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TdlM "mast (Chicago (Tribune ir Monday, March 21, 1977 16 People Today's briefing is a digest of news from The Tribune's local, national, and foreign staffs, the Associated Press, United Press International, Reuters, New York Times, Knight News Wire, New York News, and Washington Star. It is edited by Robert McVea and Karen Rew. Nation ,1 mm AGAWJJ Sports Black Hawks finally triumph THE BLACK HAWKS caifght Spring fever in Chicago Stadium, beating the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-2 Sunday night. It was the first victory for the Chicago-am since they beat the New York Rangers 3-2 on Feb. 26.

Sec. 6, p. 1 THE BULLS bitted .500 In the NBA playoff sweepstakes Sunday, without firing a shot in anger. Seattle beat the Bucks in the final 30 seconds to move into a virtual tie with Chicago, while Kansas City was losing in Boston. KC still leads the Bulls by 1V4 games.

Sec. 6, p. 1. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Mark Hayes remained calm and collected as rivals were bothered by the wind Sunday and 72 for a 289 total won the Tournament Players Golf Championship.

It was the highest victory total in five years on the tour. Sec. 8, p. 1 SARASOTA. Fla.

Royle Stlllman's .346 batting pace has put the White Sox in a dilemma as his best chances for regular positions are filled by the likes of Ralph Garr and Richie Zisk. Sec. 6, p. 3 'J Metropolitan Young Dems data missing THE YOUNG Democrats of Illinois is looking for missing financial records Involving about $50,000 in fund expenditures and contributions. The group is also trying to locate its former president, Jack Shaw.

Sec. 4, p. 1 THE REV. ALICE Memmer became the first woman to be ordained a priest in the Epispocal Diocese of Chicago during a ceremony in the Church of the -Holy Spirit, Lake Forest, on Sunday. The Rt.

Rev. Quintin Prlmo the suffragan bishop of the diocese, who is black, presided at the ordination. Page 1 TWO ELDERLY women died of smoke inhalation Sunday afternoon in separate South Side fires. Frances Sok-al, 92, was overcome by smoke from a mattress fire in the bedroom of her home at 9155 S. Woodlawn Av.

Later, Leola Respress, 85, was found on the kitchen floor of her apartment, 7625 S. Vernon the victim of smoke from a fire in an adjoining dining room. Sec. 4, p. 4 A young Chicago cabbie was found shot to death in his taxi Sunday the day he promised his mother would be his last day of work.

Buddrick Taylor, 23, of 4940 W. Huron was shot four times. No suspects have been found. Sec. 4, p.

7 EDERAL PROSECUTORS will appeal a judge's acquittal of Oak Lawn Village President Fred Dumhe and two real estate developers in a mail fraud 7 World Gandhi loses, restores rights NEW DELHI-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was defeated in her campaign for re-election to parliament Sunday, her son lost his first bid for parliament, and their Congress Party is trailing the new Janata Party. Shortly after her defeat was announced Monday, Mrs. Gandhi lifted India's 21-month state of emergency. It is not clear whether she will have to quit as prime minister because she lost her seat in parliament. Page PARIS The Socialist-Communist alliance took control of two-thirds of France's big cities in runoff municipal elections Sunday.

It gained votes on a scale that could bring the leftists to national power in parliamentary voting next year. Incumbents loyal to the moderate majority of President Valery Giscard d'Estaing were ousted by leftist slates in 27 big cities. Page 12 BANGKOK, Thailand Laos has agreed to account for American servicemen missing in the Indochina war and has established a committee to search for information, Radio Vientiane said Monday. The broadcast said the promise to try to account for the missing was made to United States presidential envoy Leonard Woodcock at a meeting in Vientiane Sunday. The five-member U.

S. mission, meanwhile, was en route home. Page 2 CAIRO The Palestine Liberation Organization's parliament-in-exile adopted a political platform Sunday which for the first time does not call for the destruction of Israel, though it does reject recognition of Israel's right to exist. Thirteen hard-liners among the 291 members voted no to the platform, signifying a failure for Chairman Yas-sir Arafat's effort to get unanimous support behind a relatively moderate program. Sec.

4, p. 10 MOSCOW Soviet analysts are beginning to believe that President Carter is backing down on his tough human-rights stand. Their view is based on the administration's failure to counter Russian charges that the United States Embassy here has enlisted Soviet dissidents as spies and official U.S. silence on the arrest of a leading Jewish activist. Page 2 LONDON-British actor Peter Sellers was rushed to a hospital Sunday after fainting on a flight from Nice, Business AP Wlrtehoto AP Wlrephoto Rabbi Meir Kahane of the Jewish Defense League outside Hanafi Moslem headquarters in Washington Sunday.

Militant Jews picket Hanaf is WASHINGTON About 190 Jewish militants shouted threats outside the Hanafi Moslem, headquarters Sunday to protest the recent 39-hour takeover of B'nai B'rith headquarters here by 12 Hanafi gunmen. Police, who outnumbered the demonstrators nearly 2 to 1, kept them across the street from the Hanafi building, and there was no violence. Rabbi Meir Kahane, leader of the JewL-h Defense League, shouted at the Hanafis, "If any Jew in this city gets hurt, you're the target, baby." Page 5 Their secret betrayed to the breathlessly awaiting media, the-American pop star David Cassidy and the actress Kay Lenz en--gage in a springtime nuzzle for photographers. The They're betrothed. After osculating, they attended the British premiere of "Greet Scout and Cathouse -Thursday." a film in.

which she stars with Lee Marvin, Oliver Reed, and Robert Culp. STRAINS BETWEEN work demands and family desires are more visible than ever in organizations of all kinds. A growing resistance to company transfers, even at the risk of losing promotions and pay 1 raises, is one example of shifts in the balance between requirements and home responsi-ilities. See. 6, p.

8 "THERE'S MORE MONEY now than there are good ideas," says Stanley Golders, head of a firm looking for new investment ventures. "The economic climate for starting new businesses is. getting better all the time," says another" financier. Bankers and venture capitalists say their money isn't restricted to only those ideas that can't miss. Sec.

6, p. 8 PENTEL OF AMERICA, is a success story that results from a blend of Japanese innovation and American marketing techniques. The company has an estimated $25 million a year in sales in the competitive writing instrument field. Products are both imported and made in the United States. Sec.

6, p. 8 1 KM President Carter takes a lot of flak about the country ways of some of his aides, but Anne Armstrong, former ambassador to Britain, tells a story that must have had the British, at least, wondering about decorum, GOP style. It seems President Ford's appointee Armstrong and her husband, Tobin, a Texas rancher, were guests of honor at a party in Dumke Skinner 1 7 Week ahead With two mink coats, closets filled with expensive clothes, a large home, her own Mercedes, a' paycheck, and two last names, what other worldly goods could "Charlie's Angel" Farrah Fawcett-Majors possibly desire? Plenty, according to Celebrity magazine. "Well," she's quoted, "I could use a couple of more minks and I don't have a sable. But it's the money itself that comes first.

You work too hard in this business not to be well paid. I love to sleep. When I am forced to get up at 5 a.m., I demand to be compensated handsomely." Quebec Premier Rene Levesqae has a pregnant idea for the people of the province: If you speak English and love it, have babies. Le-vesque has suggested that Quebec's English-speaking minority can ensure survival of its language in the French-majority province by taking "the revenge of the cradles" and raising large families. "Revenge of the cradles" was the phrase used to describe the formerly high birth rate among French Canadians that helped their language and culture survive the British conquest in 1759.

Do tomatoes upset your stomach, or make you break out with a rash? Could you conjure up fear over scads of them each four feet high and four feet wide? Then movie director John DeBello has a place for you and 1,000 other "ex -V? case. U.S. Atty. Samuel Skinner said his researchers believe recent court cases justify the unusual appeal and will still allow the issue of double jeopardy to be avoided. Sec.

4, p. 1 EMPLOYES AT Meitzler's Tap, 3224 N. Southport may be wondering whether a customer who walked in and left a box on top of the jukebox was retaliating for hangovers. Inside the box were a 2-foot Diamondback rattler, a Cottonmouth, and a 6-foot Rat snake, all of which are poisonous. A bartender took the box to police, who rushed it to the Anti-Cruelty Society.

THE ILLINOIS Federation of Teachers voted Sunday to press for full state funding of education and for passage of a bill providing collective bargainings for all public employes. The full-funding resolution was adopted unanimously in spite of a Saturday appearance at the ITF convention here by Gov. Thompson, who said he could not support it. Sec. 4, p.

1 WASHINGTON-President Carter Is expected to receive a visit at the White House some time this week from former President Ford, an administration source said Sunday night. One probable topic for discussion is energy, the source said. Page 5 KANSAS CITY, and other school employes voted Sunday to conduct an illegal forcing the district to order the city's 51,000 public school children to stay home Monday. official of the teachers union said the strike vote by about 1,000 persons came in response to district delays in negotiating a new i Page 7 KESHENA, armed band of Menominee Indians have occupied a tribal courthouse and are demanding the arrests of the wives of tribal policemen who allegedly beat two women. The courthouse is hear the Alexiait Brothers novitiate occupied for 34 days by Menominee Indians in 1975.

HINCKLEY, Ohio Thousands of tourists flocked to this town of 4,500 to take part in the annual Buzzard Day festival. But the buzzards showed a reluctance to appear for their fans, some of whom drove hundreds of miles for the festivities. Page 8 ft Qbicagoans who want to vote in the April 19 primary have a last chance to register Monday in the office of the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners, Room 308 in City Hall. Members of the Lyric Opera orchestra are expected to approve a new contract at a meeting Tuesday. The pact, approved by negotiators for the Lyric management and the musicians union, would raise salaries from last year's $390 a week to $500 a week in 1979.

it 1 11 Peter Sellers "He's fine" after l. collapsing on France. Sellers, Si, was returning from his honeymoon with his 22-year-old bride when he collapsed. "He's fine," the new Mrs. Sellers said later.

Weather CHICAGO AND VICINITY: Monday: Occasional snow; high 35 to 40 2 to 5 CJ. Followup If 4 1 1 Anne Armstrong decorum brought wonder to the British, London. "I was wearing a very formal evening dress," Armstrong said. "But halfway through the evening I lifted the dress to reveal the pair of cowboy boots I was wearing. The British guests couldn't have been more pleased or excited.

To the British, Texas is the very essence of America." Rock Star Bob Seger recently brought his show to Detroit and split his pants on the second night for the hometown crowd. After accepting two gold records and a key to the Motor City, Seger explained to Creem magazine: "I give 110 per. cent in Detroit. You should give 100 per cent everywhere, but it's my hometown; I don't want to live in L. A.

everybody out there is starry-eyed. Here in Michigan people have their feet on the ground. I'm tuned into it. And I like waking up to snow on the ground. I'm a Frances Horwich today: "I'm reading things I never had time to read before, tras" in San Diego as he of the Killer DeBello describes his creation as "a musical comedy, disaster, a' horror film." Ed Furgol, who won the 1954 U.S.

Open Golf championship, has not been faring well on the pro tour lately. He said recently: "I'm playing just awful. If it keeps up like this, I'll probably be the first National Open champion to go on food stamps." Henry Winkler loves playing the Fonz "he has a sense of ty, a sense of loyalty" but not in a separate spinoff show with him' as the central role. "When I finish out my contract next season on' 'Happy I will have been five years in the role," Winkler; says. "Another three years in a spinoff would "add up to eight" years.

At the end of that, people will say, 'He was funny a' couple of years ago but no more' Fonzie was born on 'Happy Days, and he'll die there." whom she had been married for 43 years, died the following year. It took a while to. recover from his death, but she started exploring Arizona and is enchanted with its variety the Grand Canyon, Painted Desert, and petrified forest all in one state. And she loves the climate. She's also having a "delightful time" getting acquainted with Arizona's neighbor, Mexico, and its culture.

Arizona's large Indian population fascic nates Dr. Horwich. She loves the Indian arts and crafts. "I've always been an arts and crafts she explained. So she has created her own Indian needlepoint designs, and she's collecting Indian baskets.

She also loves to paint and weave. "I'VE ALWAYS told children you must not just take from a community, you must put back into it," she says. She prac- -yzr 1 IF AMERICAN schoolchildren of the 1950s could have given their favorite teacher an apple, then Dr. Frances Hor-wich would have had an orchard every day. Dr.

Horwich, better known as Miss Frances, and ber "Ding Dong School" television show, during its run, won the hearts and minds of children. And they didn't forget her when they grew up. "When NBC. had its 50th annivesary show in November, I got 700 or 800 letters," said Dr. Horwich, now of Scotts-dale, where she moved from Chicago in 1973 because of her husband's health.

Harvey Horwich, an attorney to in the nation WASHINGTON a Day Is marked here and around the country Monday. WASHINGTON The House Public Works Subcommittee on Aviation holds first day. of bearings Tuesday on legislation to reduce jet aircraft noise at commercial airports. Other hearings are scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, and for March 29, 30, and 31, and April 5 and 6. in sports The White Sox play Kansas City in Sarasota, Monday, and the Cubs faee the San Diego Padres in Scottsdale, Ariz.

The Los Angeles Lakers visit the Stadium Tuesday for a 7:30 p.m. game against the Bulls. The Illinois High School Girls' basketball sectionals will be contested statewide, including games at four local courts Crete-Mo-nee, Fremd, Maine South, and Home-wood-Flossmoor. In baseball, it's the Sox vs. the Baltimore Orioles and the Cubs against the San Francisco Giants.

Girls' state basketball sectionals continue Wednesday. NCAA Division II gymnastics championships start in Wheaton, The Kings play the Hawks in Stadium, the Sox test the Toronto Blue Jays and the Cubs play the A's. Thursday, the Virginia Slims tennis tour decides its season championship in New York, through Sunday. NCAA championships will be held in swimming at Cleveland, fencing Notre Dame and hockey Detroit. All conclude Saturday, as do Division II gymnastics in Wheaton.

The Sox again play Toronto and the Cubs face the Padres. The Knicks come Into the Stadium against the Bulls Friday. Girla's sectionals and Public League basketball concludes. The Sox play Atlanta and the Cubs face the Angels. NCAA basketball semifinals tip off in Atlanta Saturday.

The North Stars play the Hawks in the Stadium. The Sox go against the Orioles in Florida and the Cubs try the Angels again in Palm Springs. Sunday, the Bulls face the Cavs In the Stadium while the Hawks skate in Madison Square Garden against the Rangers-The Cubs face the Indians; the Sox go against the Cardinals. I i tices what she preaches by volunteering with senior citizens' groups, the handicapped, and working with children with learning "I'm the most relaxed I've been in years. I'm reading things I never had time to read before," says the 69-year-old educator.

She doesn't want to be tied down with a series and meeting deadlines. But, she enjoys making appearances and lecturing at Arizona State University, which is 15 minutes away In Tempe. She also does some work with an educational TV station. But the pioneer in children's broadcasting is not happy with today's children's programming. She believes that people who design today's programs don't know much about children.

She dislikes the use of surveys as a basis for programming because "you can get those numbers to say anything." "Children are learning things now they'll have to unlearn later," she lamented. ALTHOUGH SHE realises that you "cant keep violence away from children because we're living in a violent world," she thinks the amount of violence on television is overwhelming and that TV could tip the balance for children who already have problems that could lead them astray. About the most violent action on Ding Dong School was Miss Frances' ringing of her famous bell. She still has the original brass bell, in addition to a large bell' collection. "I found that bell in a second-hand shop on Wabash Avenue," Dr.

Horwich says. "We paid something like SO cents for it. I wouldn't jive that bell up for anything." Almanac 1 11 On this date: March 21, 1685, the composer Johann Sebastian Bach, was born in Germany. In 1790, Thomas Jefferson became the first U.S. Secretary of State.

In 1803, the French civil code, the Code Napoleon, was completed. In 1829 an earthquake in Spain killed some 6,000 people. In 1891, a marriage in Kentucky ended the feud between the Hatfields and McCoys. In 1918, in World War German guns bombarded Paris from 75 miles away. Esposito In 1928, Chicago's 19th Ward boss "Diamond Joe" Esposito was slain near his home Oakley Blvd.

In 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson flew hac Wr -liing on conference at Guam on the Viet Nam War. In 1972, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that :v.ay no', ret cne-year residence as a requirement for voting.

In 1973, the United States vetoed a UN Security Council resolution on the American dispute with Panama over the Panama Canal, calling thi-resolution outside pressure. In 1976, Moslem rebels in Beirut captured the 25-story Holiday Inn hotel, achieving a key victory In the Lebanese Civil War. Dr. Frances Horwich and the bell that opened TV's "Ding Dong.

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