Heating Oil Supplies Construction Industry 1 PZC Makes Suggestions I *Billy and Reggie^ Said Barely Enough Victim of Gas Crunch 1 For 102-Lot Subdivision I Ready to Part i^ays Page 3 P age 5 1 Page 8 1 Page 9 i®and|patpr Clear Tonight, WHArs Sunny Wednesday NEWi Eurning Mrralb Datallt on paga 2 Ships Collide CIVITAVECCHIA, Italy (UPI) I A Family NEWSpaper Since 1881 « 20$ Single Copy • 15« Home Delivered — A French freighter slammed into a fully laden Italian tanker in heavy fog today, sending flames raging through both vessels and spewing 5,000 tons of crude oil and diesel fuel toward Rome’s | Consumer Prices Up 1.1% crowded beaches. Officials said at least three I crew members died in the colli-1 WASHINGTON (UPI) —Consumer in May, the fourth consecutive large sion and 30 were reported injured. prices shot up another 1.1 percent in increase. Rescue teams searched for 27 I May, the Labor Department reported But the rise in food prices con­ missing crewmen, many of whom | today. Gasoline and fuel oil continued tinued to cool, as the administration jumped overboard. their rapid rise, but food costs grew has been hoping. Port officials said the 12,202-ton I more slowly. rise for food and beverage French freighter Emmanuel It was the fifth straight month that prices as a whole has slowed from 1.6 Delmas collided with the 4,942-ton the seasonally adjusted Consumer percent in February to 1 percent in Italian tanker Vera Berlingieri 14 Price Index has risen in the 1 percent March, 0.9 percent in April and 0.7 miles off Italy’s west coast range and showed inflation is con­ percent in May. Still, food prices between the port cities of | tinuing strong even while many have risen 11.2 percent in the past Civitavecchia and Fiumicino. believe the economy is entering a year. slowdown or recession. Prices of retail store foods rose 0.5 General Knew Retail prices have risen 10.8 per­ percent in May, the smallest in­ cent during the past 12 months and at crease since last August. CASTEAU, Belgium (UPI) - 1 an annual 13.6 percent rate in the Pork prices declined for the second Gen. Alexander M. Haig said he | past three months. straight month, and poultry prices had known for a year before Mon­ The May price index stood at 214.1, also declined. day’s assassination attempt he I meaning that goods which cost $100 Beef and veal prices increased was the "target” of a specific! • ' in 1967 now costs $214.10. sharply by 3 percent in May, but this terrorist group. Gasoline prices increased 5 per­ was considerably less of a rise than But neither he nor Belgian I cent in May, slower than the 6 per­ earlier this year. police would say which group is cent rise in April, but still an annual Restaurant meals rose 1.1 percent the prime suspect in Monday’s rate of increase of 55.1 percent. The in May and alcoholic beverages 0.8 attempt, which failed by a frac­ cost of transportation rose 1.8 per­ percent, both, faster rises than the tion of a second to kill NATO’s | cent with gasoline accounting for previous month. supreme commander. more than two-thirds of that in­ The overall cost of housing rose 1.2 A bomb planted beneath a I crease. percent in May, with fuel playing a roadway in the nearby village of Fuel oil prices jumped 5.3 percent big part. Obourg was detonated by remote c o n tro l ju s t a f te r H a ig ’s chauffeur-driven Mercedes 6(X) had passed it. A trailing security | car took the brunt of the blast, Merchant Poll slightly injuring two of its oc- j cupants. Decision Due Set Downtown JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (U P I)- By GREG PEARSON After a three-hour hearing Mon­ in hiring and funding a full-time coor­ day, U.S. D istrict Judge W. President Carter and Japan^e_^Prime at Yoshida Villa, residence of late Japanese Herald Reporter dinator to oversee Main Street Terrell Hodges said he would Minister Mayayoshi Ohira shake hands atlKe "Prime Ttlinfster Shigehi 'Ydshida, 50 fniles MANCHESTER — Downtown development. study a seven-volume transcript beginning of their second round of talks today from Tokyo. (UPI photo) merchants soon may be surveyed to Such a position had been proposed on the murder trial of Charles find out what they would like to see and would have been funded with Proffitt and rule by this afternoon done in the Main Street area. Community Development money un­ "at the latest” on a habeas corpus The Downtown Coordinating Com­ til the decision by town voters to petition filed by Proffitt’s at­ mittee this morning proposed this withdraw from the CD program. torneys. Carter Ends Talks and other ideas, including a meeting If the merchants would pay some In a related incident, Robert of several town committees and of the cost for the position, the town Sullivan, whose execution was boards, to expedite action for im­ also might consider providing part of scheduled a few minutes before] proving downtown. the funding, Mrs. Intagliata said. Proffitt’s Wednesday morning, Phyllis Jackston, a Realtor who Mrs. Intagliata and others praised won an indefinite reprieve Mon­ With Japan Premier recently opened a new office on Main Mrs. Jackston for her new downtown day. The two men were to be the Street, attended the hour-long office. TTiey said improvements such second and third killers to die in TOKYO (UPI) — President Carter again declined to discuss strategy. fered from a “tummy bug” — and meeting and proposed the survey, as those will help revitalize the area. the electric chair in Florida in and Japanese Premier Masayoshi Security in Oiso was as tight as it went shopping. Her purchases in­ which might include both merchants But, they all agreed more such im­ u st o v er a m onth. Ohira today wound up talks in has been in Tokyo where Carter cluded a yukata, or summer kimono, and residents of the area. provements are a must. preparation for the Big Seven arrived Sunday night. and a Japanese doll. She also suggested a meeting of Mrs. Jackston said the town has to Up to Jurors “energy summit’’ which was “What are they expecting, an inva­ Spokesmen said Carter and Ohira town boards and commissions that take steps to assist. overshadowed by the OPEC oil cartel sion by sea?” asked one amazed discussed the new arms limitation might be connected with any “They give J.C. Penney a tax CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas conference on the other side of the White House staff member. treaty between the Soviet Union and downtown-related matter. This could abatement or incentives to create (UPI) — Elmer Wayne Henley, world. Carter and Ohira emerged from United States, the Middle East and include the Board of Directors, Plan­ jobs in this town. We’re also looking who was convicted of killing six Carter and Ohira, shedding their the session with their coats off and Caijter’s upcoming trip to South ning and Zoning Commission, at jobs here (Main Street). There’s boys and was sentenced to prison suit jackets and rolling up their shirt their sleeves rolled up for a walk Korea. Economic Development Commission so much potential there,” she said. for 494 years, then was ordered a sleeves, concluded two days of talks through the immaculate garden sur­ But they were believed to have con­ and the Downtown Coordinating The area could be used for medical new trial when the Texas court of on energy and political and strategic rounding the traditional Japanese centrated on ways of ensuring the Committee. or professional buildings as well as Criminal Appeals cited legal matters which had furthered “the villa where they had met. success of the Big Seven energy sum­ One such large meeting would help apartments, she said. errors, was tried the second time | mutual trust and friendship” of the mit on Thursday and Friday. determine what steps the town might James Farr said the area needs a and the jury begins deliberations With 90-degree temperatures and two countries, a U.S. administration high humidity, the two men and their After lunch in the villa, the two be willing to take in the downtown key store, such as a department today. official said.‘ mem emerged once again and Ohira area, Mrs. Jackston said. store, to increase customer traffic. Henley’s lawyer. Will Gray, is delegations appeared drenched in ’The meeting was held at Oiso, a perspiration. Japanese journalists denied he and Carter were preparing Both the survey and the meeting Mrs. Jackston said the im­ confident legal errors will force a picturesQue seaside resort within a joint plan behind the backs of their idea appealed to the committee provements are needed before such a third trial. said they had never before seen sight of the sacred Mount Fuji. Ohira in public without his jacket. European trading partners. members. Two members will join tenant can be attracted. Carter flew there by helicopter after “Whatever proposal that is to be Mrs. Jackston in organizing the sur­ The committee also approved a Talmadge Case jogging and swimming at dawn. “We’re saving energy,” Carter presented at the summit will have to vey and what questions it should in­ motion that the Board of Directors Officials said Carter gave Ohira a quipped to reporters. be considered by all the par­ clude. try to expedite purchase of a lot at WASHINGTON (UPI) - If the I "candid apd very sensitive report” First lady Rosalynn Carter, ticipants,” he said.