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THE BOSTON KHIDAY. A1K1UST 25, ill" Lashman details rules on usage of BOTOAEIIES Geneva Griffin, 95; jazz pianist, worked with Boston civic groups -I I. 1 II Steve Lincoln, an operator of the wooden railroad bridge across the Globe staff photoSuzanne Krellerx Mystic River In Somerville. walks be operating after today. n.f I till on me iraciis.

ueiow, ne tens Doaters mat tne drawbridge will not Geneva (Jones) Griffin of Rox-bury, a well-known Boston Jazz pianist, died Tuesday at Jewish Memorial Hospital. She was 95. Mrs. Griffin, known as Genee, was the recipient of many awards and citations from various Boston organizations, including the 464 Community Workshop of the Women's Service Club of Boston, where she was "roasted" for her many years as rehearsal pianist and band leader for its variety musical productions. She also had served as musical director of the New Wrinkle Theater in Boston and as an accompanist at Boston's "Summerthing." Mrs.

Griffin was a native of Glen-Falls, N.Y., whose musical career spanned more than 65 years. Her first encounter with a keyboard was an old-fashioned pump organ in the family home. Sitting between an older sister's knees, she tinkled the keys while her sister pumped. She played music by ear until she was 10, when she began piano lessons, which continued for six years. Mrs.

Griffin said she knew even then that, much to her parents' chagrin, she wanted to be a Jazz pianist. "My parents were thoroughly disgusted with the Idea," she once recalled. "They hated Jazz and wanted me to be a concert pianist, but the concert stage was not for me." Her taste for Jazz began, she said, when black musicians on the former RKO-Keith vaudeville circuit boarded at her family home. The performers, Including clarinetist Wilbur Sweat, brought their music with them and she would accompany them on the piano In the 1920s, Mrs. Griffin Jazz and boogie in and around New York with her own 12-piece band, then traveled around the country playing a 45-mlnute show in theaters, after the Swing-bridge operators drawing down curtain By William P.

Coughlin Globe Staff They're going to quietly discontinue a bit of working Americana and end a century-long era of railroading at six minutes after midnight tonight in Somerville. That's when the last outbound Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority commuter train, pulled by an Amtrak diesel, will roll over the rickety, 1 12-year-old swinging wooden span across the Mystic River near the Amelia Earhart dam. By dawn tomorrow, all main-line MBTA trains to and from Beverly, Gloucester. Ipswich and other points north will speed across an adjacent, taller, $30 million fixed span that was finished nine months ahead of schedule, according to engineers. "It was finished too soon for me," said Steve Lincoln, 36, of Somerville, one of three operators of the old structure, known simply as Draw Number 7, which is believed to be the oldest Jacknife drawbridge in the nation, according to Amtrak and MBTA officials.

Lincoln and two other lover-operators of this old bridge, Jim Cadman and Ray Cashman, have been opening and closing it for millions of rail commuters and for boats, up to 40 times a day, over the years. Never has it failed, they say. According to Lincoln and Amtrak construction engineer Bob Simon of Groton, the span has been carrying trains seven days a week, 24 hours a day since it was built. Cashman, especially, will leave his job with a saddened heart, says the chief Amtrak dispatcher, Carl Senftleben. "He's brokenhearted they're closing it.

He's going to miss it," said Senftleben. "The bridge is so feeble, it took someone who cared and felt for the bridge to, take care of It. He especially It was evident that these new-era railroaders feel for the bridge. Simon cited its history from a book, "American Wooden Bridges." compiled by the American Society of Civil Engineers. The jacknife drawbridge was designed about 1845, "when a draw was needed to cross water at Manchester, Mass." By then, the earlier A-frame bridge developed, by railroads had been found to be too awkward, Simon said.

So two men, Joseph Ross, an Ipswich mechanic? and Samuel Ashburner, a Manchester draftsman, "got together and designed the first Jacknife Thus, it is believed Ross and Ashburner were the designers of this bridge over the Mystic. Alexander S. Yakovlev, famed as Soviet aircraft designer; at 84 DEA case state vehicles By Renee Loth Globe Staff L. Edward Lashman, state sec retary of administration and fi nance, yesterday declared that "cars are not perks" as he un veiled details of a crackdown on the misuse of state vehicles. "Cars are tools.

People need tools to do their Jobs, not as an ad dltlonal compensation," Lashman said. "1 think public money Is too hard to come by to waste It. The new policies, outlined in an administrative bulletin, ban commuting with state cars, re duce the fleet by 250 vehicles and require drivers to pay their own parking tickets and fines. Drivers and passengers in state cars are also required to wear seat belts, and any employee caught not wearing a belt will lose driving privileges for three months. The new policy also restricts car phones to vehicles where "the driver must be available at all times to respond to emergency sit uatlons or where the driver's du ties are of such a critical nature as to require constant communication with his or her office." Lashman said that "sloppy" procedures have allowed employ ees to get away with not paying parking tickets issued while they used state cars.

The cities and towns where the tickets are issued can send notices of unpaid violations to the agencies that lease the cars from the state motor pool, but many tickets remain unpaid. Lashman said the state will save 14 cents a mile on each of the 250 cars that are returned to the motor pool by the Sept. 30 deadline, but he could not estimate the total savings or expected revenues from selling the cars at auction or offering older models to salvage companies for scrap. Lashman also said that Gov. Dukakis was "wrong" in thinking the Legislature would pass the governor's $604 million tax package.

"His political Judgment was incorrect," Lashman said. He said the administration would be asking the Legislature for approval to enact savings plans and maximize nontax revenue within the next three weeks. UEVJ gfJGLAND fJEWS BRIEFS South Boston man is accused of rape A South Boston man was charged with four counts of rape and four counts of assault and battery yesterday In the South Boston District Court. Richard Perry, 22, of East 8th Street, is charged in connection with the attempted rape of an 18-year-old woman and the rape of a 17-year-old woman, allegedly at a party In his house on Aug. 19, according to police.

Perry is currently being held on $3,000 cash bail. The Bos ton Police Sexual Assault Unit is currently investigating and has warrants out for three other suspects. 'Horseplay' blamed for death of Marine JACKSONVILLE. Fla. Investi gators say a game of "quick draw" resulted in the July 4 shooting death of Lance Cpl.

Keith P. Ahem of Keene. N.H.. at Cecil Field Naval Air Station. Ahem and another Marine were on guard duty when they "engaged In what I called horseplay, drawing their weapons in a quick-draw type of game," Lt.

Col. Fred Peck, Marine Corps spokesman, said Wednesday in Washington. Ahem, 20, died after he was shot once in the head with a 9mm pistol, a standard-issue weapon for Marines. No charges have been filed in the shooting, which inves tigators have ruled was accidental. (UPI) Man is indicted in Littleton slaying CAMBRIDGE A Middlesex County grand jury yesterday indicted John F.

Krohn 44, of Littleton, for the murder of his cousin last Aug. 6 and for the at tempted murder of the cousins 16-year-old daughter. According to Littleton police, Linda Hardy, 48, of Acton, was shot dead about 3:30 p.m. when she and her daughter Melissa Bonk visited the Middlesex Drive home of Krohn and his mother, Delphine Krohn. 1978 photo GENEVA GRIFFIN movie.

In the early 1930s, she moved on to Buffalo where for many years she served as secre tary of the Musicians Union. During her earlier days she got to know such Jazz greats as Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, Fats Waller, Cab Calloway and Louis Armstrong. Her late husband, Robert, was a musician who played the saxo phone, but he gave It up, she once said, "because he thought two musicians In the family was Just too much. She came to Boston In 1946, continuing to play Jazz piano at such local, now defunct, spots as the HI Hat, The Savoy, The Craw ford House and the Monterey Club. In addition to playing one-night stands throughout the 1940s, '50s and '60s, she played In theaters, on radio, on television and for local charities.

She leaves a son, Robert of Ja mestown, N.C.: a niece, Elmlta Jones of North Babylon, N.Y.; and three grandchildren. A memorial service will be held in September at a date to be an nounced. AIR-1, a light airplane that set a world record by covering the 800-mile route from the Crimean city Sevastopol to Moscow In 15 hours and 30 minutes. The best-known Yakovlev planes of the past decade are the Yak-38, known by NATO experts as the Forger, the country's only plane capable of landing and taking off from naval vessels, and the 120-passenger Yak-42 short-haul passenger jet. During World War II, Mr.

Ya-kovlev's fighter planes, the Yak-1 through Yak-9 were the dominant force in the Soviet air force. Of 61,000 fighters built by the Soviet Union during the war years, 37,000 of them were Yaks. Donald R. Park, 54 Retired college police officer A funeral Mass will be said at 10 a.m. tomorrow in St.

Paul's Church, Wellesley, for Donald R. Park of Wellesley, who died Wednesday at his home. A retired Babson College police officer, Mr. Park was 54. Born in Spencer, the Navy veteran lived in Wellesley for 29 years and was known for his volunteer work with the elderly.

Mr. Park ran a Senior Citizens' Thanksgiving Day Dinner at Massachusetts Bay Community College. He was also a member of Wellesley VFW Post 5190. Welles- ley American Legion Post 72, the Italo-American Educational Club and the Reliance Club. He leaves his wife, Beverly M.

(Wilson), a son, Donald R. of East-hampton; two daughters, R. Donna Sullivan of Natick and Deborah A. Sardina of Milford; and a grandson. Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery, Wellesley.

Gordon McCullough Athletic director at Hartford Gordon F. McCullough, athletic director at University of Hartford for 15 years and former basketball coach, died Wednesday at Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven. He was 53. A resident of East Granby, Mr. McCullough leaves his wife, Nancy (Carbonneau); a daughter, Katy; two sons, Kyle and Michael; two brothers, Douglas McCullough of Waynesboro, and Paul McCullough of Stamford; and a sister, Lilian Gallo of Upper Nyack, N.Y.

Funeral services will be held 1 1 a.m. Mrtnday at Trinity Episcopal Church. Tariffville, Conn. Glimpse of O'BRIEN Continued from Page 13 game of cocaine dealing. It also ottered a view ot the strategy attorneys for the O'Briens are adopting.

In their cross-examination, defense attor neys sought to depict O'Brien as an emotionally disturbed and a fi nancially burdened agent for' whom the DEA failed to provide professional support, choosing in stead to snare him in an undercover sting. Is it not the case that between the time the investigation was brought and the arrest, that the DEA did not do anything to help Mr. O'Brien other than to set up a sting?" Carter was asked by Susan L. Crockin, an attorney for Edward O'Brien. "Not that I am aware of," Carter said.

He had previously testified that during the investigation the DEA became aware that Edward O'Brien was deeply in debt and was having emotional problems. Rosanne Crowley, who alleged that O'Brien tried to extort money from her husband, came to the DEA last spring and described the agent as so desperate as to take his own life. Carter testified. In the lengthy, occasionally tes ty hearing before US Magistrate Patti B. Saris yesterday, Carter told of how the allegations emerged against Edward O'Brien against whom he had testified In another case, he said.

In retu'rtfi. Short was to pay him $11,000. Carter said. Carter identified that man; as Patrick Perkins. He added that' a previous report by another DEA agent had established that Perkins was searching for Short, arid was a man "capable of doing bodily harm." i'i Carter-afso said Short playecfa role in the DEA sting, making initial introduction of O'Brien to a Florida businessman interested Jn real estate.

"i According to O'Brien's own handwritten confession, it 'was 0 during a meeting on June 227" 1989, with Short and the businessman, "Jack," at a Mlamt restaurant, that Jack told him he "also dealt in cocaine." On July 25, O'Brien wrote that he flew from Washington Fort Lauder-" dale, where he met Jack'arid "Billy." Jack paid him $12,500. O'Brien wrote he and Billy -drove1 the cocaine to Boston and Jthjat Jack later handed him another $12,500. O'Brien also described how. oh Aug. 14, 1989, he traveled from Washington to Miami where he received $14,000 in exchange for bringing two suitcases of cocaine back to Boston.

He was then ar--, rested by DEA agents at Logap airport upon his return. -i By Mark J. Porubcansky Associated Press MOSCOW Aircraft designer Alexander S. Yakovlev, builder of World War warplanes and of modern passenger jets in a career of more than 60 years, has died, Tass reported yesterday. He was 84.

"Yakovlev was known for his tireless search for fresh ideas, creative courage and great talent for organization," the official news agency said. Mr. Yakovlev, who was awarded the Soviet Union's prestigious Lenin Prize and twice named a Hero of Socialist Labor, was eulogized in an obituary signed by Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and other top officials. As a 20-year-old aircraft fitter at Moscow's Central Airport in 1927.

Mr. Yakovlev designed the David L. Trudel Computer consultant; at 49 A memorial service for David L. Trudel, 49, of Stamford, a self-employed computer consultant who died Wednesday at Stamford Hospital after a long illness, will be held at 2 p.m. today in the Leo P.

Gallagher Son Funeral Home in Stamford. A Boston native and Air Force veteran, Mr. Trudel had lived in Stamford for 12 years. He was a graduate of Jamaica Plain High School in 1958 and of Northeastern University in 1968. He leaves three brothers, Paul J.

of Lowell, George E. of Wilmington, and Joseph R. of Sunnyvale, and a sister, Marilyn E. Dorgan of Needham. Burial will be private.

Joseph Ricciotti, 76 Worked at State House A funeral Mass will be said today at 11 a.m. at St. Stephen's Church, Boston, for Joseph Ricciotti of the North End, who died Tuesday at Veterans Administration Hospital in Bedford after a lengthy illness. He was 76. A World War II army veteran, Mr.

Ricciotti was a court officer at the State House for 18 years, retiring in January 1976. He was a professional welterweight fighter in the 1930s and became a boxing judge for the Golden Glove Champ Lightweight Division in 1932. He leaves his wife, Vera (Oriani), a daughter, Cidia of California, and two sisters, Mafalda Cassese of Boston and Yolanda -Bellavia of Maryland. Burial will ber held at Wood-lawn Cemetery, Everett. strategy in and his brother John and how the sting proceeded.

According to Carter's testimony yesterday, central to the case is Edward O'Brien's former informant and business partner, James Short. O'Brien, the highest ranking DEA agent ever charged with drug trafficking, headed up the Springfield DEA office from 1982 to 1988. Short, still acting as a paid informant, joined the investigation into Edward O'Brien in February or March of 1989, Carter said. The investigation was being conducted by the Office of Professional Responsibility, and was initially touched off by questions about the relationship between Short and O'Brien, he said. Short made a number of allegations against O'Brien before and during the period when he cooperated with the investigation, Carter testified.

Among them were that O'Brien before the DEA sting had transported cocaine from Florida to Massachusetts in a Rolls-Royce, he said. It remained unclear how much was transported and no separate corroboration of the deal existed. Carter said. Short also accused John O'Brien of threatening him in an extortion 'attempt. Carter testified.

In April 1989, John O'Brien threatened to reveal Short's new out-of-state address to a man neighborliness." City figures show that $294 million was deposited in 21 institutions as of July 3. The deposits were in the form of, repurchase agreements, certificates of deposit, money market funds, and bonds. Money market fund tops list, The Massachusetts Municipal Depository Trust, a money market fund, had the greatest amount of city deposits, $60 million. Bank of Boston had $48.2 million? Boston Safe Deposit and Trust, $40 mik lion; Shawmut, $30.5 Boston Five Cents Savings, $25 million. Bank of New England had $15.1 million; South Boston Savings, $15 million; Boston Trade Bank, $10 million; Central Cooperative Bank, $10 million; Neworld Bank, $10 million; Olym- -pic Bank, $5 million; Somerset Bank, $5 United States Trust, $5 million; and Wain- Coalition urges lenders to respond to plan wright Bank, $5 million.

The Boston Private Banfr ha'd $3 million; United States Trust $3 million; Provident Institution for Savings, $2 million; Boston Bank of Commerce, $1.5 million; and Mt. Washington Copper-, ative Bank, $1 million. Lee Jackson, the city's collet-tor-treasurer, said that banks and money market funds offering the best rates get city deposits. In the case of institutions- that offer equal rates, Jackson said the city picks one "depending on what the cash flow needs arefrom each account at any rate of time," Nine banks with city deposits have qualified for deposits under the state's linked-deposit plan, according to state officials. Those nine are the Boston Bank of Commerce, Boston Five Cents Savings, Central Cooperative, Mt.

Washington, Neworld, Olympic, South Boston Sayings, Somerset, and United States Trust. I BANKS Continued from Page 13 a Sept. 11 response request. The coalition support of the linked-deposit bill represents its sole effort to Increase public disclosure of bank lending in a plan dominated by housing initiatives. Linked-deposit measures, which have been passed by sever? al municipal and state governments, including Massachusetts, force banks to reveal the kinds of loans they make to receive public deposits.

The ordinance appears to have broad council support, said Presi dent Christopher A. Iannella. If some banks will not lend to many of our citizens, maybe the city of Boston should not be as generous to these banks and de posit millions into their accounts said Iannella. They ought to show some compassion and good.