20 - MANCHESTER HERALD. Tuesday, Jiin. 29. 1985 ^ % MANCHESTER FOCUS a r e a t o w n s ^Cloudy tonight; snow Water plant to open Salmon and halibut East upsets MHS enliven winter meals behind Galligan I ^possible Thursday I only two days late page 2 O’Neill to reply by March ... page 3 ... page 13 page 9 J j to plea from highway foes Two representatives of a group O’Neill told Ward and Houle they I- 384, after Rhode Island officials of area residents who oppose plans would have to convince officials in abandoned plans to extend the to build an expressway linking^^ towns all along the expressway highway into their state. The segments of Interstate 384 met corridor that the project is a bad easternmost segment of 1-384 ends with Gov. William A. O’Neill in idea before the state would se­ at Route 52. Manchester Saturday. riously consider abandoning the Connecticut traded in the federal interstate construction money set iiaitrhrBtPr Mrralb Coventry resident Allen Ward, plan. The position paper, entitled ’ ’Fix aside to finish the old 1-84 for I Wednesday.Wednesday, Jan Jan. 30,1985 — Single copy: 25<P who teaches history at the Univer­ fr nr-*-*** sity of Connecticut, and Andover Six,” argues that the planned money to use on alternative resident Laurel Houle presented expressway will "destroy transportation projects. O’Neill with a position paper that hundreds of acres of valuable Between $150 million and $180 explains why the group opposes the woodlands and wetlands that pre.s- new highway. Ward said the group ently provide clean air, pure million of the money will go for the Weinberg II- mile four-lane expressway to would like to see more money spent water, unspoiled recreatinal land link existing sections of 1-384 to upgrade Route 6 instead. and flood control for the people of ” We’re proposing that transpor­ Eastern Connecticut.” Tsetween Bolton Notch and Willimi- OPEC talks natic, if the U.S. Department of tation needs of the area could be In addition to the new 11-mile Transportation accepts an envir­ cool to served by an upgrading of Route expressway link, the state’s plans onmental assessment the state 6,” Ward said today. “ Andputting for spending $400 million in federal off correcting hazards onRoute 6 is highway trade-in funds call for completed last fall. The Eastern Connecticut Citizen 2 a dangerous thing to do.” upgrading Routes 6 and 44 and 8th offer 3 Ward said the governor was rerouting part of Route 6. But work Action Group, which was formed end without attentive to their presentation. on those roads is not expected to almost seven years ago to light the O’Neill told them he favored the begin until after the new express­ expressway, sponsored the meet­ By Sarah Passell new expressway but would con­ way link is substantially complete, ing with O’Neill Saturday. Herald Reporter sider the group’s proposal and give according to information released The arguments presented to them a formal reply sometime in by the state after O’Neill decided in O’Neill Saturday were included in Mayor Barbara Weinberg said a report ECAG submitted to the agreement March, according to Ward. 1983 to seek the trade-in funds. DPI photo today that she is not interested in a David McQuaid, an administra­ State officials decided to scrap state transportation department recent offer from the Eighth tive aide to O’Neill said today that plans to complete the old 1-84, now last summer. Utilities District to take over fire 9 Bv John A. Callcott Nigeria officially broke ranks, 0 Help for the handicapped protection of the Howell Cheney United Press International formally dissenting from a slight Regional Vocational Technical rea^ustment in prices for the The Eyetyper, a high-tech development, one of the user's eyeballs. A television School and East Catholic High Bolton asbestos removal GENEVA, Switzerland — Saudi different grades of OPEC oil. monitor was used by the photographer School at no cost to the town. is designed for use by the handicapped Arabian Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Now there are four dissenters, District President Walter to run a computer with just the use of to illustrate how a small red light on Zaki Yamani said today nine of the Yamani told reporters. Joyner sent a letter conveying the each of the keyboard characters is 13 OPEC member nations agreed The new price range, which their eyes. It is being demonstrated by offer to Weinberg last week. ,800 asked for engineers on a new pricing plan but that the would still leave OPEC prices Gary Kiliany, vice president of Sentient caught by the camera and relayed to the Weinberg said she first saw the oil cartel’s emergency session around $1 or $2 higher than those computer. letter Tuesday afternoon. PBC decided that three of 17 Systems Technology Inc., Pittsburgh. ended without unanimous currently paid on spot markets, BOLTON — The Public Building specifications. Those bids have The offer, which Joyner said architectural firms that submitted The keyboard uses a camera that scans agreement. may well have little meaning Commission voted Monday to seek since expired. today carries the endorsement of proposals to design a new central Algeria, Libya and Iran had been because of the OPEC split, ana­ funds to hif‘.e a team of Eastford At finance board Chairman the entire district Board of Direc­ fire station will be invited to a known to oppose abolishing an lysts said. engineers to oversee the removal Morris Silverstein’s suggestion, tors, carries with it the condition special meeting next Monday. OPEC official reference price — Before, the spread was $4 — of asbestos pipe insulation from the PBC then invited a state that the town agree to sell the The PBC will ask each of the currently W9 per barrel — but the from the $26.50 for heavy crude to two school buildings. official to re-evaluate the schools district the Buckland firehouse on three firms to make half-hour fourth dissident member was not $30.50 for the best extra-light The PBC will ask the Board of and draw up specifications for the Tolland Turnpike. When the town presentations. Invitations are go­ immediately known. grades Selectmen to pass a request for job, but engineer J. Michael BUSINESS refused an earlier district offer to ing to Bolton architect Alan C. Yamani said the plan was for a Algeria and the other dissenting $4,800 to the Board of Finance to Callahan of Applied Thermody­ buy the Buckland station, the Wiedie, the Lawrence Associates price spread of $2.40 on the varying members refused to lower the hire Applied Thermodynamics As­ namics told the PBC Tuesday that Herald pUoto by Terquinlo district bought land a few lots down of Manchester and Richard E. grades of crude oil — ranging from price of their light oil unless Saudi sociates to supervise the asbestos the state’s report is not specific the street to build its own satellite Schoenhardt of Simsbury. an unchanged $26.50 for the cheap­ Arabia and other “ heavy” produc­ removal from Bolton Center enough. Travelers’ cars station. The three were recommended est heavy crude to $28.90 for the ers met them halfway by raising School and Bolton High School. The "The report does not describe Business District officials have said re­ Monday by PBC members Philip best extra-light grades. their prices. Concentration at MCC project has been in the planning the extent of the material,” peatedly that they would rather not Pineo, himself an architect, and Oil indstry analysts and officials stages for more than six months, Callahan said. “ I could not write to have air bags This was not acceptable to the Wednesday. Scheering is a second build another firehouse so close to specifications from that Ronald Heim, a public works In Brief said the new price list would James Scheering finds a relaxed with town officials in disagree­ “ heavies” but above all was the existing town firehouse. But foreman in Vernon. effectively lower the average position to work on his reading power in semester-student at MCC in math and ment over the scope of the document.” HARTFORD (U P I) — The Travelers Corp. has rejected by OPEC leader Saudi they have said their approxi­ Callahan said his company has ’’There were a lot of well- Academy taps Jacobson placed the first commercial order for a fleet of OPEC price by about $1 a barrel. comprehensive reading. J J potentially hazardous job and how the lounge of the Lowe Building at mately 100-man volunteer fire qualified firms that submitted,” Algerian Oil Minister Belkacem Arabia. it should be done. overseen removal of asbestos from Wells C. Jacobson, M.D., of Manchester, was air-bag-equipped company cars with Ford Motor Co. department cannot serve the ra­ Pineo told fellow commission Nabi, asked by reporters if he had The $29 level was set in March Manchester Community College on The PBC once sought bids for the more than 50 Connecticut schools, inducted as a fellow of the American Academy of as part of Ford’s major field test.of air bags. 1983 down from the all-time high of. pidly developing Buckland indus­ members. But, he said, he and accepted the downward adjust­ job, but funding was denied when including more than a dozen entire Orthopaedic Surgeons Jan. 27, during the group’s Travelers has ordered 600 1985 Ford Tempos $34 per barrel of Arabian light trial area inside the district Heim picked the three “ who could ment to better match free market finance officials learned that the school systems.