7- 2 4 - MANCHESTER HERALD. Fri- Feb. 19. 1982 Tyson n Consumer Reports No $wan sbrii^ Weicker calls Indians, Tech keeps Lite insurance for kids for 'Mr. Allen' for wqr on cuts on win track ... page 8 ... page 3 pace is not a very good value ... page 15 By Ellen Debenport United Press — well less than half that International the country’s largest life child. That policy can be spent on her policy would By the Editors be worth $11,500. in the amount should be enough. SPRINGDALE, Ark. - of Consumer Reports insurance companies converted to a $5,000 If you can afford It and explains, insurance “is vrhole-life policy when the same amount of time, even Tyson Foods knows the after paying imcome taxes you want life insurance for More precipitation Manchester, Conn. You can buy life in­ cheap at those ages, child reaches age 21, for an your children, buy it as family that once sat down on it along the way. to a fried chicken dinner surance on your children. because nobody ever dies annual' premium of $01 cheaply as you can — likely Sunday Sat., Feb. 20, 1982 ' It’s relatively cheap, com­ to speak of.” payable for life. At age 25, So why buy it? C. Roger every Sunday is more like­ Salter, president of Kinder- throu^ group Insurance, ly now to eat frozen pared to what you’d pay for One offerer of child there is a an option to for example. You pan — See page 2 25 Cents an adult's poUcy. But is it a policies is Kinder-Care purchase anwxtra $5,000. Care’s life Insurance chicken from the program, suggests that it probably get a competitive microwave oven, and the good value? Should you buy Learning Centers Inc. What is the policy worth? rate, covering all the it? Do you need to? Based in Montgomery, How does it compare to is burial insurance; “On veteran Arkansas company the claims that we have children in your family for is trying to keep pace. No, in the opinion of Con­ Ala., it is the nation’s other investments? If you $lo to $15, if you purchase a sumer Reports’ editors. largest chain of day-care have a 5-year-old daughter paid, in some instances. Since 1973, Tyson has I’m not sure what type of group plan for them. Or, if been expanding its Here’s why. centers, with some 725 and you buy her a policy you have a whole life policy It’s true that life in­ centers nationwide. In this year, at age 22 the funeral these children offerings in cooked, frozen would have been able to for yourself, you may be Weiss considers option chicken — chicken sticks, surance premiums on a 1978, Kinder-Care started policy will have a cash able tor cover the rest of policy for a minor are to offer life insurance for value of $35. If your have without it.” chicken hoagies, chicken Bht families who can’t your family at a relatively cordon bleu, chicken Kiev. cheap. The reason you the children attending any daughter keeps the policy, small cost. Steel rises spend little money on a of its centers. it will be worth about $2,- afford funeral expenses Even Burger King’s probably can't afford in­ However,! the death of a chicken sandwiches and policy for someone under Kinder-Care sells a $5,- 835 when she turns 65. child is a personal, not a Structural steel begins to rise at CItyPlace, 21 years of age is that the 000 modified-premium Placed in a passbook surance policies for their McDonald’s McNuggets the new 38-story office-retail pomplex being children. Nor should a financial tragedy. In ,CU’s are ’Tyson chicken. risk of death for that age whole life policy. It has a savings account instead of opinion, it does not need to Town workers face layoffs developed In downtown Hartford and group is such a small one. fixed 121-year premium — in annual insurance family need $5,000 worth of The line of cooked foods life insurance for a funeral be covered by an insurance — called Chick’n Quick for scheduled for topping off In edriy fall. As a chief actuary of one regardless of the age of the premiums, the money you policy. retail — has met with By Scot French that the possibility of cutbacks landfill has no permit fee while to do it,” he said. The cutbacks Stephen Penny, who predicted in “amazing acceptance,” Herald Reporter results from “the need to keep the “every other town around us ideally would be a made for both ef­ December that such cutbacks were said Jim Blair, ’Tyson’s at­ budget at an absolute minimum.”' charges. Are we missing a revenue ficiency and economic purposes, he in the cards. torney. Plans are to For the first time in at least three Asked why the situation has source?” added. decades, municipal employees may “Our policy on personnel cutbacks market it in every major become so desperate, Weiss replied, Another possible source of. funds In the past, municipal lay-offs will be to avoid them wherever we city in the United States, be laid off to trim the cost of running “Have you been to any budget could come from restaurant inspec­ have come only after outside fun­ Manchester’s town government. can, but there will be some,” he told he said. hearings? There’s a real, almost tions, Weiss said. “Is it not ding for a program has stopped, ’The Herald. The cooked chicken Town Manager Robert B. Weiss paranoia on the part of the public legitimate to charge a fee?” he confirmed that he is considering Weiss said. Such cutbacks have “We would try to make any cuts products help protect about taxes.” asked. - affected employees working under through attrition, but there may be Tyson in the boom or bust that option as a last resort to control Weiss said the lay-offs are not The town’s adult recreation the inflation-wracked budget. the Comprehensive Employment some lay-offs,” he said. poultry industry. Company assured, but that if they occur, programs could become nearer self- Training Act, a federally funded Weiss said fewer people -are officials credit the cooked Set smug With Yam “We are looking at the possibility “There certainly isn’t going to be a supporting, as have many of program, Weiss said. leaving the town’s work force since chicken with allowing of personnel Cutbacks — layoffs,” wholesale lay-off of large Manchester so-called cultural But now, the town’s 400-500 full Weiss told a Friday afternoon press fewer jobs are available in the them to turn a profit — numbers.” programs, Weiss suggested. and permanent part-time workers private sector. albeit small — in the se­ conference. 'T don’t think we can The general manager said he Once those alternatives are count on attrition to do much good.” whose salaries are paid hy local That trend, coupled with the cond full year of a poultry pigns to explore alternative exhausted, however, the possiblity taxes face the possiblity of losing relatively few retirements expected industry recession. The press conference was called methods of trimming the budget, of service cutbacks and lay-offs to release the departmental Inidget their Jobs at Ue hands of local this year, allow fewer reductions ’Tyson’s net profit in 1981 such as charging for services wUch looms large, he said. voters and officials. through attrition and make the' Coaneeticttt Chevy Dealers! requests for fiscal 198243. are now offered free. “If we have an opportunity to save was |2.1 million on $501 The possiblity of lay-offs has been ROBERT B. WEISS ' Weiss said after the meeting possibility of lay-offs more likely, he million in sales, the first For example, he said, the town’s money for the taxpayer, we’re going broached in the past by Mayor said. says layoffs ’’possible” time the company had Get A $500 or $750 Cash Bonus On Selected New broken the halfbillion sales mark. Although the profit .was low, sales dollars had ’81 and ’82 Chevrolet Cars and Trucks! Departments hold tight rein increased 28.5 percent over 1980, mainly through price increases. “Chicken is really less than it was in the late ‘40s Early budget figures and early ‘50s, and you probably can’t say that about anything else in our economy,” said Blair, who also serves as the company spokesman. “It takes a lot show 10% increase less grain to grow a larger chicken now than it did in the ‘40s, partly because of a lot of genetic research By Scot French “These are very raw figures,”"he percentage increase was the and partly because of very Herald Reporter said. “They have not been reviewed Department of Human Services, sophisticated nutrition.” by me. In some instances, I feel which climbed about 11.5 percent ‘The relatively low selling Town Manager Robert B. Weiss, there may not have been allocated from its present budget of $840,795. price for chicken has unveiled the first departmental enough for utilities or fuel.” Weiss attributed much of that in­ helped make the poultry in­ budget requests under his no growth Only the police budget department crease to the expanded workload of dustry resistant to national guidelines Friday, and the overall shows a staff increase in its budget the town’s conservator, whose half­ recessions, although over­ increase of just under 10 percent left request, with two patrol and two time contract would be increased to production periodically the author pleased — sort of.