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2nd ED. UtlD, B3 THE HARTFORD COURANT: Wednesday, July 27, 1983 ifii 3rd to. 7 Free Cheese Unlikely To Meet Demand tfirveyl MANCHESTER AVON ROCKY HILL OLD SAYBROOK IasTI TORRINGTON FAIRFIELD HAMOEN EAST LONGMEADOW, '1 PRE-IIIVEIITORY SALE 50-70 OFF on ALL SUMMER MERCHANDISE 1983 BATHING SUITS 50 OFF D.C., advocacy group because of the cutback. The Community for Creative Non-Violence claims the USDA has been allowing stored food to rot and is selling some of the rotted dry milk for animal feed. Since July 4, some coalition members have been protesting the cutbacks by staging a fast in Kansas City, where the federal government stores much of its surplus food.

Among the demonstrators are 12 to 15 hard-core members who say they will not end their fast until more surplus food is released. The fast has supporters in Con-, necticut One of them, Marea De-Pinto, a secretary at the Legal Aid Society of Hartford County, said she fasted for seven days to help bring attention to the issue. DePinto Monday called on concerned residents to pressure federal officials to release more food for Connecticut and other needy states. She said the latest survey of USDA stockpiles shows that about 850 million pounds of cheese are being stored nationwide. "We're going to have people rioting for Food (unless more is distributed), and that's unfortunate," she said.

Petrie said the 18,000 sticks of cheese allocated for Greater Hartford next month include 11,347 for city residents. The second highest allocation is 1,147 sticks that have been set aside for East Hartford. Manchester has been reserved 824 sticks. By VIVIAN B. MARTIN and JACKIE FITZPATRICK Courant Staff Writers Sign-ups for the next round of federal surplus cheese to be distributed in the Hartford area will begin next week and program administrators already are predicting that thousands of people will have to be turned away.

A total of 18,000 five-pound sticks of cheese will be available in mid-August, representing the smallest allocation of surplus food in the area since the giveaway program began in early 1982. Another 18,000 sticks are expected to be available in the region this fall. At least 70,000 people in the 21-town Hartford region are eligible to apply for the cheese. "Once the applications are gone, that's it. We're not going to put extra ones out," said Mary Petrie, an administrator with the Community Renewal Team, which oversees distribution of surplus food in Greater Hartford.

Statewide, a total of 90,000 sticks of cheese will be available for August and another 90,000 in the fall. Program organizers said that will not be nearly enough to meet the demand. An estimated 431,000 households in the state are eligible for the surplus food. The limited supply and requirements that applicants divulge their incomes has angered local distributors in many areas of the state. Several towns, including Lebanon, Columbia, Scotland, Simsbury and East Granby, are dropping out of the program.

"We're just going to get out of the whole thing. We don't want the senior citizens to have to give out their private information," said Lebanon First Selectmen Edward Clark. Lebanon previously was allocated 600 sticks of cheese. The most the town could expect this time around is 84 sticks. Prior to the current round of cheese distribution, municipal officials simply placed an order for cheese and then picked it up from regional warehouses.

Now, however, on orders from the federal government, the state Department of Human Resources is overseeing the distribution program and has enacted income guidelines to make sure that only the most needy people get the available cheese. "If people are willing to stand in line for a lousy stick of cheese, they probably need it," Petrie said. The new distribution system was prompted, in large part, by fraud in cities like New York, where some of the surplus cheese has been sold on the black market to restaurants. "We want to provide the most equitable system possible, so we've set up income guidelines," said Elaine Chase, administrative assistant to state Human Resources Commissioner James G. Harris Jr.

In Connecticut, senior citizens must make less than $8,505 annually and a family of four must earn less than $14,850 to qualify for the program. Advocates for the elderly in the Windham area are petitioning to scrap the state requirement that participants divulge their income and will forward their petitions to U.S. Rep. Samuel Gejdenson, D-2nd District. Officials surveyed in 30 towns, most of them in the northeast and southeastern areas of the state, said they are frustrated by the Human Resources Department's new requirements.

While most of the municipal officials are taking out their frustrations on the state, the real problem is the continued federal cutbacks in the amount of surplus food being released to the states. Since early 1982, about 2.5 million pounds of cheese has been given away in Connecticut. Another 500,000 pounds of other surplus foods, such as butter, have been distributed. Last March, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released about 60 million pounds of surplus cheese nationwide, according to department spokeswoman Susan Acker.

That has been cut to about 25 million to 35 million pounds because of the amount of time and money it takes to process the cheeese and because the cheese giveaway has cut into commercial cheese sales, she said. The USDA has come under sharp criticsm from some congressmen and from a Washington, BACK-TO-SCHOOL SPECIALS OXFORD CLOTH SHIRTS 7" CREW NECK COTTON SWEATERS WOOL BLEND SKIRTS 12" 1 CORDUROY SLACKS '12" CREW NECK WOOL SHETLAND SWEATERS $18" CORDUROY SUITS '44 SAT. 10-6 10-9 INTRODUCTORY SAVINGS! 30 OFF (Ultra Cmi. TNI Jeanne! I fWV "Ll ijnk ETX 1 1 I Wv if II I V' --A 1 I 'S JEANNIE ARCHAMBAULT FBI Joins Search For 10-Year-Old Burlington Girl By DIANNE WISNER Courant Correspondent The FBI joined the search for a 10-year-old Burlington girl after a warrant was issued in Hartford Tuesday for the arrest of the girl's uncle on a kidnapping charge. Senior Special Agent Dick Farley Tuesday confirmed that the FBI has entered the search for Stanley E.

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