The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, July 21, 1981-Page 11 3 Hyatt officials plan to 2 9 reopen (Continued from Page 3) of a mariachi band who died just minutes after they checked into the VbaHyatt where they were to perform at a convention. Near the end of a mass for the four, a procession of children carried white and red roses and placed them on the caskets. Adults then carried a sombrero, violin case, guitar, and trumpet and laid them at the foot of the altar. Eyewitness accounts continued to dif- fer. Some said as many as 300 people were on the second-level walkway. Several were seen dancing and swaying to the music from below. "IT (THE walkway) wasn't swaying," said fire department AP Photo spokesman Harold Knabe, who helped M innesota strike direct rescue efforts and talked with survivors. "There were people who told esota governor Al Quie crosses picket lines at the state capitol set up by striking state employees yesterday. us you could see it bouncing. The people ands of Minnesota workers threw up picket lines around state office buildings, hospitals and parks in their first were swaying on it like they were dan- wide strike in the history of this traditionally pro-labor state. It was the third recent nationwide state employee cing to the music. ut, following those in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Previous state worker strikes in Minnesota have been "People who walked across it said nal. you could feel it bouncing and moving up and down." More will face midlife crisis Minne Thous state- walko regior WASHINGTON (AP) - There are more than 44 million Americans facing the challenge of "midlife," a group expected to grow slowly in this decade and then increase sharply, the Census Bureau reported yesterday. Defining midlife as ages 45 to 64, the bureau issued a new study of these years which, it said, are defined by the major events taking place - children leaving home, peak years of economic well being, gran- dparenthood, retirement, onset of chronic illness, widowhood and the care of infirm parents. "DURING THE 1980's the size of the middle-aged group is projected to increase less rapidly than most age groups because of the relatively small number of peresons born during the Depression years," said the report by Jerry Jennings of the bureau's population division. However, he noted that as the postwar baby boom generation moves into these ages, the group will begin growing sharply and is expected to reach 75 million by the year 2010. That would be about one- fourth of the U.S. population. Currently, Pennsylvania has the largest percen- tage of people in this age group at 22.5 percent, followed by New Jersey with 22.3 percent. The fewest live in Alaska, making up 14.3 percent of the population of that state. NATIONWIDE, IN THIS age group, nearly 90 per- cent lived in families, most with their spouses, although the percentages were higher for whites than blacks. There was a sharp difference in fertility between older and younger middle-aged people, according to the report. "The older group, 55-64, which encountered very difficult economic and social upheavals in the 1930s and early 1940s, had a much higher instance of childless marriages - 16 percent - than did the 10- year age group of women who immediately followed (nine percent)," the report stated. "PERSONS OF MIDDLE slightly older ages are likely to be established in their careers, settled in a neighborhood and living in a house that they own; consequently they are less likely to move because they have a considerable emotional and financial in- vestment in their present location," the report said. Only 23 percent of middle aged people moved bet- ween 1975 and 1979, as compared to 65 percent for persons 25 to 34 years old. Baltimore explosion may be race-related _ BALTIMORE (AP) - A vacant rowhouse that had been rented to a black family was heavily damaged in a deliberately set explosion that in- vestigators suspect was racially motivated. The explosion Sunday night occurred when a lighted candle was placed near an uncapped natural gas line in the building's basement, officials said. THE EXPLOSION blew out the north wall of the corner rowhouse, flinging bricks and rubble into the adjacent alley, Fire Department Capt. Patrick Flynn said. There were no injuries. Police spokesman Dennis Hill said explosion "definitely was arson" and that the motive possibly was racial. "A kid . .. made racial remarks to the house's owner and said they didn't want any blacks in the neighborhood," Police Capt. Douglas Coster said. o"r EVELYN BYER, 53, the white owner of the building, said she was stunned by the incident. " " " " "It's inconceivable to me," she said yesterday. "I just can't believe it." Permanent Centens open days, - pportunity to make up missed Mrs. Byer said that a few hours * Low hourly cost. Dedicated full- Voluminous home-study materials before the blast, she had rented the Complete TEST-n-TAPEs'facilities ers expert in their field. house in the all-white block to "a nice, fonreview of class lessons and -Oortuniy uto t ransfer itoand black family." Classes taught by skilled over 85 centers. "I PUT THE house up for rent in the instructors. paper last week," Mrs. Byer said. ' "0 "Yesterday, I showed it to a black family. While we were there, a young 1 boy on a bicycle, a teen-ager, came by"' Ca Daysu Eves & Weekends and made an insulting racial remark. - PHONE: (313) 662-3149 Maryland has been rocked in recent OP3 1 211 EAST HURON STREET months by racial incidents. 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