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PAGE TWENTY - MANCHESTER EVENING HERALD, Manchester, Conn., Thurs., Feb. 27. 1975 Jury Selection Explained In response to many inquiries grown since last year. the list to the Superior Court. ilanrl|patpr Sunning l?ralh relatin to the process followed “The clerk of the Superior ‘"rhose who are chosen and in the selection of potential Court sends us an instruction who cannot serve for any V jurors, Joyce Gutman, sheet which states, "The Jury MANCHESTER, CONN., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1975 - VOL. XCIV, No. 127 reason, must state their Manchester—A City of Village Charm tw en t y -f o u r pa g e s — t w o sec tio n s jif^S chairwoman of Manchester’s Committee has no discretion to reasons to the Superior Court PRICE: FIFTEEN CENTS three-member Jury Com strike any names which have for its decision. The Court alone CODGriATIONS mittee, has issued the following been drawn and is under a duty can remove a prospective juror explanation; to select all other names so from the list.” “Each year, we receive a drawn.’ request from Hartford County “Our instruction sheet states The Connecticut forests must the country, he would spot tained. If the check came Superior Ctourt for a certain that the only way this com have been elegant when our timber stands that he knew he through O.K. and no com amount of jurors from mittee can eliminate names House Enacts Tax Relief Bill ancestors first came here. If could turn into money easily plaints, subsequent loads were Manchester. (’Die request was from the selected jurors’ list is: only they had known how and and would offer the owner all over-billed. for 674 last year and 674 this (1) if that person has been c a i^ to try they could have left much less than it was worth. That’s the way he did year.) ’That number is divided found by the county jury com ABOUT us a large part in good condition ’The poor farmer didn’t know business with Cheney Bros, at into the total number of missioners or a judge to be per and still cut what they needed. what it was worth per thousand the old “Mud Mill.” ’They were registered voters and we obtain manently disqualified for jury TOWN With Oil Depletion Repealer Now a large percentage of feet or how many thousand the a good customer. a factor — which we use in the service or, (2) if that name our land is in woodland but of lot would yield. From his He claimed the best customer mathematical selection appeared on the list of jurors such poor quality that it lies non experience, the mill man could process. submitted the previous year by The executive board of WASHINGTON (UPI) - If the Senate of all was Uncle Sam. President Ford’s proposed $16 billion making more than $30,000 would receive who led the anti-depletion fight, said productive. To rehabilitate it estimate quite accurately. “We pick a number at ran the Jury Committee—pursuant Manchester Jaycee Wives will acts within the next few weeks, rebate For World War I there was recession-fighting tax bill, but Ford has in only $100. Americans recognized depletion was “an costs a lot of investment, and if Then a contract was drawn dom and, using the obtained to Sec. 51-221 of the General meet tonight at 8 at the home of checks of $100 to $200 could be on their way rush activity building dicated he probably would accept it in its unconscionable loophole for an industry left to nature alone it will take stating the sawyer would pay 50 factor, we select jurors until Statutes. Mrs. Mary Ann Lawler, 202 to 80 million taxpayers early this summer. Minimums Set barracks and other things that present form. whose profits already are outrageous.” many generations to evolve to or 75 per cent for each load as the entire voters’ list is utilized. “Were we not to use the Autumn St. The House voted Thursday night to give For lower income taxpayers a minimum required all the lumber that Rebates and Tax Cuts Many congressmen, especially those the climax forest again. it was hauled off and the whole This year, the factor was 39 and method required for the selec Americans $21.3 billion in tax cuts and rebate would be established: either $100 or could be brought to Camp from oil states, said eliminating the deple We are just about on the south balance when the job was com the initial number we chose was tion of jurors, our list would be Cub Scout Pack 2 will have its rebates, but to increase oil company taxes Unlike Ford’s proposal, which contained the full tax paid if that was less than $100. Devens at Ayer, Mass. He tion would increase the price of gasoline boundary of the white pine pleted. Every load hauled away 10. ’Thus, the first prospective considered ineligible by the annual Blue and Gold dinner $2.5 billion by abruptly eliminating the only rebates of 1974 taxes, the House bill The working poor who pay little or no tax made and bought all the lumber by 10 cents to 20 cents per gallon and that region. There seems to have was reported as a few hundred juror was number 10 on the state. tonight at 6 at Second most controversial of all tax breaks, the grants both rebates and 1975 tax cuts. would get direct payments of up to $200 in he could get and delivered it There was almost no disagreement on repeal would play into the hands of the big been a line nmning diagonally feet less than it actually was. with heavily padded bills all of voters’ list, the second number “Our only purpose, as the Congregational Church. Nine oil depletion allowance. what amounts to a form of negative in Even if the seller watched the business tax cuts which amounted to $5.1 come tax. oil companies by making the oil business across Connecticut from which were promptly paid in 49, the third number 88, and so Jury CommittM, is to conduct a members of the Webelo Den It’s now up to the Senate — and it might billion of the House bill. More than half the tax breaks would go less attractive to the independent wild northeast to southwest where loading he didn’t understand full. on. Actually, we selected 703 mathematical selection of will cross over the bridge into not be that simple. A fight, and probably a The House bill contains rebates of 10 per to the 45 million taxpayers making less catter. there is some change in con scaling lumber. names — bireause the list had prospective jurors and to send Boy Scouts. filibuster, is expected in the Senate over When the best and easiest had cent of 1974 taxes (those due by April 15) than $10,000 per year. The average tax cut ditions affecting certain tree the House’s 248 to 163 vote to eliminate the Retroactive to Jan. 1 been logged and sawed there to a maximum of $200, plus lower —including rebates — for those in the $3,- families. However, until the 22 per cent depletion allowance for oil and The successful Green amendment would withholding rates in the last half of the 000 to $5,000 income range would be $305, blight hit we were in the best could be back corner that was gas. end the depletion allowance retroactive to difficult to work or of poor year, brought about by an increase in the in the $5,000-10,000 range it would be area for chestnuts. SPRING SALE However, the Senate is likely to add Jan. 1, except for gas under long-term con quality, both because of a standard deduction. $222.50, in the $10,000-20,000 range it would Probably the portable saw even more individual cuts especially for tract, which would be exempt until the swamp. ’The mill was suddenly All taxpayers would receive refunds, but be $212, and in the $20,000-50,000 range it mill men were the worst middle income taxpayers. contract expired or until it was moved away to some other job. NO PRIZES, NO GIM1CK8 once a family’s income passed $20,000, the would be $174. Individuals would gain ravishers of our forests. Their The House cut is $5.3 billion greater than renegotiated. size would begin to shrink until those more or less depending on individual cir motto and way of life was “cut When the farmer had hunted The depletion allowance permits oil and JUST SAVINGS! cumstances. out and get out” "We’ll get ours him up and demanded the gas companies to deduct for tax purposes first, and the Devil for the hind sawyer pay the balance he was Rep. Green Beaips 22 per cent of the income from their oil most.” told the job wasn’t finished. For A beaming Rep. William Green, D-Pa., and gas wells up to a maximum of half They skimmed off the cream some reason the sawyer had to i a i i i their taxable income. and polluted what they left. move temporarily but intended They took all the valuable need carpetir^^ kx)king_or Temporary Telephone Service NEWS CAPSULES to go back to finish the job. He mature trees that could never did. produce seed. They carelessly London Subway Accident smashed the younger genera If he eventually was forced to pay it was still a big steal and A New York City pedestrian, left, Thursday which caused millions of tion of trees and left only poor waits his turn to use telephones in a dollars in damage and cut off service quality trees in possession of he had had the money to use for a long time.