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DID HIS UNDERWORLD AND AT MR. BRIBERY EMPLOYER TURN ON HIM? OR IS THIS REVENGE BY ENDS? I I UJ I down-one IN I Ti HEO I A fUlf flnnnnn )) c3 the Town By FLORABEL MUIR By CHARLES McHARRY Water Supply Up as Chelsea Oils Its Pumps As New York City's water reserves continued to grow yesterday, workmen were readying the Chelsea pumping station for its debut Monday. Phone Hates Manhattan's phone book is chock full of men and women -who would make great pairs if married. Consider, if you will, the following: Josephine Sugar and Irving Spice, Nathan Black and Gertrude Hollywood, March 15 They're burying Perry Mason on April 13 and it's going to be almost like a state funeral. Gail Patrick Jackson, who mothered the show through most of its nine seasons, had tears in her voice if not in her eyes when she told me about it.

tsiue, wane "We're arranging things so that everybody who had anything to The six huge pumps in the sta- tion beside the Hudson River will f5 'jSV i Hunt and Jacques Peck, Ar-lene Summer and Louis Winter, Rudy Muck and Frances Mire, Mary Adam and Charles Eve (hey, that's a Valerie Rye and Leon Ginger, and for clinchers, Thomas Batman and Lucille Robin Princess Grace Katmond Burr Marjorie Battles Diane Cilento ayaney tnapnn go into action bunday, adding iw million asrllons of water daily to the city's supply. Built and Not Used The station was first constructed during the drout in 1950 and 1951, but was later dismantled without adding a single drop of water to the city's system. Of the six pumps, five will operate steadily while the other one will be on reserve. Treated at Station Hudson water will be treated at the station, then mixed with reservoir water in the Delaware aqueduct. It will be blended -with other watershed water in the West Branch Reservoir.

The city's water storage reached 281.8 billion gallons yesterday, or 59.1'c r.f caacity. While this is above the 37.8fr or 180.1 billion gallons on reserve a year ago, it is still bel th nnTial March 15 storage of 376.4 billion gallons or 78.9',. do with our TV production will get into the finale," she said. "Cameramen, crew, grips, script girls, the lot. We're trying to get Erie Stanley Gardner, the creator of Perry Mason, to come up from his ranch to play the judge.

"I think that of all of us who are sad, the saddest is Raymond Burr, who never gave up hope that we'd go on another season. Ray had thinned down beautifully, grot that boyish haircut, and was watching his diet. He's a compulsive eater and he's so frustrated he is putting on the pounds like mad again." Burr is so totally identified with the Mason character that he's going to find hard going to land another starring spot, Gail believes. Same is true of Barbara Hale, who plays Delia Street. Garner Learning to Race "Bill Talman (Hamilton Burger) and Bill Hopper (Paul Drake) will land all right," said Gail, "but we've all been so like a big family that calling it a day is an occasion for mourning.

You wouldn't believe the thousands of letters that are pouring in. People are so sorry. Will you please try to stop the rumors about Ray's health? He's in the best shape since I've known James Garner is taking daily lessons from famed racing driver Phil Hill learning to manage the car hell handle in "Grand Prix." They're working out at the Lancaster Raceway on the Mojave Desert. Film is scheduled for a May 5 start in Monaco, with Princess Grace and Prince Rainier sending the speeders on their way. Garner will handle his racer for a few laps and then give way to a pro.

He's no stranger to the rough and tumble way of life. When he was a student at Oklahoma U. a tough guy chose him and got the butt end of a pool cue over his head. Jim's such a big inoffensive guy that some take him for a softie, which he isn't. John Frankenheimer will direct "Grand Prix" and Yves Montand is a co-star.

About the time they're through burning up the European highways, Steve McQueen will get going on "Day of the Champion," another road-racing picture. John St urges will start this one at Pine-wood Studio, London, July 11. Vegas Going Strong Las Vegas makes you think of the fellow who jumped out of the hearse at his own funeral and hollered "Who, me?" The desert fleshpot will play dead but it won't stay dead. Today, going stronger than ever, it's the last mother lode of show business, what with nightclubs dying off all over. It's the little people who are the beneficiaries of the Vegas bonanza.

Strip hotels putting on extravaganza shows, importing Broadway casts, the lounges hir-iing high-priced entertainers who can't quite make thhe supper club circuit. Two de lux- new hotels are about to open on the glittering strip, Milton Tells Alladin and Benny Goffstein's Four Queens. They represent an investment of some $20 million. Other plush booby traps are enlarging their facilities. Vegas is catering nowadays to the customer with the thin bankroll.

But the big rooms are still paying up to $50,000 a week to such top attractions as Sinatra, Danny Thomas. Liberaee. Lena Home, Myron Cohen and Joe E. Lew is because their names attract the heavy spenders to the crap tables. Boy and Girl'.

jS DETOUR. is nearing me end of his long, beautiful, $2,1 00-per-week trail. He has been collecting that amount, thanks to a gilt-edged contract, since he exited "Funnv Girl" last year.The pact expires within a couple of weeks Marjorie Battles, the sexy gal in "Cactus Flower," is met at the stage door nightly by CBS director John Ritchey. Lester Lanin received a letter from a Wisconsin chap who invited the bandleader to "enjoy a wonderful vacation on my new 800-acre estate whenever you feel like it." The letter went on to explain: "My uncle died while dancing to your music last month, and that's how I inherited this property." One of New England's ski resorts boasts a little night club called Jolly Green Joint Young real estate whiz Alan H. Polkes is back from Acapnlco with blueprints for a complex of condominiums for the resort.

Reports are that some of the biggest names in town will be his partners -Kathy Cassavetes is the proprietor of a new boutique on Second Ave. named Je Vous Aime Beginning Monday, the Steak Row restaurant is observing Cary Grant Week. All 62-year-old expectant fathers will get a dinner for two without charge Solo at La Maganette: Lee Remick. The youngest chief exec of a corporation listed on the American Stock Exchange? It could be Filmways' Martin Ransohoff, 36. He started the company, worth an estimated $40 million today, a Jew years back on a $200 loan Ex-welterweight champ Kid Gavilan reportedly is destitute in Cuba A suit made for President Kennedy but never picked up, now hang in an E.

57th St. men's resale shop. It's priced at $69 Fair exchange: Sean Connery recently completed "A Fine Madness" in which he co-stars with Paul Newman's wife, Joanne Woodward. Now Newman is co-starring with Connery 's wife, Diane Cilento, in "Hombre." Bobby Darin bought into Las Vegas' Flamingo Hotel Victor Borge is wooing "Mad Show" star Jo Anne Worley for a nationwide tour A new theatre in St. Louis is- called the Loretto-Hilton.

No call for tickets to fair, just inquiries about rooms. An Irish flag borrowed from Shannon Airport will fly over the Travelers Hotel, opposite LaGnardia Airport, tomorrow while celebrants hoist a few at the Travelers bar. Duo at the Spindletop: Ralph Meeker and Salome Jens And at the Sir Loin: Rocky Marciano and pal Bernard Castro In announcing activities for its '66 season, the Hotel Brickman said it would spotlight all the new teen fad dances in addition to "the quaint watusi, frug and swim." Village Vanguard regulars are getting a bonus the next two weekends. Gerry Mulligan's quintet will be on hand to relieve the Bill Evans trio The calling card of Harold W. Gelnaw, Oradell, N.

reads: "Harold W. Gelnaw, Retired. No Business. No Phone. No Problems.

No Money." Capitol recording star Buck Owens and his Buckaroos will be heard in concert at Carnegie Hall March 23. Village Date The Wynton Kelly Trio and guitarist Wes Montgomery will appear at the Village Gate Friday and Saturday nights on the bill with Maynard Ferguson's Sextet and singer Teri Thornton Curtis Knight and the Lovers open at the Eighth Wonder tomorrow night for three weeks. 3-Vot. set of Dickens' Classics only $1. Handsome, hard-cover editions: A Chrhtmas Carol.

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