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The weather Inside today Sunny today, high near 30. Increasing Area news .. 14, 15 Editorial ............ 4 cloudiness tonight, low in 20s. Friday Business.............. 6 F a m ily ..............8, 9 mostly cloudy, milder, chance of mor Classified 16, 17, 18 Gardening ........ 13 ning showers, high near 50. National Manchester A City of Vi1,loge Charm C om ics.............. 19 Obituaries .......... 10 weather forecast map on page 17. Dear A bby........19 S p o rts............11, 12 TWEISTY PAGES TWO SECTION^ MANCHESTER. CONN., THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1376 - VOL. XCV, No. 143 PRrCEt FIFTEEN CENTS In the wake of terrorist bombings News summary London mass transit security tightened (luinpiled from By United Press International precedented in the 113-year history of In Northern Ireland, authorities sons and the discovery of three cumstances," warranting the step. Uiiiled I’ ress Inleriiuliunal More than 1,000 policemen and the city’s mass transit system. warned the public to be on the bombs in three days aboard London At the height of the morning rush, armed plain clothes officers rode The police aboard the commuter lookout for letter bombs in their St. subways. Two of the London bombs police and the subway’s private London’s trains and subways today in trains and subways searched parcels, Patrick’s Day cards. exploded, injuring eight persons, but security force searched bags and an all out effort to halt the recent briefcases and handbags suspected of The stepped up security followed a the other was defused. briefcases at scores of the 270 State wave of terrorist bombings. The containing Irish Republican Army renewed bombing campaign in In Belfast, police today found the stations serving an estimated two beefed up security was un bombs. Northern Ireland that killed two per- mutilated body of a man behind a million Londoners a day. NEW HAVEN-A $5 million Protestant-owned pub. They said the Overground commuter trains emp civil suit has been filed in New man — the sixth secretarian murder tying at center city terminals also Haven Superior Court by the victim this year — had been beaten were scoured to ensure no bombs had guardian of 9-year-old Beth savagely and stabbed at least 16 been left behind. Ann Cameron, the sole sur times. In Northern Ireland, two persons vivor of a truck accident in The use of plain clothes officers died Wednesday night in a bomb blast which her parents and three carrying gun on commuter trains near Dungannon, 30 miles west of sisters died Dec. 6,1975 in Ver drew immediate protest from civil Belfast. The bomb, estimated to con mont. n ■) libertarians, who pointed to the long tain 70 pounds of explosives, was standing British tradition of rarely planted in an automobile trunk out WATERBURY-Lawyers in issuing firearms to police officers. side a Roman Catholic-owned bar. the Murray R. Gold murder “Plainclothes policemen with guns Forty miles south of Belfast at trial argued Wednesday about can easily be mistaken for Caledon on the County Armagh the admissibility of psychiatric terrorists," said Brian Richardson of border with the Irish Republic, a records concerning a dead man the National Council for Civil Liber bomb affixed to the door of a Protes who defense attorneys claim ties. He termed the stationing of tant farmhouse was triggered by a killed Irving and Rhoda Paster armed officers aboard subways a dog, police said. nak. “frightening development." /i But police spokesmen said the con The bomb caused extensive Regional certed IRA terror campaign had damage to the front of the home but created the “most desperate cir no injuries. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The miners of the future could work GLDROX in space suits instead of tunnels and ride home on rocket powered asteroids, according Weiss recommends to Massachusetts Institute of all fabric bleach Technology astrophysicists who see the asteroids as poten tial sources of iron and nickel s(^hool budget cut when earth, supplies are depleted. By SOL R. COHEN the fact that revenues from all Herald Reporter sources, exclusive of the property BOSTON — Reputed un lax, show no increase from the derworld boss Raymond Town Manager Robert Weiss is recommending a $13,850,063 school current year. Revenue-Sharing funds Patriarca's fourth attempt to are still in some serious doubt and reverse his 1970 conviction for budget for 1976-77. It is $300,000 below the $14,150,063 requested by the state aids to municipalities are still murder conspiracy has been subject to change. denied by the U. S. First Cir Rivals exchange views school administration. However, it is $850,000 or 6.54 per cent above the $13 "Our current year revenue picture cuit Court of Appeals. is not optimistic and, therefore, we Thomas Ferguson, right, and Wally Irish exchanged views prior to Wednesday night's elec million current budget. The $850,000 recommended in face the likelihood of requiring most tion of a new Republican town chairman. Ferguson was elected and Irish pledged to work crease is the equivalent of just under of the present surplus funds to offset tax and other revenue shortfalls." National w'ith him for unification of all factions of the party. (Herald photo by Dunn) 3 mills in Manchester’s new Grand Weiss has scheduled a second Dolor List. WASHINGTON - New York The $13,850,063 recommended by meeting of the school board and Board of Directors, as authorized in 36S may be the air transport Weiss would include Instant Lottery the town charter and as requested by capital of the United States, receipts anticipated by Manchester p3 but Washington will get the through June 30, 1977. Weiss es the school board. It will be March 24 at 8 p.m. in the Board Of Education’s nation's first commercial timates three payments of $62,581 Thomas Ferguson elected meeting Room, N. School St. supersonic jetliner service each, for a total of $187,743. He said i.99 5 “ Weiss has until March 29 to submit when British Airways and Air he will ask the town counsel to deter .99 6 “ his recommended tentative budgets A France begin twin flights from mine within state law how to handle and tax rates for 1976-77 and has said London and Paris May 24 to Instant Lottery receipts properly. he'll submit them next week. Washington to start U. S. Con local GOP chairman In a letter to Allan Thomas, school A public hearing on those tentative ^99 corde service. board chairman, Weiss notes that his budgets and tax rates will be held recommendation represents nearly Mibla core: the liberai concept. And, the time to Manchester Republicans to go April 5 at 8 p.m. at Waddell School. s; reversible. PARTRIDGE, Ky. - A crew By SOL R. COHEIN 98 per cent of the amount requested. The Board of Directors will have to has sealed the last entrance to Hcruld ltr|iorlcr start is right now and right here, so forward toward again becoming the "An important factor involved in majority party in Manchester. He May 7 to adopt budgets and tax rates an underground section of a Thomas F. Ferguson is the new let's get started.” this etermination," states Weiss, "is coal mine where the bodies of chairman of the Manchester Ferguson is chairman of the GOP S<-<' Page Two for the fiscal year to begin July 1. 11 men remain following last Republican Town Committee. He State Key Committee, which raises week’s double tragedy. succeeds Nathan Agostinelli, who funds to operate State GOP olyester declined re-election after 15 months Headquarters. He said Tuesday he'd While 100-foot unit is inoperable HJDleknit KANSAS CITY - Wheat in the post. resign the state post if elected town farmers in parts of Kansas, Elected to the position Wednesday chairman. -abrics New Mexico, Colorado, night, Ferguson defeated Wally Irish Ferguson is former co-publisher of 14 Solids Oklahoma and Texas must get Jr. by a 38 to 22 count, with 25 of the the The Manchester Herald, He has Reg. 2.99 rain soon or their crops will town committee not present. The been on the Republican town com Town’s 75 -foot ladder truck mittee since the early 1950’s and was ^7 Fancies fail voting was by paper ballots. d Reg. 2.99 Following announcement of the its treasurer in 1952. WASHINGTON - President Re-elected unanimously and 'onation vote, Irish moved that it be made un shifted to Central station Ford's agenda today included a animous and it was so voted. without opposition were all other of islan® full morning of staff meetings Irish pledged all of his efforts to ficers of the town committee: Elsie rn on domestic issues and an Swensson, vice-chairman; Patricia helping Ferguson and said he’ll work By 1)01 (I BEVINS Both trucks are American truck is assigned according to i.„ Our afternoon session with Vice with him “to insure victory for the Lawrence, corresponding secretary; l / W Reg. President Nelson A. Herald Ui‘porl«-r LaFrance vehicles. The 75-footer is a area of town, Rivosa said. ' f Skein 89c Republicans in November." Harriet Haslett, recording Rockefeller. Ford will make a Manchester’s Town Fire Depart 1952 truck; the 100-footer is a 1967 Rivosa said department ed weight 4 02., 4 It was St. Patrick’s Day and the secretary; and Charles McKenzie, procedures call for two ladder trucks campaign swing into North treasurer. ment has moved its 75-foot aerial truck.- Each meets current tire candidate named Irish not^ that his specifications and insurance only at alarms at Manchester Carolina Saturday.