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PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS MONOAT, JULY 2, 1973 4 vl Vhm lUigMmwe Cms md MEANWHILE, HELEN DELLAPENNA lives a recu: ring nightmare. "My wife just cries herself to sleep almost cverv ft Ralph DellaPenna said. "The nigiunma is very bad. Sometimes she wakes up screaming. "My wife has been constantly under the doctors' care for the past c- ir.

At first they thought it would be h' that we stay here, but now they ue suggested we move. Get away from Ilia memories," he said. "I don't know what we are going to do. It's not easy to just pick up move, but. "I can't leave my wife alone in the home.

Every day I drop her off for work and then pick her up in the She can't even ride the trollev," ha By JOE O'DOWD Ralph and Helen DellaPenna have gone through hell for the past year. Sleepless nights. Doctors' visits. Loneliness. A year ago they would never have dreamed their lives would be dominated by a tragedy.

This time last year their 17-year-old daughter, Dolores, had graduated from high school and was happily sharing a vacation bungalow with three other girls in Wildwood Crest, N.J. But when Dolores came home to spend some time with her parents she was abducted and killed. That tragedy has now turned her parents' life into an almost constant nightmare. LAST JULY 11, DOLORES was kidnaped less than 100 feet from her home at 4902 Rawle st. Ten days later, her badly mutilated body was found 60 miles from her home in a heavily wooded area near Toms River, N.J.

Neighbors told police they saw the girl being dragged to a maroon '65 or '69 Chevrolet. The girl was never seen alive again. The killer severed the arms, legs and head from her legs and head from her body and scattered them in Jackson Township. Parts of the body were recovered. The head has not been.

The Daily News has offered a $10,000 reward through its "Secret Witness" program for information leading t3 the arrest and conviction of the killer. Miss DellaPenna said. "I don't know why, but she can't." Dolores was seen shortly before she was abducted Ica ing a Route 56 trolley at Torresdale ave. and Knorr st. DOLORES' GIRL FRIENDS STILL drop by the Iklia Penna home to visit.

Continued on Page 14 Heats Rizzo (Gubernatorial Drive No appointed officer or employe of the city shall take part in the management or affairs of any political party or in any political campaign, except to exercize his right as a citizen to express his opinion and cast his vote. Paragarapa 4, Section 10-197 of the Citv Charter i 0 Key City Aides Apply Pressure By FRED HAMILTON Despite denials by Mayor Rizzo, key members of his staff are devoting much of their time to the 194 gubernatorial election. The two most actively involved are one of his deputies, Michael Wallace, and special assistant Joseph P. Braig, who recently was shifted from his job as Commissioner of Licenses and Inspections so he could concentrate on the administration's political affairs. Wallace and Braig are spending much of their time courting Democratic city ward leaders and political figures in an attempt to shore up Rizzo's strength in the badly-split Democratic Party.

SUCH ACTIVITY is apparently in violation of the City Charter, but even administration critics admit that the nature of Braig's and Wal- Photo tv ChaMes Mverj The DellaPcnnas at their daughter's grave last December $20,000 Bail Rapped For Coxson Suspect campaign manager who holds a job with the bicentennial planning organization. When asked recently about his political activities on behalf of the mayor, Gaudiosi quipped: "You can see I'm not involved. They're making too many mistakes." Gaudiosi however, was one of some 10 persons who paid more than $10,000 for a statewide poll of Rizzo's chances for governor. Moreover, Gaudiosi is at least partially responsible for Rizzo's new political profile, which is considerably lower and more subdued than in the past. lace's jobs is dealing with politicians on a daily basis.

Interviews with several ward leaders, who requested anonymity for fear of reprisals, disclosed that Braig and Wallace are placing intense pressure on any ward leader they feel might switch allegiance from Party Chairman Peter J. Camiel to Rizzo. And, these ward leaders say, the two are devoting particular attention to those ward leaders who hold city jobs or who are otherwise beholden to Rizzo or other city officials. ALSO GETTING into the political picture now is Albert V. Gaudiosi, Rizzo's mayoral his common-law-wife, Lois Luby, 35, Lita and one of Mrs.

Luby's sons, Toro, were wounded the same night. Lex Luby escaped the assailants and notified the police. Lita died of her wounds on June 12. Out-of-Town Speech Is First By FRANK DOl'GHtK I Mayor Frank Rizzo. j.

all the denials, one this past weekend first speech outside phia that he isn't governor. Speaking before the -sylvania Sons of Italy on; tion Saturday night Pocono Mountain rer Tamiment, Rizzo waniei "Shapp's shifty maneuvc: "SINCE 1971, Pennh ans have been led down -j primrose path of permi-: j-ness," said Rizzo, sound: little like Spiro Agneu. 1 bleeding-heart Shapp Itaji the parade." He charged Shapp'r. end prison furiough --n has sent thugs ont streets. "Remember," he told 600 delegates, many sp for Governor but'''-, "it was Gov.

Shapp whu threw open the gates imprisons, freeing hardened. cious criminals to prey on ut citizens." The tough call for a to law and order and the tack on the "limousine UK-als and their friends" was reminiscen: speeches made by Rizzo n-ing his mayoral camp 1 here. THE MAYOR said he have to comment on his cal future. The press a 1 1 1 takes care of that: "They (reporters) pohr that if Rizzo accepts a -p. 1 ing engagement outside na city that's a sure his "Well, fellas," he to -e-porters, "here I am in beiu i-ful Pike County, so make it what you will' Undershirt Code to Uncolor Firemen Camden County Prosecutor Thomas J.

Shusted says he is "shocked" that bail for the accused killer of Major Coxson was set at only $20,000 and fears the suspect will be freed. Shusted said the low bail figure set here Friday for Ronald Harvey, 33, of 48th st. near Chester was "almost asinine." IIC SAID Harvey posted bail on a warrant charging him with the killing of Coxson on Saturday and also posted a $10,000 bond on a fugitive warrant issued in Washington, D. C. "I was stunned that the court set such a ridiculous bail," said Shusted yesterday.

"When ha came up with the bail, I was very much concerned he would then be streeted and once he's streeted, the chances are we wouldn't And him." HARVEY FACES another bail hearing today on a second warrant Hied by Camden authorities charging him with the death of Lita Luby, 14, wounded at Grown 'a Cherry Hill home on June 8. Coxson, marches have been given the same label ever since, which must have pained Coxey, a fastidious dresser. IT IS NOT the first time the commissioner has ruled on appearance of city firemen. Roman Black, 28, a seven-year veteran of the fire department, was suspended on Feb. 1, 1972, because it was felt Black's Afro hair style was too long and did not meet department specifications.

Black appealed his suspension, however, and won his case. Last month a Federal judge here ordered Black reinstated and awarded him back pay totaling $13,338. Black, a student at a college By JIM SMITH The old saying that "clothes make the man" is being taken seriously by Fire Commissioner Joseph R. Rizzo. A department clothing regulation is being revised to discourage Firemen from wearing colored undershirts.

The regulation, now being printed and not yet formally approved by Rizzo, says firemen who desire to wear other than white undershirts must button their workshirts at the neck and wear a tie. THE NEED FOR such a regulation came, Rizzo said, after firemen who belonged to the department's athletic league began wearing Softball jerseys under their work- shirts. "The city spends $450,000 a year to uniform our firemen," Rizzo said. "And uniform means just that. We didn't want some firemen wearing red undershirts, some wearing black and others wearing blue.

"The department isn't supposed to look like Coxey's Army," he added. Coxey Jacob Sechler Coxey led a march of some 500 unemployed men on Washington to dramatize the need for putting to work some three million men who lost their jobs by the panic of 1893. The unkempt men became known -as Corey's Army and similar sloppily attired' JACOB S. COXEY led the march Connecticut, has not de in cided whether he will return to the department..

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