GSA Head Trying to Break Scandal
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PAGE THIRTY - MANCHESTER EVENING HERALD, Manchester. Conn., Wed., Aug. 30. 1978 YM^A Accepting Registration For Fall Classes The Nutmeg Branch of the Hartford Region YWCA is on training women in jogging as a sport. Participants will Physically Fit Over 50, an exercise program focusing on crafts, two patchwork pillow workshops, and classes in The Weather accepting registration for the fall program of activities. build up stamina, gain basic knowledge, and practice run stretching and limbering the body. .needlepoint design and crewel design taught by Cynthia Goudy with rain today; cool with highs in the There will be classes in physical fitness, arts and crafts, ning. ’This will meet one evening a week, taught by A class in disco-dancing, open to women, men, or lYibelhom. ’There will also be a class in oriental cooking, middle 70s, around 24 Celsius. Rain continuing and personal development, as well as special interest Dianne Satton. couples, will be held one evening a week for eight weeks. and a breadbaking workshop. tonight; lows 55 to 60. Rain ending early Friday, groups. Most of the programs begin the week of Sept. 18. Movement Exploration classes will be offered for sen Participants will learn the steps and rhythm of the latest Childcare is available during most programs. For more followed by partial clearing; highs in the middle Physical fitness classes for adults include tennis sitizing participants to ways of moving and exploring dances, taught hy Nancy Smolin. Other fitness activities information about classes for adults and children, call the 70s. Chance of rain 90 percent today and tonight, lessons in levels for Beginners, Advanced Beginner, space. ’Ihis will be led by June Peake, and will be held include a Drop-In Bowling group and a Drop-In Volleyball YWCA at 647-1437 for a brochure. Registration will be A Family ISEWSpaper Since 1881 decreasing to 20 percent Friday. Outlook: general Intermediate, and Advanc^ Intermediate. These classes separately for women, seniors, and couples. Another group. taken in person or by mall for the next two weeks. ’The will meet twice a week for four weeks each, and will be class directed to the needs of senior citizens will be Arts and crafts activities for adults include macrame YWCA is located at 78 N. Main St. Home delivered copy 15 cents ly fair Saturday through Monday. National weather map,; page 16. taught by Millie Lucek on outdoor courts. Vol. XCVII, No. 282 — Manchester, Conn., Thursday, August 31, 1978 EMy ConditioiHng classes for adults will be offered at Newsstand copy 20 cents three different times, and will be led by Gaudia Marks- tein. Gasses in Hatha Yoga will be offered morning, BETTER U m DAY COOKOVTS START AT PINEHURST 1 ^' evening, and “after work,” taught by Betty Van Dine. Siimnastics will be available two mornings a week, with Ekl Fontana will be busy blending U.S.D.A. CSioice fresh beef to make 5 to the Inside Today JoAnn Taft. lb. lean Veribest fresh patties selling at $1.59 lb. ’These patties and deluxe chopped. cum beniand farm s A new program, called “Run for Your Life,” will focus sirloin Patties are also available frozen in 4 lb. box lots. Veribest patties are the Manchester b e s t... buy one or one hundred. GSA Head Trying DUBUQUE ARMOUR’S PINEHURST The Town Health Department SMNUSSIliSS MIRACURE and the operators of two massage SAUSAGE parlors in town are withholding FRANKS BACON MEAT action on a new town ordinance Social Security governing massage parlors until 99« .*1.39 Sept. 12. Set- piige 2. To Break Scandal lb. lb. n.19 The complete Supreme Court Q. I have Medicare medical insurance and I ’ve been un decision in the Buckland fire Veribest Fresh Gov’t, inspected Chicken Legs and Breasts are way down in WAISHINGTON (UPI) - The head were dismissed for removing agency der the care of a doctor for the past few months because jurisdiction case is printed on many employees “are betting I’m price ... the same fine quality ... and, we think, the best buy of the week ... of the General Services Administra documents in an effort to expose of a high blood pressure problem. Is it a good idea to save today's editorial page. See page going to leave ... I’ve got to beat that tion, seeking to break open what may abuses in Massachusetts — was an bet.” the doctor’s bills and send them in at one time? t. be the biggest money scandal in attempt to show GSA employees they A. No. You’ll get your payments faster after you have SELECTED, LARGE Justice Department officials have government history, is asking 35,000 can trust the agency’s current met the deductible, if you send those medical bills in VERIBEST expressed concern that without more HOLIDAY STEAKS employees to tell what they know leadership. witnesses they will have difficulty and then begin sending all later medical bills in as you get East Hartford Whole or HaH CHICKEN about payoffs their colleagues took Solomon, named to head the GSA a bringing indictments against many them, rather than letting them accumulate and sending c Summer camp for Girl Scouts Packer Cut Bonalees from contractors. year and a half ago, has spent much suspects in the case, despite them all in at one time. usually means a trip to Tolland, 12 to 13 lb. Administrator Jay Solomon of the time trying to clean up the evidence that middle-income Q. I ’m 66 and get monthly Social Security checks. I LEGS .lb. Mass., but for 13-year-old Denise predicted at a news conference scandal that now involves evidence employees have hundreds of know the law’s b ^ changed so I can nuike as much as SHELLS OF Kelley, it was an adventure in the and a lower price op Wednesday a long-running federal dozens of contractors — sometimes thousands of dollars stashed in bank $4,000 this year and still get my full check every month. BEEF Old West. See page 7. SELECTED LARGE grand jury investigation will result in at their own initiative and sometimes accounts. But what happens if I earn more than $4,000? Has that Mayor Blackstone recommends VERIBEST bribery and fraud indictments at the suggestion of GSA employees Solomon and Alto have estimated been changed? lb. that top town officials receive the against about 50 people — including — delivered huge cash payoffs to ob the scand^ already ha^ cost the A. No, that’s the Same as under the old law. If you earn same raise and benefit package as Our butchers will CHICKEN GSA employees, employees of other tain business and circumvent com government $66 million in fraud — more than $4;000 in 1978, your check will be reduced $1 for- the 73-member municipal custom cut your shell of agencies it serves, and private ven petitive bidding procedures. mostly to contractors who were paid every $2 over the $4,000. employees union. See pagge 7. beef (or whole dors and contractors. Asked if there was a chance the above competitive prices, provided Q. Now that we’re all paying more in Social Security BREASTS tenderloins) into fork The GSA’s top investigator, special massive investigation would drive inadequate work or products, or were taxes, can I count on getting monthly checks when I ’m 5 lb. Iota or over................. lb. tender steaks, as you counsel Vincent Alto, said he now him to give up his job, Solomon said paid for work never done. eligible for retirement in five years, or is there still some In the area request. (Lesser quantities .lb. $i.is; believes payoffs to GSA officials danger that Social Security is going broke? Bus routes for elementary totaled "in the millions of dollars.” A. You certainly ' ^ count on getting monthly Social schools in South Windsor are “It might be the biggest money Security checks when you’re eligible for them. The COUNTRY STYLE 8 to 15 lb. FRESH Plump Young published in The Herald beginning scandal in the history of the federal legislation that was passed last year will provide enough WEEKEND FOOD today and concluding Friday. See government,” he said. income for Social Security into the 21st century. For budget cookouts PORK RIBS TURKEYS I’age Kiglil, Turkey Breasts And Solomon indicated the in Sending Troops Q. I ’m 71 and I get monthly supplemental security in- buy our HRESIDE vestigation, probing wrongdoing over come (SSI) checks because I have a very small income. U.8.D.A. Choice ,. * 1 . 0 9 Greyle^e Farina S i e w p i M t ^ Chicken or the last several years, is still Until now. I’ve been living alone, but I ’ve been thinking LONDON BROILS Connecticut growing. He said its success will de about asking a friend to move in with me so she can help or Semi-Bonelets T u rk ^ PIm RG FROZEN ^hib The state gaming commission pend in large part on cooperation share expenses. Will this make a difference in the CHUCK STEAKS Not Best Plan SMALL SPRING A U .' recesses hearings on irregular jai from agency employees. amount of my SSI payments? and marinate with AfjMMCTUm BREAD BARS 1401. alai beeting to allow reeseach into “The employees are saying to us, A. It might, but whether or not sharing your apartment Lowry’s Beef Marinade. LAMB LEGS STUFPEO OLIVES JUMBOaotUMf FLAVORS isoz. claims some bettors were in ‘This has been going on a long time. effects your monthly SSI payments, you must let Social WASHINGTON (U P I)-P resid en t The president planned a Cabinet- .