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0 CrlrtrCriT DAILY NEWS, WEDNESDAY, APRILS 2,969 By MICHAEL HANRAHAN extra 10c for the hosiery she bought on her lunch hour toay. Mrs. Anita Henry, a key punch operator from Long Island City, Queens, said that she is "tax poor already and doesn't, need an additional 1 sales tax." Jan Rosicki, a 19-year-old secretary, considered the tax hike Ira Goshay, 21, a telephone -operator," wrinkled her nose and said it is "too much." And Mrs. Carman Weichman, 38, a business machine operator, might give up voting. One of the saleswomen in an E.

45th store, Mrs. Annette Brechner, said that some of her customers have been grumbling about paying the new 6 New York City rate. Cathy Jansen of Cos Cob, summed it up when she said: "Nobody likes to pay taxes. We will though, because there isn't any marketplace in the world as great as New York." Socked by still another increase in the state sales tax 6c now between city and state the city's residents carried on yesterday, though a bit numb. It was April Fool's Day, but the hiking of the state sales levy from 2 to 3 was no joke.

Some people saw it as "horrible, unfair, miserable, outrageous, ridiculous, excessive, unreasonable and too much," But it didn't stop the shoppers from plunking down their money for purchases. Norma Rein, a 20-year-old economist of Flatbush, Brooklyn, felt "like crying about the increase," because she has been saving to buy a car. Now she says, "111 save a little longer." Mrs. Helen Annala, a secretary of Elmhurst, Queens, was "sorry" that she didn't do her shopping Monday. She just shrugged her shoulders and paid an 1 NEWS photo by Frank Glorandino Norma Rein of Flatbush feels "like crying about sales tax hike." NEWS Photo by Frank Gtorandino Helen Annala of Queens in "sorry" she didn't do shopping Monday.

to rfu odd Ihme 2 Build Sevjeirkss khnd By DONALD WEINBRENNER and JOHN MURPHY The city's Housing and Development Administrator announced yesterday that Mayor Lindsay has ordered an immediate start on a plan to build 4,000 housing units on Welfare Island. But State Sen. Seymour Thaler said last night that the problem of sewage disposal on the island By JOSEPH KIERN AN An attractive, 24-year-old brunette breeder of show dogs was stabbed to death yesterday in her Flatbush apartment and because her German shepherd didn't bark, detectives were seeking someone close to her as the probable killer. ihe victim, Joan Rudolph, was found lying on the floor of her will prevent the construction. bedroom in her second-floor apartment at 60 E.

17th Brooklyn, in an 86-family apartment house. She had been stabbed The island's sewage is dumped raw into the East River. A special committee appointed by 'Lindsay to study development of the island reported in January that 4,000 housing units, on the basis of an average family of four, would bring an increase of 16,000 in the island's population. The sewage generated by such an influx and dumped untreated WELFARE I ISLAND CENTRAL 91st ST 1 -J a MANHATTAN 1 I 11 A jt mismanaged condition." Thaler charged that state authorities last month refused an allocation of $3.2 million to the city for sewer projects because of "mismanagement" in nine of IS sewage facilities. Nathan dismissed such charges, saying that he and other officials were confident that a "complete, foolproof, efficient" sewage disposal system can be built on lha island.

The costs, he said, can be absorbed as part of the cost of the over-all developments. He said the special committee's report noted that no development will proceed on the island without a "100 full and effective sewage treatment system." He said the city needs $835 million for sewage projects. The plan announced yesterday by Nathan was the latest in 12 years of widely varied proposals for development of the storied two-mile-long, narrow island that lies in the middle of the East River. There have been proposals that it be used for an amusement park like Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens, for a nuclear power plant, a modern penal colony, a medical center, a United Nations school, or an educational park. The island, purchased by the city in 1828 for for many years contained the city's major prison and medical institutions and homes for the aged, insane, orphans, and destitute.

Nathan said Lindsay had "definitely" decided to put housing on the island and had ordered him "to move as fast as possible on the project." Joan Rudolph found stabbed to death in her home. NEWS Map by Staff Artist Project for 'Welfare I aland? into the river would create substantial pollution said. Housing and Development Administrator Jason R. Nathan said last night after announcing the housing plans that "we are very confident the sewage disposal problem on the island can and will be solved." He spoke after Thaler, a Queens Democrat and crusader in health and pollution matters, sa'd that "the Lindsay. administration knows it can't build the housing" because some city sewage disposal plant3 are in an "unbelievably NEWS photos by Charles Frattini Joan Rudolph's German shepherd twice in the chest by a carving knife with an 8-inch blade which lay on the floor alongside her.

Miss Rudolph's 6-year-old daughter, Robin, found her mother's body when she awoke at 7:30 a.m. and went into the master bedroom. The child ran screaming from the apartment, and neighbors called police of the Parkville station. According to the child, she last saw her mother alive at 9 p.m. Monday.

At that time, she said, a tall, dark-haired man in his 30s, who had visited the apartment before, was with her. and there were no indications of sexual attack or robbery. Miss Rudolph, who had been long separated from her husband, used her maiden name. She made her living breeding and showing German shepherds. The apartment was decorated with trophies she had won.

Sometime during the evening, other tenants said, they heard sounds of quarreling in the apartment, but Miss Rudolph's dog didn't bark. Hence, detectives said, her assailant was in all probability someone the victim knew. Miss Rudolph was fully clothed in sneakers, slacks and blouse, Latest Tidiette Carey, Low, mmm Ybeir Families Bv HARRY SCHLEGEL The first full slate in the populous Democratic primary Brooklyn Rep. Hugh Carey for mayor, Manhattan Councilman Robert Low for Council president and Queens attorney Louis Laurino for controller will be fielded next Monday at a folksy, familial news conference in the Waldorf. Sixteen Careys the congress man, his missus and the 14 Carey yesterday that Wagner will make up his mind later this week although "I don't know when." However, the fact that Carey was going ahead with his City Hall plans and that Bronx Borough President Herman Badillo will presumably annnounce for mayor tomorrow indicated that Wagner had decided he wanted no part of a try for a fourth term.

The other two would-be 'mayors are Rep. John Murphy Tgtaten -Island "and for the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association. On the Republican side, Brooklyn Assemblyman Vito Battista said he will wage a write-in cam-Daign to get the Conservative Party nomination for mayor. Last week the Conservatives overwhelmingly endorsed Staten Island Sen. John J.

Marchi. Yesterday was the first day for circulating petitions. for all the mayoral aspirants were fanning out in search Of the 5,000 valid signatures needed to get on the bmHo.tTh.da4Iine for Laurino, who has announced for Queens borough president One other ticket in the Democratic race is two thirds full Controller Mario Procaccino for Mayor and Council President Francis X. Smith for a full term in his pre- the Manhattan terminal of the Staten Island ferry. All this was supposed to have i.ftn done today," but Carey's ol-fice said yesterday that the ai-nouncement was put off until next week because of the Eisenhower cnudren Mr.

and" Mrs. Low and their two and the Laurino family of six will all be on display to prove that politics and parenthood mix. After the formal unveiling, the Carey-Low-Laurino ticket with Wives and 20 offsnrino- trailing sent job. f-jneral and the religious holidays. "The ftarey 'ticket will require tAr'TlW 'OHe' Of flVB Another announcement that reportedly was 'due' for today1 toa-cerhed former-Mayor Wtfgnaf's -intentions? Butt a Mrlarjr Mid will go on a four-bbrough declared nl me wiiiuimf -up at.

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