Spit, shine, rumble Lovers of old cars convene for annual show for charity /3 % IfflanrhpHtpr Irralb Monday, May 16.1988 Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm 30 Cents Nurses T N icotine ask 59% 46 wage hike addictive Manchester school nurses are seeking a 59 percent wage hike but have asked for arbitration after the school board offered iike heroin them a 3 percent increase. Dalelyhe Siwik, a registered By Jerry Estlll nurse and athletic trainer at The Associated Press Manchester High School said that f /- ' the 14 school nurses want parity WASHINGTON — The surgeon general declared with teachers. Current starting today that nicotine is addictive like heroin and salary for teachers is a little over cocaine, a finding that came as no surprise to $24,000, according to a letter researchers but which will provide new ammunition signed by the nurses and ad­ for anti-smoking forces. Penders dressed to the school board and The significance of the report by C. Everett Koop Eagles’ "interested taxpayers.” Starting is not that it unveils new scientific evidence, but that Chester nurses earn $14,575, which is he organized existing research into a systematic n as the $7,421 less than starting teachers presentation lumping nicotine in with heroin and t time, The arbitration was requested cocaine as physiologically addictive substances. rent the because of an impasse reached "Careful examination of the data makes it clear batters April 26 on the salary increase. that cigarettes and other forms of tobacco are lor Joe The union filed a petition with the addicting,” Koop wrote in a preface. "An extensive ix runs state Board of Mediation and body of research has shown that nicotine is the drug walked Arbitration to have the dispute in tobacco that causes addiction. settled by a state mediator. "Moreover, the processes that determine tobacco casville A session between the nurses addiction are similar to those that determine in a key and the state mediator has been addiction to drugs such as heroin and cocaine.” [Chester scheduled for May 25. The report cites 171 separate studies, most of t action Assistant Superintendent Wil­ them conducted during the past decade, as son E. Deakin said today that the references. orrow. school board’s offer was a fair In a letter to Congress accompanying the report. •mard’s one. Health and Human Services Secretary Otis R. pitched The nurses’ contract ends July Bowen said, "A warning label on the addicting e of the 1 and they are seeking a new nature of tobacco use should be rotated with other three-year contract. Reginald Plnto/Mancheeter Herald health warnings now required on cigarette and ear, has The letter says that the 14 REUNITED — Ben Pesso of Vernon, left, and of the hospital’s Cardiac Rehabilitation Pro­ smokeless tobacco packages and advertisements.” tnchitis. nurses serve 21 sites. Bowen said cigarette smoking is "the chief “In reality, we are ready, Dr. Stephen. Sinatra, a cardiologist at Manches­ gram. Pesso graduated from the program two d smart years ago. Sinatra will take over as director of avoidable cause of premature death in this lid. "We willing and able to sustain opti­ ter Memorial Hospital, are reunited Friday at a country,” causing more than 300,000 such deaths mum health care with the present dinner held to celebrate the fourth anniversary the program. each year. ngs with work force, we only ask for “The disease impact of smoking justifies placing ond and adequate compen.sation for said the problem of tobacco use at the top of the public ’s cause workload.” the letter says. health agenda,” Bowen wrote. "The conclusions of es. If the mediator cannot help Affair of the heart this report provide another compelling reason for t with a settle the impasse, the dispute strengthening our efforts to reduce tobacco use in ird on a will go to the National Labor our society.” id on a Relations Board. Deakin said.- enriches their lives In his opening remarks, Koop also called for an ] scored addiction warning on cigarette labels and advertis­ ing and said, "Treatment of tobacco addiction of past Bv Nancy Concelman sessions, helps those who’ve Cops ready Manchester Herald suffered heart attacks, angina or iruns in undergone bypass surgery or See SMOKING, page 10 Merritt Ben Pesso and Dr. Stephen angioplasty. About 150 partici­ homore to close file Sinatra, a cardiologist at Man­ pants and graduates of the efter an chester Memorial hospital, are program attended the dinner, er Eric practically married, Pesso jokes. held at the hospital. Bolton to vote on ‘murder’ Several years ago, when Pesso "Our goal is to get the patient suffered a heart attack while at back to living a more normal ith a the hospital, Sinatra gave him life,” Bev Grady, a registered on 9-mill hike Bv Andrew Yurkovskv mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. nurse and cardiac rehabilitation I the Manchester Herald They were reunited Friday at a coordinator at the hospital said. BOLTON — Residents at the Annual Town snior dinner to celebrate the fourth "We want him tohaveeverything Aris Manchester police may wrap Meeting will vote tonight whether toapprove an $8.3 anniversary of Manchester Mem­ he wants out of life, but safely. million budget that would result in a 9 mill tax rate right up their investigation this week of Sometimes it isn’t until after a the alleged murder of a child said orial Hospital’s Cardiac Rehabili­ increase. tation Program and to welcome person has had a heart attack- The meeting on the $4.6million school budget and •d at to ha ve taken place some 35 years ...that he learns how to live ago, Capt. Joseph H. Brooks said. Dr. Stephen Sinatra, a cardiolo­ $3.7million general town budget will begin at 8p.m. gist at the hospital, as new better.” at Bolton Elementary School. Iked "I’ll sit down with the people “The basic advantage of the involved and make a determina­ director of the program. Sinatra If the budget is passed as proposed, homeowners replaces Dr. Abe Kurien, director program is it gives the responsi­ will face an increase from the current 35.75 mills, or [hits tion whether we’re still flounder­ of the program since it was bility of being well back to the ing around,” said Brooks, who $35.75 per $1,000 of property valuation, to 44.8 mills, started in 1984. patient,” Kurien said. Raginild Plnto/M«nc)iMtar Herald or $44.80 of taxes per $1,000, a 9.05 mill increase. SS4-1-J-1, heads the department’s detective For Pesso, the “marriage” was The program begins while the b 4-1-(M), division. EXPLANATION — Bev Grady, a On a home valued at $35,000. that mill rate hike C M -l-O , the beginning of a 12-week patient is still in the hospital with would mean an increase in individual, annual p 3^1-1, Brooks said he would decide recovery process. While he lives education for the patient and registered nurse and coordinator of property tax bills from $1,251 to $1,568, an $317 whether to continue the investiga­ 1-0-04), A. to get well, Pesso says, "I wish family on how to monitor the the Cardiac Rehabilitation Program at increase. The mill rate hike would mean $453 in b 3-0-1-0, tion or close the case. that we could do it (recovery patient’s heart rate and how to Manchester Memorial Hospital, ex­ additional taxes on a home valued at $50,000. p 1-04)4), Police began three days of program) longer.” modify diet and behavior to 0, Savino plains the program at Friday’s dinner Because of the proposed increase. Board of >h 14)4)4>. digging at 24 Pine Hill St! on Nov. The program, through counsel­ Finance Chairman Raymond Ursin said he expects 24, 1987, in search of the remains ing, education and groupexercise See CARDIAC, page 10 for participants and graduates. )1x—7-74) some opponents of the spending plan at tonight’s 0 -0-54 of the murder victim after meeting. Sovlno. receiving a tip from a person who “This is not going to be the traditional claimed to have witnessed the (meeting),” he said. “It’s not going to be the cut and victim’s burial. The search was dry annual meeting. There’s more impact on the called off after police found Three finalists for symphony post mill rate than in (other) years.” nothing at the site except some The amount of the increase can be attributed to animal bones By Nancy Pappas through a conductors’ newsletter, more Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, the finance board’s decision last year to use $367,674 Last year. Brooks had said that Manchester Herald than 40 applications were received, Md., and was founder of the Concerts in in surplus funds to keep taxes down, Ursin said. the conclusion of the investiga­ although the position pays only $5,000 to the Schools program for elementary That decision kept taxes artifically down by about tion was being held up because Three finalists, including an asso­ $7,000 a year. Some of the candidates students in southeastern Ohio, working five mills for a year, he said. police had not interviewed some ciate dean at the Hartt School of Music wrote to Raymond Eurto, the sym­ out of Ohio University. His letter of "We should have gone up (with taxes last year).” people who might have had in West Hartford, are competing for the phony president, from as far away as application indicated that he is inter­ Ursin said.