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2nd ED 1st ED. B2 THE HARTFORD COURANT: Thundoy, May 8, 1986 City Tax Committee Rejects Estate Offer "2lL ill jm ,1 1 1 fc. iWaafaiaadsai! million in salary and loans; three hospitals; six law firms; the state Revenue Services Department; the IRS; and the municipalities of Bloomfield, Mansfield, Wellington, New Britain, Old Saybrook, South Windsor and Windsor. As debts mount, Mlynarski said, "We're kind of at the bottom of the hill with the avalanche coming down." McGuigan said Marshall had mortgaged one property she had acquired from the estate for $350,000 and planned to use that money to pay the principal on the tax bill. McGuigan said if every creditor demands full payment, the estate will be in Probate Court for years.

"The estate, for all practical purposes, is being consumed by fees and costs, with no real income," he said. Saundra A. Kee, special counsel for the city, has instituted foreclosure proceedings against all four Hartford properties involved in the delinquency. They are 888-900 Wethersfield 672 Blue Hills 510-544 Ledyard St. and 902-910 Wethersfield Ave.

Marshall obtained ownership of the latter property from the estate as of 1982, but the others are owned by the estate. Kee said that, if the tax delinquency is not settled, the city will foreclose and sell the properties, collecting its debts from the proceeds. She said 672 Blue Hills Ave. is scheduled to be sold June 7, with dates for the other sales yet to be set. A city appraiser valued the four properties at $953,000 in March 1985, Kee said.

Mlynarski said foreclosure might get the city more money than the $304,000 offered Wednesday, but it could take years if Marshall or other claimants against the estate contest the city's action in court. McGuigan said if the estate administrator can obtain promises from other creditors to accept partial payment, Marshall may renew her tax abatement application. Continued from Page Bl affect City Council deliberations on the 1986-87 city budget." Catherine S. Boone, the city's revenue manager, attended the session to learn if she should raise her revenue estimates for the next fiscal year and help the council avoid a property tax increase. Mlynarski, Marshall and her attorney, former Chief State's Attorney Austin J.

McGuigan, said the city tax abatement was needed to start the process of unsnarling the Miller estate from a web of claims and litigation that began in 1979. The committee was told other creditors also would be asked to make similar concessions, with the aim of settling all outstanding claims by June 30. "If you people work with me," Marshall told the committee, "I guarantee you a fat check within 24 hours. Other people have been eating the estate up when you should have gotten paid." The $2 million estate, consisting of real estate in eight communities, has become "one of the biggest messes I've ever had the misfortune to be involved in," Mlynarski said. Miller, who died in 1982 after a long illness, had been investing in city real estate since 1918, at one time ranking among the city's biggest individual taxpayers.

The Hartford Probate Court got involved as a result of a family quarrel in 1979, when Jay Miller, Marshall's brother, asked that a conservator be appointed for his father, who had been incapacitated by a stroke. Marshall unsuccessfully contested the petition, and the estate has been embroiled in litigation ever since. At one time, Mlynarski said, there were 21 active lawsuits involving the estate. Seven still are pending. Besides the city, the creditors of the estate include Marshall, who says her father owed her about $1.2 Stephen Dunn The Hartford Courant waiting to scare riders when the park opens under new management July 4 for its 140th consecutive year.

Workers continue to touch up the carrousel building at Hershey Lake Compounce, right. At left, the new roller coaster is ready and Amusement Park Prepares for Its 140th Year fixtures, huge strings of colored lights with wiring that looks as if it came with the building. Looking at the ancient wiring, someone said, it is a wonder that the building did not burn down years ago. The Gillette miniature railroad, originally built by the actor, William Gillette, for his castle on the Connecticut River, once again will chug around the lake as it has for years. Some people might bemoan the fact that when the park reopens, it will be a blend of the old and the new.

The alternative, though, was the fate that befell two of Connecticut's better-known amusement parks. Savin Rock in New Haven and Pleasure Beach in Bridgeport also got old and tired. Now they are just memories. But the park by the lake has a nostaglia that has amazed the people from Pennsylvania who now are in charge of it. "The response has been overwhelming that the park is coming back," Kelly says.

"Women call up and say that they met their husbands in the park or in the ballroom. One young lady called up and said she met her boyfriend on the carrousel and she wants to know if she can be married on it now. We're still thinking about this." There is one feature that people who remember Compounce from another time will recognize when the park reopens the roller coaster. There it is, the ancient wooden Wildcat with its one big dip. It hasn't changed at all, except that, strangely, it looks brand new.

Actually it is. The old roller coaster was replaced, piece by piece, from a blueprint of the original Wildcat. In its way, it really represents the old-new Compounce amusement park. Continued from Page Bl The grand reopening for the park's 140th season originally was planned for Memorial Day, but it has been moved back to July 4. Right now, a visitor might doubt the park will be ready even by July 4, 1987.

Some buildings and new rides are in early stages of construction, and the bulldozers are still pushing dirt around like mad. But, says Rebecca Kelly, the big opening will be July 4 this year, positively, absolutely and that's it, even though the date is less than two months away. -Kelly is director of marketing and entertainment at Compounce. She says Hershey's involvement started in 1983 when a company official in Hershey, heard the Nortons might sell their venerable amusement park. She and six other officials of the Hershey Entertainment Resort Co.

came to Connecticut to look over the old park. "We took a field trip," Kelly says with a laugh. It was a cold, gloomy day in February, but there was a feel about the park, its architecture and its setting on the lake, she says. "It just denoted history and tradition," she says. "It would have been a shame to let it die." How much of the history and tradition will be retained after the infusion of $22 million into the park? A great deal of it, Kelly says.

There will be many new rides, she says, including a water flume cut into a hill near where the parking lot used to be. And the old parking lot itself will be occupied by new attractions such as an antique car ride and something called a "wave swinger." The Hershey people are in the business of making money, and they wanted something new to pull people into the park. But the old buildings that generations of VI 1 'j 11 mm Bloomfield Police Plan To Patch Up Uniforms Continued from Page Bl but we don't want to hurt certain feelings of certain people because they went through too much" during the Holocaust. A member of Lazowski's congregation is drawing up several alternative eagles for the Police Department to consider. Workers wear this optimistic message on their shirts: We will make July 4th.

people knew, and sometimes loved, still will be there by the lake the arcade with its cupola on top, the ancient carrousel with its magnificent flying horses, the huge Victorian ballroom that once echoed to the music of the Dorsey brothers and a young Frank Sinatra. Now they are prettier and safer than ever. In the ballroom, among the debris still not hawled away is a great pile of old lighting Because of the problem with the patches, the new uniforms, costing $24,000, will not debut until July, Stenhouse said. The patch now worn by officers is oval and depicts the town's seal in blue and gold. The redesigned patches have not yet been removed from the uniforms, but they will be when a new insignia is available, Magno said.

Bob Mazzola, owner of Roman Art Embroidery, said any similarity to the eagle on Nazi uniforms was unintentional. Embroiderers at the company regularly work from designs submitted by clients to create a patch, Mazzola said. Because the process has its limitations, minor changes may be made "to enhance the readability of the lettering," he said. None of the Police Department's Jewish officers found the new patch to be offensive, Magno said. One member of the department, police agent Thomas Beatty, said he was opposed to the new patches for another reason.

"We work so often with Hartford police, who also wear a square patch, that people might mistake us for Hartford officers on the scene," Beatty said. That would only be a problem "if people can't read," Magno said, because the town's name is prominently displayed on both the old and new patches. ii Before we could move his treasure, Courant readers own homes. The Sunday Courant reaches 84 of Hartford Market homeowners. Source: 1985 Hartford Market Study by Urban and Associates fijt ffonftmt we had to dig it up.

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