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Dally Journal, Ukiah, Calif. Monday, December 31,1979 New Year's Eve Laser-beam show and an appeal for peace NEW YORK (UPI) The Year 's Eve ball that will descend on Times Square tonight to herald 1980 may be overshadowed by an appeal (or peace by a California woman whose husband is a hostage in the U.S. embassy in Iran, Just after the ball has dropped down the side of No. Times Square, colored laser beams will sail uptown along Seventh Avenue into Central Pprk. the laser-beam will come from the marquee of the RiaJto Theater, the city's and Time Square's newest playhouse.

If the night is clear, the beams will be visible for 50 miles. Deborah Plotkin of Sherman Oaks will announce today how she will make her plea for peace and the freeing of the 50 hostages, including her husband, Jerry. At Dag Hammarskjold Plaza near the United Nations, local religious groups led by the Rev. Peter Grace will hold a candlelight vigil for the hostages. Grace, a Catholic priest, said he hdpes the vigil will remind U.S.

religious leaders of all faiths "to speak out for peace as loudly as Ayatollah Khomeini has (or hatred and revolution." A parade, led by a glockenspiel band and Ralph Lee's life-size puppets, will go from Fifth Avenue and 59th Street to Central Park's Bethesda Fountain. There, the participants will be wrapped together with luminous orange ribbon to illustrate the evening 's theme, "Wrapping up the 70s." For skaters, there will be a Champagne Ball on Ice in the park 's Wollman rink. The Bethesda Fountain celebration, punctuated by a 15-minute fireworks show at midnight, also features a rock band and a reggae band. At the Roseland Ballroom on West 52nd Street, which is celebrating Its 60th New Year's Eve, there will be three bands cpuntry-rock, jazz and Latin And there'll be something for fitness fans, too New York Marathon winner Bill Rodgers and more than 1,000 other runners will stage a 4.97-mile midnight run around Central Park. More passive celebrants can watch a magicians' program at the Magic Towne House on East 61st Street, see Johann Strauss' opera "Die Fledermaus" at the Amato Opera Company on the Bowery or listen to jazz flutist Herbie Mann at the Village Gate.

For those who really want to, splurge, there's the Palace, a small restaurant on East 59th Street, where the charge is $800 a couple for a 13-curse dinner and rrire wines. Forty guests are expected black-tie party, the most expensive In the city. If that's too much, you might be interested in the Stars Dell at Lexington Avenue and 52nd Street, where free chicken soup will be served after midnight. But the most traditional form of New Year's Eve celebration is still the Waldorf-Astoria's party featuring The Guy Lombardo Royal Canadian Orchestra. This year the orchestra is led by Bill Lombardo, nephew of the late bandleader, and has as its guest former "Wiz" star Stephanie Mills.

Police and transportation officials have made special provisions for the evening. Three additional Conrail trains will leave Grand Central Terminal at 2:30 a.m. for Westchester and Connecticut. The last trains normally leave the terminal at 1:30 a.m. The police department said that 40 percent more officers will be assigned to the Times Square area and that barriers will be set up on the streets and in the subways to keep the crowds flowing.

Apartment fires kill 13, injure 50 in U.S. CHICAGO (UPI) Police said they were questioning a teen-age girl in the arson fire of an apartment building that sent residents jumping from windows to escape the flames. The fire was one of two in which 13 people Were killed and more than 50 others injured. Both blazes broke out in apartment buildings only a mile apart and within hours of each other on the city's North Side, but'authorities said they were apparently unrelated. Witnesses said several residents died 1 or were injured jumping from upper stories to escape the flames.

Some tried to land on mattresses that were lined along the buildings to break falls. Others just desperately jumped. Two charred bodies recovered Sunday brought to seven the number of victims killed in a blaze on Maiden Street. The. fire swept through the top floor, rear stairs and front halLway of the apartment building Saturday morning.

At least nine people were injured. Six people died and as many as 43 others were injured in the second blaze that erupted Saturday afternoon on the second floor of a four-story apartment building on Winthrop Avenue. Thirty of those Injured in that fire were hospitalized, including 13 children and a teen-ager. Authorities said one man died in a jump to escape the flames on Maiden Street. Building residents told police a resident, identified only as Johnny Lloyd, had become intoxicated and was cooking at a gas stove in his fourth-floor apartment Shortly before the fire erupted.

Lloyd jumped to his death to escape the flames that emerged from his kitchen, authorities said. His body was found in the alley next to the building. At least twd other 'building residents were injured jumping from the Maiden building to escape the blaze, hospital officials said. Some residents tied blankets together to climb to safety and one man on crutches climbed through a ground floor window. Fire Commissioner Richard Albrecht said the Winthrop fire was "definitely an arson fire." Police Sunday said they planned to administer a lie detector test to a teen-age girl they were holding for questioning in the blaze.

Barge loaded with chlorine heads for Bay SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) Two barges, one of them loaded with chlorine gas and explosives, broke loose from a tugboat just outside the Golden Gate early today and were In danger of being blown ashore by high seas, the Coast Guard reported. The Coast Guard sent a helicopter and boat to assist several commercial tugs attempting to get a line on the barges, especially the one carrying chlorine and explosives. Shortly before 8 a.m. the barges were three miles outside the Golden Gate and about 880. yards off the rocky Marin County shoreline.

They were drifting northward towards the coastline. Twenty-foot waves and winds up to 30 knots hampered the salvage operation. The Coast Guard said no one was aboard the barges but an attempt would be made to put someone on them to help restore a tow line. The barges broke loose about 2 a.m. from the tug Sentinel, which was towtng them from San Francisco.

Ruby C. Dunlap Ruby C. Dunlap of Covelo died Thursday in a Willits hospital. She was 89. Born in Ukiah.

she had lived in Covelo for the past 58 years. A schoolteacher for 50 years, she retired in 1955. She was was active in community affairs, and was a member of the Retired Teachers' Association, the Mendocino County Historical Society, the Luella Bigger Health Foundation, and Augusta Chapter 80 of the Order of the Eastern Star. She is survived by her husband, Leslie R. Dunlap of Covelo; sons N.

Walter Dunlap of Oregon and Donald Dunlap and Milton S. Dunlap, both of CoVelo; daughters L. Ruth Jones of Bieber, Calif, and Mildred Johnson of Pollock Pines, 16 grandchildren, 34 great, grandchildren, 2 great-great-grandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews. Funeral services were held Sunday at the Presbyterian Church in Covelo, with Rev. Richard F.

Wise officiating. Anker-Lucier Mortuary was in charge of arrangements. The family requests that memorial contributions be made to the Cancer Foundation or to the Heart Fund. William Roy Richey William Roy of Ukiah, died Saturday at a Ukiah convalescent hospital. A former bailiff for the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office, he was born in Arkansas and had been a Ukiah resident for 82 years.

He was a member of the Ukiah Methodist Church and was a founding member of the Ukiah Rifle and Pistol Club. He is survived by his wife Ann Richey of Ukiah, sons Irwin Richey of Castro Valley and Leonard Richey of Ukiah; brothers Lynn Richey of Windsor, Ted Richey and Burt both of Ukiah; sisters Etta Lawrence of Ukiah and Nettie Burgess of Washington; four grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. Services will be Wednesday at 10 a.m. at the Ukiah Methodist Church. Rev.

Art Gafke will officiate. Burial will be at Ukiah Cemetery. Eversole Mortuary of Ukiah is handling funeral arrangements. 4 80 brings increase in wages, taxes WASHINGTON (UPI) The federal minimum wage goes up 20 cents an hour New Year's Day giving an estimated 5 million American workers Immediate pay raises. In all, some 57 million workers are covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act that will boost the mimimum wage from $2.90 per hour to $3.10 per hour Tuesday.

Social Security taxes also are slated to go up when the New Year rolls in. That hike will not apply to workers on the lower end of the income scale, however. And many low-income workers who make more than the minimum wage are expected to get wage hikes because of the minimum wage Increase. The news is also good for Social Security recipients. The maximum amount of outside income that a person age 65 to 71 may earn without losing benefits rises from $4,579 to $5,000.

Those under 65 may earn $3,720 instead of the current $3,480. Fire calls Sunday, Dec. 30 12:31 p.m. Vehicle fire, Highway 101 and Henry Station Road. 7:58 p.m.

Medical aid call, 2200 S. State possible heart attack. The top news stories of 1979 NEW YORK (UPI) American newspaper editors picked the year-long drama of the Iranian revolution, capped by the holding of American hostages, as the top headline story of 1979. The worst U.S. nuclear accident at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania was second in the annua) balloting conducted by United Press International.

Third was the energy crunch, with Its oil price increases and long lines at gasoline pumps. Fourth and fifth were the economy and the Middle East. Editors were asked to rale the big stories of the year, both from the standpoint of headline Impact and long-range The top two gtories in long-range significance were Iran and the energy crunch. The economy was and Three Mile Island fifth behind the fourth-place Middle East. Iran also was chosen as top story of the year by editors in other parts of the world.

The top 10: Headline value: l.Iran. 2. Three Mile Island. 3. Energy crunch.

4. The economy: inflation, gold and dollar fluctuations. 5. The Middle East: Sadat. Begin sign peace treaty.

6. Pope John Paul II visits Mexico. Poland. Ireland, 7. DC -10 crash in Chicago kills 273.

8. President Carter. 9. Indochina: China-Vietnam war, Cambodia, refugees flee. 10.

Salt II treaty signing and Senate debate. TODAY'S MARKETS Market mixed NEW YORK The stock market, closing out the year and decade, was mixed early Monday although metals Issues were showing strength. Trading was moderately ac- 1 tive. The Dow Jones industrial average, a 1.19-point loser Friday, was ahead 0.34 point to 839.25 around noon EST. The Dow finished unchanged overall last week.

Declines led advances. 689 to 521, among the 1,733 Issues crossing the New York Stock Exchange tape. Gold prices climbed to as much as $526 an ounce in London from $512 Friday as investors showed concern about Sbviet Involvement In Afghanistan, the Iranian crisis and rising oil rices. Libya Friday said it was raising its oil prices $4.72 to $34.72 a barrel effective Jan. 1.

Iraq, another Iraqiart neighbor, and Venezuela raised prices to about $26 a barrel. Indonesia and Kuwait also boosted rates. The government srild Its index of leading indicators fell 1.3 percent in November and a survey by the National Association of Purchasing Management said the economy dropped, sharply In December. NYSE volume at the two-hour mark amounted to about 14,200.000 shares, compared with 15,300,000 traded during the same period Friday. Prices were higher in active trading of American Stock Exchange Issues.

Composer Riehard Rodgers dead in New York at 77 NEW YORK UPI) Richard Rodgers, who composed the music for dozens of Broadway smashes including "Oklahoma." "South Pacific" and "The King and 1." died late Sunday. He was 77. Rodgers. who also scored "The Sound of Music." 'Pal Joey." "The King and 1." "State Fair" and "Carousel." died about 10:30 p.m. in his apartment at the Pierre Hotel on Fifth Avenue: Family spokeswoman Alice Regensburg said the exact cause of death was unknown.

Rodgers' health began failing in 1974 when he underwent a tracheotomy for cancer of the throat. In 1979. he suffered a stroke. The Ukiah Dally Journal (Publication No.64^20) is published dally except Saturdays and certain holidays at 590 S. School P.O.

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