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Wednesday, "DAILY NEWS 13 i nnnn iimm gs Iprinl mm 2 young persons are dead the trail is cold 18, of Central Islip, had 14 bullet wounds in his head, face and chest Police believe Fischer, who suffered from a chronic lung disease, cystic fibrosis, had been shot at close range with a small-caliber handgun. His companion, Nancy Hyer, 21, of Hicksville, had By MICHAEL HANRAHAN and PAUL MESKIL Daily Meats Staff Wntert State cops on Long Island said yesterday they are mystified by the murder of a young couple whose bodies were found stuffed into the trunk of a car abandoned in Good will toward men woe if Wk- Hf 4 Ho mellow yellow Taxi owners and drivers went before a City Council committee yesterday to denounce a bill that would raise the number of medallion cabs by 1,800. Drivers and owners have complained that the bill would aggravate Manhattan's already heavy traffic and would create unfair competition for drivers now on the street Those who spoke had unkind words for Mayor Koch, who submitted the bill to the City Council's Transportation Committee and who has" opposed a taxi-fare increase until service improves. "Maybe he was frightened by a yellow vehicle when he was a child. I don't know," said Alan Decker, a lawyer for the taxi industry.

Back for term A 38-year-old former professor of criminal justice at the University of Nebraska surrendered to New York prison officials yesterday to serve out an unexpired 19-month term for possession of a forged check. Paul Stewart had been a fugitive since 1975 when he was accidently released from Auburn state prison, where he was serving three years. He also faces assault and bail-jumping charges. Last year, Stewart joined the Nebraska faculty, where his wife was an assistant dean of the law school. But he resigned after he was arrested for burglary, a charge that was dropped provided he return to New York.

Bishop bashes In a sermon prepared his Christmas Eve midnight service, Bishop Paul Moore head of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, has called the Iran-Contra crisis a "disaster in the White House," and a threat to the spiritual integrity of the country. A leading liberal spokesman, Moore often has used Christmas and Easter sermons to make major statements on social issues. His sermon is the first by any major New York religious leader on the White House scandal. Time for baby Concern for "boarder babies," who live in hospital nurseries while awaiting foster homes has led the New York Community Trust to contribute $60,000 for some tender loving care. Critics have charged that the babies, abandoned by their mothers or taken away from unsafe homes, get little attention from hospital staff.

The program would provide 20 foster grandparents and 40 other volunteers to spend about four hours a day. with, ti -babies in 11 city and- ra --voluntary hospitals. been stabbed numerous times in the abdomen and chest with a pointed weapon, perhaps an ice pick. Their bloody bodies were found in the trunk of Ilyer's 1981 Pontiac Phoenix, parked behind Elks Lode 1572 on a lonely stretch of the Sunrise Highway extension in Southampton. Police believe the car was abandoned there by the killer after the victims were slain elsewhere.

The couple had not been seen since Dec. 11. when they had supper with Fischer's father, William, a retired auto dealer, at his waterfront home on Shinnccock Bay, Southampton. A state police spokesman, Trooper Thomas Collins, said more than a dozen cops had been assigned to the case and had questioned several Southampton residents. But investigators so far have found no clues as to where and how the victims spent their final hours.

"We are on a cold trail and have not yet begun to break the ice," Collins said. Southampton has its own police department, but in major cases the department defers to the state police. Hyer lived with her mother, Joan, and sister, Deborah. She had been working as a computer technician in a Chemical Bank branch in Jericho, L.l. Police said she and Fischer met about three months ago on a Long Island Rail Koad train.

Fischer was unemployed and lived In a Central Islip rooming house. Hyer's relatives and friends gathered for her wake yesterday at the Stock Funeral Home in Hicksville. A funeral mass will be held today at Our Lady of Mercy Church on S. Oyster Bay Hicksville. Fischer will be buried from the Lynn Sullivan Funeral Home in Monticello, N.Y, They remembered him as a smiling teenager who' talked his way into a part-time job on the strength of his personality.

Lester, who lived nearby with his mother, sister and stepfather, hung out at the diner before he asked for a job. He would sit at the long orange counter and order Ail-American teenage food-cheeseburgers, French fries and milkshakes. After his meal, he joked with waitresses and asked questions about the restaurant business. He eventually introduced himself to the manager, John Mavrikis, who called him "an adorable kid." Mavrikis put Lester 'to work as a part-time counterman after lh teenager said he would work just for the tips. Southampton.

Troopers are looking for witnesses who may have seen the couple after they left a family supper Dec. 11. The bodies were found Sunday. The Suffolk County medical examiner's office disclosed yesterday that one of the victims, William Fischer, iV4E. 'v his head as Lasak addressed Judge Randall Eng.

It was Lester's second court appearance in five months. In August, Lester and Robert Figuero were arrested after police found them sitting in a car at 153d Ave. and 84th St in Howard Beach at 5:30 a.m. A search of the car turned up a loaded revolver. Simpson negotiated a plea arrangement that resulted in a single conviction for possession of the weapon.

Lester was threatened with a one-to-three year prison sentence, but was promised probation as long as he stayed out of trouble, Simpson said. Sentencing was scheduled for Jan. 8. 1 figuero said yesterday! thatbe and Lester were walk-. ing home "from hanging around" and climbed in the ANGELS of Rockefeller Center's Channel Gardens proclaim glad tidings that Christmas is almost here, to delight of two people in throngs admiring bright lights and bustling stores of Fifth Ave.

yesterday. Got your shopping done yet? Better hurry. misha enwrrrDAHY News car after determining it had been abandoned. Lester found a loaded revolver under the seat "We Just lost our heads," Figuero said. "We didn't think before we got in that car.

We were drunk." Figuero said Lester never expressed hostility toward blacks. He said the two always talked "about girls and stuff." Simpson, who's active in politics, met Lester in 1385 at the 250-seat diner in the Lin-denwood development, located near the Queens Brooklyn border. It served as a meeting place for campaign workers for Rep. Edolphus Towns (D Brooklyn). Other friends and co-work-' ers at the diner said Lester, a of ng-.

land, never talked about his legal troubles. LESTER FROM PAGE 3 and, after meeting Simpson, decided he wanted to be a lawyer. At Queens Criminal Court, however, Gregory Lasak, chief of the district attorney's homicide bureau, said Lester told police after his arrest that his life's ambition was to be "a capo in organized crime." Lasak also said Lester, 17, had admitted attacking a black man, who had become lost in Howard Beach, with a baseball bat The victim, Michael Griffith, was later 1 struck by a car and killed as' -he apparently fled Lester and others. Yesterday, Lester shook wire service reports..