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DAILY NEWS. TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1970 on fro By JUDSOX HAND A state senator and a city councilman paid a surprise visit yesterday to the Spot ford Youth Center in the Bronx. Both said they found conditions "appalling'' among the 294 voungsters confined there. i are clever enough to foil expert conditions cited by Amonu- th surprise Visit WWMMi si-. 51 ltd i Je i i gist1 M-r-fe small rooms for the night.

Some said they relieved themselves through screens in their windows because their supervisor would not let them go to the bathroom. Wallace Xottage, deputy director of the city's Probation Department, which runs the center, told the investigators that it is almost impossible to keep all narcotics and weapons out of Spofford because "the building is laid out all wrong" and the kids State Sen. Abraham Bernstein U)-Bronx) and Councilman Robert Tostei Fourteen youngsters in a group of paid they had been walloped with a paddle known as a Suzie by dormitory supervisors. One youth showed a recent scar on head. He said he grot it when a supervisor cracked him with a set of heavy keys.

The same group of said thev were locked in Searchers. Postel and Bernstein, accompanied by a News reporter, inspected the dingy hallways and dormitories of the center at 1221 Spofford discussing conditions with youngsters, employes and director Nottage, who let them go where they pleased. "How many times does this place have to be investigated?" Bernstein asked after the tour. "Is everyone callous and indifferent to conditions in which young people are subjected to abuse and hurt not helped?" Weighs City Council Probe Postel charged "a lack of discipline, order, cleanliness and information from officials" in the center, where youngsters from 7 to 16 years of age are held pending assignment by Family Court to institutions, foster homes or elsewhere. long have you been here?" Postel asked a pale 14-year-old from Queens.

"More than five months," the boy replied. "I ran away from home. Oh, I admit I've taken LSD, speed and pot." "Kids like that need special help," said Bernstein. "They should not be locked up here with other kids who've committed violent, criminal acts." "Family Court can't find a place to put me," the youngster said, ''so I rot here." After talking to the young- Morg, Samuels Stay If Libs Pick Goldberg By SAM ROBERTS Sources close to Robert Morgenthau and Howard Samuels said yesterday that both candidates would remain in the Democratic gubernatorial rare if Arthur Goldberg wins Liberal Party endorsement. The deadline for declina- NEWS photo by Jack Clarify State Sen.

Abraham P.ernstein (left) and Councilman Robert Postel on arrival at Spofford Youth Outer in the Bronx. ht today. tions is midni sters, Bernstein told Nottage: "Some of these kids fear reprisals for speaking out to us. If there are such reprisals, I will pursue it." Wants Directors Removed Bernstein has recommended, among other things, that Nottage and City Probation Director John Wallace be removed as directors of Spofford. Conditions at the vouth cen ter overcrowding, understaf-fing.

d'ipe smuggling and assorted violence including homosexual attacks by youngsters -were aired five months ago in a series in Tiik Nkvvs. A reporter found yesterday that the overcrowding had improved, as had procedures for searching arriving youngsters for dope and weapons. However, other conditions appeared much the same. Dope Deaths Soar to 17 in Heat The first hot weather of the year produced the feared result, an increase in the number of deaths in the city attributed to the use of narcotics. A spokesman for the medical examiner's office reported yesterday that 17 addicts, seven of them teenagers, died from drug-related causes established by autopsies performed over the weekend.

In a two hour session yesterday afternoon, the Liberal Party policy' committee decided not to recommend any specific candidates to the delegates but agreed to accept nominations for all contenders. The -lOO state committeemen were scheduled to meet in an advisory session to name substitutes for the Rev. Donald Harrington and Timothy Costello, the party's stand-in candidates for governor and senator, who withdrew last week. Costello has endorsed incumbent Republican Sen. Charles Goodell.

Challenge Dropped The roll-call vote of the state committee would be subject to approval of the executive committee, and the committee on vacancies which have until Friday to act. In other developments yesterday A court challenge of Goldberg's eligibility to run for governor was dropped by Mrs. Dorothy Dwire of" Manhattan. Justice John T. Casey said in Troy that Mrs.

Dwire" had filed a "stipulation of discontinuance." Goldberg was endorsed by City Councilman Theodore Weiss, a member of the executive committee of the New Democratic Coalition, which backed Samuels. Samuels was reported to have been bolstered by preliminary results of a poll which aides said show him running ICC; to 15ro behind Goldberg, with Morgenthau a poor third. Samuels staffers had already prepared statistics indicating that if their candidate wins the Democratic primary, he can heat Nelson Rockefeller next November without Liberal support. Morgenthau's Plans There were widespread reports, however, that Morgenthau might withdraw today if the Liberals back Goldberg. Morgenthau, who had the Liberal nod in 1962 when he ran for governor, personally eontacteil Liberal delegates over he weekend.

He also acted at a reception at the Hotel Roosevelt vt'stei day to woo state committeemen before the vote scheduled last night on candidates for governor and senator. strategists rejected the theory that campaign funds will dry up before Gold-be re wins the Liberals over. "There is no possibility of us pulling out," one explained, ''because the ball game is still in June. The guy who wins the Democratic primary is going to be the next governor, and all our polls show us second." It was the highest weekend toll fight to stem the to help in the tide of death- among narcotic deaths this weekend. Carter Burden I) immediately called Lindsav to allocate Councilman Manhattan for Mayor part of the since last summer, in all, since the first of the year, 362 persons, 80 of them teenagers, have died from drug-related causes.

Private and volrntary agencies fighting the drug epidemic, have long claimed that without adequate city and state programs, the long', hot summer would produce a high toll of deaths this year. These agencies, such as Odyssey House, Addicts Rehabilitation Center, and the Friends of Syna-non. have been clamoring for facilities and operating expenses users. Dr. Robert W.

Baird. the head of Haven House in Harlem, described the summer weather as "the fairy godmother of the addict, when he is able to steal more from open car windows and apartments to satisfy and enlarge his habit." Baird also said the addict, with more people on the streets during the hot weather, can conduct his business with the corner pusher in relative safety. When told of the number of additional funds slated for the Addiction Services Agency to the voluntary agencies. Lindsay reportedly has proposed million in funds for the agency during the next fiscal year. Burden said, "It would be foolhardy to waste a resource provided by these voluntary agencies who are badly in need of olice Organization Leaders Join in Blast at By FRANK FA SO Heads of the five powerful police line organizations joined yesterday in condemning Mayor Lindsay for what they claimed was his politicization of their department.

A .4. Benevolent Association, at Broadway where, Pl'A President Edward J. Kiernan emphasized that he was speakinsr for the four other leaders as he accused Lind Tiie mass denunciation of the mayor was voiced at a news ill which, for the first tim." in city history, the presi-ients of the line outfits made a combined effort. The parley was held in the headquarters of the Patrolmen's tli con say of undermiirn'. ence of the public in the Department Replying to Mayor The line organizations A1RDEX 1 1 re re- DANGEROUS 1 "William Couroxe.

James T. Kellv. Pdward Kiernan. I ll and Harold Melmrk Ci. to as they made statement at Police Benevolent A-ociatin Headquartei Bj oadua UNHEALTHY- The other hue orsramzation at Citv Ha fi lis: r'ict rmer I33RDERLINE 1 piv-id.

w'tlt Kiernan at the 'acceptable plying: to the mayor's statement that police handling of the construction workers' attack on antiwar demonstrators near City Hal! Friday constituted "a breakdown of the police as the barrior between the public and wanton violence." Kiernan charged that since Lindsay has been in office, ''there has been a consistent history of political interference with operations of the Police Department. On many occasions, cops have been ordered to stand by and overlook violations of law by demonstrators." were: Eli Lazarus Captain's Endowment Association; William V. CosiTt-ove. Lieutenants' Benevolent Association: Harold II. Serjeants' Benevolent Association; and T.

Kelly, Detectives' Endowment Association. ci no the mayor property e. what he termed "the polariza-' p. i i i tion" of the city. who was the Procaccino clainvd that when Ha.

I yesteriiay. per-' demonstrations broke out after at the assassination of Dr. Martir. the mayor. i Luther Kins "the oops n.tfi.'l- to He ordered to leave their rittfht- I that there sticks inside Citv A- a of a ir.

hi at e' a' insisted r.miors Fdf 24-hr. Period Ending 3 00 Yesterday. 2DAY: Pollution levels expected to unsit.sf.ictonly high today. Dept. of Air Resources Earlier, at a demonstration of! result, he said the conaolk.