to - M ANCHESTER HERALD. Tuesday. July 9. 1985 MANCHESTER FOCUS U.S./WORLD WEATHER BUSINESS GOP to mount drive One shopper tests Baldrige listed as Cloudy skies tonight; ! for firehouse vote coupon machines Stockman successor less humid Thursday How to sift through data I ... page 8 ... page 13 ... page 2 -V ... page 2 New technology changes phone service Whether you're buying a telephone or an answerer, the owner is away and phones that remember you still n e ^ to install it. This means that whatever Since the breakup of American Telephone k numbers also are valuable. Telegraph — what increasingly appears to have been you buy must be compatible with your phone bne. If. for Instance, touch-tone service is not available a stupid move on the part of uninformed managers — • Phones with a switch to select touch tone, pulse you and I have been deluged with a bewildering array Your dialing or any combination of the two for access Jo where you live, you shouldn’t buy a touch-tone phone. of misinformation on telephones, their functions and long-distance services. Phones with these features But if your home is equipped with modular jaclu. Money's cost between $50 and $65 — but with the savings on the Installation is as easy as plugging in a lamp, u, ilanrhratrr MrralJi features. This has merely complicated the buying leasing and touch-tone charges. In addition to though, you have an older home, you may need extra • ___ y-Hi_______ * VA/oHnAftHAuWednesday, .liilwJuly 10, 1985 — Single copy: 25< process. Worth Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm In the first days of deregulation, the market was discounted long-distance service, the extra charges wiring. can be more than made up in two to three months' use swamped with cheap "disposable” phones. (I saw Sylvia Porter simple as the suppliers of service t i j to make it in New York City. Formerly, If you wanted to save them being hawked on sidewalks in Manhattan.) If sound, it just is not that easy. (I m admittedly a dolt n money on your long-distance calls by using MCI or you bought them and watched them break down this area, but I suspect millions of you are right In Splint, you had to subscribe to A T iT 's touch-tone almost immediately, you tossed them away in disgust there with me.) Help with installation of phones wouW service at an added monthly charge or buy a devide and disillusionment. be essential for me. Also imperative would ^ Panel speakerphone capability, once found only on Now, when we buy phones, we’re returning to brand that simulates the tones on a rotary phone. high-priced office phone systems, are now available diagrams of types of telephone “ “ tlets found In any Israeli jets names we strust and products backed by longer • Voice-activated answering machines, meaning in m^ium-priced electronic home phones.” home with corresponding diagrams and descriptions warranties. And no longer satisfied with the bare machines that record as long as someone is talking. Popular features today — some of which save of modular jacks needed to install today's new phones. basic models, we’re looking for convenience features, No more cutoff messages. Remote control is a benefit is hard money and/or are extremely helpful — include: A telephone consumer guide that simplifies phone such as memory, automatic redial and lighted to you if you want to get your messages periodically • Answering machines: This reflects our changing installation has been prepared by General E le^ n c. kaypads. lifestyles — particularly dual-career households and without having to return home. Some use hand-held "With microelectronics, manufacturers can incor­ remote controllers to operate the machine, while It's free. You may get it by writing to: Phone Tips, households headed by single persons. Says Smith, GE Electronics Park, Building 7, Room 201 S, stage raid porate more ‘phone’ into smaller packages,” explains others need only a touch-tone phone. This is claimed to to find "Consumers are looking for products that simplify William G. Smith, general marketing manager for Syracuse, N.Y. 13221. It won't install your phones — their lives, and answering machines help do that.” be another reason for the pulse/tone switchable General Electric Consumer Electronics. "For but it will make it easier for you to' do so. • Machines that act as personal secretaries while model. By Kathy Garmus instance, automatic redial of busy numbers and Assistant City Editor Summer vacations and work on guerrillas UPI buy ;ch?<<'jle8 have taken their toll on •, HeARTs /1 9 Business Legislation the mayor's plans to form a 0 citizens' committee to help sell By Sarnia Nakhoul one of them served as headquar­ voters on a sewer-plant project United Press International ters for the Abu Musa group while In Brief nearing that will be on the ballot Nov. 5. the other was a departure point for puts lid on Mayor Barbara B. Weinberg BEIRUT, Lebanon — Israeli attacks. said "Tuesday that she has received A third target base 1 mile east of p p i A ' warplanes bombed Palestinian Heating oil price drop* commitments from only three targets near the northern Leba­ Tripoli was used as a base for the deadline people to serve on the committee. health costs Popular Front for the Liberation of HARTFORD — State officials say home nese city of Tripoli today, a day She declined to name the three. Palestine-General Command, the heating oil prices in Connecticut dropped in June after two suicide bombers at­ WASHINGTON (UPI) — Lawyers for At least two others declined to army said. It said the base as demand for the fuel lessened and suppliers By David Singleton tacked the Israeli security zone in an unidentified investment group seek­ serve because of busy schedules, contained dugouts and bunkers. anticipated lower worldwide oil prices. United Press International southern Lebanon, security sour­ ing to buy United Press International she said. Weinberg said the biggest The Lebanese sources, possibly The average price of heating oil was down 5.5 ces said. out of bankruptcy for more than $14 obstacle to finding committee referring to the same target, said cenU a gallon on the wholesale level in June and CONCORD, N.H. - New Hamp­ million are awaiting a response from a members has been trying to reach Israeli military authorities in five jets bombed Beddawi, a 3.3 cents a gallon on the retail level, a survey by shire's new health services competition committee representing UPI’s people. refugee camp 1 mile south of the state Energy Division showed. The state law will help contain skyrocketing costs Jerusalem confirmed the raids creditors. Weinberg said she had hoped to Tripoli, where they demolished a survey found an average retail price of $1,044 per by encouraging effective and efficient said the pitots reported scoring Washington attorneys David Ruben- have the committee ready two P F L P training base. gallon as of July 1, down from $1,077 in the health care, lawmakers said. r-. k •• tl good hits. , stein and Richard Beatty, representing weeks ago, but that it will be three They said the Israeli warplanes previous month and $1.131^n July 1, 1984, the At a mock signing ceremony Monday, Israel said the jets struck at the bidders, described their proposal to to four weeks before the group can Palestine guerrilla bases in the also bombed Nahr A1 Bared, a Energy Division said. Gov. John Sununu said House Bill 476 “ is really a deregulation bill” because the creditors committee at a meeting in be presented to the Board of area of Nahr El Bared, 5>A miles refugee camp 12 miles north of the Bradford S. Chase, under secretary of the Directors. The committee should Office of Policy and Management in charge of the it promotes cost-effectiveness without New York Monday. northeast of Tripoli. Lebanese city, where they struck a gasoline The investor group's offer expires have between seven and 15 people, Energy Division, said heating oil prices tradition­ the regulatory structures other states sources said the planes struck station. July 15, but a source close to the she said. ally fall in June because the heating season is have adopted. Palestinian refugee camps north Israel launched its last air strike committee said the bidders — des­ "Because of time, you don't want over and demand for oil is less. The legislation, which Sununu actu­ and south of the city. in Lebanon on April 17, hitting ally signed more than two weeks ago, cribed last week as "v e ry credible" by a whole lot of people,” she said. Voice of Lebanon, Beirut's what it said was a headquarters became law July 1. A U PI Chairman Luis Nogales — would Town officials are pushing for Christian radio station, said the and training base for the Demo­ Troubles brewing at GE The health services competition act have to revise their deadline If they quick approval of the project -YT • . » . ' Ui - «r f raids set off fires throughout the cratic Front for the Liberation of BOSTON — A strike by General Electric Co. requires hospitais and nursing homes to wish to pursue a purchase. before the federal grant program Palestinian camps, killing or Palestine in the eastern Bekaa The unsecured creditors, who were for sewer-plant work is replaced wouning a large number of people. Valley. J j employees is "a very real possibility," a union submit to state public health officials offered about 17.5 cents on the dollar for by a low-interest loan program.