The weather Inside today . -i Partly sunny today, highs mid 70s to 80. Fair tonight. Lows around 60. Sunny Area news 12-13 K itchen..................19 Thursday, high 75-80. National weather Classified .. .13-16 Obituaries . .18 forecast map on Page 14. C om ics..................17 People ..................19 Dear Abby . 17 Sr, C itizen s......... 7 ‘The Bright One** Editorial . 4 Second Thought 19 TWENTY.9IX PAGES F a m ily ................. 20 S p o rts...............10-11 TWO SECTIONS ‘ MANCHESTER, CONN., WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 8, 1978 - VOL. XCV, No. PRICEi FH-TEEN CENTS Antiabortionists hostile Carter " By LEWIS LORD ban them, told reporters that the sensitivity in the Ford White House. United Press International federal government last year He said FBI Director Clarence Jimmy Carter, who had financed 300,000 abortions although Kelley should have been fired for experienced nothing but friendly President Ford opposes the accepting gifts and services from welcomes in his first two days of operations. subordinates. campaigning, is starting to encounter “I don’t think there’s much Pewje teve a right to ask, he said hostility as a result of his position on difference between my position and in Philadelphia, that “if the big shots abortion., his,” Carter said. “He’s not an abor­ in Washington get by with it, why As the Democratic presidential tionist. I’m not either,” can’t I?” nominee spoke in a Lutheran church While Carter jetted about the “From the top on-down, you got to in Philadelphia Tuesday, right-to-life Northeast, speaking in New York, have a commitment to the control of demonstrators marched outside Connecticut and Pennsylvania, Ford crime,” Carter said. “When you see holding a child’s coffin with a sign remained in the White House in line Richard Nixon lying and cheating reading “Abortion Is Murder." with a strategy 4>f staying busy on and when you see the head of the FBI When Carter flew from presidential affairs. breaking a little law and staying Philadelphia to Scranton, Pa., he was Ford told ABC-TV that Secretary there, what sort of inducement is greeted at the airport and his hotel of State Henry Kissinger can stay in that to young people not to break the by several hundred supporters and the Cabinet “as long as he wants to.” law?” critics, the latter carrying antiabor­ He said Kissinger “may have been a S'en. Walter Mondale, Carter’s run­ tion signs reading “To be born again, problem in the primaries” but he ning mate, told union members in one must first be born” and “True doubts that Carter will make Los Angeles that he and Carter will m ' Christians respect life.” Kissinger an issue because be has a put Americans back to work by Carter, who has said he personalty high approval rating in the polls. easing the availability of private con­ opposes abortions but wouldn’t sup­ Carter pursued the twin themes of struction money and speeding up port a constitutional amendment to morality in government and lack of public works programs. New students greeted at regional center i, Norman Fendell (ceater, holding papers), director of the Regional Occupational Training Center, welcomes students to the new facility as Manchester schools opened today for the Arbitrators vote 4% pay hike 1976-1977 school year. The training center, a trade school for special education students, has an initial enrollment of 81 students, 43 from Manchester and 38 from surrounding towns. At right, Town Building Committee Chairman Paul Phillips and Manchester School Supt. James for school administratorsi Kennedy watch the arrivals. (Herald photo by Pinto) By DOUG BEVINS cussed privately by school board 1976-1977 and 5 per cent in 1978, Herald Reporter members Monday, Asst. School Supt. Secretaries are getting a 5 per cent A three-member arbitration panel Wilson Deakin said. The ad­ increase in 1976-1977 and will bargain has voted 2-1 to recommend salary ministrators have already reviewed for a new contract next year. The. increases of 4 per cent in 1976-1977 the recommendation but haven’t nurses’ settlement was for increases commented on it. Few opening day problems and 5 per cent in 1977-1978 for of 5 per cent in each of two years, and Manchester school administrators Officials say the award doesn’t custodians settled for 4.5 per cent the and principals. carry much weight because it was a first year and 5 per cent the second. ’The dissenting arbitrator, Russell split decision. If either side rejects The tentative agreement with Pogt of Canton, called for a 1976-1977 the award, negotiations will have to teacher aides is for 5 per cent in 1976- begin again. reported in local schools increase of 3.5 per cent for elemen­ 1977, with a new contract due next tary school administrators and 3.25 The administrators group, year. Fendell, who spearheaded the necessary. An enrollment total won't per cent for secondary school ad­ representing about 30 employes, is Salary was the primary dispute in By DOUG BEVINS eight-year effort to establish the be firm for a few days, he said. ministrators, and a 1977-1978 in­ the only school employe bargaining the administrators contract talks. Herald Reporler center, said he spent a sleepless "It was an extremely smooth crease of 4 per cent for all. unit which hasn’t reached a contract The school board asked ad­ Manchester public schools opened night worrying about the first day, opening," Kennedy said, “and better Post was the arbitrator selected by agreement this year with the school ministrators to accept an increase of today for the 1976-1997 school year but everything went smoothly. than any in the recent past.” the Manchester Board of Education. board. less than the 4.75 per cent given with fewer problems than in the past. Phillips, who kept watch on con­ Most past problems involved The other arbitrators were Donald J. Contracts have been ratified with teachers, contending that local ad­ School Supt. James Kennedy said. struction of the facility at Wetherell ongoing construction programs, par­ Dineen of Windsor, appointed by the teachers, secretaries, nurses and ministrators are already much The highlight of the first day of St. and Hillstown Rd., said the ticularly in the junior high schools, school administrators, and Universi­ custodians. Tentative agreement has better paid than their counterparts in school was the opening of the building will be completed in about a Kennedy said, but that work was ty of Connecticut Professor Wiiliam been reached with teacher aides but the Hartford area. Administrators Regional Occupational Training week. Installation of some equip­ finished last year Roe, selected by agreement of both that contract hasn’t been signed. reportedly sought an 8 per cent in­ Center, a trade school for special ment in the woodworking shop and sides. The teachers contract calls for crease, contending they have more education students from Manchester “touching up” a few odds and ends The arbitration award will be dis­ salary increases of 4.75 per cent in experience and more responsibilities and surrounding towns. are all the work remaining. Defector given 1976-1977 and 5 per cent in 1978, that their counterparts. Kennedy and Town Building Com­ Eisewhere in the Manchester mittee Chairman Paul Phillips joined school system, Kennedy said there U. S. asylum Director Norman Fendell in opening were a few, expected transportation TOKYO (UPI) - A Soviet Air the training center to students this problems and one or two areas of Force lieutenant who fled his country morning. The $1.4 million facility, concern for size of elementary school in a top secret MIG-25 fighjer 0lane Peck defeats party choice about 99 per cent finished, is con­ classes. will leave Japan' for asylum in the sidered the first of its kind in the The transfer of South School United States Thursday, a Japanese country, they said. students to jMartin School and government spokesman said today. By GREG PEARSON the elderly, went overwhelmingly for He credited hard work as part of Highland Park School appeared to go Peck, 178-36. Peck also lived on the reason for his win. Pointing to a Initial enrollment at the state- Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Herald Reporter well, although one class at Martin Sumimasa Umemoto said 1st Lt. McKee St. in that area for 25 years. new pair of shoes, he said, “I wore financed center is 81, with 43 School had too many students, “The grass root Republicans have Viktor Ivanovich Belenko. 29, will Mrs. Mercer, who was the party one pair out.” students from Manchester and 38 Kennedy said. spoken,” a smiling Fred Peck said depart from either Tokyo Inter­ shortly after the final returns came endorsed candidate, ran well in her “TTiere’s no substitute for personal from area towns. Nearly all of the Kennedy said school ad­ national Airport or the U S. Air in Tuesday night. The “words” of home district. District Five, winning contact and going door-to-door,” he students arrived on time, at 8 a m., ministrators are keeping a close by a 155-119 margain. She was only said. and seemed happy with their new watch on enrollments and will make Force Base at Yokota, 25 rtiles west those Republicans meant that he will of downtown Tokyo. serve as the party’s registrar of able to wip two other districts, Mrs. Mercer felt the date of the school. adjustments in some classes if voters for the next tour years. however, (Districts Four and Nine.) primary might have hurt her more Peck, who has been the Republican Although the incumbent. Peck was than Peck.