JianrhfHlpr Mpratb Thursday, Nov. 24,1988 Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm 30 Cents Road race, football offer a holiday sports feast By Jim Tierney O’Reilly, Brian Roche and Kieran Stack; Ameri­ Manchester Herald male and female, and the first male and female the Town Championship Trophy, presented by the cans John Gregorek, Keith Brantly, Jim Cooperand Manchester High School finisher. Steve Spence; Mexicans Marcos Barreto and Herald. The latter trophy is presented on a Proceeds from the race go to Muscular Dystrophy permanent basis. The town of Manchester’s most festive day of the Maurico Gonzales, Englishman Dave Murphy and year has arrived. Research of Connecticut. A toal of $23,000 was East won, 38-8, last year. Norwegian Are Nakkim. raised a year ago. The Manchester Road Race The 52nd running of the Manchester Thanksgiving Manchester and East each has experienced The women’s division will be led by defending Committee, for the 11th year, is chief sponsor of the Day Road Race will answer the gun this morning at difficult seasons. The Indians enter today’s final champ Jill Clarke of Sheffield, England, Christine race along with financial assistance from Pratt & 10 with a record 7,000 runners anticipated. game of the year with a 2-7 record while East is 1-8. Pfitzinger, Linda Begley, Sue Faber and Judi St. Whitney and the Hartford Courant. Following at 11 is the annual East Catholic- Junior Aris Leonard will quarterback the Indians Hilaire, who holds the women’s course record of After the race, many may find their way over to Manchester High School football game. 24:40 set In her only appearance in 1985. while senior Marc Mangiafico will call the signals Memorial Field for the annual Manchester-East for East. The Eagles have never lost to Manchester Two-time defending champ John Doherty of The top five male and female finishers receive Catholic Thanksgiving Day football clash that kicks with Mangiafico at quarterback. Ireland, who recorded the second-fastest time ever TAC Trusts Awards of $1,250, $1,000, $750, $500 and off at 11 a.m. Ehst leads the series, 8-5. East can First-year Indian Coach Jim McLaughlin and last year with a 21:31 clocking over the 4.75-mlle $250, respectively. Prizes will also be awarded to the retire the Army and Navy Club 'Trophy with a first-year Eagle Coach Leo Facchini will meet for course, is entered in the race. top three in each of the following age divisions: victory. A team retires the trophy by winning three the first time on opposing sidelines. Facchini was an Doherty will be severely challenged by the likes of 40-49, 50-59 and 60-and-over along with the top three out of a possible five games. ’The Eagles currently assistant under McLaughlin at Waterford High fellow countrymen Richard O’Flynn, Gerry high school boys and girls, the first Connecticut lead the trophy series, 2-1. The winner also receives School for two years. There’s lots of turkey, lots of help By Nancy Pappas Union votes Manchester Herald Barbara Philip has a very small family, yet she is expecting about 125 for Thanksgiving. Sunday on Philip, of Avondale Road, f Is chairman of the sixth annual Community Thanks­ giving Dinner, which Man­ chester Area Conference of Churches has planned for Pratt pact noon today at South United Methodist Church, 1226 Main St.. EAST HARTFORD (AP) - A Pratt also wanted to increase There will be 11 turkeys new, tentative three-year con­ annual deductibles, from $100 to and a ham, as well as tract was reached Wednesday $150 for individuals and from $250 dressings, pots of potatoes, between Pratt & Whitney and the to $300 for families. crates .of cranberries, and a union representing about 12,000 Pratt’s total benefits package plentitude of pies. This free blue-collar workers, both sides included improvements in the meal is open to the poor, announced. savings plan, disability insurance elderly, lonely, or anyone Details of the contract won’t be and retirement benefits. who simply would rather released until Sunday when The Machinists strongly oppose share Thanksgiving with a members of Machinists Local 91 cost-sharing because they feel large group. vote on the proposal, said George skyrocketing medical costs are Philip herself falls into Almeida, a negotiator from the not their fault. that latter category. Most union’s international. “ The fact is, doctors, hospitals, years, she cooks Thanksgiv­ ‘T m pleased that we were able and the drug industry have raised ing dinner for just herself, to reach agreement and reach the their prices without control,” a her husband and her point where we could recommend union flier says. "When the mother. it to the membership,” Almeida company wants to go after the But three years ago, when said. real problem, and provide accu­ Philip chaired the commun­ The major unresolved issue rate monitoring of medical costs, ity dinner for the first time, during Wednesday’s session ap­ every union member will join in.” she found the experience parently was health-care costs. Pratt is a division of Hartford- very rewarding. Pratt wanted hourly workers to based United Technologies Corp. “ I just loved it. It was as if start paying 20 percent of hospital UTC’s earnings were up 15 I had a huge fam ily,” Philip costs up to a point — $500 for percent in the third quarter and said. ” I came from a very single workers and $1,000 for the company is predicting record small family, and this is the families. Those costs include profits this year. one time of the year that I surgery. X-rays, lab fees, outpa­ Pratt & Whitney earlier this have a huge family. I feel tient surgery and emergency year eliminated 2.600 white collar like a Pilgrim.” treatment. Currently, the com­ jobs from plants nationwide to This year, Philip said, the pany picks up 100 percent of those help improve the company’s family feeling started when costs. position in the jet engine market. people in the community started calling to volunteer their help with the dinner. There will be 37 workers helping today, and only a Little time to fight few are old friends of Philip’s. .'/.ri-jfvil For example, there will m $35 billion in cuts be three members of the VIsco family helping out. By Martin Crutslnger begins next Oct. 1. That is a 14.5 Kitty Visco is running in the The Associated Press percent increase from this year, Manchester Road Race, reflecting growth that is almost while her husband, Lou, and WASHINGTON - The Reagan four times faster than the ex­ daughter, Tamara, stand administration said Wednesday it pected overall inflation rate. by and cheer. Afterwards, has successfully reached the goal Richard Darman, President­ all three are coming to the of cutting its final budget by $35 elect George Bush’s choice as the community dinner, to help billion without raising taxes new 0M B director, suggested serve. under a fast-track schedule that that Bush wili also look for Paul Uccello, another is giving federal agencies little savings in the Medicare program runner, will join them, as time to appeal sharp cuts in their when he begins negotiations with will Amy Avery, who is programs. Congress over the 1990 budget. working at the race. The final White House reviews Wright indicated that farm Most of the volunteers, of budget requests were returned subsidies would also be a princi­ however, will arrive about to the agencies on Wednesday, pal place the Bush administration 7:30 a.m., Philip said, to Patrick Flynn/Manchattar Harald Joseph R. Wright, director of the would look for savings. begin the last-minute prep­ HELPING HANDS — Jessie Bristow of Church in preparation for today’s sixth Office of Management and He said the $35 billion in deficit arations. Some have 113 Cooper Hiii St. peeis turnips annual Community Thanksgiving Budget, said in an interview with reductions had been accomp­ See DINNER, page 14 Wednesday at South United Methodist Dinner. The Associated Press. lished while keeping Reagan’s Wright said the draft budget goals of increasing defense has succeeded in reducing an spending by 2 percent over the anticipated $135 billion deficit for rate of inflation and exempting the 1990 fiscal year to $100 billion. Social Security from any cuts. Mobs kill 3 soldiers in Soviet unrest It was done through a combina­ The $100 billion deficit target tion of sales of government for 1990 is established by the MOSCOW (AP) - Rampaging the republic’s Foreign Ministry. ple were protesting in the streets increase in tensions. assets. Increased user fees, cuts Gramm-Rudman budget­ mobs killed three soldiers, in­ “ Three soldiers were killed, of Baku and the Armenian The Supreme Soviet, which in in certain domestic programs balancing law. It compares with jured at least 126 people and perhaps by stones, perhaps by capital, Yerevan. the past backed activists’ de­ and approximately $15 billion in the $155.1 billion deficit recorded sacked government buildings and sticks,” he said in a telephone Arpenay Popoyan, wife of mands for annexation of the reductions in government pro­ in fiscal 1988, which ended Sept. trains in the worst flare-up of interview. Armenian activist Rafael Po­ Nagorno-Karabakh region from grams covering the sick, 30. ethnic violence in the Soviet south Official Baku Radio said "hool­ poyan, said in a telephone inter­ Azerbaijan, had not yet gotten to farmers, federal retirees and Congressional Democrats and since early spring, official sour­ igan elements attacked social view from Yerevan that at least that item when its work was others who automatically qualify ces said Wednesday.