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Daily News from New York, New York • 384

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384
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Walter Joseph of 186-23 Henderson who is also known as Joseph Walters, also will have a hearing on additional charges of robbery, possession of a weapon and possession of marijuana. He was held without bail on Thursday by Judge John Clabby. Police of the Queens Village Precinct said Joseph followed an employe reporting for work shortly before 7 a.m. as she entered the restaurant at Springfield Blvd. and Hillside Ave.

Employe killed instantly Once inside the restaurant, police said, Joseph accosted Ralph Procaccini, 27, of 45 West Oxford St, Valley Stream, who was in his office preparing for the day's business. Without warning, Joseph fired one bullet into Procaccini's head, killing him instantly, police said. Witnesses later told police the gunman casually walked away from the restaurant Nothing was taken in the holdup. Last Tuesday night, a spokesman for Queens District Attorney John Santucci, said Joseph and another man were arrested for allegedly selling marijuana from a car in a parking lot at Francis Lewis and Linden Blvds. Both men were charged with the sale of marijuana.

After an investigation, Joseph was arrested on another charge of robbing a fast food restaurant on Linden Blvd. near 210th St Albans, on Aug. 20. Following his arraignment on the charges he was re-arraigned on a homicide charge, and held without bail for tomorrow's hearing. The man arrested with Joseph on the marijuana charge was paroled in expectation of dismissal.

While Joseph was being booked on the new robbery charge, police decided to charge him with the murder of Procaccini, allegedly because of identification' by witnesses. It was learned Joseph has been arrested previously for various crimes including weapons possession, burglary, criminal possession of stolen property and criminal possession of narcotics. TM to aid -75 hus backers tween 3 and 3:30 in the parking lot of the Oakland Jewish Center, 220th St and 61st Ave. The TA had planned to eliminate Saturday service on the Q-75 route from 69th Ave. and 230th St.

to the 179th St subway station in Jamaica. The TA said Saturday buses are underutilized and cutting out the service would save $60,000 a year. It was the only cutback in Queens proposed in a package that the TA would save $1.4 million. No agreement was reached at the rally, where three TA officials spoke on the plan. However, Simon said the officials said that "you are the only community that is kicking." Alternate route proposed The TA urged residents in South Bayside to use the Q-17 route along the Long Island Expressway as an alternative.

She said that would require residents to walk up to one mile to catch a bus. By WILLIAM BUTLER In a partial response to South Bayside protests that it would be inconvenient for citizens to travel to Manhattan to object to the plan to cut back service on theQ-75 bus route, the Transit Authority has agreed to provide a round-trip bus to an ad hoc protest committee for $1. The bus was offered during a rally last Thursday at which 200 people appeared, according to Rose Simon, chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee to Save the Q-75. A public hearing on the cutback is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon in the World Trade Center. Will leave from center Simon said protesters would board the bus be IVItM VOH IT VOUMf lit mo in sum.

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