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H4- Page 4- PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS 8 ftTAii CDiTiQ Thursday. June 19, 198S condition that he spend each night at Delaware County Prison. He said Dincer failed to report to the prison Tuesday night, and Labrum asked the university public safety department yesterday morning to check for him at his apartment, two blocks from campus. Sussman said Penn had not formally fired Dincer from his teaching job, but had banned him from the campus without permission. He said Dincer was preparing to write a doctoral thesis in mathematics and no longer needed to attend classes.

two or three types but we won't know exactly until we conduct toxicology tests." He said Dincer had in his apartment a copy of the Physician's Desk Reference, which details various types of medication and their effects, and "he underlined the medication he wanted to take." He said he did not know how long Dincer had been dead. He said Dincer, a graduate student who lived alone, had left three suicide notes, one to university President Sheldon Hackney, a second to and sexual overtones. Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph T. Labrum HI said at the time of Dincer's arrest.

Labrum, who had been assigned to prosecute Dincer at a trial scheduled to begin June 30, could not be reached for comment last night. The university would not comment on Dincer's death, and a spokesman said he had no information about Dincer's status there. However, Edward Sussman, managing editor of the Daily Pennsylva-nian, the student newspaper, said Dincer had been released on bail on an individual he would not identify and a third to "friends." The source would not disclose the contents of any of the notes. Dincer, a Turkish national, was arrested in April for allegedly making death threats last winter by letter and by telephone to a female sophomore. The 19-year-old woman was one of his students last summer.

The FBI said one of Dincer's fingerprints had been found on a Christmas card the student received at her home in upstate Pennsylvania. The card carried an explicit death threat IXknnm-QIHtoirDii Elks Hall Pits Rafferty Vs. Preservationists 4 ii-tt By VINCE KASPER Daily News Staff Writer A former teaching assistant at the University of Pennsylvania, who was awaiting trial on charges of terrorizing a student, was found dead yesterday in his West Philadelphia apartment, an apparent suicide. Selim Dincer, 31. of Walnut Street near 42nd.

was found about noon by a member of the university's public safety department. A source in the medical examiner's office said Dincer apparently had died of a "pill overdose of possibly City Unions Too Powerful, Study Finds By KATHY SHEEHAN Daily News Staff Writer The city of Philadelphia should give more clout to its personnel director and less to its unions if it intends to improve the quality of city services, says a report commissioned by the Committee of Seventy. The city's personnel policy, which has evolved from a patronage system to a civil service system to a combination of both, "satisfies almost nobody," the report says, and "has become an impediment to effective government." The 55-page report, based on historical research and confidential interviews with nearly three dozen current and former city officials, government experts and at least one union leader, places the blame for deteriorating city services squarely on a flawed civil-service system. Those interviewed said reward and discipline systems for city workers are virtually non-existent and cited a lack of accountability and responsibility in management. The report blamed the loss of important managerial control on "a history of ill-considered, short-sighted concessions to municipal employees' unions at the bargaining table." Part of the fault also lies in the city charter, which does not give the city's personnel director enough authority to manage some 30,000 employees properly, the study says.

City Personnel Director Orville Jones said he needed time to review the report before he would comment on it. But he did say he would welcome a greater role in the city administration. "1 wouldn't have any difficulty with the expansion of the role of the personnel director." he said. Mayor Goode was not available for comment. Since the Personnel Department is not a major city operating department and does not fall in the mayor's cabinet, important personnel matters are routinely overlooked in the development of city policies, according to the report.

As a result, "the ability of city leaders to address problems in a timely, effective manner is impaired," the study says. In addition to increasing the role and authority of the Personnel De-See UNIONS Page 33 By HOWARD SCHNEIDER Daily News Staff Writer Preservationists yesterday threatened a court battle over the demolition of a turn-of-the-century Elks lodge, but an angry Councilman Francis Rafferty said they are disrupting efforts to improve the city's court system. "Screw 'em all," Rafferty said of preservationists at a Council hearing during which he also ejected a witness who refused to stop talking. "Relax, relax, Francis," said an aide as the chairman of Council's Public Property and Public Works Committee criticized "faggots in the press" who he predicted would glorify preservationists at Council's expense. The remarks came after a hearing on six bills allowing the city to acquire 1306 to 1322 Arch St.

for the planned Criminal Justice Complex. The comments were not made directly to two witnesses who testified against the demolition of the Georgian-revival Elks building at 1320-22 Arch. But they were picked up by Rafferty's microphone and tape recorders plugged into Council's audio system. Rafferty later said he was angered by the attempt to save the Elks building and force a redesign of the S16S million court complex. Preservation groups say plans could be changed slightly so the center would not consume the corner on which the Elks hall sits.

That idea was presented to the administration Tuesday, and Public Property Commissioner Dudley Sykes said it is under study. Meanwhile, the preservationists are asking that the building be put on the local historic register, which carries strict regulations against demolition. The request will likely be considered at the city Historical Commission's July meeting. If they are unsuccessful with the commission, preservationists yesterday said they will fight in court rather than allow a third historic building to be destroyed for the justice center. The old Bulletin building and the Essex Hotel were razed last year.

"If the city intends to demolish it, we intend to fight," said Patrick Starr, a' spokesman for the Foundation for Architecture. "If that leads to court cases and appeals we intend to pursue those." Starr also criticized Council for inadequately funding the Historical Associstfid Pimm HAUPTMANN'S WIDOW TRIES AGAIN Anna Hauptmann, the widow of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, stands with her lawyer, Robert Bryan, at a news conference yesterday after filing suit again against New Jersey, saying her husband was wrongly executed 50 years ago for the kidnap-murder of the infant son of Charles A. Lindbergh. Mrs. Haupt-man, 87, of Yeadon, Delaware County, said she would gladly withdraw the $10 million suit if the state recognizes that Hauptmann was innocent.

A 1981 federal suit was thrown out. Penicillin Fights Siclile-Cell in Kids Francis Rafferty: no redesign Commission, prompting Rafferty to warn him to stick to the subject of the justice center. When Starr refused, Rafferty ordered him ejected from the hearing, and Starr quietly took a seat in the'audience. Architect Gray Smith then lambasted Council for considering the destruction of a third "really nice historic building." "Phooey, I say," said Smith. "Whoever put together that string of dumb ideas ought not to be playing with my city and my tax money." "Guys like you can say cute little things and insult city officials and get away with it," Rafferty replied, "but we in City Council have to meet certain responsibilities," like ensuring adequate, secure courtrooms.

"You will be a hero tomorrow," Rafferty said, referring to expected press praise of the preservationists' position. Sometimes Even a Bear Can't Find a Good Date Associated Press JOHNSTON, R.I. A 6-foot-tall black bear apparently looking for a mate was subdued by federal officials yesterday after leading more than two dozen police officers on a chase through woods and across highways. The 160-pound bear's five-hour romp ended when he was tranquil-ized by officials from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and put aboard a truck for transport to northern New Hampshire, said police Sgt.

Emi-lio Sabitoni. off life-threatening infections until the infants' immune systems are more fully developed after their third year of life. An estimated 150 children with sickle-cell anemia die before age 3 in the United States each year from pneumonia, meningitis or an overwhelming blood poisoning called septicemia, which is caused by the streptococcus bacterium. Worldwide the annual death toll is put at 18,000 to 20,000. fickle-cell anemia is an inherited, life-shortening defect in which red blood cells normally round and supple become elongated and rigid when short of oxygen.

As a result, they block tiny blood vessels, cutting off the blood flow and causing pain and damage to vital organs. Newhouse News Service WASHINGTON Low-dose penicillin pills taken twice daily can dramatically reduce death and serious infections in young children with sickle-cell anemia, and widespread use of this preventive technique could save thousands of lives worldwide, a new study indicates. As a result, researchers are recommending that babies be screened soon after birth and that those with sickle-cell anemia be given penicillin daily. "We would like to think we have a chance of eliminating mortality," said Dr. Marilyn H.

Gaston of the federal government's National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. The penicillin treatments do not cure the disease, but they help ward.