Daily News du lieu suivant : New York, New York • 60

OBITUARY CI Minority Group Hails Welfare Island Lease JOHN J.McNULTY SR. J. RALPn RACK LEY University Park, Dec 24 (UPI) J. Ralph Rackley, 62, provost of Pennsylvania State University and former holder of national and state educational offices, died today at nearby Bel-lefonte. Rackley was acting commissioner of the United States Office of Education in 1956 and Pennsylvania superintendent of public instruction from 1965 to 1967.

ERCOLE PERROTTA Ercole Perrotta, 68, bui'ding contractor and father of City FinaiTe Administrator Fiora-vante Perrotta, died yesterday at his home, 72 Dawes Lyn-brook, L.I. A Requiem Mass will be offered at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at Our Lady of Peace Church in Lynbrook. SIDNEY NANES Funeral services for Sidney Nanes, 60, principal of Seward Park High School, 350 Grand will be held at 11:45 a.m. tomorrow in the Riverside chapel, 1 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn.

Nanes, who lived at 1437 E. 17th Brooklyn, died Tuesday after suffering a heart attack at the schooL Albany, Dec. 24 (AP) John J. McNulty Sr. of Green Island, a former state superintendent of building and former Albany County sheriff, died today at Al bany Medical Center after a brief illness, one day before his 77th birthday.

McNulty was dubbed Mr. Green Island for public service which kept him in office almost continuously since 1913, when he won his first election for tax collector. MRS. ANNA S. MENDELSON Services for Mrs.

Anna S. Men-delson, 88, mother of Eugene Mendelson, amusement advertising manager of The News, will be held at 10:15 a.m. tomorrow at the Riverside chapel, 1 Ocean rarxway, Brooklyn signed by Neil Hardy, acting administrator of the city's Housing and Development Administration, and Edward Logue, president of the state's Urban Development Corp. Haughton said that, in addition to a requirement calling for a minority trainee for every authorized apprentice, the agreement also permits trainees to be hired as long as they are more than 18 years old. Union apprentices are generally between 18 and 21, he said.

The plan calls for 5,000 low, middle and high-income apartments and a 25-acre park. v. ID -I a SOL SCHULMAN Sol Schulman, 57, a judge of the Hudson County (N.J.) Court, died yesterday in Mount Sinai Hospital here. He lived at 8715 Third North Bergen. Services will be held at noon tomorrow in the Wein Wein funeral home, Jersey City.

LI'L ABNER I 6ITLOST, COMESADlE AN' AH '( I HAWKINS DM, )( IS GIVIN' WHAT WOULD YO' GITTIW'OUR, AHISGIVIN' MAHSELF HIS -r LADIES LIKE FOWn OWN MAHSELF U'L ji 3 J' GASOLINE ALLEY --'when Pop went1 hear He's putting havej It's a surprise to pick up Ruf us Pert was tf up in a new floor, new stairs, I How more turkey to see Mr. Pert Uhere.Hope, so he invited Kut 4S1 Uhotfe A nev? anud. ft ItS REX MORGAN I no its such a Fanp in these 2000 veaik Dthis was the veak in which Vfcrti 'Zf Kcyv mUKUMPI I PFITT'" 1 rWEVE NOT ACHIEVE? I MAN T0O THAT FIRST G-IANT 13! (V WHATS WRONkS-TTl WAS THINKING IT MUST I ON EARTH lSTEP LET OS HOPE rr WU fi jfl JUNE? CANT HAVE BEEN A LEAP POWN A PATH TP yOU SLEEP MUCH LIKE THIS ALMOST CTFT Tjl ALL JSrL Kk The lease signed Tuesday by the city and state as the first step in the proposed $200 million development plan for Welfare Island was hailed yesterday by a black and Puerto Rican organization as "a major breakthrough in assuring minorities of a proper share of construction jobs." James Haughton, director, of Harlem Fight Back, 2035 Fifth said: "For the first time anywhere, a contract sets a figure for the amount of minority trainees who must be hired if the work is to go forward." The 99-year lease for the two-mile city -owned island was SOCIAL SECURITY By HARVEY GARDNER C.P.A. QUESTION: I am married 16 years. My husband left me and is living with another woman.

Can the legal wife get his pension when he dies, or does the common-law wife get it? R.H. ANSWER: For the lump-sum benefit, the law requires that the legal wife be living with him at the date of death. For monthly benefits at 60, the law only requires that the widow was legally married to him at the time of nis death. A person who has not legally terminated his or her marriage cannot enter into a common-law marriage. TIarvej Gardner's booklet on Social Security, Inrlnriing the latest amendments ta the lair and medicare, is available at THE NEWS Information Bureau 'or 15e, or 36 by mall.

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