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DAILY NEWS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1970 5 mi In CroinjdecS SIM Station ft -t -r i 1 By FRANK McKEOWN As scores of subway riders watched, two transit cops were shot down by three men in the crowded IND station at Columbus Circle. NEWS photo by Frank Gioranrtino Union President Harry Van Arsdale during a break in negotiations at the Commodore. Later, tentative agreement was reached. hurt. He had been grazed on the head.

One of the suspected attackers was shot in the rib cage and the other in the left arm, police said. Their identities were being withheld pending questioning. Cops said Townsend and Con-ciatori were on duty at the A train mezzanine at 3:08 p.m. when Townsend spotted one of the three with a switchblade in his hand. When Townsend approached to question him, cops said, the patrolman saw that he was wearing a holster holding a sawed-off shotgun.

One of the other men then shot Townsend from behind, police said. As Townsend went down, the three fled and Conciatori be gan firing. The fleeing men re turned the fire, felling Conciatori. Transit Patrolman Herbert Eichenholtz and off-duty transit cop Gerald Wright ga-e chase end corralled the two wounded men in the passageway between the JND and IRT stations, police said. The third attacker escaped.

Cops said the sawed-off shotgun, the switchblade knife and a revolver were found on the aspects. John Maye, president of the Transit Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, said the two wounded cops had been assigned to the station as part of a bolstered patrol following a rampage there lat week by students from neat by Haaren High School. Cabbies, Burners Memh A zmrd By MICHAEL HANRAHAN The taxi drivers' union and the fleet owners reached a tentative agreement early yesterday which is expected to require a larger fare hike than the 40 boost proposed Ti jfSm Hack ItJU Two of the suspected attackers I were captured minutes later af ter being slightly wounded by one of the cops. One patrolman, Patrick Town- send, 26, was listed as in critical condition as he underwent surgery in Roosevelt Hospital. He had been shot in the groin.

The- other cop, Dominick Con-ciatori, 27, was reported slightly will be applied on a distance formula to make the long-haul fare desirable for the driver. Sources said that the average cost of a ride fronfone borough to another will probably be one and a half times as much as now under a new fare structure. They have also said that the industry is attempting to hold down the cost of shorter rides in order to "not price ourselves out of business." A council spokesman said that every nickel on a taxi meter rate represents $5.5 million to the industry. The Present Rates The present fare is 45 cents for the first sixth mile, 10 cents for eash additional third and 10 cents for every two minutes waiting time. The mayor's proposal, which is expected to be changed the council to meet the additional cost, was for a 50-cent charge on theifirst fifth mile, 10 cents each additional fifth, 10 cents for every 90 seconds waiting time and the 25-cent charge for each additional rider.

Craiiilterry State N. J. Trenton, Nov. 23 (AP) The New Jersey Department of Agriculture said today that the state's cranberry growers have produced their largest crop since 1926. The 1970 harvest totaled 177, 000 barrels, each barrel holding 100 pounds of cranberries.

The 1926 crop totaled barrels. By FRANK FASO Three gunmen hijacked a truckload of 800 new revolvers in a daring daylight heist yesterday, holding lie driver and his helper prisoners for more than two hours. by Mayor Lindsay. Final resolution awaits approval and structuring of a fare increase by the City Council, which is expected to take tip the matter today. Vincent McDonnell, chairman of the State Mediation Board, Harry Van Arsdale, president of Local 3036, New York City Taxi Drivers, and Maurice Goetz, general counsel for the owners association, the Metropolitan Taxi Board of Trade, briefed City Hall officials on the package.

The cost was reported to be excess of the $53 million estimate" that Mayor Lindsay said his fare proposal would bring in additional revenue for the industry. Nearly $200 a Week Sources in the negotiations revealed that the union won its demands for pay comparable with that of Transit Authority employes, who average nearly $200 a week. An industry spokesman said the pact and added revenues from the anticipated fare increase would provide the opportunity for the industry to offer improved services to the public in bath better equipment and better service The trailer tractor truck, owned by the New York-Mass. Motor Service of 434 W. 19th was loaded with 15 cases of Smith Wesson revolvers, valued at over $120,000, for delivery to Manhattan gun shops, police said.

At the corner of Spring and Hudson two men leaped up on the running board and, at gunpoint, ordered the driver, Louis Pelleteri and his helper, Bernard Stewart, to drive to Murray and West about a half mile away. There, Pelleteri and Stewart were moved to a maroon sedan by the two men while a third drove the tractor-trailer away. Pelleteri and Stewart were driven around for more than two hours and repeatedly threatened with death if they made a wrong move, police sawl. The two prisoners were re leased on the corner of 57th St. and Maspeth Queens, with their hands tied behind their I backs.

I Commuters Shudda Stood in led 311115 I tickup One Way Oil Bridge Two- of the three lanes on the main roadway of the Manhattan Bridge were closed yesterday and will remain closed for four months while detiio-ated expansion joints are le-placed, the Highways Department announced yesterday. The single operating lane will carry Manhattan-bound traffic from 7 a.m. to 10 a. and Brooklyn-bound traffic at otlu hours. The south outer roadway of the Williamsburg Bridge will be closed from 9 a.m.

to 3 p.m. daily for two weeks for resurfacing of approaches. Freed by a passerby, filiy and the trucking called police company. Snowball 4 Associated Prwt Wirpfiota By ARTHUR MULLIGAN Mammoth snafus affected the subways and the Long Island Railroad during the morning rush yesterday. Passengers from Brooklyn on the IND and BMT lines were delayed up to an hour and 45 minutes.

A fire at Hicksville knocked out Long Island service A Thing Like This Can by attracting "a better class of driver." Still in question is application of the impending fare hike. Coun-cilleaders have expressed a strong opposition to a proposed 25-cent charge for additional riders as suggested by the mayor. The council leaders have expressed a desire to bring about better cab service for the long-haul rider, particularly those peo-i pie who wish to leave midtown Manhattan for the outlying boroughs. It is expected that the greatest part of the fare increase up to 90 minutes. The result was confusion, with trains being shuffled to other tracks to get around the stalled one and southbound trains being and turned aorund at the W.

Fourth St. station. The train the bridge finally got going 9:20 a.m., but the backlog continued for some time. Fire at the Station The fire on the Long Island occurred under a car on the 7:15 from Hicksville before it left the station. The train was canceled and power was shut off for one hour.

The incident delayed at least 12,000 commuters lip to 90 minutes on the Port Jefferson and main branches. The trouble lasted until 10 a.m. Elsewhere on the subways, a southbound IRT Woodlawn-Jerome Ave. train was held up minutes, starting at 7:40 a.m. the Mosholu Parkway station, Bronx; an IND train was delayed at the 169th St.

station, Jamaica, starting at 8:22. The authority said the stoppage caused llj-minute, but passengers said they, were. half an hour. for an hour and caused delays The big subway tieup started when two northbound trains ran into difficulties at the height of the rush. City and Transit Authority police were called to control the crowds at the W.

Fourth St. station in Manhattan. Stalled on the Bridge One northbound train was held up by signal trouble at the Grand station at 8:11 a.m. The authority said the condition was corrected after 18 minutes, but a following train, on the Manhattan Bridge, could not make the upgrade, for lack of power. AIRDEX UKHEALTHFUL UNSATISFACTORY ACCEPTABLE i GOOD fv Period Effitiag 3 60 Pollution levels ar, to ''decrease" to acceptable.

Dept. ef Air Resource! 1 i I on at 15 at up 4- Motorist, in, West a suburb of Buffalo, clears snow from windshield of car after the Reason's first snowfall on western York State, The torm dumped up to 18 inches of anow on the area. The Thruway was closed from Henrietta, N.Y, the Pennsylvania.