The weather Inside today .1 Increasing cloudiness with a chance Area news.......12 Open Forum___4 Business.............3 Obituaries ......... 2 of rain this afternoon, high near 60. Sr. Citizens........2 Rain tonight, lows 45-50. Variable Churches ...........5 Classified.......8-10 Sports............. 7-8 cloudiness Sunday, showers, high ^70. V **The Bright Week-Review ... 4 National weather forecast map on TWELVE PAGES , If. Comics.............11 Dear Abby...... 11 Page 9. weeki^ in sid e MANCHESTER, CONN., SATURDAY, MAY J, 197«~ VOL. XCV, No. 181 PRlCEi FIFTEEN CENTS News Truck driver saves lives summary of couple trapped in fire Compiled from By DOUG BEVINS not declared under control until 11:56 to continue fighting the fire. United Prett Internetlonel a.m. ' ’ About 500 feet of three-inch hose Herald Reporter The fire was most intense in a first- was laid to draw water from a A Glastonbury truckdriver is floor kitchen, where it appeared hydrant at Main and Hudson Sts. Fire State credited with saving the lives of an there had been a leaking natural gas fighters used four IVi-inch lines and elderly couple trapped in an intense pipe which might have exploded to two booster lines to attack the fire. WILLIMANTIC - A federal house fire on Hudson St. Friday. start the fire. - Authorities weren’t The roof was ventilated-by ax and mediator said there will be no Authorities said rapid action by sure of the cause and Eighth District power saw to allow gases to escape. more talks unless striking Richard A. Arnold of Glastonbury Fire Chief Ted Lingard, also the fire About 35 fire fighters were at the nurses and Windham Com­ probably saved the lives of Harold marshal, is investigating. scene with three pieces of apparatus. munity Memorial Hospital of­ and Tryphena Beebe of 74 Hudson St., From the kitchen, the flames A reserve engine pumper was ficials change their bargaining who remained hospitalized in serious spread in a haphazard pattern transferred from Fleming Rd. to positions. The statement condition today. through false ceilings and spaces Eighth District Fire Headquarters, Arnold, 41, was'driving on Summit wiihin remodeled partitions. Even and the Town Fire Department was followed separate meetings iiir with both sides Friday. St. at about 11 a.m. when he heard after visible flames had been summoned for men and one engine screams and saw smoke pouring extinguished, the blaze continued in­ for standby at the Eighth District HARTFORD - The Educa­ from upstairs windows of the two- side walls and ceilings, fire fighters station. tion and Public Health and family swelling. He stopped his said. Fire fighters remained at the scene Safety Committees of the truck, ran inside and rescued the cou­ Heat and smoke inside the house until about 1:30 p.m. After the blaze, Legislature decided Friday to ple. was heavy. Fire fighters, after officials said the entire dwelling was conduct an inquiry of the goals Beebe, 83, suffered facial and arm dousing large masses of flames from gutted. The house, owned by Truman and operations of the Universi­ burns; his wife, 80, suffered facial outside, entered the structure with Cowles, was boarded up later in the ty of Connecticut Medical bums, and Arnold suffered minor portable breathing devices, biit two day. Center in Farmington. One of burns and smoke inhalation. Arnold fire fighters still suffered smoke in­ Other Manchester fire calls: the allegations raised is the was treated at Manchester Memorial halation. Friday, 12:38 p.m. — Rescue call to 99 waste of tnoney at the multi­ Hospital and released; the Beebes The fire fighters — Leonard Essex St. (Town) Friday, 4 p.m. — Fire in clothes dryer million dollar facility. were admitted. Luzusky, 23, of 49 Rachel Rd. and The initial emergency call went to Victor LeGeyt, 29, of 37 Keeney St. — at 44 Benton St. (Town) Eighth District fire fighters at 11:08 Friday, 5:59 p.m. — Grass fire at 45 HARTFORD — Sen. Henry were treated at Manchester Server St. (Town) Jackson, D-Wash., reportedly p.m. and the frame house was fully Memorial Hospital and then returned Involved with fire as the first-men ' will slow down his bid for the. Democratic presidential and apparatus arrived within a nomination but has scheduled minute. Ford tries to stop Reagan visits to Connecticut May 7 and Three firemen who are Emergency 8 to campaign for votes in the Medical Technicians tended to the in­ in Texas primary today May 11th Democratic primary. jured as other fire fighters attacked 7 . - r the mass of flames with six hose DALLAS (UPI) - President Ford same day as Georgia and Alabama lines. Fire authorities said the blaze voting where the Californian is was “knocked down” quickly but was wants to halt Ronald Reagan’s challenge by winning big in today’s favored. Regional Texas primary, and Jimmy Carter Democratic attention also focused hopes to keep his bandwagon rolling. on today’s.Louisiana primary where Fire guts home Miss Mutty named 32 delegates were on the ballot. BOSTON -I Canadian- Campaigning hard before crowds Above, smoke billows from second-floor window at 74 Hudson St. of thousands right through the eve of There wa* Hfe. Republican contest American imposition of a Loyalty Day Queen as Eighth District fire fighters determine best method to douse protected fishing zone the primary. Ford said he doesn’t see there. Carter was opposed in both states stretching 200-mlles into the first runner-up how the American people can take Friday’s serious blaze in which an elderly couple was rescued by Reagan seriously. The President’s by a diminish^ George Wallace a Glastonbury truck driver and hospitalized. 'The couple, Harold North Atlantic may be illegal Miss Jacquette Mutty of Glaston­ campaign, but his real opposition and unenforceable, academics blistering attack on Reagan was and Tryphena Beebe, were in serious condition today. Below, the bury, Manchester’s VFW Loyalty came from favorite sons. Sen. Lloyd told a Council on Canadian coupled with a prediction that he has Day queen, was named first runner- Bentsen, who quit campaigning couple’s grandchildren — Chris Beebe, Shirley Hooey and Mark Studies Friday. The study con­ .overcome his underdog status in the up for the title of “ Connecticut battle for 96 GOP delegates and now months ago, was on the Texas ballot, Beebe (left to right).— survey interior damage to the home. tends the plan would only work Loyalty Day Queen” Friday night at and Gov. Edwin Edwards led an un­ with cooperation, of other will win. (Herald photos by Bevins and Dunn) a Loyalty Day ball in New London. committed force in Louisiana. Atlantic nations. If Reagan loses in Texas, it will Miss Shirley Ross of Trumbull was hurt his "sunbelt strategy” and could Carter predicted he will win a thirjK | selected the state Loyalty Day finish him as a serious challenger in of the Texas delegates, although an CONCORD, N.H. - queen. the battle for the GOP nomination. If independent poll gave him a majori­ Following charges Friday by Miss Mutty, a senior at Glaston­ he wins, he will gain fresh momen­ ty. There are 98 delegates on the the Justice Department that bury High School, is employed at tum going into Tuesday’s close con­ ballot, with another 32 chosen later New Hampshire violaTed a ' Willie's Steak House. test in Indiana, which falls on the at the state party convention. federal law by mailing lottery tickets across state line In Maine, New Hampshire of; - ficials charged the federal Judge Shea says modern society government with trying to build a "Berlin Wall” around the state. The suit followed turning to courts for solutions complaints by Maine lottery of­ ficials and is the first filed By DOUG BEVINS But the courts didn’t look for the LaBelle Jr., presenting the award against any of the 13 states con­ Herald Reporter problems, he said. The problems with Mayor Matt Moriarty, cited ducting lotteries. We’re living in an age in which our were thrust on the courts by Miss Graves for helping promote a traditional institutions are under at­ widespread dissatisfaction with the better understanding of government tack, Superior Court Judge John F. other branches of government. and of the law, and promoting NEWPORT, R.I. - Without Shea Jr. says, and people are turning Shea called upon everyone in the respect for the law and the courts. any fanfare or boasting, until more and more to the courts to solve legal system —not just lawyers, Adding to the praise for Miss now. Newport has quietly their problems. judges and police —to support the Graves was Judge Shea; Moriarty; become the "lobster capital of Judge Shea, speaking at Friday’s law. The support is needed, he said, Judge of Probate William E. the United States,” according Law Day ceremony at the so the system can continue to protect FitzGerald, president of the local bar to Natural Resources Director Manchester Municipal Building, said individual rights and maintain the association; and Police Chief Robert Dennis J. Murphy, who many of the problems brought to American tradition of liberty and Lannan. reported 2.1 millions pound of courts used to be handled by other justice under law. lobster, nearly twice that of the Miss Graves, Manchester’s first branches of government. The highlight of Friday’s ceremony policewoman, joined the department top port in Maine, were landed Perhaps courts should leave those was presentation of the Manchester at Newport in 1975. ' in 1966. Since 1972 she has served as problems to the-other branches of Bar Association’s Liberty Bell youth services officer. She is a government.