Some Massage Parlors Nixon Left Presidency Indians Again Stop / Annual Comedy Contest: Favor Licensing Plans, Five Years Ago Today Red Sox in Two Gantts A Shoot-Out with Jokes Page 4 Page 6 ) Page 11 Page 14 iiaitrIjMtrr Fair Tonight, Cioudy Friday iEuniingnmlb Detail* on page 2 Praises Junta Vol. XCVIII, No. 263 — Manchester, Conn., Thursday, August 9.1979 • A Family NEWSpaper Since 1881 » 20t Single Copy • 15t Home Delivered QUITO, Ecuador (UPI) - First lady Rosalynn Carter praised -fir Ecuador's militpry junta for returning the country to civilian & rule and said the South American M nation would serve as a Oil Tank Emptied democratic example throughout the Americas. Mrs. Carter is heading the American delegation, which in­ cludes Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, attending the inauguration Without Incident Friday of 38-year-old lawyer Jaime Roldos as president. EAST HARTFORD (UPI) - The “It still might go, but the odds are gallons of oil in the tank, and would "Just a few weeks ago Presi­ in our favor,” Emge said. "If it did continue offloading the fuel at a rate dent Carter and I welcomed remainder of more than one million gallons of home heating oil was go, 100,000 gallons would still be a of 124,000 gallons per hour. President-elect and Mrs. Roldos pretty big spill." Gov. Ella Grasso, the state Depart­ to the White House,” Mrs. Carter pumped out of a tank late this mor­ ning by officials worried the tank He said Atlas has five tanks at its ment of Environmental Protection said in a statement she read in Riverside Drive storage farm. Three and East Hartford police and fire of­ Spanish on arrival in Quito would rupture and spill oil into the of the tanks are a distance away ficials were also on the scene. Wednesday. Connecticut River. The Coast Guard and environmen­ from the bank. The second tank was “As minutes go by that tank is “We told them then — and I becoming lighter. As the tank would like to repeat now — that tal officials pumped 1.2 million gallons of No. 2 oil out ot an Atlas Oil becomes lighter they're shoring up the democratic example of ■ the bank. The two combined could Ek;uador is already serving as a Co. storage tank and planned to pump 400,(X)0 more gallons out of a second make for a happy ending,” said Coast beacon for other such movements Guard spokesman George Cassidy. throughout the Americas." tank as a precautionary measure. River Spill The tank perched on the edge of the The Coast Guard said it set up 500 river bank was in danger of rupturing feet of booms around the tank and at Too Far Away % or sliding downhill because of a Is Averted strategic points downstream to con­ mudslide 8 feet away. The soil caved tain any oil that could leak. An ad­ WASHINGTON (UPI) - ditional 20,000 feet of containment Friends of former President in Tuesday because of heavy rains or nearby construction, a Coast Guard booms were readied if needed. Richard Nixon say the major push The Coast Guard has control to sell his mansion in San spokesman said. to be offloaded just as a precaution, jurisdiction over the river in the Clemente came from his wife, "The first tank should be empty by Emge said. event of an oil spill. Pat. They said she feels she is too 11 a.m .," said Coast Guard Ensign Officials said early today that no Officials said underground lines far from children and Michael Emge. “There were 200,000 oil had spilled into the river and pumped 42,000 gallons per hour to grandchildren and wants to move gallons left by 9 a.m. They'll do the measurements showed the tank had storage tanks in Hartford and New back east, where she was hap­ other tank as soon as they get this not moved. Haven, 42,000 gallons per hour were piest The Nixons reportedly may one.” By midnight, crews using tankers being pumped to a closer storage settle in Connecticut. While the oil was being pumped and vacuum trucks had pumped out tank and trucks were removing 30,000 It was just five years ago today out, crews shored up the base around the tank. approximately half of the 1.2 million gallons per hour. MM Nixon b^am e a private citizen ) after resigning the presidency. He was battered m entally and physically, but those friends say he now "looks super, he has Firefighters Weary bounced back. ” He is working on a new book and is looking forward to a visit to China again in September and starting a new life back east. As Battle Continues PriesCs Trial By United Pness International A mudslide within 8 feet of an Atlas Oil Co. tank posed a Half the nation's force of forest WILMINGTON, Del. (UPI) - danger of No. 2 heating oil spilling into the Connecticut River firefighters, many working 18-hour The testimony of Mrs. Doris shifts in searing heat, today battied Clough, a clerk in one of five at East Hartford today. Workers toiled rapidly to empty the fires that have blackened more than small Wilmington-area 1.2 million gallon tank. (Herald photo by Adamson) 300,000 acres of the tinder-dry West. businesses the Rev. Bernard T. “Many of our men and women on Pagano, a 53-year-old Catholic the tines are reaching the end of their priest is a c c u ^ of robbing at physical and mental limits,” said gunpoint, may not be adm itt^ as Idaho ranger John Marker. evidence in his trial. A defense Inflation Soars, More than 175,000 acres of motion was made to suppress any timberiand have been seared in evidence relating to Mrs. Gough's California, Oregon, Montana, lineup identification of Pagano. Wyoming and Idaho. The most The clerk had seen the priest's Energy Blamed dangerous blazes were in Idaho, picture in a newpaper after his where nearly 3,000 men fought blazes arrest, WASHINGTON (UPI) - Inflation Excluding food, wholesale prices that have burned over 130,000 acres. Superior Court Judge Andrew at the wholesale level soared 1.1 per­ jumped by 1.4 percent. Bob Bjornsen, director of the Christie is continuing the hearing cent during July as skyrocketing Perhaps the most depressing Forest Service's interagency center of the defense motion today. energy costs continued to rampage statistics contained in the new report at Boise, said the only real hope was Deputy Attorney General through the economy, the govern­ involved wholesale prices at the in­ rain and a decline in wind “that could Timothy Barron, the prosecutor, ment reported today. termediate and crude levels which be 10 days off.” conced^ testimony from the vic­ The Labor Department's initial in­ measure longer-range price activity. A new fire, near Bonners Ferry in tims was crucial to his case. “The flation report for the second half of Tliey showed that intermediate northern Idaho, raced Wedne^ay key to the case, from the state's 1979 was dismal and contradicted prices rose by 1.9 percent, the largest through 750 acres of state and private standpoint, is the eyewitness iden­ White House projections that infla­ jump in nearly five years. Crude land and destroyed at least two tification of the defendant. " tion should ease off duHng the prices climbed at the fastest clip homes south of the town. remainder of the year. since February. Dozens of other homes were Divers Trapped It showed food prices last month The Labor Department said its evacuated, but Boundary County were unchanged from the June level. overall July Wholesale Price Index Sheriff Mike LaBrosse said ABERDEEN, Scotland (UPI) Food costs had declined in each of stood at 215.8. That means goods and firefighters were confident the blaze — Two American divers, iden­ the three proceeding months. services which cost 8100 in 1967 were could be stopped before it reached tified as Victor "Skip" Guiel, 29, But the price of gasoline and home priced at $215.80 last month. the town of 1,900. of Springfield, Mass.> and Richard heating oil jumped sharply. Gasoline President C arter and his top In Alaska, three fires burned more Walker. 32, of Santa Barbara, ready for delivery to service stations economic advisers have been saying than 180,000 acres of tundra and Calif., who worked for Infabco rose 3.9 percent in July and prices publicly that inflation peaked during black spruce. Less than 500 Diving Services and were trapped were 38.9 percent above the July 1978 the first half of the year when con­ firefighters were available to battle in a diving bell after being level. sumer prices rose at an annuai rate these blazes. lowered 530 feet into the North The home heating oil situation was of 13.2 percent — the largest six- “You do what you can with the Sea on an inspection dive near the even worse as prices rose 9 percent month gain since 1951. resources," said a spokesman for the Thistle oil platform, 130 miles during July and were 51.8 percent Office of Fire Management in northeast of the Shetland Islands, They based their optimism on higher than a year earlier. Anchorage. died before rescuers could open predictions of moderating food The overall 1.1 percent increase Chief of coordination Bob Tokarc- the retrieved capsule, a British prices. Bruce Moyers, right, and Carl Dorsey, maintenance men for last month — 14 percent at a com­ zyk said about 7,000 men — or half the National Oil Co.