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SectIon 2, Paqe t.-The Southinqton Ne.I, Wed,. Jon. 7. (970
Blood Bank
Is .Jan •. 19
DR. STEVEN PESTER
Dr Steven Pester, chaIrman of
the local Blood Bank DrIve. has
announced that the Southlnglon
Jaycees have agreed 10 aUIlII the
Red Cross Chapter In sponsoring
a blood dnve on Monday. Jan 19
Dr Pester has l5!:ued an appeal
to citizens 10 help replenish the
blood supply here whIch has
dlmlDished
"It Is Imporlanl 10 note thai
any resldenl Ii Connecticul can
benefll from lIua blood donatIon
program, ConnecUculls the only
slale wlthoul a blood credll
system, This means that any
resldenl can receive an unlimited
amounl of blood wlthoul cosl 10
hIm or hili famdy," Dr Pester
saId.
The blood program will again
be held at the YMCA from 12:45
to 6 p,m, Only those donors under
21 need parenlal permISSion
Service Bureau
Slates Forum
Three aesslons on educaUon
WIll make up the 25th annual
mldwlDter rorum and meetings of
the Service Bureau for Women's
Organizations The firsl will lake
place Jan, 23 from 10:15 am 102
p,m, In Centinel Hill Hall. G. Fox
" Co, Bwlding, Hartford.
Entitied "New Concepts In
Education," the series wlll face
up 10 iSlues confronting
education throughout the country
and will polnl oul promisIng new
programs In Connecticut
All men and women Interested
are welcome 10 attend any one or
all three of the meetlnga In pasl
educallonal foruma board of
education members and
guidance penonnel have at·
tended along with other concerned
members rl the general
public
Speakers WIll consider such
malters as education for very
young chIldren and counseling at
all levels, lraining in basic skills
[or lusdents who wdl not go on 10
cullege, lhe place Ii black studies
In school curriculum, new
phIlosophIes and practices In
leacher IraIDong, and the Impact
or Federal-Slale local govern·
mental relallons and quesuons of
control and (Inance or the
schools
Advance reservations are
necessary and may be secured
[rom the Service Bureau The
second and thard meellngs on the
series WIll be Thursday, Feb 5,
and Thursday Feb 19 also [rom
to 15 t" 2 p m
655,084 Pupils
In State Schools
A loLaI o[ 655,084 pupils - 19,269
m' ... ~ Ihan dUring 111 1968-69
~cho()1 year - arE' attending
Cunnectlcut public schools thiS
year, lhe SLale Deparlmenl o[
Education reports
The biggest bulge IS In kindergarten,
wllh 57.282 pupils
Kindergartens became man
dalnry 10 Ihe SLale In 1968
t·lrsl.graders make up Ihe
second blgges I grc ... p, wllh 56,246
pupIls
Olher hlghhghts an enrollment
repurts by lhe sLale's 173 school
distrICts In Ihe educaLlon agenc.(s
bureau o( research.
~l1sLJcs, and fmance
- A lolal oi 8,750 PUPils are
recelvong Inslructoon In ungraded
elemenlary schools They Include
3,438 on Grolon. 997 III WethersfIeld,
658 in RegIonal Dlsl 15
I Middlebury and Soulhbury " 506
an Kocky HIli, and 475 an Harl­
Illrd
A lola I of 7,916 PUPIls are
rptelvlng ~p"~lal education
~l1lte law now reqUIres lhal
specIal .ducatlon be prOVIded [or
chIldren ""Ih several Iypes of
handIcaps
A loLaI o[ 3,095 l hlldren are In
prekondergarlpn ri."es The len
biggesl dIstrICts In order are
Harl[ord, 38,686, Brldgeporl,
25,039, New Haven 21.591 ,
Slamford, 21.0~O . Walerbury
17,695, Norwalk, 17,600 N",,'
Brataln. 14,&42, Enlleld, IJ 172
Wesl Hartford, 13,103 and
Mllfurd. 12,693
The smallest IS Umon, wllh 72
pupils In klndergarlen Ihrough
I(rade 8
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NATURE'S WAYS
By Wayne Banfey
(Co ..... Co ... ervatloa A .... )
Some day the volunteers
serving as conservaUon commIssioners
on New Englaod will
be called whal they actually are_
commlSSlonen of environmental
quallly
MeanwhIle, the 4,100 men and
women serving lhelr lowns and
cilies as the environmental
conscience or the communities
Will conllnue 10 serve under lhe
lnadequale - and al Ihls pomt on
ume, qUlle fuzzy - toUe of
"conservatlOn" commissIOners
These Ihoughts struck us as we
Ihumbed through a new 21~-page
paperback enlOlled "Conservallon
CommiSSions In
Massa"huselts " Even the utie oi
lhe volume IS a misnomer. stnce
the SLalus 0( the conservatIOn
commiSSIOns In Rhode Island,
Cunnecucut, New HampshIre and
Maine IS Included The bulk oilhe
lext Involves Massachusetts
mainly because II all .larted
,here II years ago and some
excellenl case hlsloroes of whal
has been done can be round In lhe
commonwealth
Perhaps al tlus po,nl, one
.hould slate whal a conservation
commiSSion IS In all stales,
except Maine where boards are
hmlted 10 live persons, lhe
commiSSIOns COnsist of seven
local reSidents They are named
by the selectmen, mayor or
mUOlclpal manager to serve
three· year lerms Their duly a
ralher vague responslblhly [or
'conservatlon" In the communlly
In 1960 lhere were exacUy 19
cunservallon commISSIOns ID aU
New England - and all were In
Massachusells SInce Ihear
miSSIOn was unclear. their accumphshments
had been ralher
.nlmmal
Hut 10 Apnl thai year, lhe
conserva lion commiSSion tide
lurned, largely as a resull oi a
speech dehvered by the lale
Ward E Durry, lhen edllor of lhe
HarUord TImes, delivered al the
IIrsl convention of commissions
al lhe Harvard Business School
Durry counseled com·
mIssioners II) 10 take II easy -
bul nul 100 easy _ ConflIcts oi
Inleresl WIll arose, and they musl
be [aced squarely, but don'l push
1"0 hard and remember thaI
cumpromlse will be needed. (2)
Conducl an Immediate and
l'umplele survey oi the natural
resources of your IOWn, perhaps
using a simple question and
answer sheel mailed to all
CIUzens (3) Gel the facts - the
Icx:al facts 14) Pay no attention
10 pollilcal parties, for
cooperallon and asstslance will
cume [rom bolh sides Ii the
renee I~) PubliCIze results and
flndIOgs as WIdely a5 possible
With Ihls ralher flexible
gUideline before Ihem, Ihe
cunsefva tlon commiSSions
meshed 1010 gear Soon they were
lighting 10 save local marshes,
urging !lIKJ!! plalO zomng. seekIng
II) san' open spaces, buymg
\4 oodland!o. , and Indulging In such
uilinanan pruJects as sellln~ up
... w,mmln~ holes for the local
kld!\ and fmdmg places wherE'
Idrnaltt"!'! could have plmd
lin the numher fI( 11\'(' births ~
1M 71"r 1!l6lI and 18 8ln[anl dealh.
per 1,000 live bll'lhs ["r Ihe [il'si to
mllnlh. ,,[ 1969 Ihe Slale
lJeparlmeno ,,[ Health IIndlllg.
Indicate
Marriagl'~ mcrea5ed In 21 0.17
Inr I':*bY compared WIth 20 492 In
I~ 'Ir d 2 , percent rn('rease fur
Irw HI rnllnlh perlltd
I)lvon t'!'! have Increased
... hdrpl~ In rt't t'nl ",pan. The 1,H06
Ul ..... n.t .... 10 Ih"III" 10 montM u(
19f,H W('f(' ..t 1.l pt'f( ('nl rIse (rum
11Jf;7 whtll' rtlt' 1%1:1 In munlh tfllul
of 4.17") I" 1U pt."nent mort!' lhan
la'4l yt"ur Ih(' ~I.olt" LJ('pdrlml'nl
II' Ih'Cjllh rt'porL,
New Hampshire, and elghl ID
Maine
For a copy of "Conservatioo
CommISSIons ID Massachusetts"
..,nd $3 [or a prepaid copy 10 The
C"nservalloo Services Center,
I.lIIl"~n, Mass olm_ The book III
pubhshed by The Conservation
t', ... ndallun ID Washing lon, DC
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3,200 Here Will Receive
Suclll1 Set:urilv benefi~laries
need nol apply for the 15 per cent
benefit Inc:reaae juat Biped blto
law by President Nlxoo. "Every
one Ii the 28,600 men. women and
children on IhII area now 011 the
benefll rolls will receive the
mcresse aUlomatically," Otis B,
Harnson, Jr,. Social Set:urlty
dislncl manager saId today,
Included In IhII totaJ are 3,200
Soulhinglon beneficiaries,
"The [lrsl regular check In the
new amllunl." Mr_ Harrison said.
"wlll arrive Aprjl3, the uSual day
r ... delivery' rl benefll chec:ks
coVering paYJllents (~ the month
rl March." A separate check In
the amounl rl the" benefit in·
crease for the months rl January
and February will reach
benefIciaries laler in April.
probably during lhe week of Apnl
211
Heflguring the benefll amounts
of the 25 million men, women and
children now on lhe benefil rolls
naullnwlde 18 a lremendous lask,
Increased Social Security
Mr, Harrison pointed oul, and it
I mUllI be done without dlsrupllng
Ihe regular benefil payl1\ent
~'Ycle. -
Aboul one.llUl Ii every eIght
pellple In Ihis area Is now
receIving a Social Security check
each monlh. Mr, Harrison said,
As of lhe end of December. these
munlhly payments lOla led $2.2
mIllion and lhe monthly lola I will
gu up by $345,000 10 more than
$2,5 million as lhe 15 per cenl
hP"",,.· , '''rrease becomes ef·
new giant 747 sets new records.
Av,aloon hIstory was made lasl December 2 when Ihe world's largest
commerCial aarliner, Boeing's 747, powered by four Pralt & Whllney
Aarcraft JT9D engines, touche9 down at John F Kennedy Aarport four
hours and f,ve monutes after leaVing Sealtle, Washlnglon, wllh 19t
passengers aboard_
The plane, larsl 01 several 10 be delavered 10 Pan Amer,can, w,n go
Into Inlernatlonal commerCial service shortly after Ihe farst 01 the year
and Will carry 374 economy and [arsl·class pasaengers On some aorlanes,
modllied for all-economy service, II Will carry over 400
The P&WA engines, each attaining 43,500 pounds 01 thrusl, are Ihe
lergesl and most powerful ever developed for jet aorCl'afl And olher
engones now under development here Will power other planes laler In
Ihe decade
ThaI's why so many lobs are avaalable now at the Aorcrafl And we
need people, Iraoned people, to help produce Ihese engInes II you-re
,"experienced, we'll tra," you Come III and leI us explain how your
,nleresl could mean a better lulure lor you, 100
rective,
The average q!tlrem~nt benefit
!i $100 a monlll will rI,se I!! $U6
per mllnlll ... e COllpl~ Ii!! _br older
receiving the average eouple's
benefit 01 -$170, wID have their
benerll increased to $196; the
average benefil for a f8lJ)Uy
made up Ii a disabled worker.
WIfe and one or more eb11dren
WIll go up from $237 to $273; and
average payments for a widow
and IWO or more cfllldren will rise
[rom $245 10 $292.
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SOUTHINGTON - West Queen Street
I( more' convenient, VISit
North Haven - 415 Washington Avenue
Middletown - AIrcraft Road
East Hartlord - Willow Street
Alt are open Monday Ihrough Friday 8 a m 104 45 p,m_
TueSday evenangs untIl 8 p m
Salurday 8 a m 10 12 Noon
An Equal OppOr!unlty Employer ..
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