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33 NEWS DMEFS -DAILY NEWS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17f1974 ionn Alan Indicted By BRUCE DRAKE Customers' electric-bill complaints that Consolidated Edison has been unable to resolve for two months or longer reached a year's high level of 7,110 in September, according to figures obtained from the company yesterday. Fake Poctor ne numoer 01 complaints in i Ms that category- a problem the Car Kills 2 Iii Classroom New Castle, Oct. 16 (AP) Two 5-year-old children were killed today when a car crashed into their kindergarten classroom. One of the victims was Michelle Lee, in only her second day of school. Eight other children were injured.

The other fatality was Steven Green-well. There were 31 children in the room when the vehicle slammed into the building and came to rest completely inside the classroom, officers said. The car's driver, Frank Bur-ris, 63, apparently suffered a heart attack just before the crash and died. His wife, Dol-lie, was injured. show that complaints pending more than 60 days rose in Manhattan from 4,046 to 4,254 and in Queens from 1,435 to 2,019.

Both are divisions where th computer system has been installed for some time and the program ta eliminate estimate has already started. Gerald Walsh, the chief of the Consumer Service Section of the Public Service Commission, attributed some of Con Ed's customer -problems to a lack of adequate staffing in some offices. "In spot checks of offices la Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens, we've seen problems with things like telephone srvice, where people meet long delay in getting through to a representative," Walsh said. "My personal opinion is that they just need more people." Walsh also said that Con Ed bill gripes that reach the Commission continue to run at twice last year's rate. In 1973, the PSC logged about 30,000 Con Ed beef accounting for the largest share of all utility gripes in the state.

utility has so far been unable to reverse have been steadily rising since April, when beefs pending for 60 days-plus ere at a low of 3,072. However Con Ed did show an improvement in the category of complaints outstanding for 31 to 60 days, where customer gripes declined from 5,542 to in September. The over-all number of complaints fielded in that month by the utility also fell. The September total was the lowest since March. Con Ed sends out over 30 million electric bills annually and gets back about 310,000 beefs.

Utility officials attribute the recent volume of complaints to customers' shock over the past year's sudden spurt in electric costs. Actual error on bills, they say, crops up in only 5 of the complaint cases. There was no company official available for comment yesterday on the latest figures. However, Vice President Joseph Block earlier had told The. News that, the utility's new computer system and the elimination of estimated meter readings would cut the complaint backlog by January.

yesterday's figure Sculpture Tribute to Randolph A Bronx man who allegedly impersonated a doctor and made more than 150 house calls was indicted yesterday. It was his willingness to make such calls that helped draw suspicion. The man, Vladimir Owens, 37, of 1300 Stebbins who had an office at 910 Grand Concourse, was accused of obtaining a duplicate medical certificate of a real physician, Br. William E. Latham of 800 Riverside Drive, and impersonating- him through a telephone referral service; the Health Delivery Systems, of Brooklyn.

The indictment says that the only medical training Owens ever had was as a clerk-typist at Roosevelt Hospital, where he worked for several years. If convicted on the charges of forgery in the second degree and criminal impersonation, he could get up to seven years. James Duddy Cityt 4 Unions in Productivity Pact A productivity agreement aimed at providing taxpayers with "better service without spending more of their money" was-signed yesterday by Mayor Beanie and four union leaders who represent more than 125,000 city workers. The agreement, signed at City Hall, was reached by the city and the Sanitationmen's Union, District Council 37 of the State, County and Municipal Employes Union, Local 237 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and the Correction Officers Benevolent Association. Under the pact, a council will be set up to develop a citywide productivity program.

The council will consist of an equal number of representatives from the city and the unions. First Deputy Mayor James A. Cavanagh will serve as chairman. John DeLury, head of the sanitation union, said he was pleased to cooperate and added: "Never before has any mayor asked for union input." Alfred Miele Tenants Rap Rent-Raise Move A coalition of tenants' groups denounced the Beame administration yesterday for its decision to allow landlords to compute rent raises of up to 7.5 this year and another 7.5 next year for 864,000 families living under rent control. Rent-control officials said they had no choice but to allow landlords to do the computations because of the breakdown in the computerized maximum base rent program.

But members of the New York State Tenants Legislative Coalition said the breakdown was deliberate. "The system was designed to fail from the moment of its inception," Mrs. Bertha Hellman, of the West Side Tenants Union, said on the steps of City Hall. "Mayor Beanie's latest move is the final rip-off of all New. York t3ity tenants a rip-off that began with -vacancy decontrol and the MBR system." Owen Moritz Lambs Club Staves Oft Foreclosure Again The 100-year-old Lambs Club, on the brink of bankruptcy, was saved for the second time in two months yesterday from a foreclosure sale sought by a Bronx bank which is seeking payment on a $360,003 mortgage.

Bankruptcy Judge Edward J. Ryan this time gave the club until Dec. 6 to come up with the cash to save the six-story building at 128-134 W. 44 th St. Attorneys for the Tremont Savings and Loan Association claimed at a hearing in August that the Lambs have not made a payment on the mortgage since July 1973.

Yesterday's hearing, in effect, was held to determine the status of club members' efforts to raise money. Judge Ryan said that if the club's financial status is still shaky by the December hearing he will allow the bank to go forward and advertise for a foreclosure sale. Causewell Vaughan Market Basket Up a Penny 'Wlfe- I ii News photo by Jack Smith A. Philip Randolph, prominent labor and civil rights leader, makes rare public appearance to be honored by more than 250 prominent labor and political figures at reception at the national headquarters of the Recruitment and Training Program (RTP, Inc.) 162 Fifth Ave. Highlight wae presentation of a bust of Randolph by Fern Cunningham, Allen, a Boston sculptress.

Randolph Is president emeritus of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, which he organized in 1925- 'tiimiifMimuHtimmiifMiiiiiiMHtiiHiiiiiiimtmi Lions Again Purr at Mf The eost of feeding a family of four in the city increased -1 only a penny last week as the price of the Department of Con- sumer Affairs' 38-item market basket settled at $63.17. However, 1 that price tag was $8.76 higher than a year ago. I For the third straight week, meat prices fell, led by bottom 1 round roast, down 10 cents to $1.66 per pound, and center cut i pork chops, down 4 cents to $1.71. The total meat index was off 1 1. However, the fresh fruits and vegetables category jumped 1.9.

The largest increase was in the cost of green beans, which rose 5 cents to 62 cents per pound. Bruce Drake 1 Travia Resigns From Federal Bench Brooklyn Federal Judge Anthony J. Travia who recently spent nine months presiding over the criminal trial of Federal Housing Administration defendants on bribery charges in inflat- I ing ghetto mortgages, announced his resignation yesterday, say- ing he wants to spend more time with his family, v- A conservative Democrat with a reputation for setting near- maximum sentences, Travia, 63, was named to the post in July 1968 by-President Lyndon Johnson. Before that he, served 25 years in the state Assembly, representing Brooklyn's i 22d AD. Travia said he intends to return to private practice hut is uncertain whether he will open his own office or join a law firm.

1 Reserves Decision on Nadjari Writ State Supreme Court Justice John M. Murtagh reserved sion yesterday on an attempt by city Cultural Affairs Commi3- sioner Irving Goldman to quash a subpena for his business I records by Special State Prosecutor Maurice Nadjari. 'I Murtagh's action gives both sides time to file additional 1 papers in the dispute. Goldman is fighting the subpena on the grounds that Nadjari does not have jurisdiction in the case. i By STEVEN MATTHEWS and DAVID SMITH Columbia University may become the latest school to join an apparent campus ceasefire in hostilities with the Reserve Officers' Training- Corps Columbia's president, William McGill, disclosed yesterday in a conference with student leaders that he had initiated contacts with military authorities about the possibility of reinstituting the once-controversial program at the Morningside Heights school.

Boston Wants It Back ROTC was dropped from the Columbia curriculum in 1969 following violent student demonstrations. The institution was one of 14 schools that ended their association with ROTC during the turbulent period preceding the end of American involvement in Vietnam, a period McGill described yesterday as "hysterical and not felt thoughtful." McGill said he now felt that there existed "a climate of reason in which what is lost and what is gained from such programs can be sensibly evaluated." His feeling appears to be shared by administrators of some of the other schools that kicked ROTC off their campuses. A spokesman for the Pentagon revealed that "a couple" of those institutions had mad inquiries about the possibility of reinstating the program. One school, Boston University, has even formally reapplied for a unit. The most recent figures available for the 1973 school year show a slight decrease in both the number of institutions offering ROTC and the number of students enrolled in the program, the spokesman said.

Officials at a number of area colleges and universities offering ROTC confirm, though, that interest and enrollment in the program is picking up on their campuses, and administrators at institutions throughout the nation generally report that ROTC is making at least a cautious comeback. In defending his decision to open negotiations with the Defense Department, McGill told the students that he deplored the current situation, in which, he said, "the kind of liberal mentality that is bred in universities like Columbia has been denied to the military." He said, too, that he was concerned that congressional supporters of the defense establishment might slice Columbia's federal funding because of its past actions. 'jr i 3 Robert Crana ttfimmmmmmmmmmmm.