to - MANCHESTER HERALD. Thursduy, March 22, 1984 Busy summer likely for vacation industry Conventioneers and most Organized tours woh't provide them. Forget additional $7 execution fee. If you hove to pay onty^S,' Reaction to rape verdict hlartford protesters We are now entering the busiest summer ever for about discount air fares: the m ajor carriers serving you can mail in your application. ~ ‘ the vacation industry — with a variety of forces Los Angeles have stopped them for the weeks Moreover, since 1981, every individual, even an lire. Portuguese defendants take over Colt dome slated by GOP combining to push vacation travel to all-time highs. surrounding the games. infant, is required to have a passport issued in his ® The U.S. dollar is strong, tempting us to go abroad to Y o u t If your plans include foreign travel, you have no her own name. Children under age 18 are still issued tour and buy bargains; the Summer Olympic Games time to fiddle, either. Check whether your passport is five-year passports, at a cost of $27. page 2 ... page 10 .. page 3 will open in Los Angeles, pulling us to the West Coast Money's current and il not, submit an application promptly. Many countries require a visa before you can enteE. by the hundreds of thousands. Economic expansion is The State Department does its best to send your For some countries, you must submit your passpoit assured through this summer at least, encouraging us Worth passport within a short time. You will assist by filling with yoiir visa application before your departure.' to open our pocketbooks and wallets to spend. Sylvia Porter out th e' ’departure date” box on the application form. Allow plenty of time for this process, especially it In the next six months, 6.5 percent of us wilt visit a The volume of applications is soaring. (In February, neither your tour operator nor travel agent providmC foreign country, compared with 5.1 percent in 1983, applications were up a stunning 40 percent over the documents. Get a copy of "Visa Requirements fo r reports the Conference Board. At the same time, 33.4 February 1983.) Foreign Governments” from the State Department.. percent will visit another state, up from 31.8 percent in To cope with the annual summer overflow of Also request "Y ou r Trip Abroad.” For single copies; 1983. applications, the State Department adds second of each, write; Passport Services, Room 386, Showers today; Manchester, Conn. Louisiana World Exposition in New Orleans, shifts, increases staffs, keeps people working Department of State, 1425 K St. N.W.. Washington. scheduled to open May 12 and run through Nov. 11. The message to you: Plan now! Draw up overtime. Still, officials expect to issue a record 4.7 D.C. 20524. warmer Saturday Friday, March 23, 1984 itineraries, consult travel agents, make reservations, The second extravaganza will be the 1984 Summer million passports this year, up from last year's record — See page 2 Single copy; 25<P book tours, apply for passports and visas in advance Olympics, to be opened in Los Angeles by President 4.1 million, and 3,7 million in 1982. Delays can happen. Beagan on July 28. The ecstatic estimate of local Income tax guide available of the impending summer crush. The fun of planning a Long lines can result, especially at the busier offices. authorities is that 350,000 to 550,000 visitors will attend "Sylvia Porter’s 1984 Income Tax Book,” h ^ iianrhpHlpr HrralJi trip evaporates when every hotel is full and you can’t In New York, waiting in line for a passport has the 16 days of Olympics daily and pump roughly |4 make airline reservations for the dates you request. become an urban art form. comprehensive guide to income taxes, is noiy; Last-minute waiting guarantees such stomach- billion into the local economy. In 1983, the State Department introduced a new available through her column. Send $4.95 plus $1 for mailing and handling to “ Sylvia Porter’s 1984 Inconie churning hassles that you’ll need a vacation from the If you plan to be among the thundering hordes and passport that is valid for 10 years. The passport costs Tax Book,” in care of the Manchester Herald, 44d0| wait. haven’t yet made reservations, you may be out of $35. First-time applicants, those renewing passports Johnson Drive, Fairway. Kan. 66205. Make checks' luck. Tickets to Olympic games are available through more than 8 years old and those who were under 18 If you want to vacation in the United States, you payable to Universal Press Syndicate. have two special events to draw you. The first is the the official distribution system — computerized — when issued their previous passport will pay an Attention 4th, Sth, 6th Graders, BUSINESS Junior High and High Schooi Students Ex-comic’s help drops spells success Bv Denis G. Gulino for pen maker United Press International 1984 WASHINGTON - Consumer By Dennis AAllewskl prices rose 0.4 percent in Febru­ United Press International ary, a drop from January’s ad­ Jo b vance, as food increases nfoder- I I ated and gasoline and clothing TRUM BULL — A Japanese company knew it had stumbled in the crowded American writing pen prices fell, the Labor Department Satisfaction market when it asked a former night club comic and said today. Nearly 4 out of 5 Americans self-made executive for help. The slowdown in the growth of "Am erica did not need another pen. Who the hell the Consumer Price Index was a are ‘satisfied’ with their jobs. needed another writing instrument?” asked Ronald reassuring note amid rising inter­ G. Shaw, who then went out and sold millions of Pilot v ' . est rates and Wall Street fears that pens to indifferent consumers. the economy is overheating. Janu­ Job satisfaction climbs The punchline was a bottom line last year of $38 Herald photo by Tarquinio ary’s increase was 0.6 percent. with both million in sales for Trumbull-based Pilot Pen Corp. of Both months together produce America, the U.S. subsidiary of Japan’s largest an annual inflation rate, if sus­ 86% of those 55 and over These four young people told a reporter Thursday they planned to people aged 16 to 19 from using the shelter, which is sponsored by the maker of writing instruments, which was reeling spend the night huddled under a blanket outside Manchester's shelter Manchester Area Conference of Churches. tained fof the rest of the year, of 6.1 75% of those 35 and under from heavy losses. percent, compared with last year’s "1 said. Look, you have a company here in big for the homeless. On Tuesday a new policy went into effect,'barring rate of 3.8 percent. ...and earnings. trouble. You have to make a decision it will be run as But analysts in and out of an American company — with respect,” ’ Shaw, government expect 1984’s inflation 82% earning $25,000 or more executive vice president and chief operating officer of to weaken even more in March and 74% earning $15,000 or less the U.S. operation, said he told the company's April as the remnants of price Japanese owners. Teens protest eviction from sheiter pressures from last year’s bad In 1975, he took over with $1.2 million in sales and weather fade. But everyone finished the year with $2 million in sales and $500,000 The broadest category of food is happy... ^ in losses. Bv Adele Angle prices went up 0.6 percent in If the pace shown so far this year continues, sales Focus Editor February, far less than the 1.6 20% of all UjS. workers are should reach $42 million for 1984 and improve Pilot’s percent in January. ’dissatisfied*with their jobs estimated 10 percent share of the market, Shaw said. At least 16 young people stood There’s another place Transportation costs, benefit- ting from a steep 1.5 percent drop ________________________________________________ LPI "1 can assure you, the losses have long since been outside Manchester's shelter for wiped out," he said. -the homeless late Thursday night, in gasoline prices, showed no UPl graphic There are two shelters for the homeless in shelter to discriminate against the young. Shaw turned to humor to separate Pilot from more peacefully protesting a new policy change at all from January. than 400 competitors — "about 380 you never heard Manchester. Mayo was arrested and charged with second The cost of local telephone which bars the shelter to those age The official one is operated by the Manchester degree criminal tresspass on March 1 after a Nearly four out of five Americans are of " -- and relied heavily on advertising and 16 to 19. service, continuing to reflect the promotions to push his product. Area Conference of Churches and is located in the MACC shelter user swam nude in the East Side separation of independent regional "satisfied” with their job? and almost Of that number, at least six spent East Side Recreation Center building. Recreation Center pool, during pool hours. Mayo "Is it sick to love a pen?” Pilot asked America in companies from AT&T, rose i j .« the entire night on the doorstep, The other is located at 869 Main St. and is was with the shelter user at the time. one-third of this number are “very full-page ads showing a woman on a psychiatrist’s another 3 percent in February on and left shortly before the shelter operated by Michael Mayo, a 3(hyear-old black satisfied,” according to a Conference couch.