20 - MANCHESTKR HF.RALD. Tuesday. April 2. 1985 MANCHESTER SPORTS Directors to consider : l Ethnic is nice but EC baseball squad Rain likely tonight; town shelter options j American is better! has solid pitching warmer Thursday ... page 2 CBT inttpduces ... page 4 page 14 ... page 11 ....... .... * Wednesdav.Wednesday. AcApril 3, 1985 — Single copy: 25C anIRA. Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm you can demand Fire chiefs m o ^ say troubles JUNf ^ money nx)m. a won’t go on lEE.c By Alex GIrelll ments consistently consider the 3 .r A r t Herald Reporter health and welfare of town V citizens. TEACi/Ekl lAS'JRV v Q > There will be no more disputes She said that two hours after­ like the one that occurred between wards, both departments were Manchester's two fire depart­ cooperating in fighting a grass fire . 1 STATE ments last week at a house fire on and that more recently town Adams Street, the chiefs of both firefighters from the Buckland departments said at a surprise firehouse stationed themselves in news conference Tuesday night. the district firehouse when district The chiefs were joined in that firefighters were occupied fighting / / 'J assertion by Manchester Mayor a fire. Barbara Weinberg and by Walter District President Joyner said Joyner, president of the Eighth the chiefs have assured him and ICO NTRACT Utilities District. Mayor Weinberg that "it will never / • The news conference, for which happen again. " EFICIT?' there was no advance notice, was “We are sorry that (Town held in a small room in Lincoln Deputy Chief William) Griffin is Center minutes before the Baord of receiving a reprimand for this," Directors convened its regular Joyner said. meeting at 8 p.m. in the hearing In an April 1 letter made public room nearby. at the conference, town Chief "As far as I'm concerned Rivosa wrote to Griffin: "I must i another incident like this one will strongly object to your behavior in \%-mm '1^ not occur under my command," reaction to being jostled and said Harold Topliff, chief of the verbally abused by an Eighth Eighth District Fire Department. Utilities District firefighter...! can Town Fire Chief John Rivosa understand how your emotions got Herald photo by Tarquinio the best of you after being ignored called the incident "unfortunate" The teachers were demonstrating to draw attention to A and “isolated" and said the and abused during the course of A group of'teachers from Cheney Tech in Manchester \ citizens of Manchester will find events at the scene, but the striking wave signs this morning on board a bus that took them to union contract talks, which have been stalled since last "full cooperation among the of another individual cannot be Hartford to join seyeral hundred other vocational July 1. troops." excused." The letter was released along teachers from across the state in picketing the Capitol. The confrontation between the with a report from Rivosa to two departments occurred during General Manager Robert B. Weiss continually strained relations be­ Cheney Tech students sent home t # on the events at the fire, a s^uence tween the town and district over which began when a police dis­ the issue of fire protection in the P patcher mistakenly sent the town Buckland area, which is within the fire department to a fire that was district's jurisdiction. in the district. State vo-tech teachers picket Capitol The district plans to build a According to Rivosa's report to second fire station to serve the Weiss, it was a couple of exchanges By Susan Vaughn O'Neill told reporters at the the American Federation of sympathy from legislators." But area within 500 feet of a town- between Assistant Chief Paul and United Press International Capitol in Hartford that the strike Teachers, said union Vice Presi­ he said that the teachers were not owned station built when Buckland Gworek of the district department was illegal and the state would dent Ronald Tabellione, who was trying to hamper the negotiation residents were petitioning to join and Griffin that preceded the seek an injunction ordering the at the picket line at the Capitol. process, which has been going on the district. HARTFORD — Several hundred incident in which Griffin struck instructors from the state's 20 teachers back to work. Cheney Tech principal Law­ since last April. Weinberg said at the outset of the Raymond Fredericksen, a district vocational schools conducted a "It's an illegal strike, they're rence lerardi told the Herald this The negotiators for the union and news conference that the March 26 firefighter, as Griffin was leaving one-day walkout today and pick­ breaking the law by striking," said morning that he would like to talk the state Board of Education met confrontation at 377 Adams St., in the scene. eted in front of the Capitol to draw O'Neill, who said he wouldn't meet to the press but had been ordered as recently as Tuesday, Tabellione which a town deputy fire chief Rivosa said in the report that his attention from legislators to their with union representatives. "I not to. He referred questions to the said. struck a district volunteer firefigh­ son. town firefighter John Rivosa stalled union contract. would hope that they would go back state Department of Education. One of the major problems for ter in the culmination of tense Jr., pulled Griffin and Gworek All the schools — including to work and get this issue settled." The state education representa­ the vocational teachers' union, exchanges, was an isolated inci­ apart after Gworek grabbed Grif- Howell Cheney Regional Voca­ tive could not be reached for said Tabellione, is that their “It's breaking the law, whether contract does not allow binding dent in the midst of a professional tional Technical School in Man­ it's one day or a week or an hour.'' comment. Please turn to page 8 The teachers have been working arbitration. The contracts of the relationship in which both depart­ chester — were closed officially at said O'Neill, who added that he since last July 1 on an extension of other 36,000 teachers in the state do about 9 a.m. by Education Com­ would leave it to the State Board of missioner Gerald Tirozzi. Students the previous two-year contract, permit arbitration, he said. Education "to look seriously" at which went into effect in July 1982, The two-year contract package who had arrived at school as usual possible disciplinary action Tabellione said. In December 1984, offered the vocational instructors Japan moves fast had to be sent home. against the strikers. More than 30 instructors from the union membership overwhelm­ in December was “totally unac­ Cheney Tech formed a picket line Some 1,030 teachers from state ingly rejected by a 5-1 ratio the ceptable in view of 1985 being in front of the school this morning vocational schools are represented state Board of Education's offer of declared ‘The year of the teacher' to appease critics prior to leaving for the Capitol at by the state Vocational Federation a 5 percent pay raise in each of two by Gov. O’Neill and Education about 9 a m. of Teachers, Local 1797, which is years. Tabellione said. Commissioner Gerald Tirozzi," affiliated with the Connecticut Tabellione said the purpose of and the United States as well as for With hundreds of teachers pick­ By J. L. Battenfeld eting outside. Gov. William A. Federation of State Teachers and today's demonstration was to "get Please turn to page 8 Most people think buying an IRA is the best thing they can United Press International the development of world trade, do for their retirement. It’s not. Buying a CBT Demand IRA is. that the bill will not pass the U.S. TOK'YO — The Japanese govern­ Congress," Fujinami said. You see, compared to conventional IRAs, CBT’s new Demand ment, facing deteriorating rela­ Prime Minister Yasuhiro Naka- Bone buffs tions with the United States over a sone, who has been trying to Post-April Fool’s Day ‘joke’ IRA is extraordinary. Because while it gives you all the advantages mounting trade imbalance, said balance U.S. demands against laud find pressure from Japanese manufac­ today it will send a special envoy to FAIRFIELD (UPI) - The of an ordinary IRA, it also lets you take advantage of options ordi­ Washington to explain its policies turers and their political backers, told reporters the congressional chance discovery of several to U.S. officials. human skeletons buried be­ nary IRAs don’t. The Foreign Ministry announce­ actions were “very severe," Ky- doesn’t amuse town family odo news service said. neath a backyard has convinced Like the conventional IRAs, CBT’s Demand IR A offers con­ ment came as top officials critic­ local history buffs that the site is ized a bill passed by a U.S. Senate The committee voted 12-4 to Bv Nancy Pappas pool table or a Pontiac. And they he wanted me there by 5 a.m .,” enable Reagn to restrict enough a hidden Indian burial ground. ventional time accounts. In fact, they assure you the highest inter­ committee, saying it is "discrimi­ Herald Reporter never placed those classified ad­ Cormier said. The chief state medical exa­ Japanese imports to compensate None of this seemed particularly natory" and liable to harm overall vertisements in the Courant. miner's office in Farmington for the 25 percent increase in suspicious to Cormier, who says est rates in Connecticut. A whopping relations between the two allies. For Bob Cormier of Linndale "I can’t imagine who would play ruled the bones discovered last CBT’S 3 YEAR IRA SELECT ACCOUNT automobiles Japan is expected to that commercial accounts fre­ A ministry official said Reishi Street, April Fool’s Day arrived such nasty jokes on us," said week by a town work crew are 11.00% annual rate for a 3-year IRA.