PAGE twenty-four - MANCHESTER EVENING HERALD, Manchester. Conn., Thurs.. Sept. 21. 1978 The Weather WHAT’S Cloudy followed by partial fell ' clearing thi.s afternoon. Tur­ NEWS ^ 111" ning cooler with afternoon anrltPHlpr I temperature.s in the 60s. Most­ ly clear and cooler tonight with lows 50 to 55. Fair Saturday with highs in the 60s. Rain Manchester I ^ — Manchester, Conn., Friday, Sept. 22, 1978 A Family ISEWSpaper Since 1881 probability: 20 percent today, 10 percent tonight and Satur­ Local Democratic candidates day. say the party's past record of economic control and provision of I "*'*flgcport1 Professors Strike« (.'ommittee, says Salter's Pond is I an asset to the town. See pui'c ,'i. I BRIDGEPORT (UPI) — Universi- academic influence. jailed for defying a Superior Court Directors of the River East I ty of Bridgeport professors went on "We had proposed that the univer­ ‘"The university would like to give members of the local unit of the judge’s back-to-work order. the impression it’s business as usual, Uomemaker-Home Health Aide I strike today in the second walkout to sity renew our current contract for a University negotiators walked out American Association of University Service Inc. have appointed a sub- I rock the community as a public but that’s not the case,’’ Douglas Professors. The AAUP has been National year and negotiate just the money of talks just before midnight said. (onimitlee to study a merger with I school strike by i,250 teachers issues over the weekend, and if we asking for a 1 to 3 year contract, a 12 Thursday when it was apparent no University officials said Thursday public health nurses. Sec piigc V. I entered its third week. could not agree, then to turn it over percent salary hike and the elimina­ agreement would be reached before they will implement contingency Manchester's CETA positions. Norman Douglas, president of the to binding arbitration," Douglas tion of a proposal that would give the the strik e deadline. No new plans to keep the private university including one-year projects that I school’s chapter of the American said. negotiations were immediately administration full control over the going if the strike promises to be a university, its programs and faculty were terminated early this I Association of University "But the university would not scheduled. long one. month, could be extended through I Professors, said today 250 professors accept that," he said. AAUP Although an university assignments. October Sit |in(:r III. I agreed to walk off their jobs after a teachers have been without a con­ spokeswoman said classes would be Negotiators have been meeting The administration has offered 3, 4 contract deadline passed at mid­ tract since Aug. 31. held today, Douglas questioned how night. througbout the week to try to reach a and 5 percent salary increases for Public school teachers in the school would muster a qualified new contract agreement. The univer­ Fnal If if ^ I Douglas said the university has Bridgeport have been on strike since full professors, associate professors, professional staff adequate to in­ sity employs 270 full-time and 200 MhUSl MiarijOra I refused union demands for more Sept. 6, idling almost 23,000 students. and instructors, respectively. A struct the 8,000 member student part-time teachers. More than 250 of strike by the faculty in September John Shemo, town planner, says money, tenure, and increased More than 200 teachers have been I body. the full-time faculty members are 1975 closed clas.ses for three days he will contact Town Council Chairman George Dagon to get a set of written questions from him regarding what the council wants Smoter to know about possible traffic Parents effects from the J.C. Penney i catalog distribution center in I Manchester. .See page 2. | H b | ^ __________ Support Connecticut | l| > Teachers The State Labor Council en- I BRIDGEPORT (UPI) - Mrs. Lois I dorses Gov. Ella Grasso over her Coffey wants her two daughters to Republican challenger. Rep. know their striking teachers are Ronald Sarasin. at its 22nd annual | | alive and well, even though they’re in convention. See page 4. jail. Connecticut has the highest So Mrs, Coffey and a group of other [ average personal income in the Bridgeoort parents hired school United States, except for Alaska buses to take their children 65 miles and Hawaii. See page .S. to the National Guard barracks in Windsor Locks, where the teachers are being held, for a two-hour rally The Nation today to bolster the teachers’ and The House is dispensing with students’ spirits. legislation at a clipped rate these I "The kids really look up to the I days, but the backlog of bills teachers,’’ Mrs. Coffey said before before the Senate has brought a * the group of 200 parents and children scolding from the leadership. See left Bridgeport. “I know my own two page .5. Enthusiasm for Season Opener daughters are attached to their teachers and the thought of them In Hackberry, La., firefighters I M anchester High School ch eerleaders, dressed in red and today at the high school as a reminder of the football team’s going off to jail is horrid.” burned off thousands of barrels of I w hite, w ave th eir pom pom s and red and w hite carnations as first game of the season Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at Memorial "We want to show the kids their exUn%°ish‘"a \"la^ze Tt’ the | ^ '^‘^h carnations which are being sold Field against Fermi High of Enfield. (Herald photo by Pinto) teachers are fine. We also want to government's first underground . _____ voice our opinions, and show the petroleum storage site. The I T ^ I ^ -_ teachers we support them,” she said. Thirty-six teachers were sentenced by Superior Court Judge James known origin. One worker was I !5aysJ 1 ripX huccessiul^ Henebry and ordered to join 233 Hails Merit kiii0(j I colleagues at Camp Hartell for The Securities and Exchange ^ ^ ™ H Saudi Arabia (U P I)- whether there is any ambiguity." "framework for peace." Arab front against the Israeli- refusing to obey his order to end their ■‘It was absolutely essential that it Meanwhile Jordan's King Hussein, three-week strike. Of those, 32 were Commission has asked a federal Egyptian peace effort. be done, both countries told me that with whom Vance had two days of in­ taken Thursday to the make-shift judge to sign an order today fining accomp ished what he In Rabat, Morocco, Egyptian Robert Vesco up to $10,000 a day if ^is selling tour of tbe it was useful to them. conclusive talks, met secretly today jail. Vance, who met earlier with Saudi with two leading hard-line opponents President Anwar Sadat conferred he refuses to surrender about $10 I David accords to moderate with Saudi Arabian vice-premier Some teachers have been dis­ Arabia's King Khalid, conferred at of the Camp David accords — million in stock allegedly used in .founf'es and tbe United States Prince Abdallah Ibn Abdulaziz in an missed during each sentencing for lunch today with Saudi Arabian 'EhrKhed Flavor’c^ ^ an effort to influence White House now >s awiting answers from both Palestinian chief Yasser Arafat and apparent bid to overcome Saudi personal or medical reasons. So far, Defense Minister Prince Sultan ben officials. Vesco is now in the Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Libya's Col. Moammar Khadafy. coolness toward the Camp David 267 have been jailed since the I Abdul Aziz. walkout by the 1,250-member Bahamas I Concluding three days of talks with Arafat and Khadafy slipped away peace talks, Arab diplomats said. A U.S. spokesman said earlier that Irom the Arab hardliners summit bridgepori Education Association Jordanian Saudi officials, Vance But there was no indication whether Vance had gained Saudi Arabia's un­ meeting in Damascus and drove to began Sept. 6. T h o T T n - r lA I ^ accomplished an important he had made any progress. J n e tr O r i a l f3pj ) ^ad the chance to really dis- derstanding and possible future sup­ the A1 Hussein Air Base near the Jor­ Schools remained closed for the Citizens of the Nicaraguan city I questions in depth with the two port for tbe Camp David agreements danian border town of Irbid for the Israeli Prime Minister Menachem eighth day to the city’s 23,000 higji marks in five hey areas. of Esteli appeal to the world at foontries, on whether Camp David in a boost for his mission to sell skep­ surprise conference aimed at per­ Begin returned to Israel in triumph students. large to help stop the war that is I questions in their minds, or tical Arabs the milestone summit's suading Hussein to join the hardline today and was met by tens of Contract negotiations were recessed at 2:15 p.m. Thursday after turning their town into a thousands of Israelis in an un­ 25 hours of talks at the state Labor Can MERIT deliver the flavor of leading high cemetery. .Sev page 4. precedented outpouring of good will Ganfirmerf; 85% of MERIT smokers say it was toward their prime minister. Department in Wethersfield. tar brands? Thirteen persons have been A union spokesman, Jeff an “easy switch” from high tar brands. killed in a series of NATO war He expressed the hope that a peace Rosenberg, said the negotiators games under way in West Ger­ agreement would be signed quickly spent most of the time talking about Does MERIT satisfy smokers over a long period many, it was disclosed today.