Revenue-Sharing: The Weather What Is It? Clear tonight with the low in the mid 40s. See Page 12 ^ Partly sunny and warm Tuesday with lEupttitm liprali chance of late thunderstorms. High in up­ per 70s. MANCHESTER, CONN., MONDAY, APRIL 16, 19 7 3 - VOL. XCH,'No. 166 Manchester—A City of Vilinge Charm TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES — TWO SECTIONS PRICE: nPTEEN CENTS '' f' * Military Base Cuts Hit Hi N New England Area Hard u i WASHINGTON (AP) - Pen­ minated, a reliable Senate congressional delegations on the biggest bases. Ft. Dix in Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D- tagon officials said today that source reported. Capitol Hill. New Jersey, will remain open. Mass., refused to name any 224 military installations will The disclosure came Among those which will be He had just attended an Ap­ bases but said after the meeting be closed and 21,172 civilian and following meetings Pentagon closed are Hunter’s Point propriations Commitlee with the Pentagon officials that 16,640 military jobs will be ter­ officials had with varfous state Naval Yard at San Francisco meeting with Pentagon officials “ There were no surprises. It and the Boston Naval Yard. on Capitol Hili. was everything we expected.” r , : The Pentagon officials said a He said the New England total of 274 bases will be states seem to be the hardest The Boston Navy Yard and Miss Manchester affected in some way by the hit by the military actions. Westover, a B52 base, have reductions. The Boston Naval Shipyard been the subject of persistent and the hospital and brig at reports in recent weeks that Tapped Byjaycees The hospital and brig will Portsmouth, N.H. Naval they might be closed. definitely be shut down ih Shipyard will be closed, said Betty Ryder Portsmouth, N.H., but there Schweiker. are some conflicting reports on (Herald Reporter) Cut back will be Lakehurst Rhode Island whether or not the rest of the and Ft. Monmouth, N.J. In A petite, light brown haired, bundle of exhuberance, installation will remain. Pennsylvania the Navy Air Closures Diane Elizabeth Del Gaudio, 19, was named “ Miss There are approximately 480 Engineering Center is Manchester 1973“ at the Jaycee-sponsored pageant Satur­ military installations in the scheduled for closure. Reported United States. They employ 2.3 The Philadelphia Navy Yard day night at Bailey Auditorium'in Manchester High School. million members of the Armed will remain open and several WASHINGTON (AP) - The The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Miss Manchester 1972, Laurie Forces and about 1.1 million hundred jobs from yards closed Navy plans to close its base at John Del Gaudio of Simsbury, Lee Osgood, introduced the 1972 civilians hired directly by the in New England will be Quonset Point, R.I. and most of she is presently in her second government. Miss Connecticut, Linda Lee transferred there. its facilities at Newport, R.I. .by year at the University of Kapral, as well as several other The full list of bases was not Informed sources said July 1, 1974, an assistant Navy Connecticut. young ladies who won the immediately available. Westover Air Force Base in secretary said today. The first runner-up was Jaycee contests in their respec­ However, Sen. Richard S. Massachusetts aiso will be Charles L. Ill 2nd disclosed Sharon Burr of Rockville; se­ tive towns. Schweiker, R-Pa., said one of closed. the plans during a briefing with cond, Nancy Jensen of East Parading in their suits of Hartford; third, Diane members of Congress this mor­ crushed velvet, the contestants r ning. The plans are to be an­ Kozlovich of Manchester; and went through their paces, ac­ nounced officially Tuesday fourth. Rose Marie LeBlanc of companied in song by De News Capsules The Davisville Seabee Base is Bolton. Prospero. j the only Rhode Island instal­ The Miss Congeniality award, The new Miss Manchester, which is presented to the girl lation not slated for cutbacks wearing a short blue chiffon 'Tornadoes Hit Texas or closing. voted most congenial by her gown, literally flitted across crossing the border since the The Navy plans to completely fellow contestants and is con­ the stage, in a modem ballet By The Associated Press Vietnam cease-fire. close the Quonset Point in­ sidered a distinquished award, number which captured for her Three Texas communities Field reports indicated that stallation and remove the went to Karen Petrowich of the talent award. were struck by tornadoes, and the South Vietnamese cruiser-destroyer complex Stafford Springs. Changing their format slight­ eight persons were killed. Two operations along the border from Newport, a source quoted Each of the nine young ladies ly this year, the Jaycees had other lives were lost in flash were defensive, aimed at floods. 111 as saying. competing for the coveted title, each contestant speak for a few driving (tommumst forces from The sharp cutbacks are apprared r e l n ^ apd ctmfi- Pipperty loss in nature’s the bonier ratoer than the start moments bn a topic of her expected to result in the loss of dent, although^ a slh^p dye rampage Sunday was ^timated of a major offensive to lift the choice. Most of thepi chose almost 4,(MX) Navy civilian joto could detect fidgeting fingers, future plans and education as at several millions of dollars. threat to Phnom Penh, the Thunderstorms, hail and strong and more than 17,000 uniformed and a few heaivy sighs'as they their subjects. Cambodian capital. ■ « I men, Most of the civilian jobs awaited their turn to appear on Perhiaps the anti-climax of winds hit almost every section of the state. being lost are at Quonset, with stage. the evening was a performance Thie event, emceed by W. only 700 of them now at New­ by Laurie Lee Osgood, who MacStiofain Released port. Robert De Ftospero, formerly relinguished her Miss DUBLIN (AP) - Sean Under the plans disclosed of Manchester, a soloist for the Manchester title Saturday Move To Cambqdia MacStiofain, former chief of today, the navy training Hartford Chamber Choir and night; and Chris Loveland, a SAIGON (AP) — More South staff of the Irish Republican Ar­ schools, which include the War the Worcester Chorus, and Miss teen-ager from Manchester, Vietnamese troops were my, was freed from jail today College and the Officer Can­ Sally Middleton of Manchester, who has been deaf since birth. reported moving toward the still looking pale and drawn didate School, and underwater a former Miss Connecticut and They danced a fast moving Cambodian frontier today. The from a 59-day hunger strike he weapons facility would be currently one of the top fashion jazz number, and little Miss action follows the first known and photography models in the staged last Decem ber and retained at Newport. Loveland had the audience incident of Saigon troops January. Miss Manchester 1973 state, went off with all the enthralled as she kept pace, aplomb of a national televised without missing a musical beat, pageant. Both De Prospero and with the veteran dancer Laurie Miss Manchester 1973, Diana Elizabeth Del Gaudio of Simsbury, receives her crown, from ■*. Miss Middleton added touches who is her dance instructor. Laurie Lee Osgood of Manchester, Miss Manchester 1972, in Jaycee-sponsored ceremonies of humor, as well as nostalgia, Saturday night at Manchester High School. (Herald photo by Ofiara) as the evening proceeded. (See Page Fourteen) World’s Three Major Commuter Bus Faiths Mark Rites Service May By The Associaleil Press scarlet and monks in simple The Jewish celebration of The calendar today linked robes-rtetraced Christ’s path Passover lasts eight days and Be Expanded into the Holy City in the sixth observances of three of the was expected to be extra joyful Palm Sunday under Israeli rule. world’s major faiths as this year because Israel is DOUG BEVINS Christians were in the s^ond A busy highway and a moun­ celebrdting its 25th anniversary (Herald Reporter) day of their pre-Easter Holy tainside stairway now cover the as a nation. » Week, Jews prepared to begin path Christ took. Boy Scouts Thousands of Israelis flocked Possibility of additional commuter bus service from ebraion of Passover at sundown kept back crowds of onlookers to the countryside and to the South Manchester to Hartford was discussed this morning and Moslems observed the an- as the devout walked, singing in beaches. Many families gave at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new 250-car parking liiversary of the birth of the half a dozen languages, into the theif homes a thorough spring lot and bus terminal at Buckland. old walled city of Jerusalem. A cleaning. Devout families Prophet Mohammed. and the sUtle was “ breaking group of American Baptists burned all their leavened bread, Roman Catholics carried state Comptroller Nathan even” on the service. clapped as they sang“ A^chaeI, replacing it for Passover with olive branches and palms on Agostinelli of Manchester, The buses started rolling the unleavened matzoh eaten by Sunday as they commemorated Row the Boat Ashore.’ *" Mayor John Thompson, and again March 26, when the strike the Israelites during their flight Christ’s triumphal entry into State Sen. David Odegard all ended, and ridership counts at Israeli police on horseback from Egypt through the desert Jenishlem five days before his mentioned the possibility and Burr Corners have been in­ kept close watch on the 3,000 years ago. ^ . crucifixion. agreed that express bus service creasing almost to the former pilgrimage, which passed Security precautions were Ih Jerusalem, more than 5,- from the south end of town level. ’The buses carried 263 without incident despite .in­ extremely tight throughout 000 pilgrims—including poor would probably be successful.