No ru lin g New Crafts trial awaits state poll /5 Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm 30 Cents N 8th accord 0 is close to ‘finalized’ V ' Bv Alex GIrelll and members of the town’s Board Manchester Herald of Directors have been kept informed of progress. Nearly a year after negotiators “ We’re ready to go,” DiRosa for the town and the Eighth said. “ Let’s get it on paper and Utilities District began to vote on it.” hammer out an agreement over District Director Joseph Tripp, sewer and fire jurisdiction dis­ who proposed the deadline, saftl putes, attorneys for the two sides today he hopes that the district today are expected to finalize the directors tonight will be pres­ accord, Mayor Peter P. DiRosa ented with a proposal that in­ Jr. says. cludes agreement on everything DiRosa today described the but very minor points. session between the lawyers He said he feels the directors scheduled for this afternoon as a could go forward if only minor m#eting to "finalize” the termsof details were still to be worked out. the historic accord. DiRosa and DiRosa said there are no plans district Director Samuel Longest for the town directors to act on the had begun riegotiating the agree­ agreement when they meet ment nearly a year ago. tonight. The accord would settle dis­ The other deadlines set by the putes between the two govern­ district have been extended when • ments over fire and sewer juris­ it appeared progress was being diction which have festered for made toward an accord over the decades. sewer and fire protection prob­ The directors of the district, lems. The utilities district pro­ • ItealnaloeimBManohwlw H«nlc meanwhile, have scheduled a vides fire protection and sewer special meeting tonight at 7:30. service in most of the northern CUTUP — Kyle Carson, 2, of 22 Church St., cuts a witch Lerner, 7, of 25 Phyllis Road, won first place in the The notice for the meeting says part of town, which includes the out of paper Monday at a Halloween storybook costume contest. simply that it is "to discuss site of the planned $70 million contest at Manchester’s Mary Cheney Library. Meghan deadline on sewer agreement." mall in Buckland. The district directors voted' The negotiations opened after Oct. 17 to set today as a deadline the voters of the district in last by which the two boards should November’s election rejected an reach agreement. It was at least agreement under which the dis­ the third deadline set by the trict Would have surrendered its Lawmakers argue over GOP’s fliers district. sewer jurisdiction. Attorney John D. LaBelle, legal The agreement currently under Bv Christopher Callahan Weicker took his campaign to ford and employees at Pratt & counsel for the district, declined The Associated Press • Zinsser and Buckno consideration would leave the on the attack ... page 4 Windsor and West Hartford and Whitney be.fore a Yale University today to comment on whether all district with jurisdiction over planned to head south today, speech. remaining terms of the agree­ sewers in the district. But the State lawmakers bickered over making campaign stops in Stam­ In Hartford, House Speaker ment could be worked out today. town would buy the rights to Republican campaign literature sity of Connecticut, showed ford. Bridgeport and New Haven. Irving J. Stolberg. D-New Haven, LaBelle has been, meeting with install and maintain a trunk that Democrats attacked as lies Weicker with 38 percent, Lieber­ Lieberman, who stumped in and other House Democrats attorneys Kevin O’Brien and sewer to serve the shopping mall while a poll published today man at 37 and 25 percent Middletown. Newi.gton, West denounced GOP campaign mate­ Stephen Penny, who represent called the Pavilions at Buckland shows a virtual tie in the Senate undecided. Hartford and Naugatuck on Mon­ rial that they say lies about the town. Hills and would install a sewer in race between GOP incumbentLo- On Monday. Lieberman was day. had to cancel plans to legislative votes. But DiRosa said virtually all Slater Street to serve other well P. Weicker and Democratic joined at a news conference by campaign with Rep. Joseph P. The literature incorrectly the items have been worked out commercial development there. challenger Joseph I. Lieberman. self-described "progressive” De­ Kennedy II, D-Mass., in Enfield charges that Democratic incum­ The town would maintain the The poll, conducted for The mocrats who urged liberals and today because Kennedy became bents voted for a school busing mall trunk sewer and part of the Hartfont Courant by the Institute union workers to back ill. Lieberman also planned to Economic Slater Street sewer. for Social Inquiry at the Univer- Lieberman. meet voters in downtown Hart­ See FLIERS, page 10 Construction for sewer lines to serve the mall and some nearby commercial development has indicators been stalled while the two sides Bush mocks Dukakis ‘liberal’ embrace work out the agreement. Con­ struction of a sewer line to serve Bv Donna Cassata dents Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Race for the White House; "Michael Dukakis is no Jack slip again residents of North Main Street The Associated Press Truman and John F. Kennedy. Kennedy,” said the Indiana sena­ also has been delayed. related stories on page 7 “ Miracle of miracles. Head­ tor as he campaigned in Michigan Under the agreement, the dis­ George Bush mocked Michael line. Read all about it,” Bush told and Ohio. By Martin Crutslnger trict would alsobuy a town-owned Dukakis’ sudden embrace of women. an audience Monday in Louis­ Dukakis, seeking the support of The Associated Press fire station in district territory on liberalism as the Republican With Election Day exactly one ville, Ky. “ My opponent finally... women voters, said the Demo­ Tolland Turnpike and use it to nominee courted disenchanted week away — and polls indicating called himself the big L, called crats are “ on your side” on the WASHINGTON - The govern­ serve the Buckland area which is Democrats. Underdog Dukakis, a sizable but.narrowing Republi­ himself a liberal.” issues of abortion, equal pay and m ent'“said today that its main under its jurisdiction. in an appeal to women voters, can lead, the GOP ticket of Bush Quayle, retuned Democratic parental leave. The Republican forecasting guage of future eco­ The financial terms of the assailed the Reagan-Bush admin­ and Sen. Dan Quayle exploited opponent Lloyd Beptsen’s debate ticket, however, has been "on the nomic activity edged down 0.1 agreement have never been istration for "being on the wrong Dukakis’ claim that he is a liberal put-down of "Y ou ’re no Jack percent in September, its second revealed. side” of issues important to in the tradition of former presi­ Kennedy” to poke fun at Dukakis. See BUSH, page 10 decline in the last three months. The Commerce Department’s Index of Leading Indicators rose 9 0.5 percent in August and 1.5 Radon industry ‘ripe for fraud’ percent in June but fell 0.7 percent in July. Economists believe this roller coaster performance is a signal but aware consumers protected that the economy, which was expanding at a robust pace in the Bv Andrew J. Davis She said her office has received amount of radon,” said Dean. first six months of 1988, is slowing Manchester Herald phone calls from a number of “ It’s just a question of how 8 down. people who say companies are not much.” Indeed, overall economic Itisabusiness "ripeforfraud.” performing services they prom­ A house can be cured of the growth as measured by the gross More and more are people are ised. Homeowners can send away problem for between $300 to $1,000 national product dropped to an becoming aware of the problems for testing kits for only $10 to $12, in most pases, so companies annual rate of 2.2 percent front posed by radon, a natural gas and do noj need to pay hundreds whichT-charge thousands of dol­ July through September and produced through the decay of of dollars to determine if their lars for removing radon gas may many analysts believe that this uranium and radium that can homes have a radon problem. be charging'too much, he said. modest pace will continue in the build up to high levels in well- Rothney said. "The only way to get a current quarter and for most of insulated homes, said Lynne Allan Dean agrees with I^oth- next year. Rothney, a health program as­ ney that there are unscrupulous See RADON, page 10 David Wyss, an economist with sistant for the state Department radon “ experts.” Dean, a 1976 Data Resources Inc., said that the of Health Services. graduate of Coventry High leading index was signalling a Radon is the second leading School, has opened an outlet of his welcome slowdown, which would cause of cancer in the country, Environmental Services & Tech­ TODAY give the economy breathing room next to cigarette smoking, Roth­ nology Inc., a radon specializa­ and tower inflationary pressures ney said. But not everyone is tion company, in Coventry. Index built up by heavy demand and Jcnowledgeable about the rela­ Dean said his connpany. one of 20 pagat, 2 aactlona tight labor markets. tively new problem, which leaves several in the area, helps people “ We are seeing a pretty slug­ the public susceptible to determine how much radon they gish leading indicator and that is PairIcK Flynn/ManchMtar Herald B u tin M i_____18 MHS World____14 1 swindlers, she said. may have in their home and how consistent with where the econ­ Clanlfled _ 19-20 Natlon/World jB-7 “ I can’t say they^re getting rich it might be removed.