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20 - MANCHESTER HERALD, Thursday. March 1, 1984 Cheney panel opposes Cheney Mills’ history Casualties high BUSINESS any lawn development will be on the playbill in Gulf fighting ... p a g e 4 Workers’ compensation: best bet for all ... page 3 .. p a g e 11 involvedivolved in compensqjioncompensqlion claims. This may have been payment for lost wages and medical bills Qf-those TRUE TALE: An American worker whose \ a ’70-year first — and it may be mentioned in insurance injured on jobs, regardless of who was at fault. company sent him to Great Britain on temporary duty companyimpany boardrooms for quite a wliile. But sex has This wps the first no-fault insurance in the United about a year ago went to bed with a fellow employee. Your had an effect upon the industry and the evidence is States. J • The space heater in her flat mallunctioned and he was plain for all to see. Safety promotion has caused a significant drop in asphyxiated. His family sued for workers' compensa ‘Money's Workers" compensation was previously known as accidents. Between 1950 and 1979, thp annual rate of tion ... And won. The judge ruled that when an workman's compensation. Then women began occupational injuries dropped from 3,210 per 100,000 to Clear tonight; Manchester, Conn. employee is away from home you expect him to go out Worth pouring into the work force and didn't retreat with the 2,374 per 100,000 and the fatalities fell from 26.3 Friday, March 2, 1984 N and do things like that. end of World War II. After a moderate hassle, percent to 13.6 percent per 100,000. sunny Saturday Sylvia Porter workeNfs' compensation had to become a substitute for Most important about the safety programs is that — See page 2 Single copy; 25<t TRUE TALE: An injured man pleaded to be workman’s for the coverage. they move the injured back on the job as fast as allowed to return to his place of employment. He said The basic concept of workers' compensation was possible through rehabilitation. anrlf^atFr Hfrralb he would do anything — sweep floors, other menial germinated during, the industrial revolution, when jobs — if he could come back. It was a strange attitude men dominated the pay rol Is, and dangerous jobs were THE BOTTOM LINE: While workers’ compensa for a qualified machine operator at a much higher pay Institute of America. Not one cent of their earnings not even considered for women's work. tion is not without faults, its positive aspects far scale. Then if was discovered that the injured was spent for workers’ compensation, however; the It was a classic war of men vs. machines. 'The outweigh its shortcomings. And there |s constant employee was the plant bookie and every day away employers pay for this insurance and their 1979 soaring accident rate made it clear that humans were change' to provide security for individuals and from the plant cost him money. premium outlay was $20 billion, according to ____ 4 losing. At that time, an injured father's-paycheck was families. Feds restrict Christopher Pitt and Everett Randall of the institute's a family crisis (not still?). \ The insurance that covers more American wage staff at Malvern, Pa. The bad situation was compounded by the fact that Income tax guide available earners than any other is, ironically, the least known. The "free ride" implied for employees in workers' workers of that era had to prove in court that their It is called workers’ compensation and it protects compensation may be a prime reason thdy know so injuries were - entirely due to an employer’s "Sylvia Porter’s 1984 Income Tax Book,” her nearly 90 percent of the U .S. work force from financial little about it. Certainly, if they were paying part negligence. It was a costly procedure, time- comprehensive guide to income taxes, is now EDB use on bankruptcy, even sheer disaster in the event of.a of the bill they would be more inquisitive,-^ consuming, often futile. ’ available through her column. Send $4.95 plus $1 for job-related injury or illness. (The remaining 10 Some employees may confuse workers' compensa Pressure mounted for a system of compensation mailing and handling to "Sylvia Porter’s 1984 Income percent are mainly the self-employed.) tion with unemployment compensation. That is that would treat workers in a fair and equitable Tax Book," in care of the Manchester Herald, 4400 At latest count, an enormous 78.6 million people in understandable, for both deal with remuneration for manner. Johnson Drive, Fairway, Kan. 66205. Allow four to six citrus fruits this country were covered with combined annual not being able to work and are paid'for by employers. In 1911, fivek>states enacted the first enduring weeks for delivery. Make checks payable to Universal earnings exceeding $1 trillion, reports the Insurance To return to True Tale No. 1: Infidelity is rarely workers' compensation statutes. These guaranteed Press Syndicate. Bv Robert Sangeorge United Press International WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Bankers disagree on Braniff Airlines Agency today announced major new restrictions on "T 'V/ EDB contamination in citrus aimed at eliminating »■ . residues of the cancer-causing pesticide in domestic resumes flights and imported li’uit by. Sept. 1. new interstate pian But EPA Administrator William Ruckelshaus stopped short of an outright ban, saying use of the chemical on fruit that is both grown and sold in the .Bv Bruno V. Ranniello George R. Kabureck, senior vice after two years ^ czisCxzC l W if , '• - t - . ..' ■ United Press International president and chief financial officer of United States "has essentially ceased." !S!S2==3==r=»_— "Tlie EPA estimates that only 2 percent’of all fresh Northeast Bancorp, said some New DALLAS (UPI) — Braniff Airlines’ first flight in HARTFORD - Bankers from Hart England states have already moved to citrus fruit consumed in the United States is almost two years took off for Newark, N.J., at dawn fumigated," the agency said in a statement ford and Fairfield County clashed at a go nationwide. today and was followed moments later by the legislativeiiearing on a bill to expand Maine has extended interstate bank accompanying Ruckelshaqs' announcement. "official” first flight loaded with dignitarie^ The EPA chief said his "phase-down " to eliminate ' interstate banking to allow mergers ing across the country and dropped journalists and sentimental former employees. with banks nationwide rather than just reciprocity requirements while New At the Mayor’s contamination caused by ethylene dibromide was "I’m real thrilled about it,” said former Braniff drawn up -under an agreement with the citrus New England institutions. Hampshire and Vermont are discuss reservations clerk Lindie MacKenzie, who booked a Officials of three Hartford-based ing full interstate banking for next Prayer Breakfast industry. seat on Flight 200 to New Orleans even though she was He said the EPA "has reached agreement in banks opposed the proposal at the year, he said. not one of the 2,200 former employees rehired by Banks Committee hearing Wednesday, Manchester citizens gathered, principle" with industry "under which all domestic Braniff for its new trimmed-down operations. use of EDB on citrus for the U .S. market would end by contending it has been only seven "The perpetuation in Connecticut "I flew all {he way from Washington (D.C.) to be on this morning at Concordia months since the start of interstate ignores this reality," said Kabureck. this flight,” said businessman Wally Wilson. "ItHs a Sept. 1 of thjs year.’-' banking among New England states He told lawmakers there "is a Lutheran Church for the As a result of the agreement, growers promise to historic flight." withdraw pending legal challenges to the EPA action, and more time is needed to igake the present inequity because the . law Braniff’s first scheduled flight since declaring "New England Experiment'’ a favors one segment of your banking Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast. At he said. The EPA had planned to bar EDB use on fruit bankruptcy 21>A months ago was supposed to be ■ ip September, but the citrus industry is contesting success. constituency to the detriment of ,-n Flight 200, scheduled to leave at 6:50 a.m. from the the head table, above, were Officials of Connecticut Bank & others." that move in court. " r ’rtfx Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport after a cham The new standards will take effect after a 30-day Trust, Connecticut National Bank and David Payne, vice ■ chairman 'of pagne breakfast. It was delayed by dallying Mayor Barbara Weinberg, Colonial Bank Corp., which all have Connecticut Bank-& Trust, said "Con f • public comment period, the EPA said. dignitaries and beaten out of the gate by Flight 12 to Rabbi Richard Flavin, Nathan Under today’s decision, the EPA is setting pending mergers with Boston ^rea necticut's banking system will be Newark at 7 a.m. Flight 200 took off a few moments banks, also said the move would cause swallowed by huge money center Agostinelli and Monsigndr mandatory "interim" nationwide tolerance levels for later. EDB of 250 parts per billion for the whole fruit, which Connecticut money institutions to be banks.” which would also divert At the inaugural ceremony were the-mayors of swallowed by big New York banks. Connecticut resources out of the state. Edward Reardon. At right, includes the rind, skin and stem. Dallas and Fort Worth; Braniff Board Chairman Jay For the edible portions of the fruit, the tolerance Bankers from Fairfietd County Russell Knisel, vice chairman of the Pritzker, whose Hyatt Corp. put up $70 million to George Katz and Jessie Kehl argued Boston was just as far, or just as Connecticut National Bank, said New limit is 30 parts per billion, which is the same level acquire 80 percent of the revived carrier; Braniff dole out scrambled eggs.