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HOLYOKE MASSACHUSETTS MONDAY MAY 16 1677 TWENTY-SIX PAGES (2 Sections) TWENTY CENTS 90 Home Delivered Weekly VOL 64 No 30545 Western loans discussed Mondale praises leaders LISBON Portugal (AP) Vice President Walter Mondale met with top leaders today then praised what he said was their commitment to human rights and democracy Mondale spent 85 minutes with President Antonio Ramalho Eanes half an hour longer than planned Later he said it had been very very useful The vice president said the two discussed plans fpr more than $700 million in Western loans to Portugal one of the poorest nations in Europe meeting further strengthens an already solid friendly relationship between the United States and Mondale said "There are no contentious bilateral issues We are in complete agreement" Mondale said they also talked about American help to modernize armed forces and develop a 5000-man Portuguese airborne brigade for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization session with Eanes was a clear sign of US backing for the 10-month-old Democratic government in Lisbon and for efforts to link Portugal closely to Western economic and defense alliances Under the late dictator Antonio Salazar Portugal was a NATO member but remained backward and apart from European affairs Two years of turmoil after the 1974 revolution took the country to the brink of communism and left the economy shattered "This nation stands as a symbol perhaps one of the most outstanding in the world today of leadership that is moving dramatically toward the principle of democracy and toward the closest possible observance of human Mondale said The United States is contributing $300 million of the Western loans over a 15-month period to stimulate economy Worldwide oil crisis very close WASHINGTON (AP) An international investigative team said today the worldwide oil crisis is alarmingly close and that the conversion away from petroleum fuels must be pursued with "wartime "All our work can be boiled down to a single said MIT Prof Carroll Wilson who headed the project we face foreseeable Wilson said "The critical interdependence of nations in the energy field requires a unprecedented degree of international collaboration in the the project report said The new report produced by a team of 35 business government and academic leaders from 15 non-Communist countries parallels a CIA report released several weeks ago Like the CIA study the new report says the world could begin running out of oil as early as 1981 It says the annual oil shortage in the free world will grow to between 15 million and 20 million barrels a day by the year 2000 close to the amount currently consumed by the United States The report follows a study by the Workshop on Alternative Energy Strategies sponsored by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology It concludes that the anticipated oil shortage will occur even though coal production is more than doubled nuclear power multiplied 15 to 25 times the historic growth rate in oil demand is cut by more than half and the price of oil rises 50 per cent "The WAES studies show that Pleate Turn To Page 14 I'' Incidents mar rock concert By STEVE KAMIENSKI NORTHAMPTON Two men and a woman denied a total of 22 robbery theft and damage charges resulting from rock concert at the Tri-County Fairgrounds which attracted about 25000 persons Meanwhile the condition of a man struck by a car on 1-91 has improved officials said today The concert also drew a flurry of angry complaints from residents living around the fairgrounds who charged that concert-goers were responsible for numerous incidents of vandalism and theft In Hampshire District Court this morning Judge Luke Ryan ordered Bruce Tirado 21 of 88 North Third St Meriden Conn held on $1000 bail after Tirado denied two counts of robbery while armed with a dangerous weapon two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon and charges of possession of a firearm and ammunition without a permit Northampton police arrested Tirado after he allegedly held up two persons on Damon Road and threatened them with a 32 caliber pistol Both victims Michael Martin and Walter Mon-sor addresses unlisted were apparently uninjured in the holdups Police said both men were robbed of less than $100 Exact amounts were unavailable at presstime case was continued to May 26 A Somerville couple was released on personal recognizance after denying seven counts each connected with several automobile breaks near the concert site Pleate Turn To Page 14 New Yorkers showed up at the site over the weekend for sunbathing and picnicking (AP Laserphoto) A PLACE IN THE SUN A Manhattan couple gets a beach with a dramatic view of some of the major buildings by taking advantage of a landfill at the southern tip of the borough Groups of Brewster bids Yale farewell Ford receives honorary degree Drivers flood stations for late-minute checks NEW HAVEN (AP) Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr departing the academic world for the diplomatic life concocted a mix of humor and seriousness in bidding farewell to the Ivy League institution he has headed for more than a dozen years In his 14th and final baccalaureate address delivered Sunday at Woolsey Hall Brewster said the speech may be his "last chance to say what I mean and mean what I He said the diplomatic corps has been described as "a profession whose public utterances are somewhere between a cliche and a Brewster was to be sworn in this afternoon as US ambassador to Great Britain Earlier today he presided over commencement which included an honorary degree for former President Gerald Ford Gerald Ford was praised in a citation accompanying an honorary Yale University degree for his after the Watergate scandals retrieved your countrymen from cynical self-scorn and put America back upon a hopeful upward states the citation for the former president a 1941 Yale Law School graduate Ford and 12 other notables including two Northern Ireland peace marchers gathered on campus amid tight security Leading about 2800 Yale degree recipients at the 276th commencement the robed dignitaries marched a block across a quadrangle to the Old Campus Ford was scheduled to depart before swearing in by Secretary of State Cyrus Vance Brewster nominated by President Carter succeeds a Ford appointee Ambassador Anne Armstrong of Texas It was second visit to Yale in the nearly four months since he left the White House Motorists are flooding area service stations in an effort to beat tonight's midnight deadline for having their cars inspected Deadline for the inspection was May 15 but the state Registry of Motor Vehicles gave drivers a one-day extension because May 15 fell on a Sunday had helluva time said Sal Malinowski of and Service Centre 19 Parsons St Easthampton He added "They are still coming in today but not like Saturday I figure we turned away a third of the persons The operator of Mid Town Tire Service Inc of 95 Main St South Hadley reported at 10 this morning that motorists were lining the streets near his garage waiting to have their cars inspected He put the wait at over one hour He said business had been brisk on Saturday with more than inspected The operator of Mobil 820 High St Holyoke said have more than I can He said he had inspected more than 25 cars by 10 this morning and added "we had quite a few Pleate Turn To Page 14 reports worry Dover police chief Boland may get new chairmanship By DONALD LARRABEE Transcript-Telegram Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Under White House prodding Speaker Thomas agreed to explore creating a special House Committee on Intelligence and said he intended to name his long-time personal friend Rep Edward Boland D-Spfld as chairman Boland who is already privy to CIA secrets as a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee said speculation that he would head the new panel be While he did not reject the suggestion by Boland said there was some feeling in the House that the present system for overseeing the work of US intelligence agencies was satisfactory and that a separate committee was unnecessary Nevertheless Boland conferred Thursday with O'Neill and President Jimmy Carter about the need for a single House Committee and later met with Charles Ferris counsel to the Speaker who was assigned by to scout sentiment among various committee chairmen who now have some jurisdiction over intelligence matters The Armed Services International Affairs Appropriations and Judiciary Committees share CIA secrets at present in the House although every member of Congress can insist upon the right to be informed of covert intelligence operations according to-Boland President Carter reportedly told and Boland Thursday of his desire to limit the number of congressmen with access to intelligence secrets Carter told a news conference recently that he was concerned about leaks of sensitive material and that some of allies have expressed similar fears Boland has had a bill before Congress for almost 20 years to create a Joint Committee on Intelligence matters The Senate two years ago created its own separate Intelligence panel would still like to see a joint committee with a rotating chairman between the House and Senate" said Boland "1 believe we would have better control and it would meet the While told reporters he wanted his former roommate Boland to head up any House Committee that may be formed the Speaker still plans to meet with Vice President Walter Mondale to discuss the reaction of House Committee leaders to the proposal before placing the issue before the House Boland meantime sought to discourage speculation that he is a shoe-in for the job commenting requires somebody who is tough and who recognizes the responsibility it entails to the Nation the President and the DOVER Mass (AP) Police say recent reports of strange orangeeyed creatures were probably nothing more than a school vacation hoax But a few nagging doubts linger Three teenagers have reported seeing a creature resembling comic book conceptions of a spaceman at night last month along dark lonely roads in this community of 5000 about 15 miles southwest of Boston only thing that worries me is the story of Bill 17 one of the witnesses Police Chief Carl Sheridan says He described the youth as an artist and a reliable A police spokesman said reports of the sightings were not made public by police until last week He said officers searched the areas of the reported sightings without finding anything The teen-agers said the creature had no ears no mouth and no nose It is described as 3 Vi feet tall with a white melonlike head rough skin and glowing eyes Two of the teen-agers made sketches One was by Bartlett who is a member of Copley Art Society a well known amateur arts guild scared me to death I couldn't go back and see said Bartlett the first person to report seeing the creature He told The Associated Press he was driving along Farm Street at 10:30 pm April 21 when he spotted something on top of a broken stone wall thought it was a dog but when it looked back at me with bright orange eyes I knew it a he said The high school junior said he drew a sketch while driving home Two hours later John Baxter 15 said he saw the creature while walking home from his house Baxter said he got within 15 feet of the creature along a creek in a heavily wooded area was standing on two feet on a rock his feet were molded around a rocjand he was leaning against a tree It looked like a monkey with a figure-eight Baxter said Baxter said he backed away and returned home to make a drawing which is similar to Bartlett's At midnight April 22 Abby Brabham 15 claims to have spotted the creature sitting upright while she was driving home with her boyfriend According to Loren Coleman a local author and investigator of unexplained phenomenon the creature drawn by Bartlett is like a creature that attacked a Hopkinsville Ky farm family in 1955 Police said they are not investigating the sightings but there is a watercolor painting of the creature mounted in the police station Weather forecast HOLYOKE AND VICINITY Fair and mild tonight with low temperatures in the 50s Tuesday hazy sunshine and hot high temperatures in the mid 80s to low 90s TUESDAY Sunrise: 5:28 sunset: 8:07 T-T SPACEMAN SIGHTED? Drawing by Bill Bartlett 17 of Dover Mass one of three teenagers reported seeing a creature resembling comic book conceptions of a spaceman at night last month Police Chief Carl Sheridan described Bartlett as an "outstanding artist and a reliable witness" Police say the recent reports of the strange orange-eyed creature were probably nothing more than a school vacation hoax (AP Laserphoto) A.