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2nd ED. 0- 40 THE HARTFORD COURANT: Thursday, July 19, 1S79 From Democratic Party Residents Agree on Replacing Bridge, But Question Cost, Road Realignment May Seek Mayoralty Litchfield Torrington major action." While it is a "good habitat, it isn't unique," Jones Richard Grinvalski, a North Shore Road resident, said he thinks that straightening the curves and improving the bridge will increase traffic on the road, now estimated at 300 cars a day. Dr. Moses Lieberman, Conservation Commission chairman, asked the engineers if it would be possible to replace the bridge in its present location without realigning the roads. "I like the road and I like the bridge.

It is attractive. Yours looks like the Taconic state roadway," he said. The engineer and a state official said they doubted whether the federal government would find the project if the hazardous curve weren't straightened. Funding for the project temporarily has been held up, but town officials hope money will be released later this summer. Jones said he hopes to begin construction early in the fall and complete the project within 140 work days.

straighten a dangerous curve in the North Shore Road. Cost for the bridge was estimated in the annual 1979-80 budget at $255,000, of which 75 percent will be reimbursed by a federal road program. Harry Jones of Keyes said Tuesday that the project cost now is estimated at $234,000, plus 120 days of work on the job by the Litchfield road crew. If that work also was contracted Jones said, it would raise the total cost of the bridge to an estimated $272,000. Questions were raised at the hearing about whether the engineers and the town needed to apply to the state Department of Environmental Protection and to the U.S.

Army Corp of Engineers for permits and whether an environmental impact statement would be filed. Technical questions about the permits will be answered in writing, the engineers said. An environmental statement about the area has been drawn up, Jones said, which lists the proposed construction "a non- By PATRICIA BAILEY LITCHFIELD Local and area residents unanimously agreed Tuesday night that the North Shore Bridge needs replacing but questioned the need for realigning the approachway and spending $200,000 for the replacement. Most of the 10 to 15 persons who attended a public meeting scheduled by the Board of Selectmen Tuesday recommended replacing the bridge. Bantam Fire Department Chief Robert Edwards said his new fire equipment is too heavy to cross the bridge, with its five-ton maximum load, and First Selectman Theodore Litwin said town trucks and school buses also can't cross the bridge.

Under the proposal, a new pre-stressed concrete bridge would replace the iron bridge built about 50 years ago. Keyes Associates of Wethersfield has prepared a design for the new bridge and a plan to North 7 Canaan Salisbury 7NorWk I Canaan rrnil Cornwall Torrington Warren Kent i Morris 2 More By JOHN PALLATTO TORRINGTON Two additional Democrats may be in the running for the 'mayoral nomination by the Ctime of the Democratic town convention Aug. 1. i Informed sources said jj Wednesday that some Demo-icrats want to nominate for- mer City Councilman Frank Czapor for mayor at the contention. Sources also say that for-t mer state Rep.

Addo Bonetti is considering entering a pri-'mary to run for mayor de- spite heavy opposition from labor. Czapor said Wednesday he i wasn't aware of any move to draft him for mayor and currently he plans to run only for City Council. 5 Bonetti couldn't be preached for comment Wednesday, but Town Chairman 'Michael Merati said that Bonetti had told him he still -was considering entering the mayoral race. Czapor didn't run for re-election in 1977 because he took a job with the state Insurance Commission and regulations at that time prevented an elected 'public official from holding and local labor leader Leo Senese. Republican Mayor Hodges V.

R. Waldron has scheduled a press conference Tuesday at 10 a.m. to formally announce his candidacy for reelection. Local Republicans have said Waldron told a Republican Town Committee meeting four weeks ago that he intends to seek re-election. For the first time in 10 years, former Democratic Mayor Frederick P.

Daley will be just another delegate at this year's Democratic town con. ontion on Aug. 1. Daley, who served four consecutive terms as mayor from 1969 to 1977 before being defeated by Hodges V. R.

Waldron, can only choose which of the Democrats he will support. When asked his preference, Daley responded by keeping his thoughts to himself. "I'm staying on the fence, waiting to see which way the ball bounces," Daley said. There may be three announced Democratic candidates now, but "I wouldn't be surprised" if more show up by convention night." For Fiscal Year Panel Seeking Bill Bonetti was preparing to announce his candidacy in the 1977 election but backed out at the last minute. The announced candidates are Paul Driscoll, president of the Driscoll Mortuary, City Councilman and local teacher Michael Conway and Board of Education member a job on a state regulatory agency.

The law has since been changed. Bonetti faces opposition from local labor leaders, especially UAW Local 1645 President Angelo Franculli, because they view Bonetti's voting record in the legislature to be anti-labor. Litchfield Hills Agencg's Solvencg Been Not Dependent on Towns' Dues $2,200 in bills for payment, which were encumbered in the last month of the fiscal year and for which she already has issued purchase orders. The Board of Selectmen last week refused to recommend payment for the bills, saying the bills were presented three days before the close of the fiscal year. First Selectman Theodore Litwin said Mrs.

Laper should have informed them of the bills' earlier, that they all were for easily foreseen expenses. Mrs. Laper said she has learned from a Board of Finance member that the Board of Selectmen, without commission authorization, can't transfer money from the commission budget before the end of the fiscal year. She said that the field Hills Regional Planning Litchfield By PATRICIA BAILEY LITCHFIELD The Planning and Zoning Commission is appealing directly to the Board of Finance for payment of $2,200 in 1978-79 fiscal year bills out of the 1978-79 budget, after the Board of Selectmen rejected the request last week. The commission also will ask that part of its budget surplus be applied to pay its full 1978-79 assessment to the Litchfield Hills Regional Planning Agency, not the partial payment allowed by selectmen.

The commission anticipates a $9,000 surplus. Chairman Catherine Laper received the Planning and Zoning Commission's endorsement Monday to present to the Board of Finance Revenue Sharing tensive programs paid by the federal Comprehensive Employment and Training Act. The first audit performed by a private accountant hired by the agency proved inconclusive, while the OPM was unable to complete its audit. Despite what Smith admits as the agency's past uncertain financial stability, he refused to accept the concerns of member towns' leaders as legitimate. "It's their agency.

I don't think it is a factor that the agency is in the throes of reorganization. I would think they would want to support it," Smith said. The agency's financial future has remained in doubt since OPM took over managing the agency when iter-im director Charles Tighe, who worked without pay, left in March. Several member towns held back paying last year's dues after an in-house investigation uncovered inadequate accounting procedures and ineffective agency management. Despite efforts from the board and staff, the agency has yet to regain the support of many member towns not attending board meetings.

New Hartford First Selectman Robert H. LaGoy said his town's payment of the dues represent a vote of confidence for the agency, but he disagreed that any non-payment indicated lack of confidence in town representatives. By WAYNE J. HEILMAN i TORRINGTON The Litchfield Regional Planning Agency could 'survive financially without the 13,000 it has asked its 11 member towns to pay as dues, Paul Smith, who supervises the daily operations of the lagency, said Wednesday. I The agency may lose up to 62 percent of those funds if Torrington, Xitchfield and Harwinton continue to withhold all or part of their annual 'dues because of doubts about the lagency's solvency.

But Smith said the towns' reluctance to pay "indicates a lack of confidence in their representatives and not in the agency's stability. Smith, a local government specialist for the state Office of Policy and Management called in by the agency to audit its finances, said the agency's solvency cannot be determined because the audit hasn't even started. Malis and Pont, a Hartford accounting firm, is scheduled to begin Ian audit ordered by the state Department of Labor next month and is unlikely to complete the work before iJanuary 1980, he said. I Smith's comments come two days after the Torrington City Council refused to pay $7,840 to the agency until meets with its three representatives to the agency's Board of Directors. At least two coiincilmen speculated at the meeting that the agency may file for bankruptcy.

Refusal of member towns to pay their dues would "make it more difficult to operate the agency," Smith said, but the agency's survival doesn't depend on local dues and could continue to operate with funds from additional grants or private sources. However, the agency's $347,000 budget, approved by the Board of Directors July 12, doesn't include funds from any private sources. Smith's comments represent a complete reversal of his contention at the July 12 board meeting that the agency's future depended on receiving the dues' payments from member towns. But several board members told him at that meeting the agency would likely only collect dues from half of its members. Smith responded by telling the board it would have to convince the towns the agency was solvent.

Bills for the dues were sent to local towns this week, and only New Hartford has sent its payment to the agency, Smith said. He said other towns' reluctance to pay the dues approved by their representatives to the board of directors indicates a lack of support for the representatives. The audit ordered by the Department of Labor will be the third audit of the agency's finances in a year. It will focus on funding the agency's ex Spending Plan Faces Vote North Canaan NORTH CANAAN Taxpayers will be asked to approve plans to spend $49,033 in federal revenue sharing funds during a town meeting tonight at 8 in the Town Hall annex. Selectmen want to use $41,033 to build roads and begin drainage work in the Green Acres section and to repair a bridge on Sodom Road.

Figures for the project aren't firm yet, but estimates for the bridge work are set at $25,000. The bal Selectmen To Urge State To Resurface Two Roads Police Rtnriv Of Vandalism North Canaan NORTH CANAAN In three separate incidents Wednesday morning, vandals broke into the elementary school, the community pool and a local gift shop, police said. Police learned at 7:15 a.m. that vandals had been rummaging through the nurse's office at the elementary school. Entrance had been gained by breaking the front window of the building.

There weren't any items reported missing, police said. At 10:45 a.m., a Sheffield, man reported the theft of $22 in small bills while he was at the community pool off Pease Street, police said. The theft, reported by James J. Dezieck, apparently was accomplished by breaking through a window of the facility, police said. A third case of vandalism occurred at noon at the Arrivals Gift Shop in Railroad Plaza, where vandals again broke through a window, police said.

Lynn C. Nania of Rt. 44 reported that $47 and two cigarette lighters were stolen, police said. Police said they're investigating the three cases, which so far haven't been connected. Two Groups Plan Carnival Next Week Sharon SHARON The Sharon volunteer fire department -and American Legion Post 126 will conduct a carnival July 26 to 28.

Construction of the addition at the main firehouse has caused the carnival to be moved to the Sharon Center School grounds on Hilltop Road. The festivities will begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday with a parade rain date July 27. This year, the parade route will start on South Main Street, proceeding up Main Street past the reviewing stand at the corner- of Hospital Hill Road, continuing north on Gay Street and south on Hilltop Road to the schoolgrounds. Fifteen fire companies with bands and color guard units are expected to march.

After the parade, the carnival will begin. On the other days the carnival will run from 7 to 11:30 p.m. with additional afternoon hours Saturday beginning at 1. New Hartford Baseball Game The Republican Town Committee officially accepted a challenge from the Democratic Town Committee to play a baseball game, with the losers paying for a keg of beer after the game. "I feel confident we'll win the baseball game and the election," said Clifford Ster-rett, Republican town chairman.

In another matter, the committee earned $601 from its recent tag sale, which Sterrett called the best one since the event began three years ago. Sterrett also announced that Allison Gill will serve as the town committee's New Hartford day chairwoman. Payment Agency's annual $1,600 assessment charge to the town has been put into the commission's budget by selectmen. For that reason, she said, the full amount should be paid, not just the $1,000 that the selectmen have authorized. She said she will recommend that $600 be taken from the commission's surplus funds to pay the full amount.

"It's an assessment. We either belong or we don't, you can't go half way," she said. Mrs. Laper is one of the town's representatives on the planning agency. The commission also is asking under the Freedom of Information Law that each member be notified in writing of the next special Board of Finance meeting so that they can attend.

The finance board doesn't regularly meet in July and August. payer approval to spend to pay a clerical worker in their office. Selectmen contend the increased amount of paperwork requires an assistant for their secretary. A plan to extend drinking hours at local bars and restaurants from 9 to 11 p.m. also will be voted on.

Voters also will be asked to decide whether they want to join the Housatonic River Commission. A plan to replace the currently elected Board of Assessors with a full-time appointed assessor alwo will be discussed at the meeting. Numbering Lots will be numbered per 50-foot frontage. Numbers will begin at the origin of the road from a primary road. State roads would be listed first, town roads second and private roads third.

The rotary where Rts. 4 and 63 intersect will serve as a focal point. Any roads on the town line will have continuous numbers from the bordering town. The commission will ask the Woodridge Lake Property Owners' Association to divide Hyderdale Drive, the road encircling the lake, into sections, such as east, west, north, and south. Otherwise, Grusauskas said it would be too difficult to find the houses.

This would have to be approved at a town meeting. State roads would be named with route numbers and not by local town names. the current situation is a new problem, he said. Innkeeper Nicholas Beni has hired an engineer to determine the cause of the latest problem. A local contractor has performed past repairs, Pinkham said.

Truffles Decline Production of truffles, the gourmets' wildly expensive delight, declined in France from 2,000 tons at the turn of the century to 25 tons a year at last report. But hope is in sight: a technique for growing themjta nurseries. Timetable Set for House Funds ance of the money would be used to start the road and drainage work on Park Avenue and Green Street Extension. Finance board members have endorsed the Board of Selectmen's proposals for the revenue sharing funds. Selectmen also want to set aside $2,000 for an emergency fuel account.

Selectmen say the money would be used for persons unable to pay heating fuel bills. Voters also will hear a recommendation from the Board of Finance to give to the North Canaan Historical Committee. Selectmen also want tax The town will pay Tagan $5,280 for the work, and Town Counsel Charles Rora-back is drawing up a contract. Tagan's bid includes preparation of a set of property information cards containing the name of street, number of structure, distance in feet from intersections, a town map reference number, type and class of structure, and name and address of owner. The back of the card would be reserved for information needed by the Fire Department, such as whether handicapped persons or children live in the building.

The set of cards will be kept in Town Hall. Additional sets may be copied for the Fire Department, tax assessors and building inspector, Peter Grusauskas, Planning Commission chairman, said. Heart of Mary Church. The letter was in response to a suggestion made by attorney John J. Gerardo and resident state trooper Victor Zordan to erect such a guardrail.

Rice questioned the efficiency and necessity of a two-row guardrail. He said the suggestions were good, but suggested guardrails wouldn't be pleasing to look at. Rice said he couldn't recommend putting up such a guardrail if the town didn't want one. Shanley said there is more of a possibility of injury with a guardrail and he doesn't know of any serious accidents there so far. In other correspondence, the Capital Equipment Committee voted to have select Man Arrested After Chase At High Speed TORRINGTON A local man was arrested on several charges after a high-speed chase through the east side of the city Tuesday night, po-, lice said.

Steven J. Lardi, 20, of 289 Fairlawn Drive was charged first-degree criminal attempt to commit assault, first-degree reckless endan-germent, assault of a police officer and resisting arrest in connection with the incident, police said. Lardi allegedly led police in a chase on Rt. 4 and many side streets. He drove his car in what police described as 'an extremely reckless manner and allegedly forced many vehicles off the road.

Lardi was released on a written promise to appear in Torrington Superior Court Friday. Christ Church Auction On Saturday Canaan i I CANAAN Christ Church on Saturday will hold an auction featuring items ranging form a sofa bed and old cup iboards to original cartoons pnd wood carvings. The auction, to be held at Jthe intersection of Rts. 44 Jand 7, will start at 11 a.m., with previews at 9 a.m. Lunch, including meatball Sandwiches, hot dogs, brownies, popcorn and soda will be erved.

I' Auctioneer will be men purchase a grease gun-for the town garage to replace an old one. Shanley proposed acquiring "the equipment as proposed to us by Gibson Industrials for a grease gun at the cost of $437.31." Also, truck specifications for a sand hopper and four-wheel-drive vehicle for selectmen were formally adopted. The specifications will be sent out to prospective bidders. Also, Shanley said sewer data will be studied in detail at the selectmen's meeting Tuesday. Robert Norwood and Richard Barlow of the Department of Environmental Protection's water compliance unit will discuss and answer questions concerning the town ideas on sewers.

Blair Childs, who asked for a motion to enter executive session at about 7:50 p.m., and Hryniewicz, who said the public shouldn't be asked to leave the meeting. About nine members of the public voluntarily left the meeting after the commission voted to enter executive session, but Hyrniewicz remained. Building Inspector Robert A. Johnson left the meeting and went to the Police Department to get an officer. Minutes later, officer Walter Skowron arrived at the meeting and asked Hryniewicz to leave the premises.

After an argument, Skowron escorted Hryniewicz from the meeting. 4 Harwinton Bv LINDA R. SPARKS HARWINTON The Board of Selectmen has voted to pressure the Department of Transportation for a higher priority rating for resurfacing Rts. 4 and 222 (Hill Road). A letter from the DOT stated there aren't enough funds to resurface Rt.

4 and that Rt. 222 would receive a liquid resurfacing only. First Selectman Lloyd T. Shanley Jr. said Tuesday that the last time Rt.

4 was resurfaced was in late 1977. Selectman Henry Camp said Tuesday that approximately 10,000 cars per year travel Rt. 4. Camp suggested that Shanley contact state Sen. Russel Post, R-Canton, to ensure that further consider a-.

tion be given the projects. Shanley read a letter from James J. Rice of the Department of Transportation concerning placing of a metal beam railing along Rt. 118 in front of the Immaculate Study Shows Pigs Don't Overeat Unlike dogs, horses or men, pigs will not overeat, even with an unlimited supply of food available. In one experiment, 243 kinds of vegetables were placed before pigs and they refused 171 of them, showing they are also selective in what they eat.

Thus eating like a pig isn't what people think. Argument Follows Closing of Meeting Goshen GOSHEN Building inspector Maxwell Tagan told the Planning Commission Tuesday that he could complete a townwide house numbering system within four months of signing a contract for the job. Area Students To Participate In Exhibits District 1 FALLS VILLAGE Performances and exhibits will be staged July 27 at 10:30 a.m. by students enrolled in summer school courses at Housatonic Valley Regional High School. About 130 students from the six-town school district, plus 23 driver education students, are enrolled in the three-week program, according to director John Ma-honey.

The summer school program was opened to Grade 6 students as well as Grade 7 and 8 students this year and 23 sixth graders are participating, Mahoney said. In addition )p the core program of practical arts courses, popular courses are offered including an acting workshop, introduction to French, gymnastics, photography and a sports clinic. Classes meet weekdays in two sessions from 8 a.m. to 12:15 m. Inn Fixing Sewage Problem Suffteld By JOANNE BALL SUFFIELD Police were called Wednesday to eject a West Suffield man from a Zoning and Planning Commission meeting after the board went into executive session to discuss a personnel matter.

Paul Hryniewicz of 3999 Mountain Road refused to leave the meeting Wednesday, saying he had a right, as a resident of the town, to hear what was going to be said during the executive session. An argument began between commissionhairman Salisbury SALISBURY Corrective steps are being taken to eliminate a possible sewage problem at a local inn, Sanitarian Joseph T. Pinkham said Wednesday. A complaint of a sewage smell and "something" leaking onto the ground at the In-terlaken Inn off Rt. 112 has been filed with the Conservation Commission, Pinkham said.

Although the inn has had past septic-systems troubles,.