PAGE TWENTY - MANCHESTER EVENING HERALD. Manchester, Conn., Wed., Aug. 9, House closer to big money vote 5 WASHINGTON (UPI) - The House amendments Tuesday but put over until and how legislation is brought to the floor weeks ago from Rep. Harold S. Sawyer, m ov^ a step closer to approving the Wednesday completion of their work on and what amendments may come up, R-Mich., a member of the House largest single piece of money legislation the bill seems certain to permit the $16.2 billion Assassinations Committee. '' Thei weather The measure is largest single piece of Ways and Means Committee version to be Sawyer could not be reached iin- ever consider^ by Congress, while the Gradually clearing and becoming less humid money legislation ever considered by voted on by the full House. mediately for comment. fate of several tax-cut proposals awaited this afternoon. Highs in the middle 80s, around 29 action by the House Rules Committee. Congress. The brother of confessed assassin In a related development, the The Rules Committee meets today to James Earl Ray told reporters during a assassinations committee, accused of C. Clear tonight with lows 55 to 60. Mostly sunny The House moved slowly Tuesday Friday but with some increase in cloudiness in the toward approval of |119.2 billion to arm,- decide the fate of several tax-cut visit to the Capitol Tqesday Ray has wiretapping and other illegal operations, proposals in the House, including a $16.2 turned down an offer of freedom if he will was denied any additional funding until it maitrhpBtpr lEiif iiitin Hrralft afternoon; highs in the low 80s. Chance of rain 20 pay and train the armed forces, rejecting billion cut approved by the Ways and simply confess he killed Mai'tin ^ th e r answers the charges and justifies* the t A Family NEWSpaper Since 1881 percent today, near zero tonight and Friday. attempts to make across-the-board cuts of Outlook: Variable cloudiness Saturday. Chance of billions of dollars from the defense ap­ Means Committee and an $18.1 billion cut King and say how he did it. millions already spent this year. Home delivered copy 15 cents endorsed by the administration. Jerry Ray said the .offer came two showers Sunday and Monday. National weather propriations bill. Vol XCVII, No. 264 — Manchester, Conn., Thursday, August 10, 1978 Newsstand copy 20 cents map; page 16. House members acted on several The committee, which determines when Incumbents favored in four primaries ✓ V Inside today By United Press InlemalionBl scheme. A primary victory in his Detroit Georgia — Busbee and Nunn each had took a narrow lead over former GOP state district is tantamount to election. five opponents but both won -Chairman Vernon F. Ravenscroft early Food prices drop Georgia Democrats voted for Sen. Sam ^ssouri voters proved overwhelmingly overwhelmingly in a state where the today in a see-saw race for the right to op­ Manchester Nunn and Gov. George Busbee and against Democratic nc^nation is tantamount to pose Evans. Former state Rep. C.L. Betty Talmadge, Michigan Republicans that tax revolt fever is rampant in the state when 88 percent voted to reject a election. "Butch” Otter trailed several thousand Mary LeDuc and John Sullivan renominated popular Sen. Robert Griffin Mrs. Talmadge polled only 18 percent of votes behind, with three other candidates are named to head the campaign and Missouri voted resoundingly to join referendum to increase the state gasoline tax. The money was to go to help repair the vote in the House race. State Sen. far behind. in Manchester for Ella Grasso. the tax revolt. state highways. Virginia Shapard finished first with 45 Missouri — The state’s 10 incumbent See page 2. first time in year Mrs. Talmadge, involved in a messy There were races for the Senate and percent and will be in the runoff with state congressmen all .were renominated—four Water samples show high divorce with Sen. Herman Talmadge, ' governor in Georgia, Michigan and Idaho, Sen. Peter Banks who received 26 percent. of them had no oppositloon. counts of bacteria but town of­ WASHINGTON (UPI) - $100 in 1967 were priced at $195.90 in higher than June's 0.6 percent climb finished third in a race for the House seat while those three states and Missouri also Two other candidates trailed. ficials foresee no problem like the Wholesale prices rose 0.5 per­ July. and equal to the May level. v acat^ by the retirement of Rep. John President Carter and his economic nominated House candidates. McDonald, a national officer of the John Drownings probed one last year when some residents cent in July, but food costs Prices for meat, poultry and fish On Pentagon tour Flynt, the Democrat who led the House Birch Society, finished narrowly ahead of had to boil water for drinking. See advisers have been waging a cam­ Here are the results. BERLIN (UPI) — Berlin police are stili dropped for the first time in dropped 0.5 percent last month. probe of Korean bribery. Fostei' in the primary vote, and was page 2. paign to convince business and labor Gen. David Jones (left), chairman of the Voters in primary elections in (Jeorgia, Afficbigan — Republican Gov. William investigating the drowning deaths of two almost a year, the government to hold down their price and wage in­ Other declines came for milled rice Milliken was unopposed and Griffin polled forced into a runoff when two other con­ Joint Chiefs of Staff, chats with Gen. Omar Michigan, Idaho and Missouri were men whose boat capsized on Silver Lake creases this year as one method for and vegetable oil end products. more than 80 percent of the vote to defeat tenders blocked either from getting a East Hartford reported today. Roasted coffee prices also fell. Bradley, America’s only living five-star generally kind to incumbents. The only clear majority. Last year McDonald, a Monday. i The half percent rise in overall combatting inflation. Oakland County Prosecutor Brooks Dr. Sterling Taylor, assistant medical The town's Head Start program On the other hand, fresh and dried general, during tour of new Joint Chiefs of exception was arch conservative Rep. doctor, was ordered to pay $15,000 to the wholesale prices equalled the The program has been given mixed Larry McDonald, who was forced into an Patterson. examiner for New Haven County, Tuesday may be in jeopardy because of fruits and vegetable prices Staff Corridor at the Pentagon. Bradley, now On the Democratic side Carl Levin, family of a cancer patient who bad died smallest monthly rise of 1978. The reviews so far as some organizations Aug. 29 Democratic runoff after finishing ruled out foul play in the deaths of Arthur proposed cutbacks in federal have cooperated while others have accelerated as did bread, flour, base 85, was the first chairman of the Joint Chiefs former Detroit City Council chairman after being treated with Laetrile. improvement in prices of wholesale almost dead even with millionaire carpet R. McLaughlin, 68, of Berlin, and funds. See page 6. virtually ignored administration mixes and doughs, and processed of Staff. (UPI photo) won the six-nMn contest to face Griffin, Idaho — Sen. James McClure faced no The Board of Education votes to goods — those ready for sale to con­ magnate Smith Foster. Mansfield oidlins, 64, of Meriden. sumer outlets — was attributed en­ pleas. fruits and vegetables. with newspaper millionaire Phil Power opposition as was the case with his retain a career education Rep. Charles Diggs, D-Mich., won But police say they still want to knovt tirely to a 0,3 percent decline in food, The prices of wholesale goods Gasoline prices declined by 1.1 per­ finishing second. In the four-candidate Democratic challenger in the fall, jour­ specialist who had been told he renomination to a ISth term by a why the boat c a p sid . The men were the first dip in that important other than food rose 0.8 percent, cent last month. Democratic race for governor, state Sen. nalist Dwight Jensen. fishing at the time of the accident and had would be transferred. See page 6. Man burns to death landslide, despite the fact he is under in­ Democratic Gov. John Evans was unop­ category since an 0.1 percent drop in William Fitzgerald won easily. no life preservers in the boat. dictment for 35 counts of misuse of posed. House Speaker Allan F. Larsen September 197-7. PROVIDENCE, R.I. (UPI) — An unidentified man was government funds in a payroll kickback Connecticut burned to death early today after he was apparently The administration had been chained to a fence and set afire, authorities said. Bishop Peter A. Rosazza admits predicting that food prices would Grasso defends Police said they were called after a man was heard his hours are longer but says taper off this summer, particularly ONE OF THE STOP 4 SHOP COMPANIES screaming in Dexter Park near the Cranston Street Ar­ UnwutoHy heovy denrond* tnoy tequtn jarishioners still call him Padre for meat, after rising at an annual OUT ietitng reoionoble limtHon rate of 17 percent during the first half mory. Authorities doubted it was a suicide because no gas item ! m ioitne»»io dh cuvum erv Pedro the way they did when he can. was found in the vicinity. was a priest at the Sacred Heart of the year. heat on Leonard The badly charred body was turned over to the state Church. See page 6. July's 0.5 percent overall increase medical examiner for an autopsy and identification. A coalition of groups, angry equalled March’s upswing and was HARTFORD (UPI) - Gov.