Leukemia victim gets a second chance to the day when, in her words, purchasing tables of eight for cheon hosts for the occasion. Celebrity waiters she’ll be “ normal” again. $200. Individuals can secure a Also, Nikki O’Neill, wife of Gov. to raise funds “The main thing was just seat for a $25 donation. The William O’Neill, will be a wai­ wanting a second chance to raise proceeds from the luncheon will tress for the luncheon, Sullivan at charity iunch my son,” Munroe said. “You go to the Northern Connecticut said. learn how much family and chapter of the society. Sullivan, who has been a friends mean to you” In the past, the luncheon has volunteer for the Leukemia So­ B y Maureen Leavitt She wanted to show her appre­ proven to be a zany afternoon ciety for almost 20 years, thinks A Manchester Herald ciation to the Leukemia Society of with clumsy table-waiting by the luncheon is a lot of fun. Am erica, which helped fund her prominent members of the com­ “ You meet the nicest bunch of Lu Ann Munroe knows what it’s trips to Boston for the transplant, munity who are dressed up in screwballs in the entire Manches­ like to get a second chance at life. medication and the re.search costumes. The waiters try to ter area.” he said. The 33-year-old Manchester which made the transplant possi­ solicit as many tips as possible When asked what Munroe woman was diagnosed as having ble. So. Munroe has volunteered from their guests. would be doing for the luncheon, leukemia in January 1988. After to lend a hand at the fifth annual This year’s luncheon will prove Sullivan quipped. "W e’ll keep her A undergoing chemotherapy to put Celebrity Waiter’s Luncheon no different, according to John busy, all right.” the disease in remission, she sponsored by the Northern Con­ Sullivan, a Mnehester business­ Munroe, a quiet woman, didn’t received a bone marrow trans­ necticut chapter of the Leukemia man chairing the event. seem like she’ll mind one bit. She plant from her sister last June. Society of America Inc. In addition to the crazy antics said she is finally feeling well, The transplant has proven The luncheon will be held the waiters plan to engage in, a and looking forward to returning successful and Munroe is on the Wednesday from noon to 1:30 belly dancer and clown will be on to work at J.C. Penney Catalogue road to recovery. She is enjoying p.m. at the Steak Club in Vernon. hand. Julia- Tashjian. secretary Distribution Center in the fall. LU ANN MUNROE OF MANCHESTER Area businesses are asked to of the state, and Brad Davis, of time with her 6-year-old son and . leukemia now in remission her husband, and looking forward participate in the luncheon by WDRC-AM radio, will be lun­ See LEUKEM IA, page 10 Y manrhpalpr Ipralb Newsstand Price: 35 Cents Tuesday, May 16, 1989 Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm N o water Gorbachev, at mall for fire Deng agree By Andrew Yurkovsky Manchester Herald There is still no water supply to end feud for fire protection at the Pavilions at Buckland Hills, even though construction at the mall site is By Jim Abrams That confrontation, he said, near the point where water for The Associated Press had helped prevent Sino-Soviet fire protection will be needed, the reconciliation but now “there fire marshal for the Eighth BEIJING — Mikhail S. Gorba­ may be a turning point in Utilities District said in his report chev and Deng Xiaoping today competition” between the two to the district directors Monday. Granville Lingard. the fire normalized relations between the superpowers and “ the situation is world’s two Communist giants changing from confrontation to marshal, said today that the state while outside their meeting hall dialogue.” The United States and fire code requires a water supply tens of thousands of people China normalized relations in once a project as large as the mall reaches a certain stage of com­ chanted for democratic reform. 1979. Outside in Tiananmen Square, pletion. He said that stage would “ We can take this opportunity to publicly announce the normali­ tens of thousands of students, be reached soon. zation of Sino-Soviet relations” teachers, journalists, workers Lingard would not speculate on after 30 years, Deng said to and onlookers reminded the lead­ what would happen if the water applause from Soviet and Chinese ers of momentous change of supply were not put in by the time participants in the meeting. another sort. that stage was reached. Asked The 84-year-old senior Chinese The students, who consider whether work could be halted, he leader welcomed Gorbachev in Gorbachev a hero for the political said, "It’s a big project. That’s the red-carpeted Eastern Hail of reforms he has championed at hard to say. We might even have the Great Hall of the People as home, issued appeals for him to to have a fire there before we’d do "com rade” but did not give him take up their cause for demo­ that.” the bear hug he reserves for close cratic reforms with China’s He said that a water supply friends and allies. leaders. could be put into place in a week’s In the opening minutes of their Their three-day occupation of time. He said that there had 2'/4-hour meeting, he told the the square, China’s symbolic already been a couple of minor 58-year-old Soviet president that center of power, forced officials fires at the site. the world’s “ key political prob­ to move an official welcoming Lingard said that construction lems” have arisen from Soviet- at the mall site has moved from American Cold War tensions. steel and concrete work to See CHINA, page 10 interior work. He said that combustible materials are now being brought to the site. Lingard said he would meet ‘Contract’ workers Wednesday with officials from the mall developer, Homart De­ velopment Co. of Chicago, to ducking some taxes discuss the water supply. Charles J. Gleisner, senior Patrick Flynn/Mancheeler Herald contruction manager at the mall By Jim Luther are not complying with require­ construction company, was injured on site, could not be reached for The Associated Press ments that they file reports with CO NSTRUCTIO N ACCIDENT — Fire­ comment this morning. the IRS on payments made to fighters from the Eighth Utilities District Buckland Street at about 8:30 a.m. when So far, part of a pipe for the WASHINGTON - The U.S. individual contractors. Even prepare Ruth Zajack, 29, of West a truck apparently ran over one of her temporary water system has Treasury is losing billions of when auditing business tax re­ been installed along the north Hartford, for transport to Hartford legs. She was listed in stable condition dollars because employers — turns, the report said, the IRS is access road to the mall, Lingard Hospital this morning. Zajack, a con­ with a fractured leg, a hospital spokes­ including the government itself — not identifying businesses that said. fail to withhold taxes from the fail to file such reports. struction worker with a New Britain woman said. In case of fire, water would be paychecks of workers who are “ The importance of employers pumped by a fire truck from a erroneously designated as “ inde­ filing required information re­ hydrant on Buckland Street to pendent contractors,” the Gen­ turns on payments made to another hydrant at the access eral Accounting Office said independent contractors cannot road, which would supply water today. be overemphasized,” Posner Bolton OKs $8.2 million plan to the pipe leading to the mall. G A O placed a good share of the said. “ IRS officials estimate that Lingard said. blame on Congress, which, in an billions in taxes are lost because Lingard said he didn’t think 1 reduce the school budget by But School Superintendent R i­ effort 10 years ago to curtail the independent contractors do not By Andrew J. Davis either of those hydrants had been Internal Revenue Service, made report all income.” Manchester Herald $50,000. chard E. Packman defended the installed yet. it more difficult to crack down on Posner told the subcommittee The tax rate for the 1989-90 surplus, saying the amount may He said a pumper truck would employers who violate the with­ on consumer affairs that in 1984 BOLTON — Residents over­ fiscal year will increase from 42.5 change by the end of the year He be needed to bring water from the holding provisions. alone, the IRS estimated it lost whelmingly approved an $8.2 mills to 47.2 mills, a 4.7-mill estimated the surplus at $44,000 hydrant on Buckland Street to the Paul L. Posner, a GAO asso­ $1.6 billion because about one of million budget Monday in a vote increase. That means a tax Monday night. one at the access road because ciate director, said in testimony every seven employers mlslden- which school officials said increase of $235 a year for a Packman said after the meet­ Buckland Street is in the low prepared for a House Govern­ tified employees as independent showed strong support for taxpayer with a house valued at ing that he was "worried” during elevation zone and the mall is in ment Operations subcommittee contractors. education. $50,000. town officials have said. the meeting that the school the middle elevation zone. that the failure of workers Independent contractors are By a 115-39 vote, the $5,197,520 Efforts to reduce the budget budget would be reduced.