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9 Arts Hockey Page 8 Page 15 4 TV listings (Central fHaittr 24 Pages 30 Cents Tuesday January 22 1985 WatervilleWinslow Maine Vol 81 No 278 (207) 873 3341 Gay issue Tolerance Day canceled at Madison High for 2nd term More on GAY Page 12 Waterville school shuffle tabled By KENDALL HOLMES Guy Gannett Service More on SCHOOLS Page 12 Makowski said be had been hop ing that his fund raising at tempts might get a boost once Maine people saw the band on television during the parade about $7000 be said took the money out of our general fund which we use for instru ments So we went in the red to come here" viewpoints to be heard as part of schedule question is how do we stop Woodbury said many viewpoints are we going to allow? What about the safety fac call cajdled and pleaded with during the meet ing as about 75 parents and interested city residents went to the podium in a steady stream or the third time in the past two months Ja bar reviewed the rationale for approving the change The plan calls for Grades through 3 to be housed in Brookside Elementary School and Grades 4 and 5 to move to Pleasant Street School Waterville Junior High would become a middle school for Grades 6 7 and 8 effective September 1986 Jabar said the plan would make for better pro grams for elementary students solve a serious overcrowding problem and safety problem at Pleasant Street and offer more students the chance to take advantage of the modern facilities at the West River Road junior high facility Though some parents agreed with the decision and commended it for a stand the vast majority and most vocal of the group WEATHER REPORT: Partly sunny today Mostly sunny Wednes day ull report on Page 2 LOTTERY: Monday's winning number was 686 VERSE: If ye con tinue In my word then are ye my disciples In deed And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free John 8:3132 (King James Version) ire and ice: Oakland firefighters battled flames at this Belgrade Road home early Monday morning Icicles hanging MADISON School Adminis trative District 59 directors last night voted to cancel a planned Tolerance Day at Madison High School riday for reasons of ty order and security" Directors took the action before an audience of about 150 people on the assumption the school district would have to fight the issue in court Both Superintendent of Schools Robert Woodbury and board Chairman Everett Dimock said they were told that a case challeng ing the action canceling the Tolerance Day event had al ready been filed by the Maine Civil Liberties Union They case is due to be heard to day at the Kennebec County Supe rior Court in Augusta beforeJustice Donald Alexander they said The main issue of event which has stirred up a con trovery that has spilled over into surrounding towns is the planned appearance of an admitted lesbi an Dale McCormick president of the Maine Lesbian Gay Political Alliance The action passed unanimously by the eight mem bers attending and after a 20 min ute executive session to confer with attorney Merton Henry of Portland by telephone was greeted with applause from the au dience However MHS social studies teacher David Solmitz organizer of the event branded the action as a sad commentary on our nation and the group At the outset of the meeting in the high school auditorium Di mock told the audience that the only way the board and district would get out of going to court over AP photo PRESIDENT REAGAN Player scores seven goals as Edward Little tops Waterville were solidly against the plan They objected both to what they saw as the pos sible effects on students and the way in which the board approved the plan despite opposition voiced at earlier meetings Some said the change would do away with the "neighborhood school" atmosphere though Jabar said the remaining two elementary schools down from seven a few years ago provided that atmo sphere for only some students Disagreeing Clarence Spaulding of Belmont Street said: is a community of 17000 people have a small town atmosphere have it locally oriented and keep our local schools" Others including Harold "DustyX Woodside "parent taxpayer and Waterville Police Depart ment juvenile questioned the possible The Waterville Board of Education late Mon day night yielded to the sometimes emotional de mands of opponents of its school reshuffling plans ending a 3 hour hearing by tabling its vote until June A 4 3 vote ended the stormy session at Water ville High School at 10:40 pm as the board agreed to appoint a committee to study the paren concerns and to table a decision on the plan un til the committee reports its findings Board Chairman Joseph Jabar Donald Martin Scott Maroon and Robert Pellerin voted to table the vote of Dec 3 Edward Gurski Nelson Ma dore and Kathleen Tebolt voted to form the com mittee but opposed the tabling of the earlier action The board members were threatened with re WASHINGTON President Rea gan pledging a in his second term said Monday that he hopes his presidency will be remem bered as golden years when the American Revolution was reborn when freedom gained new life when America reached for her In an inaugural address driven in doors by Arctic cold Reagan said years ago I spoke to you of a new beginning and we have accom plished Now he said are creating a rising nation once again vibrant ro bust and speech was an an them of the con servative principles that shaped the poli cies of his first term The second four years will be more of the same he said the heart of our he said one idea vindicated by 25 straight months ofeconomic and in i'eentives unleash Ithe drive and en gen Hiis that are the Jtore of The president 1 said that by lower ing taxes and in 1 a i and increasing the number of working Americans he has proved that too much govern ment can only slow economic growth ahd discourage initiative must never again abuse the trust of working men and women by sending their earnings on a futile chase after the spiraling demands of a bloated federal the president said elected us in 1980 to end this prescription for Reagan people say if too cold your lips stick to your mouthpiece Members of the band were enjoy ing a dinner theater show Sunday night when they heard the Inaugural parade would be canceled was shocked when I heard the said Wayde Marshall 15 of Winslow guess I quite believe it I really think it had been The disappointment was echoed by Chris Day 16 of airfield Day is a soloist on the soprano horn He hadj hoped to play a solo Monday when the Maine band marched in front of president Reagan's viewing stand would have loved to have played I love marching in he said wistfully Despite the disappointment members of the band were already looking on the bright side by Monday morning or one thing all the band mem bers had just learned that they would attend a session at a sub urban sports arena later in the day an event highlighted by a visit and speech by the president or another the Maine youths got to spend the day on Sunday sightsee ing really a beautiful place and the people we've met are really said Day If the youths were disappointed so were the leaders going to help said John brother Rick Makowski the program di rector Rick Makowski said the trip to Washington is costing the Maine band about $15000 of which only said do not believe you re elected us in 1984 to reverse must think anew and move with new boldness so every Ameri can who seeks work can find work so the least among us have an equal chance to achieve the greatest things to be heroes who heal our sick feed the hungry protect the peace among nations and leave the world a better the president said Before a select audience of about 1000 gathered beneath the ornately decorated high oval ceiling of the uapitoi Kotunaa Reagan repeated his calls for tax simplification a freeze on federal spending and a constitutional amendment to balance the feder al budget There were no specifics on how to carry out the goals which Rea gan stated with sweeping rhetori cal flourishes? Aides said details of the second Rea gan administra tion would come later in the State of the Union ad dress eb 6 Reagan had been scheduled to deliver his inaugu ral address at the West ront of the Capitol before 140000 invited guests But he re quested that the inaugural ceremony be moved inside and the tradition al parade canceled because of sub zero wind chills and the fear that spectators would develop frostbite In a reference to the weather Reagan referred to his plans to deliv er the speech the steps of this symbol of our democracy we would have been standing More on REAGAN Page 12 Sentinel photo by Dick Maxwell from the ruined eaves testify to the frigid conditions the fire crews hacUo cope with in battling the blaze WASHINGTON As executive director of a Maine based marching band John Makowski is plenty fa miliar with cold weather And as the temperature struggled to inch above zero here on Monday Makowski said he agreed with the decision to cancel the presidential inaugural parade me tell you what would have happened if they hadn't canceled the said Makowski whose 20th Maine Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps had been scheduled to rep resent Maine in the presidential in augural parade valves on the horns would have frozen up solid The drummers would have gotten frost bite within five minutes The kids have been itching to play but you just take that weather said Makowski brutal out Makowski's Oakland based band is made up of youths aged 11 through 20 from across Maine Band mem bers on Monday seemed both disap pointed and relieved that the parade had been canceled The bone chilling cold weather pushed into Washington about the same time as the Maine band arrived here Saturday By Sunday morning temperatures had plunged to record cold levels forcing the Maine youths to cancel an outdoor practice ses sion Scott Labbe 20 of Westbrook ventured outside on his own on Sun day trying to see what would haonen if he played his baritone a trumpet $8000 has been raised so far iuce orass instrument i naa never played when it's as cold as it is he explained What happened was that the warm moist air from his breath froze up his horn almost instantly making it unplayable hard to play when that agreed another band member Wayde Marshall 15 of Winslow Maine musicians sorry not to play Stir ry The secret of good eating Reagan vows new boldness By GERRY BOYLE Sentinel Staff Sentinel photos by David Learning Madison High auditorium was packed Monday night as School Administrative District 59 directors took ud the controversial issue of Tolerance Day Inset MHS social studies teacher David Solmitz organizer of the event called the action canceling the day a sad commentary on our nation and the group the issue would be to the pro gram go However Woodbury said that he and the board members had been deluged with telephone calls during the weekend and yesterday many of them from people who were pressing for their particular By DON WATERHOUSE Sentinel Staff IMS JtyRhSi EBiw wSS BBSH imt nr a mt iffl' bdoimP? nW7 JBMiWO ait? 1 Iru 'aBMEBBM 5 ijE EmSBEKEE t' lagnk A Ak Jsi BBEBDEk' BBBE UH Calendar 7 Classified 18 23 Comics 20 22 Crossword 20 Dear Abby 22 Editorials 1011 ood 8 Heloise 21 Movies 4 Obituaries 12 Sports 15 18 Sportsmen Say 18 Stock listings 6 1.