PAGE SIXTEEN-B - MANCHESTER EVENING HERALD. Manchester, Conn., Tues., Dec. 21, 1976 The weather inside today Mostly sunny, cold today, high in low Area news Kitchen...........9-B to mid 20s. Increasing cloudineii Classified . Obituaries ... 14-A tonight, low 10-15. Variable cloudiness Comics ... People ..........14-B Thursday, high In mid 30s. National **The B right One** Dear Abby Second Thought 7-B. weather forecast map on Page 12-B. TWENTY-EICHT PAGES ^ Editorial Sports.......... 4-6-B TW O SECTIONS MANCHESTER, CONN,, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER B , 1978 - VOL. XCVI, No. 70 PRICEi FIFTEEN CENTS Family . Worst spill in East Coast history Ship’s bow sinks PLENTY OF FREE • OPEN NITELY PARKING o n c h e / l e r • MOST STORES spilling more oil ONE STOP OPEN SUNDAYS NANTUCKET, Mass. (U P I)-T he area beaches, termed the spill “a dis­ Guard spokesman, m e oil was three bow of the Argo Merchant, smashed aster of major and unprecedented to five feet thick in some sections. At SHOPPING o r k o d ^ to pieces by high seas, sank today proportions.” one point the oil gushed from the ship and dumped the rest of its 7.6 million The tanker split in half Tuesday at the rate of 15,000 gallons per hour. gallon cargo of heavy oil into the during a winter storm that caused 20- The 640-foot vessel carrying a 7.6 Atlantic Ocean. foot waves. The area of sea pollution million-gallon cargo of No. 6 crude Coast Guard officials said the slick measured approximately 75 miles by oil wandered ten miles off her from the worst oil spill in the history 27 miles at its widest point. charted course last Wednesday to run of the U.S. Atlantic coast now Winds and currents have kept the aground in shallow waters about 30 stretches more than 1(X) miles from oil away from the coast, but there miles southeast of Nantucket Island. 2 the jackknifed tanker wedged on the were fears changes in the weather The Coast Guard estimated one Nantucket Shoals 37 miles from here. could cause the oil to come ashore on million gallons of oil was still inside The bow, which was snapped from beaches and threaten the tourist the tanker’s 12 forward storage con­ the ship Tuesday, was broked again business in resort areas. tainers. SIMMONS early today and sank. The sinking- .From the air smelly mess ’'looked The ship split about 9 a.m. Tuesday LIG G En forced the Coast Guard to abandon like a mass of pancakes 20 feet in and eventually the bow and stern DRUG SHOES MARTIN LTD. plans to put men on board the ship diameter," according to a Coast were separated completely although 2 KING’S today. they remained on the shoals. PKSTOMma More than 6.5 million gallons of BROILS THEM IN JUST BASS 100 CORDUROY 1 TO 3 MINUTES Huge oil slick snakes away from tanker thick industrial oil have flooded from Pirlid M MBb ir Im M I 20 Piece Tinti laniM ad hnb m M m I BOOT VESTED SUITS the holds of the jack-knifed tanker in ImI Ctnr tods fir M-iMttw | the worst oil spill in the history of the Utility firm fined cnMn. lu i to (km. m tta m- j Peg- I A team of Coast Guardsmen were to board the wave-ravaged hulk of the oil tanker Argo km CORAL SET $100.00 U.S. Atlantic coast. The oil has Merchant today to begin an attempt to haul the severed bow section into deep water, seal spread east in a slick 90 miles long ^ 0 9 .9 9 and sink it. The ill-fated ship, with its cargo of thick industrial oil snaking up towards the and 27 miles wide. for reactor incident a 34®® 90 horizon, is shown in this photograph taken late Tuesday. (UPI photo) Hundreds of seabirds have been killed and shellfish beds ruined by the KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. (UPI) - explain in writing why part or all of it drifting pancake-shaped blobs which The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Com­ should not be imposed. threaten both the popular beaches of mission today fined a subsidiary of The reactor operator has 20 days southern New England and the lush Northeast Utilities and suspended a to file a written answer to the com­ PUCA orders rate cut Georges Bank fishing grounds. A senior reactor operator’s license as a mission concerning the suspension of Coast Guard spokesman, however, result of an unplanned reactor start­ the license. He is permitted to HARTFORD (UPI) — In a surprise At an ^arly morning session, PUCA The Northeast spokesman at the said that some of the oil "has gone up at the Millstone I plant in Water­ request a hearing on whether his move, the Public Utilities Control Chairman Arthur Kleban shocked hearing was so surprised, he refused across" the tip of the bank, but the ford, Conn, last month. license should be revoked. Authority today ordered Northeast New England’s largest utility by to make a statement afterward. damage may not be as severe as at The commission’s Office of Inspec­ "71 Utilities to reduce its existing elec­ telling the firm not only that it could Consumer attorneys, however, were first expected. tion and Enforcement said it was tric rates substantially. not have a $56.3 million rate increase ecstatic. The (Toast Guard team of experts fining the Northeast Nuclear Energy W ou ld -b e SEARS REED’S The $21.6 million rate decrease will it sought, but that the company must 'T m happily surprised," said state today were to be lowered by Co. $15,(XX) for four alleged items of DMIHOND reduce its current rates because it is attorney for utility consumers, David helicopter to the wrecked hulk, which noncompiiance with commission WED-THUR-FRI translate roughly into a $1 reduction h ija ck er Rag Doll SHOWCASE Selection of in the monthly bills of Northeast’s charging its customers too much Silverstone. lies severed on the Nantucket Shoals. regulations, including allegedly 850,000 customers. already. “It’s a stunning victory for Connec­ Although the weather continued sour, failing to have its personnel properly 20% to 50% OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF Boxed ChristmasI ticut consumers,’’ added Marc with cold temperatures and heavy follow procedures in required testing g iv es u p 1/2 Ct. Caplan, director of Connecticut winds, they will attempt to stabilize of reactor systems. OFF . CARDS Citizens Action Group. "Northeast the bow section by putting out an The commission said it was im­ SAN FRANCISCO (UPII - A SelectedSelected GroupingGroupin EARRINGS Today’s news has been overcharging its customers anchor and pumping oil into forward mediately suspending a senior reac­ would-be hijacker, who slashed one DIAMOND for quite some time.” tanks. The plan then is to haul it to tor operator’s license for allegedly of his hostages during a night of Shop Vo Price "Hartford Electric & Light Co. had deep water and sink it, using gunfire permitting and supervising the terror aboard a United Airlines jet. Eartf TOYS .1/2 PRICE s u m m a ry asked for a $16.9 million — or 7.5 per if necessary. withdrawal of a control rod that led surrendered early today after a siege cent — rate increase and Connecticut Tlie captain of the Liberian vessel, to an unplanned reactor start-up of more than 14 hours at the UAL * 376® ® Light & Power Co. had asked for a maintenance base. / / / //// //// ////_ Compiled from United Press International owned by a New York company, was during a refueling outage Nov. 12. $39.4 million — or 9.9 per cent — in­ to appear in court today concerning For allegedly performing the ac­ Palm J. Hinnant, 37, a mentally crease. disturbed airline mechanic, turned an advisor in the Johnson White the wreck. tion that led to the unplanned start-up Both subsidiaries of Northeast his Luger pistol over to two friends E State House, to be secretary of the Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D- of the reactor, a reactor operator were stunned, along with reporters Mass.. set a hearing in Boston was cited for noncompliance with who boarded the jet, then called for a HARTFORD - Barry Health, Education and Welfare. and consumer advocates, when the Wednesday night to probe the acci­ NRC regulations. woman friend, who came out to the Scheinberg of the Connecticut PUCA rejected the rate increases in dent. Rep. Gerry Studds, D-Mass.. The company has 20 days to either plane. He and his friends were taken State Employes Association WASHINGTON — Violent crime their entirety. whose district covers the beautiful pay the fine to the commission or aboard a van and taken to an un­ which represents state police during the first nine months of The small gathering was further disclosed place. troopers, believes a strike by this year decreased 5 per cent shocked when Kleban announced the YOUTH PARKADE OAKERY prison guards is unlikely. Re said nationwide over the same period firm would have to lower its existing CENTRE „ .BERMIE’S the union’s state police unit would of 1975, but overall crime rose 2 rates. The utility has to submit a new 649-0820 Famous Maker have to decide if it would honor per cent, according to FBI rate schedule to the authority for ap­ Cheney Tech^s L,0, Johnson C figures. Great Values TV A APPLIANCES GIRLS SPORTSWEAR picket lines by the guards, proval within 30 days. Girls Skirts Christmas represented by a rival union. If “This reduction in rates ordered by Ori0.9.00 Eureka Canister the guards strike, state police WASHINGTON - Disputing the the PUCA has come about largely CUPCAKES 30% OFF would have to man the prisions, Ford administration’s naval plan­ because Millstone I, (Northeast’s) to retire on Thursday 1.99 unless Gov.