? _ _ The weather Sunny, not so cold, highs in low to mid 20s. Fair, not so cold tonight, lows 15 to 20. Increasing cloudiness Tuesday, Ulmtrlifatfr lEtifning UfralJi chance of rain or snow late in day. H i^ mid to upper 30s. National weather forecast map on page 15. City of VUhgo Charm MANCHESTER, CONN., MONDAY, JANUARY IS, 1976- VOL. XCV, No. 91 EIGHTEEN PAGES PRICE: FIFTEEN CENTS Will be mildly optimistic News summary State of Union talk tonight budget totaling about $394 billion for Cuinpiled from WASHINGTON (UPI) - President Ford, in a nationally televised flation. would set a $500 annual limit for the 1977 fiscal year, with an an­ United Press Inlernutiunul Ford tonight gives Congress and appearance before a joint session of In advance of the 9 p.m. EST hospital and nursing care and a speech. White House aides billed It as ticipated $43 billion deficit. American voters his assessment of the House and Senate, is expected to maximum of $250 a year on doctor Although officials ruled out any the State of the Union in its Bicenten­ couple predictions of steady a basic blueprint for Ford’s presiden­ fees. But in return for the expanded tial campaign. They said he would striking new policy changes, they nial year. Aides said his report would economic growth and a drop in un­ aid, persons Insured by Medicare stick to the conservative themes and said Ford would be making several State be mildly optimistic, largely employment with a call for a Social would have to pay more for go into more detail Wednesday when significant recommendations in his STORRS—In a move to save philoMphical and short on election- Security tax increase and restrained coverage. Congress rejected a he sends Congress a proposed federal message, including; money, the University of year proposals. federal spending to help avert new in­ similar plan in 1975. — A $10 billion increase of current — Use of tax incentives to create Connecticut is considering tax cuts now scheduled to expire in shortening the penalty-free jobs by letting companies in areas of July to assure continued economic high unemployment depreciate their drop period to two weeks after improvement. a course begins. Students now investments on plants, equipment — A rise in the Social Security tax and machinery faster than usual. have nine weeks. The change rate next Jan. 1 from 5.85 to 6.15 per would allow wiser budgeting of — Giving states more federal aid in cent to generate an extra $4.2 billion faculty teaching loads, a school “block grants” for education, health in revenues needed to meet the official said. and social services rather than in growth of benefit payments. But of­ traditional "categorical grants” to ficials said Ford would no longer in­ HARTFORD - Gov. Ella T. let state and local government of­ sist on a 5 per cent ceiling on cost-of- ficials have more fr^o m in deter­ Grasso has urged President living increases for Social Security mining how they use the money they Ford to pay greater attention recipients. get from Washington. Congressi(Hial tp the needs of the nation’s — A revision of the Medicare Democrats were expected to balk at cities in a letter which was program for elderly Americans that the change. released Saturday. “The abili­ ty of any state, mine included, to marshal the economic resources necessary to help Mrs. Schaffer to seek these cities is acutely finite,” she said. U.S. Senate nomination HARTFORD (UPI) - Secretary of announced her candidacy, said Regional the State Gloria Schaffer said today was completing the “ mechanics of a m she would seek the U.S. Senate seat political campaign under the federal i CUMBERLAND, R. I. - held by Sen. Lowell P. Weicker Jr., campaign laws.” $5 Police and fire officials con- R-Conn. “When I make a formal statement tinue their probe of debris Mrs. Schaffer, the leading vote get-, in a couple of weeks I’ll be happy to '•$ trying to determine the cause ter in the state in 1974, said she had discuss anything and everything,” •ji of three explosions Saturday filed her name with the secretary of she said. 'if morning which ripped through the U.S. Senate in Washington as a Mrs. Schaffer, a former six-term the Peterson-Puriton aerosol candidate. She said a formal an­ state senator, said she didn't think can packaging plant and left nouncement would be forthcoming. either her religion or sex would nine persons hospitalized, five It was one of those days “I have no illusion about this, it hamper her. Connecticut already has in critical condition at the will be a difficult race,” she said. a woman governor, Ella T. Grasso Rhode Island burns center. The sharp dip in the thermometer to near zero readings plagued many motorists in “ But there is no such thing as an un­ and one Jewish senator, Abraham A. Manchester and other parts of New England this morning. There were many cars stalled beatable candidate.” Riblcoff. I CONCORD, N. H. - Presi- and many more which could not be started because of the prolonged cold weather over the Weicker, a political maverick who “1 have confidence in the people of dent Ford has invited 10 New weekend. The forecast is for warming weather tomorrow. (Herald photo by Pinto) has attracted widespread support of the state of Connecticut that they will :$• Hampshire newspaper editors Democrats and independents, is con­ make their decision based on the can­ for an interview with him in sidered by observers to be an excep­ didates and are will not be deterred Washington Thursdays 15 days tionally strong candidate for re- by extraneous non-issues,” she said. before a two-day swing through election, . Mrs. Schaffer said the name of her the state with the nation’s Earlier this month Lt. Gov. Robert campaign committee is "Gloria 8 leadoff presidential primary. Bitter cold. gi*lps region K. Killian said he had decided not to Schaffer Senate ’76.” Chairman is enter the race, acknowledging Hartford Attorney BourkeSpellacey; By United Press International in Massachusetts as an Atlantic jured Sunday night when the snow­ Weicker’s popularity. treasurer is Myles Pennypacker of National storm lashed the area. Chatham had mobile he was riding tumbled over a Mrs. Schaffer, saying she would Westport and secretary is Maureen Bitter cold gripped New England 10 inches of snow on the ground and dam at Glen Lake at Goffstown. withhold any discussion of the issues Satti of New London, Mrs. Schaffer SAN FRANCISCO.- Patricia today, plunging temperatures far there was five to six inches at Hyan- Emile Mailhot was in guarded condi­ of the campaign until she formally said. Hearst’s lawyers have charged below zero throughout the region. nis. Roads remained cleared. tion at a hospital. that a judge’s order that she One reading registered 50 below. Temperatures tumbled throughout It was minus 18 in Pittsfield, in cooperate with a government Marchers re-enacting the Albany, the region. A reading of 50 below was western Massachusetts; Hartford, pyschiatrist is un­ N.Y., to Cambridge, Mass., march of recorded north of Berlin, N.H., and a Conn., had a minus nine reading; Lebanon plunging constitutional. They are un­ Col. Henry Knox during the record 30 below was reached in Con­ Caribou, Maine, had a minus 25 low decided on their next tactic. Revolutionary War moved out from cord. reading; and in Vermont, Newport on overnight stay in a West A Manchester, N.H., man was in­ recorded a minus 30. SILVER SPRING, Md. - Brookfield, ^ s s . , school in 14 below deeper into chaos Alan L. Bortnick, son of zero weather to cover another 15 trucking executive Joseph miles. Zero to seven below BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) - around Beirut, its suburbs and Bortnick, was released un­ “Everybody’s talking about the Fighting flared across Lebanon today throughout the countryside. harmed after five days in cold. It’s the most common subject,” and mosques called for a Moslem up­ The loudspeakers on mosques that hands of kidnapers Saturday said Paul Chagnon, an art instructor readings reported rising to save a pocket of Palestinian normally call Moslems to prayer following the payment of a ran- who coordinated the overnight stay and leftist gunmen making a last took up the “holy war” cry today, : som described only as “very Sunday. “If Henry’s ghost came Reports of near zero to about seven Coats were buttoned to the top but­ stand against Christian forces calling upon “all the faithful to arise ; substantial.” The FBI is back, he’d recognize the weather.” degrees below zero Fahrenheit were Hiker William Kikker, 27, of New ton this morning. Collars were besieging them in a Beirut slum dis­ and come to the aid of our ; looking for two men who ab- % turned up and earflaps were turned given in and around Manchester. bretheren” in Karantlna. ; ducted Bortnick Monday. York city, died of exposure Sunday in It was a morning when cars trict. the White Mountains area of New down. Hands were thrust in coat Lebanon plunged deeper into chaos Karantina is a slaughterhouse slum pockets. Breath clouds hung in the coughed, choked, sputtered, district in north Beirut where about Hampshire. Two companions on the strained, but wouldn’t start. Or else following a weekend of fierce : NORTH PLATTE, Neb. - | same trek were rescu ^ in three-foot air. fighting that claimed at least 359 50 Palestinian guerrillas and Moslem I Jan 29 has been set as the Temperatures had taken the they just didn’t do anything. militiamen have been making a snow. Local garages were besieged with dead and more than 500 wounded and : sentencing date for Erwin deepest plunge of the winter.