Carter Announces Accord, Tells Miners to Ratify It
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IntldG today Area . 3B Dear Abby Books 4B Kngagemenis CB Convar 6A Obiluaries Classified ^ ..iiUO Collectors 6A Sr Citizens Comics 9B Sport* ! Good Morning Have A Good Day Carter announces accord, ^ ew 8 tells miners to ratify it WASHINGTON (UPI) - President The agreement was reac ;hed under announced immediately. Officials mined to give that process every "The agreemeni that has been reached today is no different." he summary Carter announced a contract settle heavy White House prensure just have estimated it would take nearly chance to work. It has worked, and said "You struggled (or it and it is a ment in the nation’s longest coal hours after Carter annout iced plans three weeks before coal production the settlement it h.ns produced is HARTFORD (DPI) - Gov. Ella to intervene in the crippli ng 81-day- could be back to normal. better lor everyone involved" significant achievement " T. Grasso asked President Carter strike Friday and warned miners he old walkout. Although Carter did not say what UMW President Arnold Miller Carter noted that the union's 39- to declare Connecticut a major will take “drastic and unsatisfactory legal action” if they do not ratify it. Terms of the agreemeni. were not action he had in mind, admini.stration termed the agreemeut a "good con man bargaining council, which disaster area as the state’s officials said the president was ready tract,” amd said it includ^ all the represents union miners nationwide, damage tab from the Blizzard of to order the miners back to work un health and pension /guarantees the had approved the agreement, and he 78 exceeded the $10 million mark. der the Taft-Hartley Act and perhaps union sought. urged rank and file members to "Damage reports and actual to seek congressionel approval for a He said the agree ment was even follow that lead costs will probably increase in the federal take over of the mines. better than the pact reached with the “This agreemeni serves the future, after the spring thaw, But in a quickly arranged, live Pittsburg and Midwa y Coal Co., Mon national interest as well as your own when more of our citizens have an appearance on national television. day, an agreemeni the BCOA had interest and those of your families," opportunity to properly assess Carter said federal intervention had earlier refused to cc insider he said "If it is not approved without their losses,” the governor said in been averted for the time being by a Carter had high praise for the delay, time will have run out for all a statement submitted to a House hurriedly arranged agreement UMW's 160,000 str iking members of us and I will have to lake the subcommittee in Washington. between the Bituminous Coal even while telling t) lem it is crucial drastic and unsatisfactory legal ac Operators Association and the United they ratify the p act. tion which I would have announced PANAMA CITY, Panama Mine Workers. "Yours is a histo ric struggle," he tonight.” (DPI) — Panama said Friday the "This is the outcome toward which said. "Your dedication to justice in The agreemeni was good news for Senate's probe of alleged drug all of us have been working so hard," the mines has been m atch^ only by the scores of businesses, industries trafficking by top Panamanian of he said. ”It was because we believe dedication to your c ountry whenever and layed off workers who have been ficials was based on testimony by in the free process of collective it needed you, whether in war or in affected by the .strike. an ex-National Guard officer who bargaining that I have been so deter peacetime. once tried to overthrow Gen. Omar Torrijos. A government spokesman said the source of the charges under study by the Senate was Col. Town afire, 20 dead, Amado Sanjur, former chief-of- staff of the National Guard who has been in exiled Califronia since am attempt to oust the Panama nian leader failed in 1969. after propane blast TOKYO (DPI) - Japanese WAVERLY, Tenn. (UPI) - A everyone out of i m area for half a But downtown businesses were ishermen, charging that derailed tank car carrying 2.000 mile around the ( lerailment. staffed as usual and there were 100 ‘dolphins who eat fish are bad," gallons of propane exploded like "an Four hours aft« t the explosion, an persons — law enforcement officials, clubbed and stabbed to death atomic blast” when workmen began area the size of two football fields Louisville & Nashville Railroad some 1,000 playful dolphins in a to empty it Friday, setting the town was still burning in downtown employes and civil defense workers twoHiay massacre ending Friday. afire and killing at least 20 persons. Waverly, a town of about 4,000 per — around the tankers at the time of The killing was approved by the “The whole sky lit up,” said Brad sons. the blast. provincial government. Fussell, who was working at a fur Firefighters fr om across eastern Workmen had just begun to drain The dolphins, man-loving, sea niture company nearby. “The blast Tennessee, including airborne units the car when it blew up. Most of the going mammals who have been could be felt two or three miles from Ft. Campliell, Ky., rushed to dead were believed to have been the known to protect humans from away. They say all the buildings are the scene. Itledical rescue personnel around the tanker. The sharks and who can talk to each wrecked and bodies are everywhere helicopters from Memphis, 155 miles town’s police chief was reportedly other, ranged from 12 to 15 feet in lying on the ground.” to the east, and from Ft. Campbell burned critically. length and some weighed more Barry Krupnikoff is shown at His non-iicenMd radio station flow out many I'lf the injured. “It like to have knocked me out of that was shut down this week. (Heraid p hoto by Dunn) Adj. Gen. Carl JA'allace, head of the than 1,000 pounds. Tennessee National Guard, said 20 Many of the injured, most of them my chair,” said Mayor Jimmy persons were killed and at least 145 badly burned, 'vere being taken to Powers, who was in his office three WASHINGTON (DPI) - The others injured as the thunderous Nashville, 60 mi les west of Waverly. miles away when the tanker United States failed to convince blast touched off blazes that wrecked Many homes in the area had been exploded. “We all knew what it was. other maritime nations that Listeners black the center of town. ordered evacuaited before workmen They had told us the way it would double-hulled tankers are needed Wallace said a second propane began draining the propane from the sound." to prevent oil spills, but other tanker, among 24 cars of a Louisville tank cars into t ractor-trailer trucks. measures just approved at an in silenced st$dion & Nashville freight train that ternational conference should do derailed in downtown Waverly an equally good job, U.S. officials After two years of broadcasting, a one for thj fe listeners. Wednesday, did not explode although “I don’t [think we should have been said Friday. Manchester resident and full-time it was only 30 feet from the first. One bid received Deputy Transportation shut down jbecause of what we did for Manchester Community College stu- However, the general said the publiq',” he said. He broadcast Secretary Alan Dutchman said dent"finds himself without a radio firefighters who were pouring foam notices fbi r churches and the com the steps finally included in a pair station. on the second car to keep it cool munity col liege. He received no paid of new treaties will provide key But, support from listeners of the might eventually have to let it go. for senior buses advertised bents. safeguards against such disasters non-licens^ station, including a peti Wallace called in 50 National He also 1 /elt that his all-request for as the 1976 wreck of the Argo tion by a group of Glastonbury Guard troops and began clearing The Town of Manchester received and 5 p.m. except for certain Merchant that spilled millions of, firefighters, already has started. mat was I popular with the listeners. only one bid Fi iday on the operation holidays. gallons of oil on the Atlantic off Earlier this week. Federal Com He receivi ed 40 to 50 calls a night, he of a tempor ary transportation Additional service on additional Nantucket Island. munications Commission officials said. system for eld erly and handicapped hours or Saturdays and Sundays shut down a non-licensed station There is i no telephone in his home, Police probe residents. would be $4.45 per hour per bus. Dial- WASHINGTON (DPI) - A ship so the cal Is were taken by a friend a-Ride also designated available operated by Barry Krupnikoff, 28, of The bid wan from Dial-a-Ride of ment of Israeli oranges, spot- 43 Wilfred Road. Krupnikoff ran the who lives i in East Hartford. The double death backup vehicles including a vehicle checked because some of the fruit friend the n would relay the requests Connecticut Intc. of 134 E. Center St. with hydraulic lift for wheelchairs, 40-watt station, WHVY-FM at 89.9 at a rate of $1.08.50 per operator per sold in Europe was contaminated, FM, from his second-floor bedroom. to Krupnil toff by CB radio. the company's entire fleet of seven aMIDDLETOWN (UPI) - Police bus per day, o;r $151.15 per day for the has been found free of mercury Broadcasting without a license is Some 01 [ his listeners, a group of taxicabs and wheelchair vans.