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IfflanrhpHtpr Bprali Monday, July 11,1988 Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm 30 Cents Congratulations, students: Those key test scores are OK By Nancy Concelman theclassesof 1968and 1987toeach for 7:30 p.m. at 45 North School St. changes in the teaching of the eighth grades. Manchester Herald other and to national figures. percent of Manchester students School officials declined to basics in elementary schools. In eighth-grade writing. 12 The report also contains college did not meet minimum stand release the report prior to to Results in January of the percent of Manchester students Manchester school students are placement statistics and infor ards. the same percentage as the night’s meeting but Chesterton statewide Mastery Test showed did not meet minimum stand doing as well or better than they mation on national merit scholars state. said, “ Students 20 years later are that Manchester performed ards, compared to 15 percent of did 20 years ago on Scholastic and tracks the progress of class Superintendent James doing as well or better.” above the state average in ali the students statewide. Aptitude Tests and other areas, valedictorians. Assistant Super Kennedy said in January Man The study is one of four categories except fourth and In eighth-grade math, 16 per according to a report prepared by intendent of Schools Allan Ches chester would begin reviewing its conducted by the board on the eighth -grade writing and eighth- cent of Manchester students the Manchester Board of terton said today. math, reading and w ritin g quality of education in Manches grade math. didn’t meet minimum standards, programs. Education. A presentation on the report ter schools, he said. The three Mastery tests were given to compared to 15 percent The report includes compari will be given at tonight’s Board of Also on tonight’s agenda is an other studies include a look at about 90,000 students in the state statewide. sons of PSAT and SAT scores for Education meeting, scheduled update on school construction SAT and mastery testing and this year in the fourth, sixth and In fourth-grade writing. 17 projects. Town talks tough on Hang on, sewer rift M l Yi By Andrew Yurkovsky heat wave Manchester Herald Mayor Peter P. DiRosa Jr. said today that the town should either build the sewage treatment plant as originally planned or not all. may break Director Stephen T. Cassano. meanwhile, said a restraining order should be sought to bar the By The Manchester Herald fires under control but provided U. S. Army Corps of Engineers no other relief, as the tempera from interfering with plans for Sweltering near record high ture in the Hartford area shot up the plant off Olcott Street. The temperatures combined with hu to 99 degrees, the hottest in 10 Corps ordered the town to stop midity and a stagnant layer of years. work on the secondary portion of polluted air continued to make The 99-degree temperature re the plant last month after deter life miserable teday. corded at Bradley International mining the town had illegally But there’s some good news. Airport In Windsor Locks shortly . filled wetlands. A tiny bit of relief is in sight. after 3 p.m. was the highest since Last week, the Corps suggested The National Weather Service July 23, 1978, when it also hit 99. the town consider moving the in Windsor Locks says that The temperature was 2 degrees secondary portion of the plant to JB northwest winds will bring lower short of the record for July 10, set the nearby town dog pound at a temperatures Tuesday, between in 1911. pricetag of $18 million or more. 85 and 90. The outlook for Despite the miserable weather, The Corps said that plan would be Wednesday is in the 80s. Manchester officials say few less damaging to the The bad news is that there may heat-related incidents occurred environment. be a return to the sweaty 90s by over the weekend. DiRosa said that the town the weekend. At Manchester Memorial Hos should wait until the federal Temperatures today were ex pital, only two people were agencies decide whether the the pected to flirt with the record high brought to the emergency room wetlands or the upgrading of the for the day, 97 degrees set in 1911. over the weekend for difficulty in plant is more important. The air quality was still consi breathing due to the heat, said "Thereare nooptions,” DiRosa dered “ unhealthful” today, ac Amy Avery, assistant public said of the alternative offered by cording to the state Department relations director. Both people the Corps. “ W e're being honest. of Environmental Protection. were treated and released. "1 We’re going with the plant where The air quality index for think people are staying in as they it is or we’re not going to go at Manchester was 175 on Sunday ■ f V. should,” she said. all.” afternoon, according to Lou Car- According to a state health Despite the costly suggestion to -aifri, tolano. A reading between 100 and official, people should be aware of move the secondary portion of the 200 is considered unhealthful. heat stroke and heat exhaustion plant, an official from the Corps An alert was issued Sunday for during high temperatures. of Engineers said today that his Fairfield County, he said, and the Heat exhaustion is caused by agency was looking into the agency may extend the alert to not keeping enough water in your possibility of allowing work other towns if readings remain body to properly function, said begun in wetlands to continue if X r-' high today. The Fairfield County Frederick G. Adams, state health efforts were made to create new alert called for residents to services commissioner. People wetlands or preserve other exist minimize use of motor vehicles. with heat exhaustion may be ing wetlands. ” It’s not good throughout the come weak, dizzy, have loss of The Corps of Engineers has state,” Cartolano said. appetite and clamniy skin. said that a wetlands permit for Cartolano said during the high Heat stroke, or sun stroke, is work already carried out would heat and poor air quality people another dangerous problem, he probably not be granted if there should stay indoors if possible said. This occurs when the body’s were less-damaging alternatives. 8tu Hlpklnt/Sptclil to ttio Horald and limit exercise to either early cooling mechanism doesn t func Town Manager Robert B. Weiss FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH — Angelina fountain at Charter Oak Park during a mornings or late evenings. tion due to overexertion or and other town officials are to There was a smattering of inadequate fluid replacement. meet with Lt. Col. Stanley J. Brault, 11, and Theresa Parker, 10. both sweltering Monday morning. thundershowers across the state Murphy, the deputy division of Manchester try to keep cool in the Sunday which helped keep forest See HEAT WAVE, page 10 engineer of the Corps’ New England division, at the site of the plant on Tuesday to discuss the dispute. The town, which had Reagan approves compensation for Iranian families continued work on the secondary portion of the plant under an WASHINGTON (AP) - Presi with Jose Napoleon Duarte, the The Pentagon says the Vin naval investigative team sent to Reagan nodded His agreement. agreement with the Corps, de dent Reagan indicated today he president of El Salvador, who is cennes’ sophisticated Aegis the Persian Gulf. Asked about public opinion cided Friday to halt work there has approved‘U.S. compensation recuperating after cancer radar and tracking system had But, when asked during the polls showing that a majority of today. for the families of the 290 people surgery. picked up a radio identification Oval Office picture-taking ses Americans surveyed had said Weiss said the work would be who died aboard the Iranian ” I want to make it plain that from the Airbus broadcast on a sion today whether he had de they opposed paying such com halted at least until the meeting airliner shot down by a U.S. there will be no compensation to frequency used only by military cided that compensation should pensation, the president said, “ I with Murphy. warship. the government of Iran or any aircraft, leading Capt. Will C. be granted, the president said, think that they have tied that to Director Geoffrey Naab said he “Well, I have said from the thing like that,” Reagan said. Rogers III to conclude that his “ We are a compassionate people our feelings about the govern supported DiRosa’s stand. He start that we are a compassionate Reagan has said that he regret ship faced attack from an F-14. and I think we ail have compas ment and what it did with regard said he would be against the people,” Reagan said when asked ted the shooting down of the Iran But the president also told sion for the famiiies of those to our people in the embassy there relocation of the secondary facil when he would make a decision on Air Airbus on July 3 by the USS reporters last week that he didn’t unfortunate people.” (in Tehran) when the ayatollah ity unless it were paid for by the the matter. Vincennes, a Navy cruiser whose want 'to move too quickly on the When he said that a statement (Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini) federal government. “Later today, there’ll be a captain had thought the ship was question of compensation, saying would be coming, a reporter came in.” Cassano said, ” I would fight statement with regard to that,” under attack by an F-14 Iranian at one point that “ I will await the responded, “ I assume it’s going this tooth and nail all the way to he said while posing for pictures fighter jet.