HUD to Give Town Portion of Grant
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•r> i I- Good morning ..i Have a good day! The weather Mostly sunny Saturday, highs 80 to 85. Fair Saturday night, lows 55 to 60. Partly sunny Sun day, highs in the 80S. Chance of rain near zero 1 A Family NEWSpaper Since 18HI through Saturday night. Variable winds 10 mph or less through Saturday night. Vol. XCVII.'No. 225 — Manchester/Conn., Saturday* June 24,'*1978 Home delivered copy 15 cents Newsstand copy 20 cents Summary HUD to give town TURIN, Italy (UPI) - A court sentenced 29 Red Brigades terrorists to a total of 210 years in portion of grant prison Friday at the end of modern Italy’s longest trial which the gang tried to stop with the By SUSAN VAUGHN ting reports were issued by the HUD Commenting on the grant Friday kidnap-itiurder o f' ex-Premier Herald Rcporler offices in Washington and in Hart afternoon Ted Cummings, chairman Aldo Moro. A total of 11 men ford. of the Democratic Town Committee, —policemen, lawyers, security The Hartford area office of the The Washington office informed said he feels the conditions regarding 2 jolice and a prison guard —have U.S. Department of Housing and Ur the office of Congressman William lack of fair housing are not substan }een killed over the trial. ban Development will inform Cotter (D-lst) that the entire grant tiated. He said however, "We ll com Manchester town officials that only a Would be awarded without any con ply with the conditions and prove our WASHINGTON (UPI) -Con portion of the Community Develop ditions. point.” sumers could save hundreds of ment Block Grant will be awarded, The Hartford office indicated that He said the Democratic town millions of dollars a year if state HUD officials in Washington said the grant would be withheld with the directors are in favor of the grants laws encouraging the use of non- Friday afternoon. conditions. because of all that can be ac brand-name prescription drugs The conditions regarding com An investigation of the discrepancy complished with them, such as the were effective, the chairman of pliance with fair housing by The Herald's Scripps League of senior citizens center, a dental clinic, 4 the Federal Trade Commission requirements outlined by the area of fice in Washington revealed that the improvements for the handicapped, ^ys. fice earlier this month will be at Hartford office of HUD had called and housing improvements. tached to the grant. HUD will ap the Washington office to inform it Cummings cited a study by the ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland parently withhold $423,000 of the that the grant should be awarded to Connecticut Commission on Human (UPI) —A twin-engine private funds until the fair housing Manchester. Rights and Opportunities which he plane crashed in the fog Friday requirements are met. Either the Hartford office failed to said gave Manchester a “clean bill of shortly after takeoff, killing all 10 Lawrence Thompson, area director specify the conditions of the grant or health” in regard to equal housing persons aboard. of HUD, could not be reached Friday the Washington office failed to in opportunity. FORT WORTH, Texas (UPI) for confirmation. Town officials had clude the conditions of it in its The conditions include hiring a per Two men reported to be not yet been informed of the status of release. The HUD office concluded son to oversee the town housing carrying a carbine in their jeep the grant either on Friday. that the problem was the result of programs and contracting with a were arrested outside the conven Confusion arose around the grant “human error” and does not know firm to monitor the town's rental tion center where President to Manchester Friday when conflic which office was at fault. market. Carter spoke Friday. TIJUANA, Mexico (UPI) -T he reformist warden of the Mexican State Prison, his assistant, three No-Nuke protesters guards and two inmates were killed Friday in rioting and shooting at the facility which began as a protest over newly in stituted prison reforms. arrive at Seabrook WASHINGTON (UPI) -T h e ThaVs stretching it! plete power plant from the point a removed from the construction area, House voted 204-89 Friday to SEABROOK, N.H. (UPI) - By Now that school is over, these boys begin filling their spare mile offshore where its cooling for three days of camping, rallies and J prohibit Amtrak from dropping car, bus, van and bicycle, hundreds time with a unique project —a long rubber band. The boys of anti-nuclear protesters rode into tunnels will release heated water en alternative energy fairs. any passenger trains before Oct. vironmentalists say will harm Hundreds of state police and I, 1979, and to authorize $768.25 spent two hoilrs looping 1,240 rubber bands together. From left New Hampshire Friday for a three-day protest at the site of the marine life needed by future National Guardsmen were stationed million for the corporation over are Andy Taylor, Daren Gilbert,^ Mike Taylor, Jim Boise and generations of humans for food. out of sight but nearby in case of the next fiscal year. ^ $2.3 million Seabrook nuclear power Rob Taylor, all in the Washington Street area. They say that plant. Spokesmen for the sponsoring trouble, and more were on standby HARTFORD (UPI) -T h e cate the band is about one quarter mile long. Maybe that’s Saturday they’ll come by boat as Clanishell Alliance predicted 2,000- just across the border in New- against Superior Cpurt Judge’ stretching it a bit. (Herald photo by Chastain) well, picketing the 10 percent com- 3,000 members would show up for the buryport, Mass, Other New England Samuel Tedesco who was con demonstration. They hoped that states provided 20 state troopers victed of a felony in 1976 was dis-. many members of the public also apiece to be called on if an emergen U missed Friday in Bridgeport* Carter in Texas would attend an energy fair Saturday cy arises. Superior Court by Judge 'Thomas and rally Sunday now that the group Clamshell spokesman Cathy Wolff J. O’Sullivan who originally dis-, has pledged to keep the protest said h er group had 200 barred him. ' orderly and leave the Seabrook site “peacekeepers” trained to police NEW BEDFORD, Mass (UPI Monday. their own members during the —Two men whom Connecticut Crowds are hostile, friendly Last year demonstrators refused to demonstration. police want to question about a leave the Seabrook site after a 24- $1.6 naillion gold and silver hour occupation and police arrested HOUSTON (UPI) - President speaking appearance before 6,(KX) “There is overwhelming coopera A 9-foot high chain link fence hijacking, Friday had their bail largely friendly members of a civic 1,414 persons on criminal trespass required by the Nuclear Regulatory Carter encountered both hostile tion and compatibility between charges. Many demonstrators spent reduced in connection with a crowds and friendly ohes on a swing group. Secretary Vance and Brzezinski. Commission surrounds the Seabrook similar truck hijacking in “We want to get along, but we will up to 12 days locked in National construction area, separating through Texas Friday and told one Quite often special-interest groups Guard armories, Massachusetts. audience, in a tough foreign policy not let the Russians push us around,” demonstrators from about 200 plant always look for a scapegoat.” 'More than 2,000 people have been declaration, “We will not let the he said. After the Fort Worth visit, he construction workers expected to be ST. LOUIS, (UPI) -F B I Direc “We’re not going to be second ever trained (in non-violent protest on the job over the weekend. Russians push us around." moved on to Houston for Friday night techniques). We don’t know exactly tor William H. Webster Friday Carter saw only the edge of a large in what this nation stands for, and Saturday meetings with black A handful of Clamshell members pronilsed his agency will recruit military, in economic status or our how many are going to show up,” were to go onto the rocky, rutted, and unruly demonstration by and Mexican-American groups said Harvey Wasserman of Mon more minority members and commitment to human rights,” he expected to focus on their contention tree stump-littered demonstration farmers at Fort Worth’s Tarrant tague, Mass., one of the early leaders wortien as^agents. County for Democrats and to try to said. “I will be sure, in all our he has lost contact with them. site Friday night to clean it up for the dealings ith the Soviet Union, this is of the Clamshell. He said 200 weekend’s activities. WASHINGTON (UPI) - U . S. halt his rapid decline in popularity in In Fort Worth, Carter spent most members from ail New England District Judge Gerhard Gesell has Texas. understood. of his time discussing the issues that A march onto the site-for a Landing at Ellington Air Force “I believe it is necessary for our states had been in the area since weekend of camping was slated denied a Freedom of Information have hurt him in Texas: Energy, Monday, going door-to-door to hand requests for John F. Kennedy Base outside Houston for a round of county to reach a strategic arms agriculture and his relations With Saturday, plus an energy fair Saur- limitation agreement. I'm deter out leaflets and discuss nuclear day and a rally Sunday featuring assassination documents on political appearances, the president minority groups. power dangers with local residents. grounds that disclosure would kissed a woman in the welcoming mined to have one without un bigname entertainers.