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THE WAY WE WERE FOR JUNE 13, 1997

JUNE 16, 1972

Opponents of the treatment center for alcoholics proposed for construction on

Alberts Hill Road are taking the Planning and Zoning Commission to court for

its conditional approval of the center. The proposal names as plaintiffs

Charles H. McLaughlin, Andra McLaughlin, Julia B. Wasserman, Harriet G.

Schultz, John E. Graham, Raymond Keane and Anne Keane. P&Z must answer in the

Court of Common Pleas in Bridgeport on July 11. William Johnson asked for a

zoning change to permit the facility on 11 acres of land that he owns on

Alberts Hill Road. The plaintiffs charge that the decision was not made by a

majority of the commission.

First Selectman Frank DeLucia this week said he has obtained the services of a

landfill consultant, William McNulty, to address charges that the new sanitary

landfill is not being operated efficiently. Mr McNulty is nationally

recognized as an authority on the planning, design, managment and operaion of

sanitary landfill sites. An advocate of south environmental and waste disposal

reforms, he has agreed to serve the town for $1 a year.

At the annual awards ceremony in the high school auditorium on June 12, senior

Boyd Saxton shaved off the lush beard of Assistant Principal Earl Smith

offered to shave off his lush beard to raise money for the scholarship fund.

Mr Smith had offered to do it for $100 in March at a Rotary Club meeting. When

the seniors heard about the offer, they set aside 10 cents of each magazine

subscription sold to raise the money. They were a bit short, however, so Ruth

Lawrence, 1972 class president, asked the rotarians to chip in the difference.

The grand total of $108.75 was rounded off at the even $109 when Mr Smith

donated the extra quarter. The electric razor wasn't up to the task, however,

so the students and staff resorted to diagonal wire cutters from the audio

visual room.

The Newtown League of Women Voters held "Politics in the Park" at Dickinson

Park on June 10. Approximately 100 people attended including First Selectman

Frank DeLucia and his Democratic opponent James Costello. Mr Costello said if

he is elected first selectman, he will establish a central purchasing

department, hire a full-time town counsel, hire a fiscal officer and work for

better security at Fairfield Hills Hospital. He also said he would take care

of what he thought were inefficiences and monetary wastes at the town's new

landfill. Mr DeLucia pointed out the offer of free services from a landfill

consultant, priorities set by the Community Development Action Plan, budget

cuts which resulted in a lower tax rate this year and progress on solving the

problems involved with the construction of I-84.

For Father's Day: The Hawley Manor Inn is back with its famous "inflation

fighting extravaganzas." On Saturday night there is a champagne and lobster

feast for $6.95, Fridays try the deep sea grill for $3.95 or Sundays the

all-you-can- eat family-style chicken dinner for $3.95. The Yankee Drover at

the flagpole offers three fresh lobster meat entrees with salad, baked potato,

hot breads and beverage for $4.50.

JUNE 13, 1947

Bound for further study or to take their places in life, 29 seniors of Hawley

High School graduated on Thursday evening in ceremonies in the Edmond Town

Hall theater. They included: Gloria Rasmussen, Eleanor Mayer, Gordon Williams,

Lee Glover, Wilma Rahikka, Brendon Jones, Joan Whittle, Lois Gies, Shirley

Beardsley, Randall Watkins, Albert Krawiecki, Harold Bresson, Jeanette Lewis,

Nancy Baxter, Lois Ferris, Orville Giddins, Helen Hrivnak, Caroline Hanf, Jean

Hazard, Shirley Shannon, Bernice Carty, Mary Lou Bradley, Charles Swan,

Curtiss Chappius, John Cochran, Fritz Heinmeyer, Richard Lane, Robert Quinn,

and Frank McGregor.

In attempting to pass two northbound cars on Route 25 less than 500 feet south

of the Amaral garage at 11:55 Monday night, a young motorist lost control of

his car, swerved to the left side of the road and struck a highway fence and a

tree. All three occupants, who were in the front seat, had to be extricated.

The passenger sitting in the middle, a 20-year-old Milford youth, was killed

instantly. The driver and the other passenger were taken to Danbury Hospital

by Newtown Ambulance. They are in critical condition.

Newtown escaped the brunt of a freak storm which brought lightening and giant

hailstones to the area on Tuesday. Lightening caused two fires in Oxford,

destroying a sheep barn on the property of Tax Collector Cyrus Shelton. In the

Stevenson section of Monroe, hail stones as large as pullet eggs fell and were

collected by many residents. The ice fragments varied in size from one inch to

two and one-half inches across and many weighed an ounce and a quarter each.

No one can remember any hail of the size or shapes of these stones.

State Rep John Holian reported this week at the adjournment of the 1947

session of the General Assembly that more than 2400 bills and resolutions were

passed. Most recently these included bills providing for an increase in

salaries of the personnel of the Town Court of Newtown and for the employment

of an assistant clerk in the court. A state sales tax was enacted and the

corporation business tax was increased by 60 percent to provide the state with

additional revenue. Bills providing for an increase in the cost of most

hunting and fishing licenses by $1, for a one-cent increase in the gasoline

tax and to impose the cigarette tax on purchases of more than three packs from

outside the state also were passed. It was estimated by the state tax

commissioner that the state is losing between $200,000 and $300,000 a year

because Connecticut residents are pouring money into New Jersey firms to

purchase tax-free cigarettes.

When Mario DiCecco and the Newtown Orchestral Society open the summer concert

season Thursday evening in the Edmond Town Hall theatre, it will be with two

well loved works: Beethoven's Sixth Symphony in F Major and Tchaikowsky's

Violin Concerto in D Major. Tickets, puchased at the box office, are $1.80.

Scribers can pay $6 for two $1 tickets for each of the three concerts;

sponsors pay $15 for ten $1.50 tickets to be used at any of the concerts.