No leads Gone No. 4 Police see links M Hamden ousts Manchester Kennelly jumps In bank holdups /3 from Class LL tournament /16 Into the contest /5 AA HanrliPBlpr Irralft Y Vote discrepancy questioned in 8th IZ — MANCHESTER HERALD. Tuesday. May 30, 1989 By Alex Glrelll raise a question. But his cam­ dell School by diftereni entrances meeting. LaBelle disqualified the voting list was stored and Manchester Herald district director, he has a right to paign manager, Betty Sadloski, and bypassed the checkoff two of the written ballots and delivered the list to Litrico at enter the office. said she plans to check with state process. declared Landers a winner by 137 home. The re-election of Thomas E. “ If Tom is trying to make it look election officials to see if any­ Told about Sadloski’s plan to votes to 130 for Lassow. He said Litrico phoned LaBelle, Landers as president of the as if we did anything wrong, he’s thing can be done. check with the state election The presidency was the only who told her to return the list to Eighth Utilities District by a crazy,” Sadloski said. John D. LaBelle Jr., the dis­ officials, Landers said, “ I hope contested office. the locked cabinet and to keep the margin of 7 votes May 24 has been This morning, LaBelle said he trict’s legal counsel and the she does.’ ’ Sadloski said she and Longest key in her possession. clouded by the possibility that has not looked at the law yet. But moderator who presided at the Sadloski said she counted the gave the list to Mary Beth Litrico, Sadloski said that Longest MOM AH CONDITIONER about a dozen more people cast he said the use of the checkoff list election meeting, said he will look number checked off on the voting district clerk, and have asked her phoned LaBelle from the office was not legally in effect. Later in ballots than were checked off on into the problem, but added, “ My list several times Tuesday night, to recount and inform them by and asked him if it would be the meeting, the district voters the voting list used at the gut feeling is that nothing can be coming up with totals of 257 and letter of her result. permissible to deliver the list to voted officially to institute use of district’s annual meeting. done.” 259. She then counted them in Landers said today that he Litrico. She said LaBelle told him the list in future elections. Gordon Lassow, Lander's oppo­ ' LaBelle said he doesn’t know if company with District Director learned Tuesday night that Sad­ it would. nent in the race, said today he was He said there is a multitude of the checkoff count is wrong. It Samuel Longest, a Lassow sup­ loski and Longest went into the LaBelle confirmed both ver­ unaware of any claim about a reasons why a discrepancy could SNORTACE? could be wrong, he said, if some porter, and they came up 247. district office after hours, found sions of the account. discrepancy and has no plans to voters entered the gym of Wad­ But 269 votes were cast at the the key to a locked cabinet where Sadloski said since Longest is a See DISTRICT, page 12 NOT ACAIN! Bush urges Sales tax jumps leveiing of to 8% on July 1 With the promise of another scorcher this year, Berlin Wall Room Air Conditioners will be in short supply again. By Terence Hunt Senate goes along He said afterward he was Buy your Air Conditioner early and enjoy the summer. The Associated Press happy and relieved and said he with House tax bill doubted he could have gotten any MAINZ, West Germany — other tax bill through the House. President Bush today challenged The House had approved the tax the Soviet Union to bury the Cold By Judd Everhart bill, with just two votes to spare, War by ending the division of The Associated Press just before 6 a m. Saturday after BUY NOW! Europe, starting by tearing down a 10-hour debate. the Berlin Wall. ‘‘Let Europe be HARTFORD — Connecticut’s Two Senate Democrats, John whole and free,” he declared. sales tax, already the highest in W, Atkin of Norwalk and James Prices Start at $279 In a major speech clearly the nation at 7.5 percent, will H. Maloney of Danbury, joined all aimed at Soviet President Mik­ jump to 8 percent on July 1 under 13 Republicans in voting against hail S. Gorbachev, the president a $694 million tax increase bill the tax bill. said popular demands for demo­ now headed for the governor’s The sales tax increase is EMERSON QUIET KOOL cratic reforms are sweeping desk. included in a package that also through the communist world, On Tuesday night, the calls for increases in business, forcing a re-examination of Cold Democratic-controllpd state Se­ real estate, capital gains, interest W a r fears and security nate reluctantly agreed to go and dividends taxes. precautions. along with the House version of The additional money will be ‘‘The world has waited long the tax bill, which also increases used to balance a $6.82 billion enough,” said Bush, who plans to business, real estate, capital budget for the year beginning visit Poland and Hungary in July. gains, interest and dividends July 1. The Senate had approved "The time is right. Let Europe be taxes. that budget earlier in the day whole and free.” The 21-15 vote capped week.<! of Tuesday. “ The Cold War,” he said, sometimes confused and chaotic Senate President Pro Tern John “ began with the division of wrangling between the House and B. Larson, D-East Hartford, who Europe. It can only end when Senate over elements of the tax had announced in April that the Europe is whole.” bill. Senate Democrats wanted to Senate Democrats would not keep the sales tax at 7.5 percen- 23 600 Triumphant after his debut at agree to a half-point increase in the NATO summit in Brussels, tand extend it to more items. The the the state sales tax, saidhewas Belgium, the president spoke in r .. Hcnrse wanted the rate raised so forced to put aside his personal the Rhine River city of Mainz that fewer exemptions would beliefs because “ part of leader­ before an audience in the Rhein- have to be eliminated. ship ... is to develop a consensus. ’ ’ The Senate Democrats said The announcement that the Model 6CC72 goldhalle theater. Four blocks away, about 250 demonstrators Reginald PInto/Manchester Herald that by buying the House bill, they Senate Democrats would approve • 6,000 Btu/hr. protested Bush’s visit under a could finish the 1989 session by the the'Aouse bill followed a rare • 7.0 EER heavy police guard. METS MADNESS — Kerry Tedford, 15, Mets memborabilia. She also owns a mandatory adjournment date of appearance by O’Neill during a • Easy-clean, slide-out The protesters waved banners of 53 Westerly St. shows off her Mets watch and a record called “Get June 7 and avoid a special closed-door meeting of the Senate washable filter and placards reading “ Bush Go session. Democrats urging them to accept collection of more than 1,000 baseball Metsmerized” that features different Democratic Gov. William A. the House bill. • Adjustable, Home,” “ Bush Is Not Welcome cards in a room filled with New York players singing. 10-position thermostat Here” and “ Bush — Hands Off O’Neill indicated earlier Tuesday Senate Majority Leader Corne­ Nicaragua.” The main bridge that he would sign it into law. The lius P. O’Leary. D-Windsor spanning the Rhine River was new taxes would be effective July Locks, said, however, that the sealed off, and helicopters circled 1, decision to approve the House the hall where Bush spoke. Mets score high with Kerry The final vote, which followed version had been reached before In the capital of Bonn, boats less than a hour’s debate, was O’Neill spoke. “ We were virtually TAo<i®' ^OcTe/ witnessed by House Speaker there before his arrival,” was the .-1 an crammed with security agents in By Nancy Concelman figurines of the Mets and autographed, framed Richard J. Balducci, D- way O’Leary put it. '’ i i r EMERSON diving gear watched over the Manchester Herald pictures of three of the players. Newspaper nearby Rhine when Bush made a Newington, whose leadership as “ Everyonne has to comprom- QUIET KOOL articles about the Mets are taped to the walls next the new speaker had been tested farewell visit to U.S. Ambassador Kerry Tedford is upset because her mother to posters and pennants. on the tax debate. See SALES TAX, page 12 ^0-pos»v The Name that says it all, Vernon Walters. “ Youth are the threw away a leaking pen. Like other 15-year-old girls, Tedford has a “ Mom, that's the pen that Mackey Sasser collection of dolls and stuffed animals, which are See BUSH, page 12 touched,” Tedford laments. “ I had to dig it out of crammed on another shelf in the room. the garbage before.” But it’s the collection stashed under the bed “ Well, you’ll have to dig it out again,” Kerry’s that makes Tedford different from many other Schools may benefit k t e r m s Economy up, mother, Karen, says. girls her age — or girls any age. ■ CASH For a New York Mets fanatic like Kerry She pulls five large binders from under the bed ■ MASTBtCARD cooling talk Tedford, a pen used by catcher Mackey Sasser is that contain more than 1,000 baseball cards, 300 from budget package 445 HARTFORD ROAO ■ VBA worth rooting through the garbage to find.