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Daily News from New York, New York • 388

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Daily Newsi
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New York, New York
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388
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ding with nun nop By OWEN MORITZ e. Philip Morris Inc. has swung deals with the -Whitney Museum and the Penn Central Rail-: road that will enable' the firm to add six stories to its corporate being1 built opposite Grand Central Terminal, and bring a branch of the Whitney to 42d St. The deals will allow Philip Morris to, put upa 26-stor tower on the site of the old Airlines Building at Park Ave Paid $2.5 millioa In one deal, taking advantage of a zoning law that permits transfer of air rights, the cigaret firm paid $2.5 million to Penn Central for 3 of the air rights over the terminal. This will permit three additional floors for Philip "Morris headquarters.

In the second deal, Philip Morris picked up another three floors by agreeing to set aside space in an. open arcade for a museum branch. The Whitney at Madison Ave. and 75th has a similar branch in the Wall St. area.

The 42 St-branch will emphasize sculpture. Community Board to discuss it Philip the nation's 74th largest firm, Hie second largest maker of cigarets and, through its Miller Brewing the fourth largest brewer, announced in 1976 it would keep its corporate hadquarters in New York. The corporation now rents space. The plan goes before Community Board 3 on Call it Helmsley Building Gov. Carey led a ceremony last night renaming the historic former New York Central Building at 230 Park as the Helmsley Building in honor of its new owner, real estate man Harry B.

Helmsley. The building is illuminated with 4,000 watts of light, which shine on a newly cleaned exterior decorated with pure gold leaf. It is the first large-scale outdoor application of gold leaf here since the statue of Prometheus went up in Rockefeller Center in 1934- Thursday at 6 p.m. in St. Malachy's Church, 239 W.

49th St. "We consider the Philip Morris building a plus for 42d commented Board Chairman Hal Negbaur. i V4 Bate pasts of 2 held in slaying Two teenagers accused of slaying an elderly Bronx widow and then setting fire to her apartment had a history of arrests for a variety of serious crimes, including grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property, it was disclosed yesterday. The youths Miguel Cruz, 18, and Oscar Arroyo, 15 are being held without bail in the death of Lillian Margolis, 83, who was bludgeoned to death in her west Bronx apartment Saturday night. Informed sources said that Arroyo, who is being prosecuted as an adult in the case, was arrested as recently as last month on grand larceny and possession charges.

The disposition of that case in Family Court was not immediately known. If convicted of murder, Cruz could face a maximum prison term of 25 years to life and Arroyo a maximum of nine years to life. on political party. Cardinal Cooke and Mayor Koch join some young friends for a Christmas party yesterday at the Waldorf. Fete was the cardinal's annual celebration for children of the New York Foundling Hospital and of the child care programs of the Archdiocese of New York.

Jacobson is lairing a slug at long Island Snail Road sued: 275G Sea Cliffy Oyster QUEENS Ba RiMl Rosy NASSAU S. Hicksville I '-f if Bethpage Park Jamaica 1 i Queens Garden Village Wes, City St.Alban$ Hempstead I Hempstead CTTTTT1 Stream lindenhurst Babylon Continued from paga 3) for $1 million by the Department of Transportation and began in June by the private consulting firm, Booz, Allen Hamilton, chronicled the unstemmed deterioration in railroad service over the last 10 years. Obtained by the Daily News, the study was said to have been one of the factors that prompted Gov. Carey to dismiss Robert K. Pattison as the railroad's president and replace him last July with former Grumman Aircraft executive Francis S.

Gabreski. According to the report, only 76.5 of the trains are now running on time. "Our timetables have to be revised to show this," said a railroad spokesman, "if a train has been late everyday for years, then we should revise the timetable to show the correct travel time." Employe complaints The study stated: "(Poor) on-time performance is the greatest single problem facing the LIRR." While it attributed bad performance- to the railroad's inability to manage its employes, it also cited interviews with the employes in which they, in turn, unreliability of the present car fleet, poor condition of signals and communi- lack of adequate space to store trains during off-peak times of the day, and vandalism and disruption "through -disorders created by the traveling public." jA review of delay reports over the Former horse trainer Howard (Buddy) Jacobson, indicted in a love triangle slaying involving cover girl Melanie Cain, was sued yesterday for more than $275,000 for allegedly failing to. pay for 21 thoroughbred horses he bought March 31. In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Edward F.

Edwards of the Audley Farms contended that he sold the horses to Jacobson for $280,204.15 and that $275,610.25 is still unpaid Jacobson, who was freed on $100,000 bail on Oct 18 after spending 2 months in jail, found notice of the suit tacked onto the door of his penthouse apartment at 155 E. 84th after attempts to serve him failed. The suit is to be heard on Dec. 20. Jacobson, 48, a horse trainer turned real estate tycoon, has been charged with beating and shooting to death John Tupper, 34, on Aug.

6 about three weeks after Tupper replaced him as the lover of model Melanie Cain, 23. Tupper was killed allegedly In Jacobson's apartment and his body was found in a wooden crate that had been set afire and left in a Bronx lot. Stewart Ain News map by Ed Gallagher The president of the railroad now has 19 department heads reporting directly to him. The report mandated "realignment" of the railroad under tw senior executive officers, one for administration and one for operations. Yesterday, a spokesman for MTA Chairman Harold Fisher said: "Mr.

Gabreski is expected to make recommendations to take, the first steps in the study- at a monthly board meeting Friday. "Chairman Fisher has already told the governor we find the report helpful and will implement its recommanda-tions, with fewBiinor exceptions." last 18 months indicated that 40 of all delayed trains experienced mechanical failure. However, after each documented problem, the study cited a failure of management as the underlying cause. For example, the study found that tlie railroad uses an antiquated telephone system to keep track of its daily commuter trains. There is no automated dispatching, nor is there radio contact between dispatchers and trains.

To immediately correct the problem, the study recommended a sweeping organizational change in the staffing of the railroad's Transportation -y rti.

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