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If II 22 Thursday. March 29. 197ft Philadelphia Daily IliMtlMIMilf UilUllfP'I I I lit I I 1 W9 ft i Eiihhoirn IHIeBd omi KSSSeng aunng a iyo iuna-raismg campaign. "We reached her at the address on Race St by phone," the spokeswoman said. "In May of 1978, our mail records show her as lost.

That meant all the mail sent to her came back." The couple apparently met casually through the Powelton Village scene, and were known to battle frequently. One source said friends reported Einhorn had struck the woman more than once. INVESTIGATORS had questioned Einhorn more than once about Maddux's whereabouts and he had said she had gone "to the store" and not come back. One neighbor, a Drexel graduate student, said he had seen Maddux and Einhorn setting off for Europe in the spring of 1977. "Holly came back in late August or September, very friendly and all, but we didn't see her after that," the student said.

"I thought maybe they had split up when they went to Europe or something." Others described Einhorn as "a friendly guy" and "an intelligent guy," but "eccentric- Continued from Page 3 pound, blue-eyed, dirty blonde who had entered the prestigious Main Line college in 1965, dropped out and then returned to graduate in 1971. She would have been 31 years old. Though still awaiting final identification of the victim, police yesterday charged Einhorn, self-styled poet, philospher, anti-Vietnam War and environmental activist, with murder. who grew up in a middle-class Jewish home but during his years with the "counterculture" lived frugally, supported mainly by friends, spoke at his arraingment only to say he "could afford private counsel." His attorney, he said, was in California attending a seminar. A public defender was present.

LITTLE WAS KNOWN of Maddux other than that her personality seemed less vivid than that of the outgoing Einhorn. At Bryn Mawr few remained who remembered her, but one of those who did said "she was a lovely-looking girl, a beautiful girl, a very lovely person when shie was here." "They did say she was 'her own person'," a spokeswoman added. "And she was a dancer, she loved to dance." The only contact the college had had with her since her graduation was a telephone call i ft A Maddux's father, Fred, is a draftsman for Prwtooraphed by E.W the Texas Department of Highways and Public Transportation. Victim's body is loaded into van for shipment to medical examiner's office The Corporate World's Guru By MARIA GALLAGHER He had not made headlines in recent years, but those who kept track of Ira Einhorn said he continued to do the things he did as a high-profile hippie in the '60s: lunching with corporate types, flying around the world to parapsychology conferences, talking ecological politics, boasting of his success with pretty women. Einhorn, now 38, made a career of being a freethinker, free lover and free luncher, always on someone's dole, occasionally hosting a Be-In or a Sun Day and once running for mayor.

He wore secondhand clothes and lived in a low-rent flat but managed to travel abroad often. "People give me money for just being Ira," he once explained. He dabbled in drugs, teaching, technology, sports and authordom, and convinced many philanthropic 9-to-5ers that his ideas were important to them. He recently had lectured at Harvard. HE MOVED between his eccentric world and the corporate world as easily as he'd made the transition from bright West Oak Lane Jewish boy to pony-tailed Penn-degreed guru.

Einhorn wore various adjectives as a local public figure, but violence was "out of character" for him. said friends who were shocked to hear of again "in late August or September," but not again, and assumed they'd split up. "HE WAS A friendly guy, eccentric at times. He was into some weird pseudoscience stuff and knew I was into physics, so he'd talk to me on occasion. He was upset about the Russians trying to change the weather and using microwaves on the people in our embassy over there.

I found his ideas interesting, but I guess I was not that up on parapsychology." "He was in charge of Solar Day and I was most impressed by him," said Neil Lifson, a Drexel student "I remembered his name and intended to look him up because he seemed so interesting. I can't believe he lived next door. I guess he's even more interesting than I thought." "One begins to wonder what the stints with LSD did to his head," said Kurt Loveland, a Drexel graduate student "I was very surprised to hear about the body in the trunk. No one would have suspected. He and his friends were always nice." STEVE HARMELIN, an attorney with the firm of Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish and Levy, attended Central High School and the University of Pennsylvania with Einhorn.

He described his friend as "a pretty cerebral guy; a tremendous, brilliant sensitive man" always surrounded his arrest on murder charges. Some, like the Rev. David Gracie of St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, 3d and Dauphin were too upset to comment Inspector George Fend of the police Civil Affairs unit, who from time to time enlisted Einhorn's help in calming restless radicals and once described him as a "friend," refused to talk about him. Einhorn's mother cried when a reporter broke the news to her eight hours later.

TM SURE he didn't do it," said Joseph Einhorn, his father. "He was a wonderful man. He is always in touch with us. He would never kill anybody. He is not that type of person." "He's a pussycat," his mother added.

She believes "somebody could have set him up, that somebody put the body there." Of Helen (Holly) Maddux, whose decomposed body was found in Einhorn's apartment, Einhorn's mother said he was "sick" over her apparent disappearance in fall 1977 "because he loved her very much." Einhorn's neighbors, who were questioned by private detectives last fall, had difficulty believing he was a murder suspect. Jim Jafolla, a Drexel grad student in physics, said Einhorn and Maddux had gone to Europe together in the spring of 1977. He saw Maddux Photographed by Prentice Col La Terrasse bartender Nick Lessinger-Bely: "He was the talker" bread with him and invite him to play squash at their private clubs. Dressed for comfort, Einhorn met for lunch with "well-dressed, well- groomed gentlemen" twice or three by good-looking women. Einhorn "seemed visionary and quite crazy to a lot of people," said Bill Vitka, a freelance writer who was WMMR's hews director in the early 1970s, but at the same time was "quite captivating, a magnet" PERHAPS THAT'S what got the straightest of executives to break times each week at La Terrasse, a French restaurant in University City.

Bartender Nick Lessinger-Bely said they'd study papers, talking business. Einhorn also turned up at every political fund-raiser held at Rizzo's $1.6 Billion Budget Could Cost 1,200 City Jobs the restaurant. Sometimes Maddux was with him. "She was very quiet in public," Lessinger-Bely recalled. "He was the talker.

She used to sit there. They seemed to get along very well Einhorn's last visible project was Sun Week last April, a festival of ecological consciousness-raising. notes in the open market for $2 million. The receipt of an additional $6 million in revenue-sharing funds' from the federal government. Davis said the "least reliable" of the four measures was the revenue-sharing package, which is depends upon approval by the VS.

Congress. However, he said he was "very confident" about the prospect of raising $22 million through the other three measures. DAVIS WARNED that any money that the city fails to receive through these measures by July 1 will force Continued from Page 3 million gap: A tax abatement program that city officials are hoping will bring in additional $10 million. The program, which needs City Council approval, would forgive penalties and interest owed on delinquent taxes if they are paid by June 30. The refinancing of general obligation bonds that would defer about S10 million in debt service payments.

The sale of long-term notes that the city received as part of its settlement with Penn Central Railroad. The city expects to be able to sell the million. Davis said the proposed budget includes a 5V4 percent wage hike for the city's uniformed personnel and a 7lh percent cost-of-living increase for non-uniformed workers. Overall, the new budget calls for expenditures of $1,613 billion 18.7 percent more than the $1,359 billion spent in fiscal 1979. The city's revenues are projected to increase 18.8 percent, from $1,350 billion this year to $1,604 billion in fiscal year 1980.

The city will make up some of the deficit with unused funds from this year's budget additional dollar-for-dollar cuts in city departments, over and above the $20 million reductions. According to Davis current breakdown, which is subject to realignment by Council, the second round of cuts includes a reduction in Police Department spending and a cut in the Fire Department budget. Both the library and public health departments whose budgets will be reduced a total of $4.4 million through the first round of cuts together could lose another $4.5 million if the city fafls to receive the $28 Bob Ingram, who handled public relations for Sun Week, remembered; a visit he'd made to Einhorn's apart ment during that time. "He told me to keep an eye out for Holly because her parents were worried," he said "Her body was in there at that very tome.".

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