BUSINESS Quotations Review 1982 Events in Manchester Jan
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20 - MANCHESTER HERALD, Wed., Dec. 291 1982 BUSINESS Quotations review 1982 events in Manchester Jan. 20 Herald... "We have had thU after a mid-January layoff at Pratt Glastonbury, at a Feb. 16 public that are a public safety hazard. I sale of 10 acres of land to Economy January thing on a fast track. We don’t want it Whitney A ircraft.. “We’re get works department hearing on plans think I should be able to go Electric Supply Inc. that building sitting there, whether ting the wool pulled over our eyes. to assess Manchester Road forward.” — Mayor Stephen T. "When will politicians act more we use it or not, it costs us $40,000 a 'I’hls is a railrMd job.” — Nicholas residents for new water pipe in Penney, at a Feb. 22 meeting of the Airline overbooking - new rule on 'bumping' like men year to heat.” — Mayor Stephen T. D. Converlino, Oxford Street, at a stallations. “ We are looking at Capitol Region Council of /' And confess to their failed ploy? Penny, commenting on the Bonnet public hearing bn the projected the possibility of personnel cutbacks Governments concerning the Main- When Hell freezes over is my School housing project at a Jan. 19 closings of ^ n tle y and Highland — layoffs. I don’t think we can count Center Street construction plan. On a recent flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to New Airlines will continue to solicit passengers first to So if you think you have a confirmed guaranteed guess, when. ‘"That place has been broken into leave the plane voluntarily. But, as before, the rules reservation, be on guard! Arrive at the airport early and Board of Directors meeting. Park schools. on attrition to do much good.” — “I resent the fact that special in so badly I wouldn’t be the least sur York, an acquaintance reports, the flight attendant an It’s like taking away their toys.” “We’re sick, naturally. This thing General Manager Robert B. terest groups receive special nounced that the flight was overbooked and called for don’t spell out what the airline must offer the get your seat early. The new rules are not in your favor. — Robert H. Blelchman, latter prised if some of our town derelicts (unemployment) is mushrooming February Weiss, at a March 19 news con favorable deals at the expense of the were running a flophouse thei'e.” four volunteers to leave the plane. As sweeteners, the Y o u r passengers who leave voluntarily. Protect yourself as best you can. and former Eighth Utilities District An increase of at least 25 percent in involuntary bum (Sylvia Porter’s 1983 Income Tax Book,” her com nationwide.” — Charles Tracy, ference on plans to trim town rest of the taxpayers of Deputy Fire Chief James McKa'y, airline tossed in a round-trip ticket anywhere in the director, in a poem on the town- chief business representative for the “I don’t see where, you have the pings can be anticipated • under the new rules, says prehensive guide to income taxes, is now available budget... "I have a project ready to Manchester.” — J.R. Smith, local United States and a cash bonus. After a short wait, four M oney's district dispute over the town’s International Association of right to assess us.” — William passengers departed and four new ones came aboard. Matthew Finucane, director of the Aviation Consumer through her column. Send $3.95 plus $1 for mailing and go. It’s in the center of my town and government critic. In Feb. 26 letter Buckland firehouse, published in the Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Edge, 1512 Manchester Road, I have four buildings sitting derelict to the editor concerning the town’s Please turn to page 3 Since the next day was Thanksgiving and all flights to W o rth Action Project in Washington. He points out that when handling to “Sylvia Porter’s 1983 Income Tax Book,” in the CAB tightened bumping rules in 1978, bumpings fell New York were booked solid, the four must have Sylvia Porter care of the Manchester Herald, 4400. Johnson Drive, planned a turkey dinner on the beach. 30 percent. More recently, when rules were loosened Fairway, Kan. 66205. Make checks payable to Universal More than 170.000 people voluntarily left flights in the during the air traffic controllers strike (the CAB Press Syndicate.) first three quarters of 1982, while almost 131,000 relaxed the rules in August 1981, retightened them in passengers were involuntarily bumped, says the Civil September 1982), the incidents rose about 30 percent. .Aeronautics Board. In total, airlines paid about $32 Finucane adds that the change is strange since there is Mix of clouds Manchester, Conn. million in compensation,to both groups of passengers. tion within two hours of the planned arrival time, your no evidence that the old rules don’t work well. Firm honored Now. rule changes scheduled to become effective Jan. compensation doubles to a maximum of $400 and a You can expect three negative results from the rule M A P Foodservice Brokers of Manchester was and sunshine Friday Thursday, Dec. 30, 1982 23. 1983, will boost the number of involuntarily bumped minimum of $75. changes; recently named passengers. In fact, airlines can implement the new On international flights, the time limit rises to four • If you are bumped and you would have been compen Banquet Foodservice — See page 2 Single copy 25q; rules sooner; since the CAB didn't establish a reporting hours. The rules apply to every U.S. and foreign carrier sated under the old rules, you’ll get nothing under the Regional Broker of requirement for the new rules, the agency hasn't been on outbound flights and to U.S. carriers only on inbound new. The CAB holds an insulting opinion about the value th e Y e a r , notified which, if any. airline already has started usjng flights. of your lost time. Northeastern area. the rules. But the new rules change compensation in crucial • All passengers, and particularly time-sensitive , • \ The award was Under the old (current?) rules, the CAB requires that ways; U.S. carriers will not have to pay compensation travelers, will be more vulnerable to bumping. Airlines presented at the St. if you are involuntarily bumped on a domestic flight (ac to passengers on inbound international flights. The pur will have no inducement to seek volunteers, since they Louis National cording to a bumping plan the airline has on file with the pose; to make U.S. carriers more competitive with will have to compensate them, unlike involuntary Broker meeting. GOP-PFtOPOSED ELDERiy HCXJSING board I and it puts you on an alternative flight that gets their foreign counterparts. The rules on outbound flights "bumpees.” And there will be no rules on what the air Morty Gusto of M you to your destination within two hours of your planned continue unchanged. lines have to offer volunteers, if anything. A P Foodservice arrival, you receive a 1(X) percent refund of your ticket. • Overbooking will increase. The airlines won’t have Brokers represen Riots Eliminated is the requirement for compensation to The maximum dollar amount is $200; the minimum is bumped passengers who arrive at their destination to be so careful, since there 'will be no financial ted the company at .837.50. within one hour of planned arrival. Eliminated, too, is deterrent to overbooking. An extra 30,000 passengers Morty Gusto the meeting. If. though, the airline does not get you to yourdestina- the minimum payment of $37.50. may be bumped involuntarily each year. w rcK k fflFlSHEICQUALITYATA£5£ ^ M iam i I MIAMI (UPI) — Police su r rounded tlie riot-wracked Overtown slum for the third straight day today while a tactical squad stood watch Chemist YEAR END SALE in the nearby Liberty City ghetto where 18 people died in race riots in 0 at work t o i f i SENIOR 1980. 3ENTEF Loops of hose and test CREDIT POWER M Hospitals reported 12 more in juries in the second day of violence tubes lead PPG In in Overtown Wednesday, bringing dustries research the toll to one dead and 21 injured. chemist Dr. Peter Gaa 25” diagonal picture tube The man whose shooting by police to formulas for binder ■ i triggered the riots also died mixtures used in the Wednesday. production of fiber HIGH FIDELITY TELEVISION Police said at least 38 people were Stereo audio amplifiers arrested in the two days of street glass products. The Two 6'/^*' woofers, two 2” tweeters mi Stereo matrix circuitry violence, mostly for burglary and PPG fiber glass E . MIDDLE TURNPIKE Vertical Interval Reference (VIR) processing looting, and three businesses were research center in 17-key wireless remote control Random access channel tuning destroyed and another three were Pittsburgh has Quartz-locked PLL digital synthesizer tuning system Herald photos by Pinto badly damaged. developed more than Reception system for 105 channels: 12 VHP. 70 UHF, 0 midband and 14 At daybreak. Miami and Metro- 50 bincler formulations. superband Oade County police reported Two sets of video/audio (R/L) Inputs, one set of vldeo/Audk> (R/L) outputs REPUBLICAN DIRECTOR PETER DIROSA REPUBLICANS MAP THEIR PROPOSED HOUSING PROJECT Digital time/channel display . would b* bulH behind the Senior Citizens Center relative quiet, although a minor dis- . •x p la lm OOP- altornM Ive-to Bwnnwt furTfance was reported in the JPI ijno to previously unaffected black neighborhood of Goulds, 15 miles south of Overtown. Alternative to Bennet plan Officers staffed outnosts around , r ■« the perimeter of a 250-square-bIock I^ IF IS H E R "restricted zone" in Overtown, 46” Rear Prolactloii High FkM^ T.V.