Tyrone Daily Herald from Tyrone, Pennsylvania • Page 8

Page Eight Tyrone Daily Herald, Saturday, November 15,1980 Tyrone Daily Herald Established August 15, 1867 An evening newspaper published ai Herald Building, Tyrone, 'ennsylvania, 16686, by Tyrone Herald Company. Entered as Second Class Matter at Post Office at Tyrone, Pa. 16686 under ihe act of March 3, 1897. Mailed daily, except Sunday. Published by Tyrone Herald Company Single copy, 20 by carrier per week, 90 cents; Motor Route $4 per month; by mail within Pennsylvania, $3.50 per month in advance; outside Pennsylvania, $4.00 per month in advance.

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Restaurants in Peril It's a sad day, in a small town, when a favorite restaurant closes. The kind of establishment we have in mind is found on Main Street in towns all across the country a place where everyone knows everyone else, and the friendly atmosphere is almost as important as the food. The closing of a place like that can be a heavy loss to a community. Such restaurants appear to be going out of business in disturbing numbers. This conclusion is based in part on figures showing that the failure rate of retail businesses (the government includes restaurants in that category) during the first half of this year was 44 per cent above the 1979 rate.

Generally speaking, it is the independent, single owned restaurants that are being hardest hit. Franchise or chain restaurants tend to be less vulnerable, being backed by greater resources and buying power. In some respects the disappearance of the small independents echoes the decline of the small family farm. In each case a big factor is inability to make ends meet in an operation competing with others which benefit by the economies of size. This is emphasized by an Iowa State University extension specialist, Jim Huff.

He notes that for many restaurants business is not growing fast enough to counteract rapid increases in the costs of food, labor and energy. Restaurant patronage has gone down because of the recession, and both food and labor costs seem sure to continue upward in the months ahead. To minimize the pinch, some restaurants are doing such things as using less labor, staying open longer hours to catch a few more customers, perhaps discontinuing less popular items on the menu. The beleaguered restaurant owner also has the option of raising menu prices, but too much of a boost loses customers and in a small town the loss of just a few may be crucial. Yet the broad answer to the problem seems to be that, as in virtually every other field, restaurants must raise their prices enough to keep abreast of rising costs.

If they fail to do this, and can't make up the difference with such alternative actions as those mentioned above, they are doomed. Every time that happens to the sort of restaurant this is patronized for more than just the food or the fancy decor, the community is the loser. I A I Trinl III I Shows Mobsters Are Criminals Too Voyager Hurtling Away, Shows Us More LOS ANGELES (UPI) The prosecutor in the trial of five reputed West Coast Mafia leaders says their convictions on charges of racketeering and extortion show the Mafia is not beyond the reach of the law. "This case has destroyed the myth that the Mafia cannot be successfully prosecuted," Jim Henderson, head of the Organized Crime Strike Force in Los Angeles said Friday after the convictions. He further hailed the convictions as a warning "message to all people in organized crime." All five defendants, allegedly leaders of the Southern California Mafia, were convicted on rackeetering charges involving attempts to extort money from gamblers, bookmakers and pornographers.

Two of the defendants also were convicted of extorting $7,500 from an FBI undercover sting operation. However, three of the defendants, charged with plotting to murder Frank "The Bomp" Bompensiero, the San Diego mob chief who was fatally shot near a telephone booth in 1977, were acquitted on those charges. The prosecution had charged Bompensiero had been lured to the phone booth after fellow mob members suspected he had turned government informer. All five defendants Dominick Brooklier, 66, identified in testimony as boss of the Los Angeles family of La Cosa Nostra; Samuel Sciortino, 61, an alleged underboss; Louis Tom Dragna, 60, a reputed onetime acting boss; Michael Rizzitello, 53, a mob or lieutenant; and Jack LoCicero, 68, a mob "consigliere," or counsellor stood silently as the verdicts were read. Several members of their families sat rigidly in the front row of the courtroom.

Some of the wives wept. The jurors reached the verdicts Friday evening after eight days of deliberation. Testimony lasted three weeks in the trial hailed by law enforcement officers as the most significant judicial crackdown on the Mafia's activities in many years. The defendants will remain Miss World Surrenders Crown For A Little Peace HARRISBURG (UPI) The state Justice Department said Friday a former Labor and Industry Department collection clerk has been sentenced in connection with her conviction on charges of embezzling $21,576 in commonwealth funds. Crisann Sue Peters, 27, Harrisburg, was sentenced to two consecutive one-to tive- year prison terms and fined $700.

Ms. Peters, formerly an employee in the Bureau of Occupational and Industrial Safety, pleaded guilty Aug. 5 to embezzling money paid the commonwealth as fees for department approval of construction plans. 'LONDON (UPI) Gabriella Brum, the 18-year- old blonde who was Miss World fr 17 hours, says she abdicated her crown for "peace and quiet" not because of the controversy about her posing nude or having a boyfriend three times her age. Miss Brum, the leggy 6-foot daughter of a British soldier who was the contestant from West Germany, became the briefest-reigning Miss World in history Friday.

She surrendered her crown and flew to Germany just 17 hours after winning the title Thursday evening. "I just want some peace and quiet," Miss Brum told the London Daily Mirror Friday IN THE GROUSE'S ROOM November 17th thru November 29th FAMILY FOR RESERVATIONS PHONE 946-163 Sheraton Motor Inn-Altoona SHERATON HOTELS MOTOR INNS WORLDWIDE R.D.# 2, BOX 520, ALTOONA, PENNSYLVANIA night in a telephone call from her mother's home in Berlin. "I'm exhausted. "I had to get away from all the fuss and tension in London. Suddenly I knew I had to see my family in Berlin." Miss Brum wore a black felt cowboy hat with an elaborate feather band as she left London's Heathrow Airport and handed over the title to runnerup Miss Guam, Kimberly Santos.

Miss Santos, the 19-year-old daughter of a U.S. serviceman stationed in Guam, was unavailable for comment on her rise to the title. Her Northern Irish grandfather said in Belfast today she was aboard a flight to New Guinea and was unaware she was the new Miss World. The controversy began almost immediately after the pageant at the Royal Albert Hall when journalists tried to question Miss Brum about reports she posed in the nude and lived in Hollywood with producer Benno Bellenbaum, 52. "I spoke to my boyfriend this morning," she told reporters Friday after her first, and only, official function as Miss World a breakfast with London's lord nayor.

"He didn't seem too pleased." Today's editions of London's tabloid newspapers carried several pictures of Miss Brum. One showed her embracing a man identified as Bellenbaum, while there were several of her in skimpy swimsuits and one of her clutching a dozen roses to apparently bare breasts. "She's just a fun-loving girl who has never done anything wrong," Bellenbaum was quoted in the Daily Mirror as saying of Miss Brum. "She has posed nude only for me, not for anybody else." Mother Had Twins, Has Triplets BETTENDORF, Iowa (UPI) The odds were against her, but 23-year-old Debbie Drake is the proud mother of month-old identical triplets and 5-year-old identical twins. "I was shocked," Mrs.

Drake said Friday. "The doctors told me the odds were one in a billion that I could have identical twins and identical triplets." The trio was born at University Hospitals in Iowa City Oct. 6, seven minutes apart and each weighed about 4 pounds. Mrs. Drake and her 29- yearold husband, John, took the girls Jenny, Erica and Jamie home last week.

The twins, Rochelle and Michelle, have been helping take care of their new sisters, Mrs. Drake said. "The doctors said it would be a rarity now for me to have a single birth," she said. "But no more," she added with a laugh. "I'm all done." Now You Know The average Human brain weighs only 3 pounds, but uses a fifth of the body's oxygen and blood.

free on bail pending sentencing Jan. 12 before U.S. District Judge Terry Hatter Jr. At Henderson's request, however, they will be required to check in weekly with the U.S. marshal's office.

The defendants each could be sentenced to a maximum of 20 years in federal prison and fined $20,000 on the racketeering convictions alone. All were convicted of the racketeering count. On the other charges: was convicted of conspiracy in conducting the enterprises of La Cosa Nostra, but acquitted of an extortion charge and plotting to kill Bompenserio. was acquitted of conspiracy, extortion and plotting to kill Bompenserio. was convicted of conspiracy, but acquitted of plotting to kill Bompenserio.

and LoCicero were convicted of extorting $7,500 from FBI agents they believed to be pornography dealers. The bulk of the case rested on the testimony of two men who left the underworld and became paid FBI informants hitman and former acting Mafia underboss Aladena "Jimmy the Weasel" Fratian- no, 68, and enforcer Harry "The Greek" Coloduras. "We viewed Jimmy Fra- tianno with the greatest of care and doubt," jury foreman William Wassil said. "In every instance, we had to have corroboration and substantiation." PASADENA, Calif. (DPI) The rings of Saturn seen from below and from almost directly above show a very different face to Voyager 1's cameras than they did from the oblique view the spacecraft recorded when it approached the giant planet.

Voyager 1, which is hurtling upward from the ecliptic plane on which the planets revolve around the sun, looked back from its new perspective and beamed images to scientists. They indicated that Saturn's B-ring, the broad ring originally thought to be so tightly compacted no light could pass through it, wasn't so thick after all. The spacecraft had to have the rings between its cameras and the sun to catch the scattered light spun around the particles to make that determination. The B-ring is transparent to some extent, scientists found. The Cassini Division, thought before Voyager to be a space between the rings, is filled with its own lightly compacted rings.

As a matter of fact, Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientists handling the probe, said the five rings generally assumed to exist around Saturn before Voyager's flyby of the planet about 948 million miles from Earth are actually between 500 and 1,000 concentric circles of matter in various orbits around the planet. The post-encounter phase of Voyager also took a look at sunlight streaming around the moon Titan, the large moon of Saturn and the only one in the solar system with an atmosphere. It's atmosphere may be two to three times as thick as Earth's even though the mass of the body, and therefore its gravity, isn't sufficient to hold an atmosphere for the 4.5 billion years it has been in existence. It's atmosphere is mostly nitrogen, as cold as 330 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. It has at least three layers of atmosphere topped by a haze of complex hydrocarbons believed caused by the same process that causes smog in Los Angeles photochemical synthesis.

That occurs when the sunlight turns the basic hydrocarbons into the complex molecules that eventually become polymers, molecules so complex in structure they can't be analyzed even in a laboratory. Polymers are believed to cause the reddish-brown haze that has obscured the surface of Titan from Voyager's cameras. Some of the puzzles that remain, and were expected to be addressed today by a group of JPL scientists, were the Kring's apparent "braided" strands of matter, a phenemona that ostensibly violates Newton' laws of motions, and the two narrow rings that are in an eliptic orbit instead of a circular orbit as are the others. Scientists also were to discuss the torus, the giant cloud of hydrogen atoms floating around the planet and its system which may be the key, along with the magnetic field of Saturn, to understanding the gravitational hold Titan has on its heavy atmosphere. DANCE Petersburg FIRE HALL Saturday, Nov.

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