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I " 1 Manchester — A City of Village Charm Saturday, Dec. 5,1987 30 Cents HOSPITAL GETS RATE REPRIEVE fa By Andrew J. Davis over the rate orders. The appeal AAanchester Herald will be filed before Dec. 10. he said. The rate orders controversy Manchester Memorial Hospital comes less than a month after the wili get a temporary reprieve from commission mandated the hospital a state order to r^ u ce inpatient cut its compliance orders by 8 rates by as much as 45 percent, a percent. Compliance orders, on hospital spokesman said. which rate orders are based, adjust Andrew A. Beck, director of projected budget numbers to actual pubiic relations for MMH, said that numbers after ttie end of each fiscal hospitai officials met with year. The hospital has filed an members of the state Commission appeal over the compliance orders on Hospitals and Health Care on as well. Friday in an effort to delay the rate decrease. The agreement reached While hospital officials are re between the hospital and the lieved that they will not have to commission calls for the hospital to reduce their rates by more than 44 reduce its inpatient charges, which percent, this may be just the are issued in yearly rate orders, by beginning of a long battle with the ^ S percent until a f|nal rate order can commission. Beck said. Interim be computed. Beck said. hospital President George J. Roy The rate orders are set by the and Richard Werkowski, MMH commiaiuion each year to deter controller, met with the mine hoinitala’ charges to patients commission. s for va irvices during the " It ’s comfortable,” Beck said of followli The rate orders, the 5 percent reduction. “ But we which w( nally scheduled to still want to work with them.” be relei in October, were ^ delayed becai ■e of difficulties in Beck said he was unsure how the resolving ler llation aimed at re commission could issue rate orders ducing health bare cost increases. that mandated that the hospital According to figures released by make such deep cuts. Rate orders the commission, the average pa are tabulated by the commission tient was charged $3,711.52 during from figures provided by the the hospital fiscal' year that ended hospital. ^ p t. 30. The commission, which Sue E. Stanley, director of originally requested a $1,852.21 cut operations for thecommission, said In M Iffl’s rates, will now allow the Friday that since the commission hospital rates to be cut $185.57 until Reginald Plnto/Mandwtlar Herald was under pressure to come out a final agreement is reached. with the rate orders by Dec. l,ithad ACCIDENT SCENE — Chalk marks Indicate the point of impact in a It will be six toeight weeks before to base the rate orders on incom Friday night accident on North Main Street in which a 79-year-old such an agreem ent may be plete infonnation. She said the reached. Beck said. The hospital, MMH and other affected hospitals Manchester man was struck while crossing the street, in the background though, still must still file an provided the coihmission with is the 1983 Chevrolet Camaro involved in the accident. Story on page 3. official appeal with the commission incomplete information. They couldn’t hire enough help -MAGAZINE PULLOUT SECTION Another merchant calls It quits... page 4 15 15 PS, 15 ■ M , d tNAfU by Bnio* ■•■Ml* Ban on water use in Putnam nearly over ’80s activism PUTNAM (AP) — Residents using After the fire Wednesday consumed a municipal water for washing and Nearly 200 people were left unem federal Superfund money would be used complex housing five small industrial ployed by the fire and many businesses to clean up any hazardous materials bathing Friday after health officials companies, the majority of Putnam Some college students welcome CIA said preliminary tests showed water were forced to close because of the remaining in the gutted huildings. He residents were forced to use bottled water contamination. About $4 million had no estimate of cleanup costs. contaminated as a result of efforts to put water that was distributed for free by out a fire in a factory complex was free in damage was done to the buildings. W ATERVILLE, Maine (AP) — Students at a tiny some stores and by the town govern The mayor said the state of emer Meanwhile, investigators continued liberal arts school are battling for the chance to / of bacteria. ment. A minority of residents wasn’t to look for the cause of the fire, which Officials said the people in the 2,500 gency would make the community interview with CIA recruiters on campus, something affected because they have private eligible to apply for state funds to ease started shortly before 9a.m. Wednesday faculty members and college students across the homes and ISO businesses that are wells. and raged out of control lor about 10 hooked into the municipal water system the losses. Any aid would come from a $5 country are trying to ban. The lack of water also forced million local disaster aid fund and would hours. Firefighters remained on the The debate at the 1,700-student Colby College has could drink the water after boiling it for businesses and schools to close in the scene, dousing hot spots with water, on five minutes to eliminate any organic have to be approved by the state Office been called a reversal of 1960s activism, with liberal northeastern Connecticut town of about of Policy and Management. Friday. professors reliving their days as anti-war activists and chemicals that might be in it. 8,800 near the Rhode Island and “ Whatever we can do for Putnam, No one was killed but officials said conservative students taking the establishment role. Winston Heimer, a spokesman for the Massachusetts borders. certainly we shall do,” Gov. William A. seven people received minor injuries And since it erupted, the issue has elicited comment state Department of Health Services, Mayor Samuel Roberts, who has O’Neill said. and nearly 40 more sought treatment for from many of the state’s newspapers, drawn national said further tests on the water were declared a state of emergency in the Steve Hitchcock, director of the state symptoms resulting from inhaling the attention and polarized the campus. scheduled and residents may get wake of the fire, said the total loss to the Department of Environmental Protec noxious smoke emitted by burning At issue is a faculty motion passed Nov. 11 by a 5-2 permission to drink it by Saturday. town could reach $50 million. tions hazardous materials unit, said chemicals in the buildings. margin tp ban CIA recruitment on campus “ as a result K of its illegal incursions into Nicaragua, its role in illegal H arms sales, its illegal investigations into the lives of private citizens... until it obeys the U.S. Constitution.” Car hits man crossing street “Almost finished, just have to saw To become effective, it needs the approval of college this last floorboard...." . President William R. Cotter and the board of trustees, who will consider it at their April meeting. But the By Andrew Davis outcry to the faculty’s position was immediate and Manchester Herald vocal. Connecticut Weather “ It’s very pedantic of the professors to try and decide A 79-year-old Manchester man for us, to become our conscience as it were,” said John was listed in critical condition at Whltacre, a senior government major and chairman of Manchester Memorial Hospital . Central, Eastern Interior, Southwest Interior: the Colby Republicans. Friday night after he was struck by Saturday, windy and cold. Variable cloudiness with a ” It’s a very dangerous precedent,” added Whitacre, II a car and thrown about 25 feet at the , 30 percent chance of snow showers. High 30 to 35. Wind who was one of about a dozen students who interviewed intersection of Main and North northwest 20 to 25 mph. Saturday night, clearing. Low with CIA recruiters on campus Oct. 21. “ There’s no Main streets, police said. , 20 to 25. Sunday, mostly sunny. High in the 30s. telling where it would go after this.” George Bingham, of 44 North St., West Coastal, East Coastal: Saturday, windy and was hit shortly after7p.m.bya 1983 cold. Variable cloudiness with a 30 percent chance of The studepts say they also believe the motion denies Chevrolet Camaro driven east on snow showers. High in the 30s. Wind northwest 20 to 30 them the right to free speech and freedom of choice, mph. Saturday night, clear, diminishing wind. Low 25 which they note that many of the professors at Colby ■ X. North Main Street by Tina M. to 30. Sunday, mostly sunny. High 35 to 40. fought for while college students in the 1960s and early Parlato. 19, of 60 Henry St., police ’ Northwest Hills: Saturday, windy and cold. Mostly 1970s. Sgt. John Marvin said. cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow showers. High “ I think it’s everybody’s right to come here and open Pariato was shaken but not around SQL Wind northwest 20 to 30 mph. Saturday opportunities to other people,” said Norman Hugo, a injured. Marvin said. night, clearing with diminishing wind. Low around 20. senior English major who also interviewed for a job The accident is still under investi Sunday, partly sunny. High in the 30s. with the Central Intelligence Agency. “ It’s our choice gation and no charges have been as Americans to take them up on it or not, especially at filed against Parlato. Marvin said. a school like this.” I I A Manchester Memorial Hospital Lottery Winners But the professors who passed the motion insist they spokesman said last night said that Rpglnald PInlo/ManohMtar Harald are not limiting the CIA’s right to speak on the campus.