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20 - MANCHESTER HKRAI.IJ. ThiirscKiy. Nov 1. 1984 M<y'>s ' I 1904 Reagan’s a winner Southern grandmother Play Bingo In funlor high elections is latest to be executed and win cash BENSON & HEDGES .. page 4 ... page 20 ... page 2 Manchester, Conn. Cold tonight; sunny Saturday Friday, Nov. 2, 1984 — see page'2 Single copy: 25C Jobless rate unchanged in O ctober By Denis G. Gulino the women’s rate during the recov United Press International ery,” Norwood said. The unemployment rate for teenag WASHINGTON - The nation s un ers, which has been in the 18 percent to employment rate in October remained 20 percent range all year, was 18.8 at 7.4 percent, the same as September, percent in October. leaving 8.4 million people looking for The jobless rate for black workers, work just before the election, but the which began the year at about 17 number of jobs, increased, the Labor percent, was down to 15.4 percent in Department said.today. October, slightly higher than the 15.1 The unemployment rate has re percent in September. mained at 7.4 percent or 7.5 percent for In a survey of 10 of the largest states, six months with the exception of June, the Labor Department found unem when it dropped to the lowest point ployment was worse in New York, since the end of the 1981-82 recession, Texas. Illinois and Ohio. In New York 7.1 percent. unemployment moved up substantially The latest report showed about 6.5 from 8.7 percent to 9.4 percent. million jobs have been created since But unemployment rates declined in November 1982, 350,000 of them in California. Florida, Massachusetts, October alone. Most of the new jobs Michigan. New Jersey and were generated by retail stores and the Pennsylvania. broad services sector of the economy Although the unemployment rate that now employes almost three of remained at 7.4 percent, the depart every four workers. ment said the average length of the ' factory workweek was slightly shorter. Factories added about 55,000 jobs in The unemployment rate for Hispanic October, not enough to make up for the workers rose to 10.9 percent. It has H«r0ld pbolo by Tirquink) 115,000 jobs lost in that sector in been increasing since June, when it September. Since the recession, the was 10 percent. industrial economy has regained only An accompanying jobless rate that Pitkin replicas still available 70 percent of the jobs lost in the includes military personnel remained downturn, the department said. at 7.3 percent. Richard Carter examines a reproduction of an inkwell a history of the factory being written by William E. ■ The number of people still looking for Unemployment in the mining and oil manufactured by the Pitkin Glassworks, Manchester's Buckley. Only 400 reproduction inkwells were made. work, 8.4 million, was slightly less than industries rose to 10.9 percent from Revolutionary War-era glass factory. Carter is a About 100 remain unsold. To buy one, contact Irene the 8.5 million reported in July. August September’s 8.6 percent. But most and September. other categories of workers showed member of Pitkin Glass Works Inc., the group that looks Brown at the Savings Bank of Manchester, 923 Main St., "A fter dropping sharply in the early improvement. The unemployment rate after the ruins of the factory. The group is selling the 649-9696. The cost is $16 for a well and quill. months of the recovery, unemployment on farms was 13.8 percent, down from inkwells and quills to raise money for the publication of has shown little movement since last September’s 15 percent. M ay," Janet Norwood, chief of the The figures held no surprises that Bureau of Labor Statistics, said in a would influence Tuesday’s presidential statement accompanying the report. election. Although the report showed 300 reported dead The major categories of unemploy about 300.000 more people are looking ment changed little in October. The for a job than were just before the 1980 unemployment rate for adult men fell election, the jobless figures have slightly to 6.3 percent from 6.5 percent remained a minor issue in the while the rate for adult women edged campaign. Violence continues in India up to 6.9 percent from 6.7 percent. The unemployment rate when Presi "Although neither group has shown dent Reagan took office was 7.5 Bv Neal Robbins tribute to the slain prime minister as her for, ” PTI reporterl. much movement since early last percent. It rose to 10.7 percent during United Press International. flag-draped body lay in state in New Delhi summer, declines in the men's jobless Gandhi, 66, a Hindu, was shut and killed the last two months of 1982 during the in advance of her state funeral Saturday. by two of her Sikh guards at her New Delhi rate have been much sharper than in recession. NEW DELHI, India — Troqps in battle Indefinite curfews were imposed in must residence Wediiesday. One of the guards gear with orders to shoot rioters on sight sections of the capital and about 30 other was killed on the spot, while the other was patrolled major cities today to halt attacks cities across India in an effort to stem the wounded. on Sikhs by Hindus avenging the assassina 'violence directed at the Sihk minority. The assassination of Gandhi, who ruled GOP Senate plan tion of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Police fired 30 rounds to separate groups her nation of T20 million pr'ople for IS of the Reports said nearly 300 people died in 48 of battling Sikhs\ind Hindus in West Delhi past 18 years, provokr-rl protests in cities hours of rioting. but there were no reports of fatalities, the across northern India by Hindus seeking "There are not many Sikh businesses left Press Trust of India said revenge against members of the nation's starts new squabble unburned,” a Western diplomat said of the The government-funded news agency minority Sikh religion widespread burning and looting in the said mure than 100 people hud been killed in Government spokesman M K. Wall said capital. the capital alone in violence that included Rajiv Gandhi hud "given very strict Bv Mark A. Dupuis he set the caucus right after the Gandhi’s son, Rajiv, who was named to beheadings and burning of victims in the instructions to all agencies concerned with United Press International election because the GOP will have a succeed his mother as leader of the streets. Reports from around the, nation law and order that on no account should we lot of work to do if it wins control of the predominately Hindu nation hours after her said jtearly 200 more people died in the two allow these sorts of incidents to continue.” HARTFORD — Senate Republicans, . Senate in Tuesday’s voting. death Wednesday, appealed for calm. days of rioting — some of the worst since The army, with orders to shoot rioters on hoping to regain majority status aftera Robertson predicted that President The appeal came as one of the two Sikhs 1947. when India and Pakistan were sight, moved into nine of the hardest hit decade, will meet a day after Tues Reagan’s coattails could give the GOP who shot Gandhi reportedly told police that partitioned at the time of independence cities in northern India today and prepared day’s elections to choose their leaders as many as 24 of the Senate’s 36 seats. a senior army officer masterminded the from Britain. to provide security for world leaders who for the next two weeks. '' Democrats have controlled the Senate killing and that other bodyguards were out In one incident Thursday night, PTI will begin to arrive for Gandhi’s funeral Senate Minority Leader Philip S. for a decade a n ^ o w have a 23-13 edge. to kill her successor, the Statesman reported that a retired army officer fired Saturday. Robertson of Cheshire said Thursday If the Republicans won control, they newspaper said. i into a crowd in West Delhi with an Officials said troops moved into Behares, would have to appoint committee Another newspaper, the Times of India, automatic rifle, killing about 20 people Thei Jabalpur, I.ucknow. Allahabad, Calcutta! chairmen and staff and work out reported the two commando-trained secur retired officer was arrestetl. the news Kanpur, Agurtula and Ranchi to stem the details of legislative rules and their ity guards who killed one of the assassins agency said. Hindu-Sikh violence transition to the majority status. and wounded the other were arrested for Rajiv Gandhi. 40, de.scrihed the violence Gray denies Robertson said. Thousands of mourners lined up outside possible complicity in Gandhi’s slaying. and killing that followed the a.ssassination .Nehru’s former house Friday to view "There are^^o many things that need Thousands of tearful mourners paid final an "affront to everything that she stood Gandhi’s IsKly to be done to take over the m ajority,” phone bugs he said. "F o r a party that has not been a majority party in 10 years that HARTFORD (UPl) - United Tech doesn’t happen in two weeks or four nologies Corp. Chairman Harry J. weeks.” Church lot stays open pending talks Gray today denied allegations he Sen. George Gunther. R-Stratford, ordered the telephone bugging of the complained about holding the caucus firm ’s recently ousted president. so soon after the election and accused By Kathy Garmus authority has not yet made another offer on especially important to the downtown area Gray acknowledged he asked the Robertson of trying to improve his Herald Reporter the lot, he said.