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Daily News from New York, New York • 4

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DAILY NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1980 1-LOVE NEW YORK i mijihi'n, jft 1 1 1 1 mi i ill i i SaJ WAVAVAu, WV.W;A HaV-ifrliM V.WfortC chance to order license plates with the ad slogan. He indicated hell try to get the original bill amended at a possible special session this fall, so the plates can be issued beginning in January, at no extra charge. Defending his decision to enshrine the ad tune as the Empire State Song, Carey said: "It's not a jingle. It has stanza, melody, and it has words." Hailed around country He added, "It's been nominated around the country and throughout the state as probably the most famous state song and jingle anywhere." The full song goes like this: I Love New York. I Love New York.

I Love New York. There Isn't another like it No matter where you go. And nobody can compare it It's win, place and show. New York is special. New York is different "Cause there's no place on earth Quite like New York.

ty pan siocum Albany (News Bureau) Let's all sins Along now with Hugh Carey "I Love New York." Tuning down such old favorites as "East Side, West Side" and "I'll Take Manhattan," Gov. Carey yesterday proclaimed the "I Love New York" ad jingle the state's official song. Up until yesterday, the Empire State was one of only four states without any official song. Steve Karmen, the former porn movie lyricist who wrote the Jingle for the state, was on hand for the ceremonies and dedicated the song to his Russian immigrant father, Hyman Karmen, who came to this country at age 13 and worked 44 years as a civil engineer for New York City. And then he wrote "Today Is a celebration for all Jingle writers," said Karmen, widely regarded as the nation's premier Jingle man.

He gave up his royalties to the "I Love New York song yesterday royalties he has been collecting for two years. "When you say Budwelser, you've said it all" is a Karmen product He's also the Here's the music for the state' official song. carry an advertising emblem on mnttAF man who made weekends the property of Michelob. Carey, meanwhile, revealed that he will not make every New Yorker carry the "I Love New York" ad slogan on his license plate. "It might run afoul of constitutional implications on the grounds that you're forcing someone to of personal property," he said, explaining why he refuses to sign a bill now before him that would put the slogan on all the plates.

The governor said he would sign a bill, however, offering New Yorkers the rum uim a way I Love New York. VI Love New York. The new house on 42d is the Grand Hire Hotel OPENING AUQUS Syh FMROf KFHI t-ZL. a a 1 3. IT ill Pit I l-v-4 i if ite it- 'V.

By DON OENTIll Two weeks ago, David Delgado, father of three, had a Job as a sales representative for the Unique Furniture Co. on Jerome Ave. In the Bronx. Then Carlo Cruz, owner of the company, decided to shut down. The burned-out businesses surrounding the furniture store were a signal that it was time to retire.

This was the reason that Delgado, 42, was standing amid a blocklong line of people on Park Ave. at 42d St. yesterday. He was applying for the $206-a-week position of porter at the new Grand Hyatt Hotel. "I was working at the furniture store for five years," Delgado said.

"I really can't afford to be out of work I hope I get the Job." On tho $lf of tho old Commodoro The hotel, scheduled to open In August at 42d St and Lexington on the site of the old Commodore Hotel, is in the process of filling 1,200 Jobs. Personnel officials will Interview 6,000 Job seekers this month. Interviews were held all day yesterday for 160 housekeeping Jobs. About 600 hopefuls showed up at the Grand Hyatt personnel headquarters, temporarily set up in the vacant Visitors and Convention Bureau building at 42d and Park Ave. Hotel officials had called for applicants by informing the New York State Division of Employment and officials of the city's Work Incentive Program.

"We figured, why not help the people who really need the Jobs?" said personnel director Oliver Esman, "So far everybody has been pleasant and we are really getting a look at some highly qualified people." Jesse Orange, 29, of the Bronx said he has been Job-hunting for a year. Esman said the hotel will schedule nine major, interview dates over the next month, seeing 600! persons on each day. in 5. A Hamr HambvraDally Mwt People seeking Jobs at new Grand Hyatt Hotel waiting for Interviews at Visitors and Convention Bureau, Yesterday's applicants will return for a second Interview tomorrow. "We will hire the housekeeping staff at that time," he said.

Other Interviews will be held for waiters, waitres-' ses, bartenders, bellboys, maids and other positions. Esman said that the dates for the future interview sessions have not yet been scheduled. "People can find out by calling the hotel or by, dropping by the personnel office," Esman said. The Grand Hyatt Hotel, built by the Hyatt chain and builder Donald Trump, will contain 1,400 rooms, two restaurants and a cocktail lounge. "It made it seem like they together," Gates remembers, were doing something real" On Friday, May 12, 1970, he turned in his badge.

On Monday, May 15, he became a fireman. After training, he was assigned to Engine Co. 204 on Court St, Brooklyn. His first Job was a fire on a ship docked in Red Hook. As the engine screamed up, Gates saw a 6-foot-3, 300-pound longshoreman wave his arms and scream for help.

"If a guy that big needs help, we're really in trouble," Gates told himself. "Maybe the housing police wasn't so bad." Ask him about the next nine years of his life as a feligSlAEL DALY Meet Thomas Patrick Gates of the Uniformed Firefighters Association. Meet a man who Is willing to join a strike that would strip the largest in America of fire and police protection. The son of a Teamsters shop steward once branded "a street corner Napoleon" by Mayor LaGuardia, Gates was raised in South Brooklyn. He began his service to the City of New York 14 years ago as a patrolman for the Housing Authority.

This career was complicated by Gates' refusal to put bullets in his service revolver. "I might hurt somebody," Gates would tell his superiors. "If somebody tries to hurt me, I'll throw the bullets, hard." Suspecting that law enforcement was not for him. Gates asked his brother, Billy, about the Fire Department Billy, who had been a fireman for 10 years, recounted his most recent brush with death. Venting the window in a blazing apartment, Billy felt the floor give way.

He cocked hi arma-aud cauxht the edeesof the "THE WnOLE FLOOR'S GOING," Billy said. "Get out" "No, Billy," one of the firemen said. "If you go, we all go." iireman and Gates will tell you about a call he received at home in January 1976. Nine men from the firehouse, the caller said, had been hurt at a fire. When Gates got to Fighting fires, Gates decided when he heard this story, was more suited to his temperament than aa ifiend, Charlie Junkies, across rooftops with an nWmvtfftiTfi Ga.tf?Jlo?ked 9Y.er(and aw a pair of vteTdecldedtotafJftftreexahi W4 1 hole wihifr.elfjT, into'tte auiv atmr mwU it uam I lira VAt-vlwwfv.

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