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5 fc- rigygyg A r- r-r ww r- "yyr yrr County C16 THE HERALD STATESMAN YONKERS. N.Y FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1971 f-' 1 t- W-fl Wnborn win welfare rights Bv MILTON HOFFMAN Palilics Writer service) have recogntaed. and fulfilled their constitutional obligation to aid the high court ligatii needy." the court ruled S3 ta Albany that the payments should be disallowed. Now. the Appellate Division has been ment of Social Services, seek tag to unset a department regulation and save the county 9100.000-a-yvar in welfare costs.

The aaanknoHS decision of the court ended a two year fight by Westchester's government to end me payments. The State Department of Social Services had won in the State Supreme Court, but Westchester won a re-venal last December when the Appellate Division of the The unborn chid of a welfare recipient is entitled to welfare payments ta his or her own right after the fourth month of pregnancy, the State's highest court ruled Thursday. The decision of the State Court of Appeals against Westchester County sB which had brought a lawsui against the State Deoart- Upgrading of subway scheduled The New York City Transit Authority has tatmduced a far-reachtag plan to improve city subway service shading the expansion of nub hour express service ta the North Bronx on the Dyre Avenue and White Putas Road lines to the East Side of Manhattan. The plan, presented to Community Board Thursday. would make all morning rush hour trates from Dyre Avenue thru express lines going directly from East ISOth Street to East 149th Street and Third Avenue.

Local stops between Dyre Avenue and East MOth Street would remain, but all South Bronx stops would be eliminated on those trains. (ta the White Plains Road line, the present Lextagton Avenue thru express service would be expanded in that the trains would go directly then go. as it does now. directly to 149th Street (ta both lines, the thru express service would be reversed for the evening rush hour. Public heartags win be scheduled before the plan ta finally adopted.

A Transit Authority spokesman said the changes art expected to go Into effect ta to months. Opposition to the pins ta likeiy to come from people who now board the Plains Road-Lexington Avenue line between Gnu Hll Road and East 190th Street since rush boors. ruled. Although the Legislature certainly could have provided otherwise and the commissioner could have chosen not to make those benefits available, the relevant statues, as presently written. explicitly empower the commissioner to promulgate the challenged regulations." the decision teas.

County Executive Alfred DelBeilo had started" the suit against the state mandate during a time when Westchester was experiencing ftaanciai problems due to waif ire con overruns. About 9100.000 are paid each year ta Westchester Ip pregnant mothers ta addition to their normal welfare receipts. Westchester has been paying one quarter of the costs, the state a quarter and the federal government half. Asst. County Attorney Jonathan Lovett had mate-tained the aid on behalf of the unborn was essentially a giveaway program" filed with potential He said a gave birth to retroactively collect welfare on behalf of a second chid.

He said there were few safeguards to tasure the unborn aid money was used to benefit the fetus. State partiegutiou tap federal AFDC program was essentially voluntary. The Mate social novice department had adopted the voluntary portion of the program, stating that the famly on welfare would be increased by me when computing welfare aid once a woman was pregnant fonr months. Each such unborn chid would permit a welfare mother to collect about 93- Wetachester had based its argument attacking the reg-ulatiou on a court case which held Hut wtaorn childrm wen sot acted ed wMhta the deftakiou of "de-chBd" ta the Social. my Act It held that state tegula- tiaus most therefore be constate with federal law.

BM the state Conrt of Ap peals cnactnded taat stales kavet the option to make ed-funded benefits avbl- thelr unborn chid. pened and wan them of the sertane mni'rnurnrri Wednesday, a soccer coach was sent to Horace Greeley by the New York Civil LJberties evaluate the i an the I team teutbl evidence showed that Valerie had been unfairly cut from the team. The NYCLU ta considering bring tag a suit against school officials based on initial reports that Valerie ta a' better soccer player than boys who wen not cut from the team. of playtag at Hot ley. Valerie has ace Grade Grader Vali practicing aoc Ihiversuy'i itt vaisit) Pace squad.

A wave for the President Jimmy Carter waves to the crowd prior to his short speech on Miami Beach Thursday afternoon af condo dwellers look from their balconies. Carter was promothic fellow Democrat and distant cousin. Robert Graham, for Florida governor. AP Photo By turmsnrag indigent women with Aid to Families with Dependent Children benefits so that proper prenatal care so vital lb physical and mental weUbeni of the nborn child can te gro- both the Legislat commissioner (of social crowd chocked by the school's soccer coaches. they say.

Norman Nickerson, assistant principal at Horace Greeley, said that the Incident had occurred at about 2:20 p.ra. He would not say if the U-yearold boy be suspended from school 'We're going to handle this ta the same way we handle anythtag Ike tain internally, Nickerson said. Bnt the school will ta no way tolerate this type of thing. It's the schooTi je-qxxuliUity to respond ta strenuous ways. Otherwise, this could become an epidemic.

he said. NICKERSON said that he would inform the boys' junior varsity soccer team members what had bap- track outside a home on Dec. 14 as police investigated another MIT home. Although drugs and sum of money have been linked to the case, a motive ta the killing was never dearly established during the week-long trial. the prosecution claimed Grimaldi and Pisacano had argued the day of the kill-tag.

and Pkacano ftreatned to cut Grimaldis head off. You better watch my right hand. You'll never see it. a witness. Richard Ben" Petgen.

quoted Grimaldi as The shooting allegedly occurred at Pisacano about mile from Petgen's home, where the body was found. inside the Dispute over team role soccer player assaulted officials. Not one stepped forward to stop it or to set an example. Mr. Robin said.

"I'm just This has gone way bemad the question of soccer. The safety and welfare of my chad is at stake. he said. For weeks the Robins have charged that. Valerie had been cut from the boys' junior varsity team this year without a fair tryout.

THEY HAVE hbo charged that school officials did not meet their respensi-bilites to provide an environment ta which she might have succeeded ta demonstrating her soccer skills. Harrassment by her teammates on and off the soccer field was never strenuously 081 Till FEDERAL BQUPTCY LCI OTTER III Man guilty in murder We intend to stay in businnu A wt must raise cash teat to moot our tint creditors' payment. To do that wo will dispose of ourontiro inventory (Including Brand-New FaH 71 Salacdona) al drastically roduced pricea regardless of our original cost! You dm help tin stay in businass and pave yourself a lot of money while doing HI! Jho bargains art. abundant so coma soon! Girl By BRICE FRANKEL Staff Writer A complaint has been fled against a lS-yearold Chappaqua high school student, a member of the boys junior varsity soccer team, accusing him of aasaulttag Valerie Robin, the soccer player who last year broke state guidelines to play with the boys frabman team. The incident occnrred Thursday, a day after a soccer coach hind by the New York Civil Lteerties Itaion had evaluated the quality of play on the boys junior varsity team to determine if there were grounds to sue school officials for not as-surtag a fair tryout for Valerie.

The complaint was filed by Valerie's parents New Castle police headquarters. Police said that thlydid not have anythtag to release on the incidat. In cases like these, with a minor ta-volved. we usually don't make up any kina of release. a desk officer said.

ACCORDLNG TO Valerie, a high school sophomore ac--costed her in the hall at tUdldnot to release on ter hamssing her. the boy punched her ta the face. Her face was slightly braised and tae was taken to Northern Westchester Hospital Center for X-rays. He started pushing me and adttag me if 1 was going to sue the school. I told him to leave me alone Then he said.

Whet are yon go-tag to do. sue me Valerie said, after filing the complaint I told him to leave me alone again and waned him taat he was committing assault and battery. And then he socked me in the Jaw. VALERIES father. Edward Robin, said that he felt that the legal action was necessary because school officials had done lit-' tie to see to it that Valerie ta not harraised in just spe this as part of a i taka ess that permeates Yester- ffSJSSB Petgen and his father.

Albert who owned the have been charged with first-degree-manslaughter ta the death of John Marmo. whose body was discovered ta Petgeus home. Ed Beck, wko lived below the second-floor apartment CATSKILL. N.Y. (AP.

-A Manhattan man faces sentencing Nov. 21 following his conviction tor the mur-derdtamemberment of another New York Civ man last December In the Greene Count Town of Jewett. The eight-woman, four-man Greene County court jury ddibented ntae hours, over two days, before returning the verdict Thursday ainrt Dominic Grimaldi. 21 The defendant's court-appointed attorney said the case would be ap- pealed, however. Grimaldi was charged with sceamMegree muraer in the shooting of Joseph Pi-saesno.

17. Ptaaeano's dismembered body was found ta the back of a pickup NEWBURGH. N.Y. IAP, The Newburgh Free Academy was to remain dosed today as school offf- data met with students ta of averting farther ting which shut the 0 h'o I Superintendent Saltmarsh said IBP the dosing would CjpBtag off fieri-abd Other school of- Fight shared by Ptaneanb. Marmo Grimaldi, totaled that and he had heard shots from two guns early ta the morning of Dee.

11 He said he barricaded hta Marmo came with a gun. When they arrested maid an Dee: 14. police said hta clothes had bloodstains of the same type as Pisacano. and that be was carrying bullets oftae same caliber used ta the Mlky. after about 200 youths got into fights and smashed windows.

Seven students were reported tajsred. and four were arrested ter disorderly conduct The cause of the disturbance was not immediately known. The school has a history of such troubles around Halloween, however, with aknftar disorders occurring two and four yean ago. shuts down school Alteration Included WE WILL SURVIVE!" HOURS: 10 TIL 9:30 DAB.Y AND SATURDAY 12 TU. I SUNDAY MANHATTAN: OPEN TIL I DAILY A SATURDAY TIL 8 THURSDAY ALL STORES OPEN SUNDAY EXCEPT MANHATTAN, OUEEN8 ANEW JERSEY -s- ficisls planned to meet today wu the stude student.reore-sentatives at the ISOOatu-dent school.

The superintendent said he fdt officiate could accomplish Dotting educationally by keeping the school open. Saltmarsh said he hoped to make a fresh tart" on Monday by reopening the school. The school was dosed about 1:19 p.m. Wednesday. ALSO AVAILABLE AT TRESS GREEN ACRES ALSO AVAILABLE AT ZIMMERMANS RUTHERFORD MANHATTAN: FIFTH AVENUE AT 43rd ST OUEENS: MEADOWS' LONG ISLAND: ROOSEVELT FIELD WALT WHITMAN CENTER BROOKLYN: KINGS PLAZA SHOPPING CENTER WESTCHESTER: CENTRAL AVENUE YONKERS NEW JERSEY: WOOOBRIDGE CENTER' GARDEN STATE PLAZA fc- i 4m.