a) - MANCHESTER HERALD. Tue.sdu>. J;m :!4. 1984 / Lawmakers consider Connecticut funding insp^or post In Bnef Cut your own taxes: Lively debate begins Mrs. Swensson More fires said pianned Tips for moonlighters town curriculum study lentertalns OWLS By Mark A. Dupuis been raised in the last several years WEST HARTFORD - Barry Dov Schuss. 17, United Press International without success and died in the House accused of setting four arson fires in West ... page 2 ... page 3 ... page 13 last year. Critics argue the office ; bid Hartford's Jewish community last summer, HARTFORD — The Legislature's duplicate work already done by state planned to set four more fires, a published report Judiciary Committee will consider a auditors and other officials. 9 said today. bill for creating and funding a state The bill to be considered by the The Hartford Courant quoted sources assaying inspector general’s office during the Judiciary Committee during the legis­ Schuss told West Hartford police of additional coming legislative session. lative sessm beginning Feb. 8 would targets after he surrendered and was arrested The Judiciary Committee heard also require action by the Appropria­ Dec. 13. renewed pleas Monday for establish­ tions Committee to provide funds for The information is contained in court docu­ 'sr ment of the office to weed out fraud, the office. ments to be made public Wednesday if Hartford waste and corruption in Connecticut Rep. Elinor Wilber, R-Fairfield. Superior Court Judge John D. Brennan decides Colder tonight; Manchester, Conn. government. speaking on behalf of House Republi­ Schuss should be tried as an adult on four felony * sunny Thursday Wednesday, Jan. 25, 1984 A Republican legislator and the chief cans, also endorsed the bill, saying the counts of arson, the newspaper said. state's attorney said the offim could office would "provide for year-round Schuss’s attorney has requested Schuss be tried — See page 2 Single copy: 254 help fill a gap between the/work of professional oversight that the Legisla­ as a youthful offender. If Brennan grants the existing agencies in wbcldog against ture can’t provide.” iianrhpatpr Iprald request, the trial would be closed and all court improprieties and mismanagement in Col. Henri F. Erkelens of Trumbull, (documents would remain sealed, as they have state government. an Army officer assigned to the state been since the request was made. The inspector general would be Military Department as an inspector If tried as a Juvenile, Schuss could face a charged with detecting fraud, waste general and paid with federal funds, maximum penalty of three years for each count and abuse in the use and distribution of said the office would have a deterrent instead of 20 years for each charge if tried as an public property and in the collecting effect. / adult. and spending of stpte and federal "1 think the first deterrent role Schuss is charged with setting fires at the I G roton Young Israel of West Hartford synagogue, the i funds. begins when you establish an inspector Civil w ar Chief State's Attorney Austin J. general,” said Erkelens, who said an home of Rabbi Solomon Krupka of Yopng Israel, McGuigan, who supports the new inspector general would help deter the EmmaneuI synagogue and the West Hartford office, said an inspector general's mismanagement and give workers a home of Democratic Rep. Joan Kemler. The fires UPI photo were set between Aug. 11 and Sept. 19. crash office would fill a gap between the work better idea of what was expected of his office does and the work of the them. ' Schuss is out on bond and is a patient at a Police capture N.J. escapees auditors. "M y assessment of your bill is it’s a private mental hospital. looms again good bill,” Erkelens said. "You’ve Stamford Police SWAT team members surrounded a ■ McGuigan said pro-ecutors were done your homework.” kills 3 condominium in the Glenbrook section Monday and captured able to combat criminal corruption, Curdo8 face new probe while the new office would be able to The committee also heard about three suspects who escaped last week from the Passaic County HARTFORD — Gustave Curcio,, sentenced look into non-criminal problems such operations of the inspector general’s GROTON. Conn. (U P I) - Three with his brother to 10-year federal prison terms Jail in New Jersey. No shots were fired and no injuries were as poor management in government or office in Massachusetts from Steven Illinois residents were killed when for. loansharking, will face another state grand in Lebanon reported. Also arrested were four people accused of harboring inefficient spending of state money. Schultz, the first assistant inspector a single-engine plane crashed in jury probe into the 1981 slaying of reputed Legislation to create ahe office has general in the neighboring Bay State. heavy fog along Route 1 near a the fugitives. mobster Frank Ficcolo. small airport, authorities said. Curcio, sentenced Monday along with his By Steve H agey "W e will not take part in any The victims were identified as brother, Francis “ Fat Frannie” Curcio, will be United Press International government or format with Presi­ Arthur J. Pisarski. 54. of Richton. the subject of a grand jury meeting March 15 in dent Gemayel,” official Damascus Court rejects appeal by ex-fire marshal Bridgeport, State’s Attorney Donald A. Browne Paul D. Storvic, 45, of Grayslake. BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanese radio quoted Jumblatt, Syria’s and Rich McKenna. 33, of Green said. army troops came under mortar ally, as saying Tuesday. Oaks. Authorites said the aircraft Bv Susan E. Kinsman slate law requiring municipalities to a lower court to dismiss a motion filed It will be the second attempt by Browne to -and artillery fire on the hills east of Jumblatt made the same de- "Where,/however, the statute does was enroute from Waukeegan. III. United Press International give preference to local firefighters serve a puolic purpose, the legislature by Thomas Fierro to recover $20,000 he indict Gustave Curcio, 32, for the Sept. 19, 1981, the capital today amid growing mand during the weekend, then when selecting a fire marshal. may constitutionally differentiate be­ paid to a Stamford police officer, gangland-style slaying of Piccolo, 58, a reputed concern over rebel demands for retracted it. But his chief aide, The plane went down in "heavy member of the Carlo Gambino New York crime HARTFORD — The Connecticut The law did not specify what that tween classes of persons, so long as the allegedly to influence the officer’s the resignation of President Amin Marwan Hamade, said from Da- fog” about 10:40 p.m. Tuesday, family. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal preference should be. legislative classification bears a ra­ testimony in a marijuana possession Gemayel, military sources said. mascus Tuesday the Druze leader said firefighter William Giesing of by a Waterbury man who lost his job as Beccia successfully argued he was tional relationship to the public pur­ case. Francis Curcio, 42, and Gustave, linked by Walid Jumblatt, leader of the "is pot retracting what he said." the Poquonnock Bridge Fire city fire marshal after an unsuccessful given no preference in the selection pose sought to be served,” the justices Fierro was later acquitted on crimi­ prosecutors to organized crime activities in Syrian-backed Druze Moslem reb- The inaugural Druze broadcast Department. candidate challenged the .selection process. Superior Court Judge Roman said. nal charges of bribing a witness and Fairfield County, were each given 10 year terms els, followed his resignation de- warned that pro-governm ent The crash site is just north of Monday for their loansharking conviction re­ process. J. Lexton ousted St. John from the job They said the potentiai for “ arbi­ petitioned to recover the money. mand by launching an opposition Christian Phalangists were pre­ Route 1 about IV2 miles northeast turned by a jury Dec. 14. In a unanimous decision written by- and invalidated the test results but trary” use of the preferential authority "Rather than deny the motion, how­ radio station and urging his paring for another civil war. of Groton-New London Airport, Justice Ellen Peters and relea.sed denied Beceia’s application to be given the civil service commission ever, the Qourt should have dismissed They were also fined $20,000 each by U.S. followers to resist Lebanon’s "We will remain faithful to our said LaBelle. Authorities said the Monday, the high court said Edward St. appointed to the vacant position. "does not render the legislation it,” the high court said. District Court Judge T. Emmet Clarie, who set a Christian-led government. mountain and to our martyrs,” the plane departed from Waukeegan, John failed to prove the state law used In hearing St. John’s appeal, the unconstitutional.” "Unless a particular statute can be $100,000 appeals bond for the Stratford brothers. Military sources said today’s radio quoted Jumblatt as saying, III. as the basis for his competitor’s Each has been free on $50,000 bond since their justices found no error in Lextton’s The justices said it was reasonable to found waiving the state’s soverign skirmishes, while sporadic, in- in a reference to the Druze Police said the plane struck two successful appeal was handling of the case. Dec. 14 conviction on the federal loan-sharking throw out the test results if the selection immunity, (Fierro’s) only recourse is volved 120mm mortars, light ar- mountain strongholds. "We will trees and gouged a hole 10 feet in unconstitutional. charges. St. John argued the trial court erred process was flawed. If state law to the claims commission,” the justices tillery and 108mm recoilless guns, certainly win because we are diameter in the ground before St.