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TWO BRIDGEPORT SUNDAY POST, JULY 18. 1971 Labor Woe i In Nation (Continued from Page One) members against Western ion kept telegraph offices close across the country for the 37 straight day. There was no reported prc gress in the U.S. Postal Serv ce's efforts to negotiate its firs contract with seven posta unions. The rail strike over wor rules idled 78,000 workers begi ning 6 a.m.

Friday. It involve carriers that transport 23 pe cent of the nation's rail-shippe fruits and vegetables. A Union Pacific spokesman Los Angeles said some train were running with personnel at the controls, bu the effort was apparently no enough to handle the Midwes wheat harvest. Kellogg Co. cereal plant Omaha, and food plants Pocatello and Soda Springs Idaho, facd th prospct of ing to shut down if the strike con tinued.

The lumber industry i -the Northwest also was reportei jeopardized by the strike. Other railroads, under net work rules, were laying off fire men and requiring crews to rid longer distances for less pay Tile Santa Fe Railroad said i Topka, it had laid of 1,000 UTU workers under thi new rules. Shipments of steel delayed by the strike, threatened construe lion and manufacturing in parts of the country. A General Mo tors assembly plant in Kansaj Gity, said it would close i the walkout lasted more than a week. Bell System affiliates in Call fornia and New Jersey obtainei court orders limiting union i i The companies charged that pickets were harassing nonstriking employes.

Most service was normal as i manned switch boards and performed repair work. Nearly all telephone equipment is automated. Reports of vandalism, mostly cable cutting, continued across the country. Vandals cut 18 ca- b'es in Duncan, putting 2iIOO phones out of service in the community of 20,000. In Mansfield, Ohio, the Unitec Telephone Co.

said it had firec 925 CWA members since they joined the strike in a wildcat action last Thursday. The company said the walkout violated an agreement to extend the old contract while wage negotiations continued. In Dundee, 111., John R. Peter, 20, a CWA lineman, was charged with arson in connection with the firebombing Wednesday of an Illinois Bell gerage in Elgin, 111. Incidents of cable-cutting also have been reported in New York, Virginia, Tennessee, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Michigan, South Carolina and Lousiau, The Weather Data from Hallonal Weather at Bridgeport Airport BRIDGEPORT AND VICINITY Sunny and pleasant today, high near 80.

Fair Monday. Probability of precipitation today is 10 per cent. Northwesterly winds 10 to 20 mph today. Visibility three to five miles. TEMPERATURE Highest yesterday 83 Lowest yesterday 69 Highest year ago yesterday 87 Lowest year ago yesterday 66 PRECIPITATION Yesterday 0.1 For Month 1.37 Barometer (8 p.m.

reading) 29.81 Humidity (8 p.m. reading) THE TIDE Today Tomorrow 8:01 a.m. High 8:55 a.m. 8:30 p.m 9:24 P.m- 1:56 a.m. Low 2:44 a.m.

3:01 p.m 3:56 p.m. ALMANAC Sunday, Inly 18 Today is the one hundred and ninety-ninth day of the year and the twenty-eighth day of Summer. The sun rises today at 5:34 a.m. ind sets it 8:23 p.m. disrupting service for varying periods of time.

A $5,000 reward was offered by the New Jersey Bell Co. for information leading to the conviction of persons convicted of what it was said sabotage against its equipment. SNETCO Picket Injured by Car On John Street Marguardt, 20, of 485 Anson street, a striking telephone company employe, was injured yesterday at 12:55 p.m. when struck by an auto while walking a picket line at the driveway enterance to the SNET company's main office building, on street, near Courtland itreet, police reported. Miss Marquardt was taken to 3 ark City hospital in an emergency ambulance after she cpm- ilained of injuries of the right lip and abdomen.

She was treat- in the emergency room and eleased. Patrolman George L. Otzei, ie Traffic division, said James Milne, 28, of 39 Cardinal drive Gilford, the driver of the, car Iso an employe of the telephone ompany, was arrested on chares of failure to grant the right way to a pedestrian and failure i obey a policeman's signal. Police said the pedestrian was on a sidewalk with other ickets at the of the tele- lione company union strike vhen the vehicle driven by Mr. Tihie, traveling west on John Nixon Willing To Travel to Hanoi for Talks (Continued from Page One) ments, including Communi China.

North Vietnam, the Viet Con and Peking rejected the propo al, China now apparently reversed its position. Australii Labor leader Edward Goug Whitlam reported Wednesda Chinese Premier Chou told him in Peking recent that China would welcome such conference. Duong told the French new agency Agence France Pres hat the Paris' talks "remain tl best means to achieve a settl ment of the Vietnam problem He did not mention Peking Msition on a wider conferenc He said the Viet Cong deleg ion did not intend to coram on President Nixon's announce plans to visit Peking. made a right turn into ie driveway. Patrolman Clifford LaChoima, duty at the picket line, report- ri he shouted to Mr.

Milne to alt his vehicle at the driveway Urance but. the driver failed to op. Police said Mr. Milne reported applied his foot to the brake edal but it slipped off. lob Watchman At New School By PETE MASTRONARDI A 67-year-old watchman em- oyed by the City of Bridgeport the new Longfellow elementary ihool, Ocean place, was rob- elude such critics of Nixon ad ed at knife-point by two youths he entered the school buildin; st night at 8 o'clock.

August Olearcisk, of 376 East ashington avenue, said he had necked the nearby Whittier ammar school minutes earlier id drove in his car to the Long- How school parking lot. "I got out of my car and walk- up to the school steps and as sticking the key in a door open it when two Negro youths mped up behind me," Mr. 01- rcisk told Special Policeman rank Kennedy of the school se- rity patrol. One of the pair, he said stuck lat he believed to be a knife his back and told' him "not move, or I'll stick it through iur back." Mr. Olearcisk said one youth ent through his pockets, while other grasped for his arms.

"They took S3 from my pocket grabbed my wrist-watch," he ded. Mr. Olearcisk described them between 16 and 18 years of e. Patrolman Kennedy searched area for the pair accompan- by Mr. Olearcisk.

Black Leaders Hit by Agnew (Continued from Page One) lassie and his prime minister President Jomo Kenyatta an lis distinguished ministers, ant of course, President Mobutu an president of the National Ai sembly (Andre) Bo-Bo-liko." Asked which black U.S. lea( ers he was referring to, he ilied: don't have to identif leaders that I mean. "If you read your newspape over the past year and see nany of these leaders hav een complaining and carping you'll find out that they com irise a very substantial cross section of what describes itsel as black leadership." Agnew was then asked if could name a black leader black leaders as exceptions his criticism. "Yes," he replied, "there ar some certainly. I would not at tempt to name them because inadvertently excluding one, would be including him.

which might not want to do." Asked if his targets might in ministration civil rights policie as the House black caucus, th Rev. Ralph David Abernathy the leaders of the welfare right organization, Agnew again re fused to reply. "I'm not going to get into the designation of personalities," he said. In response to a question about what indications of great er democratization he had seen or heard about in Ethiopia, Ken ya and the Congo, Agnew re ilied: "I don't think that the progress of democratization in tself was discussed," though he said Mobutu has taken "some sxtremely conciliatory steps in lis relations with neighboring countries." Later in the briefing, Agnew broadened his criticism to include white labor leaders who are "asking for repressive trade agreements to protect them against foreign imports while those they support in the Con- jress are complaining about the ack of free trade in the world. Without being asked, he saic ie had heard more criticism of publication by U.S.

newspapers of the Pentagon papers. Con The watchman later viewed golese officials, he said, "are gues gallery photos at Police idquarters in an effort to iden- the pair. errace Taxpayers ap Candidate Parley The Bcardsley Terrace Taxpay- s' association announced yes- rday it has named Augustus wer, of 293 Dogwood drive, represent it in seeking appoint- ents with the mayoral candi- tes to discuss the threatened yolf of several teachers in Wil- Cross and W.S. Johnson schools, and (he problems that are expected to result. The move was mapped at a breakfast meeting in the home of Mr.

Turner, who is an officer of the association. absolutely aghast and unable.to understand how this can happen-how the press is able to determine when a matter is in the national security without consulting the government." MADRID (AP) Spiro T. Agnew declined comment again Saturday on President Nixon's plan to visit China. "I am not free to comment on anything concerning President Nixon's announcement regarding mainland China," the touring vice president told newsmen aboard Air Force Two en route from the Congo to Madrid. Agnew also declined to suy if he knew in advance about presidential adviser Henry A.

Kissinger's mission to Peking to set up the Nixon visit. Sundoy post photo-- Schulze LEGION PARADE In photo at left, the Renegades drum and bugle corps sponsored by Godreau-McMahon Post 91, Moosup, marches down State street in yesterday's American Legion street parade. In center photo, Windsor Locks Poppy Queen. Calhy BranfleM (right) and American Legion Auxiliary "Miss Poppy" Lauren Swayze, of Windsor Locks, wave and smile at spectators. In photo at right, two younger Legionnaires and adults from George Alfred Smith Post 74 in Fairfield take part in the parade.

VFW District Chief Wins High National Award KANSAS CITY, The Commander of District No. 1 the Department of Connecticu Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States has been chosen to receive the highest honor awarded by the Natinal organization. Stanley G. Powell. 289 Pearl Harbor stret, Brdgeport, was named All- American Dis- Commander for his outstanding record of increasing V.F.W.

membership within his district and promoting all other srograms sponsored by the National organization. Of the 589 V.F.W. Districts, cmly 23 District Commanders were selected for this highest honor. V.F.W. Commander in Chie lerbert Rainwater commented 'This year the V.F.W.

acheived new heights in membership, rea ching nearly 1,7000,000 for a new all-time high. This could only be he result of hard work, dedica- ion and enthusiasm by such members as Commander Powell Membership sustains the organ! N.Y. Oil Slick To Be Countered With Chemicals NEW YORK (AP) The U.S. Lack of Work Forces Men Into the Army By GENE CARLSON WASHINGTON (UPI) If you think business is bad all over, you haven't talked to an Army recruiter. Despite record public disenchantment with the Vietnam war, young men still are volunteering for the military in sufficient numbers to keep smiles on the faces of recruiting sergeants.

The primary reason, according to a UPI nationwide poll, is clearly the lackluster state of the, U. S. economy. Out of school and with no job prospects, young men are turning the military as their employer of last resort. There are other factors: The prospect of better pay for first- r'ear enlisted men, guaranteed European duty and the chance to learn a skill.

The Army's intensive advertising campaign also has paid off. Curiously, the temporary suspension of the draft apparent- Wizard Say, With Sendin By MARGO HARAKAS POMPANO BEACH, Fla. (AP) Chances are if there's a witch living on your block, you won't even know it. Modern witches don't race off to work on broom sticks or wear pointed hats. As a matter of fact, even your beautician could be a witch.

Frank Webb, a tall ethereal- looking man of 23, is an imaginative hairdresser and a bona fide wizard who practices white magic. Webb arrived at his philosophical stance through what he considers spiritual evolution. His mental wanderings took him from Christianity to atheism to Buddhism and finally to the Fire in Subway Prompts Check Of 650 Cars NEW YORK (AP) The state Metropolitan Transportation Authority ordered Saturday immediate equipment checks on 650 subway cars and a review of emergency evacation procedures in connection with a fire Witchcraft Recalling mysticism and magic of witchcraft. "I was brought up in a Christian home. Even as a small boy I was extremely religious'.

I was going to be a priest," he explains brushing back his long blond hair. But he began questioning the Christian dogma. "I started reading things in the Bible and I couldn't understand it. It just didn't make any sense to me. I went to another thing and decided maybe I should just believe in myself, which is a typical western outlook." He got into Zen Buddhism and found that for him it had a 'truer meaning for life." By ap- lying certain Buddhist transla- of Sanskrit terms to the Bible, he found the Bible became more meaningful to him.

'It takes on an entirely different perspective, 1 he says. Moving into the mystical realm is an exploration strictly orbidden by Christian and Judaic religions, notes Webb. And (elief in reincarnation, core element of witchcraft, is also anathema. Witchcraft is concerned primarily with sending out and calling back vibrations. Since, Concerned Vibrations cording to Webb, it is a process that continues until atonement has been reached.

He defines atonement as "basically learning everything that all the religions or philosophies teach. It's reaching Christhood." Then you return, he explains, only to help your fellow man. Since it's a progressive process, he does not believe people come back as lower forms of life. That would be reversing evolution. Webb thinks the present surge of interest in witchcraft is just a beginning, that there will be a peak in tie coming years when today's younger generation reaches adulthood.

To underscore his contention of a groundswell of interest he points to the increased selling of good luck charms and ouija boards even among older people. For those who play around with ouija boards, he warns, "You can call up evil spirits. The best thing to do is ask before you begin 'Are you in the light of Webb knows some people think he's odd. But it doesn't bother him. He feels science already is taking seriously some of the things he believes in, sucr ation's many programs, enabling is to bring communities where here are V.F.W.

Posts, activities vhich help make our nation a letter place in which to live." Stratford Detective Hospitalized STRATFORD--Detective Dougas Hakey, 44, of 11C5 Nichols venue, was taken to Bridgeport ospital by police with severe ains of the chest and neck. Police said Hakey had gone to ie office of his physician and vas stricken while a patient in the intensive ce. Police said Det. Hakey are unit of the hospital. He was eported in "fairly good" condi- on by hospital officials last foung Lords Return Disputed HQ The headquarters of the young ords, a militant Puerto Rican rganization, at 393 East Main treet, reopened yesterday after had been closed since May 20 'hen street disturbances erupt- on the East Side.

Milton Martir.ez, minister iformation of the Young Lords, ho announced the reopening aid, "we maintain that i ace is legally ours and we an't be barred from using it." Charges involving a a umber of persons arrested in ie disturbances are still pend- in court. Environmental Protection Agen-Jly has not affected the recruit- cy said Saturday that chemical dispersants would be poured into New York Harbor toe ay day to break up an oil slick that flooded onto Brooklyn beaches. The chemicals would be poured into Gravesend Bay in an effort to keep the oil from Brighton and Coney. Island beaches, an EPA spokesman said. Most of the oil had been cleared from the beaches by late Saturday.

Meanwhile directors of the clean-up operation on the beaches said the oil was a major spill but not a "catastrophe" and represented no threat to marine ecology. The Coney Island Chamber of Commerce said it would file a suit Tuesday in U.S. District vOurt in Brooklyn demanding that the Navy pay $1 million a day until the oil is removed from the beaches. A Navy tanker accidentally dumped 38,000 gallons of oil in ing picture. The Selective ser- Friday that trapped 1,000 rider vice has canceled its draft calls I i a smoke-filled IRT subwa.

for July and August the first! tunnel in Manhattan, zero draft in 10 years while Congress wrangles over a new two-year extension of the Selective Service act. Meanwhile, the military has lost authority to induct new recruits. Elm City Blaze Burns Couple; Wife Fatally NEW HAVEN, (UPI) A Stanford man was in fair i.n- dition and on the danger list Saturday with burns at Yale-New Haven Hospital resulting from a fire that swept through a second-floor apartment. John Schmidt, 62, and his wife, Helen, 58, were taken to the hospital following the blaze that heavily damaged their apartment in a wood frame building in Branford's downtown section Friday. Schmidt's wife died Friday the harbor Wednesday.

The night from burns. In a preliminary report, th' MTA said further "it does no appear" that firemen wer impeded in putting out the bluzt although MTA chairman Wil liam Ronan said fire official would be called in to discuss th' matter. Firemen earlier complainei that MTA personnel were in cutting off power in the tun nel to allow them to work. About 1,000 riders, swelterei in stalled subway cars, the: were evacuated in the muggy smoke-laden tunnels after th fire broke out in a tunnel of 14th Street. Twenty-five per sons were treated for smoke in halation.

It was estimated that anothe 19,000 persons were trapped in trains halted by the power shu toff. slick flowed across the beaches Thursday. Capt. Robert Reilly, commander of the Military Sea Lift Command at Bayonne, said the Navy would reimburse he city for costs of the cleanup. Crowds flocked to the beaches but were not allowed into the vater.

Naval reservists from New ersey and Floyd Bennett Field Brooklyn were scheduled to ake part in today's cleanup operation. So far, 1 city workers lave undertaken the job. Woman President? WASHINGTON (AP) Congresswoman Bella Abzug, cofounder of the National Women's Political Caucus, says the 1972 presidential race may be the last one without a woman contender. "Most of us in the organization feel we're not ready for a presidential candidate next; year," the New York Democratj said. Sunday Post ART AND ADMIRATION The second annual "East Bridgeport Expo," which ended yes- erday, featured sidewalk sales and art exhibits like Ihli one in closed section of East Main street in front of Skydel's department store and involved participation by nearly 50 retail merchants and service firms.

The three-day event was planned by the East Bridgeport Trade and Civic association. Ronan said an MTA inquiry which continued until 2 a.m Saturday, confirmed that th lire probably was caused by a short circuit touched off when a metal control box cover was dis lodged from an express train. He said all 650 subway cars fitted with similar equipmen would be checked to prevent a recurrence. On the basis of testimony from 14 witnesses, MTA investi gators said 10 minutes elapsed rom the time firemen request ed that power be shut off in the and the time the order vas effected at 9:25 a.m. "The time interval was employed by the trainmaster in the rerouting of several train! to permit them to be evacuated more rapidly and safely in stations," the report said.

"From the evidence thus far adduced, this procedure does not appear to have impeded the putting out of the fire, and it enabled great numbers of passengers to leave the trains more rapidly," it said. The -MTA said during the emergency, 16 out of 23 trains stalled in the tunnels were able to discharge their passengers at stations. Mayor John V. Lindsay said earlier Saturday that he had appointed a five-man panel to investigate the IRT fire and tc probe complaints by police and firemen concerning MTA emergency procedures. Purses Snatched From 2 Women Police last night were investigating the theft of handbags from two women in the East Side area yesterday.

Grace Stangrand, of 58 Crescent lacc, said her purse was snatched by a Negro youth as she walked along East Washington avenue, near Harriet street, Mary Guzwaski, of 179 Bunnell street, reported the loss of her pockctbook to a youth as she approached the front of her house. back to you somehow, some-, And whj he steers clear of blackl a have beeBn one acti ma 'tioner, today he finds himself among the company of artists, social workers, secretaries, teachers, engineers and others who have turned to the mysteries of witchcraft. magic. because he doesn't wa for the selfish gain of others, he is a private practitioner, shunning covens. The young man feels he can truly affect the course of events.

"I can cause things to occur," lie says. confidently. "I can cause" money or love to come to me. I have changed people's lives by sending out good vibrations. But there is a limit to the powers.

What has been specifically pre-determined cannot be changed, he says, even though the spirit of each individual lays out his own master plan for life. According to Buddhism and Webb's personal beliefs, there is a silver cord that attaches the spiritual self to the physical aody. The two become detached only at death. "When you die, spiritual self rises to the iall of Memory," he explains. "Here's where you review your last life.

You're your own worst judge. You are on a higher )lane of existence now, so r-ou're very fair. You then set up your next birth. You choose four parents, your place of irth, your sex and color." Since the spirit or soul lives on, in one form or another, we lever cease-to exist, maintains Webb. "The soul holds knowledge and love.

It is the only hing that lives after death." We are reborn or reincarnated to learn specific lessons. Ac- Lightning Storm Brings Power Cuts Lightning struck power lines at three locations in the Bridgeport area last night, cutting off electricity to more than 1,650 customers of the United Illuminating company for several hours. The lightning strikes a shortly after 7 o'clock, blacking out about 900 homes in the north end near Dunigan school; 755 homes in north Stratford near Oronoque road, and 34 homes in Easton near Rockhouse rqad. A spokesman for UI said power was restored to the north Stratford area shortly after 8 o'clock. Power to all but 31 homes in Bridgeport was returned by 9:13 o'clock, and the remaining homes were expected to have power restored by midnight.

Power to the 34 homes in Easton, where lightning brought a tree down across a utility line, was expected to be restored by 11 o'clock, a company spokesman said. The life of a U.S. $1 bill is about 18 months. DISPENSING THE HOT DOGS 'SjS owner of Season's drive-In which opened yesterday it 1178 Stratford road, Stratford, provides for Nick Pan- uzio, left, and Stratford Town Manager Joseph Venables. drive-In specialize! la hot dogs, hintarfera ud Pint lUca..