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24 - MANCHESTER HERALD. Fri„ March 5, 1962 Despite Reagan budget cuts State rests case ,Comic John Belushi 'Nova, Hoyas Brighter days are ahead for handicapped in von Bulow trial dies in Hollyvfood reach finals • In the 44 years since then, the 100 workshops ... page 8 ... page 15 While the Reagan administration’s budget-cutters are are handicapped would not serve any purpose.” ... page 4 From the side of the handicapped, this nation’s blind associated with NIB have built their sajes to U.S, agen­ slashing funds to design and install equipment to help cies and departments to more than $1(W the handicapped, privataginduslry and the handicapped population of around 470,000 offers the roost outstanding Your examples of people working, earning wages based on eluding sales to military stores of over $1() million this themselves are makmg surprisingly impressive year. In addition, their volume in coinmercial consumer progress on their own. And this has little (if anything) to their producUvity, paying taxes — and generally do with 1981’s International Year of the Disabled Per­ Money's smashing our stereotype images of the blind into saw­ products is running around 350 million a year. How do blind people get jobs in these workshops son, generally dismissed in this country as a dismal dust. „ Worth • There are workshops for the blind across the nation, (where 5,500 now work)? Most are referr^ by sUte failure, despite official statements of optimism. agencies for the blind and receive vocational evaluation In fact, so far at least, the handicapped seem to be Sylvia Porter where men and women operate complex machines, such Snow and rain Manchester, Conn. more than holding their positions in the face of the as drill presses and electronic sealers; run either from their agencies or at switchboards; assemble writing Instruments; make Professional counselors determine what skills the blind coming tonight Sat., March 6, 1982 general upsurge in joblessness. Surveys again are un­ or disabled person has. ’The counselors offer guidance, derlining that qualified handicapped workers have a brushes on hl^-speed equipment; conduct complicated 25 Cents lower rate of absenteeism than their physically able sewing operations and package the widest variety of provide training, otherwise equip them. ' — See page 2 counterparts, higher dedication to performance and a • Xerox is training disabled people in computer- products. None of this tells the full story, though, of what ear­ higher quality output. related jobs where at present there is a shortage of • Blind people bold executive jobs in corporations, ning their own way does for handicapped persons. It s From the corporate side, there are hundreds of physically able, qualifl^ workers. practice law, teach in universities, run non-profit not just that the earned income means increas^ buying positive examples of what U.S. corporations are doing • The Travelers Insurance Companies installed a organizations. power. It’s also that nothing beats a job for giving a per­ for the qualified handicapped. As a sampling: variety of sophisticated equipment that includes writing • Generally acknowledged as the best operated shops son a sense of self-respect. In 1982 particularly. • IBM has for many years modified buildings and machines to enable a disabled person to write out in the country are the workshops associated with the (“Sylvia Porter’s New Money Book for the 80s,” 1,328 redesigned equipment to accommodate the han- his/her program in Braille and video screens to advise National Industries for the Blind. ’They received their pages of down-to-earth advice on personal money management, is now available through her column) dicapp^; , the hard-of-hearing that the telephone is ringing. biggest push back in 1938, when the Javits-Wagner- Jobless jump • ^ a rs Roebuck’s handicapped roster includes repair In the words of Eidward H. Budd, president of The O’Day Act told them, in effect, that they could become Send 39.95 plus 31 for mailing and handUng to “Sylvia technicians, attorneys and retail managers. Travelers, which has some 100 disabl^ persons on the subcontractors for the federal government if they met Porter’s New Money Book for the 80s,” in care of this payroll, "We have to have qualified people to do stringent requirements for quality, on-tiine delivery and newspaper, 4400 Johnson Drive, Fairway, Kan. 66205. Bolton group • AT&T has developed a program to train managers of disabled people (which will survive its breakup). business, and to overlook qualified people because they other specifications. * Make checks payable to Universal Press Syndicate.) doesn't shake Would less Reagan's plon t I hires lawyers SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (UPl) - President Reagan, unshaken by another jump in the nation’s un­ employment figures, will make no major change in his O.T. mean current longrange plan for economic recovery, an ad­ ministration spokesman said Friday. ' r A in (xjndo fight “We’re not changing any of our predictions,” said deputy press secretary Larry Speakes. He told ' >1 ^ 1 reporters the president has a program “in progress to Pamela Z. Sawyer, chairwoman of the -By Richard Cody provide a solid base for economic recovery.” more jobs? grou^, had 27 pledges when she said the ’Th^nation’s jobless rate edged up to 8.8 percent in Herald Reporter -V- Manchester firm would be hired. It February, a figure that translates into 9.6 million un­ BOLTON — After a short, productive appeared more would come in, though. employed Americans. ' By LeRoy Pope and surprisingly unemotional meeting Zapadka said, “It is not too much in­ “The president is sensitive to the plight of the un­ UPl Business Writer Friday night, the Bolton Environmental surance for me to insure that my kids employed,” Speakes said. “He often has said that if NEW YORK — Whenever the unemployment rate in the United Association gained the suppqrt of enough can walk on the street, and that my well there is one person who wants to work and cannot do so, States is rising excessive overtime work becomes suspect as a families to pay the Manchester law firm doesn’t dry up.” that’s one too many.” Beck and Pagano to fight Lawrence F. Some of the concerns raised by the “We are never happy with (high) unemployment cause. group, the issues with the which they MICHAEL BELCHER HANS WEISS That is so because a lot of the overtime hours worked in ' J J<'iano’s condominium plan. figures,” Speakes said. He insisted, however, that the ; More than 75 residents came out for hope to base their fight on, were that 0.3 percent February jump was “only a moderate in­ American factories, offices and shops are regularly scheduled and traffic would increase on an already conceivably could be turned into regular jobs. -the association’s rally and first meeting crease” and would not endanger Reagan’s overall plan at South United Methodist Church. With overcrowded South Road, and that the “to put the economy on an even footing.” A recent Department of Labor study said factory workers development, located near the averaged 3.4 hours of overtime a week which, if turned into full­ the hiring of the firm it was implicit that The presidential spokesman said the adminstration the residents wilt go to court if headwaters of the Hop River, would holds firm to its anticipation of seeing “some signs of time jobs, would increase total employment of production workers pollute the river and dry up surrounding by 1.7 percent. necessary. decrease in unemployment by the end of the year.” He An AFL-CIO spokesman told United Press International that Flano is proposing to put 96 con­ wells. claimed unemployment indicators are “the last to show A study of the area commissioned by would mean one million more full-time jobs. dominiums on 53 acres at Route 44A and signs of recovery. South Road. Before anything. can be Fiano showed there would be an increase Reagan, and his wife, Nancy, Friday continued their REP. JOHN CONYERS of Michigan, one of the states hardest done, he needs a zone change from R-1 to of 50 cars per hour on the street during private celebration of their 30tli wedding anniversary at hit by factory unemployment, has at various times introduced bills R-2. This change, for which a hearing is peak hour. Fiano has said most would go their ranch in the Santa Ynez Mountains. They ate to curb the use of scheduled overtime by raising the premium pay , Kheduled by the Zoning Commission for to Route 44A, which is about 700 feet breakfast by themselves, entertained no visitors, took for it. March 30, has been described as the crux away, rather than going to Route 6. horseback rides and tested their anniversary gift — a ’Two university researchers, Ronald C. Ehrenberg of Cornell and of the plan. Once approved, it would be Fiano proposes a traffic light at Route tractor lawnmover bearing a presidential seal: Paul L. Schumann of the University of Minnesota, did a simulation assumed that construction would 44A and claims one is already needed, The Reagans will host a barbeque apd^ountry music test to determine how the Conyers proposals would work out if proceed. according to the study. concert Sunday and return to W^hington Monday. The enacted and have published a book about it entitled “Longer Hours It is this zone change that the residents Mrs. Sawyer said Friday night that the president will begin his workweek in the capital with Or More Jobs?” (ILR Publications, Cornell, Ithaca, N.Y.). (90 percent of those at the meeting which group is not against condominiums or at- ^ talks on his embattled budget program, including a ’They concluded that doubling the premium pay for overtime were from the local area) will be fordable housing.

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