The Lowell Sun from Lowell, Massachusetts • Page 1

THE SUN LOWELL, MASS. Saturday evening January 24, 1976 12 Pages 1 Section 15 Cents Index ,,,7 Editorial 4 9 10 Sports 5 6 TV Weather Labor contract raises now beating inflation WASHINGTON (API For the first time in three years, the wage increases won in major labor contracts during 1975 ran ahead of inflation, the Labor Department says. The department said Friday that settlements negotiated during the year produced pay inereses averaging 10.2 per cent for the first year ot the contract, up from increases of 9.8 per cent negotiated in 1974 toiitracts. As measured by the Consumer Price Index, inflation rose 7 per cent in 1975 and 12.2 per cent in 1974. The last time negotiated wage increases outpaced inflation was in 1972 under government wage price controls when first year pay increase! averaged 7.3 per cent, against an inflation rate of 3.3 per cent.

Contracts covering 4.5 million workers are up for renegotiation this year in such key industries as trucking, autos, and rubber. Most of the expiring contracts were negnliated while controls still were in effect and uoion leaders have indicated they will seek substantial increases to catch up with inflation. The Ford administration has expressed concern over the prospect of crippling strikes and inflationary settlements which could endanger the economic recovery Irom recession. Two men hold up in Burlington BUjHLINGTON Two' men escaped with an undetermined amount of cash and checks from the Burlington store on Middlesex Street after holding up the store manager and his assistant in the store parking lot and locking them in the trunk of a car. store manager Roland Blanchetle said he suffered a few bruises when the two men wearing ski masks took the store's bank deposit from him and forced him and assistant manager George Mitchell into the trunk of Blanchette's car.

Both men were carrying guns but no shots were fired, he said. The robbery occurred at 9:20 a.m. today when the two store officials were taking money to the bank to make a deposit. Blanchette said he did not know exactly how much was taken in the robbery but that it was a "substantial" amount. He said the two men, both white and about five feet nine inches tall, had escaped in a car by the time he and his assistant were released from the trunk of the car when a passerby heard them yelling for help, Socialists njay reject coaliti4iinly ROME Socialist party.

leader Francesco De Marlino (bid Premier designate ffWo Moro today the Socialists would probably (eject Moro's proposal for a foalitibn. government of Christian Democrats, Socialists' and 'Republicans. Socialist officials Said Mo.ro telephoned DeMar tino midway through a'm'eetfrfg' of the party's directorate to inquire how debate was going on the proposed three party alignment, De Martino told Mnro the trend was toward a negative reply. Cox endorses Udall BOSTON (API Former Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox today endorsed Rep. Morris K.

Udall lor the Democratic presidential nomination. can trust him because he trusts the people," said Cox, a Harvard law professor. "Trust in government is not to be had for the asking, nor is it gained by the politics of image. It begins with the trust which those who govern repose in the Cox said "Only a man of character can restore that confidence. Only a man of openness, integrity and courage can bring us together.

I believe Morris Udall Is. such a man." Taupier names four new CDA members LOWELL City Manager William S. Taupier has nominated four men to replace the City Development Authority hoard members who refused to support his reorganization plan earlier this week The manager sent the names of Edmond Coulu, 56 Putnam Edward V. Keon, 780 East Merrimack Arthur Pelekasis, 293 Sanders Ave. and Robert Mousley, 105 Starr Ave.

to the city clerk's office early last night. The four, it confirmed by the city council, will replace current CDA chairman Robert Gervais, Peter Reilly III, Rev. Herve Gagnon and Omer Descheneaux. The four current members are serving in expired terms and could have been replaced at anytime. THE FOUR REFUSED to back the reorganisation plan introduced by Taupier several weeks ago.

The Taupier plan will find 22 people cul from their jobs in the CDA and Community Development (CD) Program. Taupier, through Asst. City Manager Gerald Hayes, is creating a new streamlined agency that will encompass most of the remaining employees of the CDA and CD. It is expected that a majority of the new board members will back the Taupier reorganization plan. The four men nominated by Taupier will be voted on by the city council on Tuesday night.

The. seven member CDA board also includes Dr. CDstas Kokmns, James Lorrey and Warren Griffin. The three will remain since their terms have not expired. Dr.

Kokinos was the only member of the current board to go along with the Taupier Taupier asks to re open contracts LOWELL City Manager William Taupier, reached in Holyoke this noon, said the city has formally requested all city unions to re open their labor contracts in an effort to reach agreement on pay cuts to make up the city's budget deficit of (300,000. Taupier said he has also prepared an ordinance that will he brought before the city council on Tuesday to also reduce the salaries of all non union city workers by the same (12.50 per week margin, Taupier made the announcement following' a near four hour meeting with the heads of all the city workers unions yesterday. THE MANAGER, THIS noon, termed the meeting with the unions "I think they have a very good understanding of our problem and I think they now recognize that it would be unwise to try and borrow any money to solve this Taupier said. He said that following the session he sent out notices to all the unions to. conduct formal sessions on re opening their contracts with a goal in mind of reducing the impact of the agreements by (12.50 per week per man.

Future discuss ion be twee the city and representatives of city employe unions regarding proposed paycuts or layoffs will take the form of formal negotiating sessions, according to Joseph Keefe, president of the Department of Public Works employes' union "From now on we will have international representation," he said today after yesterday's four hour meeting with the City Manager William S. Taupier and representatives of the city firefighters and the International Brotherhood of Police Officers. "Anytime you open a contract you have got to deal with the International." Keefe said the city manager was pleased" with and will consider a proposal he made at yesterday's session which calls for an end to "the city's contracting with private firms for snow removal. Taupier was en route to Holyoke and unavailable for comment. THE PROPOSED cost saving program for Hie DPW, would reduce by about (35,000 the total expense of (75,000 now being paid to private contractors, he said and the DPW would assume responsibility for all the city's snow removal operations.

The amount saved "also depends on (he amount of snow we get, Keefe pointed out, and the savings "could be more." KEEFE SAID Taupier told him he would contact the commissioner of public works and go over the proposal. The DPW union head would riol comment Dn whether he and other union representatives refused Taupier's request for volunlary paycuts within Iheir membership as a means of reducing the city's (300,000 deficit plan. He is the state appointee on the CDA board. Taupier's battle with the CDA has been bui Id ing in the las seve ral weeks as cared his decision to lay off 22 people from the two staffs. TWO WEEKS AGO the Taupier plan was brought before the CDA and Ihe board declined to act until the names of those to be laid off were released.

Taupier last Saturday sent the names to the board members and then at a special meeting on Monday the board also declined to approve the plan, indicating they wanted to know what employes would remain and who would be liable for those emulovee who micht file suit. Before Senate Committee CIA Director William Colby (P.) and McGenrge Bundy, heod of the Ford Foundation, were witnesses before the Senate Government Operations Committee Friday whith is considering new essional oversight of U. 5: intelligence activities. Colby suggestions that Congress be briefed in advance of planned covert CIA actions. Senate panel questions Nixon on Allende coup WASHINGTON (AF) The Senate Intelligence Committee will question former President Richard M.

Nixon about U.S. operations against Chile, hut. it has decided not to ask entertainer Frank Sinalra a woman associated with John F. Kennedy and organised crime figures. The committee voted Friday to submit a series of written questions to the former president about U.S.

efforts to overthrow Chilean President Salvador Allende and all out the so called Houston plan for domestic intelligence gathering, chairman Frank Church. Idabo, said. But Church said the committee saw no reason to question Sinatra about a possible link between President John F. Kennedy and the Mafia in a CIA plot to kill Cuba's Fidel Castro. Sinatra had been named as the "mutual friend who introduced Kennedy to Judith Campbell Exner, a California woman who also knew two underworld figures involved in a CI A plot to kill Castro.

Committee members questioned Mrs, Exner last summer and decided she had not been used to relay information between Kennedy and the two underworld figures. Sam Gian cana nnl John Rosselli Church said the decision to submit written questions to Nixon was "the. best available" (solution! given the length of lime remaining for Die panel to complete its mvestigaion. The committct is scheduled to end its business on Feb. 20.

Nixon earlier refused to testify before the entire committee, saying he would talk in secret to the panel's ranking members. The rrrmmitfee rejected that proposal. Meanwhile, the House Intelligence Committee approved its lina! report after cutting out secrets President Ford's advisors sairl might endanger agents and embarrass the nation diplomatically. Chairman Otis G. Pike, DN.Y.

said the committee also deleted unduly critical" comments about Ford administration officials, including Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger. Rut the committees senior Republican, Hubert McClory of Illinois, said he might de ma nd a secret session of the full House in an effort to knock even more secret information nut ol Ihe panel's final report. In another development, a former television reporter's claim that Waller Cronkite, John Chancellor and other prominent television figures arc named in a list of journalists who have co operated with the CIA was v.idely denied. Both Chancellor, anchorman for the "NI3C Nightly News," and Cronkite, anchorman and managing editor of the "CES Evening News," flatly denied any relationship with the CIA.

The claim (hey were on Ihe list was made by Sam A. Jaffe, a former correspondent or CES and AflC news. Immediately after the meeting Taupier indicated he would remove Gervais, Gagnon, Descheneaux and Reilly. He has been seeking names of potential board members all week andtsent the list of his selections to the clerk foria vote on next Tuesday's council meeting ainnnd 4 p.m. on Friday.

Kissinger seeks closer ties with Juan Carlos MADRID, Spain UPIl Scereltary of State Henry Kissinger today asked that Spain move closer to (he Western community then conferred with King Juan Carlos to fjnrt out what changes he may bring to Spanish" politics. Laler. Kissinger was to sign amew treaty under which the United Slates will retain use of Spanish military bases but will withdraw its 10 Polaris submarines from Spaini Lwo years from now. I The treaty will also provide SpRiin with a $1.22 billion program of military credits, grant aid, cultural, scientific and educational exchanges over a five year period. As he arrived, Kissinger said his visit emphasized "the community of interest that exists between Spain and the United Stales, and then we can take an important step toward bringing Spain closer to the Atlantic community and to the European community." Spain ought to be "an integral part ot all Western relationships," Kissinger said.

He then went to a meeting with Prime" Minister Carlos Arias Navarro, followed hy an audience and lunch at the King's Zarzuela Palace on the outskirts of town. Draft dies with curbing of registration I WASHINGTON UPO The draft isldead. Although the Selective Service System Ss still techically functioning, for all practical purposes it announced its demise when it said it would no longer register young men. 1 The agency announced Friday it vriSI no longer register and process young men turning IB years old for potential induction into the armed forces. i Selective service dlreclor Byrou V.

Pepitone, reacting to President Ford's slash of the agency's budget from million to $6imil lion, said "all registrant processing wiluter minate." That's a bureaucratic way of saying that the draft, dwindling in meaning since the end of. active American involvement in Vietnam, is finally dead. i It means that for the first time since jlB4B young men turning IS no longer must report to local draft boards and register for a Selective Service classification, On Hyde Park Boston school board in emergency session BOSTON (AP) An emergency meeting of the Boston School Committee was scheduled this afternoon to deal with protests and violence lhat erupted Ibis week at Hyde Park High School. The school was closed Thursday and Friday as a result of Ihe violence and is scheduled lo open on Monday. But Hyde Park teachers, who have demanded more uniformed police inside the school, were to meet this weekend lo decide whether they would return to class.

A school department spokesman said the committee would consider a "code of discipline" spelling nut whatconduct is expected of students and what penalties should be imposed (or violations. The worst violence since Boston schools opened in September under an extended desegregation order occurred Wednesday in a chair swinging melee that left eight persons arrested and three injured. Police Commissioner Robert diGrazia Friday said it was unfortunate police were not consulted bclore the decision was made to close the school. Past experience shows closing one school sometimes induces students (0 try to shut down others, he said. DiGrazia said he hoped teachers would lake on their responsibility of control of ihe schools and stop trying to turn the job over to police." i A police spokesman said, "sufficient polSce lo provide for public safety" would be on hand Monday.

He would not give specific figures The protests this week also affecfletl Charlestown High School. On Thursday, police had to rescue a black teacher from white students. The teacher was dragged down a staSr well after telling students to return to classes. One white student was arrested and another injured in the incident. About 100 white students and 20 parenfe staged a sit in on the main stairwell.

But school officials refused their demand to discuss grievances. At Hyde Park, white students maintained the racial outburst was precipitated by the burning of an American flag by a black student. School Supt. Marion Fahey and Gail O'Heil eochairperson of the Hyde Park High School's faculty senate, said police told them 30 officers would be inside the school and 50 outside. Since a stepped up program of busing for racial balance began in September, only South Boston High School has had uniformed of fleer inside the building.

Heavy fighting breaks out in Beirut! By FAROUK NASSAU Associated Press Writer BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Heavy fighting broke out between Moslem and Christian mililias on Beirut's eastern outskirts today, endangering a Syrian sponsored truce that had heen reported generally effective But a police spokesman said a Joinl peacekeeping force of Syrians, Lebanese and Palestinians stopped the fighting between the Christian juhurb of Kin fiummaneh and Ihe Moslem neighborhood or Chiyah. Militiamen of both sides raided each other's positions and the twodistricls exchanged mortar and rocket fire, a police spokesman said. Each side claimed it was defending its territory against attacks by the other. The lighting broke out as Palestine Libera tion Army soldiers policed Moslem controlled western Beirut, warning lhat looters would be shot on sight, and occupied a large part of eastern Lebanon The Palestinians rolled into he Lebanese i apual in a convny of Hessian rucks to en lurce the cease fire, and a top Palestinian of licer said Lebanon "has entered (he genuine slafie of ending the lighting." Prior lo the outbreak of fighting between Kin Rummaneh and Chiyah, a Lebanese military spokesman reported only "scattered, isolated incidents" of violence in the ceasefire Rut at least 14 persons were reported killed and another 21 wounded Mare Ihrtn B.0WI have been killed in the nine monthold civil war. The Beirut Damascus and Beirut Sidon hiehwavs were declared open for normal traf fic today.

Fuel Cankers and trucks carrying Hour and vegelables began arriving in Hie capital to ease a worsening food shortage. Beirut airporl reopened Friday for the first lime in a week, and the first plane to land carried a team of Syrian army officers to help supervise the truce. The Palestinian army units patrolling Beirut streets and occupying much of eastern Lebanon had crossed Ihe border fram Syria earlier in the week. Syria has pledged lo withdraw the entire guerrilla force from Lebanon as soon as Lebanese internal security forces are able lo resume their functions, officials here said. Associated Press correspondent Edward Cody loured eastern Lebanon, and said battle hardened Palestinian soldiers were running the area like conquered territory.

"We are masters of all the strategic military points," said Abu Amjad, battle rone political officer for (he Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine. "We will not leave before making sure that the national demands of the Lebanese progressive forces are satisfied." He referred to the Syrian sponsored cease fire agreement designed (o equalize Christian and Moslem political power. Palestinian spokesmen sa id an agreement to let the PLA soldiers patrol Beirut had been worked out by Syrian Foreign Minister Abdul ilalim Khaddarn: Yasir Arafat, head of the PLA's parent Palestine Liberation Organization; and leftwing Moslem leaders..