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Sent to higher court Appeals Court ruling sought on law that makes it easier to try juveniles as adults. Page 22. Also Inside Comics THE BOSTON GLOBE TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1992 City Scenes Man smashes car into hospital Stabs woman, is shot by Methuen police CULLEN iiiViimi wi'ii'miirii- I rr GLOBE PHOTO MATT BLACK back of money to the federal government Now Park St. has 2 entrances Ever since the Park Street subway station opened in 1897, there have been two so-called headhouses on the edge of Boston Common that serve as an entrance and exit And throughout those 95 years, the headhouse nearest Tremont Street has been an exit only. That changed Saturday, when the headhouse closest to Tremont became an entrance, too.

Now both headhouses can be used as exits and entrances. officials say the change will help alleviate the crush of the afternoon rush-hour, when a line of token-buyers frequently stretches out the door. It will also give Lechmere-bound commuters quicker access to that Green Line route. Changing nearly a century of habit at the nation's oldest subway station, however, will take some time. Yesterday, the first weekday since the change, most commuters walked right past the new entrance and went to the old familiar one.

The plans an informational campaign td alert riders of the new entrance. So far, the only people who have taken to the change naturally are the same guys who insist on going in the "out" sides of the' men's rooms at Fenway Park and Boston Garden. Meter raids by valets voided There is justice after all Those parking spot thieving valets at Jimmy's Harborside have been put on notice to stop stealing metered spaces around the Fish Pier. After seeing an item in this space last week about the propensity of Jimmy's valets to steal free parking spaces which forces you to park a couple blocks away at a $5 lot or, surprise, surprise, use the Jimmy's valet service Massport authorities called Jimmy's owner Charles Doulas on it Massport has jurisdiction over the Fish Pier and Northern Avenue. Doulas has assured officials from Massport's property management division that his valets would use the large lot reserved for valet parking in back of the buildings directly opposite the landmark waterfront eatery.

That lot is nearly empty, even on weekend nights, while the navy-blue jackets in the valet squad gobble up the more than 100 free spots that serve area restaurants. Now, as for those whacko cabbies who do U-turns on Northern Avenue at 50 m.p.h. PLANE AiVAZEtfENT Danny Collinson, 11, of Charlotte, N.C., peers into the bomb hatch on dWorld War II TBM torpedo bomber, on display with other vintage aircraft, at the Eastern Air Center in Norwood. Danny, who is visiting relatives in Westford, arrived just in time for the bomber's landing yesterday. KEVIN Empty lot hides $500,000 pledge There is a vacant lot in back of Mission Hill, right across from the Bromley-Heath housing project Fenced in, overgrown with weeds and brush, it looks like just another example of blight in one of the city's most disadvantaged areas.

But this vacant lot is different There is $500,000, just waiting to be sunk into it, to build a three-story building that would house job training and educational of- There are two extraordinary things about this half-million. One is that it is the product of a federal grant money destined for the inner city at a time when many question the federal government's commitment to helping the urban poor. The other is that the money has gone uncollected for nearly two years and stands a good chance of being forfeited because the Longwood Medical Area hospitals won't sign onto the project The grant calls for one floor to be used by Jobs for Youth, a nonprofit agency that helps poor young people find work, while the other floors would be office space for at least some of the Longwood hospitals. Besides giving back to the neighborhoods they surround and affect the hospitals could help shape potential health care employees. Bill Fried, the former executive director of the Back of the Hill Community Development Corporation, which obtained the grant said the unfulfilled promise of the vacant lot stands as testimony to a lack of commitment by the hospitals and a lack of initiative by city government The hospitals are dragging their feet and the city is letting them," Fried said, standing on Heath Street next to the lot This is a building that would anchor the area and make it safer." Fried thinks the malaise that threatens the $500,000 grant could be broken with one public statement, or a couple of private phone calls, by Mayor Flynn or someone influential in his administration.

Fried and others who worked on the grant find it especially ironic that the money is being squandered in the aftermath of the Los Angeles riots and while Flynn, as president of the US Conference of Mayors, has taken the Washington shuttle to appeal for more federal money for cities so often that he's logged enough frequent-flier miles to qualify for a trip to Mars. Hospital officials could not be reached for comment last night Unless some kind if arrangement is worked out there will, in October, be a spectacle that is more rare than the Red Sox winning a World Series: the handing More Metro News Town's backing: The Welles-ley School Committee and some residents approve the superintendent's handling of a molestation charge against a former principal. Page 22. Possible return: A former principal of Blackstone Elementary School, who is now fighting for his job in New York, is eligible to return to Boston. Page 24.

State House Roundup: Page 36. More MetroRegion news, JJages i Weld aides gave list td chief fund-raiser Official says goal was to promote state By Jerry Taylor GLOBE STAFF METHUEN A former janitor at Holy Family Hospital crashed his car into the hospital's lobby yesterday, stabbed a 19-year-old employee and was shot and wounded by Methuen police in the Holy Family chapel after he lunged at one of the officers with a knife, police and hospital officials said. The suspect James F. Lemay, 53, of Methuen, underwent surgery last night at Holy Family after receiving at least two gunshot wounds to his torso. He was later transported to University Hospital in Boston where he was listed in critical condition in the surgical intensive care unit The victim, Gina M.

Saldi, 19, of Haverhill, a student at Northern Essex Community College, who was working in the medical records office, was operated on to repair a one-; inch wound in the left side of her chest two inches below her heart She was listed in stable condition in the intensive care u-iit of Holy Family last night Authorities said they could offer no motivation for Lemay's actions. They said Lemay and Sardi were strangers and they characterized the stabbing as a random attack. Police are investigating several possible motives, according to CpL Jack Garvin, a State Police officer assigned to the Essex district attorney's office. There are about four different things," Garvin said, in-LEMAY, Page 28 not a fund-raising function" State law prohibits nonelected public officials from participating in political fund-raising activities. Berlandi said he has no memory of asking for or receiving the list He also said he would not ask a state agency for such information to raise FUNDS, Page 24- he has all his records pertaining to evaluations of sex offenders from 1986 to 1992, except those for 1989, which have not been entered into his computer files.

He said he did 61 evaluations and concluded that 40 of the offenders remained sexually dangerous and should remain at the center. Seghorn, who is hired by the offenders whom he evaluates, is not SEGHORN, Page 24 intendent Clifford Janey; and Frank Fornaro, principal of Curley Elementary School, Jamaica Plain. According to court records, the will develop recommendations that focus on decentralization, school based-management, evaluations and reporting mechanisms. The team, which will also monitor the plan's implementation, will report to the superintendent and establish an advisory counciL Feldman said one focus will be the establishment of groups of professionals to deliver special services such as occupational therapy, SCHOOLS, Page.4 By Frank Phillips GLOBE STAFF Top aides in Gov. Weld's economic affairs office last month compiled a list of businesses that received assistance from their agency and turned the names of the firms over to the governor's chief political fundraiser.

Charles Yelen, chief of staff for Therapist defends evaluations of sex offenders at Berlandi's request, was not meant to be used for fund-raising, but rather to allow Berlandi to promote business success stories to the business world. "Because of his interest in the administration, he does try to sell the state," Yelen said, referring to 1991, Seghorn testified on behalf of 16. Two convicted rapists who earlier were discharged from the treatment center with Seghorn's recommendation have recently been arrested and charged with violent crimes. One of them, Michael E. Kel-ley, is charged with the murders of two Plymouth woman.

The other, Ralph Houghton, is accused of rape. Seghorn said in an interview that Secretary of Economic Affairs" Stephen Tocco, said yesterday he had turned the list of firms over to Peter Berlandi, Weld's fund-raiser and chairman of the governor's political committee. Yelen strongly insisted the list, which he asked his staff to compile Seghorn has been criticized by a state senator and a law enforcement official for his testimony in court on behalf of sex offenders who have sought their release from the Treatment Center for the Sexually Dangerous in Bridgewater. Yesterday, the state Department of Mental Health released statistics showing that of the 21 offenders who have successfully petitioned in court for release since the beginning of Boston allows By Lauren Robinson GLOBE STAFF In a turnaround that parents of special needs students said could resolve their 16-year-old lawsuit against Boston public schools, officials have agreed to outside intervention allowing a management team to examine special education. Approved by Middlesex Superior Court Judge Catherine A.

White yesterday, a team of three outsiders and three Boston special education administrators has been charged with recommending, by Aug. 31, how to improvPj services for the more study of special education Spousal equivalent choice could cost Cambridge takers By Sean P. Murphy GLOBE STAFF Under attack for the expert opin ions he has delivered in court on behalf of sex offenders, psychologist Theoharis Seghorn yesterday released figures showing that far from routinely recommending the release of offenders, he actually recommends the continued lockup of two- thirds of those he evaluates. ner privileges equivalent to those enjoyed by a spouse, including health insurance and bereavement rights for city employees, and hospital and jail visitation rights as well as access to the school records of the partner's children for city residents. If passed, the Cambridge ordinance, which was introduced last week by Councilor Alice K.

Wolf and was debated at last night's session, would be the first of its kind in Massachusetts. PARTNER, Page 25 than 13,000 special needs students. The team, which started meeting June 8, is led by Edward Sontag, deputy assistant secretary of the US Department of the Interior. In September, Sontag will head the University of Wisconsin Graduate School of Education. The other consultants are David Rostetter, president of Education Policy and Program Solutions, a consulting firm in Washington, and Bil-lie Jean Gray, a special education administrator in the Chicago Public Schools.

The Boston team members are Elliot Feldman, senior officer for special education; East Zone Super- ByGaryS.Chafetz SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE CAMBRIDGE A little-known but substantial tax penalty could be assessed on city employees who choose to include their spousal equivalents on their health insurance if a controversial domestic partnership ordinance becomes law. Seventeen cities around the nation have passed versions similar to the Cambridge proposal, which would give a domestic part.