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17, Stubborn Brush Fires Roar Ouf Of Control In An aerial tanker makes a water drop on a burning hillside in the Hollywood Hills, where a wind-swept fire destroyed 18 homes over 130 acres Sunday afternoon. (AP taserphoto) LOS ANGELES (AP) Stubborn brush fires roared out of control today in Southern California, blackening thousands of acres and destroving more than a score of fashionable homes firefighters called in reserves from as tar away as Maine and Rhode Island Residents of Hollywood Hills' Laurel Canyon area were stunned when a fire pushed by 25 mph winds burned its way through 19 expensive homes in the wooded area overlooking Los Angeles. Among the homes destroyed were those of blues musician John Mayall and actress Mackenzie Phillips, a regular on the CBS television series. One Day At A Time." home, my beautiful home." said George Hunt as he walked near his home on Grandview Drive, where houses are valued at as much as $500.000. "It was so beautiful, so lush here Three hundred firefighters stopped the flames after water drops were made by helicopters and two "super scooper" airplanes that skimmed the Pacific Ocean to fill their water tanks.

The Forest Service asked for 800 firefighters to help the 2.473 men and women battling the blazes which had consumed more than 55,000 acres. "We've gone about as far as we can with what we have, so now we're drawing on our firefighting resources nationally. US Forest Service spokesman Lee Redding said Sunday. Che crews called in to help were Irum stations in Indiana. Ohio, Maryland.

Pennsylvania, Maine. New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut. Michigan. Minnesota and Wisconsin. Meanwhile, orders closing the Angeles.

Los Padres, Cleveland and San Bernardino National Forests were issued during the weekend because of extreme fire hazard. Only one of the major fires, the Pinecrest blaze which at one time threatened the radio and television transmitters serving Southern California atop mile-high Mount Wilson, was expected to be under control today. After charring nearly 5.000 acres of valuable watershed since Tuesday, it was contained Sunday night. Farther south, San Diego County's most destructive brush fire in decades was brought under control after seven hours Saturday, but ocean breezes caused flare-ups Sunday that kept more than 100 firefighters busy. Seven homes were destroyed and the fire was halted a half mile trom Torrey Pines High School Some 9.800 acres were charred from the blaze that started at Black Mountain and swept through the Rancho Pe- nasquitos area Damage was estimated at more than $2 million, according to fire authorities.

Six other brush fires in the San Diego area left up to 50.000 homes and businesses without electricity Sunday. Meanwhile. Oregon firefighters controlled three forest fires in the southern part of the state after the blazes had charred 1,600 acres The largest fire, in the Winema National Forest about 30 miles north of Klamath Falls, burned 1.150 acres. Other California fires raged in: Hacienda Heights, a suburb east of Los Angeles, where several homes were scorched by flames coming within 40 feet of the structures in a 600- acre blaze that remained out of control after sundown. National Forest, where firefighters were making a stand today in hopes of preventing the out-of- control 20.000acre Sage fire.

30 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles, from jumping the Angeles Crest Highway which cuts through the San Gabriel Mountains. National Forest Corona where Riverside County and state firefighters battled a blaze. Three structures were da and control was not expected Wednesday Bernardino County state Highway 330 near the comnUmity of Shadow Hills remained closed after a blaze charred 2,100 acres of Brush after threatening the residents of 200 mobile homes Most of the residents were evacuated for a few hours. Firefighters said the fire probably would not be contained until late Tuesday. At Acton, near Palmdale 40 miles northeast of Los Angeles, a fire that destroyed 3.700 acres of brush was contained Sunday after forcing the evacuation of 150 animals from the Noel Marshall Wild Animal ranch.

The animals were all returned Sunday, except for a rare African stork which died of smoke inhalation. Damage to ranch buildings was placed at $10.000. The menagerie included lions, tigers, cheetahs, jaguars, cougars and leopards. The only human injury was suffered when movie producer Noel Marshall was clawed in the face by a frightened cheetah, but the injury was not serious Poll Results Show Kennedy Has Edge WASHINGTON More polls give Sen. Edward Kennedy the edge over President Carter in the race for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination, but Carter chief domestic affairs adviser says -the president's low rating reflects his courage in facing difficult issues.

Meanwhile. Republican presidential hopeful George says Kennedy will lose if he challenges Carter because he has a reputation as a big spender Carter's adviser. Stuart Ei- Road Fund Bill Gets Another Shot (Continued from Page 1) Abo. officials worry that the number of drivers may have peaked and that revenues from license fees will drop. Rao said that if money becomes tight as the year progresses, spring construction work will suffer.

Zemprelli remains skeptical. "We gave them money in July." he said. "They have more money now for roads than they can spend in this fiscal year." While tangling with those money matters, the Legislature also has some other major bills awaiting action that could take its session well into December. Some of the bigger issues are: Divorce: The so-called no- fault divorce reform would allow one spouse to walk away from a marriage after a one- year separation. However, counseling sessions would be mandated.

For the first time, alimony payments would be set up in Pennsylvania Workfare: It would require welfare recipients to work for state or local government or charitable organizations for their cash grants Disabled and elderly persons and mothers with dependent children would be exempt Spending limits State and local governments would have to limit their expenditures based on an index, such as one indicating the value of all goods produced in Pennsylvania in a year Pay hikes A Senate-passed bill, pending in the House, would give a $3.000 rai.se to all county office holders in January 1980 No-Fault Insurance Legisla- tors are considering whether to limit further a car accident victim's ability to file costly law suits for pain and suffering They also will decide whether to limit the currently unlimited medical benefits for accident victims. Ethics: Some legislators want to exempt local elected officials from the strict financial disclosure in the Ethics Act. Correction Information in a photo caption on page 22 of Saturday's edition of the Gazette was incorrect as supplied. The caption should have stated the office volleyball team from Fishei Scientific defeated the shop team "from the same firm in an exhibition held for the patients at Torrance State Hospital Sept zenstat. said Sunday on CBS' Face the Nation" that the president's decisions on such questions as the decontrol of oil prices and the Panama Canal were "not necessarily popular.

but they were right." He said the American people are venting their frustration over rising inflation on all institutions including the president. "We have not done the job we should have done in telling the people of the proud record of accomplishment" of the Carter administration. Eizenstat said, citing government reorganization, refinancing of the Social Security System and a decline in the unemployment rate. Bush said Kennedy "leadership has never been tested. He's never run anything.

I think if he challenges Carter, the president will beat him." "Kennedy is thought of as a nice man with a nice wife and family." Bush said on the WTEV-TV program "Truman Taylor Talks To" in New Bedford. Mass 'But if'he enters the presidential arena, and people tike me start demanding to know how he's going to pay for all his big plans, that image will change. Kennedy Says Tax Cut May Be Needed (Continued from Page 1) some confusion on this." Again. Kennedy did not offer specifics as to how he would make the guidelines more forceful Like Carter, he opposes mandatory wage and price controls. Carter announced the current guidelines last Oct.

24. to be effective for one year. A revised program is due soon. The current standards call for wage increases to be held to a maximum of 7 percent, and for price increases to be held one-half of one percent below the average increases of the last two years. Despite that program, consumer prices this year have increased at an annual rate of more than 13 percent.

The administration is trying now to fashion a compromise that will enlist the support of organized labor for revised guidelines. IUP Student Hospitalized After Tumble A junior student from Indiana University of Pennsylvania was injured in an accident at 2:50 p.m. Saturday at Delta Sigma Phi fraternity house along Wayne Avenue in Indiana. Steve Hancock of Bellefonte reportedly sustained a dislocated right elbow when he fell from the third floor roof. Indiana Borough Police were summoned to investigate.

Citizens Ambulance Service paramedics treated Hancock at the scene and then transported him to Indiana Hospital. He was later transferred to Annstrong County Memorial Hoi- pital at Kittanning. His condition was not available from the hospital today. Meanwhile, three new polls give Kennedy the edge in 1980. Separate polls published Sunday by the Boston Globe and the Des Moines Register indicate voters in New Hampshire and Iowa would give Kennedy the nomination.

Iowa holds its presidential caucuses in January. The New Hampshire primary is in February. Meanwhile, at a Dallas meeting Saturday. Kennedy won in a straw poll by some 100 Mexican-American Democrats. The mock balloting resulted in 59 votes for the Massachusetts senator.

10 for Carter and three for California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. The poll conducted for the Globe indicated if Kennedy were on the New Hampshire primary ballot, he would win 68 percent of the vote, compared to 20 percent for Carter. As a write-in candidate, the latest Globe survey showed Kennedy would capture 58 percent of the vote.

AUTO CLUB DISPLAYS ANTIQUE CARS The Punxsutowney Region of the Antique Automobile Club of America held its annual show at Sportsmen's Park Sunday afternoon, with 138 cars in 16 categories being put on display and compet.t.on for 51 awards. More than 2,000 people attended the show on a bright, warm afternoon See other photo on page one. (Bonadio photo) Prime Minister Won't Discuss Army Rhodesia To Debate Constitution LONDON (AP) The opposing parties in the Zimbabwe Rhodesian peace talks begin debate today on a new constitution for the war-torn country, with whites in the Salisbury delegation furious about British proposals to take more power from them and vowing to fight. British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington. who opened the talks a week ago in a bid to end the seven-year-old guerrilla war in Zimbabwe Rhodesia, has included the question of establishment of a new security force and who will control it in the debate at the guerrillas' insistence.

But Sunday, during the weekend recess. Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa declared he will not discuss the army question, and observers said Car- rington may have trouble keeping Muzorewa and his delegation from Salisbury, the Rhodesian Zimbabwe capital, at the negotiating table. The delegates were to have begun debate Friday on a British draft constitution. But the debate was stalled because the guerrillas offered their plan and the Salisbury government offered its present constitution, which gives the whites 28 of the 100 seats in Parliament and which the guerrillas say is a facade to enable the whites to retain power behind a black government. State Lottery PITTSBURGH (APi Saturday's number in the Pennsylvania Daily Lottery was 0-36.

MISS WORLD AMERICA Carter Wilton, 23, from Harrisonburg, poses with other finalists after she was crowned Miss World America 1979 in Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands, Saturday. The winner it joined by first runner-up Robyn Kay Overbey, Colvert City, left, and Ramono Henriette Rolle, Concord, second runner-up. (AP Laserphotoi The guerrilla draft gives Zimbabwe Rhodesia 230.000 whites no parliamentary seats, and stipulates that current top commanders, judges and other officials all whites must quit before independence. All three drafts will be before the delegates.

Muzorewa already has troubles within his delegation over Paper Prints Bomb 'Secrets' (Continued from Page 1) "Saturday night, the same thing happened to the Daily Califorman." it said. "The shadow- of government censorship has fallen across the land It must stop, and it must stop now." The newspaper said a diagram on the front page was taken from the letter and showed a cross-section of a hydrogen bomb with details of a bomb trigger The Peninsula Times Tribune in Palo Alto. Calif. owned by the Tribune said it had published the diagram and a related news story on Aug. 30.

The letter author, Hansen. said Saturday he obtained his information! from public documents. In the letter, he discussed government efforts to classify information about nuclear weapon manufacturing. The Milwaukee Sentinel said it refused to surrender its copy at the government's request and that the letter complained that several scientists have released secret data without being prosecuted, while others have been targets of government action The Hansen letter cites arguments by the author of the Progressive article, free-lance researcher Howard Morland. that H-bomb data is available to anyone.

Morland says he never had nor needed access to classified documents, but that he visited libraries and talked with nuclear experts instead. the British proposal to strip power in his government from the white minority, which refused to turn over power to Muzorewa until it had that power to protect its interests. Ian Smith, Muzorewa's predecessor and a member of Muzorewa's delegation here representing Zimbabwe Rhodesia's whites, said he will fight Carrington's proposals, which allows whites some special parliamentary seats, but removes their power to veto constitutional change for up to a decade. Muzorewa indicated Sunday he is prepared to ditch the white safeguards contained in the constitution under which Muzorewa came to power in elections last April Whites. Muzorewa said, would find constitutional safeguards were "not really that important after all." but Smith took issue, saying they were "absolutely vital Muzorewa's "government, which represents a nation of 7 million blacks, depends for survival on the minority whites for leadership of the mainly black army in the escalating war and to run the strained economy.

But Muzorewa hoped to trade the white safeguards for a guarantee of recognition and an end to sanctions from Britain, which castigated its colony after Smith unilaterally split from England in 1965 to head off black majority rule. 'Perfect Find' To Be Elusive WASHINGTON lAPi Renters, whether looking for a bachelor pad or a house for the family, will discover the "perfect find" even more elusive in the years ahead than now, a leading banker predicts. Clarke Stayman, senior vice president of the First National Bank of Chicago, says many single renters may be forced to double-up while more families will have little choice but to settle for townhouses, patio homes and other clustered units Stayman was among several economists at a conference here who painted a dismal picture for renters, already hard- pressed to locate and pay for apartments in many parts of the country "The demand for rental apartments will be strong, but supply will not begin to keep pace because of the continued unattractiveness of rental housing to developers." he said Rental vacancy rates now stand at 5 percent, their lowest ever. Such a low rate traditionally has been a signal for private developers to build more apartments. But inflation, the spec- ter of rent control and better investment opportunities elsewhere have altered this scenario.

Stayman told the National Association of Mutual Savings Banks here last week. "Lack of development will. in turn, lead to political pressure for rent control and for limitations on condominium conversion Unless checked, this downward spiral will produce tense, tight and deteriorating rental housing markets." Stayman said. Another housing expert, Albert Matamoras, predicted that 22 million housing units will be built in the 1980s, less than 35 million of them in multi-family rental projects Matamoras predicted many single-family homes will be smaller and look alike on the outside, although they will be more customized inside He cited as reasons for this trend higher land prices, inflated construction costs, smaller families and rising utility bills. Despite inflation, the single- family home "will remain the dream of most Americans," said Stayman, with the suburbs losing little of their luster.

Pony Incidents Reported To Police Area police report 10 criminal incidents today, including three burglaries The summarv: Mearl Medith Livingston, 859 Fifth Indiana, told state police from Indiana, that he found a man in his bedroom when he returned home Sunday night. DAYTON A dapple gray pony with a white mane and white tail, belonging to Connie Fay Lee. 13, Dayton RD 1. was reported missing last week. Anyone with information on the animal is asked to call state police at 357-2888.

PENN RUN Burglars broke into a cottage in Cherryhill Township rented by Harold W. Martin. 339 Locust Indiana A potbelly stove was taken. An investigation continues. SHELOCTA Robert Cunningham Jr 19.

Indiana RD 5. reported to state police from Indiana that someone smashed windows in his car Sunday. State police from Indiana say that John Robert Barberio. 21, Johnstown, called the Indiana barracks and reported that his car had been stolen A check by police determined that the vehicle was not stolen. Charges of false reports to law enforcement officials are pending against Barberio.

BLACK LICK Herbert Henigm. 22. Blairsville RD 2. told police that his car was damaged when someone spilled an unknown substance on it An investigation continues. BLACK LICK Charolette Diane Latchic.

Black Lick, told police that tools and an extension cord were taken from her basement recently. RURAL VALLEY Twelve bundles of green shingles were taken from the property of Bernard Graff. Rural Valley, recently Edinboro State Student Drowns ERIE. Pa (AP) -An Edinboro State College student who was pulled from flood waters on the Erie County campus has died Deborah Day. 17.

of, suburban Lawrence Park was an apparent drowning victim authorities said She died Saturday night Campus police said Miss Day and two other Edinboro students were riding an inflatable raft Friday in shallow flood water left by the remants of Hurricane Frederic. The raft was sucked into an underground ditch, police said Stove Upset One person and possibly another were injured when a charcoal stove was overturned at a residence at Fouth Street and Grandview Avenue Indiana, Saturday at approximately llam Citizens Ambulance paramedics responded to thexall No other information on the incident is available at this time..