Transcript-Telegram from Holyoke, Massachusetts • 9

CrranHcrfpt-Selrgram Friday February 28 1 986 Page 9 1 Preppy label is Bush-league City looks at cable service CHICOPEE Aldermanic President Joseph Chessey Jr wants the city to look at whether it someday can run the local cable television service Such a step may be easier to talk about than do though according to a spokeswoman for the state Cable Commission Chessey wants the dty to form a committee now to review cable television service The current contract for cable service belongs to Greater Media Cable and runs through 1990 main reason is everybody's complaining complaining and nobody's doing Chessey said of his request to form the committee He is recommending the committee start work now so it has plenty of time to consider what options it has when the time cranes to renew the cable contract in 1990 One option might be the dty taking controlof cable service he said Such an idea has been discussed in many communities but done in few said Penelope Wells general counsel for the Massachusetts Cable Television Commission a fairly common threat that munidpal-ities make It's one of the quickest things they think of when they get frustrated with cable she said There is only one munidpal utility the Shrewsbury Munidpal Light Department that now runs a cable service die said Even if a community derides it wants to take over the service it still must prove the existing firm has failed to meet the terms of the past contract or is incapable of providing the service it proposes in the new contract If the dty derides to take over the license for service the cable provider may appeal to a state or federal court The restrictions are tough to prevent finds from investing hundreds of thousands of dollars for service raid then losing its license at the end of its contract die said department has run the cable system since the service was started three years ago Aldermen met with representatives of Greater Media Feb 10 to discuss cable television service The meeting was triggered by two recent rate hikes that boosted the monthly cost of basic cable service from 8965 to $1250 Greater Media representatives said at that meeting that the firm's rates are comparable with rates charged in the region Trantcript-T4grim pftoto by Jim Sein New venture Korean brothers KU Chun and Insu Yi recently bought the Marque One restaurant on High Street in Holyoke They may add Korean dishea to the menu in April Downtown building sees changes -I i much relieved to read recently that George Buah reaenta like hack the fact that people Con rider him a Anyone who baa watched the vice presi-dent knowa that it takea more than a Pmaa chargwcard to be a real conservative just aa it takea more than a bow-tie to he George WHL You have tofwant it which Buah dearly indicated he doee with his sharp defense of himself in the New York Hines think of me as wearing button-down he' said I owned a button-down shirt in 10 years "You think of striped tin I might have I want to be gong into too much depth on my wardrobe but say 8 possibly 2 percent of the ties I've got are striped shoes? Is that your basic Gucd he asked taking off his shoe and holding it up far inspection your basic llD very aenaible-looking Middle American courage in staring down this last myth was especially compelling I thought because of the great things conservatives have done in defense of the beleaguered American shoe industry Sticking by their Florsbeims aet a standard far patriotism in footware that no group of Choate swells ever could (True you have to go to Kansas today to find a pair of US-made shoea imports now accounting far 78 percent of the domestic market compared with 60 percent before the conservative of 1980 But don't blame that on Bush those fanners and single mothers who insist on buying cheap Korean knock-offs at mart) Frankly never understood why rple just respect Bush far what is instead of thinking of him aa a groveling whining overgrown cheerleader with an abnormal need to carry the star water Even Will who is to conservative politics what Nsflsan is to TV recently denounced the vice president a For Maybeu Will had more chin on him have recognised that attempt to cultivate far-right leaders like Jerry Falwell is mors than the callow hypocritical exercise in boot-licking that critics have observed On the contrary the appeal to Falwell is an act of extreme manliness: what the Latins call and what Lyndon Johnson in another context called getting the other in your pocket forget this is the same George Herbert Walker Bush (Andover Yale) who announced after lecturing Geraldine Ferraro righteously on world affairs in their vicepreaidential debate that he had a little Nobody can accuse the farmer CIA chief of not knowing how to act like a man Yi 31 owned a Japanese restau-rantin Korea for three years before moving to the United States in 1983 Former owners Joan Muse 49 plans to retire and her son Jay 24 will begin a retail business Three nights a week the Yis work as chicken sexers determining whether chicks are males or females The female chicks are kept to lay eggs have a lot of said Yi have a lot of family enough hands We just want a small See RESTAURANT next page tist The Yis will continue to serve the pancakes patty melts and tuna salad rolls that have been on the menu for years But in April they plan to add a few Korean dishes and a takeout service They may add Mandoo a steamed eggroll and Bulgo-gi a paper-thin steak with soy sauce and sesame seeds and served with steamed rice Most Americans are not familiar with Korean food Insu Yi said "Korean food not oily Korean food not fat good far diet We cook naturally need to fry rice just By TANYA GROSS Transcript-Telegram staff HOLYOKE Korean food may be on the menu soon at a downtown restaurant And in the same building a microfilm company is moving out while another office is expanding Korean brothers Insu Chun and Kil Yi bought the Marque One restaurant on Day It had been the first business to move into the Century Two Plaza at High and Dwight Streets after the budding was renovated eight' years aga'Now the plaza also holds a microfilm company senior service center hair stylist accountant and den seeks new teachers for growing schools teacher New position requested are Ihose of an adjustment counselor at the elementary levels two custodians for the middle school a part-time secretarial assistant in the guidance department and lifeguards to be hired by the hour as added security during swim instruction Rhodes explained that the adjustment counselor is similar to a social worker The counselor will serve children in kindergarten through the third grade Byard said children need help with prob- lems many of which stem from an increase in single-parent families Rhodes agreed there are a lot more pressures on kids she said new Chestnut Hill Community School will allow teachers already in the system to take assignments at other schooUg At the high school he saidtcBmv will now be available to teacfrtwp more periods of home economics I two morei periods of art and four mor penbds off physical education Byard sam the rations will give more students a choice of something other than study periods The schools have reqjjested one fourth-grade teacher a pHysical-educa-tion swim instructor for the middle school a part-time art teacher for the middle school a part-time home economics teacher at the middle school a hew high school librarian and one third-grade seen an increase of 99 students 27 of whom entered the district in the 1985-86 school year The added salaries represent $139957 of the $43 million budget request The proposed budget is-145 percent larger than the current budget of $38 million School Committee Chairman Dorothy A Rhodes said the new positions are directly related to the 72 percent increase in students and a need to offer more electives to students in the high school She said a large increase in the number of fourth-grade pupils spurred a need fra an added fourth-grade classroom and teacher Byard said the new positions and the By CHARLENE POSTELL Transcript-Telegram staff BELCHERTOWN The School Committee will ask Town Meeting in May to approve hiring seven new teachers to handle the growing enrollment The 1986-87 school budget that was presented to the Finance Committee Thursday night also adds four other positions two' custodians a new counselor and a secretarial assistant The School Department originally had asked the School Committee for about 20 new teaching positions Since 1982 Belchertown schools have By telling Falwell is in crying need of the moral vision you will bring to our political at a gathering in Washington DC Bush actually was showing what a shrewd manipulator he can be He knows that TV evangelist Pat Robertson who says he likes to drive his Ford Bronco and dress in Jeans is also considering running for the Republican presidential nomination He knows too that Robertson mess around: the name of Jesus we command you to strai where you are and mqye Robertaon told rampaging Hurricane Gloria in a telecast last falL Far from sniveling over Robertson's apparent connections or sniffing disdain-1 fully like an preppy with a phony head-cold over the rugged personal tastes Bush went right at the evangelical movement and told it what it wanted to hear Representative hospitalized LUDLOW State Rep William Mullins D-Ludlow is listed in serious condition today at Ludlow Hospital Hospitalized there since Monday the 55-year-old vice chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee has had a prolonged illness said a hospital spokesman Mullins has missed this year's only House session which was held Monday but attended the prior lengthy session on Dec 31 House records show He had been undergdng tests in a Boston hospital legislative aide Gary Ziendna said earlier this week Ziendna declined to specify the nature of the illness Mullins has been a legislator for five terms and is respected as one of western Massachusetts' most powerful lawmakers He has served as a key adviser to House Speaker George Ke-verian D-Everett Mullins holds the 7th Hampden District seat which includes Chicopee wards 4-6 Hospital upgrades breast cancer detection By SALLY APGAR Transcript-Telegram staff HOLYOKE Within the next year more than 3000 women in Massachusetts will develop breast cancer Nationwide more than 113000 new cases will be detected says the American Cancer Society Early detection say cancer researchers is the key to treatment To help physicians detect tumors earlier Holyoke Hospital has opened a mammography unit equipped its 'new state-of-the-art CGR Senographe 500T machine Four women spe-rially trained in mammography will run the outpatient unit amount of detail we're seeing now in breast tissue is incredible" said Dr Howard Raymond chief of radiology gives a much improved capability to pick up early tumors and improve the cure rate" See HOSPITAL next page Contestant finds time for caring By BILL THOMAS Transcript-Telegram staff By volunteering at WomanshelterCom-paneras Mount Holyoke College sophomore Laurie Ann Dowd says she is hoping to gain experience to help improve dty conditions in the future Caring fra children of battered women the shelter 12 hours per month she believes will give her a better perspective about problems in the dty the shelter a lot of interaction between different Dowd explained works to learn together I feel that could be seen as symbolic of society I think it (cooperation at the shelter) shows it is possible fra people of different groups to get along she said The statuesque 19-year-old is one of five contestants for the Colleen crown in this St Patrick's Parade She has tentative plans to study politics and Spanish so that have a background helpful in addressing dty problems She would like to work in Holyoke after she graduates possibly toward improved race relations would like to see different relationships between different groups in the 19-year-old said Community leaders "are making she feels "but they still have a long way to Dowd also is involved in international development efforts through her work in Outreach Overseas on campus The group raises money for projects in developing nations through sales and films See DOWD next page And that the point? A preppy would consider himself superior to such a task George Bush did it with relish A man so willing to ingratiate himself to the average God-fearing prayer-toting Joe while thinking nothing of foresaking generations of heritage and breeding simply cannot by definition le a preppy Even if 40 percent of George ties were striped even if he had tassles on his slippers the conclusion would be ineecapably the same: the man is no bettor than the people he serves and he can prove it Every day if need be So take that George WilL The "tinny you claim to hear emanating from the vice presidency is actually the shrewd perorations of an Everyman So what if the vice president's voice becomes chillingly nasal every so often making him sound exasperated as if the bigger boys let him into the game and are now ignoring him At least he's sincere And you those columnists and cartoonists who have tried to ridicule Bush's excessive loyalty to his chief a shine George!" lampooned a recent cartoon picturing Ronald Reagan in a shoe-shine chair and Bush his tongue extended kneeling at the foot) all just jealous George Bush knows who he is even if no one rise does And he knows what he wears Every lad ever left his far boarding school knows that a wardrobe is the key to his psychs and George Bush is no exception Sothaie rri Tramcript-Teltoram photo by Jim Sears lop tapper Colleen contestant Laurie Ann Dowd a Holyoke native now attending Mount Holyoke College keeps in shape with her tap dancing The 19-year-old also devotes time to volunteer work at WomanshelterCompaneras the battered women's shelter in Holyoke.