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Daily News from New York, New York • 289

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By CHARLES EATON fev 5J: -154! ra feill ST" St I ft 3 fti -I tii fell 3 41 The prospect of a 50-cent parking fee for Kings Plaza shoppers has prompted civic leaders from the surrounding communities to plan a massive demonstration this weekend, it was announced yesterday. The demonstration is scheduled to begin at 10 a m. on Saturday morning. The leaders said their aim is to cause "a great deal of confusion." "We plan to mass about a thousand people around the entrances and exits," said Jerry Bisogno, the president of the Mill Basin Civic Association. "They are giving our neighborhoods heartburn over this; and hopefully we will be able to provide them with a good deal of chaos in return." The fee was originally scheduled to be implemented this month, but delays in the construction of booths for fee collecting have caused a postponement of the fee until the beginning of next year.

"That gave us the time to prepare several demonstrations and make up posters, signs, and flyers showing our opposition," Bisogno said. The proposal of a 50-cent parking charge was made to cover the cost of parking-facility improvements. Approximately 20,000 cars pass through the mall of 150 stores daily, according to Police Department figures. In preparation for what Bisogno termed the first shot in a war, 30,000 leaflets were passed out and sound-spewing cars have been criss-crossing the neighborhoods. "We have not heard anything from the plaza management; and as far as their decision to put the 50-cent fee on hold until next year, it's just to get the holidays out of the way," Bisogno said.

The meeting place for the demonstrators will be the parking lot of the St Columba Church. "This will be our first big attempt at making a statement conerning this parking fee," Bisogno said. "If this idea doesn't change, we might have our own Thankgiving Day Parade right here in the mall." This weekend's demonstration won't be the last according to Bisogno. "If everything else fails, we will call for a boycott of every store in Kings Plaza," he said. Kings Plaza's management was not immediately available for a response.

Demonstrators plan to tie up traffic at Kings Plaza Shopping Center Saturday In parking-fee protest v'. Violence prompts meeting By CHARLES SEATON Allegedly, the students are being preyed upon by roving bands of teens from the project Police from the Bath Ave. Station are working with youth gang squads to put an end-to the' incidents. According to a police spokesman, the biggest problem seems to come from people who exaggerate the incidents. "We have gotten reports of kindergarten kids being beaten and girls with broken legs," said the spokesman.

"It's all untrue." "It's about time the community got involved with the problems of the Marlboro Houses," said Jeannet-te Addessi, president of the West End Community Council. Carmine Santa Maria, a spokesman for group, said: "This meeting will clear the air of a lot of the rumors that have been floating around." The meeting will be at 8 p.m. at the Highlawn Public Library at W. 13th St and Kings Highway. It is open to all community residents.

Violence involving high school students near the Marlboro Houses in Bensonhurst has prompted a neighborhood group to call for a meeting on Monday to ease tensions there. Capt Richard Mayronne, commanding officer of the 62d Precinct; Capt Nicholas Boles of the New York City Transit Police; Capt Mike Racioppo of the Housing Authority Police, and representatives from the management of the Marlboro Houses as well as local elected officials will be at the meeting. "There is a tense and difficult situation out there," said a spokesman for the Housing Authority. "But we do resent the presumption that the projects themselves have a negative influence on the Bensonhurst community." City and housing police have increased foot and scooter patrols in the neighborhood in an attempt to stem the recent rash of beatings and muggings involving students of Lafayette and Dewey High Schools. rm ra By ALBERT DA VILA He's guilty of murder A 22-year-old man was convicted yesterday in Brooklyn Supreme Court of murdering a cabdriver two years ago during a robbery in the Gravesend Project Narzel Talbert, of North Carolina, was found guilty after a one-week trial in which his half-brother testified that Talbert was the trigger man in the shooting of cabdriver Howard Glantzman, 28.

The half-brother. Dale Patterson, 21, told the jury that on the night of April 23, 1931, Talbert and he were passengers in a cab driven by Glantzman. When the cab arrived at the housing project Patterson said, Talbert shot two bullets into the cabby's head. Patterson was arrested about a month after the crime and charged with murder. According to Assistant District Attorney Eric Kraus, Patterson was upset because Talbert had escaped to North Carolina.

Talbert, who was serving time in a North Carolina jail when arrested on the New York charges, was brought back to Brooklyn last January. He faces 25 years to life when he is sentenced Nov. 10. Patterson is serving 20 years to life for the murder at the Great Meadow Correctional Institution in upstate New York. Albert Davila operators "something in the neighborhood of $1 million a year." Though there were no arrests, sources said the investigation was continuing and future raids and arrests are expected.

The computerized slot machines, which began appearing in the late 1970s in bars, social clubs, penny arcades and small grocery stores throughout the borough, give organized crime millions of dollars in untaxed money each year, cops said. "They are not like the ones you see in Vegas or Atlantic City," said Inspector Peter Prezioso, commander of the Public Morals Division. "The machines are fixed so that they don't pay the top prizes," he added. "In Vegas, they at least pay you off a certain percentage." Since July, cops have confiscated more than 300' slot machines anything from a typical one-armed, bandit to a highly sophisticated computerized horse A series of raids that shut two warehouses and a slot machine repair shop in Clinton Hill was the prelude to a joint effort by police and the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office to smash illegal gambling in the borough, authorities said yesterday. The raids conducted by cops from the Police Department's Public Morals Division and a squad of detectives from the District Attorney's Office were part of an ongoing investigation to wipe out a multimillion dollar, illicit gambling concern setup in Brooklyn by "an organized crime family," according to authorities.

The Tuesday-night raids, at two warehouses and a bar on Myrtle and a repair shop on Sandford netted 25 video-type poker machines reportedly capable of giving payoffs to players. Authorities, estimated the machines netted ft 4 ft.

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