The weather Partly cloudy today, high 25-30. Clear, cold tonight, lows 5 to 15. Satur- day, sunny, cold, high in 20s. National lEiipntng Ip r a li weather forecast map on page 11. Manchetter—A City of Village Charm MANCHESTER, CONN., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1976 - VOL. XCV, No. 108 FOURTEEN PACES PRICE: FIFTEEN CENTS i f m Relief rushed to Guatemala GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala The government appealed to food of public works, said roads leading to Caceres said heavy damage along — International relief teams today stores to reopen to supply the the country’s Atlantic coast were the Atlantic route would delay rushed food and medical supplies to thousands of homeless still camping still impassable but work was delivery of gasoline to the capital and Guatemala, where the earthquake out in streets and parks. moving swiftly on reopening the the government urged citizens to ra- death toll climbed to 3,000 and doc- It warned that those stores hoar- main gateway to the Pacific. tion fuel. tors operated in makeshift tents to ding food or jacking up prices would save the gravely injured still be "drastically sanctioned." streaming in from devastated moun- Government employes were asked tain villages. to return to work today. A few Bulldozers sealed over mass businesses, gasoline stations and Seeks stabilization of areas graves containing many of the vic- shops were open and there was traf- tims of Wednesday ’s predawn ‘quake fic in the streets. so the nation could turn to the more In the capital, water was restored urgent task of saving the thousands to about 25 per cent of the city. Most Fire district bill of injured. electricity also was restored, Red Cross Director Jose Alvarado although sometimes with emergency said additional reports from hard-hit generators. outlying areas put the death toll at 3,- According to government figures, hearing Wednesday 000 and "still rising.” the hardest hit areas were outlying ( He said whole towns had been towns where the ‘quake leveled By SOL R.. COHEN The hearing will be Wednesday at reduced to rubble and survivors were adobe homes. Herald Reporter 11 a.m. in Room 411 of the State still being rushed to the capital by The village of Parramos, about 37 The legislature’s government ad- Capitol. helicopter and ambulance. miles west of the capital, was ministration and policy committee 'The bill came under attack today The government refused to destroyed.Alvarado said when doc- has scheduled a public hearing on a from Wallace Irish Jr., a leader in speculate on the possible death toll tors arrived there, “They didn’t find bill by State Rep. Ted Cummings, D- the move to expand district lines into and said it could only confirm 1,373 anything but rubble. We don’t know if 12th District, which seeks to stabilize Buckland and Cummings’ opponent persons had been buried by midday the people were buried there or if future boundary lines of the Eighth in 1974 for the Assembly seat. , Thursday. they were evacuated.” Utilities District and the Town of The bill, proposed by Cummings A spokesman for the American em- Jaime Caceres, the vice minister Manchester. and drafted by the committee, is an bassy said officials believed all f Americans in the country were safe. amendment to Public Act 200, which At Guatemala City’s General spells out the procedure for expan- Hospital Dr. Cesar Solis, chief of sur- sion of Eighth District boundaries. Jobless rate drops Cummings said Thursday that the gery. said beds were moved to out- side patios for fear the hospital roof bill "has nothing to do with the pre- might cave in. A makeshift tent sent situation, wherein the district became the hospital’s emergency to 7.8 per cent has expanded its boundaries for fire Herald photo by P service into the Buckland area. room. Seized substance displayed The United States, Peru, WASHINGTON (UPI) - Nearly since a 0.5 per cent drop from That situation, he said, can be Venezuela, Nicaragua, El Salvador half a million laid off workers were November to December, 1959, a clarified only in the courts. ’The dis- Detective Sgt. Samuel Kotsch Jr. of the Manchester Police dis- and Honduras all rushed relief rehired in January as the nation’s spokesman said. trict is suing the town in Hartford County Superior Court in a plays 11 pounds of suspected marijuana and pot-smoking devices supplies to the stricken country. jobless rate fell to 7.8 per cent, the The number of unemployed per- The U.S. aid included a team of 25 largest monthly decline in 15 years, sons dropped by 450,000 in January declaratory action which seeks to seized in a Thursday night drug raid on Rachel Rd. The con- determine who has jurisdiction in physicians and equipment to set up a the Labor Department said today. for the largest monthly decline since fiscated marijuana is worth up to $4,500, Kotsch said. Buckland, the district or the town. 100-bed hospital, along with plasma The jobless rate fell 0.5 per cent December, 1959, when 81,000 persons Cummings said his bill is on his and badly needed drugs. from 8.3 per cent in December. It were hired as the economy began to was the largest one-month decline recover from the 1958 recession. own prerogative and has no co- Suspected marijuana seized signers, "because I didn’t want to in- “For the second consecutive month, the drop in unemployment oc- volve anyone else.” In his criticism today Irish said “I charge for numbered curred entirely among those who had lost their last job," the department agree there is need to stabilize the said. situation but, whei'e I disagree is on Police arrest three on drug charges the need for legislation.” It said 78.1 million nonfarm, By DOLG BEVINS about $4,500 on the street, was seized 18, and Lynn M. Boudreau, 18, both of of a plant-like substance and a bottle payroll workers were on company He insisted that “town and district payrolls in January, an increase of officials should be able to stabilize Herald Reporter in a raid by police at 87D Rachel Rd., Hartford. containing 62 pills. Police cooperated Three persons were arrested and Detective Sgt. Samuel Kotsch Jr. Gilbert and Pare were each with school authorities in in- 1.8 million since the June, 1975 low. the situation.” m There were 7.3 million unemployed 11 pounds of suspected marijuana said. charged with illegal sale of a vestigating the case, Kotsch said. nonfarm workers in January. He said, "The proposed legislation were seized by Manchester Police The raid was conducted by five cannabis-type substance and illegal • The arrest last month of a is negative legislation and counter- Thursday night in the latest results of detectives armed with a Common possession of a cannabis-type sub- Manchester man who police said The department said two of every productive to the basic rights of peo- beefed-up drug trafficking in- Pleas Court 12 search warrant. stance. Miss Boudreau was charged tried to obtain prescription drugs by three business establishments either ple for freedom of choice. There has vestigations, police said. Arrested were Kim J. Gilbert, 22, with two counts of conspiracy in con- representing himself to be a dentist. hired new workers or rehired laid-off been no public call by town or district The suspected marijuana, worth of 87D Rachel Rd.; Bruno A. Pare, nection with the sale and possession. The case is pending in Common workers in January. officials for the legislation, nor any Gilbert and Pare were being held Pleas Court 12. The job gains were widespread for public hearings held on it.” on $20,000 surety bonds each, and • Referral to juvenile court of a 15- all sectors of Americans seeking they were to be arraigned in court year-old Manchester boy who was employment in January with the Irish, who is a candidate for the today. Miss Boudreau was released growing marijuana in his home. exception of teen-agers. The teen-age post of Republican town chairman, I News summary on a $250 cash bond for court Police apprehended the boy after jobless rate increased 0.3 per cent to said, "what this legislation appears appearance Feb. 23. noticing the plant on a windowsill. 19.9 per cent. to be is an attempt to correct the Coiiipiled from L'nited PrcsH Inlernutiom d Kotsch said the suspected local Democratic position, which has marijuana seizure was one of the been contrary to the spirit of largest amounts ever confiscated by previous laws.” brainwashed and coerced into Manchester Police in a drug case. He said the Democrats were in State taking part in the crime. Kotsch said Thursday night’s Town water main break power when the Lawton Rd. search followed several weeks of sur- PLAINVILLE - The federal Firehouse was constructed in 1965, veillance of the Rachel Rd. address. government Thursday sub- WASHINGTON - President affects about 40 homes “without the needed approval by dis- Police, watching the apartment poen.ied Manafort Brothers Inc. Ford has signed a $6.4 billion trict electors for town expansion business records in connection railroad aid bill, clearing the Thursday night, conducted the raid About 40 Manchester families were rtpts. The families involved were in- north of Middle Tpke.;’’ and in 1973, with an investigation of possible way for the largest industrial after observing two people carry a without water from 3 p.m. Thursday formed of the break and were ad- “when the town extended fire service irregularities in a Boston-area reorganization in the nation’s duffle bag into the apartment.