The weather Becoming fair tonight with lows in the upper 50s. Fair and cool Saturday, with highs in the lower 70s. UlanrlfTHtTr Supning HrraUi EIGHTEEN PAGES MANCHESTER, CONN., FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1975 - VOL, XCIV, No. 275 Manche$ter—A City of Village Charm PRICE: FIFTEEN CENTS NEWS SUMMARY implied from UPI dispatches Agency head at Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics in Groton. Representatives of the nuclear submarine btdider and the 10,000-member M etal. Trade Council haven’t been able to reach an agreement. is suspected State Towns seeking state funds to build or The Connecticut Public Expenditure renovate schools will be subject to a more Council said the formula to be u ^ to dis­ HARTFORD (UPI) - State A contract with the consultant for calen­ strict review of their plans in the future. tributing revenues from the state’s new in­ auditors today charged Walter dar year 1975 recently was rejected by the Gov. Elia Grasso said today. Mrs. Grasso stant lottery is based on outdated 1970 Cen­ Stewart, head of the state’s Drug Ad­ commissioner of Finance and Control, the said the state Education Department’s sus figures. ’The money expected from the visory (Council, may be in conflict of auditors said. The consultant was paid $4,- statement that the grant fund was nearly lottery is earmarked for poorer com­ 959 under two state contracts in 1973 for interest and that he made depleted Indicated it hadn’t been very dis­ munities to be used for school financing. questionable use of agency funds. providing radio public service spot an­ criminating in approving previous Gov. Ella T. Grasso said the auditors’ nouncements. projects. ‘"The relationship which has been es­ ’The state Social Services Department report raised serious charges and ordered Stewart to answer the allegations im- tablished between this consultant and the has resumed a policy requiring Medicaid agency causes us concern,” B^ker and Doctors at state hospitals were expected medately. patients to prove medical necessity when to refuse to work overtime today, work “While our audit examination is in a Donohue said. seeking abortions. ’The decision was they ordinarily do on Fridays without pay. preliminary stage, we feel that these “Our concern is that all appearance of reached with approval of Gov. Ella The action was said to be part of the doc­ matters should be brought to your atten­ conflict of interest that could reflect on Grasso, a strong opponent of legalized the effectiveness of the agency be tors’ campaign to obtain larger wage in­ tion at this time because they appear to abortion. creases to compensate for reduced fringe avoided,” they said. set a tone of operation that, in our opinion, benefits. deserves prompt attention,” auditors Leo Commuters on Penn Central’s New Donohue and Henry Becker said in a letter Haven Division face a 25 per cent fare in­ Byron ’Trimble, director of the Hartford to Mrs. Grasso. crease proposed to offset railroad deficits Civic Center, said box qffice shortages caused by rising fuel and labor costs. ’The auditors said Stewart had received Reno Corna found in an audit were due to carelessness fees from two private agencies involved in and inexperience, not pilferage. He said, alcohol and drug abuse, which listed though, he wasn’t sure how the reported The Connecticut'Elections Commission Stewart as one of their directors. wins 8^,000 $34,800 could have been lost. is investigating charges that Meriden They said the same two agencies, ’The Mayor John Quine broke the law hy using New England School of Drug Problems Reno Coma, 60, who manages F arr’s in U.S. Rep. Christopher Dodd, D-Second City Hall personnel and materials to and ’The New England School of Alcohol the North Ehid, won $5,000 in ’Thursday’s District, went to Washington today to seek prepare campaign releases. Quine haa,' Studies, also employed an unnamed drawing of the Connecticut Lottery and federal mediation in the seven-week strike denied the charges. private consultant often hired by the Drug now is eligihle for next ’Thursday’s $100,- Council. 000 Super Drawing. ’The state pays some drug and alcohol Coma, a Mandiester native, resides at Robert Sparks of New Jersey said he counselors in its agencies to attend the 34 Line St. He said he purchased his win­ wanted to be the first person td cross the two schools. The counselors are ning ticket at the North End Package Atlantic in a balloon. He got about 125 recommended for the additional training Store, next door to Farr’s, and bis miles away from Mashpee, Mass., by Stewart, the auditors said. previous winnings totaled $20. Region The consultant, they said, was seen at Thursday before he ditched his failing He said he’ll use the money toward his helium baUoon in the ocean. He was the Drug (k>uncil offices in West Hartford children’s education, “with a boy just With 25 days left before the runoff rescued by the Coast Guard. each working day between Aug. 8 and Aug. finishing college, a ^ 1 entering c o llie , Senate election in New Hampshire, He makes sure they^re set 15, using office equipment in preparation and another girl entering in a few years.” Democrat John Durkin has shifted gears Vermont soon will ask President Ford to for an out of state conference conducted Coma’s winning ticket is in the names of by the Drug Probiems school. to concentrate more on issues than on declare portions of the state a disaster The Herald’s circulation manager, Tim McCulloch, makes sure two of his Mary, Cynthia and Peter Coma. criticism of his opponent. Meanwhile, area due to the worst drought in years. ’The consultant received payments of star carriers are all set for their afternoon routes. Tina Ames, 9, and her Republican Louis Wyman continues a con­ $7,277 during fiscal years 1974 and 1975 for The entire Champlain Valley has brnn hit brother, Robbie, 11, both of 124 Maple St., each have a route of about 25 writing and research projects without an The Cknmecticut State Lottery regular troversial series of broadcast attacks on by a summer-long lack of rain, and the winning number is 49-Yellow-S68. ’The Durkin, critical of his campaign financing. customers in the Nathan Hale School area. (Herald photo by Barlow) approved contract with the consultant, the state is already assisting 50 farmers. bonus number is 16004. auditors said. Five Roman Catholics, including two U.S. District Judge W. Arthur Garrity nuns, may face excommunication from says the Boston &hool Committee is the church for taking the bishop of Fall thwarting school desegreration and is on River, Mass., to court. ’The controversy the brink of being stripped of its authority surrounds Bishop Daniel Cronin’s decision to run city schoois. Boston is in Phase 2 of to close a day care center. a desegregation order from Garrity. Job hunting is tough for youth Tests of computer memory banks in­ Vouth) run out of Dlgan’s office also. The By MAL BARLOW There were too Inany adult applicants scarce lately. ThlB means bis carriers are dicate all is well aboard the Viking . jobs inclilde helping people clean bouse, Herald Reporter for the jobs open this spring, lie said. holding o i to their routes longer.. Spacecraft speeding through space toward baby-sit, and move. Herald carriers make $1 per oistomer a possible Bicentennial landing on Mars. Also, youths that had worked the fields Nation “We’ve placed many kids through JOY, per month. Even a route of 25 customers before going to college are back. They Viking shot past the moon’s orbit Adults of the area may have found it but not near enough,” Digan said. can give him $25 a month - big money to a Thursday in the second day of its 565 want their old jobs a ^ because its the Government officials were surprised at to u ^ to find jobs in the last year. But Many more go seeking jobs where there boy under age 14. million mile journey. best they can do this summer, he said. the sharp rise of Inflation last month, but jobs for youth are even more scarce, are none this year, be said. McChilloch said an average route is This means the jobs open for youths in they contend the July (kmsumer I^ce Tobacco farm jobs have helped give about 50. In past years, his average reports to The Herald indicate. tobacco are fewer. Index figures don’t represent h long-term The Agriculture Department says U.S. work to many youths. carrier was nearer 12 years old. “The situation is poor,” said Robert What jobs there are get filled right at trend. Consumer prices in July rose a grain sales to Russia this year will push Anthony Amenta, director of the Shade Today, the average age of carriers is Digan, director of the Youth Services the farm also, he said. They no longer wait food prices up slightly in domestic super­ whopping 1.2 per cent. Center in Manchester. Tobacco Growers Association, said his of­ about 14. markets, but not until next year. A 1.5 per at his office or state employment offices. - fice had planned a hiring campaign to run Many older teen-agers hold on to their cent price rise is expected. There are 100 youths from age 14 to 22 “It’s a tough summer for kids,” Amenta Police and firemen in San Francisco in the area high schools. He was going to routes into high school, be said..’Ihey build Meanwhile, a Texas federal judge working in the Suburban Youth Work said.