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18 THE BOSTON CI.OMK U.HU MVtx li. 1 Officials probe Rourke's car death stripper Princess Cheyenne is "a nice and educated girl" and reason enough to invite her to perform her Naked 1 Cabaret routine atop the' House members early Saturday notifying them of Rourke's death and the cancellation of tomorrow's House session for Rourke's funeral. A funeral Mass for Rourke will be said at 1 1 a.m. in St. Margaret's Church.

Lowell. Burial will be in St. Patrick's Cemetery. Lowell. McGee said that Rourke's House seat will be vacated until this fall's election.

A special election in February 1980 gave Rourke his first seat in the Legislature and in 1981 he was elected to his first full term. Sheehan. Lowell City Manager Joseph Tully, and state Sen. Phillip L. Shea (D-Lowell) have established a Rep.

Timothy M. Rourke Memorial Scholarship Fund, co First Bank and 1 70 Merrimack st. Lowell 0 1 852. i Rourke, the son of former Lowell mayor and present assistant secretary of transporation Raymond F. Rourke, died when his compact car collided with a full-size car about 2:25 a.m., police said.

Rourke, who attended a testimonial dinner with his wife, Susan, Friday night, was return- By Maryellen Kennedy Contributing Reporter Inspectors from the Lowell Police Criminal Bureau and the Registry of Motor Vehicles are investigating the cause of a two-car accident on Westford street near Rutland street in Lowell, that killed 29-year-bld State Representative Timothy M. Rourke (D-Lowell) early Saturday. Lowell Police Supt. John Sheehan said that investigators worked "through Sunday and possibly into the holiday" to complete their investigation, but that the "blood alcohol test part of the Inquiry" will not be available until tomorrow. Blood samples from Rourke and from the driver of the other vehicle, Mark W.

Narankevi-cius, 19, of 1 Jonas Westford. who was not seriously injured In the crash, are being tested for possible alcohol levels at the State Police laboratory, 1010 Commonwealth Boston, police said. Massachusetts Speaker of the House Thomas W. McGee (D-Lynn). sent night letters to the 160 ing alone to his 42 Carroll parkway home after dropping off a baby-sitter when the accident oc- curred.

police said. The couple has two Brent 5, and Colleen 14 months. Police said Rourke was pronounced dead on4'' arrival at St. Joseph's Hospital, Lowell hom1' multiple injuries sustained in the accident. According to police, Narankevicius was with vtwo friends when his car apparently hit a curb-and bounced left Into the driver's side door of.j Rourke's car.

Narankevicius, who was treated at Lowell'iiS General Hospital and later released, was tioned by police Saturday morning and asked PhL police to give him a blood test, Sheehan said. "ifi One of Narankevicius' passengers. David Frost, 19. of 134 Bellevue Lowell, suffereci minor injuries in the crash and was listed in good condition at Lowell General Hospital terday. The second passenger, Michael Green, also of 134 Bellevue was not Injured in thrwfc accident, police said.

''hi 1 dead, 1 hurt in shooting jk $14 welfare hike" seen for 16,264 4 "Pi Public Welfare Comr. Thomas H. Spir-; ito is expected to announce today an aver- age $14-a-month increase in benefits for 16,264 of the state's approximately 22,000 General Relief recipients. The raise to 73 percent of the recipients A is a result of administrative changes in the program. Another 17 percent will lose an equal amount and the remaining 10-: percent will see no change in their checks, i i nc saiu.

Ko-j, SHOOTING Continued from Page 17 When he realized that he had lost the man1 he returned to the place behind the sofa, where he spotted one of the gunmen, later identified as Gerald Nastari, 25. also of Homer street. Gerald Nastari reportedly was holding a pistol in both hands, pointing the weapon at the officer. Olzowy said he heard two shots, and, raising his head again, saw the two men standing near him, pointing their guns at him, Curran said. The officer ordered the pair to drop their guns and when they didn't, he fired a shot, hitting Gerald and knocking him into Edward.

Curran said, adding that at the same time, someone called out to the officer, "Look out. the other one has a gun." Olzowy fired again, hitting Edward who fell to the floor. Edward Nastari, lying on the floor, raised himself up and pointed his pistol at the officer, Curran said. Olzowsy fired two more shots, hitting Nastari again. Witnesses told police that nine or ten shots were fired.

City health and hospitals paramedics arrived within five minutes and administered Edward Nastari was rushed to MGH: Gerald was taken to the New England Medical Center. Gerald Nastari. who was shot in the chest, was reported in critical condition last night. Two pistols were recovered from the pair. One ha been fired twice and officers believe the second may have been fired four times, accord: ing to police.

Lawrence Kerins. the night auditor at the hotel, was behind the desk in the hotel lobby when he heard the shots fired "at last call, just when things were breaking up." He said he heard "between five and six shots. I heard a volley of two, then there was a pause for a couple of seconds" before he heard the other shots. "I thought it was glass breaking." he said. Hotel employees said there were between 40 and 50 people in the disco at the time.

A 35-year-old Framingham man. who said an airline put him up for the night at the Ra-mada Inn because he was "bumped" from a flight to Paris, said two men began fighting when the bar gave last call "They said. 'Two minutes to and all of a sudden they started to fight. They were 'hrowing things just like in the movies." he said. 3 The increases total million per year.

said John von Schlegell, an assistant Today let us also celebrate "the name of Israel Bissell. He finished the famous Ride of Paul Revere, exhausting several horses but making it safely to Philadelphia to warn of the British activities in Boston. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow may have given Revere all the ink but Bissell was not without his Homer. Too long to quote here is "Ride, Israel, Ride." an epic poem by the late Marie Rockwood of Stockbridge. Another Berkshire resident.

Marion Ransford of Pittsfleld. sees to it that Scout troops decorate Blssell's grave in the Hinsdale town cemetery. Later members of the Bissell family invented the carpet sweeper, ran the Central Intelligence Agency and joined the Weather Underground. The "great love of my life," says Mortimer Zuckerman, president of The Atlantic Monthly, is a black Labrador puppy named "Stockman." presumably for David Stockman whose insider comments about Reaganomics Inflated circulation for the magazine's December 1981 issue. -When people congratulated Ed and Maryanne Clough on the birth of their new son.

they were offered their choice of a cigar or an apple. Says the proud father. legislative aide to Rep. Frank Emilio (D-Havcrlll): "The baby's name is Adam, so the apples are natural." And more popular' than the traditional cigar, he reports. Donald J.

Barker promises tonight's "first annual" Rugby Ball will be a "colorful event" and he doesn't just mean the striped uniform shirts worn when playing the forerunner of American football. "Rugby." says Barker, chief fan of the Boston University team, "has suffered from a poor image it has been called 'a gentlemen's game played by cads' and that's what we are out to change." Sponsored by the New England Rugby Football Union, tonight's festivities will begin after the Boston Marathon (9 p.m.) at Metro on Lansdowne street. It's open to anyone who'll pay $4: and Barker has sent invitations to such local rugby clubs as Boston, Charles River. Mystic River and Old Gold (former Boston College players) and college clubs in New England. Of the women's teams, the one from Portland.

Maine. "Is really fierce." says Barker. Poet and critic Seamus Heaney, a native of Derry, Northern Ireland, who divides his year between Car-ysfort College in Dublin and Harvard, received the gold medal of the Eire Society at its 45th annual dinner Friday at the Harvard Club. And Derry's Lord Mayor Joseph Fegan. wearing the office's "Gold Collarette" because he will be on official business, visits Boston on Wednesday to tell about his 1400-year-old city's efforts to revitalize itself physically and psychologically.

In the opinion of Harvard Lampoon president (and folklore major) Lisa Henson. Boston Combat Zone retary of human services, but the Welfare .1 Lampoons 30-foot banquet table Thursday night before 75 Invited guests. This week the Poonies must get down to the serious actually very lucrative business of deciding which publication to parody next fall. Should they do Time magazine again, as Henson hopes, or should they break virgin ground by sending up Newsweek? Sgt Dennis Pelletier has four Tennessee walking horses in training to patrol Hampton Beach this summer. The smooth gait of this breed recommended it to saddle-weary plantation owners, but the four horses, which are supported by a town appropriation of $7000.

have already earned full marks from the local New Hampshire police for crowd and traffic control at last summer's Fourth of July parade. Animal lovers have entered the fight for the. Falkland Islands. Donald Sineti of Hartford is doing battle on behalf of a rare whale which frequents south Atlantic waiters. President of the Connecticut Cetacean Society, he has telegraphed leaders of Argentina and Great Britain to urge them to avoid warfare "not only for the sake of human life but also to prevent irreparable damage to the highly endangered Southern right whales and other marine life." Only 200 of these-55-foot mammals are known to exist, Sineti says, and a sea battle of the magnitude that the British Armada and Argentine navy can wage might kill them off.

The island chain is also the feeding ground for penguins which eat krill, a shrimp-like crustacean. How warfare might affect their habitat was discussed Saturday by Olin Sewall Pettingill an ornithologist who has studied the Falkland penguins, in a talk at Maine, sponsored by the Maine Federation of Humane Societies. Connecticut State Supreme Court Justice Ellen Ash Peters will be the first recipient of the Ella Grasso Distinguished Service Medal. The award is named for the late Connecticut governor who died of cancer in February 1981. Peters, a Yale Law School professor appointed to the bench by Gov.

Grasso in 1978. was chosen because she Is "an outstanding woman who has benefitted the state." according to James Grasso, chairman of the memorial foundation bearing his mother's name. The foundation raises scholarship money, says Grasso, because scholarships helped his mother prepare for a career in government. "Mom was able to further her education after she was given scholarships to the Chaffee School in Windsor and Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts." he said. "She would not have been able to attend these schools without these scholarships, and I strongly believe that, if she hadn't furthered her education, she'd never have been gover nor." This column will appear as a regular feature each Monday.

Department expects to absorb the through administrative efficiencies. The maximum monthly benefit check -j for an individual on General Relief $181, while the maximum benefit for a -r Anoj i i A lauiuy ui iuui is 94ot. vjcnciai icnci is ai totally state-funded welfare program for tL disabled and handicapped adults who are unable to work. muicty ocvcu jjticcm ui wit iiipiejii-o, tufa emergency treatment. Kids, parents make pacts to save lives are single individuals.

Von Schlegell said the administrative changes Involve consolidating the 13 cate- gories of assistance now provided under the program into three broader categories: individuals living alone: couples living to-gether; and group living arrangements. The Welfare Department will also be- gin counting as income other benefits such as rent subsidies and special grants i for diets and other special needs. This- change is responsible for most of the ductions in benefits, he said. cators to talk to the students. At the end of the course, they were so enthusiastic about it, they wanted to share it with other teenagers, he said.

The sophomores formed the organization, enlisted Gov. Edward J. King as the honorary chairman and stenciled their logo on bright orange shirts which they sell for $2.50 to raise money for their cause. SADD Continued from Page 17 Ency Fokos, mother of a group member and' a signer of the contract, said she believes the group is "helping to take the pressure off kids to drink and drive. "This is peer pressure working in a positive way," Fokos said.

"It will make it the 'in' thing not to drink and drive." Fokos said she and some other parents have discussed an arrangement in which they would agree to be on call on weekends for students who. for some reason, did not want to call their own parents. Students Against Driving Drunk grew out of Is the? Weight Loss Clinic just Ill another quick weight loss gimmick a sophomore health education class developed ai Our interviewer went inside to find but why our program continues 1111 by Robert Anastas. director ot health education for the Wayland schools. Anastas said he and Wayland High principal Charles Goff decided to focus on drunken driving because it is the leading public health problem for teenagers.

They began with sophomores since they are on the verge of getting learners' permits to drive. Anastas invited a number of outside experts police officers, lawyers, alcoholism edu to work when others foilH How long have you been com-. 99 to 1 youll come back ing to the Weight Loss over a year. Has the Weight Loss Clinic made any significant changes In''; your life? They've changed my whole life.u around. I've lost over 100 pounds.

my social life has "i-changed. like a miracle. A lot of weight loss organiza-; Vi' tions make impossible Has the Weight Loss Clinic done what they said they would do? i i. Definitely yes! I think it a very down-to-earth program. The nursing staff works with you the time educating you on foods to eat, while helping you lose weight.

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Cut expenses wherever you can. TAURUS (Apr. 20 to May 20) Know what true rims are and go after them in a positive way. Show more Interest In outside events. GEMINI (May 21 to June 21) Get together with associates and plan to be more productive.

Improve your appearance. MOON CHILDREN (June 22 to July 21) You need a more worldy viewpoint if you wish to expand In career activities. Be alert. LEO (July 22 to Aug. 21) Contact friends who can assist gaining your most cherished wishes.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Handle Important business affairs early so you'll have time to study new projects later. SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov.

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You are able to make rapid progress. Be wise. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 20) Talks with associates can produce excellent results.

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