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DAILY NEWS, MONDAY, JANUARY 27, No Rebai es on These Models Witnesses By PATRICK CLARK Witnesses at the scene of the murder of Maria Fashing, the 21-year-old practical nurse from' Leonia, N.J., who was stabbed to death Jan. 8, will attempt today to pick out the chief suspect in the case in a police lineup his home along with his son. Michael is being held at a juvenile detention center in Lancaster, Pa. The two were arrested on charges stemming from a Dec. 3 robbery in Susquehanna Township, a Harrisburg suburb.

A pretrial hearing on those charges is expected to follow the lineup before District Court Judge Mar-lin Strohm. Miss Fasching was killed after she apparently refused to engage in a sex act, said Bergen County Assistant Medical Examiner Thomas Lynch. Detectives traced Kallinger to. Philadelphia through a bloodstained shirt that was found in a park a few blocks from the Romaine home. The owner of a cleaning shop told police the shirt belonged to Kallinger.

News photo bv Harry Hambu'-q Ilispano Suiza (left) and Rolls-Royce catch eye of passersby at Rockefeller Center yesterday. Elegant autos were on hand to give strollers preview of art show at Center. Names 1st Black to EHiead Carey 9 Jail System By THOMAS POSTER Gov. Carey named Benjamin Ward, a retired New York City police official, to take over the volatile state prison system yesterday, but the new corrections commissioner- -the first black in the post will fa a stiff grilling- on his finances by the Republican-dominated State Senate, which must confirm all of Carey's cabinet mem at Harrisburg, Jr'a. Bergen County Prosecutor C.

Woodcock Jr. said yes terday. that seven witnesses will take part in the identification. Among the seven will be mem bers of the DeWitt Romaine fam- ilv who were stripped, bound and held hostage during the robbery that resulted in Miss Faschinc's murder. Attending this lineup, the pros ecutor said, will be Mrs.

DeWitt Romaine, 60, her twin daughters, Retta and Randi, 21, Mrs. Edwina Wiseman, 26, her married daughter, and Retta's boy friend, Jeffrey Welby, 21, of Fort Lee. Shoe Repairman Held Joseph Kallinger, 39, a Philadelphia shoe repairman, and his son Michael, 13, are being held in connection with the murder and a series of robberies and rapes in three Eastern states in the last two months. Woodcock also said that two mailmen who were working in the vicinity of the murder scene the day of the killing will view the lineup. He did not reveal the mainmen's identities.

Revolver, Knife Found The prosecutor said that a housewife from Dumont, N.J., who was robbed and sexually assaulted by a man-and-boy team two days before Miss Fasching's death would not be going to Har-risburg. Items stolen from the Dumont woman have been recovered from Kallinger's shoe shop and his upstairs apartment, police said. Late Friday, Leonia police using a metal detector found a revolver, hunting knife and jewelry a short distance from 'the Romaine house. Authorities said the weapons may be linked to the slaying. Held on $100,000 "It looks promising," said Woodcock, referring to the recovery of the black-handled hunting knife and revolver.

Two victims of robberies and sex attacks that took place in Lindenwold, N.J., last November also will go to Harrisburg today, escorted by members of the Camden County prosecutor's office. Kallinger has been held in $100,000 bail in Dauphin County jail since his arrest Jan. 17 at in the apartment and the fact that the only door to the apartment was locked from the inside." Neighbors who had overheard the dispute said it was unusual for the couple to argue. One neighbor described the husband and wife as "the sweetest couple I ever met." An elevator operator in the building said Lifton was an "extremely quiet man, who usually said nothing more than 'hello' and He said the couple had lived in the building for 11 years, and had two older sons who were away at college. Their names were not disclosed.

Plunge hold public confirmation hearings on the governor's appointees, will go ahead now without waiting for the governor. Carey was tied up yesterday, putting the finishing touches on his new budget, which is expected to come in just less than $11 billion. The budget was sent to the printers yesterday and will be unveiled Wednesday. Budget Cut According to Carey's budget experts', the governor has cut $1.2 billion requested by state agencies, all seeking increases over last year's appropriations. Most state agencies seek large increases, anticipating pared requests.

The experts said Carey faces a gap of about $800 million in the new budget and was still seeking an increase in gasoline taxes to help balance the budget. The budget seeks to hold down spending, except where increases are mandated, the governor's aides said. Carey is requesting, however, increases for the De-i Mom Defends Medic Held in Army Killings Huntington Beach, Jan. 26 (Combined Dispatches) The mother of a former Army doctor said today that the Army was responsible for her son's being indicted on charges of murdering his family five years ago. Criticizing the Army for failing to find the "real killers," Mrs.

Dorothy MacDonald said the pressure had come from her slain daughter-in-law's family. Her son, Dr. Jeffrey L. Mac-Donald, was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Friday after having been indicted bv a federal grand jury in Raleigh, N.C., in the 1970 slay-, ings of his wife and two daughters. The grand jury reopened its inquiry into the deaths of the doctor's wife, Colette, and their daughters, Kristen and Kimberly, at the request of Colette's father, Alfred Kassab of Stony Brook, L.I.

Visiting her son's home here this weekend, Mrs. MacDonald said that the Army, lyiable to find the real killers, felt that it had to take sime action in the case. 3. Years at Hospital She said her son had been indicted on the same evidence used against him in 1970, when an Army- judge ruled after a five-month hearing that the charges were untrue. MacDonald, director of emergency services at St.

Mary' Medical Center in Long Beach for the last three years, was stationed at Fort Bragg, N.C., as a Green Beret physician at the time of the murders. His wife and children were found stabbed to death Feb. 17, 1970, in their quarters. The word "pig" was scrawled in blood on the headboard of a 'bed. "It has been a Catch-22' existence for the last five yeaTs, and now it's starting all over again," Mrs.

MacDonald said. "My son is caught up by impenetrable forces." An extradition hearing is scheduled Feb. 3 for MacDonald, who is being held in Orange Countv jail in Santa Ana in lieu of $500,000 bond. bers. Ward, of Queens Village, Queens, who served 23 years in the Police Department before a one-year stint as traffic commissioner, is director of pretrial services at the Vera Institute of Justice.

He is also regarded as an ally of Manhattan Borough President Percy Satton, who has been pressuring Carey to name more blacks to high state posts. Ward, 48, will succeed Peter Preiser, who quit last week. Ward will get $47,800 a year if he wins Senate confirmation. As prisons chief. Ward would be responsible for supervising 21 prisons and other correctional facilities.

1st Black in Cabinet Besides giving Ward the honor of being the first black cabinet member, Carey is handing him a long list of problems but no major increase in funds for the prisons. Some of the problems Ward will face include an active Ku Klux Klan in some prisons and deteriorating conditions in Mat-tewan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, and at Green Haven and Attica correctional facilities. Like the other Carey appointees, Ward trill get a long and detailed financial questionnaire drafted by State Sen. John Mar-chi (R-C S.I.), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. New Questionnaires Marchi, who met with Carey last week, had expected to get copies of financial questionnaires that the new Democratic commissioners will fill out.

He did not get them and ordered his staff to prepare its own, "the most intimate possible, requiring all information that could possibly be asked," an aide to the senator "It's our belief that Gov. Carey reneged on his promise and the information he promised is locked tip in Deputy Mayor Judah Gribetz's desk in Albany," the aide said. "Sen. Marchi and the Finance Committee, which will Benjamin Ward Faces stiff grilling partment of Mental Hygiene and the State University, as he promised in the campaign. oPies police forced their way into the couple's apartment, and found the body of Mrs.

Lifton. The woman, police said, had been struck on the head with a statue, apparently during the argument. Both she and her husband were pronounced dead at the scene. Locked From Inside Police investigating the double death theorized that Lifton had become enraged, picked up the statue and struck her. Then, realizing she had been killed, he panicked and decided to end his own life, they said.

Police said they based that theory on "physical evidence" in wave mmm By HARRY DANYLUK A 54-year-old salesman fell six floors to his death yesterday morning- after slaying his wife during a domestic argument in their Queens apartment, police reported. The tragedy began at 10:50 a.m., police said, when Jerome Lifton returned to his apartment at 110-20 71st Forest Hills, and became embroiled in a heated argument with his wife, Millicent, 52. Police said neighbors overheard the disputants, who suddenly fell silent. A few minutes later screams were heard as Lifton plunged from an apartment window. Sgt.

Kenneth Bowen of the 17th homicide squad said Lif-ton's body was found on the sidewalk outside the building. A short time later, Bowen said,.