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ft7 -4 'Hospitals Begin Staff Layoffs EM Coriruption Unit IProbini JJAILY1WS, WEDNESDAY, IfflNE 4, 1975 0m YsSo of County Contracts; "jf jfwr I By GROVER RYDER investigators from the Nassau district attorney's corruption the files of county contracts let in the past five years, The be ppppoened to the investigators, and since that time agents have been going over the files. Sources in the public works department point out that there are approximately 15 filing cabinets filled with the old contracts. Charges Listed The DA's office confirmed that the investigation was going on but would only say that the probe was focusing on "sewers and road-service contracts." The 1970 date was in the request "because of the statute of limitation," a spokesman said. For several weeks now a spe News photo by Dennis Caruso At Lydia E. Hall Hospital, Freeport, one of the Nassau County hospitals that has announced temporary staff layoffs, nurse Kathy Rices contemplates her immediate future.

At Franklin General Hospital in North Valley Stream, a four-day work week will go into effect tomorrow. Spokesmen for many Long Island hospitals said layoffs are in the offing because of the doctors' strike protesting the state's new malpractice law. Town Grows Up to a uuiiw ot usira Workers By FRANK MOONEY The Brookhaven Town Board never went near an winner that will bring in more than $1 mill ion to the town made by Town Clerk Kurt K. Behme at yesterday's board In a sweeping probe, unit have been poring over News learned yesterday. Privately.

County Executive Ralph G. Caso has been calling the investigation "a witch hunt," and other top county officials term it a "fishing expedition." Two months ago DA's office requested that "all" county contracts, back to 1970 he turned over. John H. Plock commissioner of public works, replied that his office would be more than willing to cooperate but that all of the files would be "bulky." He then turned over a 40-page list of the contracts and suggested that this might be helpful. He added that the files would Windfall OTB parlor, but it hit a 7-1 coffers, according to a report meeting.

race, to survey the town's telephone costs for a $5,250 fee. The rescinding was based on the general municipal law which requires that contracts for public works, exceeding $3,500, be bid competitively, unless they are for professional services, it was explained. Instead, the survey, designed to reduce the town's phone bill, which totaled $105,000 last year, will be done by the Ne wYork Telephone Councilwoman Ellen Davis said. The board adopted a resolution opposing the proposed closing of Central Islip State Hospital "until a clear plan is received concerning patient accreditation clarification, the disposition of present employes and the state's plans for handling of patients presently receiving treatments at the hospital." Appointed George Proios of Farmingville as town director of environnmental control at $12,000 annually. Proios, presently engaged in similar work on the county level, is a nephew of former Town Councilman Alex Proios.

By WILLIAM BUTLER Suspended Babylon Town Director of Parks Joseph Conti was convicted in Suffolk District Court last night of using town employes to repair a cellar stair at his home. The recent interim census showed a population of 319,408, a gain of 74,148 or SO'c over the regular federal census of 1970, Behme declared. The cash value of the new figure will produce additional aid at the rate of $3.55 per capita annually for four or five years until the next regular census is taken in 1980. The annual per capita increase will be $263,225, or $1 million plus in four years, which is seven times the $150,000 which the board had budgeted to conduct the recent nose-counting. New ensus The.

reason for the "four or five years" is because the State Legislature, still in session, may decide tok withhold the additional state aid based on the new census until 1977 instead of 1976. There is still anothe "if involved, a board spokesman said, explaining that the Legislature is currently considering mo fication of the per capital state aid formula which could possibly effect the $3.55 figure. In' other business yesterday: The board authorLed retaining Bernard Gegan, a full cial grand jury has been listening to testimony on political corruption. Among the matters being investigated by the jury are charges that county employes are forced to kick 1 of their salary to the county GOP in order to keep their jobs; charges of corruption in the rental of trucks to the Town of Hempstead, and charges of land-scandal payoffs in Oyster Bay. The DA's office has stated that "all areas" of possible corruption are being studied.

to Fix Stai Rail Mishap Injures Man Onlookers were unable to act in time yesterday to prevent an apparently confused man from walking into the side of a Long Island Railroad train arriving at the Central Islip station. Suffolk County police reported that Walter Metzelaar, 57, a resident of the Valentine Nursing Home at 365 E. Clayton Central Islip, was in critical condition at Southside Hospital, Bay Shore, following the accident. prosecution had omitted vital proof by failing to offer evidence that Conti owned the home, and recalled testimony by an expert witness that the stair was "shoddy" and "worth nothing." chief assistant were indicted for bribery Klein said: "I say to our partisan critics, 'go right ahead, take your best shot. Try to discredit my administration any way you can.

Throw all the mud you wan because it will be a cold day in July when any of your mud sticks to John Klein." See GOP "Buyof The statement came at the end of a day in which the county GOP and Smithtown Leader Nicholas Barbato were forced to defend their nomiantion of Samuel Fierro, chief assistant district attorney under Democrat Henry O'Brien, for election as a Family Court judge. Fierro occupies a sensitive and forceful position as number two. man in the DA's office. He has been considered to be the leader, of the scandal investigations in, the office. Critics of the nomination hav charged that the GOP.

was attending a "buyoff." Klein Plans to Seek (Reelection professor of constitutinal law at St. John's Law School to work with Town Attorney Martin J. Kerins in the court action brought against the town by seven college students occupying a Miller Place home as a group. The students, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, are challenging the constitutionality of the town's anti-group rental ordinance that restricts the use of a dwelling to no more thanfourunrelatedper-sons. Gegan, who is to be paid a fee $100 an hour, not exceeding a total of $5,000, played an important part helping Belle Perre Village win a similar court suit that challenged its municipal group rental ordinance.

Declaring that Gegan will serve as counsel, Kerins said the town has until June 16 to make motions in the Miller Place suit. Because such a contract should have been put out to competitive bidding, the board rescinded a resolution adopted last January, authorizing J. A. Mayer Associates, of Islip Ter Action Line appears on page41NL where they were treated for smoke inhalation. One of them, Paul Matera, 18, of 160 Floral Bethpage, was admitted to tht medial center in fair condition.

Pelker and the teachers were admitted to Central General Hospital. Plainview, where they were treated for smoke inhalation. They were reported in good ondition. The school was not evacuated because the 6-inch cardboard bomb burned out, police said. The verdict came at 7:30 p.m.

form a three-man, three-woman jury that deliberated four hours after a five-day trial. Judge Harry Richard Brown reserved decision on a motion by Conti's lawyer, Kenneth C. Rohl of Babylon, to set the verdict aside. Rohl argued that there had been no proof placed in evidence that the house did not belong to Babylon Town. No date was set for Conti's sentencing.

Cor.ti, 57, was accused last September of ordering two employes under his jurisdiction to work on two Saturdays repairing a cellar stair at his residence at 64 Paumanake Babylon. It was also charged that he directed the men to punch out on a time clock at park headquarters. and that the men were paid overtime by the town. In his summation, Suffolk Assistant District Attorney Peter mayei said the case involved the corruption of a public official. Rohl told the jury that the ing them will be Christine Veech and Joseph Vislocky, both Democrats.

Conservative William Carney will oppose incumbent Democrat Angela Christenson for the sixth Legislative seat. The GOP also selected William Richards, town tax receiver, to run for the seventh legislative seat being vacated by Cliff Crafts, a Republican who is returning to private business. Robert Baum, a Smithtown attorney, will vie for the same' seat on the Democratic ticket. "Take Your Best Shot" Klein, who will be challenged in the election by Democrat Joseph Clemente, a schoolteacher and Huntington town councilman, said he would run on his record of a balanced budget and progressive leadership in stabilizing the local economy, which he termed the "quality of life." With a reference to recent political scandals, in which one of his department heads and a Smoke Bomb Tight Sickens Teachers, 5 By MICHAEL HANRAHAN Suffolk County Executive John Klein formally announced yesterday that he would seek reelection for a second four-year term in the November elections. Two teachers, a maintenance man and four students Of Holy Trinity Diocesan High School, Hicksville, were treated for smoke inhalation when they tried to put out a smoke bomb that was thrown into a second-floor bathroom at the school yesterday afternoon, police said.

A former president officer of I the County Legislature and a supervisor from the Town of Smith town, Klein made his an-nounc ment before 200 staunch aupporters at the Smithtown GOP's nomination convention, which selected a new candidate for town supervisor and endorsed two Conservatives for election. Charles Cacciabaudo, the town attorney, was chosen to oppose the Democrats' nominee, Frederick Scheinfeld, for town supervisor. The present Republican supervisor, Paul Fitzpatrick, said last week he would not seek ree-election. He is expected to step down shortly in order to let Cacciabaudo run as an incumbent. Others Endorsed Mrs.

Joan Franke, one of the Conservative nominees endorsed by the GOP, will run with Otto Schubert, who is seeking reelection to the town council. Oppos about 1 p.m. smoke started tt ome from the main bathroom and' Ronald Swierski, 39, a slejice teacher, John Boglioli, 26, a history teacher, and Eugene Pelker, 55, a maintenance man, rushed in, thinking there "as a fire. i Student admitted Stading outside the shool at 98 Cherry Lane, at the time were five students, 17 and 18 years of age. They also thought there was a fire and rushed in with a fire extinguisher but were fored back.

Four of the students were taken to the Nassau County Medial Center.