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Daily News from New York, New York • 702

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DAItV THURSDAY," JULY' 20; 1978 WeitmseirfMiini ffimiks miRkvj Pirn lights dom study has shown us that a large number run between 50 and 60 efficiency," said Dorfman. "And this could be easily improved by havng yearly inspections and tuning." The regulations, therefore, require fuel suppliers to test the efficiency of tthe burners and notify homeowners if they are below 72 efficiency. They also are to tell the homeowner what steps can be taken to improve the efficiency, and the cost but there are no sanctions involved. Industrial boilers, on the other hand used in some large apartment houses as well as in industry and large commercial outlets may be shut down by the department if they are not By ROGER WITHERSPOON A sweeping series of conservation regulations designed to reduce New Jersey's energy by 5. including a measure eliminating the use of pilot lights on gas stoves take effect Aug.

1, officials said yesterday. The regulations, adopted by the State Department of Energy, affect all buildings in New Jersey to some degree, but there are different provisions for industrial, residential and commercial buildings. The Legislature declined Monday to postpone or veto the rule, officials said. In commercial establishments such as restaurants or movie theaters, the burning, central heating units are used. In addition, the state's utilities will be required to develop a program for refitting all gas stoves and dryers to utilize electrical starters instead of pilot lights.

"Studies we did a while ago." Dorf-man explained, "show that if 50 of the pilot lights in residential gas heating systems were replaced with automatic ignition devises by the end of 1980. and if all gas ranges, dryers and furnaces sold in the state were required to have automatic, Intersittent ignition systems, we would save 6.7 million cubic feet of natural gas, worth about $17 million." With regards to oil burners- "a ran installation of seven-day, day-night thermostats will be required. Ira Dorf-man of the department's office of con-ervation said yesterday. When the buildings are occupied, the regulations allow maximum winter settings of 85 degrees in retail areas and 68 degrees in other buildings. Minimums and Maximums During the summer, the minimum permitted setting for air conditioners will be 78 degrees while the buildings are occupied.

When the buildings are not in use, the winter heating maximum will be 55 degrees, and the summer minimum will be 80. The regulations require all new and renovated bildings to be equipped with electrical ignition devices if gas- MB By LARRY SUTTON and HARRY STATHOS A Manhattan jeweler was abducted jesterday and then forced to instruct his wife to allow three men into their Engle-wood home where they robbed $50,000 worth of cash and jewelry. The jeweler was released unharmed four hours later, and police captured two of the three robbers in a wooded area in Englewood. All the cash and jewelry was recovered. Police said that Sol Unger, 60, of 386 Cumberland Englewood, who works at the Alan Kaye refining company on Eldridge was forced out of his car by two men who dragged him into a van on Monhattan's lower East Side.

Handcuffed to Door The abductors then ordered him to call his wife, Mildred, 52, and he told her: "Some fellows will be coming over with a delivery of wine. Let them in." Mrs. Unger let the Intruders in and they forced her into the basement of Associated Press photo Catherine Crilley of Newark takes peek into hearing room of Senate Judiciary Committee meeting in executive session in Trenton. Word to Ssys: tmvi Mmk Mimier their one-family home, handcuffing her to the basement door as they proceeded to steal the cash and jewelry. As the robbers were ransacking the house, Mrs.

Unger pried the basement door loose with a screwdriver and walked upstairs where she yelled, alerting neighbors who called police. As the three robbers were leaving the home, a squad car pulled up. Two of the men jumped into a 1978 black Cadillac, while the third ran away. dogs Help in Search Within two hours, police searching with dogs captured the two men who had abandoned the car and fled on foot into the wooded area near Route 4 and Myrtle Englewood. The suspects, Dominick Giordano, 40, of Flushing, Queens, and Francis 39, of Manhattan, were charged with armed robbery.

Police said each man carried a revolver. Meanwhile, Unger was released by his agductors on the Bowery near Canal after being driven around in the van for four hours. He called police, who took him to Beekman Downtown Hospital, where he was admitted with back and neck Injuries. New York City police are searching for the man who abducted him. By PETER YERKES New Jersey State Sen.

Joseph Maressa (D-Atco) yesterday pledged a legislative fight against-homosexuality and obscenity in the state and said he wants gays to be "driven underground." Maressa, drawing cheers from pro testers concerned about what one called other areas where, she said, voters "rejected the homosexual lifestyle by overwhelming majorities." Vetoed Before She and other protesters also welcomed the latest anti-obscenity move by Maressa, who sponsored an anti-obscenity bill in the last legislative session. It was vetoed by Byrne as unconstitutional. She said the combat zones would foster "a philosophy that is demeaning, debasing and insulting to women, a philosophy that is antithetical to the family unit the Playboy philosophy." Identify Four Killed in Crash hearing in defense of gays, that of Roberta Kaufman of the state chapter of the National Organization for Women. Right to Freedom "Gay people have a right to live in freedom," she said, applauding what she called the end to laws proposed in the penal code. But several dozen protesters said they agreed with Maressa that it's wrong to loosen laws on obscenity and homosexuality.

"From the time of Sodom and Gomorrah, any time a country has made sodomy legal they have been destroyed. Rome and everything," said Catherine Crelley of Newark, a member of the EagV2 Forum, an anti-Equal Rights Amendment group. Elizabeth A. Sadowski, coordinator of a group called New Jersey Majority Women, said that easing the homosex-quality laws as proposed "would undermine the family and make deviant sexual behavior an acceptable lifestyle." She also referred to recent referenda in Dade County, Eugene, and "the moral breakdown that's going on all over the country," said he will introduce legislation restoring criminal penalties against homosexuality. He also promised to toughen anti-obscenity laws.

His comments came at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on a criminal reform measure, which would drop criminal penalties for homosexuality. The bill is awaiting final Senate action. "It's Wrong" "I don't think they (homosexuals) should be lined up and shot, but I want young children to know it's wrong." Maressa said. "I want the people who are gay to be driven underground, to be sorry that it happened," Maressa said. "Now they come out.

But they used to hide. That's the way it should be." Maressa also said he will introduce a bill repealing a section of the new criminal code that would allow municipalities to set up so-called combat zones. They would be wide open for sale of pornographic books, live sex shows and other steamy diversions. Only one voice was raised at the weis. a spokeswoman for the hospital.

Identification of the victims, originally thought to have been three women and a man, was delayed because the bodies were so badly burned, Schoeneweis said State police said careless driving charges have been filed aainst 32-year-old Steven E. Nosel of Heath, Ohio, whose truck allegedly rammed the rear of the car Tuesday, ipnttin-: a fire that killed its four occup-iM. Four persons killed in a fiery truck-car crash on the Delaware River Turnpike Bridge were identified yesterday after autopsies were performed at Rancocas Valley Hospital in Willingboro. The victims were identified as Ruth Hillman, 67, of Wildwood Crest; Myra Stawley, no age available, of Oceanview; iila Jane Salasin, 54, and Fran Corcoran, 54, both of Wildwood Crest, according to Barbara Schoene-.

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