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August 2, 1979 ITicks Worrying Ahead Ban Not Effective Baseball World Mourns Searches Find Nothing About Heating for Poor According to Gile» Tragic Death of Munson In Burlington Woods Page 2 Page 10 Page 11 Page 15 Hazy, Hot Humid, Possible Showers lEuptttng Brralb Datalla on pago 2 Economy Vol. XCVIII, No. 2S8 — Manchester, Conn., Friday, Auputt 3,1979 » A Family NEWSpaper Since 1881 • 20$ Single Copy • 15$ Home Delivered at a Glance M erit New York: Chrysler Corp.’s Hong Kong Citizens Return directors 'Thursday voted to omit payment of its common stock freighters in Hong Kong’s harbor have perished on the stormy seas.- advertising signs smashed into and numerous abandoned cars. dividends for the third quarter as HONG KONG (UPI) - Hong around like toys, causing 17 of them The typhoon, which struck with millions of pieces, streets flooded Hong Kong Marine Police said ear result of this week’s announce Kong's millions ventured back to to collide with each other. One of the lightning speed and smashing 150 and sheet metal from construction ly today there was no word on a boat ment that the No. S automaker debris-cluttered streets today as a ocean-going vessels rammed into the mph winds, injured at least 260 peo sites hurled through the air like with 400 Vietnamese refugees which lost $207 million in the second weakened Typhoon Hope moved on Star Ferry pier, leaving a huge hole. ple in Hong Kong and left it looking paper. reportedly was forced away from quarter. ' into China, leaving a toll of eight Macao, Uie Portugese territory 40 At least 89 fishing junks in a dead in the colony and fears that hun like a war-tom city. Debris littered the streets, some Detroit: General Motors Corp. miles west of Hong Kong, and was typhoon shelter were sunk but there dreds of Vietnamese boat people may Trees were uprooted, huge glass blocked by fallen trees and rubble Chairman Thomas Murphy headed for Hong Kong just before the were no deaths in those particular in Thursday scaled down GM’s storm struck. cidents. Numerous pleasure craft earlier optimistic forecasts for A Marine Police spokesman said, were also damaged. domestic car saies in the 1979 "If they are out to sea in that kind of Farmers reported thousands of modei year but predicted the boat, it will be a miracle if they have dollars worth of crops destroyed and economy would rebound from a survived.” the prices of some local food short and relatively mild reces Hope, the most powerful typhoon products were increased today. 3 sion. to hit Hong Kong since Typhoon Rose The fatalities in Hong Kong in Washington: Some administra which killed 130 persons in 1971, had cluded a 3-year-old girl who drowned tion staff economists are moved over to Guangdong province when swept off her family’s fishing forecasting a major rise in the un in China by midnight Thursday and junk, an electrician killed by an elec Taste employment rate to as high as 8.2 weakened enough to be downgraded tric cable knocked down in the storm, percent before the end of 1980, but to a tropical storm. There were no a 66-year-old man whose house officials warned those views had reports of casualties or damages collapsed on him and a 52-year-old not been reviewed by top from Chinese authorities. woman buried alive in a landslide. economic advisers. Public transport which was com Also killed were two 70-year-old Washington: The Senate pletely halted during the height of the men who were drowned in a river, an Thursday formally confirmed the storm, was gradually resuming full elderly man struck by a flying piece nominations of Paul Volcker as operations today. Flights in and out of metal and a man who drowned chairman of the Federal Reserve of Hong Kong’s international airport after his sampan capsized and sank Board and William Miiier as also were back to normal. in a waterfront typhoon shelter. secretary of Treasury, Hope’s terrific winds tossed New York: Despite aggressive institutional buying, stocks snapped a two-session rally by finishing mixed Thursday as Congress Prepares profit-takers cashed in on recent gains. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 2.39 points to 847.95. ’The New York Stock Ehcchange in For Its Vacation dex shed 0.01 to 59.35. WASHINGTON (UPI) - For some New York: Standard & Poor’s failed to reach agreement on gas it’s time to go home and mend oline rationing and conservation, the Corp. reported ’Thursday that pHOlitical fences. For a handful, it’s despite generally good earnings j. time to survey presidential chances. Senate Finance Committee did not uins in the second quarter, 34 Some will find good reasons to travel complete hearings on the windfall fewer U.S. companies Increased Storm Victim abroad, and a few will stay in profits tax on oil companies, and dividend payouts in July than the Washington and work. work has barely begun on the same month last year, This truck, with all its glass lost- in the height-of-Typhoon ^‘Hope*’ which multibillion-dollar effort to produce New York: Mirroring consumer winds, lies idle across S Bong Kong Street slammed into Hong Kong with furious 145 But for most of the 535 members of synthetic fuels. resistance to new spending at the Thursday after being blown from its parking miles-an-hour winds killing eight persons and Congress, the biennial August recess The president also wants action on retail level, major retail chains place along the waterfront in the western dis- injured more than 250 others. (UPI photo) beginning today is a chance to go on a bill to limit hospital cost increases, Thursday reported July sales vacation with their families. and the Senate probably will grapple ;ains that were substantially The House adjourned Thursday in the early fall with an ethics com ower than gains in previous night and the Senate planned to quit mittee report on financial miscon months. Giant Sears reported a today after seven months of activity duct charges against Sen. Herman decrease in sales. Vietnam Refugee Tells unparalleled for sluggishness in re Talmadge, D-Ga. Tokyo: The U.S. dollar turned cent years — perhaps reflecting a slightly lower against the The Senate did move fast in the perceived message from the voters past 10 days to confirm most of Japanese yen in slow trading on that Washington has been doing too the foreign exchange market Of Murder by Thai Pirates President (barter’s new Cabinet ap much lately. today. After opening at 216.90 pointments. compared with ’Thursday’s close BANGKOK, Thailand (UPI) - A to pick up survivors. the Thai captain until the pirate boat Congress will return Sept. 5 to a Thursday, the Senate confirmed Success! Diplomats familiar with the cases neared the Thai coast, where she, full agenda, including consideration of 216.40, the dollar finished the Vietnamese woman has told refugee Paul Volcker as Federal Reserve week at 216.87. officials she is the only survivor of said the two incidents were separate. too, was tossed overboard. of P i^ d to t'C a rte r’s multifaceted Board chairman and G. William 100 refugees who were raped, "There is just an awful lot of this liie refugee officials who found her energy package and the SALT II trea Miller as Treasury secretary to com clubbed and drowned by Thai pirates going on,” said one source. "It’s just after she swam to shore are keeping ty in the Senate. plete action on all of the administra 'Enriched Flavor'cigarette sparks whole her under protection in the southern roving unchecked through Southeast a slaughter out there right now.” The energy package was postponed tion officials who were transferred Thai town of Haadyai. Energy Asian waters, diplomats said today. The woman said the boat carrying until September when the two houses or promoted in the reshuffle. The 28-year-old woman said ^ e her and about 100 other men, women Diplomats said they fear the at a Glance swam to shore and reached refugee and children was rammed in the pirates may attempt to kill her. new taste era in low tar sm oking aid officials after she was t o s ^ South China Sea last month by a ‘"rhere seems no doubt she is o v erb o ^ near the 'Thai coast from large Thai fishing trawler. telling the truth,” said one Washington: The White House diplomatic source. “She is very fear City Officials the pirate ship, whose captain kept She said more than 60 people said ’Thursday the House bill on her in his cabin and raped her drowned immediately, many of them ful.” A few years ago, most smokers agreed: low tar gasoline rationing is unacceptable repeatedly. trapped in the hold of the small Viet Reports of refugees being killed to the president and the ^nate It was the second time in a week namese fishing boat. and robbed by pirates have become rejected the measure outright, lone survivors of attacks at sea have The armed pirates then dragged more frequent in recent months. Arrested,Charged meant low taste. sending it to conference com reached ’Thailand. some survivors from the water. Most pirate ships appear to be mittee for a compromise solution A 16-year-old boy, Nguyen Van Women were raped and tossed fishing trawlers. Police have said NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (UPI) - earlier in the day in New Britain Then along came MERIT and a whole new taste Washington: Skyrocketing oil Phuoc, survived three days on the overboard, she said.