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A-11 BRIDGEPORT SUNDAY POST, January 21, 1973 McGovern Takes London Nap as Nixon Gets Oath LONDON (AP) -George McGovern, 4.CHK! Sen. miles Bway from the Washington ceremony (hat could have been his own, was asleep in London as Kichard M. Nixon took his presidential oath Saturday. 'I was having a nap," McGovern (old a newsman as he arrived at London's famous Convent Garden for a ballet at the Royal Opera House. McGovern began Nixon's big day with a visit to a museum accompanied by his wife Kicanor.

Then after giving a Itincft Iff a number of British newspaper executives, Ihe McGoverns returned briefly to overlooking Hyde hired Ihclr 'ark. hotel They a private cur and left for en undisclosed destination. "We have no idea where Sen. McGovern is or when ho will b(! back." a hotel spokesman said ot Ibi time, "lie has just Attend Ballet Four and a half hours later the McGoverns turned up in limousine al the Royal Opera House lo watch the ballet featuring Rudolf 'Nuroycv and Margot Fontcyn. As the South Dakota Democrat was walking through Ihe main entrance he was asked: "Senator, what were you doing at 5 o'clock this afternoon?" "I was having a nap," McGovern replied with a grin.

it was 5 o'clock in Britain Nixon took his presidential oath. Asked if he had watched any of (he inauguration ceremony, which was transmitted live on television by the British. Erontl- casl'ng Corp; McGovern replied: "I did not." The defeated Democratic presidential candidate and his wife spent much of the morning at the Victoria and Albert Mu- eum, a va.st collection of art works, antiques, furniture and costumes. At the subsequent luncheon, according to guest Louis Ilercn, deputy editor of The Times and 'ts former Washington correspondent, McGovern seemed "basically In good spirits, resigned and philosophical about his defeat, but depressed about conditions in the United States." The only mention that this was inauguration day was a brief one when McGovern asked his guests if the Washington ceremony was being televised litre. Comments On Campaign Ilercn said McGovern was asked "what went wrong" In his campaign, said thai the and the senator Democrats had been hurt by the large of prcconvenlion candidates for the nomination, and Ihe party hpd not really been united after the convention.

McGovern was asked If he thinking ahead lo ihe next presidential race in 1978 the McGOVERNS IN LONDON Unidentified official, right, welcomes Sen. and Mrs. "George McGovern lo London's Covent Garden to attend a ballet at the Royal Opera House Saturday. senator replied, according (o "right now he was of 107 1074 when he must I thinking seek re-election to the Senate, that ho was not planning 4o seek the presidency again." Ilercn said McGovern felt he would have a tough baltle In South Dakota for re-election lo the Senate, especially following his defeat in ihe presidential election. Stale to Issue Refunds, Bypass Gains Tax Credits Young Legislators See Youth Ties Lesser Role HARTFORD (AP) Tax- aycrs won'l he allowed lo ap- ly on this year's tax return ny refund due them from the ax they paid lest year on long crm capital gains, says state "ax Commissioner F.

George 3rown. All taxpayers who slill have rc- unds coming (o Ihem will he aid by check, lirown said Sat- irday, adding that his dcpart- nent has hired additional icople to speed up the process, "The large number of in- 3uirlcs we have had concerning he capita! gains and dividends Dx clearly shows that many people arc already confused ibout the tax and the refunds in the long lerm capilal gains axes paid last year," sniil Irown. "We feel it would only create more confusion lo allow layers lo take a credit if they haven't received their check when they file Ihis year's return," he said. would also a administrative problems." The slate Supreme Court ruled last year lhat the state could collect Ihe capital ax on only 50 per cent nf the rather a 100 per ccnl. The slalc was ordered tn re- 'und amounts over the 50 per cent level.

Brown repented a Ihe re- funds arc owed only to people who paid a lox lasl year on long lerm cpital gains, and Ihul no is coming lo Ihose who paid taxes only on dividends or short term gains. The rclund amount, in mosl instances, does not work out to bo exaclly half the amount of lax pjaid because of HID exemption formula use to compute the lax, lie said. annnounccd that forms for paying the capilal gains and dividends tax this year were being mailed to taxpayers who filed a capital gains and dividends return test year. lie said Ihcy will also be made available at other places in Ihe stale Ihis week. The deadline for paying the capital gains and dividend taxes for 1972 is April 15, he said.

Mrs. Morton Files Bill On Holiday for Dr. King: HARTFORD A proposal to make Jan. 15 a legal stale holiday in honor of Ihe lale Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

has been filed in the General Assembly by Slate Rep. Margaret Morton, D-Bridgcport. A similar mca sure was vetoed by Gov. Thomas J. Meskill in 1371.

Rep. Morton, Ihe lirst black woman in the state (o serve in the Assembly, said enactment the bill "would have Iremen i i i TM il.n holiday observed in the state during the ycsr. Rep. Morion's bill has referred lo the General a commillee. Sarasin Pushes Pica For Added Fuel Oil WASHINGTON Rep.

Ronald not only the stale's black children who need the boost, also upon the morale of all state residents." She said Connecticut lias an opportunity to be a jump ahead the of nation by declaring Dr. King's birthday a slalc holiday "because Congress may make this a national holiday." Slic said passage of Hie mca sure by Ihe legislature would also allow Governor Meskill an other chance lo act on it. This is the third consecutive regular Assembly i in which a bill designate Jan. a state holiday has been raised In 1D71 aflcr passage of a siin ilar i by both Asscmbl chambers, Governor Mcskii vetoed the measure, saying tha another a holiday in thi stale would mean loss lo the slate of nearly 51.3 million per year in "lost productivity." He conceded at the time tha following his takeover of governor's office after his election he had said he would sign such a. bill if the legislature enacted it.

Another measure designating Jan. 15 as a holiday was approved by a one vole margin in the Stale Senate last session but died in the House when it was recommitted to commillee aflcr Republican legislators proleslcd the measure on grounds a Government Meskill had vetocc the measure in 1971. Jan. 15 is already observed in Connecticut as "Martin Lulher called ycslcrday on the Nixon administration, regulatory agencies ami Congress lo lako. "Whatever sleps arc required" to alleviate worsening fuel n.ilural gns crisis in oil a Connecticut anil other parls of Ihe country." lie also said that he was in sponsorship with several other congressmen of a bill lhat would permanently terminate the oil import conlrol program.

'Hie present import quota system denies New England in particular Hie benefit of more abundant foreign oil, he asserted. Congressman Sarasin commended (he actions taken thus far by Ihe President in increas- inR the quolas and temporarily suspending the controls on No 2 heating oil, but said that further action ise needed. By JEFFREY T. WILLIAMSON HARTFORD three youngest members of the Connecticut legislature, they're 23, 23, 24, a 25-ycars-old, believe slronuly in their own youlh, but just don't sec themselves as representatives of the younger generation. "I never played the youlh bit.

We had a very hard lime even gelling six or seven kids together al campaign headquarters," says 25-year-old Paul A. Siladi a new House member 'rom Slamfortl who, despite his feels he osvcs no polilico' debt to young people or to Ihe principle of radical change many huvc come to represent. Rep. Siladi is Republican, the traditionally older membership parly, and comes from what he calls a conservative dislricl, hut he's not the only young freshman in (he General Assembly Ihis ycnr eager to he mown as a man for all seasons, ralher lhan spokesman for youth or drastic reform. According to Rep.

Siladi, if youth is lo be Inlkcil about at all in polilics, It should be con nectcd with physical energy md forcefulness, not ideology. During his campaign, he says ic Iried lo make lhat crmnec- ion in voters' minds by jersonally going from door to door while his opponent, a man over GO, sent out literature from his headquarters. Rep. Siladi plans supporl cgislation which he Ihmks will benefit all segments of his constituency, which he labels as "very with large percentages of "'talian, Polish and risli voters." 113s top priority issue is the replacement of the twin-span bridge in Stamford that carries Courlland avenue over Ihe Penn Central tracks near the Glcnbrook railroad station. Recently, he filed a bill in Ihe legislature calling for SI million lo pay for a new bridge.

Specific legislative proposals like Ihe bridge replacement, cleaning up Holly pond and cleaning the Norolon river seem lo lake precedence for Rep. Siladi. He says neither he nor his constituency want big political reform. "I'm a moderate, I would like change some aspects of the system, but 1 think government moving in the right direction," he adds. Follows Moderate Line Another freshman legislator who seems lo have no intcnlion of coining on as a young radical is Rep.

Mark S. DeFrancesco, an East Haven Republican. Rep. DeFrancesco, who is 23, says the people in his "predom- iitcntly middle-class district Iriist him, and he has no intention of betraying Ihem by hard-working young man to good effect. "One of my greatest assets (during the campaign) was just being young," he says.

But as far as proposed legis- ation aimed specifically at youth. Rep. DeFrancesco a has none. As wilh Rep. Siladi, Meskill to Ask Assembly Bill On Safety Glass HARTFORD (AP) Gov.

Thomas J. Meskill has asked General. Assembly to pass egislation requiring safety glass or plastic in -locations such the most important bills to him are small ones, aimed at making specific improvements in his district, such as widening a and installing stoplights, he says. While Siladi is married, Rep. DeFrancesco is a bachelor, so statistically he is in a very small minority in (he House, but he says he doesn't feel out of place, either lor that or his youth.

Rep. J. Martin Hennessey of -Vethersfieltl is young loo, only 2-1, and he has a clean-cut, well- scrubbed look lhat makes him sland out among a group of legislator's whose average" age is over 45. But he says he's no spokesman for the younger generation, either. Broke In on GOP In fact, he gives most of the credit for his election in November as the first Democrat from the Wethersfield Newington district to old-line Democratic party members who supported, in his words, "a well-balanced campaign" that reflected the desires of a "typical suburban town." Rep.

Hennessey's familiarity with established Democrats in the Wetherslield area derives from his family: The Ilonnes- scys have longtime political interests, dating from a great- great uncle who was selectman storm doors, palio doors and bath tub and shower enclosures. Meskill said Saturday that a survey of several state hospitals reveals "numerous injuries, especially to children who walk into and shatter glass presently used in these locations." Some 350 admissions to the emergency room at St. Mary's Hospital in Waterbury were attributed to Ihis cause, he said. Bristol Hospital reported treating 40 50 patients annually for such injuries, Day Kimbail Hospital in Putnam reported 30 such injuries and Winsted Memorial Hospital 18, Meskill said. "I am sure Guida Sees Cuts Coming For Cities NEW HAVEN (AP)--An apparent attack by the Nixon administration on sources of federal funding to municipalities threatens cities across the nation with an unprecedented fiscal crisis, New Haven Mayor Bartholomew Guida said Saturday.

Guida's comments came in a telephone interview from Wash ington, where he has spent several days attending briefings on urban Issues conducted by fed' eral officials. Categorical federal grants set for specific projects are "defmitefy being threat ened," Guida said. "Based on what we a road signs are pointing to rather tough times and pessimistic forecasts for any programs founded 1 categorical grants." He said he believed the ad ministration aims to phase ou Ihe Emergency Employmen Act job program, which ha provided temporary publi service employment for thi past years in areas affectet by high Joblessness. He also ex pressed concern over the sur vival of (he Public Employmen Program (PEP). Nixon Budget Awaited Guida said that at the brie ings, administration official declined to discuss specifics especially amounts, ot up coming grants.

He said the off cials were awaiting Presiden Nixon's unveiling of his pro posed budget for the 1973-74 fi cal year. i a acknowledged a cities will be receiving additioi al money from the federal go 1 crnment in the form of revi. nuts-sharing funds. But he sa mayors at the briefings iieved it was also "imperativ (current) vital program be neilher cut off nor dimii swerving from the lines" they expect. "moderate Like Rep.

Rep. DeFrancesco campaigned in November against a man in his sixties and used his image as a vigorous. King Day" each year under leg islation enacted by the Asscm bly in 1969, but jt is not a lega holiday. Presently there are Assembly Session Slated Wednesday HARTFORD The House and Senate of the slate legislature aro scheduled to meet in regular session on Wednesday at 2 p.m. A short calendar is anlicipatcrt in each house.

Committees, however, have full week of hearings reserved specifically for fellow lawmakers who want lo testify on proposed legislation. These sessions are reserved under new rules for exclusive testimony by legislators in order to relieve the committees of the nScossily of hearing lawmakers when they open public on various bills. of Ncwingtoti in 1913, up to freshman representative's mother, Mrs." Rita Hennessey', who is a permanent assistant tc the Senate clerk. So.far, the only event a has singled Rep. Hennessey out as a young politician was a casual remark to a newsman that he might have to apply for food stamps because the legislative compensation hike to $6,500 a year has been cut back by the Federal Pay board.

Rep. Hennessey, a bachelor, had quit his job as an insurance representative to devote time to the legislature, anticipating the pay raise. He says he did not consider his too, well when lie made the food stamps comment .0 the newsman. "You've got to a great deal more cautious about what you say and how you say i than I ever This seems lo sum up the general attitude of all three of the young freshman lawmakers. Veterans Day Date Hearing- This Week HARTFORD The Controversial topic of the date for observing Veterans Day in Connecticut is the subject of the legislature's only scheduled public hearing this week.

The General Law committee, under the chairmanship of Sen. Stanley Page, R-Guilford, and Rep. Howard A. Newman, R-Npr- walk, will conduct the hearing Wednesday, beginning at 10 a.m. in the Hall of the House at the Slate Capitol.

Veterans groups and others are backing a measure which would return the observance of Veterans Day to Nov. 11, the official day of the armistice that ended World War I. Veterans Day is now observed in most slates on the fourth Monday in October, but many groups "nd individuals feel that the day lacks meaning lo veterans and their families. The holiday is observed on Nov. in the states of Massachusetts, Louisiana, South Dakota and Wis cousin.

that a survey all Connecticut hospitals would reveal a similarly high incidence of such injuries," Meskill said. "This is one area whereVwe can totally eliminate a serious hazard and I hope we will dqfit." The (governor said, that more than lOO of a reported 250,000 injuries annually from shattered glass nationwide result in deaths. "We must act now to guard our Connecticut residents, part i a against their ished. "The need now is to bett fund those programs that hav shown themselves to be effc live, and neither the fcder government nor we can affb lo have them cut back," Guidr said. GuMa a i that federal ol cials expressed the attitui that nation's economic mate is better than when tl programs were initiated an lhat therefore some of the pr grams should be phased out He said, however, that he peeled federal commitmen For the redevelopment of Ni Haven's Fairttaven arid areas to be honored.

lorse Owners See Higher Take'in Track Than OTB By HERBERT F. GF.LLER WOODBURY A spokesman Connecticut horse owners ed figures yesterday which said prove that the state ould get than hall as uch in revenue from off-track tting as it would receive if a ce track is built here. James A. Tyler, president ot Connecticut Thoroughbred wners association, estimated at the state would receive bout J4 million a year in re- through OTB while a ood race track could produce 1,347,500 per yesr in revenue. About JS million of the money at could go to the state would collected instead by the con- acting firm that would opor- to the theater type betting par- rs that the State Commission Special Revenue would like operate in Connecticut, Mr, yler contends.

The president of the horse wners association, in conjunc on with two other groups rep esenting the Connecticut horst nduslry, is waging a campaign get the legislature to prohibi 10 operation of OTB -until i ace track is established in the fate. The horse owners compilei igures, Mr. Tyler said, which rove their contention that th resent plan to establish OTB In 'onnecticut this year would re ult only in enriching the pro psed contractor and not in pro iding additional revenue fo he state treasury. Mr. Tyler said the horse own rs have estimated that a race rack which would operate -24 days of thoroughbred racin and 51 days of harness racin per year would take in a lota if $226,950,000 per year.

The to al estimated amount receive rom off-track betting would about $100 million per year. Estimates Given If a race track is built here he slate could take in about per cent of the $226,950,001) i revenue ($11,347,500) while additional 12 per cent would the track and for purses for inning horses. If OTB Instituted, the state ould take in about 4 per cent ith 6 per cent going to the con- ractor and an additional 7 per ent going to pay New York acetracks and horseowners for he right to use New York rac- ng results for Connecticut OTB, Mr. Tyler said. The 17 per cent ake is estimated by the slate pccial revenue commission, The Thoroughbred Owners as pciation, the Breeders associa- on and the Connecticut Horse Council have sponsored legisla- ion which would forbid OTB in he state until a race track is stablished.

This would do away yjth the need to purchase New York racing results, Mr. Tyler jointed out. The horse owners are also that off-track belling be trictly a state operation with no contractor admitted to a of the betting take. Instead, the legislation asks hat in both en-track and off rack betting a total of 15 pe cent and not 17 per cent be taken rom the betting handle. Of thi amount, 5 per cent would go he state; 2 per cent to th track, 2 per cent fo urses, one half per cent to th' horoughbred breeders fund an one quarter per cent each fo -he pension fund and for agr cultural and equine research.

The legislation was introduce by State Sens. John Zisk, New Britain, and William Stra da, D-Stamford, and Rep. Gor don Vaill, R-Kent. Mr. Tyler pointed out that th Connecticut horse industry now a $10 million a year bus is and with a race track could grow to a $25 million bus ness and provide 2,000 to 3,00 jobs.

He believes the legislatur and the other leaders of th state should think carefull about all the facts before Co necticut commits itself what iiiinks could be disastrou OTB operation." Teachers Get New Pay Bid Chicago Case of Missing State Securities Causes Arrest of Man in Haftforc HARTFORD (AP)--Walter B. Frederick Jr. of Harlford was held on $20,000 bail Saturday in connection with the disappearance of securities from office, the state comptroller's state police said. Frederick was arrested Friday a'nd charged with forgery and larceny by receipt of stolen property. Troopers said Frederick was not a state employe and that his occupation was unknown.

Police said they found worth of securities In Fre crick's Tower avenue apar ment and that the serial nui bet-a on the securities match' those on securities report missing from the comptroller office. Police believed the securiti were 'stolen between early vember and early Decemb last year. aturday offered its 25.000 strik- teachers ihe 'TM' and a tia cent pay hike they had been sking, but there was no pro- -ess in teachers' strike in Phil- delphia, or Superior, Wis. ikelihrrd of a teachers strike St. Louis increased.

The Chicago school board of- was part of an effort to end teachers strike, which start- Jan. ID, by Tuesday. If class- i are not operating for the ty's 558,000 public school slu- ents by then, the School board ould have to extend the school ear in June or lose state aid or not having schools open Ihe equired 177 days. Negotiators for the Chicago eachers Union went into CBU- us immediately after receiving he offer and their president, lobert M. Kealey, told report- rs, "the collective bargaining rocess seems to be moving gain." The board proposal, while of- ering teachers the pay a i they had asked, rejected union emands for a shortened school 'ear, holiday pay for substitute eachers and the hiring of sub- tilute school clerks.

Friday the union negotiators rejected a board offer which vould have decreased class size 50 more schools, thereby ex- ending limits on classroom size 500 of the city's 650 elemen- and high schools. a offer would have left teachers salaries at their present level, Which ranked with those of New York public school teachers as he highest in the country when negotiations began. In St. Louis, prospects 'for the lirst teachers strike in the his- lory of the city's public schools Increased Saturday. A meeting between the Board of Education and two teachers organizations ended with each side blaming the other for the impasse.

The two organizations, representing about half of the city's 4.000 teachers, planned a strike vote this afternoon. If the strike is approved, union leaders will urge that it begin Monday. Philadelphia i which completed its second week Friday, continued with no end in sight. There was no word on when negotiations, which broke off Friday, would resume, and executives of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers faced a judicial decision Monday on their request lor separate jury trials for all 27 members of the executive board charged with contempt of court for jg- Ofttcers released no other in- noring a court back-to-work or- youngsters, exuberance and enthusiasm," Meskill said. our own "Our laws should be promptly changed to require safety glass or plastic in these dangerous lo- i Governor Draws New Bailey Blast HARTFORD (AP) Demo- cralic State Chairman John M.

Bailey says the priorities in austerities Thomas J. chosen by Gov. Meskill have been "strange indeed." "We have seen the governor turn his back on those thousands of people who need bus ervice," Bailey said Saturday a statement. "We see him allow institutional care to decline," 3aiiey said. "We saw him velo ax reduction bills lo which tlu leoplo were clearly entitled We sec him also building a per sonal bureaucracy of high-pait political favorites at taxpayer's expense." Bailey rcileraled often-made charges that Meskill's austerity program has caused a dcteriora lion of service at state in slitulions.

Meskill has said tha rather than a decline, services have been improved under hi: Republican adminislration. "It is shameful lhat in his ob sessive o.uest for a budget sur plus Gov. Meskill has caused care, treatment and training programs at our stale in stilulions lo deleriorate," Bail cy said. "A budget surplus maj help the governor's ego but is i worth a reduction in care fo institutional patients? 1 Bailey said staff cutback, and a general deterioration ir the quality of training pro grams at Connecticut Valle- hospital "have threatened national accreditation of the in slilulion as a training hospila for phychialrisls." REP. PAUL A.

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