. ' ' v<r" iV -r- ,-i"; ^ 1'^. ' : ■ t ; ‘ • --------------■ I _____ ■ ^^sIANCHESTER, CONN., MONDAY, FEB. 18, 1974 — VOL. XCIII, No. 118 Mmchester—A City of Village Charm EIGHTEf:N PACES PRICE. HFl'EEN C^NTS Station Owners To Consider Shutdown Causing Trouble HARTFORD (UPI) — Connecticut gas station operators will probably decide Wednesday night whether to launch a full-scale shutdown in protest of a federal order banning h i preferential sales. Charles Matties, a West Hartford Exxon dealer and a In Peace Effort director of the Connecticut Gasoline Retailers Associa­ V* /■ United Press International Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister tion, said today that Federal Energy Administrator 'The U.S. peace'initiative in The Israeli newspaper said Omar Sakkaf and Egyptian the basic Kissinger proposal in­ William E. Simon is on a “collision course” with the the Middie East appeared today Fqreign Minister Ismaii nation’s gasoline dealers. to be running into trouble volved linking a time table for Fahmy. U.S. officals said they the release of Israeli prisoners letter from the dealers ad­ because of Arab refusal to lift Unless Simon rescinds believed the Arab nation? wiil in Syria with specific proposals modifies his order,; Matties- dressed to Simon. the oii embargo. not end their ernbargo until for the disengagement of their believes the result could be a Through their lawyer, R. The weil-informed Israeii Kissinger helps solve the newspaper Davar, which often armies on the Golan Heights nationwide shutdown of gas Richard Roina the Greenwich Syrian-Israeli dispute. front. and Portchester gasoline refiects the views of the stations. Saudi Arabia has shown in­ Israel has said it will not deaiers said they did not want government, quoted diplomatic “We don't have to iead a dications of lifting the oil em­ negotiate disengagement terms to strike. sources in Jerusaiem as saying rebellion,” Matties said. “It’s bargo but the'chief opposition with Syria, either directly or in­ there. They said.the most important Secretary of State Henry A. came from Kuwait, Algeria and Kissinger was formulating a directly, until it gets a list of its .....' ‘^We-’'ve been successful issue is their right to give their Syria despite Egyptian Presi­ prisoners of war in Syria and holding it in check so far,” he regular customers preferential “package deal” to get troop dis­ dent Anwar Sadat’s urgings engagement taiks started the Red Cross is allowed to visit said, “but by Wednesday night, treatment. they ease up. them. something’s got to give,” All or most of the 46 gasoline between Israel and Syria. Complicating the situation But Arab Middle East With the U.S. initiative Matties said national gasoline retailers in Greenwich are was Russia’s failure to get stalled for the moment, Israel deaier representatives are to believed to^ be united in their sources in London told UPI Syria to ease.its stand on troop diplomatic correspondent K.C. pushed ahead with dismantling meet with Simon Tuesday for position, as are some 26 dealers disengagement talks with its ground and air links to the claHncation of his edict against in Portchester. -v Thaler their governments have Israel and its apparent reluc­ been given to understand that west bank of the Suez Canal, preTerential treatm ent of Weicker met Sunday morning tance to bring pressure on Syria rushing to meet this week’S' regular customers at the gas with three dealers, Roina, and the Kissinger peace initiative to do so. may be put temporariiy on ice deadline for abandoning all pumps. Greenwich Police Chief Steven The Beirut newspaper An territor]! seized from Egypt in Connecticut gas deaiers have M. Baran Jr. uniess the oii embargo is eased Nahar reported another snag soon. October.' decided to withhold any protest “This is a federal problem,” today. It said a crisis has Israeli army sappers laid action until results of the Weicker said after the meeting. • Kissinger was meeting in developed in relations between Washington again today with detonating charges today at a meeting are known, Matties "Dealers' are trying to work out Jordan and the United States in­ freshly abandoned Egyptian said. a soiution which enabies them volving the handling of King airfield in advance of Israels to do their job legaliy and with A statewide meeting of gas \ Hussein’s scheduled meeting withdrawal Thursday from the dealers is scheduled for dignity.” with President Nixon on Feb. 8 west bank of the Suez Canal, Wednesday night, Matties said, Meanwhile, Sen. Abraham A. Oil Embargo End Discussed Theiu Picks and Jordanian belief that U.S. military sources said. but regional groups will be Ribicoff, D-Cohn., said he can’t intelligence knew in advance of The dynamiting operation at meeting as early as Tuesday understand why Connecticut Secretary of State Henry_KissingeKleft, escorts Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Omar A 19-Man a Jordanian army mutiny that Fayid began, they said, shortly night. hasn’t foilowed other states in Sakkaf from the State Department where the two discussed the terms of an end to the oil broke out at that time. The after the last U.S. built Her­ Matties said any action wiii the nation in implementing the embargo in a series of meetings including one this morning. (UPI photo) Husseln-Nixon visit was post­ cules C130 transport plane took be announced ahead -of time to Oregon plan of rationing. - Cabinet poned until later. / ' \ . off on an eastward course. ailow the pubiic to prepare. No Speaking on the Connecticut ....................................................................................... action wiil be taken against Pubiic Information Network SAIGON (UPI) — President emergency or poiice vehicles, radio program, “Diaiogue ’74,” ; Nguyen Van Thieu named a new he said. Ribicoff said, “In the absence jij: I 19-member cabinet today, with Donwell Firm After meeting Sunday with of any other form of allocation, g ! all its members friendly to the Greenwich, Conn., and this would bring some order out :•$ Pray: Tell George, ; government and only five new Portche^ter, N.Y., area of chaos. It would mean that : faces. dealers. Sen. Lowell P. Weicker only half the automobiles. on i;:; : An expected drastic govern- To Construct said he convinced them to re­ any given day wouidj^ eligibie Jf^hen Is Your Birthday? ; ment shakeup to combat infla- main open until at least to go to a.fllling station.” ■ tion and government corruption Tuesday afternoon. Ribicoff criticized the perfor- : failed to materialize. On the battlefieid. Com- New Facility Weicker said he will hand-, .. mance of the Federal Energv S By SOL R. COHEN deliver to federai officiais a Office. % indeed. By law, it was celebrated that year ; munist forces stepped up at- “It’s in chaos,” he said; -jj Talk about your credibility, to say nothing : tacks in one of the most intense a week earlier — on Feb. 15. A Manchester manufacturer, its expansion will resultiii a 25 “They don’t know which side is -ij about executive privilege. ; days of fighting in a year, the If George Washington’s Birthday is legal­ : Saigon miiitary command said. now renting space in the old per cent increase in its employ­ Nevada up. Promises are made ali over jj Look what we’ve got here. The very first ly the third Monday in February, aa man­ Cheney Mills complex, is plan­ the lot. They’re not kept.” |: |i A Thieu spokesman, Informa- ment force, now at 16. Its of­ president of the United States, the father of dated by federaPland state) law, and if ning a new plant on Sheldon Rd. fices on Pleasant St. are in Ribicoff said you can’t get Si ; tion Minister Hoang Due Nha, , Gambling our tt)untry; the man who couldn’t tell a lie George Washington were xeceiving Social : said there'had been a slight in­ ' (the Parker-Oakland connec­ Cheney’s old public bathhouse. definitive answers from the tor) at an estimated cost of FEO. ~ G ^rge Washington—is now suspect, and Security benefits, as are other senior ternal shuffle in the cabinet. The Donwell officers are about $240,000 for the builcUng Donaid R. Sherman, president; Undimmed Nevertheless, Connecticut’s all bwause he told everyone he was born on citizens, he might well be receiving the Last Saturday, Thieu tem­ « . and land. Wellman R. Burnham, vice United Press international senior senator praised Simon. Feb. 22. following letter from federal officials: porarily ousted the entire cabinet for what was believed The Donwell Co., which does president; and Mrs. Betty J. The lights on the Las Vegas “I wouid say Mr. Simon is a ,, Our Congress and our state legislature, “Dear Mr. Washington: to be a major overhaul. custom plastic coating of in­ Sherman, secretary-treasurer. Strip may have been dimmed very'able man,” he said, ‘-But ^ r comprised of sincere men and women who “It is with deep regret we must inform ... • New ministers for justice. dustrial materials, is being All reside in South Windsor. because of the energy crisis, the thing is running away from are looking out for our good, these issued $214,581 in industrial him.” I heauh. e Z ' a t o aid’ th" plan- Sherman is on the board of but it’s not all that gloomy to knowledgeable individuals say today, Feb. payments sent you since your retirement jj ning directorate were picked bf revenue bonds by the Connect- directors 'of the Greater the operators of the casinos in­ 18, is George Washington’s Birthday. en^lqyment. Please call our s: -Thieu, and a new position of cut Development Authority. It Manchester Chamber of side. They say it doesn’t matter that all school Washington, D.C. office, so we may make jv vice prime minister for inspec- is for a 14,400-square-foot plant Commerce.