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GOOD LIVING Hurrah for the red wine and white ACTION LINE Money back and a promise, too Page 2 DAILY NEWS Wednesday. July 29. 1387 Mill mmmamnwn -I mi. i ynwu j. -v- -Air 4vxri I "ill I 1 OOMOROO OAIUT NEWS AUROER SUSPECT Nelson Counne leaves the 13th Precinct with detectives.

a IF Monthly Mass The St Joseph Unit of Merrick's Monthly Mass for spiritual development of recovering alcoholics, families, and friends will meet on Aug. 9 at 6 p.m. at Cure of Ars school auditorium, Hewlett Ave. For information, call 623-1400. Arguing good? The Single Parent Action Network will meet tonight at 8 at 480 Old West-bury Road, Roslyn Heights.

The topic will be, "Is Arguing Healthy?" For information, call 626-2716. Tennis tourneys Competitive and enjoyable tennis tournaments will be held at North Wood me re Park in August for mixed doubles and coed doubles paddle-ball. For information, call 791-3935. Home booklet The L.I. Board of Realtors has prepared a free booklet entitled, "Home, Sweet Investment," that offers useful tips for home owners.

To obtain one, call 661-4800. Gems show The Island Rock Hounds will have their 15th annual Gem and Mineral show at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Center, on Pinelawn Road, Melville, Aug 8-9 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Widowed meet The St Monica's Inter-faith Social Group for Widowed Men and Women will meet Aug. 5 at 8:30 p.m.

at the American Legion Hall, 115 Southern Parkway, Plainview. $25,000 award The Suffolk County Historical Society has been awarded $25,000 from the N.Y.S. Discretionary Grant Program for the Conservation Preservation of Library Research Materials. The money will go toward the preservation of the Fullerton Photograph Collection. Osteoporosis Winthrop-Univeristy Hospital is looking for several hundred women volunteers who are six months to three years post-menopausal to par- -1 ticipate in a study of osteoporosis.

For information, call 663-2888. killers. Last Monday, police announced two arrests in connection with the murder of Shapiro: Counne and another man, Jose Quiles of Wallace the Bronx. At their arraignment yesterday in Manhattan Supreme Court, Counne was or-dered held without bail. Quiles, an associate of Counne's, was ordered held on $250,000 bail.

"When I got up the next morning and he wasn't there, I knew in my heart that he was dead," said Shapiro's wife, Barbara. "I'm very relieved and I'm very grateful," she said. "It won't bring back Henry Shapiro. But it will help in closing a chapter in our lives." Mrs. Shapiro said her hus JotoIoit miliar with the case said Shapiro may have been killed because Counne owed Shapiro more than $20,000 for jewelry purchased at Shapiro's W.

47th St store. The night the jeweler disappeared, employes at the store reported that they saw him leave with Counne At the time, they said, Shapiro was carrying $4,000 in jewelry and $2,000 in cash. Counne told Mrs. Shapiro that the two men stopped for a drink at Ben Benson's, W. 52d St at Broadway.

Then they went to another eatery on Broadway at W. 72d St At 7:30 p.m., Counne said, he put Shapiro in a cab outside the restaurant to take him home via Penn Station. Shapiro never reached Plainview. oped an infection and blood-. clotting problem in his veins.

The problem, he said, was a result of the fact that the injury was a "crushed amputation" as opposed to a "clean cut amputation." In Rodgers case, there was a lot of muscle and nerve damage, he said, that made it easier for complications to arise. "We decided to remove it because of the possibility that the arm would infect the rest of the body," he said. Rodgers has received support from his friends and looks forward to getting back on his feet again. "At first I was scared, and I didn't know what I was going to do," he said. "But now I know I'll be able to pursue anything I want in life." By ROBERT GEARTY DaHy News Staff Writer Last Aug.

30 Henry Shapiro, a Manhattan jeweler, invited an acquaintance, Nelson Counne, to a backyard barbecue at his home in Plainview. Two days later, Shapiro disappeared without a trace. Nelson Counne, a businessman from Miami, was the last one to see him. What happened to Shapiro remained a mystery until last February, when a badly decomposed body was found in a marsh in Far Rockaway, Queens. A check of dental records revealed that the remains were those of Shapiro, who had been shot four times.

For the next five months, police hunted for the killer or By JERRY ROSA Daily News Staff Writer Joseph Rodgers may have lost an arm, but he has not lost his dreams. "I'm going to keep going, Tm going to keep pushing," said Rodgers, 20, of North Massapequa, as he lay in his hospital bed at Nassau County Medical Center. Rodgers' arm was severed July 11 when he was hit by a Long Island Rail Road train in Farmingdale. A quick-acting Nassau cop packed the arm in ice, and a team of 14 doctors and nurses labored for 11 hours in a micro-surgery procedure and successfully re-attached the arm. But the re-attachment only lasted until Sunday, when doctors told Rodgers the band and Counne first met two years ago, when Counne purchased some jewelry.

"He reappeared in our lives a year ago last January," she said. The disappearance had touched off an intense manhunt by the Nassau County Missing Persons Squad and detectives from the Manhattan North Task Force. At one point, Shapiro's two young daughters, aged 8 and 5, wrote a letter to Mayor Koch, asking for help in finding "our daddy." Police would not say how they broke the case. However, two weeks ago investigators had gathered enough evidence to present the case to a Manhattan grand Police would not disclose a motive either, but sources fa "I will be able to use an artificial limb like my own hand and do anything," he said. "Once they told me that, I felt that I could relax." He said that he has worked at many Long Island restaurants, doing what he likes best, preparing food.

"I want to be a chef," he said. "I like working with food, but I didn't know how it would be with one arm. Cook-. ing food is great because you get a chance to please people." 'Crushed amputation' Dr. Gene Lee, the head of the Micro-Surgery Section at Nassau County Medical Center who headed the team that worked on Rodgers's arm, said that after the re-attachment the young man devel news that his arm would have to be removed because of an infection that had developed.

Rodgers, who has dreams of becoming a chef, said that his loss will not stop him. He said that the hospital physicians had "told me they could only save two to three nerves and that I wouldn't have any feeling. It would be a dead arm with dead weight" P.odgers was hit when he was sitting by the railroad tracks with a friend. He said he got up to get out of the way, but he "was sucked back into the train." He added, "I didn't even see it go by, and I was pulled into it" The prospect of having an artificial limb that would work like his own arm brightened his somber mood..