BUSINESS /Pt Jobless Rate Shows Drop in September
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20 - MANCHKSTKR HERALD, Thursday. Pel. 4, 1984 S’i.-- BUSINESS PoUtIcians Join profs The church fair calendar Play Bingo for a feast at MCC In town Is sure packed! . and win cash Think of fall clean-up now before the leaves fade ... page 3 ... page 11 ... page 2 The leaves are turning, kids are back in school, the me gravelly surfaee that protects them from drying snow. Double-check the seal so that frig id a ir doesn^t World Series is upon us, and the first Christmas out in the sun and wind. Replace any curled-up or seep inside. catalogs arc in the mail. Fall has arrived. cracked shingles, since the.se can rip or even blow • Make sure your windows are on your agenda. The This means specific chores around your house must Your away in high winds. windows themselves should fit their sashes properly. be done for the fall clean-up: • Examine yojir roof from ground level, as well. If they don’t, you can use a soft, puttylike tape to stop • Make a list of what you want to accomplish before Money's Note any sags or bowing in the roofline that could rattles and keep out winter’s gusts. In spring, you winter sets in. Use this list to guide — or prompt — you indicate structural problems, A pair of binoculars simply strip off the tape. to take care of everything in time. Worth would be handy for this kind of examination. This simple measure alone can help cut your Chilly tonight; Manchester, Conn. • Most tasks will take you outdoors, so focus your Sylvia Porter • If you are on good terms with your neighbors, look heating bills. Replace any cracked or loose panes in attention on what you have to do there. Clean up at your roof from a window in an upper story of their your windows. cool Saturday Friday, Oct. 5, 1984 garden furniture and store it properly, according to home. This is espeeially helpful for those of you who • Sidewalks and outside steps should be examined — see page 2 the manufacturer's instructions. Drain aluminum don't like to clim b up and down ladders. While you’re to guarantee that bricks, masonry and flagstones all Single copy: 25C tubes and make sure water does not remain trapped in at your neighbors’, you can also observe the condition lie flush With the surface so that you, or a guest, won’t any pieces. Wipe off grass, leaves and other debris for rips or other needed repairs. Clean out the gutters iKanr^atfr Mr rate of your paint or siding. Aluminum siding doesn’t need slip on them in icy weather. Sim ilarly, see to it that that cling to the bottoms of tables and chairs. Dry and downspouts. If birds or insects like to build their repainting for many years, of course, and vinyl siding railings are secure. cushions thoroughly to prevent mildew and inspect nests in your gutters, or if leaves clog them up, try never does. Once you finish all your outside chores — and this them for cracks or rips. If you take care of these bending wire mesh around them. Be sure the • Check the masonry for chinks in the mortar. Have list by no means exhausts the possibilities — make repairs now, you can whisk the furniture outside on downspouts are open and that gutters haven’t eroded those repaired immediately. notes of what you did so you can refer to them next the first nice day in spring, ready for a new summer. before you attach any scrtKining. • The end of air conditioning season means more year. • Clean the grill and barbecue set, including all • Check the roof. If your roof is at least 15 years old, than lower electric bills. It means that it’s time to Shuttle utensils, before you store them. Follow the probe for signs of severe w ear — you m ay need a new store window units for winter. If you have window In fact, a sim ilar list for spring cleaning w ill make instructions on the can of lighter fluid about storage. roof soon. Among the signs to look for are cracked and units that can’t be withdrawn, at least wrap them up /Pt Jobless rate these commonplace chores easier to face six months • Still outdoors, inspect your awnings and screens dried-out shingles. Be alert for shingles that have lost from outside to protect the machines from ice and from now. ' launch Regulators around region give Seabrook a close look perfect shows drop By Steve Szkotak this year, with Seabrook’s lead complicated linancing package violating our contract, a court their Seabrook obligations. construction. Beyond the lim it, the United Press International owner flirting with bankruptcy for developed by Merrill Lynch to would say forget it. your hands arc In Connecticut, the Department utilities would have to pick up the months because of its heavy finance Seabrook and to save the C A P E CANAVERAL. F la . d irty .” of Public Utility Control began costs. investment in the plant. (UPI) — Like a meteor in the sky of The Seabrook nuclear plant, utility from bankruptcy. He and other regulators also hearings last month to set a And Public Service Co. of New United Illuminating and Connec dawn, the shuttle Challenger rising slowly since 1976 on New ” I would say that at this point in believe the various states can consumer cap on Seabrook’s first H am pshire, with its 35.6 percent ticut Light & Power Co. own a streaked into orbit today and its in September Hampshire’s seacoast, is facing time. Public Service Company has cause the cancellation of Seabrook reactor. This would limit the share of Seabrook, isn’t the only com bined share in Seabrook of 21.5 record crew of five men and two regional inquiries that threaten to so violated the Seabrook contract simply by refusing the funding amount ratepayers would be com power company feeling the strain percent, so the hearing could have women readied a climate-studying sink the plant before it ever ... that if it were ever to say you’re requests sought by utilities to meet pelled to pay for Seabrook’s produces a kilowatt of power. of Seabrook. a significant impact on Seabrook. satellite for launch laterintheday. By Denis G. Gulino All but one of the six New Other owners — notably United Challenger worked well during United Press International 5 State jobless rate England states are amid or plan Illuminating of New Haven, Conn., the first hours of the eight-day V’’ regulatory hearings on the ulti and Central Maine Power Co. of mission but skipper Robert WASHINGTON - The milion’s hits 17-year low mate value of the nuclear plant. At Augusta — have shown similar Crippen reported one problem — a unemployment rate fell .slighlly to — see page 20 least three states — Maine, Massa financial stress, and other utilities 3-foot strip of insulation appeared 7.4 percent in September, with chusetts and Connecticut — indi have been placed on credit watch, peeled away from the ship’s right women m aking the only .sub.stan- vidually have enough regulatory meaning their financial condition side rear engine pod. tial gains in the job market, llic er’s rale will he reported four days clout to land the knockout blow to is questionable. The four-time shuttle flier said Labor Department said today. before the vole Seabrook Station. These developments have the problem was "nothing really The unemployment rate for The uncniploymcnl rale for "They need regional support to caused concern among New Eng big” but he said he would take a women dropped to 6.7 iK-rcenl from adult men edged slightly higher lo build the plant. Any one of tho.se land regulators, but the major fin(^€VRns p r o d u c t s c o m p R n v better look at the pod with a August’s 7.1 percent, the lowest it 6 5 percent from 6.4 percent in three states can make or break question is still whether Sea- television cam era mounted on has been since June. August. brook’s first reactor is worth Seabrook,” said Barry Zitser, Challenger’s robot arm. The overall September rate was The rale lor teenagers showed completing. Connecticut’s consumer counsel. Sally Ride, making her second slig htly below August’s 7.5 percent substantial deterioration, moving In February 1972, Public Service Utility regulators in Vermont. shuttle flight, reported the arm unemployment. to 19.3 pcr<’cnl from 18.4 percent. Co. soughi regulatory permission Connecticut, Maine. New Hamp was checking out well. She planned The figures, coming a month The rale for black teenagers to build a twin-reactor nuclear shire and Massachusetts have Last 3 Days to use the it to lift the 5.000-pound before the Nov. 6 presidential stayed at 41 7 percent power plant in the town of satellite out of the ship's cargo bay begun or plan to examine the entire election, were good nows to I’rcsi- All figures arc seasonally question of whether Seabrook is Seabrook. The project would cost for launch four hours later. dent Reagan. adjusted. just under $1 billion, and both units worth completing. None of Sea- The $40 million satellite was Despite the improvement, fac ■rhe (piartcrly report on the would be completed by 1981, the activated in the cargo bay and brook’s owners is located in Rhode tory employment showed its worst tuiml)cr of p<‘oplc who say they utility said.