PAGE TWENTY - EVENING HERALD. Mon., Feb. 26, 1979 Plight of the Cities Five Killed In Crashes Moon and Sun Stars National Guard Limits Democrats Chase Funds East Catholic Teams Voters Have Their Say On Weekend In a Boffo Eclipse For New Senior Center Bow in Hoop Action Page 3 In Clevelandf Chicago Page 10 Page 12 New Orleans Carnival By Uniled Press liilernallonn! Page 20 At least five people have died In NEW ORLEANS (UPI) - Playing turned carnival-season security over eve of the first big carnival, weekend . host to the world's largest free show to 250 state police. 600 National Feb. 16, forced cancellation of all traffic accidents on Connecticut without a police force, city officials Guard troops and a handful of non­ carnival parades In the city. Several roadways this weekend, authorities say they will station National striking city police. parade organizers relocated lavish said. Two were the victims of hit- floats and marching bands to routes and-run drivers. lianrljFfitFr Guardsmen at French Quarter in­ Negotiations between the union and the city resumed Sunday, but in the suburbs, but the prestegious tersections on Mardi Gras day to con­ State Police said a father and son neither side reported any substantial “Rex, King of Carnival,” refused to Clearing Tonight fine the raucous carnival revelry to a died in a crash on Rt. 131 in Thomp­ 21-hlock section of the 250-year-old progress. The main snag in a con­ roll. Morlal refused to “make a guess” son early Sunday when their car left Fair Wadnaaday neighborhood. tract agreement concerned a police the road, snapped a utility pole and demand for full union protection for on what conditions would prevail in Delelle on page 2 Mayor Ernest Mortal, forced to struck a tree, coming to rest 250 feet ranking officers. the Quarter Tuesday when pranks; cancel Mardi Gras for the first time from the road since the Korean War, Sunday “The“problem now is the rank,” drunkenness and vulgar c-ostumes ordered the French Quarter closed to union President Vince Bruno told a reign on Fat Tuesday. But he urged Authorities identified the victims ituFntnn M m l h vehicular traffic on carnival day — strike rally behind police people to stay home or enjoy Mardi as Harold W. Mount Jr., 41, and his Plane Hijack Tuesday — and said National Guard headquarters Sunday. "They want Gras in the suburbs. son, Jeffrey A. Mount, 20, both of I .y°l- XCVIII, No. 12S — Manchestor, Conn., Tuesday, February 27, 1979 troops in riot gear and carrying M-I6 the ranks' head on a silver platter Mardi Gras day — the final hours of East Hartford. Two of Mount’s other STOCKHOLM, Sweden (UPI) — • A Family NEWSpaper Since 1B81« 20t Single Copy • 15t Home Delivered rifles would man barricades. and we're not going to deliver that. pre-Lenten street partying, masking children, Diane, 11, and Jamps, 13, I A man and a woman threatened to " --------- “B a ^ upon the technical infor­ We're winning this — just hang in and general debauchery — usually were pinned in the back seat, accor­ blow up a Soviet Areoflot jetliner mation I've received, it’s best for me there. It's just a matter of time." draws a million people to the center ding to authorities. in a demand for political asylum to recommend to the citizens that He aiso told members to obey a city, turning Canal Street into a giant today but police surrounded the they do not congregate in the French Circuit Court order to refrain from pedestrian mall. Diane Mount was in critical condi­ -plane after it landed in Stockholm Quarter on Maidi Gras day." he said picketing garbage dumps. Teamster Carnival annually generates $250 tion late Sunday at Hartford Hospital and arrested the hijackers. million for the city economy and sells Carter Asks at a briefing. garbage collectors honored picket with head injuries. Her brother was Police said they were The 10-day strike by -the lines for two days and trash spilled out every hotel room, within 30 miles. in fair condition at Day Kimbai negotiating with two other people Teamsters-affiliated police union uncollected into the narrow French This year, downtown hoteikeepers Hospital in Putnam, officials said. aboard the plane who were forced cancellation of aii New Quarter streets during the weekend. said they would do well if they could believed to be accomplices of the fill 70 percent of the rooms. Aliison Richards, 19, of West Orleans Mardi Gras parades and The walkout, which began on the * Haven, died Saturday after she was I hijackers. struck by a car as she crossed Broad I No one was reported injured in For Powers the incident. Street in New Britain, police said. And in Cleveland Miss Richards, a Central Connecticut The man and woman, who were State College student, was walking not immediately identified, had I threatened to blow up the TU-154 with several friends when the vehicle hit her. jet, which somewhat resembles a I Boeing 727 jetliner, and its 34 On Rations Mayor Wins Support ¥ New Britain police were in­ passengers and crewmembers, vestigating the incident. and demanded political asylum in CLEVELAND (UPI) - Consumer decide the financial future of the approve a tariff requiring Cleveland WASHINGTON (UPI) - President ’The Iranian cutoff is costing the 7 Sweden. advocate Ralph Nader has given troubled city. Two separate issues Electric to deiiver power to the Police in Bridgeport were seeking Carter wants congressional authority United States 500,000 barrels a day, Mayor Dennis Kucinich some late are on the ballot: whether to raise Municipal Light System at smalir City Cleanup the driver of a vehicle that struck to order coupon-type gasoline producing shortages that Monday cost. Pancake Race support in the mayor’s drive to save the city income tax from 1 to 1.5 per­ Tourist carriage passes by as workman cleans up the trash and killed Arthur Edmundsen Jr., 51, rationing and three less-stringent caused Atlantic Richfield to join • The House Subcommittee on the city’s Municipal Light System, cent and whether to sell the of Bridgeport, Saturday night at Stat- mandatory conservation measures Phillips, Shell and several other oil Commerce, Consumer and Monetary on Bourbon Street in the heart of the French Quarter of New I OLNEY, England (UPI) - firing a broad attack on the Municipal Light System. ford Avenue and Seaview Streets.' for use in severe energy emergen­ companies in curtailing gasoline Qeveland Electric Illuminating Co. K ucinich’s opponents have Affairs is investigating several Orleans Sunday. The Bourbon Street Merchants Association Julie Perks, a 22-year-old uh-1 employed teacher, today won the cies, administration sources say. deliveries to service stations.«Bome for making allegedly improper tax demanded he sell the iight system to utilities, including Cleveland Elec­ has kept the tourist area relatively clean in the wake of erratic The accident was Bridgeport’s 30th annual Olney pancake race in airlines have canceled flights for deductions. Cieveland Eiectric as a means of tric, “for possible improper tax first traffic fatality of the year. In addition to rationing of the kind garbage pickups. Many Mardi Gras revelers are flocking to a time of 1 minute, 3 seconds, out- lack of fuel. In a “four-page statement released raising quick cash to help lift the city deductions” ciaimed for grass-roots Police in Manchester said Darryl last used during World War II, the city seemingly ignoring the continuing police strike (UPI racing 10 other women flipping during the weekend, Nader urged out of default on $15.5 million in bank lobbying. Nader said Cleveland Elec­ M. Zanni, 19, of South Windsor, d i^ sources say Carter’s proposed stand­ Administration and congressional photo) pancakes in frying pans. Geveland residents to reject the notes. tric “should immediately disclose to Saturday fter his car struck a utility by measures to save fuel include sources said Carter approved four of Mrs. Perks, who placed second proposed sale of the Municipal Light Nader, who met with Kucinich the people of CHeveland the full truth pole on Buckland Street. weekend service station closings, the five standby mandatory conser­ SysL^ in a special election Tuesday. twice last month in Washington and about this question of deductibility of last year, finished yards ahead to temperature limits for public vation measures sent to him this He charged that Oeveland Electric previously announced support for the grass-roots lobbying expenditures.” GOP Fills Two Posts receive the traditional kiss of buildings and a ban on non-essential weekend by the Energy Department. was trying to “become the monopoly • Cieveland Electric purchases peace from church sexton Andrew A Chance for Exercise outdoor advertising lighting. Those four were; mayor’s position, also charged: Soul. power source for the citizens of coal at “exorbitant prices” that sub­ MANCHESTER - Local • An “informed source” at the appointed chairman of the finance Monday’s wet and heavy snow provided a throughout Manchester Monday. From left, Imposing all the steps short of -Coupon-type gasoline rationing, sequently figure into the company’s Republicans have been appointed to Several hundred people lined Cleveland.” Federal Energy Regulatory Commis­ committee, which will handle all good opportunity for youngsters, who were rationing would save almost a to be used only as a last resort. The Tuesday’s referendum will help electric rates and “pays far more for positions affecting party com­ the 415-yard S-shaped course Sean and Scott Heuner, both of 57 Florence sion has toid him the agency soon will financial aspects of the Republican out of school, to get some exercise in clearing million barrels of oil a day, sources same number of coupons, worth one coal than other utilities in Ohio.” munication and finances, Richard Friday, 8:14 p.m.—fire in large corn- along the town’s narrow street St., Billy LaSata, 61 Florence St., and Sal Party.