* Inside today A r e a 2B 4 S H D e a r A h h y SA C B C o n v a c lA O b itu a r ie s «A of VWago CHorm C h u r r h e s 3A O p in io n 4A C l a t s i l i f d 7 SB .Sr t,'Uiii-ns 3B niSUARY IC.JWI,- yO L . 3UVll. No. Ill TWKvn C o lle c to r s 4B S p o r ts 6 7 B C o m ic s &A Good Morning Petitions filed but kept secret Have A Good Day the non-district sections of the state’s office and was told that and he and other district officials all registered voters in the distric t to By GREG PEARSON Manchester are required to have a this is how the state office handles have said that signers were misied find out who has or has not signed lirralH Reporter referendum question on the issue. petitions. by petition circulators. When asked, William Sleith. co- Petitions were filed Friday signed Attorney Robert Bletchman. chair­ ”1 am following their procedure, ” Representatives of the Committee chairman of the petition committee, by residents supporting a referen­ man of Stop Tampering With the Tomkiel said. for One Manchester also have did not give the number of signers on dum question about consolidation, Eighth’s American Liberties He will respond to Bletchman’s criticized the effort by district the petitions He said that the com­ Summary residents to obtain withdrawals mittee feels It has obtained a "com­ which would combine the Eighth (STEAL), requested copies of the request for copies within four days Copies of the documents also were The obtaining of the petitions by fortable" number Violence returned to the Utilities District and the Town of petitions Friday afternoon. Bletchman has been active in an ef­ deni^ the press. those seeking withdrawals is con­ About 750 signatures arc required nation’s coalfields Friday as the Manchester. A question about in the district Two sources involved whether the filed documents are fort by district residents to have peo­ Attorney John LaBelle Jr., who sidered important because the deadline for a strike settlement in the effort said that there are about public records developed soon after ple who signed the petition remove serves as counsel to the district, said withdrawals have to be submitted drew near, power companies 1,100 district residents who have the filing took place at 1:30 p.m. their names. that he believes the petitions, when before the names are certified If the geared for blackouts and officials list had been released, it would have signed A total of 116 pages of district pleaded with citizens to turn off The petitions were compiled by the Town Clerk Edward Tomkiel said filed, are a public record. Bletchman Friday filed 15 more saved time for those interested in signatures and 216 pages of non­ their lights. Committee for One Manchester, the documents are not a public names of persons who have contacting the signers district signatures were filed, accor­ "Chaos is just around the cor­ which is organizing the consolidation record until the names are checked withdrawn their signatures. He now Without the petitions, the district ding to information filed with the ner," warned Indiana Gov. Otis drive. Signatures from 10 percent of and certified by his office. He said has submitted 111 such withdrawals. workers will have to continue to call petitions R. Bowen, who is urging Presi­ the residents in both the district and that he checked with the Secretary of dent Carter to intervene. Under pressure from the White House to settle the 74-day strike by Saturday, representatives of the UMW and the bituminous coal Carter urges operators worked virtually around the clock in negotiations described as “extremely delicate." tax reforms ATLANTA (UPI) — Russian in­ fluenza outbreaks were reported in 15 states and the District of BANGOR, Maine (UPI) - Presi­ to increased productivity and Columbia Friday by the national dent Carter told a town meeting declining unemployment nationwide Center for Disease Control, while Friday night the time has come for over the past year, including a the death toll from other comprehensive tax reform and regional drop in the joblessness rate respiratory illnesses climbed to repeated that the three-martini lunch from 8 5 to 5.5 per cent in New 4,766 so far this year. is unfair. England. Dr. Philip Graitcer, a CDC in­ “It is time to have comprehensive "But unemployment and inflation fluenza surveillance officer, tax reform,” Carter told several are still higher than I’m willing to termed the Russian flu activity on thousand persons in the Bangor accept and so my top domestic college campuses "explosive,” Auditorium at the mid-point of a two- priority this year will be the striking a high percentage of day New England visit. economy,’’ he told reporters students in a very short period of “Some of the tax provisions ... are assemblto in the Hilton Hotel in this time. It is a relatively mild dis­ unfair,” he said. Providence suburb. He said his $25 ease, however, and no deaths Repeating a theme from earlier in billion tax cut proposal — $17 billion have been attributed to it. the day in Cranston, R.I., Carter at­ in individual taxes and the rest in tacked tax deductions granted for corporate reductions — is a key in­ WASHINGTON (UPI) - There business lunches and related enter­ gredient in his blueprint. is only a 20 [»rcent chance that tainment. "But we can’t have these cuts in the earth’s climate by the end of Carter told the crowd most people taxes unless we help pay for them by the century will be significantly can’t mark their lunches off as a eliminating unnecessary and un­ different from today's, according business expense. warranted tax deductions ” now on to a climatologists’ opinion sur­ “But a salesman can take someone the books, he said. vey released Friday. to lunch ... and mark it all off as a He said he is especially anxious to But the collective educated business expense,” he said. “I don’t get rid of a pair of “giveaways that guesses of the 24 prominent 'Sharing their memories think that’s right and I think we go primarily to a few of the largest climate-watchers from seven retired Jan. 31, began his police career with ought to do away with it.” multinational corporations ” at in­ Retired Detective Capt. Joseph Sartor, dividual taxpayer expense — a nations also produced 50 percent right, of the Manchester Police Department the local department on New Year’s Day in The president fielded a wide range probability that the climate by the of questions during the 90-minute deferral of tax on profits earned year 2000 will be either slightly shares some pleasant recollections with 1949. About 500 persons, including former town meeting format, his third since abroad and special e x ^ rt tax breaks warmer or slightly cooler. retired Patrolman Samuel S. Maltempo at a members of the local police force, town becoming president. Last year he under dummy corporations called retirement dinner Friday.night honoring Sar­ dignitaries, co-workers and friends, attended answered questions at similar domestic international sales cor­ NEW YORK (UPI) - A New tor at The Colony in Talcottville. Sartor, who the event. (Herald photo by Dunn) forums in Clinton, Mass., and Yazoo porations, or “DISC” for short. York man charged Friday that City, Miss. "This amounts to subsidizing cor­ “someone” at the City Hospital Earlier in the day. Carter told a porations to export jobs overseas,” Center killed his wife by dis­ reg io n al new s co n feren ce in he said. connecting her from a respirator. Cranston that economic growth Then, betraying a hint of anger, the Raymond P. Peifer said he had Plea for Big Brothers president hit another tax deduction spurred by $25 billion in tax cuts no idea who disconnected his wife would be his “top domestic priority” issue that has put him into a tug of Eileen, 61, from the life support for 1978. But he said the tax breaks war with critics who allege he is system. Mrs. Peifer, who died cannot be granted without accom­ motivated more by teetotaler’s Jan. 11, was one of three seriously changed volunteer’s life panying tax reforms. morality than economic principle. ill women — aged 61 to 90 - who Carter attacked corporate tax “As for the famous three-martini “little brother,” John A. Tweedie. grilled cheese sandwich, or how to died there in a five-week period By JUNE TOMPKINS “loopholes” and “giveaways” he lunch,” he said, voice rising, “I don’t after tracheal tubes were dis­ John is 17 now, and no longer barbecue a hamburger. care how many martinis anyone has Herald Reporter obligated to the Big Brother “And we always ask the blessing,” wants eliminated, despite con­ connected from their respirators. gressional opposition, and repeated for lunch. But I am concerned with Richard Cartwright of 413 Spring program, but he keeps coming back, Cartwright says. “Sometimes I say who pays the check. Cartwright says, which is proof that it, and sometimes he says it.” that one of his targets is “the famous WASHINGTON (UPI) - Social St. saw an ad on a billboard about 10 “I don’t think anyone has a so- the program for them, at least Cartwright was emphatic when he three-martini lunch” business deduc­ Security tax hikes and the coal years ago that has affected his life called Divine Right to have expen­ said that his wife never helps them tion.