CAMBRIDGE WILL NOT ASK FOR 'DISASTER AREA' AID

Mayor Edward A. Crane '35 said yesterday that he will take no steps to have part of East Cambridge declared a disaster area after a general-alarm five there Easter Sunday, because the blaze had caused "no heavy individual loss."

The City Council last week directed Crane and City Manager John J. Curry '19 to seek state or federal aid for residents whose homes had been damaged by flying embers from the fire. Crane said that neither he nor the city manager had asked for aid, since the fire had been confined to the seven-story meatpacking plant where it began.