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The weather Snow ending this afternoon with temperatures falling into the Ms. Win­ dy, odd toni^t lows S to 10. Fair, win­ dy, cold Friday, h i^ in Ms. National weather foreout map on page IS. Jjftmd hMttWT A CUy of VUh(f9 Cknrm MANCHESTER, CONN., THURSDAY, JANUARY 0 ,19W- V(ML. XCV, No. P nicgtfiiTMwaBm News 1 Beirut battle summary in second day ■"V Compiled from BEHIUT, Lebanoe (UPI) - Chris­ Three armored cars led the United Press International LC tian milittsmen spearheaded hy ar- counteroffensive with niadilne guns inored cars iaundied a counterattack blazing while millUamen fdlowed on today against Palestinian guorillas foot, trading rodnt and mortar fire State who had pushed them bade in their with the Palestinian forces. NEW HAVEN - Sum­ fiocest fighting in 10 months of The Christians poured in rein­ marizing the government’s Lebanese dvil war. forcements to drive them back. case against nine defendants in It was the sedm l day «rf flghting in “niis is it, we’re finally coming the firebombing of a Shelton eastern Beirut in which mortar and down to the crunch of the vriide rubber factory, U. S. Attorney macUpe gun fire had reduced war,” a Christim street fl^ter said. Peter Dorsey has placed ul­ h ^ ita ls to rubble in the seesaw bat­ Police put early casualties at S timate reqxMisibility on Ohio tle raging around fhe Palestinian dead and SO injured, raising the toll businessman Charles Moeller. refugee camp d Tal Zaatar. since dyll war erupted in April to Defense attorneys summarize Thousands of. Palestinian more than 8,100 dead and 17,300 their cases today and the Jury guerrillas had been thrown into the wounded. is expected to get the case ear­ struggle to widen the wedge of With guns and shell Hre glazing, a ly next week. s t r a t i territory seised in a drive Palestinlan-Moslm fmice of about against the six-day Christian 5,000 smashed out of ’Tal Zaatar HARTFORD - The grand blockade of the camp. bdore dawn Wednesday and pushed i '-'I ^ A jury report on the Bridgi^rt But at midaftemoon, Oiristian north and west of the caisip in a mile­ jai alai scandal will bypass the militiamen launched a counterattadc wide arc. Christian fmrees counterat­ judge who ordered it kept deslfpsed to push the Palestinian tacked, pushing back the forces back into the Tal Zaatar secret and be turned over to Palestinians to Tal Zaatar’s out­ another judge who may make it refugee camp. skirts. public, it was report^ today. TUs correspondent managed to But the Palestinians struck with a reach the Christian front line despite second offensive early today recap­ heavy bursts of automatic weapons turing most of their original gains, a fire and accompaned the Christian Christian spokesman said. Regional forces throu^ suburban &n El Fil’s "A very fierce battle” was still un­ no-man’s land which separates the der way around Tal Zaatar early region from Tal Zaatar. today, be said. BOSTON - Boston Schools A huge column of smoke spiraled Two hospitals, alternately seised Supt. Marion Fahey, the Mwly up from a large wardwuse, wliidi by both sides, were shelled to the named federal! receiyw for was hit by rodtet fire and set ablaze ground as the battle see-sawed South Boston High School, says during the overnight fighting between tte opm fields surrounding (Herald photo by Pinto) she plans to lea^^day-to-day between Palestinian guerrillas and Tal Zaatar and the shop-lined streets operations at UicrKhool to the Christian militiamen. of Sin El FU. Selecting seeds for Bangladesh new principal. :iCV. ■. - William Herlth, center, and Amy Costa, Team Showing them the variety of seeds is ^ I p ^ PORTLAND, aine — Sen. 7B students at Illihg Junior High School, select Taylor, field director of Christian Rural Edmund S. Mi ie, D-Maine, seed packets to be sent to Bangladesh as part of Overseas Programs (CROP) who v is M ttie W ednesday Irmally an- Business Zone sought hounced he wi! ' seek a fourth a project to aid the hungry people of the world, school and illustrated how the prograntwwis. Senate term invited his 1 constituents 'judge him by for Pine St. firehouse his record. By SpL R. COHEN the McKee St. firehouse opened and Heiwld Reporter took over its functions. Illing Junior High students A public hearing wU be held Feb. 2 Presently, the two-story frame National by the Planning Zoning Commis­ building (it has a basement and an at­ sion on a Town of Manchester' tic and is serviced with a sprinkler DETROIT — Imported autos systan) is used to store public works combating hunger with seeds request few a zone change for its old took a record 18.3 per cent Pine St. Firdnuse property. The ei^pment. share of the depressed. 1975 U. ttenge w o ^b e frbm-the prostoit b - More than 7^000 p«ck«U CROP Mancheirtar’s recent observance M becauiij^t *• hi. njed o* *<>W. S.-aHhLnuu;lg|^ to dustrial to'a ]w«ip6s^Business Director of Public Works Jay Giles seeds will be sentj9'Bangladesh as Hunger W e^. seeds were diOikfl’bicaase t ^ will its’lOw^'^^yew since 1982. Car said T iteB ^ night a storage buildinf the result of a drira conducted by the The money was sent to the reproduce and the siqniHy will be sales totallM '8.6 million units 'Zone. The zone change. Town M anage to replace the one on Pine St. would students of Teams 7A, 7B and 8C at Manchester Council on World replenished year after year. Idst year. cost from fSO.OOO to |50,000. He said Illing Junior High School. , Hunger. Several programs were Robert Weiss told town directors The seeds are bulk-packed in large Ihesday night, would dear the way he was referring to a pre-fabricated From contributions . of spare suggested to a committee of students CLEVELAND- A new blood foil pouches to insure germination for potenUal sale of the 180zll0-fod structure placed on town-owned change usually spent on "junk” food, wlw selected CROP as the one they test appears to have an 88 per and each packet holds about 100 property on the northwest cornel* of land-possibly near the disposal funds from bake sales and book auc­ wished to support. Bangladesh was grams of seed. cent success rate in detecting I ^ St. ^ Hartford Rd.Thedirec- area. tions, the students raised $125 during chosen s the project recipient cancer, a scientist reports. tors instructed Weiss to seek the zone change, without committing WASHINGTON - The themselves to the sale. National Right to Work Com­ Weiss said he has a potential State aid grant for Bennet project mittee, obviously expecting customer who has offered a fair that Labor Secretary John market price for the property, Dunlop will resign, announced provided it is zoned Business. The today it would oppose chief assessor has placed its estin\ated $265,000 greater than anticipated federal mediator W. J. Usery value at 150,000 to 190,000. Weiss said as his successor. the offer irin the |75,000 area. projects was estim ated at $1,489,888. By DOUG BEVINS grants than anticipated to help pay The Bennet project included both The old firdKHue was constructed for the recent completed bulhUng extensive renovations and new con­ ^ ause anticipated state aid WASHINGTON - Former before the turn d the century and Herald Reporter totaled $1,440,900. Manchester of- President Richard M. Nixon project at Bennet Junior High struction, and it was thought in was utilized until April 1966, when Manchester’s Board of Education November 1973 that some of the flcals were prqiared to pay $I,UI,8B8 will celebrate his 63rd birthday has learned it will receive more state S c b ^ . School Supt. James Kennedy today renovation items wouldn’t qualify for for the program, Bnandiig the cost Friday at his San (Hemente, Iv issuing bonds. Calif., estate with a number of announeed that state officials have state reimbursement. his former White House aides, approved reimbursement to Because of the uncertainty, school Now that the stote hu approved a close friend and supporter Pushee resigns post Manchester of $1,265,000 for the administrators were conservative in more-than-expected grants, Bennet project. Original estimates, Manchester is preparing for a bond said today. the 1976-77 school year. This position their state aid estimates to make By NANCY FOOTE. made in November 1973 when the issue o t just $ X S milUon. The bn will be filled July 1,1976 or as soon as sure townspeople knew how high Members of the Regional DistrictO project was improved by voters, creased state aid allows not onlv a WASHINGTON - Rep. Toby possible.and the person named to fill costs tould go, Kennedy said. Board of Education acc^>ted with were for $1 million in state aid tor reducUon in the amount of bonds bat Moffett, D-Conn., says he will the slot will be anwinted principal of regret the resignation of Principal J. Bennet. The Bennet project was part of a a reduction in interest poyments on investigate reports that a Rham effective July 1, 1977 on Uie Colin Pushee at a special meeting Asst. School Supt. Wilson Deakin $5.6 million junior high school group calling itself Black recommendation of the superinten­ thow bonds. Mraday ni^t. said the difference apparently stems building program.Work atBennet cost Dragons is. recruiting ex- dent and the approval of the Board of The resignation is effective June from several projert items which about $2.7 million and work at Illing Town Treasurer Roger Negro said servicemen to go to Angola 1o Education.

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