Bridgeport Post, The (Newspaper) - September 16, 1976, Bridgeport, Connecticut WEATHER FORECAST Notional service Rain Tonight and Friday POST COUNTY EDITION County VOL NO 218 Published at AVI Stare St Bridgeport conn THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 16 1976 Clan Paid Conn FIFTY-TWO PAGES FOUR SECTIONS Panoramic Overview of Your City From a Height of One Mile the Ckv ne v and old he Rm with residential and commercial areas and punctated by major high-speed roadways taking motorists through r g t f r aS A Seaside park Park avenue which traverses reet with planned connections with in Waterbury D the Bridgeport jai-alai fronton on Kossuth strcc and fF Pka R a cons w n aiu te ronton on street and F Pleasure Beach The aerial view was taken by Post photographer Al Mathewson aboard a Bridgeport Flight Service plane piloted by John Randall State Utilities Unit Expected to Make Key Fuel Adjustment Formula Changes By ROBERT L SAWYER Major changes in the fuel oil and purchased gas adjustment charges which m it electric and companies to pass increases in their costs to ers a re d to be week Albert J Kleban of Easton chairman of the State Weather Data Dola from Notional U.S Ocpt ct Commerce BRIDGEPORT AND VICINITY with chance of rain by late afternoon mid 70s Rain likely patchy fog tonight and tomorrow in upper 60s High tomorrow 70 lo 75 lities of precipitation 70 per cent tonight and tomorrow TEMPERATURE Sikorsky Airport Readings Low Today 69 Highest Yesterday 75 Lowest Yesterday 61 15 19755 671 Lowest Sept 15 1375 Harbor Water Temperature 13 Degree Days Yesterday Degree Days Since July 1 16 PRECIPITATION Today 10 hours to 0.00 For Month 0.52 1976 to date 27.53 Barometer 11 reading 30.23 Humidity 11 reading SUN MOON AND STARS Thursday Sept 16 1076 Today is the two hundred and sixtieth the year and the eighty-eighth day of summer The Sun sets today at 7 p.m and at The Moon at Last Quarter today rises tonight at o'clock THE TIDE High p.m Public Utilities Control Authority disclosed today The PUCA chairman said majority of the commissioners after of hearings ing the past few months agreed that the formula the utilities use to compute their charges is in- equitable and modification is needed He said are not in full agreement on what new formula will be re- quired but they will make that decision during a public ing today in the authority's of- fices at Capitol avenue ford He said the decision w be made at a public hearing conform in every way to the ciples of the Sunshine law He said the Authority agrees that the p.m Low p.m Count The ragweed pollen by City's ber pollen groins on exposed during o hour period Sept 9 10 Sept 13 10 -3 Stpl U II 11 IB Sept 15 present formula being used to compute tho FAC does not accurately track fossil fuel costs and could result in an over- recovery of fuel costs It is ex- to make a majority deci- sion on changes today The commissioner said that while the formula does not sarily result in overcharges be- cause there could also be under- recovery in other nreas of a er the for overcharges to the consumer exits While Commissioner Kleban said he would prefer to withhold VOLCANO ERUPTING ISLE Guadeloupe AP La has erupted for the fourth time since July but vapor ex- plosion was a minor eruption and Injured no one the ment of this French Caribbean island reported The eruption occurred late Tuesday but was not announced until Wednesday Scientists said the volcano spewed out n containing rocks and pebbles and the cloud mass moved out to sea The ex- plosion also set off an aeries of tremors of the FAC formula until the public meeting he did say it would he designed to track more accurately fossil fuel costs as they arc being passed along to consumers The present FAC formula was approved by the former Public Continued on Page Two Today's Index Page Bridge Goren 37 Classified 41 Him SI Comics County News Crossword Puzzle 42 Financial News Focus on Living Health Dr Horoscope Obituaries Society News Spurts 30 thru 35 Stage and Screen TV Programs 41 Gas Utility Agrees to End Higher Rates for Heating The Southern Connecticut Gas company SCG has agreed lo do away with its higher rate for healing ers a rate schedule which thousands of consumers and con- sumer activists scored last ter as discriminatory A spoke s man for the S ta te Public Utilities Control Authority PUCA said today that Richard U Bowerman board chairman of SCG had stated in a letter to thp Authority that he ing on a new rate design and will submit it to the Authority for approval before heating season begins In his letter to PUCA Mr Bowerman was reacting la PUCA Chairman Albert J ban's announcement two ago that the Authority has re- 1 report from Hess and Lim a Maryland consulting firm it retained to study and compare rate design with those of other gas companies and the report had indicated that SCG not justified the manner in which it was dis- tributing Its various rates among its customers Commissioner Kleban ed the report to Mr Dowerman and in response to the report and a letter from the PUCA I chairman the SCG chairman saidi thai while he agreed with some pans of the and Lim re- Ford Heckled at Michigan Campus On First Trip of His Fall Campaign By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS President Ford faced a crowd of enthusiastic hecklers as Tic began liis campaign at alma mater hul of most energetic heckling from 30 miles away where Jimmy Carter charged him with being n of economic disaster Leaving Washington for ho time in the fall campaign Ford flew o the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor where ic said It is not enough for anyone to say Trust must be earned Carter was appearing ut n state AFL-CIO convention 30 miles away in the Detroit rb of Dearborn There in the shadow of the Viator Co assembly he blamed Ford and former port and disagreed with other parts he was the gas company's rates to do away with the rate differential heating and dent Richard M Nixon for the country's economic ills gas heating bills for When Richard Nixon year touched off a barrage of complaints to the PUCA some claiming their bills were twice and even three times as high as in tiie previous year The com- on Page Two ed Gerald Ford inherited a situation in a few short weeks he unerringly turned difficulty into Carter said Carter's Democratic mate Sen Waller speech jumped on saying Ford record that belies and puts the falsehood lo everything lie says he's for He said has an absolutely record on the economy care housing and education Ford's Republican runnin Bob Dole campaigning with Sen Wednesday Vice President Nelson A7 Both presidential arc scheduled to speak to n dinner of can Foundation but schedules should keep them from seeing each other Ford's speech sometimes spirited booing from crowd Wednesday night but he pot a standing vation as he spoke about trust n terms obviously aimed nt Carter Trust is not having to guess Today's Chuckle daughter Ira Here's my report card and I'm of ing television anyway what a candidate Ford said Trust is leveling with the people the election you arc going tu do the election Trust is not being all things to all people bul being the same to all people Trust is not cleverly choosing words so that such separate audience can hear what it wants to hear but ing plainly and simply wha you mean meaning what you of name started the booing even before he entered arena where he was o speak Dut a campaign said the reaction on the campus where Ford was o player more than years ago was expected The twos and catcalls greeted the mention of nearly everyone the loudest came with of Secretary of State Henry A Kissinger Ford look no notice of the and barely paused a cherry bomb exploded n the upper tier of he iall stadium Carter old the union con Continued on Page Two Cited for Work at Center for Drug Great-Grandmother Is Whale of a By AVRIL WESTMORELAND An ea gre a t-g mother Mrs Leila Hicks received the award of the Retired Senior Volunteer Program citing her most helpful volunteer during the year Mrs Hicks of Washington avenue is affectionately know as grandmother clients and staff of Hope center a rehabilitation facility for drug addicts at 10 street where she has been receptionist of tee worker about 12 hours a week for 18 months ZAMBIA SEES WAR AHEAD LUSAKA Zambia AP Secretary of State Henry A Kissinger arrived here today on the second leg of his African peace mission end was told that port intensified armed struggle for block rule On his way to Zambia the secretary expressed hope for success in helping achieve peace justice and progress in southern Africa despite pessimism Bf his first host President Julius of Tanzania At Lusaka airport Kissinger was met by Foreign Minister said We will armed who support West Africa South Africa black rule is achieved In desia and Namibia and tlie eradication of apartheid In South Africa Is achieved Namibia also known as South is controlled by In reply Kissinger hailed the contribution to the search for peace of both Zambian Prest dent Kenneth Kaunda person ally and the Zambian nation Newsmen travelling with Kis singer were told he left Tan zania with the impression that neither Nyerere nor Kaunda are likely to case their for speedy transfer of power to the black majorities in desia and Namibia The two presidents as well as those of Botswana and Angola last week coordinated their policies at a summit meeting in preparation for Kissinger's new effort in shuttle diplomacy Despite assessment Nyerere U.S said Kissinger still Informants Is not suming his mission will fall They said he rales at slightly ess than even his chances ol setting up meaningful white negotiations over and Namibia evidently takes the view that neither nor Kaunda would give anything away at least until they have leard the outcome of South rican Prime Minister John talks with Rhodesia's Ian mith After conferring with mit to the rule of 6 million blacks in two years as Kissinger and others have proposed The Tanzanian leader said It would be a miracle if the while made an about-face in their militant re- of black rule now or r Nyerere noted that Britain and both black and while can leaders and failed lo change Smith's stand He said he expected Kissinger to fail loo but he added that this con clarify the issues for the Kissinger told reporters he does not yet assume that his mission is a failure We have not given up hope of a peaceful solution to the problems of Rhodesia South Africa and he de- clared The secretary of state added that Nyerere may have sized pessimism lo impress bolh Americans and South can Prime Minister John sler whom Kissinger meets Friday Nyerere wants the U.S to admit that Smith and Vorster will never agree to black rule and that this can only be achieved by the black independence movements which already are fighting guerrilla wars in Rhodesia and Namibia Dut Kissinger said he was not about lo Issue a blank check In advance Whatever can be achieved depends on attitude of the he said The United states can only try to bring them together While in Lusaka Kissinger planned to meet also with Sam the head of the black nationalist Africa The United Nations recognizes SWAPO as the of black ity in the territory but Vorster and his government refuse to deal with it said lie had heard nothing from Kissinger that that Vorster was ready to negotiate with SWAPO Wednesday in Dar laam Nyerere said he was less hopeful than I was be- ore about the chances for averting a racial lie region He also told reporters that Africans would not be very if Kissinger treated Prime Minister Ian Smith as a statesman by meeting with him Kissinger is trying lo un- procedural problems as a preliminary to shuttle to advance Rhodesia ward rule by black ty and South-West Africa or Namibia to independence from South Africa said Kissinger lold lim nothing lo suggest that Smith and whites would agree to sub- sent back from surface Wednesday SCIENTISTS TO REPAIR VIKING'S SCOOP DEVICE PASADENA Calif AP Scientists hope to put Viking 2 hrough a maneuver that will reactivate its mechanical arm and renew the search for life on Mars Photos Martian seemed lo reveal faulty switch was to blame for of the device last Sunday Scientists planned to issue lew orders today that hf loped would prod the arm tacit nto service The jamming a key experiment uled for last Monday in which he scoop was to deposit soil in a laboratory that searches for lie organic molecules essential o life as It Is known on earth Doctors See No Problem Staffing Flu Shot Clinics Her family consists of a daughter three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren of the award the program's highest was made yesterday during t h e fourth annual recognition eon to honor the volunteers who range in age from GO to 90 Recognized during the con in the Throe Door rant 1775 Madison avenue were he program's current participants all retired senior citizens who use their skills and knowledge in various capacities nt agencies and organisations in the Bridgeport Mrs Hicks proud of her age Being of service and working with others has kept me young Inactivity in later years deteriorates one's mind and people should keep busy to stay Please report that I am 82 years she said and perhaps it will Inspire others to continue being active even after they retire Mrs Lucille R Viets gram director explained that he annual award lo the person has done a whale of a job Continued on Two Bridgeport area doctors at a meeting last night agreed there vlll be no difficulty m getting physicians to staff public during the upcoming ram of Immunization of City against swine flu Approximately 75 physicians at- tended the meeting which was milled by the Greater Bridgeport led lea I association to discuss ic first mass ram In the United States The took place in the r Bridgeport Mental Health cr avenue Dr Robert Doering president I the Greater Bridgeport al association and moderator of ic meeting We are here o learn about the swine flu cine and how area physicians can play a role in the The physicians agreed there would be no difficulty in staffing the clinics but they expressed concern over legal liability if they administered the vaccine in their offices The physicians were told that if they had each patient sign a consent form and dispensed the shot no charge they would be covered under a blanket eral swine flu malpractice law The date for the im- of an estimated residents Js Oct 25 as reported yesterday In The Bridgeport Post The initial free clinic will be In the Knights of hall on Park avenue from 10 to 3 p.m pending approval by the Cily Fire department The rest of the schedule of places and times for clinics will be announced once it has been verified All sites chosen by the City Health department must meet the firo code and must be proved by Fire Chief John F Heason The program wiU begin by im- only people who are considered high those 60 fears of age and older and hose over 18 who have chronic such as lung heart or disease or diabetes High risk people will be im- with a bivalent which is a combination of the swine flu or Jersey strain of flu and the strain which was prevalent last year Tht remainder of the ion will bo Immunized In mid- and wHI receive only the Jersey strain Bruce Cummings coordinator of the swine flu program or the Southwest Regional office of the State Health department told the last night hat would receive about 20 per Continued en Paje Two
