-I. •;j* .-i-rr-v ,V- - i v ■ r“-f 20 - MANCHESTER HERALD. Mon.. Aug, i, 19«2 . N ^ . .M IS' Cummings says Essex Motor Inn Court upholds it's tinre to fight Iremode/s image state's remap . page 10 Career of future: urban travel agent . page 3 . page 11 muters, highlighting their best commuting options. private- rather than the public-sector approach to travel­ Do you realize that if, as an employee, you commute They even might become involved in selecting home and counseling. This allows the agent to be much more of an only 10 miles a day (one way, 20 miles round trip) by business sites in cases where transportation to and from entrepreneur and to develop services a public agency private car, it costs you about $2,000 a year excludmg Your work is a critical factor. could not. ! parking and toll costs? The total fixed and operating • Sell transit passes; manage transit pass programs How do you get into the field? Be able tp put up enough costs of using a mid-sized car are calculated at 40 cents Money's for employers; develop and manage bus subscription money to hold on for at least two years before you Manchester, Conn. per mile. And with the way tolls are skyrocketing on all Partly cloudy, programs. expect -to operate in the black; develop computer bridges, tunnels and parkways in the New York area, 1 Worth Many employers consider parking a responsibility of software that will take into account all options and, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 1982 think those figures are underestimated. warmer Wednesday Sylvia Porter the employee. In reality, it well may be that employers eventually, you could package one program to be Do you realize that, as an employer, providing car would have a much more stable work force if they appUed to many different cities. — See page 2 Single copy 25(p parking places for your employees is an enormous expense? In some cities, the price per parking space is showed concern for this employee expense. The agent can boost the conservation of energy and iJlanrh^Bt^r For firms relocating employees and realty companies Mmlh put at $15,000 a year — and here too, if anything the help improve the quality of city life. In Everett’$ words: figures are exce^ingly conservative for such cities as researcher. “If the conventional travel agent can profit selling them houses, the services of an urban travel “Urban travel agents can make a profit while agent actually could be a promotional lure, equal to an New York. on tbe fewer dollars spent for a long-distance travel, developing programs that enhance contemporary urban In general, the urban commuting picture is a gloomy then surely there is g o ^ potential for the urban travel expensive fringe benefit. travel.” A nice, neat package — and an exciting new agent.” In retrospect, urban travel is indeed extremely com­ career. one, and not many observers can see improvement plex. Which option should we use — car, bus, van pool, ahead. But one person who does foresee a silver lining to What might an urban travel agent do to make a profit? • Provide metropolitan travel counseling and services even, if feasible, walk? But information about van pools (Sylvia Porter's Financial Alamanac for 1983, a com­ all this is Dr. Peter B. Everett, associate professor of often is not readily available. We tend to shy away from man-environment relations at Pennsylvania State to corporations, merchants and individuals. prehensive desk calendar and consumer handbook, • Match and manage car- and vanpool programs for mass transit because of hard-to-understand sch^ules. features Porter’s best advice for saving money and Senate nixes University. individuals and companies. “The agents will work out Many urban families have different travel needs. organizing yoiu- budget. Includes budget worksheets. For what Everett predicts is that the expense and has­ Send $8.95 plus $1 for postage and handling to Financial sle of getting to work each day will result in a whole new special vehicle timesharing programs for employers Resolving the problem by buying a car for each family career field — the “urban travel agent.” . and get involved with incentive programs sponsored by member is hardly a “solution” for most of us. Almanac in care of the Manchester Herald, 4400 John­ "More money is spent on commuting than on long­ merchants to spur bus ridership,” Everett explains. “An urban travel agent could point out better son Drive, Fairway, Kan. 66205. Make checks payable to distance travel,” says Everett, a transporation • Perform “personal transporation audits” for com­ solutions,” stresses Everett — and he favors the Universal Press Syndicate.) move to kill 4'- ’ ‘ ■ amenidment 2 By Robert Mackay cuts or increased taxes. United Press International “If President Reagan convinces us WASHING'TON (UPI) - The Senate that $150 billion more is required for today easily rejected the first major military weaponry, fine. But we have to attempt to kill the balanced budget con­ pay cash. The credit card will no longer stitutional amendment, and Republican be honored,” Dodd said in arguing for his leader Howard Baker said he had alternative. “slightly more” than enough votes to The Congressional Budget (Xflce es­ pass the measure. timated the federal budget would be A final vote was set for noon balanced in three years under the Dodd Wednesday. plan, while the constitutional amend­ The Senate voted 70-25 against a ment would not take effect until at least proposal by Sen. Christopher Do<)d, D- 1986 and, more likely, the 1990s, Dodd Conn., to require a' balanced f^eral said. budget through a simple “Pay-As-You- Go” law instead of amending the “ Putting Congress on a ‘Pay-As-You- Constitution. Go’ budget strikes a blow for truth in It was offered as a substitute to the budgeting,” Dodd said. “‘Pay-As-You- constitutional amendment, and before Go’ would permit us to begin our attacks UPI photo the vote appeared to have the best on deficits now — and it would let us win. chance of passage of any of the proposals that war soon. COLUMN OF ISRAELI TANKS SOUTH OF GREEN LINE A presented during the past two weeks of “In short, it does what has to be done . Troops continue push Into besieged Lebanese capital debate. to achieve fiscal discipline — not merely Just before today’s session began. wish for it.” Baker told reporters he had “slightly Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-8.C., a chief more” than the 67 votes needed to.pass sponsor of thd ' cmstitntional amend­ the proposed constitiitional amendment. The amendment has 62. co-sponsors. ment, said Dodd’s proposal would work cease-fire fragile no better than a federal statute enacted ‘A ' “The count shows we have slightly more than tbe two-thirds,” Baker said. by ' Ck>ngress in 1979 that mandated a n balanced budget for fiscal 1981 and But first, supporters of the con­ By Julie Flint beyond. Though Shamir de.scribed his talks with stitutional amendment had to fend off United Press International Reagan and Secretary of State George Shultz Downtown building to become offices last-ditch attempts, mostly by “There’s your statute!” Thurmond Sharp differences as "friendly,” Israeli reporters called the en­ Israeli forces pressed in on a key Palesti­ Democrats, to kill or weaken the told Dodd. “It’s on the books now. The in Mideast priorities counters "tough.” law firm of Phelon, Squatrito, and Fitzgerald. When the work Is fices on the ground levpi. At the front, on the main level, the measure. people of this country don’t want a nian refugee camp near Beirut’s inter­ ‘He (Reagan) was firm in saying his opi­ The Dewey Richman Building on Main Street (left) Is blocked national airport today, fighting gunbattles off from public view by the construction barricade In front of It. done the rear of the building, which abuts the Birch Street original center entrance will be preserved. Two recessed en­ “We don’t concede that the thing is statute. The people of this country want — Story on page 5 nion in very clear terms,” an Israeli official trances will be built at either end as well. lost,” said an aide to Sen. Alan Craqston, a constitutional amendment.” with PLO guerrillas that threatened a fragile said. “He believes the exchanges of fire there but there Is a great deal of activity behind the barricade as the parking lot, will look like the sketch at right. A sunken atrium, 2-day-old cease-fire. with a ramp for use by handicapped persons, will lead Into of­ D-Calif., who is leading the opposition to Although the approach suggested by (in Beirut) have to stop,” building undergoes conversion to offices that will be used by the amendment. In Jerusalem, a senior government of­ G Dodd never before came up for a vote in Witnesses said at least 200 Israeli tanks, The Senate was expected to Work late ficials said Israel was aware of Washington’s Liberation Organization, but in Washington, the Senate, it received the highest officials expressed “open, deeply felt irrita­ some pulling field cannons, took up positions into the'night to dispose of about 25 anger with its massive retailiatory strikes on Monday on the eastern side of the demarca­ number of votes of any alternative west Beirut but believed pressure should be tion with Israel” for undermining negotiaions amendments still pending to the con­ budget proposal when it was introduced in tion line between PLO-controlled Moslem stitutional change. maintained to force the PLO out of Lebanon. with its massive attacks on west Beirut.