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\ The weather Partly sunny, hazy, hot and humid today with chance of an afternoon thunderstorm. Highs around 90 or 32 Celsius. Warm and humid tonight with considerable fog; lows 65 to 70. Partly sunny, lianrlfpalpr iEuptiutg Bpralfi hazy, hot amd humid Thur^ay with chance of A Family NEWSpaper Since 1881 afternoon thunderstorms; h i^ s 85 to 90. Chance of rain 30 percent today, 20 percent tonight and 30 Home delivered copy 15 cents percent Thursday. National weather map on page Vol. XCVII, No. 269 — Manchester, Conn., Wednesday, August 16, 1978 Newsstand copy 20 cents 16. Inside today Manchester Memphis blackout A Hartford developer plans to build low and moderate cost housing on Spencer Street near the new housing for the elderly. adds to problems See pngf 2. The Charter Revision Commis sion plans to meet Monday to MEMPHIS, Tenn. (UPI) - A city is being patrolled by about 1,500 Police Capt. Sam Martz said National Guardsmen and Mayor revise recommendations it made blackout blamed on a drunken securi looting broke out in the downtown that were rejected by the Board of ty guard plunged Memphis into Wyeth Chandler has imposed a dusk- area and two fires were reported Directors. See page 10. darkness for two and a half hours to-dawn curfew. within half an hour after the lights today, triggering a wave of looting in Police first said 65 people had been went out. The looting initially was the city, which has been without un arrested by police and National confined to downtown grocery and East Hartford ion police and firemen for nearly a Guardsmen for looting during the liquor stores, but quickly spread week. blackout, but later revised that across the city. Fires were reported The Town Council approves a Richard Hyder, 29, a newly hired figure, reporting 30 arrests. Most at the county courthouse and a resolution to fund a townwide employee of Murrary Guard Service, were believed to be for curfew refinery in south Memphis. traffic study and to rebuild the was charged with interfering with violations, though a breakdown of the “Our dispatcher informs me the southern part of Main Street. See power lines at the substation where charges was not immediately looting is pretty bad. It is not con page 7. he worked, Lt. Guy Cain of the available. fined to any one area. It is Tenants are making progress on Sheriff’s Department said. Police Director E. Winslow Chap widespread over the city,” Martz improvements ordered at Cain said Hyder “was legally man said the suspect had asked to said. Mayberry Village, says the direc-, drunk’’ at the time of the incident. see an attorney and he confirmed the Some store owners whose shops tor of the inspections and permits. “We gave him two intoximeter tests FBI was investigating the incident had been raided stood guard over See page 7. 20 minutes apart and he registered since the Tennessee Valley Authori their wares with pistols and 0.14 both times," Cain said. “Wecon- ty, which produces the area’s elec shotguns. Connecticut sider 0.1 to be legally drunk.” tricity, is federally owned. Looters smashed windows and The U.S. Department of Cain said Hyder was not im “Apparently it was sabotaged in carried off items ranging from k-A.1 that certain key switches were Transportation, in a ruling that mediately charged for drunkeness bottles of liquor to Presley souvenirs thrown at the substation,” Chapman could affect other cities in Uie na because the other charge was a felony in many parts of the city. One group said. “This indicates that someone of teen-agers, being chased by tion, charges that Hartford’s bus and took precedence. would have to know exactly where to sheriff’s deputies, dropped a cash system provides better service to “At this time there is no indication IN go and exactly what to do.” register they were carrying from a white than to minorities. See he (Hyder) was involved with anything other than he was drunk on Chapman said guards were on duty downtown store. page 2. at the substation, but the saboteur State and municipal officials duty and committed this act on his Other businesses looted included own volition,” Cain said. “just got past them.” downtown liquor stores, souvenir see no speedy way to end a court- Shotgun-wielding store owner stands in shattered doorway of ortered construction ban on the “We haven’t pinned down in any A police captain indicated the shops near Presley’s Graceland Man his looted food store in Memphis, Tenn., today as a blackout blackout was connected to the proposed Interstate 291. See page way (that) he is involved with the sion and service stations throughout walkout by policemen and firemen the city. 7. plunged the city into darkness in the midst of a strike by police strike. However, the investigation is and firefighters. (UPI photo) continuing.” that has threatened to shut down all About 1,400 National Guardsmen, New England Capt. Lonnie Rose of the Sheriff’s city services. who had been called up earlier to Department said another security “It looks like someone threw a help provide police and fire protec Suspected West German guard at the substation took Hyder master switch,” Police Capt. W.W. tion during the strike, were helping terrorist Kristina Berster pleads Thief must like fish into custody at the scene, turning Marlar said. “You would have to be a police arrest looters. innocent to another immigration him over to Rose and other damn fool to think it wasn’t con “ We have helicopters up, dog charge and says she’ll seek — 38,000 pounds o / it authorities. nected with the strike.” squads out and as many cars out on asylum in the U.S. See page 6. Within moments after the power The Memphis Light, Gas and the road as possible. They are taking The crew of the Double Eagle II The thief either really likes fish or cocktail shrimp, police said. The outage began at 12:30 a.m. CDT, Water Division also blamed sabotage those arrested to the county jail,” reaches the two-thirds mark in was in for a big surprise when he scallops were given a retail value of looters began stealing liquor, Elvis for the blackout. Martz said. the trans-Atlantic balloon flight. stole a tractor-trailer truck with over $100,450. Presley souvenirs and groceries “We have received information The county-wide blackout ^affected See page 7. 38,000 pounds of seafood. Police said the tractor was locked, from several downtown stores. that the Cordova Substation was about 1 million people in Shelby Police reported today that the but that a latch was missing from one Before the power was restored short entered and switches were opened,” County. Police said besides Memphis The nation truck, owned by East Penn Trucking wing window which had been secured ly after 3 a.m., the looting had spread said Paula Payne, superintendent of and its Tennessee suburbs, the Across the cornfields of Co. of Lehighton, Pa., was stolen with tape before the theft. to other areas of the city, with at communications services for the blackout also extended to Minnesota, farmers are losing a from the parking lot of the The truck had come from least a dozen confirmed cases. Memphis Light, Gas and Water Divi Southhaven, Miss., a few miles south desperate battle against a 400- Manchester Motel at 1 McNall St. Gloucester, Mass, where the load of Memphis has been flooded in re sion. of Memphis. kilvolt power line. See page 5. sometime between 12:20 and 9:10 fish was picked up, police said, but cent days with tens of thousands of She explained that opening the Several Memphis residents called Despite the threat of contempt a.m. Tuesday. its destination was not known. Presley fans, here to mark the first switches broke the power contact news outlets complaining they also and she said this forced an overload of Congress charges, HEW The trailer contained 35,000 pounds The FBI has been called in for the annniversary of the rock singer’s were without water, indicating that at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Secretary Joseph Califano today of scallops, 2,048 pounds of cod, 750 investigation because it involves in death one year ago today. at least some of the city’s pumping refused to give secret drug com pounds of salmon and 450 pounds of terstate trade. In the absence of union police, the Allen Steam Plant. stations were out of commission. pany records to a House subcom mittee. Earlier story on page 6. The world Police will picket over talk breakdown Acting out every mother’s fear, problem to the public,” he said. He two Israeli women have swapped Thursday at 8 a.m. in front of the of the contract negotiation problems. By GREG PEARSON James Cimmino, director of the feels that some taxpayers may react their baby girls. Each took home Connecticut Council of Police Unions The town and the union have been Herald Reporter town’s Municipal Building. that the department is overstaffed the wrong infant. See page 14. Union representatives agreed this and the chief bargaining agent for the negotiating since early this year. Lit A five-year exile for Alexander The union representing employees morning to delay the start of the Manchester union, said this morning tle progress has been made in recent and overpaid. Podrabinek completes a near of the Manchester Police Depart picketing action. This was done “to that the union had planned to picket meetings, according to both sides.