Guardsmen Close Off0 Riot Area

iianflteater 1 ■ Guardsmen close off 0 riot area MIAMI (UPI) — National Guard troops with M-16 rifles diverted Related story and pleturea on Nobody\ thousands of motorists driving' to page 19. ____________ work today away from 50 square miles of heavily populated areas The unemployment rate among devastated by two days and nights of blacks, officials estimate, is about 17 facing burning, looting and rioting that percent, twice as h i^ as for whites killed 19 people and injured hun and Latins. Thirty-eight percoit of dreds. toe blacks, who compose 15 percent It was the worst rioting since out of the city’s 1.5 million people, luve shutoff bursts in Los Angeles’ Watts district incomes below toe poverty level, and at Defroit in the 1960s and the state figures show. Earlier this month. Dr. Johnny MANCHESTER - The first in the nation in the 1980s. Over 460 people were arrested. Jones, black superintendent of Dade Manchester Area Conference of County schools, was convicted of Churches knows of no area residents Property damage was expected to run into the billions of dollars. using public funds to try to buy 98,000 who will be affected by the utility worth of luxury bathroom fixtures in companie's decision to shut off ser The acrid smell of burning le outset buildings and debris hung in the toe so-called “gold plumbing caper” ! costly, vice today to poor people with trial. He was suspended when toe lies that delinquent bills. humid air on the outskirto of the barred areas! A tower of black charges were filed and fired when he Mindy” was found guilty. Sunday) A winter morltorium/on power smoke plumed above Liberty City, a Shirley” shutoffs was mandated by state law. sprawling ghetto area of northwest And last December, Dade County f). Elven- It had been legally lifted April 15, but iQi Miami where blacks rioted at the police with a search warrant for nar iimed to the utilities had voluntarily extended 1968 Republican National Convention cotics mistakenly broke into toe «t never the moratorium to today for hardship at Miami Beach. home of black schoolteacher ther did cases. Smoke from smouldering.remains Nathaniel LeFleur and allegedly pistolwhipped him before realizing hat CBS of three major night blazes served as On April 14, Joanne Mikoleit, direc visible reminders of the black protest they were in toe wrong home. He is irk peri- tor of the MA(X Fuel Bank, had said that erupted Saturday. The rioting suing toe county. she knew of 157 homes that would 'herewe began after a Tampa, n a ., jury The massive influx of Cuban and success have had their power cut off. But in judged four white expolicemen from Haitian refugees into South Florida ; we did the month-long interium, Ms. Dade (bounty innocent in the beating in toe last month has also upset Mikoleit said most people have “had death of a Arthur McDuffie, a black Miami’s black community. A recent ‘Araeri- good luck making payment red insurance agent from Miami. poll by toe Miami Herald showed 57 >g arrangements” with the utilities.. percent of toe blacks questioned upposed Firemen, backed by police squads clearing the streets with teargas, believed toe new immigrants would "I don't have any (residents) have a “largely negative” impact. I so CBS whose service is going to be turned however, managed to bring h u n d ^ s A city police spokesman confirmed comedy off. Nobody is having their gas or of blazes, including 40 to 50 major just before dawn that “toe curfew is nendous lights shut off," Ms. Mikoleit said fires, under control in the pre-dawn •’ i C working for us right now. I hope we raroaUc today. hours. ich has can keep it that way.” The threatened residents had in . V Dade County Public Safety Direc tier for tor Bobby Jones, put in command by A Miami fire operations dispatcher BC and cluded some Blast Hartford con reported, “All toe major fires are un ^eloping sumers, but most were the governor of all police, 1,100 National Guard troops plus scores of der control. They are rekindling and Manchester! tes. resetting some of them, but we’re scribed state patrolmen and other officers, Ms. Mikoleit said she believes the getting in to fight them.” Id,” but actual effect of the end of the said the situation was stable. s i t is a Was the worst over, he was asked? Until 1 a.m.| firefighters stood morltorium won’t be felt until the ■ \ i -m helplessly on toe perimeter of the It it is end of the month, when it can be “I would sure as hell hope that it is, riot areas and watched hundreds of nv and learned whether poor customers ac but I’m very cautious when it comes charac- fires burn supermarkets, tually fulfilled their payment The winners to that kind of optimism,” Jones en. It is replied. warehouses, and stores to the udience arrangement. Over, or not, be said, Miami has' ground. Police were unable to sort of In related energy business, today is The excitement of winning is expressed by Saturday. From left, Diane Dahling, third provide protection from snipers and er than the deadline for welfare clients to paid a terrible price. these youngsters who were the top three place; Amy Bolduc, first place and Shawn He said the county medical gangs of rock-and bottle-throwing send the state energy assistance looters. knows applications. The state will stop finishers in the 50-yard dash for pre-school Adams, second place. More pictures on pages examiner had confirmed 19 deaths as (Larry age children during the Tolland County 9 and 10. (Herald photo by Adamson) of 5:30 a.m., including a Miami city Police units clad in flak jackets taking requests for the 510.3 million and riot helmets began moving into I's final energy aid program at 4:30 p.m. Special Olympics at Rockville High School police lieutenant who died of a heart telling, attack while escorting National toe ravaged areas soon after the ulation. Guard troops to their post. curfew. Among those arrested were s many 42 whites. le says More than 400 have been injured, he said. UPI’s checks of police injury 1, there reports indicated at least 600 hurt, in marks Cheney workers sign pact cluding more than 40 suffering “The gunshot wounds. Five were lawmen. Lost man liadow” more employees according to both The contract package, with the in Jones said his daybreak tour of toe veals, MANCHESTER - A new three- Stanley Prachnack, union president, year contract for Cheney Mill’s offers mroe complete coverage. An Prachnack, and a statement released creased benefirs will cost the com riot areas left him “depressed by toe not lost under number of businesses totally at the workers has been reached. example Prachnack used was that by Neale l^lcourt, vice president of pany a quarter of a million dollars, , “It's Negotiations between the union. employees would be insured for op Gerli and Co., a New York based Belcourt said. destroyed. Many of them are owned MANCHESTER - A Coventry time it Amalgamated Textile and aothing tional care. firm. by blacks. man missing since Friday and toe 1 make Workers’ Union, Local 93 and the Another aspect of the new contract New rates will be set for some of He also said the Cheney Mills in “The black community,” he said, subject of a nationwide alert, was in always Cheney Mills owners, Gerli and Co. was increases in the pension the skilled labor such as loom fixers, tends on remaining open. “Recently "has paid a price for this in terms of custody at Manchester Police were termed satisfactory by both benefits. The first contract year the finishing machine crew leaders, the Cheney Historical Society was thousands of jobs, temporarily and Headquarters over toe weekend. lugges- sides. benefits increase by $7 and in the slasher operators, mechanics, elec given a state grant to map out and perhaps permanently lost.” mming The contract includes 7.5 percent third year another dollar. tricians and other crafts. tell the town what the possibilities Jones said be most likely would im Police say George E. Walker, 20, of before pose toe dusk-to-dawn curfew again 151 Berry Ave., was reported missing out of wage Increases for each of the three Presently, wages start at about 94 “We have had trouble attracting would be for use of the building if years. The main contract changes an hour at the mill and range up to |7 people with good mechanical and Cheney ever moved out.” , tonight. “It’s still too critical and too by his mother who said she loaned alwan were in the fringe benefits. an hour. The contract apparently in technical ability, but now that we pay dangerous in there. him her car for a job interview in deals, The union and the company agreed cludes adjustments in the scales, ac up to $7 per hour, that should “This is a lot of rhetoric as far as “We have to play it day by day and Windsor. When Walker failed to (levies) to insurance policy through Century cording to Prachnack. change,” Belcourt said in that state we are concerned because we have hour by hour,” be said. return Saturday, Coventry police (nming 80. The insurance, according to The plant will be advertising for ment. no intention of moving out.” Schools were closed today and bus issued an alert Sunday, saying the years, service was canceled. car had been found in East HaAord I Fred It was early today before state with a broken window.

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