School Elections Tomorrow X; Steele Reports School Bondtssue, on Mideast Charter Revi^On^ Also on Ballot I P Oil Situation SOL R
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■ M. to 8 P M. I■ . -■ MANCHESTER, CONN., MONDAY, NOV. 5, 1973 — VOL. XCIII, No. 31 Manchester—A City of Village Charm THIRTY-SIX PAGES - TWO SECTIONS PRICE: ElfTEEN CENTS School Elections Tomorrow x; Steele Reports School BondTssue, On Mideast Charter Revi^on^ Also On Ballot i p Oil Situation SOL R. COrtEN are eligible to vote Tuesday, WINDSOR LOCKS (AP) r- The Nixon admihistra* Herald Reporter with the total subject to slight change when the results of a tion has underestimated U.S. dependence on Arab oil, and Manchester voters will go tp the polls Tuesday to elect a limited voter-making session the result may force us to choose between driving a car nine-member Board of Direc today are known. The session and going cold this winter, U.S. Rep. Robert H. Steele, R- tors (to serve two years), six was only for those who turned Conn. said today after a congressional fact finding trip to' members to the Board of 18 or became U.S. citizens in the interval since' Oct. 13. ST” the Middle East. Education (for' three-year While the administration es terms, with three for the period Election officials are pressing for a large turnout timates 6 to 10 per cent of 1973 to 1976 and three for the month because of their own Tuesday but are predicting America’s oil comes from Arab period 1974 to 1977), a town shortage! privately.it will be about 60 per countries, Steele said his in clerk (to a four-year term), a Steele and U.S. Rep. Leo cent. It was about 87 per cent vestigation found total imports town treasurer (to a two-year Ryan, D-Calif., made the 14-day last November, during the at 15 per cent of oijr needs. New term), a three-itlember Board trip for the House Foreign Af presidential election; about 65 England’s dependence on the of. Selectman (to two-year fairs Committee along with Dr. per cent in November 1971; and Arabs is more than double that, terms), apd seven constables William Johnson, a Treasury about 60 per cent in November he said. (to two-year terms). Department energy expert. The 1%9. The 1971 and 1969 elections He urged President Nixon to delegation visited Kuwait,« Because Manchester boards are subject to minority rule, the are the best comparisons, since use existing authority to Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Jordan, voters may cast ballots for oiily both were for municipal office, require American oil com Egypt, Israel, Italy and the six candidates for the Board of as is the one Tuesday. panies to refine more crude oil Netherlands. the Board of Selectmen, and Because the top lever always into heating oil and less into He estimated that current four constables. belongs to the party in control gasoline. home heating oil stocks, plus oil In addition, they may cast of the governor’s,office, it will As of Oct. 1, Steele said, the on tankers at sea, should allow m l ballots for or against '13 be Republican Tuesday. U.S. was using 17.3 million New England to avoid any referendum questions — No. 1 Voters have three options barrels of petroleum per day. serious shortages until Scouts Clean Up Salterns Pond for a proposed $5.6 million bond when they pull the curtain in Of that, 1.2 million barrels are January, assuming normal Boy Scout Bill Hoch of 35 Dale Rd. carries debris away committtee — was undertaken by the scouts with issue, for additions and im- the voting booths: imported directly from the weather. ... They may vote a straight hUdeast. Steele said he found from Salter’s Pond, where he and other Troop 362 scouts assistance of the Town Public Works Department, which provenments to Illing and But by January home heating cleaned the shoreline Saturday. ’The Salter’s Pond cleanup Bennet Junior Highs; and Nos. party ticket, by pulling the par another one million barrels of oil shortages could be expected provided a tnick to haul the litter away. Below-normal effort — an on-going project of the Greater Manchester 2 through 13 for proposed ty lever of their choice and Arab oil is refined in Europe or “unless we begin immediately water level in the pond Saturday-made the cleanup job doing nothing else. the Caribbean before it is Chamber of Commerce environment and beautification easier for the scouts, (Herald photo by Ofiara) charter changes. to produce more heating oil An estimated 27,268 voters ... They may vote a split shipped to the U.S. from our crude stocks, or the ticket, by first pulling the party He said Italy already has Middle East situation is lever of their choice, then tur stopped shipments to the U.S resolved,’’ Steele said in a press ning UP the pointers over the and he expects other countries release. /• candidates for whom they don’t to follow suit "shortly.” Steele Unless the Mideast crisis Mideasl Crisis wish to vote, then turning said th^-U.S. also had been ends, he said "we are simply DOWN the pointers over the counting on importing another going to have to choose between candidates whom they wish to 500,(X)0 barrels of heating oil per- driving our cars less or closing Still Unsettled substitute. day, most of it from Dutch down certain schools, factories Hearing ... They may vote without refindries, to the northeast and public buildings as well as By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS using a party lever at all, by states. But he said he expected going cold in some of our homes simply turning DOWN the the Dutch to cut off their nor The diplomatic maneuvering in the wake of the Arab- for periods of time this DOUG BEVINS ment program to include a IS n ^ th s , developing plans and pointers over the candidates for mal exports by the end of the Israeli war shifted from Washington to the Middle East winter.’’ (Herald Reporter) regional shopping center, a meeting with area residents. whom they wish to Vote. today in the wake of warnings from Israel, Egypt and The Manchester Planning and hotel-convention center facili /T he Fischer company says it Election officials are remin Zoning Commission (PZC) will ty, office buildings, a campus- 'will start tonight’s pubim Syria that new fighting threatened. ding the voters that candidates open a public hearing at 7:30 style research park, and a cpn^ hearing with a one-hour presw - Israeli Premier GoJda ’Meir of opposite parties are not Townjs Gasoline tonight — at Manchester High ■ dominium community. tation. After the opening' . and Egyptian Foreign Minister premier and foreign minister ot matched against each other and School’s Bailey Auditorium — The residential community— presentation of the applicant, Ismail Fahmy flew home from South Yemen and Soviet Deputy that the position of their names to obtain public comments on to be supplemented by a the PZC will open the hearing to their meetings in the U.S. Foreign Minister Vasily is strictly cdincidental and only Allocation Cut requested ^one changes which library, church, recpeatiou'and public comments. capital with President Nixon Kuznetsov. No information on because they are listed would make way for a proposed social facilities—would ccmsist Tonight’s publib hearing will and Secretary of State Henry A. their discussions leaked out. alphabetically. residential - commercial - of 1,064 housing unit's in be the only chance townspeople Kissinger. The Arab oil countries met The chief moderator Tuesday SOL R. COHEN own gasoline at an outside industrial development at Manchester dnd 970 units in have to be heard, on the record, Kissinger left today for again in Kuwait and announced is John Fletcher Jr., who will (Herald Reporter) source. Buckland. South Windsor. concerning the proposed zone Morocco, first stop on a Middle a new cut in production of oil make his headquarters in the ’The Town of Manchester’s Pass has notified all town MAP Associates, planning a A breakdowh, of land use in • changes at Buckland. Petitions East tour that also will take for countries friendly to Israel. registrar of voters office in the allocation of gasoline, effective department heads that it is im-' 560-acre development in the the Manchester portion of the or other evidence, according to him to the Egyptian, Jordanian They hedged by saying that basement of -the -Municipal last Thursday (Nov. 1), has portant “that all tanks are area — both in ^ n c h e ste r and tract shows that 87 acres would PZC procedure, must be sub and Saudi Arabian capitals. countries friendly to the Arab Building. He is a Republican, as been cut by five per cent or filled to capacity at the end of South Windsor — is seeking be commercial, 38 acres would mitted at the public hearing to Israeli Foreign Minister cause would not •te affected, are the moderators in all 10 about 1,200 gallons per month, every month, since any surplus zone changes on a large share be industrial, and 138 acres become part of the official Abba Eban flew to Romania, 'and i t . was not immediately voting districts. The parties Maurice Pass, town purchasing to our quota cannot be carried of the 263 acres of land which would be residential. record. the only member of the Soviet clear what cuts would be levied alternate on naming the agent, revealed today. ^ over,” are in Manchester. MAP Associates purchased PZC members say they have bloc that still has diplomatic against which countries. moderators. The Democrats He and Town Manager MAP Associates, an invest the 560-acre parcel from the indications that tonight’s public relations with Israel.