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C9 i NEWS BRIEFS gs JDAJLY NEWS, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 14. 17 rrzwz nn 7n) (Pn nn nns By OWEN MORITZ The sale of the old Shelton Towers Hotel to a West Coast-based syndicate is imminent, and the chain is expected to build a major new and 49th it was learned yester- liEZJil ZIOJjt I La-h 1 FCi 1 I Loth Iwanxwl-j- I Fl I las 1 I SMIlTONlirfcuLsiJ'I Hunt Mother In Beatings Five children were treated for severe cuts and bruises yesterday at Jacobi Hospital as Bronx police began a search for their mother, who had beaten them with a telephone, a steam iron and a piece of furniture, police reported. Police said the mother, Sandra Bro-dus, 29, of 2065 Grand had called her sister at about 1 a.m., saying she had killed her children several hours earlier. The police found the three boys and two girls, who range from 5 to 12 years old, conscious but bloodied and dazed.

James Daddy that stands on Park and Lexington Aves. between 49th and 50th 1 sperking with changes. The nove comes also as the city's hotwl ocicupancy rate and tourism in general continue to improve, even in face of the city's grave financial situation. Operation Sail, the Democratic convention and other bookings made as long ago as five years, plus a reviving tourist effort, are all credited for the resurgent hotel market. QBIEZJC331 hotel on the site at Lexington Ave.

day. This development, combined with an unannounced $4.5 million remodeling of the Belmont Hotel at Lexington and 50th St. and the prospect of the New York Palace rising on Madison Ave. near 50th St, is creating new hotel zone here at the very time that construction has ground to a halt. Real estate sources said that sale of the Shelton all but a handful of its 1,200 rooms are now vacant would be fade to the West Coast group by Nov.

1. A lawyer representing a few remaining tenants voiced the view that the purchaser would be the Intercontinental Hotel owner of the Fairmount Hotel in San Francisco. Efforts to reach the owners of the shelton for confirmation were unsuccessful. If the Shelton does rise again, it will come at a time when the district around the Waldorf-Astoria, the centerpiece Newt mo by Bob JuffrM Neaby, at Lexington and 50th the 700-room Belmont is undergoing a $4.5 million interior renovation that will see a change of name to the Doral Inn and construction of indoor squash courts to reenf orce an appeal to businessmen. Two blocks away, at Madison and 50th, real estate tycoon Harry Helmsley is poised to build the New York Palace, a 51-story, 775-room hotel and apartment tower, behind the famed Villard Some Hard-Core Apple Lovers iv( i UPI Teleoftoto Lee Obcrst, who runs telephone company in city, presents big apple to Mayor Beame, the man who runs Big Apple.

Fiberglass apple will be symbol of "Big Apple Autumn that's what mayor's proclaimed the current season. Me Used to Be (Critical Houses, now owned by the Archdiocese of New York. The City Planning Commission, over vigorous community protests, approved the $65 million New York Palace on Sept. 22. The Board of Estimate will take up the matter on Oct.

21. The area also includes the Summit, Barclay and Beverly hotels. 12 Screened For a Role as PA Director By FRANK MAZZA The Port Authority began intensive interviews last night of 12 prospective candidates for the post of executive director. The dozen were among 20 to 80 candidates initially screened by an executive employment agency. The present executive director, A.

Gerdes Kuhbach, who has served in the post since 1974, has agreed to step aside be ore the end of the year to make room for the new chief, it was learned. Port Authority Commissioner James Hell-muth, who is chairman of the authority's six-member selection committee, said yesterday that he would be "disappointed" if the task of choosing an executive director "were not completed and over with before Christmas." A Look at Candidates Hellmuth said there was no favorite at this point. Nevertheless, rumors within the authority-controlled World Trade Center and confirmed by some outside sources, listed some prime candidates. Chief among them were Guy Tozzoll, who is director of the world trade department of the Port Authority, and Louis J. Gambaccini, director of the authority's rail transportation department.

Tozzoli now earns $06,586 and Gambaccini $58,084. In fact, about half of the dozen names subxitted by the executive talent search firm of Russell-Reynolds Associates are of Port Authority executives. Several years ago, Gov. Rockefeller refused to approve the slcion of an ln-hous deparment head as executive director, saying: "A top officer from outside the agexcy is needed if the authority's 'direction (more toward public transportation) were to turn around." The governors of New York and New Jersey have veto power over the bistate agency's actions. However, two of the executives from outside the authority and reportedly on the list disclaimed knowledge yesterday that they were under consideration.

Each said he had not been interviewed by the consultant firm or anyone else. Pacific Fishing Accord -Suva, Fiji (AP)Australia, New Zealand and 10 other South Pacific Island nations, concerned about commercial fishing by the Soviet Unino and Japan, agreed in principal today to establish 200-mile economic zones around their territories. For BusinesstThey Produce New York University, Columbia College and City College are among the nation's top 10 schools in producing future business executives, according to -a survey whose findings were disclosed yesterday by Standard Poor's Corp. Harvard continued to be the No. 1 alma mater of America's businessmen and women, but NYU moved into second place this year, passing Yale.

Columbia was sixth and CCNY was eighth. Michael Oreskes Falling Out Over Fallout Nearly a score of environmental groups, led by Friends of the Earth, called on President Ford yesterday to fire those federal officials "responsible for misleading the public on the fallout hazards rfora the recnet Chinese nuclear bomb tests. According to the environmentalists, pregnant women who drink a quart of milk a day for two months from cows that grazed on fallout-contaminated grass could transmit to their fetuses half of the annual radioactive dosage permitted under federal regulations. Federal officials have said there was little or no health hazard from the fallout over the last two weeks. Robert Carroll Guilty in Biaggi Robbery A 20-year-old man pleaded guilty yesterday to robbing the wife of Bronx Rep.

Mario Biaggi as she entered an elevator in an apartment building at 100 Mosholu Parkway last June 11. Nelson Lebron of 815 Fail-mount was arrested shortly after taking $60 from Mrs. Marie Biaggi at knifepoint. He paces up to 25 years in jail upm sentencing on Nov. 17.

Rodgers is Honored Rodgers Is Honored Composer Richard Rodgers and Harold Geneen, chairman of the International Telephone and Telegraph were honored at the fifth annual Communication Award Dinner at the Waldorf last night for their "contributions to improving human well being and understanding through communication." Croats Hire Williams Criminal attorney Edward Bennett Williams has been hired to defend the alleged mastermind in the Croatian hijacking last month of a TWA jetliner, after thousands of Croatian sympathizers donated $75,000 as a partial retainer for Williams' services, it was disclosed yesterday. Brooklyn Federal Judge John Bartels "set a tentative trial date, of Dec 6 for the five suspects in the hijacking, in compliance with the speedy-trial rule. Stewart Ain Nab City Aide in Extortion An employe of the Department of Social Services ha 3 been arrested for allegedly scheming to force a "Vietnam veteran seeking welfare to kick back part of his assistance payments, it was announced yesterday by Nicholas Scop-petta, city investigation commissioner. Arrested was Jeffrey Grayson, a 24- 1 year-old income maintenance specialist with the A. i v.j 0TB Of Big Spenders By NEAL HIRSCHFELD When Abraham Beame was the city's controller, his office criticized the Off-Track Betting Corp.

for allowing its executives to hold business-lunch conferences at the corporation's expense. Yet the same practice has continued at OTB under its current president, Paul R. Scevane, whose appointment Beame helped bring about when he became mayor. Screvane, a former City Council pre-sidnt and sanitation commissioner who abandoned hi sown mayoral ambitions to help Beame's successful campaign in 1973, remains a top adviser to te mayor. Review of Operations While Beame was controller, his auditors prepared a review of OTB operations for the fiscal year 1971-72.

Among their recommendations. "OTB should adopt more stringent policies in regard to business entertainment. OTB meetings should take place on OTB premises. conference cost, especially where the conferees are OTB conference cost, especially where the conferees are OTB personnel, should not be charged to the corporation." Since replacing Howard Samuels as OTB president 2 years ago, Screvane has billed the corporation for more than $14,000 in travel and enter tainmnet expenses, according to OTB records. Screvane Billed For Calif Trip Among the expenses billed ot OTB by its president, Paul Screvane, was a $635.61 tab for a five-day trip to FaKi Springs, in January 1975, OTB records show.

According to OTB expense reports, thi purpose of the trip was to attend a meeting of the National ssAociation of Broadcasters board of directors. Screvane said he made the trip to urge the group to drop its opposition to television advertising for OTB. The group subsequently reversed its stand and the ads now appear on TV. Neal Hirachfeld The OTB chief has defended his business meals as legitimate expensed for allowing him to improve relations with the racing industry and learn about all phases of sports betting. Screvane says also that he has incurred more than $11,000 in business expenses that were never reimbursed by OTB..