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I THANKS A MILLION! Eye 0 Overboard! (See Below) EAR MR. ROSS: MY HUS- and my children are grown and out band since he has was worn 17. an He artificial just had eye a of the the day house. shift I until won't next be year, eligible when for birthday, turning 40, and apparently I'll have enough seniority. This job had too good a time fishing with his is the best thing that has happened buddies, because he lost his eye in to me in terms of employment.

I'm the lake. For all I know, it ended up just so afraid of catching the bus late being fish bait. He's not solely to at night now. Naturally, if I had a car blame, in that his eye socket has that ran, it would be much safer for changed a lot in 23 years and the fit me. I have a car, but it needs $385 in wasn't very good anymore.

repairs, plus tags and insurance. We who know and love him are un- For $565, it could be on the road affected by his appearance, but he again. I'm 46 and asking that you works in a customer-service capaci- make this investment in my future. ty and has a great deal of Ms. R.D., Miami personal contact with Dear Ms.

R.D.: Any inpeople. He has resorted PERCY vestor worth his salt alto wearing a patch over ROSS ways wants to know what his eye, and his supervi- kind of return he'll be sor is getting slightly nas- getting on his investty over this ordeal. ment. Your physical We're a family of six well-being and emotionand struggle with day-to- al peace of mind are a day costs. If you could high-yield dividend and send us the down all the return I need in payment of $575, we can exchange for my $565.

make monthly payments Count on it, because it's on the balance. I wish in the mail. As an addicould convey to you why tional payback, though, husband is deserving. I'm counting on your bemy hope the fact that he's a good ing extra careful and using the budfather and loving husband will be dy system when walking to your car enough to drive this request to the late at night. You know what they top.

Mrs. T.C., Brea, Calif. say about an ounce of prevention. Mr. Ross: You have destroyed the Dear Mrs.

Let's suppose a fish husband's prosthetic English language with your sendid eat your tence structure and occasional poor eye. Do you realize that if this fish is word choice. Don't you understand caught prepared consump- that you're a role model? Please be and for tion, someone will assume it is a the much more careful. man-eating A Grammarian, Moberly, Mo. fish? I'll be checking tabloids for this newsbreaking story, I'm sending Dear Grammarian: I never probut in the meantime, fessed to be a great writer.

In fact, I $575, which cover As pay- for never professed to be a great philanwill the down ment on a new eye. thropist, either. But as a man of prosthetic deserving, any man who is a good fa- what I wouldn't give to bring means, ther, loves his wife and holds: a job to back the original of the word use boot is more than deserving a "queer," meaning strange or odd. I he's modern-day miracle. find it sad that this fantastic word Dear Mr.

Ross: I've wanted to has been relegated to a derogatory write you dozens of times before, but term for homosexuals. somehow I've been able to manage For anyone who agrees with me, without your help. That is, until let me hear from you. Who knows, three weeks ago, when I was assault- maybe we can start our own Queer ed and left for dead by two teen- Club. agers.

They apparently thought You may write to Percy Ross New York Daily had more money on me than the few News, P.0. Box 39000, Minneapolis, MN 55439. Include a telephone number if you wish. All letcoins I had for bus fare. ters sent to Mr.

Ross are read. Only a few are work the second shift, from 3 to swered in this column, although others may be ac11, home. I'm single, knowledged privately. 1996 Creators Syndicate at a nursing DEATH NOTICES IN MEMORIAM Resurection Cemetery, LIOTA- Josephine. Beloved mother of Peter Andrea.

Cherished daughter of Carmela (Molly) Giurovich. Devoted sister of Margaret. To our dearest Mother who alone raised 2 children. Her strength love guided us through our lives. To all the little things that made her happy and to all the big things that she gave.

May she rest forever knowing that we will always love her. God FU- you Mom. Reposing SCARPACI NERAL HOME, 1401 86th St. until Mon. 10 A.M.

Mass St. Frances Cabrini Church 10:15 A.M. FUREY- R. (nee Collins) on September 20, 1996. Beloved wife IN MEMORIAM of the late John O'Sullivan and James E.

Furey. Dear aunt of Cyriacks, Dorothy MIRRA- Mary Margaret Ann Marie McGough, 1st Anniversary in Heaven. 1 Votta, year Collins. Repos- removed from our lives. one Not James and Eugene BEDELL-PIZZO FH moment removed from our hearts.

ing Monday SI. Mass Tuesday 10 A.M. Our If love could have saved you, Love you on Christians. would have never died. alto Lady Help Burial: grandchildren POCCHIAR! Beloved Michael husband of the (Shorty late Mike), Michelina.

Devoted, father of Joanne, Loving grandfather of Danielle Michael, Reposing at FARENGA BROS. 920 Allerton Mon. Tues. Mass of Christian Burial at Lucy's Church Wed. 9:45 A.M.

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1-800-223-1660 New York You Can Get Rudy lauds razing of homeless sites By BOB LIFF Daily News Staff Writer Mayor Giuliani yesterday celebrated the dismantling of encampments of homeless people around the Coney Island Boardwalk as a model to be repeated around the city. Capt. Vincent Giordano, who commands Coney Island's 60th Precinct stationhouse, sparked the push that began Labor Day weekend when he came across more than a score of homeless people living in a concretereenforced camp called "the bunker." One homeless man had tapped electricity from a lamppost and had hooked up both cable TV and a fax machine. Runaway 'Judas' from LONDON Errant Bishop Roderick Wright was denounced as a Judas from the pulpit of his old parish yesterday after he sold the story of his romance with a to a racy British tabloid, provoking outrage among Catholics. "Like Christ was betrayed by someone in his group for 30 pieces of silver, perhaps we feel similarly betrayed at this moment in the Rev.

Sean MacAulay, a priest in Wright's former parish in Oban, Scotland, told a congregation at an early morning Mass. Roomy, with a SPACE CENTER, Houston Astronaut John Blaha's new home, the Russian space station Mir, is nothing like he expected: It's immense and doesn't smell. The five-time space flier and former fighter pilot said yesterday he is amazed at how quickly he has adjusted to Mir considering how different it is from the ground simulators in which he trained. The simulators are neat while the station is jammed with more than 10 years' worth of cosmonauts' stuff. "At first I was a little concerned about that," the tidy Blaha acknowledged in a TV interview from the linked station Mir-shuttle Atlantis complex.

But he said Shannon Lucid, who swapped places with him last week, McALARY FROM PAGE FOUR bed, he looked tired. "Well, at least it wasn't an Irish guy," I told him. "Yeah," he said, "but it may have been a newspaper guy." He has learned to be more careful. He has learned about words. He instantly realized he made a mistake at the funeral for Gavin Cato in Crown Heights when he mentioned "diamond merchants." But three years ago, when another hoax brewed in Queens a half-dozen livery drivers claimed they had been raped by a cop in Rockaway Sharpton went to the first demonstration.

We talked about how the drivers had made up the whole thing, and he quit the protest. He has come a long way since we first met when a fingerless man called The mayor, seeking protection from the rain under the superstructure of the defunct parachute jump, trotted out the heads of 10 city agencies that worked together to move the homeless. City workers hauled away 510 tons of concrete and 750 tons of garbage from 16 separate sites ranging from the Boardwalk to spots under the nearby Belt Parkway. Outreach workers from the city's Department of Homeless Services got six people to accept help from detoxification programs and shelters. By the time police moved in on Sept.

16 for the final sweep, only 28 people remained from the initial 50 or 60. bishop called own pulpit REUTER Wright, who is in hiding, confessed in the top-selling tabloid News of the World to loving Kathleen MacPhee, a 41-year-old divorced mother of three. He apologized for the pain he had caused to an illegitimate son he had fathered by another woman. The scandal surrounding Wright has stunned the Catholic Church in Britain and stirred a public debate over priests' commitment to celibacy. A support group for women involved with priests said it had nearly 80 members and suggested that hundreds more may be involved with priests in Britain.

view of Earth and his two Russian crewmates "have really helped me out and I feel like I'm very comfortable there right now." Like many others, Blaha had heard stories about a clammy, smelly Mir. But he said the air seems to be similar to that of the shuttle, and he doesn't notice any odors. Blaha will be sealed inside the sprawling Mir complex for four months two months less than Lucid's visit when the hatches are closed today and the shuttle pulls away with Lucid and her new crew. Lucid will have spent 188 days in orbit, longer than any other woman and any other American, if Atlantis lands Thursday as scheduled. She was stuck on Mir 48 days longer than planned because of Atlantis' launch delays.

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City 1-800-223-1660 ALBANO Vincent. Connie. Cherished Loving mother wife of Carolyn Lorraine. Devoted grandmother of John Ralph (J.R.) Vincent Dante. Sister of Margie, Nicholas, Clemente, Reposing at the ANDREW TORREGROSSA SONS FUNERAL HOMES, 1305 79th Bkivn until Tues.

morning. Funeral mass Tues. morning at St. Bernadette Church 9:30 A.M. interment Greenwood Cemetery.

DeFILIPPO Louis, On Sept. 20. 1996. Beloved husband the late Jennie, Devoted father of Thomas the late Joseph. Loving friend of Adele Weiner.

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10 A.M. Entombment Ascension Cemetery. The Most Nubs was shot while charging a cop with a knife. "Impossible," Sharpton said. "He doesn't have fingers." But it turned out that Nubs was a stone- cold pool shark who was extremely dangerous with a cue.

The "injustice" died with that information. "See you around," Sharpton sa: 1. That was 1,000 injustices ago. He is one of the few politicians who dared to bring them to our attention. Sharpton, unlike the mayor, is not a hater.

But, like the mayor, he likes attention. If you were lucky enough to have dinner with him tonight, it would not stop him from calling you a dog as soon as someone turned a camera on him. Al Sharpton, mayoral wanna-be, is already the people's champion..