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Daily News from New York, New York • 32

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DAILY NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1964 Co ob Joins IBM's An Eskimo Shivers in City Cold By MICHAEL MOK A shivering Eskimo, bundled to her licorice-black eyes in a sealskin parka, wandered about New York for the first time yesterday and pronounced it "sleeshkom kholo- Wair on Poverty And Joblessness By DOMIMCK PELLSO Mayor Wagner joined President Johnson's war on poverty and unemployment yesterday and designated himself as commander-in chief of the local forces in that 'nil r1- i (XEWS foto by Hal Mathewson) Alaska, basks in our frigid zone. all-out battle. In a special message to tne City Oouncil, the Mayor said he will personally head a mobilization of city government forces and resources, along with private groups, in an extensive attack on penury and joblessness. Wagner gave special responsibility for the campaign to his Council on Expanded Employment Opportunity and Training, and called the members to a meeting today to "give them their marching orders." At Least 300,000 The Mayor "conservatively calculated" the city's jobless total as 300,000 "a good number unskilled and illiterate; among the.a 77,000 youths between 16 and 21." The unemployed and underpaid inhabit "a submerged world of utter, abject, grinding, hopeless Dovertv," he said in his word address to the Board of Estimate, the 35-man Council and some 50 commissioners and department heads. The speech was televised live.

Grimly, Wagner noted that the number of manufacturing jobs in the city is steadily declining 15,000 last year alone and added that one fourth of the families here have a total income of less than $4,000 annually. The Cost Is High The cost of this is "very high," he said "in extra police requirements, in custodial care, in thefts to support dope addiction, and dno!" "'Tooooo is what I said, only I said it in Russian, which is a language good for swearing when your toes are about to drop off," explained Anna Lekanof. Anna hails from the Alaskan island of St. George in the Pri-bilof chain, just 300 miles off the Russian coast. That's where the fur seals breed, so it seemed only logical to introduce her to the seals in Central Park.

The Gentle Seals "You don't expect me to get in there with those things?" Anna screeched, looking at the photographer in horror. "You come from seal country, don't you?" asked The News lensman. "I do indeed, and my father (XEWS foto by Hal Mathewsonl Anna Lekanof feeds seals in Central Park Zoo. used to hunt them, and that's how I know they bite," said Anna. "Nye boyetyes ani ochen tihi," said "the "reporter, who speaks some Russian himself.

(Don't be afraid they're very gentle.) "If you say so," said Anna, climbing timidly over the fence. "As Miss Alaska I had to do a lot of crazy things, so traveling 5.000 miles to feed a seal probably won't kill me." The Eskimo girl looked the seal in the eye. The seal stared right back: at the fish Anna held in her gloved hand. Play it Cool, She Says "Khulastock macheelok," said Miss Lekanof. "What was that?" the man from The News.

"I told him in Eskimo, 'You "5. Ti 3- we have on our island, which is only five miles wide and 12 miles long," said Anna. "We have a Russian Orthodox church, to which I belong, and we have German beer, just like this." "Did you know that today is Russian" New Year's?" asked The News man. "I certainly do. noveem godom (Happy New Year)," said Anna, raising her glass.

noveem godom," said the reporter. $3 Million Estate Left By Inventor A $3 milion estate was left by Vadim S. Makaroff. of 1 E. 64th son of an imperial Russian admiral and himself a prolific inventor of naval instruments and anti-aircraft fire control devices, filing of his will disclosed in Surrogate's Court yesterday.

Makaroff died at 71 on Jan. 2. He bequeathed $100,000 to the Tolstoy Foundation, of which he had been a vice president and executive committee member. Bequests of $50,000 each went to Lucille H. Gaston of 41 E.

68th St. and Veronica Vetroff of Monterey, Cal. The residuary estate was left in equal shares to a sister. Countess Alexandra Kapnist of Trianon, Antibes, France, and Vadim Goloubeff -Kapnist, of Cap D'An-tibes. The will, dated May 18, 1961.

was filed by James H. Halpin of 120 Broadway. A Train to Novsheresville A man who had prematurely deceptive purpose, skipping the Anna Lekanof, erstwhile Miss are a bad seal and you'd better play it Perhaps the seal understood Eskimo, because he ate out of Anna's hand without taking a single finger. "Dosyedanye, khulastock (good-by, seal)," she said, and jumped out. From the Zoo, Miss Lekanof wanted to go to Rockefeller Center because of the ice skating.

"I get here at midnight Thursday because of the Alaska exhibit, but all those World's Fair people do for fun is go to cocktail parties. I would rather be on kankin (ice skates)," said Anna. An Eskimo on Skates The Eskimo girl went twirling around the rink and looked perfectly at home in her seal skins, in spite of the tall buildings all around her. Finally tired, Anna joined the reporter for a sandwich and a glass of beer. "They want me to stay at the Alaska exhibit at the fair for two years, but I am undecided.

"Everyone back home works for the United States government, one way or another. The living is good, and no seal blubber, either. I have a job with RCA, which operates White Alice, a radar warning system. I don't know whether I want to jeopardize my career just to work as a model for a bit "You would be amazed at what Channel 9. Rebels Denounce Pact The rebels' handbills denounced the pact as a "sweetheart contract," and suggested that transit employes report sick at least three hours before the 5 A.M.

deadline on the proposed walkout day. Union officials had no comment. The contract provides for a tw-o-year, 35c-an-hour package which Quill has claimed will bring transit pay here to the highest in the nation. As an example, he said motor-men's pay will go up to $3.46 an hour, against a scale 40 and 32 cents lower respectively in Chicago and Boston. Mayor Wagner addresses City Council yesterday.

in public and private agency welfare. We cannot afford much more of it." "Against these enemies, we must bring to bear all the resources of the city government," the Mayor declared. Later, in regular session, the Council passed a local law giving fire officials the right to hand out tickets to anyone interfering with a fireman in the performance of his duties. Also approved were 11 appropriations in the budget calling for an expenditure of $351. 905.

Rawson St. stop in its haste to get to Queens Plaza. There everybody had to get otT and wait for a following train while the empty mysteriously disappeared wherever dead-heads go when all other trains and platforms are jammed. Find No Buried Gold Vienna, Jan. 14 (UPI I Experts using mine detectors searched in vain yesterday for 50 cases of gold supposedly buried by the Germans in an army bunker near the Hungarian border during the last months of World War II.

Appeal For Blood The weather, following tht holiday cessation of contributions, has caused a serious blood shortage at Red Cross donor centers and local hospitals, it was announced yesterday. Nelson Vogelsohn, administrative director of the Red Cross Blood Program here, appealed urgently to the public to give blood. Prospective donors were asked to call the Red Cross at SUsquehanna 7-10OO. Regina, 24, of 105H Gridley St Bay Shore. L.I., have two oth children.

Rebels Urge Walkout To Beat Transit Pact By HARRY SCHLEGEL Transport Workers Union rebels distributed handbills yesterday calling for a "sick-call" walkout of subway and bus workers at 5 A.M. Jan. 24 unless there is secret-ballot machine voting on the contract reached New Year's Day Cops Bring Blood, Save New Baby By FRANK FASO Two radio car patrolmen who carried two pints of rare blood over Id miles of snow-clogged roads at the height of the storm Monday night were credited yesterday congratulated himself that he didnt have to commute like all those other slobs by train, bus or private car boarded an IRT-Flushing local at the Main St. terminal in Flushing, Queens, at 7:25 A.M. yesterday for the 28-minute run to Grand Central.

He got there at 9:30 A.M. First, the train dawdled, finally reaching the Lowery St. station, Long Island City, at 8 05 A.M. Then it just stopped, remaining there till 9 A.M., with its doors open but so jammed that no one else could get on. Then the local took off with girl.

was to administer the transfusion. His car gave up at Linden and Cross Island Parkway, St. Albans and he was taken the rest of the way by police radio car which also was bogged down for 15 minutes at Cross Island and the Long Island Expressway. At Last, They Arrive Vilnnd and doctor ar- almost simultaneously. Ob- ject of the frantic doings, little Lisa Cavaluzzo, who was born Sunday and needed a complete replacement of blood, was given her transfusion and was reported in good condition as a result.

Her parents, Joseph, 27, and with saving the life of a day-old with the Transit Action by the insurgents, who have protest-picketed 1 or fices at 210 W. 50th St. recently, came as the union's 46-man executive board voted a i -mously to recommend acceptance of the TA pact and a later one reached with five private bus lines. TWU President Michael Quill announced after the meeting that 86.000 Michael Quill mail ballots will go out to members today. He predicted overwhelming approval.

Quill will explain the pact's terms in a TV Durin? the trip from NYU Medical Center, 32d St. and First to Deepdale Hospital, 55-15 Little Neck Parkway, Little Neck, Queens the car carrying Patrolman Jay Spagna and Herbert Johnson broke down at 121st St. and East River Drive. They Get 2d Car They radioed for a replacement and then continued their trip, which took from 9:30 P.M. to 11:15 P.M.

Normally, it would take 30 minutes. While they were sledding along, Dr. Herbert Ausebel, a blood specialist, also ran into trouble en route from his Queens home to the hospital, where he.

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