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24 - EVENING HERALD, Wed.. Jan. 7, 1981 iiaurhpatpr Town officials will meet Clearf cold Mostly clear and cold to air transfer site plans W c A T H C n tonight. Details on page 2. By DOMNA HOU.AIND of Windham to use their new facility. The new facility converts com­ llerulH R rporlrr The cost to use the Windham facili­ pacted trash to steam for use by a ty, including tipping and transit fees, IIOI.TO>— The entire Board of manufacturer. At a special Town is estimated at 152,960 annually. The Selectmen plans to meet with An­ Meeting Monday at 8 p.m. at the cost to operate a transfer station is dover officials to discuss the Community Hall, residents will be $11,650 annually. possibility of a transfer station being asked to authorize the first The cost to construct a transfer built on the site of the Andover selectmen to enter into a 20-year con­ station at Freja Park, including an Hotel Disposal Area. tract with Windham. access road, is $220,935. There are no Bolton officials will meet tonight if the contract signing is not ap­ exact figures for construction of a at 8 at the Community Hall to proved on Monday. Bolton will have transfer station at the Andover Weiss mandates prepare the proposal that will be no place to dispose of its trash. Disposal Area, but the cost has been presentpd-to~Andover officials. First .Selectman Henry Ryba said said to be minimal. i blaze The (own is checking into three op­ the new facility is the opportunity Townwide pick-iip will cost $72,000 tions for getting rid of its solid waste. Bolton has been waiting for and if the annually for - residential waste and They include the transfer station in ball is dropped it will be a big mis­ $10,000, for bulk waste, lliat cost does Andover, a transfer station at Freja take. not include the tippage fee in kills Park and townwide pickup. Selectman Aloysius Ahearn urges Windham. __________ hiring freeze Bolton is now under contract to use residents to attend the meeting Mon­ MONTREAL (UPI) — A general the Andover facility at a cost of $55,- day and approve having the contract alarm fire erupted early today In a By MARY KITZMANN into the hundreds of thousands —but of Directors and ail spending agen­ 000 annually. The town has been in­ signed. major downtown hotel, killing one Herald Reporter no amount was included in the 1980-81 cies that he must approve expen­ vestigating means of solid waste dis­ The question of how to get the trash Library board Formal count woman, gravely injuring one other MANCHESTER — Alarmed by budget. ditures in ekcess of $500. The depart­ posal for several years. to the new facility is still being Besides this appropriation, the BOLTOIM- The Board of Library Vice President Walter Mondale, left, and the electoral votes cast for Reagan and Presi- and sending about 100 sleepy guests possible cutbacks in state aid. ment heads must also justify the A local landfill site did not prove researched. town underestimate its insurance n ® House Speaker Tip O’Neill applaud after a dent Carter, making the election of Ronald tumbling into sub-freezing streets General Manager Robert Weiss spending cannot be deferred to the feasible and town officials expressed Each of the three options available before dawn. today Imposed a hiring freeze and account to a 12 percent increase in next fiscal year. interest in contracting with the Town to the town is supported by some peo- Watrous RoL ^ residence on jo in t session of Congress formally counted Reagan as the President official. (UPI photo) Assistant Fire Director Germain spending limit on town government. medical insurance and a 15 to 37 per­ Last year the Board of Directors Vlgeant said the dead woman was He terms the action “strong steps to cent increases in other workman’s imposed a hiring freeze when the one of two who had fled the smoke- avoid a deficit” in the current fiscal compensation accounts. budget proceedings started. Mayor Slud^ filled rooms and corridors for the year. The board appropriated $56,000 for Stephen Penny said shortly after haven of the penthouse in the 20-story Weiss notified town agencies of the the insurance fund this week, but ad­ Christmas he was unsure whether on Constellation Hotel before they two actions in a memo released late ditional funds will be needed for the the board would do the same this medical accounts. 1h:. I /■ f) PIM Ug.llPlU!}]’, M(! c o lla p ^ in a stairwell. this morning. year. Even with the last year's BOLTON — A study on “We brought one down and got her Weiss’s action came one day after Fuel and electricity increases freeze, about seven employees, the feasibility of retaining Warning: The Surgeon General Has Determined to hospital, and we sent a doctor up to Governor William O’Neill told the leave the town short in both ac­ whose jobs were already under con­ the Community Hall for help the other one,” Vlgeant said. first session of the General Assembly counts. The board approved an ad­ sideration, were hired. town office use is under That Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous to Your Health. He said doctors tried unsuccessful­ he would cut state aid to bridge a $22 ditional $35,000 ’Tuesd^iy to pay elec­ way by Alan Bergren. ad­ trical bills for street lights. In his memo, Weiss also noted the ly for 45 minutes to revive the second million gap in this year’s state ministrative assistant. the “regressive impact of our an­ woman. budget. TTiis would mean Manchester With the increased costs, and the At th e B oard of More than 200 firemen and all possibility of decreased state aid, tiquated state and locai tax structure Selectmen's meeting would lose about $262,000 in the state available equipment rushed to the Urban Problems block grant Weiss said he was concerned the upon low and moderate income peo­ Tuesday. Bergren hotel on fashionable Sherbrooke program. town could face a deficit —instead of ple, and particularly the elderly.” presented town officials street shortly after 5 a.m. EST. Although Weiss said the cut in state the $1 million plus surplus of the past with sketches of several Firefighters worked in aid was the “overriding concern” in two years. But he was ‘‘not Weiss cites the town’s “unique options for using the i bohechilling weather of -18 degree approaching a town budget deficit, he foreseeing a deficit at this time, but reliance" on the property tax. and building. the state is below the national Celsius (0-deg.F) with winds pushing cited several other large unan­ cutbacks in expenditures.” He outlined the condition the chill factor to -40 degrees(-40 Weiss says in a memo to the Board average in supplying town aid. of the building and said the ticipated expenditures that strain the deg.) that sent some persons to foundation was built on top .7** >*.■!»# Board of Directors calculations of a of loose stone, there is no hospital for treatment of frostbite. $29,622,914 budget. concrete . and the existing ’file blaze was believed to have Increases in fuel, electricity, in­ pillars in the basement are started near a first floor hotel surance and legal costs “would have restaurant and was brought under concerned” the manager about a Dean Machine just sitting on rocks. control within two hours. There were no cost es- possible deficit regardless of timates for any Firemen raced through the hotel O’Neill’s decision. renovations or additions to pounding on doors to rouse rouse Tuesday evening the Board of the building. sleeping guests, as some reported no Directors appropriated an additional fire alarm was sounded. back $50,(X)0 to fight the lawsuit brought by to normal The selectmen plan to Guests, dressed hastily and In­ three residents trying to force ask local architect Alan By MARTIN KEARNS At the hospital, spokesman Andrew Wiedie to deterrr'..ie adequately against the raw cold, Manchester’s participation in the shuffled across icy streets jammed federal Community Block Grant Herald Reporter Beck said the workers were ad­ whether or not it would be Andrew H^visides of 15 Timber Trail, Manchester, was un- ministered blood-gas tests which feasible to consider with more than 50 fire trucks, to a se­ program. MANCHESTER - Dean Machine cond hotel. They were offered coffee daunM by ’Tuesday’s snowstorm as he used his bicycle to get found normal oxygen levels in their renovations to the building. It was anticipated - the town’s Products had resumed normal blood. ’They were released after the and about 38 foottis were assigned to ' aromd the area at the intersection of Timrod Road and defense cost would overrun the initial Selectman Aloysius operations today following the symptoms faded. Beck said. evacuated Obiistellation guests. Gardner Street. (Herald photo by Pinto) $50,(XI0 —the suit is expected to run Ahearn said if the evacuation of its machine shop Captain Henry Minor of the "expert” says it’s ab­ Wednesday after six workers were Manchester Police Department said solutely not worth pursuing apparently overcome by carbon Sergeant John Maston and Officer monoxide gas. then the town can drop the Hugh Carabott were back on duty idea and go on, but if he The incident occurred late yester­ today following a brief illness yester­ says it’s productive, the opens talks in Algiers day morning when the ventilation day. Although taken to the hospital. town can continue with system was shutdown while workers Beck said the two men didn’t require that idea.

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