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CLASSIFIEDS: DAILY NEWS, Friday, April 29, 1988 1 JL 'tea SttaAr' ri arrfnrHWr -1 i -iri -irirriiriTiif i-V I 'l7StfZ The Girl Scouts were ordered yesterday to show why more than 2,000 Scouts belonging to an inner-city chapter should be required to come under the leadership of two suburban coun Ss-a ViC --r- fcJ EbJ fciJ V- -ass 1 r- By KEITH MOORE cils that have large white memberships. U.S. District Judge Harold A. Ackerman set a May 10 court date for the Girl Scouts of the United States of America to prove why he should not order the organization to renew the charter for the Hudson County chapter. Ten Hudson County council leaders and mothers, some of whom appeared on advertising and a 75th Daily News Staff Writer A 4-year old Harlem boy was struck and killed by a blow to the head yesterday when a bookcase toppled over on top of him.

Police said the boy, Dechardert Rouchard of W. 126th was dead on arrival at Harlem Hospital after what neighbors and relatives described as "a freak accident." Rouchard's grandmother, Mattie Rice, was baby-sitting the boy at about 11 a.m. when, she said, "The bookcase must have jarred loose from Maria DeBIois vi 14 the wall and hit him in the head." She said the case was not nailed to the wall. Rice said she was in the living room of the apartment when youngsters that the boy had been playing with in another room came to her and reported, "Dechardert is bleeding." Neighbors said they heard what "sounded like an explosion" when the bookcase hit the floor. One of Rice's daughter's, Barbara, said the youngsters "were jumping up and down on the bed." She said the boy was on the floor at the time "playing with a paper airplane." She said the empty case, which she said was used to store a television set but also sometimes was used as a room-divider, was wedged in between two beds in the room "and must have given way." It was empty at the time, Rice said.

The boy's mother, Paula, at work at the time as a Vista volunteer with the Fresh Air Fund, said the case was part of a seven-piece set she had recently bought second-hand. She said she had stored it in the adjoining room where the apparent accident occurred because there was no room for it in her own bedroom. She said she was to take her son to work with her today, "but I couldn't because there was a meeting in the office." "I should have taken him anyway," she said, sobbing. The police said yesterday that they were continuing their investigation. anniversary commemorative stamp for the Scouts, sued the national group over the planned withdrawal on Saturday of the charter.

It may be the first loss of a charter in Girl Scout history. The national office has said the Hudson County council should lose its charter because of declining membership and financial problems. The office wants to move the 2,150 girls in Hudson County to the jurisdiction of two councils covering Union, Somerset and Bergen counties. Dorothy Fowlkes, president of the Hudson County group, said her council is "financially solid" and has been promised $25,000 in aid by the Hudson County United Way. 'A new day' "Hey, this is like a new day," Fowlkes said of Acker-man's ruling.

"It's a beginning. We have an ethnic community to reach to. You have to build bridges and this is what the national organization needs to know." Maria E. DeBIois, a Hudson County Scout leader, said the decision allows time to garner community support. Fowlkes said the county council has made inroads in bridging the gap between the Hispanic, Haitian, Asian Indian and black communities in Hudson County.

"The unique ethnic, racial and cultural mix in Hudson County would be lost by splitting the girls between Bergen, Union and Somerset counties," said Gerald Tobin, a Jersey City attorney representing the local council. Bonnie McEwan, the national spokeswoman for the Girl Scouts in New York, said the organization feels it will be vindicated in their court appearance. McEwan said Hudson County has failed to increase membership in its area for at least five years. She said just one in 25 girls in Hudson County belongs to the Scouts, while nationwide the figures are one in 10. In Bergen County, one of five girls is a Scout member while the council that serves Union and Somerset counties has one in six.

She said she did not know if Hudson County had the worst record nationwide for membership recruitment. Lawyers silent "They're not serving the population of the county like they ought to be," McEwan said. It's certainly not very good." Telephone messages left with Ken Kirschner, an attorney with the New York firm of Breed, Abbott Morgan, representing the national organization, were unanswered. McEwan has said she has never heard of the Girl Scouts trying to remove or withhold a charter from one of the nation's 335 local councils, which include about 3 million adult leaders and scout members ranging in age from 5 to 17. Councils organize troops, provide services for them and recruit leaders.

The lawsuit charges the national organization with trying to distribute the $635,000 received in a sale of a Hudson County council campground in Morris County. "We were urged to sell the camp by the headquarters and within a month, they did this," Tobin said. Ackerman's order requires the national Girl Scouts to show why the assets of the Hudson County group should not remain under local control. McEwan said moving the council under the administration of the other councils would mean greater financial stability and thus, more activities for Hudson County girls. The administrative change would not prevent the girls from meeting in Hudson County, she said, adding that the national group's decision is not discriminatory.

JOHN PEOtN DAILY NEWS BOOKCASE fell, killing Dechabert Rouchard, 4 (above). By DJ. SAUNDERS The Abbracciamento Group would create a 50-seat, fast-food restaurant on the ground floor, and a 600-seat restaurant on the second and third floors. Municipal Quality Partners' plans consist of a 550-seat restaurant on the second and third floors. PCD is coordinating the process among several city agencies to choose the oper.

but final selection will be made by City Hall. of the ground floor of the pier as a fireboat station. However, Marine Fire Headquarters, which shares the site, will be relocated to a place yet to be determined, according to city Public Development spokesman Lee Silber-stein. Inhilco Corp. plans a 600-seat restaurant on the second and third floors.

The Wings Point Corp. plans a 530-seat restaurant on the second floor and a banquet hall on the third. Daily News Staff Writer The city has received four proposals to turn the historic Pier A fireboat station into a restaurant complex, it was announced yesterday. The three-story stationhouse, on the Hudson River just north of Battery Park, was built in 1886 and is the last remaining masonry-arched pier in the city. All the proposals, contain plans to continue to use part.