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Those designer jeans with chic labels and stunning price tags are getting increased competition from an unexpected quarter Goodwill Industries. The jeans modeled above carry a "Morgie's" label, named for Morgan Memorial Goodwill in Boston. Now the Goodwill idea has spread to California where used jeans are selling under a "Goodie's" label for $3.75 a pair. (AP Laserphoto)

At $3.75 a pair, Goodwill 'designer' jeans selling fast By JUDITH CUMMINGS c. 1981 N.Y. Times News Service LOS ANGELES One good label, it would seem, deserves another. Hitching a ride on the designer jeans fad, Goodwill Industries has begun selling used jeans with its own status label. "Goodie's.” Some of the trendiest bodies in southern California may soon turn out in bluejeans somebody else gave away, if the charitable sales organization’s hopes do not fall flat. The question to be answered is: Can true chic be found in a pair of denims that tells the world, "I got it from Goodwill”? A little more than a week after the initial pairs went on sale in Los Angeles, a Goodwill spokesman here says she sees the first signs of a potential hit. "There’s a dorm down at Loyola Mary mount College and they tell me all the rage is the Goodie's label,” said the official, Kathy Abbott. "The girls have gone nutsy over it.” Goodie's jeans sell for $3.75 a pair here. A pair of old jeans as a trade-in gets a 50-cent discount For generations, Goodwill has helped fill out the households and wardrobes of the impecunious with lowpriced secondhand goods, using the proceeds to hire handicapped and other hard-to-employ people. Faced with dwindling patronage in hard economic times, officials say they hit on the label idea as a gimmick to attract people with money to spend who still enjoy a bargain. Goodwill has been crafty enough to leave attached the wellpromoted original labels, Gloria Vanderbilt, Calvin Klein, Sasson and other makers. Such pants sell for S4O or SSO or * more when new. The new hunch on fashionable haunches was developed not in Los Angeles but in Boston. Morgan Memorial Goodwill, the charity’s Boston flagship, hit on the idea of an “anti-elite" label a year ago. But in the ■ more staid Bostonian way, the pants were called “Morgies.” Sales of "pre-owned” denims immediately increased 40 percent, according to Bob McCarriston, a Boston Goodwill official. He said they went out of the stores at a rate of 5,000 a month. As might be expected, this tale of two labels has a twist: Jeans sales have shot up despite, or perhaps because of, a sharp rise in Goodwill's price. “We had been trying to sell them for 49 cents as secondhand jeans and we had hundreds we couldn’t get rid of.” McCarriston said. After adding the label and raising the price to $3.99. he said. “We can t keep them in the stores.”

Pace holiday drinking, scientists a't Purdue advise

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) “Nurse" one drink an hour instead of swilling down three or four in the same amount of time, two Purdue University pharmacology scientists advise holiday imbibers. “If you space three or four drinks over an evening, you won’t have any problem.” says George Spratto, who along with Joseph Zabik researches alcoholism. “But I’ve seen people drink that many within one hour, and that’s asking fpr trouble.” Zabik, an associate pharmocology professor whose studies focus on alcohol’s effects, points out that it takes an hour and a half for your body to rid itself of the alcohol in a 12ounce beer or a highball. If you can keep your drinking down to

Rare book thefts may total $500,000

PHILADELPHIA <AP> - James Shinn collects rare books, favoring illustrated 18th and 19th century volumes on travel, flora and fauna, and has a knack for finding what he likes, the FBI says. The 44-year-old man is being held on charges of stealing rare books from Pennsylvania libraries and is a suspect in the thefts of up to SSOO,(XX) worth of rare books from college libraries around the country, according to federal officials. Shinn is “one of a kind,” the FBI says. “We didn’t have a lead on

Drunken drivers can take a taxi GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) The streets and highways of Grand Rapids may be a little safer this New Year’s Eve, thanks to the city’s newspaper. On the front page of Friday’s editions, The Grand Rapids Press offered a coupon good for a free taxi ride home from anywhere in the city's metropolitan area. The offer, good from 9 p.m. Dec 31 to 6 a.m. the next day, came after a week-long series of articles on the dangers posed by drunken drivers. The newspaper interviewed people who were charged with the crime and those who were victims. A New Year’s reveler who imbibes too much simply has the host or bartender fill out the coupon and call the cab company. The newspaper pays the bill.

about one an hour, you should be able to handle it, he says. Zabik says the first drink is absorbed very rapidly from the

him, and when we first got called, it was hard to believe,” Jerry Thornton of the FBl’s Philadelphia office said Friday. “1 said, ‘For stealing what? Why would we want him?’ “But he’s one of a kind,” he added. “They say he's able to go into a library, go through the open stacks, and find valuable books that even the librarians didn't know were valuable.” Shinn, of St. Louis, was picked up Wednesday night in an Allentown motel room, hours after being spotted in the Muhlenberg College library by a reference worker who had

Pond collapse kills woman 100 flee sludge wall in Kentucky

HARLAN, Ky. (AP) More than 100 people fled into snow and 20-degree weather and one woman was killed Friday after a wall of thick muck from a coalfield sludge pond rumbled down on their small community. At least 3 homes were demolished and 15 others damaged, according to the state Division of Disaster and Emergency Services. Most evacuees had to wade through icy mud and water to reach higher ground around the com-

ghted near crash site Rescuers seek Hoosier, others on Mt. McKinley

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ANCHORAGE (AP) A sixmember mountain rescue team positioned itself late Friday to try to reach the survivors of a small plane crash on Kahiltna Glacier on the flanks of Mount McKinley. National Park Service spokeswoman Joan Gidlund said the team, led by Art Mannix of Talkeetna, reached the 9,500-foot level of the glacier at dusk Friday and set up camp

Northwestern Indiana crippled by heavy snow

By The Associated Press The first below-zero readings were predicted for parts of Indiana before dawn today as the result of cold air funneling across Lake Michigan. Until a high pressure system over lowa which was moving slowly eastward late Friday passes through Indiana, will remain very cold, the National Weather Service predicted. Valparaiso reported snow of up to 22 inches deep Friday which clogged roads, closing schools and about half of the downtown stores. More snow was expected in farnorthwestern Indiana by early this morning, the weather service reported. The remainder of northern Indiana was expecting occasional flurries before dawn today as the result of the flow off Lake Michigan spreading some cloudiness into the region. The rest of Indiana experienced mostly clear skies overnight. At least five deaths have been attributed to the winter storms which have crossed the state since late Wednesday. Mayor Clifford Arnold

stomach and small intestine. It gets into the blood stream fast, and because the brain has such a good blood supply, it gets into

seen pictures of the 6-foot-4 man in two national library journals last summer. Shinn eluded police and fled, but he dropped a motel receipt which FBI agents found. Police said parts of books, along with a kit apparently used to remove a book's identifying marks, were found in his room. He was being held in lieu of SIOO,OOO bail on federal charges of interstate traasportation of stolen property. He’s also been charged with taking about $35,000 worth of rare books from libraries at the University of Pennsylvania

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Two climbers were going to try to press ahead during the night to reach the crash site, about 700-800 feet higher, she said. Three of the four people aboard the sightseeing flight that went down Tuesday have been seen walking around the wreckage of the Cessna 185. The fate of the fourth passenger is not known. The pilot of the downed plane has been identified as Ed

declared a snow emergency at Michigan City, which reported 19 inches Friday, and asked nearby South Bend and LaPorte for help in clearing streets and highways. South Bend sent four trucks and crews, and LaPorte promised help as long as the storm kept west. Twenty miles to the west of Michigan City, Gary had only five inches of snow, and South Bend, 35 miles east, had only a half-inch. The east-bound lanes of Interstate 94 were closed between Portage and Chesterton and U.S. 30 was closed in Valparaiso and packed with stalled cars. “It looks like a used car lot out there,” one Valparaiso policeman said of U.S. 30. Traffic was reported backed up four miles to the west on Interstate 94. Postmaster Ken Theis said the prospects of mail delivery Friday in Valparaiso were not good. “Our carriers are here, but so are 22 inches of snow,” he said. The Porter County sheriff’s department asked people with four-wheeled vehicles to volunteer rides for nurses, law en-

the brain in minutes. The classic case of rapid intoxication, he notes, is someone who has not had any solid food in his stomach for a while and quickly downs two to three drinks in 20 or 30 minutes, and may appear intoxicated in an hour or less. Holiday party guests are less likely to sip “one too many” if the host, and not the bartender, dispenses the drinks, Spratto and Zabik say. They agree that people who would hesitate to get refills again and again from their hosts would not be so reluctant with a bartender. Spratto, who has written extensively about drug abuse, says guests who mix their own drinks consume about as much alcohol as if a bartender was pouring.

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munity of Ages. The pond had been inspected Monday and declared safe. The body of Nellie Woollum. 65. a retired postmistress, was found in the ruins of her home, demolished by the 8-foot-high wall of debris as it slid down a mountain into a hollow where the families lived. Gov. John Y. Brown Jr. declared a state of emergency in Harlan County and activated a detachment of National Guar dsmen to protect property in the

Homer, 26, of Talkeetna, the mountain village 55 miles southeast of the crash site where the flight originated. Ms. Gidlund on Friday identified the passengers as Dan Hartman, 29, Pat Scanlon, 25, both of Talkeetna, and Mike Klouser, 30, of Darlington, Ind. Ms. Gidlund said the climbers’ progress was hampered by deep snow, wind and clouds that cut visibility to 300 feet. She

Tbrcemfint officers ahd others. Commuter trains on the South Shore Line into Chicago ran late. The five weather-related deaths stemmed from heart attacks and auto accidents. The latest reported victim is William A. Walker, 44, of Plainfield. Walker died when his car was struck by Thomas R. Williams, 32, of Danville early Friday, state police said. Williams’ car crossed the center line, went through a snow bank and struck Walker’s car head-on. Chris Richardson, 19, of Lowell was killed late Wednesday when his car collided with a forklift near Schneider, and Ralph Demaree, 69, of Greenwood died of a heart attack about 10 a.m. Thursday after he stopped to help the driver of an overturned truck during heavy snow. Also, Adam Mullins, 73, of Anderson died Thursday afternoon of a heart attack while using a snowblower to clear his driveway. Alois Boechl. 68, of Dyer was killed Thursday when his compact car collided with a van which skidded out of control.

Spratto says whoever pours the drinks should try to keep guests from drinking too many drinks in rapid succession. Zabik says young people cannot tolerate alcohol as well as adults, because of a learned experience of handling prolonged drinking. “Tolerance is something you acquire with prolonged drinking, but experience knowing how alcohol affects you personally and what you can and cannot do is very important,” Zabik says. Mast adults know their limit but many choose to ignore it, the scientists say. “The problem with knowing when you’ve had enough or too much is that alcohol tends to distort the level at which you ‘know.’ It tends to make one think he’s not impaired.

community, 5 miles east of Harlan. The mixture of mud, mine waste and timber debris covered a mile-long area and spilled onto a highway leading into Harlan, 5 miles to the east. The muck was 10 feet deep in spots. The sludge’s movement had halted by mid-afternoon Officials said the thick mass was slowed by the sub-freezing temperature and by debris that was piling up against a bridge and acting as a dam.

said temperatures were in the teens, but the wind chill factor was well below zero. Sgt. Joe Edmisten of the Rescue Coordination Center at Elmendorf Air Force Base said the rescue team was about a mile or so or two hours travel time away from the downed plane. Authorities won’t be able to make contact with the rescuers again until after daylight Satur-

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Rescue workers made a house-to-house search and at least two bed ridden residents w'ere carried to safety. Shelters were set up in the Baptist and Penecostal churches in Ages, a community of 300 in eastern Kentucky. Some evacuees were quartered in private homes, and others were taken to offices of the Eastover Mining Co., which owns the land where the accident occurred. The disposal area had been examined Monday and declared

day because radio messages from them must be relayed by a C-130 circling overhead. They decided not to keep a plane flying through the night, Ms. Gidlund said. Severe turbulence and heavy clouds Friday again prevented helicopters from reaching the site on the mountain about 100 miles northwest of Anchorage. Edmisten said a solid cloud bank enveloped the mountain

safe by an inspector from the Harlan office of the Mine Safety and Health Administration. The pond was not built by the coal company to control sedimentation, but apparently developed as water backed up behind mine waste dumped in the area, said Bill Bradford, spokesman for the U S Office of Surface Mining in Knoxville. Tenn. State police estimated that 200,000 cubic yards of sludge had started down the mountain.

from 7,000 to more than 20,000 feet. Two other climbing teams, one civilian crew from Ahchorage and one military group from Fort Greely near Fair banks, were standing by tp assist in the rescue. The crew of a rescue helicopter that managed to poke through the clouds late Thursday sighted three persons walking around the plane.

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