» O H ' ^ Tha Waatbar Avaraga Daily Nat Praia Ron Forecast •< IT. R TTfither For the Week Ended FebtuMry 17, 1316 Fair toidght an little SMiipermterw change; tow *•- Mght In Mm 2ao, high tgnnrrsW la 14420 iNe npper Me. Member iA the Aodlt Bureau of drcolaUoB ManchMter^A CUy of ViUage Charm PRICE ^E V B N CENT* (Clnaalftod Advertlaing on Fnge 12) MANCHESTER. CONN., TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1965 (FOURTEEN PAGES) VOL. LXXXIV* NO. 128 Events Atlas-Gehtaiir Rocket In State ^ Dempsey Urges Quick Action Explodes at Blast Off For Railroad ——------- CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. et's bMe and began licking up numerous development, tcchnl- HARTFORD (AP)— of the moon next autumn when cal and management problems. <AP) — A 10-story-tall At- the Surveyor shot was to have its sides. Gov. John N. Dempsey said The three engines lost thrust As a result of today’s failure tha las-Centaur rocket explod- been attempted. today he wants the Legisla- and the Atlas-Centaur dropped rocket may not be ready in tima ^ ed. into -a massive fireball The program to develop the to attempt, the first Surveyor f ture to move as rapidly as Atlas-Centaur for the vital Sur- back on its concrete and steel on its launching pad today pad, erupting into flames vl.sible soft landing mission to the moon possible in approving funds veyor series already la nearly and dealt a severe blow to for mile.s around Cape Kennedy. in the fall. < for the New Haven Rail- three years behind schedule. One more test flight — essen- U.S. moon explorations Blazing fragments 'and flarn- road commuter car pro- The failure today undoubtedly tially a repeat of today’s will extend that lag. Additional- ing propellants from the $9-mib' gram. • • plans. lion rocket sprayed several planned mission — is .scheduled No one was hurt In the blazing ly, several months probably will in the summer, but it may- ha Under the plan being dis- be required to repair the launch hundred yards in all directions. explosion, which sent flames The comhination of hydrogen, delayed while engineers analyza cussed, Connecticut and New and smoke several hundred feet pad, which is the only one at York would put up $6 million kerosene and liquid, oxygen the latest problems and repairs above Cape Kennedy. Damage Cape Kennedy readily available are made to the launch pad. each and federal government SlO to handle the Atlas-Centaur. fuels burned with a bright or- to launching facilities was ex- ange color. One official estimat- The failure ended a string ot million to assist the bankrupt tensive. probably exceeding a There was no immediate com- carrier in obtaining new equip- ed the heat in the center of the 11 straight launching successes. million dollars. ment from the National Aero- The last failure was the Mariner ment. nautics and Space Administra- fireball at about 3,000 degrees nte rocket was to have hurled FahrerWeit. 2 Mars shot la.st Nov. 3. The Connecticut Transpofta-. a metal model of the Project tion on the effect of the explo- Uon Authority has $2 million'^n The approximately 80 mem- The launch pad blow-up waa I Surveyor mooncraft toward an sion on the project. Surveyor is unspent bond funds from 1963. bers of the launching crew were the first failure of this sort at imaginary lunar target. The considered a necessary forerun- Cape Kennedy in nearly Ihrea The governor has proposed that ner for landing astronauts on protected in a concrete block- flight was to have been an im- house about 1,200 feet from the years. an additional S3 million in bonds portant rehearsal for landing a the moon. be authorized this session to pad. The spacecraft that failed to- Surveyor on the moon next fall The engines of the huge rock- day had two major ' assign- make Connecticut’s share of the et ignited exactly on schedule at The failure was the third in to determine if the surface Is ments: *•-r $20 million package. strong enough to support astro- 8:25 a.m. today after a perfect; five test launchings for the " I ’m going to ask for the ear- countdown. After one second of Atlas-Centaur, The project to —To try out the ability o< ita-. naut expeditions. liest possible hearing on this,” motion, the 150-ton booster had develop this high-power rocket The target was a spot in the (See Page Thirteen) Dempsey said, "so that we sky 248,000 miles away which risen three feet off the pad. Fire 1 is already nearly three years might indicate to New York and to the federal government that the money is available.” More Sabotage North Viet Points BRIDGEPORT (AP)—A third Twenty-Six bodies, including 15 children, were recovered from th,s m^^^^ Incident of water sabotage to Bridgeport Gas Cq. service Since A ble that was an apartment building m the Montreal suburb of a strike started Jan. 16—was explosion yesterday morning. In addition to the dead, at least 50 persons weie Heavily Bombed % reported today. injured and several more are still missing. (AP Photofax) - Police said- a garden-type hose had been connected from a wa- ter line in the basement of the DA NANG, South Viet Nam (A P )— More than 160 Pembroke Russo - Turk Steam Committee Montreal Rescue Work Goes On Baths'at 719 Pembroke Street to U.S. Air Force and Vietnamese warplanes battered mili- a gas line and was used to carry tary installations at two points in North Viet Nam today water into the line. in a powerful sequel to the February reprisal raids. OK^sLBJ In two similar incidents, Gcu"- American authorities said the'S' den-type hoses were used to car- ground fire was light and inac- Gas Heat System strikes were a resounding suc- ry water into gas lines in base- cess. curate. School Bill ment connections. However, four or more planes Officials refuged to say exact- I AU of the incidents have oc- ly how many' of the partici- were shot down. curred since the strike started, pating planes were lost, but the WASHINGTON (AP) — Hie but neither police nor company The targets were the port of pilots of three — one Vietnam- 1 ' Blamed for Blast Quang Khe and a munitions de- Bouse EkIucaUon and Labor official^ have been willing to ese and two Americans — were Committee today approved link them to the striking union, pot at Xom Dang. recovered unhurt. local 12298 of the United Mine Officials in Saigon estimated President Johnson’a $1.8 bUlion MONTREAL (AP) — Rescue workers and investiti Other airmen were missing Workers. that from 70 to 80 per cent of the ichool aid bill, designed to help gators dug today through the steaming, smoking rums installatloiis were destroyed- (Ssw Pags Four) iMkb public and parochial of what had been a threerstory brick apartment build- Markets Included They said there will be further •chooU. ing, leveled by an explosion that claimed at least 26 lives. action against both as prime NORWICH (AP) — Circuit sources of (Communist aggres- Overriding nearly eolld Re Camnks of rubble were lifted*?' Court Judge Edward C. Hamlll sion -against South Viet Nam. publican opposition, the com away by rescuers looking for building’s natural gas heating has ruled that supermarkets fall Civil Rights mittee Democrats sapt the bill persona still missing. system caused the exploitijjju. under a stOiUKe forbidding F>o- _ Reflecting a stiffened attitude toward a House vote, probably A woman Md police she had motioiuil drawings for prizes iff -galgnn and Washington, U.S. laU this month, by a voto of 28 As many as 50 persons were Ambassador Maxwell D. Taylor 1' injured by the blast in suburban gone to the.----- -----------building„ Sunday oonduoted tor advertising pur- Leaders Pl^n J I , . , to 3. said the new raids were not In LaSalle at breakfast-time Mon- night to visit .her siMer and poses by a retail grocer or retail Two Republicans joined the 21 brother-in-law and told them, retaliation for epecific Viet day. grocery chain. committee Democrats In voting "This place- smells as though Hantlll found John J. Harring- Cong attacks on American in- Huge Cortege E lective Raymond Bourbon- for the bill. nais said 11 adults and 16 chil- it’s full of gas.” ton, grocery sales manager of stallations, but Joint actions Most of tho money would be "for the purpose of replying to y- dren were known dead. Mayor Lionel Boyer of 1st the Hartford division of First SEtJiJA,' Ala. (AP) — Civil opent on schools serving chil- National Stores, Inc., guilty continuous aggressive acts Only 17 had been Identified by Salle said he had asked the Que- rights leaders, pushing for Ne dren of low-income families, but bec Natural Gas Oorp. to make across the 17th Pamilel." miditight. The exact number of gro voting power in -Alabama’s 90 per cent of the naUon’s school a .complete check of the heating (See Page Four) Returning pilots said the districts would share in the $1 missing was not certain. Authorities suspected the system in all 24 buildings of the black belt, want a massive cor- billion authorized by Uie bill for housing develb][Mnent. The gas ------------------------------------------------------------------ ^ tege of students for the funeral that purpose. supply to 96 other apartments to of a youthful Negrq, laborer,„m Other sections of the bill four buildings damaged by the victim of racial violence near would provide textbooks and February Snow explosion was cut off after the here more than a week ago. library books for both public Massive Housing Plan blast.