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An interview with an Angel batboy Sports An empire called Vanir Money It's the coolest show in town What's Up? i Living orning Frank Dominguez we city final fair weather on a-2 The messy look yS is out good Siro Sunday, August 27, 1978 33 Cents A Gannett Newspaper Serving the Inland Empire, San Bernardino, California 7 Jr ederal iuclge blocks Bostal strike New pope nions still plan walkout ci osen By PAUL HOFMANN New YorK Times News Service ROME The Patriarch of Venice, Albino Cardinal Luciani, a 65-year-old moderate with vast pastoral experience, became pope Saturday night as the 263d bishop of Rome. He assumed the name John Paul combining the names of his two immediate predecessors. Pope John XXIII and Paul VI. The new pontiff, already in the white vestments of his new office, appeared on the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at 7:32 p.m.

(1:32 p.m. New York time) to impart, for the first time, his blessing "Urbi et orbi" to the city of Rome and to the orld. Tens of thousands of Romans, tourists and pilgrims who had been gathering in St. Peter's Square since late afternoon applauded and cheered the new head of the Roman Catholic Church. Pope John Paul smiled broadly and waved to the crowd before reading the Latin benediction formula.

In the vast piazza, many persons kneeled to receive the new pope's first apostolic blessing. Some sobbed with emotion. After the benediction, Pope John Paul stayed on the balcony for a few minutes, waving again to the throng while Swiss Guards and Italian soldiers who had been swiftly lined up below ren- (Continued on AA, column 1) I i i jr What course WASHINGTON (AP) A federal judge issued a restraining order Saturday barring the nation's two largest postal unions from striking. However, union officials showed no sign of backing down from a threatened nationwide mail strike that could start as early as Monday. U.S.

District Judge John Pratt signed the six-day restraining order at his Maryland home Saturday afternoon, according to Michael McManus, a Postal Service spokesman. Pratt set next Friday as the date for a hearing on the restraining order. The judge ordered the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) and the National Association of Letter Carriers not to strike or engage in a work slowdown, McManus said. However, a postal orkers union official, who asked not to be named, said the restraining order would not affect the union's position, set at a recent APWU national convention in Denver. The convention authorized union leaders to call a strike within five days of a contract rejection, if negotiations were not reopened.

"A court order doesn't change a convention mandate," the official said, indicating that a strike would be called if the Postal Service does not reverse its position and agree to resume talks. In 1970, postal workers struck for eight days despite court orders barring a walkout. The possibility of a nationwide strike grew last week as a month-old tentative contract was rejected by the APWU, the letter carriers union and the Mail Handlers Division of the Laborers' International Union. The rejected contract called for a 19.5 percent increase in wages and benefits over three years. Postal Service lawyers asked Pratt for a restraining order Friday.

However, the judge refused, saying he wanted to let the negotiating process continue. But he added that he might reconsider his decision over the eekend if a strike appeared imminent. Officials of the Federal Mediation Service met ith both sides (Continued on A-3, column 4) will pope set? The author is a Catholic priest, a sociologist, a journalist, and a member of the staff of the National Opinion Research Center at Chicago University. 3 analysis By ANDREW M. GREELEY Gannett News Service VATICAN CITY The announcement in the 4 I 4 I i I i 1 1 I 1 Piazza of St.

Peter's in Saturday's twilight of the election of Albino Luciani as Pope John Paul I astonished everyone. Most of the crowd was persuaded that the gray smoke was black and was beginning to leave the square. While it was known that Luciani was a candidate of the curial conservatives, no one expected him to win the papal election so soon, much less in three ballots. As was clear from his behavior on the balcony of St. Peter's, he is an amiable and friendly man of considerable intelligence and broad cultural sophistication.

After the mass yesterday, as he was entering the conclave, Luciani was seen signing autographs and kissing babies as he walked past the crowd. No one here dislikes Papa Luciani; he is the kind of man it is impossible to dislike. But his only experience has been in Italy. He was a strong supporter of the reforms of the Second Vatican Council and is unlikely to try to undo any of those changes. Politically and socially, he seems to be somewhat conservative.

However, he is (Continued on A4, column 5) I i I I 1 1 A mi ll AP wiraphoto Ik Pope John Paul I waves to crowd in St. Peter's Square Saturday. Mary Shiminski And why he loved her Sunday speciai By JEANMNE GUTTMAN Sun-Telesram Start Writer RIVERSIDE Who is Mary Shiminski and why is she a legend in the annals of love, an inspiration to hundreds of infatuated, star-struck lovers who know nothing of her except her name? For the answers, one must journey to New England where the myth or a true damsel who had stolen someone's heart. But tracking down the author of the message, who is now married to Mary Shiminski, unraveled a love story that is as Mary herself put it "kinda hard to believe." Bert Salva, a courageous but spurned lover, made the painted (Continued on A-3, column 1) passed by, whether residents or tourists, would silently read the sign and wonder "Who is Mary Shiminski?" And "Who loves Mary Shiminski?" Not until this summer four years later would the world know the truth. The "whodunit" was solved by the dogged efforts of a New Hampshire reporter ho set out two years ago to discover whether Mary Shiminski was a recent interview at her Riverside home.

"All this publicity and attention from people all across the country? The whole thing is crazy. I don't think it will ever stop." legend began. And then, across the country to Riverside where it ended in marriage. "I don't really know how this happened," Shiminski said in a And perhaps it never will. "Mary Shiminski" may not be a household name in Riverside, but her name is famous in Vermont and New Hampshire.

That fame spread like wildfire after a white spray-painted message appeared on a railroad bridge overpass in the summer of 1974. "Mary Shiminski I Love You!" was scrawled in large letters over the Route 9 highway near Brat-tleboro, Vt. The bridge is on the New Hampshire-Vermont border and over the years nearly all those ho Veteran screen star Charles Boyer dead at 78 New space capsule launched by Soviets index epitomized the Continental gallant suave, impeccable of manner and dress. He played the polished lover to many of the movies' leading ladies, yet had the strength and authority to be convincing also as a man of action. Unlike many a romantic star, he moved easily into character parts with middle age.

In one film, he portrayed the father of Leslie (Continued on A-3, column 1) he arrived at the hospital, a spokesman said. Dr. Thomas Jarvis, Maricopa County coroner, said he will conduct an autopsy today to determine the exact cause of death. A hospital spokesman said a heart attack was suspected. Boyer, whose wife of 44 years, Patricia, died Thursday, became Warner Brothers' top-salary star in 1945.

During the 1930s and 1940s, he PHOENIX, Ariz. (AP) Charles Boyer, the suave, French-born actor who courted a bevy of ieading ladies in films of the 1930s and 1940s and became one of Warner Brothers' top stars, died Saturday at a local hospital, the hospital reported. Boyer, who would have turned 79 on Monday, had been discovered unconscious at his home and was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital by fire department paramedics. He died a short time after MOSCOW (AP) A Soviet cosmonaut commander and an East German cosmonaut rocketed into orbit in Soyuz 31 Saturday in the Soviet Union's third bi-national space launch this year, Tass reported.

Tass said the capsule was launched at 7:17 a.m. PDT. The Soviet news agency said cosmonaut-researcher Sigmund Jaehn of East Germany and Rus sian Valery Bykovsky are expected to dock with the orbiting space station Salyut 6. There they will join Soviet cosmonauts Vladimir Kovalenok and Alexander Ivanchenkov, who have been circling the globe since June 16. Bykovsky and Jaehn "feel well and the systems on board the spaceship are functioning normally," the news agency reported.

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