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Clearing High around 50 Details on Page 2A Metro 148TH YEAR Published by Gannett in Rochester, N.Y.. Saturday Morning. April 5. 1980 nwwj pr area to replace zoo rides Elephant tdl By CHRIS SCHARF OAC StaH Writer the zoo, and the noise is wrong and the colors are wrong," Mastowski said. Mrs.

Buckler, who managed the rides from 1952 to 1977, said she still has 300 thank-you notes sent by school children and teachers who came to the zoo during those years. "I'm sorry to hear it's closing because I feel it did bring people in," she said yesterday. "Not a child was ever hurt, and everybody was happy but it all depends on how you operate it." The zoo acquired its two elephants, Lilac and Genny last year. And the Seneca Zoological Society is trying to raise $250,000 for an elephant exhibit area that would provide a more natural setting for them. began a couple of years ago when the price of the rides doubled from a dime.

But Michalowski said other parents objected to the rides as a distraction: "Some people complained they were war rides and that war rides have no justification in this time and era. Others complained that they brought their kids to see the animals, but the first thing the kids would run to is the rides." The Mastowskis were hoping to negotiate a long-term lease this year and replace the tank ride with a merry-go-round. But in December the county told them it didn't plan to renew the agreement. "We've talked to the county over the past month. But they just told us the rides don't blend in with of a zoo park, and we needed the room for expansion." The rides have been closed for the winter, but Mastowski said he'll open Easter, weather permitting, for one more day before closing for good and selling the equipment.

In 1977 Mrs. Mastowski took over Kiddyland miniature boat, pony, tank and airplane rides from Betty Buckler, who ran the amusements for 25 years. Some parents brought children to the zoo just for the rides because they were inexpensive, zoo director Dan Michalowski said. Last year the price of a ride was 30 cents, Mastowski said. That was up from the 20 cents that Kiddyland rides, a 28-year-old tradition at the Seneca Park Zoo, will be pushed aside by elephants this spring.

Monroe County officials have refused to renew an agreement expiring this month that permits Pat and Robert Mastowski to operate the rides. Monroe County Parks and Recreation Director Calvin Reynolds said the area is needed for the zoo's two African elephants. But he said the rides weren't appropriate for a zoo anyway: "They gave the zoo a honky-tonk look which isn't in keeping with our goal there. We just didn't think they were in keeping with the educational purpose Respite Tremors hit St. Helens Two more smooth, rhythmic earth movements scientists say foreshadow a major lava eruption tremble through Mount St.

Helens. Sixty Washington National Guardsmen are called out to assist police with roadblocks and crowd control (3A). World TWO more hostages are released by Bogota guerrillas in embassy (5A). Nation INFLATION is charging along at 18, latest report shows. But two figures hold out hope for relief (4A).

is Opinion RONALD Reagan is an eminently electable candidate on whom the media has done a hatchet job, says columnist John Roche (6A). Local NATHAN Weinstein just got fed up with the robberies and closed his drug store after 35 years (IB). MASEO Kayo still remember the cries of agony at Hiroshima after he regained consciousness (IB). Return rate for census on target Clergy to spend Easter with Tehran hostages would be "beneficial to the hostages and, hopefully, it will serve to bring about reconciliation between America and Iran." Rupiper said he was invited to Tehran with the Rev. Jack Biemer, a Methodist from Lawrence, and the Rev.

Nelson Thompson, a Kansas City, Methodist. All three are members of the American-Iranian Crisis Resolution Committee, and Rupiper and Bremer recently traveled through Iran under committee auspices. It would be the second visit by U.S. clergymen to the hostages. The first was during Christmas.

fiew anti-American propaganda poured from Iran as newspapers, radio, clergy, and government officials joined the militants in criticizing President Carter for what they called his "rejection" of a demand by the Revolutionary Council to clarify U.S. policy. Turn to TEHRAN, Page 2A AP, UPI and Hw York Tim Three American clergymen left for Tehran yesterday to hold Easter services for American hostages held by militants inside the U.S. Embassy. Meanwhile, a leading clerical leader of the country's Revolutionary Council, said America's threat to impose sanctions would not affect Iran's decision to keep the Americans hostage until the, new parliament convened in about two months and ruled on their fate.

Efforts to transfer custody of the hostages from the militants to Iran's government also appeared stalled. A spokesman for the embassy militants said American and Iranian clergymen had been invited to pay an Easter Sunday visit to the hostages, who on Good Friday spent their 153rd day as captives. One of the clergymen, the Rev. Darrell Rupiper, a Roman Catholic from Omaha, said he hoped the trip nimwwKiu "5" 1 1 niniw.il in.ii.il II ill, jB in. II ii.ii i 1 If' i I lr I In 1 Bravt i la I 4 mm People FAMOUS BARITONE, now 60, returns to visit his alma mater, the Eastman School of Music (1C).

SCIENCE FICTION writer doesn't believe in UFO's and says neither do any other sci-fi writers he knows (lC). Sports FBI most wanted nabbed in Illinois Unilid PrtM International WASHINGTON More than half the census forms mailed to U.S. homes have been filled out and returned, and census officials said yesterday they expect to meet their goal of an 80 percent, return rate by April 15. After that date, field workers will contact people who have not mailed back their forms or who have filed incomplete forms. "There are still some problems out there, but we are satisfied that we will meet our plan," Census Bureau Director Vincen Barabba told a news conference called to report on the progress of the 1980 national census.

The government mailed out 86 million forms last week and asked Americans to. return them by April 1. As of Thursday afternoon, 53.4 percent of the forms had been returned and logged in at the Census Bureau's 409 regional offices, Barabba said. He said the figure was probably even higher, because many forms were sitting in mail bags waiting to be logged and still others in the mail. The return rate varied greatly around the country with highs of 94.3 percent in Cedar Rapids; Iowa, and 92.5 percent in Green Bay, compared to a 2 percent return rate for the northeast Queens area of New York City.

Barabba said New York's transit strike apparently was holding back the return rate there. The regional return rate for New York was 33.5 percent. The census has been helped by widespread media attention, which has increased public awareness of the project, according to a study commissioned by the Census Bureau. It found 93 percent of the people questioned in a random telephone survey had recently heard or seen mention of the census in the media and 99 percent were likely to return their forms. The bureau, is having trouble in some areas hiring field workers for the follow-up work that begins April 15.

Recruitment chief Rex Pullin said there are severe shortages of census workers in Houston, Dallas, Chicago, northern New Jersey and portions of New York City. Congress granted just over $1 billion for the Census Bureau to cover this year's census and the 10-year period leading up to it. Barabba said the bureau may have to ask for another $25 million to complete the job if the mail return rate turns out to be 80 percent! It will need even more if the rate is lower. ROCHESTER Amerks tie Maine, 3, thus giving New Brunswick the division title (ID). NEW RED WINGS first baseman Dan "Bigfoot" Logan deposits three-baseballs in Lake Biscayne (ID).

Columnists 3C Puzzles 13C Comics 13C Sports 1-8D Deaths Stamps 13C Editorials 6A Theaters HELP! 6B TV 2A Want Ads 7-14C 4 NEWS SECTIONS witness in the bombings. The initials FALN stand for Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional, meaning the Armed Forces of National Liberation, a group authorities describe as a handful of DeoDte who want indeoen- dence for Puerto Rico. The FALN has claimed responsibility for more than lOffbombingd in the past six years in major U.S. cities, including New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Auoclatid Prats EVANSTON, 111. The FBI's most-wanted criminal suspect a member of the Puerto Rican terrorist group FALN and two others identified as FALN members were among 11 people arrested yesterday.

Those arrested included Carlos Torres, a leading suspect in FALN bombings in Chicago, Washington and New York City, said James Ingram, special agent in charge of the Chicago FBI office. Also arrested and identified as an FALN member was his wife, Marie Torres, Ingram said. Both have been sought by authorities since 1977. Ingram said Torres was believed to have owned the building in which a large bomb factory was found in Chicago in the same year. Torres was sought by the FBI on charges of interstate flight, possession of explosives, conspiracy and violation of the National Firearms Act.

He said Mrs. Torres is also a suspect in the bombings and that the third person identified as a member of the FALN, Ida Luz Rodriguez, was sought as a material nan rancisco ana Chicago. Evanston police Capt. James Gillespie said police arrested two of the 1 1 after receiving a report of a truck stolen from an auto rental agency in the northern suburb. He said the pair were arrested when they returned to the' truck after police had staked it out.

Gillespie said police later received a call about a suspicious vehicle parked on a street and found the other nine suspects inside it. Gillespie said the suspects arrested with the stolen truck were armed and carried additional weapons in a bag. He described the weapons as more than 10 High count Census worker Jean Harris Bailey Circus in Washington, (right) hands a census form up to Workers are tracking those who stiltwalker John Russell of the had no permanent addresses when Ringling Brothers and Barnum the forms were mailed. (UPI) assorted shotguns and pistols. No explosives were found.

Disguised pope hears Good Friday confessions It shouldn't rain on Rochester's Easter parade SunDay Democrat and (Chronicle In Upstate magazine's cover story this Easter, we look at how the Rochester area's 50 women ministers have fared. Watch for it your Sunday Democrat and Chronicle, along with these other top stories: What now for Albion? What happens when the largest employer in town announces that it's closing its doors? How does the town survive when its major lifeline is cut? That's what the people of Albion in Orleans County are sorting out after learning last week that the Thomas' J. Lipton company will close its plant there in September. On page 1A and in local, we'll take a look at the effects of the closing and some of the alternatives Albion faces. An end, a beginning We're featuring 15 top athletes in the Rochester area in sports.

It's the curtain call on high school basketball for 1979-80, the 11th annual All Greater Rochester team 12 seniors, a junior, a sophomore, and even a freshman. Then, move over basketball and bring on baseball. Preview pages on the National and American leagues include an analysis and ratings on each team plus features. Pageantry in Rochester (IB) UPI and AP Pope John Paul II disguised himself in black clerical robes and heard confession from 30 Easter visitors in St. Peter's Basilica yesterday, then carried a wooden cross through the ruins of ancient Rome in commemoration of Good Friday.

It was the first time that a pontiff has been known to hear confession from ordinary parishioners in St. Peter's, the largest church in Christendoms which is nearly 400 years old. In Jerusalem, thousands of Christians, many of them shouldering heavy wooden crosses, moved in solemn procession up the Via Dolorosa to Calvary to commemorate Christ's Passion. Pilgrims of Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox and other Eastern faiths jostled around the sites revered by Christendom as the scenes of Christ's crucifixion and resurrection from the dead. By an unusual conjunction of the Gregorian and Julian calendars Holy Week for the major Christian faiths coincided this year, along with the seven-day Jewish holiday of Passover.

Israeli officials said 30,000 people came to the Holy Land on organized pilgrimages and were among a record 95,000 Christians and Jews here for the holiday season. Catholic pilgrims marched in warm spring sunshine through the narrow Street of Sorrows from Praetorium, where Jesus was sentenced, to the Crusader-built Church of the Holy Sepulcher, stopping for devotions at the 14 Stations of the Cross. Nearby churches and monasteries loaned the pilgrims 10-foot crosses for the 30-minute procession. Groups of a few dozen pilgrims walked with their crosses behind priests reading the litany through bullhorns. Officials of the Latin and Greek Orthodox Patriarchates worked out a detailed schedule two months ago for sharing the holy sites in the 800-year-old church.

The only problem occurred when a Jewish group wandered into the Way of the Cross and briefly blocked the Catholic procession led by Franciscan monks. Rites of the Greek Orthodox were given preference in the church because it is the oldest and strongest Christian faith in the Mideast and the recognized custodian of the Holy Sepulcher, where Christ was supposedly buried. Israeli troops watched unobtrusively, guarding against possible Arab violence in a security operation that is routine for major Christian holidays. Armed patrols blocked off side streets and walked through the Old City, but stayed away from the church and out of most worshippers' view. In Rome, Pope John Paul walked into St.

Peter's unannounced shortly before noon and took his place in the fourth confessional booth in the church's left transept. Only a few of the several hundred visitors in the church at the time realized the spiritual leader of the world's 750 million Roman Catholics wa among them. It was only after the pope was well into hearing the confessions of 30 pilgrims, most of them from his native Poland, that the crowd" realized history was being made. "The pope carried out this gesture to emphasize the importance of the sacrament of confession in this preparatory period for Easter," Vatican spokesman the Rev. Romeo Panciroli told reporters.

One Vatican prelate said later the pope's gesture also emphasized John Paul's preference of Roman Catholicism's traditional individual confession over the practice of collective confession. ft V1 19 Neither rain nor sleet nor high winds should keep the Easter Bunny from his appointed rounds in Rochester tomorrow morning. "It should be a nice sunny day," predicted Brad Doyle, a forecaster with the National Weather Service at the Rochester-Monroe County Airport. Doyle said the overcast skies are expected to break up by today, and the wind won't be nearly as strong. But, he added, those winds whipping through the city yesterday won't disappear until they blow away a few remaining clouds this morning.

By this afternoon winds of 10 to 20 mph and sunshine will remain, he said. Temperatures are expected to rise to about 60 degrees tomorrow, Doyle said, and the wind should slow to a gentle breeze. Traveling conditions will be excellent, he said. Easter eggs should not get wet, he said. "They'd better not!" he laughed.

"I've got two kids of my own who will be out hunting eggs Sunday." Who's cuter? It's difficult to tell who's cuter three-year-old Scott Doughty or his furry friend. The. duo was photographed at an Easter party yesterday in Paramus, J. (UPI).