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rrrrmrrr 'is- CONCORD MONITOR Wednesday April 12 1989 u- i Deal To Buy Eastern Appears Dead that Judge Lifland would appoint a trustee tfhe came to the conclusion that Iww was to a deal being conduded Judge Burton Uflimd who to preridingo the bankruptcy esse ordered the parties to NEW YORK CAP) Peter deal to buy strike-bound Eastern Airlines "didn't go its president said today There was no hdtestkm whether the deal had collapsed or merely been stalled Dow Jones News Service quoted Eastern President Phil Bshcs as swing Die parties planned a news Conference for today to why this deal go There fas no indication when the news would take place that a trustee tske interim control of strikebound Eastern while the eirflne changes hands sources ssid not the former baseball commissioner said as he left Lorenzo refosed to comment The appointment of a trustee to run the sir-line in the next 60 to 90 days white the company is reorganised in bankruptcy was described as on absolute condition of the agreement to a deal with Ueberroth They are adamant that Lorenzo and his management not be allowed to continue to run the airfine Lorenzo and his lawyers have otyected because it would mark their loss of control over Eastern even before ownership of the airline shifted to Ueberroth's group Two union lawyers and a Ueberroth lawyer said that they thought there was a possibility yesterday with no deaL In Miami a federal fudge today found no legal grounds to order Eastern's pilots back to worihudng the airiine another nlow in its attempts to end a crippling strike begun hy the Machinists union March 4 UR District Judge Edward Davis today said he found no evidence the pilots staged an Illegal strike to ferther their own contract aims as Eastern had charged in a request for a back-to-work order Thepilotssaid they were onhr honoring Machinists1 picket lines and a federal appeals court lost month asked Davis to determine whether thst was the case Ueberroth and Frank Lorenzo chairman of Texas Air walked out of the talks at UJL Bank-ruptcy Court test night The stumbling block Askedaboutthe deadline Lifland JWs not my deadline There was an eartter deadline for certain things that I said and it was met He declined to meborste The walkout' in the buyout negotiations came after a session InvolvbiglerensctBahe Ueberroth and hto partner Thomas Wbot It capped a tense day of meetings in which Eastennthroe unions and its creditors atoo took part For the deal to work an the perttes hd to be In agreement "Unless you have an of these constituencies you have a arid Boies "Them is no deal right now" Eastern attorney David Boies said Talks between a Ueberroth-led group and Eastern parent Texas Air Corp had bagged down over key provisions of the proposed $464 million buyout and a self-deadline for agreement expired at Boscawen Proposal Passes First Step CHANNEL 21 Continued From PngeArl "Aa ftr as the planning board to concerned this wn a very first step" said Edwird Brodeur the chairman "(The project) Is long long way from final approval Tbe project proposed TwomblyefEJC Associates in Boaca- wen would include 400 bousing units a golf course with an associated restaurant and lounge tennis dub and lakeside pavilion on the property's manmade take The town's toning allows golf courses hi any port of town Brodeur said But it requires special exceptions for duster housing and the commercial buildings proposed far the aid the pirg board decided that duster housing would be preferable to haring development with "spaghetti Ms7- rows o( housing units with minimum lot sizes and PaiieLDelayS Proposal To Alter Tax u'l i aa minimum road frontage had lot of those in town" he slid "Clustering mikes more sense from a planning potatef Brodeur added thst the board rec- dmmended a special exception for commercial builmngi associated with the recreational fedMtiea be-1 cause going to have a golf course going to have commercial activities with He said the buildings would be open to the development's members only so they wouldn't create new commercial cento or add "undue to feeder afreets As the application process continues the planting board and the ion- ing board will continue to hold hearings on the project The soiling board will hold its bearing tomorrow at 7:30 pjn at the townnalL see If it is constitutional There was little debate on the proposal The business profits tax to an I percent tax paid mostly by targe corporations Ha House pun approved by the Senate and governor Uus session the tax would Jump tot percent for the next two years A similar attempt to broaden the base of the business profits tax died hi the Senate in Februanr A plan by Hemtiher Sen David Currier was criticized as on income tax and killed swiftly Wn MCweenjniat House MMget writers im tha ititu luwk mwr tha funrt hm ay the state needs over the next two years and what they thing the state can afford By some calculations however the budget still doesn't balance and the Appropriations Committee planned to inert today to iron out the details 1989 leveL In 1991 there would bo a 5 percent Increase This Is better deal than any other state agency will gek according to Hager "Wo ao not have to be embarrassed in any way on bow much we're spendng on three programs in the state of New Hampshire This ta on excellent solution to a sticky she said But New Boston Republican Elizabeth Moore one of the original sponsors said more money was needed Moore said she and Bourque had gone to the Appropriations Committee with their hearts in their hands them" he ukL There may be one other cause of the demise Some people suggest that by the time doubts arose sbout the wisdom of destroying it bureaucratic inertia had already doomed it "Ite worked on bridges in this tpwq since 1970" ssid David Riel the lists enajneer sunervirinc the re- piaoeioltiie bridged I knew'' this Job was coming At the time I thoumt It was a very challenging possL 1 never thought about saving the old bridge No one ever mentioned The bridge was not the first on the site IhreeMtaes preceded It The first was a wooden toll bridge thst an entrepreneur built across the river in 1792 it was the first bridge ever built across Die Merrimack in New Hampshire The third was a steel bridge that washed awsy in a flood in 19M Tearing down is man interesting then building up and small knots a people have gathered each day to watch the destruction The machines rosr the pound trembles White dust fills the air Crete heaps myths steel reinforcing rods twisted tike pipe cleaner Other machines load the debris into trucks to be hauled to the city landfill All told there are IJIOO tons of concrete and steel to be hauled away The engineers at the site say no One has complained about the old bridge coming down One old man fold them: saw them build that thing been here around 50 years ITS Sms for ft to go If fike me: Soon bo time for me to For a while at still possible to inspect the old bridge You can walk onto It from the wok enck sway from the notes and dust of demolition The roadway is a steel grid end stanefing on ft you can see the Merrimack rushing Deknr The arch curves high above The bridge to both missive and deficate Four hefts I inches in diameter hold the feet of the arch to concrete pedments on each side of the river The arch actually two arches bound together with cross pieces -ISO feet above the river and 1 444 feet But next to the south span of the new bridge which rests on ruatcol-Ored gram I foot thick the old bridge seems light and airy almost cte0mt The girders are slender the light blue green point gives than color intermediate between the brown-green water and the blue of ftfe iky The bridge combines pnee with faftfaw even the engineers Supervising its destruction admit it is a handsome bridge On tend yesterday few bystanders gathered to wateta the demotition of the concrete approach Some were business men from out of town others retirees with nothing else to do 'I asked one of the retired men if he ifidnt regret the destruction of the old bridge He wee a France-Ameri-cad from the West Side No doubt he had craned the Notre Dime Bridge thousands of times in his life I thought he surely would mourn its passing But he Just grinned "Not a he said Rural Poverty Rate Grew In Cast 10 Years WASHINGTON (API Country people were Just as poor during the economic recovery as they were during the last recession ac- cording to study that found tittle difference between urban and rural pov- my The study Poverty in Rural America: A National Overview said more than one in ate people fai rural America fell below the federal poverty line of 99056 for a family of three in 1987 while the rate was one in eight for residents of metropolitan areas during that year "In feet the rural poverty rate for 1987 the fifth year of an economic recovery-was high as the rate for 1975 the deepest recession year of the said Robert Greenstdn director of the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities while presenting the study yesterday to nearing of the House Select Committee on Children Youth and Families Using data from the US Census Bureau on poverty from 1970 to 1907 the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities found thst the rural poverty rate rose from 115 percent to 111 percent In metropolitan areas during the sms period the rets rose from 114 percent to 125 percent Metropolitan areas comprise one or more cities and their suburbs In the central cities which frequently are associated with poverty trie rate climbed from 114 percent to 110 percent according to the atudy most striking to that the rate of poverty in rural areas to almost as high as in central Greenstein said The rural poor ore more likely to be white because there to a lower proportion of minorities in non metropolitan areas but than two-fifths (441 percent) of nonmetro blacks were poor in 1907 compared to one-third (313 percent) of blacks living in central cities" The only segment of the rural poor that was smaller than ita urban counterpart was children According to the study 231 percent of rural children were poor while 290 percent of the children in the central cities were poor in 1907 But one feature thst distinguished the rural poor from their urban counterparts is thst rural poverty is likely to occur in two-pqpent families where -one or both parents work "Neartv two of every three poor families firing in rural areas contained at least one worker in 1917" the study said quarter had st least two i a the cut as Network Had Doubts From Start By NEAL SHULTZ Monitor Staff Writer When WNHT apptied to CBS for an hut year the network was skeptical enough to drew 19 an unusual contract Instead of the com-pensationpsh! to most of Its member stations WNHT got no money at afi The network took precautions because it feared the competition -not WMUR in Manchester but two nearby CBS thst spill into the Concord market Nevertheless it wss swayed by Thomas Hatley's pledge to bring in new viewers and his pocket-book Flatley a developer from Braintree Mass is worth on estimated $600 to $800 miUon accenting to For-tune Magazine turn a lot of proposals down but we thought he had the wherewithal to weather the financial sold Scott Michels vies president of affltiate relations for CBS New York sounded like he had In tee end the plans got swept way Nine months to the day after fis first news show WNHT Channel 21 became what Mlcheta said was the first CBS affiliate to go black in more thanadecade had a noon newi show a talk show news they were on the right Michels said "But you need a commitment I know if ife three years or five years But I do know Ifs longer than mne months7 Ron Pulera tha general manager of the station said Channel 21 lack resolvd: Rather he said It got atnnded hi a stagnant marketplace that left no room for new commercial news operation to survive wss always ouc intention at the outset to have the very best hews for long time frame But the deciding factor wss thst the market changed We had to take into account current developments rather than past projection "he said Pulera indicated that the Vlatiey Co was lured to New Hampshire tar -the same spectacular spurt of growth that developers to build condominiums Massachusetts people to move and businesses to expand in the mid-1980s Spending mutions to start news program seemed worthwhile faran era when revenue ftem advertising increased 35 percent a year be said Then came a slump that dropped the increase to single ctigfts The math stopped working "Looking down the road we had to sk ourselves could we recoup our investment five years from now And the answer was stm only be breaking even and never make up what we Pulera said Not everyone ascribes WNHTS demise to the fall of the market Sane former employees blame a management team that move mot enough Maryanns Brooks who managed the traffic of programs and com- iEctato tt- tion lost thousands of dollars because Pulera snd his staff wouldn't discount advertising rates to match the competition In one case she said Granite State Auto fought with Pulera to drop the lute for a year's run of Sunday morning ads from $1000 a week to $850 a week When Pulera wouldn't budget the car dealer founds cheaper rate at WNDS Channel 50 in Der- "That was a ridiculously high price for that time slot and ire lost a0 $45000 of Brooks said "That happened all the time" rT -Correction-On Lawn Garden Section Domestic Onion Sets use as early green onion or for lale-season cooking onions (884-891) 1 1) yellow 99- AGWAY So Commercial SL Concord Open Mon-Fddd Set 4 228-8561 i viewing area The federal government forbids dual-ownership or the merging of licenses thst dooeto- Jack Foley the general manager for WNDS described the deal as more of a trade Ftatfry has rival WNDS all of Channel's 21 advertising accounts and customer fists: Iq exchange he will receive a cut of the revenue the Deny station generate! Aram those accounts Foley said "He is not not an owner and will not be an owner of this '1 Foley said the agreement 'aids WNHT by reliering it of ka obligation to sir the ads of advertisers signed to long-term contracts He said it also boosts revenue far the owners of WNDS who tried unsuccessfully to sen the station at auction test month In explaining the deal test week the management of Channel 21 suggested the identity would survive at least in part at Channel 50 which Is part of tile cable television available in Concord Pulera thst the station would taka padMge lPeC on 10 to 12 of the WNHTS employees and air soma Its syndicated shows 1 But than not now Foley sees ft Opportunities at Charnel 50 are afim no said The station has hired the four sales people who handled Channel advertising accounts ndia dtacussing Jobs with "a few other no said But it probably buy lot of new program-rung and haano desire to expand its administrative he said happened is we've absorbed as many employees as we could to help meet the Foley For the remainder of em- pj gofers but hot ones an found appetizing Last week the management circulated a sheet amongthe news stalk secretaries and administrators listing positions available at chain of hotels in New Hampshire and Massachusetts nptinjy wishing dishes and cleaning rooms 1 Chuck Bfitzer to a former Channel 21 reporter who passed 19 a Job with the company to fry his chancre at other television stations "That was a pretty pathetic hesakL Despite fears that the station would also fid abort on termination packages tha Company came through with at least two weeks of severance pay for an employees besides the sales staff and free health Insurance until May IL As or this wed Channel 21S 20000-square-foot headquarters on HSU Street to empty save for reporters cutting audition tapes and skeleton crew of fiveinduding Pulera The station wss 5 years old but La who managed the traffic of programs and commercials for the put ll months There's no telling what viewers may discover the next time they switch on Channel 21 pnvid Zamichow the general manager for WMUR in Manchester Channel 9 said Flatley'i decision to keep his broadcasting license keeps station out to syndicated network possibly religious broadcasting station or a home shoppin network Or be could try again to sell business standpoint trying to hold onto the license for as long as they can so the station bos some value and so no one else can get ahold of it "he said Whatever ha decides to do Flat-fry who poured more than $2 million in the news department alone last year will have to figure out how to dispose of lot of exotic merdumfise Besides a broadcasting license he owns a stato-of-the news set a teie-prompter a number of station vehicles a specialized media computer and a studio ftiD of cameras microphones and other hardware Iso a row of satellite dishes to seO seres of industrial land and the rights to broadcast syndicated programs like H7ieef of Fortune and Jeopordy A SUBJECT MATTER: Street ByLEDA HARTMAN Monitor Staff Writer pedal exceptions for duster BOSCAWEN -The planning board test-night to recommend that 8 Zoning Board of Affjurtment ap- prove housing and commercial buildings at the proposed Lake Forest Country Club development The planning decision Is advisory only and comes at the beginning of an application process that's expected to take months The zoning board which will hold hearing on the project tomorrow night will make the final decision on the special escepttons far duster housing and the commercial buildings Tm planning board must still conduct a site plan review and decide whether the project meets subdivision regulations TAX- Continued From Pnge A-1 Tha aiaaiwHa ta la tha lataat In a The cigarette tax is the latest in a series of tax Increases proposed in the House: Last week House members approved increases la the state's business profits tax and real estate transfer tax both tar wide margins The ctasretto tax was originally considered because of Vermont's plans to raise its own ctasretto taq which is 17 cents per That way New Hampshire could rates Ita tax and still stay competitive Sytcfr said Vermont probably rateo its tax after an but she atm recommended raising New Hampshire's sense of the House to thst mors comfortable with dga- retlea than with rooms and meals regardless of she told tew- If the tax increase approved by the Senate and governor New Hampshire wiU stm have the fewest-priced cigarettes in New England That's because Vermont charges a 4 percent ALCOHOL- Continued Ftom PugeA-1 Committee version that representatives approved and sent on to Appropriations test week would have meant shout $16 mifiioa The Appropriations version approved yesterday by the fell House would mean snout $4464001 Concord Rep Elizabeth Hager rice chairwoman of Appropriations aid her committee had problems with the original bin because it was a "dedicated whoso revenue to earmarked for a specific program rather than the general fond hinds are not good ides even in an important fiekT Uke this one" Hager sail The Appropriations version would Iso set up a study committee to investigate where prevention money to being spent "Wa have to look at how POLICE Continued FTom PngeA-1 those plans If they want They can also trade part of the medcal (rian for benefits sudi as dental can: eye care or day care They con trade sick leave for short-term or long-term disability coverage They can also buy into tne flexible benefits with unused annual leave or deductions from their paychecks good Smith said "Other groups have been pretty enthusiastic about Smith think pay ta an issue "Our people ore paid well in relation to comparable he said The police officers met with the union lost Wednesday night Smith aid and apparently decided to organize then To file petition to certify at least KILLINGS Continued From PngeA-1 Authorities found candles and kettles foil of body parte and animal bones aaid Oran Neck chief VS Customs agent in Brownsville Also found were bowls and a caldron from which brains hearts and other organs of victims were eaten were cooking body parte in big said Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox He said investigators believe the cult had 10 members Felipe Flores spokesman for the Mexican attorney general's office said he knew nothing about reports of cannibalism But he said that during ritual killings brains were out and put on fire mixed with blood herbs rooster's feet heads and turtles The Mexican attorney general's office said the cult's leader a Cubsn-American is believed to have fled into the United States He to known to the sect's mem-ben authorities said Feres said the cult members removed some of the victims' vertebrae uking for help sold please please do what caiLThismsy sound like slot of Uon according to Muvwnne Brooks only its second year in affiliate of the The House Ways sod Means Committee wants to making more people pay the state's tax Chairwoman Dams Syfek told state represents-fives yesterday The committee! Ides is to Unfit the amount of money businesses can claim as salary According to the plan anything over 9100000 would be considered profit and thus taxable Sytek yesterday ted state repre- -seutatives through the paritamentaiy maneuvering necessary to send the plan to the state Supreme Court to ales tax in addition to Its cigarette tax Sytek said some people will resist the increase and some business may be lost to Vermont but the move could sun raise $107 million The purpose of all the tax increases fa to doss $134 million gap I effective these committee urns are" said Robin son of Litchfield "We have to ask: ta our money being wisely Robinson also defended the smaller appropriation "Our concent was thst during testimony on the budget we (fid not near any testimony on the lack of money in alcohol and drug abuse We were not convinced we had to pour in vast amounts of mon-T" Although no one talked about drug and alcohol abuse at the budget hearings the House Regulated ftevemies Committee held two days of hearings on the issue in February At thst would wefconwanncreased alcohol tax if it would help them recover The Appropriations amendment would bring the i960 allocation for drug snd alcohol prevention up to the 30 parent of the 41 officers must sign rente saying thst they are interested in organizing LeBiun wouldn't say how many officers signed rente which she said are not a public record Brenner said the city has some problems with the wording of the positions on the petition but LeBrun aid such mistakes are common and are easily worked out The city has two weeks to respond to the petition If the dty doesn't challenge any of the positions on election will bc set Rules will be ironed out at a pre-election conference LeBrun aid probationary employee might not be allowed to vote Officers are on probation for one year after they ore Ured According to the petition there ore seven officers on probation now "to use them for The 12 bodies were found in nine graves yesterday morning in field st the Santa Elens Ranch about 30 miles west of Matamoros Gavito said Anthony Padilla photographer with 77e Browntvilie Hernld said he saw Kibey's body at Matamoros fti-neral home "There was nothing inside the Padilla said In some forms of witchcraft removal of the brain signifies a sacrifice of the souL Padilla said Kilroy'a legs were cut off st mid-calf and his spine wss severed and twisted Kilroy premedical student vanished from a crowded Matamoros street shortly 2 am on March 14 while or drinking with a group of friends The 3-foot-deep grave containing -his body was found after Mexican police alerted US officials early yesterday they hod obtained confessions from tha suspects A a it wss recounted after the con fessions Kilroy was hired to psss- money It said Moore "This to not bleeding heart issue This is something that's going to cost us more money in the long a majority of the officers who voted in the election agreed to form the unit the police department would be the fifth aiy department to be represented by a union Firefighters snd fire officers each have their own union and employees in the public works water resources and recreation and parks departments are represented by the same union lnthe 14 years since public employees have been allowed to organise in New Hamiwhire LeBrun said Concord poiics officers hove coma in to ask about the process of organizing at least twice but this is the fort time someone has fifed petition The union would indude all officers below the rank of sergeant but would not include parking enforcement officers or civilian employees fish When he was dose enough Kilroy eras yanked into the truck and taken to the ranch where he wss eventually killed with a blow to the head by machete The 12 bodies are the third drug-related mass killings discovered along the UJL-Mexican border within three weeks On March 29 Mexican authorities found the bodies of three women and six men on an abandoned ranch near Agua Prieta Juat across the border from Douglas Arts Five were at the bottom of a well and four in an earthen septic tank AH nine were bound and had been tortured and mutilated Mexican and UB investigators said those killings were drug-related On April 1 the bodies of three men killed In similar fashion were fished from the well A0 were believed to be Mexicans: Os March 27 two people from Arisons and -three from Mexico were found bound and stabbed in shed in Tucson Aria Those deaths were also called drug-related Closing-North State St Due to necessary utility construction in die vicinity of the new Public Works Facility (COMF) now under construction northerly of the State Prison it will be necessary to restrict traffic on North Stare Street to one lane Construction win commence Wednesday April 12 and continue until April 28 1989 (including die weekend of 422-23) from 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM Alternative commuter routes may be desirable to avoid any delays Eng- ing truck by a man who spoke A.