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Cfty -Haspitals ifo Stark Bern; violence mBs By ROGER WETHERINGTON Hospitals, where people go to get well, are also places where people can get hurt. Some hospitals have become scenes of sporadic disorder and violence that terrify em B'klym Obf, 77 Former Brooklyn Borough President Abe Stark, 77, who started work at the age of 6 as a newsboy and served in politics for 27 years until his retirement in 1970, died Sunday morning of a stroke in a West Palm Beach, 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 Hospital, 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 an other 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 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 Brooklyn borough presidency in 1961. He retired from that post in 1970 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 establishment 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 score- board 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 organized 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. Although Stark seldom kicked over the traces on Democratic projects, he was rarely I I I I ee 8B tost hr Aged Bene fits 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 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 la 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. They range from machetes, carpet knives and switchblades to baseball bats, toy guns and real pistols. Next: Hovo hospital are handling their security problems.

of $8 billion to $10 billion in President Nixon's goal of full inequities in the retirement 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. 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 haggard, 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 12-12 tie A player gets one point for winning a game. Under 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 Kennedy 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 By JEROME CAHILL (NEWrS Bureau) An increase will be required to meet fund and elimination of key today. ting cuts in other programs" were in the making. However, Flemming 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 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 S89.000. But Slater also raised the possibility 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 tiat Fischer would argue for the larger winner's share.

Fischer stalling, which he told The News earlier was based strictly on monetary considera tions, had forced Dr. Max Enwe, International Chess ederation president, to postpone the start of 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 yes terday that he had rot agreed to postponement by kuwe. And Moscow the Soviet Chess Fed eration said Fischer's dillydally was ground for his "unconditional disqualification." On Icelandic Flight Fischer left Kennedy last night 9:30 on an Icelandic flight due Reykjavik at 7 a.m.

Iceland time, which is 3 a.m. in New York. Accompanying Fischer was a a Threaten El Al on Led Prisoner Abe Stark Former borough president asked to help set policy. If Wag-I ner 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-Liberal-Fusion candidate for president of Brooklyn in 1949, making a strong showing aga'nst the incumbent, John Cash-more, in a strongly Democratic borrugh. This show of vote-getting ability led to the Democratic nomina tion for City Council president in 1953, a position he held for eight years Funeral services. will be held to morrow at 10:15 a.m. at the Riverside Memorial Chapel, 1 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn. He is survived by his son, Dr.

Stanley Stark of West Palm Beach, and three grandchildren. against Jewish industries with El Al being a prime target also said airports allowing EI Al to use tneir iacmnes were ac- complices and would be treated accordingly." The message, the spokesman added, said Japanese were not involved in the threats and warned that "to ignore the demands won Id be fatal." The other demands were that Israel: Return the money paid by Japan in compensation to the victims of the massacre. Pay the United Nations $4 million for aid to underdeveloped countries. Withdraw from occupied Arab territories. death last night.

Smith, grand-nephew of church founder Joseph Smith, died of a heart attack at the age of 95. Funeral services will be held at noon Thursday in Salt Lake City's Mormon Tabernacle for Smith, who as church president had been the Mormons' prophet, seer and revelator" for the last 2i years. By United Press International The International Air Transport Association reported receiving a message warning of mass reprisals against world airports used by Israeli airline El Al the Japanese trmrit involved in the Lod airport massacre was freed in 24 hours. Washington, July 3 Social Security payroll taxes protection of the old-age trust system, the White House said Arthur Flemming, special con sultant to President Nixon 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 week end.

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- Shofgun 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 said murder was possibly a "joy killing." to of the he the in ing at in The association sala In Geneva I the release of Kozo Okamoto was one of four demands contained in the unsigned message which a I cqiH was Winer takpn 1 seriously. Warnings were flashed to airlines, airports and the international police organization. Israeli Transport Minister Shimon Peres said in Tel Aviv, however, that Israel will not be "frightened" into releasing" Okamoto, sole survivor of the three Japanese terrorists who killed 26 and wounded about 80 other persons at the Israeli international airport near Tel Aviv May 30.

The transport association spokesman said the message warned that "if the demands are not met, open war will be waged Mormons Seek Leader Salt Lake City, July 3 (UPI) The Mormon Church's ruling council was expected today to name Harold E. Lee, its ranking member, successor to Joseph Fielding Smith as "prophet" of the 3 million-member faith. Lee, 73, president of the Council of the Twelve Apostles and first counselor, became the ranking Mormon leader after Smith's.