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PAGE FOURTEEN-B - MANCHESTER EVENIN6 HERALD. Manchester. Conn., Thura., May M, 1977 Solon asks probe The weather Inside today Mostly sunny today with high around Area news . .. 12-13 Eklltorial .............4 80. Fair tonight, low near 50. Mostly Business...............11 Family. .............. 5-« of lottery delay sunny and a little cooler Saturday, high Classified . .. .15-20 H. S. World .... 10 in 70s. Natlonal'weather forecast map Com ics................21 O bituaires......... 22 on Page 15. Dear Abby..........21 Sports.............14-15 HARTFORD (UPI) —Deputy House Speaker Robert Vicino, D-Bristol, says the loss of |10 million in expected state revenue because of poorly printed lottery tickets should be Investigated. Vicino Wednesday asked Gov. Elia T. Grasso to order a complete report on the matter. "This is a great loss to the people of Connecticut and somebody has to get to the bottom of it,” he said. Children freed by terrorists State gaming officials have postponed unUl July the fourth version of the instant lottery because the firm handling the contract has been unable to produce accep table tickets. The game originally was scheduled to b e ^ in February, but its start has been pushed back a number of times because of the ticket problem. Negotiations continue for 50 adults The delay means during the fiscal year beginning July 1 the state will be able to run only two instant lotteries in BOVENSMILDE, The Netherlands dependence for their homeland from What the disease was, but officials shortly after the last of the There was no word from the officials said everything was quiet stead of three, resulting in the projected loss. (UPI) — South Moluccan gunmen Indonesia. They have demanded a said the gunmen agreed to the youngsters had left the school, hijacked blue-and-yellow, four-coach this morning, and that water, The contract for the tickets is held by Glendinning today released more than 100 flight out of the country and the release because it had spread to such, “Nature helped us a bit.” train 12 miles away, where at least 56 chocolate milk and sandwiches were Companies of Connecticut Inc., a Westport firm. The children imprisoned four days in a release of 21 jailed comrades. proportions. On Thursday, the gunmen released hostages sat crow d^ in the front two delivered. tickets for the first three instant lotteries were printed by school swept by sickness but still Officials said at least 50 of the Those youngsters who could walk four children — three with infections cars. The train hostages were given food Scientific Games of Atlanta. held five teachers in the school and children released just before dawn boarded buses and others were and one with a congenital heart con The grandmother of one young boy ’Thursday for the first time in two Glendinning won the rights to produce the lottery more than 50 passengers on a were suffering from an “infectious carried to a small army of waiting dition. hostage said he told her the children days but one railway official said tickets by submitting a bid 1130,000 lower than the one hijacked train. disease” with symptoms that in ambulances for the trip to nearby Despite the release of the were treated well by the gunmen, conditions in the cars — which have made by the Georiga firm. The Dutch government had set the cluded vomiting and diarrhea. They hospitals and medical posts. remaining 102 children, the terrorists “who were very kind.” virtually no toilet faciliteS'*- must be "Saving 1130,000 on a contract and losing $10 million in release of the children as a precondi described it as "serious but not Justice Minister Dries van Agt, still held five teachers at gunpoint in Those children found by doctors to “stinking.” revenues isn’t my idea of a good de^l for the State of tion to any negotiations with the fatal.” whb headed the effort to free the the modern, one-story school in the be in good shape were taken to the The estimated 10 gunmen on the Connecticut,” Vicino said. "It looks like the state fired terrorists, who are pressing for in Doctors would not say exactly children, said in a radio interview northern village of Bovensmilde. public library for poignant reunions train Thursday hand^ officials two the goose that laid golden eggs and signed a turkey in with their parents. letters reportedly asking for medica stead.” Said one boy as he embraced his tion for hostages, including a young Mrs. Grasso’s office had no immediate comment. mother, “I want some pancakes now. woman five months pregnant. Mummy.” Also aboard the train was the News the children were being father of two of the children who had released spread rapidly through been held at the school. Bovensmilde, and virtually the entire The gunmen seized the school and Fair trade law village rusheid into the streets. train Monday in coordinated raids The bus carrying away the children patterned after tw o ^ u th Moluccan passed right by a part of the village attacks in the Netherlands 17 months on liquor axed where 750 Moluccans live. They, too, ago. Fourteen of the 21 imprisoned lined the streets and waved. terrorists whom the gunmen want The children waved back happily. HARTFORD (UPI) — Beginning next October, Connec freed were jailed in connection with At the scene of the train hijacking. ticut liquor consumers may notice a little extra change in the 1976 takeovers. their pockets when they leave their favorite package store. The House of Representatives Wednesday overwhelmingly approv^ and sent to Gov. Ella T. Congress ignores Grasso a bill repealing the state law that allows liquor manufacturers to set %elf prices in Connecticut. It is estimated consumers will save 7 to 8 per cent on Carter wishes their liquor bills, or roughly 40 cents on every $5.00 purchase. WASHINGTON (UPI) - Morris Even as Carter issued his veto war Mrs. Grasso is expected to sim it into law at the Udall, the Arizona congressman who ning, the House Appropriations Com earliest opportunity. It would would take effect Oct. 1. wanted to be president, likens mittee was approving a $61 billion "This is the first step toward bringing some equity to current disagreements between labor-health, education and welfare the liquor laws,” said Rep. William Collins, D-Norwalk. Congress and the White House to the measure containing $1.4 billion more "We’re not here to protect the liquor industry. I Uiink it’s mating dance of wild ducks — a lot of than Carter wanted. about time we did something for consumers.” sound and fury signifying love. The same committee defied Carter ’The House voted 132-5 to repeal the state’s so-called But the hot and cold romance Wednesday by okaying 17 water fair trade laws, one of three price markups guaranteed chilled anew Thursday with Congress projects he wanted stopped. And the the liquor industry by Connecticut statutes. ’The other two advancing a third measure in three Senate Tuesday bucked the President guaranteed markups are the wholesale minimum days that President Carter threatens by approving a five-year omnibus markup, 11 per cent, and the retail minimum markup, to veto. The President, in his most farm measure with higher price sup 21.5 per cent. pointed warning yet, said he would ports for grain growers than Carter The House voted earlier this year to repeal the fair Farewell, chuckholes, farewell “reserve the right to say no when calls acceptable. trade laws, but the Senate added two amendments to the necessary.” House approval of changes in clean bill and sent it back to the House. ’The amendments limit Employes of The Half Co. were busy Thursday com Urban Systems Project on the two streets leaves only Congress ignored administration air legislation was a victory for auto the power of the state’s Liquor Control Commission. wishes in another area. The House manufacturers and union members One prevents the panel from revoking a retailer’s pleting paving work near the intersection of W. Middle minor parts of the work to be finished. He expects that the T ^ .-a n d Adams St. Jay J. Giles, director of public works, entire job will be done in about two weeks. (Herald photo agreed' to delay and weaken auto and it could signal later trouble for liquor license simply because he cannot pay his wholesale exhaust standards favored by Carter Carter’s proposed tax on gas guzzling bill within 30 days. ’The other prevents the commission by Dunn) said that the completion of the paving connected with the and opposed by auto makers. cars and increased gasoline taxes. from removing the liquor license of a retailer who has Modification in the standards and been arrested but not convicted of violating the law. The Senate in other environmental the timetable for meeting them was Passage of the amendments Wednesday was a victory action passed new safety standards a “complete copout to the manufac for Sen. Robert Houley, D-Somers, who has been for oil tankers making U.S. turers ... just as if they had written it quarreling with Rep. John Giordano, DrEast Haven for Carter goes to sea in submarine deliveries. And it approved a jobs the past week. themselves,” said Rep. Paul Rogers, program for youth. D-Fla. ■ Houley, who led this year’s fight to repeal all three of CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) stood atop the high sail (bridge) of Naval Academy graduate and former United States now has 108 nuclear the state’s liquor pricing laws, has maintained the Liquor ~ Resident Carter went to sea today the black, cigar-shaped boat as it was submariner.