Apartments MaudiFStpr Converting To Condos Vol. XCIX, No. 104 — Manchester. Conn., Friday, February 1, 1980 • Since 1881 • 20n Single Copy • 15it Home Delivered Chamber By MARY KITZMANN State law mandates condominiums maintain separate heating elements Herald Reporter for each apartment. MANCHESTER - The Members The residents of the complex Manchester Garden Apartments greeted the conversion with mixed If have been converted into con­ reactions. m l dominiums. “ I have a lease that expires next See Firm Residents of the 102-unit complex year,” Jane Bagley said. “But I plan located on forest and St. James on staying the full five years. At my By MARTY KEARNS streets received word of the conver­ age it doesn’t pay to buy.” Mrs. sion Tuesday. The documents for Bagley is 83. Herald Reporler conversion were filed in the town MANCHESTER - The Chamber of Wesley Hale says he will probably clerk's office late Thursday. Commerce’s Friday Forum, a About 25 percent of the one and two move from Manchester when he program designed to familialize bedroom apartments are occupied by leaves the complex. chamber members with local elderly persons. Under the conver­ “My lease is up in June,” he said. businesses, today visited Dynamic sion agreement, the owners, a “ But I plan on staying until I have to Metal Products Co., Inc., at 422 N. limited partnership controlled by leave. I can’t buy it, I just sold my Main St. Mark Lavitt, Coventry, will let the house to move to Manchester.” Hans Weiss, president and founder tenants stay until their lease expires. “If I were younger, I would buy of Dynamic Metals, in addition to In the case of elderly persons who it,” said Thomas McCann. “Every being a noted artist, described for did not wish to buy the apartments, other place will be going this way local businessmen his metal-working which will be priced under $40,000, anyhow.’’ company and the state’s skilled labor the units will be provided for five ad­ “I’m 65, and can’t see buying it. I’ll market, ditional years. stay as long as I can.” Weiss described Dynamic Metals as 17 years of growth. The company Tenants will be able to purchase Although Robert Weiss, town exclusively services the aerospace the apartments at reduced rate, but manager, recently asked the Ethics industry, amassing $4 million in sales no provision for a senior citizen Commission for a ruling on whether per year and employed 80 laborers. reduction was made. or not realtors who serve on the Weiss said the company’s success Under state law, tenants have 90 Board of Directors can vote on any is attributable to the skill of his days to decide if they will purchase town action to limit conversion to craftsmen, “success equals people.” the unit, and 180 days to move out if condominiums, town officials said He added most jobs are done with they do not purchase today no action was planned as yet. Chamber Visits Dynamic Metals handwork and not the huge, expen­ sive machines that sterotype the in­ The owners have said the conver­ "There is no rule or law that would Members of the Chamber of Commerce tion to Dynamic’s metal working component dustry. He said it takes four years to sion will take place over the next involve us,” Pascal Mastrangelo, view the operation of Dynamic Metals Co. of the aircraft industry. (Herald photo by train a metal worker. several years, and the residents were housing authority chairman, said. “If The company handles about 700 notified of the options in a meeting they follow the state condominium Inc. at today’s chamber sponsored, Friday Pinto) different items each month, Tuesday. requirements we do not have any Forum. The chamber was given an orienta­ employing eight or nine separate The apartment complex was authority ” trades In the process. Each item recently renovated. But it still has a Both Charlie McCarthy, assistant requires 20 to 50 individual central heating system. As the town manager, and Alan Lamson, operations. apartments are sold, separate planning and zoning director, said The firm contracts more frequent­ heating systems for each apartment they knew of no action planned by the Cops Have Sketches ly with Pratt & Whitney, General will be installed, according to a town to restrict apartment conver­ Electric, Hamilton Standard and spokeswoman from ERA Daniel sion to condominiums. Canadian aircraft industries. The Reale, Inc., the firm representing “The question hasn’t come up company is capable of producing in­ the owners. yet,” Lamson said. tricate components, some with very fine tolerances equated this to a Of Holdup Suspects measurement with a precision equal to the size of a normal strand of hair, By CHARLIE MAYNARD a round, flat plaid cap, with green There were no customers in the split three times down the middle. store at the time of the robbery,' Herald Reporter tones, gold framed wire rimmed Dynamic Metals has produced glasses, a tan coat, blue jeans, tan After taking the jewelry, police said parts used on Apollo moon missions Grand List Up MANCHESTER — Police today work boots and loose-fitting gloves. the two ordered the manager to un­ and currently specializes in jet released composite sketches of the Police said he also had “poor teeth.” lock a rear door and they escaped to- engine components. Parts are V. two suspects who held up Michael's The man with the shotgun was the Ford parked on St. James Street. currently produced for the U.S. Ail Jewelers on Main Street shortly after described as a white male, about Ironically, the patrol officer who h'orce’s F-lOO engine and Israel’s By 2.2 Percent 11 a m. Thursday and escaped with five-feet-six inches tall, weighing first reported to the crime was only French-built mirage jet fighter. more than $2,(XX) in jewelry. about 160 pounds, dark complexion seconds behind the suspects. Detec­ Weiss said Connecticut has at­ The two men. one armed with a with black wavy hair, and wearing a tive Capt. Joseph Brooks said this tracted metal working firms because MANCHESTER - The town’s plete the Grand List by Dec. 31.” shotgun and the other with a pistol, three-quarters length brown leather morning. of the state’s pool of skilled labor.But Grand List increased by 2.2 percent Including the phase-in, the Grand ordered four employees to lie down coat which could easily conceal a As the officer drove in back of the he also referred to it as a shrinking from last year. Town Assessor J. List will total about $468.5 million, up on the floor and the store manager to shotgun. Police said he was believed store. Brooks said, an employee at pool. He said 50 percent of the state’s Richard Vincent announced from last year’s $425.6 million. empty display cases of jewelry into a to be in his late 20s or early 30s. Arthur Drug pointed in the industry is machine industry but Thursday. This year’s list included an 8 per­ green tote bag. The heist included Police are seeking these two and direction in which the two escaped. added the average age for a metal Vincent said the grand total of cent increase in motor vehicle diamond and gold rings. another man and a woman who are However, a parked car prevented the worker is 56. While the average age $558.4 million represents a modest in­ assessments, but a percent drop in The man carrying the pistol was believed to have been in a second get­ officer from getting onto St. James of Dynamic Metal’s employees is 35, crease. personal property. He said the described as a white male, between away car. The armed robbers fled Street. the ability to train new workers is “It is in line with other towns this decline was mainly because of a 25 and 30 years of age, five-feet-nine the scene in a maroon Ford and aban­ Brooks confirmed that a shot was what Weiss presented as a key to the year,” he said. reduction in business inventories. inches tail and weighing about 170 doned it at Laurel and Chestnut continued life of the metal working The new Grand List is up by $12.4 Real estate assessments increased fired, but said it was by accident. A pounds. He was said to have reddish- streets. From there, police said, they woman in a blue Ford who was trying trade in the state. million from last year’s $548.9 by 2 percent. blond curly hair and short sideburns. left in a brown car and escaped pur­ Weiss has supported government- million, meaning there was that to drive onto St. James Street from a From the grand list, the Board of Witnesses also told police he wore suit. driveway saw the two enter the first assisted training programs for metal much more new construction, new craftsmen. He was written brochures equipment and new motor vehicles Directors will establish a mill rate getaway car for the coming fiscal year. If the for such programs and pointed to a brought into town last year to be The suspect who carried the pistol board wants to raise the same study by the U.S. Bureau of Labor taxed. was driving and his shotgun-toting amount of money as it did for this Statistics that ranked tool and die Vincent said it was the first time in year, the tax rate would be cut from companion tried to leap into the car makers' incomes seventh out of the five years that the list was out on the present 42.98 mills to about 37.54 as it sped up the street.