(Eonnectiott iatlg (ftampuB Serving Storrs Since 1896 Vol. LXXXV No.73 University of Connecticut Wednesday, February 3,1982 1,000 pounds of beef missing from UConn B> Sue Lewis Staff Writer More than 1,000 pounds of ground beef Is unaccounted for from the commissary warehouse, state auditors said Tuesday. In a letter to Gov. William A. O'Neill, auditors Henry J. Backer Jr. and Leo V. Donohuc said the hamburger, valued at $2,265 was reported missing after the completion of an internal UConn audit covering a six-month period ending Dec. 31. The auditors said that 1.470 pounds of ground beef was charged out of the warehouse "in excess of the amount ordered by and delivered to UConn dining halls." Becker and Donohuc said their office was conducting an independent audit at UConn and would "review this matter." Arthur T. Gillis. vice president for finance and administration, said a system of receipts is used to keep track of the food removed from the commissary and distributed by the bod service operation to the dining halls. No receipts have been found for the missing hamburger, so the records don't record the loss. "The records were in conflict with one another." he said. It's worth the wait Gillis said if the auditors investigation indicates that there Paul Bernstein, Jeff Ulmer and Anne Karl are three of more than 200 I'Conn students has been no discrepancies in the warehouse record-keeping, camping in front of Jorgensen Auditorium to buy tickets for the J. Geils concert scheduled the next step would be to turn the matter over to the Tolland for Feb. 14 at I 'Conn. But cold temperatures and heavy rain didn't seem to dampen spirits. County district attorney's office, who would investigate the See story, p. 2 [Evan Roklen photo]. possibility of theft. Guerrillas launch day attack, Groundhog predicts fights in El Salvador continue six weeks of winter PUNXSUTAWNEY. Pa. (AP)—A nation already beset by SAN SALVADOR. El Salva- least lour sections of the city co Aurelio Gonzalez called brutal weather got more dismal news Tuesday from dor (AP)—Leftist guerrillas through the morning. the assaults "attacks of in- Punxsutawnoy Phil, the furtiy forecaster who predicted six battling El Salvador's U.S.- He said the guerrillas timidation against the peo- more weeks of winter. backcd junta launched a rare attacked about 6 a.m.. killing ple" to keep them from There were conflicting reports from some groundhogs in daylight attack on the east- at least one national police- voting in next month's con- other areas, but thoy included varmints that either didn't ern city of Usulutan on man and wounding three stituent assembly elections. exist or were no-shows. Tuesday and claimed control soldiers. There was no word He denied that the attack The chief forecaster. Punxsutawnoy Phil, peered from his of the northeastern town of on guerrilla casualties. was aimed at military tar- heated burrow at 7:26 a.m. and saw his shadow as the Corinto. At midday the army said it gets, but journalists in the temperature hovered at 19 degrees under clear skies. A military source reached had restored order in Usulu- area said a national police "The prediction is bad news for an America already by telephone in Usulutan, 70 tan but admitted there was headquarters and army bar- reeling under the staggering blows of one of the worst miles east of San Salvador, still sporadic shooting. racks were hit with automatic winters on record." said Charles Erhard. president of the said fighting was heavv in at Army spokesman Col. Mar- weapons and grenades. Punxsutawnoy Groundhog Club, who interpreted Phil's Residents reached by tele- prognostication. Air Florida plane phone said the streets were Erhard roused the slumbering groundhog by rapping on deserted, with people afraid the burrow door with a cane, and Jim Means, the official to leave their homes. handler, was bitten on the knuckle when the rodent o emerged under the glare of television lights. Means later hijacked to Havana "We can hear powerful had to have a tetanus shot. MIAMI (AP)—A "homesick Cuban" carrying a bottle of explosions but we don't know gasoline hijacked a jetliner with 77 people aboard to Havana where they are coming on Tuesday, authorities said. It was the first successful U.S. from." said one source hijacking in more than six months. reached in the city of 25.000 No injuries were reported to anyone on the Air Florida residents. Boeing 737. which had left Miami about 2:40 p.m. EST bound Military specialists said they could not recall another for Key West. The plane, carrying 72 passengers including the hijacker guerrilla daylight assault of and a crew of five, landed at Havana's Jose Marti Airport at this type. 3:28 p.m.. and Jack Barker of the Federal Aviation The guerrillas have been Administration in Atlanta said he believed Cuban authorities threatening a major offensive took the hijacker into custody. for more than a month but it About two and a half hours later, the jet. minus the hijacker, was too early to tell if the left Havana for the 40-minute flight to Key West International attacks mark the start of the Airport, its original destination, officials said. The plane offensive or just a llareup in landed at 6:32 p.m. in Key West and passengers were being the civil war that has taken interviewed by the FBI. according to Fred Farrar of the FAA. more than 35,000 lives since The crew was returning the plane to Miami. the junta came to power in El FBI spokesman Wayne Bonner said in Washington that the Salvador in October 1979. hijacker was a single unidentified Latin male. He said negotiations had started with the Castro government on Secretary of State Alexan- returning the man to the United States. der M. Haig Jr. told the Air Florida President Eli Timoner said he did not know how Senate Foreign Relations Co- the hijacker managed to smuggle the gasoline-filled bottle mittee that infiltration of aboard, but he said that once his demands were made to the arms to El Salvador's guerril- crew, "we accommodated him." las "is again approaching the Dave Mulligan. Air Florida vice president for operations, high levels recorded just said the pilot. Capt. Gerry Cook, remained calm during radio before last year's so-called transmissions about the hijacking. "final offensive.'" He said U.S. government sources, who asked not to be identified, the U.S. will do "whatever is Charles Erhard of Punxsutawney, Penn., listens as said initial reports from the airliner's crew indicated the necessary" to contain the groundhog Punxsutawney Phil predicts six more weeks of hijacker was a "homesick Cuban," who apparently regretted guerrillas. winter after he saw his shadow 11.'PI photo]. having come to the United States and wanted to return . Pag* 2 Connecticut Daily Campus, Wednesday, February 3,198P Want to save gas? Miserable weather Try a van pool won't keep 'em home By Bill Hanrahan insurance on to commuters. service Stafford Springs. By Judy Benson Staff Writer The program has also helped Union, Vernon, Woodstock, News Editor In September 1979 the bring peace of mind among Putnam, North Windham, Bundled in 10 layers of wool, denim and down. Peter UConn Transportation riders and has cut down tar- Whethersfield, Old Hiller and Dave Stevens slept, ate. and drank beer lying on Department began diness, according to Bob Saybrook, Norwich, Ham- the concrete porch of Jorgensen Auditorium Since Monday organizing van pools for its Hay, Ride Chair Coordinator pton. An 11th route, ser- afternoon. employees. After only 28 and Assistant Supervisor of vicing Hebron, is scheduled "We were warm last night." Peter said. Temperatures months, the department has Transportation 0 Derations at to be added in the near were reported below freezing Monday evening. But maybe managed to build up a fleet UConn. future. the hot water bottle Dave's sister Elizabeth brought them of ten vans, servicing Storrs Since February 1981, van Gary Smith, driver/coor- helped a little. "That was a big hit." she said. commuters from all over the pools have removed 92 autos dinator of the Old Saybrook Peter and Dave are first in a line of more than 200 UConn state. Although the vans run from the campus parking van, applied for a permit to students and their sleeping bags, tents, couches and mainly for university faculty, lots, 1,079,694 passenger operate the state-owned mattresses, waiting for tickets to to on sale for Feb. 14's J. the routes offer several miles were saved during the vehicle a year ago after what Geils band concert. openings for student com- year, and $78,978 was saved he termed "car pool over- "The only thing I regret." Steve said, "is eating crackers muters as well. in gas, UConn Transpor- flow." The general while sleeping here." Peter and Steve, both recreational The state-run van pool tation and Traffic Services procedure in obtaining a van therapy majors, don't seem to mind missing classes and program was designed to reported. operator's permit is to con- the warmth of their dormitory rooms for about 40 hours Tor help pass savings in gas and The current van routes tact Bob Hay at the transpor- a chance to buy the best seats available to the concert. tation department, get a "Oh yes." Peter said, "it'll be worth it. even if the band group of interested com- cancels." muters from the same area, Seventy-eighth and seventy-ninth in line were Joe select a driver/coordinator Jakobaitis, a second semester math major, and his fellow and send an application to Alsop Hall resident.