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HI Cubbies do if Chicago wins NL East; 1st title in 39 years Page 17 Rick Sutcliffe, pitches division clinching game Raiders rally, win 33 30 Page 17 IQ tests I New study questions them as measure of intelligence Page 13 Journal 200th Year, No. 31 Tuesday, September 25, 1984 35 Cents WEATHER: Warm and humid. Highs In the 80s. Chance of showers. Details, page 3.

WORLD: British navy crews confirm that a device found in the Gulf of Suez was a modern mine. Page 5. About 5.000 pickets, trying to block a bus carrying seven coal miners to work in defiance of a six month strike, battle police outside a British mine. Page 5. LEBANON: The Reagan administration is pushing a new initiative to ease Lebanon's plight.

Page S. The latest U.S. casualties of war torn Lebanon arc honored in a solemn ceremony as an Air Force general pledges the United States will not flee from terrorism. Page 3. NATION: Gary and Margaret Hall, whose faith healing religious sect taught them to shun medical care, are sentenced to five years in prison for allowing their infant son to die at home of untreated pneumonia.

Page 3. Florida officials halt all citrus harvesting until each orange and grapefruit grove is re checked and certified free of deadly citrus canker. Page 3. WASHINGTON: With time running out for final action on the Simpson Mazzoli immigration bill, lawmakers move to forgive illegal aliens and their employers for back taxes owed. Page 2.

A group of American children presents a 4,400 signaturc petition to the Soviet Embassy calling for a nuclear arms freeze and say they received a pnlitc reception. Page 2. 03 Walter F. Mondale accuses President Reagan ot letting terrorists "humiliate us and push us around.and kill our people" in Lebanon. Page 2.

Roman Catholic politicians who oppose abortion should not be afraid to mix their religious values with politics, Rep. Henry J. Hyde, says in rebutting Gov. Cuomo's speech at Notre Dame. Page 2.

BUSINESS: Information Systems says it will lay off 600 employees in the state, including 70 in the Mid Hudson Region, Rockland and Westchester counties. Page 7. Another recession could begin as early as the second half of next year, an economists' group says. Page 7. The stock market shows no clear trend as the Dow Jones average of 30 industrials rises 3.32 to 1,205.06.

Page 8. STATE: Women workers heavily exposed to PCBs at two manufacturing plants shouldn't blame the chemical for slightly lower birthweights in their children, the state Health Dcpurtmentisays. Page Health care workers strike 11 private, nursing homes in a contract dispute affecting the care of 2,800 elderly patients, the state Health Department says. Page 16. AREA: A pile of debris that caught fire Saturday at a landfill in the Town of Poughkccpsie was left uncovered in violation of state landfill regulations, a state official says.

Page 11. Poughkccpsie City Manager William They sohn says he expects to present his report on alleged police brutality to the city's Common Council next week. Page 11. SPORTS: Milwaukee'' Bucks center mcr announces his retirement, ending a 14 ycar quest for a National Basketball Association championship ring. Page 17.

The shrinking list of Hcismun Trophy candidates means lit ll( in Niw Rnpl.inn where there is only Lanier one cundidate quarterback Doug Flulie, the Little Big Mao of Boston College, Page 17, Today's quote made an offer ihere that I hope they can't refuse. President Reagan, on his conciliatory proposals to the Soviet Union. Story, page 1. SMfcV 3tiHl wwEJi k'Br lHl iskC inF "HTiiNEuvSakVl i iffi jr. iIiit" i iii jrBii.nMBBIBlBBBMBBBBM8eiaBiwB,BsaMMeMiwMMlifiWM rrnuTr i iMTliS fcSigEwBiBwBBMS3BiWKBBBttlBM i tti "'fiTrtr 3 Loved Index Area II Business 7, Classified 20 Editoriols 4 Focus 27 Landers 31 Movies 2B The Nation 3 Obituaries 12 Sports 17 TV 28 World 5 Friends of Holly Anne Kayson pay their last respects at her graveside Monday.

Holly and Colleen Drummond, victims of a homicide, were burled in separate services. JournnlKathy McLaughlin ties mourn girls To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. A time to be born, and a time to iiie; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up EccUilasUs 3: 13 Read ot Holly Kayson't funeral By William La Rue Journal staff FISHKILL It was time to mourn Monday, and a time for euolo gies and prayers and still more tears. The bodies of homicide victims Col lecn Patricia Drummond and Holly. Anne Kayson were laid to rest in depurate funerals in Fishtail.

Earlier in the day, classmates honored the 13 year old Fishkill girls with "a moment of silence before the start of school at Wappingers Falls Junior High. And police continued their investigation to find who killed the eighth graders, then left their buttered bodies in Fishkill Creek four duys ugo. Colleen's all white coffin wus buried under a red maple tree at St. Mary's Cemetery in Wappingers Falls following a morning funerul Mass. A few hours later.

Holly was' laid to rest along a sloping hill at the edge of Fishkill Rurul Cemetery. Dozens of sobbing relutivcs and classmates attended both services The brutality of their deaths was not forgotten at Monday's funerals But pastors and others consoled mourners not to allow bitterness or ungcr to be the girls' legucy. John Biasolti, junior high prim i put and it Catholic deuon. observed at Colleen's funeral Unit families muy never know the killer's mo live. "Leave the question of 'why'1 aside tlial we muy never know." he said.

"We cannot agonie annul the pusl or presume upon the future We cannot bring Colleen hiu again. "Just remember the murk she had made upon our lives. Remember the times she made us laugh Rev. Charles Quinn, pastor ul Si Mary's Church, reminded gnevers that Colleen was now sharing eler See SHERIFF, puge 10 Reagan softens Soviet stance Anthony Olheiwr Sheriff deputies investigate the crash Monday that killed the wife and daughter of Sgt. Peter Wilkinson of the Town or Pouijhkeepsie police.

Crash kills wife, daughter of police sergeant in town By Susan Spaulding Journal staff PLEASANT VALLEY The wife and youngest daughter of a Town of Poughkccpsie police sergeant were killed Monday when their small pickup truck hit a tree stump on Gretna Road a few miles from their home Lorraine A. Wilkinson, 32, and Rebecca Wilkinson, 18 months, were pronounced dead on arrival at St. Francis Hospital, according to Dutchess County Sheriff Frederick Scoralick. They apparently died of massive head injuries, he said Nicole Wilkinson. 4, who was also in the truck, was listed in serious condition at St, Francis with head injuries, Scoralick said Mrs.

Wilkinson was the wife of Sgt Peter Wil kinson, of Barbara Lane. Pleasant Valley The Wilkinsons' Tord Courier pickup was heading south on Gretna Road at about 12.24 m. when 41 it went off the west side of the roud and hit a tree stump, Scoralick said What causep" the truck to run off the road is not known, he said Doug Waltoff. of the Pleasant Valley Rescue Squad, said the children were not in child restraint seats, blit that the and children were wearing seat belts. Town Police Chief George Lochner Baid the loss was tragic for Wilkinson because he was very much a family man.

"I just saw him at Pleasant Valley Day yesterday (Sunday). He had the baby on his shoulders We stopped and talked." Lochner said with his voice trailing off in sudness. "All of us are really over it It's a terrible thing," he said Lochner said Mrs Wilkinson was a very lovely person." By Maureen Santlnl The Associated Press UNITED NATIONS President Reagan, striking a conciliatory chord, said Monday he would work to narrow "the clear differences" be tween the United States and the So viet Union. The president proposed high level meetings that could he "essential, if crises are to1 be avoid ed." Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko listened with a poker face hands folded in his lap, as Reugan addressed Ihje 39th session of the United Nations General Assembly "America has repaired its strengih We are ready for construe live gotiations with the Soviel Union Reugan suid The president, who on deiiouw ed Moscow us un "evil empire" that ul timutcly would be left on the "ash heap of history," udopled his must conciliatory, line yet towurd the So viets in the Lpcech, which fume just povcrsix wceVs before the Nov Celet lion His most specific proposul. to 'in slitutionalirc" contacts between lop U.S and Soviet officials, resembled plunk of the Democratic party plat form I Reugan.

pressed repeatedly by S. allies to soften his onre harsh unit Soviet rhetoric, wus interrupted" just once by applause, when he re marked "Outside this room, while there still will be leur differenres there's every reason why we should do ull that is possible to'shurlen that dis lance. And that's why we're here Gromyko, impassive as ever, did not join in the flapping at thut point or at the font lusion of Reagan speech Presidential spokesman Larry Speakes said US ambassador Jeane An analysis of Reagan's speech. Reagan also calls for efforts in Lebanon. Page 5 Kirkpatrick had lold Keugun Ihut General Assembly spcei lies aren't generally inlenupled by applause and thai the Soviet' in purhrular do not lap Keiigan lold ilpmier Ihut he Gromyko hud ex hanged pleas aiilnes during their five minule en i ounter ai a ret eption Sunday night but refused to predu I the mil' onie of then laTks ut the While House on I d.iy 1 he talks will I present Rea gan's first formal meeting with top Kremlin offirial during his presiden fy I Alter returning lolhe White House Reagan was asked ho he expeiis Ihe SovielsMo respond lo his prfipos il know 'I hursd.iy when Gro rnyko addresses Ihe asiernhly Keu gun said, adding I uiadi an offi i ihere that hope ihey an't use Soviets critical of ipoeth hut the Soviets imlial rea'tion lo Reagan's speei was rill' il R.tdm Mosrow said I In president i.nfiiid the in'reasid mihl.tr, i oht of Ihe United States (would prov id i lh base, or talks Aith 'lu i Union Addn ane ih ti hai'llim mli mim i KhAGAN, oae.

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