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'< T V < J , ,< 1 The weather ’ ( ! Rain and drizzle gradually ending tonight. High in 50s. Lows overnight, 40 to 50. Tuesday, becoming partly sunny and warmer, high in 60s. iEupninn Mpralii MANCHESTER, CONN., MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1975- VOL. XCV, No. 17 Manchester—A City of Village Charm SIXTEEN PAGES PRICE: FIFTEEN CENTS <;Fr HOW NkAI £/vrfiy News Real GNP growth rate ‘■•Ail summary (compiled from fastest in 20 years rnil«*(l Internutionul WASHINGTON (UPI) - The national highest quarterly rise since the 12.4 per cent in the third quarter, down from 5.1 ivM in economy measured by the real Gross cent gain in the first quarter of 1955. per cent in the second quarter and 9 per National Product increased 11.2 per cent Commerce said private investment in cent in the first quarter. State in the third quarter for the fastest growth creased $14.2 billion to $94.9 billion. That When inflation is added, Commerce said ^SERlif rate in more than 20 years, the Commerce was much lower than the $120.5 billion an the GNP increased 16.7 per cent to $1,498 Department said today. nual rate at the end of 1974, but still GROTON — The 16-week strike by trillion. It was the biggest increase since 10,000 workers at the Electric Boat The GNP gains occurred primarily marked the first rise in two years, an in the 8.9 per cent rise in the first quarter of dication that production and job oppor- Division of General Dynamics was because consumers dipped into their 1951 during the Korean War. tunites will begin to grow rather than at another impasse today despite 11 savings to buy durables like cars and home Commerce said consumers increased shrink. consecutive days of talks in appliances, while wealthy Americans and spending $9.2 billion to $548.9 billion in the Washington. Negotiators were sent business increased investment spending GNP measures the dollar value of all third quarter. Since personal income ./ home by William J. Usery Jr., chief by a stunning 18 per cent. the production of farms, factories, mines declined at an annual rate of $5 a person to federal mediator, to reconsider Consumers had been saving at unusually and utilities and the services of govern $5,045, the increased spending came from .<>''■ - o ' their respective stands on wages. high rates since last October. Private sec ment employes, doctors, bank tellers, in personal savings and employment gains. .(? tor investment had been falling steadily surance salesmen, dry cleaners and other Personal savings dipped from 10.6 per 2 A A ^ A o. since the 1973 Arab oil embargo. nonproduction workers. cent of disposable personal income in the second quarter to 7.7 per cent in the third FARMINGTON — A strike by The real GNP was estimated at $804.6 Contributing to the second consecutive quarter. nurses, technicians and drivers at billion at the end of the July-September quarterly rise in GNP was an easing in the the Red Cross Blood Center entered quarter, up from $783.6 billion in the se But unemployment fell from a second inflation rate which enabled consumers quarter average of 8 9 per cent of the its sixth day today with talks stalled ; cond quarter. /( . and investors to get more for their money. workforce to about 8.3 per cent in the third S ^ on the wage issue. Officials have ; The 11.2 per cent increase was the The inflation rate was estimated at 5 per "uarter. ^ .’Ilf. "" r e e issued an urgent appeal for blood : donors citing the need in the state : O ^ for 2,800 pints a week. : New York City’s next hurdle HARTFORD — Hartford police union leader Jerry Martin says policemen will be taking a “serious is how to save $724 million job action” within two weeks. In a r statement today, Martin accused By I niU'd Pre.ns Inlcrnutionul Police Chief Hugo Masini and city Victor Gotbaum, head of the largest city things that are going to put people out of 30 With imminent default averted, a three- employes union and chairman of a coali work in their city.” Tonight maybe officials of insensitivity and in year austerity plan to save $724 million is difference to the men on the force. tion of the municipal unions, said Sunday But Simon said President Ford remains the next hurdle for New York City to sur he would call a general strike if a three- opposed to federal assistance for New These World Series tickets were to have been used Saturday in Boston's Their contract expired in June and mount. year wage freeze was imposed. York, "because he feels, and I believe Fenway Park, but it rained. Ditto for Sunday. It was still raining this mor negotiations are at an impasse. The city says the budget-trimming, “If they are able to enforce a three-year rightfully so. that the solution to the ning so tonight’s game may be washed out too. The weatherman says there is ordered by a state board that has authority freeze it will effectively kill collective problem up there rests there for (city of an 80 per cent chance of rain in Boston tonight. Tomorrow maybe’i’ (Herald over the city’s fiscai affairs, could result bargaining. Obviously we don't want ficials) to solve. And they have the ability photo by Pinto in the firing of up to 8,000 more workers that,” Gotbaum said. to solve them. ” Regional this year, and a possible wage freeze for Default by the city, the mayor said Sun three years. Municipal workers have day, would have “a catastrophic effect, warned a general strike may be called if nationally and internationally,” and the BANGOR, Maine — Maine wages are frozen. effect on municipal services would be jj; woodsmen voted to end their two- Mayor Abraham Beame has prepared devastating. End of heavy rainfall S week strike Sunday night and return budget proposals that would save $200 New York was about to default on its to work today. They also voted to S million during the remainder of this fiscal debts Friday when the city teachers’ un disband the Maine Woodsmens’ :j: year, and a total of $724 million over three ion, reversing its vote of the day before, Association and reorganize as the years. The spending cuts must be ap decided to use $150 million in pension New England Woodsmens’ Associa- expected late today proved by the Emergency Financial Con funds to buy city notes and support the 0 ij: tion, an affiliate of the United >:• trol Board, which has the authority to state aid plan. Brotherhood of Carpenters and >;! revise them. Treasury Secretary William Simon By I iiih'il Pri':<H Internuliuiial tons of dirt and stone on a road running The state Department of Environmental Joiners of America, an AFL-CIO un- iji through East Rock Park in New Haven, The board was to begin its meeting this praised the mayor Sunday, saying, Two days of steady and sometimes ProlecUon said the heavy rains Saturday ion. :|;j and flooding on Interstate 95 near Fur-^- afternoon. Beame aiso was to testify on “Mayor Beame and those men have done a heavy rains in Connecticut were expected kept many hunters at home. There were the city’s financial problems before the tremendous job in making a lot of tough to give way to partial clearing late today niture Road in New Haven forced about 45.000 hunters in the field compared J;: MARLBORO, Vt. — State police cj: House Subcommittee on Economic political decisions. And they are tough — with only minor flooding expected in low authorities to reroute traffic. to an average of 60,000 on previous hunting ■ij; today resumed the search for two >:• Stabilization in Washington. lying areas. Authorities said several streets flooded season opening days, the department said. :$ members of a Wethersfield, Conn., >•: The soggy weekend put a damper on the when fallen leaves clogged street drains. K family, missing and presumed opening of Connecticut’s uplands hunting drowned in Sunset Lake. Missing C season, and at least one traffic death was are James Burke, 49, and his five- Kissinger, Chinese leader attributed to the wet conditions. Town begins foreclosure 300 ij: year-old son, John. The body of The U.S. Weather Service at Windsor :|:j Eleanor Burke, 48, was recovered :j; review world situation Locks said the rains would continue until Sunday. The boating accident oc- late today but it would be a light rain that cured sometime between Friday would only cause minor flooding in low on Druckman property and Sunday. PEKING (UPI) — Secretary of State The initial meeting opened with lying areas. By SOL R. COHEN to be served on Druckman. Henry Kissinger and China’s day-to-day Kissinger and Teng laughing off a dinner Two inches of rain were recorded Satur llt-rald Beporlcr As permitted under the first notice of dispute over detente. day, and the rain began to let up by late order, a letter and the notice were sent to ruler reviewed the international situation Town Counsel William Broneill said T afternoon Sunday. The service said Druckman by registered mail, with a today in their first meeting in the ornate “It doesn’t matter even if we quarrel a today the machinery was set in motion another .75 inches fell Sunday. receipt requested. He is ordered to appear Great Hall of the People. bit,” Teng said, as he sat amid crystal last Thursday for a foreclosure action National The Connecticut River was expected to on or before Nov.