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8-D THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1380, LongvUw Morning Journal r-Afoout people-i K- A- i tVllfil 'JNt jjiiv'; f.V Seniors get 1,125 merit scholarships NEW YORK (UPI) The good word for 1,125 of the nation's top high school seniors Wednesday was money. That many in an annual sweepstakes for brains were notified by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation of winning a $1,000 National Merit award their share from a scholarship fund valued at almost $14 million this year. All 14,000 finalists in the high prestige National Merit competition for 1980 were considered for the one-time, nonrenewable $1,000 awards with payment to be made in the fall when the students enroll in college. Those named Wednesday were judged to best combine abilities and personal qualities needed for success during and after college. Family's financial situation did not figure in the selection of those awards as it is in almost half of other types in the National Merit program.

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation, a nonprofit unit in Evanston, 111., administers the giant scholarship program a talent search in which some 19 million high school students have participated since 1956, with 63,000 sharing over $174 million in awards. When the 1980 competition ends, more than 4,500 highly able students will have been told they're getting one of three kinds of awards from corporations, from the $1,000 winner's circle, or from colleges. Wednesday's announcement was the second of three concerning 1980 awards. The first, made April 10, named 1,500 winners of corporate-sponsored awards. May 1, NMSC will reveal names of a third group of about 1,900 fiinalists who are accepting college-sponsored four-year merit scholarships.

That leaves about 10.000 of the finalists with no scholarship. Many do not qualify for the bigger money scholarships since their families have too much income. To be a merit scholar is reward in itself, however. Finalists are wooed by the best colleges. Throughout life, the words "National Merit Scholar" on a resume, helps pave the way to good Jobs.

Mock drill explodes, surprises dispatcher i Woman teaches languages to elderly ST. LOUIS (AP) Mrs. Dwight D. Elsenhower put her fluency to use just after World War II. and now Mil deZucconi Is putting It to a new use at the age of 83.

Fluent in German, French, Italian, Croatian, Serbian and Czeck, Mrs. deZucconi has volunteered to teach the tongues to other older adults under the auspices of the St. Louis Agency on Aging. Shortly after the war, Eisenhower came to her camp of about 10,000 displaced persons near Munich "to see what we needed," she says. "And of course we needed everything.

I took him around the camp, acted as his interpreter and we became friends he was the first true gentleman I met among the Americans." Bobby Fischer no longer chess-minded BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) Soviet world chess champion Anatoly Rarpov said Wednesday it was regrettable that former American title holder Bobby Fischer no longer showed any interest in the game. "If it's true that he is now far away from chess, it is to be regretted," Karpov said. He was speaking to Yugoslav chess officials and reporters after arriving in Belgrade on his way to Padua, Italy, for a series of matches. Mickey Rooney comes full career circle NEW YORK (AP) There are. said Mickey Rooney, four phases to a career in the limelight as measured by the cry of a producer: "Get me Mickey Rooney.

Get me someone like Mickey Get me a young Mickey Who's Mickey Rooney?" But Mickey Rooney has come full circle. The 59-year-old star of the Broadway hit "Sugar Babies" is hearing "Get me Mickey Rooney" again, and he shared his philosophies of life and the theater with 75 Columbia University students Tuesday. He was Columbia's School of the Arts to receive a certificate of honor praising him as one of "that special category of artists that lift up souls and give us look at the world around us." Man saves Bunker, but goes to prison DEDHAM. Mass. (AP) A man who was credited with saving the life of Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker in Saigon has been sentenced to six years probation for receiving stolen property.

A Norfolk Superior Court Judge sentenced Paul V. Healy, 32, of Holbrook to a suspended term on a charge of leaving the scene of an accident as well. Fired as Boston police officer after his conviction two weeks ago, Healy still faces charges of possession of marijuana. His lawyer, Frank McGee, told the court on Tuesday that Healy, who holds a Distinguished Service Cross, ran through heavy enemy fire to toss a weapon to the trapped ambassador during the Viet Cong attack on the American Embassy in the 1968 Tet offensive. HAVE SPOKES, WILL TRAVEL H.

Sarayana, I (), from southern India hold-, new bike after hi was stolen in Chicago. World traveler gets new bike son YMCA, where his bike was stolen from an unlocked room, is letting him stay free of charge. In addition, half a dozen people have offered help and two local Indian community groups have come to his aid. "I like the whole United States and I love Chicago," Narayan said. "The people have been great." He said he plans to leave Saturday for Washington, DC, and the East Coast and then go on to Europe.

Narayana said he left his bike "for one minute" at the YMCA and never suspected anyone would take it. "In India, they told me everybody in America was rich," he said. "They said there were no robbers here But just in case he bikes near any robbers again, Schwinn officials have given him a deluxe bicycle lock and a sturdy chain. CHICAGO (UPI) B.V. Narayana of India is back in the touring lane, thanks to the Schwinn Bicycle Co.

Narayana's goal of traveling around the world on a bicycle hit the brakes last weekend when someone stole his bike 24 hours after he arrived in Chicago. Before that, Narayana. 18, who started his tour in his home in southern India, walked his bike across deserts infested with wild animals during 14 months of covering almost 30,000 miles. Schwinn officials heard of the bicycle theft and Tuesday presented him with a bright red Schwinn Varsity 10-speed. The bike retails for about $175 but with all the extras frame pump, water bottle, two extra tires and tubes, rear and top folding baskets, a front basket and a speedometer would go for about $260, said Rick Schwinn III, who presented Narayana with the bike at a North Side Schwinn factory.

"Now we've redeemed Chicago's reputation," Schwinn said. "It's beautiful," Narayana said as he poked at his new vehicle. Narayana has received more than a new bike. The Law- DINNER BOX (Good Thursday Friday Only) News media representatives heard Mrs. Dodson's calls and began flooding the town with calls of their own, trying to find out the extent of the damage and injuries.

Mrs Dodson said there was no way she could easily tell the "emergency" was a fake. "I'm down here In the (police) building and I can't see. what's going on. Somebody planned this disaster drill, but they didn't tell me about it." "My heart kept thumping for half an hour. I'm glad it was only a mock explosion," she said.

SAYRE, Okla. (AP) Police and news media representatives were thrown into an uproar when emergency workers held a mock explosion safety drill and forgot to warn the police dispatcher. Dispatcher Louise Dodson said she received what sounded like an emergency call at 6:20 p.m. Tuesday saying Sayre Elementary School had exploded and several students were injured in this far western Oklahoma town of 2,700. "I got on the radio and called the fire department, the patrolmen, the Highway Patrol, the hospital if nobody had stopped me, I would have called other towns in to help," Mrs.

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Police Chief Jerry Wlngo says Winborn was guilty of insubordination in refusing to wear his gun on his right side. "People can't believe me when I tell them I got fired for being left-handed," says Winborn, a 10-year veteran of police work. "I don't need it (the reserve Job) for my livelihood and I'm not going to let them pick on me." Winborn, who says the holster change would be unsafe, has appealed for help from federal and state agencies. "I'm told that I'm not being discriminated against," he said of his efforts. "I thought I had rights too, but I guess I don't." A hearing before the Riverside Board of Police Commissioners has been requested by Winborn's attorney.

If he loses there, Winborn could appeal to the City Council and "the courts. Wlngo says the matter has been blown out of proportion. "We've very proud of the fact that we are trying to establish a more disciplined organization." he said. "You cannot require some people to adhere to rules and not other people. You either make them follow the regulations or you havae to relieve them of their duties." Department rules give Wingo the authority to establish uniform specificiations, and the chiefs says he requires right-handed holsters in an unwritten rule.

Wingo says Winborn's refusal to wear a right-handed holster could be an indication he might not be qualified to shoot with his right hand Winborn says he can shoot with either hand. "This is ridiculous the way this is going," he says. "It burns me to no end that something like this happened." Gunmen heist gems LOS ANGELES (AP) Two gunmen posing as customers tied up four people in an office in the city's gem dis-! trict and escaped with an estimated $1 million in gold, diamonds and silver, police said Wednesday. The two men appeared outside the locked glass door at the offices of Gems Ltd. about 6 p.m.

Tuesday, said detective Horst Wendt. "They were wearing sport coats and looked pretty legit," Wendt said, "and when someone opened the door to ask who they were, they said they were sent by customers." The men were admitted to the office and almost im- mediately pulled handguns, Wendt said. Pulling tape and rope out of their briefcases, the ban-; dits tied up the four men and one woman in the office, taped their mouths and helped themselves to the mer-. chandise in the open safe. naioM0! l-nftnLW DU113UI1 tCT1 EZ- JILL IRELAND jr 314 IN.

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The suit was brought in St. Louis County Circuit Court by Marymae Hale of Kirkwood on behalf of her grandson, Matthew S. Hale. Named as defendant was Kathy Buckner of suburban Hazelwood. The boy is the son of Sandra and Henry Hale, who were divorced last October.

The child has been living with his mother. The suit charges that in April 1979 Ms. Buckner "willfully, wickedly and maliciously" induced Hale to leave his wife and son. Since that time, the suit said, Ms. Buckner has "harbored, detained and debauched" Hale, causing the boy to lose his father's "affection, support, protection and respect." An attorney for the boy's grandmother said Hale left his wife and son after meeting Ms.

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