, d irecto r of operations.

T his in v o lv e s p e r io d ic evaluations (including oc­c u p a t i o n a l t e s t i n g a n d counseling), plus instruction in work relationships, work adjustm ent (how to punch in and out, how to relate to one s supervisor), and daily living tools (how to take the bus to work tell tim e and call in sick).

As Goodwill “ employees ” clients are paid by-the-piece according to actual industry rates and a re promoted to suc­cessive le v e ls of re sp o n ­sib ility u n til th e ir sk ills qualify them for competition on the job m arket

T he a d v a n ta g e to th is program . M cA llister te lls companies, is that “ we can provide a good worker who will do a good job and won t quit right aw ay .” Additional­ly. for com panies that offer on-the-job training, funds a re available from NARC to pay for 4 to V!» of the person's salary fo r the first eigh t weeks of employment.

Some firm s react positively to the offer, while others shy away. M cA llister says

“ WITH SOME you don 't even get in the front door,” she com plained “ I can un­derstand th a t But there a re some that play along for a while, and then when it comes time to ac tua lly hiring one of our people they say they can 't be bothered There s one com ­pany that sends us job orders for nuclear technicians and engineers. Now really! Who do they think we are?"

“ Most co m p an ies d o n 't really understand the idea of the p rog ram ." adds Janice I r ­vine, G oodwill’s director of rehabilitation. “ They think it s c h an ta b le to hire retarded or physica lly handicapped people. But we re providing a real service. By placing our people th ere we are providing these com panies with stable employees They do work tha t some people find tedious or boring But our people a re happy about their jobs.”

That is exactly what the m anagers of Sears Roebuck and Co. in Lowell learned a few m onths ago when they hired a Goodwill trainee for a m aintenance job

“ You know, you don't get many walk-ins that want to come in a t 5 a .rn to sweep floors." says Marilyn Man- cuso. personnel director of Sears “ But the man from Goodwill who works f o r . us now, he m ay be a little slow som etim es, but he does his job damn w ell." The store also has two physically handicap­ped em ployees for whom she had equally high praise.

Old M other Hubbard Dog Food Company in Lowell has had s im i la r su ccess w ith several m en ta lly re ta rd ed people they have hired for the packing d ep a rtm en t Allen M iller, personnel d irec to r , and Joe Sousa, supervisor, talk en th u s ia s tica lly about how the mentally retarded men and women they have employed over the past two

years have been real assets to their company

“ THE PACKING JOB is sotedious that we had a lot of trouble with tu rnover." Miller

says But since we started hiring people from Goodwill we've got no more turnover problem They seem to like the routine, and they do their jobs well ”

I never have any problems with them , ' a d d s Sousa

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these people may not be the fa s te s t w orkers, but they work hard

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Al Stewart: a man who found his way Wesole I Jrodzie, Mama

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By BRUCE MEYER United Press International

You can’t alw ays get what you want, but during the past couple of years Al Stewart has apparently gotten just about what he needs from rock 'n ’ roll.

Stew art is a student of history, a connoisseur of fine w in e s a n d a f o r m e r l y frustrated English rocker who finally cam e to te rm s with his own talents

“ For y e a rs .” he says, "I wanted to w rite songs like Bob Dylan, or play guitar like Jim! Hendrix or E rie Clapton But I couldn’t do tha t, so I had to find my own w ay .”

His “own way " seem s to be enough.

Stew art kicked around the m usic business for years, refining his own blend of delicate, m elodic narrative songs, before hitting big with the album "Y ea r Of The Cat" a couple of yea rs ago.

SO IT SHOULD come as no surprise tha t his new album, "T im e P a s s a g e s" (A rista AB4190!. is a sim ilar record -

a mix of rather cerebral love s o n g s a n d m e l a n c h o l y historical narratives, a com ­bination that could be deadly in cruder hands

But Stewart is a carefu l m an, so he joined with crack producer Alan Parsons in fine­tuning the precision sound t h a t a t t r a c t e d so m a n y listeners last time, while giv­in g th e w ho le a lb u m a noticeably harder edge

“ Time Passages" opens with the title track and within a few bars it s c lear that S tew art is looking to expand his audience a bit For ail its dream like lyrics, “ P assages" is built on a simple, bluesy rock ’n' roll foundation — an approach that keeps popping up throughout the record

The second track, “ V alen­tina W ay," is a lovelorn ditty w ith a w o n d e rfu l l i t t l e m elody, strangely clipped vocals and some prtxiiclably tasty guitar leads.

“ A Man For All Seasons" — the tale of Thomas M ore’s 16th century confron tation w ith H enry VHI and its philosophical implications —

is rather a ponderous subject even for S tew art in a four- minute tune, but it sounds good as long as you don't worry too much about the lyrics

“ THE PA LA C E of V er­sailles' — th e o ther big- budget historical song on this album opens side two and proves th a t th e physical v io le n c e of th e F re n c h Revolution is m ore readily handled in a pop son? than M o re s p l i g h t .

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In business at age 17By FRANCES BERG

Citizen StaffLOWELL - “ P C . Moxley"

proclaim s the sign overheadThe nam e joggles the im ­

agination for the scores of guests of Lowell Museum — because Philena Moxley in the 19th Century not only becam e a successful businesswoman, bu t d id it w h ile s t i l l a teenager!

" P h i l e n a M o x l e y ’ s E m b r o i d e r y S h o p — Something Old and Something New,” is the 1978-79 season opener for both a needle a rts exhibit and Lowell Museum s program m ing, and draw s a large audience despite soggy w eather.

Having viewed an extensive exhibit of needle arts to be on view here through Dec 31. an­ticipation is bright on their faces, as M argaret Cookman of our c u rre n t era s local N eedlecraft Shop appears to recall it all.

W earing an e la b o ra te ly em broidered white blouse and in tric a te ly draped sk irt of yesteryear, her blonde hair caught into a ben at the back of h e r h e a d , C o o k m a n , standing behind a long counter besid e a k e ro sen e lam p , quickly “ becom es” Moxley, m istress of her tiny world of dress goods and trims.

“IT’S 1870, and my shop is lo ca ted a t th e co rn e r of Gorham and Central S tree ts ," y e s t e r y e a r ’s " M o x le y " begins. " I cam e here with my m other and sister from Ver­m ont.”

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They'd come like thousands of others, she re la tes , to take a d v a n ta g e of A m e r ic a n women’s first opportunity to earn money of their own in the mills. Some attend college — or help send b ro th e r s to college.

At age 16. sh e d been employed by C ham bers and Leland, selling fabrics plus embroidery, linens, feathers, buckles, belts, pleating — and l e a r n i n g h o w to p r i n t e m b r o id e r y p a t t e r n s on fab rics, known as “ s ta m ­ping."

Moxley becam e proficient a t the la t te r , ev en tu a lly spending $225 to buy her e m p l o y e r ’ s s t o c k of embroidery stam ps. She then spent $886 to purchase land on the aforementioned corner, took out a m ortgage — and built a house.

“ I wanted a m odern house— 14 room s, w ith living quarters for my m other and us upstairs, a sto re in front and a workshop in back.” There also proved to be space enough to rent room s to both a d o c to r a n d a c h e m i s t . Seventeen-year-old Moxley was in business and then some!

Ixiwell M useum 's guests of the evening learn that the embroidery stam ps displayed before them are m ade of wood— generally of sycam ore, if made in England, or of rock m a p le , if m a d e h e re in America.

The designs a re firs t drawn on the blocks of wood, then

etched in and stained. Then thin strips of copper, brass or pewter (seldom the la tte r , b ecau se p e w te r is a so f t m e ta l) a r e s e t in to th e grooves.

The audience watches in fa s c in a tio n , as “ M oxley" mixes flour, w ater and a blue stain into a paste — “ It s got lum ps in it. ju st like my gravy!” — and dem onstrates how to s tam p an array of dif­ferent pa tte rn s onto cloth, us­ing a m alle t to tap the stam ps.

“ MY NEW’ store w as a great success,” she relates. “ The ladies had tim e to do em broidery — and had the money to spend for it

"Soon I opened a second store in Salem and left my younger s is te r to manage the Lowell store. (In those days, we w ere known as the Misses Moxley). But she was a flighty sort. And she had fainting spells. So I had to give up the store in Salem and stay in Lowell

(Som e 500 of M oxlev 's c o lle c tio n of e m b ro id e ry s ta m p s e x is t to d ay , th e p roperty of the H isto rica l Society of Wenham, which loaned those in the Lowell Museum exhibit. (Her largest stam ps, som e several feet lo n g , h o w e v e r , w e r e destroyed — burned for fuel during a coal strike!)

M oxley, Museum guests learn, w as a 19th Century women’s liberationist in m ore ways than one. She was the first local woman to sign up to vote for the school com m it­te e . S h e a lso p o s tp o n e d

m a rria g e fo r som e tim e, eventually wedding a member of Chelm sford’s P arker fam i­ly before moving to Wenham, where she lived until nearly age 90

Co-speaker a t last night's L o w ell M u se u m se a so n opener, Joan Schoof, an in­structor at D unstable’s Elsa W i l l i a m s S c h o o l o f N eedlecraft and elsewhere, follow s w ith though ts on needlework's evolution as an “ art form ."

“ W e’ve had a 30-year resurganee in needle art It s re a lly now a t its p e a k ." Schoof tells her audience.

Schoof notes tha t “ crew el” is done only w ith two-ply wool “ The m om ent you add silk, satin or m etal threads, it’s ‘em bro idery’,’’ she ex­plains, going on to note that canvas, as well as linen, are now used as backing and produce d if fe re n t effects “ Crewel on canvas is like a painting." Schoof tells her audience, displaying framed pictures of flowers. "Notice the shading.”

She displays examples of geometric-like blackwork" — done only in black threads on white backing and original­ly reversible; "pull thread" work, done by pulling threads of the m ate ria l together to produce a bevy of designs.

IN TODAY’S resurganee of needle a rts , one can travel anywhere, even abroad, and teach it, says Schoof, relating

that one Lowell shop today is teaching a total of 80 women — and one man — each week

W est T o w n sen d 's E ls a W illiam s School, the f irs t residential needle a rts school in th e United S ta te s , she re la tes , runs Sunday through Saturday sessions year round in which women from all over the world attend classes from 9 a .rn to 4 p.m. daily, taught by experts from all over the world

Lowell Museum this season w ill sponsor in tro d u c to ry workshops in needle a r ts , the firs t from IO a .rn to 12:30 p m on Wednesday, Oct. l l ; the second from 7 to 9:30 p m. on W ednesday, O ct 18; a th ird , if demand w arrants.

The Museum's curren t nee­dle a rts exhibit offers both an­tique and modern versions from household linens and quilts to framed pictures and personal items like handbags.

A modern reproduction of an antique quilt created in old silks, satins, brocades a d rib­bons and recreating "a ll the stitches from the year one" of the original is on loan from M rs Nicholas Sam aras.

Among other unique item s a re needlepoint and pettipoint M ad o n n as and an a n g e l created by both students and the Sister* of Notre D am e of St Patrick 's School betw een 1852 and 1871. one once owned by Lowell Mayor Jam es B C asey and loaned to th e M useum by his dau g h te r Catherine Casey O Donnell.

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fi6 THE SUNDAY SUN, I.OWRT.T., MASS.. OCT. 26. 1975

Dracut faces many obstaclesif potential is to be reali;

ply District services the rest ofthe town, The District hascome under fire recently for in-adequately supplying perhaps100 homes with water in the drysummer months.

If Dracut hopes to grow andbe f u r t h e r developed, townleade r s must be able toguarantee reliable, reasonably-priced water to potentialdevelopers, but the town hasyet to c o m m i t i t s e l f tolongterm solutions.

Most residents rely on septict anks for sewerage, M a n ytanks are faulty, resulting inharmful leaching and costlyrepairs. Eventually the townw i l l n e e d a n o r g a n i z e dw a s t e w a t e r m a n a g e m e n tprogram. Thig may mean anexpensive treatment plant orstrict new zoning laws to limitthe number of new septic tanksneeded to support the popula-tion.

Planning and providing ser-vices for future developmentwill mean hitting Dracut tax-payers even harder, and that'snot a popular notion, "Unlesswe're able to Increase the taxbase, with all our operatingcosts we're going to bringabout an unfa i r tax-payings i t u a t i o n , " p r e d i c t e dSelectmen Chai rman RogerDaigle.

DAIQLE THINKS that thetownspeople are hard-pressedalready, and that Increasingfederal and state aid Is unlike-ly. "People have to stop look-ing to the federal and stategovernments for aid, and It Isincreasingly the responsibilityof the local government tosolve community problems,"he said.

So if Dracut is to grow byleaps and bounds, as otherSelectmen opt imist ical lypredict, the town will have tofind a way to make some big in-vestments without scaringaway potential homeownersand industry,

Selectman W i l l i a m Daypredicts "all the propertiesaround the town's lakes will bedeveloped as suburban recrea-t i o n c e n t e r s , w i t h c o n -dominiums or villages withinthe town."

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The town covers a fairlylarse land area and has bothdensely and sparsely populatedn e i g h b o r h o o d s , B o r d e r i n gLowell, some of the town isquite city-like. But just a fewmiles down the road, the sceneIs pastoral, with farmland andstate forest areas.

Residents have been hit withan unprecedented $256 tax ratethis fall and are reeling. Butthe worst is yet to come if 100per cent valuation is indeedaround the corner. Porperty iscurrently valued at about 25per cent so many homeownersmay be in line for tax Increasesif the valuation goes up.

There's little Industry InDracut to help residents payfor local services, and notmuch indication that com-panies are likely to move Intothe area because there arereally no major highways con-necting Dracut to metropolitancenters.

Town services are severlylimited. Most of the town is un-sewered and without waterlines. The lack of services wassadly illustrated recently whena group of East Dracut resi-dents protested their tax bills.While paying for $40,000 and$50,000 homes, they have nosewering, no water connec-tions, no street lights, no firedepartment (the closest is inMethuen) and hefty tax bills.

AS IN MANY towns, waterand sewerage are Dracut's big-gest problems. Continually tap-ping well-fields in Tyngsborofor their water supply, town of-ficials know that last sourcewill dry up eventually. Dracutwill be forced to partlcpate Insome cos t ly sys t em fortreat ing Mer r imack Riverwater, either on its own or withneighboring Lowell.

Lowell currently providespart of Dracut with drinkingw a t e r w h i l e a s e p a r a t e ,autonomous Dracut Water Sup-

WILUAM DAY"The eastern coas t -w i l l be

one great city," suggestsSelectman Charles Dehney. "-Populations are increasing that

fas t and the east will expandlike (he coast of Cal i forn ia . Ahundred years f rom now, therewi l l be monorials up and downthe coast, better public trans-portation, and solar energyw i l l b e a n i m p o r t a n tresource."

If Dracut is to be included inthis megalopolis theory for theeast, the town will have to keepup and provide the most basicservices still lacking. The landfor development is there forthe asking, and residents takepride in their town and are anx-ious to see improvements.

But whether Dracut cancompete wi th ne ighbor ingtowns in the next decades andbecome a highly desireableplace to work or live in re-mains to be seen.

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When local manufacture firststarted at the present plant on Tan-ner Street there were 3 employees.Today there are 35.

Most of the distribution is confinedto Northeastern states and exportshave just started to Sweden andCanada.

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OUR RECORD is One of ConstantGrowth! . . . From a small beginmna in1923 , up to the present time, v.-e havemet every changing condition, con-sistently improving our faci l i t ies togive our customers the f i nes t inmaterials and service. We take this op-portunity to THANK our many, manycustomers who have helped make ourgrowth possible.

Established 1923

UCYWire & Iron Works

427 Riverside St. (Rear) LOWELL

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