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DAILY NEjWS, SUNDAY, JULY 1980 17 ffSir 11 M0 4 Ililiitlfl wfay i 11- I' -Ss Urges boycott of Fire Dept. doc Uniformed Firefighters Association President Nicholas -Mancuso has directed his members to refuse treatment from a department surgeon, Dr. Seeling Ginsberg, who, Mancuso alleged, delayed in responding to a call that a fireman had suffered a heart attack last week while on duty at Fire Headquarters, 110 Church St The fireman, Cornelius Shea, subsequently died, Mancuso said. Fire Commissioner Augustus Beekman said that he was unaware of Mancuso's order to the membership, contained in a letter mailed Friday, but that a full investigation of the incident was under way. A complete report was expected tomorrow, Beekman said.

Mancuso, however, said that he was unhappy with the investigation to date. Beekman said that he would "communicate" with Mancuso when the investigation is completed. year's anuary-to-June period. The statistics reveal that firemen responded to 61,512 fires this year compared with 58,248 last year. Building fires showed a decrease from 22,370 in 1979 to 21,900 in the first six months of this year.

However, nonstructural fires increased from 35,878 in 1979 to 39,612 this year. ft inr I I 1 i i iff 4 fie isj;" I- "I By VINCENT LEE and DON GENTILE Firemen's deaths hav increased this year, but civilian deaths in fires are down and there has been a dramatic increase in false alarms, according to statistics released by the New York City Fire Department. The department reported that four firefighters lost their lives in the line of duty in the first six months this year, two more than the number of firemen killed during the corresponding period last year. Civilians killed during the first half of this year totaled 150, down from the 160 killed during the first six months of last year, department records disclosed. The number of false alarms for the January to June 1980 period increased dramatically by 14.29 over last year.

False alarms up This year's figure is now 93,706 false alarms compared with 81,992 reported during the first six months of 1979. Fire Commissioner Augustus Beekman attributes part of the increase to a February job action taken by fire alarm dispatchers. Department policy regarding voice box reports of fires is to disregard the alarm if no one speaks into the box but Beekman said that as part of the job action, dispatchers were disregarding that policy. The policy went into effect a year ago. Beekman said that the new procedure immediately put a dent in false alarms.

In the first six months of 1978, prior to the procedural change, there were 136,199 false alarms. There were more fires during this Koch to hike pay of city's biggies 25M (Continued from page 3) included in tomorrow's round of raises or if he will accept an increase. The latest raises negotiated by the uniformed coalition give deputy police chiefs, the highest rank covered under the contract, a $58,191 salary as of July 1, 1981. Police Commissioner Robert McGuire receives An additional 5G With a 9 raise, McGuire will get an additional $5,040. An 8 increase next year, or $4,883.20, would bring his salary to $65,923.20, city officials said.

Fire Commissioner Augustus Beekman, who earns the same amount as McGuire, will get identical raises, city off icials said. The city's top managers last got a raise in May, retroactive to Jan. 1. In January 1978, Koch came under attack when he implemented new pay scales for his managers and executives, doling out raises as high as 25 to three top commissioners while even giving increases to those whose posts had been downgraded in status. At that time, he announced that lucrative overtime and sick-leave benefits, which were cashable if unused, were eliminated.

He also required many managers to move into the city if they wanted to keep their jobs. iU. li I hilt i Bid Jg, I i Jim HuhMDally New Mickey Rooney Joins winners of the Dally News Challenger Contest yesterday outside the Mark Helllnger Theater on W. 51st St. near Broadway.

MET CHALLENGE Mickey Rooney applauds winners Mickey Rooney, the effervescent star of "Sugar Babies," congratulated a starry-eyed group of winners in the Daily News Challenger games at the stage door of the Mark Hellinger Theater yesterday. The winners were some of the 20 entrants in Jimmy Breslin's New York Challenger Game, each of whom received two tickets to one of 10 top plays or musicals, including "Sugar Babies," now running on Broadway. The New York Challenger, the second in the weekly series of games, was published during the week of July 6, with answers to the five featured questions published daily to assist players with their entries. "I really have stars in my eyes," said Maria Cotty, a registered nurse from Whitestone, Queens. "It will be a pleasure to see stars like Mickey Rooney, Ann Miller and Patti LuPone." "That goes for me, too," said John DeChiaro, a salesman from Bayonne, N.J., another winner determined by a random drawing conducted by Mail Marketing Associates, an independent judging organization.

Prizes were awarded to the first 20 correct entries drawn. Top-flight shows Among the other shows the winners will see are "Evita," "Barnum," and "A Chorus Line." The other winners are: Josephine Albergo, a Brooklyn housewife and mother of three. Bernadette Alcamo, a student at Marymount School of New York. Valerie Bristol, a department store cashier from Brooklyn. Julia Cohen of the Bronx, an investigations review specialist for the Postal Service.

Robert Galante, a truck driver from Staten Island. Brenda Goldberg, a free-lance textbook editor from Manhattan. Marilyn Iorio of South a keypunch supervisor. Yvonne Jackson of Queens, a teacher at Wingate High School in Brooklyn. Anita Janda, a technical writer for a computer firm, from Queens.

Vilma Lucci of Manhattan, a specialist in stockholders' relations for IBM. Francine Lukasavage of Queens, office manager for a restaurant equipment Deirdr OroiMnDally News It was even hotter inside Firemen place ladder to one of eight 15-foot windows that were shattered by the heat of a two-alarm blaze that burned out the Colonial Room of the Roosevelt Hotel on E. 46tb St yesterday morning. Heat from fire also melted chandeliers. Blaze, which firemen said started in a storeroom, was brought under control in 20 minutes, with no injuries.

probes chaplain company. Fire Department Virginia McCray, Queens, a nurse's aide. Gary Moore of Queens, a language teacher at PS 25 in the Bronx. Pat Patti of Queens, an insurance agent Amy Santino of Staten Island, a nursing student Peter Sansone, a photography salesman, of Manhattan. Leo Stambler, a certified public accoulntant, from Queens.

Patrick Breen of Queens, a conductor for the Transit Authority. Players In last week's Kay Gardella'a TV Challenger Game are reminded to Fire Department Inspector General Paul Kotch has launched an investigation into allegations that department chaplains are taking gasoline intended for fire engines to use in their own cars, the Daily News has learned. The alleged thefts, department sources say, stem from a long-standing unwritten rule that chaplains who receive only $5,000 a year for their around-the-clock services to the department be allowed to gas up their private cars to go to fires and to visit sick firemen in hospitals. The controversial probe is part of a series that includes investigations of surgeons who allegedly were working on their private boats when they were supposed to be at fires and firemen who are believed to be goofing off in light-duty jobs, the sources said. get their entries in before Wednesday's deadline.

Among the prizes in the latest game are home video cassette systems and complete home film.