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i23I l»7j:w,-*n3rrrrr?!' 20 - MANCHESTER HERALD. Mon.. July » . l«e» li : BUSINESS l - '. 'i •■'s' y UV, J f . - s i - i ■ ■ ? f '■ 1 # ■ * ' t j i pin B rief- The town Exxon left behind Lada gets job gjg fjriYis dumo Quest fop oil shale HARTFORDOXFORD — The appointment of Warren SS. I | | Lada as local sales Thundershowers manager of WTIC FM has been an­ By Paul Hutchinson likely Wednesday nounced by Perry S. United Press International Ury, president and — See page 2 general manager of PARACHUTE, Colo. — Leaving Seattle last year for The Ten Eighty the mountain town of Parachute was a gamble for Corp., owner of Kathy Fox. WTIC AM and WTIC Itching for independence as only a 19-year-old knows FM. how, she didn’t see her lack of job skills as an obstacle. Lada, who has Neither did the biggest employer in town, Exxon USA. served as an account Miss Fox quickly landed an $ll-an-hour job as a grade executive for WTIC checker at Exxon’s Colony Oil Shale ProjMt, the largest AM since February shale venture in the world. Other jobs paid even better. Barrage continues; 1979, will oversee all She worked hard and hoped to be trained for one. aspects of WTIC Today, she assembles sandwiches in a Parachute deli FM’s local sales ac­ — at the considerably reduced wage of $3.75 an hour. tivity. He will report She wears a red t-shirt bearing an impolite-rqference to to Robert W. Dunn, Exxon. ^ ■ ^ Ten Eighty cor­ Miss Fox is one of the lucky ones — she found another k porate vice presi­ job. She says she’ll stay the summer, sharing a tent wto talks 'distressing' dent, saies. friends and hoping the local economy turns golden again Warren S. Lada A native of before the cold comes. Montciair, N. J., and a graduate of the University of Hard luck stories like hers can be found on any street accept the invitation. corner or barstool in Parachute this summer, with 2,1W By Julie Flint populated by civilians. Wisconsin-Madison, Lada is a member of the Witnesses saw one nine-story Israel gave a chilly reception to a Advertising Ciub of Greater Hartford. He lives with workers thrown out of jobs as quickly as Exxon said United Press U.S. congressional delegation that farewell to oil shale. 1,4 •.'■ building partially collapsed after his wife in Manchester. International taking a direct hit from an Israeli won a statement from PLO Chief When word of the bailout reached Parachute, workers M l. Yasser Arafat that was interpreted poured into the town’s two taverns. Others fired guns at Israeli warplanes bombed west bomb and severe damage was reported to dozens of surrounding as a Palestinian concession. the nighttime sky. Beirut today for the sixth straight West Beirut remained without buildings. Manager picked Exxon backed out of the Coiony project May 2 with a day, hitting residential areas near power, cut off Monday by the terse statemet saying the technique of bleeding oil from the city's center for the first time, It was the first time since the June 6 invasion that Israeli planes Israelis from a station in the eastern rock by heating it to 900 degrees farenheit was simply while gunboats and artillery kept up sector. The power shutoff also BANTAM — The Aerospace Division of UOP Inc. too expensive for the world’s largest and richest energy tm m a relentless barrage against PLO hit so close to the center of west has appointed Edgar Beirut’s residential areas. stopped water pumping, Beirut company. guerrilla positions. municipality officials said. C. Gannon piant Numerous other shale projects in Colorado, Utah and DPI photos In Jerusalem, U.S. Sen. Paul Rescue workers at the scene said manager for the one woman was killed when a The Palestine news agency, Wyoming have been scrapp^ or scaled down, with only m Tsongas, D.-Mass., pleaded with WAFA, said 79 people were killed or division's faciiities one sizeabie project in the nation still in the construc­ Israeli Prime Minister Menachem building collapsed around her and 20 in Bantam, accor­ CATTLE GRAZE IN NOW-DESERTED COMPANY TOWN others were wounded. They said the wounded in Monday’s two air tion phase and moving towards production. It was built for oll-shale workers, now empty Begin not to order Israeli forces into strikes, which also damaged several ding to A.C. Just a year ago, the advent of a national oil shale in­ west Beirut, saying the “carnage ... casualty total would rise as they dug Copeland, vice presi­ through the debris. buildings including the A1 Bar A1 dustry seemed a certainty. Most experts still agree that, will be like our Alamo.” Ihsan orphanage in the Fakhani dent and generai sooner or later, the trillion-plus barrels of oil trapped in problems in shale plants. Exxon was one of 35 com­ “■You are going to look at a The Israeli gunboat fire against manager of the divi­ guerrilla targets was concentrated region of the beleagured capital. Western shaie rock will be exploited. They don’t agree panies providing data for the study. generation of terror,” Tsongas said, The Israeli military command sion. on when, “I don’t think the cost increase was all that much of a predicting dire effects of an inva­ on the city’s southern suburbs where Aerospace designs dozens of buildings were set on fire. said the two Monday air strikes Coiorado Gov. Richard Lamm, a politician with shock,” said Merrow. sion of west Beirut. He called his were aimed only at the PLO’s and manufactures iiterary aspirations, views the situation this way: “Part of what happened was people were projecting meeting with Begin "distressing.” The Palestinians responded with seats, gaiieys and artillery barrages that extended to hidden ammunition centers, one of “America’s energy poiic'y is zig-zagging through history costs on the basis of almost no information at all, and HernW photo by Pinto U.S. envoy Philip Habib, on the which was hit by the attacking air­ accessory equipment like a drunk. But mark my words — there will be the less information they had, the less it looked like it latest leg of a frantic shuttle that in­ east Beirut, which is controlled by for commercial air­ the Israeliallied Christian Lebanese craft and set ablaze in flashing another disruption in the Middle East. It’s not a question would cost. cluded two European capitals, explosions. craft. Gannon wiii be of if; it’s a matter of when. When it happens, oil shale “As long as there is oil in the form of petroleum that Keeping cool at CBT arrived in Israel and headed for forces. responsible for all will again be center stage and another oil shale program can be drilled and will satisfy demands, it will be Jerusalem for talks with Begin and Sudan raised hopes for a The air strikes the Palestinians manufacturing, will begin.” cheaper (than oil from shale). Todaz costs are like a rather than doing business without cooled Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir. breakthrough in the Lebanon peace said lasted 90 minutes, were material control, C. Frederick Dean, the assistant treasurer at talks by offering refuge to the 6,000 followed by a massive artillery and Oii shale was center stage early in the century, when dollar a barrel in Saudi Arabia,” said Merrow. the Connecticut Bank and Trust Company air, but reopened Tuesday with a relaxed The Israeli planes made two plant employee geologists fretted over the drain on U.S. oii fields made dress code for employees. About half of the raids, two hours apart, on guerrilla Palestine Liberation Organization naval barrage against a string of relations, manufac­ i “If I had to guess. I’d say the deciding factor for branch on Main Street, works in short targets throughout west Beirut, and guerrillas trapped in west Beirut, Palestinian neighborhoods in the by World War I. A 1918 article in National Geographic sleeves Instead of his usual jacket and tie lights in the building were turned off and turing engineering Edgar C. Gannon trumpeted “the time is now at hand” for development of Exxon was probably the weakness in world oil prices at in the second attack hit the but there was no immediate indica­ city and the Ouzai coast south of the and maintenance. today In an attempt to cope with air con­ there was a fan at the entrance, but Indoor tion of whether the PLO would capital. an oil shale industry. Like similar pronouncements to that point. It’s very difficult to build a.plant h ^ y that temperatures topped those outside. beachfront Rauche area — heavily Gannon received both his bachelor of science follow, the magazine’s enthusiasm was premature. might not be in demand seven or eight years from now.” ditioner failure. The branch closed Monday The Palestinians had no im­ degree in mechanical engineering and his master of When OPEC tripled oil prices in 1974, industry es­ Exxon denies that, blaming its decision solely on cost mediate comment on an offer by science degree in industrial management from timates put the cost of producing a barrel of shale oil at increases and saying Colony has been “mothballed” un­ Sudan President Jaafar Nimeiry Stevens Institute of Technology. Prior to his ap­ just $8 to realize a 15 percent profit. Not even a year til economics change. But as long as drilling for oil Accused of July 8 slaying Monday to open his country to the pointment, he held a variety of manufacturing later, estimates had zoomed to $19 a barrel.

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