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gB Friday, June 16, 1989 The Philadelphia Inquirer Ex-principal faces more charges The Scene In Philadelphia and its suburbs By Robert J. Terry 'uplrer SMff Wrilr Malachi T. Robinson, a city school administrator arrested twice tins week for allegedly threatening Superintendent Constance K. Clayton and loitering outside her home, was charged yesterday with again violating a court order not to communicate with her and using a police station telephone to do it. Kobinson, 57, first was arrested Monday after he allegedly called the police 911 number from North Philadelphia pay phones, spoke profanely of Clayton and threatened to blow up her house.

He also assaulted two p- lice officers who arrested him, police said. At that point, Robinson was charged with making terroristic threats, harassment by communications, aggravated and simple assault, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. After being ordered to stay away from Clayton and to cease communication with her, he was released on $30,000 bail. Karly Wednesday morning just 2''3 hours after his release on bail Robinson was re-arrested outside Clayton's Mount Airy home, where a police officer spotted him banging a broom handle on the pavement, po lice said. Taken into custody, Robinson was arraigned about 9 a.m.

yesterday on new charges of loitering, disorderly conduct and violating the court order, hail Commissioner Abe Polokoff set bail on these charges at $100,000. Minutes later, while still in police custody. Robinson used a telephone at the Police Administration Building to call the Hoard of F.ducation, where he asked to speak to Clayton, police said. Clayton was in a meeting and could not come to the phone, but school security officials found out about the call and notitied police. Police said they had permitted Robinson to make a telephone call, but had been unaware that he was calling the superintendent.

Investigators said Robinson was trying to call Clayton to apologize for his actions. Robinson was charged with another violation of the court order barring him from communications with Clayton, authorities said. He was sent to the Philadelphia Detention Center. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for Monday at City Hall. Inquirer staff writers Michael E.

Ruane and Michael B. Coakley contributed to this article. i I Twiggs ask Fla. judge for ruling School goes on offensive for survival Spacul to Tlw kiQurw IRA O. JOFFE Making a statement Zsa Zsai How does it Question: If Zsa Zsa Gabor place, she most likely would a) "Badges? We don't need b) "Wham a dump'ir c) "Let them eat cake." d) All of the above.

The answer, of course, is Ml Xm which should come as no surprise to anyone who has had a close encounter with the Hungarian harridan. Zsa Zsa Gabor leaves a first impression as hard to wipe clean as an oil slick from an Exxon tanker. Just ask that Beverly Hills cop who arrested Zsa Zsa after she slapped him for having the temerity to stop her Rolls-Royce for having an expired registration. the Philadelphia Inqurar HON TARVtR St. Patrick's eighth graders rehearse graduation ceremonies under the watchful eye of Sister Rosemary Varra.

SCHOOL, from I forts to attract students. Declining enrollment also forced Father Leighton in March to announce a S150 increase in basic tuition for next year. It is the school's largest increase ever and will make the S650 per student tab tor 1989-90 among the highest Catholic school tuitions in the immediate area, the pastor said. "Financially, many ol the parents are making great sacrifices," said Sister Rosemary. "It's a fantastic school, but a lot of times, it is ignored because of the area that it's in," said parent Ann McCarraher, a homemaker who heads a new Increased Enrollment Committee that formed last month.

McCarraher said the increase, although steep, is realistic. Many parents supported the idea at the March meeting, she said. The three-story school at Green and Chestnut Streets towers over one of the borough's roughest rowhouse neighborhoods, where drugs are a growing problem, parents and school officials said. Utility poles around the block are posted with signs saying "Drug-Free School Zone." But, Father Leighton says, "I don't know how effective they are." The Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by Mother Teresa to minister to the poor, operates a soup kitchen and a shelter in a parish-owned house across the street from the church and school. Father Leighton said rumors that the school might close were untrue.

"We have a good product here. We are preparing children for the real world. The word closing has come up, and we've said no. that's not our direction at all, we're not even con- Federal judge says incumbents are eligible to run in Roofers' election Just ask those handicapped people in the head-trauma unit at the Woods School in Bucks County who were shamed into leaving the audience at the City Line Dinner Theater six years ago, May 1983, when Zsa Zsa refused to take the stage if their wheelchairs were not removed from her sight. Remember that incident? Zsa Zsa was starring in an appropriately titled comedy.

Forty Carats, when she became the Marie Antoinette of the Disabled. She was fired from her week role after that incident, and she vowed never to return to Philadelphia. "It difficult to deal with a Hollywood star of her stature." a P.R. man for the dinner theater said at the time. "She's not an ordinary person like you and me who can get kicked around." Oh, really? Well, thank heavens for motorcycle cops, because even if she wasn't kicked around by the authorities, she discovered some realities of everyday life: Hit a cop.

go to jail. She also learned that everyone, princess or pauper, has the cuffs put on one hand at a time and is printed one finger at a time. And based on her comments after her arrest, it's clear that Zsa Zsa feels a new kinship with those who are targets of abusive treatment by police simply because of what they look like and where they live: "You cannot drive a Rolls-Royce in Beverly Hills anymore because they have it in for you," she said. To which there can only be one appropriate response: Let them drive Bentleys. Street Fashiont Keep that neck stiff Have you noticed what the latest rage in street fashion is in Philadelphia among some young males? Neck braces.

That's right, neck braces, those foam-rubber collars covered with cloth and secured with Velcro fasteners. A streetwise 17-year-old put me on to this fashion statement, which I had noticed without understanding. I just thought that for some reason there were a lot of young guys with neck and back injuries. So what's the deal? "If you're wearing a neck brace, it can mean three things." my young sartorial adviser explained. "1) It means you have enough money to own a car that's been in an accident.

"2) It means you're probably going to get some money soon from an insurance company for an accident you were in. "3) It means you know that people think a neck brace means money and you're wearing it to show off. "They're like the new gold chains," my teenage mentor explained. "Ever notice how many guys have them put on wrong? They attach them in the front instead of the back." Lawn Fashiom guess I'm on the cutting edge Things just in from the lawn decoration front: Plastic pink flamingos are making a comeback. They've crossed over the thin line between kitsch and camp and therefore people who wouldn't be caught dead with a gnome or a jockey on their lawn are proudly planting plastic pink flamingos as an inside joke.

At least this is the conclusion of Ann Marie Thigpen, a writer and a lecturer at Penn State, who is writing a book about lawn art, which can include everything from a "bathtub madonna" (a bathtub stood upright with a statue of the Virgin Mary standing inside) to a tire planter (an automobile rim with a tire turned inside out and filled with dirt for flowers). "Lately, what's been real popular are wooden cutouts of sheep that actually have wool on them," Thigpen said. "You also see a lot of windsock geese and cutouts of Holstein cows." She said that she hadn't seen many ornaments like the one 1 just put in front of our house. But then I guess there aren't many lawn and garden stores that would stock an oil pan from a '56 Oldsmobile. (see Lawn Fashion, below).

feel to be real. Dahling? had lived in another time and another have uttered these famous words: no stinking badgesf By CLARK DeLEON county jail last night, officials said. Allen's mother. Emma Reese, 82, died of smoke inhalation from the fire that began at 11 p.m. Saturday, said First Assistant Camden County Prosecutor Dennis Wixted.

Allen trembled visibly throughout the arraignment yesterday, during which Wixted charged that she had set the fire after drinking heavily and taking medication after an argument with her husband. Center City lawyer indicted on fraud, income-tax charges Center City lawyer Carl M. Mazzo-Colie hub been indicted by a federal grand jury on fraud and tax-evasion charges that stemmed from his alleged withholding of $70,000 in settlement money from a client, US. Attorney Michael M. Baylson said yesterday.

Mazzoconc, 59, of Bryn Mawr, settled a personal-injury case for a client for $1.4 million in 1984. Mazzo-cone was entitled to a fee of approximately $567,000 but withheld an additional $70,000 from the client, according to a statement issued by Baylson's office. Mazzocone then failed to report the $70,000 to the Internal Revenue Service, underpaying his 1984 income taxes by about $24,000, the statement said. The grand jury returned the indictments May 23. They were sealed until yesterday at the request of attorneys for Mazzocone and the government, Baylson's statement said? SARASOTA.

Fla. A Bucks County couple, stymied in their efforts to have genetic testing done on a Florida girl they believe is their daughter, have asked a judge to examine the parentage of the child and then let them meet her once, visit her occasionally, or take her home. Courts here have blocked the request of Ernest and Regina Twigg of Langhorne for a genetic test of Kim-bcrly Mays, 10, of Sarasota, agreeing with her father, Robert Mays, that the Twiggs first should prove that their efforts would not harm the child. The Twiggs believe that they were given the wrong baby 10 years ago at Hardee Memorial Hospital in Wau-chula, Fla. Arlena, the child they raised, died of heart disease in 1988 and the Twiggs believe that Kimber-ly is their biological daughter.

A state appeals court in Lakeland ruled in May that the Twiggs should declare their ultimate intention for Kimberly and then evaluate the effect it would have on her. In an amended lawsuit, sent to the state Circuit Court in Sarasota on Wednesday, the Twiggs asked a judge to sort out the biological ties of the children and families and.to select one of three options, all of which would let the Twiggs have some involvement with her. "Prudent pleading leaves all the options open to us." the Twiggs' attorney, John Blakely, said Wednesday. In the first option, the Twiggs ask the judge to declare that "under the unusual circumstances of this case, the plaintiffs and Robert Mays arc the parents of Kimberly Michelle Mays" and that they share parental responsibilities as her guardians. The Twiggs ask the judge to decide which family Kimberly should live with and how often the other adults shoutd visit.

"There's no precedent for that," Blakely said, "but there's no precedent for this case." In the second option, the Twiggs ask the judge to name either the Twiggs or Mays as Kimberly's guardians and let the others visit. At least, the Twiggs said, the judge should allow the Twiggs and their seven children to meet once for "at least several hours" with Kimberly. In the third option, the Twiggs said they would settle for the declaration that Kimberly is their biological child "so that they may end the search for their missing child." Mays' attorney. Arthur Ginsburg of Sarasota, said yesterday that he would oppose all of the Twiggs' latest motions. "This child doesn't want to go up and live with the Twiggs," Ginsburg said.

"We have always been agreeable to sit down with the Twiggs and talk to them, but they've never agreed to that. I guess some people just like talking through the courts." The Twiggs have asked Kimberly and Robert Mays to submit to human leukocyte antigen tests. By comparing proteins on white blood cells, the tests can prove that adults and children are unrelated or give a high probability that they are related. said six Frontier Division buses and other Regional Rail Division trains also had begun using the facility while workers continued preparations for the official opening in early July. The $10.1 million facility is being built at Swede and Lafayette Streets in Norristown and will consolidate SEPTA service in one building.

When ground was broken in March 1987, officials predicted that the center would encourage suburban rider-ship and help revitalize the borough. Union and PATCO reach tentative contract accord Union leaders and negotiators for the Port Authority Transportation Corp. (PATCO) reached tentative agreement yesterday afternoon on a new three-year contract to replace the contract that expired at midnight, spokesmen for both sides said. Employees of the PATCO high-speed line will report to work as usual, and wage increases in the contract would be made retroactive to today if workers ratified the tentative agreement, said John Jackson, business agent for Teamsters Local 676. The ratification vote is scheduled for June 25, he said.

The union represents 180 train operators, electricians, mechanics and other employees of PATCO, which operates the high-speed rail line between Center City and several New Jersey suburbs. Jackson declined to give specifics of the contract. By Lisa Ellis Inquirer Statl Writer A federal judge yesterday refused to overturn a mail election now in progress for the leadership of Roofers Union Local 30-30B. ruling that the incumbents are eligible to run although they have not been paying their own dues to the union. U.S.

District Judge Louis C. Bechtle made the decision after hearing testimony yesterday concerning a protest of the incumbents' eligibility filed by the challengers' slate. Ballots were mailed Monday to more than 1.500 members for the election ordered by Bechtle, who placed Local 30-30B under court oversight in May 1988 because of a civil racketeering suit filed against the union by the U.S. Justice Department. Votes will be counted June 28 under the supervision of the court and the U.S.

Department of Labor. The challengers led by Michael Sullivan, who is running for business manager contended that current business manager Joseph Cros-ley and his slate were not members percent white and 42 percent black. The rest are Hispanic and Asian. The committee also wants to know if offering before- and after-school child care could boost enrollment, McCarraher said. School officials point with pride to their students' academic performance.

This year, for example, the sixth-grade class scored higher than 69 percent of students nationally in the California Achievement Test. And the 10-member eighth grade boasts a National Honor Society member, 13-year-old Brad Autry, who has attended St. Patrick's since the first grade. In an interview outside his classroom, Brad said he felt fortunate to have been educated at St. Patrick's: "It's better with a small class because the teacher can spend a long time with you.

And students are closer to each other; we're really good friends." Also, he said, "We have an advantage; we learn religion, and we learn morals and responsibility." to payment of local dues by or on behalf of officers, Welsh told the judge. Local dues apparently are either forgiven by the local or simply not paid, and this practice also dates back many years, Welsh said in court papers. In a letter from its attorney, Marvin Gittler, the international union took the position that even if a "technical violation" had occurred, it should not affect eligibility for office. The disputed bylaw was intended simply to ensure that international dues were paid, wrote Gittler, who did not comment in the letter on the matter of local dues. Bechtle did not order any change in the union's practice of paying officers' dues, saying the decision "will have to be made by the union." But Sullivan said he hoped such a change would come.

Bechtle also ruled yesterday that 15 former officers and employees of the union who had been convicted of criminal racketeering charges since 1987 were ineligible to vote in the election. Bucks man, 31, tips police, leading to drug-lab bust Bristol Township police yesterday dismantled a methamphetamine laboratory in the basement of a Bristol house and seized $200,000 worth of chemicals and drugs, authorities said. Bristol police and the Bucks County District Attorney's Olfice said the laboratory was reported at 1:38 a.m. by Henry Giorgione, 34. He told police he discovered it at the home of his estranged wife, Lorraine, 32, of the 900 block of Fairview Avenue.

Giorgione is a Bucks County resident but does not live at the Fairvipw Avenue address, police said. Bucks County authorities said the laboratory contained numerous glass, beakers and tubes, more than two gallons of liquid methamphetamine, about three pounds of powdered methamphetamine and chemicals for making the drug. Police evacuated an adjacent house for 30 minutes while the chemicals were removed. No charges have been filed, said police, and the matter remains under investigation. High-speed rail service makes debut at Norristown center SEPTA began high-speed rail service to the new Norristown Transportation Center yesterday as the R6 Ivy RidgeNorristown Line rolled into the station at 1:30 p.m.

SEPTA spokesman Dave Murdock sidering that." But McCarraher's committee, which met last week for the first time, does not intend to take chances. It is planning to flood the parish. Catholic and non-Catholic families alike, as well as real estate olfices and other businesses, with 10,000 brochures to recruit students. The committee's goal is to put enrollment back over 200 within a year, McCarraher said. The school is already 28 percent non-Catholic and is likely to become more so if the marketing effort is successful.

McCarraher said the marketing effort would stress the school's academic record, its support for traditional and religious values and its ethnic diversity. "We feel it's very important for our kids to go to a school where God can be talked about," she said. And. she added, many parents see the school "as a place where their children go and encounter the real world." McCarraher said the racial makeup of the student body is 52 in good standing because they had paid no dues to the local and their dues to the international Roofers Union had been paid for them by the local. This practice, the challengers charged, violated the union's constitution and bylaws, which require that no officer be exempt from paying dues and that no one "be given credit for the payment of dues in return for services rendered." But Local 30-30B.

the international union, the U.S. Attorney's Olfice and the liaison officer appointed by Bechtle to oversee the union all offered the opinion that this apparent violation should not cause a default of the election. The practice is longstanding. Robert E. Welsh the liaison officer, said in the hearing yesterday.

"We have determined that at least since 1960 this union has paid the dues due to the international on behalf of its officers and employees such as business agents who work for the union," he said. Union records show no reference taken to Episcopal Hospital and pronounced dead shortly before 11 p.m. Police were searching for a man dressed in black with a scar on his lip. The motive for the shooting was not known. Delco school, garage burn same arsonist is suspected The same arsonist was believed to have used a flammable liquid to set two fires in Delaware County yesterday that damaged a Ridley Park elementary school and a garage about four blocks away, Ridley Park police said.

No injuries were reported. Police said the first blaze was discovered by a police officer about 1:48 a.m. on the third floor of the Lake-wood Elementary School in the 300 block of Constitution Avenue. They said about 100 local firefighters brought the blaze under control in 30 minutes. The fire was confined to one classroom but caused smoke damage throughout the building, school officials said.

The officials said that the school's 360 pupils had the day off yesterday for a teachers' meeting and that classes would be held today. Police said the second fire was reported about 3:57 a.m. in a wood-frame garage in the first block of Ward Street. The garage and a 1987 Honda Accord parked inside were heavily damaged in the blaze. Police said that no one had been arrested nnd that an investigation was coniumniy.

Metropolitan Area News in Brief Interim vice president named at St. Joseph's University The Rev. Robert W. Mulligan, a former president of Xavier University in Cincinnati, has been appointed interim vice president for academic affairs at St. Joseph's University.

The Rev. Nicholas S. Rashford, president of St. Jo.seph's, announced the one-year appointment Wednesday. Father Mulligan, who is executive assistant to the president at St.

Louis University, will assume the post Aug. 1. Father Mulligan will replace Matthew J. Quinn, who resigned from St. Joseph's last month to become president of Carroll College of Montana in Helena.

Winslow Twp. woman held on murder charge in fire Carol Allen, 47, of the first block of Fletcher Boulevard, Winslow Township, was arrested yesterday morning and arraigned in Camden County Superior Court on charges that she started a fire at her home that trapped and killed her mother on Saturday. Allen was charged with murder and aggravated arson when she was discharged from West Jersey Hospital-Berlin, officials said. She was arraigned before Superior Court Judge Isaiah Steinberg, ordered held in the Camden County Jail on $75,000 bail and directed to undergo psychiatric evaluation. She remained in the West Mount Airy home for AIDS patients is opposed City Council's Rules Committee heard heated testimony yesterday from neighborhood opponents of a proposed 43-bed West Mount Airy nursing home for people with AIDS.

Helene Ferrantello, who lives near the proposed site at Mount Airy Avenue and McCallum Street, showed the committee a map marked with a cluster of red pins one pin, she said, for the home of each resident who had signed a petition opposing the AIDS home. The Lutheran Homes of German-town, sponsor of the plan, is asking the committee to approve a bill to enable the Philadelphia Hospital Facilities Authority to help finance the S2.3 million cost of starting the home. Other neighbors said they feared the home would attract drug trafficking. A Lutheran Homes official said that current drug users would be barred from the home. Fairhill man is shot to death by gunman outside his home Jose Agusto.

38. was fatally shot last night on the street outside his home in the 2500 block of North Howard Street in the Fairhill section, police said. About 10:30 p.m., a man dressed in black shot Agusto once in thr chest and fled, police said. Ausio was i i.