tk 4 to - MANCHESTER HERALD. Thursday. May 2. 1985 MANCHESTER BOLTON FOCUS VVI A I H i H UPl will make Business Historic panel OKs I I Hopefuls for top post 11 Little LeaguO opens 11 Clearing up tonight: In B ri^ more staff cuts improvement plans I I have different styids 11 36th year Saturday M some sun Saturday Lukat now vice protidont WASHINGTON (UPI) — United Press Interna­ [MANCHESTER tional plans new layoffs In the next several days In the ...pages! I _____ ... page 7 J J i page 11 J J ___________ - ^ HARTFORD — Robert R. Lukas has been latest cost-cutting move aimed at savli^ UMt.wire [l u m b e r named vice president of the Hartford Insurance service during Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. Group's CLA Corp. Editor in Chief Maxwell McCrohon says. automation subsi­ McCrohon and other top U P I officials said Ends Sat. May 11 SALE diary. He will be Wednesday the number of employees who lose their all prlcea eaah * ca m ______________ responsible for soft­ jobs will be small, and further staff reductions should ware development, be avoided if newspaper and broadcast clients accept *>1 PREMIUM system design and a 9.9 percent rate hike announced Sunday. installation support. UPI laid off 80 employees, including 55 temporary, CEDAR The Hartford part-time and permanent editorial staffers, last formed CLA Corp. Friday before the company filed for Chapter 11 SFoamDC iiaurhrBtpr Hrralb in the fall of 1084 to protection Sunday to reorganise its fin a i\ ^ . ManchOfter, Conn. — A City of Village Charm Friday, May 3, 1965 — Single copy; 254 market its ad­ Company employees began receiving new NNcmo vanced commercial SECTION INCLUDES checks Wednesday, a day after U.S. Bankruptcy OM iPO ST lines automation Judge George Bason approved an Interim financing system to other in­ plan allowing continued operations during Chapter 11 4’x8’ surance companies. proceedings. Last Friday's biweekly checks were CLA Corp.'s clients froxen because of a lack of funds. include the Kemper 2 8 *< Group and the Uni­ UPI President Ray Wechsler said if the company Pressure Treated Lumber Feud over Route 6 endangers expressway ted States Aviation succeeds in its current plans and client support Treated lumber ian'l juBl dippiHl or iMinli'd Pn-aer- 5*x8’ 8’x8’ remains strong, the 78-year-old wire service should vatikt ia forced into relkt of to|i quality lumk‘r Ho it Insurance Group. retitta iaaecta and weather It'a readty to um‘ wlu‘n 9 0 8 S Q 9 7 Lukas joined The record an Derating profit of' ‘severalmilUon dollars" you bu.v it. no more treatment neetw.'Liry bk'al for Interstate 84 from Hartford to “ We essentially agreed with the REQ36 47 I ^ T 7 rEQ42.7 By Sarah Paaaell planned U-mile expressway. Sevin Route 6, since early last fall, when .cerned about what we’re going to during the next year. W ncK^ drcka. tablet — all outdoor iirttp'ru .Smith- state that the E A ia practically a Hartford in 1072 as a ern yellow mne treated with K-.'U thumaw' to Herald Rtpoiier said he also has asked for more the highway administration sub­ do in Connecticut.” Providence, state officials pre­ programmer. He Wechsler said the response to the rate Increase has retention and ttam|Mpd for ground Ciintwl information on the effect the mitted an environmental assess­ He said Route 6 in Rhode Island pared an impact statement on the supplem ental E IS excep t in been positive among m ajor clients. name,” Sevin said. But after advanced through a Robert R. Lukas The U A Pepariment of Trana- expressway could have on the ment of the plan to the U.S. needs upgrading work to protect project. The federal DOT ruled in number of program­ f 1978 that Connecticut would have reviewing the first draft of the The planned new reductions in domestic staff w w w w ir ROUND m a poitaUoftpwnding word to itate Scituate Reservoir in Rhode Is­ Secretary of Transportation. The the reservoir, anyway, calling it a ming and systems management positions before V4ji« 400 400 tm 810 HEAVY DUTY DOWELED CEDAR to subinlt a supplemental EIS if assessment, the E P A and tbe positions are expected to leave U P I's editorial officiela Wat it may not approve land, that state's principal drink­ FHA has endorsed the project. "lousy two-lane road with some being named assistant director, commercial 2x4 2.10 2.00 4M 414 *1* Rhode Island chose not to build Its Eastern Conneeticut Citizen Ac­ workforce in the United States between 700 and 888 the planned expreuw ay bMween ing water supply. Sevin said Thursday that his dinky little guard rails.’’ lines automation, in 1081. Lukas was elected an 2n8 840 403 801 831 7.00 • M 11.13 section and Connecticut still tion Group publicly disagreed with employees, a cutback of 50 to 100 staff, company RAILS & POSTS 11“ Bolton Notch and Windham unleM The state i t seeking the release letter had not yet reached Albany Sevin said that if tbe state assistant secretary in 1082 and director of 2a 4.78 sm 873 884 1801 11.40 1803 wanted to extend the interstate to that position. Ilia state DOT sources said. MCLUDC8 2 10' RANJBA 1P08T the atate can overcome the federal of $145 million'in federal funds to administrator Jack Bestgen. Wil­ transportation department and the commercial lines in 1083. 2ii10 801 7.00 11.01 1870 1S.14 2800 the state border. revised the assesament to answer "There will be some further layoffs within a tew Environmaatal Protection Agen- build tbe expressway. liam Lasarek, Deputy Commis­ EPA fail to come to an agreement, 2x12 1804 21.1t In 1983 Rhode Island scrapped the groups’ objections, but has not days," McCrohon said. "W e're going to keep the cy's oppeaiUon to the project. Last summer the EPA notified sioner of the Connecticut Depart­ the federal DOT will require a 8NET hat eamingt drop 4b4 4.71 7.24 801 841 1843 released the revised document to number as low as possible." SPUTMIIL All F. Sevin, director of the office the federal DOT that it opposes the ment of Transportation, said that more detailed environmental im­ plans for its part of the road. 801 401 RUSTIC VIPIQINUUAnOWOOO NEW HAVEN — Southern New England ia of environmental policy for the expressway because environmen­ FHA officials have already told pact Btatement on the project. One Connecticut proposes to go ahead the public. 401 Telephone announced an earnings drop to 05 cents He said company officials also hope attrition— staff ia 841 M0LU0C8 Federal Highway AdminiitraUon, tal officials are convinced that the him tbe substance of Sevin's letter state transportation official said with its part. And Connecticut ECCAG is seeking release of the per share in the first quarter, down from $1.07 per resignations expected as a result of the current rash of 2-10FTRML8. M id Thunday he haa ront the increased traffic the expressway but that he has not seen it. last year that it could take a full officials and the highway adminis­ revised document through tbe share in the same period last year. negative news about U P I's financial state — to help 1POST 15»* FHA’f regional adminiatrator in would feed into Rhode Island " I f their concern is the Scituate year to prepare an impact tration have said that the environ­ state Freedom of Information Net income for the first quarter was $29.8 hold down the layoffs. AlbaWr a letter ordering the would endanger the reservoir. Reservoir, tbe project is only going statement. mental assessment submitted in Commission. ECCAG attorney Jon million, a drop from the $32.7 million earned in the U PI now has about 1,550 employees, including about CoMecUcut Department of Trans- The state has been waiting for to result in a relatively insignifi­ When Connecticut and Rhode September is as good as a corresponding period a year ago. 250 paid in foreign currencies, company officials said. portaUon to resolve its differences word on the fate of the expressway, cant incrense in traffic," Lasarek Island originally planned to build 'supplemental environmental im­ President Walter Monteith said he is encour­ About 200 positions, many of them non-editorial jobs, with the E P A or riak loaing the officially called tbe Relocation of said. “ They shouldn't be con- the expressway as an extansioa of pact statement. Please Inni la page 18 aged that first quarter operating expenses were have been eliminated since last July. cut by more than 1 percent other than those for McCrohon said the editorial staff reductions were depreciation. being carried out with sensitivity so as not to materially affect the quality of the U PI news report. x/f J U.S. has E x-director Joins U V M G l i i n K C 3H"x5"x8' pmicis sAu PRESSURE backing town D em ocr^ M o n ^ For G>llege; 24"x9e" UNFINISHED 6.27 SA4 TREATED 32"x96" UNFIMSHEO........... 12.34 n.n 6"Me"KS' By Alax GIralll 48"x96" UNFMISHEO : . 23.57 f L t l PRESSURE on arms Harold Raportar TREATED W h e r e D o e s 24"x96" PRESSURE TREATED 18.57 M.7I 48"x96" PRESSURE TREATED 34.87 SLSt By Philip A. W llllam t Form er Republican town Direc­ 6" X 6” X 8' Creosote dipped United Press International tor Peter.