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Takeover Of NHRR Tonight (Continued from rage One) in 1951. The earlier tion lasted from 1935-47. Without inclusion in (lie Perm ka Central by Jan. the New Ha- Uv Connecticut's Fairfield County worK in New York City. But tlic major factor in the Interstate Commerce.

Commission and federal court decisions to keep the railroad going, has oetn tne New Havens role the New England economy. The present trustees, William J. Kirk and Richard Joyce Smith, along with the late Hai-rv w. uorigan, assumed tiieir post in July of 1961. In a report to the federal court six months later they said me new Haven "faced the herent disadvantage of being short-haul, terminal carrier.

continue on any permanent hasis it would eventually have to br merged with a trunk line sys- ten- The trustees took over the task ot modernizing the railroad as they also tried to cutback services which failed to mate money. One major question left unsettled is the lulure of the persons now employed by the bankrupt New Haven. During 1967 Interstate Commerce Commission hearings on the ii elusion of the New Haven. Pennsylavania Railroad spoke, snid savings of 55 million a year in New Haven Railroad expenditures could be expected through reduction in personnel He said, however, that the re ductlons would be offset foi several years by employe pro taction costs such as severance pay. Freight service would be tained much the same the present time, said Albert M.

Schofleld, at that time as sistaiit to the vice president in charge of Pennsylavania Railroad operations. The IM7 hearings also in eluded testimony from Pen nsylvania Railroad personnel cit ficlal, Guy W. Knight, who sale New Haven employes would re ceive the same job security guarantees which personnel of the Pennsylavania and New York Central railroads had prior to their merger. If an emplove should be required in relocate, he will be compensated for moving expenses and protected agaws any loss from the sale of his house, Knight said, adding that security agreements containing those provisions had been worked out with unions representing SS, peri cent of the New Haven's employes. NHRR "Appeals ICC Delay on New Timetables NEW HAVEN (AP) The New Haven Railroad asked the Interstate Commerce Commission Monday to reverse a decision that suspended the railroad's streamlining plans.

The railroad said a delay in its plans to reschedule passenger service would imperil its proposed high-speed TurboTrain program. passenger schedul to effect 6, but late last week a division of the ICC ordered a four-month delay. Part of the plan included scheduling New York-fo-Bcston service lor the TurboTrains. The statement came after Ihe Perm Central earlier in the day announced it would slop fighting merger with the bankrupt Pact Talks Launched At Contract Plating I The Chemical Plaling company at 120 Bruce avenue in Stratford and Local 25 of the 1 international Leather Goods, Plastics Si Novelty Workers1 'union have begun negotiations on a new work contract. Ralph Cennumo, international representative the Leathers Goods union, reported last night all of the issues of a new ipnet remain unsettled.

The current comma expires Jan. 14. I Ccnnamo said (In; ncsli has been tcn- veil wouid nave been lorced to, Shutdown its operations rep esents some 40 row. trustees of he line declared. I The New Haven Railroad h.d Jt Chemical Plating, It? corporate beginnings in ntjn as a development firm in New Haven's original Long Wharf.

It became a horse-drawn railroad in 1B44. lis present corporate structure, called the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad came into being In 1S72. incorporating some 200 smaller vail roads which had served four New England Slates. Although the schedules of passenger service were repeatedly cut hack in recent veurs, because of lack, of business, the New Haven's debts continued 1n mount with each month of operation at the monthly rate of about $1.5 million. in tax relief from the states it serves, and state and federal subsidies to help keep the passenger service going.

The biggest group interested In the New Haven's survival is the 30,000 commuters who use the trains daily to travel from No Now Year Cease-Fire by Allies in Vietnam (Continued from Page Only by eventually controlline these areas can the Saigon government ever expect to effec- vely govern the nation. To the Saigon Government. and the American high command in Vielnam. the annual cease-fires have come to mean! mcrrly added opportunities fori a cunning enemy to further exploit allied weaknesses. Allied aulhorilics believe that ny weaken inn of nressuro on the Vict Cong and North Viet-' can only assist them.

This takes in the bombing halt over the North, as well as cease- Ihe decision to cancel a sue- gestcd New Year cease-lire Lhis year was based, it was announced, on repealed violations of the Christmas cease-fire. Yet the alleged violations this Christmas were only 15 more than the 118 violations last ana casualties on tratfi sides were about trie same. The main-force enemy units are MiD.vn to ce staving well back in the border areas. The olfen- prcoicled by iome for De cember never did materialize. Fear Prolongation The main reason for the can cellation of the New Year ccase-fiTe, as seen by the most experienced observers in Viel the fear by both the Sai-'eminent and the U.S.

military authorities that further ccase-lires might lead to ti pro longation. Any such prolongation might line oi rnu Ba uong and many other Vietnamese villages and towns. "The conie quences for rhe' aav eminent here wou he rous. a baigcn officii here saia. The district headauarters.

was located he-re i-ece r.i territory. At nijfht the Viet Cona slip into town and harangue the- population wno seem to support them fully. If a cease-fire comes, how can I stop the Viet Cong tan- collectors, terrorists pi npngandists doing in th: daytime what they now' do most ly at rugnt? He envisaged pub lie demonstrations in- front his outpost, and harassment that would he intolerable. A major problem for the i ii ir.ee,l ui the pop- wauun in me contesiea area seems to favor an end to th war. tur Ihe farmers, it would mean that American tanks woe.

in i be plowing through hi r.ee crops, for one thing," a American pacification official Hubbell, Beta Elections Jan. 9 On Tool Guild Local 1 of the Tool, Die and Mold Makers Guild is seeking representation for workers in ine ftew Haven nad hoped toiporauon tour area companies which may inanngcmcnt-ianor nen rings outing the coming rttujruing to Hugn Knora, Guild president. Workers at the Harvey Hubbell company on Bostwick avenue will vote January 0 to decide whether cr not they want Guild representation. Tool and die makers of the lane and the West as-eraic pi lo the Nalional Labor Reiat Board prompted a hearing management and labor bclorc NLRB to be held Jan. 15 in Alderman chambers nf the New iij ii.ni ar ii a.m ine Resolution Due Today For Debate (Cfinlinucd from Page One) damages United on Arab clain 'Life Worth More' The life of one Israeli is worth much more than all the metal and engines of planes de coyed by Ine armv unit," Referring to the 'Israeli killed i the Athens mid, he adifeil: Who will pay for the loss of le?" He cut short a visit to Is-iel In return to New York for council dehale, A Lebanese delegation also as reported en roule tn New York to take part.

U.S. and Soviet delegates told Hie council Sunday night Israel snouia lie condemned for the raid. The Russians sun- ported the Arahs in demanding en more stringent action, rhe Arabs sought not nnlv condemn a tion and compensation, but said Israel should he steps" possible under the U.N. Charter. This was a plain reference lo the possibility of applying sanctions.

'I- I ji.or. I- a-JH li fted backing to a Trench call for a Big Four meeting on the Middle East situation. Valerian Zorin, Soviet Pembroke', Evenjns Ncws. 1 ffer economic nnrl political penalties provided in the U.K. Charter for those, held to be threatening peace.

It was doubtful that a rcsolu-m specifying tough sanctions could win enough votes the council to gain approval. isract remained adamanl its position that terror raids by muu guerrillas wouia meet with retaliation. In U.N. diplomatic language, condemn" is the touahest wnni that can he used in-a' resolution against a member country. On Nov.

25, 1966, the council voted 14 to 0 to censure Israeli a reprisal atlack on three Jordanian villages. New Zealand abstained on lhat resolution, which used censure instead of condemn. But the. resolution added that1 if reprisal' attacks persisted the! council would have to consider further and more effective sador to France, said -in an interview in Paris, "1 believe that there is good enough base for our countries to move into com mon, action in' the interests cf a peaceful' solution of, the Middle East including Ihe big power memhers of the iecurity Council." Minister Michel Debre said in Paris Sunday that the Middle East- situatinn might cxptrjde at any: time and urged the four major powers lo seek a solution, A Middle East Airlines spokesman said in Beirut that Russia's civil airline Aerpflot has offered Lebanon "unlimited help" in rebuilding ils shattered planes. Air France, has put a Boeing iu: anu iwo die fcast's disposal and lines, Pan American, Trans world and have cabled offers of "anything wlthir reason," the spokesman added.

Denunciations against Isiae! and expressions of sympathy far me Lebanese poured in, Pope Paul VI messaged Le baiiese President. Charles Hclou "We deplore acts coming from wherever they come ana tnat cannot but ag gravatc an already silua In Honn, West German eov eminent spokesman Conrad Ah lei's told a news conference: "II is understandable that the Is raelis have reacted. But the fed eral government regrets thf excessiveness or reaction." The British government ex tended sympathy lo the Le banese government and ordered extra security precautions taken at London Airport lor flights eraiung between London and the Middle East. Similar ty precautions were ordered at ucneva's tnlerccnlinental port. In London.

Winslon S. Chu ill, grandson of ihe late prime minister, defended (he Israeli action. Churchill, who covered June 1967 war, wrole in the ll. vu.lL that the Israeli ar deed aeiermme whether or G'ji. MiDii 'corne in for so much more con ilotiiinn fioi i idomnation Irom the British, 1 irrencn ana American gove il'.

i- "nients than the deliberate The New Haven also noted and labor of (he Schick that the restructuring was de- Safety Rasor company in Mil-signed to speed inclusion in the ford before the NLRB officials in Penn Central system. I their Boston oflice to determine The Connecticut Transporta- whether or not workers wjre tion Authority also urged the I employed in production or in-ICC to allow the schedule char.g- volved the craft of tool and die to go through as origina.iy making had not yet resulted in a plumed. I finding. "l'1 to destroy an airliner with all its passengers aboard In Paris, the newsoaner 1 of Monde said the Israeli atlack expectable since Israel had vnmed that it would take re- case of further BRIDGEPORT TELEGRAM, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1-363 toward ijnarra. Lebanon's permanent U.N.

delegate, foreground, and Shabtal Rosennc, the Israeli delegate, at desk in background, are nearly side-by-side during a meeting of Ihe U.N. Security Council Sunday night. Ghorra called Israel's attack Saturday cit Beirut Airport flagrant aggression and declared the damage Inflicted was "staggering." Fatah guerrilla group, said the attack should prompt all Arabs to "lake up arms against the Zinniel ijstisls." Mohamed Hassan LI Zawat. a spokesman for the Cairo" rov- ent, condemned the raid as proof of Israel's determination "impose its will hy violence." Moscow, the Sovfet newspaper livestia ac cused Israel of "banditry" and said the Israeli government he severely condemned." TE1 Aviv, about 3 .000 mourners attended the funeral Lean Shirdan, 60-year-old ilime engineer killed in the Arab altacl; on the Israeli airliner last Thursday. i.aaor Minister Joseph Aimo-, svho represented the govern-ent at the ceremony, de nounced what he called "world hypocrisy." When this man was mur dered, the world kept "When Israel hacK, spared human hie and wrecked marnir.es, t.nen tne wona registered shack and ils science was aroused." Arrested Man Not the One In Slaying Here nan picked up yesterday in Alhol, in connection with burglary in that town aspect in a slaying here last Septemher is not the man being sought for the Bridgeport, mi der.

police reported last night Roosevelt Washington, 21, us ib not the same man anted for the murder of Arlenu Rogers, 10, of 600 East Main reel, police f.aid. wen ir Massachusclts yesterday inform ed officials here that the man be ing detained there was not the same Rcosevclt Washington sought by ponce here. geri 11 n)t in 1 neck by a man identified as boyfriend during a dispute in hei third floor apartment. Water Firm Granted Part of Sought Boost HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -Ihe stale Public Utilities Commission (PUC) allowed the Con necticut Water Co.

Monday only pait of its requested rat-cTease for its Northern Guiiford-Chester divisions. The company had asked for 10 per cent increases in both divisions, hringing in about extra revenue a year. Thr P(IC allowed an increase that will bring in additional revenues ot $134.5110 a year. The Northern Division serves East Windsor. Stafford, South Windsor.

Sufiield and Windsor Locks. The Giiilforri Chcslcr Division serves Ciiesler, Clinton, Deep River. Lssex, Guilford, Madison. Old Saybrook and Wcstbrook. The company said the extra money loi costs ol pumping, treatment and taxes it needed II I KMiUd chemical plus a estmcnt.

SELECTMAN ELEVATED company will allow union was forced to land 'in CLINTON Conn (AP) Sr nr.l Mr. unora reported that a two- at.s Coed Points Out Fraud Suspect As Her Abductor (Continued from Page One) 514 bail," Sgt. Connors said Veer, Kct away. him," shouted tl blonde coed from the University UMinccticut as she pointed a finger at Seno, who is held on three separate warrants in can- with obtaining money nn. der false preterms ami jum-nr; bail of 52,500 ir.

Mtlford, police The girl, a narttime cashier si Ihe King Cole store, also identi fied Seno as one of her abductors alter listening to his voice as he spase. ponce reported. Police have rfeclinetl to identify Kin ext ent to sav is and the daughter of a Bridgeport According to her report to po lice she was forced by one of two men to drive her auto from the 'ii. liiirknir lu or James street to Beardslev nark wnere she managed to break away ticm her abducinrs when one of Ihe pair started to clioke her in the rear seat of th Detectives Robert Carroll and Ronald Gabriel quoted the girl as saying that at about 0 p.m. Dee.

20 she was walking towards her the store parking lot i men pulled alongside ner aura ano rorcea her at gun point to get into her car. j-uiili; aaiu unc oi ine men ordered her to follow the alher vehicle to the park. The girl she was then instructed to into Ihe auto on a lonely road in the park where she tussled with one of the men and managed to While freeing the girl hailed a passing driver who took her to her home. Police were then noti fied. The girl's car was later found abandoned in the park by her father.

Official Links 3 Legislators to Crime in N.J. (Continued from Page One) of a real estate transaction in which a home was conveyed to John Simone." He said state police records showed Simone is a captain in the "Bruno" Mafi afamily of Philadelphia. He said Selecky testified as a character witness in a traffic violation case in behalf of Salvatore Profaci the nephew of I an alleged Matia chlefta Brooklyn, He said Selecky should have known about young Profaci's arrest last April alter stale trooper had found him irom tne woods near a site where a hole resembling a grave had been dug, Brennan said he was reluctant to testify about Friediand bemuse the case in which he said l-riedland is involved is being held open for Further invesiiga- for rieclmVn theZfrd'fi 'in 1, newspapers cnticited tho Beirut the vacancy caused by the sal to Brer nan 'at ihe hearing government for Idling the death of Charles Elliott. said afterward that "it ex' attack ils airport vir- Elliott. RtpuM'csrt, diod.tiemciv iinhKelv" that tliallV Unopposed.

DtlC. 13 afrcr hrief illnrts hi cnl caiir.n ror Losncs is aisn a Kepubiican. every Arab capital to become; The third member of the an "Arab Hanoi." I heard of selectmen is expected Broadcasting from Cairo to be named at the Jan. 7 Yasser Aralal, leadr-r nf the Al meeting. ment.

"1 vehemently disagree and deny that I am comforlahle or cozy wilh organued crime." Ri-doifi said. Ted Kennedy Candidate for Long's Post (Continued from One) Kennedy. In 1964 ha was reelected to a fall term. With a new Republican president in the White House, Kenne- Mike Mansfield, Montana, be heightened. Energy Needed le will need the devotion and energy of an assistant who.

can involve himself more fully presenting the Democratic at titude on the issues that come before Kennedy said. Long, wno r.eans tne powerful Senate Finance Committee, al times has been at odds with the administration af President Lyndon B. Johnson. He irritated some of his colleagues with lengthy and unsuccessful efforts earlier in the year to get a campaign financing bill passed, Long comes trom a stale that gave its electoral vote to For mer tiov. tieoree c.

Wallace of Alabama In the November elec- MassachusetLs went for Hum- lhe question of whether Ken nedy will displace -Long is due be settled at a Senate Demonic conference Friday, the opening day of the new congress. It would be decided by a secret vote. Few ohservers on the scene believed that Long could he dislodged, particularly in view of Southern support tor him, ineie was immediate specu lation that Kennedy's entry into the contest marked an effort to ally liberal Democrats behind lim ta make their weight felt in party matters. He is regarded 'jrrie of his colleagues as a potential presidential candidate 1B72. Kennedy, who snuffed out an effort to get him into the race lor the 1968 party presidential nation at the ChicaEO con vention, said that since he holds major committee chairman ship he will be able to "devote whatever time may be necessary to make ihe work of the Senate more effective and effi- ent." Beyond thai, however, lie said at with Republicans in control of the piesidency and 31 governorships, the Democrats in Congress must' speak for the partv.

Kennedy said that in the November election "the American people asked for action on thf pressing problems of their econ omy, arid in the search' for peace. in view oi the results of the election, the Democratic majority of the senate has Ihe obligation lo the 30 million Americans who supported oar ticket and to the country present the best possible i grams and change in the United states, he. said. "The leader ship of Ihe Senate must he willing to take up this challenge." Stranded Family Survive Hours in Subzero Storm GLASGOW, Mont. (AP) just thank (he Lord that wi got home," Mrs.

Dkk ltotnl said Monday after she, her hus- oann and tneir three children survived hours in, a subzero, wina-ariven snowstorm near the u.i.-Lanadian horder. Neither of the adults, who were stranded 10 huuTS in stalled pickup, was iniuredi bui two of the children, whn were: herding cattle through slorm, suffered frostbite. The ordeal hecar. Saturdav The Colleen, 17. in a pickup truck, and Glenn.

15, and Alan, 13. on had gone lo a northern range of the Langen-Rohde Livestock ranch. From that range 4Q miles northwest of Glasgow, they were to herd 200 head of cattle to winter range at ihe ranch center five miles south of Glasgow. Mr. and Mrs, Rohde, in another pickup, were to meet the driver about midway throueh the threeday trek.

Mrs. Rohde said they Barely missed, connections while the drive was over a hill at the bottom of a coulee. The elder Rohdes, concerned by the storm, drove to the northern range ranch house only to learn the children already had slarted the drive. On the return inp. the Roliiies' stalled.

near where four persons froze tD oear.n under similar circum stances about seven years ago Mrs. Rohde learned hy porta pie ine reached home safely. Laier she learned they had become, cor, lused in the storm and headed north at one point instead south "and by an act of God barely got home themselves with 22 degree cold and wind lo 25 miles an hour, the Rohdes stayed in their unhealed truck. "That was a long night." Mrs. Rohde said.

The rescue began when the Rohdes failed to return to the mam ranch for a promised second load of hay. A sheriff's team found them early Monday, rool Guild, -B To Open Talks Jan. 6 MILFORD Management oifi-als of the Tool com pany, Old Gate lane, will meet wilh members of the Tool, Die and Mold Makers Guild on Jan. to begin contract negotiations. The meeting will take place at p.m.

in Ihe Holiday Inn accord- to Hugh Knora, Guild ores- Trie Guild reeenlly won th'o right to represent employes of the company in a 16 to 4 vote. Electronics Ace to Help Run Defense (Continued from Page One) educational and charitable organizations. ckard told the news confer ence he is making these arrangements so "1 can exercise my duties in Ihe Defense Department with complete flexibil- ty." 'Ihe Hewlett-Packard Co. manufactures electronic measurement instruments. It has to- million.

Iss of about $280 Of this, some million in-ilvcs either direct business with the Defense Department nr ui nv.i-.^.. I Packard acknowledged a "very substantia! involvement" by 'his company in defense business. Laird, now Kepubiican con gressman from Wisconsin, said ad discussed Packard's with members of the Sen-id that they had indicated they would go along wilh the arrangement. Packard's appointments as No. man in the Pentagon is subject to Senate confir mation.

Precedent Cited aird cited as a precedent Ihe action of former Gov. Price Daniel of Texas placing some oil stock in a trust when. he was appointed to the Office of Emer gency Planning. KuK.ird. a native of Pueblo.

estimated that he re- about $700,0011 a vear in from. his Hewlett-Pack ard stock, plus a $125,000 salary and about $135,000 in profit- sharing. His holdings in Hew- teu-r'acifara represent more than a quarter of the 52,547,000 shares outstanding. as ortvjty ne win uraw a 530,000 annual salary. Laird, in mlroducine Pack nrtUisaid "I believe the country uiueco dc nieaseu ana proud tnat outstanding bus; rit-ii jeauer is willin: Among the firms with which Packard wili sever connections is General Dynamics manufacturer of the controver sial Fill (TFX) fighter plane.

lie saia ne became a (Jeneral Dynamics director after that Texas firm won Ihe contract to build the plane. He refused to be drawn into ony discussion uf the plana's merits. Laurence Flyntz, UI Executive, 53, Dies in Florida (L'onlinucd from 1 One) and represented the commission on Ihe Community Development Action, i-ian agency. He was also a member of Ihe Algonquin club, the Bridgeport Lir.us cluh, the Board of Directors of the Rehabilitation Center, the Greater Bridgeport Personnel association, Ine Bridgeport Cham ber of Commerce, and the Holy Name Society of St. Ambrose cnurch, Survivors are his wife, Mrs.

Elsa Anderson Flvntz: a daueh- ter. Mrs. Jeanne DeJnseph nf urd.x 1-nrni, nix Mr. and Mrs. Waller Flyntz of 1 1 iwo Drainers, vai and Vincent Flyntz, both ol Bridgeport; and several nieces and nephews Services will lake place at a time to he announced by the Rob ert F.

Hennes5y funeral home, 2336 Mam street. Burial will be in Lakevi! in LAURENCE J. FLYNTZ Shortage Of Blood Critical By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The flu epidemic, the weather and the calendar have conspired to creale critical shortage of blood in Ihe natron's Blood banks and all but emergency surgery may have to be postponed, a survey disclosed Monday, The epidemic of Hong Kong flu, accompaning other respiratory ailments normally high at this time of year, was listed as a major factor in the blood crisis by hlood center and hospital officials across the country, Holidays A Factor But bad winter weather Is also a factor, and the mid-week i hr stmas.and New. Year's Day holidays have sent manyAmerir cans vacationing for longer periods than usual, away from home or too preoccupied to donate blood to their local centers, New York City's health commissioner, Edward d'Raurke, issued a call to all healihy New, Yorkers between the ajes of 21 and 61 to call a special telephone number set up by Greater New York Blood Pro gram and offer a pint of blood. I In Chicago Dr.

Aaron Joseoh- son, medical director of the Mid I America Red Cross Blood Center, asked Hie nation's surgeons to pastapone all "optional net of an emergency or critical to conserve blood for emergency operations and possible disaster needs. When hospitals in Philadelphia need S5 pints or. blood, a call went out to other states, but many blood centers found their own supplies too tow to respond. The blood eventually came from an Alabama center. Critical In Most Areas The American Red Cross' national headquarters in Washington said tlie situation Is critical in most parts of the country and predicted- that collection figures for this month would he "substantially lower" than for December 1966 and 1967.

The Red official said the situation, normally hart during the year-end holidays and made worse by the flu epidemic that has incapacitated- many prospective blood donors, has also been aggravated by the tart that a large number of workers in the organization's 59 centers across the nation are down with the flu. And, he added, manv people now coming in to nivc blood have had the flu and have not suiticienlly recovered-to be accepted as donors. One Red Cross blood collec- sacrifice to come aboard .7 ouc 01 Potential do- uotential do fense." nors tor tn One of Chicago's laraest hos pitals, westey Memorial, reported that it had enough transfu blood for Monrlav and Tues day and was asking all em ploycs.to donate blood, as as relatives of patienls and cither visitors. Kansas City Report In Kansas City, Dr. Perry Morgan, director of a community blood bank suirplvine about iiuapiiais in a aw-mue area saiu fiis center has been draw inr; as few as a doien units of blood daily, as compared wilh a normal collection ot 100 unit day.

He said telephone solicitation brought only about one donor Dut of 15 called, and the absence of many military personnel rrom ttieir bases tor the extended holidays has cut down on a major source of blood. Morgan said in open-heart op erations scheduled in the Kan sas City area early in January could be imperiled by the blbod shortage, with 12 fo 15 units of nerved for each An official of the Greater New York Blood Program said it? bank was "managing to stay al a 50 per cent level of what normal for blood collection a' this time of year." He said one center is slayinr open until 9 p.rr.. dailv and an other 24 hours a day until the M'xxl i n-. is tasrri. icted it would not start to wane until at least Jan.

10i The administrator of the Ch jCrtgo Blood Donor Service sai blood donors was more than twice what it normally is because of the flu epidemic. A Boston' official called the blood shortage "very serious" and said it was the worst December in 20 years. An Atlanta official said absenteeism in employee croups because of the flu and other illness has cut drasti- Three Atlanta hospitals received from group operations. Three Atlanta hospitals re ported difficulties in securing blood, and one. hospital reported that "we are hnvmg curtail some of our elcrtive surgery" because of the shortage.

BEAUTY JUDGES NAMED SOUTHINGTON Diane of Nonvalk. who is a former Miss Connecticut, and neivtman Norman Wright will be among the judges in a Miss Soulhington pageant Jan. 18 at Soulhington high school. Mr. Wright, formerly of Milford and with The Briccje port Post, is now editor of Hie News, Help kill ignorance.

supe.rstitiori,disease poverty, malnutrition. Write the Peace Corps, Washington. D.C. 20525 Pueblo Crewman Beaten With 2x2, Investigators Told from Page One) ly cuTfed around the head and neck a little bit." Soon, he said. as being "beaten with a two-by-two about four or five feet long.

I was in a kneeling position Ihe deck in front of his desk. The guard was using this "club. He was sinking me across 'the shoulders and the with it. is stick bmkr half on one of the bluws and he kept using the two halves unlil ended up in four pieces. "I received maybe 2D to 30 blows with this.

He left and back with a four.bv-fou'r about four feet long. I assumed the same position, kneeling on the deck, and received a few blows on the vicinity of the shoidders ami Ihe back This was followed by various assortment and fists-to var- parts of. the bodv I be lieve nne kick lo Ihe groin a few on-thighs and legs." ne estimatea ne received from 250-tD 300 blows. The slightly built Hayes, answ-ring newsmen's Questions in the hospital auditorium, said his aw has broken during one af cveral although he didn't "rcaiiie it- until alter ho was Angered By Phoio And -fie agreed with Lirw that the North Koreans stepped up beatings when they realised lhat the. Americans hart outsmarted posinc for a photo graph.

The photograph, released by North Korea, showed -ill siouu uf the ew v. rl their hands extended with the third linger up, a gesture generally regarded as obsene. It was on account of this Die- lure that they realized they weren't as smart as they thought they were," Law said. Law added that the gesture was intended as an expression of defiance. Hayes said he was he.Hen after North Koreans found the gesture.

"They found il in the pictures and in the movies ol the vast, majority ot ihe crew," Hayes said. "We tried to put this and other signs in it to try lo make them void since these people didn't know what it meant and ihe vast majority of the world did." The crew cons.dered. their captors "quite stupid." Law said. He added, "They are the missing link in Darwin's theory." Asked what Ihe Norlh Koreans thought about religion, Hayes said, "Well they say the Russians shot down God with a rocket and he didn't exist any mure, Then thev tried lo explain about Mary arid the Bible, They finally gave up on it because it (their explanation) was so ridi-culnns and it wasn't working." Although all uf the men lost one man 70 pounds-Hayes said their food "was the same as the guards' or near it. it was probably much better than the average Korean people had, since their army is the best fed for obvious reasons." The two crewmen said (hat in their opinion the.

North Koreans did rot attempt to brainwash the crew, hut that the crew suffered deep mental anguish. "They beat you to keep you mentally off balance and In a state of terror," Haves said. "You tit there with a group of people who despise and hate the American people. Thai's what Iheir whole people are on, is despising Americans," Law said. "You have to live with these peoi le for 11 months and I think you can imagine what it's like." The North Koreans also tried to convince the prisoners that the United States was not seeking their release, Law said.

"They said people had forgot-len about us," he said. Law said he felt fhe United Slairs 'acted correcllv" in the cuel'he rclMse se- "Ihey got us out of there the way they wanted to do it," he said. "The best way. I think tr.ey did light,".