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Daily News from New York, New York • 28

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Daily Newsi
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New York, New York
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28
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DAILY NEWS, SATURDAY. MARCH 14. 1964 CO LBJ (Lyndon Brings Joy) to MacArthur OK $828 Million Budget; More For Shea Stadium Bv DOMINK PELUSO A 1964-Go capital budget totaling S828.989.835, with an additional $4.5 million provided to rush completion uf Shea Stadium in Queens, was approved unanimously by the Mp: BBMdafla. MaL 1 Board of Estimate yesterday, The new budget also included S12 million more for four public school construction jobs. It was $13,877,715 above Mayor Wagner's proposed budget of last Feb.

1. Reduction or elimination of a number of smaller items offset the two major additional allocations. Overtime on S'adium The S4.5 million for Shea Stadium, bringing: its cost to approximately $25 million, will provide for additional piling found necessary and for overtime pay to make sure the new sports arena is ready for the Mets' opening game April 17. New schools to be provided are PS 321. Park Slope.

Brooklyn; PS 42 addition. South Shore. S.I., Junior HS 281. Bensonhurst. Onlv Too Touchable Los Angeles.

March 13 AP -When Abel Fernandez, 34. was a member of television's intrepid crime fighters. "The Untouchables. he helped catch tax evaders. Yesterday, the actor pleaded guilty in Los Angeles to failing to pav state income taxes on S15.659 in 1961.

Brooklyn, and JHS 72. Rochdale Village. Queens. Hedge on Kxpressway The board took no action to delete funds for the proposed Lower Manhattan Expressway. It explained that this did not indicate approval of the expressway only agreement to leave the city's position flexible until the expressway controversy resolved.

The City Council then began deliberating recommendations of fOn Teltfolo, nilians at Walter Reed Hospital. President Johnson is mobbed soldiers and who had been tipped off. Mac-Arthur, 84, underwent surgery for removal of his gall bladder and gall stones a week ago. He was reported making a good Washington. March 13 INkws Bureau) President Johnson visited convalescing General of the Army Douglas MacArthur today at Walter Reed Hospital.

He had tried to keep his visit secret, but Johnson, accompanied by an aid carrying a bouquet was greeted at the entrance by a cheering, applauding crowd of S08 persons Its Small Hospital: 'Gunman' Also There When a father of seven, critically wounded in a stick- S82. 170.545 budget i ila nuance coniiiiiLi.ee. Both budgets will go to the Mayor, who may accept either or work out a compromise budget. He must deliver a veto message by April 1, If he rejects any part. The final budget must be adopted up shooting, was brought into an emergency room of Brooklyn's Methodist Hospital yesterday morning, a young man was being stitched up in another emergency room nearby.

It took only minutes for police to establish to their satisfaction that the young man was the assailant. The drama started at 7:30 A. An Makes a Lucky Plunge minutes after Domingo Hernandez, 54, of 302 First Brooklyn, had opened his grocery at 201 Fourth A' i South Brooklyn. An armed man demanded Hernandez' money. The grocer reached under the counter and brought out a machete which he swung wildly.

The gunman got off three shots, hitting the grocer in the chest, groin and abdomen. Radio Patrolmen Roger Swan-son and Robert Greene obtained a description of the assailant. Hernandez was rushed to the hospital. While Hernandez was getting emergency treatment. Svanson spotted the young man being treated in the next room.

He admitted the shooting. He said he was Abner Mattos. 19, a jobless metal polisher of 12 fL. Marks Place. Brooklvn.

aa sasaai Prisoner Ahncr Mattos is led from Method isl Hospital bv Patrol-Men Roger SwiHH (left) and Robert Greene. Knifed Barmaid Dies in Mystery By THOMAS PUGH and RICHARD HENRY An attractive 28-year-old brunette who had given up a more prosaic life for a career as a barmaid and residence in a tiny Bohemian section of Queens was stabbed to death earlv yesterday. 4 Catherine (Kitty) Genovese, 5 I maid's career. In August. 19fil, group of buildings where she ani feet 1 and 105 pounds, was stabbed her travels with a crowd" two other girls shared an apart eight times in the chest and ab contributed to her arrest on a ment bookmaking rap.

She walked along Austin 3 Bkh Shared Anartment instead of going more directly to i -a KM art -iH-itoit r- domen and four times in the back and she had three cuts on her hands probably inflicted as she ti ied to fight off her attacker near her apartment in an alleyway, at 82-70 Austin at Leftists Kew Gardens. Late yesterday, police said the 30 detectives assigned to the case had not come up with any clues or a possible motive for the savage murder. Police pieced together this ac- the rear of tho bunding. Police count of her last hours: At said she apparently walked out P.M. Thursday, she left Ev's 11th front to have the protection of Hour Tavern, 193-14 Jamaica the street lights.

Hollis. where she had been I Gasps "I've Been Stabbed:" a barmaid and co-manager for Neighbors suddenly heard i i screams and the roar of an auto She and a male patron went i on a dinner date to Brooklyn, and driving off. Leaving a trail of returned to Ev's at midnight, i blood, Kitty staggered back MHaa aaaaW Had Teen Nuptial Annulled Gretehen ler Police of the Richmond Hill Her escort left (he was que3- toward tne parking lot, around precinct said Kitty had had her tioned by cops yesterday and his the rear of the structures, and teen-age marriage annulled two alibi freed him of suspicion in collapsed in the doorway of 82-60 Orange a steep hill in thig March Blooming Grove, N. Austin next to her home. County community.

"I thought I would die and I didn't," the shapely Broadway star said today. "It's the most beautiful thing that could ever happen to me." 13 AP) Singer Gretehen Wyler escaped without a scratch last night when her station wagon skidded through a guard rail and plunged 300 feet down months after her wedding and, the crime when her large family moved to Kitty left the bar at 3 A.M. Connecticut, she stayed in New and drove her Fiat sports car York on her own. seven miles to her home. She She worked for an insurance parked in the Long Island Rail firm, but gave that up for a bar- 1 Road's parking lot next to the "I've been stabbed! I've been stabbed!" the brunette gasped.

Kitty died in an ambulance en route to Queens General Hospital. Jamaica..

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