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Puzzle Jackpot Climbs to $1,800 with Bonuses (See Page 3) Final Edition Complete Weather, Tides Every Day Right PARTLY SUNNY The Hartford Courant Temperature Weather On Page Range: 36 Forecast 40-60 ESTABLISHED 1764, VOL. DAILY CXXXIV No. 121 HARTFORD, CONN. SATURDAY, MORNING, MAY 1, 1971 -52 PAGES 10 CENTS EDITION City's Dirty Air Rated Among Nation's Worst The federal government is calling Hartford one of the nation's seven most air-polluted metropolitan regions. The ranking by the new Environmental Protection Agency has state air pollution experts mystified.

EPA administrator William D. Ruckelshaus said Friday that Hartford might have trouble meeting tough new air quality standards concerning sulfur oxides and particulates (dust and dirt). He listed Hartford as the fifth in order of the seven areas that might have trouble but gave no additional details. New York was listed first and would present the most trouble, he said. "We estimated that to bring air pollution levels down to the standard for particulates in New York will require a 300 per cent PUC Raps President Of Utility By DAVE OFFER The state Public Utilities Commission (PUC) Friday criticized the president of the Sharon Water Co.

for allegedly trying to charge his customers for his personal telephone bills, his home, his automobile and for paying himself an "unfair" and "unreasonable" salary of $12,000 a year. The PUC said the company president, Alvin Goldberg, has been making "improper allocation of personal living" expenses to company books and then claiming the company was not making enough money to survive. This claim was made when the Sharon Water Co. asked to increase rates as much as 420 per cent to some customers. The PUC unanimously rejected the request for higher rates.

According to the commission, which examined the water company books, the firm serves only 300 customers in Sharon. The books show, according to the commission, "there has been a commingling of the president's personal expenses with See PUC, Page 2, Col. 4 Elmo Roper Dies; Opinion Poll Pioneer NORWALK, (AP) Elmo Roper, one of the nation's leading pollsters, died at Norwalk Hospital Friday. He was 70. Roper had been hospitalized for several months, a family spokesman said at his home in West.

Redding. He was a native of Hebron, and entered the field of marketing research in 1933. Funeral services were scheduled for 2:30 Monday afternoon at Roper's home. He is survived by his widow, the former Mary Shaw, and a son, Burns W. Roper.

Roper had retired from his See ELMO, Page 11, Col. 1 increase in natural gas usage," said the EPA chief. The other cities that would have "somewhat less serious in addition: to Hartford, were listed as Chicago, St. Louis, Baltimore, Buffalo and Philadelphia. "All in all," said Ruckelshaus "meeting the particulate standard in the time allowed by the law in these seven cities will require increasing our total national use of natural gas by about 15 per cent and almost half that increase would go to New York alone." Ruckelshaus also noted that the sulfur oxides problem will diminish with increased use of natural gas.

The latest EPA air surveillance statistics were from a 1969 study which showed a particulate count of 62 micrograms per cubic meter in Hartford. This was the lowest of the four Connecticut cities listed in the survey. New Haven was the highest with 86; Waterbury had 79; and Bridgeport, 66. An aide to Ruckelshaus said that the seven metropolitan areas are expected to have trouble because of a combination of sulfur oxide pollutants and particulates. The Hartford particulate count, he said, may indicate that the city has done all it can with present technology and that the pollution levels still remain SO high that EPA expects that new methods of control will be necessary.

State air pollution experts are mystified because they feel See CITY'S, Page 24, Col. 2 Oil Firm Defends Home Fuel Price By W. EDWARD WENDOVER A spokesman for the Humble Oil Co. Friday attributed the projected 10 per cent increase in the cost of home fuel oil for New England to the rising costs of labor, transportation, storage and delivery. Sen.

Edward M. Thursday asked the federal Office of Emergency Preparedness (OEP) to investigate the 10 per cent hike proposed by Humble Oil Co. and asked the OEP to determine by May-15. "whether the price increases are justified." Humble is the only company to propose the increase thus far, but a spokesman for the Oil Fuel Institute of Greater Hartford said the other fuel compa-1 nies "look to Humble as a keynoter of things to come." The Humble spokesman said much of the price increase projection is based on present negotiations between the oil company and the barge and cargo handlers. Humble's wholesale price for the home is now scheduled to rise from the current 11.1 cents per gallon to 12.1 cents per gallon before Jan.

1, 1972 and the spokesman said, the increase may even be more depending on the outcome of the labor settlements. The Humble spokesman said he expected that local home fuel oil companies would pass along See OIL, Page 2, Col. 6 Whealon Reported Alternate To Rome By ANN HALL The Most Rev. John F. Whealon, archbishop of Hartford, has reportedly been selected an alternate to the international synod of bishops, meeting this fall in Rome.

The archbishop would neither confirm nor deny his election Friday. Speaking at a press conference, he said the appointment of this country's four delegates and two alternates must be confirmed by the Vatican before any announcement is made. The delegates are reported to be John Cardinal Dearden of Detroit, John Cardinal Krol of Philadelphia, John Cardinal Carberry of St. Louis and the Most. Rev.

Leo C. Byrne, archbishop of St. Paul-Minneapolis. The other delegate is reported to be the most Rev. Joseph T.

McGucken, archbishop of San Francisco. The election of delegates and alternates was made at a meeting of the nation's Roman Catholic bishops, which ended Thursday in Detroit. Archbishop Whealon said the meeting was a study session to get the thinking In Tomorrow's Courant Bank Bobber's Dilemma As a witness for ceived state and secution but he Staffer Thomas D. ernment witness in in The Sunday Courant. Gourmet Guide the government, he has refederal immunity from prolives in constant fear.

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Drinkers Given Sunday Break Gov. Meskill signed into law Friday a bill extending Sunday drinking time. The bill, effective immediately, extends the Sunday drinking hours from 9 to 11 p.m. Towns that want to keep the after-nine hours dry on Sundays will be able to do this only by local referendum. Another bill that would give Friday and Saturday night drinkers a little more time, by extending the closing hours from 1 to 2 a.m.

on Saturday and Sunday, has been called back to reconsideration in the Senate. That bill, as passed by the Senate earlier this week, would also allow drinking during voting hours on election days. Gov. Meskill has said he doesn't mind the longer weekend hours but he is opposed to the election-day amendment. Bar opening hours will remain the same-9 a.m.

on week days and noon on Sundays. NEWS in BRIEF Reds Release Newswoman SAIGON (AP) Catherine M. "Kate" Webb, United Press International bureau manager in Phnom Penh missing since April 7 and feared dead, was freed today by Communist led forces. phoned the UPI bureau in Phnom Penh from Kompong Speu, 35 miles to the southwest on Highway 4, saying that she was okay. She was freed with a Cambodian driver, Chhim Sarath.

$2.7 Million Loss BOSTON (UPI) Northeast Airlines, which hopes to merge with Delta Airlines, 1 had a net loss of more than $2.7 million during the three months of 1971 the carrier said Friday. Northeast had total revenues of $31.4 million during the quarter, a drop of $4.07 million from the same period a year ago. Testimony Halted MONTGOMERY, Ala. A federal grand jury probing campaign finances of Gov. George C.

Wallace called a temporary halt to testimony Friday after quizzing Wallace's onetime top political aide. Justice Department attorneys refused to say how soon the panel would be summoned back into session, but a spokesman said "The investigation is continuing." Seymore Trammell, reported to be a major figure in the probe, was the final witness in the two days of secret hearings. Helicopters Collide LISBON (AP) Two Portuguese air force helicopters collided Friday over the base at Tancos, northeast of Lisbon, and the five men aboard perished. War Hero Killed in Robbery DETROIT (UPI)-A Detroit soldier awarded the Medal of Honor for "a magnificent display of courage" on the Vietnam battlefield was fatally shot in a holdup attempt Friday while on leave from a hospital where he was under psychiatric care. Police said Sgt.

Dwight H. Johnson, 23, Michigan's first Medal of Honor winner of the Vietnam War and the 10th Negro to win the medal since 1863, was killed by the partystore owner he tried to rob. The store manager, Charles L. Van Landeghem, was wounded by a gunshot. "He was really the hero See WAR, Page 24, Col.

1 Low Suburban Overhead! Check our Low Prices before you Buy. Olde Towne LincolnMercury, Windsor, 688 286 8 2880 Courant Photo by Arthur Warmsley One More Time Court Blocks Foes Of Amtrak System WASHINGTON (UPI) -Passengers, la bor unions and congressmen lost their battle Friday to try to delay the birth of the Amtrak rail passenger system and the death of an era in American railroad history. A special three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld lower court rejection of lawsuits seeking to postpone a federal government long-haul passenger service. With the deadline only hours away, opponents abandoned plans to take their fight to the Supreme Court, clearing way for control of the passenger trains to pass to the hands of Amtrak.

nickname for the federally subsidized and administered National Railroad Passenger at 12:01 a.m. today. At that moment, unless they are actually in operation at the time, one-third of the nation's 285 intercity passenger trains passed into history, including such fabled runs as the San Francisco Chief, the Panama Limited, the Portland Rose, the City of Miami, the Capitol Limited, the Nancy Hanks, the North Coast Limited and the Wabash Cannonball. As of Saturday only 191 passenger trains are scheduled to be running, compared to the estimated 20,000 that criss-crossed the country a little more than 40 years ago. In Washington, U.S.

District Judge Howard F. Concoran rejected three lawsuits seeking a delay in the start of Amtrak operations, citing a "frustration of the intent of Congress and al threat of grave injury to the public and to the railroads" if the requests were granted. The courts' opponents, an association of rail passengers, a group of rail unions, and a band of Cumberland, rail commuters, vowed to carry their fight all the way to the Supreme Court as the deadline approached. Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield failed to beat the deadline Friday trying in vain to get a floor vote on his proposal to postpone Amtrak operations for seven months until Dec. 1, for a review of the government's controversial new route network.

The Senate adjourned until Monday for lack of a quorum, prompting a Democratic aide to conclude that Republicans deliberately boycotted the session. Amtrak's board of directors, yet to be confirmed by the Senate, say they can make the system turn a profit in about three years by reducing the number of routes nationwide. Sens. William P. Saxbe and Robert Taft Ohio Republicans, announced that the Amtrak board had agreed to consider putting Cleveland, one of several cities dropped from the original Amtrak network, back on the route system.

They said they expected board approval next week of a proposal to provide Cleveland and Toledo one passenger train daily on the Penn Central's Buffalo-Chicago line. Switch This Fall Channel 18 Given to Church By BRUCE KAUFFMAN Hartford's Channel 18, WHCT, will become a non-profit, religiously oriented television station this fall, if the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approves. RKO General owner of the station, donated it Friday to Faith Center of Glendale, a church corporation sociated with the Assembly of God denomination. Faith Center operates radio station KHOF-FM in Los Angeles and television station KHOF in San Bernardino, Calif. An application for another FM outlet in central California has been filed with the FCC.

Channel 18, which has been suffering severe financial strain, was put up for sale at $2 million last July. There were no takers. According to station manager George Cyr, the outlet has been losing $50,000 to $60,000 a month for the past two years. From 1962 until 1969, when the station conducted the first pay-TV experiment in the United States, 16 Students Arrested In UConn Drug Raid By BOB STEPNO STORRS -University of Connecticut security police arrested 16 students Friday on drug abuse charges, including sale of marijuana, hashish and controlled drugs and conspiracy to violate narcotics laws. University officials said campus police had six more warrants to serve and that an "indeterminate number" of warrants, some naming UConn students, were in the hands of state police.

The warrants, issued by Circuit Court 11 Thursday, were the result of a joint investigation over several months by the State Police Capitol Region Crime Squad and university security, officials said. All those arrested Friday were released on bonds ranging from $800 to $2,000 and are scheduled for court appearances May 17 and 18, officials said. Most of the arrests took place in students' rooms at nine campus dormitories about 7 a.m. Coventry police said they assisted with one arrest off-campus. An as yet undetermined quantity of drugs and related Accident Mars Last Train Trip By ELEANOR GILBERT PUTNAM The final trip of the New London-Worcester "Budd Line," already marked by varying moods of festivity nostalgia and regret, Friday was marred by a truck collision at a private crossing in Norwich.

The 89-passenger car, which had been providing rail service for nearly 20 years, was filled to capacity with "last trippers," commuters, college students and members of the Woodstock Players Drama Group. Edward H. Howell, conductor for 11 consecutive years on the 72-mile run, who had just begun reviewing his experiences for the press, stopped short when the mild jolt occurred. Many of the passengers who were singing and talking were not aware that anything had happened, but as Howell moved from his seat the train came to a stop. A truck driven for the Moskowitz Motor Transportation Co.

by George Dowling of Sterling had been hit as it pulled out of the Atlantic Cotton Co. loading yard. Train engineer Gerald Wallace of Stoughton, had blown the usual four whistle crossing warning signal. Norwich police said Friday night that Dowling was not hurt and the 7 p.m. accident occurred on private property near Second Street.

The Penn Central Railroad will discontinue its service in eastern Connecticut as of today when the national rail passenger car service will take over "essential" passenger trains operating between major cities. The local serve was dropped in 1928 but reinstated in 1952 at the request of the Connecticut Public Utilities Commission. "What a way for this all to end," one regular passenger commented. "I hate to see the See TRUCK, Page 2. Col.

7 of the bishops and to put together their ideas for the synod delegates. Both the study session and the synod are expected to concentrate on the role of the priesthood and world justice and peace. At the Detroit meeting, the bishops were presented with a widely publicized report on the priesthood which probed its psychological theological and SOciological nature. Archbishop Whealon has been vocal in his criticism of the theological segment of the report at the meeting, calling it "highly subjective." "I took issue with the lack of scholarship in the theological report," said the prelate FriHe added that he believed the entire theological study should be redone and that the project should be aborted. The recommendations of this study stated that there is no solid theological foundation for church policies banning women from See Archbishop, Page 2, Col.

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Topics 20 TV Radio 12 Fincl. 32-34, 36 W. Hartford losses reached an estimated $11 million. In a telephone interview Friday, the president of Faith Center said RKO felt his organization, which will televise shows never seen before in the Hartford area, could bring success to the lagging Channel 18. "This is because we have a very different type of programming." said the Rev.

R. A. Shoch of Faith Center. "and we thought, as RKO thought, that with our specialized type of See CHANNEL, Page 2, Col. 4 paraphernalia was confiscated during what a UConn spokesman termed "visits to residence halls, rather than A bail commissioner set bond for each of the 15 men and one woman at security headquarters, a colonial house on Rt.

195 just north of campus. Representatives of the office of security personnel also met with arrested students there. Students involved will be notified shortly by the dean of students concerning any university disciplinary action to follow the arrests, a UConn spokesman said. According to UConn officials, those arrested included Michael T. Greer, 22, of 727 Mather Suffield, charged with conspiracy to violate narcotics laws, and James C.

Byrnes, 22, of 5020 Smith Farm Road, Virginia See 16, Page 24, Col. 5 Today's Chuckle "It's not the work I enjoy," said the cab driver. "It's the people I run into." Like Old Buddies President Nixon walks with his arm on the shoulder of Marine Cpl. David Romig of Wichita, Friday after presenting the First Marine Division at Camp Pendleton, Calif. a Presidential Unit Citation on their return from Vietnam (UPI)..