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20 - MANCHESTER HERALD. Tuesday, April 3. 1984 BUSINESS Lorbler tells of events Education budget cut Lamb roast Is leading to fatal beating opposed In Bolton springtime treat Business Care needed on cancer contributions page 4 ... page 20 ... page 11 In Brief In 1983, an outfit called the American Institute for director, his wife and a son all on the payroll. Project Cure is another new group actively Cancer Research <AICR) mailed more than 10 million I of us a "Census on Diet and Breast Cancer," soliciting funds for cancer research. Its mailings Color consultant certified containing questions about how much bacon, bologna, Your include “notarized” forms to send to your congress Gari Grant, owner of Gari-Fashion Designer- coffee and other foods we consume, as well as about Money's man and senator petitioning a full-scale investigation /Consullant, has recentlj- been certified as an our smoking and drinking habits. The questionnaire, into what the group says is the medical “establish independent color prepared as a "public service,” included an appeal Worth ment and their refusal to use proven nutritional consultant by suc for funds for further research into the link between treatments to prevent and control cancer.” Rain tonight Manchester, Conn. cessfully complet diet and breast cancer, and a promise that Sylvia Porter Project Cure "happens” to use the same direct mail ing a semester of contributors would receive a "free analysis of the fund-raising firm used by AICR. It isn't even a ancJ Thursday Wednesday, April 4, 1984 charity: rather, it’s a lobbying group. Thus, study with "Beauty good things you are eating that may help prevent — See page 2 Single copy: 25<D for All Seasons." cancer." contributions to it aren’t tax deductible. Also, despite The national pro Project Cure’s Washington, D.C., maiiingaddress, aii What the mailing did not mention is that AICR was attempting to make positive changes in its operations. three of Project Cure’s principais reside in gram offers per created in 1982 not by medical experts but by two sonal color analysis, However, until there is complete disclosure of its Connecticut. professional fund-raisers, whose private firm was finances, it can’t be claimed that it has rectified its This is not to imply that a nutritional approach to wardrobe coordina then hired by AICR to raise its money. tion, make-up artis practices. cancer is a fraud. Last year, the American Cancer try and skin care. Nor did the mailing mention that roughly 75 percent Then there is the National Foundation for Cancer Society, one of the nation’s oldest, largest and most With a Bachelor of of the first $1.2 million so raised would be spent on a Research (NFCRI, founded in 1974 to research cancer respected charities, initiated a major study to Fine Arts in Fashion second barrage of appeals, which have continued into and nutrition-related theories. The NFCR raises investigate possible environmental and lifestyle % ■ Directors Design Ms. Grant 1984. about $15 million annually, mostly by direct mail, and causes of cancer. It is now trying to coordinate the has received negative evaluations from both connections, if any. N.Y. victory will u.se the color To date, the AICR has not reported the results of its concept as the basis quiz, which is of little, if any, scientific value. watchdog agencies. NFCR actually went to the point The American Cancer Society has fund-raising now want of her image con of suing the CBBB for libel. costs of less than 20 percent and is one of the few AICR’s activities had initially fallen short of cancer groups that meet all the standards of both the sulting and design standards established by two majorcharity watchdog business which she The court’s ruling that charitable organizations NCIB and the CBBB. It has played a key role in the fed funds agencies: the National Charities Information Bureau such as the NRCR are “public figures" and that fight against cancer for the past 70 years. puts Mondaie has pursued for the (NCIB) and the Philanthropic Advisory Service of the evaluations and opinions of them are not actionable' past lOyears. Resid Council of Better Business Bureaus (CBBB). These has not been quietly accepted by the NFCR. It has Tho.se who want Monche.ster to ing at 37C Sycamore standards require "reasonable" fund-raising ex Income tax guide available acc'cpt federal grants were from Lane, she is one of taken its case to the Supreme Court and has stopped penses and impose strict rules on conflicts of interest providing financial or other information on its “Sylvia Porter’s 1984 Income Tax Book,” her both sides of the aisle at Tuesday’s the first women in within the organization and on accuracy of solicitation the region to complete the course. activities to the agencies. It stoutly contends that it comprehensive guide to income taxes, is now on top again Board of Directors meeting. materials. In at least two states it was found that shouldn't be rated as a charity but rather as a available through her column. Send $4.95 plus $1 for Republican Peter DiRosa said AICR had not registered with the appropriate state business, and hence the place to get its rating should mailing and handling to “Sylvia Porter’s 1984 Income that when he was in Washington. Attorney Joins firm agencies and had been raising funds illegally. be Dun & Bradstreet. Tax Book,” in care of the Manchester Herald, 4400 Bv Laurence McQuillan New York.” sW DC. at the National lA'ague of To its credit and to avoid disciplinary action by The National CharitiesTnformation Bureau retorts Johnson Drive, Fairway, Kan. 66205. Make checks United Press International Oliver Henkel. Hart’s campaign The law firm of Rome. Case. Kennelly and government regulatory agencies. AICR is apparently payable to Universal Press Syndicate. Cilies conference recently. Presi Klebanoff. P.C., with offices at 2 Wintonbury that the group is a "family affair,” with the executive manager, today acknowledged dent Ronald Reagan stressed that Mall, Bloomfield, NEW YORK - Walter Mon Mondale has moved ahead in the communities should accept grants and 664 Farmington dale’s lopsided victory in the New race for the nomination. “I think because it is his administration’s Ave.. Hartford, has Bradley deal York Democratic primary has he’s the front-runner. We’re the Seabrook owner Construction Expenditure broken Qary Hart’s exclusive grip underdog and that’s the position way to distribute the revenue. announced that at DiRosa refuted the argument torney Monica Laf- on the Northeast, and restored we relish," hesaidonNBC’sToday ferty Harper has Seasonally adjusted annual rates set to avert front-runner status to the former show. that the town should not accept become a member for total spending in February of each year vice president’s campaign. Jackson, noting that today grants bt'cause they increase of the firm. faces prospect Jesse Jackson nearly beat Hart marks the 16th anniversary of the government’s cost. and. ulti takeover try slaying of Martin Luther King Jr., Mrs. Harper, a Billions of current dollars \ for second place for his most mately. taxes. specialist in family impressive finish of the year, built said on the same program that "When our tux dollars leave on the largest black turnout in the "what was a crucifixion in 1968 is a relations matters, of bankruptcy SI 00 200 300 SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (UPI) — Manche.stcr, they are being used was admitted to the state’s history. The strong vote resurrection in 1984" — referring by somebody else," he said. The Milton Bradley Co. has enhances the stature of Jackson’s to his efforts to build a "rainbow” V Connecticut Bar in reached an agreement with a More than one-third of the . May 1978. She re- MANCHESTER, N.H. (UPI) - The prime owner of candidacy and establishes him as a coalition. British holding company to buy force the Democratic Party must "We are a new fact to be federal budget consists of grant ' ceived her under the $9 billion Seabrook nuclear plant has been warned back its stock at a premium to programs to communities, he said. graduate degree that if cannot find additional backup credit sources reckon with at its national conven reckoned with in American politics U \ prevent an unfriendly takeover. tion in San Francisco in July. and that’s progress.” Democratic Director Stephen from Chestnut Hill within three weeks, it could be the first electric utility "Henson had been written about College in Philadel in the nation to go bankrupt. With 99 percent of the districts Jackson’s stunning vote even Cassano .said that at the confer phia. Pa., in 1964. in the financial press as being in a reporting from Tuesday’s voting. drew praise from New York Mayor ence Republicans and Democrats In a statement issued Monday. PublicServiceCo. of position where they were trying to Mondale had 605,080 votes or 45 Ed Koch, a strong critic of the civil She attended both acquire Milton Bradley,” Charles alike agreed- that municipalities the Villanova Uni New Hampshire said its independent public accoun percent; Hart had 368,767 or 27 rights leader. “Jackson ran a are going to pay the price ol the versity Law School tants said commercial banks in the utility’s revolving M. Perrottet, vice president of percent, and Jackson had 343,687 suburb campaign." Koch said, but credit agreement have requested that the utiiity corporate development, said federal deficit. Grants should be and the University or 26 percent. he predicted the black community the means by which the federal Monica L.