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1 ilinsK Www- U.U-.V TN LA. tee FINAL EDITION 10-18-79-10 20 CENTS THURSDAY, OCT. 18, 1979 bv Publishing Co. Mimes z4. 4 rma hit FV Bucco Fans Sing, Dance: We're No.

1 TAis story was written by Joyce Gemperlein based on her reporting and that of staff writers Regis M. Stefanik, Allen G. Harris Linda Wilson and Paul Ayars. Midnight at Market Square never was like this. Toilet paper streamers, blaring horns, firecrackers, no elbow room.

It was the result of a hysterically happy crowd estimated by police at 5,000, but growing minute by minute, that crammed into the city's traditional site of celebration. The crowd started out orderly but later began getting raucous and troublesome. In Oakland, police estimated 20,000 people, most of them students, poured into the streets. Part of the throng started heading Downtown but were turned back by police. The Pirates had done it won the World Series and now it was the fans' turn to brag about it And they'll be able to do it again tomorrow at noon in the same place, Mayor Caliguiri announced, when the city celebrates the World Champion Bucs.

After about an hour of celebrating, the crowd Downtown grew wilder. At 12:45 two police vans pulled into Market Square and were pelted with bottles and cans. Bars in Market Square that stayed open were jammed. Others shut their doors to keep out raucous celebrants. The explosion of humanity was made up of fans who viewed the final game of the series in various places and with shifting moods.

From behind opaque curtains in front rooms through the city came greenish flickering glows, squares of television light that silhouetted figures, at first, hunched in desperate poses. But then, as the Pirates rubbed out the Birds' early lead, the shapes homebodies who chose armchair and family as company for last night's deciding Same became nimble forms that anced darkly and exaltedly through living rooms. The choreography answered the quent question: "what's the score?" for unfortunate sidewalk wanderers in residential areas of Pittsburgh who were without either a radio or television between 8 and 11:30 p.m. It was then that Market Square, Downtown, the traditional site of celebration, became a sea of cheering Pirate fans. As early as 11:30 p.m., minutes after the game ended, more than 500 cheering, fans flowed into the small park.

The crowd grew minute by minute. (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) 9 AuocKM Prnt given the prize "in recognition of her work in bringing help to suffering humanity." She has been nominated for the prize for several years and has often been mentioned as a possible recipient. (During a visit here last summer, Mother Teresa said everyone can do the work she does. She said the poor can be found everywhere, and there can be a poverty of spirit, not just goods. "They (the poor) are in your towns," she said, (Continued on Page 6, Column 2) tin' hi if VOL.

53- -ISO. 68 Copyright two 1 A wUUwVLV i Here's a switch there's just about no chance of rain through tonight. The National Weather Service says we'll even have a bit of sunshine. The high temperature should be in the mid-60s and the low tonight is expected to be in the upper 40s. Details, Page 31.

Taiwan Pact A federal judge orders the Carter administration to take no action to terminate the United States' mutual defense treaty with Taiwan without first getting congressional approval. Page 6. Today's Quote "Although oil shortages have disappeared in recent months, they are likely to reappear during the upswing of the next business cycle perhaps in 1981 or 1982" Maurice Ernst, director of the CIA office of economic research testifying before the House Intelligence Subcommittee in Washington. Page 18. Clear, Present Danger That's what Common Pleas Judge Bernard J.

McGowan says the Bethel' Park School District is facing because of a continuing teacher strike. So, he orders teachers to return to work immediately. Page 3. Among the Missing Convicted racketeer Joseph DeMarco got in his car and left his Brookline home last Thursday. He hasn't been seen since.

City police begin an investigation and say there is a "strong possibility" of foul play. Page 2. It was September 1976 when Heidi Morningstar was abducted from her Ambridge, Beaver County, home for no apparent reason. She was 12. Her body was found two days later.

Police have continued their investigation and arrest a man from Ambridge and another from East Liverpool, Ohio, and charge them with the strangulation. Page 2. Had Enough? For those of you who have terminal cases of Pirate fever, be comforted by the fact that, as of this morning, there are only 136 more days before Pirate veterans report for spring training and another 34 or 35 days or so beyond that before the first bat is swung In anger. A Sleeper It's a movie called "The In-Laws," and it has outgrossed such movies as "Escape from Alcatraz" and "The Main Event" George Anderson writes about that and other movies. Page 26.

Coping Alone Single parents have to learn how to manage a full-time job, child care and management of the household. Not only that, women, especially, have to deal with talking with the neighbors about divorce. Daily Magazine. By DAVID WARNER 30 Lottery 31 Better Llvlig ....22,23 ...27 Comics .......23 Obituaries .....31 Deaths 31 25 Editorials Sports 10-14 Financial 15,16,18 Theaters 26,27 Goren on Bridge ...24 Want 22 Weather 31 1 TTWrlsrer Pirates' Willie Stargell blasts a home run in the sixth and drives in Bill Robinson to put the Pirates ahead 2-1. Mother Teresa Wins Peace Nobel 4-1 Victory Caps Series Comeback By CHARLEY FEENEY Post-Gzett Sports Writer BALTIMORE One time it was Bill Mazeroski.

Another time it was Roberto Clemente and Steve Blass. This time it was Willie Stargell. Wonderful Willie, 38 years young, carried the Pirates with his bat last night and led the bounce-back Buccos to baseball's world championship with a dramatic 4-1 win over the Baltimore Orioles. Stargell, named the Most Valuable Player of the Series, was the only Pirate in the seven games to produce a home run. He hit his third last night against Scott McGregor.

It was a two-run blast over the right-field wall, wiping out a 1-0 Baltimore lead. Rich Dauer's third-inning homer off Pirate starter Jim Bibby accounted for the Baltimore run. A crowd of 53,733, including President Carter, saw Stargell collect four hits, a single and two doubles to go with his homer. Later, President Carter went to the Pirates' clubhouse to congratulate the Pirates. Four clubs have come back in the Series after being down, three games to one.

The Pirates are the only team to do it twice. The 1925 Pirates rallied to beat the Washington Senators. The 1958 New York Yankees won the last thee games over the Milwaukee Braves and the 1968 Detroit Tigers did it against the St. Louis Cardinals. Through the tense, dramatic comeback that started with a 7-1 win in Pittsburgh Sunday, Chuck Tanner managed with the knowledge that bis mother had died.

The Pirates stayed alive with a 4-0 victory Tuesday night here. Each time, the Pirate starter appeared overmatched. Jim Rooker went against 23-game winner Mike Flanagan Sunday. John Candelaria went against veteran Jim Palmer Tuesday night and Bibby last night faced McGregor, the Baltimore left-hander, who was an 8-4 winner in the third game. Stagell said that President Carter congratulated him, and Willie, smiling, later said: "I was going to ask him for some peanuts, but there were a lot of security guards around." Stargell said he spoke with batting coach Bob Skinner in the fifth inning.

"The one thing I didn't want was to stay too close if he (McGregor) threw me a fast ball." (Continued on Page 10, Column 1) mi i iiiniini i fcrfriatri iih in JAMES KIINEMMITHPMI-Ouitlt rect, but as we all know, it is more than just a slab where they lay out a body. "There are very few facilities in Allegheny County that have a place where a body can be stored. There are few places where there are technicians to clean up after an autopsy. There are very few places where you have a dictaphone and microphone to dictate into as you are doing it, and people to type it up. (Continued on Page 4, Column 1) Edited missioner tllnscript of debate of com tUodidates, Pages 4 r.

oi i. Peirce, Hunt Split on Morgue; Democrats Boycott Debate OSLO, Norway (AP)' Mother Teresa, Calcutta's "saint of the gutters," won the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize yesterday and said she would spend the $190,000 purse on lepers and the destitute to whom she has dedicated her life. "Poverty and hunger and distress also constitute a threat to peace," the Nobel Committee said in citing the sixth woman to win the prize. The Yugoslav-born Roman Catholic nun, daughter of an Albanian shopkeeper and now a citizen of India, said she ac Republicans William Hunt, left, But Hunt's figures were wrong. The coroner's salary here is is $26,995 a year, but even that is far below the earnings, which Hunt pegged at $80,000 a year, of forensic pathologists.

The salary soon is to go to $30,000 a year. Hunt later became more specific about what constitutes "outside work." "There's two different things here," he said. "There's the physical job of exami-nation. If it is done in our facilities, the income from that should Jo to the county. But the judgment thaficomes out i R.Hunt cepted the award "in the name of the poor." Her order, the Mission of Charity, was founded in Calcutta's slums in 1948 when Mother Teresa opened her first school with 40 cents in her pocket and special permission from Rome to live outside a convent.

The order now runs schools, hospitals, youth centers and orphanages in 50 Indian cities and in others around the world, from the Bronx, New York, to Papua, New Guinea. The five-member Norwegian Nobel Committee said Mother Teresa, 69, was f2j i1iji and Robert Peirce were the only county of the examination, that has to go out of the county to be of use, the income from that judgment should go the individual. "In no way can we presume to take the money that should go to Cyril Wecht if he spends two days in Butler testifying in a murder case. First of all, we don't pay him enough and secondly, I just think it is wrong." Why, if he is doing it on county time, Hunt was asked. "We didn't hire himJfull time," Hunt replied.

"You don't hirtneounty commis Cyril H. Wecht fEjLJ Thomas J.Focrstcr I HoIkiI IVhc By FRANK M. MATTHEWS Pott-GaieM Political Wrltw Republicans Robert N. Peirce and William R. Hunt expressed their many differences and some similarities yesterday in a Post-Gazette election debate that was limited by refusal of Democratic candidates for county commissioner to participate.

Democrats Cyril H. Wecht and Thomas J. Foerster failed to answer invitations sent to them by registered mail in mid-September. Dr. Wecht, now county coroner, did not return subsequent telephone calls but Commissioner Foerster aid, to confirm his aversion.

So, with former Commissioner Hunt and Commissioner Peirce willing to answer questions asked by a Post-Gazette staff, Editor John Craig decided to go ahead with a format that included the Democrats as well as the Republicans. The first question brought the first difference. It concerned Wecht and the legalization of the Professional Education Fund established by him with funds collected for coroner's work for other counties. Hunt said that he thinks the two Democratic county commissioners acted properly in voting to do so. "My reason is this: the fact that we pay a forensic pathologist the salary we do, which is about one-fifth of the ongoing rate in the various coroners' and medical examiners' offices in the country, to me assumes that we expect him to do outside work," Hunt said.

"We can't get a forensic pathologist for 818,000 a year. We pay his assistants more than that. It is the only way get him," Hunt added. commissioner candidates to appear yesterday at Post-Gaxette debate. sioners full time." Peirce disagreed and related that he had voted against "legalization" of the fund.

He said that the same principle, if acceptable, could be applied to other row offices that generate income from out-of-county work but turn it over to the county. Peirce went on: "I've seen statements where the coroner indicated, 'Well, I just used a slab, somebody could rfo an autopsy on somebody's table topf. desk as That isolated fact out vfcontext may be cor.

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