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PAGE TWENTY - MANCHESTER EVENING HERALD, Manchester, Conn., Thurs., Feb. 20,1975 Cash Rebates Are the Rage . NEW YORK (UPI) - In past ’The S&H Green Stamp people million in advertising through getting into the act. S.H. Kress, recessions, companies cut offered 50,000 green stamps- JWT and is the agency’s single the variety store chain, offered BUSINESS prices when buying slowed and cash value $84—to any of the largest account. $2 rebates on handbags in one inventories grew. In today’s company’s 17,000 employes who In a “positive gesture” to New York store. economic slump, the cash buy new cars. S&H does $50 Ford, JWT is giving employes rebate is in vogue. million in business annually in $100 in taxable bonuses for ’There are early indications ’The rebate is not as good a incentive sales programs and buying Ford cars and trucks. the rebate programs have given deal for the consumer as an old- half of it comes from the auto The bonus does not apply to retail sales a slight boost. But Local Board Hosts fashioned cut in price. companies. Lincoln-Mercury models, with unemployment and inven But business likes it as a It’s also good business for whose advertising is handled by tories at record levels, business State Realtors Meet hedge against a wage and price J.Walter ’Thompson. ’The Ford a different agency. finally may be forced into no- freeze. If an appliance maker Motor division places $865 Even department stores are nonsense price cuts. The Manchester Board of provide up-to-date information reduces the price of a toaster Realtors, Inc., will host a on the business. by $3 and the government "caravan” meeting planned by Among topics to be discussed suddenly freezes prices, the dis the Connecticut Association of are the more than 200 bills now count price sticks. Aetna Promotes Two Town Men Three Nixon Aides Sentenced Realtors, scheduled March 4 at being introduced in the state Under the rebate program, Plainville. legislature affecting property the regular sticker price does Aetna Life & Casualty of ’Thomas C. Byron Jr. of 41 countants. Several hundred members of owners and real estate. Also on not change and, under controls, Hartford has announced Lexington Dr. has been named Byron, a Brown University eight Realtors’ boards are the agenda; Professional would be the frozen price. promotions in the home office administrator in the group data graduate, joined the company expected to attend the meeting, education, a new television affecting two Manchester processing department. in 1965 as a programmer To Lengthy Prison Terms Rebates are not as good a the first of four sessions advertising program, and deal for consumers for a residents. trainee. He was promoted to Realtor-consumer affairs. Robert A. Mirante of 95 scheduled around the state to number of reasons. First of all, Mirante, a graduate of the senior analyst in 1968, develop years to a maximum of eight years on dieted co-conspirator by the grand jury, Carriage Dr. has been ap University of Connecticut, WASHINGTON (UPI) - John N. Lowe read to the court part of a state the customer has to pay state ment superintendent in 1970, charges of obstruction of justice, con had been pardoned shortly before the trial pointed manager of life finan Mitchell, H.R. Haldeman, and John ment by Ehrlichman which noted he had and local sales taxes on the full joined Aetna in 1972 as an ad and development administrator spiracy and lying. Mardian, convicted only by President Ford for any crimes he may cial statements in the corporate ministrator. He is a member of Ehrlichman, Richard Nixon’s most been earlier convicted of violating the price of the item. If the last year. of conspiracy, was given a 10-month to have committed during his administra accounting department. the Society of Insurance Ac trusted aides, were sentenced today to up civil rights of Dr. Daniel Ellsberg’s psy purchase is financed, the to eight years in prison for their part in three year sentence. tion. chiatrist. PUBLIC RECORDS customer also must pay a covering up America’s worst political All four have said they will appeal their The four defendants made no personal “I’m -convicted of violating an in finance charge on the full price. scandal. convictions, and they were released statements after the sentencing, but dividual’s civil rights,” Ehrlichman said The customer might have to In writing perhaps the final major without bond. They showed no visible emo lawyers for Haldeman and Ehrlichman in the statement. “Their (the Indians’) Warranty Deed Elizabeth Connolly, 648 Keeney wait up to a month for his chapter of Watergate, U.S. District Judge tion on sentencing. made determined pleas for their clients. rights are in question every day. James L. and Claudia Monaco St., March 1, St. James Church. rebate check. And if the cash John J. Sirica also sentenced Robert C. Sirica made no direct comment about John J. Wilson said that Haldeman was to S. Mark Stephens, property Building Permits Promoting Rebates rebate comes from his Mardian to up to three years in prison. the Watergate case as he pronounced the “caught up in a political maelstrom that at 16-18 Lilley St., $53,000. L auretano Sign Co. for employer, the customer likely All four were convicted New Year’s day stiffest sentences so far in the scandal caught a lot of other good people. Restaurant 94, sign at 29 will pay income taxes oa it. AGWAY except for the original burglars. “Whatever Bob Haldeman did, so did Desires to Help Quitclaim Deed of conspiring to cover up the scandal. 2 Garry Carlson, small appliance manager, places tags on “I truly would like to do that rehabilita Plasticrete Realty Corp. to McNall St., $300. Cash rebate programs have Mitchell had been Nixon’s attorney He said he had given “careful and Richard Nixon,” Wilson said. “But Nixon mushroomed since Chrysler tion myself,” Ehrlichman said. “If I do it Plasticrete Corp., property at Ron Pellerin for Harry General Electric appliances to promote rebates being general and campaign manager; serious thought to what the proper is free and Haldeman has faced the agony Corp. first inagurated it Jan. 1 myself I will be infinitely better for it.’’ 260 Tolland Tpke., $287,500. Gilmore, alterations at 54 Brent offered by Caldor department store at Burr Corners Shop Haldeman and Ehrlichman his chief White sentence should be” and considered “the of a trial. Mardian’s wife Dorothy and Marriage License Rd., $2,275. ping Plaza. The rebate plan features 35 GE appliances and as an incentive to reluctant car [Washington's House aides; and Mardian was Mitchell’s deterrent effect on others.’’ “Yours is not unlike the power of par Haldeman’s college-age daughter Jan Robert Lawrence Doucette, William L. Sheridan, is being paid for by Caldor before GE’s own rebate plan buyers. Now all four major U.S. chief deputy at Justice and in the re- Nixon Notable by Absence don,” he said. "Bob Haldeman stands here were the only family members in the cour 179 Homestead St., and Marian alterations, $1,000, and ad starts nationally March 1. (Herald photo by Dunn) automakers offer cash rebates, election campaign. The three-month trial, at which Nixon’s facing the possibility of suffering far more than Richard Nixon will ever suffer.” troom. Neither displayed any reaction to ditions, $250, at 141 Delmont St. and so do many of their 30 Month Minimum Watergate tapes were played and re suppliers. the sentencing. ' B irth d a u Sirica sentenced Mitchell, Haldeman played, was notable for the absence of the Alternative Suggested former President Nixon, named an unin- Ehrlichman’s new lawyer, Ira Lowe, Mitchell, Haldeman and Ehrlichman and Ehrlichman to a minimum of 2 1/2 each were given concurrent 20-month to ____4.1 said his client would waive his right to appeal if he were given a “alternative five year sentences for obstruction of sentence” of doing legal research for a justice and conspiracy. In addition, they group of Pueblo Indians in New Mexico. were given consecutive sentences of 10- Lowe said that Ehrlichman had been in months to three years on charges of either The eagle s V Rev-Share Resolution lying to Watergate investigators, or contact with a Pueblo chief who felt there EVERY APPLIANCE DellaFera Offers Testimony was a critical need in the remote area of perjury. the Southwest for someone with a law “It is the intention of the court that each Sparks Political Flap background to research the 8,000-member shall serve from 30 months to eight years Testimony is offered before the president of the State Board of Licen in prison,” Sirica said. Legislative subcommittee in sure of Nursing Home Adminstrators. tribe’s land titles. critical as it is today, and I might add that marked O abo vestigating Connecticut nursing He appeared 'Diursday and at right is By FLOYD LARSON A mild political furor erupted at the this boasting of millions in surplus had the ' ^^^offer go homes by Francis P. DellaFera, owner Donald Goldberg, president of the people of our state believing all our of a nursing home in Manchester and Connecticut Association of Nonprofit Manchester Board of Directors meeting great gift offer has last when a relatively innocent resolution problems were solved. president of the Connecticut Associa Nursing Homes. (UPI photo) “Never once, and I repeat, never once, tion of Extended Care Facilities and was tagged as a “statement that smacks of nothing but politics.” during this period when the state received Living Costs Edge Up Yes...fbr this week oniy...$22.00 airave cost buys any Hotpoint The resolution called for Gov.