A Housing Retiring Undaunted A Death won’t stop Thomas G. Kelley ends Gun-control 322-unit plan/3 34-year teaching career/11 advocates react/4 m anrljP B tpr Wednesday, April 18,1990 Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm Newsstand Price: 35 Cents, Regional school asks employers to help troubled students By Rick Santos sports or school clubs. He was con­ If these students are identified, decreased drastically. The program, which ROTC and assembly work. sidered a potential drop-out. then they can enroll at ROTC. As a resulL school officials are developed with the help of some Before that happens, potential Manchester Herald However, John — a composite The school, established in 1976, planning a curriculum overhaul, in­ local businesses and agencies, gives employers need to be told of the John’s father ran out on his portrait of real students created to provides vocational and special cluding the planned expansion of the students work experience under the youths’ emotional problems that re­ mother and he when he was 9. Not maintain their confidentiality — is education to students from on-the-job location program. close supervision of a school staff quire special attention. long after, John began getting in a coming around. He’s beginning to Manchester as well as other towns ROTC Principal Jack Peak said it member. “It takes a particular type of lot of fights at school, and before concentrate on his work and to deal in central and eastern Connecticut. It helps supplement the school’s voca­ And so far the endeavor has been employer that is able to do thaL” long started experimenting with il­ with other students, partly because primarily serves two types of stu­ tional education by allowing stu­ successful at many places like P e^ said. legal drugs. of a work-experience program he dents — those with emotional dents to develop the interpersonal Manchester Community College, Rayona Hobbs, an employee at By the time John reached junior has entered at the Regional Occupa­ problems and those who are physi­ skills that come from experiences in Woodland Gardens, and Shop Rite. Woodland Gardens, a local nursery, tional Training Center (ROTC). cally handicapped or mentally business situations with real bosses But with the increasing number of supervises the ROTC program there. high, most of his peers thought he Students like John are increasing retarded or both. emotionally troubled students. Peak “We think it’s pretty good,” was a rebel. He did little school and real responsibilities. is hoping to expand the initiative to Hobbs said. “We feel that we’re ad- work and earned poor grades. He in Manchester’s schools. School of­ However, while the students with “The most important thing is the fought with his teachers and other ficials say the numbers are increas­ emotional problems are increasing, interacting with people out on the include new areas such as wood­ students and didn’t participate in ing by about 10 percent annually. those with disabilities have job,” Peak said. working, manufacturing, graphics. Please see ROTC, page 10 House vote Crash ends career O big win for 3 D - n of town aerial truck ^ F pro-choice Will mean a $90,000 budget add-on — m O o By Rick Santos between $4,000 and $10,000 and the Parental consent ^ C D cost for the repairs is estimated at at Manchester Herald proposal also dies H ■< least $8,000. After the town budget is adopted Because the $8,000 for repairs is m in May, the Police Department, just an initial estimate, likely to rise By Peter Viles o when the 21-year-old vehicle goes which has a recommended budget of The Associated Press $5.8 million, will be asking for an through annual inspections, the department would rather purchase a additional $90,000 to replace an HARTFORD — The U.S. aged aerial lift truck that was new truck than do the repairs. Supreme Court’s landmark Roe vs. |— 3 0 “Obviously you don’t want to put damaged when it was struck by an Wade ruling will become part of in 100 percent of the current value O O 18-wheelcr on Pleasant Valley state law, replacing Uie stale’s unen­ Road. into repairs,” said town Budget and forced criminal anti-abortion laws, O - n Money for a new truck was not Research Officer Robert Huestis. under a bill that swept easily included in this year’s request be­ Huestis said also that the inspec­ through the House and is headed for tions are very stringent because of cause the accident happened too the Senate. the age and function of the vehicle, late, said Town Manager Richard jAfter five hours of occasionally Sartor at a workshop on the police which with its 32-foot arm and emotional debate Tuesday, the O O bucket is used to lift woricers to budget Tuesday night. House approved the bill on a 136-12 m z The lift truck, described by repair U^affic lights and other high vote, f^esage in the Senate is con­ a > Deputy Ftolicc Chief Henry “Bud” sidered likely. > r - Minor as a 1969 Dodjte, is valued Please see TRUCK, page 10 The House easily defeated a key 30 05 amendment that would have re­ quired girls 15 and under to inform 3D > an adult relative of their decision to > have an abortion. Although the final bill contained ■ D two concessions that abortion op­ ponents touted as small victories, pro-choice activists and lawmakers said they were the big winners. “It’s a huge victory, a victory for women in this slate,” said Betty Gallo, a lobbyist for the Connecticut Coalition for Choice. “Even if Roe versus Wade got overturned tomorrow, wc now have that same exact law on the books in Connecticut. The woman’s right to choose is protected in Coiuicclicut.” “This may be the most aggres­ sive, pro-choicc piece of legislation since Webster," Gallo said. She was referring to the U.S. Judy HaiHing/Maridiester Herald Supreme Court’s decision last .sum­ mer in a Missouri case. Webster vs. SPRING CLEANING — Lauri Engman, top photo, washes Reproductive Health Services, that down the sidewalk in front of the Full Gospel Interdenomina­ gave slates greater power to resuici abortions. tional Church on Main Street Tuesday in preparation for a House leaders, meanwhile, ministers’ convention. At left. Brad Palmer, of the Manchester described the bill as a compromise Water Department, flushes out a winter’s worth of rust and that merely writes into law the cur­ Judy HanilngA4andiMMr Herald sand from a hydrant at the corner of Main and Bissell. rent state policy toward abortion. “I don’t think this changes any­ thing,” Rep. Doug Minu, D-Nor- walk, said of the bill, which he helped write. "People can read into 1 Supreme Court limits power New collection efforts, it whatever they want to read into it. We wrote into stale law what is ilic current praeiiee in Connecticut now.” ads key to bank’s plan of judge in desegregation suit The slate’s anti-abortion laws were rendered unenforceable by the WASHINGTON (AP) — The The desegregation decision, White wrote. BOSTON (AP) — Bank of New regional bank." U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe vs. Supreme Court ruled today that a despite overruling the judge’s tax Chief Justice William H. Rchn- England Corp. has announced a Fish, who look charge at the Wade decision ilial legalized abor- hike, was still a victory for civil plan to make the company smaller bank last month, succeeding federal judge may not personally quist and Justices Anthony M. Ken­ raise property taxes to pay for rights forces. The court upheld most nedy, Sandra Day O’Connor and but stronger as it suuggles to ousted chairman Walter J. Connol­ Plcasc see ABOR TION, page 10 school desegregation but can order of the steps Clark ordered school of­ Antonin Scalia dissented, decrying recover from massive losses. ly, said the company will focus on school officials to do so. ficials to take to racially desegregate the court’s “casual embrace of taxa­ The strategy, unveiled IXtcsday, areas including retail and commer­ the schools. will create a “collecting" bank to cial bunking, and real estate lend­ By a 9-0 vote, the court said U.S. tion imposed by the unelectcd, life- 9 District Judge Russell G. Clark In a 5-4 vote, the court said the tenured federal judiciary." deal with a mountain of troubled ing. abused his discretion when he per­ judge could order officials to raise Clark went too far, the court said loans, and will use advertising to “We’re going to keep it simple," sonally impo.scd a school district tax taxes to pay for the ordered today. “Local officials should at allay depositor fears. Fish said in a statement. “NVe’rc Index hike in Kan.sas City, Mo. desegregation remedies and could least have the opportunity to devise TTie plan also calls for the bank going to take deposits and we're to sell its Rhode Island and Maine 20 pagos, 2 sactlons In another major decision insuuci them to ignore suue laws th6ir own solutions to these going to moke sound loons." released today, tlie court said suites limiting the anount of school taxes. problems,” White wrote. subsidiaries and eventually cut its The bank, which has been may outlaw all possession and view­ Writing for the court, Justice White’s opinion was joined by assets to about $20 billion, com­ operating under government orders ing of child pornography — even in Byron While used sweeping lan­ Justices William J.