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Sports Extra: Flyers win; a Sixers preview -section As money is within reach, new Hughes will surfaces veloped property in Los. Angeles County), four Las Vegas casinos and a helicopter company range between S1.5 and $3 billion, although no one really knows the total because the assets are not easily sold and divided. The IRS and the states of California and Texas, evennow battling before the Supreme Court of the United States to determine where estate taxes must be paid, probably will skim off no more than $300 million. Stilt, with'a fortune winking in her future, Mrs. Gano is wary.

"I've been well over 6 feet tall, had shriveled to just 93 pounds at the time of his death on April 5, 1976. A $100 million pool of Hughes assets in Nevada and Delaware earning more than $33,000 a day in interest could be distributed to heirs within the next two months, according to lawyers involved in probating the estate. And that distribution would be just the beginning. Estimates of the current worth of the estate encompassing huge tracts of choice real estate (including the largest unde Hughes was generally disdainful of his relatives, most of whom he never met. In 1972, he said during a recorded interview that he planned to leave his money to medical research, although he frequently said the opposite of what he did.

Hughes wills have been popping up like "dandelions ever since his death. The most celebrated was the so-called "Mormon will," naming the church and a Utah service station owner, Melvin Earl Dummar, among the beneficiaries. Two juries deliber-(See HUGHES on 6-A) daughters has cancer and it would be such a blessing. It would help so much. Both of my children have health problems." Mrs.

Gano may live modestly now, but very soon she may become very rich. As things now stand, she and her children are due a 3.33 percent share of the estate of the legendary Howard Robard Hughes, billionaire, businessman, aircraft pioneer, movie producer and, finally, a deranged recluse who went grew long hair and fingernails and, although By Mike Leary (nquirer Satf Wriler HOUSTON Carolyn Jane Gano hardly has the look of an heiress. 'A tall, dark-haired woman in her 60s with clear blue eyes, she lives in A small frame house in a scruffy part of town, hard by the sprawling ironworks where her late husband Worked for 25 years. She drives a battered, blue Plymouth Volare sta-' tion wagon. And she worries about money, "Money would help very, very much," she said.

"One of my grand disappointed so many times before," she says'. The latest potential disappointment is that a new will purportedly signed by Hughes has surfaced. If it is genuine, Mrs. Gano could lose her inheritance. But even if it is a fake, as it appears to be, its mere existence could block the complete distribution of the estate.

The lack of an undisputed will is what- puts Hughes' closest relatives, 22 first cousins one of whom was Mrs. Gano's husband, William in line to get his money. It is ironic, for UMW vote bring may Vatican defends meeting Letter explains talk with Arafat new image Philadelphia Inquirer GERALD S. WILLIAMS NucleaMreeze supporters drape a banner over the Delaware Avenue bridge near the William Penn celebration Wliether the miners elect the young lawyer or reelect Sam Church may eveal how deep are the thanges in the union. Penn's party warms chill for faithful jug.

Xjfel -LAW vMiv fii wVjf ,7.... 1f -V-A. Associated Press NEW YORK Responding to a strong protest by an American Jewish leader, the Vatican has defended the recent meeting between Pope John Paul II and Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasir Arafat as consistent with the Pope's efforts to promote world peace and understanding. In a letter to Julius Berman, chair-' man of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, a spokesman for the Pope said that receiving an individual did hot imply approval of his ideas and actions, the New York Times reported yesterday. Cardinal Johannes Willebrands, secretary of the Vatican's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, wrote the letter in response to a strong protest that Berman sent to the Pope two days before his Sept.

15 meeting with Arafat. Berman released the letter from Willebrands Thursday; he said the Vatican's position offered Jews "no comfort" and he attacked the substance of the letter as "unrespon-. Sive," the Times said. Berman told the Times that "the embrace that the Pope gave to this tnurderer of children was taken by the world to confer legitimacy on him, and was exploited by Arafat to that end." The letter, dated Oct. 7, spelled out the Pope's motives in greater detail and said he had implicitly demanded that the Arabs recognize Israel.

The cardinal wrote that the Pope had wished to "show his good will toward the Palestinian people" and he underscored certain points made by the Pope during the meeting. Those included hope for a lasting peace, explicit rejection of violence and terrorism, and support for a Palestinian homeland and the right of Israel to "its own security." "With this last reference," the cardinal wrote, "the Holy Father wished to affirm that the recognition of Isra: el by the Arabs is a basic condition for the construction of peace." Berman said, "Cardinal Willc brands' suggestion that the Pope regards Arab recognition of Israel as a 'basic 'condition' for Middle East peace might carry weight if the Vatican itself recognized Israel, but for reasons best known to itself the Holy See has not extended diplomatic recognition to the Jewish state." Mourning for Bashir Gemayel ends; and his militia vows'fo support the Lebanese president. Page 11-A. By Lucinda Fleeson Inquirer Stall Writer GARY HOLLOW, W. Va.

Once Ifcere were five operating coal mines here. Now there are none. 'Because of that, when Sam M. Church president of the United Mine Workers of America, came to campaign here in the heart of the Billion Dollar coal field, he stood in the rain on the steps of the boarded-tip old company store and his words fell flat. Between judiciously aimed squirts 6f juice from the wad of Red Man tobacco in his left cheek, he told three young miners how, for the first time, miners now earn more than the "magic mark" of $100 a day, thanks to contracts negotiated by Sam Church.

"When I started in the mines, I got 26 a day," he said: "Hell, in this last Contract, we got $28.50 just in raises." Mlts brave assurances did not calm Ihe worries of the miners, men in their 20s and 30s who earned more than $25,000 a year until April 17, When U.S. Steel closed the Gary Hoi-j'ow mines. Now they spend their Fridays in welfare lines, waiting for government-surplus butter and cheese. What about U.S export policies on coal, they demanded of Church. Why the government favor nuclear power, instead of coal-based synthetic fuel? And why are U.S.

plants buying Japanese steel, instead of American steel smelted by coal-burning American foundries? Church told them about the bills before Congress, the policies he supports and how the recession that has thrown 33,000 miners out of work is beyond the control of the UMW. Maybe so, maybe so, the men nodded. But when Sam Church moved on, they said, Trumka men ourselves." That, in essence, is what Sam Church is up against as he seeks to fend off the challenge by Richard L. Trumka in the union's Nov. 9 elec-lion for president.

For the younger miners, who see themselves as technicians, not laborers, the old answers are not good enough anymore. Trumka, 33, is a union lawyer who campaigns in a three-piece suit. So tar he has out-financed and out-campaigned Church, beginning a year ago; the Church effort began in full force only this month. Trumka took ftn early lead, and even the Church (See UMW on 2-A) By Jim Detjen Inquirer Stall Writer While the cold, blustery wind swept in from the Delaware River, George Hullings, 72, paced back and forth, clapping his hands to keep warm. Wearing a black tri-corner hat, gray knickers and buckled shoes, he looked for all the world like an early American colonist.

A cold early American colonist, "I've got on a long-sleeved under-, shirt and sweater beneath this outfit, and it's still pretty chilly," he said. "But I'm glad to be out here. I can't think of a more fitting way to celebrate William Penh's birthday than with an ecumenical service like this." Hullings, a member of St. George's United Methodist Church at 235 N. Fourth was one of several hundred people who marched from 14 historic Philadelphia churches to the Stephen Girard Pavilion at Penn's Landing yesterday to celebrate the 338th birthday of Penn.

The marchers became part of a larger congregation, estimated at 1,000, that assembled to celebrate the heritage of religious freedom -that Penn established when' he came to the New World to undertake his "Holy Experiment." "I consider this particular event the most significant of the Century IV celebrations," said Mayor Green, wearing a heavy overcoat to fend off the cold. "It's most appropriate because Philadelphia was the first home of religious freedom in America. And William Penn started it all." A variety of clergymen, representing Protestant, Catholic and Jewish faiths, led the congregation in singing hymns and in reciting litanies. Rabbi Joshua Toledano sounded the shofar, a ram's horn blown in synagogues on Rosh Hashana and at the end of Yom Kippur. Church bells throughout the city were rung.

Men and women huddled in the congregation wearing fur coats, down vests, scarves, gloves and wool-(See BIRTHDAY on 7-A) Philadelphia Inquirer 6ARAH LEtN Rose Weinrab, 83, of Dover, bundles up against the cold at Penn's Landing In a matter of political pedigree Wave capsizes boat off coast? 5 die, 3 missing Social Security crisis looming for 21st century VVW TalWK ltNEW JERSEYj Newark jp pAJSS Trenton Point Pleasant "I'M JUST A LITTLE SHY," cartoonist Roz Chast says herself. Page 1-D. Weather Index "Probably not," she allowed. Her campaign bumper stickers simply say Cissy, but there is no getting away from the fact that she is the daughter of Howard H. Baker whose position, as Senate majority leader makes him one of the most influential men in the land and the biggest name in Tennessee politics.

And she has brought a welter of national attention to the curiously shaped remapped congressional district that was carved from the heartland of rural Tennessee. It also convinced her opponent, who by any objective yardstick is one smart fellow, that he should jump into the race and share that spotlight. "Simply Cissy" is hardly the first political progeny to parade pedigree before the voters of the Volunteer State. Albert Gore whose father spent 33 years in the House and Senate, now sits in Congress. The front-runner in another new congressional district this fall is Democrat Bob (See BAKER on 8-A) By Ashley Halsey 3d Inquirer Stall Writer KNOXVILLE, Tenn.

The autumn dawn has yet to grace the street outside as a 26-year-old woman sits amid a sea of empty tables in the Southern Grill, dunking her bacon in a pasty gravy and insisting that she has more to offer than just her father's famous name. "I think I do have my own what is the word? my own identity," she said. "I honestly believe that. People know me as Cissy." tWell, what if 20 people were stopped on the street and told, "This is Cissy How many would Sray, "Oh, yes, Howard Baker's 20," she said. "There's nothing wrong with that.

I am Howard Baker's daughter. That's something to be proud of. It's a fact." And would she have the audacity to chase a lofty seat in Congress in her first bolt from the starting gate if she were anybody but her daddy's daughter? By Tom Rosenthal Associated Press POINT PLEASANT, N.J. Five people died Sunday when a 55-foot chartered fishing boat sank offshore after a wave hit it broadside and forced the passengers and crew into the rough, frigid Atlantic Ocean, authorities said. Three people were reported missing.

At least 14 survivors from an upstate New York social group and the boat's crew waited more than an hour to be rescued the noon accident. Water temperatures were in the tipper 50s and winds were at least 20 m. the Coast Guard said. "The exact sequence of events is a little cloudy right now," said Petty Officer Greg Creedon of the U.S. Coast Guard station at Governor's Island in New York City.

Survivors said the Joan La Rie III had capsized after it was hit by a wave as it started back toward Man-asquan Inlet just north of this Ocean (See CAPSIZE on 7-A) By Brian P. Sullivan Inquirer Stall Wriler Social Security could well be the maiden in distress in a 1920s silent movie. The beleaguered fund is often saved just in the nick of time as it was just last week, when the Treasury Department announced that it would borrow $11 billion in Medicare funds to cover deficits. Its silent cries have often been stifled with temporary emergency aid, while hard, long-term solutions to its problems have been prevented by the political nature of the fund, Social Security 'experts said in recent interviews. But such patchwork remedies will not work for long the $11 billion loan will last only until June, according to Social Security officials.

And with the year 2010 and the retire-' ment of the baby boom generation looming, experts say Social Security (See CRISIS on 4-A) CLOUDY AND WINDY with a chance of showers today and tonight. High, today about 55. Partly sunny tomorrow. Full weather report, Page 20-D. LIKE A MODERN-DAY CASSANDRA, Harvard University lecturer and author Daniel Yergin has been warning that the era of cheap energy is over.

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