Page 4 Connecticut Daily Campus Thursday, September 9, 1976

Connecticut News In Brief

Middletown track near approval

HARTFORD (UPI) — Plans for a $50 million horse track in
Middletown edged closer to the starting gate Wednesday with
the final approval of three permits by the state Department of

Environmental Protection.
The permits were the same denied by DEP to backers of

another track in Wolcott which cost them the lead in the race to
become Connecticut's only horse racing and parimutuel betting
facility.

DEP Water Compliance Director Robert Taylor approved the
permits after reviewing favorable recommendations from a DEP
hearing officer who considered the case for nearly three months.

They will permit Sawmill Brook Racing Association. developer
of the Middletown track. to pump sewage into the Mattabasset
Sewage Plant and to channel rain runoff into the Sawmill Brook
and Mattabasset Rivers.

But before it begins construction. Sawmill must get two traffic
permits from a federal and a state agency. an air quality permit
from DEP and permission to build access roads over inland
wetlands.

V.F.W. refuses Woman’s bid

HARTFORD (UPI) — The Connecticut Commission on Human
Rights and Opportunities has ordered the all-male Veterans of
Foreign Wars to explain why it has denied membership to a
woman.

Dorothy Warrender complained the VFW's chapter in
Willimantic will only let her join its woman's auxiliary. even
though she met the VFW requirement of having been in the
military overseas during World War II.

Yale welcomes ‘freshpersons’

NEW HAVEN (UPI) —— Yale University President Kingman
Brewster Jr. Tuesday welcomed 1,306 first-year students to the
start of classes at the Ivy League school.

Among the Class of I980 candidates were Ronald Reagan .Ir..

 

Despite problems

600,000 off to school

United Press International
More than 600,000 Connecticut
students went back to classes

-Wednesday in schools beset by

labor problems. enrollment
drops. increasing class sizes and
tightened budgets.

Clear and crisp skies met the
youths as they headed for the
state's 1.100 elementary and
secondary schools. manned by
more than 30.000 teachers.

Teachers in 65 of Connecticut's
159 local school districts went to
work without contracts, and the
leaders of the two major unions
said teachers in the unsettled
areas were hoping to reach agree-
ments “within a reasonable
time."

In addition to wages. teachers
were concerned with the size of
classes that have grown in some
districts despite a decline in the
elementary school populations.

The state's two teacher unions.
the Connecticut Education Asso-
ciation and the Connecticut State

Construction site

presents danger
By ELLEN RASKIN

Federation of Teachers. Said lead-
ers in the unsettled districts were

taking a wait-and-see stance.
problem facing

teachers is the trend toward
larger class sizes. The Connecti-
cut Education Association said a

with 30 students. while Bridge.

The New London Federation of
Teachers plans to meet with local
school officials Sept. 20 to discuss
the rise in class sizes and other

recent study showed the average non-economic issues.

f t- ade class last year had _
"S gr the average Connecticut far-flung suburban

21.8 students. and
probably will rise this year.

Schools. especially those in

belts. have reported enrollment

The CEA said the smallest drops of up to 10 per cent. which

class sizes wer

e in Eastford with translates into further tightenings

14.6 and Union with 14.9. New of budgets already hit by the
London showed the largest size national recession.

Natalie Cole

withJorgensenappearance

Grammy Award-winning singer
Natalie Cole will make her col-
lege circuit debut Friday at the
Albert Jorgensen Auditorium.

The concert, which is being
presented as part of the UConn
Contemporary Music series,
marks the first time Miss Cole.
1975’s Best Female Vocalist, will
be appearing before a college
audience.

Natalie Cole is the daughter of
the late Nat King Cole, and a
graduate of the University of

The construction site of the new Massachusetts at Amherst. She

begins series

started her career by performing
in local night spots in the Spring-
field-Amherst area.

She won aGrammyfor her first
album, lnseparable, as best fe-
male vocalist. She received a gold
album for exceeding 51 million in
sales.

Also appearing on the bill with
Ms. Cole will be “The Caribbean
Sound of Jon Lucien. Tickets are
available in advance at the Jor-
gensen Auditorium ticket office.
at the door, and at Ticketron
outlets.

 

the son of former California Gov. Ronald Reagan, and Kate Udall.
the daughter of Rep. Morris K. Udall. R-Ariz.

Their parents did not attend.

Miss Udall was among 513 incoming women at Yale, which
went coed in I969.

Hearing scheduled on gag order

 
    
    
      
     
   
   
   
   
   
     
     
    

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dangers for pedestrians. and they 
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are urged to avoid the area. the
N F F D E D!

Physical Plant director said Wed-
nesday.

Frank M. Laudieri said the site.
which is bordered by the Psychol-
ogy Building. Hawley Armory.
Fairfield Road and the Graduate
Center. is a “hard-hat" area and
should be avoided. He said dirt
mounds separate the site near the
armory and the Graduate Center.

The state Public Works Depart-
ment turned over the land to the
construction crews. which made
the safety rule requests. Laudieri
said.

HARTFORD (UPI) —— A gag order imposed on newspapers
covering the trial ofan accused mass murderer will be the subject
of a court hearing Thursday.

Superior Court .ludgc Edward C. Hamill will consider the
newspaper's claims the publicity will not prejudice Gary
Schrager's trial on charges he murdered six persons during a
I974 robbery of the Donna Lee Bakery in New Britain.

Hamill barred reporters and public from pre-trial hearings
Aug. 3| after Schrager's lawyer. F. Mak Buckley. argued the
prc-trial publicity would make it impossible to find an impartial
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