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4B Press Sun-Bulletin Monday, January 5, 1987 OBITUARIES arch assails youth death STATE Ellenville man who is the son of a local black leader. Protesters claim the officer used a controversial "chokehold" to subdue Bruce following a disturbance at a movie theater in Wallkill. A chokehold cuts off blood to the brain and renders a person unconscious in three to six seconds, said Sgt. John Penney, the sergeant in charge of training at the State Police Academy in Albany. The controversial move can bring on death in less than a minute.

After the struggle, Bruce was rushed to Horton Memorial Hospital in Middletown, where he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival. A temporary death certificate said the youth died from asphyxiation due to compression of the neck, pending results of tests for the presence of drugs or alcohol. The police officer and his partner, moonlighting as security guards at the Cinema 10 theater, have not been charged in the death. State police are conducting an investigation and Orange County District Attorney Frank D. Phillips II says he expects to present the tacts Mrs.

Olga H. Wagner -of Binghamton Funeral and interment services for 1 Mrs. Olga H. Wagner will be held Monday, 11 a.m., from Grace Lutheran Church, Vestal. Rev.

Don Mueller, tor of her church, will officiate. Burial will be in Riverhurst Cemetery, Endi- cott. The family will receive friends at Grace Church from 10 a.m. until serv- ice time at 11. Expressions of sympathy in her memory may be made to the Good Shepard Fairview Home, 80 Fairview Binghamton, NY 13904.

Arrangements by the Allen Memorial Home, Endicott. PaulD. Girton of Greene, N.Y. Funeral and committal services for Paul D. Girton will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m.

at the Kennedy Funeral Home, 21 North Chenango Greene. The Rev. C. Gerald Blake, pastor of the North Fenton United Methodist Church, will officiate. Burial will be in North Fenton Cemetery at a later date.

Memorials in memory of Mr. Girton may be made to the Greene Emergency Squad or the North Fenton United, Methodist Church. Friends may call at the funeral home Monday from 2 to 4 and 7 fo 9 p.m. Mary R. Jurka of Binghamton Mary R.

Jurka, 70, of 7 Baker died Sunday, January 4, 1987 at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital. She is survived by her husband, Stephen Jurka, Binghamton; two daughters and sons-in-law, Barbara and Ron Tagert, San Antonio, Kathleen and Larry Frickel, Pine City, N.Y. two grandchil- Hrpn Minhaol nnH 5ara Frirlrpl fivA Fatal arrest leads to racism charge MIDDLETOWN (AP) At least 100 angry demonstrators marched on City Hall here yesterday to protest the recent death of a black youth after he was subdued by a white off-duty police officer. Demonstrators shouted "Justice now!" and demanded that the officer and a companion be suspended from the police force in Middle-town, about 65 miles northwest of New York City. At the conclusion of the rally, Middletown Mayor Dan Johnson announced he was suspending the police officers with pay pending results of an investigation.

Police estimated the crowd at about 100, while local press reports said there were about 300 demonstrators, most of them blacks. Demonstrators carried signs reading "Police brutality must go" and "A modern-day lynching." protest followed the Dec. 13 death of Jimmy Lee Bruce, 20, an Schools NEW YORK AP) Security will be tightened at public schools throughout the city this week in an effort to prevent racial violence fol- lowing last month's attack on three black men by a white mob, authorities said yesterday. Schools Chancellor Nathan Qui- nones met yesterday with superintendents and key aides from throughout the school system to discuss today's resumption of classes after the winter recess. Students have been out of school since Dec.

23, three days after the attack in the predominantly white Howard Beach section of Queens. After the closed meeting, Qui-nones issued a brief statement saying he and the superintendents "agreed that reviewing our security procedures is a wise precaution." Special attention will be paid to John Adams High School in the step up security Clean Water to swamp Donald H. Frey of Endicott -The funeral and interment service for Donald H. Frey will be held 11 a.m. Monday at the Coleman Daniels Funeral Home, 300 E.

Main Endicott. Burial will be in Vestal Hills Memorial Park. Those wishing may make contributions to the American Cancer Society, 57 Front Binghamton, N.Y. 13905. Keith E.

West, Sr. of Binghamton Keith E. West, 80, of 80 Fairview died Sunday morning. He is survived by his wife, Leta E. West, Binghamton; four sons and three daughters-in-law, Robert and Naomi West, Tallahassee, John and Jane West, West Windsor, Donald and Thelma West, Binghamton, Keith West, Binghamton; two daughters and sons-in-law, Marilyn and Charles Taggert, Binghamton, and Donna and John Rehafc, Binghamton; several grandchildren and several great-grandchildren; one brother and sister-in-law, Donald R.

and Barbara West, Lake Pleasant, N. Y. also several nieces, nephews, and cousins. Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Thomas J.

Shea Funeral Home, 137 Robinson Binghamton. Rev. Wendle Lahr, pastor of First Church of the Nazarene, will officiate. Burial will be in Chenango Valley Cemetery. Friends are invited to call at the funeral home Monday evening from 7 to 9 p.m.

In lieu of flowers, contributions in his memory may be made to the Living Care Fund of Good Shepherd-Fairview Home, 80 Fairview Binghamton. Laura H. Dotter of Binghamton Laura H. Dotter, 81, of 100 Chenango Place, died Friday evening, January 2, 1987 at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital. She is survived by her husband, Lewis B.

Dotter, Binghamton; three sisters, Loretta Jones, Clearwater, Rose Poulter, Deland, Viola Behr, Orlando, six grandchildren and several great-grandchildren; a daughter-in-law, Eileen Parmelee, Castle Creek; three sisters-in-law, Nellie Duffy and Viola Kiley, both of Binghamton, Alice Dotter, Syracuse; and also several nieces and nephews. Private funeral services will be held at the J.F. Rice Funeral Home, 150 Main Johnson City, Tuesday at 1 p.m. with Rev. James C.

Vogel, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Johnson City, officiating. Burial will be in the Vestal Hills Memorial Park. At the family's request there will be no calling hours. Those wishing may make memorial contributions to the Broome County Chapter of the American Heart Association in Mrs. Dotter's memory.

Lucy A. Fletcher of Laceyville, Penn. Lucy A Fletcher, of Canal formerly of Meshoppen, passed away Friday, January 2, 1987 at Tyler Memorial Hospital, Tunkhannock, following a long illness. She was born June 17, 1897 in Jessup, a daughter of the late Samuel and Mary Ann Conway Hodgett. She is survived by two sons, William Fletcher, R.D.

3 Meshoppen, and Donald Fletcher, Kirkwood, N.Y.; three daughters, Mrs. Raymond (Christina) Shoemaker, Laceyville with whom she resided, Mrs. Donald (Margaret) Adams, R.D. 3 Meshoppen, Mrs. Peter (Mary) Tummillo, Garfield, N.J.

four sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Ward, Royersville, Mrs. Margaret Montgomery, Mrs. Mabel Perotti, Rochester, N.Y., Mrs. Mae Sickler, Redbanks, 19 grandchildren; 30 great-grandchildren.

She was predeceased by her husband, William Fletcher in 1951; a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Norton in 1955; and a grandson, William Shoemaker in 1973. She was a former member of the Auburn Center Grange. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 1 p.m. at the Sheldon Funeral Home, Main Laceyville, Penn.

Interment will be in the Prospect Hill Cemetery, Peckville, Penn. Friends may call at the funeral home Monday 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Mabel J. Donlon of Endwell Mabel J. Donlon, 95, of 701 Hooper died January 3, 1987 at 8:10 p.m.

at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital. She is survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Gloria and James McCormick, Vestal; a son and daughter-in-law, Thomas Reid and Carolyn Donlon, Johnson City; eight grandchildren; 11 greatgrandchildren; nieces and a nephew. She was a member of All Saints Episcopal Church, Johnson City; the Johnson City Order of the Eastern Star 690, Order of the Amaranth; a graduate of the Robert Packer School of Nursing, and a retired nurse for the Endicott-Johnson Shoe Corp. Medical Facility. Funeral and committal services will be held 11 a.m.

Tuesday at the All Saints Episcopal Church, 475 Main Johnson City. The rector of the church, Rev. Hubert S. Wood, will officiate. Burial will be in Floral Park Cemetery.

The family will receive friends at the memorial home 7 to 9 p.m. Monday. Donations mav be made to the memorial fund of All Saints Episcopal Church, or the Union Volunteer Emergency Squad. Richard J. Stanek of Binghamton Richard J.

Stanek, 37, of Eaton Place, died Friday, January 2, 1987 at Upstate Medical Center. He is survived by his mother, Mildred Stanek, Binghamton; two brothers, Paul and Leslie, both of Binghamton; two sisters, Sr. Theresa Stanek, R.G.S., N.J. and Mrs. Patricia Morgan, Windsor; several aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins, one great-niece and one great-nephew.

Mr. Stanek was a graduate of Broome Community College. A Mass of Christian burial will be offered Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church, Binghamton.

Friends may call at the William R. Chase Son, Inc. Funeral Home, 737 Chenango Port Dickinson, Monday 7 to 9. Those wishing kindly consider memorial contributions to the Burn Unit c'o Upstate Medical Center. Catherine J.

Goers ofOwego Family will receive the friends of Catherine J. Goers Monday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at the Estey Munroe Funeral Home, 15 Park Owego, where a prayer service will be held at 8 p.m. Funeral services will be held Thursday in Novi, Mich. Burial will be there in the Oakland Hills Memorial Gardens.

Friends wishing may make contributions to the Broome Developmental Center, Glenwood Binghamton, N.Y. 13905. Clarice (Lala) D'Onofrio of Binghamton Clarice (Lala) D'Onofrio, of Hawlcy went to her rest on Sunday, January 4, 1987 at Binghamton General Hospital. She was the most beloved mother, grandmother, and aunt. She loved us all so much.

She was 88 years old and we are so thankful that we have had her with us all these years. She was the loving wife of Eligio D'Onofrio who predeceased her. She was also predeceased by three nieces, Dora Tomaras, Inez Brun, and Sister Mary Adelina (Lillian DiNardo). She was the beloved mother of one daughter and son-in-law, Jackie and Frank S. Stento, Binghamton; the beloved grandmother of six grandchildren, Teresa Blaha, Springfield, Monica Binghamton, Gina Stento, N.Y.C., Frank Stento, Karla Stento, and Lilli Stento, all of Binghamton; two great-grandchildren, Kristi and Scott; nieces and nephews, Edward and Irene DiNardo, Nina O'Shea, Gilda and Albert Mariani, Paul and Joyce DiNardo, and Romano and Leda Buccia-relli, all of Binghamton; also many great-nieces, -nephews, and cousins.

She was a member of St. Mary of the Assumption Church. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. from the James V. DeMarco Son Funeral Home, 199 Court St.

and at 10 a.m. at St. Mary of the Assumption Church where a Mass of Christian Burial will be offered. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. Friends are invited to call at the funeral home Tuesday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.

Eva Barton of Endicott, N.Y. Eva Barton, 95, of 519 June died Sunday, January 4, 1987 at Wilson Memorial Hospital. Survived by a nephew and his wife, Reed and Bernita Barton, Sayre, two nieces and their husbands, Regina and Tony Cicciarelli, En-dwell, Barbara and Thomas Barrett, two great-nieces and their husbands; Bonnie and Jim Quanne, Endicott, Carol and Walter Tabor, Binghamton; two great-nephews and a wife, Jack and Nancy Cicciarelli, Endwell, Rick Cicciarelli, also of Endwell; several great-great-nieces and -nephews and several great great great-nieces and -nephews. Private funeral services will be held Tuesday 11 a.m. at Coleman Daniels Funeral Home, 300 E.

Main Endicott. The Rev. Eldon A. Winans, Pastor Emeritus of Union Baptist Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery at the convenience of the family.

There will be no calling hours. Frank Harold Ayres of Montrose, Penn. Frank Harold Ayres, 89, died Saturday, January 3, 1987 at Montrose General Hospital following a brief illness. He is survived by his wife, Bessie Sickler Ayres, Montrose; daughter and son-in-law, Marcia and Richard Lamon, Montrose; brother and sister-in-law, O. Kenneth and Stella Ayres, Canton, granddaughter, Jill I.

Lamon, Montrose; stepdaughters, Brenda Sickler, Binghamton, Ann Lake, So. Montrose, Penn. sisters-in-law, Gave-na Marsh, Vestal, N.Y., Evelyn Mc-Guire, Binghamton, N.Y., and Feme Frantz, Towanda, several nieces and nephews. He was a member of the Montrose United Methodist Church and the Warren Lodge 240 A.M., Montrose. He retired from IBM Endicott in 1962.

Prior to this he worked at the Willys Morrow Plant, Elmira, N.Y. and Botnick Machine Binghamton. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 11 a.m. from the Philip L. Donahue Funeral Home, 64 So.

Main Montrose, Penn. with the Rev. Rondall Woodall. Interment, Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, N.Y. Friends may call Monday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 at the funeral home.

Masonic services will be held at 9 p.m. Contributions may be made to the Warren Lodge Memorial Fund. George H. Barlow III of Binghamton George H. Barlow III, 83, died at Wilson Memorial Hospital, Thursday, January 1, 1987.

He is survived by one daughter, Marylyn Barlow Kelso, Dallas, two grandchildren, Holt and Mary. Mr. Barlow, as his family before him, was involved in commercial real estate in Downtown Binghamton. Mr. Barlow had a wide variety of interests, most predominantly the circus.

He was well known for his miniature circuses; two of which are on display, one in San Antonio, Tex. and the other in The Sarasota Circus Museum, Fla. His memberships include Amerian Legion Post 80, the Binghamton Club, the Rotary Club of Binghamton, the Broome County Historical Society, and B.P.O. Elks 852, and the Circus Fans of America. Funeral services will be held at Christ Episcopal Church Tuesday at 11 a.m.

Friends may call at the McDevitt Brothers Funeral Home, 88-90 Front Binghamton Monday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Memorial contributions may be made to the Roberson Center for the Arts and Sciences. Howard N. Wellman of New Milford, Penn. Funeral and committal services for Howard N.

Wellman will be held Monday at 2 p.m. at the Peter P. Savage Funeral Home, 183 Main New Milford, Penn. with Charles Bennett of Jehovah's Witnesses officiating. Burial will be in New Milford Cemetery.

The family requests that donations be made in his memory to the Columbia Hose New Milford, Penn. I to a grand jury later this month. Before yesterday's announcement, the Middletown officers, Harold Simpson and Gregory Warycka, had been removed from their patrols and reassigned to administrative duty at police headquarters. "I'm satisfied for now with the suspension," said Maude Bruce, mother of the dead youth and president of "the Ellenville NAACP chapter. "But I will not be satisfied until they are put away." According to Phillips, Bruce and several friends were asked to leave the movie theater after becoming loud.

Outside, he said, a struggle ensued. Two officers held Bruce down, he said, while about four friends of Bruce became involved in the struggle. The rally was organized by local chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which had denounced the officer's actions as racist. classes. He noted that final exams are coming up, along with the Jan.

19 holiday commemorating the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Schools are planning special programs and discussions about the slain civil rights leader and his contributions. Asked if special attention would be paid to the Howard Beach incident in the King programs, Riley said, "I'm sure it will come up. It would be hard to imagine if Howard Beach would not come up." One black man, Michael Griffith, 23, died in the Dec.

20 attack when he was struck by a car on a highway while trying to elude his assailants. Lawyers for Griffith's family and the surviving victims of the attack have since charged that police mishandled the investigation of the incident and have refused to cooperate with prosecutors. president clean in this bill is its name. It spends billions more than is needed." Wright, however, said yesterday, "It is interesting that Mr. Reagan has said the Democrats want to spend too much on clean water.

Every Republican in the House and the Senate voted for the bill." Quentin Burdick, who this week becomes Environment Committee chairman in the Democratic-controlled Senate, pledged in an earlier interview to lead a veto override effort if the bill gets vetoed again. "We intend to push this bill through the Congress and back onto the president's desk as soon as possible, he said. The legislation, the product of four years of House-Senate negotiations, would reauthorize and expand the Clean Water Act, the 1972 law credited with making long strides toward the goal of rendering the nation's waterways fish-able and drinkable. The current dispute centers on how much money the federal government will continue to give states to help pay the cost of constructing expensive sewage and wastewater treatment facilities. A bill authorizing $18 billion in such aid through 1994 was passed without dissent 408-0 in the House, 96-0 in the Senate last October shortly before the 99th Congress adjourned.

It was vetoed two days after the Nov. 4 elections by Reagan, who had asked Congress to limit the state assistance to $6 billion and terminate the aid program in 1989 to help cut federal budget deficits. "The veto was a mistake both substantively and politically," says Sen. George Mitchell, D-Mame, one of 60 Senate cosponsors of a new, identical bill. That measure is to be introduced when Congress convenes tomorrow, the same day an identical bill will be introduced in the House by Public Works Chairman James Howard, Howard's schedule calls for House passage on Thursday.

Senate supporters say they hope to get a floor vote as early as next week, which would be lightning-quick by Senate standards. The White House appears to be in a no-win situation. If Reagan vetoes the bill, the White House would be an underdog in an override fight because every state has money on the line. This is not lost on the administration, which last week offered a compromise $12 billion in grants to the states. WE HAVE VERSES and poems for your In Memoriam Call the Classified Department of The Press Sun-Bulletin at 798-1141 and we will be most happy to send them to you or you may use one of your own.

WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan and leaders of the 100th Congress squared off this weekend for an early battle over major environmental legislation that Reagan describes as "budget-busting" but the lawmakers are vowing to pass. Congressional leaders say they will hand Reagan a big early-session defeat by speedily re-passing the Clean Water Act, designed to clean up the nation's waterways but vetoed by the president last year as too costly. "It is iust a question of priorities. It is well within the budget," said new House Speaker Jim Wright, D-Texas in an interview yesterday on ABC-TV's This Week With David Brinkley. Ambulance fuel-tank fires II II Ozone Park section of Queens, since three white students from the school have been charged in the Howard Beach attack, Board of Education spokesman Dick Riley said.

Riley said Ouinones' statement was intentionally vague. "In terms of special security arrangements, all I can say is, we ain't talking," he said. "The chancellor has said that our security arrangements will be adequate but that we have no intention of turning the schools into armed camps." Riley said school officials would make sure that substitutes are found for any guards who are out sick today, and a special mobile security unit would be on alert to respond to any violence. Quinones said school superintendents have been in touch with parent groups and principals in an effort to ensure a smooth return to WASHINGTON House Republican leader Robert Michel, joining Wright on the program, said "There is no question about it being passed," but added, "The question is the amount of money," in the legislation. But Reagan in his Saturday radio address warned Congress that he's not softening his stance.

"I was disappointed to hear that the new Democratic leadership had declared that their first priority is to pass the budget-busting Clean Water Bill that I vetoed last year," he said, adding he was "in favor of clean water but the only thing can Tor recan Center for Auto Safety. He said people have been drenched with gas and in somes cases the fuel ignited, causing serious burns. State officials in Virginia, where there have been several ambulance fire incidents, as well as the International Association of Fire Chiefs, have called on Ford to recall the ambulances immediately. No recall has been suggested by federal officials. Ford officials contend the problem is not with the design of the vehicles, but results from changes made by middlemen when the vans are converted for ambulance use.

The highway safety agency, an arm of the Transportation Department, has been investigating re- Forts of fuel tank problems in the ord-made ambulances since last summer after receiving, according to one government document, complaints "on a daily basis" from ambulance operators. But agency officials have played down suggestions that the problem might go beyond ambulance fleets. About six hours later, the squatters re-entered the building after someone described by Kenny Tolia, a spokesman for the group, as "an unnamed benefactor" tore down the brick wall the city had built. He said the squatters needed to retrieve personal property, but also intended to stay inside to protest the court order and make a public appeal for new stairway frames to make the building habitable. He said squatters had been living in the building for years without incident.

"We've done a lot of work on this building. We did the roofing with tar and tarpaper," he said. "We had built the stairwells," linking the floors by wooden ladders. cousins, Ann Logan, Morristown, N.J. and Barbara Thompson, Cloudcroft, N.M., Joseph, Frederick, and Maureen Von Schuckmann, all of Bayonne, N.J.

She was a member of St. Christopher's Church. She was employed by the Broome County Dept. of Social Services for 20 years prior to her retirement. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 8:30 a.m.

from the William R. Chase Son, Inc. Funeral Home, 737 Chenango Port Dickin-, son and at 9 a.m. from St. Christopher's Church where a Mass of Christian Burial will be offered.

Burial will be in Holy Spirit Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home Tuesday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. A prayer service will be held Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. Friends wishing may make memorial contributions to the Hospice Unit of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital. Stanley E.

Ziemba of Harpursville, N.Y. Stanley E. Ziemba, 67, formerly of Passaic, N.J., died Saturday, January 3, 1987 at Wilson Memorial Hospital. He is survived by his wife, Evelyn (War-gacki) Ziemba, Harpursville; two sons, Michael Pittsburgh and Thomas at home; a daughter, Mrs. Sharon Nerz, Harpursville; two grandchildren; two iuaiuivn tlllt, Willi UIVIIIUU, N.J.; five sisters, Emily DiSiena, Jean Bednarz, Helen Polack, Mary Krzanowski, and Florence Colella, all of N.J.; several nieces, nephews, and cousins.

He was a member of St. Agnes Roman Catholic Church, Afton and the Rosol-Dul Memorial American Legion Post 359, Passaic. He was a veteran of World War II serving in the U.S. Army. He was formerly employed by Ray-Bes-tos-Manhattan Rubber N.J.

and the Raymond Greene, N.Y. Funeral and committal services will be held Tuesday at 10 a.m. from the St. Agnes Church, Afton. Father Thomas J.

Manning will offer a Mass of Christian Burial. Friends may call at the Oster-houdt Funeral Home, Harpursville, Monday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. A prayer service will be held at the funeral home Monday at 8 p.m. Wayne Potter of Binghamton Wayne Potter, 70, of the Heath Trailer Park, died Friday, January 2, 1987 at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital. He is survived by two daughters, Mrs.

Ger-aldine Hall, Alma, Kan. and Mrs. Keith (Lucille) Vaughn, West Windsor; one son, Edward W. Potter, Manhattan, seven grandchildren and three nieces. He was a truck driver for 40 years prior to his retirement.

Funeral and committal services will be held Tuesday at 11 a.m. from the William R. Chase Son, Inc. Funeral Home, 737 Chenango Port Dickinson. Rev.

Robert H. Darling, pastor of the New Milford United Methodist Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery, Windsor. Friends may call at the funeral home Monday 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. In Memoriam 1 IN MEMORIAM James McAuliffe In loving memory of our beloved son James, who passed away 14 years ago, January 5, 1983.

If I had one lifetime wish, One dream that could come true. I'd pray to God, with all my heart, For yesterday and you. Sadly missed, Mom and Dad In Memoriam JOSEPH MELFI In loving memory of Joseph Melfi, who passed away 10 yrs. ago today, Jan- uary 5, 1977. The rolling stream of life goes on, But still the vacant chair Recalls the love, the voice, the smile Of the one who once sat there.

Sadly missed Wife, Edna Daughters Mrs. David (Marilyn) Lake Shirley Fiske Grandchildren Great-children Whatever Else You Do Let Flowers Express Sentiment MacLENNAN'S Flowers Inc. 499 Court St. 722-6484 oring prooe, WASHINGTON (AP) The government has intensified its investigation into reports of fuel tank fires on ambulances, but a consumer group said yesterday the hazard may be broader and should be expanded to cover more than 320,000 vehicles in private use as well. The Center for Auto Safety said it plans to ask the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration today to order the recall of about 324,000 Ford vans because of reports of fuel suddenly spurting out and sometimes igniting when the gas cap is removed.

The vehicles that are of concern to the private consumer group are the 1984-86 series Ford E-150, E-2S0, and E-350 Econoline vans with twin fuel tanks. About 1 in 10 of the vans are used as emergency vehicles, the government estimates. There have been nearly 300 incidents most involving ambulances of fuel tanks overheating, fuel leaking, and gasoline gushing out under pressure when the cap is unscrewed, said Dan Howell of the Defiant squatters re-enter condemned NYC building NEW YORK (AP) Squatters defied a court order yesterday and re-entered a condemned, abandoned Lower East Side apartment building where they say they have made their own improvements and lived for years. The building was cleared of about 30 squatters Dec. 18 after the city's Department of Housing Preservation obtained a court order declaring it a fire hazard and unsafe for occupants.

The six-story building had no heat, electricity or approved staircase. Early yesterday, Roslyn Goodall, 39, was arrested when authorities responding to a false fire alarm found her in the building, said police Lt. Ed LeSchack. 'V.