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mm ml CI nlde Flurries High about 32 Details on page 2A Regional 147TH YEAR Published by Gannett in Rochester. N.Y., Tuesday Morning, February 27. 1979 20 CENTS Newsstand Price Legislators react to vehicle safety Safety for Sale believe that our (vehicle) inspection system very badly needs tightening up," said Assemblyman James Nagle. "I would certainly support expanding enforcement Assemblyman Gary Proud said of state vehicle safety laws. But support for overhauling vehicle safety laws isn't unanimous.

At least two area legislators said they want to know more about charges of loopholes in state safety laws before spending more state money to ensure area and across the state take to the streets with bad brakes, bald tires, broken springs, faulty steering and other serious defects. Many of the trucks probably had faulty equipment when they were inspected. In some cases, the trucks passed sloppy safety inspections by licensed mechanics who work for the companies that own the trucks. In other cases, company mechanics simply pasted safety stickers onto windshields without proper safety checks. as rafionin Wings fire Labbruzzo Rochester Red Wings board of directors fire General Manager Don Labbruzzo, effective immediately, ignoring a written offer by Labbruzzo to resign after the 1979 season.

It's first time in 22-year history of community ownership a general manager has been fired. Labbruzzo will be paid his $28,000 salary. Club president Bill Blackmon also is asked to step down. Bob Drew, assistant to Labbruzzo, is appointed acting general manager (ID). World RHOPESIAN warplanes fly over 1,200 miles of Zambia to bomb guerrilla camp in Angola (6A).

SON OF Indira Gandhi is found guilty of destroying film satirizing his mother's regime (6A). Nation RESORTS International receives permanent license for New Jersey casino world's richest (5A). COLLEGE FOOTBALL and other money-makers won't be exempt from equal expenditure rules (5A). proposed for 'severe crisis' rt Vi BY MIKE MEYERS Staff Writer Several state legislators from the Rochester area yesterday said they'd back changes in state law to keep dangerous trucks off the road and keep black market safety inspection stickers off hazardous trucks. "I can't understand why there isn't legislation going on when it's something so important the safety of people on the road," Assemblywoman Audre Cooke said.

like many in the Legislature, Cloudy skies cleared over parts i I 3M it ssr msx I It i war J' ''Www. fidiroijiiijiiiii'i the safe condition of 8 million trucks and cars registered in New York state. The legislators were asked about vehicle safety after articles appeared in Sunday's Democrat and Chronicle outlining failures of the state safety inspection system. The articles said that: Many trucks in the Rochester slipped into total eclipse. (AP) SIS iSS: fa tjf $8 5s vfo )SS JSf At Maryhill, where a replica of England's Stonehenge as been built on a bluff over the Columbia, members of the New Reformed Druids of North America and the Church of All Worlds conducted eclipse ceremonies.

Turn to Page 3A iMRiii Many of the safety stickers may have'been bought on the black market. Some mechanics illegally sell stickers for trucks and cars sight-unseen. A reporter found someone to sell him a safety sticker for a 31-year-old truck without ever looking at the rig. The reporter's truck had no windshield, no brakes, no gears, no rear lights, no battery and a cracked engine that couldn't move the truck an inch Turn to Page 3A today, officials said. Powell drew a sharp distinction between the proposed stand-by mandatory measures and other steps, still being drafted, which are designed to cope with the loss of oil from Iran.

The two packages, Powell said, are "separate and different matters." He said the task force on the Iranian oil situation, created in January, will submit its recommendations to Carter in a few weeks. Other administration officials, however, said some of the less stringent stand-by measures proposed yesterday, such as imposing temperature limits in commercial buildings, may have to be imposed this summer because of the Iranian shortage. The conflicting views reflect uncertainty by U.S. officials over when Iran will resume oil exports and how much Iranian oil will be available. China says it's ready for risks United Press International Chinese Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping said yesterday he "hoped" China's invasion of Vietnam would be over within 33 days but that it could last longer.

Teng said he did not think the Soviet Union would intervene in the fighting but there were some "risks" and China was prepared for Vietnam, claiming it had inflicted more heavy casualties on the Chinese, said there now were more Chinese combat troops in Vietnam than U.S. soldiers during the height of American involvement in Vietnam. The Soviet Union issued a new warning to China to withdraw its troops from Vietnam "before it's too late." In Peking, Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal scheduled a special 90-minute meeting with Teng for today to discuss the war. A Chinese official also told American reporters with Blumenthal's party the invasion of Vietnam "probably would end in less than 30 days." Official Radio Hanoi claimed Vietnamese troops had killed or wounded more than 18,000 Chinese in the 10-day-old war. However, Western intelligence sources in Bangkok said the Vietnamese casualty figures are exaggerated.

Senate ok's Woodcock United Press International WASHINGTON Leonard Woodcock easily won Senate confirmation yesterday as America's first ambassador to Communist China, a job he helped create through negotiations as delicate as any he faced in his years as a labor leader. The Senate vote was 82-9. Woodcock, 68, was President Carter's liaison to Peking in the two years leading up to the dramatic decision to establish normal relations. Since he was in China and had friendly contacts with Peking's communist leaders, Woodcock became the chief American negotiator during the talks, using skills he learned in Detroit during his seven years as president of the United Auto Workers. The Senate vote came after only 2Vs hours of debate, surprising many legislators and staffers who had expected conservatives to use the occasion to criticize Carter's China policy and the Chinese invasion of Vietnam.

United Press International WASHINGTON President Carter asked Congress yesterday to give him power to order gasoline rationing, weekend gas station closings and two less stringent mandatory fuel-saving measures in event of a grave energy emergency, administration sources said. Presidential press spokesman Jody Powell said yesterday's mandatory stand-by proposals will not be implemented in the near future and would be used only "in event of a severe crisis of energy." Ha said the mandatory measures, required under a 1975 law, have been two years in the making and "are not connected with Iran." Although the president's request was sent officially to the House and the Senate yesterday afternoon, the White House said details would not be announced publicly until this afternoon. Administration and congressional sources said, however, Carter approved four of the five stand-by mandatory conservation measures sent to him this weekend by the Energy Department. If all but rationing were imposed, officials said, the total saving would be almost a million barrels of oil a day. Sources said Carter requested authority to impose: Coupon-type gasoline rationing, to be used only as a last resort.

The same number of coupons worth one gallon each would be issued monthly for each vehicle registered in the United States. The'degree of rationing would depend on the severity of the fuel shortage being dealt with. Weekend gasoline station closings, probably starting with closings on Sundays. The purpose would be to discourage pleasure driving on weekends, producing estimated savings of about 280,000 barrels of oil a day. Temperature limits for heating, cooling and hot water in public buildings.

Of the three measures short of rationing, this would produce the greatest fuel saving estimated at about 460,000 barrels a day. Enforcement would be handled by local police and building inspectors. A ban on unnecessary commercial advertising lighting. Estimated savings from this largely symbolic move would be about 40,000 barrels of oil daily. The president vetoed a fifth proposed stand-by measure restrictions on the number of parking spaces offered by employers and in downtown commercial lots largely because of difficulties enforcing it, sources said.

Administration sources said the proposals were not made public yesterday because Carter wanted to make sure members of Congress got the first word and the House and Senate adjourned early in the afternoon, making notification difficult. A public announcement by the Energy Department is scheduled at 2 p.m. only got within a mile of the house," said Dr. Phillip Beyer, 36, who got there just in time to deliver a 9-pound, 8-ounce baby boy. Heavy snow also fell in the mountains of northeastern Tennessee and western North Carolina.

In Maryland, where a number of roads were closed by flooding and the Potomac River was at or near flood stage, National Guardsmen were evac-cuating families in low-lying areas. "There'll be a lot of drying out to be done," said Mayor Ralph Ober of Greensboro, where the Choptank River was rising about 2 inches an hour and eight families had been evacuated by noon. The National Weather Service predicted the Ohio River would crest 3 feet above flood stage this morning at Pomeroy. of the Northwest just before the sun ning on the West Coast near Portland, Ore.f about 8 a.m. local time.

Most of the nation was treated to only a partial eclipse. But where the eclipse was total and the weather clear, hundreds of people danced, played music and shot off fireworks. Storms hit Rochester's weather (16) Associated Press The relentless Winter of '79 continued to pound America's midsection yesterday, spreading knee-deep snow and spilling floodwaters into many areas from Missouri to New England. On the day the sun blinked, to the thrill of thousands of eclipse-watchers gathered in the Pacific Northwest, residents of southeast Missouri and parts of Arkansas were digging out from under their worst snowstorm in 60 years. National Guardsmen were mobilized in several states for rescue work, and at least six deaths were blamed on the storm.

Hundreds of schools were closed and power lines were snapped by ice, snow and freezing rains from Cleveland to 1 flfMf Ife A du State GOV. CAREY doesn't approve of idea to create an alternative high school 'degree (5A). POLICE go along as volunteers fill in for striking school bus drivers in New York City (5A). i Region MONROE COUNTY Family Court feels huge backlog that has kept parents and children in suspense could be cleared by spring (IB). IT'S WHAT labels on cleaning fluids and other household items don't say that can hurt you (6B).

People RACE IS less and less an important factor when people decide to get married (1C). ALICE COOPER is dried out now and has an album about taking the cure (1C). Sports JANE BLALOCK breezes to six-shot victory on windy final day in St. Petersburg golf (2D). HEAVY SNOW postpones opening night at Batavia Downs first time in 39-year history of track (5D).

Business SUPREME COURT asks Justice Department for its views on multi-million dollar oil complaint COLUMNIST. Jane Bryant Quinn says you may be paying taxes on some tax-free income (8D). Bridge 11C Business 5-8D Columnists 3C Comics 10-1 1C Deaths 5C Editorials 4A HELP! CB Puzzles 11C Sports 1-5D Theaters 3-4C TV 2C Want Ads 4 NEWS SECTIONS "If I had known Khomeini was going to get in I would never have had the face-lift." II It was light in Portland, yesterday morning. Then, moments later, the eclipse became total. (AP) because of heavy clouds, however, people in the city could not see the sun slip behind the moon Turning daytime into night US in breadbasket Gannett News Service, AP and UPI For thousands of whooping, joyous people in Oregon and Washington yesterday, the clouds parted at exactly the right moment showing all of the predicted, spectacular effects of a total eclipse.

From vantage points east of the Cascade Mountains, they saw dramatic shadow bands racing across the ground and solar prominences burning brightly along the rim of the moon. But others in the path of the total eclipse weren't so lucky. West of the Cascades, the eclipse kept its performance above the clouds. Still, it managed to all but immobilize operations below. Schools opened late or, early for safety of children, and many businesses and government employees began work post-blackout.

Animals milled about nervously and confused roosters crowed twice as day turned into night in the swath 175 miles wide across the northwestern United States and into Canada. Street lights controlled by sensors flicked on in Spokane and Olympia, and in many other cities as the moon swept between the Earth and the sun in the last total eclipse to be visible on this continent until the year 2017. The shadow crossed the, Earth at more than 3,000 miles an hour, begin- western New York state. Flash floods were expected in parts of New York, New Jersey, western Pennsylvania and, most of Ohio. Illinois Gov.

James Thompson declared 30 counties in the southern part of the state snow emergency areas and called out National Guard units, mainly to aid an estimated 2,000 motorists stranded on highways. An additional 250 National Guardsmen were attempting to get food and fuel to hundreds of other motorists stranded in southeastern Missouri, where 50-mph winds had built snowdrifts up to 10 feet high. In Fredericktown, a doctor and his nurse a husband-and-wife team mounted cross-country skies to reach a pregnant woman snowbound in her rural home and in labor "We had tried to get out to her home in four-wheel drive vehicles, but we.