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Daily News from New York, New York • 7

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ML 7 DAILY NEWS. TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 2. 197 AlWsis, iouza Veil on ECid Crime By peter Mclaughlin Bronx Borough President Robert Abrams and the Bronx top cop, Anthony Bouza, called on Gov. Carey and the Legislature yesterday to support a bipartisan effort to repeal laws that prevent criminal courts and law enforcement authorities from seeing Family Court records on arrests and convictions of juvenile offenders.

At a press conference held in front juvenile offenders be sealed and kept secret, not only from the public, but from law enforcement authorities and the criminal courts as welL "It is not only the courts, but also the police and the district attorneys whose attempts to deal with juvenile crime are crippled by these statutes," they charged. They said records of juvenile offenses are essential information that judges must have if they are to be able to set a proper bail for juvenile offender or an adult. with an extensive juvenile record. "I am 'convinced that the absolute number of violent juveniles is not enormous," said Bouza, "but the Police Department needs to be freed from the statutes which create needles obstacles to our efforts to get these predators off the streets." "Firm action to deal with the rising tide of juvenile crim must be taken immediately," said Abrams. "Not only liava the actual number of crimes committed by juveniles Increased to disturbing levels, but violence has become the most terrifying characteristic.

The violence, in turn, has produced an atmosphere of fear which is poisoning the life of the city. New York City cannot survive, economically or socially, if its citizens must continue to surrender the streets to young muggers, rapists and other criminals. "To deal with this problem," Abrams added, "requires a massive and coordinated attack by law enforcement agencies and the criminal justice system, and the laws which needlessly hamper their efforts should be repealed." of Bronx Family Court on the Grand Concourse, the two officials said that the laws "severely hamper the Police Department and the courts throughout the city in their attempts to put a halt to the increase in juvenile crime." The borough president and the Bronx police commander cited the case of a Bronx youth as an example of the need to examine Family Court documents. The youth was charged with beating and robbing an 82-year-old woman and was released on $500 bail because, th officials said, the judge in the case was unable to examine Family Court docu ments which showed that the youth had a long record of serious juvenile crime, including murder. "Judges are now operating in the dark," said Bouza." If you don't have the information you need, it's difficult to function.

Having judges function in the dark in this day and age is ridiculous. We- have to swing the pendulum a little and tighten up the criminal justice system. What suited our society in the 1950s doesn't suit it in 1976." The two officials said that state laws provide that ail Family Court records relating to arrests and- convictions of Marketing for a Good Cause Safety Inspection Slated For 2250 Social Clubs 8f Jlrf By JOYCE WHITE The inspection of nonlicensed social clubs, which began last Friday in the Bronx and Manhattan, will be extended throughout the city this weekend in an attempt to prevent fires similar to the one which claimed 25 lives nine days ago in the Bronx. A City Hall spokesman said yester day that the Police Department has drawn up a list of some 2,250 clubs in the Bronx, Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens, which will be inspected over the next 30 days by two-man teams of 20 firemen. Last Friday and Saturday nights, six firemen inspected 48 such clubs in the South Bronx, and Upper Manhattan and found a total of nine safety violations.

The list of 2,250 clubs, the spokesman said, came about as a result of a "quick by Police Department borough commanders who were able to identify the existence of about 900 nonlicensed social clubs in Brooklyn, 650 in Manhattan, 550 in the Bronx and about b0 in Queens. News Dhoto by Ed Molinari Sister Sheila Buhse (right) of St. Boniface Church serves customer while other shoppers browse at flea market and plant sale to benefit parish, at 109 Willough-by St. in downtown Brooklyn, yesterday. Sale 'will continue until 6 p.m.

daily through Friday. "This is only a working list," the spokesman said, "these clubs pop up like mushrooms. They are here today and gone tomorrow. All you need to operate a social club is a vacant storefront and a record player." The inspection probe is being headed by Deputy Mayor Stanley Friedman, who is coordinating the efforts of a task force composed of Police Commissioner Michael Codd, Fire Commissioner John O'Hagan, Building Commissioner Jeremiah Walsh and Consumer Affairs Commissioner Elinor Guggenheimer. Mayor Beame ordered the formation of the task force last week, following the fire on Oct.

24 at the Puerto Rican Social Club, 1001-1005 Morris Bronx. The blaze was caused by an accelerant believed set by an arsonist. Deputy Mayor Friedman, Fire and Police Commissioners O'Hagan and Codd. and Bronx District Attorney Mario Merola, met at City Hall to discuss the status of the investigation on the Bronx fire. A City Hall spokesman said that it was agreed at the meeting that Merola's office would continue the investigation which, so far has not turned up solid leads.

Inspection of the 2,250 clubs, the spokesman said, will be conducted by firemen who are on "light duty," due to injuries suffered on the job which prevent them from engaging in firefighting but are not serious enough to warrant sick leave. Foes of Hotel Are Down But No Out William Shopsin, historical preservation consultant to the archdiocese, said that the work was necessary because if the building is damaged during construction, there will be a record of the building as it existed" beforehand. "The electrical wiring- and plumbing in the building will have to be changed," Shopsin said. "There is no air conditioning and the Gold Room needs fire protection." Meanwhile, foes of the hotel are considering a court case against the ruling. Also, a traffic congestion study is yet to be made.

rooms in the existing landmark building, including the Gold Room, which will be a cocktail lounge. An entrance to the hotel will be in the U-shaped Italian Renaissance courtyard on Madison Ave. betwten 50th and 51st Sbs. Richard Roth, design chief for Emory Roth, said-that before any demolition can begin, a complete set of measured drawings of the Villard Houses must be done. Roth said that significant works of art and interiors must be removed to prevent damage during construction.

Mame Panel to Review Hospital Issue By JESSE BR0DEY By JOHN LEWIS Despite a two-year battle which supposedly ended on Oct. 22 when the city gave developer Harry Helmsley the final green light to build his 51-story Palace Hotel behind the palatial Villard Houses on Madison construction of the building1 may be delayed for several more months by the opposition. Dimitri Villard, the great grandson of Henry Villard, for whom the houses were built in the 1880s, said that the Society Against Villard's Extinction (SAVE) was considering a number of alternatives to block construction, including the newly created Public Building Cooperative Act, signed into law recently. "Under the act," Villard said, "the federal government must utilize landmark or historic buildings When bhey rent space for their needs. We have been talking to the General Services and we believe there is a strong possibility that we can get a lease from the federal government for this property.

In fact, we feel that it may be required." Villard sail that the reason that the New York Anahdiocese, the owner of the property, wanted to lease it for a hotel in the first place was because it could not find any one willing to rent it. The new hotel, to be built by the firm of Emory Roth and Sons, will contain three floors of garage space, 31 floors of hotel rooms, 13 floors of lux- duced thte resolution following reports announced that he and Dr. Joseph Cimino, the county hospital director, would hold thfe first of a series of informational meetings for doctors Nov. 18 at the Traphagen School In Mount Vernon. "No part of our program Is engraved in stone," DelBello said in his letter to physicians, inviting them to "participate actively on shaping programs for the future." DfelBello denied that the new hospital would add 500 beds to the surplus of hospital beds in the county.

He said only 250 will be new beds. The others would replace existing beds at the old Grasslands Hospital, which is to be phased out with thte opening of the. new building on the Grasslands reservation in Valhalla. "The 250 new beds," he asserted," will be utilized only by tertiary patients receiving treatment not presently available elsewhere in the county." that: The new hospital will produce a $13 million deficit during its first year of operations. Opening its obstetric ward of 28 beds, capable of handling 2,000 to 2,500 of the county's 8,500 annual maternity cases, would be in direct competition with the county's 13 community hospitals in a county already overbedded.

Medicaid, Medicare and Blue Cross costs would be inflated because of higher per-patient costs at the county-operated hospital. County Executive Alfred DelBello, in an effort to ward off adoption of the resolution or appointment of a special committee, hold the board that its new study duplicates studies already completed by the hospital staff. In a letter to county doctors, he The Westchester County Board of Legislators named a bipartisan committee yesterday to determine whether to open the county's new $61 million hospital building in February or try to find other uses for it. A resolution submitted by three legislators calling for a halt in further expenditures pending a restudy of the hospital project was turned over to the committee. The committee, headed by Board Majority Leader Edward J.

Brady (R-Mount Pleasant), included Carolyn Whittle (D-White Plains), Steven Galef (D-Ossining), John Hand (R-Yorktown), and Leonard ISpano (R-Yonkers). Brady, Whittle and Galef Intro apartments nd will use at least, two.

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