— MANCHESTMEVENINGHER^D^M^chester. Conn., Tues., Oct. 10, 1978 Auxiliary Aids Patients r . ' , ' j v . at Convalescent Homes The Weather By ALICE EVANS no longer write, nor can they read the wanted and needed, he said. The Mostly sunny with Herald Reporter letters they receive. Bill said. commission asked the Manchester seasonable temperatures Sil Beaulieu and his wife. Dot, are Would you like to play pool, Conference of Churches to take over today; highs in the upper 60s, busy entertaining some of the checkers, chess, or perhaps cards or the project, and Linda Vesho of the 18 to 20 C. Fair tonight with just to chat with people? Then, why patients at the Meadows Convales­ conference’s Project Service staff lows in the 40s. Partly cloudy cent Home. Sil said that a number of uFntng H rralfl not join the newly formed went to work. and continued seasonably mild Manchester Convalescent Homes patients are looking for someone to About that time, Karla Vince, a Thursday; highs in the 60s. play pool with, and he is looking for a Vandals Damage Auxiliary? social worker, and Ruth Converse, Vol. XCVII, No. 9 — Manchester, Conn., Wednesday, October 11, 1978 A Family ISEWSpaper Since 1881 National weather map on page The people you will meet may have cheap pool table. The one they are recreation director at Crestfield, 16. using was old and needed a lot of Vacant School some physical disability, but they are started operating a cheer cart, but H- just like the people you meet on the repairs. Sil repaired the table, and finally had to give up because of the EAST HARTFORD - Vandals street and still need someone to talk now Dot, who spends most of her time involved. did considerable damage in nine with, William (Bill) Rice, president volunteer hours in the game room, is Ms. Vesho recruited women from rooms of the former South Gram­ and one of the founders of the kept busy playing pool with patients. St. Bartholomew’s Parish for the mar School at the corner of auxiliary, said. The auxiliary has nearly 30 charter cart, and now the project has another Brewer and Main streets, accor Barbara Thomas of Coventry, a members, and Bill wishes that he cart in operation at Meadows Con­ ding to Ernest Grasso, school ad­ HtVHtn. 0**T WMt member of the auxiliary, says that could find about 800 more so that valescent Home. All items on the ministration assistant. Tax Cuts Up to Conferees she is having a lot of fun. I enjoy every patient could have his own cart are sold to the patients at cost, “There was great bit of special friend. college students. talking with people and feel awfully and one of the fastest moving items, damage,” Grasso said today WASHINGTON (UPI) - It will be 70 percent the amount of capital he liked tying the cuts to lower couples and 16 for individuals, up to a House-Senate conference The vote on final passage was 86-4. important all of a sudden.” Walter Joyner, a volunteer patient according to reports, are white “The building is in shambles.” gains excluded from regular federal federal spending. thereby allowing taxpayers to make committee to meld the Senate’s $29.3 The administration feels both bills However, there are other advocate in Manchester’s convales­ hairnets. Grasso said the damage was es­ taxes; provide college tuition tax In addition to the $30 billion cut in more money before moving into the cent homes for many years, could billion tax-cut bill with the $16.3 give too much to wealthy individuals credits scaling up from $100 to $250 \ • members, such as Millie Kos and ’Today, volunteers are doing many timated between $5000 and $7000 1979, that amendment would cut next tax bracket. y billion House version into a com­ and corporations, too little to lower between 1978 and 1981, and eliminate Bernice Reig, who are discouraged well be called the “father of the things. They are showing films, and was done in every one of the taxes $47 billion in 1980, $72 billion in The House bill would keep the auxiliary. promise President Carter can sign. and middle income groups. state and local gas tax deductions. 1981, $93 billion in 1982 dnd $125 because the patients they visit aren’t calling for bingo games, or just being nine rooms, the hallways and the existing 25 brackets but spread its Pool is a popular game among the patients Under the combined pressures of a Sen. Ru.ssell Long, D-La., chair­ A Proposition 13-style amendment billion in 1983. playing the game with Dot Beauleiu, right, a too alert. Others feel that people who Last November, he told the town’s good neighbors to those who, principal’s office. He said the van­ $10.4 billion in individual tax cuts at Meadows Convalescent Home. Carol Commission on Aging about the need dals gained entry by forcing open congressional adjournment target man of the Senate Finance Com­ by Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga., would A family of four earning $17,000 more evenly. Both bills would member of the Convalescent Homes have nobody to talk with for a long perhaps, haven’t had a visitor to chat date of Saturday and the threat of a mittee, and Rep. A1 Ullman, D-Ore., Corliss, who is trying to put the ball in the for an auxiliary. Volunteers were with for many years. a door on the south side of the provide a $165 billion cut over the would get a $285 cut under the Senate eliminate the $35 general tax credit. Auxiliary. (Herald photo by Chastain) period of time lose their alertness, veto if the tax cuts are too big, the chairman of the House Ways and and visitors may soon eventually needed to operate cheer carts so that Why not join them? building. next five years, tied to restrictions bill, $115 under the House plan. The The Senate bill includes about $20,5 pocket is only one of the patients who enjoys task will not be easy. Means Committee, will get Carter’s may make a difference. patients might biiv things they He said radiators, wires and on government spending and a same family earning $10,000 would billion in personal tax euts in 1979, in­ light fixtures were pulled out and Late Tuesday the Senate approved views at the White House Thursdav balanced budget, stretching the bill’s get a $220 cut under the Senate bill, stead of $10.4 billion in the House bill. - t i n A volunteer was recently wanted The Senate bill would cut income the rugs were tom up. He also its version — nearly twice the size of total five-year reduction to $367 $62 from the House bill. It also would reduce the corporate just to sit with a patient and hold his the House bill and one that includes a taxes across the board; provide a billion. or her hand, because people even in a said nearly of the glass in the un­ The Senate would provide in­ tax rate from the current 48 percent tax-free break for homeowners who one-time $100,000 tax break for some The amendment clearly would lead dividual tax cuts by increasing the coma know there is some near them. Rockville Hospital Gets occupied building was broken. to 46 percent in 1979, 45 percent in sell their homes at a big profit, plus home sellers; reduce the corporate to a veto and several senators said personal exemption from $750 to $1,- Bill has now found a way to enter­ The building, closed in June by 1980 and 44 percent by 1981. The tuition tax credits ranging from $100 tax rate from 48 percent to 44 percent they expected it to be dropped by the 000, and reducing the number of tax' tain one patient at Crestfield while he the Board of Elducation because of House simply would cut it to 46 per­ Shorter Accreditation in 1978 to $250 in 1980 for parents of by 1981; increase from 50 percent to conference. But Long told reporters visits with another. The Library of declining enrollment, was brackets from 25 to 15 for married cent in 1979. Congress is issuing its talking books VERNON — Rockville General in the new building by that time. boarded up. School officials dis Hospital has been granted a one-year covered the damage Tuesday JJ on cassette cartridges, and one The original building meets the fire patient can listen to a story, while extension of its accreditation instead safety codes but is still considered morning and Grasso said the Bill chats with another, of the usual two years. non-conforming. It was originally the damage was believed to have Russell Rice, no relation to Bill, is The National Joint Committee on Maxwell home and donated to the happened in the past two weeks. Carter Due to Open blind and his spine is fused so that he Hospitals reduced the period of ac­ town for use as a hospital. cannot bend or move. He is now creditation because renovations have The hospital conducted its first New Plan Due reading “Gone with the Wind,” a not been completed that will take the public fund drive to collect $1.25 seven-cartridge project. His only pediatrics department out of the million of the funds needed for con­ EAST HARTFORD - The contact with the world is his radio. original hospital building which has struction. A gift of $300,000 was given developers of a proposed 20-lot Mideast Peace Talks “He s an avid Red Sox fan, and I wish been termed non-conforming by the by the Belding family, formerly of subdivision which would extend I was up on world affairs as well as committee.