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LOS ANGELES TIMES WEDNESDAY. APRIL 1, 1992 ORANGE COUNTY PLANE Continued from B1 and St. Anthony's Hospital near Denver. The pilot was identified as Steve Trevor. The others were identified as Randy Villadore, 23; Curt Hillman, 24; and Dana Smith, 29, all of Orange County.

Smith, who suffered multiple injuries, was listed in critical condition, while Villadore and Hillman were stable. Officials from the Federal Aviation Administration said the plane had filed a flight plan Tuesday morning from John Wayne Airport to Stapleton in Denver. But later, it was rerouted to Centennial Airport near Larkspur. "The pilot did indicate he had a problem prior to going down, but we don't. know the nature of the problem," said Lee Fryer, duty officer for the FAA regional office in Seattle.

"He said: 'I have a field in sight and I'm going The plane crashed at 1:08 p.m. PST on a plateau with patchy timber and occasional rock outcroppings. Authorities said snow showers were forecast at the time, with fog and visibility of three to five miles and a ceiling of 1,000 feet. Witt said she was shocked to receive the call from a crash vietim. "We handle traffic accidents.

We don't get that stuff here." But she said 911 calls on U.S. West Cellular phones wind up with the State Patrol rather than the police. She said she has also received emergency calls from motorists on cellular phones, and one from an avalanche victim. The caller on Tuesday told her "there were four on board. One said he couldn't move and had no feeling from the waist down.

He said one guy had a broken arm. He said one was not moving." She said the caller was upset but not panicky. "He was shaken up, but under control." She said that the man on the phone told her that he was on top of a flat plateau, and based on that, the patrol officers were able to locate them. Swedish Hospital spokeswoman Beatrice Kitchen said the men arrived at the hospital at 4:30 p.m., and she speculated that they had been in the field for two to three hours. She said doctors would not permit the patients to talk to anyone Tuesday night.

"Two of them were conscious and lucid," Kitchen said. "They were lucid enough to give their names right away. "They were, of course, extremely upset, very quiet. They knew the condition of the pilot." Times staff writer Gebe Martinez contributed to this story. PARSONS: An Unexpected and Foolish Fling With Fame Continued from B1 program and pen at me and said, "Can I have your autograph?" In the darkness, the kid had mistaken me for a player.

It took a few jumbled seconds for me to realize how it had happened: I was wearing the black team jacket that I'd borrowed from my brother. Because the Pirates' jackets also were black and probably because I was the only adult standing around among the kids, the little towhead logically thought I was a Pirate. I also assumed that he saw the lettering on the jacket, but because of the darkness, he probably didn't see it that clearly. Had he exam- LAGUNA Continued from B1 rights to the chain. "His restaurants will always be a part of Americana." The native Philadelphian nurtured a 10-stool hamburger joint called Bob's Pantry in Glendale into a worldwide franchise that is one of the most recognizable and successful family restaurant chains.

Wian also blazed a trail in employee relations and was among the first restaurant owners to give employees profit -sharing and health insurance plans. Wian in 1967 sold his interest in the chain to the Marriott which later sold it to Elias Bros. I business, addition Wian to the was elected restaurant to the Glendale City Council in 1948 and was later mayor. The source of his fame, however, remained his inventiveness in the food -service business. A few years after opening Bob's Pantry, Wian changed the name to Bob's Big Boy and converted it into a drive-in restaurant, offering dime hamburgers, french fries and shakes "so thick you can eat them with a spoon," the restaurant said.

But it was his double-deck hamburgers packaged in sesame seed buns that drew the most rave reviews from customers. Wian said the idea for the double burger actually started as "a joke" when he slapped it together for a friend who asked for a different kind of hamburger. "The whole idea just took off," Wian told a Times reporter several years ago. Another thing that made his burgers special was the quality of the meat. "In those days, people were skeptical of hamburger meat," he said, "so we ground it ourselves" in front of the customers.

Even a more famous burger, than the however, was the fat little boy with the bright red-and-white overalls. It was a trademark that Wian fashioned after a young customer at the original Colorado Boulevard restaurant, Rick Woodruff. Woodruff would take a stool at the counter and stay for more than one hamburger. "His grandmother would have to drag him out of the place," said Casey Wian, 31, Wian's son. One of his father's friends was there one day and drew a sketch of the boy on a napkin, he said, and "the rest is history," Over the years, the Big Boy character evolved.

"The first had him holding a hamburger with a bite out of it and his cheeks full of food, and he was barefoot," he recalled. In the 1950s, Wian's restaurants grew in popularity and were fran- Continued from B1 for allegedly lying during a police investigation of the incident but was later ordered reinstated by the city. Purcell said the firing of the officers and threats of lawsuits from the public increased the unease in the Police Department. "There were several months of uncertainty and frustration and disillusionment, and a certain amount of anxiety following the broadcast of that Dunbar case," Robert C. Wian in front of restaurant chain's chubby boy mascot.

chised throughout Southern California. Some became so popular they were "hangouts for high school students," Wian said, so his father hired security guards to handle the crowd and cars, which would line up for blocks. Much of Wian's success, friends and family said, came from his concern for his employees and his innovative spirit. Longtime former employee Ray Rodusky, 52, said he earned more than $200,000 in profit- -sharing while flipping burgers for Wian for more than 20 years. "Bob Wian really cared about us," the Garden Grove resident said.

"He treated everyone like they were family." Along with being credited with inventing the double-deck hamburger, Wian is recognized as being the first to introduce customers to sesame seed buns and coarseground pepper. In another industry first, Wian cast his corpulent Big Boy character in a comic book handed to children at the table, which added to the chain's popularity as a family spot to eat. After opening 22 Big Boy restaurants and franchising hundreds of others, Wian sold the business to Marriott Corp. for $7 million, though he remained involved in some aspects of the chain's operations until the mid-1970s. In recent years, the Big Boy's ined it closely, he would have discovered that my brother didn't play for the Pittsburgh Pirates but, and God bless alliteration, he did play for Pettit's Pastries of Omaha.

So the kid comes over, wanting the autograph. Now, is my reaction, 'Sorry, son, I'm not a Not on your life. Never occurred to me. Instead, my starving-foradulation self says, "Who do you think I am?" I was stalling, because on such short notice I couldn't think of any white players on the Pirate roster. The kid was young, and it was dark, but I could hardly see him falling for me passing myself as Purcell said.

"It was a very human reaction by our officers but it created a lot of unrest, and officers were reluctant just to go out there and do their Purcell said the drop in arrests was not likely to put the public's health and safety at risk, but added that such a trend is usually followed by a rise in -type crimes." The community "probably did lose out, because I think they could have had better police service for 1991," Purcell said. According to Police Department statistics, felony arrests increased from 1990 to 1991, but arrests presence in Southern California faded. Marriott, which sold the franchise rights to Elias Bros. in 1988, has been converting many of its Bob's restaurants it owns into other, more modern eateries. Morgan said Elias Bros.

plans to open new Big Boy restaurants in California. Wian retired from the restaurant business in the 1970s and moved his family to an 800-acre ranch in Valyermo, about 30 miles southeast of Palmdale. He was an avid hunter, rancher and yachtsman. even wife, June, years ago, moved Wian to and Newport his Beach, where he spent time at the Newport Beach Country Club playing cards and backgammon with friends. On March 9, Wian was found unconscious by his wife in their Big Canyon home.

He had suffered a brain hemorrhage that left him partly paralyzed. He is survived by his widow, his sisters, Doris Weis and Katharine Kurvink; daughters, Barbara Baehler and Julie Wian; sons, Chapman Baehler and Casey Wian, and three grandchildren. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Pacific View Memorial Park in Newport Beach. The family has requested that in lieu of flowers donations be sent to the Hoag Hospital Foundation General Fund.

Cecilio Guante. The kid couldn't think any faster than me. He looks me over but says he can't place me. I josh with him for a while, mind racing through the Pirate lineup, until, bingo, I remember good old Jim Morrison, third baseman. So I sign, "Best wishes, Jim Morrison," and the kid, while not thrilled, at least doesn't wad up the program.

But, like only the famous understand, the signing set off a boomlet. Another kid saw him get the autograph and asked him who I was. That kid comes over, and I sign Jim Morrison again. for public intoxication and drunk driving both plunged by more than Purcell said that shift can be traced to the fact that the Police Department was housed in trailers during 1991 and did not have a jail. "We couldn't arrest drunks like we usually do because there was no place to take them," he said.

Drunk driving arrests fell from 596 in 1990 to 339 in 1991. In addition, a traffic safety grant that paid for two -driving enforcement officers expired at the beginning of 1991, Purcell said. The statistics show the number of crimes reported in 1991 dipped Thinking of Eyelid Surgery? Blepharoplasty (cosmetic eyelid surgery) reduces fullness of the eyelids. Using a current technique, lower lid fullness can be reduced without a skin incision. shin without surgery eyelid tower of Henry Baylis, M.D., was Chief of Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery at a major university for 15 years.

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Fourteen other Marines were rescued after the CH-46E Sea Knight went down Saturday night. Five of them suffered serious burns and were immediately flown to a U.S. military hospital in Germany, The three other missing Marines in the fiery crash were from the 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment at Camp Pendleton. They were identified as Sgt. James L.

Hagger, 29, of Spartanburg, S.C.; Cpl. Clarence E. Jenkins 26, of Greenville, N.C.; and Lance Cpl. Rodney N. Hudson, 22, of Garden City, Mich.

Derickson, 28, whose wife, Denise, and two daughters, Cassandra, 2, and Kimberley, 2 months, live on base housing in Irvine, joined the Marine Corps as an aviator in 1985. He transferred to the Tustin-based Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 161 in August, 1991, and went to the Persian Gulf War as a helicopter pilot. It was his second tour of duty at the Tustin Marine Corps Air Station. When the accident occurred, the helicopter was attached to the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, which is made up of personnel from Camp Pendleton and the Tustin helicopter base. The expeditionary force was on a six-month deployment at sea and was headed from the Gulf of Arabia to Mombasa, Kenya.

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