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WlecMe Plashes Ci Cspfels By ROGER WETHERINGTON Hospitals, where people go to get well, are also places where people can get hurt. scenes of sporadic disorder and violence that terrify em Former Brooklyn Borough President Abe Stark, 77, who started work at the ajre of 6 as a newsboy and served in politics for 27 years until his retirement in 1970, died in a West Palm Beach, -a Some hospitals have become ployes and patients Attacks, muggings and poten tial turmoil remain far rarer inside the institutions than out. But incidents are frequent enough for Maurice Anderson, night administrator at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx, to declare, "There isn't a night in which we don't have a dangerous situation." The signs of the times are to be found in every borough: A recent ad was placed by Jamaica Hospitals, Queens, for a doctor to work Saturday evenings in its emergency room. In addition to medical qualifications, the hospital specified that applicants should be tall and muscular. Addict Stabs Another At Kings County Hospital an addict outpatient stabbed another to death March 29 on the steps of the addict center.

At Lincoln scores of youths in two rival street gangs followed injured buddies inside the institution April 13 and one group was believed anxious to break into an operating room to finish off a wounded enemy. The groups stood poised for a clash in the corridors until police escorted them out. At Harlem Hospital two in ct 5 ft tspm Sunday morning of a stroke nursing home. A family spokesman here who announced his death yesterday said Stark moved to West Palm Beach in March. He died in the Palm View Manor Nursing Home.

Stark served two terms as City Council president before he was elected to the orooKiya borough presidency in 1961. retired from that post in after his wife, Lilyan, died and his health worsened. He was born to immigrant parents on the lower East Side on Sept. 28. 1894, and had only an elementary school education.

After working as a newsboy for five years, Stark quit at the age of 11 to take a steady job at $2.50 for a seven-day week as a handy- boy in a Brooklyn clothing store. In 1914, when he was 20, he opened a men's furnishings store in partnership with two other young men. The next year he opened his own etablishment on Pitkin in Brownsville, Brooklyn. A Jewish Leader When the Brooklyn Dodgers were at Ebbets Field, Stark's name was constantly before the public. A sign at the concrete base of the right field scoreboard proclaimed that any batter who hit the sign on the fly would receive a free suit at Stark's clothing store.

Politicians credited Stark's political popularity to his many years of leadership in Jewish philanthropic affairs and organ ized civic and business activity. He has been conspicuously successful in raising funds for charity. The Hillel Foundation center for Jewish students at Brooklyn College is named in his honor. Stark went his own way politics and was a problem to the Democratic bosses. When Mayor Robert Wagner ran for U.S.

Senator in 1956, the Democratic chieftains had mixed feelings. Athough Stark seldom kicked over the traces on Democratic projects, he was rarely See SB EosS hr Jied Bene fits By JEROME CAHILL Washington, July 3 (NEWS Bureau) An increase of $8 billion to $10 billion in Social Security payroll taxes will be required to meet President Nixon's goal of full protection of the old-age trust fund and elimination of key inequities in the retirement have opened their doors to massive numbers of addicts in need of treatment. Although many administrators believe that addicts receive more blame for disruption than they deserve, officials also note that the rising disorder has followed or accompanied the new methadone maintenance and detoxification programs. Beth Israel Pioneered Since 1969, hundreds of thousands of addicts have been treated in hospitals, following the pioneer work done by Beth Israel Hospital in the mid-1960s. The increasing pressure by community groups for a voice in the operation of hospitals is a complicating factor.

At Lincoln, many local residents have felt they had a right to enter at will. And at a number of institutions, security men like George Dittmeier at Queens have a collection of weapons taken from patients and visitors. The range from machetes, carpet knives and switchblades to baseball bats, toy guns and real pistols. Next Hovo hospitals or handling their security problems. are reduced $1 for every $2 of outside income, and over $2,880 there is a one-for-one ratio between income and reduced benefits.

Pending in Senate Both features have been approved by the House as part of H.R. 1, the big welfare reform measure pending in the Senate. Flemming said they should be considered as part of the overall welfare measure, and not split off and passed separately. The White House official said Nixon was "inflexible" in his determination to restore full 100 protection of the Social Security Trust Fund; that is, to make certain there is enough money in the trust fund to cover the full payout in benefits- in the coming 12 months. to Iceland Freystinn Thorbergsson, an Iceland friend who flew here from Reykjavik Sunday to talk to him about the match.

i The party had no advance reservation, but airline employes were following the issue closely and one said, "Seats are available for him if he wants to travel." Appearing Fischer wore a blue open-collared sports shirt, maroon trousers and a blue sports jacket. He had been hiding out at a friend's home In the Douglaston section of Queens. Meets Some of Press Yesterday, after indications went out that the sweetening of the pot by Slater was acceptable, Fischer agreed to meet some reporters, but he said expressly that no one from The News would be welcome. He told the reporters that he felt the world chess tourney system of giving one-half point to a player for each stalemated game was unfair. Fischer must get 12 points to win at Reykjavik, while Spassky remains champion if it ends in a 12-12 tie A player gets one point for winning a game.

Under a recently adopted rules change, the half-point system will be dropped in future championship matches. guards ejecting a disorderly man from the emergency room May 16 were attacked by him, suffered injuries and lost several days of work. At the Queens Hospital Center three teenage boys and three teenage girls from the ambulatory detoxification unit grabbed $40.65 in change and $5 worth of candy last February from a man filling the candy machines. Caught With Cocaine At the same hospital a man was ousted in 1970 for loitering. He was suspected of seeking to peddle dope in the hospital's tuberculosis center.

He was apprehended at Kannedy Airport Feb. 14, 1971, with $1.5 million worth of cocaine, authorities said. At Kings County a secretary was attacked by two men who tried to rape and strangle her. She screamed, scared off her assailants and emerged unscathed. Part of the rising tide of disorder inside the hospitals is simply reflection of the rising crime rate outside.

But part is viewed as an unfortunate but inevitable byproduct of some of the hospitals most progressive moves of recent years. For the first time hospitals today. ting cuts in other programs" were in the making. However, Fleming said the President remains firm in his desire to see Congress pass a proviso giving 3.5 million widows and widowers 100 benefits after the death of a retired spouse receiving Social Security pensions, instead of the current 82 This would cost $750 million annually. Nixon also favors a $500 million revision of the present retirement test to permit a retiree to earn up $2,000 a year without any loss of benefits, and to lose only $1 in benefits for every $2 in earned income above that mark.

The present ceiling of exempt income is $1,680. Above that mark, but below $2,880, benefits Bobby Off Continued from page 3) winner's prize to $156,000 with the remainder of his funds lifting the loser's share to $89,000. But Slater also raised the pos sibility that the entire $130,000 could be added to the winner's share, making it $208,000. On the basis of his attitude in recent weeks, it was expected that Fischer would argue for the larger winner's share. Fischer's stalling, which he told The News earlier was based strictly on monetary considerations, had forced Dr.

Max Euwe, International Chess Federation president, to postpone the start of the match from Sunday till today. Euwe conceded yesterday that had stretched the rules in ordering the postponement and said he feared what Spassky would do when Fischer turned up two days late. Spassky said yesterday that he had not agreed to the postponement by Euwe. And Moscow the Soviet Chess Federation said Fischer's dillydallying was ground for his "unconditional disqualification." On Icelandic Flight Fischer left Kennedy last night 9:30 on an Icelandic flight due Reykjavik at 3 a.m. Iceland is sum.

in New Accompanying Fischer was 1 Hurt in Bar -Brawl Fireworks By VINCENT LEE and MARTIN McLAUGHLIN A brawl that started in an East Side saloon early yesterday left five persons shot or stabbed and two teenage girls beaten with a baseball bat. An insult to a woman re Abe Stark Former borough president asked to help set policy. If Wagner had been elected, Stark, as council president, would have finished out the mayor's term, and it would have been difficult for the leaders to deny him the mayoral nomination in 1957. But Eisenhower's landslide victory catapulted Jacob Javits over Wagner. Stark was a staunch Democrat until he ran as the Republican-Libaral-Fusion candidate for borough president of Brooklyn in 1949, making a strong showing against the incumbent, John Cash-more, in a strongly Democratic borough.

This show of vote-getting ability led to the Democratic nomination for City Council president in 1953, a position he held for eight years. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 10:15 a.m. at the Riverside Memorial Chaipel, 1 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn. He is survived by his son, Dr. Stanley Stark of West Palm Beach, and three grandchildren.

Brady, 18, of Manhattan on the head with a baseball bat. Both girls were treated at Lenox Hill. After slugging the girls, Giola and Falco drove back to the bar on 81st police said. Balez, back from getting stitched up, was standing in front with his wife and a group of onlookers. Giola rushed toward Balez and his wife, firing six shots.

Balez was shot in the arm and his wife was shot in the back and in the arm. Both were in satisfactory condition at Lenox HilL As Giola began firing, a patrol car from the E. 67th St. station came down the block. Sgt.

Daniel Hayden jumped out and ordered Giia to halt. Police said Giola jumped into his car to flee and Hayden shot him in the face. He was in Lenox Hill in fair condition. Falco attempted to run, but Hayden ran after him and subdued him after a scuffle. Police said both Giola and Falco had Criminal records.

Police booked Balez for felonious assault and illegal possession of a weapon. Giola and Falco were charged with attempted murder and illegal possession of weapons. system, the White House said Arthur Flemming, special con sultant to President Nixon on problems of the aging, made the estimate. He emphasized that the President was still committed to liberalized benefits for widows and a more generous retirement test, in addition to the 20 across-the-board benefits increase signed into law over the weekend. In a statement at the time of the signing, Nixon was critical of Congress for failing to provide full financing for the 20 increase, and warned that "offset- Shotgun Blast Kills Girl, 4 Associated Press Wirephoto Joyce Ann Huff, 4, was slain by a shotgun blast fired from car while she was playing outside her home in Los Angeles.

Sheriffs deputy a said murder was possibly a "joy killing." to he in at in portedly started it all. The violence began with a fist- fight at 2:30 a.m. in the Tambourine Bar, 350 E. 81st St. About 20 minutes later, two men involved, Joseph Donato, 21, of 145 26th St.

and Rafael Balez, 28, of 246 W. 22d got into a knife fight outside. was stabbed, police said, and a bystander who attempted to break up the fight, John Luces, 21, of 175 Fort Washington was stabbed in the chest. Police said Luces was in satisfactory condition at Lenox Hill Hospital. Returns to Bar With Wife Donato was treated for a superficial wound at Lenox Hill and Balez received four stitches in his arm at Metropolitan Hospital.

Balez left the hospital and returned to the bar with his wife, Jennie, 25, against whom, according to police, the slur had been directed. About 45 minutes after the knifings, two patrons who had been involved in the original brawl Louis Giola, 28, of 179 Mulberry St. and Nicholas Falco, 28, of 90 Grafton Newark drove up to two of the girls who had been in the bar. This was at 77th St. and First Ave.

Police said Giola jumped out of the car and struck Laura Sweeney. 17, of Queens and Linda.