Millionaire offers his fortune Thanks a Million' gives money away to readers of Herald column — turn to page 11 iHaurlipatpr) Winchester 4 City o( ViHeqe Ch Hpralh ThufSdty, AprH 16,1667 30C«nts District OKs A plan to swap sewers, station P By George Loyng The town would also have to Herald Reporter employ the Eighth District’s sewer penmnnel. and keep their current The Eighth Utilities District benefits and Joir level. Wednesday agreed to give op its In return, the Eighth District sewer system for control of the would purchase the Rickland fire­ town of Manchester’s Bnckland house at the price H cost the town to firehouse on Tolland Turnpike, as buildit. IlietownbntKthestationin proposed last month by the town 1978 with a $296,000 bond issue. and talked about for months. At the iast session the town ’The Eighth District attached a proposed that the station be pur­ $S.S million price tag to its sewer chased by the Eighth District at its lines and equipment. In addition, replacement value. Town Manager district negotiators proposed that R ^ r t Weiss said today he did not the town give up more of Its fire know the current value of the Jurisdiction than either side had facility. ’Two years ago the town previously proposed. Board of Directors set a minimum price of $800,000. The town negotiators, during an Under the new Eighth District hour-long meeting held at Lincoln Center, did not comment on the plan. The two sides tentatively Please turn to page 18 agreed to meet again next Thursday. The Wednesday meeting, at­ tended by about IS people, had none M HA eyes of the angry talk or accusations of the last session, which almost brought an end to the negotiations. low-incom e The two governments began meet­ ing in January to resolve longstand­ Hartid photo by PInlo ing problems Involving fire protec­ apartments tion and sewer service In Manchester. Sign of tho f/mat In March the town proposed that By Alax Oiralll the Eighth District — which pro­ Assoclofa Editor A worker for the Barlo Signs Co. of Hudson, N.H., places The super grocery store should be open within the next vides fire protection and sewer iffEatltr service to most of northern Man­ TTie Manchester Housing Author­ letters on the outside of the 81,000-square-foot few months and Is part of a larger shopping center under chester— give up its sewer system ity Wednesday night authorized Its d from our Heartland Food Warehouse going up near the construction. The 158,300-square-foot center will in exchange for the town’s Buck- executive director, Carol Shanley, r all tha Intersection of North Main Street and Tolland Turnpike. feature a Rickets home center and several smaller stores. land firehouse. to apply to the federal Department /our Hat. That proposal did not Involve the of Housing and Urban Development town paying for the district sewer for constuctlon of as many as 40 lines, aittiough the town would have public low-income three-b^room 6 lER paid for some other sewer ex­ apartments. Scholarship test biased, group charges penses. The town also called for Shanley stressed after the meet­ -SALE giving up less of Its fire Jurisdiction ing that the application was preli­ than was proposed Wednesday. minary and did not constitute a QUARTZ By Lae MItgang charge is that female students are multiple-choice tests because girls that although the PSAT Is the sole Eighth District President Walter commitment by authority to The Attoclated Preet being unfairly deprived of merit are more reluctant to guess at criterion in arriving at 16,000 scholarships, worth up to $8,000 answers. Males are featured more semifinalists, many other factors Joyner said the district’s latest proceed. offer represents "a drastic depar­ John FItzPatrick, a member of NEW YORK — Girls are not over four years, because a high often in test questions than females, like high school record, faculty ture for us and It has given every the authority, suggested that Shan­ getting their fair share of National score on the Preliminary Scholastic the report said, and boys are recommendations and demon­ one of us heartburn — lots of ley explore what possibilities there urn Merit Scholarships because eligi­ Aptitude Test (PSAT) Is the sole encouraged to excel in math and strated leadership qualities deter­ heartburn." are for getting money to rehabili­ bility tor the prestigious awards is criteria for semifinalist status In science In school while girls are mine the winners. Originally, the Eighth District tate former mills or other commer­ based on a test biased against the competition. subtly steered Into "softer" sub­ As to whether the PSAT is Jects like arts, humanities and proposed giving up Its sewers In cial buildings for housing. women, according to a report College-bound students who sex-biased, Roderick said, "W e writing. northwest Manchester, known as " It ’s better than trying to buy released today. score In the top 0.5 percent on the have not found a better way over Donald Stewart, president of the Buckland, in exchange for the town non-existent land," FItzPatrick PSAT In each state automatically the years to make it possible for Girls received only 36 percent of College Board, said In a telephone firehouse. District negotiators said said. become merit scholar semifinal­ over a million students who want to the scholarships, which totaled $23 Interview that he saw nothing there was strong opposition from FItzPatrick said some Main ists. About 6,000 of the 15,000 enter the merit scholarship compe­ million last year, even though wrong in the way the National Merit Eighth District residents to giving Street building could possibly be students who reach that score tition to do so.” females earn better grades on Scholarship Corp. was using the up the entire 28-mlle sewer system. suitable for conversion or eventually win scholarships. average than males in high school PSAT. The report comes in the midst of However, If the town pays the restoration. and college, according to the The PSAT, a multiple-choice test "In the case of the National Merit the season when merit scholarship Eighth District for the sewers the There Is no publicly operated report, "Sex Bias in College Admis­ of math and verbal ability taken Scholarship Corp., they use the test winners are announced each year. chances will be better that Eighth housing In Manchester except for sions Tests; Why Women Lose annually by about 1.2 million high exclusively only once, to make a One group was announced April 8, District voters will approve the housing for the elderly. Opposition •11.96 Out.” school Juniors, Is similar to the reasonable cut from the 1.2 million. and the rest will be announced April plan. Eighth District negotiators to low-income housing figured 7.46 The report by FairTest, a Cam­ Scholastic Aptitude Test, which To use any other means, consider­ 22 and May 6. Indicated. prominently in a townwide dispute Oala-1.00 bridge, Mass., group highly critical FairTest and others have argued is ing costs, would be Just too FairTest’s allegations of sexual "W e’re ceding a sewer system — several years ago when the town of standardised tests, was being sex biased. expensive," he said. and cultural bias in standardized we’re not giving away the whole turned down federal Community released today at a news confer­ Boys averaged 47.2 on the math Stewart said he agreed that tests have been gaining ground In house." said district negotiator Development block grants. Many of ence at which National Organisa­ section of the PSAT and 41.6 on the schools, families and others some­ academia. James Sarles. those who argued against accep­ tion for Women president Eleanor verbal In 1986, while girls averaged times prod girls away from ad­ In March, the New York State " It they (the sewers) aren't tance of the grants argued that If Smeal was to endorse the findings. 43.1 on the math and 40.3 on verbal, vanced math and science courses Board of Regents voted unanim­ compensated for fairly, that prop­ the town continued to take them. It Test bias “ contributes to a real according to Fred Moreno, a that would help them do better on ously to take steps to replace the osal has absolutely no chance of would be forced by HUD to accept dollar loss for females in later life, spokesman for the College Board, standardized tests. But he added: SAT as the criteria for awarding passing,” district negotiator John what those opponents said would be as they get less prestigious Jobs, which sponsors the exam. Both " I don’t think that’s an indictment state scholarships because of evi­ D. LaBelle Jr. said. a disproportionate share of the earn less money, and have fewer portions are scored on a scale of 20 of the test, but of our schools and dence that it is biased against Under the Eighth District plan, region’s low-income residents. leadership opportunities," said the to 80. our social values." women. the sewer transfer would cost the Today, Mayor Barbara Weinberg report, adding that minority And during the last month, two town $8,846,000. That total includes said there Is an absence of low-cost women are "doubly penalised by THE REPORT CITED research M ARIANNE RODERICK, senior prestigious colleges. Union College $4.8 million for sewer lines, $180,000 housing In the 10-town Capitol both the gender and class bias of suggesting that while girls tend to vice president of the Chicago-based In Schenectady, N.Y., and Middleb- for the planned Buckland sewer Region.