November 18, 1974

Community Progress Inc, pioneering antipoverty program in New Haven, Conn, is reptd in deep trouble; was begun in ‘62 with Ford Foundation help; invented Project Head Start, Neighborhood Youth Corps, legal‐service program, comprehensive manpower‐training program and dozens of other projects later adopted nationally; Fed and state officials who have been investigating program for mos find that it has deteriorated into fiscal and adm chaos and has become little more than pol pork barrel dominated by city's powerful Dem party machine; program defenders agree that pol is problem but place blame on politically motivated attacks that they say are designed to cripple it; program's existence is in jeopardy as state Community Affairs Dept and Fed Econ Opportunity Office give up attempts to change it and prepare instead to announce plans in next few days to cut its $4‐million‐a‐yr budget in half and eliminate it as state's antipoverty agent in New Haven; Community Affairs Comr Susan Hobbie Bennett asserts dept has never had to take such drastic action before but ‘irregularities and incompetence’ in program are ‘amazing'; Rev Edwin Edmonds, a founder of program and bd member for 12 yrs, comments; Rev Charles E Brewer, bd chmn, is unavailable for comment; Milton Brown, program's exec dir, resigned some time ago and has been unavailable for comment; agency is defended by Everett Shaw, bd member who is widely believed to have informal but pervasive control of it; Shaw is dir of city's manpower training program as well as other major city projects and many of his actions are seen as having at least tacit approval of Arthur T Barbieri, New Haven Dem Chmn (L)

Pres Ford, before starting trip to Japan, S Korea and Vladivostok, calls travels timely and step toward preserving peace; says ‘I would rather travel thousands of miles for peace than take a single step toward war’ (S)

striking United Parcel Service workers, faced with threat by co to end its operations in NYC met area if they do not resume work by Nov 20, overwhelmingly reject latest contract offer at turbulent meeting in Manhattan Center; vote by 3,000 strikers, members of Teamsters Local 804, is not binding because they are to vote again by secret ballot on Nov 20; impasse in strike has been caused mainly by co's desire to open decentralized package‐sorting centers and to staff them with part‐time employes; union has opposed plan on ground that it would eventually lead to loss in full‐time jobs; proposed contract also provides for $50 a wk pay increase for all classes of workers over 3 yrs and cost‐of‐living escalator with maximum increase of 11c an hr; Teamsters Local 804 pres Ron Carey comments; Carey illus (L)

Joe Namath passed for two touchdowns as the Jets upset the New England Patriots, 21‐16, at Foxboro, Mass., yesterday. The Giants lost to ‘the Lions, 20‐19, in Detroit as Errol Mann kicked a 37‐yard field goal with 2 seconds left, Page 41.

Premier Yitzhak Rabin says on Nov 17 that Israel mobilized ‘very limited number of reserves’ to avoid being caught unprepared by Syrian action’ (M)