2 i - THE HERALD. Kri„ Dec, 18, 1981 Consumer Reports ... Tape players good buy Kids write to Santa page 13 V By the Editors Connected to a stereo com­ out of the first group, but damage hearing. of Consumer Reports ponent system of good its small size, light weight quality, all the players and handy controls make it Hearing tests are in­ Small stereo tape- reproduced the music spec­ an attractive, though cost­ cluded in annual physicals. cassette players with a set trum as accurately as did ly little machine. On the For a special reprint of Cold, flurries Manchester, Conn. of headphones are prac­ high-quality component run, its flutter is as low as Consumers Union's Sat., Dec. 19, 1981 tical, portable devices that tape decks CR has tested in any of the other models evaluation of annual today and Sunday let you listen to music the past. tested, so if you want Jazz physicals, send $1 for each — See page 2 25 Cents wherever you go, A host of The smail and comfor­ while you Jog, don't copy to CONSUMERS, l ^ m l h audio-manufacturers offer table headphones delivered overlook this player. Be P.0, BOX 461, Radio City them — some models play sound with no deep bass careful if yolri bike or run Station, New .York, NY and record cassettes, some and with unevenness in the with these players. They 10019. Be sure to ask for play through a built-in treble. Still, the sound was can block traffic noise and the reprint on annual loudspeaker as well as judged impressive. With if played too loud they can physicals. r through headphones, and high quality headphones some have a combination (the. kind you'd normally Years FM radio-tape player or use with a component tape player-recorder. system) the accuracy was HANDS ON COMPUTER TRAINING You can spend as much improved. 2 evenings a week as $250 on, one of these Of course, you wouldn’t Tues. and Thurs. 7-10 pm Polish workers seize weapons devices — but you don't want to jog or walk around have to. Most of the tape outdoors wearing large Starts Tues., January 12 players Consumer Reports headphones. Nor, probably flow of refugees from the nation, a for 6 weeks By United Press Internation said Friday. the workers' defiance and threats. Workers were on strike at 43 Thursday to disperse crowds tested retail for about $100 would you want to pay Upgrade your skills — The defiant miners are also There was no official word beyond plants, including the Lenin shipyard protesting the army crackdown West German Defense Ministry and they are often sold for almost as riiuch for the Only e pot/Hons open Polish workers have seized arms pressing their demands for the the government announcement in Gdansk, and 4,000 workers have following reports on government said. , less money at discount. headphones as for the 649-0605 or 429-9313 and explosives and threatened to release of-Solidarity union chief Thursday of bloody clashes that been arrested, Polish authorities'in­ television and radio of bloody Stunned and frightened by the For that money you can crackdown and widespread player itself. Still, since Ask for John or Joyce blow up shipyards in the north and Lech Walesa, held incommunicado killed at least seven rnjners near formed the U.S. government resistance, reports from the Polish buy a model that plays such good sound is possi- coal mines in the south unless the since the government crackdown Katowice and injured mdre than 400 Friday. capital said. violence, women flocked to food cassette tapes through bie, you might want to in­ UNIVERSITY TRAVEL government ends its repressive Sunday. other persons, most of them in the Riot police and soldiers swept Polish ships were patrolling the lines and panic buying of bread and headphones. vest in a set of high-quality Rte. 195 _______ Storrs, Ct. military rule, reports from Poland Travelers from Poland reported Baltic port of Gdansk. through Warsaw firing teargas Baltic coast in efforts to halt the potatoes broke out. More money buys rnore headphones for use with Workers turned up but refused to capabilities: recorder- the player at home. In fact, ______________ ___________ _ work in factories all over the nation, player combinations that you might already have reports received through diplomatic might be of special interest them, in which case all you channels said. to students who want to peed to buy is an adapter UPI correspondent Ruth Gruber tape lectures during the ($3 or $4) to connect the said in a Telex message from War­ day and listen to music at headphones. j m y . s e saw authorities had lifted the com­ night without bothering The models tested varied munications blackout for the first 9 c Greenhouses Still Only anyone else. more in convenience than time since the crackdown Sunday Despite their small size, in their sound. Weight, for ' 621 Hartford Rri, Manchester * but imposed the first peacetime all the models Consumer example, ranged from 14 to press censorship in Polish history. Reports tested reproduced 26 ounces — a significant Reporters will be allowed to use sound of reasonably high amount of extra weight to fidelity in laboratory tests. be carrying around. Christmas Special PleuHi- liirii lo page 8 In Cr's judgement, the best of the walkaround tape players are the essen­ O A t Per Cepy tially similar Sanyo M4440, Public Sears Cat. No. 170 and Sony Red Roses Walkman I. The Sanyo and Vandals records Sears sound a little better J K tk Home Delivered than the Sony but are a bit iess convenient (half a ^ 1 per dozen Itiiildiiig pi'rinilN pound heavier, for one ravage To Trash-A way Inc. for thing) than that mode). offices and storage addi­ High and audible flutter Cash ‘n’ Carry tion at 435 W. Center St., kept the Sony Walkman II $30,000 More Manchester Main St. To James Lawrence for ii coal/wood stove at 63 Elro St., $725. To Bidwell Home Im­ provement Co., for roof Shattered windows on Main Street repairs and replacement of ALSIEFFERT’S and a robbery at a gas station kept asphalt with vinyl siding at Local News police hopping Friday night. base of steeple, Zion Police said somebody went along Lutheran Church, 112 Main Street at about 10 p.m. Friday Cooper St., $5,000. NO LOWER PRICES and broke the windows of four Main To Robert C. Dulka for Street businesses. Lion's Den, fireplace at 698 Center St., DiRosa Cleaners, Blish Hardware and Jackston Real Estate Agency. $600. To B.A. Lozier Iric, for “Somebody just went along and ANYWHERE ON Than Any Other kicked them out, " a police Fred and Juliette E Levesque, vinyl siding at spokesman said. He said officers 150. Vernon St., $4,000. were on the scene investigating late To Kenneth Freeman for RCA & ZENITH Friday night. addition of open porch at 67 Meanwhile, at about the same Olcott Drive, $1,643. time, somebody robbed the A-1 gas To Home Town Im­ station at 329 East Center St. provements Co. for Jean 19” Color T.V.’S Newspaper Police said somebody allegedly Griffeth, vinyl siding at 230 Herald photo by Pinto grabbed some money from the cash Lake St., $2,800. register. C To Berto Civitillo for Happy tumbling Although the amount stolen was wood stove at 11 Bolton St., not immediately known, police said it apparently wasn't too much. $ 1, 200. One of the delights of winter Is a ride down a snowy slope. You can worry about wot clothes later. Enjoying a hill in Center Park are (front to back) To Russell ,1. Bilodeau, Police said apparently no weapons for wood stove at 184 Jeff Watkins of 94 Spruce St„ and sisters Wendy and Teri Burnett of 88 Spruce St. were used. Princeton St., $650. '|i| To Ed and Elma Marshall for wood stove at 13 Morse Road, $590. To Sylvester Bottone for RCA Z E N IT H 1 Polish priest foresees ‘outburst' coal stove at 109 Prospect U.S. economy St., $600. To Colonial Builders for Paul Badeau, family room addition at 53 Clyde Drive, $5,146. S 2 9 9 l " 3 1 7 | Fearing the very worst To Stephen Napoletano in steep drop for enclosed second story porch at 12 West St., $400. relatives" W arran ty dci-dn FRI., SAT., SUN. ONLY By Paul Hendrie everything is scattered,” he said. Suffolk Management Co. Herald Reporter Besides the newspaper and Hyszko said he thinks the key WASHINGTON (UPI) - Almost an assistant secretary of com­ television reports that the rest of to the crisis may be what Iric., and Real E-1 Limited the entire economy has joined autos merce. Partnership, d.b.a. Condo V ID EO TA P E The real violence in Poland us are depending on for informa­ happens to Solidarity Leader and housing in a steep roller coaster '‘The Bureau of Economic may be yet to come, a worried tion, Hyszko Said his parishoners Lech Walesa. North, to Eugene F. Cseh, RECORDERS plunge after an upward ride only a Analysis has projected that real ■r Unit 527A, building five, R C i l Father. Walter A. HJyszko, get some first hand information "If anything happens to Walesa DISCS, CAMERAS few months ago, the latest govern­ GNP will be down substantially in pastor of Manchester’s Polish from letters sent by relatives in — if Walesa becomes a martyr — Northwood Towntiouses, ment figures showed Friday. the current quarter.” $47,400.