12 THE HARTFORD COURANT: Saturday. August I. 1970 Some Violence Mars Curfew Festival City Dishes Out Body Food By STEPHEN J. STARGER MIDDLEFIELD Any society, budding or decadent, communal or compartmentalized Awn NfTr35 Continued from Page 1 leaders were given armbands and green passes allowing them to be on the streets during the curfew. The group had agreed to urge people to obey the cuf-rew, to "cool it." They included "Butch" the Rev.
Richard Battles and school board member Marcia Clintin. City officials including the mayor, the city manager and several councilmen reported to the police command post at Police Headquarters on Morgan Street. Four four-man state police sniper teams, each armed with automatic rifles with telescopic sights, were detailed to patrol the area state police station wagons. They remained out of the North End until about 9:30 p.m., then took up patrol. A city police sniper team was put on the roof of a four-story building at Main and Kennedy Streets.
The hit-and-run tactics started early and continued into the night. They brought tear gas from police earlier than any of the other three days of violence. By 7:50 p.m. bottle and rock throwing reached such intensity that police blocked off Main Street at the Tunnel and at Ter ry Square. Tear gas was fired at about 8 p.m.
at Mam and Seyms streets after a group started a small fire in the mid dle of the street. At 8:05 p.m. police reported f.ff- lu Ml iw: i ss4f tss? if HitByBirdshot A man, hit by shotgun birdshot fired by police on Hartford's North Main Street, is helped into an ambulance. Police used bird- shot from time to time Friday night in Hart-' ford's fourth night of disorders (Courant Photo by Arman G. Hatsian).
Fifty -seven arrests were made Wednesday night. Much of the violence has been caused by youngsters, some as young as 10. Thursday Mayor Uccello and several small fires up and down.capfJ retails were unavailable state of emergency immediaterjt: after the meeting the decision was Freedman's. I Some city officials and tnan 20 black and Puerto Rican.5 leaders met in another closed-. Several community agreed to assist police in getting" people off the street.
Some com-" Police Chief Thomas J. Vaugh- Ooor session at the Board of Ed-T an urged parents to keep their1, "cation Building on High Street'" children and themselves off the earlier Friday afternoon, streets in the trouble area. (Leaders Aid Polio Polluted Puddle Friday called it polluted and ordered it closed to bathing (Courant Photo by Jerry The young people at the "Festival of Life" call it "Powder Puddle" but Middle-field's health director, Dr. Joseph Fiducia, plained that they were harassed by police while on the i to cool things dowti" Thursday night. This is the fourth summer of s' serious disorders in the Hartford; and always on previous sions community leaders were.
Up Powder Ridge the streets; at police head1-'" Crash Landing 'asy Trip Turns Into Continued from Page 1 cup shaken in time-honored beggary. Down the steep hill, dope- 10:22. Gas was also fired at Al bany Avenue and Green Street. There was a report of someone shot and wounded at Albany AvpmiB anH Rplrlpn Stropt nt nm An flmhianpfl was oht Less Trouble There was far less trouble at the South Green Friday than earlier in, the week. There were occasional reports of rock throwing early in the evening and several between 10:30 p.m.
and 1 a.m. Colt'e Market, 60 Norwich was looted. A group of teen-agers was chased away by police when they tried to set a car afire at Park and Norwich streets. At midnight fires were reported at the Connecticut Speedometer Co. and the Wholesale Fire and Battery both on Walnut Street.
A firebomb was thrown at an apartment house, at 15 Main St. Rocks and bottles were thrown at policemen who came to the scene. Firebombs were thrown at the Lyric Theater at 593 Park St. at 12:20 a.m. Police put out the fires.
A firebomb was thrown at Main and Jefferson streets at 12:31 a.m Windows were smashed at Grinold's Auto Parts, 854 Hudson St. Fewer Incidents Reports of incidents were fewer as the night went on. There were reports of snipers on East Street and on Russell Street shortly after 11 p.m. By 11:30 p.m., a light rain be gan and the city seemed very quarters and at City Hall gen-" erally cooperating with cials to curb the disorders. There have been indications, that some of the community'' leaders will hot get involved the present disorders.
Many of them ascribed theirH' must feed its citizens and "Powder Hill Nation" is no exception. "Powder Hill Nation" is officially christened now, sprawling over the slopes of. Powder Ridge Ski Area, where its population of about 30,000 young music fans have gathered for a rock festival. The festival is legally aborted, but the people remain and they must eat. Taking the brunt of this task is a "free kitchen" set up on the crest of a slope, about a 10 minute walk from the nerve center and stage built for the many bands once scheduled to play.
The serving area of the kitchen sits under a long green and white striped circus tent covering, and the served may sit on benches bordering the kitchen or right on tne grouna. ine cooking area lies directly be hind the serving bne set up. Dale, a young, earnest blonde who wears a tag designating her as "cook, lunch, supper, midnight," keeps the long hun gry lines moving along with announcements, cajolings and warnings. "The water in the white con- tainers is for drinking. Don't foul it up.
Please don't crowd the serving area. We have a lot of people to feed. If you can help, we need you." Dale says the kitchen is a booming success now, after fitful starts by early Powder Ridge arrivals, and it will "feed them as long as they keep coming. Midnight snacks too." The fare served is basic and hopefully nourishing. Rice, tomatoes cucumbers, lettuce, oranges, watermelon and rolls are processed into edible meals.
Workers unload food deliveries, cut up vegetables, police the area for litter and spoon out rice and salad. And a man known as "Capp," designated head cook, heaps rice into steaming pots of water and generally supervises the preparation of food. Food is supplied by donation of goods or money, and business has definitely been getting better, says Dale. Only a few days earlier a young man asking for kitchen donations collected only $4. Now they have food to give away to people who want to cook at their own campsites.
The one unnerving sight at the kitchen is watching paper plates being washed for re-use. They seem to hold up through a soggy three or four washings. Adjacent to the kitchen is a miniature outdoor theater, serving another kind of hunger. For the past few days, revolutionary films made by the radical underground film-making group, Newsreel, have been shown on a makeshift screen by members of the New Haven Liberation School. The films incorporate hews footage of urban riots, interviews with radical leaders, speeches and panel discussions, edited with a strident sound track that sends shivers of fear or delight up one's back, depending on point of view.
The New Haven group has shown the films in many Con- Inecticut communities, a said. Their nearness to the free kitchen gives them a continuous audience. Tours North End After a walking tour of Hart ford North End Friday eve ning, State Sen. Jay Jackson spoke of "the need to regain re spect for our institutions. Jackson, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the First District Congressional seat said, "The victims are the people of the North End them selves, the residents who realize even more than the rest of us the need of calm and order." smoke curls about the smell of their pharmaceutical wares and sweating tans and the crowd sharing samples of nearly grows thick.
Plywood shops offer going by. Action Requested Against Promoters Miss Uccello said fully-armed police were under strict orders to maintain order and protect lives and property. Vaughan emphasized that innocent bystanders would risk injury by remaining on the streets. Both of tr.em said many shop- owners wire armed and ready to protect heir property. One of them was City Council men rancis DeLucco, fired a shot at youths -who smashed the window at his res-taurant on Walnut Street Wednesday night.
DeLucco, in a letter to City Manager Freedman, said: "The police must be given an open hand. The order that all looters will be shot must be given This is the only language these madmen understand. There were reports that other merchants fired at would-be looters Thursday night Given Full Power When the state of emergency was declared Friday, City Manager Freedman took complete control of city forces and was 'empowered to make whatever policy decisions are made to quell the disorders. His decision to impose a curfew on the North End was opposed by some city councilmen who said enforcement of the or- iine sireet woulcl be sufficient. Councilman Allvn Martin Friday afternoon he opposed the! v- w'u paiudi cunew ana aaaed mat it win muie tempers in tne iwtn jEnd.
Several councilmen and Mayor Uccello discussed the partial curfew and other tactics in a closed meeting in the mayor's Office Friday afternoon. But when the mayor declared the whojon i quiet. There was little traffic on1131106 to keeP youngsters off Main Street. Gas was used on Main and Russell streets and on IBelden Street, At 8:30 p.m. shortly before darK, tne tirst nreDomoing was reported.
A flaming glass bottle landed at the feet of a policeman on Bellevue Street. He ran behind a building and found a young man with a three-gallon can of gasoline. The youth, a witness said, tried to run. The policeman fired his shotgun, hitting the youth in the head and neck with a load of birdshot. The injured youth was hospitalized.
At 8:45 p.m., gas was fired at Main and Seyms streets, dispersing a rock-throwing group. A fire was reported at Acme Auto Supply, 1645 Main St. Just before the 9 p.m. curfew time Pjjce called for a sound truck and drove it along Main Street, informing people in Eng lish and Spanish, "It is now 9 o'clock. Go home.
All people on the streets after 9 o'clock will be arrested." The Spanish version also warned that "if police hear bottles breaking, they will shoot tear gas and bullets." Between 9 and 9:30 p.m., brushes with police continued and gas was used in response. A fire was reported at the B.J. Standard Plumbing and Heating Co. A police cruiser was fired on at 10 p.m. on West Avon Street.
Other gunshots were reported at Albany Avenue and Green Street. A sniper was reported firing at Main and Fairmount streets. Police were returning some of the gunshots. At about 9:55 p.m. police fired several rounds of birdshot into Belden Street and also lobbed two tear gis canisters down the block.
Residents cursed them in Spanish. Garage Gassed When the sniper at Main and Fairmount streets was reported, the city anti -sniper squad rushed to the area. Tear gas was fired into a garage where the sniper was believed hiding. No one was inside. At 10 p.m., Chief Vaughan told reporters at the police station, "I've just come back from inspecting the city.
It looks good. There are a few isolated incidents but everything looks quiet. The curfew seems to be holding." There was a break at Krane Drug, 234 Capen at about 10:30 p.m. and one at Colt Market, 63 Norwich at about 11 p.m. A fire damaged Dunkin' Don-uts, 614 Albany Ave.
There was also a fire at Fairmount and Center streets. Gunfire was heard there and tear gas was used at about! 0ne of the youths on the car tabbed an American flag and lt on fire- Sparks flew from the flag and Between two garish Mister goftee trucks a troupe of mas- quers moUnts plywood stage atop two oil drums and entertains a fluid audience of pas-sersby with ltfw comedy and morality skits. The king of Brooklyn is pro claimed to a crowd for all the world just stepped off Second Avenue. i lie in mid road, stepped over mindlessly by wanderers. Lone figures squat in the shadows, some silent, calling for dope.
You want some acid?" a young blond boy is asked. "Yeahhh," he hisses with a grin missing several teeth. "Any thing that will keep me where I am." Beneath the massive stage outside the encircling walls of the mosque, a half dozen stoned drummers beat echoing thumps up the slopes. Wiry dancers billow in response. On the heights, like the an- cient forum, political words fly! and hushed philosophical con fessions are spoken.
On the crest against a soiled sheet flicker images of the history of the new Byzantium; Chicago, Washington, Sharpeville, Berkeley, Birmingham, Woodstock. The wandering continues through the darkness and into the light. The gait becomes stumbling, the pace slows. Faces harden and then dissolve into blankness. Bodies lie in the roadside, in the grass, on pallets and be neath awnings, hiding from the sharp focus of day.
Gone are the fleeting visions, the hidden sounds reality encroaches. Nomads wander through the city and outside, into town, in search of food. Swimmers drown their sweat in the fecal swamp that used to be a pond. In the crash shop, beneath a wide striped awning, bodies shake and fall asleep before they manage to get off again. "Zonnkkk! Get vour zonnkkk; here!" shouts the dealer.
Festival By SUE McNEILL MIDDLEFIELD More than 13.000 youths at the Powder JJJS first nieht without electric mu 'sic Thursday by entertaining, tu i iormanLes. smoking pipes and cigarette pa- pers, shirts and roach clips. Vendors wander, now with the flow and now against, pushing Ind. They were charged with possession of marijuana, possession of dangerous Crugs and possession of fireworks. Police said the fireworks were Chinese crackers.
About 6:45 p.m. three more persons were arrested near a roadblock at Powder Hill Road and Rt. 147. They were: Bruce M. Hutchinson, 23, of Cheshire, Michelle R.
Ursomao, of Boca Fa and Ma Britta Hollowell, 21, of Ridge- wood Th were cha jwith sion of narcotics ith itt ith fo sdl and possession of controlled drugs. Police said they found cocaine, three pounds of marijuana and capsules. About 30 youths were sent Friday to an emergency hospital set up by Middlesex Memori- jal Hospital physicians in Mid- dlefield Memorial School. Althnnufi manv whn were treated were suffering from bad jra tHn5 iSnn tt cuts several cases of strep tnroat were blamed on "Powder Puddle" the Powder Ridge swimming pool. Middlefield health director Jo seph Fiducia, visited the festi- vai area during the day to 0tf-limits signs around the pond he declared polluted by fecal matter.
Dr. Fiducia said laboratory tests made by the State Health Department showed the pond was unfit for drinking or swimming. Dr. Fiducia said the pollution was "simply bacteria from fe- cal material and coliforms, a sewage type of contamination." The pollution bad been expected, Fiducia said, since "it's only a matter of time" before a large number of swimmers in a small pond will pollute it. "Small amounts of fecal material from a large amount of peo- pie can contaminate it," he add- ed.
appeared Dr. Fiducia also ana said the drinking water would be checked. He said the drinking water did not appear ani4 cn! 10 oe contaminated. Collection of earbase cleaning of the portable toilets were problems the Zemel broth ers hoped to solve with the help North Main Street Occasions! incidents of rock throwing and sniper fire were reported after midnight. Early today Mayor Uccello announced the curfew will be imposed again tonight at 9 on everyone under the age of 16.
The total curfew in the North End will involve an area bound ed by Vine Street on the west, Tower Avenue on the north and the railroad tracks on the south and east. This changes the cur few area to eliminate the Blue Hills section. State police will be used again tonight, the mayor said. Began Tuesday The disorders began Tuesday night when roving bands of youngsters smashed store win dows, looted, and threw rocks and bottles at police cruisers and firemen. Wednesday violence erupted again in the North End and also in the South Green and Charter Oak Terrace areas.
Policemen were reportedly shot at on five occasions that night and three persons were hit with buckshot when police fired shotguns at looters at Franco's Market at 2383 Main St. One was a suspected looter, the other two were bystanders. None was seriously injured. Merchants Stricken -iM By Nights of Violence By JOEL LANG D. Ford, looters axed- The arson, looting, and van-'their way into the store through dalism of the past three waU vvhil? he sat outside' in AT his car watching the front ddbrS' Friday has put several North, He gaid hig End businessmen "up against looted in last summer's disturb- the wall." ances.
"Right now I'm undecit Established business connected about what to do," he said, tions and financial burdens hold During his 10 years at Main and the businessmen where they; Kennedy streets, Ford said 'his' inaction to the trial of former Policeman Anthony Lombardi-for the fatal shooting of 19-year-old Abraham Rodriguez hT" an Albany Avenue alley way: April 1. -( Lombardi was charged with manslaughter nfia-. 1 Hi- Ltl County Coroner Irving Aronssoir' found him criminally responsi ble tor Rodriguez' death. was found not guilty Wednessc day- Rodriguez was shot after fled on foot when his car hit ani. other car following a high-speed chase through the city.
Lombardi claimed came at him with a screwdrivers and he shot in uvAiium ui rvaj aurucinitii i i.r" the shooting and dismissed from- the police department June 26 Many Black and Puerto Rican' leaders object to the haste which Lombardi was brought ta. trial and found not guilty. They are also bitter at the support; Lombardi got from the poliefln rank and file and from many citizens. relationship with customers has" always been good. Most businessmen, however, said they have too in their present locations to move.
The owner of three package" stores in the North End said' in spite of thousands of dollars! liquor lost to looters in the past-, three nights, he was not think-, ing of moving. -( Sidney Copley, who has ran' Copley's Men and Women's store on Park Street for' the past 25 years, said Friday; after the windows in his store had been smashed, he would "I have a beautiful store, es- tablished over 25 years. And; I'm financially obligated," Cp- piey said. He said he saw many strang- ers in the crowd of youths that smashed his windows. He also, said the chunks of stone he found inside the store could no have been picked up anywhei near the store." JJ For these reasons Copley said the window breaking was pre-mediated and done by gang's from another neighborhood.
Most businessmen seemed tb be steeling themselves for what ever another hot summer nighi I would bring. Continued from Page 1 Middleton Arts, Kanley's case was also deferred to Monday. Hanley, while awaiting release on his own recognizance along with the Zemels, maintained sound equipment was needed to keep the thousands of youths calm and informed. Friday night the festival had a sound system, but without Hanley professional aid or the sanction of the Zemels. The amplifiers were set up on the slopes the midst of sleep mg, stoned and often bored youths who came to lite wnent the first electric rock note blared out from make-shift stages.
Very Tight Rope' The original stage, an 80-foot-long structure, still bristling with unused microphones Hanley had not removed, remained empty while rock groups none of them hired by Middle- ton Arts or Zemel performed, Use of the original stage would be in violation of Judge Palmer's injunction It was, as Louis Zemel said, like "walking a very tight rope'' between what is being allowed by the courts and what is not. 'Zemel, speaking after the im- prompiu Danas uegan men- mu sic, stressed it was not Demg amplified by electrical power or equipment supplied by Powder Ridge. He said he would not ask the group to stop playing, and argued that since the group was supplying its own power from small generators, there was no violation of the law. He added that State's Atty. Vincent J.
Scamporino would allow use of the Powder Ridge public address system for announcements to the crowd. Hanley's argument that providing music and information would keep the people cool appeared to be correct as darkness set in Friday and the dancing began. However, the patience of state police manning road blocks abound Middlefield appeared to be growing thin as youths continued to arrive on foot, flooding past check points. The first arrest connected with drug use at the festival came Friday, but all were made about a half a mile from the site. Three were arrested about 5:30 p.m.
They were: Christopher A. Maguson, 22 and Joseph A. Ruthrauff, 19, both of South Bend, Ind. and William H. Coleman 21, of Mishawaka, I Goers Do Their Thing ibroke the chant to yell, and more enthusiastic the crowd on their way to clean the "Johnny on thejouid De impossible to stay in are, but the very, high insurance costs, and frightened customers make it difficult to stay, they say.
After his store was looted Wednesday, the owner of the Harris Pharmacy at the corner of Albany Avenue and Garden Street said he wrould go out of business after 46 years. Thursday the warehouse of a furniture store was destroyed by fire. Friday one of the partners in the store, who did not want to be identified, said it business at the present location near the Tunnel, at Main Street and Albany Avenue. "They burned the place down," he said, "How can we stay?" Another businessman wnose paper supply warehouse was set afire, on two successive nights said he was seriously thinking of moving. Before the second fire he had planned to stay.
"I'm a young man," he said. "I have a going business and I'd like to stay in business. But with all this, I don't know where to turn." He said he would seek professional business advice. The Ford-James Pharmacy at the corner of Main and Kennedy streets was looted Thursday night. According to the owner, more youths joined in clapping igatnerea arouna 10 waicn.
wnen By court order electricity, fimshed his hands were was cut from the festival stagejbl00died as were tne drums which stood like a large empty tha two, three, four, we don't want ii i "0 war, aau snuuicu, cc- rtrtrn hirrhoi nirthar want thl wo'rld and we want tti m- One vouth oounded out Tne movie jokers Were hav- jng a fiim spree, grinding their cameras to eet all the scene in. one point, one of the filmers jumped onto the crowd's make- chift stapo and hean smearins body paint over the face of one girl. Set Flag Afire The chanting crowd grew big- a Spot" portable toilets. Youths riding on the trucks would yell to the milling crowd, "Let him through, man, he's; working for you." Everyone was staying for the promised music festival that was to begin Friday at 7 p.m. but the stagehands could prov ide no information on whether or not the music would come off.
Crowds cheered huge vans that moved in to the festival area all day Friday, thinking they were the promised bands. But when asked about the bands and the music, one stage i hand said, "You know as much as I do, man," and could offer no information. Everyone was just waiting. and chanting. Out in "Powder Ridge Subur bia," where many of the youths are camped on adjoining slopes, rock recordings were played, the power supplied by the campers own anerators.
One camper invited passersby over to hear "the free music." Another asked in futility, "What are we doing here?" Thousands jusjt milled along the boardwalk between the camping areas and the main gate area. Occasionally, sanitation trucks would honk their way from the youths. Youths withown gyrations and improvisa-lAt trucks were carting refuse to.tional music. Several jumped monument at the foot of the ski siopes. But even without the music, the youths turned on with their onto a car and led a chant, Woodstock style Some beat on tin cans, others jumped into the car and honked in time with the chant.
They 1 the far north end of Powder Ridge and dumping it there. A Plainville firm had been contracted to clean out the toilets, Zemel said..
