PuMMle prime now $900 The Evening Herald’s Prizeweek Puzzle continues to stump entrants, so this week’s jackpot has been boosted another $50, to $900. The $900 in waiting for anyone who can.successfully com-f plete the puzzle, which appears each Saturday inside The Evening Herald’s TV Spotlight section. There’s a $25 bonus if the prizewinner is a home- lEtimtng M r ralft delivered subscriber to The Evening Herald. Vol. XCIX, No. 165 — Manchester, Conn., Saturday. April 12, 1980 • Since 1881 • 20® Single Copy • 15® Home Delivered Logging Income tax nixed; debris Ella signs budget not bad posing the package. pay this income tax is the poor By KATE McMAHON The amendment to impose a 4 per- working man who comes home with a By !VIARTI^ KEARNS HARTFORD (UPI) - The House cent state income tax on people who W2 form. He’s not going to beat this Herald Reporter Friday overwhelmingly rejected an have an adjusted gross income over lax, " said House Majority Leader $10,000 was disposed of on a sound 17- John Groppo, D-Winsted. attempt to institute a state income MANCHESTER - After con- tax and approved a revenue package 126 vote. Rep. John Anderson, D-Newtown, sidering a complaint against a town to raise $160.5 million in new and in- But a Republican amendment to called an income tax an "injustice” lumbering project that left the creased taxes. keep the sales tax at 7 percent gave which would lift the lid on state spen- watershed flowing into the Globe The fiscal 1980-81 tax package the Democratic majority a scare and ding and send it flying. Hollow Reservoir strewn with passed on a 75-66 vote and the $2.7 was barely defeated on a 72-73 vote The House approved a Senate debris, the town Conservation Com- amendment chucking the controver- billion budget approved by the Senate after little debate. mission decided to take its concerns were signed into law by Gov. Ella Most of the noise came over the in- sial 1 percent tax on unincorporated to Jay Giles, director of public Grasso at 6:30 p.m. come tax amendment proposed by businesses designed to raise about works. The revenue package includes a 2 Rep, Andrew Glickson, D-Norwalk. $20 million. percent tax on the gross profits of oil Rep. Gardner Wright, D-Bristol, it was replaced with a package The commission will ask that the co-chairman of the powerful Ap- that will raise the same amount by companies in Connecticut, a hike in town require lumbering companies the state sales tax to 7.5 percent and propriations Committee, said the increasing fees and rates on trucks to conduct cleanup operations after levies on large trucks and cigarettes. real question was when Connecticut and collecting vehicle registration clearing an area. But Giles indicated Rep. Irving Stolberg, D-New would break down and impose a state fees every two years instead of one Friday that what might be visually Haven, co-chairman of the income tax. year. The bill would raise the truck unattractive is not necessarily harm- Legislature’s tax-writing committee, ”We cannot continue to provide weight limit from 73,000 pounds to ful to natural forest areas. conceded the package wasn’t services on the revenues we now 80,000 pounds. “perfect” but said it created the have. It doesn’t work,” Wright said. Both the hike in the sales tax from The Rossi Corp. of Higganum revenue needed to continue providing Rep. Dorothy Goodwin, D- 7 percent to 7.5 percent and the 2 per- recently completed a winter services. Mansfield, who noted she’d been cent tax on gross earnings of oil com- lumbering project for which it paid House Minority Leader R.E. Van fighting for an income tax for 25 panies are expected to raise about the town about $32,000 Giles said the Norstrand, R-Darien, tried and failed years, said Connecticut could not $60 million dollars each. project was designed to both in- to wipe out the tax increases with a continue to operate with its “scotch Rep. Yorke Allen, R-New Canaan, crease the run-off capability of the series of GOP amendments. He con- tape and chewing gum” tax system. called the oil company tax un- watershed and to preserve the health cluded by displaying a rubber constitutional and illegal and said “it of the wooded area. The previously "This redistributes the burden in chicken and reiterated his warning to an infinitely more rational way than will ooze back to us. It will come dense covering of trees, the public Visiting hospital the Democrats that their big spen- we do now,” she said. back to us and haunt us.” works director said, threatened to ding had caught up and the chickens suffocate the forest. Betty Callahan shows a wide-eyed David Fries an had “come home to roost.” The anti-income tax forces argued The package will raise another $19 ophthalmoscope as part of Manchester Memorial Hospital’s “The chickens have been plucked it would only hurl the little guy and million by dropping the sales tax But the commission’s chairwoman, clean,” he said. the wealthy would find the loopholes exemption on cigarettes, a measure program to orient children to the hospital. Hospital auxiliary that was expected to cost smokers an Theresa Parla, sgid the company had members conducted special programs this week to show Twenty Democrats bucked their to get out of it. left the watershed in deplorable con- leaders and joined Republicans in op- “The person that is really going to additional six cents a pack. dition. Other members called the students the work done by hospital volunteers. (Herald photo scene a small disaster area. by Pinto) Giles agreed with the com- missioners that the woods near the Nike Site “looks devastated” and Cassano says new CD vote is needed added "that concerned me, too.” He surmised, however, that in the natural process of the forest, the By MARY KITZMANN Cassano said he was ready to dum. Supporters are Democrats councilwoman, filed the complaints asked?” small chips and branches littered request a Board of Directors’ vote on Cassano, Penny, and Republicans with the U.S. Departments of He said that "he wouldn't be sur- Herald Reporter Peter DiRosa and William Diana, It along the tract, would become part of calling a referendum in May or June. Treasury, Commerce, Labor, prised" that the filing of the com- the forest’s floor. MANCHESTER — The ad- The matter must be considered by has been reported that the deciding Interior, and Transportation. plaints would create unanimous ministrative complaints filed against July for a November vote. vote falls to Democrat Barbara Manchester receives about $6 board support for the November He also said that seedlings had Manchester are added impetus for a Mayor Stephen Penny suggested a Weinberg. million in federal aid. referendum. been planted and in the opinion of the November referendum on whether to referendum last month, saying the Penny proposed the referendum The complaints charge that by “It's just a common sense ap- town’s forester, George Murphy, the continue the Community Develop- board needed direction after the when the board was considering im- withdrawing from the CD program proach,” he said. "There will be a watershed was actually healthier ment moratorium, Stephen Cassano, moratorium ended. Strong opposition posing a 90-day moratorium on con- the town is practicing “regional high turnout in a presidential election than before the project was begun. ^ deputy mayor, said Friday. to reconsidering the HUD suit quick- dominium conversions. He said segregation.” The Hartford City year, the highest number of citizens The voters’ right to decide the ly appeared. perhaps the town’s housing shortage Council decided in February not to would vote on the referendum. Why He also said that his initial .reac- town’s direction is jeopardized by the Although most of the directors con- would make voters reconsider the pursue its similiar complaints filed should we spend money three months tion to cleanup activities being in- complaints, Cassano said, as federal tacted in March support seeking program. with the departments. later when we can do it without ad- cluded in town lumbering contracts pressure is applied. voter input on the town's next step, Cassano’s call for the referendum Cassano is also advocating that if ditional cost?” was that they would add expensive ”It’s the voters’ right to decide four directors oppose a referendum stems from the complaints filed with federal funds are withheld. However, Cassano said he costs that might be unnecessary. whether or not we continue the question. five federal agencies asking that ail Manchester residents should put expected the vote to be He said he understood the com- moratorium,” he said. “After the Republicans Peter Sylvester, of Manchester’s federal funds be their federal taxes in escrow until the overwhelmingly in favor of con- plaints but added the watershed was, moratorium ends we should have the Gloria DellaFera, and Democrats withdrawn. Nicholas Carbone, aid is restored. tinuing the moratorium. "It probably "from our point of view a forest and voters’ say in whether we participate James McCavanagh and Arnold former Hartford deputy mayor, and “Why should we keep paying and will be 3 to 1 again if not more,” he in the program or not.” Mildred Torres, former Hartford receive nothing in return,” he said. not Center Springs Park.” Legally, Kleinschmidt oppose the referen- watershed areas are not open to public access. In other business, Commissioner Dr. Douglas Smith expressed con- Main Street price tag cut in half cern that reseeding had not started at the Union Pond sewer project.