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Wednesday, Dec. 1, 30 1476 6 at Ag Farview Believed Slain FAJA HONESDALE, Pa. (UPI) Em- Although hospital records list the REC 530 PM BALLROOM ployes of Farview State Hospital ap- cause of death as a heart attack, DINNER 630 PM parently murdered six mental pa- Goldberg said that "in the case of tients between 1960 and 1969, accord- Russell Sell we are of the opinion ing to a special prosecutor investigat- that homicide was the cause of TO EXTEND TO ALL ing the institution. death." FOND FAREWELL In a petition filed in Wayne County The petition said a "preliminary inICK Court yesterday, prosecutor Elliot vestigation of five other deaths indiGoldberg said at least six of the 19 cates homicide." STAFF suspicious deaths he is investigating GOLDBERG SAID he had suspects apparently were homicides. in mind in at least the Sell case but The amended petition sought to refused to reveal their identities or empanel a special grand jury to in- whether they still worked at Farvestigate the deaths and alleged acts view.

of wrongdoing at the Waymart facilThe other deaths investigated as ity. there homicides are those of Thomas GarACCORDING TO the petition, 1 was a "widespread, tacit conspiracy ett of Beaver Falls, who died in 1960; among the guards and other hospital Cletus Kreeger, of Gettysburg, who personnel against patients" and that died in 1965, Samuel Udelson of employe guards and supervi- adelphia, who died in 1965; Robert sory personel have fraudulently and Jackson of Philadelphia, who died in brutally procured the signatures of 1966, and John Rankins, who died in patients on Social Security and Veter- 1969. ans Administration checks." A coroner's report said Garrett's One patient, Russell Sell, of Leba- body, exhumed earlier this year, conPhotography by Sam Psoras non, died in 1963 as a result of a tained wadded newspaper in place of Warwick employe Ken Roberts signs off in hotel lobby beating by guards, the petition said. vital organs. Warwick Gets a Spirited Sendoff By LAURA MURRAY The good-looking middle-aged blonde at the Warwick Hotel's bar said her name was Carmella Rizzo and the reporter who asked her if she felt sad about the hotel's closing after all these years did a double take.

There was either a put-on or a scoop in the wind. The mayor's wife doesn't sit at bars or talk to reporters. And she isn't blonde. But this was another Carmella Rizzo, who started coming to the Warwick 10 years ago for the Bonwit Teller fashion shows and liked it well enough to start coming for dinner. Now she and her husband, Victor, were having a farewell drink.

THE-BLUE-AND-WHITE Warwick Room closed at midnight. Three-hundred members and guests of the Federation Allied Jewish Appeal were served the last banquet last night. The last big convention, that of United Methodist Church Council of Bishops, was held two weeks ago. In the lobby, locksmith Anthony Sebastiano was fitting the first lock ever on the front doors since the Warwick opened 50 years ago. IT WILL REOPEN in a year or so, Clarification The telephone number listed in a Daily News story Monday on the Medical Examiner's Office, 823-8430, was the personal number of the examiner, Dr.

Marvin E. Aronson. If you wish to talk to an investigator in the office about an unidentified body or a missing person, call 823- 8444 anytime, day or night. 1976 Phila. Daily News 5 under new management, as a combi- "Say the Barclay," said Phyllis, at residence 24 years, famed for pournation apartment house-hotel.

his elbow. She owned the Warwick's ing perfect drinks without measuring, spilled a Manhattan from the shaker The new thing may be just as fabu- gift shop, which Mildred Fantini was last night. on its way to the glass. lous as the old Warwick was in her wistfully dismantling heyday; but it won't be the same. "I MAY STOP drinking," Lee said.

Down at the end of the bar, old Stanley, asked what was his best Body Found in River friends, Dr. Jeremiah Lee, Phyllis time at the Warwick, settled on danc- Was Phila. Widow Freiwald, Ray Stanley and Ed-just- The body of a woman found a week ing to Lenny Herman. back-from-Lauderdale, were sum- "We only did one dance, what ago in the Cooper River in Camden moning old times. dance did we do, Phyllis, the dip?" was identified today as that of Mrs.

up Phyllis said it was the samba. Lee has been coming to the War- Travel CelBlanche Wind, 47, of 6th St. near agency owner Carmen Wharton. wick every day for years. Where enza, who used to play tenor sax Mrs.

Wind, a widow who worked as would he go from here? back when the Warwick Room was a domestic, is survived by four a bachelor, I might go into a the Society Room, was fetching a dren, aged 16 to 22. One of the chilmonastery," he quipped. "I think lady a drink and generally doing the dren identified her body. Camden that's a very difficult question. I honors of the place.

County authorities said she died of could go to the And bartender Charlie Secatore, in drowning last Wednesday. 7th Victim Dies After Home Fire By JOE CLARK more than 20. Four of 10 survivors, who've been relocated Lars Bay, 81, died this morning at St. Agnes Burn to another Germantown boarding home, reportedly were Center, the seventh elderly victim of a fire that swept diagnosed as "disoriented and very confused." a Germantown boarding home Saturday night. "They should be in a supervised nursing home," said In addition to taking seven lives, the blaze injured a State Health Department regional supervisor, noting 17, four of whom remain hospitalized at Germantown that medical care is not provided in boarding homes.

Hospital. The four survivors at Germantown Hospital were MEANWHILE, the investigation continues into the found to be undernourished and ridden with lice. "They fire which Fire Commissioner Joseph Rizzo has termed were deloused," said a hospital spokesman, who added, "suspicious." Although police and fire investigators "the staff even ran out of the liquid spray for the deloushave questioned a number of persons, a spokesman ing." tor the fire marshal's office this morning said the probe is "still status quo." THE TWO-ALARM BLAZE in the 18-year-old house began in the second-floor stairwell and quickly spread to Also, Common Pleas Court Judge Charles P. Mirarchi the third floor. The initial six victims, ranging in ages who is in charge of a grand jury probing nursing 62 to 76, were found trapped on the third floor.

and boarding homes in the city, said the panel is check- Although areas of the second-floor hallway appeared ing for possible criminal violations at the home. untouched by the blaze, an area near the stairway was Althoug permitted to accommodate six residents, the burned almost to the brick, indicating some type of highly boarding home at Wayne Ave. and Hansberry had flammable material may have been used to set the fire. Unifax Snow-frosted Michael L. Mitchell waits for bus in Buffalo, N.

Y. Cold Spell Settles In Noses are red, fingers are blue. the weather is cold, and so are you. And so you will be for quite some time. It is, the National Weather Ser.

vice tells us, unseasonably cold. THE NORMAL LOW for this time of year is about 31 degrees. It was 15 degrees at International Airport at 7 a.m. yesterday and 19 degrees at 11 last night. Today's forecast projects highs of 30-35, which would be consider ably warmer, but with a chance of snow, which continues into tv morrow.

The 30-day forecast shows the same trend to colder than usual temperatures here and all along the East Coast. -The WeatherToday Sunny in morning. Cloudy late High 33. Wind SW 5-15 MPH. Snow chance in afternoon 20 percent.

Tonight Cloudy. Winds SW 5-15 MPH Snow chance 30 percent. Tomorrow Cloudy. High 35. Snow chance 30 percent.

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