Injunction Sought to Delay J.C. Penney

Injunction Sought to Delay J.C. Penney

Injunction sought to delay J.C. Penney and meaningful consideration of en­ the town’s Economic Development original complaint but not in the By Scot French Manchester law firm of Beck & new,” since it has been part of the vironmental factors.” Commission, said this morning he complaint for a new trial. He Herald Reporter Pagano, said the coalition has coalition’s plans for several years. ’The environmentalists, organized The justices ruled that the lower had not yet seen a copy of the injunc­ speculated that the motion was filed already proved that the lack of a tion motion and therefore could not to correct that oversight. A Manchester enviromnmeiital mass transit system to serve the by local pharmacist Michael court had followed improper Dworkin, won a major victory last procedures in rejecting the en­ comment. The J.C. Penney vvarehouse, a coalition fighting for a mass transit site will dangerously increase air regional distribution center for system to serve the Buckiand In- May when the state Supreme Court vironmentalists case and ordered a Bourke G. Spellacy, an attorney pollution in the area. who has represented J.C. Penney catalogue sales in the northeast, dustriai Park has formally asked He said the injunction is the “only struck down a lower court ruling new trial. against the coalition and ordered a since the originai suit was filed in began accepting applications for 1,- the courts to block the J.C. Penney relief avaiiable” while the coalition I’AGANO SAID PROCEDURAL 500 full-time jobs last month. warehouse from opening this fall. new trial. 1977, confirmed that his client will awaits a new Superior Court trial snags have delayed the new trial, fight the injunction. The environmentalists claim that The motion, filed this week in and J.C. Penney moves ahead with The ruling was considered a land­ with several of the defendants mark, since it clearly defined for “Obviously we’ll oppose the mo­ the additional automobile traffic Hartford Superior Court, asks that its plans to open. failing to respond to court orders. brought in by tbe warehouse will the opening, planned for Aug. 2, be James Dunne, managing attorney the first time responsibilities and tion, but I don’t know when it will rights under the state’s environmen- Defendants named in the. en- come up,” he said. A number of bring greater air pollution to the postponed until all the environmen­ for J.C. Penney’s real estate divi­ area. tai laws. vironmentaiists’ suit are former motions have been fiied by each tal Issues are settled in court. sion, refused to s^y whether the State Commissioner of Commerce While other tenants have begun to “You can’t give people’s health firm will fight the injunction. side, he said, and are stiii waiting to “As a guide to future conduct,” Edward J. Stockton, the Manchester fill the park, Pagano said J.C. back,’’ said Attorney Anthony F. be heard. Penney was singled out in the in­ “WE HAVE NO COMMENT on Chief Justice Joseph Bogdanski Economic Development Commis­ Pagano, who fiied the injunction sion, the town of Manchester and the SPELLACY SAID THE junction request because “it’s the request on behalf of the Manchester that,” he said, noting that the wrote, “agencies must recognize that the purpose of the Environmen- J.C. Penney Co. Inc. INJUNCTION request had been in­ largest and will generate the most Environmental Coalition. matter is now under litigation. Holland Castleman, attorney for cluded in the environmentaiists’ traffic and pollution.” Pagano, a partner in the But he said the motion is “nothing tai Policy Act is to ensure thoughtful El Salvador Town looks for way w arns U.S. to give away cheese By Nancy Thompson in five-pound blocks to be given to the Herald Reporter needy. Cheese will be available from the Com­ The town is taking steps to provide a munity Renewal Team in Hartford, means locally of distributing cheese which will be taking applications for the aid needed made available by the federal govern­ food Monday between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. ment to qualified people in Manchester. at any of its offices. To apply for the By John E. Newhagen Hanna Marcus, town director of cheese, you must bring your Social United Press International , human’'services, is looking into the Security card and complete the applica­ possibility of the town taking over the tion, CRT spokeswoman Charlotte SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Defense Minister Barber said. Gen. Jose Guillermo Garcia warned the United States cheese distribution, because the official­ may have “to come here to fix up our problems” if El ly designated agency, the Manchester Applicants will be given a date when Salvador’s ruling junta does not receive more military Area Conference of Churches, is not they file their application to come back equipped to handle it. and pick up the cheese, Ms. Barber said. ’The problem is that the town is not a Another CRT official said that cheese ^'carcia also indicated Wednesday /Argentina rnay send registered food bank. MACC, which is a military advisers to the war-tom Central American na­ distribution will begin March 1. tion, saying it was “not a remote possibility if we should registered food bank, cannot handle the Neither spokesperson knew how much free cheese distribution because it is reach an agreement.” cheese is available. "It’s more than I can “We don’t want U.S. troops. We don’t want any soldier unders-staffed and is receiving more count,” Jim Walker said. calls for help with food and fuel setting foot on our country,” Garcia said in an interview CRT will not check applications lor with the Los Angeles Times and the Miami Herald. emergencies than it can handle, MACC Executive Director Nancy Carr has said. need before handing out the cheese. “What we need is aid. It is preferable that we be given Walker said, although the federal aid now so that later they won’t have the obligation to The cheese distribution was authorized government said the cheese is supposed come here to fix up our problems,” said Garcia, con­ by President Reagan in December after to go to those who could not afford sidered the nation’s most powerful military leader. the federal government bought large cheese otherwise. No standards for On reports that Argentina’s rtiifitary government may AN EMPTY REFRIGERATOR stockpiles of cheese to keep dairy prices determining need were established by send military advisers, he said, “None are here. But it high. The processed cheese is packaged the federal government. is not a remote possibility (that they would come) if we . no free cheese In Manchester should reach an agreement.” , ^ j The United States, so far the only nation to send military personnel to El Salvador, has 49^ advisers training government troops in equipment maintenance Recession may last longer and counter-insurgency techniques. ..... Garcia’s statements came as leftist guemiias staged raids across the country and two U.S. congressmen began talks with officials “on both sides of the coimict” to discuss the political and military situation in the Economy hit by triple whammy Rebels shot to death three soldiers Wednesday at Hacienda Zacamil. about 8 miles north of San Salvador, a soldier at the scene said. The soldier said he caiied for By Elaine S. Povloh a helicopter to “bombard and strafe” a nearby guerriUa United Press International MDUSTRIAL PROOOCnOH Housing C3ITip> StM pest AfoMWr OOP There was no information available on guerrilla ’The economy is reeling from a triple Since JtoMMry, 197S whammy — a rise in the prime rate, a Starts cdsusltics • 165 bfKtox: Government troops firing 90mm hand-held cannons decrease in factory production and a 1967s100 1.6 E-, repelled guerrillas who attacked four army checkpoints drop in housing starts — and the ad­ Wednesday outside Suchitoto, 29 miles north of the ministration now says it may take a bit longer than expected to perk up. capital, witnesses said. 1.4 Guerrillas severed the nation’s coastal highway and Budget director David Stockman gave Seasonally adjusted burned four vehicles on the road just east of the nni annual rate-In the latest prognosis Wednesday, saying millions of units bombed-out (golden Bridge. the recession may not end until “this They said the same guerrillas knocked down eight 1.2 894,000 untta summer or fall.” Previously, the ad­ In January utility poles in the continuing rebel drive to wreck the ministration said it would likely rebound DOWN 0.6% nation’s electrical grid. by spring or summer. 1.0 ’This prediction came atop more bleak economic signs, the most dismaying of 8 which was the increase in the prime rate Three charged to 17 percent. The prime is a beUwether of borrowing costs and the biggest MAMJ J ASOND JFMAMJJ ASOND roadblock to recovery. 1981 I 1981 '82 Factory production fell 3 percent last in city protest month, the biggest drop since January 1975 dnd the worst of six consecutive recession is “not going to be a perma­ 14 percent (mortgage rates) as sort of Privately owned housing starts in HARTFORD (UPI) — Three men were arrested monthly declines, the Federal Reserve nent condition” and “built-in stabilizers the threshold for buying. Unfortunately January were at an annual rate of 894,- today by federal marshals for chaining and handcuffing report^. will pull us out this summer or this we are now looking at rates of 17 to 18 (KW, the report said, marking the sixth ’The struggling housing industry also consecutive month below the million themselves to the entrance of a federal building in fall.” percent again,” said Mark Riedy, Htitest of U.S.

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