'.•7 * The weather O ear tonight with lows 10 to 18. Mostly sunny Tuesday with highs in the 30s. Outlook; fair Wednesday and Thursday; in­ ~Maneh^t0ii^A City of iVUIage Cluirm Phone 647-9946 creasing cloudiness Friday. FOl'RTEEN PACES MANCHESTER, CONN.. MONDAY. MARCH 6. l* n - VOL. XCVH, No. m for homo dollvory National weather map on Page 11. PRh:K( twenty CENTS ^ Carter invokes Taft-Hartley law ■ ~ . ' f ■ - Summary But court order W" TOKYO (UPl) - The U S. dollar plunged to an all-time low against the Japanese yen today on may he ignored the Tokyo Foreign Exchange ayed by market, despite massive in­ LJii, WASHINGTON (UPl) - byist, said "I don’t think we’re going tervention by the Bank of Japan. / M l to have to ask for new legislation,” ddirec- . Makers of Toyota, Honda and President Carter today in­ f Christ indicating at least the first step Datsun cars said they would be voked the Taft-Hartley law in would be Taft-Hartlev. Center; forced to raise U.S. prices again if an attempt to end the 91-day Either seizure or enforced media­ tor at the dollar declines further in coal strike. tion would require congressional ac­ it Hart- value. tion. But most of the nation’s 160,000 ‘ofessor The dollar dropped again on Industry sources said the executive striking soft coal miners are ni. The most European markets today council of the Bituminous Coal expected to ignore any Taft-Hartley after a brief pre-weekend Operators Association was meeting i comer court order to go back to work, un­ recovery, but it remained frac­ today in Washington to decide what %nue in less it is accompanied by a federal tionally above record-low rates. takeover of the mines. The United to do now that the contract is William Mine Workers union Sunday strongly rejected and the president is ready to WASHINGTON (UPl) - Rice act. current rejected the coal companies’ latest Vlillard dealer Tongson Park returned to contract offer. Energy Seer''t ary James Capitol Hill today for a second Schlesinger said Sunday, "If we can­ sic, 200 Under the Taft-Hartley Act, the week of secret questioning about not get a national agreement I president appoints a three-member Sunday $750,000 in cash and gifts he said a t ' believe that we will have regional or board of inquiry which will report to he gave congressmen to influence company by company bargaining him on the emergency — a report legislation affectingSouth Korea. that will get the miners back to which could take a week or more. Without comment to r ^ r te r s , work." Then, the Justice Department is Park — indicted for hi^role in But most officials feared the angry expected to ask a federal court to isor an alleged congressional influence­ and divided UMW would force new issue an injunction against the strike Friday buying— returned at midmorning confrontations. and order negotiators back to the lain St. to testify before the House Ethics They began voting Friday, 28 years bargaining table. fth and Committee. to the day after Harry Truman r high "The time has now come for me to ordered federal seizure of the act on the subject,” Carter told second PHILADELPHIA (UPl) - nation’s coal mines in a similar stan­ r.’Sf- legislative leaders shortly before I . Live David W. Marston, the former doff. The actual seizure in that case, noon. U.S. attorney in Philadelphia however, was averted. g. For Carter said he talked with union of­ whose ouster created a national The UMW has 794 locals and 693 of a t 649- ficials and coal mine operators Sun­ controversy, today announced his them sent results to Washington by day as it became clear the proposed candidacy for the Republican midnight Sunday. A total of 79,753 contract would be defeated by a nomination for Governor of Penn­ (69.7 percent) voted against ratifica­ margin of at least 2-1. He told the sylvania. tion and 34,689 (30.3 percent), voted Cabinet of his decision early today At a news conference held at his for the contract. in are and then briefed the legislative home, Marston, 35, said he Under Taft-Hartley, Carter must lirough leaders of both parties at the White decided to run to insure that, declare the strike "a threat to the nunity House. "instead of political bosses the national health and safety" and get a irtford Miners have traditionally ignored pwple will have an opportunity to court injunction ordering the miners age of pick their governor.” Taft-Hartley back-to-work orders. back to work for 80 days. paper "The problem,” said one White During that period, negotiations House source before Carter made his 1. to 10 NORWALK (UPl) - The leader with the Bituminous Coal Operators announcement, "is that the rejection Satur- of striking nurses at Norwalk Association would reopen under vote has made it questionable that Hospital predicts the second government supervision and with a the 39-man (UMW) bargaining coun­ hester nurses’ strike in Connecticut government committee studying the cil represents sentiment in the rank- im the history may last some time. issues. After two months, the miners and-file mineworkers.” with a Mary Lou Millar, president of (Herald photo by Dunn) vote again on the owners’ last offer "No one’s really sure,” said the the 270-member Nurse Unit of the and the National Labor Relations 975 he Freestyle skiing at ISorthview source, "so why not go with the law artists Connecticut Health Care Associa­ Board counts the votes. we have.” If the miners do not accept It, the (cticut tion, said Sunday “It looks like it Paul Tanguay of 77 Timrod Trail does some dogging” during a free-style ski maneuver Chairman Frank Thompson, D- attorney general must ask the court at will be a very long strike.” fancy stepping, sometimes called “hot- over the weekend at Northview Ski Slope. The nurses picketed Saturday N.J., of the House labor- to lift the injunction and the strike . Last morning to protest wages and management subcommittee has a . would be on again. tw o what they call unsatisfactory bill ready for action and Speaker Taft-Hartley has been used 34 Thomas P. O'Neill said over the Street work schedules at Conrtecticufs times, three times against the UMW. weekend the House could vote in a eighth largest hospital. Land sale to Penney It is UMW tradition never to work chool, week. without a contract. Out in the coal m the Senate GOP leader Howard Baker fields, some miners hope Carter will ! has NEW HAVEN (UPl) - Yale .said: "I will support him (Carter) in take over the mines and set working University has announced selec­ 'liege, any reasonable request that he conditions and wages, possibly at a tion of Abraham S. Goldstein as makek to try to get coal back into Ine of scheduled March 16 higher rate than the old contract, as the school’s new provost. production.” a belter alternative to invoking Taft- e n tly Goldstein, who served as Yale’s Frank Moore, Carter’s chief lob­ been schedule(l March 17 at the tors also will have to approve the Hartley. ery of law school dean from 1970 to 1975, By GREG PEARSON Manchester Country Club to mark abandonment of four town roads that rently will replace Provost and acting Herald Reporter the closing of the property transfer. are located in the proposed park site. um of President Hanna H. Gray when ’The Town of Manchester and the The event, which will be attended by J.C. Penney announced its plans to she leaves in July to become J.C. Penney Co. have set March 16 as representatives from the town, J.C. locate in Manchester in late 1976. Job loss predicted president of the University of the date for the sale of 162 acres to Penney and the community, is Originally, the firm had planned to Chicago. the firm. expected to last from noon to 2:30 begin construction in the fall of 1977 J.C. Penney plans to begin con­ p.m. with a .1980 finishing 'date. with liquor reform ATLANTA (UPl) - Although struction of a two-million square foot The purchase of land from the town the Russian flu apparently has "It’s all hopefully coming into catalog distribution center soon after and the start of construction were HARTFORD (UPl) - Connecticut struck only young people under 25 place," Town Manager Robert Weiss costly system of price-fixing,” said it purchases the property from the delayed by several court actions since it hit the United States, said today of the project. liquor industry leaders today warned .Sen. Robert Houley, D-Somers. town. The building would be the taken against the proposed project. A federal health experts think it that as many as 2,(XX) people will be Houley has led the reform move­ major one in the town’s proposed 393- He said that the town still has to couple of zoning appeals were decided ment. may eventually attack adults over thrown out of work if the stale dumps acre industrial park to be located in purchase property from the state. in favor of the proposed project and that age. laws setting minimum liquor prices. "Approve these recommendations the Buckland section. That step is scheduled to take place the State Supetior Court ruled in and help put an end to the liquor That theory stems from past "The liquor industry is not a fat A reception and luncheon also have March 14.