New Probation The Weather Officer -— Pretty Fair and cool tonight Lowa in the And Prepared 40a. Tucadajr, mostly sunny and \ milder, highs 70 to 75. The See Page 9 probability of precipitation near zero. MANCHESTER — A City o f Village Charm MANCHESTER. CONN., MONDAY. OCTOBER 2,1972 VOI, XCIl No. 1 TWENTY PAGES - TWO SECTIONS PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS Gov. Meskill Vetoes Portion 0£ Bus Bill HARTFORD (AP)-Oov. the state's Public Service Tax Meanwhile, buses continued to management dispute” and Thomas J. Meskill today Issued a Fund. roll In the state's six biggest assigned three state mediators to Une4tan veto, knocking down all Meskill reiterated charges he metropolitan areas as if a bus help reach a settlement. but one portion of the mass has made several times that the strike had never threatened. The mediaton helped Conn Co. transportation bill passed last Democratic leaders are trying to and the union reach their interim It had, and still does. But the week by the General Assembly. force a deficit on his administra­ agreement late Saturday, but Amalgamated Transit Union The only portion Meskill app- tion and an income tax*on the both sides reserve the ri^ t to (ATU) and the state's two blggat proved would distribute $3 state. pull out of it on 15 days notice. bus lines have agreed to extend million In highway funds to cities However, he said, “ They out­ Sunday night, CR&L and its an expired contract day-by-day and towns. smarted themselves." division of the ATU came to a while they continue to negotiate Meskill said Democratic Meskill said he anticipated the similar arrangement, with the and while the question of a sub­ leaders In the General Assembly possibility of a legislative union’s pullout “ reserve” cut to sidy is settled. were “ politically motivated” challenge to his attempt to veto just 24 hours. Both the Connecticut Co. and when they combined the highway Just part of the bill. He inserted But while the buses continued Connecticut Railway ALightlng fund distribution portion with' in his veto a proviso that if the to run, the basic issue remained. Co. say they are losing hundreds another section of the bill line-item veto is successfully "N othing has really been of dollars each day, and cannot allowing the state to give direct challenged, the whole bill should resolved," said ConnCo attorney afford to give their drivers and subsidies to bus companies from be considered vetoed. William Culiina. He said the next mechanics raises, without a fresh negotiating session was supply of money. scheduled for Friday. With strikes threatening last At CR&L, union chief John Auditors Report Toll Saturday night at both lines. Gov. Costigan echoed CuUina, saying Thomas J. Meskill called the “ We are no closer now than when 1^ General Assembly to special ses­ we started. The company con­ Gate Security Lax sion, where it proceeded to pass a tinues to insist that it will stop subsidy plan he vowed to veto. operating unless it gets state HARTFORD (AP>-The Department of Transportation But when it landed on his desk, financial help.” CR&L and the he didn't sign it. hasn’t made adequate security arrangements at lower Connec­ ATU scheduled a negotiatiog ses­ Meskill called it a “ labor- sion Thursday at 10:30 a.m. ticut Turnpike toll stations despite a security inquiry launched by Gov. Thomas J. Meskill more than a year ago, according to two state auditors. They said the legislature may wish to consider taking Nixon Regime responsibility for the stations away from the Transportation Union Pond Dedicated Department. of tolls, concessions and security Tours of the Greenwich and Alleged Corrupt on July 1, lOTl. Miss Manchester, Laurie Lee Osgood, and Mayor John Union Pond to the people of Manchester. (Herald photo by other toll stations in May But, they said, “ there have Thompson lift the veil from the plaque dedicating the parit at Buceivicius) revealed dirty physical plants and will soon announce a specific been no personnel assigned to the By R. GREGORY NOKES bags of money exposed to view, plan for ending the Vietnam war. security unit. Associated Press Writer the auditors said in a report Shriva, the Democratic vice ‘"The Connecticut toll opera­ Eleanor McGovern and Sargent Two Vermont released Sunday. presidential candidate, was in tion lacks organizational status Shriva have assailed alleged cor­ The auditors, Leo V. Donohue Minneapolis where he within the Department of ruption in the Nixon administra­ Fires Claim State Official Lauds and Henry J. Becker Jr., said acknowle^ed that the Watagate ’Transportation to assure efficient tion, but Shriva says most people they saw no monitors being used case and alleged Republican cam­ administration of revenue collec­ have been “ bruised too much’^ to Nine Lives to observe motorists paying their paign fund irregularities had not tions which totalled more thah care. tolls. “ We were informed that become major iiuues in the minds $34 million during the fiscal year Meanwhile, Clark MacGregor^ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS monitors wdre not being used at Pond Restoration of most voters.’ ended June 30, 1971,” the President Nixon’s campaign all,” they reported. “ We sort of have an emerging auditors’ report said. director, said Nixon "cannot lose Two mothers and seven The auditors noted that State royalty of top bureaucrats and About 250 Manchesta citizens mayor, echoed the remarks of The development of the area ‘"The General Assembly might the election.” He warned, children died today in separate IVansportation Commissioner A. the people at the bottom feel stood at the southern end of a another former mayor, Harold A. was a combination of official wish to consider removing the however, against costly mistakes house fires in South Burlington Earl Wood spt up a new division rejuvenated Union Pond yester­ Turkington, when he described government effort by the town responsibiUty for toll operations incapable of changing what’s and Randolph, Vt. by the campaign organization. day and heard a handful of the accomplishment at Union and unofficial work by in­ from the Department of going on at the top,” he said. ’‘So In South Burlington, an early I Nbton, Demoaatic presidential they’re apathetic. ’They’re very speakers dedicate the pond to Pond as a beginning and not an dividuals and community Now Part Of Mad ’Transportation that has as its nominee George McGovern and morning fire swept a two-story skeptical. They’ve been bruised them and to their fellow end. oriented groups. prime objective the development Vice President Spiro T. Agnew house, and a woman and her four Hare For too much,” he added. townspeople, many of whom took Earlier Turkington traced the In his rem arks. General of a long-range master plan of did not campaign Sunday. children died. Their identities Shriva also said: “ We’ve lost an active part in converting the history of the town’s acquisition Manager Robert Weiss said the transportation>for the state.” Sen. McGovern’s wife was on had not been released. Lutich Bunch our sense of moral outrage o v a pond from a North End eyesore of the pond property and the first achievement “ belongs to the peo­ The auditors made a series of^ naitoml televiaiop where she The Randolph fire destroyed a that form of corruption at the top to a recreation area. steps in its r^velopm ent. “ I ple of Manchesta.” SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - recommendations, including' called the Nixon administration 1‘/2-story house killing Karen levels of government. A huge Die grassy site for the dedica­ really hope that this is not the He said that he was instructed While teachers at Ulloa Primary greater use of state police at toll “ the most corrupt regime that we Rhoades, 29, and three children number of persons are just dis­ tion ceremonies was once a smel­ end, that it is a beginning," by the Board of Directon to School here munch away and stations and elimination of un­ have had in recent American by a previous marriage. gusted with the government, and ly unnatural swamp, the resting Turkington said. include nothing in his budget gossip, the Cheshire Cat leers at manned free lanes at toll stations history,” citing the break-in and Mrs. Rhoades and her children, to them, the Watergate affair is place for industrial wastes and Turkington recalled that when recommendation .^(or new than from the wall of the facul^ now used by official state and alleged bugging at the Cheryl Stringham, 10, Walter I just proof that they’re right.” other forms of pollution. the B oad of Directors under­ programs, but that public interest lunchroom and the White Rabbit military vehicles. Democratic party headquarters Stringham, 6, and Tamara President Nixon spent a quiet At the close of the brief took the purchase of Union Pond in cleaning up the pond vras so fussily keeps tabs on the time. They also suggested creation of at Washington’s Watergate Stringham, 5, were trapped in an Sunday at his retreat at Camp festivities. Mayor John Thomp­ in 1961 there was considerable strong that money for it was Mothers of some of the school’s a system to alert the management building as an example. upper floor bedroom, fire of­ David in M aryland. He is son and Laurie Lee Osgood, Miss opposition to the move. He said provided. pupils who wanted to “do of excessive revenue losses or “ ...the lesson of Watagate,” ficials said. schecjuled to confer with Soviet Manchester, unveiled a plaque the position the board took then Harry Maidment, chairman of something nice for the teachers," employe malfeasance.