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firm ch channels 100G suits and 1,700 offices and taverns south of E. 86th St. and W. 79th Gault said. "STEALING FROM a cable company has been compared by some people to robbing from the rich to create a Robin Hood mentality," said Gault.

"That's totally wrong. Stealing is stealing." The bars cited were Swells at 1439 York Allens at 606 Second Ave. and the Recovery Room at 417 E. 70th St. Of the 33 individuals named 17 live on Roosevelt Island.

"We are presumed innocent, and we will fight our case in court," said Irwin Manhattan Cable TV filed federal damage suits yesterday totaling $100,000 against 33 persons and three bars for allegedly pirating service by tapping into telecasts. Company president John Gault said the suits, filed in Federal Court, were the first in a campaign against "at least 5,000" persons and firms that the company believes are stealing service. The loss, he said, amounts to about $1 million annually. Manhattan Cable serves 190,000 sub-. scribers, including 20,000 hotel rooms.

BY ROBERT CARROLL Klein, attorney for Swells. He said he had not seen the complaint. A spokesman for Allens said: "We have been disconnected for months. The last thing we were told was we had to pay $1,000 to reconnect. We chose not to, but nobody came to pick up their equipment." He said the matter has been turned over to the restaurant's attorney.

A SPOKESMAN for the Recovery Room could not be reached for comment. According to Gault, theft of service is one of the major problems of cable television, accounting for more than $100 million in losses annually AP Clang-clang-clang San office Diego building. trolley Trolley car comes had to collided halt Monday a bus after from crashing the into an Airport went the trolley detoured Transportation until the Service. Nine minor cleared. injuries were reported.

Traffic was mess was Martin King A weekend nd convict dead at 51 Gets 52 of them for killing wife Martin King, 51, a staff reporter for the Daily News, died in his sleep Monday night at his apartment in Manhattan. King, who worked at The News for 27 years, had been ill with cancer of the larynx for most of the past year. Despite the illness, he continued to work. His last day at the paper was Friday. After serving in the Navy, King began his career at The News in 1956 as a copyboy.

He was soon promoted to reMartin King porter and was assigned to the paper's United Nations bureau. He held that position for 14 years before joining the metropolitan staff as a general assignment reporter. For the past two years, his stories have appeared in the Manhattan section. King is survived by his wife, son, Stephen. A funeral Mass will be offered at 10 a.m.

tomorrow at the Epiphany Church, 22d St. and Second Ave. 11 throughout the country. He said illegal taps may cause interference with legal subscribers' reception. Gault said Manhattan Cable had set up a task force several months ago to seek out illegal hookups.

Some "illegals" had agreed to become subscribers and were not named in the suits, he said. "With our new technology we are able to identify illegal hookups within days and to pinpoint them within a matter of feet," said Gault. "If I were an illegal hookup I would want to become a legal hookup very quickly." Hunt fed parolee in killing By MURRAY WEISS A reputed mobster who was recently paroled from federal prison was being sought yesterday in the slaying of a Connecticut man who was "senselessly" shot dead last week when he "tried to be a peacemaker" during an argument in a Brooklyn tavern, police said. Cops identified the suspected gunman as Rocco (Rocky) DiPietro, 24, the son of Carlo DiPietro, a reputed captain in the Genovese crime family who disappeared two years ago and is presumed dead. DiPietro was being sought in the murder last Friday of William Jenks, 25, a struggling freelance cameraman who graduated two years ago from Brooklyn's Pratt Institute of Fine Arts, where he majored in film and video.

DIPIETRO WAS paroled last June from the federal prison in Allenwood, after serving six months of three-year sentence in the attempted swindle of $10 million from the Bache and Co. brokerage firm, said Detective Stephen Gardell of the 65th St. station. Dayton, Ohio (AP) man who admitted shooting his wife to death has been sentenced to 52 weekends in jail, primarily because he is the sole support for the couple's six children. The judge also said the man's wife had previously shot her husband and had "provoked the incident to some extent." Albert Willie Hines 39, had faced a four to 25-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to voluntary man- OBITUARY REV.

ALFORD CARLETON Columbus, Ohio (AP) The Rev. Alford Carleton, 80, a force for ecumenism as head of the United Church of Christ's missionary work, died Monday. Carleton was praised as "a founder of the United Church of Christ," by the 1.75-million-member denomination's president, the Rev. Dr. Avery D.

Post. He said Carleton "was respected throughout the world for his perspectives concerning international relations and his deep understanding of interfaith and intercultural realities." slaughter in July. But Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge William Wolff Jr. suspended the prison term, sentencing Hines on Monday to a year of weekends at the Dayton Human Rehabilitation Center. The Montgomery County Adult Probation Department had recommended probation, noting Hines has six children, between 4 and 12 years old.

Probation department officials said if Hines were imprisoned, the Montgomery County Children Services Board would have to split up the children because of their ages. The probation department also listed past marital problems, including an incident 12 years ago when Hines' wife, Janet, allegedly shot him. However, Wolff refused to probate Hines' sentence. But, Wolff added, "It appears Mrs. Hines had provoked the incident to some extent.

Mr. Hines has indicated he had been shot in the past by the lady and thought she might be going for the gun again." Hines is to serve 52 weekends at the rehabilitation center, from 6 p.m. on Fridays to 6 p.m. on Sundays. Wolff also ordered Hines to pay the funeral expenses for his wife.

Gardell said Jenks went to the Red Barn Tavern on Fourth Ave. in Sunset Park to visit a friend, whose name was withheld. When Jenks got there, his friend's father, who owns the bar, asked him to wait inside for the owner's son. As they stood at the bar, DiPietro entered with another man. Gardell said the bar owner asked DiPietro to leave because "he always caused trouble," and an argument ensued, according to cops.

When Jenks asked DiPietro to calm down, DiPietro allegedly yelled "mind your own business," pulled out a gun and shot Jenks in the left side. DiPietro and his accomplice fled. JENKS DIED seven hours later at Lutheran Hospital. Jenks' father, William, a machine tool distributor from Wallingford, said his son moved to Brooklyn to attend Pratt Institute. Jenks said his son was looking for an apartment in upstate Tarrytown because he had grown fearful of crime in the city.

Police asked persons with information about DiPietro to call (212) 439- 4238. All calls will be kept confidential..