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5 4 15 1 11 Wwsmv (Sfoefflm llflew '0 il fl 1 a 1 1) I ill fi ffu ilbjM 2 By MARTIN KING Mayor Koch and Gov. Carey pledged yesterday to build a fitting memorial here in honor of the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust, and especially those killed in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising of 36 years ago. An overflow crowd of more than 5.000 persons many of them survivors of Nazi terror was at Temple Emanu El at Fifth Ave. and 65th St. for asolemn memorial service marking the 36th anniversary of the uprising and the start of a weeklong observance here in memory of the victims of the Holocaust.

"To look away from evil is the sin of every generation," said Rabbi Ronald Sobel, spiritual leader of the congregation. But Koch said that those who fought the "Nazi infamy" would not be forgotten by New Yorkers. "Outpouring of respect" The temple's sanctuary was filled with 2,500 persons, and in its side halls 1,000 watched the proceedings on closed-circuit TV. Another 2,000 sat on bleachers or stood outside, where the ceremonies were brought to them by loudspeakers. "That this awesome outpouring of respect and remembrance should be happening here is natural and correct." Koch said, noting that New York holds the largest Jewish community in the world.

He then promised that the memorial "will rise here." Carey said the state would join with the city in building the memorial. He recalled that he was with the American liberating forces in Europe and witnessed the aftermath of the atrocities. "I vow before you that I will continue to fight against the hate and persecution that brought them about," Carey said. Message from Carter The service, sponsored by the Warsaw Ghetto Resistance Organization, marked the beginning of a week of remembrances for the victims of the Holocaust. Sen.

Daniel P. Moynihan (D-New York) was one of the guest speakers, as was Israeli Ambassador to the UN Yehuda Blum. A message from President Carter, deploring the Nazi terror in Warsaw, was delivered by presidential adviser Edward Sanders. Women survivors of the Holocaust lit memorial candles, and there was a procession of Jewish schoolchildren from Manhattan and Long Island. Benjamin Meed, president of the sponsoring organization, said, "It is remarkable that the further we recede in time from that devastating period, our concern for what happened then grows day by day stronger." Survivors of Holocaust carry lighted candles during memorial service at Temple Emanu-El.

Suffolk residents shaken by 2 slayings By MICHAEL HANRAHAM Suffolk County residents, usually secure in their suburban surroundings where the most serious threats of crime are from burglars and drunk drivers, have been shaken by reports yesterday of two brutal homicides. Neighbors in the upper middle-class Village of the Branch, in Smithtown, joined in a search of a wooded area behind a local grade school Saturday and found the body of 13-year-old John Pius, only child of John and Barbara Pius of 20 Franklin Drive. Dragged into the woods The boy, described as a popular athlete at Nesaquake Junior High School, -where he was an eith-grader and played football and lacrosse, had been suffocated, according to a preliminary autopsy report. The boy's fully clad body had been through the villages of Amityville and Farmingdale on heavily traveled Route 110. Police report that Dominick Ragucci -of 1 Jetmore Drive, Massapequa, was Shot to death after his car became disabled in a collision with a third vehicle.

Two men, in a late-model Cadillac, began chasing Ragucci shortly after 7 pjn. Thursday. The cars raced up Route 110, through several red lights, weaved through traffic and jumped the center divider several times as Ragucci tried to elude the gunmen who fired at least 20 shots during the pursuit. The youth, an honor student who was graduated from Massapequa High School last year, was studying criminal justice at Nassau Community College while working part-time as a vacuum cleaner salesmen. In Suffolk, with a population of 1.4 million there were 34 cases of murder in 1978 which is about as many as are reported in New York City in an average week.

dragged into the woods, where his killer or killers tried to cover it with leaves. His new, 10-speed bicycle was found propped against a nearby tree. John was last seen at about 9 p.m. Friday when, after adjusting the bike brakes, he told his father that he was going to take it for a test run. His father, an installer for Western Electric, called police three hours later and searched in vail until the early hours of Saturday.

The neighbors formed a search party Saturday afternoon and found the body behind the Dogwood Elementary School, about five blocks from the Pius' home. Suffolk homicide detectives meanwhile were forced to divide their attentions between questioning residents of the Smithtown area for leads to John's killers and trying to learn the identity of the gunmen who killed an 18-year-old student with automatic rifle fire during a seven-mile high-speed auto chase Hooker knevjdumps lenh poisons, but denied danger (Continued from page 5) burned youngsters playing on the dump sites. This chilling catalogue of toxins includes more than 200 compounds, including some never seen before that state chemists call "organic curiosities." State and federal environment officials say much of this deadly waste has leaked into the Niagara River upstream and downstream from the Falls. More than 100,000 residents of the area drink water from that river. So far, tests show that treated Niagara Falls drinking water meets state health standards.

But those standards do not include minimum permitted levels of. most of the exotic chemicals found in the area's leaking dumps. Some biochemists say there are no safe levels for many of these poisons. And not until this year have Niagara Falls city officials even start sophisticated testing to discover exactly what is in their drinking water. The city's main water-treatment plant, downstream from Love Canal and the so-called 102d St.

dump site, sits right next to Hooker Chemical's S-dump, which has been leaking and occasionally has been catching fire at least since 1958. Tests on sediment from the water-treatment plant show "surprisingly high" levels of a broad range of toxic substances, according to Charles God-dard, head of the State Department of Environmental Conservation's hazardous waste program. The sediment analysis found, for example, 21 parts per million of chloroform, which can cause liver and respiratory disease. 74,000 toxic tons One Hooker internal memo dated June 24, J.958, says that the S-dump contained several kinds of construction waste, mostly porous rock unable to contain toxic liquids inside the dump's trenches. The memo describes 74,000 tons of toxic substances that include benzines and other known carcinogens plus "pyrophoric particles which burst into flame upon exposure to air and produce HCL." "Pyrophoric" means the stuff catches fire.

And HC1 is hydrochloric acid. One memo dated July 27, 1967, describes how two children playing at the unfenced dump were burned when phosphorous and chlorates exploded as they ran across the site. The Army Corps of Engineers finally ordered the 102d St. dump closed in 1970. Hooker promptly tried to persuade the city of Niagara Falls to take the dumps off its hand.

"The river frontage plus the fact that this site is contiguous with Griffon Park should make this attractive to the city," a company memo says. "Sale of the property will relieve Hooker of the property taxes as well as continuing maintenance." Four years later after the city declined the company's offer, an April 1974 memo suggested that the dump should be reseeded to cover "chunks of waste BHC" (BHC is composed mainly of the pesticide Lindane), and concluded that "since the area is in public view from the River Road, and the river, the seeding will present a much better image of Hooker." Company and state documents reveal that Hooker never successfully covered and sealed the 102d St. dump to stop the leakage. And in 1976, the State Department of Environmental Conservation concluded that poison, were including Mixex and PCBs, were still seeping into the river. State Health Department memos disclose complaints about leaks and contamination from Hyde Park as early as 1964.

Thirteen years later, a Hooker memo warned that "groundwater may be contaminated" in the area because some company samples were "discolored" and had "strong odors." That was in September, 1977. Yet four months later, in a letter to state environmental control officials dated Jan. 18, 1978, Hooker never mentioned the potential contamination and it insists that further investigation is "unnecessary." U.S. Justice Dept. investigators have told The News they already have compiled enough evidence to file either civil or criminal charges against Hooker.

And New York's attorney general and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are also considering legal action. None of this has apparently hurt Hooker financially, however. Last week, the company reported that its first quarter profits have more than doubled from $7.2 million last year to $17.7 million this year..