Rescue Try Delayed, Hope Dim for Miners
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IV ■ /' A ■Bloodmqbile Visits Concordia Church. Tomorrow, 12:45 to 5:30 p.m . Curtain The Weather Fair tonight, not as warm; Calls lew near 70. Tuesday . mostly sunny, warm, less humid; high in upper 80s. Outlook for Wed Page 2 \ • Mancheater^A City of Village Charm nesday . fair and'warm. VOL. XCI, NO. 250 (TWENTY PAGES) MANCHESTER, CONN.,' MONDAY, JULY 24, 1972 (ClasBitied Advertiging on Pa^e 16) PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS Voters May Make Rescue Try Delayed, $8.4Million Choices By OLENN OAMBER Hope Dim for Miners (Herald Reporter) Some $8,386,000 in proposed bond issues may be on the voting machines this fall. Hearings on proposed BLACKSVILLE, W. Va. (AP) bond issues for alterations and additions to the town’s — Rescue workers encountered tWo junior high schools, renovation of the Cooper Hill problems today which delayed Water Treatment Plant, selected highway reconstruc drilling of a five-inch htile into a burning coal mine where nine tion, and various new sidewalk installations will be con men have been trapped since ducted by the Board of Directors Tuesday, Aug. 1 be Saturday night. n Steve ginning at 8 p.m. in the Waddell School on Broad St. Meanwhile, hope faded that U the four proposed bond i s - ------------------------------------------------- the miners would be found I Heart cues were authorized by the di- urban System program. Under alive. irred In rectors for a referendum vote, program, designed to up- A predawn equipment break md co- Manchester voters would be con- Intertown roads, the down caused one delay in the Arthur sidering whether or not some government pays half drilling. Then, later in the $6.8 million Obould be borrowed j^e cost of roadwork, the state morning, the bit became stuck to build additions and make al- quarter, and the town one and the drilling again came to terations to both Bennet and HI- qu0^J.ter a halt. old Be- Ing Junior High Schools. The ^ ^dams St. would be recon- When the bit stuek the shaft “ Amoe cost would be $3.4 million for gtructed from Center St. to the had been drilled to a depth of 1 Boot each school. bridge over the Hockanum Rlv- 624 feet, and a hole 730 feet and deep was needed to Intercept Tou’pe Also to be considered would gr \y Middle Tpke. would be re- be a proposed bond for $860,000 constructed from Green Manor the mine at the point where the for Water system Improve- sfvd. to Cheney Technical men were believed to have ments. Moat of this, between school. been trapped. 18 Win- There has been no v/ord from e Eldge $600,000 and $600,000, would go Other roadwork Included in to pay for renovations to the (jjc proposed bond Is the recon- the nine since shortly after the >at role fire started. Officials of the ^prll 2, Oooper Hill Treatment Plant. strucUon of Hillard St. from The treatment plant la bellev- 3i-oad St. to the railroad tracks (Consolidation Coal Co.’s Blacks- able by town officials to be the at an estimated $196,000. vllle No. 1 mine said Sunday source of taste and odor prob- sidewalks would also be in- night chances the men would IS star, be found alive were "quite 'Second levns in West Side water. stalled along one side of Hlll- Another estimated $100,000 jard St. The sidewalk cost is dim." ompany "I don't think I am stating Ian Ar- would pay for the installation included in the $196,000 es- of a new well In the town water timate anything but a fact,” said John le May,. Corcoran. Consolidation presi Shelley system. A c ^ i ^ to Town T^e ’ fourth project included m e a g e r ^ b ^ Weiss, ^ new ^ ^ improve- dent. He called "the situation a w o^d dug eIther at g tragedy. Officials said 31 of the 40 men O ia i^ r Field or along the g^^ intersecUon at an Hockhum River. doing maintenance work in the estimated $41,000. The reminder of the bond four-mile mine reached safety money would be spent on im A $200,000 "mini-bond” would within minutes alter the fire provements in the water distri- to Install sidewalks broke out. butlon system, Weiss says. Hackmatack Tlie bore hole was being The sidewalk and road pro- St. from S. Main St. to Keeney drilled in an attempt to reach posals are outgrowths of so- St.; along a small section of the men or possibly commu called “ mini - bonds” first sug- Keeney St.; from Hack- nicate with them. Falling that, gested some time ago by De- matack to existing sidewalk officials hoped to leam some puty Mayor Pascal Prignano. It there; along Oakland St. from Donald Smouse, 39, a section foreman and a mem thing about conditions in the was his idea to start on a pro- South St. to N. School St.; along ber of one of the first rescue teams to enter Black- mine 660 feet below the rolling gram of small bond Issues to N- School St. from Oakland St. ville No. 1 mine after a fire trapped nine men Sat hills of this West Vlrglnla-Penn- make needed Improvements in "rest; along all of Autumn St.; sylvanla border community. Vice President and Mrs. Spiro Agnew extend greetings to about 35Q Republi urday evening, drinks a cup of coffee after an 11- An official of the U.S. Bureau OP town reads and sidewalks. and on Wells and Oak Sts. hour stint in the mine. (AP photo) can supporters in Anchorage, Alaska. (AP photo) The road bond would be for where gaps in the sidewalk now of Mines said temperatures in the Immediate area of the fire $636,000. Included in that would exist- probably were between 2,600 be some $300,000, the estimated According to Weiss, it has not and 3,000 degrees lahrenheit. town share for work on Adams been decided which sides of Corcoran said at a news con St. and W. DQddle Tpke. which these streets the walks will be New Lines Bringing ference he felt conditions for would be dtme under the federal installed on. ERTS in Good Orbit, Pot Shots rescuing the trapped miners were not favorable. Rescue efforts have been Fuel to North Viets hampered by the fire isdilch Traded continues to bum in the soft Pictures Awaited From Plnghslang the new Protest Firing WASHINGTON (AP) — Pen coal veins that underlie the By BILL STOCKTON Equipped with three tele tagon sources report that fresh pipeline runs across the North area. AP Science Writer vision cameras and a special By Parties supplies of motor fuel apparent^ Vietnamese border and reaches Efforts to - put the fire out IXKMPOC, Calif. (AP) i - radiation-sensing device, the ly have started flowing into Haiduong, east of Hanoi. with foam have been stymied Thelr long-awaited satellite spacecraft will photograph the North Vietnam through a new U.S. minefields have stopped because workers were unable tucked in a perfect orbit over entire globe every 18 days. British Dock Workers pipeline from South China. WA8HIN(3TON (AP) — The Soviet tankers from reaching to get behind the flames. the North and South poles, sci Scientists hope to use the pic Democratic and Republican In addition, U.S. reconnais North Vietnamese ports where The fire started when a entists are checking out sys tures to monitor natural re vice presidential candidates are sance planes recently located a they used to unload about 60,000 heavy piece of mining machin tems aboard the ERTS space sources such as crops, forests, getting in some target practice Shut Down All Ports new petroleum-storage depot tons at motor fuel and oil ery being relocated in the main craft in preparation for receiv schools of fish, water supplies in advance of the official begin tying into the pipeline. The de corridor about a mile from the in 48 hours. Nearly 6,000 miners monthly. ing first pictures of the earth, and graisslands. ning of the election campaign. LONDON (AP) — Striking pot is said to be relatively near Icne elevator shaft hit a live Tuesday. They believe the picture, And the new chairman of the longshoremen shut down all walked out in South Wales, the (Jhlnese border, which There have been reports that electrical wire, generating ialtjr major British ports today to Peking has agreed to allow The $176 million spacecraft taken through filters that meeis- Democratic party says the par Scotland sind Yorkshire. might inhibit U.S. bombing at sparks. US was launched Sunday from ure radiation reflected from the protest the Jailing of five Lon Russian tankers to discharge ty’s financial position” is much Striking printers prevented tacks s,gainst it. The fire had been localized Vandenberg "Air Force Base planet, can help in mapping, don dock workers for defying their ioads at CJhlnese ports for Improved for the 1972 cam publication of London news For weeks, U,S. photo planes Sunday night in an area of here to begin a year of global spotting earthquake fault sys the nation’s new labor court. have been monitoring construc transshipment overland to paign, although they still papers Sunday and again to about 400 square feet leas than envfronmental measurements tems and locating mineral and Thousands of workers in other North Vietnam. tes haven’t figured out how to pay day. More than 400 fish market tion progress on the new pipe a mile from the mine entrance. that scientists hope will usher oil deposits. industries struck in sympathy. entta’ all of the mulU-miUion dollar porters walked out in Grimbsy.