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tt OBITUARIES Workers rescued from fire NEW YORK Rose Jarvis 74 library worker helped the sick trapped Police are investigating the incident No charges have been filed The blaze in the 60000-square-foot building was started on the ground floor by one of the workers who was using a propane torch to remove floor tiles officials said Twelve firefighters suffered minor smoke inhalation They were taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center and released officials said Sixty firefighters from 12 units fought the blaze which was extinguished shortly before 5 ajn Officials did not release the names of the maintenance workers BY ANDREW STRICKLER andrewstrkkler'newsdaycoin Five maintenance workers trapped in a Queens grocery store during a predawn fire yesterday were rescued by firefighters New York fire officials said The initial 911 call on the fire at Met Foods on 101st Avenue in Ozone Park came in at 3:25 am Firefighters arrived to find heavy smoke pouring from the building and people inside yelling and banging on the inside of a locked security gate according to FDNY Deputy Commissioner Francis Gribbon Firefighters used power saws to cut through the gates and release the men who were working overnight in the store They suffered minor bruises lacerations and smoke inhalation and were treated and released at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center After the fire started on the ground floor officials said the group retreated to the basement where there was less smoke and took turns going up a flight of stairs to bang on an exterior door The store manager told firefighters that one of the workers had been given a key to the lock on the gate and officials said yesterday it was unclear why the men had become BY ZACHARY DOWDY zacharydowdynewsdaycom Rose Jarvis of West Babylon loved to knit blankets family and friends help the sick and serve as a model of piety for her two daughters and her son relatives said "She was a good said Michael Jarvis of Deer Park her son who works as a driver for Newsday "She did it all out of her Jarvis 74 was killed Tuesday afternoon as she drove home from her job as a part-time clerk at the North Babylon Public Library when a Holbrook man who police said was driving while intoxicated hit her car At the time police said the man also was physically fighting with his girlfriend who was in the passenger seat of bis car Anthony Ceparano 39 who was hospitalized after the crash is scheduled for arraignment July 25 on a drunken-driving charge Rose Jarvis had busied herself with hobbies in addition to knitting including reading popular fiction and watching new DVD releases that she checked out of the library where she had worked for 15 years Soon after word of death began to spread friends began making donations to the library in her memory Most of her professional career was spent in the aisles of the Abraham Straus department stores in West Babylon and Mass-apequa where she had worked as a sales associate for 30 years Hers was a life of community service too as she volunteered to drive ill people to hospitals and appointments through a church-related program that the devout Catholic was involved in for many years her son said At the library she loved to read books to kids "She never bragged about what she he added Next year the Brooklyn native would have celebrated the 50th anniversary of her marriage to George Jarvis whom she wed in a May 3 1958 ceremony in Bayside The couple settled first in Moving signs of Times THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Amid champagne corks and moving boxes New York Times staffers selected all the news that was fit to print fur a final time at their century-old headquarters yesterday The newspaper's Manhattan employees were busy packing up their storied stone building on West 43rd Street and moving the newsroom into a shin- ing new tower just a walk to the south It's also a leap into the 21st century a 52-story ceramic-and-glass skyscraper filling a block of Eighth Avenue between 40th and 41st streets packed with the latest technology- The paper's final page-one meeting in the old building started at exactly 12-JO pm a ritual gathering of editors selecting the best of "All The News That's Fit To the motto once coined by a Times publisher the late Adolph Ochs A champagne cork popped over the table with plastic cups at the ready as weekend editor Marty Gottlieb announced "the Slast issue of the New York Times in this venerable building" With early or "bulldog" editions of Sunday's paper already out Gottlieb and about a dozen editors reviewed the top news and any changes for later editions They spoke of the Bel-o mnnt Stakes a gap in a thermal fl blanket on the space shuttle and Pope visit with Presi-u dent George Bush There -3 was talk of federal authorities no-71 tifying former Newark Mayor Sharpe James that he is the tar-2 get of a grand jury probe on cor-5 ruption charges and of a fire in a Queens supermarket that trapped five janitors who were locked inside pj Elsewhere on the third-floor newsroom strewn with bright Rose Jarvis of West Babylon New Hyde Park and later moved to the West Babylon home where they raised their children In addition to their son the couple had daughters Barbara of West Babylon and Laura of Kings Park Her children gave her the seven grandchildren she loved to dote on "She was a very active 74-year-old said Barbara Jarvis adding that her mother cooked and cleaned for her father as his health began to faiL "She went to church every Sunday and said the rosary at she said "And after church on Sunday she would bring home bread and fresh cold cuts and cakes from the bakery -for my father and Barbara Jarvis recalled a lot of block parties and other gatherings when the home would teem with visiting children "When she was younger she entertained at the she said "We had lots of parties and there were so many kids in the neighborhood When we got older she and my dad used to play cards with other couples in the neighborhood She loved everybody and never said anything bad about she said In addition to her husband son daughters and grandchildren die is survived by her sister Barbara Brennan of Levittown Visitation is today from 2 to 4 JO pjn and from 7 to 9J0 an at Boyd-Caratozzo-lo Funeral Home 1785 Deer Park Ave in Deer Park A funeral Mass will be -said tomorrow at 10:15 am -at Saints Cyril and Methodius Church in Deer Park Burial will follow in Calver-ton National Cemetery The old New York Times building now a scene from the past orange moving crates around abandoned desks freshly baked pizzas were ordered in for these last hours By midnight the last paper edited in the old Times building would be out And by this morning the weekend staff would be at the new building working on paper The new headquarters opposite the Port Authority Bus Terminal are still walking distance from the namesake: Times Square An earlier home of the newspaper is the building from which the New ball descends each year The new building a joint venture between The New York Times Co and Forest City Rattier Cos was designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano in col laboration with the Manhattan-based architectural firm of Fox Fowle The design incorporates a transparent-looking tower screened by planes of glazed ceramic tubes that absorb sunlight and transform it into energy The latest headquarters offers "Less Stuffiness Better Ventilation" read a poster tacked to the wall near the elevators of the old building Nearby were more posters touting other virtues of the new digs including "Fresh Water referring to the centralized filtration system By yesterday afternoon the water fountains in the old headquarters were turned off But there was champagne.