1 ' ' ^ Plane Lrashf Explosion 1 Patriots Lose Out 1 Newman Big Help 1 Labor Day Talks Mars Labor Day Parade I To Steelers in OT 1 To Oil Industry Foes 1 Produce Little Progress Page 10 1 Page 11 1 Page 15 1 Page 2 0 --------- 1 ' J---------------- ^ Sunny Today, Fair Tonight Umlh Datallt on pago 2 State Briefs lEuf nin^ Vol. XCVIII, No. 264 — Mancheater, Conn., Tuesday, September 4, 1979 I A Family NEWSpaper Since 1681 • 20t Single Copy • 15t Home Delivered PORTLAND (UPI) -r A series of thunderstorms swept through Connecticut Monday, leaving 1,- 343 electric customers in Portland without power for more than five hours. Northeast Utilities said. Storm Threatens A Northeast spokesman said 2,- 091 customers in East Haddam were in the dark for about 75 minutes, and there were power Iquine entry outages at 314 hbmes in Griswold Crippled Island and 137 in Glastonbury. 1300,000 Marlboro Cup CHARLOTTE AMALI, Virgin The storm packed enough punch as evacuated from low-lying coastal tional Handicap, with Fuel Subsidy Islands (UPI) - Tropical Storm it marched through the Lesser An­ neighborhoods subject to high tides. •xpected entries as 1978 Frederic swept around the Virgin tilles Monday to topple a radio tower Schools were closed today HARTFORD (U P D - Gov. Ella e Crown winner Islands today but headed toward on the island of St. Martin and rip throughout Puerto Rico, and the ned and 1979 Kentucky Grasso says she is pleased with Puerto Rico, threatening to pour three roofs off houses on Antigua. Water Resources Authority pulled and Preakness winner the federal government's exten­ Barbuda was flooded with 3 inches of icular Bid, is shaping up huge quantities of rain on the island the plug on a dike in Trujillo Alto to 4 sion to Oct. 31 of a program sub­ ! race to determine the crippled from Hurricane David’s rain, but reported little damage. prevent overflows during the storm. sidizing oil compat^M'Which im­ onslaught last week. At 6 a.m., the tropical storm was lorse of the Year in tho- port home heating ml and diesel Gov. Carlos Romero Barcelo urged bred racing. It will air The storm steadily weakened located near latitude 18.5 north and the population to take the same EC’s SportsWorld” on fuel. Monday night and was downgraded to longitute 65.4 west, about midway Mrs. Grasso sairl the extension precautions, including storing up on lay. Sept. 8. a tropical storm early today, with between St. Thomas in the Virgin canned" food, as were necessary Marlboro Cup is run would assure the oil companies peak winds of 65 mph, the National Islands and San Juan. It is moving on during Hurricane David. will beat the goal of 230-240 a distance of nine fur- Weather Service in San Juan said. a course just slightly north of west at In Charlotte Amali. capital of the (one and one-eighth million barrels of heating oil The service lifted its hurricane 10 mph. U.S. Virgin Islands, Gov. Juan Luis at Belmont Park in available for the winter heating "Little change in direction or ifork. Affirmed became watch for the Virgin Islands early went on radio and television and season. speed is expected for the next 24 -S t horse to win over 32 today but kept it for Puerto Rico. urged those living in flimsy dwellings The program was to have ended But the storm still posed “a definite hours,” the weather service said. n when he wen the Hol- Friday. to move to a half-dozen storm d Gold Cup on June 24. threat of locally heavy rains and “The storm will pass just north of The U.S. Department of energy shelters set up in churches and public floods” in Puerto Rico, the Virgin San Juan by late forenoon.” schools. also informed Mrs. Grasso as of Islands the the western Leeward In San Juan, Mayor Herman Electricity in St. Thomas was cut at Aug. 24, the national primary Islands,” the weather service said. Padilla said residents were being 10 p.m. as a preventive measure stock level of home heating oil was 189.7 million barrels, just 2.8 million off last year’s supply at that time. David’s Fury Lessens Holiday Deaths BOSTON (UPI) - Police in As It Heads North the six New England states reported at last 37 accidental N.C. The National Hurricane Center miles east of San Juan, Puerto Rico, deaths over the long holiday CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) in Miami said it might be necessary this morning. weeknd, including 34 traffic - Hurricane David, no longer the to extend the warnings farther north The lone death directly attributed deaths and three drownings. “diabolical fury ” that killed at least this morning. to David was that of a surfer who Massachusetts reported the 650 persons in the Carribean but still a formidable storm, churned slowly At 6 a.m. DT, the center of rushed out Sunday to take advantage highest number of holiday Hurricane David was located near deaths with a total of 13; Maine up the Florida coast today on a of David’s advande waves off Fort latitude 29.6 north and longitude 80.8 Lauderdale. His body was recovered and Vermont reported seven course that threatened Georgia and west, about 35 miles northeast of deaths; Rhode Island had five; A sail boat lies crippled, forced under a bridge in West Palm the Carolinas. last Monday. Dyan Cannon Daytona Beach. It was moving At least seven people died in ac­ New Hampshire reported three; Beach, Fla., by the strong winds of Hurricane David. David hit Hurricane warnings were posted E cidents during the storm preparation and there were two reported in from Daytona Beach, Fla., to toward the north at lO mph and was West Palm Beach early Monday with less than anticipated sin’Florida, and David s death toll in Connecticut. Charleston, S.C., and a hurricane expected to maintain that course and speed during the morning, keeping the Caribbean was climbing toward Drownings were reported in force. (UPI photo) watch extended to Cape Hatteras, the center over the water close to the 700. In the Dominican Republic, hit Massachusetts. Connecticut and coast. Vermont. by 150-mph winds Friday, at least 650 Highest winds in the storm, which Vermont’s fatality total, with were dead and four entire provinces thundered through the Carribean last six traffic deaths and one drow­ had yet to be heard from. Radiation Causes Loss week with 150 mph winds that Dominican President Antonio Guz­ ning, was upped by a single car man called the hurricane a accident Monday night that devasted the islands of Dominica and the Dominican Republic, were es­ "diobolical fury with an intensity un­ killed four people and injured precedented in this century ” and two others. timated at 90 mph over water. Of Crucial Saturn Data Residents and tourists along the asked for congressional approval to Georgia and South Carolina coasts rule the country by decree to combat First Birth MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (U P D - Titart’s temperature is important took the pictures from a distance of began leaving the beaches Monday as destroyed communities, food shor­ The first major disappointment in because, for life to exist, the surface 220,000 miles, and they have a resolu­ the storm moved up the coast, tages, hundreds of thousands of JACKPOT, Nev. (UPI) - The the 6*/2-year journey of Pioneer II,oc- should be above freezing, the level tion similar to a naked eye view from pushing strong winds and high tides homeless and the threat of first birth in Jackpot since the curred when crucial data about possi­ allowing primitive organisms to Earth of its moon. ahead of it. epidemics. casino town was founded in 1954 ble life on Saturn’s moon. Titan, was move. NASA showed pictures Monday Winds up to 85 mph left con­ On the Georgia coast, evacuations took place Monday — on Labor lost. Titan, larger than either Earth’s taken by Pioneer as it sped under siderable damage along the Florida began Monday on the barrier islands. Day. A justice of the peace The Space Agency said huge bursts moon or the planet Mercury, has the Saturn’s vast rings during Saturday’s coast from Palm Beach to Melbourne Civil defense spokesman Ray Potter delivered a healthy 4-pound baby of radiation from the sun blacked out chemicals necessary for organisms close encounter. The rings cast a Monday and drove hundreds of said Cumberland and Saplo islands girl. radio signals from the 565-pound to form, and it has an atmostpher. dark shadow across the planet which thousands from their homes to inland had been evacuated. 75 percent of the Gary and Blanche Lemons, of spacecraft for two hours Monday. Many scientists now theorize that is almost 10 times larger in diameter refuge, but no deaths or serious in­ resort island of Jekyll had been taken Wellsville, Nev., were hurriedly During, that crucial time period Titan’s surface is about 300 degrees than Earth. juries were reported. to the mainland. "Quite a few people traveling to the nearest hospital was Pioneer’s only chance — for just below zero Fahrenheit, but this Today, Pioneer was outbound, 1,6 Behind David, in the Carribean, are still on St. Simons Island,” he in’Twin Falls, Idaho, when the 34- 15 minutes while moving at 25,000 calculation has not been approved million miles from Saturn, passing another hurricane, Frederic, lost its said. year-old woman went into labor. mph — to obtain ultraviolet and some scientists disagree with it.