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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1977
Page
1
PAUL HITLER JR becomes the third man this year to lead Fairfield Republican Town Committee. Other items note a power outage affecting 1,300 United Illuminating customers in Bridgeport, plus local hires under the CETA program and various national and international briefs.
The House approved a 225 to 157 amendment limiting HEW orders to busing students to achieve integration. The move, tied to a 61.3 billion 1978 funding bill, drew criticism from the Civil Rights Commission which said it denied equal education opportunities. The vote followed earlier rejection of a separate antiabortion funding proposal.
The Senate rejected pulling troops from South Korea and easing the Cuba embargo, while defeating a bid to extract concessions from Havana for recognition of Castro. It approved a $1.7 billion foreign policy bill with amendments on Vietnam reparations and Rhodesian sanctions, and sent the measure to a House-Senate conference.
Hartford reports the state will sue Glendinning Companies of Connecticut for 10 million in damages for missing deadlines to deliver 25 million tickets for the canceled fourth instant lottery. The suit seeks lost revenues in the current fiscal year and may trigger a bond call while a new game with Scientific Games could be readied by August 1.
Better Times Seen Philadelphia AP reports that three Wharton School economists forecast improving economic conditions across sectors for the next 18 months. Unemployment is expected to fall from 7 percent to about 4.4 by early 1979, with plant and equipment investment rising 12 percent in 1977 and 14 percent in 1978. Imports surpass exports until 1979 when a trade balance and surplus are expected. nearly 2 million housing starts anticipated in the second half of the year.
Washington negotiators reached agreement on a 1.5 billion youth jobs and training bill expected to create about 200,000 opportunities through September 1978. It funds a conservation corps for ages 16 to 23, an experimental part time/full time jobs program, a school retention incentive, a community improvements program, and broad local grants totaling 600 million with Javits proposed 15 percent in-school set aside.
Hartford The Bridgeport Hydraulic company filed final written arguments to PUCA backing a 2.34 million rate increase. Consumer Counsel David Silverstone urged PUCA to deny the 17.3 percent hike. PUCA to decide by July 29. The company seeks rate base inclusion for construction work in progress on a federally mandated filtration plant. PUCA omits such construction from rate bases, arguing no service use yet. The company cites 1981 federal deadlines as urgency and argues to attract investors.
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