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PAGE TWENTY - MANCHESTER EVENING HERALD. Manchester. Conn., Fri., Sept, 1. 1978 Foreign Shipping Industries Worse Off Than IJ.S. NEW YORK (UPI) - The depres now, were running at two and a half customers of Japan — to grant them buying big used containeil ships at $6,500, American companies are con sion in the world's shipbuilding and times the rate of incoming orders. a two-year moratorium on orders for bargain prices. According to the testing the bid on the grounds that ship operating industries is worse A ll leading shipbuilding countries Greek ships being built in Japanese Business semi-official Japan External Trade the Russian bid was way below cosJ. abroad than in the United States: except Sweden and Brazil were hit by yards. The Weather Organization, China bought at least But Brazilian and South Korean That s because neither ship the critical slump, Brazil had a gain This was because of depreskion and 33 used containerships for $127 shipowners are widely-reported to be Saturday sunny with highs 75-80. Saturday building nor ship operation has been shipbuilding industry was presented because it is a relative newcomer to the decline of the U,S, dollar against million, undercutting established rates on night fair with lows in the upper 50s, Sunday part of critical commercial importance to dramatically at the end of May in shipbuilding with low costs and the yen. The Greek shipping tycoons JETRO also said the Peking liner freight — general cargo, that is ly sunny and quite warm with highs 82-87. Chance the United States since the age of Lloyd s annual report of the condition Sweden had a gain because it had collect their revenues in dollars, of rain near zero Saturday and 10 percent Satur sail. Congress and the public tend to government has been buying used — by as much as 40 percent. of the industry and the market as of already suffered a big decline. No Anthony Chandris, president of the lishing trawlers and coastal craft iJIanrlfPBtCT lEim ttnn llpralJ) day night. Light and variable winds Saturday The Senate Commerce Committee think )of shipping and shipbuilding! March 30. If anything, things have figures were given for the Soviet Greek Shipowners Union, warned the and placed an order in a Hong Kong recently issued a report calculating A Family NEWSpaper Since 1881 becoming gentle southwest Saturday night. largely^n terms of national security become worse since then, shipyards, Japanese, after they had stalled on yard for 16 freighters ranging from that,U,S, flag shipowners are making National weather forecast map on page 13 rather than profit-making Lloyd's said the free enterprise Japan, the free world's biggest granting the moratorium from early ^ Home delivered copy 15 cents 6,000 to 15,000 tons. illegal rebates of perhaps $100 operations. world's ship order book had fallen to shipbuilder, had the biggest loss, March to June, that they were Vol. XCVII, No. 284 — Manchester, Conn., Saturday, Sept. 2, 1978 The Soviet Union's huge Baltic million a year in order to stay, in ) Newsstand copy 20 cents The cancer in shipbuilding and ship the lowest level since 1966 and would followed by France, the United risking losing the goodwill of their Shipping Co, caused consternation in overseas markets against this kind of operating began, of course, with the get worse because 57 percent of the States and Britain, begt customer. western shipping circles by winning a competition. U.S. flag coastal ships, Arab oil embargo of 1973. The infec tonnage on order was due to be The Japanese also faced continued The critical state of the shipping contract to haul large urban buses of course, are protected against tion soon spread to dry cargo delivered this year. Deliveries of pressure from Greek shipowners — and shipbuilding businesses clearly is operations. from West Germany to Houston for , foreign flag competition. So are the new ships, many of which the ship among the world's biggest fleet benefiting the communist bloc $3,500 a bus against the lowest bid The gloomy state of the world's Great Lakes and Inland Waterways operators didn't really need, right operators and among the best nations. Mainland China has been from an American shipping line of Inside Today fleets. Daken Quits Post . 7 ^ Manchester A 13-year old Manchester boy has made ambitious plans for his fourth annual tag sale to raised funds for leukemia research. Si'< Over GET A mixup pngi- r>. HARTFORD (UPI) - City Daken was in Europe on a vacation reporting and management informa Connecticut Manager James B. Daken handed in when city officials announced Aug. 24 tion system, the two methods the his resignation Friday, saying he felt that about 1,000 CETA employees CETA office uses to determine how CEUBRidlON SALE! Connecticut's new head of a federal employment program with would have to be laid off Sept. 9, many people are employed and how All Caldor Stores Join in Celebrating the Grand Opening Emergency Medical Services has a $1.6 million deficit could be better three weeks earlier than expected, he has the qualifications for the many more people can be hired turned around if he were not city because of the program’s deficit. job because he is egocentric and without exceeding federal funding of Our 49th Store...in WEST NORWALK, Connecticut manager. limits. insane. S i t pngc 12. His resignation, contained in a At his first meeting with the City Arthur Green, director of the letter to Mayor George Athanson, Council since returning from vaca The deficit, estimates of which state’s Human Rights and Oppor was to be effective Sept. 8. tion, Daken Thursday attributed the grew from $400,000 to $1,587 million C ? p b N T O N tunities Commission, saJ% Gov. Daken has said he accepts full deficit in the program which has while the manager was on vacation, Ella Grasso has a good records on responsibility for difficulties in the been managed by Hartford to faulty can be traced to before January-when civil rights. See papi- 12. Comprehensive Employment and financial and personnel listings. the federal Labor Department Training Act program which serves Daken said the problems in the transferred $5.5 million from the city Graduates In the Area Hartford and 23 area towns, but he CETA program had built up over five to the state, Daken said. has also said he would not become years, pointing out he has been city The funds were taken because the Michael R. Richards of An estimated $250,000 in stolen the scapegoat. manager for less than two years. city was unable to place enough peo 13 Vine St.. Manchester, art and antiques has been has been graduated from a In his letter of resignation he listed Daken said he accepts “ full respon ple in CETA programs. recovered during a raid on a home multiple line insurance Girls’ Corduroy & some of his accomplishments as city sibility for the failure of the program YOUR Cotton in a remote wooded area of course held at the educa Fashion Jeans manage'. He also said he felt some of to date,” but “ would not be made the When the funds were transferred, CHOICE Corduroy Jeans Plymouth. Mass, S i t page 12. tion center of the Travelers Group includes latest cord Smartly-siyled, in wanted his subordinates had tailed him but scapegoat for our current the city was reporting to federal of styles plus brushed denims Insurance Co. This is an solid colors. Flap pockets. that others had served him well and problems.” wilh exciting details. Full machine washable* ficials that it had hired fewer people advanced course that helps Sizes 7-14, 5.97 would continue to contribute to the He said the “ heart of our problem" than were actually working in CETA P a ir Sizes 6-18. Sports prepare the agent to Our Reg. 7.99 Our Reg. 8.99 city. is inadequacies in the financial programs, Daken said. provide a complete in- Seeded players have tough time in U.S. Tennis Open ... Compensa .surance program for a Misses’ & Jr. Corduroy Men’s “Lee” lamily or a business. Skirts & Jeans tion offered in Rick Barry case. Corduroy Jeans S i t I’ age 10. Richards is associated Sub Firm Denies Report National Football League season with Richards Associates. 8.68 Our Rtg. 10.99 10.49ourRtg .14.99 S i t 435 Buckland Road, South Cinch waists, tie fronts, many with Long-wearing 5-pocket styles opens this weekend. Page 11. Windsor, in all lines of in latest pocket details. Sizes 5^1Sri6. with that famous Lee fit! Straight- surance. leg or flare. Sizes 29-36. Index A graduate of South Girls’ Kitten-Soft Boys’Jflo-lron Of Moving from Quonset Windsor High School, Tops For Fall Knit Shirts Area Tow ns.............................. 8 The victims of several days of fighting between student Churches ..................................5 Richards attended the NEW LONDON (UPI) - Rhode move the Rhode Island operation to tric Boat headquarters in Groton: rebels and National Guard troops wait at a Red Cross station Classified............................ 12-15 University of Connecticut. Our Rtg. 5.99 3 . 6 6 Our Rtg. 4.69 Island's largest employer Friday Charleston, S.C., where the company “General Dynamics is satisfied 4.79 C o m ics................................. 15 with their personal belongings while a search for the rebels He is the son of Mr. and Smooth brushed knits or Turtleneck or collared styles, in denied a published report that it has another shipbuilding facility. with its Quonset Point operations and sensuous velour.