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Back to business Skowhegan's business future Page 7 rom commune to capitalism: Page 29 (Central (207) 873 3341 WatervilleWinslow Maine Vol 85 No 229 riday November 25 1988 EBBS Soviet unrest brings new riot By The Associated Press By The Associated Press More on MAINE Page 6 By ROGER PETTERSON Associated Press 1 LaVERDIERE All they want to do is dance began By DONNA BRYSON Associated Press 35 Cents Sentinel Staff and Guy Gannett Service the Knights of Columbus offered a free Thanksgiving meal for the hungry ollowing the meal program A glance at the unrest Reginald LaVerdiere dies headed drug store chain CHINA Reginald Evariste LaVerdiere who built LaVer Super Drug Stores into one of New fastest growing drug store chains died Thursday afternoon at his China Lake home He was 65 The chain is one of the top 50 such chains in the country When LaVerdiere was pro moted to executive vice presi dent and general manager in 1960 the chain consisted of four stores When he turned the com reins over to his sons ear ly in 1986 there were 60 drug stores Reginald LaVerdiere was born eb 15 1923 in Waterville I the eldest son of Evariste and Lillian (Cyr) five children and at 15 started work ing part time in the business his father had founded in 1922 LaVerdiere graduated from Waterville High School and He bron Academy He attended Massachusetts College of Phar macy but left to join the United States Navy during World War II He was later recalled to ac five duty in the Korean Conflict In 1973 the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy awarded him an honorary degree the first time anywhere in the nation such an honor had been bestowed on a chain drug store president and in 1982 the Reginald LaVer diere Scholarship und was en dowed at the pharmaceutical college in his honor Iq 1960 LaVerdiere con vinced of the potential of an ex panding chain of drug stores received the necessary financ ing and growing By 1967 the pharma cies had filled two million pre scriptions only eight years after the first million Now LaVer Super Drug Stores dis pense more than two million prescriptions each year LaVerdiere was elected presi dent of the' company in 1970 when there were 15 stores in the chain While the chain expanded competitive stores in many small towns were acquired by and Reg LaVer diere began accumulating a col lection of drug store artifacts In 1976 he donated his collection considered to be one of the larg est private collections of antique' drug store fixtures equipment and artifacts in America to Wa Redington Museum It More on LaVERDIERE Page In Nakhichevan border troops evacuated at least 500 Armenian women and children to Armenia using trucks and anything else they could said Kufaryan senior editor of official Armenpress news agency men stayed be hind to defend their Kufaryan speaking by tele phone from the Armenian capital of Yerevan said more than 1700 Armenians who fled from Azerbai jan in recent days had registered as refugees in his republic with an official commission created to help them Nakhichevan is the capital of a More on SOVIETS Page 6 As most Mainers spent a quiet Thanksgiving at home with their families hundreds of places were set at the holiday dinner ta ble Thursday for those who had no place else to go In Portland the Holiday Inn West offered free turkey dinners to any takers The Salvation Army in Portland meanwhile was ready to serve 650 turkey dinners said Mrs Major Betty Anderson The relief organiza tion which was delivering many of the meals received volunteer help from at least two local churches The Maine State Prison in Thomaston which served its tra ditional turkey dinner with trim mings granted holiday furloughs to 19 inmates much smaller than the number of those who opt for Christmas furloughs said Major Scott Jones In the compound inmates marked the holiday with a bingo games with cash prizes from their benefit fund Elsewhere in the state many hunters spent the holiday in the woods to take a final crack at shooting a deer this season while other Mainers headed for the ski slopes to brush up for the weeks ahead Sunday River in Bethel en ticed early season skiers to the slopes Thursday with free turkey dinners to everyone who bought lift passes said spokeswoman Wende Gray About 150 people Index dance planned Dec 10 Tm looking forward to it said Miss ox who is in charge of choosing a dance theme music and colors for the paper streamers A group of 21 Purdy students including Miss ox and their par ents filed suit to challenge the dance ban in 1986 with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union In the past students had only small dances at the commu nity center The case drew nationwide at tention in part because of its simi larities to the plot of the movie aooud a fictional town where dancing was banned US District Judge Russell Clark ruled in August that the ban PURDY Mo Purdy High School students are eagerly plan ning the first school dance ever in this century old town while the strains of legal maneuvers play in the background But dates from other schools be allowed in the door and a radio station that poked fun at the school board welcome either not even if it provides free mu sic The ban on school dances in this small town in the Ozarks was struck down by a judge last sum mer and student president Nancy ox said classmates are talking in the halls and whispering at their Sentinel photo by Ron Maxwell This family braved biting winds and took a turkey fast break while attempting to work off a Thanksgiving Day meal Thurs day afternoon The game of hoops was played on a basketball court adjacent to the Colby College fieldhouse Nation offers a hand to homeless hungry Some background on the ethnic unrest between Armenia and Azerbaijan: CAUSE A territorial dis pute over Nagorno Karabakh an area about the size of Dela ware that was assigned to Azer baijan in 1923 The population in the 1979 Soviet census was 162000 of whom 76 percent were ethnic Armenians' and 23 percent ethnic Azerbai jams Nagorno Karabakh is surrounded by Azerbaijani ter ritory and has no border with the neighboring republic of Ar menia It is officially known as the Nagorno Karabakh Autono mous Region of Azerbaijan TACTICS Beginning in ebruary 1988 Armenians held general strikes and mass dem onstrations demanding that the territory be annexed to Arme nia The Nagorno Karabakh legislature requested the trans fer and legislature agreed but the Azerbaijani leadership refused consent EECTS The strikes cost millions of rubles in lost production Hie dispute led to a riot eb 28 in the Azerbaijani city of Sumgait that killed 32 people including 26 Armeni ans and to the current vio lence More on UNREST Page 6 the KOC offered some of their Thanksgiving leftovers to help More on LOCAL Page 6 desks about the homecoming in the rural down of 900 unconstitu tionally promoted the values of residents who opposed dancing for religious reasons The school board has appealed but the 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals in St Louis has allowed plans for a dance to proceed pen ding its review The court has scheduled arguments in the case at the end of the year School Superintendent Sheldon Buxton and Principal Ron Rich ardson devised dance guidelines admittedly more restrictive than those at other schools know of any other schools that are having a dance that is this Buxton More on DANCE Page 6 AP photo Volunteers from the Community for Creative Non Violence pre pare to serve Thanksgiving dinners to homeless men women and children from Washington on the grounds of the Capitol Thursday Calendar 27 Classified 30 40 Comics 26 27 Crossword 26 Editorials 1617 Heloise 26 Landers 26 Living 29 Movies 12 13 Obituaries 5 Sports 21 24 TV listings 13 WEATHER REPORT: Sunny ri day and Saturday Page LOTTERY: Thursday's winners: 4 4 and 7 4 0 VERSES: There shall no evil befall thee neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling or he shall give his angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways Psalms 1:111 (King James Version) In Maine day spent with family Tornado victims and thou sands of the disadvantaged got free Thanksgiving meals Thurs day while millions of other Americans watched parades and football games and sat down at family dinner tables Pennsylvania State Police at tached red ribbons to door han dles of all marked patrol cars and New Hampshire State Police drove with their lights on to re mind motorists of toe dangers of I drinking and driving Many roads in toe Northwest were wet i with rain or slick with new snow I Sierra Nevada range had up to 4 feet of snow from a storm the day before has to be the best Thanks giving skiing ever said receptionist Beverly Gar rett at Squaw Valley USA Arould Los Angeles 55 degree water deter surfers Millions of people watched on television and an estimated 22 million lined sidewalks as 11 huge helium balloons depicting cartoon characters highlighted Giving thanks Sharing cold temps and silence By ANTHONY CRISTAN ew holidays save Thanks giving and Christmas deliver lush quiet Streets are still and business es sit tightly secured their lights i dimmed if on at all Christmas now legitimately looms though almost a month ago yuletide merchandise al ready shared display space with Halloween masks in area stores Thanksgiving is one of the five or six time with loved ones holidays Bitter outside temperatures the National Weather Service in Portland reported Thursday that their thermometer reached ahem the 40s add further warmth to beaucoup food and easy chair football And as certain as the likeli hood of leftover yams those gridiron battles again were col ored with the silver and blue of the Dallas Cowboys and Detroit Lions The day begs to be celebrato ry In Waterville more than 200 people gathered at Notre Dame free meal program for all toe traditional Thanksgiving fixings Some 25 volunteers not lim ited to parishioners served the noonday dinner after which many sat and ato with their guests The mood was festive The customers chatting never rose to more than a low rumble The public display of sharing too extended to Augusta where I MOSCOW More deaths were I reported Thursday in a renewed I outbreak of ethnic rioting in Azer baijan despite toe deployment of Soviet troops and tanks to put down violence in three cities offi cials said Hundreds of ethnic Armenians were said to be fleeing toe republic of Azerbaijan for their adjacent homeland Troops reportedly used helicopters and trucks to evacuate women and children from one trou bled area after toe worst outbreak of violence since the first days of ethnic disturbances in the Soviet south in ebruary Musa Mamedov chief of toe in formation denartment of toe Azer baijani oreign Ministry said inursaay mgnt mat reports from the city of Kirovabad were sketchy but that several people had been killed in toe latest outburst were more outbreaks of Mamedov said speak ing by telephone from the Azerbai jani capital of Baku are victims Tass in a report read on toe nightly news program blamed the deteriorating situation on nationalistic el and acknowledged there was fighting between Armenians and Azerbaijani Meanwhile in the neighboring republic of Georgia several thou sand demonstrators were reported to have gathered in toe capital of Tbilisi to protest proposed amend ments to the Soviet Constitution that have prompted complaints the nremnn is trying to monopolize power and weaken the legislatures of toe 15 constituent republics Also members of a grassroots Lithuanian political organization arrived in Moscow to deliver a pe tition to toe Supreme Soviet or parliament demanding sovereign ty for their republic They claimed the petition bore toe signatures of 18 million citizens of toe once in dependent Baltic republic In Kirovaba on Tuesday mobs killed three soldiers and 126 peo ple were injured according to Azerbaijani and Soviet officials Soviet oreign Ministry spokes man Gennady I Gerasimov told reporters in Moscow that tanks and troops had been sent to Kiro vabad Baku and a third Azerbai jani city Nakhivechan to restore order A 10 pm to 5 am curfew had been imposed he said 62nd annual parade in New York City think parents come for themselves and the kids are just an excuse because they want to see it said Vivien Maisey of Rockland County NY Some 900000 people turned out for the annual parade in De troit which featured Los Angeles Lakers star Earvin Johnson a Michigan native jazz musician Lionel Hampton and civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks Thousands of Texans lined Houston streets for toe 39th an nual Thanksgiving Day Parade with floats depicting Christmas songs The oldest Thanks giving Day parade established 1919 drew an estimated 100 000 people to Philadelphia with giant balloons marching bands floats and 5500 participants: year it gets more spectac said Donna Grant who said has been going to toe parade President Reagan and his wife Nancy gathered with rela tives and friends for a quiet More on NATIONAL Page 6 By JOHN THOR 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