College Bus MahrltpBtfr Cooperative VqI. XCIX, bio. 106 — Mancuerter, Conn., Monday, January 26,1980 Endeavor » S ince 1881 » 20t Single Copy • ISt Home Delivered | By LAUREN DAVIS SHEA bigger and better things in mind. “'The goal is to expand bus service so Herald Reporter that people in town will be able to MANCHESTER — After 11 years, move around without having to rely Hospital the efforts of town and state on an automobile,” Massett said. transportation officials reached frui­ While Massett concentrated on the Wins Round tion today with the first run of the eventual goals this bus service Hartford to Manchester Community previews, MCC officials praised the I-I College bus. bus route as a big achievement in On Budget College officials, students, and itself. Samuel Davis, of the minority state legislators joined transporta­ student alliance, said “This is the tion VIP’s for the half-hour trip to the culmination of an 11 year dream. MANCHESTER — Manchester college where they were greeted by Eleven years ago, less than 40 Memorial Hospital has won a round MCC President Robert Miller and a minority students attended MCC. in its budget battle with the State mid-morning snack. Transportation is a very serious Commission on Hospital and Health Dr. Harry Meisel, dean of student problem for many of these students. Care before the Freedom of Informa­ affairs, declared, “This is a great al, “Nine We have here a great asset to the tion Commission. day. ’This bus allows many people in with his college and to these students.” FOI Commissioner Donald Fried­ Hartford to enter the mainstream of , Bonnie Robert Weiss, general manager, man has recommended that a motion the prop- MCC life-’’ Miller added, "We are said the development of the bus route to dismiss the matter, filed by the ut a mer- making part of the American dream shows what people pulling together state hospital commission, be of perennial opportunity available for a common goal can accomplish. ibsen and denied. His recommendation will be through public transportation.’’ “This is an important week,” Weiss taken up by the full commission Feb. iaborated said in reference to the bus and rail Palomina Miller also cited the availability of 13. Hartford’s cultural and educational rides. It reflects the important im­ f Mine,” ’The state commission had filed the ed many benefits to Manchester residents, pact of citizen groups on a com­ )jx>sed to through the new bus service. munity.” motion to dismiss on three principal for “Girl Coming on the heels of Friday’s David Barry, state senator, joined grounds, all rejected by Friedman. but it rail trip, today’s bus service con­ the bus trip on a stop in East Hart­ ’The state commission argued that stitutes a surge in public transporta­ ford. He declared the bus route to be the complaint was filed by the to mount tion. Service on all Manchester meeting the dual needs of transpor­ hospital after a 20-day time limit had I comedy lapsed. )f Warm routes will be doubled beginning ting people who may be unable to af- today, with buses running on the half fort the expenses of an automobile, Friedman holds that the limit is Nancy, not mandatory. 'ty as a hour, instead of the hour. Buses are and of trimming the effect of the also now running to the Buckland In­ energy crunch. First Bus to College The commission also contended ; list of dustrial Park and along Middle ’Turn­ Barry was joined by State Senator that the three-member panel it , which pike in addition to the college route. Marcella Fahey, and State Rep. Disembarking from the first bus to make Hartford residents, and Manchester students. named to hold hearings and dis­ intury in William Massett, chairman of the Walter Joyner. Joyner said, “When the Hartford to Manchester Community In foreground, is state Sen. Marcella Fahey, cussions on the hospital budget is not singer- town’s transportation committee, you compare the costs of mass College run are college, transportation and a public agency within the meaning opposite D-East Hartford, and behind her state Sen. of the Freedom of Information law. le was a said today he regarded the expanded transportation with other forms, you legislative officials, all of whom lauded the David Barry, D-Manchester. service as a start, but he dearly had get a tremendous buy.” It also agrued that the discussions idy Gar- accessibility the new bus provides, both for they held were not meetings within 1 a child- the meaning of that law. jroperty’ that her Still to come is a decision by the ed itself Connecticut UPI Poll Freedom of Information Commission rays felt on whether hospital commission violated provisions of the Freedom of Information law when it held those a story discussions. cal mov- yer, who That question was argued before t Ebsen Salons Favor Carter^ Bush Friedman Nov. 16. act with The dispute between the hospital lined the By JACQUELINE HUARD About 5 percent of the state and the hospital commission over We can’t 151 House Democrats have endorsed Malcolm Baldrige, state chairman slot is not a consideration. oles you HARTFORD (UPI) — President senators and representatives who the senator and none have said for Bush's campaign, said the former “1 think he quite clearly has more cuts in the hospital budget is also the voted for Republicans in other con­ subject of litigation in Superior 1 you.” Carter and Republican George Bush they’ve changed their minds. CIA director and United Nations am­ experience to be president than any ■■i . Court. are obvious favorites in a recent poll tests said they hadn't made up their “I think If it (poll) reflects bassador has consistently come out of the other candidates. He’s running ponding, minds about a presidential choice. of guy I of Connecticut legislators, asked who anything, it reflects that they con­ ahead in surveys of political leaders for president, not vice president. He Gov. Ella Grasso, honorary 1 roll of they support in the 1980 presidential curred with Carter’s foreign policy at in various states. could train some of the others,” he [ for 15 election. chairperson of Carter’s Connecticut the time” of the ongoing turmoil in said. “I think the political leaders Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., campaign, has deliberateiy Iran and Afghanistan, Edwards said. UTC Plans downplayed how well the president throughout the state know how the instead received 43.2 percent of the House Speaker Ernest Abate, D- Anthony Nania, executive director club act voters react and respond both to legislative vote to Carter’s 53.6 per­ might do in Connecticut’s March 25 Stamford, the lone Democratic of Reagan’s Connecticut campaign, ie night, primary, stressing the state is what they feel their districts want, as New Plant cent. On the Republican side. Bush legislative leader who is siding with said the results of the UPI survey engage- “Kennedy country.” well as their own personal contradicted what his own workers ; hmrth- had a wider margin over Caiifomia Kennedy, agreed with Edwards that The governor at one point told UPI the survey followed along with preferences,” Baldrige said. have found in querying legislators. HARTFORD (UPI) - United embers Gov. Ronald Reagan, 43.2-28.3 per­ He said although Bush was raised Technologies Corp. today announced ter, and cent. that the president couid claim a vic­ Carter’s popularity boom amidst the tory if Carter got a slim 25 percent of Iranian crisis. here and is son of the late U.S. “Our own poll didn’t show that plans to build a multimillion dollar layer — many who were willing to say they’re me what Democratic Gov. Edmund Brown the vote, and later upped the figure to “If you took the poll prior to the Senator Prescott Bush, a well-known facility in Kentucky to produce a fuel Jr. of California did not receive any 30 percent. Iranian situation, I think you would Connecticut political figure, his cam­ committed to either candidate,” he injection system for a cleaner, more votes. Slightly over 3 percent of the Paul Goodrich, state campaign have found the results paign strategists cannot assume said. "What we see is that with the efficient engine being developed by lawmakers who voted for Democrats Ford Motor Co. coordinator for Carter, said it would overwhelmingly in support of Connecticut is Bush territory. rank-and-file Republican, Reagan is in other races said they were un­ The plant will be built 15 miles be “very, very risky” to draw any Senator Kennedy,” said Abate, who his first choice. Once you move to a decided on a presidential candidate. “He actually wasn’t known in the south of Cincinnati in Hebron, Ky., conclusions on whether the poll added it was difficult to say whether state outside of Greenwich,” Other Republican candidates different social and economic strata, and will eventually employ 1,()00 revealed anything about constituent it reflected constituent sentiments. Baldrige said. “I don’t think he has to irie,” it named in the survey were former the choices are different.” workers recruited and trained in preferences in the primary. “The current administration has a win here to win the nomination. I’m in your Sen. Howard Baker, R-Tenn., who greater Cincinnati, said Edward J. “But it clearly does demonstrate lot of explaining to do relative to the not going to predict a win. I’m going ce when received 8.6 percent of the vote; There are 187 senators and Kapetti, vice president of UTC’s that there’s a lot of support for the Iranian situation and Afghanistan.