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(4his not plaintiffs policy to permit DOW JONES Up 27.12 use of its trademarks for obscene, scatological, or distasteful purposes." Tootsie Roll in lawsuit 62 Thursday, August 24, 1989 E3 S3 51 GOVD 3 HI! MM Ifl imn By RICHARD SHERWIN Avoid noid A man who allegedly held up a Domino's Pizza outlet because he felt he was the target of the company's "Avoid the Noid" cartoon advertising campaign has been ruled innocent by reason of insanity. Kenneth Lamar Noid held two restaurant employes hostage for nearly six hours in January before the hostages escaped and Noid surrendered, police said. Apple Bank for Savings is asking its customers to go bobbing for workers. Chairman Jerome McDougal says Apple Bank, like many other companies, is having a tough time recruiting qualified employes on its ow largely because the pool of workers in New York City is "tightening." To get around the problem, McDougal said, the bank has sent out letters to its 30,000 "Apple Bank Family" members customers who hold special accounts requesting their help in finding "highly motivated" people. "The idea is to involve customers in finding new employes because we all know how we want to be treated at a bank," said Apple Bank Human Resources Director Joyce Wynn, ho came up with the month-old strategy.

So far, the bank has received 700 responses, well above the 100 to 150 workers it expects to hire initially. But it just started interview ing and evaluating candidates last night, and it is unclear how many will qualify for or want jobs. Apple Bank currently employs about 1,300 throughout the city, Westchester County and Long Island. McDougal said openings include new-accounts representatives, accounting clerks, stenographers and secretaries. Salaries are expected to range from $12,500 to $40,000 a year, he said.

-Serge F. Kovaleski Hooker gets a panel A U.S. trustee for the Southern district of New York has appointed a creditors committee for the financ ially strapped L.J. Hooker parent company of'B. Altman and Bonwit Teller, hich earlier this By JERGE F.

KOVALESK1 Ddily Business Wrttsr State Civil Service Commissioner Walter Rroadnax yesterday said his agency is suffering a widespread worker shortage In the city and surrounding areas that threatens to "reach crisis proportions." "Hundreds" of state jobs remain unfilled throughout the city. Last year, the turnover rate hit up from around 13' three years ago, the Civil Service Department said. Though at one time civil service jobs were sought after, current shortages are due partly to salaries not keeping puce with the rising cost of living in the area, Broadnax said. He added, in an interview, that the problem has worsened the last 18 months as increased demand for labor has pushed up salaries, which labor experts say private industry easily can afford to pay. "The state can never win a dollar-for-dollar battle with private industry," he said, adding that some city agencies are outbidding the state for workers.

"The job shortages around the metropolitan area are acute, but in some of our facilities they are starting to reach crisis proportions." Among the hardest-hit state jobs are nurses, pharmacists, radiological businesses the added expense. Broadnax acknowledged that be cause the state can't afford to signifi cantly boost the salaries of its em ployes, it has had to hire workers who are less qualified and experienced. technicians, motor vehicle inspectors, computer specialists and civil engineers, whose annual salaries range from $16,000 to $36,891. Of the 200,000 state jobs, 33.8', or 67,000, are in the metropolitan area. Labor experts noted that many pr ivate businesses pay these workers as much as 30 more than the state.

And in many cases, the experts say, the state trains these workers, sparing Solutions, Broadnax said, include providing child care to attract more women to state jobs and setting up training programs for civil service jobs for high school students. month went into Chapter 11. Order in the court! The Delaware Supreme Court told lawyers and speculators in the high-stakes corporate takeover business that justices will not tolerate violations of their orders or courtroom rules. Saying that sneaking a portable telephone into the courtroom was "reprehensible," the justices found New York lawyer and arbitrageur Alexander Metviner in contempt of court and fined him $1,000. Green tapped MacAndrews Forbes Group, Inc.

appointed William J. Green vice president for government relations. Green is a former congressman and mayor of Philadelphia. MacAndrews Forbes, is a New York-based holding company whose businesses include Revlon, National Health Laboratories, the Coleman Co. and First Gibraltar Bank.

Selling the Farmers Sir James Goldsmith, whose Hoylake Investments Ltd. is bidding $21 billion for BAT Industries PLC, said yesterday that if its offer succeeded, it would sell the British conglomerate's Farmers Group Inc. insurance business in the U.S. to a Air rights move is deflated Tootsie Roll kick in the tush TM( ASSOCIATED PRESS By OWEN FITZGERALD Ditity News Siriff Wmar I hi Jf 7 7 French firm for $4.5 billion. Spuds suds A brewery located in the heart of Wisconsin's potato farming region says it has a spud for you.

Stevens Point Brewery began selling a limited supply of Spud Premier Beer, which is made from potato 7 1 I I' starch, through major outlets in central Wisconsin. ATLANTA Confusing Tootsie Roll candies with toilet paper may be a long shot, but the candy company isn't taking any chances. So it filed suit Tuesday against Cloud Nine Promotions Inc. of Alpharetta, which packages toilet paper in a brown wrapper with red-orange stripes and calls it Tushie Rolls. The lawsuit asks the maker of the gag gift to turn all of its profits over to Tootsie Roll Industries, abandon the trademark application it submitted in 1987 and not make any more rolls.

"It is not plaintiffs policy to permit use of its trademarks for scandalous, immoral, obscene, scatological, unwholesome or distasteful purposes," the suit says of Tootsie Roll's 93 year-old trademark. An assistant manager of Spencer Gifts in Cumberland Mall, who requested anonymity, said the Tushies fooled her. "I thought the Tootsie Roll people put it she said of the gilt The City Manning Commission yesterday unanimously rejected a proposal by developers to transfer air rights from Grand Central Terminal to build a new Madison Ave. skyscraper. The decision stirred renewed fears that a high rise office structure might be erected over the landmark terminal although another bid to build over the historic structure was defeated in a U.S.

Supreme Court decision in 1978, The possiblity of building an office complex atop the terminal at42d St. and Park Ave. Is "one of the options," attorney Fred Rovet said after the commission voted 0 at City Hall to deny a special zoning permit to the developers. Rovet represents air rights owners, Madison Ave. Associates and First Boston Inc.

They, along with developer (I. Ware Travehfead, told the planning f'ommis-Ceo AIR Go, Kodak cuts Eastman Kodak Co. said vesterdav that it will eliminate about 4,500 jobs worldwide this year as part of a massive restructurine. The Rochester, N. company had previously announced that iust 1.000 jobs would be cut.

Ford recall HE'S PUT ON WITHHOLD: Federal prosecutors are considering whether to reverse course and allow Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. to pay Michael Milken more than $100 million for work he did last year, sources said yesterday. The provision barring Drexel from paying its indicted former junk bond trader his 1988 compensation was included in the investment firm's formal settlement of criminal securities fraud charges with the government. The withholding has been controversial because Milken has not been charged with any wrongdoing in 1988. Milken has challenged the provision in U.S.

District Court in Manhattan. Ford Motor Co. will have to recall about 450.000 1985 and 1986 LTDs, Thunderbirds, Mercury Cougars and Marquis because the EPA says the cars exceed exhaust emission 1 requirements..