1 9i 1978 Driving Costs 1 Volunteers at Hospital I Jeremy Edmonds Top 1 Motorists Coming Back One-Fourth of Income 1 Have Professional Skills 1 Performer in Relays 1 To Aging Union Station 1 Page 5 1 ■' 1i Page 2 Page 11 1 Page 16 Saat BartforJi Clear Tonight, WHArS Warmer Tuesday NEWS Euf mu5 ffirralb Details on page 2 Still on Ground Vol. XCVIII, No. 225 — Manchester, Conn., Monday, June 25, 1979 ' A Family NEWSpaper Since 1881 • 20$ Single Copy • 15« Home Delivered WASHINGTON (UPI) - A court order grounding the DCIO expired today but the troubled wide-bodied jet, the workhorse of F the domestic air fleet, remained grounded indefinitely. , ^Gasland Reserves The Federal Aviation Agency has been accused of both delay and overreaction in grounding the plane after an American Airlines DCIO crashed at Chicago in the nation's worst aviation disaster. ^Pledged to State But FAA Administrator Langhorne Bond said the domestic fleet of 138 DClOs would ■ HARTFORD (UPI) - Gov. Ella assistance in getting more of it. more than a million gallons of gas not return to service until Grasso said today that the Carter ad­ Larrye DeBear, a spokesman for from the state’s reserve supply was questions about the plane's engine ministration has ordered 8 million Mrs, Grasso, said Sunday the gover­ released today to dealers that mounting assembly and gallons of gasoline held. in New nor will discuss the actions that have applied for it. maintenance practices are Haven by a bankrupt gas station been taken and “actions that may be The governor also said 30 extra resolved. chain to be distributed in Connec­ contemplated’’ regarding the buses would be assigned to com­ European airlines allowed their ticut. worsening fuel situation. muter routes in the Hartford, New DClOs to return to service within The governor, in an impromptu Mrs. Grasso plans to ask the con­ Haven and Stamford divisions of the a few days of Bond's grounding news conference, said the gas is gressmen if they can obtain a greater Connecticut Transit Co, starting this order. stored in a tank in New Haven and gas allocation for Connecticut, morning. belongs to Goodhope Industries of DeBear said. The company Sunday staffed phone Springfield, Mass., owner of the “The governor is also very con­ lines that are normally closed over Greater Risk bankrupt Gasland stations. cerned whether Connecticut will the weekend to give informatiom on WASHINGTON (UPI) - Drugs Gasland shut down operations in have enough! home heating oil for routes, fares and schedules. routinely used in animal feeds Connecticut and Western winter,” DeBear said. “There are in­ The Energy Emergency Office had may be helping develop bacterial Massachusetts in November 1978. dications we may have problems.” predicted that 5 percent or about 150 resistance that could be more of a Mrs, Grasso said her office was Mrs. Grasso is also “beating the of Connecticut’s 3,000 gas stations risk than cancer to human life. told by John O’Leary of the federal drum” for standby- in-place crisis in­ would be open, but Sunday revised The Office of Technology, a Energy Department that 8 million tervention funds, he said. that estimate to “almost none.” branch of Congress, said Sunday gallons of gas being stored in the Mrs, Grasso has urged that the Spokesman Thomas Barnett said a that drugs have been used in feeds New Haven tank will be circulated in money, which is used to reimburse few stations were open in scattered for nearly 30 years to spur growth Connecticut, the states for emergency payments areas throughout the state and on the and prevent disease without She said the gas won’t be available made to residents who run out of fuel Connecticut Turnpike and Merrit and “seriously compromising” the until next month. The governor said in the winter, be put in place Wilbur Cross Parkway. Most were drugs' effectiveness for human it will more than make up for what beforehand so states aren’t placed at selling a maximum of $5 of gas to disease treatment. she is trying to borrow from the a disadvantage to collect funds from motorists had a half a tank or less. But there now is evidence that state’s July allocation to tide Connec­ the federal government. “It’s down to a point where we dangerous bacteria have become ticut motorists over through the end DeBear said Mrs. Grasso plans to don’t have a handle on how many are resistant to the drugs and are of the month. lobby the congressmen for a program actually open,” he said. multiplying, representing a The state is in the throes of odd- whereby the money would be Tourist attractions in southeastern danger greater than the risk of even gas rationing, which the gover­ automatically released based on a Connecticut reported record low- y nor instituted under an emergency formula of supply and weather con­ attendance in spite of good weather, cancer, it said. If it continues, the office said, order last Wednesday to cope with a ditions. and at least one official expressed the problem at some point could nearly 20 percent shortfall in She also plans to express her dis­ concern that jobs in the area would lead to “large but presently un- monthly June gas allocations to may over President Carter’s an­ be jeopardized. quantifiable morbidity and mor­ Connecticut. nounced intentions to cut the crisis “More than 16,000 part-time jobs tality in humans and animals.” The governor said Gasland used to intervention budget for next year, depend on summer work in this But cutting back the use of the pump about 5.6 million gallons of gas DeBear said. area,” said Tony Pero, manager of drugs could increase retail beef in Connecticut each month. The total DeBear said all the congressmen Ocean Beach Park in New London. prices, and that possibility makes allocation for the state in June was and senators have said they will at­ “If this continues, there are going to decisions difficult, the reports about 108 million gallons. tend in person or send a represen­ be a lot of people laid off.” said. “That (Gasland) gas has dis­ tative to the 10 a.m. meeting in Mrs. Peros said this weekend, the first appeared as far as Connecticut’s Grasso’s office. afterschool lets out, is normally one allocation of gasoline is concerned,” Meanwhile, Mrs. Grasso spent part of the biggest of the summer. The No Headliners Mrs. Grasso said. She said her office of her weekend at the Energy beach should have attracted about MINNEAPOLIS (UPI) - In the “will work out a plan” to figure out Emergency Office coordinating 10,000 people Sunday, but instead cold and calculating eyes of the how best to distribute the gas. volunteers who fielded call from only 2,()00 showed up, he said. men who manage presidential The BP Service Stations in motorists wondering where they Attendance Saturday was around campaigns, Minneapolis obvious­ Springfield, Mass., last week cir­ could find gas. 3,000, about 50 percent lower than ly is no place to book a headline culated a petition among motorists to Many Connecticut residents took usual, he said. act. write their state and federal law­ the governor’s advice and stayed Mystic Marinelife Aquarium said The Republican National Com­ makers, urging that Gasland’s an­ home Sunday, while most gasoline attendance has been down 15 percent mittee, opening a two-day V/? nual supply of 102 million gallons of stations remained closed, awaiting all month, and Mystic Seaport business meeting, gave the par­ gas be redirected to Connecticut and emergency end-of-the- month reported attendance Sunday was ty's nine announced and prospec­ Timing the Relays western Massachusetts. allocations. down compared to last year but no l/W tive presidential candidates a Gov. Grasso planned to meet today Mrs. Grasso announced Saturday figures were available. public foriim Sunday night. Four Cupping timing devices on the officials’ stand during Satur­ with Connecticut’s congressional that gas stations would be able to Hartford AAA said it received only 55 calls for road service Sunday com­ showed up; four sent stand-ins. day’s running of the track and field events in the New England delegation to update them on the borrow a small amount from July pared to an average of 100 a day It probably was no coincidence Relays at Manchester’s Wigren Track were these four timers. state’s projected supply of gasoline allocations to ease the shortage during other weekends. that those who appeared were the Stories and results on pages 11 and 12. (Photo by Roback) and home heating oil and to ask their during the last week of June, Also, candidates with the least name recognization — Rep. John Ander­ son of Illinois, former CIA direc­ tor George Bush, former Minnesota Gov. Harold Stassen and Los Angeles businessman Ben Fernadez. Motorists Joining Truckers 5rayer Former Gov. Ronald Reagan of Cans Calif., Senate Republican leader By United Press International limits and cheaper, more plentiful for disorderly conduct. Truckers’ Association to declare a bars. Wausau Homes of Wausau. Howard Baker of Tennessee, Angry motorists in Pennsylvania diesel fuel, kept up their blockades of The demonstrations began Satur­ nationwide shutdown. Wis., halted operations at its nf former Gov. John Connally of joined striking independent truck truck stops and major fuel depots, day evening when about 20 truckers Grocers and industrial analysts prefabricated house plant because of Texas and Sen. Robert Dole of drivers in a battle with police, and a causing scattered gasoline shor­ blocked the Five Points intersection. have predicted problems with food delivery problems.