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C5 DAILY NEWS, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1961 oins in tbe Fountain Drout Kills Library's Magnolia Ideas to Spring program, refused to go along with any of and win a husband, a salary increase or the Irish Sweepstakes, maybe. Last year, when the motif was a Japanese Harden setup, the wishing well yielded a total, of $537.55 in three short weeks. Yesterday, the big day arrived when the pool was to be dismantled and the take counted. Alas, it added up to a paltry $28.37. Grizzled police, naturally suspicious, grunted that some unauthorized persons got there first and fulfilled their own larcenous wishes.

To Kach His Own Theory Economists pointed out that this was a tight money year. Skeptics said that New Yorkers, once bitten, wouldn't go for the same racket two years in a row. Mrs. Ceil Holton, executive secretary of the Salute By ARTHUR MULLIGAN People in romantic, sunny Italy may go for that jazz about tossing your dough into a fountain and having Tour wishes come true. But not hard-boiled New Yorkers, at least not the 1961 vintage.

As part of the city's "Salute to the Department of Commerce and Public Events set up an Italian Gardens, complete with wishing well, in front of the Public Library April 26. A Matter for Comparison The idea was for frustrated spinsters, down-trodden wage slaves and other hordes of the desperate and despairing to toss in anything up to a buck, maybe, these versions. Her faith in humanity remained unshaken. Slie pointed out that it had rained nearly every day wince April 20 and that the fountain was not placed as conveniently to passersby as it was a year ago. And Such a Worthy Purpose Biggest pity of all, she said, was that the dough was to be used to buy magnolia trees, like last year.

The $5:17.55 raised in IK'10 went for the purchase of four magnificent magnolias which were planted in front of the library. "That $28.37 won't buy even one little old magnolia tree," she said. "Not the beautiful and handsome magnolias that we want." COPS CLIP ARMED Yelp Pid Not 9 ity 1BH DOMIMCK I'KU'SO and SIDNUY KI.IMv Although the city investigation commissioner back in 1950 complained to Mayor William O'Dwyer that the IJroadway Maintenance Corp. was not fulfilling its contract for street light maintenance, the city has continued to use Broadway Maintenance services and accept its reports, the State Investigation Commission brought out yesterday. The barber had a gun.

The guy having his hair cut had a gun. The customer getting a shine had a gun. The barber shop customers were supposed to carry theirs they were cops. But the barber, suspected of being a dope pusher, had no legal right to his weapon. Shortly after noon yesterday, Detectives Edward and Sal Grosso of the narcotics squad entered Manero's barber shop at 2014 Lexington near 122d St.

The cops had had the shop under surveillance for a week on a tip that the shop was a dope drop. Kgan sat in the chair and ordered a haircut from Luis Manero, 32, of 18:50 Lexington the owner. The Other Gets a Shine Grosso climbed up on the stand for a shine. While Manero was trimming Egan's hair, the cop noticed a bulge under the barber's white jacket near the armpit. Egan signaled Grosso and ordered Manero to raise his hands.

The barber reached for his gun. Grosso dove from the shine stand and tackle'd the barber. The cops relieved him of a fully loaded .38 revolver. Manero was booked at the E. 126th St.

station on a Sullivan Law charge. The cops searched the barber shop thoroughly but found no narcotics. 'lf sV If in 7 3 K- -I in BARBER locks Trial Torso Killing sister as that of Mrs. Hildreth Shaw, 51, a nurse's aid, who disappeared about three weeks ago. Three boys found the head in a cardboard box at Garden Grove, April 29.

Shaw, 51 a cabinetmaker, was arrested last night in Santa Monica. He denied the killing, saying his wife had left him after an argument. KIVS foto by Leonard Detriok Detective Edward Egan fingerprints gun-toting barber Luis Manero in the E. 12(ith St. police station.

Linda's Fear Story By EDWARD DILLON Partially blinded Linda Riss yesterday threw the Burton Pugach lye-maiming trial into an uproar with the blurted assertion that she had been "petrified of him Light Pact Corp. has a similar monopoly in Brooklyn and Queens. The day's first city employe witness was Alexander Lurkis, chief of the Bureau of Gas and Klectricity in the Water Supply, Gas and Klectricity Department. He said lie was "as distressed ns you people" when he heard testimony of Welsbach President Morse Dell Plain that profit were as high as 40' before taxen and 15', after taxes, lie promised that he and Commissioner A rmand D'Angelo would "analyze" the matter of excessive profits. "Appear Strange" He could not explain why Welsbach and Broadway Maintenance, for 17 years, uplit the work through almost identical bids.

"1 admit it appear ntrante on the surface," he said. "Why it occurs I am not prepared to answer. We have no' evidence of collusion." He conceded that Broadway Maintenance reports on work performance were accepted with little question, and after only cur-gory spot checks. He said action against a contractor hinged on his reports to the city. "Then the contractor must tell you when he has been a bad hoy and then he is penalized," commented Commissioner Goodman Sarachan.

Penalty "RidinilouV Kdward B. Jacobs, principal electrical inspector for the Traffic Department, testified that provision in the parking meter maintenance contract providing for $10 an hour penalty for tardy repairs of a faulty meter mads it virtually impossible for any contractor to bid, was "ridiculous" and was rarely enforced. Commissioner My lea Lane wanted to know' if that was why there was no competition for the contract, which Broadway Maintenance held until it wa lifted last March for improper performance. Jacobs said he didn't know. The commission brought out that Joseph under, electrician foreman for Broadway Maintenance, had destroyed work per-pormance records after SIC investigators saw August, P.tl'.O, and found them questionable.

Kunder said he "threw them out" because be no longer needed them. Mailer of Wire Purt ha Stanley Poler, a commission investigator, said the Ace Wire and Cable Co. sold wire to Welsbach for substantially lower price than to Broadway Maintenance. Poler said that Broadway Maintenance, to reduce the profit on record from city jobs on its books, substantially boosted the amount it said it spent for city supplies over the actual spending. The hearing will cotilioi.n Yesterday marked the second day of public hearings by the at its headquarters.

270 Broadway, into whether "complacency and inattention" by city officials had resulted in waste arid extravagance in handling of municipal funds in electrical contracts. At the opening af the session, Whitney North Seymour head of the SIC unit probing the contracts, said he had been unable to get a copy of a letter written to O'Dwyer in 1S50 by James H. Sheils, the investigation eommis-sioner at that time. Fuss Over the Letter Jacob Grumet of the SIC suggested that it might be advisable to ftubpena the letter from Deputy Mayor Paul R. Screvane.

At City Hall, Screvane said the charge he had delayed sending the document was "silly." Screvane said he had directed City Investigation Commissioner Louis I. Kaplan on Tuesday to forward the letter. It did show up later yesterday, and was read into the record. Sheils' letter accused Broadway Maintenance of failure to meet contract obligations in servicing and maintaining lighting in Central Park, of being late in submitting work reports' to the Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, and of failure to retain full and complete original records of work performed. Nevertheless, the commission noted, Broadway Maintenance has continued to this day to Ret ail maintenance contracts for lighting in Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island, while the Welsbach (NEWS foto by Hob Contello) Thomas li.

Gilchrist Jr. smile after probe appointment. He's Held in West Hollywood, May 17 (UPI). Ex-convict Darlington Shaw was jailed today on suspicion of murder -in the torso slaying of a. woman identified from photographs as his wife.

Parts of the body were found in three different Southern California counties. A picture of the head was identified by the missing woman's daughter and Shaw's Pick Prober of Bad Bingo Numbers Gov. Rockefeller yesterday picked Thomas B. Gilchrist 49, former chief assistant U. S.

attorney in Manhattan, as a Moreland Act commissioner to investigate gambler in Her statement brought defense demands for -a mistrial and an admonition from Bronx County Judge Joseph A. Martinis against volunteering information. Mistrial Denied However, he denied the mistrial motions. On the stand for the sixth day, Linda was asked by John Sanders, lawyer for Heard Harden, Pugach's co-defendant, whether her mother knew she was going out with Pugach. "She knew I was petrified of him," she said sharply.

Besides admonishing Linda, Judge Martinis warned Sanders not to make speeches when he objected to testimony. Exchange of Gifts During her long day on the stand, which also included questioning by Assistant District Attorney Alexander Scheer, Linda disclosed that, in addition to having received gifts from Pugach, she gave him a number of presents. These included an identification bracelet, a tie clasp and cuff link set, some books, a jewelry box and a belt. Linda will still be on the stand when court resumes at noon today. However, it is expected that after about an hour's testimony she will get a breather.

Will Visit Scene Judge Martinis disclosed that along with counsel and the jury, he will visit Linda's former home at 1124 Grant Bronx, where the attack took place on the morning of June 15, 1959. The apartment is now occupied, but court officials have arranged for the inspection visit. filtration of legalized bingo Gilchrist, who got his start as an investigator under Thomas E. Dewey when the former Governor was special prosecutor in New York, will get $1,500 a month from a standby Moreland Act fund. Additional expenses will be paid from the state's emergency fund.

Suggestions Sought Rockefeller directed Gilchrist to "study, examine and investigate all phases of bingo" and to propose legislation to freeze out gamblers. State agencies and municipal officers were ordered to cooperate fully in the probe. The Moreland Act probe is a follow-up on by the State Investigation Commission that William Buckner, a con victed swindler and gambler, obtained a stranglehold on legalized bingo in New York and milked it for huge sums. Needs "Immediate Analysis" Rockefeller said he was ordering the inquiry because "the misappropriation of sums that should have gone for charitable purposes, the corruption of public officers and the extensive violations of law which have been disclosed dictate an immediate analysis of all aspects of the bingo law." Gilchrist, who lives In Chap-paqua, is a member of the law firm of Bleakley, Piatt, Hart Fritz, of White Plains and Manhattan. He is also town attorney for New Castle in Westchester County..