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The Morning Call from Allentown, Pennsylvania • 6

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I I SUNDAY CALL-CHRONICLE, September 5, 1982 THIRD ISRAEL Continued From Page A1 over Reagan's new Middle East peace plan. On Wednesday Reagan "a fresh start" toward resolving the questions of a Palestinian homeland Israeli security. The Israeli government's first reaction to the plan was anger and complete rejection. Administration officials insisted that there was no connection between the continued delay in F-16 shipments and the efforts to gain Israeli cooperation with the President's 1 negotiating plan. They said no one in the administration was questioning the commitment to provide the aircraft and that approval was "only a matter of timing." Administration officials did not deny, however, that the F-16s could become part of the bargaining over sharing intelligence information.

The administration sent informal notification of the prospective sale to Congress in May, but it did not take the virtually automatic next step providing formal notification and giving Congress 30 days to block the sale. The State Department cited Israeli intervention in Lebanon as the reason. Angry crowd SAN FRANCISCO (AP) An angry crowd pummeled a sidewalk preacher with chains and pipes after he drove his car at some teen-age hecklers and instead ran down three small children heading home from a circus, police said. Two of the children, both 4-yearolds, were killed and an 18-month-old boy was critically injured. A grocery store manager waved a gun and held the crowd at bay until police arrived and arrested the Biblecarrying preacher.

The suspect, William Daguman, was being treated in the jail ward of San Francisco General Hospital Hospital yesterday, police said. Daguman, 22, of San Francisco, FIRE Continued From Page A1 five miles east of the heart of Hollywood. The swift-moving blaze, which broke out at 4:27 a.m., was not controlled until 90 minutes later because fire fighters made rescue of the residents their first priority, Reed explained. City Fire Chief Allen Evansen said arson investigators ruled out a "'suspicious" cause, but were not sure what caused the blaze, which may have started in the first-floor boiler room or near the second-floor stair landing. Johnson said it appeared flames rushed down the long corridors past open fire doors designed to keep the flames from spreading.

VICTIM Continued From Page A1 early Friday morning in the area of 6th and Linden streets, he said. Until Wednesday morning, Mrs. Briggs worked as a waitress on the 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. shift at the Sunset Diner at 6th and Linden streets.

Rose Fritchman, a waitress at the diner, said Mrs. Briggs was dismissed from her job on Wednesday but returned the following day to collect her things. Thursday was the last time Fritchman saw her, she said. Fritchman, who described herself as a friend of the dead woman's, said Mrs. Briggs worked at the diner for about two weeks.

Fritchman said she met Mrs. Briggs about two months ago when the two were volunteers at Daybreak, an adult drop-in and recreation center at St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Allentown. "She would do anything for anybody," said Fritchman of Mrs. Briggs, "She was so nice." During the waitresses' break at the diner, Fritchman said, Mrs.

Briggs regularly gave half of her meal to her husband, who dropped into the diner frequently. Mrs. Briggs wouldn't go anywhere without a small stuffed Teddy Bear her husband brought her from Hershey Park, said Fritchman. Mrs. Briggs told her it was the first present her husband bought her since their marriage, Fritchman said.

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27 visit to the Pentagon, Sharon mentioned to Weinberger that Israel had learned many military lessons from the war in Lebanon. But Sharon added, according to informed sources, that it would not be logical for Israel to pass over such information while the United States maintains sanctions against the Israelis. Sharon was said to have urged that the two sides wait until their relations got back to normal before negotiating an agreement for sharing the information. It is normal practice for Israel and the United States to negotiate such specific arrangements, as they did after the 1967 and 1973 wars. The two nations are continuing to share other, nonmilitary intelligence information under separate agreements.

Weinberger is said to have responded that he did not know what sanctions Sharon was referring to. He reportedly presented Sharon with a list of weapons that the United States continued to provide Israel. Sharon was said to have responded with a long list of American beats who is unemployed, was booked for investigation of two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder, police said. "It was crazy what he did," said an unidentified witness. "He just jumped the curb and crushed those children into the wall like bugs." Police said the children had been to a circus at the Cow Palace, a few blocks away, and were waiting for a bus at the corner Friday evening when Daguman's car hurtled over the curb.

The car rammed the children into the wall of a store, leaving a 4-footwide hole in the wall, police said. "I understand he was preaching All of the victims died in the charred hallways and stairwells of the second and third floors, Reed said. Bodies were strewn along the third-floor corridor, down the stairs and piled in a heap at the second-floor exit door, just a few feet from safety. "It's not confirmed, but it could have started in that hallway because of the severe amount of said Reed. One young woman apparently died trying to save an infant, her body huddled over that of the child in a corner of the second-floor stairwell.

Gustavo Escobedo, 21, said he was awake in his apartment across the alley when he heard a man yelling: 'Fire! Fire! Fire!" "I ran over there, and there was a lady screaming on the fire he said. "She threw her baby to me and I caught it. Then there was another guy who was cut on the neck, "She sometimes seemed to have a mind like a 12-year-old girl," said Fritchman. Mrs. Briggs lost her job, Fritchman said, because she had difficulty making change and because her husband was hanging around the diner.

Fritchman said Mrs. Briggs supported herself and her husband with her waitress job at the diner and that David Briggs was unemployed. Several times Mrs. Briggs appeared at the diner with visible bruises on her body, Fritchman said. Allentown Atty.

Spyro Gellos, who owns the building where Mrs. Briggs and her husband rented an apartment, said he also noticed bruises on A Course MORAVIAN sanctions. They included the F-16 delay, the suspension of the 1981 Memorandum of Understanding on military cooperation when Israel annexed the Golan Heights last December, and the suspension of cluster bomb deliveries because of Israel's use of the weapon in Lebanon. Weinberger's response could not be learned. American military officers are particularly interested in learning about what Israel experienced in attacking Syrian missile batteries.

The batteries made up of a variety of Soviet-made, surface-tores air missiles, SAM-2s, SAM-3s and SAM-6s, as well as antiaircraft guns and radar are virtually identical to Soviet systems in Europe. The Israelis destroyed all the batteries without losing an aircraft. There is also considerable interest in Israel's experience against the Soviet-made MiG-21s and MiG-23s, where the Israelis shot down 80 without a loss. The Israelis also provided the first battle test for the muchvaunted T-72 Soviet-built tank and destroyed several of them. But adminstration officials said the Israelis had not been able to recover the tank hulks.

preacher the Gospel and he was being heckled by the neighborhood kids, teenagers," said Police Sgt. Bob Donsbach. "'He got upset and tried to run them down and unfortunately the two little kids got in the way" at al bus stop. Homicide investigators, who talked with Daguman for about an hour after the incident, said they didn't believe he was an ordained minister or represented any organized church. Daguman reportedly was railing against the dangers of drugs and reciting bits of the Scriptures before the scuffle with the teen-agers occurred, police said.

so I took him to the Gustavo's 18-year-old brother, Pedro, said he told residents not to jump from their windows and to stay away from the hallway, where he could see flames. "They wanted to jump, they were about to jump, but we told them to stay there," he said. "We talked to them and got them not to jump until the fire department came. The injured were taken to five hospitals for treatment for smoke inhalation, burns and broken bones, said Tony Tripi, information officer for the Los Angeles County Department of Health Service. Reed said the fire department had declared the building a "target building," meaning it was considered a high fire risk "because of the age (of the building) and the type of people who occupy it.

Mrs. Briggs' body but never commented on them to her. Although Mrs. Briggs and her husband had been married for less than two months, Gellos said he drew up two separation agreements for them. According to Gellos, David Briggs was supposed to have moved out of the apartment last Tuesday.

Mario Donnangelo, principal of Salisbury High School, said he knows the Heiserman family and remembers Diane as a good and not a problem student. According to Donnangelo, Mrs. Briggs graduated from the high school in 1980 and was a student. In the summer of 1980, Mrs. Briggs, who painted in watercolors, to Consider EVENING COLLEGE FAILED Continued From Page A1 restaurant called The Gingerbread Man.

It was thought to be a project that couldn't fail. But like the story of the unsinkable ship that sank, the restaurant that couldn't fail did. And in the process, its roiling maelstrom swamped the best laid plans of redevelopment officials and capsized the aspirations of a neighborhood hoping to yank itself from decline. For the past six months, the restaurant has been sitting amid lavish abandon, carrying a pricetag that no one, as yet, has been willing to meet and bottlenecking development of a specialty food market on a three-acre tract across the street. Says Tony Hanna, executive vice president of the Allentown Economic Development the spearhead of both projects: "It's been How different things were on that brisk March day a year and a half ago when The Gingerbread Man opened its etched- doors for business.

The event had practically become a community event. Indeed, it seemed like most of the community turned out during the next several weeks, waiting for an empty table and the chance to see what the imagination of Dick Phelan and his artist brother Joseph had wrought. For months, the public had been primed for the opening. Phelan's renovations like moving three railroad cars to the site and repairing the roof of the soaring clock tower were and attracted hundreds of onlookers. And the work going on there during 1980 and 1981 was news.

As an Allentown Redevelopment Authority project, it was a public project. So news photographers and reporters took great delight in clambering over the interior scaffolding and offering regular updates on the progress. Block-long lines greeting a restaurateur on his first night of business might seem like a grand way to launch an enterprise. But in the case of The Gingerbread Man, it was the iceberg that sank the unsinkable ship. Because in many ways, the restaurant was not ready to open.

Only hours before The Gingerbread Man served its first meal, workers were still hammering together the dining room tables. That same day, waiters and waitresses received their first orientation. When thousands of diners began showing up, the staff was overwhelmed. They fumbled over orders. Soup arrived at the table cold.

Salads arrived warm. And there were other problems. The air conditioning system failed to work properly at first. And the music at the bar was too loud. Other things like development of an outdoor seating area and private dining car for parties were never completed.

At the heart of the operation was an even bigger problem: The restaurant's dependence on a central com- participated in the Regional Summer School of the Arts. Donnangelo said he remembers Mrs. Briggs particularly because the school had to arrange homebound instruction for her after an operation for scoliosis, or curvature of the spine. For several months, Mrs. Briggs had to wear a back brace.

Mrs. Heiserman, the dead woman's mother, said the family is "in shock." According to Mrs. Heiserman, positive identification of the woman found in the park hinged on the scars from her daughter's operation and especially the steel rod in her spine. Before the autopsy was completed, Mrs. Heiserman said, her husband refused to believe the dead missary in Cumberland County where most of the food was prepared before being trucked hours to Allentown.

The concept evidently works well for the other Gingerbread Man restaurants, which are located in the nearby towns of Carlisle, Mechanicsburg and Harrisburg, but Phelan admits that the long transport accounted for the wilted salads and the soggy sandwiches. Another flaw in the concept of the Allentown eatery was Phelan's decision to offer dinners here, a deviation from the menu of his other restaurants. He added the dinners at the Allentown operation after the scope of the project and its cost grew. He knew he could not pay off the $1.8 million in reconstruction costs with the money brought in from the sale of drinks and sandwiches. But like the salads and sandwiches, the Chicken Kiev and the Clams Vesuvius were cooked in central Pennsylvania, and a dwindling number of diners complained that it tasted that way.

Says Phelan, "We were more of a saloon than a restaurant, and we were in the wrong market." City officials are scrambling to find a buyer for the property. ARA Chairman Michael Rosenfeld credits the authority's executive director, Paul Zambo, with "dedicating a part of his life" to finding a new owner. But it hasn't been easy. Interest rates are high, the purchase price is great and the property still carries a shadow of unproved success. Even so, at least 11 prospective buyers have been sent blueprints and a package of financial information about the restaurant, and Zambo says a deal might be struck as soon as next month.

But until that happens, the closed restaurant is blocking development of the proposed Hamilton Street Market, a specialty food store planned for the northwest corner of 2nd and Hamilton, and other redevelopment projects in the area. Hanna says he's taken prospective developers to look at the market site, but, he says, "As soon as you say the restaurant is closed, the developer doesn't want to talk anymore." Although the redevelopment authority has successfully attracted the investment of light industry to that 1st Ward neighborhood, Hanna says that The Gingerbread Man is "pivotal" for the development of the commercial projects. TEL TOULOMELIS Call-Chronicle Richard Phelan stands in doorway of future Gingerbread Man before renovations. woman was her daughter, even though David Briggs already had identified her as his wife. Mrs.

Heiserman said she last spoke to her daughter on Thursday and to David Briggs on Friday evening. She said she woke up yesterday with a "bad feeling, call it mother's intuition" and then she read the newspaper. When she recognized the clothing described in the news story about the murder, she said, she and her daughter's husband went to the police station. "Two young kids," said Mrs. Heiserman.

"Who could do such a terrible thing?" Born in Allentown, she was a Central to the Lehigh Valley Fall, 1982 Registration Information Classes Begin: Course Offerings Dates: Wednesday, September 8th FOREIGN LANGUAGE PSYCHOLOGY During the summer. Monday through Thursday. 8:00 a.m. to College Credit Courses 4 Credits Elementary French Social Psychology 7:00 p.m.: Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

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Main St. and Elizabeth Ave. Bethlehem, PA 18018. Phone 861-1383 daughter of Clarence and Arlene R. (Dreher) Heiserman of Allentown.

She was a member of St. Mark's Lutheran Church, Allentown. Surviving with her husband and parents are three sisters, Dorthea, wife of Clarence Beihn of Allentown, Beverly, wife of Roy Penner of Wescosville and Nancy, wife of John Wunderler of Northampton; a brother Dary of Hockendauqua; the maternal grandmother, Mrs. Margaret Dreher of Broomall, Delaware County, and the paternal grandmother, Mrs. Kotie Heiserman of Allentown.

Services will be at the convenience of the family in the Reinsmith Funeral Home, 225 Elm Emmaus. There will be no calling hours..

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