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The weather Inelde today Mostly cloudy with scattered Family...........S-A showers and thunderstorms today. MACC news... S-A High 75-80. Cloudy with occasional rain MCC calendar. 6-A tonight and Tuesday. Low tonight Obituaries__ 8-A around 60. High Tuesday around 70. Sports.........5—4-B Chance of rain 60% today, 80% tonight and Tuesday. National weather map on Page 5-B. Future up to Carter and Lance Hearing suspended WASHINGTON (UPI) - Sen. statement today seemed to indicate telegrams since Lance began his Percy said he is convinced "more Abraham Ribicoff, D-Conn., Lance would try to weather the defense on national television than ever" that Lance should step declared today Bert Lance's future is storm. Thursday morning. down. in the hands of “ two men — the presi Ribicoff said he was suspending for Of these, Powell said, 2,025 backed "1 think if the name were sent dent of the United States and Bert two weeks the hearings into Lance’s Lance, 245 opposed him. forward today as a new nomination, Lance.” Carter said public opinion fitness to hold high office, and would Powell gave no indication when there would be little likelihood,” of has shifted strongly to his embattled make no recommendations during Carter would hold an expected news Lance's being confirmed, Percy said. budget director. that period or issue any report on the conference this week where the "The corollary would be, 1 think, During 20 grueling hours of committee’s findings thus far. president is expected to make his it s best under the circumstances for testimony last week before the T don’t know what to write a decision on keeping his long-time him to step aside so the nation can Senate Governmental Affairs Com report on," Ribicoff told reporters friend and close political adviser. get on with its business." mittee, Lance maintained innocence before today's scheduled meeting. Ribicoff and Percy both said in Percy noted that while the Senate of wrongdoing in personal banking Asked what he thought about telephone interviews Sunday they has no power to remove Lance from and financial matters before Lance's future, Ribicoff replied, “ At have not retreated from the stance office. President Carter has in entering the government. this stage, it’s between two men — they took at the White House on dicated he will make a decision on Ribicoff, chairman of the com the president of the United States and Lator Day. whether to retain his budget director mittee Governmental Affairs Com Bert Lance.” “ 1 haven’t changed the opinion that and longtime friend after hearing mittee, and Charles Percy of Press Secretary Jody Powell said 1 expressed before, said Ribicoff. Capitol Hill opinions Illinois, ranking Republican on the Carter feels that Lance enhanced his 'T m not going to make any ad “ We are now giving our advice," panel, said Sunday Lance should situation before the committee, ditional comment. My position has Percy said. resign. But he refused, and Carter’s citing 2,270 telephone calls and not changed since then." Most members of the 17-men Governmental Affairs Committee have not yet expressed an opinion on Lance’s ^ h o u r testimony. But two who have are Sen. Thomas Hearing gets under way Eagleton, D-Mo., and Sen. William Roth, R-Del., on opposite sides of the issue. Both said Sunday on CBS-TV's Face the Nation they thought Lance on massage parlor rules would keep the job. By GREG PEARSON Eagleton said he “most certainly" irreparable harm if enforced at this ning. Counsel for Hartford and assumes that Lance will remain in Herald Reporter time. Manchester will have about two his job and hopes the committee Happy birthday A court hearing for an injunction Judge Joseph Goldberg, who is weeks to file theirs, according to the hearings will end soon because they against the massage parlor or presiding over the case, met in his attorneys. A decision should be made have become "a three-ring circus." Mrs. Alice Foote listens as Jim Rizza of 31 Lockwood St. sings dinances of Hartford and Manchester chamber for an hour with attorneys some time in October, Moses and Roth also said “ the current intent “ Happy Birthday” on the occasion of her 109th birthday celebra began today, and early indications representing both parties — Atty. Tapogna both indicated this morning. of the President" appears to be to re tion Sunday at The Meadows Convalescent Home. (Herald photo are that a decision on the requested Joseph Kazzano, who represents the The early testimony concentrated tain Lance. But he said he still has by Dunn) injunction will be made sometime in massage parlor owners, Atty. on the Hartford ordinance, which is serious questions about the former October. Anthony Tapogna, Hartford’s city similar to Manchester's. Georgia banker's ethics. The trial is being held in Hartford’s counsel, and Attys. Victor Moses and Court of Common Pleas. Thomas Prior, town counsel and Attorneys questioned Laurene Cor- Massage parlor owners from both assistant counsel, respectively, for dilico a research analyst for the State Hebron^s Alice Foote Hartford and Manchester are the Town of Manchester. * Board of Higher Education. She said seeking the injunction against the Both sides were ready to proceed that the state files show no school in recently enact^ ordinances, which this morning with the trial. the state licensed for training of Moshe Dayan to be 109 Wednesday require licensing of the parlors and "We both want a decision right masseuses. schooling for the masseuses. The away," Moses said during the brief Massage parlor owners from plaintiffs say that the ordinances are recess after the in-chambers session. Manchester and Hartford were atten greeted Mrs. Alice Foote, Hebron’s oldest She still indulges in her favorite unconstitutional and will cause Fazzano filed his brief this mor ding today’s proceedings. resident, was honored Sunday by game, bridge, with her family. “ But by Vance family and friends at The Meadows she doesn’t care much about bidding Convalescent Home in Manchester anymore," Mrs. Edward Foote said. WASHINGTON (UPI) - Israeli on the occasion of her 109th birthday. The Meadows Convalescent Home foreign minister Moshe Dayan flew in Manchester has been Mrs. Foote’s Miami hotel bombing tied to Washington today to begin perhaps Her real birthday is Wednesday, Sept. 21. home since she broke her hip at the crucial Mideast peace talks with As far as anyone knows, Mrs. age of 101. President Carter. Foote is the oldest living woman in Dayan flew from New York and Connecticut and may be the oldest was met at National Airport by Mrs. Foote taught school in the to militant Cuban exiles Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and living person in the state. Hebron area for several years and Her granddaughter-in-law, Mrs. MIAMI (UPI) — Bombs apparently Damage at the Fontainebleau was who died in a (Juban jail during a other top-ranking State Department was a reporter at one time for the officials. Edward A. Foote of Hebron, says Gilead News. set by militant Cuban exiles exploded described as negligible. hunger strike, sent UPl’s "com that although she is generally in good at four of the Miami area’s best Four Ambassadors Night manager munique" last Tuesday a warning Reporters were not permitted on She received cards from President the airport landing ramp and could health, the matriarch of the Foote and Mrs. Carter and from several known hotels before dawn today, Jeff Crane said he didn’t even realize they would escalate their terrorist not question Dayan about some family is not quite as interested as state officials. blowing out windows and spattering there had been an explosion. He acts and demanding the release of 17 mysterious detours he made over the she used to be in some things, like the She has two sons, Robert, 86, in dirt near pools and in lobbies. heard a noise, but thought it was anti-Castro political prisoners news, for instance. Her eyesight is There were no injuries. from the parking garage or boiler allegedly being held in the United weekend on his way to Washington. Hebron, and Arnold, 78, in Florida, Scheduled to fly from Brussels to pretty good but she doesn’t write and several grandchildren, great The Pedro Luis Boitel Comman room. States, Mexico and Venezuela. letters anymore. The friends of her does, an anti-Fidel Castro organiza “ Then I smelled it— it smelled like They demanded the International New York Friday, Dayan instead grandchildren and great-great went to Paris and then abruptly flew generation are gone. grandchildren. tion of Cuban exiles which claimed burned wire — and other people Red Cross investigate the “ inhuman responsibility for two similar bom heard it,” he said. “It was a small conditions and abuses that 20,000 home to Tel Aviv Saturday for an bings in Washington Sept. 7, claimed explosion. It must not have been a political prisoners are subject to in emergency meeting with Prime responsibility for today’s explosions. very large bomb.” Cuba, ” and called for a United Minister Mehahem Begin. His mis Kent gym started The blasts came just hours before The Boitel Commandoes, who take Nations investigation of human sion was the subject of much specula a planned march through Miami by their name from a political prisoner rights in the Caribbean island. tion, but there has been no explana KENT, Ohio (UPI) — A tractor Coalition which is opposing construc Cuban exile groups to protest the tion. with a scoop shovel today began up tion of the $6 million facility, stepped thawing relations between the United rooting trees at the construction site in front of the truck but was moved States and Cuba.