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PAGE TWENTY-EIGHT - MANCHESTER EVENING HERALD. Manchester, Conn.. Fri.. Dec. Ifi. ICT 7o!>a.oco Co. P.O. Box 1347 Z-l Legislators Favor Tough Sentences Hai'tfo.'-d, cr OClOl By ANDREW NIBLEY cure for Connecticut's education funding they weren't interested in passing another moratorium on the construction of new ^.......... .... problems was given a higher priority. nuclear power plants — an issue that has HARTFORD (UPI) - The 1979 "blue” law. Only 38 percent said they were Wage Guidelines Governors Ask On a related issue, 81 percent of the ready to adopt a new Sunday closing law surfaced repeatedly in past Legislatures. Building Additions Legislature would like to get tough with Toys for Joy legislators felt the state should pick to replace the one that was recently Thirty-eight percent favored the criminals and legalized gambling, but ap­ May Hurt Computers About Oil Prices Is Popular Now judges on the basis of merit, rather than moratorium. Needs More parently isn't interested in some issues declared unconstitutional. through the traditional political patronage Gun control, another old issue, was op­ Page 10 Page 9 Page 10 that have haunted the Capitol for years, a The survey also showed that 50 percent Page 10 process. Only 12 percent opposed merit of the lawmakers opposed putting a posed by 48 percent. Only 36 percent L------------------------------------------------------------------- UPI survey shows. selection. wanted stricter state regulation of guns. 4 UPI recently gave newly elected The 1979 Legislature also appears ready legislators a list of 20 potential issues and to take a closer look at legalized gambling asked them to rate their significance. The in Connecticut. lawmakers were also asked to indicate Toilet Law Repeal Due ilan rl)fatp r Eighty per cent of the legislators said their positions on the issues. HARTFORD (UPI) — In Connecticut, they favor a moratorium on new gaming restriction of its kind in the country. Showers, Flurries Tonight There are 187 representatives in the it's illegal to sit on a toilet seat that isn’t facilities in the state, while only 16 per­ But it appears likely the state will join Highs Near 40 Connecticut Legislature. UPI's survey horseshoe-shaped. You can be fined up to cent were against the idea. the rest of the nation next week by Details o n page 2 received responses from 115 of them. $100. At the same time, 76 percent of those repealing the regulation. The issue that received the most one­ It’s been that way since 1939 when the who responded to the survey favored a The rule on open-front seats has not sided response was fixed sentences for state decided all toilet seats— in the home state financed study of the gambling in­ been a big problem in service stations, of­ habitual criminals. and on the road — should have an opening dustry which now includes three jai alai fice buildings or other public places. But it in the front. Eighty-three of the lawmakers who frontons and a dog track. has been for homeowners, especially in responded to the survey favored predeter­ That was the year World War II broke t towns where regulation-conscious Home Found ibiOTtng I While the incoming legislators appear mined sentences for chronic criminals, out. It was also a time when many people inclined to approve the gaming and crime building inspectors go by the book, while only 9 percent opposed the idea. The still believed you could catch venereal dis­ MYSTIC (UPI) - Three rarely Vol, XCVIII, No. 65 — Manchester, Conn., Satu.day, December 16, 1976 proposals rejected by previous because most toilet seats made for the »A Family NEWSpaper Since 18B1« 20(t Single Copy • 15(t Home Delivered rest were undecided. ease from toilet seats. exhibited Commerson’s dolphins Legislatures, they have apparently tired home are oval. The legislators also rated fixed Consequently, Connecticut passed a seized Friday when they were of some other issues that have been The Legislative Regulations Review sentences for habitual criminals as the se­ regulation outlawing one-piece, oval toilet brought into the country illegally hanging around the Capitol for years. Committee is expected officially to repeal cond most important issue confronting the seats and imposed a maximum $100 fine from Argentina have a new home Fifty-one percent of the lawmakers said the regulation next Tuesday. Legislature. Only finding a constitutional on violators. It is believed to be the only at the Mystic Marinelife Aquarium. Aquarium spokeswoman Laura Kezer said Friday the dolphins U.S. Will Recognize were confiscated at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York by Squirrel Scorers the U.S. Department of To cope with the problem of power outages Commerce’s National Marine caused by squirrels, the New England REGATS Fisheries Division. She said the aquarium plans to Utilities came up with the Idea of 18-inch petition the government for per­ Peking as Sole China styrofoam owls. The owls, a natural enemy of manent custody of the mammals, WASHINGTON (UPI) - President squirrels, were purchased for $6 each from a “which rarely, if ever, have been Carter also announced: Mao Tse-tung in 1972. breakthrough leaked out people themselves.” Carter announced Friday the United exhibited in the United States.” — U.S. troops, numbering about 2,- "In recognizing the single govern­ nevertheless in general outline. Nonetheless, Carter also made company in South Dakota. The owls were States will establish full diplomatic Federal agents learned of the (XM), would be removed from Taiwan ment of China, we are recognizing Simultaneous with Carter’s an­ clear he considers the shift of placed atop two substation buildings in relations with Communist China on dolphins late Thursday after the within four months. simple reality,” Carter said in nouncement, the government alliances an idea whose time has 6 Weymouth, Mass., two months ago and since Jan. 1 and end official relations with “pilot of an Argentinian charter — Chinese Vice Premier Teng releasing an official joint com­ released the text of the U.S. Chinese come and he underscored that by Taiwan in a complete and historic munique simultaneously with the then there have been no squirrel-caused plane routinely radioed into the Tsaio-Ping would visit Washington at Communique and a separate U.S. paraphrasing an acknowledgement break with the past. power failures or traces of squirrels in the Port Authority and listed four live the end of January. Peking government. statement making clear the United Wiping the slate clean in one the United States first made in the dolphins as part of his cargo,” — The United States and China “The change 1 am announcing States would maintain unofficial area. (UPI photo) dramatic move. Carter informed the 1972 Shanghai Communique Ms. Kezer said. would exchange ambassadors star­ tonight will be of long-term benefit to cultural and social ties with Taiwan nation of his decision to abandon the culminating the Nixon visit. ting March 1. the peoples of both the United States while abandoning the diplomatic and traditional post-war alliance with the ‘"There is but one China,” he said, Band Plays On In a hastily arranged television ad­ and China — and, I believe to all the military links that have existed since “and Taiwan is part of China.” Nationalist government formed by dress, Carter called the move “a peoples of the world.” the creation of Communist and The communique said the two Steel Lack Delaj^^ NEW LONDON (UPI) - Sun­ Chiang Kai-shek — including the final historic agreement” that U.S. critics of the Peking regine Nationalist China. nations would actually exchange am­ day’s holiday performance by the defense treaty — and fully recognize culminates the process begun by were sure to disagree bitterly, Coliseum Reopening Coast Guard &nd may be the last In its key passages, the com­ bassadors and open embassies as of mainland China. President Richard Nixon and the late however, and Sen. Barry f^ldwater, of its free public performances munique said: “The United States of March 1, allowing a two-month tran­ R-Ariz., was one of the first to weigh America and the People’s Republic HARTFORD (UPI) — The Hartford Civic Center unless attendance improves, sition period. in with a scathing denunciation of of China have agreed to recognize Coliseum reopening may be delayed because of dif­ Coast Guard Academy officials It also summarized a number of Carter’s move issued even before the each other and to establish ficulties in obtaining steel for the $27.5 million said. principles that will guide U.S.- president appeared on television. diplomatic relations as of Jan. 1, reconstruction project, city officials report. Academy spokesman Lt. Chinese relations. ‘"The president’s decision on China 1979... .These included pledges that neither City Manager John A. Sulik and construction manager George Whiting said “only 1(X) Power Outage represents one of the most cowardly “Within this context, the people of nation would “seek hegemony in the Albert Daley Thursday said the delays could jeopardize people” showed up at the band’s acts ever performed by a president the United States will maintain Asia region or in any other region of the extremely tight timetable to re-open the coliseum on last performance. of the United States,” Goldwater Jan. 1, 1980. In the past, it was standing cultural, commercial and other unof­ the world” — a standard Chinese slap said in a statement. ‘"The action ficial relations with the people of atHhe Soviet Union. The coliseum roof caved in Jan. 18 under tons of snow room only when visitors packed stabs in the back the nation of Taiwan.” and slush. the academy’s 1,500-seat Darkens Town ’The move was sure to create ripple Taiwan, one of the most faithful and' Carter’s address and the separate effects on U.S.

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