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Briefly Obituary Help! 4B 5B 6B ROCHESTER, N.Y.. MONDAY, JUNE 19, 1978 Homeowners make money parking cars Golf fans pay up to park near course charge $5 today with this crowd, but you can't gouge the public." He said he charged $1.50 partly because that was the price at the club's parking lot next door. "Still," he said, "we've made good money. I think we'll buy a riding lawn mower with it." Tournament organizers had three lots run by Ralph Parking. One of the lots, the one at the clubhouse, was reserved for tournament entrants, the press and VIPs.

Entrance to that lot was restricted to those with an sticker on their cars. "I don't know how you get one of those stickers," a tournament worker said. "We had to park in the other lot." Turn to Page 2B City physician greenskeeper at the golf course, was filled with 400 cars. "It's been like this since Wednesday," Mrs. Boyce said.

"But I'm not worried about the lawn. It's real hard, and the jeople have been nice and haven't been spinning their wheels." Al Pratt, Mrs. Boyce's friend, directed drivers to different parts of her yard. "We're doing these people a favor letting them park this close," Pratt said. "We're not doing it for the Pictures, 2B.

By GARY GEREW Not all the money up for grabs in the Ladies Professional Golf Association tournament at Locust Hill Country. Club was won on the golf course. Jefferson Road homeowners near the course learned over the weekend that turning their yards into parking lots was almost as lucrative as sinking a putt on the 18th' green. "I've been parking about 200 cars a day," said Charles Lacy, whose home at 2118 Jefferson Road is one house away from the course. He charged $2 for parking, but he said the money "isn't all gravy." "I've got an acre and a half of land, Sea f' and it's been full of cars since noon," Lacy said as he shook his head at a driver looking for a spot.

"You have to run back and forth all day. After it was over last night, I soaked my feet for a couple of hours, and now the grass is all trampled down. Tomorrow I'll have to mow it and put on some fertilizer to get it back up." Next door to the country club, Ruth Boyce's shaded and manicured yard, landscaped by her husband, former Breeze Park operator Merrick changed the machine so that the ring came down anywhere from three to 10 seconds after the button was, pushed." The only manufacturer of carousel rings is the Campbell Chain Co. of York, Pa. The company sold 180,000 steel rings last year but only 12 brass prize-winners.

"We're not sure who buys them," said company spokesman Phyllis Burke. "Some guy named Long was our best customer, but I don't know where he was from or why he stopped buying steel rings." money. Mrs. Boyce charged $2 for parking. "People like parking here because it's close, and the way it's set up, nobody gets banged around," she said.

"Mr. Pratt's done a great job of parking the cars. We've got them everywhere but in the house." "It's incredible," said one man with 90 cars parked in his yard at $150 apiece. "When you tell people you're full, they don't take no for an answer and offer you more money. I could photo by Talis Bergmanis Breeze winds up a millionaire.

I don't even know how rings got started." The origin is combat training in medieval Italy, where princes tilted at the ring with lances on galloping horses, according to Frederick Fried, who is president of the carousel group and teaches at the University of Vermont. A French king substituted wooden horses. Custom changed to brass rings and substituted fingers for lances. Brass ring fanatics still can cul- Turn to Page 5B This Weekend Rat kills Dansville electricity An unsuspecting rat got the shock of its life early yesterday and left most residents of southeastern Dansville without electricity for nearly two hours. E.

Jeffrey Nichol, manager of the New York State Electric Gas Corp's Dansville office, said power was lost about 3:30 when a rat crawling along a step transformer at Perine and Cottage streets touched a lightning rod and shorted out two sets of fuses. The rat was electrocuted. The affected customers lived south of Perine and east of Cottage. Utility crews restored power about 5 a.m., Nichol said. One set of fuses was at the transformer site and the other set on Route 256, he said.

Many affected customers may not have known about the power loss until they awoke yesterday to find their alarm clocks an hour and a half behind. Train kills youth A 14-year-old Newark boy was killed yesterday morning when he was struck by an eastbound Conrail freight train near the abandoned Newark station. Newark police said David Dalton of 114 E. Pearl son of Barbara Blackburn, was dead at the scene of the accident, which occurred about 9:30 a.m. Police said the youth had been riding a minibike and was standing still with the bike next to the tracks when he was struck.

The train engineer said the youth appeared to be slumped over, working on his bike. The engineer said he blew the train whistle. The mile-long train, traveling about 45 mph, took about a mile to stop after the accident, police said. David's sister, Laurie, said the minibike had been broken for about a year and David had just started to ride it again. David was in the sixth grade in the Newark schools system.

Fire destroys barn Fire destroyed a large equipment barn on the James Airy dairy farm, 2616 Weidrick Road in Mace-don Center, about 4:15 yesterday afternoon. The farm lost two tractors, some hay wagons, tires and other equipment in the fire. The cause of the blaze was not determined immediately. "We heard six big explosions, it just blew and it was gone," Arlene Airy said. Mrs.

Airy said the 100-foot barn burned to the ground in less than half an hour. No injuries were reported. Mrs. Airy said the damage was not serious enough to put the farm out of business. But, she said, "We won't be bailing any hay for a few days that's for Man dies in crash A man was fatally injured about 10 last night in a one-truck accident on the Lake Ontario State Parkway near East Manitou Road, Greece, Parkway police said.

Further details were unavailable late last night. Meat stolen State police are investigating a break-in of the concession building at the Bath Drive-In Theatre on Route 415 east of the village. The burglary was discovered yesterday morning. A door panel had been kicked in, police said. The loot included about 35 pounds of hamburgers, eight pounds of pepperoni and 13 pounds of hot dogs, police said.

There was evidence some food was prepared and eaten by the intruder, police said. Price rests on ringless merry-go-round. Brass ring gone Lunsford honored at dinner By MICHAEL CORDTS They came by the hundreds yesterday to honor the physician who, his friends say, has given too much of himself on too many people for too many years. "I've never seen anything like this before in my life," Dr. Charles T.

Lunsford told more than 1,000 well-wishers who crowded the Mapledale Party House. "There's been a revolution in Rochester, and I'm proud to be a part of it." Lunsford, 84, has been practicing medicine longer than anyone else in Rochester. He was the city's first black physician and has been a civil rights leader since the 1930s. Lunsford and his wife. Nan, presided over the five-hour testimonial dinner, which included singing, modern dance routines and a proclamation by Mayor Thomas P.

Ryan declaring yesterday "Dr. Charles Lunsford Lunsford told the audience the fight for civil rights for people of all colors has just begun. "We started to work, and we're still working. We dreamed, and we're still dreaming," he said. "People die when they lose a vision, and we're still alive.

"Thank God we're still fighting and Lunsford, who still treats patients at his Plymouth Avenue office, urged Rochester to live by his credo of love, brotherhood, tolerance and good will. "I didn't get into medicine to make money," the 1913 graduate of Howard University said. "Service that's my purpose. And that's the real calling in life." Besides treating a steady stream of patients since 1921, many free and the rest at reduced rates, Lunsford has blazed a civil rights trail. He persuaded the University of Rochester School of Medicine to admits its first black student.

He embarrassed the Red Cross into accepting black blood donors and lobbied for equal housing, schooling and jobs. "Don't follow anyone under God's sun who advocates hate," he told a cheering crowd. Proposed Over Present Bill more than 500 kilowatts ot energy. Those who use between 110 and 500 kilowatts would get the smallest increases. rate design 'step backwards' Amount of from Sea That "some guy named Long" is George Long, the owner of Sea Breeze, considered the "grand old man of carousels" by the National Carousel Association, according to member Richard Flint of Brighton.

The insurance problem isn't unique to Sea Breeze. One of the West Coast's most popular amusement parks, Magic Mountain outside Hollywood, shelved its ring machine in 1971. "We couldn't get insurance," said operations manager Joe Meek. "Some guy gets crocked, falls on his face and has proposed to charge customers who use between 100 and 450 kilowatts of electricity per month smallest increase within the residential class when new rates take effect (See chart.) However, Slaughter said the declining block structure which still charges less per kilowatt the more electricity is used places the largest share of electricity costs on the residential user. Ed Farrar, coalition member, said the group also may ask for a new rate hearing in November, when is to submit a new plan for allocating cheap power, bought from the Power Authority of the State of New York, to residential customers.

Last November the commission noted that erroneously assigned the benefits of low-cost authority power to all customers instead of to the residential class alone, as mandated by federal law. The commission ordered to draft a new cost study, correcting the mistake. Farrar said giving cheaper power to residential customers alone will lower residential electric rates and should be included in the current rate increase proposal. The commission hasn't ordered to submit the revised cost plan before the new rate request hearings, a spokesman said. By MICHAEL CORDTS Like the nickel cup of coffee and a shave and a haircut for two bits, the brass ring of the merry-go-round at Sea Breeze Park is a thing of the past.

"Between the insurance company and people who don't abide by the rules, we weren't left with much of a choice," 'said Merrick Price, vice president of the firm iat operates Sea Breeze. "The brass ring has meant free rides and priceless memories to thousands of people since 1915," Price said. "Now it's gone, and we're very sad about it." The laughing, and lunging for the brass ring, which syrhbolized luck and a day at the amusement park, ended May 1 in Rochester after an insurance company "recommended" that the piece of Americana could spell finan- cial disaster for Sea Breeze. "It used to be that, when people fell off the merry-go-round going for the ring, they'd pick themselves up and laugh," Price said. "Now they pick themselves up and get a lawyer." The ringless carousel is more than just a disappointment for Sea Breeze customers.

Only 16 merry-go-rounds in the nation still offer the novelty. Sea Breeze officials have been fighting the battle for more than a decade. The coveted brass ring used to be mixed with a stack of steel rings, and almost everyone who lunged got a ring. The only problem was that riders weren't returning the rings. "We started out one year with a ton of rings that's 2,000 pounds and didn't have one left at the end of the season," Price said.

Riders kept the lVfe-inch rings as souvenirs 'or threw them into the pond, on tops of buildings and through windows. Sea Breeze couldn't afford the overhead from thefts and vandalism, so it did away with the steel rings and went to a machine that lowered the "brass ring on command of the ride operator. "We even had trouble with that," Price said. "Some operators would let it down so friends could grab it. So we kWh Present Proposed Amount 12 2.55 3.70 $1.15 45.1 50 4.36 5.56 1.20 27.5 100 6.74 8.01 1.27 18.8 150 9.13 10.45 1.32 14.5 200 11.51 12.90 1.39 12.1 250 13.89 15.34 .1.45 10.4 300 16.27 17.79 1.52 9.3 350 17.98 20.23 2.25 12.5 400 19.70 22.68 2.98 15.1 450 21.41 25.12 3.71 17.3 500 23.12 27.57 4.45.

19.2 600 26.54 31.98 5.44 20.5 700 29.96 36.40 6.44 21.5 800 33.39 40.82 7.43 22.3 900 36.81 45.24 8.43 22.9 1,000 40.23 49.66 9.43 23A By DEDE MURPHY Residential customers are getting more than their fair share of Rochester Gas Electric proposed increases in gas and electricity rates, according to the Genesee Valley People's Power Coalition. has asked permission from the Public Service Commission to increase its electricity rates 18.2 percent. But the proposal charges resi- dential users about 20 percent more for electricity while boosting large commercial customers' bills about 16.4 percent, said coalition spokesman Robert Slaughter. "It really is a step backwards. Last year the rate increase was spread more evenly between residential and commercial classes," Slaughter said.

"This kind of price structure exploits' the people who can resist it the least while catering to the business community." The power coalition will oppose the rate increase and has applied for a grant from the state Consumer Protection Board to finance its work as intervenors for consumers. Public hearings on the increase will be held at 2 and 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 5, in city council chambers. proposal is available for public inspection at the Rochester Public Library, 115 South Ave. i 'Rates effective February 18, 1978 is proposing rate changes, that would shift large increases to residential (customers who use.