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' .............. Prosecutors Are Silent 1 Part-Time TV Producers I Cummin^ Claims GOP I National League Titles On New Britain Arrests 1 Need Support of Public j DoesnH Want Big Vote I Still Up for Grabs Page 3 1 Page 7 1 Page 10 1 Page 11 iHanrliPBtpr Cloudy Tonight, Rain Likely Detallt on pago 2 Hotel Blaze tMmxm Vol. XCVIII, No. 30S — Manchester, Conn., Friday, 8ept*mbor 26,1979 a A Family NEWSpaper Since 1881 a 204 Single Copy a 154 Home Delivered VIENNA, Austria (UPI) - A fire swept a Vienna hotel before dawn today, killing 27 people and critically injuring 10 others. Four American tourists were reported missing. Officials said 32 Americans Court Stays Cut from the Bath, Maine, area were staying at the Hotel am Augarten and police said four of them could not be accounted for. Police and firemen counted 27 In MMH Budget dead and said 10 were hospitalized in critical condition, some suf By LA>EY ZUBOFF more than its budget allowed. charging the commission with illegal fering smoke inhalation. Herald Reporter Kenney had said that the hospital practices. MANCHESTER - Edward M. “submitted volumnous testimony to Paul Knag, the hospital’s counsel, Gold Surges Kenney, executive director of the commission that made it clear filed both the FOI complaint and the Manchester Memorial Hospital, an the ($1 million) overage in revenues suit. He the commission held closed LONDON (UPI) - Gold surged nounced Friday that the hospital has was offset by almost exactly the executive sessions to discuss the on European bullion markets been granted a stay of the order by same amount in increased expen budget 'in violation of the state today to open at a new record high the state’s Commission on Hospitals ditures” Freedom of Information law. for London and Zurich, reaching and Health Care which reduced the George J. Roy, the hospital's chief He said the commission made their near the $400 an ounce mark hospital’s proposed $22.2 million 1980 financial office, has indicated that budget determinations based upon reached briefly in New York and budget by $798,000. Manchester Memorial will "arbitrary, capricious, and clearly Hong Kong this week^ The hospital filed suit Monday in experience approximately 4,000 more erroneous formulae.” The dollar edged above its 10- Superior (!:ourt requesting the court patient days than originally The formula assumes that half a month lows on most European issue the stay to allow the proposed projected in the 1979 budget. hospital’s costs are fixed and half are money markets, but dealers said budget, which takes effect Oct, 1., to Additional expenditures, said variable, allowing a hospital to in demand for the U.S. currrency go into effect. Kenney, were made necessary by the crease revenues only at a rate of 50 still was weak. The hospital must place into an es severity of the illnesses now being cents to each dollar taken in that was At the morning fixing in London crow account 20 percent of the regularly and successfully treated at not anticipated in the previous year’s gold dropped back SO cents $397.00 different between the proposed the hospital. revenue. an ounce. budget and the commission’s budget. The suit is the second action the Kenney has said the hospital Gold opened in London at a new hospital has taken over commission BREAK “This seems to be a reasonable expenses do not increase according high for that market of $397.50 an resolution for a short interim," P ker proceedings. On Sept. 18 the hospital to a 50-50 split. He said variable ounce, up from $395.50 at Gillies of the Attorney General’s of filed a complaint with the state expenses comprise about 80 percent Thursday's close. In Zurich gold fice said Friday. Freedom of Information Commission of the total. peaked at a new high for that Gillies will be one of the com market of $397.00, $1.50 above mission’s representatives in the Thursday’s close of $395.50. court dispute. Gillies said the court’s decision Mild Winter Due Special Mass was normal procedure and what he expected until both sides could pre VATICaA city (UPI) - Pope By United PrewH Internalionul oldest continuously published sent evidence to justify their John Paul I celebrates a special Since it was founded in 1766, the periodical in America — was anniversary mass today for his positions. Old Farmer’s Almanac has provided released Thursday. In its 176 pages ‘Tm very gratified that our predecessor, John Paul I, who its readers with its own amusing ver Weatherwise amuses his readers request for a stay of the com died of a heart attack Sept. 28, sion of the weather, and this year it with rhyming, long range weather mission’s directive to reduce our 1978, just 34 days after his election predicts, cautiously, the East will forecasts. budget has been granted,” said to the throne of Peter. have a mild winter. “Don’t get lazy — it’ll snow like Less than 24 hours after Kenney. “It will enable Manchester Abe Weatherwise, the venerable crazy,” Weatherwise warns about celdbratinjg the mass, the John Memorial Hospital to begin the fiscal and folksy prognosticator of the the month of March. “Keep hugging Paul II will fly to Dublin on the This is A utum n? year with all of our neceSsnry and ap almanac, says the East will get off your snuggles. Shovel on the double." first leg of a 9,000-mile journey to propriate services intact, and wilt easy for the first time in three years. Since it was founded by Robert B. nine cities, three in Ireland and South Texas has enjoyed for the past week, and will enjoy for allow us to adequate meet the needs But those living west of the Thomas, the almanac has provided six in the United States. the next several days, pleasant weather. So nice that instead of of our community for the coming Mississippi can expect to shiver its readers with an annual cor year," he said. watering the lawn six-year-old Stephanie Wilson waters through January and February. nucopia of facts — some useful and Will Negotiate The commission order the cut after The 188th edition of the Dublin, others just plain fun. herself. (UPI photo) finding the hospital took in and spent New Hampshire-based almanac — UNITED NATIONS (UPI) - In a taped interview aired on Israel television, Israeli Foreign Moshe Dayan said Israel would negotiate Medicaid Loss Would Close Workshop with the PLO if it ceases being a military organization and MANCHESTER - Lewis Stein, discussion and that the Medicaid the facility they need, the department's assistant executive the Manchester Sheltered Workshop. becomes "a political movement,” director of the Sheltered Workshop, funded programs at state nursing workshops,” he said. director. Peg Dignoti, sent a bulletin “Here, alt our people live in a development he said would be said Thursday, should the state homes have been told not to accept “They are punishing the han to Stein informing him that CARC Manchester and in homes” “revolutionary.” Specifically, he decide that workshops cannot be any new patients. dicapped that don’t belong in nursing had met with HEW Medicaid of Stein was in disbelief, he said, that said, the PLO must “be ready in Thomas Nerney, executive direc funded through the Medicaid homes,” said Nerney who said he ficials in Boston on Sept. 20. the state would want to carry it AFTYDOOR principle that the 1 million program, the workshop “will be un tor of the Connecticut Association realizes they can’t be “thrown out “The Feds don’t understand how further and take away Title 19 fun Palestinian refugees living in Jor For Retarded Citizens Inc, said able to survive if funds are cut off into the street” and alternative living people in skilled nursing facilities — ding for Workshops even for those dan since the 1948 Middle East immediately without alternative fun Friday that he has presented a letter accommodations are needed. supposedly seriously ill people are outside nursing facilities. war regard Jordan as their per ding. Thursday to Edward W. Maher, com Nerney outlines four areas of con capable of working in workshops. “There is a state statute that says manent place of residence.” Stein said he was unaware, until missioner of the Department of In cern in his letter. First, said Nearney The information and legal research we’re entitled to be funded,” said However, at the U.N. Thursday, Thursday, that the state is con come Maintenance, asking the Friday, “the state did not givq us any provided by CARC to HEW suppor Stein referring to the Title 19 statue he gave a clear, "no” to sidering cutting off $3 million to $4 department to rescind its action to notice,” secondly, Nerney said, “the ting this use of Title 19 funds will be which includes rehabilitation and diplomatic efforts to bring his million in Medicaid funds to training prevent patient admittance to nur Federal government is not reviewed by the Feds,” stated the government and the PLO together centers and workshops because sing homes for those individuals other services in its guidelines for withholding money, why is the bulletin. funding. at the negotiating table. federal officials have indicated the covered under Medicaid. state?" The third consideration, he Stein said he knew there was a services offered by them may not be “Those patients are only a small said, was the fact handicapped in problem with “double funding" Norman Fendell, director of the '^Cattle Show* covered by Medicaid regulations as number that attend workshops but its dividuals in nursing homes don’t need whereby some nursing home patients Regional Occupational Training medical costs.