The Lowell Sun from Lowell, Massachusetts • Page 110

THE Fire and two cars in SUN LOWELL, MASS. Thursday evening January 4, 1973 36 pages cents 75 cents per week home delivered Index Amusements MS Business 17 19 Classified Comics 33 34 Crossword Puzzle IS Deaths 27 Editorial 6 Focus .1 Metro 13 14 People In The Sua Snorts Suburban Clielnulori! Tewktliurj" Weather 27 Women's News 9 13 Subway fire Fire fightori adjust oxygen masVs as they prepare to enter subway tunnel at'South Station in Boston today, to battle fire on an inbound rapid transit train on the MBTA's Red Line from Quincy. An estimated 250 transit riders were brought to the surface at the nearby Broadway subway station, firemen said. County courthouse tour set for today By ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS BOSTON (AF) firemen utilizing 1,000 fect long pieces of hose and oxygen masks extinguished a lire this morning that destroyed, an inbound rapid transit train on the MQTA's Red Line near the South Station Under An estimated 2p0 transit riders were brought to file surface at the nearby Broadway subway station, firemen said Several persons suffered injuries and were taken to Boston hospitals for treatment.

MBTA officials said one of their employes was missing, hut firemen said there was no one in the mile long tunnel passageway between South Station and Broadway, where She fire occurred. One of the inqured, identified as Robert Pur ccll of the Dorchester' section of Boston, was caniiid a quarter Of a mile through the tunnel by rescuers and taken to Boston City Hospital where he was placed on the danger list. Firemen said two cars of the four car train which caught fire had been destroyed. A deputy fire chief said one of the cars, a new airtight model, had exploded and ripped to shreds after another car caught fire. MBTA officials said several sections of the rapid transit lines were shut down because 'of the fire and resulting smoke, which spread through the network of tunnels.

Rush hour traffic, already hampered by an early morning snowfall, came to a virtual standstill in. the section the city near South Station. Transit officials reported th'at the train be TV Tr" .35 Resulting heat iguiled the fire, they reported. The section tnc lunnei wnere me me incurred is tinder Fort Point Channel, a small inlet of water which extends off Boston Harbor into the area where patriots dumped tea from a British Ship 10S years ago. THE only way firemen could reach the blaze was through the tunnel, which meant stringing toother a 1, 000 foot piece of hose from a score of tire Iruuks caneu 10 inc scene.

When firemen were able to reach the fire from the Broadway station, they, were driven, back momentarily by the explosion which tore apart the transit car. "When that happened," one deputy fire chief said, "I was ready to turn around and go back." The commuters brought to. the surface at the Broadway station included riders on the train that caught. Tire and others.fro.m a second train which slopped just short of the fire area. S.WTA ntrii ials' Kriueht to ease traffic snarls created by' the fire by running buses in areas where the Red Liie normally runs between Quincy and Harvard Square.

Major winter storm slows Midwest to howling crawl By UNITED PKKSS INTERNATIONAL blast destroy By: ilORRTS W. ROSENBERG Associated Press Writer PARIS (AP) serhipublic Vietnam peace talks resumed today with a sharp clash between the Communists and the South Vietnamese over.the.neace agreement Henrv A. Kis singer and Le'Duc Tho drafted in October, Hanoi, called tor the United States to sign the agreement "promptly," but Saigon denounced the draft as a "disguised victory" for North Saigon's representative renewed its demand that Hanoi recognize the existence of two sover A major winter storm tore through the Mid said lhjj uU(jry fllBurd an( west today transforming interstate highways in mancuver t0 deny the fact that there now exists to writhing lanes of snowbound cars, touching' off a flurry of auto accidents and triggering power failures. Three men were killed and one was injured Wednesday when a pickup truck collided with a trailer truck in freezing rain near Ottawa, III. A blizzard bowled through eastern Nebraska, stopping traffic on major highways leading into the metropolitan Omaha and Lincoln areas MIDDLESEX COUNTY EWS wpjns op up (o 5J hour hHrlcd EAST CAMBRIDGE Taking full advantage tons of snow througl) Easlern Nebraska, reduc of their new powers as county commissioners, Fall vj5jbjity to zero and creating massive Iraf E.

Tsongas, 32, and S. Lester Ralph, 42, will lead ric Jsms At leasl one storm related traffic the press, aides of Sheriff John J. Buckley and a death WBS rcporkd few other persons on a tour of the still uncompleted trip betwcen Omaha and Lincoln, Middlesex County court and office building. normally takes minutes, but snow elogged Tsongas and Ralph were installed Ueclnesday roads an(f stalled cars iurned the trip. into.

a as commissioner of the county. John L. Daneny jg. Qr(ieai Wednesday. Snow piled up to being the third such officeholder.

Mven inches at some locations and was whipped Tsongas, member of Hhe Lowell city mlo by tne Stms winds. council until Tuesday night, and Ralph, the mayor Near blizzard conditions were reported in of Sdmerville, had vowed during their eight months ToWa, forcing the municipal airport at Des of campaigning for their new offices and the two te shl)t dom months following to take several immediate courses 0lHJ ol worst ice slorms on record iet of action, one, a four of the 21 story courthouse, some n0nics and onices in Kansas City, upon their without power and sent hundreds of per Later today, at the first regular meeting of wns to homes of ricnds or relatives or to the board, Tsongas, who. arrived this morning at churches' arui schools to keep warm. Power in South Vietnam two administrations, two ar mies and three political forces." Snieon Ambassador Pnam Dang Lam told Ihc 172nd session of the s.emipublic Paris peace By HARRISON HUMPHRIES Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) a White House suggestion that congressional intervention might prolong the war, henaie Democrats art to end U.S. involvement in Vietnam if President Nixon docs hot.

There is increasing sentiment that Congress should act unless a settlement is negotiated by Jan. 20, when Nixon begins his second term. Democratic senators planned to consider today a proposal by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy that would make it 1he policy of Congress to Hub subway Rescue workers carry Robert Purcell of the Dorchester section of Boston on stretcher up stairs of Broadway station today in In Paris Rescued from subway fire Boston, following Wis rescue from one of two trains' stalled in subway tunnel 'be cause of fire aboard the first train.

Res cue workers had to carry Purcelt abouf Va of a mile before exiting to the surface. Purcell was rushed to Boston City HospitaL and Communists clash over Kissingerhq agreemehf of pcfpbff 23 THE four party talks resnrnnd today after a ed the immediate. signing o'f' agreement two week suspensQii. Their renewal was a pre without any changes, led one. to think that you liminary to the resumption Monday of peace sought rather a disguised victory which, would negotiations between U.S presidential adviser allow the Hanoi Communist it the North Vietnamese' troops' In South Vietnam; Henry A Kissinger and Le Dec; Tno of the to jnterference mM Norlh Vietnamese Politburo.

of MU)fry aU to c4Cnd, domination over Lam told the Communisls: 'The inlrana (Ke whole of Vietnam, objectives 'which you gence which yon displayed in the last negotia were not able to. 'achieve tlirpugh' the force of tions and the insistence with which you demand; arms.1 S. reports hss of 17th 852 bomber to he's guns SAIGON The U.S. commantJ said stricken i352 bailed, out' and 'wer rescued, from "Uuleis they admit that their design. is North Vietnamese gunners shot' down the 17lh the Tonkin Gulf 'today after the' pilot guided 'the to achieve the reunification of Vietnam their B52 bomber of the war today and reported the plane out over the.

'water! the two; Flil.crewrrien, way and to place the whole of Vietnam under iQSS 0f another i Is million siving wing Fill jet whose plane crashed "west: of Hanoi'" Dec. 22, their 'domination, the. Hanoi authorities cannot in last month raids over the Hanoi Haiphong are listed as missing and cause of the downing fail to acknowledge that there are two distinct heartland. was not known, states of Vietnam." The command announcement came as U.S. Today's announcements brought 'to .25 the He said both are "internationally recog warplanes look advantage of clearing weather number of U.S.

warplaries the. says nized, each having its own political regime and to step upratfacks south' of North Vieliiatn's 20th were downed in the'' Dec; 130 aerial blitz! of exercising its sovereignty oh its own 'territory Parallel bombing boundary that inns 65 miles Hanoi and its chief seaport. At least 81 Ameri as in the cases of the two Germanys and the south of Hanoi. can airmen are listed as wounded' or two Koreas!" Spokesmen said all six crewmen aboard the missing in the raids. Signs indicate Congress will give Nixon Jan.

20 deadline fo obtain peace o.nv eQ1J will hririF un the ouestion of what iw.mh tho nicM in in amoral agreement that Coneross should try to ao wnn me iwuy usniu ww aa cLtort to Tessore power. Cholmsfm hich both he and Ralph have prom traffic moved at a crawl, when if moved, ised t'o close as soon as possible. as heavy snows clogged roadways in southcas The unopened building, situated next door to lern Mintiesota. the old county complex has received great notoriety Heavy Tain5 lhe CnieaE0 area, caus dui ing the past few years. jng some delays at O'Hare International Airport Initial funding for its construction was made as lhe rajn bloclced out of lhe airporrs in 1963; and groundbreaking ceremonies were held niiT Its piohlems have been credited with.

bringing on the downfall of both past commissioners John F. Dever Jr. and Frederick J. Connors. Tour guests are Sheriff John J.

Buckley, who was denied access to the building by the old board ivMnmiKinnpi'5 tlirpp months aeo: Armand W. Charges Nixon UMay, a construction engineer with the Peabody BOSTON (AP) Mayor Kevin H. White Construction who replaced Tsongas on the said today that President Nixon is playing a Lowell city council, and members of the MIT gov "cruel hoax" on the big cities by undercutting' emmental study task force, which Tuesday released recently enacted revenue sharing with a new a lS page report on the operation of county gov plan of special revenue sharing which cut eminent. hack federal funding for local projects. Today's tour will mark the first time that In air address to the City Council in the persons not involved in the construction project or second part of his State of the City address, with the operation of the county have been allowed White charged Nixon with "playing a subterlugc inside the now S44.5 million building, originally by which he will rob Peter to pay Paul." Slated to cost only million.1, "Revenue sharing was.

never intended to re place other sources of federal funding for categorical programs, such as Model Cities, Urban Renewal, Emergency Employment Act. cut off all money for the Vietnam war immediately. The only conditions on the cutoff, which was adopted by House Democrats Tuesday, woiild be. release of U.S.; war prisoners and safe con duet for withdrawing American Forces. Senate Republicans, meanwhile, witn 17 ot settlements." With the war the prime topic cf conversa' lion at the opening of the S3rd Corrjress, While House press secretary Ronald L.

Zieglcr told newsmen: of Ccngress should ask ing. And then he wll lum to the mayors and the city councils and tell them to use revenue sharing to make up the "Revenue sharing is emerging as a cruei hoax. Soon we will have yet another program "SO revenue sharing and special revenue called special revenue sharing. Theoretically, it sharing may become a shell game where we, is a great idea to consolidate special federal at the local level, are forced la take from one programs together into block grants. pocket and give to another," White said.

"That "But there is every indication that when" the is a fraud because we will lose money and President consolidates these programs, he will our austerity program will be useless." also dramatically cut back their level of fund The mayor also was critical of school de themselves if they want to be responsible (or raising doubts in the enemy's mind about the United position and' therefore' possibly prolonging the Ziegler's statement followed a breakfast meeting Wednesday between Nixon and House Speaker Carl Albert, their number absent, voted 16 1o 10 to support In organizing 'for the 1973 74 session, Senate the efforts the President to end the tragic Republicans chose conservatives lor two leader cofifliel in Indochina now through a negotiated ship jobs. William Srock of Tennessee defeated Edward Brooke of Massachusetts to become chairman of the Senate Republican Campaign Committee. And John Tower of Texas won over Robert Taft Jr. of Ohio for chairmanship of the policy committee. on cities partment spending, which he said increased 554 million over the past five years.

"I am convinced that there is. waite and fat in the school budget that can be cut without firing or jeopardizing the quality of education," White said. White also said he would issue a. series 'of executive orders to cut overtime in half, eliminate about 100 private telephone lines from City Hall and curtail the of sick leave..