I The weather Inside today t \ MoiUy tunny, lets wind today, high Area news 1-B-3-B Dear Abby — 9-B in low SOt. Fair tonight, low in 20i. Betty’s Editorial ........ 6-A Partly cloudy, warmer Wedneiday Notebook .... 10-B F am ily..........10-B with high aroUnd SO. National weather Business..........4-A Obituaries . 10-A forecatt map on Page 7-B. Classified .7-B-8^B Sports___4-B—6-B C om ics............9-B Greenwich woman may head Commerce Department <■ L Carter taps Blumenthal . • V V . '• .. • to treasury cabinet post ATLANTA (UPI) - President­ of transportation, flew to Atlanta minority groups to high posts in his the nominations must be approved by elect Jimmy Carter today tapped today. administration. the Senate. Former Labor Secretary John Bendix Corp. President Werner Mrs. Pfeiffer, 44, is a former vice As for today’s announcements, Dunlop, reportedly high on Carter’s president of International Business Michael Blumenthal as treasury Mrs. Pfeiffer would be the fourth list as a possble appointee to take the Machines and lives in Greenwich, secretary to replace William Simon. woman cabinet member in history job once again, met with the Conn., where she is a consultant on Blumenthal's nomination was con­ and the first to head the Commerce president-elect today. government relations for IBM and firmed in the Washington office of Department, established in 1913. Sen. Carl Curtis, R-Neb., a member Carter Press Secretary Jody other corporations. Her husband. r. ■.-••V- of the Senate Finance Committee Powell said Carter planned another Ralph Pfeiffer, is a senior vice presi­ The others were Frances Perkins, and of the Joint Committee on Inter­ news conference in Plains, Ga., dent of IBM. secretary of Labor during the nal Taxation. Thursday to name two more cabinet Earlier, in his first cabinet Franklin Roosevelt era; Oveta Culp Carter scheduled a 2:30 p.m. EST appointees. nomination. Carter named Cyrus Hobby, secretary of Health. Educa­ s nationally televised news conference Blumenthal, 50, is a former Vance to replace Henry Kissinger as tion and Welfare in the first to make the Blumenthal announce­ Kennedy administration inter­ secretary of state. At the same time, Eisenhower administration, and ment and was also expected to make national trade negotiator. He is a he picked Atlanta banker Bert Lance Carla Hills, current secretary of one other nomination at that time — former Princeton professor, a refugee to be federal budget director. All of Housing and Urban Development. bringing to three the number of per­ from Nazism and speaks with a slight sons named to his cabinet. German accent. Sources close to the President­ (In Washington, a spokesman in elect have indicated he has already Curtis’ office said at mid-morning Town will hire decided to name California physicist that ’’the senator got a call this mor­ Harold Brown as defense secretary ning from President-elect Carter in­ and Mrs. Jane Cahill Pfeiffer to be forming him about the Blumenthal attorney for zoning the first female commerce appointment.” ) secretary. Mrs. Pfeiffer’s selection would be .* '• •. .rTv. • ‘ -viL Rep. Brock Adams, D-Wash., un­ in keeping with Carter’s promise to of industrial park der strong consideration as secretary name women and members of other By GREG PEARSON also one of the people in the Burnham - Herald Reporter St.-Croft Dr. area, called the The Manchester Economic proposal “unsettling.” OPEC ministers Development Commission will hire Anderson, stating that many peo­ National Community Christmas Tree an attorney to work on preparatory ple in his neighborhood were strongly steps for the proposed industrial opposed to Buckland Commons, said, The lights on the National Community Christmas Tree on the meeting in Qatar park. "I don’t think MAP Associates had a Ellipse near the Washington Monument in Washington, D. C., The commission, which is the Chinaman’s chance (of developing were tested Monday night. The formal lighting by President guiding agency for planning the park, Buckland Commons) in the original : h e s t e r DOHA, Qatar (UPI) — This dusty mand for a 15 per cent increase, and met this morning to discuss the plans. ” M U N ITY Ford will take place Thursday. (UPI photo) town, a former fishing village Iraq, demanding 25 per cent, will hiring of an attorney. Traffic access to the proposed transformed into a wealthy city by eventually accept Saudi Arabia's :OLLEGE The commission approved the shopping area would not have been the region’s oil boom, in effect holds figure. hiring of a special counsel and will sufficient under the original plan and the key to the world’s prosperity this What makes the Gulf producers so meet Thursday at 9 a.m. to formally probably would have prevented the week. influential is the fact they can control Lower court actions select the law firm to be hired. development of the entire Buckland Ministers from the 13-member prices by increasing or decreasing Commons project, he said. Organization of Petroleum Expor­ production. With more profits than Town Counsel Victor I. Moses, who met with commission members on Anderson said that this had been a to continue their way ting Countries are gathering in Doha they need, they reportedly oppose the matter, will do all work con­ "selling point" among his neighbors for a meeting Wednesday generally any increase that would damage the nected with land acquisition. The when they discussed the original expected to result in an oil price in­ economies of Western countries — on in utility rate issue special counsel will be used primari­ plans for the industrial park. crease. which their development depends ly for preparing the zoning hearing The new proposal would allow HARTFORD — Connecticut’s rate hike granted Northeast in 1974. The size of the price hike will and where their petrodollar profits better traffic access to Buckland determine the cost of running an are invested. presentation on the park. Supreme Court has declined to halt Last week. Northeast asked the Moses said today. “I just can't give Commons, giving it a stronger all lower court actions — including a high court to stay all lower court ac­ auto, heating a home, or keeping a The European Common market chance of developing, Anderson said. factory on its feet. warned recently that anything more them the time that they need. ” contempt proceeding — against tions against the utility and to In a related matter, the commis­ Town Manager Robert B. Weiss A 10 per cent increase in the price than a "moderate ” increase will Northeast Utilities in a controversial assume full responsibility for the sion was presented with a map of a explained that the proposal was not of oil would add about $12 billion to stunt its economic progress and bat­ rate hike case. case. tentative agreement reached one made by the town and was only a the world’s annual bills, according to tle against unemploymment and in­ At the same time, however, the In its ruling, the court denied that between the J.C. Penney Co., who “tentative one ’ which has not been official U.S. figures. flation. The U nit^ States says no in­ high court slapped the wrist of a request, saying it would be inap­ would be the major tenant of the formally approved by Penney. In union with the other Arab states crease is justified. lower court judge for exposing of­ propriate for it to interfere with an park, and MAP Associates, The agreement would center on 50 ficials of the giant utility and the appeal. on the Persian Gulf, Qatar is in a In preparation for the ministerial acres in the eastern section of the position to say how high the price meeting, OPEC’s economic commis­ developers of the proposed Buckland Public Utilities Control Authority to However, the court did chastize Commons project. proposed industrial park. The land is should go. Saudi Arabia, the largest sion met to discuss the question of contempt charges. Bieluch for his actions. The plan would include moving the presently owned by the Hartman country on the Gulf, is publicly on price differentials for different Opponents on both sides of the ’’Contempt proceedings are not a J.C. Penney distribution center Tobacco Co., but MAP holds an op­ record as wanting no more than a 10 grades of oil — a cause of friction issue immediately claimed the deci­ proper substitute for the orderly slightly southward and constructing tion on it. per cent increase. within the oil cartel. sion as a victory. process of appeal,” the court said. exit and entrance ramps from 1-86 Penney had originally expressed an The Gulf’s position has prevailed in The current OPEC price is $11.51 a Last spring. Common Pleas Court “It is not the trial court’s function onto both Buckland St. and Tolland interest in the land, but later decided the past. Many experts believe it will barrel for Arabian light crude oil, Judge William C. Bieluch touched off to shepherd and supervise the actions Tpke. that the property was not essential. prevail this week as well, and that which serves as a benchmark for a series of legal proceedings when he of the administrative agency William Anderson, a member of The development of Penney would "hawks” such as Iran, with its de­ pricing other grades of oil. declared illegal a 447.7 million dollar (PUCA);” the court said. the Development Commission and still require about 20 acres of MAP- owned property. Today’s news summary NatureConservancy to aid state Compiled fro m United Press International in acquiring Bishop^s Lake WORCESTER, Mass. - 117,0(X) Jefferson County students ^ The private Nature Conservancy, a acquisition process and the private Grasso said, "it is mutually un­ State Congress will wait until It knows ended an unscheduled two-week ^ nonprofit land conservation group, is developer, Nangle Associates of derstood that the Conservancy may vacation today, as a strike that Boston, apparently made a better take such further action as necessary S HARTFORD — Initial court how much Americans spend on likely to go along with Gov.