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Daily News from New York, New York • 322

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BROOKLYN EK-lNE WS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1977 BKL1 3 Burglary Suspeds By CASS VANZI Three burglary suspects, all with police records and one with a manslaughter conviction, were released without bail yesterday by a Brooklyn Criminal Court judge who, according to the arresting officer, said he reserves "jail for those who hit people over the head." Judge Cesar Quinones, a Family Court judge assigned to Criminal Court, ignored a request by Assistant District Attorney Joel Lever that bail of $2,000 each be set for the defendants, the prosecutor's office said. Quinones, instead, released the trio in their own recognizance, pending a hearing on the charges set for March 1. The defendants Nathaniel McQueen, 39, of 36 Pilling and Issac Brown, 21, and Reginald Thompson, 21, both of 113 Cooper St. were charged with burglary and possession of stolen property on Tuesday. Stereo Carted Off Brown and Thompson wore arrested at 11:30 a.m.

as they lugged a 6-foot-long stereo console with records falling out of the cabinet from the burglarized apartment of Mrs. Flora Eley, 43, of 369 Sumpter police said. The two were observed by Anticrime Officer Kevin Schnupp and Detective Thomas Dale of the Ralph Ave. station as they allegedly headed for McQueen's apartment a block and a half away. A short time later.

Dale arrested McQueen at his apartment, where a television set and other stolen property belonging to Mrs. Eley were recovered, police said. Family Was Away Thompson allegedly had on the John Jay H.S. ring belonging to Mrs. Eley's daughter and both Thompson and Brown appeared at the arraignment yesterday wearing overcoats belonging to Mrs.

Eley's husband, police said. The Eley family was not home at the time of the burglary. "She identified the coats and we had to take them off then and there and voucher them," Officer Schnupp said. Only for Assaults Police said McQueen has a 1969 manslaughter conviction for which he served one year and was placed on five years probation. Officer Schnupp said the judge told News photo by Dan Jacino The x's mark the adult movie spot at Trump Cinema, Coney Island.

B'klyn Rally Cry: Draw Curtain on Porno Flicks By THOMAS RAFTERY Community activists in the Coney Island-Brighton Beach area announced yesterday that they will hold a rally tonight to ring down the Jobs for 39 At Library The cutback-wracked Brooklyn Public Library system has received at least a temporary assist from the federal government in the form of 39 CETA jobs, Borough President Howard Golden announced yesterday. The jobs, funded under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, will allow the 56-branch system to hire four librarians, 28 clerks and seven building assistants in the next two months. Those slots have been vacant since a similar federal grant expired last month, according to library director Kenneth Duchac. "The jobs are guaranteed through June only but the mayor hopes that those slots will be extended past that," Duchac said, adding that it would be two months before all the slots were filled. Golden, in the meantime, has said that he will request five additional slots be allotted to the library.

the court in front of three suspects "that he saves jail for those who hit people over the head." None of the three is employed, police said. Judge Quinones was unavailable for comment. Schnupp said the suspects gained access to Mrs. Eley's ground-floor apartment by breaking through the glass door and then rummaged through the apartment. "We got suspicious when we saw them going down the block with this 6-foot console and not picking up the records that were falling out," Schnupp said.

After their arrest, police said Thompson tried to convince the cops that the high school ring belonged to him and that he was 15 years old. He wanted to go to Family Court," Schnupp said. curtain on a porno movie theater. "The people who live in Brightwater Towers, Trump Village, Warbasse Houses and Luna Park Houses are already up in arms over this intrusion into a family-oriented community." Sydelle Horowitz who is on the board of directors of Warbasse Houses, said that irate parents had been knocking on her door and phoning her to complain about the theater. "People are afraid of what sort of element the theater might attract to the area," said Mrs.

Horowitz. "The theater advertises that there is plenty of free parking available." enter The object of the rally is the Trump Cinema, 490 Neptune Ave. The small 25-seat theater, which offers reduced rates for senior citizens, recently converted to x-rated films, according to residents in the area. Donald Trump, president of the Trump Organization and landlord of the Trump Village shopping mall, where the theater is located, said that he is instructing his lawyers to look into eviction procedures. Trump said that the management of the theater claimed that it converted to x-rated movies, because the theater was not making any profit.

The management at the theater declined comment. Near Housing Complex Councilman Samuel Horwitz is incensed at having the theater in the middle of four large housing complexes where 10,000 mostly middle-class families live. "This is a highly concentrated area with lots of children and senior citizens," Horwitz said. "We want to keep this tax-paying community stable, even if it means boycotting and picketing the theater." Horwitz is one of the sponsors of the rally, which is to be held tonight at 8 in the building 3 reception room of Trump Village at 448 Neptune Ave. They're Up in Arms Pat Auletta, chairman of the local planning board, Board 13, said that the eight square block area around the theater is the most- heavily populated in the city, outside of Co-op City in the Bronx.

"PS 100 and IS 303 are within a block of the theater," protested Auletta. individual counseling and sports. The emphasis is on the three R's and survival courses according to Ms. Vandetta. Illiterate Youngsters "We have 16-year-olds who come to us completely illiterate, so we have to stress the basics.

And instead of som traditional courses, we teach kids how to read a want ad or do their taxes, things they can use in the real world," she said. Money, however, remains the major problem for the Canarsie Youth Center. "Six years ago our budget was Today it is the same, but prices have gone up 30 in the meantime. We are only able to make it now because the community is helping us out." said Ms. Vandetta, noting that families of students helped to renovate the building before the opening.

"Last week the Knights of Columbus gave us $500 toward a new boiler. That kind of support is fantastic, but it could all be for nothing by April 1," she said. lems, reading problems, criminal records and every other problem you care to name," said Ms. Vandetta, "but a lot of them get straightened out in the program and that makes it worth it." Voice of Experience Michael Lavner, one of the 13-mem-ber staff, is a 22-year-old who straightened out. "I came into the program at the beginning.

I was fooling around with all kinds of drugs. But after a while I realized that was nowhere," Lavner said, adding that the 12 to 18-year-olds that the center serves are a different generation, with different problems from his. "Sniffing glue and drinking are big now. Speed and LSD are out and gangs and street fighting are back," he said, adding that most of the students in the program have a history of acting violently in the school system. A student's day at the center is divided among classwork, group therapy, By JOHN HAMILL The name Canarsie Youth Center sounds innocuous enough.

But in reality it is a last chance for troubled kids to avoid disappearing into the blind alleys of drugs and prison. That last chance will vanish, however, if proposed state budget cuts are adopted on April 1. "If the. 25 budget cuts get past the State Legislature we will be out of business on April 2." said center director April Vandetta. The center is funded by the State Office of Drug Abuse Services, one of the targets of Gov.

Carey's budget ax. The six-year-old center is in a renovated warehouse at 1205 Rockaway which serves as both schoolhouse and counseling center for 50 students who couldn't function in a traditional school environment. "Our kids come in with drug prob.

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