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2V THE HARTFORD COURANT ft 1st ED, OLD SAYBROOK CROMWELL PORTLAND EAST HAMPTON GROTON NEW LONDON TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1982 B5 Kitten Corners 'TL'Care w. "MS ft MB IT it 1 0 By CLAUDIA VAN NES Courant Correspondent ESSEX It could have been worse. The tiny, wiggly bundle left at Town Hall Monday could have been an infant instead of a kitten. Nevertheless, the 2-week-old, little ball of black fur, blinking at a crowd of Town Hall employees Monday morning, presented a decided problem. Employees said a young man, who didn't leave his found the kitten in the middle of Route 153 Monday morning and brought it, cupped in his hand, to Town Hall.

"He asked if we had a lost and found department," Assistant Town Clerk Florence Dutka recalled. However, learning that there was no such department didn't stop the good Samaritan from dropping off his find and making a fast departure. A call to Assistant Dog Warden Eileen Savage brought Savage, carrying a little plastic box and a blue baby blanket, to Town Hall. The kitten snuggled in the blanket inside the box, and looked cute and helpless enough to temporarily suspend work while employees gathered around to cluck their concern. The Town Hall workers uniformly seemed to be an animal-loving group.

They all said they would take the kitten, but for the menagarie of dogs, cats and assorted other pets already scampering about their homes. Savage said the dog wardens only care for stray dogs and have nb facilities for cats, especially ones that must be fed with baby doll bottles and special formula. Savage did agree to care for the abandoned animal while she fetched the necessary feeding apparatus: She also promised to promptly return with her bundle, because she has three dogs and a cat at home and couldn't possible add to "the zoo." This got the best of Judy Rivers, the assessor's clerk, on whose counter the kitten temporarily had been placed. She told her co-workers, "Now I absolutely can't keep him, but I'll take care of him until an owner is found. Just overnight.

That's all." 4VI I SITTING PRETTY A bird in the bush at Hartford's Bushnell Park. Middletown Panel Approves 499-Foot TV Tower (7 COURANT PHOTO BY MICHAEL McANDREWS Television Corporation of Hartford maintains the partnership is structured in such a way that TE-LACU's Hispanic stockholders and a black businessman from the Virginia group hold 52 percent of the stock, thus qualifying as a minority firm for a distress sale. Leinwand said that under the city's zoning code, a special exception for a non-conforming use is only good for one year. The zoning commission had eliminated such towers from the zoning code effective Feb. 28, but the application from Television Corporation of Hartford was submitted Jan.

20. The board also granted emission for a small storage uilding that would house transmission equipment. property values in surrounding neighborhoods. The Television Corporation of Hartford would use the tower to broadcast Channel 18 and The Middletown Press Publishing Co. plans to use the tower to broadcast on Channel 6.

Zoning commission Chairman Steven Leinwand said Monday that the board "believes there is a whole host of positive reasons for the tower and few negative reasons." He added that the main advantage is that it will provide Middletown area residents with two more local channels. It took commission members 10 minutes to grant the approval. However, the local hurdle was the smallest the corporation had to clear. NBU. minority firm at a "distress price" of no more than 75 percent of market value.

Faith Center, an interdenominational Christian church based in Glendale, also owns several television and radio stations in California and has been under investigation for alleged improper on-air Television Corporation of Hartford is a partnership between a Virginia firm known as The Television Corporation Stations, composed of Virginia Lt. Gov. Richard J. Davis, former U.S. Rep.

Thomas N. Downing of Virginia and a group of businessmen, and TELACU Industries a subsidiary of an East Los Angeles anti-poverty agency. MELAME GRIMES PHOTO would rise to a height of 84 feet above the ground. It would be the fourth steeple for the venerable church, which lost three wooden ones to harsh New England weather, said St. Onge.

An aluminum steeple would be more durable and, at 3,000 pounds, would be 4,000 pounds lighter than a wooden spire, he added. For the past 25 years, only a modest cupola has topped the building. "With a good deal of Christian hope," the new steeple will be in place by Thanksgiving, St Onge said. I Landfill To Close 3 Days Per Week 5 1 In mid-April, the Federal Communications Commission temporarily withdrew its permission for the Television Corporation of Hartford to purchase WHCT-TV in Hartford, pending a review of allegations concerning the firm's financial structure. Last December, the FCC granted the application of Faith Center the current owner of WHCT-TV, Channel 18, to sell the station to Television Corporation of Hartford under the commission's distress-sale policy.

An order granting final approval of the transfer was issued March 15. The distress-sale policy allows a broadcaster who is facing an FCC probe that could lead to loss of his license, to avoid the investigation by-selling his station to a Christ the King Church in Old Lyme. mocracy, and Greece was the home of the first democracy, he said. The steeple will most likely be prefabricated of aluminum and then shipped here from Kentucky on a flat-bed truck. Before it can installed, the church also must obtain approval from the Zoning Board of Appeals, the Building Commission of the Catholic Diocese of Norwich and the bishop of the diocese, said the Rev.

Theodore St Onge. Local zoning regulations limit the height of the building to 35 feet and the proposed steeple I 'ni By ODETTE BENTLEY Courant Staff Writer ByTAOWOOLFE Courant Correspondent MIDDLETOWN The Planning and Zoning Commission, in a controversial move, has decided a Virginia-based corporation can build a 499-foot television tower off Bartholomew Road. The issue may be moot, however, because the corporation is tied up in litigation that could forestall the move indefinitely. The zoning commission late last week approved the special exception requested by the Television Corporation of Hartford, despite objections from residents at two public hearings on the matter. Residents claimed the broadcast tower might emit low levels of radiation and could reduce Old Lyme To Allow Steeple By MARILYN WILKER Courant Correspondent OLD LYME The Historic District Commission gave its blessing Monday to a new steeple for the 138-year-old Christ the King Church, but only after absolving itself of any responsibility for the historical appropriateness of the proposed spire.

Commission Vice Chairman George Tatum said the proposed steeple was "an extremely tasteful modern design," but was concerned that a Georgian steeple was being proposed for a classical Greek Revival building. "There's not a Greek detail in the whole shebang," he said. In granting the Catholic church a "certificate of appropriateness" for the steeple, the commission included in its minutes a statement that "the spire is neither Greek Revival or historically consonant for the building." "A whole lot of water passed over the dam between Sir Christopher Wren and 1830," Tatum said. Historically, there should be no tower on a Greek Revival building. People will look at the church and say that is an addition.

"There are two approaches a restoration uv keeping with; the style of the building or the other extreme, to simply throw out history and do something attractive. Personally, I wouldn't object to a modern house, a good modern (in the historic district). I would object to a fake Georgian design in the 20th century," Tatum said. Commission member Mary Lohmann, who abstained from voting on the matter, said, "It's a handsome, elegant top to something so simple. The church is a tofe -jj COLCHESTER The Board of Selectmen has decided to close the town landfill three days a week.

Until now, residents have had daily access to the dumping site. A schedule for the landfill has not been determined. First Selectwoman Helen Gay said the board made the decision last week' even though it expects widespread discontent with the new system. "It's going to be a very unpopular move with a lot of people, and I understand. But we can't maintain the dump properly if it's open all the time," Gay said.

She recalled the uproar of a few years ago when selectmen decided to end unlimited access to the landfill. Daily hours were established and remain in effect: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day except Friday, when the dump stays open until 6 p.m., and Sunday, when it is open until 1 p.m. Some residents complained that they were unable to get to the landfill during those hours.

Some dumped their garbage in front of the gate when they found it closed. It took a few months be-, fore resistance subsided. But the landfill operation falls far below state standards and has been cited for numerous violations by the state Department of Environmental Protection, Gay said. In late March, Gay appointed Robert Washburn, a Board of Finance member, to review the landfill problems and to make recommendations. Washburn had complained that landfill conditions create a health hazard.

Washburn convinced the finance board to increase the landfill maintenance allocation proposed for fiscal 1983 from $40,000 to $58,000. At the same time, he recommended opening the land- fill only Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday he said. The extra money will be used to hire a part-time watchman who will direct dumping in the landfill, Gay said. Garbage will go in one area, tree stumps and brush in another and paper in a third, she said. The rest of the additional allocation will be used to buy more fill.

Not enough fill is used, creating conditions that attract rodents and are conducive to fly infestations, such as those that plagued the nearby Beechwood area during the past few years, Washburn has said. Washburn also found that unauthorized people from out of town have been using the landfill. He recommended that a sticker system be implemented before July 1, in which only, those who display the stickers would be allowed to use the landfill, Gay Because summer vacationers at lakes in nearby towns often find it easier to dump their refuse in Colchester when they come to town to Washburn and Gay plan to issue temporary stickers' to summer residents for a minimal charge. "We want to encourage them to patronize local merchants," Gay said. The amount of the charge has not been determined, she said.

squatty, solid mass. That's (the steeple) delicate and lovely. It doesn't connect" But architect Roderick Har-tung, who designed the new spire for Christ the King Church, said the steeple. was intended "to reach toward heaven and be high." Hartung, who studied New England churches for more than a year to prepare his design, defended it by explaining that many New England churches were built by carpenters and have their own particular styles. New England church design reflected an excitement about de.