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B8 Asbury Park Press Doc. 23. 1982 Queen arrives at zoo amid muck from flood Gas cut off to tenants of Newark complex Mr. Shnoo's Zoo aggg By Ll'CRECE BEALE MOLLY WAS STl'CK in the hole like a stopper in a bottle and not all the water in the pipe rould shove her out again until she was good and ready to leave. Santa and Mr.

Shnoo put down their paddles and looked around. Never had there been such a mess at the zoo! The water was going down but it would be a long time before it had all run off and the animals calmed down and their cages cleaned up. Mr. Shnoo hailed an attendant who was drifting by on a raft made of a broken door. "Go call the city water works!" he shouted.

The attendant did as he was told. The water men turned off the water at the main pipe and rushed to the zoo. Fortunately they brought boats with them. Otherwise they would have had to swim once they got inside the zoo gates. When Molly had unplugged the pipe the men looked at the hole and exclaimed in surprise.

"This pipe didn't break by itself. Someone has busted it open with an axe!" The men pointed out the marks on the pipe that proved this was so. "Yes," said Santa. "Someone did it and I know who." "WHO?" said Mr. Shnoo.

"The same one who gave a firecracker to Honeybun and broke a window in the bird house and staked Henrietta to the wrong wall and set fire to the monkey house." "But who?" demanded Mr. Shnoo. "Crookshank," said Santa. "Impossible!" "Crookshank," repeated Santa. "He has schemed and worked to prevent your getting an award from the Queen.

Since you fixed up so fine a zoo he wants it back and he's determined you shall not be able to pay him off today. "And he's not done yet," Santa said. "Since the flood has been stopped he will think of something else. Wait and see." "Oh, dear," moaned Mr. Shnoo in despair.

"What shall I do?" "Face him with the charge at once," advised Santa. "I think you have not a moment to lose." "But I must clean up the zoo! Everything is turned about and heaven knows what the Queen will think!" "Do that later," said Santa. "Crookshank comes first!" "I suppose you're right," said Mr. Shnoo. He borrowed a plank from one of the water men and he sat on one end and Santa sat on the other end and off they paddled to hunt for Crookshank.

They had gone only a few yards when they heard from far off a hullabaloo of automobile horns honking and bells ringing. The din came closer and closer until It stopped at the gate of the zoo and there came a great fanfare of trumpets and the rolling tattoo of drums. "Good heavens!" cried Mr. Shnoo. "It's the Queen!" He paddled furiously until the water was too shallow to hold the plank.

Then he and Santa jumped off and rushed to the gates of the zoo. There sat the Queen, all regal and stiff, in a fine open carriage surrounded by guards dressed in purple and ermine." "Your Highness," said Mr. Shnoo, bending low. "Welcome to Shnoo's Zoo." The Queen gazed at him in astonishment. His clothes were sopping and his face was covered with dirt.

Behind him stood Santa and the two of them together looked like mud pies set out to dry. Darcella Lawrence said 11 members of four families share her hot plate. She said she has food in her pantry that can't be prepared without a stove so she either uses the hot plate or eats cold cuts. "We can't cook for the holidays," sht said. "You can't cook a Christmas meal in an hour." Most residents said they plan to eat their holiday meals with relatives away from the housing complex.

Faye Llewelly said she warmed mik on a radiator for her 9-month-old baby, Shakir, for three days after gas was shut off Dec. 10. Residents complained that weren't told about the shutoff until after it happened. "The first three days were bad because I had to give him cold cereal and sanoS wiches," she said. She has used a hotplate to warm food since then.

"They said we could use the oven downstairs, but I don't want to carry my. baby's food through the hallway, where, people let their dogs leave feces," she said, Daniel Blue, the deputy director of the Newark Redevelopment Housing Authority that runs the buildings, has said outside consultants advised that the gas system be shut down for repairs. The consultants found pipes that were only 40 percent of their original thickness, Blue said. There have been no explosions, i Blue did not return telephone calls yes-i terday. Neither did Milton Buck, the au- thority's executive director, nor the office of Mayor Kenneth A.

Gibson. The Associated Press NEWARK About 240 tenants of a federally subsidized housing complex here face Christmas without' gas because officials cut off their supplies 12 days ago, fearing explosions in deteriorating gas lines. The buildings are heated by oil, but residents say they'll be denied their Christmas meal at home because they need the gas for their stoves. "There will be very little holiday cooking going on in the building," said Frederick Grubbs, who lives on the eighth floor of one of the six affected Archbishop Walsh Homes buildings. "They (complex officials) say it could take three to four months" to fix the gas system, Grubbs said yesterday.

The 63 residents in Grubbs building must share eight temporary electric stoves and they have only an assigned hour td use them for each meal. "I feel people don't get hungry by appointment," Grubbs said. Jodi Alston, another resident of the dilapidated 11-building complex built on a 15-acre site in 1953, said the heat is not always adequate and her family has relied on the stove to warm rooms when it got cold. "The night after the gas went off, it was very cold in the apartment. I have no idea about a Christmas meal.

I know I'm not the only one who wants a holiday meal and we only have 45 minutes in the kitchen," she said. "I wish to sponsor a well cared for zoo." The Queen stepped down from the carriage, wincing a little as her heel sank into mud. "Mr. Shnoo?" she said uncertainly. "Mr.

Shnoo bowed again. "The same," he muttered unhappily. "As you know," said the Queen, "I wish to sponsor a happy and well cared for zoo. I also wish to award the owner 1,000 pieces of gold. I have visited all the zoos in the land.

I have saved your zoo for last because I have heard such wonderful reports about how beautifully you keep it and how tenderly you treat the animals. "I must say," she added looking about her. "It seems rather muddy and unkempt out here but I know inside the gates it will be different." "Eh yes, Your Majesty eh very different!" stammered Mr. Shnoo miserably and bowing low he led her into the zoo. Tomorrow: Merry Christmas to All.

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