24 - THE HERALD, Mon., April 6, 1981 Jaycees plan donkey game COVENTRY — The Jaycees are Gunmen rob bank, take teller sponsoring a donkey basketball Area new s game, April 23,7:30 p.m., at the high school. SOUTH WINDSOR - A branch found abandoned by Manchester Bank officials said they could not im­ Square branch of the Connecticut The Jaycees will be taking on the office of First Federal Savings was police in the parking lot outside the mediately determine how much, if Bank and ’Trust Co. in the city's teachers from the high school in a robbed today by two men wearing A&P on Tolland Turnpike, police any, money had been taken from the North End. game played entirely on donkeys. masks and fake beards who briefly said. ’The car was a blue Pontiac, bank. Bank officials said they were Every shot on the basket must be took a woman teller hostage, police police said, and whether it had been performing an audit. Two armed men wearing yellow taken while on the donkey, providing said. stolen could not be immediately ’The FBI has sent agents to the ski masks robbed the Hartford that the donkey waits around long determined. The car is being scene, but no information has been branch, but police could not provide enough for the shot. The woman was described as the processed by both Manchester and released. any details about the robbery. The game is being held for the Two questions South Windsor office’s head teller South Windsor police. Police were questioning the The South Windsor and Hartford benefit of the Coventry Daycare and was released unharmed near the woman, who was not identified. robberies occurred within minutes Center, and the donkeys are bank. The robbery occurred at First Meanwhile, Hartford police were of each other, but apparently were provided by the Donkey Ball Co. The car used by the two men was Federal’s Oakland Road branch. investigating a robbery at the Terry unrelated. Tickets can be obtained from the on Bolton ballot high schoof office, Nathan Hale school office, Banes Pharmacy, and Ky KI<:H\RI> C<)I)4 person votes, someone who likes the Hills Pharmacy, For further infor­ Hi'ruld Ki'purli-r transfer station idea (thinks it will add an mation, contact Tony Roberto at 742- ROl.TON — Please vote on both aesthetic value to the town!. This person 6320. questions. Please votes "yes" for the transfer station. The The toll has jumped to 75^ents and It Connecticut River between Rocky Hill This is the cry from town hall these transfer station wins. days, and it will continue until 8 p.m, on Now assume two people vote, one for will only operate Wednesdays through and Glastonbury, as the tug Recipes galore Manchester, Conp. Wednesday the transfer station and the other for Sundays, as the nation’s oldest con­ Cumberland docks the ferry barge in Great ideas for new recipes are Tuesday It is due to the discovery of a somewhat townwide pick-up. Both voters vote "yes" tinuously operated ferry started Rocky Hill. (UPl photo) exclusively yours in the full-color April 7,1981 comic, but potentially serious, muddle for their respective favorites, but neglect another .season last week on the People-Food section of The Heraid. 25 Cents revolving around the upcoming referen­ to vote "no" for the less appealing alter­ H r r a l l i dum on the solution to the town s solid native waste disposal problem. Both alternatives are approved, and un­ Building lobby hopes talks end strike Serving the Greater Manchester Area for 1 0 0 Years The town has been.asked to vote on a less another referendum is held to dis­ solution to the waste disposal problem, qualify one or the other, the town will con­ HARTFORD (UPI) - The leader of a Wednesday after the CCIA rejected the un­ trade unions refused to cross picket lines es­ and it will do so Wednesday between noon tract townwide pick-up to bring the trash powerful construction lobby says he hopes ion’s last wage proposal calling for increases tablished by highway construction workers. and 8 p.m. to its own transfer station. negotiations would resume soon to end a strike of 40 percent over a three-year period. He said he was unable to estimate the finan­ The recent development is really not too Similarly, if there are more "no's" than that has halted millions of dollars of work on Labor ieaders have accused Morpnbesser cial impact of the strike. “These are mul­ Walesa urges peace confusing, once you get the hang of it. "yeses, " then the town has no solution. Connecticut highway and sewer projects. of backing out of the agreement but he said he timillion dollars jobs,” he said. “We’re at Simply, due to wording on the ballot, the If both alternatives win, the town will Marvin B. Morganbesser, president of the never agreed to the “outrageous” wage hike. a time when we’re just getting started with approved solution can be the installation find a large increase in an already Connecticut Construction Industry Associa­ He said he had told the negotiators the CCIA some jobs.” of a transfer station, or contractural projected large budget for the next fiscal tion, said Saturday “there are indications that bylaws required that any settlement must be There are about 8,000 Laborers’ union townwide pick-up, or both a transfer sta­ year. If both lose, the town may have a lot we will talk soon’’ but he could not be more voted on by its labor com m ittee and members in the state. Both sides estimate the tion and townwide pick-up or neither of refuse with no where to put it. specific. membership. strike now involves only the 3,000 members townwide pick-up nor a transfer station, So if people only vote "yes " for their The CCIA and representatives of the who work for members of the CCIA, which but while voting for either, both or Morganbesser said picketing had spread to Poles get reprieve favorite and do not vote "no " for the other Connecticut Laborers' District Council met many construction sites and a protracted primarily handles highway construction neither, voters could unintentionallv alternative, chances are that both options about 90 minutes Friday but there was no projects. approve neither either, both of neither, walkout could affect thousands more workers. PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia (UPI) Lech Walesa called for a Pact nations, who are on maneuvers plans of reaction hold out no will be legally approved. movement in the original contract proposals Morganbesser said picket lines shut down CCIA deals with publicly financed projects ending up with an unwanted solution. — Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev moratorium on strikes and confron­ in and around Poland. prospects of success.” offered by contractors and laborers. work on Interstate 86 in Vernon and Tolland such as roads, highways, bridges and sewage The ticket will contain two questions, The vote might end up like 500 "yeses " reminded Czechosiavakia today of tations with the government, urging In his 27-minute speech, Brezhnev “Similar attempts are being About 3,000 laborers walked off the job and slowed most highway jobs because other treatment plants. both to be answered "yes" or "no." The for a transfer station and 500 "yeses " for the Soviet invasion he ordered 13 the union to use the labor peace to accused Western forces of creating a made" in Poland, he said, then ad­ first question will read "To approve or townwide pick-up, or 999 "yeses " for years- ago and gave a qualified en­ allow the 10-million member union “counter-revolution” in Poland and ding his belief the Polish Com­ disapprove the installation of a transfer townwide pick-up and 1 "yes " for the dorsement to the Polish Communist to sort out internal problems. then brought up the Soviet-led War­ munists could contain the situation. station . " and the second "To approve or transfer station. It matters little what the Party to contain a similar “At present, it does not pay to saw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia Brezhnev’s speech echoed the disapprove contracting townwide curbside count would be in this situation, for both “counter-revolution” against o p erate on the brink of the that crushed an attempt at a liberal words of Czechoslovakian party pick-up..." options would be approved. Unless both socialism. precipice,” Walesa said in an inter­ Communist regime — the so-called leader Gustav Husak, who opened Each question is independent from the questions a r^ o te d on by each voter. “The Polish Communists, as we view publisehd today in the Roman “Prague Spring” movement. the congress Monday by saying the other The ballot is not an either-or situa­ The hopeful result, among officials in believe will, one must suppose, with Catholic affiliated newspaper Slowo “The victory over the forces of Warsaw Pact was ready to defend tion. Voting "yes" on one does not town, is that only one alternative will win. the support of all Polish patriots, Powszechne. counter-revolution in 1968... is not an Poland. automatically disqualify the other. A The Republican Town Committee is cir­ prove able in adequate measure to Warsaw observers said Brezhnev’s inconsiderable contribution to all “As far as the Soviet Union is con­ Allison Christiana, 7, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leorr oppose the designs of the enemies of speech was a “second chance” for "yes" vote for townwide pick-up does not culating 1400 notices to the residents in fraternal countries,” the 74-year-old cerned, it is and continues to be a Christiana, of 15 Foster St., gets ready to eat her lunch at necessarily mean a "no" vote for a town, with the intent to make clear the the Socialist system,” Brezhnev told the divided Communist Party of Soviet leader said.
Details
-
File Typepdf
-
Upload Time-
-
Content LanguagesEnglish
-
Upload UserAnonymous/Not logged-in
-
File Pages12 Page
-
File Size-