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NORTH CENTRAL EDITION EDITORIALS 3rd ED. SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1984 THE HARTFORD COURANT B1 Paper's Scribe Revealed by Graphologist DICK POLMAN Battle Brewing Over Pricing Beer and Wine Manufacturers Oppose Bill To Control Costs By TOM BAKNES Courant Staff Writer Brewers and vintners are mounting an intensive effort to kill a bill in the state Senate that could force them to lower the prices they charge wholesalers. The issue has pitted wholesalers and retailers against the manufacturers. Both sides claim they have the consumer's best interests at heart. The bill, called "price affirmation," would require brewers to affirm that the prices at which they sell beer to Connecticut -wholesalers are no higher than prices in Connecticut's three neighboring states.

Vintners' prices for wine could be no higher than their prices in any of the other 49 states. Wine wholesalers contend that an affirmation law would benefit wine drinkers by lowering the prices they pay. Vintners strongly dispute the claim, saying the bill is nothing but special interest legislation that will just put more money into the pockets of wholesalers without benefitting consumers. Beer wholesalers, however, have unexpectedly dropped their support for the bill. "We weighed the plusses and the minuses and decided that affirmation was not the best idea for us," said Patrick J.

Sullivan, a beer wholesalers' lobbyist. He would not elaborate. Charles Kasmer, secretary to the state Liquor Control Commission, said there is no assurance the law would help consumers but said that past experience shows some savings are passed on to consumers. "All affirmation guarantees is lower prices for wholesalers," but when an earlier affirmation law was in effect in the state-in 1981, "in many instances these savings were passed on to retailers and then on to consumers," he said. The bill has been pending for weeks on the Senate calendar awaiting action as lobbyists for both sides buttonhole senators.

It may be voted on next week. Connecticut has had an affirmation law on alcohol since 1973. Sixteen other states have such a law for wine, Montano said. He said three states, Alabama, New Mexico and Washington, have laws for beer a statement brewers dispute. They say New Mexico is the only state with affirmation on beer prices.

See Battle, Page B3 N-Freeze Shows Clout in Caucuses Michael Lennahan The Hartford Courant locomotive he is restoring at the Warehouse Point Trolley Museum in East Windsor. It's a tight fit for Bruce Edgerton of Manchester as he descends into the boiler of the 1910 Climax Tania Grande was telling me how she finagled a handwriting sample from dictator Fulgencio Batista. "I was at this hotel in the Dominican Re public, where Batista was after his overthrow by Castro in Cuba. This was 1959, and I thought it'd be exciting to analyze his handwriting, so I went into his suite with a low-necked dress and I was very tanned, and I figured I'd give him a little charm. But his writing turned out to be very indicative of all his materialism and too much sex Tania is persistent, but she has no choice; tie skeptics are everywhere.

Though she's been a Hartford graphologist for 40 years hand out cards in the cocktail lounge of the old Bond too many people think she's some kind of palm-reader. "Dick, dear," she said recently, phoning out of the blue, as readers are wont to do, "please send me your handwriting." I did, but, fearing an analysis pegged to my public persona, I also sent my spouse's scrawl, to test out Tania on a stranger. Tania promptly phoned my wife with details of her relationship with her mother, citing subtleties to which close friends aren't even privy. "Handwriting is body movement," Tania was saying, not long after this incident. "We can lie to a psychiatrist, but handwriting shows what's going on in your head We were in a restaurant not far from her West Hart-ford apartment, my longhand lay on the table, and I was convinced she'd detect a deep-seated lust for women's handbags.

"There are three zones to analyze," she was saying. "The upper zone the top third of your handwriting measures how imaginative, how spiritual you are. The middle zone measures how well you deal with the everyday world. A large part of your handwriting should be concentrated there. And the lower zone where you form loops on your and this measures materialism, sexual impulses, the things that satisfy the self.

"Now, the three zones should be balanced, harmonious. Otherwise, you look for trouble spots. Look at how you write the pronoun she said to me. "See how it's smaller than your signature? That means you're trying to project more confidence than you actually have. And look how big the upper loops are on the and the I your upper zone is way out of proportion to your middle zone.

For you, everyday life isn't as important as your vision and imagination. You still like to dream, is that true, Dick dear?" "Uh, yeah. "Now, look at the pronoun again. See how much space you leave between and the adjoining words? That's a subconscious feeling that you don't want people to get to close to you, that you're holding back. You're playing a public role, and you're friendly in it, but in your private life, you have a dislike for invasions of privacy.

You're saying, 'Don't am I right, Dick dear?" "Uh, yeah "You're not particularly materialistic, because your lower loops are healthy not like Batista, whose lower loops were ex-travagent. Sex impulses. He probably died from too much sex." "In my salad days, I bet my loops were "Another thing, dear: You can be very impulsive and restless. Look at the speed of your writing the broken letters, the way your to looks like n. You think so fast in some areas that you're impatient with those who don't, and you're riot completely satisfied with what you're doing "Hope my editor doesn't read that." "Seriously, dear, there's healthy spontaneity in your handwriting, but my motherly instinct tells me you should slow down.

You're young, but you live with such speed that emotional tiredness takes its tool, and if you don't slow down, I'm afraid that by the time you're 40, you're going to have hypertension." This stopped me in my tracks. I searched my soul, and vowed to make a fresh start right away. The solution is simple, of course. I plan to change graphologists. Si Art Teacher Takes His Hobby In Rusting, 55-Ton Increments By EDMUND MAHONY Courant Staff Writer Leaders of Connecticut's nuclear freeze movement were calling themselves a force to be reckoned with in state politics Friday after exceeding their goal in the state's Democratic delegate caucuses.

"We're feeling very good. The freeze is part of the political force and-it needs to be represented and I think it is very well represented," said Jessie Stratton, president of Connecticut Freeze Voter, Teens Found Not Addicted To Television By MARK STILLMAN Courant Staff Writer FARMINGTON A survey released Friday shows that public school students here spend less time watching television than educators had expected but they're not filling those hours doing homework. The five-month study, examining how students use their time when out of school, is believed to be. the first of its kind in the state. Local educators will refer to it in deciding such policy questions as whether to lengthen the school day or assign more homework.

Out-of-school time does not seem filled with school-related activities," said Vincent R. Rogers, professor of education at the University of Connecticut, who conducted the study with three research assistants. The Farm-ington school district funded the study. "I was surprised," he said. "I expected that students' schedules would be crammed full, with ballet lessons, dance lessons, and that sort of thing." One Farmington 15-year-old said Friday he spends his spare time cruising Westfarms Mall.

"We all go down there to check See Study, Page B3 the movement's political action committee. Freeze campaign forces captured seven of the 35 delegate slots filled Thursday night. But while freeze leaders were enjoying their newly discovered clout, some state campaign organizers were questioning the movement's loyalty. "The question is political responsibility," a campaign worker, who asked not to be identified, said. Campaign organizers for the two major Democratic presidential candidates conceded that alliances with freeze supporters were crucial to some of their caucus successes Thursday night.

However, they questioned whether the freeze advocates' fervor for their single issue may lead them to abandon their candidates at the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco in July. Leaders of the movement had hoped to fill six delegate seats with staunchly loyal freeze advocates. Instead, they won seven delegate seats and two alternate seats. All told, freeze delegates won seats in five of the state's six congressional districts. In the 5th District, they were narrowly beaten by a delegate slate backed by organizers for Sen.

Gary W. Hart of Colorado. Freeze supporters won two delegate seats for Hart in the 1st District, one in the 2nd, one in the 3rd and one in the 6th. They won a seat in the 3rd District and one in the 6th for former Vice President Walter F. Mondale.

Freeze delegates won alternate seats for Mondale in the 3rd and for Hart in the 6th. "The freeze certainly had an impact," George Jepsen, Monday's state campaign coordinator, said. The doubt nagging Democratic Party workers in the wake of the caucuses is the movement's loyalty to the candidates its delegates were elected to support. Already, some freeze delegates are saying they may abandon See Nuclear, page B6 "My mother came to me in the dream and she told me, 'You beat the angel of death, son. You will live a long That was 1909 when Breitman was serving in the czar's army in his native Russia.

His mother died when he was a boy, but her prophesy has proved true. Breitman celebrates his See Old, Page B3 By LISA STENZA Courant Staff Writer Trains are more than transportation to Bruce Edgerton. He has spent six years tinkering with a 55-ton locomotive that hasn't moved under its own steam since 1946. Edgerton is restoring a rare steam locomotive, one of only 12 of its kind in existence, so the train will look the way it did when it hauled logs out of the Virginia woods in 1912. An investment of six years of often back-breaking labor, and $1,000 of his own money, paid off last month with a $10,000 grant from the state Department of Economic Develop-mentto restore the Climax engine.

Built in 1912 and last used in 1946, the locomotive sat rusting for almost 20 years at the Warehouse Point Trolley Museum in East Windsor since the museum bought it in 1961. "People were calling it a basket case and saying there wasn't much hope for it," Edgerton, 36, recalled. Now, the locomotive, which is about 30 feet long, sits next to a row of trees on a set of old train tracks outside the trolley Once used to haul logs out of the Virginia woods, this 1910 Climax locomotive stood rusting and abandoned on tracks at the Warehouse Point Trolley Museum before Bruce Edgerton began his painstaking restoration six years ago. Michael Lennahan The Harttord courant mainly works alone. He has hired experts to assist him in some of the more difficult work such as replacing major engine parts, but has been able to do much of the restoration himself, calling upon his experience working on Connecticut railroads when he was younger.

As See State, Page B3 square feet of office space and 72,000 square feet for light industry and research. Another Enfield project, the 90-unit Terry Manor apartment complex at Post Office and Raffia roads, is seeking $3.45 million in CHFA bonds, Bjorklund said. The project is being developed by a partnership called Terry Manor Associates. A public hearing on the requests for state bonding help is scheduled Wednesday at 10 a.m. in the authority's office at 40 Cold Spring RoadLin Rocky Hill.

$12 Million Sought for 3 Housing Plans Old Soldier Celebrates 100th With Memory of Czar's Army museum, awaiting Edgerton's weekend visits. Edgerton lives with his wife and young son in Manchester and does the restoration work in his time off from a job as an art teacher for emotionally disturbed children in Middletown. He began the project in 1978 with five friends, who have since left the area. He now Among the proposals is the $30 million rehabilitation of the 19th-century Bigelow-Sanford carpet mill in the Thompsonville section of Enfield. Russell F.

Bjorklund, a mortgage underwriter with the authority, said the authority is considering the awarding of $7 million in bonds to John M. Corcoran and Co. of East Milton, to convert part of the mill into 103 apartments. The plans call for converting the vacant and dilapidated mill into 300 apartments, 90,000 By YOLANDA BARNES Courant Staff Writer The Connecticut Housing Finance Authority has been asked for nearly $12 million in financing for three apartment projects proposed in north-central Connecticut, including one that would involve conversion of a 19th-century Enfield mill. The projects, two in Enfield and one in Ellington, are among 15 proposed rental-housing projects throughout the state that nave sought tax-exempt bonds and notej from the authority.

By CLAUDIA VAN NES Courant Correspondent DEEP RIVER Harry Breitman had a terrifying nightmare when he was a soldier, a nightmare that he has good to' remember today. "In my dream, I was fighting a big, black dog. I beat the dog. The dog beat me. I beat the dog.

The dog beat me. Finally, I beat the dog..