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Outside today Clear tonight with lows 5 to 10. Moat- Inside today ly sunny Saturday with highs in the 30s. Outlook: (air Sunday; increasing Area ..........I tB Family , 0-7A cloudiness Monday with chance of oc­ Classified 3-OB Lottery lOA casional snow late in the day; chance of Comics 9A Obituaries . lOA snow or rain Tuesday. National Dear Abby (A Feopletaik 3A weather map on page 6B. Rditorul 4A Spom 3-4B Grasso budget aims to please HARTFORD (UPI) - Gov. Ella T. Grasso, sprinkling her election year budget with political goodies that would Proposals at a glance make Santa Claus jealous, HARTFORD (UPI) - Gov. Ella decade and cost $180 million to today proposed a record $2,086 T. Grasso’s budget proposals at a create 120,000 jobs; billion plan with something for glance. • $30 million for economic everyone. development — $25 million of Taxes Under the glare of live television, which is in bonding — to help she delivered her storm-delayed • A cut in the state sales tax stimulate the economy through budget message to lawmakers, from 7 percent to 6.5 percent, an support of vocational education legislative staff and spectators expected $51 million revenue loss; and industrial development packed into the Hall of the House of • Elimination of the 2.5 percent programs; Representatives. tax on purchase of new business • $5 million for a pilot program equipment, an expected revenue aimed at saving the state's Hundreds of others — including a loss of about $9.4 million; farmland: sizeable contigent of women wearing • $18 million for a 10 percent in­ Basking in winter wonderland ■STOP ERA■' buttons - filled the Spending crease in payments to most galleries and spilled out into the lob­ • $40.9 million in new aid to welfare recipients, which would Mr. and Mrs. Snowman bask in a winter wonderland at 290 Hackmatack St. Mr. Snowman by. looks like he is stretched out on an ermine white lounge chair while Mrs. Snowman stands towns. $25.6 million in cash mean an annual grant of about $5,- Mrs. Grasso, who received several payments — including $10 million 000 for the typical family of four; nearby. (Herald photo by Pinto) standing ovations, carried a small in educational equalization — and • Hiring of 1,471 new state American flag as she entered the $15.3 million in bonding for workers, with a majority in the House, apparently handed her by one specific projects; social services; of the anti-ERA women. • $4 million — of which $2 • An increase to 5 percent in Her pouch included a sales tax cut million is in bonding — to kick off the cost-of-living adjustment for Federal Ijlwsuit filed expected to save the average family an urban revitalization program retired state workers and of four $65; elimination of the tax on Mrs. Grasso says will take a teachers. new industrial equipment for business; larger welfare payments and social services budgets for Noting the week’s weather, Mrs. is a one-year phenomenon and if the over industrial park liberals; more municipal aid for un­ Grasso said she would junk her plan sales tax is cut, there won't be suf­ happy local governments and a job for a $2 million increase in state aid ficient revenue on hand next year to balance the budget without raising it The action is not a surprise tribution center in Manchester. The development plan pleasing even to to towns for snow removal and come By GREG PEARSON again. because federal suits require a 60- building would be the major one in Republicans. back with a larger figure once the The budget covers the fiscal year Herald Reporter day notification before they are filed. the town’s proposed 393-acre in­ - She proposed spending $13.9 cost is calculated. beginning July 1 and must go through A federal suit involving the Last November, attorneys Bruce dustrial park, which would be located million to increase the state payroll Mrs. Grasso's budget, previously an extensive legislative screening proposed J.C. Penney Co. project in Beck and Anthony Pagano, who filed near Exit 93 of Interstate Highway about 4 percent; a $5 million for a disclosed in bits and pieces, is 9 per­ the Town of Manchester was filed the federal suit, sent a letter to the 86. pilot farmland preservation cent larger than last year's $1,915 process, with lawmakers expected to make additions and deletions before this morning in the U.S. District administrator of the Environmental Several court proceedings have program; increasing educational billion package adopted by the approving a final version sometime Court in Hartford. Protection Agency that said such an delayed the start of construction on equalization aid'by $10 million, and Legislature. in April. The suit involves the elimination of action could be expected. the project, which had been helping Hartford cope with the “Our beloved state of Connecticut Her plan to trim a half-cent from the state’s indirect source permit The J.C. Penney Co. plans to build scheduled to begin last fall. Now, collapse of the Civic Center Coliseum stands once again on firm (economic) ground,” she told a the 7 percent sales ta$ and eliminate program. a two-million square foot catalog dis- - J.6i Penney has said that it hopes to roof. the 2.5 percent levy on new business close a property transfer with the A total of $115 million from joint legislative session that machinery would cost the state about town in early March. existing surpluses is being u s ^ to experienced an unprecedented two- $60.4 million. Construction would begin soon finance the ambitious program. Mrs. day delay because of the blizzard. Feds will pay 75% after the transfer of property, of­ Grabso is counting on tax revenues Mrs. Grasso’s spending and tax The sales tax proposal is expected ficials have said. climbing by that amount plus what plan is certain to draw criticism that to face some opposition, but the elimination of the machinery tax The announcement from J.C. spending increases are needed next she is trying to pad her election should slide through the Legislature Penney about planning to purchase year. If that does not occur, they con­ budget with too many vote-getting of contract plowing goodies. If enacted, her critics say, like a new sled. its 162-acre parcel came after a State cede, taxes might have to be raised Heading the increased spending Superior Court judge ruled In favor of again. that will leave the state facing poten­ The Town of Manchester will ment will pay 75 percent of that cost side is $40.9 million in aid to local the project in an environmental suit Administration officials privately tial tax increases next year. receive federal funding to pay 75 per­ and the town will pay the rest. governments, $25.6 million in cash handled by Beck and Pagano, who said this year’s ambitious spending Mrs. Grasso disagrees, claiming cent of the cost of contractors hired All area schools were in session and $15.3 million in bonding for represent^ Michael Dworkin and program will hold down calls for new the continued economic improve­ during the period from Tuesday today, following the partial cleanup specific municipal projects. Edith Schoell in the case. spending next year and publicly ment makes her programs possible. through Saturday, Town Manager of the storm which hit the state this Municipal officials have been among That decision has been appealed to defended the budget as fiscally Mrs. Grasso, a Democrat, cites a Robert Weiss said this morning. week. her toughest critics. the State Supreme Court and there is sound. projected $82 million surplus for the He said that he believes the same Court-ordered educational Some outlying schools were closed also another suit challenging the “This is in our opinion a sound current year; a $34.7 million surplus aid will be given to all communities equalization payments for poorer yesterday while town highway crews sales price of property to J.C. fiscal document. We feel a strong from last year; expected back in the state. communities would get a boost of $10 continued their efforts to clear bus Penney. economy is there, every indication is federal welfare payments of $22 The town normally hires private million of ohe $25.6 million in direct routes and parking areas. ’The firm said, however, that it is there,” said Anthony Milano, the million and optimistic forecasts for contractors to help plow and pick up grants, bringing to $30 million the not concerned about any of these pen­ state budget chief. future economic activity. snow during winter storms. Weiss es­ total state committment for that pur­ East Catholic High School in ding legal cases and is ready to But, Senate Minority Leader Lewis Democratic Lt. Gov. Robert K. timated that the town will have spent Manchester, however, did announce proceed. B. Rome, R-Bloomfield, onfe of five Killian and four Republicans -- U.S. pose. about 125,000 for such service during today that there was no room for stu­ candidates challenging Mrs. Grasso Rep. Ronald Sarasin, Senate Minori­ Many of Mrs. Grasso’s critics say the five-day period covered by the dent parking due to the heavy snow­ ty Leader Lewis B. Rome of Bloom­ the recommendation is a token (See Page Ten-A) for re-election, called it “a political federal aid. Thus, the federal govern­ fall. budget. It’s a budget that tries to be field, House Minority Leader Gerald jesture and she is trying to put off all things to all people.” F.

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