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WEATHER FORECAST U.S. Weather Bureau Predicts! Cloudy, Warm Tonight Sunny, Hot Friday THE BRIDGEPORT POST COUNTY EDITION With Fairfleld County News VOL. LXXXVI, NO. 166 Published Dolly at 410 Stale Conn. 06602 BRIDGEPORT, THURSDAY, 17, 1969.

Paid at Bridgeport, Conn. FOUR SECTIONS Rioters Burn Car in Youngstown (Continued on Page Two) Weather Data BRIDGEPORT AND VICINITY --Today, sunny, hot and humid; high in 90s inland and near 90 on shore. Tonight, partly cloudy and warm; low near 70. Tomorrow, partly sunny, continued hot and humid, chance of afternoon or evening scattered thundershowers; high in 90s inland, 85 90 onshore. Probabilities of precipitation: 10 per cent today and tonight, 30 per cent tomorrow.

LONG ISLAND SOUND--Southwesterly winds 10 to 20 mph during day, about 10 mph tonight. Visibility five miles today and tomorrow, lowering to one to three miles tomorrow morning. TEMPERATURE (Municipal Airport Readings) low Today 72 Highest Yesterday 91 Lowest Yesterday 68 Highest (July 16, 1968) .10 Lowest (July 16, 1968) Harbor Water Temperature 69 PRECIPITATION Today (12 hours to 8 a.m. 0.00 For Month 1.09 1969 tn Date 17.64 Barometer (11 a.m. reading) 30.03 Humidity (11 a.m.

reading) SUN, MOON AND STARS Thursday, July 17 One hundred and ninety eighth day of the year. Twenty seventh day of summer. The Sun sets today at 8:23 p.m. and rises tomorrow at 5:35 a.m. The Moon sets tonight at o'clock.

This week -the planet, Jupiter, Is again appearing near Uranus, a planet only seen in a telescope. Tonight Jupiter will be 5-10 million miles from the earth. Uranus is well over a billion miles beyond Jupiter. THE TIDE Today 1:30 a.m. 2:06 p.m.

7:54 a.m. 8:12 p.m. High Low Tomorrow 2:12 a.m. 2:42 p.m. 8:30 a.m.

8:54 p.m. Bakery Is Fire-Bombed; Two Employes Injured The Richelsoph bakery at 42 Gilmore street was lire-bombed last night at 10:05 o'clock, and two bakers were injured, one seriously, in the second night of violence in the East' Side area. Police Patrols 'Beefed Up' The bakery incident occurred as "beefed-up" police patrols kept watch over the lower East Side area where gasoline fire-bombings and rock-throwing occurred Tuesday night and early Wednesday. In the earlier wave of fire- bombings, two stores and fix PALMER BLASTS 2 IN MILFORD AP Wirepiioto A mob of Negroes set fire to this car early this morning after they intercepted it on the South Side of Youngstown, Ohio. They overturned it and set it afire.

The owner, Gaeton Mercoux, 24, of Youngstown, was hurt as he fled. TROOPTiOVE INTO OHIO CITY 8 Injured, 13 Arrested in Second Night of Youngstown Rioting YOUNGSTOWN. Ohio (AP) -Hiot equipped police--backed by ISO National Guard troops- were ordered into a South Side area after sniper fire and fire bombings broke out for a second straight night. Eight persons were injured and 13 arrested before shotgun- and rifle-carrying police using tear gas restored order early today. The racial violence began in a two-biock area and spread over 10 blocks of the racially mixed neighborhood.

Those taken into custody were charged with resisting arrest, curfew violations and suspicious conduct. Gov. James A. Rhodes, contacted at the White House where he was attending a dinner, ordered the Guardsmen into the area to help police protect cleanup crews. The trouble began in the same area where disturbances erupted in April 1968.

The injured included one policeman and a fireman hurt by flying glass, another policeman injured by a thrown rock, two men beaten after their cars were set afire, a woman driver hit by a brick, and drug store owner Ralph White 49, who said he was hit by a brick after stamping out a firebomb at his store. Authorities said three fires were set. An 11:55 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew ears were set afire in the nearby Father Panik village housing project area and firefighters and policemen were attacked by roving gangs of Negro youths.

Four arrests were made. Two persons ran from the area of the bakery after the firebombing, witnesses told police. Police last night question several persons, but made no arrests. Clothing Ignited Fire officials said James Mavara, 32, of 170 Lincoln avenue, an employe, was standing near a doorway in the bakery when a blazing pail of gasoline was thrown into the building, igniting his clothing. Another employe, Frank Turechek, 63, of 150 Meadowlawn road, Stratford, received burns of the hands when he attempted to rip off Mr.

Mavara's blazing clothing. Mr. Turechek then threw water on the baker to extinguish the flames. Mr. Turechek said: All I know I saw him running towards me in a sheet of fire, hollering for help.

When I tried to rip off its clothing, I got burned so I ran to a sink aid threw water on him." Mr. Mavera was taken to Bridgeport hospital in the Emergency ambulance and was re- Dorted in "fair" condition today. He is under treatment for severe jurns of both legs and arms. Police said Mr. Turechek was treated at the hospital and re- eased.

Baker Damaged The firebomb also caused damage to the ceiling and flooring in the bakery and scorched a nearby dough-making machine and bakery products, fire officials said. Firefighters, under the diection of Assistant Fire Chief Felix P. Curci, extinguished the blaze. Damage was described by fire officials as "moderate." Louis Greenberg, secretary- treasurer of the bakery firm, said the fire did not curtail operations. Dough for nearly 5,000 rolls was scorched.

The damage to the dough-making machine, valued at $65,000, not determined, pending an inspection by technicians from the manufacturing firm later today. Health department inspectors were scheduled to make a check of the bakery for possible food spoilage. Six other employes in the build- (Continued on Page Two) VAN CLIBURN PLAYS AT STADIUM TONIGHT Internationally-famed Van Cliburn, the who sky-rocketed to prominence in the music world after he was acclaimed in Moscow, will appear at Kennedy stadium tonight at 8 o'clock. He will play in concert with the Washington National Symphony orchestra. The program sponsored by the City of Bridgeport as part of a summer culture series.

Tickets will be available tonight at the stadium gates. GOP Chairman Claims Conflict of Interest by Officials in Housing Profits M1LFORD --Two city officials today were charged with conflict of interests by Republican town chairman Richard who also claimed 0. Palmer, that Mayor Alan H. Jepson has known about the charge and in fact "tried to cover up a police investigation into it." In a prepared statement, Mr. Palmer said Eugene Mario, chairman of the Milford Housing authority and City Attorney Robert Kapusta, both Democrats, used their positions to reap profits through rental of dwellings to the Housing Authority.

He said there may be other city officials involved and hinted that a GOP probe into the matter is continuing. Mayor Jepson, when contacted late yesterday, declined comment "uniii I can study the charges in detail." He said he would not consider taking any action pending his review of the accusations. Mr. Palmer said the dealings are "an obvious case of conflict of interest by city officials" and he said that Mayor Jepson "has been aware of the situation but has kept silent." As far back as three months ago Mayor Jepson was made aware of the circumstances and apparently thought it was serious enough to request a police investigation," Mr. Palmer said.

"Since that time the mayor has maintained a lid of secrecy on this situation," he said. Demands Disclosure Mr. Palmer demanded that Mayor Jepson disclose all the facts in the case, including complete disclosures of any investigative reports by any agency, local, state or national. Specifically, Mr. Palmer said he has been informed that properties owned by firms established by the Kapusta and Mario families are being leased to the Housing Authority.

He said the Kapusta holdings are under the name of the Fidelity Investment Corporation. He said the address of the corporation, according to papers filed with the secretary of state, is 10 Flax Mill lane, the home address of the city attorney. "From the information I have been able to obtain," Mr. Palmer said, "the Kapusta properties rented to Hie Housing Authority have a total income ol more than $1,200 a month. The GOP chairman said the Mario family owns property through Kroy Associates that is leased to the Housing Authority.

Henry Scopp, Executive director of the MHA, refused to disclose the exact amount paid to either firm, saying only that he would not release the information unless told he must do so by the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. In his statement, Mr. Palmer said," the practice of city officials profiting through business dealings with the city is highly questionable conduct." "If nothing more," he said, "it is improper conduct for city (Continued on Page Two) ASTRONAUTS SOAR PAST HALF WAY MARK IN ALMOST FLAWLESS DASH FOR MOON COUNCIL FIRM ON EAST SIDE HOUSING PLAN Model Cities Unit Reaffirms Stand Against Including Industry DIFFERS WITH CITY Conference Fails to Resolve Decision-Making Issue The Model Cities Planning council last night reaffirmed its stand that the lower East Side revedelop- ment project should be all residential, without industry. At its meeting in the Model Cities offices at Pembroke street and Crescent avenue, the Planning council voted to send a letter to that effect to the city's Redevelopment agency. Area Covers 234 Acres The agency's draft of a plan for neighborhood renewal in the 234- acre area the same section on which the Model Cities program focuses calls for residential development in most of the area jut would provide for concen- rating industry in a 44-acre sec- ion south of the Connecticut turnpike.

Agency officials noted when the plan was made public last week, lowever, that the proposed industrial use was subject to change, along with other elements of the plan. Despite a private conference yesterday between city commun- ty development officials and Model Cities representatives, and ast night's Model Cities council meeting, it appeared that questions still exist in regard to the power relationship between the city administration and the Model Cities organization. Issue Raised Again Residents have been told all along that decisions involving changes in the Model Cities neighborhood will be made by them, but then again they have been told by Joseph Dearborn, community development administrator, on more than one occasion that the final power to make such decisions resides at City Hall. Under pressure from residents registering strong dissatisfaction with the administration's recent handling of a renewal plan for the Model Cities area, the decision- making question was brought out in the open again yesterday. Although the community development director apologized for the way the city publicly released its renewal plan without consultation with the Planning council, and promised that it won't happen again and that the final plan won't be submitted to the Federal government until there is mutual (Continued on Page Two) COAST GUARD PICKS UP FIVE CUBAN REFUGEES MIAMI (UPI) Five Cuban refugees picked up by the Coast Guard on a life raft close to the north coast.

of Cuba Wednesday have requested asylum in the United States. Ths men attracted the attention of an Airiift International plane with mirrors and water dyes. The plan, which flies daily to Cuba to pick up refugees released by the Castro regime, ra dioed the Coast Guard and circled the raft until a Coast Guard helicopter arrived from Key West. Luna in Moon Orbit, Landing Try Is Seen JODRELL BANK, England (AP) The Soviet Luna 15 probe rocketed into orbit around the moon today. Jodrell Bank astronomers said they expected an attempt to land the unmanned craft on the moon by Friday morning.

Elliptical Orbit Observatory director Sir Bernard Lovell said Luna 15 was in an elliptical orbit almost exactly two hours long and 600 to 1,200 miles above the moon. He added after checking his big radio telescope, the West's main listening post for Luna 15 since it was launched Sunday, that it was sending back "heaps" of data. The official Soviet news agency Tass said in Moscow that Luna 15 today "became another in the series of Soviet lunar satellites." The wording of the announce- ment was interpreted in the Russian capital as a strong implication that Luna 15 would stay in orbit and not attempt a landing to return moon soil to earth. Sir Bernard said he did not believe this. "It simply doesn't make sense to create another lunar satellite at this stage of the Soviet program," Lovell declared.

"In my opinion, this is not the end of the exercise but probably the beginning," he added. "I think it will stay in orbit proba- (Continued on Page Two) Plan Pushed on Takeover Of Service to Commuters A takeover of commuter operations on the Penn Central's. New Haven division, by -the Metropolitan Transit Authority in New York was reported in prospect today. The takeover also would include the Harlem and Hudson divisions of the rai road. HANOI REPEAL VOTE REJECTION Brushes Off Vietnam, U.

S. Appeal for Thieu's Proposal PARIS (AP) North Vietnam brushed off appeals from South Vietnam and the United States today and repeated its rejection of President Nguyen Van Thieu's proposal for the Viet Cong to 'compete with his regime in internationally supervised elections. North Vietnamese delegate Xuan Thuy told the 26th session of the Vietnam peace talks that Thieu's proposal "would lead to elections under the bayonets of American troops organiztd and controlled by the puppet administration which could only create a new puppet regime paid for by the United States." South Vietnamese delegate Pham Dang Lam formally submitted Thieu's plan to the conference and called on the Hanoi and Viet Cong delegations to reconsider their "premature" rejection expressed in public statements earlier this week. Lodge Asks Delegates U.S. negotiator Henry Cabot Lodge also asked the two delegations to take a second look at Thieu's plan.

But Thuy repeated Hanoi's contention that "as long as American troops occupy South Vietnam, its population cannot have truly free or democratic elections without foreign interference." Thuy referred sarcastically to President Nixon's warm endorsement of Thieu's plan, commenting: "A mother always applauds when her offspring sings." Thuy accused the United States and its "agents" in South the free elections that should have been held in South Vietnam in 1956 under the 1954 Geneva agreements. He cited the late President Dwight D. Eisenhower's mem- (Continued on Page Two) Meanwhile, Sen. Abraham Ribi- coff, reported that he las assurances from Secretary of Transportation John Volpe that a long delayed $28.4 million federal grant to the railroad will awarded "in the very near future." In regard to a takeover of commuter operations, a spokesman for Penn Central said that the railroad and the Metropolitan Transit Authority "are talking out the details and a memo of intent has been filed. In a month or two the whole thing should be settled and the MTA will be in charge of commuter service." Under the program being discussed, the Penn Central would be paid a fee for operating the commuter service but the MTA would make capital investments, retain revenues and have jurisdiction on rate procedures and scheduling.

The Connecticut Transportation Authority has been working closely with the MTA on plans for rehabilitating the commuter service and in connection with the federal grant for new equipment. The grant, approved in December, 1967, is for the purchase of 144 new passenger cars. However, legal technicalities have prevented its award, according to the administration. Ribicoff asked Volpe last week to take a personal hand in clearing the tangle. Connecticut and New York have agreed to contribute equal amounts to match the $28.4 million from Washington and cover the anticipated cost of the improvements.

Disgruntled commuters should find some encouragement in the announcement. Many of the 24,000 persons who use the line to travel from Fairfield County to jobs in the New York metropolitan area have complained publicly of late trains and the con- Continued on Page Two) Today's Chuckle The average household consists of a husband who makes the money, and a wife and children who make It necessary. (Copyright 1M7, General Features Corp. Neighborhood Hero AP Wlrephoto Andrew Aldrin, 10, this morning is followed by a group of neighbrohood youngsters anxious to see his picture in the newspaper. The son of Apollo 11 Astronaut and Mrs.

Edwin E. Aldrin was the hero of the neighborhood around the manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, after his photo appeared in print. (Related photos and stories on pages 10 and 11.) DempseyAsksObservance Of'Moon Walk Holiday' Governor Dempsey announced today that state offices will be closed Monday "to herald the first footfall on the Moon by American astronauts: Nixon Urges Holiday TRIO CROSSES INVISIBLE LINE AT 3,000 MPH Speeds a a With History as Luna Orbits Mysteriously TRIBUTE ON MOON Will a Medals of U. Soviet Spacemen Who Were Killed By HOWARD BENEDICT AP Aerospace Writer SPACE CENTER, Hous- cm Guiding themselves by tlie stars, America's 11 astronauts soared last the half-way point of heir journey to the moon with men and mach- nes operating almost flaw- essly. As they sped toward their date with history, Russia's Luna 15 zipped into orbit irotind the moon on its mys- mission.

A Moscow re- xrt said the craft had become a lunar satellite but was still speculation unmanned vehicle might attempt to land, scoop up noon samples and return them to earth before Apollo I I can bring back a cargo of rocks. Cross Invisible Line Spacecraft commander Neil A. Armstrong. Air Force Col. Edwin E.

Aldrin Jr. and Air Force Col. Michael Collins President Nixon urged yesterday that all Americans be given a holiday on Monday but, aside from the Governor's announcement, the call drew little or no response here from municipalities, industry and commercial establishments. The Chamber of Commerce said that, members of its retail division will remain open but will mark the day in various manner, including news announcements over their public address systems. The Manufacturers' Association reported a "tendency for most plants to remain in'Operation although Sikorsky Aircraft is seriously considering closing down for the day." Observance plans, as they did simitar cases such as the deaths of President Eisenhower and Martin Luther King, met with general confusion here.

The Governor announced, "In compliance with President Nixon's request that Monday be obr served as a day of participation to herald the first footfall on the moon by American astronauts, I am ordering that all state offices be closed and agencies' operations suspendi I except for those essential services concerned with the maintenance of property and the care and treatment of patients." He said, "It is my -recommendation that towns and cities and private employers make their own determination concerning the President's suggestion that Monday be a day of special observance." The Governor's office emphasized that this is not a legal holiday and banks, therefore, are not affected. Each will make their own decision on closing and none had done so this morning. Postmaster William Keller said that he has received no instruc- (Continued on Page Two) Envisioned Sophisticated Moon Cave Life Father of Space Medicine Recalls Crude Tests SPACE CENTER. Houston (AP) Quietly following the progress of Apollo 11 is a man who began laying medical groundwork for such a flight before the moon-bound astronauts were bom. Dr.

Herbertus Strughold, 71, regarded here as the "father of space medicine," watched the start of the voyage this week as a guest here of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. As he hears the voices of the crew on the way to the moon, the spry space expert can recall the days when he conducted crude tests of weightlessness by stunting In early airplanes. Or he'll remember how he spent hours scanning the heavens as a boy in his native Germany, keeping his eyes "more on the sky than on the earth." Or his thoughts may go back to 1927, when he delivered his first lectures on flight physiology. Strughold retired last year EIS a top scientist at Brooks Air Force Base in Ssn Antonio, after 21 years of civilian service with the Air Force. During the late 1920s, he began studying the physiological effects of aviation.

He conducted some of the first simulated altitude experiments at Wuerzburg, Germany, in 1327, staying inside a "metabol- ic chamber" for as much as an hour in an atmospheric pressure corresponding to 21,000 feet. Two years later he was aboard a plane again for more experiments with weightlessness. This time he numbed his hips with an anesthetic, cocaine, to get the full effect. 'I felt unsafe. I had no feeling," he recalled.

Except for a brief visit to the United States to conduct research, he remained in Germany until after World War II. He accepted an invitation to join the School of Aviation Medicine at Randolph Field, San Antonio in 1947. Eleven years later he and his associates conducted a simulated eight-day flight to the moon with an Air Force volunteer in a tiny pressure chamber. Strughold remembers vividly when the Soviet Union sent Sputnik into orbit. "It didn't scare me," he said, "but I just did not like it." He never doubted that man would travel to other planets.

Many of his papers dwell on the subject. In one, he envisions man living a "sophisticated cave life" on the moon in underground installations. After manned missions to the moon, which Strughold call "Luna, the goddess of the night," man's next target wil be Mars, he said. "That will be about 1985." Planting of U. S.

Flag Gives No Legal Claim COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. --(AP) Planting the American flag on the moon won't give the United States any legal claim whatsoever to the lunar territory, a space law expert said today. "For the first time in history, planting a flag on unexplored i legally, means nothing because a treaty prohibits nations from claiming the moon or any other celestial body," said Brig. Gen. Martin Menter, judge advocate for the Air Force Aerospace Defense Command at nearby Ent Air Force Base.

The treaty signed by the United States and the Soviet Union, among other nations, also prohibits weapons of mass destruction in outer space or on celestial bodies, Menter said. NIXON OPPOSES PRICE CONTROLS Treasury Secretary Has Lee to Speculation of Such Curbs WASHINGTON (AP) Presi dent Nixon, moving to stamp out speculation fed by his own treasury secretary, has all but ruled out wage-price controls as a weapon against inflation. Press secretary Ronald Ziegler, after conferring with Nixon, said Wednesday "The administration has ruled oul wage and price controls as a way of dealing with inflation un der conditions that are now foreseeable." Lest anyone conclude that the foreseeable" reference was in tended to be a loophole, Ziegler added: 'Not Be Considered' "Looking into the future with knowledge and experience that this administration has and projecting the various alter natives that could be used in the future, wage and price controls would not be considered." Treasury Secretary David Kennedy has on several occa sions made statements resulting in speculation the Presiden might put a ceiling on wages and prices, something not trie( since the Korean war. Kennedy always indicated he did not favor such controls, bu refused to state flatly the; wouldn't be Imposed, particular ly if Congress refused to extent (Continued on Page Two) (Related photos, and stories on Pages 10 and 11). reached the mid-point of their outward trek at 10:33 a.m.

EOT when their 48-ton spaceship was precisely 120,003 miles from joth earth and The astronauts crossed that invisible line after 25 hours 53 seconds of flight at.a speed of about 3,000 miles per hour. It will take them twice as long--51 lours--to cover the remaining distance. Like a car coasting uphill, the spaceship gradually has slowed from its initial speed of 24.200 m.p.h. In Washington, President Nix- i announced the astronauts will leave behind on the lunar surface next Monday medals awarded to two Soviet cosmonauts killed while participating in the space program. The medals were given to astronaut Frank Borman during his.recent visit to Russia by the widows of Yuri A.

Gagarin and Vladimir Komarov. Gagarin, the first man to fly in space, was killed in a plane crash. Komarov died in 1967 when his spaceship parachutes tangled on re-entry and the vehicle crashed. Aiso to be left there are the patches for medals awarded the three Apollo 1 astronauts killed in a spaceship fire at Cape Kennedy Jan. 27, 1967.

They were Air Force Lt. Cols. Virgil I. Grissom and Edward H. White II and Navy Lt.

Cmdr. Roger B. Chaffee. Remain Tight-Lipped Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins remained tight-lipped, the least talkative Apollo crew yet, as their earth shrank in the distance. Throughout the morning they conducted spaceship checks and when they talked it usually was to report on the condition of systems.

Collins concentrated on star sightings with the sextant and other navigation equipment. He reported excellent results, in contrast to Wednesday when changes in spacecraft attitude caused the stars to seem to "move." During one test today, the crew did display emotion. "It's really a fantastic sight (Continued on Page Two) Today's Index Page Bridge, Goren 25 Classified Section 4041-42 Comics 34-35 County News 14-15-38 Crossword Puzzle 37 Editorials 24 Financial News 38 Health, Dr. Brady 28 Heloise 26 Home and Fashions 28 Obituaries 39 Society News 27 Sports Section 18-19-20-21-22-23 Stage and Screen 30-31 TV, Radio Programs 12.