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Vote tomorrow, polls open from 8 a.m, to 8 p.m. The weather Variable cloudiness this afternoon; windy with a chance of showers. Partly cloudy tonight with lianrljf0tpr lEvipniim U m lJi temperatures in the low 40s. Partly sunny Tuesday, with highs again in Manchester—A City of Village Charm the Ms. National weather forecast map on Page 15. EIGHTEEN PAGES MANCHESTER, CONN., MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1977- VOL. XCVI, No. 138 Voters to decide on industrial park By GREG PEARSON issue to pay for development of the A voter can vote either "yes,” be the park’s major tenant, plans to park. Herald Reporter signifying approval of the project, or buy 162 acres at a price of about $3,- The zoning change has been Polls in all ten of Manchester’s “no,” signifying opposition. 240,000 ($20,000 an acre). The com­ voting districts will be open from 8 granted, the project plan has been The eventual cost to the town will pany and the town signed a contract approved and the contract has been a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday. Tlie referen­ be much less than the $15.4 million Friday for the sale of the land. dum question asks for an appropria­ signed. But an equally important step total. The state will pay half the cost The actual purchase agreed to in tion of $15.4 million to pay for in the industrial park project occurs of development. The town also the contract is contingent on several purchase and development pf the 393 Tuesday when Manchester voters expects to receive more than $6 items, including passage of acres in Buckland to be used for the will decide on a $15.4 million bond million if all of the park’s 320 Tuesday’s referendum. If the bond park. developable acres are sold. issue is voted down, it would put an The project plan for the park es­ end to the industrial park plan. timates that the final cost to the town The park also requires a zone will be about $4.1 million. This figure change, which was granted on Jan. 17 Fire truck driver might be even smaller if tbe town ob­ by the Planning and Zoning (Commis­ tains federal funding that may be sion. The change has been appealed available to pay part of the develop­ by seven plaintiffs represented by At- cleared in fatality ment cost. The J.C . Penney Co., which would ----- Sec Page Eighteen The deputy coroner for Hartford Galligan’s ruling said that the fire County has ruled that a town fire truck was proceeding west on W. fighter is not responsible for the acci­ Center St. with its siren and red -a . dent that caused the death of a 17- flashing lights on. year-old motorcyclist last June. The truck slowed as it neared the State aide backed Anthony Salafia Jr ., a member of Waddell Rd. intersection and entered the Town Fire Department, was the the intersection against a red light. operator of a fire truck that collided One motorcycle cut around the One, two, three, blow truck before Botticello collided with in Penney data case with a motorcycle being operated by Paul J. Botticello. Botticello, 17, a the side of the vehicle, Galligan Lynn Mathiews, 8, and Denise Chalifoux, 7, members of Brow­ resident of 15 Dudley St. at the time, reported. A third motorcycle was nie Troop No. 618, blow out the candles on a birthday cake Tax Commissioner Gerald J. “The commissioner (Heffernan) died a week after the June 12 acci­ also able to avoid the fire truck, ac­ celebrating the 65th birthday of Girl Scouts founded by Juliette Heffernan does not have to discuss answered the only question that was dent. cording to the coroner’s report. communications between his depart­ pertinent to the matter — That no Low. The party was held Friday at Verplanck School cafeteria. In September, a $250,000 lawsuit “I find that the death of Paul J. ment and the J.C. Penney Co., accor­ taxpayer receives a tax break under (Herald photo by Dunn) was filed on Botticello’s behalf Botticello was caused by his own ac­ ding to State Atty. Gen. Carl R. the law,” Ajello said. against Salafia and the Town of tions and omissions, in that he failed Ajello. “ Communications between Manchester to keep his motorcycle under proper TTie decision by Ajello is contrary taxpayers and the Tax Department The ruling by William C. Galligan, control, in that he failed to observe to one made last month by the state’s Leftists see gains are confidential,” the attorney Hartford County’s deputy coroner, other traffic, and in that he failed to Freedom of Information (FOI) Com­ general said. He said that such com­ states that Botticello was responsible hear the siren or see the red lights of mission, which ruled that Heffernan munication is an exception to FOI for the accident. the fire truck,” Galligan wrote. should reveal discussions and letters statutes. in French voting between the state Tax Department Information provided in such com­ and the J.C . Penney Co. Penney munications could concern “personal PARIS (UPI) — The Communist- round of voting for city councils in all would be the m ajor tenant in the business,” Ajello said. “It could be of Socialist alliance made big gains 36,000 towns and villages. Two per proposed industrial park in value to business competitors, either today in local elections in one of the cent went to environmentaKst can­ Manchester. Today’s news well-wishers or ill-wishers,” he said. strongest challenges to the center- didates. The FOr complaint against Heffer- Mitchell W. Pearlman, counsel foi right coalition that has ruled France The left took - - ' -------------------- BjrBMprW KBKl m t iiuittiyyt and' Anthony Pagano, who represent he does not know what further action Republic in 1958. ruling coalition of President Valery Summary Exultant leftist ledders said the Discard d’Estaing, and stood a good seven clients in the appeal of a zone the commission will take in the Complied from United Press International change granted for the park, The at­ matter. He said that the three- vote results meant they represented chance of capturing many others in torneys sought information on what member board will decide at its a “new m ajority” and vowed to step runoff elections next Sunday. took place in meetings between the March 23 meeting whether to pursue up their drive to take power in In the first race for mayor of Paris S tate possibility that there may be life” Penney firm and the state Tax the complaint despite Ajello’s ruling. parliamentary elections scheduled in 106 y ears, form er P rem ier to the probe, O’Neill told a | Department. Attys. Beck and Pagano could not for next year. Jacques CJiirac, a conservative who split with the ruling coalition, was Bentley College seminar this i; Ajello ruled that Heffernan’s be reached for comment this mor­ Incomplete returns gave the left 52 I HARTFORD (UPI) - Connec- weekend. He predicted Congress i; refusal to discuss the' matter was ning. per cent of the vote to 46 per cent for leading Industry Minister Michel - ;J: ticut could net another $4 million will vote more money for the pan- •; legal according to state statutes. the center-right in Sunday’s initial d-’Ornano, Discard’s hand-picked ■ji in taxes a year if liquor prices el when its funds run out at the candidate, 26 per cent to 21 per cent. •j: were decontrolled, according to end of the month. i; ‘The leftist alliance had 33 per cent ji: the state Office of Fiscal and the environmentalists 11 per cent. Analysis. The Fiscal Analysis HARTFORD (UPI) - Sen. |i Voting will go into the second and :j: study observed that 16 per cent of Abraham Ribicoff, D-Conn, plans :■ Manchester unit wins final round next Sunday in the vast !:• the liquor consumed in Connec- to introduce legislation today to •: majority of communities, including ticut comes from neighboring create a new Department of ■; Paris, where no candidate wins an states where liquor prices are Education. According to the j: outright majority. lower. former Secretary of Health, ;■ in St. Patrick’s parade Discard’s coalition has lost grass­ Education and Welfare, the new •: roots support in recent months I HARTFORD (UPI) - The department will assume respon- ;i because of deepening divisions over Connecticut Right to Life Cor- sibility for programs currently in ji Manchester was well-represented The department had 12 uniformed eluded Lawrence Moran, who served bow to handle urgent domestic af­ poration planned to protest today HEW and other federal agencies. in Hartford’s St. Patrick’s Day fire fighters marching along with as the town’s parade marshal. fairs, combined with lingering two bills which it says would “A separate department would i parade Saturday. So well, in fact, eight members of the Ladies The parade committee was chaired economic difficulties. allow a physician to declare a lift education out of the maze of i that it won ‘‘Best Town Par­ Auxiliary. A group of costumed by Sean Byrne, and Mayor Matthew Chirac recently formed the Rally living pet’son dead. In prepared bureaucracy where most of its ad- ; ticipation” in the annual parade. volunteers from the department’s Moriarty, who marched in the for the Republic, a Gaullist party, remarks to be delivered before ministration now exists,” ; “ In other words, we had the best parade, served as honorary parade and split from the reform-mind^ I tbe legislature’s Public Health Ribicoff said in prepared remarks i Training Co.

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