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lianrl|patf r lEamtng M? ralh MANCHESTER, CONN., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1974 - VOL. XCIV, No. 56 Manchester—A City of Village Charm TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES PRK:E: I II' I EEN GEM'S Cuts in Education Budget Demanded by Mrs. Grasso HARTFORD (UPl) - Gov.-elect operate^e state within its existing fairs, said the increases her department is between projected state revenues in fiscal Ella T. Grasso said today the state revenuSstructure and to veto an income seeking are due to inflation and not 1976 and a preliminary state budget Education Department, which tax, said the Education Department will expanded services. worked out by (iov. Thomas J. Meskill, requested a 50 per cent increase in its have to find areas to trim spending if it The $200 million deficit is the difference which Mrs. Grasso can change. budget, will have to find areas to trim wants to embark on new programs. spending. “The state Board of Education interprets the law as a clear and legal mandate to State Education Commissioner protect the educational interests of the Mark R. Shedd told Mrs. Grasso that state and provide equal educational oppor Builder Says State Aides the $408 million budget his agency tunity,” Shedd told Mrs. Grasso. drew up is the minimum necessary to “I believe the budget proposal provide equal educational oppor represents the minimum amount Misled Him About Lease tunities to all pupils in Connecticut. necessary to carry out the legal man date,” he said. Shedd made the comment as Mrs. HARTFORD (UPI) — A developer Shedd's budget request also included a re-hired by the Meskill administration as Grasso opened the second day of hearings testified today state officials told him on state agency requests as she looks for request to increase spending for special an unemployment appeals referee at $14,- education from $30 million to $50 million. there would be no need for a highway gar 667 a year after pleading no contest to the ways to close a projected revenue gap of age in Winsted while secret negotiations Mrs. Grasso opened the hearings forgery charge and receiving a six-month $200 million in her first budget. were in progress to award a lease in A key element in the $140 million in Tuesday as she started to look for suspended sentence in Superior Court. Winsted to a friend of Gov. Thomas J, Tomasso, flanked by his lawyer and crease sought by Shedd is a $100 million deadwood in state programs. Meskill. another company official, revealed under program of property tax relief to aid the "la m trying to learn about duplication David E. Battistoni of Winsted showed questioning he got inside information poor communities in Connecticut. and overlapping,” she said. lawmakers a Feb. 16,1972 letter from the about Connecticut’s need for a highway Shedd's spending recommendations “Deadwood must be pruned out,” she Transporation Department saying garage in Winsted as well as special help already have been trimmed by the state said. Winsted would not be “a focal spot” for from a state employe to win the lucrative Department of Finance and Control to $271 Less critical services and operations the garage. lease. -f?- may have to be curtailed to pay for million, including elimination of the About two weeks later then Transporta desirable or essential services. A Republican and next-door neighbor of property tax equalization recommenda tion Commissioner A. Earl Wood formally Mrs. Grasso first heard from state former state GOP Chairman J. Brian tion. requested then Public Works Com Health Commissioner Douglas S. Lloyd, Gaffney, Tomasso said state Department The Meskill administration trimmed missioner Edward J. Kozlowski to lease whose department asked for $65.6 million of Transportation official Howard Dicken state agency spending requests from $1.7 property in Winsted from New Britain in 1976, up $9.5 million from its present son gave him the tipoff that led to billion to $1.5 billion in its preliminary builder Angelo Tomasso Jr., a heavy budget. Tomasso’s realty firm winning a $2.5 Connecticut’s Governor-elect Ella T. Grasso opens a series of budget recommendations to M r s. Grasso. An Republican campaign contributor and million lease for 15 years beginning last ticipated revenues, however, are only $1.3 Later Susan Bennett, commissioner of hearings at the Capitol, with testimony from Commissioner of Health friend to Meskill and former GOP state year. billion. the state Department of Community Af- Douglas S. Lloyd (R). Chairman J. Brian Gaffney. Dickenson even helped Tomasso scout Mrs. Grasso, who has promised to Battistoni, an unaffiliated voter, said he for suitable land, Tomasso said, just as he had submitted his own proposal for a had helped the Downes Construction Co. of highway garage but let it lapse after New Britain search for land for another receiving the letter. highway garage in Waterford. Jetliner Crash Kills All 191 Aboard The legislative subcommittee in vestigating possible corruption in Connec ticut’s million-dollar leasing program COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (UPI) - A Dutch tion to the nine crew members. A Martin procedure, a huge ball of fire was The death toll was second only to the 345 planned to vote later today on a resolution Bulletins airliner carrying Moslems to Mecca and a Air spokesman listed the crew as two noticed,” Schroeder said. “We do not persons who died in the crash of a Turkish requesting a temporary ban on future nine-member crew slammed into a 1,000- pilots, one mechanic and four know, but we presume this ball of fire DCIO jetliner last March near Paris. leases. I foot-tall wall of rock like a “giant stewardesses, all Dutch, and two Indone marked the impact when the aircraft The resolution, sponsored by Rep. John Miners Accept Contract The one-year-old Dutch DC8 was making fireball” Wednesday night, killing all 191 sian stewardesses. crashed.” Mannix, R-Wilton, was discussed WASHINGTON (UPI) - The its 19th flight in an airlift of 25,000 Moslem Wednesday after Tomasso disclosed how aboard and scattering the debris through Martin Schroeder, the charter airline’s A Martin Air spokesman said the Colom nation’s 120,0(K) striking coal miners bo control tower’s last radio contact with pilgrims from Surabaja, Java, to Mecca his company’s fortunes took a sharp turn the thick jungle below, aviation officials president, flew with Dutch government have voted to accept a new contract the pilot indicated the plane may have^ for religious celebrations. for the better following Meskill’s 1970 said today. aviation officials from The Hague to and end their walkout which has kept Colombo early today to investigate the gone out of control. election. It was the second worst air disaster in mines shut down since Nov. 12 and history. crash. “It appeared that somehow the plane Schroeder said the crash was the first “We tried for 20 years before (under cost thousands of jobs in coal-related A team of Dutch avaition experts flew to “We were informed that just after the got out of control when it was at a height major accident in the history of his 16- Democrats) to get leases but never had Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon, to investigate aircraft was given permission to go down of 4,000 to 5,000 feet, but I cannot draw any year-old company, which has flown any success,” Tomasso testified. industries. the crash of the Martin Air DCS on ap from 8,(X)0 to 2,000 feet in the landing conclusions from this,” he said. Moslems to Mecca for years. Now his Riverview Realty firm, one of proach to the fog-shrouded Colombo Air several Tomasso industries, takes in more Sirica Rules Out Delay than $400,000 a year for renting land and port. WASHINGTON (UPI) - U.S. buildings to Connecticut, he said. Tilaka de Zoysa, a planter from a tea District Judge John J. Sirica today plantation near the crash site, said the The resolution asked Meskill and Odd Fellows Building Sale Imminent Democratic Gov.-elect Ella T. Grasso not denied a request by the Watergate plane went directly over his head and then cover-up defendants for permission to there was an explosion. to sign any leases beyond five years’ dura By DOUG BEVllNS take a deposition from former Presi “It was something like an earthquake,” rumors of the impending sale this mor town businessman Phil Harrison urged tion until after March 1 when new The 50-year-old Odd Fellows Building at dent Richard M. Nixon beginning Jan. he said. “I rushed (out) and saw the plane ning, considered sale of the building a set that new illumination be given top priori safeguards can be created to prevent the center of Manchester is about to be back to their plans for upgrading Main St. further “sweetheart deals,” said subcom 6, and ordered the trial to proceed scattering. The whole plane was breaking sold, according to real estate brokers ty- traffic flow and revitalization of the down • Learned that chances are slim that mittee Chairman Richard A. Dice, R- without interruption. into bits arid it was on fire.” handling negotiations for the property. town business area. there’ll be a downtown hospitality center Cheshire. Another witness from a nearby village The structure, now owned by the Odd "I’m very disappointed about the sale,” for the Christmas shopping season. Witnesses scheduled for today’s hearing told rescue workers it was like a “giant Fellows Building Association, has been on ■Pilot Error Found downtown committee Chairman William Katherine Giblin, who set up a center for included Public Works Commissioner fireball in the sky.” the market for two to three years and is WASHINGTON (UPI) - The De Zoysa said the plane hit a wall of Sleith said today.