Inside today Arts...............2A Dear Abby.. 13B Area.......7A, 3B Family.........IB CB Convac... 4B Jai alal.......12B Churches __ 6A Obituaries .. lOA Oassified . 10-12B Opinion........ 4A Collectors.... 2B Sr. Citizens . 14B Comics.......13B Sports.......... 8-9B j 1 ; , Good Morning Rate hike granted Have A Good Day Outside today to phone company Fair today with highs in the 30s. In­ creasing cloudiness tonight with tows HARTFORD (UPI) - If you for an increase of $55.3 million. • Basic installation charges will in the 20s. Cioudy Sunday with have one private telephone line In its decision — which came after remain at $29 for residential users 17 days of public hearings — the chance qf tight snow or sleet; highs in your home or make a lot of and $49 for business customers. in the 30s. PUCA said the rate increase is However, the installation charge toll calls within Connecticut, necessary to allow SNET to maintain should be broken into five parts so you’re going to be paying more its “financial health.” The last rate customers with simple installations to the Southern New England increase was granted to SNET on will pay less. Summary Telephone Co. Jan. 12, 1975. • Residential measured service Those are two effects of the $33.8 The rate hike means that if a PORT ELIZABETH, South residential subscriber has one basic will be limited to 30 calls per month. million rate increase granted Friday Africa (UPI) - Two giant telephone, the service charge would The charge will be 12.5 cents for each to the telephone company by the American-owned tankers, one increase between 60 and 90 cents additional call. Public Utilities Control Authority. loaded with crude oil, collided in monthly. The telephone company wanted ’The next'step is for , the PUCA to fog off the South African coast Other major aspects of the deci­ local pay telephone calls to cost 20 Friday and exploded in huge schedule at least one public hearing. sion are; - cents, claiming that local coin calls sheets of flames fueled by a The company can allocate the rate cost the company more than 19 cents. increase any way that it wants, sub­ • Pay telephone calls will remain spreading, 60-mile oil slick. 10 cents. But the PUCA said it was concerned Port authorities said it was a ject to final PUCA approval. the increase would seriously affect The Southern New England • Time charges on calls made by ‘jniracie” that ait but two of the speech and hearing-impaired persons some groups of customers, including 84crew members from the sister Telephone Co., which serves 1.2 on special equipment will be cut 75 the poor who tend to use pay phones ships were ptucked to safety by a million customers, originally asked percent. more than more affluent customers. helicopter dodging the flaming oil. WASHINGTON (UPI) - Per­ sonal income showed a heatthy in­ crease in November and construc­ STRIKES tion of new homes and apartments was at the second highest levet of 1977, the government said Friday. The Commerce Department said that while'housing starts, a traditionat bellweather of ... Steel walkout ends economic performance, fell 5.4 percent in November, last HIEING, Minn. (UPI) - The Inland Steel Corp. plant north of Aug. 1 under the union's Experimen­ month’s level topped all previous ^ThaVs my number’ longest major strike in United Virginia, Minn., approved a settle­ tal Negotiating Agreement, the months this year except October. Steelworkers’ history — 4 1/2 months ment in a membership vote Friday, widest no-strike pact in the labor That October increase was 7.7 \ Georgina Vince of 44 Case Drive shouts “That’s my — ended Friday and workers on 181-43. movement today. It bars national percent, signaling more activity number” during a drawing for handmade gifts as Margaret Minnesota’s Iron Range plan to All but about 4,500 of the 18,000 who strikes and allows walkouts only on a than any single month since May, Stiles of 41D Case Drive waits for her lucky number to be celebrate Saturday with a “victory went on strike are back on the job, local basis over “local issues.” 1973, so the November drop was drawn. They and every other senior citizen attending a Christ­ rally.” “We won a victory,” said Joe Workers in 15 local unions struck not considered a worrisome sign. mas party in Herrmann Hall of Westhill Gardens received one About 18,000 miners and plant Samargia, 35, one of the strike against 12 steel companies over a leaders. variety of issues but the main de­ Personal income, which often of the handmade gifts. Residents of Westhill planned the party workers — most of them in northern indicates future consumer spen­ Minnesota and Upper Michigan — But many USW members thought mand was incentive pay similar to ding, rose 0.9 percent last month including the decorations and gifts. (Herald photo by Dunn) won incentive pay for at least three- they should have gotten more. Many that received by steel mill workers. and followed a revised 1.4 percent fourths of their members in the long, were left with bare savings accounts, Most incentive bonus settlements increase in October. It equaled bitter fight over “local issues” that business suffered and some workers will raise the average worker’s pay the second largest increase since left them with little for Christmas. in allied industries were laid off. by 55 cents an hour beginning Nov. 1, eariy spring, the departoent said. Locals have been settling one by State and local governments lost an 1979, The average Iron Range Welding caused one for more than a month and the estimated $166,000 a day in taxes. steelworker has been getting $7.40 an ATLANTA (UPI) - last small local of 400 workers at The steelworkers went on strike hour. Reappearance of an influenza strain that caused a major Millstone blast epidemic in this country 30 years ago was reported Friday by the from a switch closing, which resulted Violence in coalfields national Center for Disease Con­ HARTFORD (UPI) - Northeast trol. Utilities Friday said human error in the second explosion, he said. dynamited early Friday. Damage The strain, which is related to may have been responsible for the At the Hartford meeting. A Chessie System rail bridge was to his native West Virginia and did the swine flu virus, represented a explosions at its Millstone I nuclear Northeast officials heard complaints dynamited and a coal company mine not attend Friday's negotiating ses­ was not sufficient to stop the flow of coal shipments from six mines definite" antigenic “shift” of the power plant that released a small of their delay in notifying Waterford house burned to the ground in Ken­ sion. BCOA President Joseph Bren­ served by the line. influenza virus, a medically amount of radioactivity and injured and state officials of the accident. tucky Friday in the latest wave of nan said both sides were “ still A Canada Coal Co. mine house used historic event that normaliy oc­ Waterford Police Chief James violence to hit the nation’s coalfields talking.” one workman. for storage in nearby Pike County curs about once every 10 years. A spokesman for Northeast said Perkins only learned of the accident during the 12-day-old United Mine Local UMW leaders in Ohio burned to the ground Friday, but Since it is a strain that has not the firm “now believes the cause” of when a call came through for an am­ Workers strike. asserted Friday it would be impossi­ there were no injuries. been around for three decades, the first of two blasts that shook the bulance to take an injured workman In Washington, negotiations ble for the union to ratify a new con­ State police were investigating many young Americans wouid Waterford site Tuesday “may have to the hospital, it was disclosed. between the UMW and Bituminous tract by the end of the year because both incidents and considered them have little natural defense against been caused by a welding operation Unable to reach the Millstone plant Coal Operators Association snagged the rank-and-file would reject any it and it could become in the Millstone I turbine building.” by telephone, Perkins drove to the on the issue of health and welfare proposal to fine wildcat strikers. probably related to the strike by 188.- 000 UMW members which has widespread. The last major flu The announcement came after site and after entering, was told he benefits after optimistic reports A spokesman for the Chessie spawned violence in Appalachian and epidemic in this country occurred Northeast officials met earlier in the could not leave because of the earlier in the week. System said a bridge near Wayland, western coalfields. in 1968-69, striking an estimated day with representatives of Gov. Ella possibility of contamination in the UMW President Arnold Miller flew in southeast Kentucky, was 25 million people and causing 33,- T. Grasso in Hartford to explain why area. 000 deaths. there was a delay in reporting the ac­ The Connecticut State Police heard cident. about the'accident from reporters. UNITED NATIONS (UPI) - Spokesman Emmanuel Forde said .The governor’s office got word an hour after the 1 p.m. blast in the ... The U.N. General Assembly Farmers stop the mail an inspection revealed the mark on Friday adopted two further an instrumentation line resembling Millstone I stack which filters recommendations aimed at stop­ that left by a welding apparatus. The radioactive gas before it is released Nebraska Gov. J. James Exon stopped hog and cattle sales across ping the flow of oil and money into instrumentation line, he said, over Long Island Sound.