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OBITUARIES NEW YORK CITY Dean Alfange, 91, an unsuccessful American Labor Party candidate for New York governor in 1942 who was one of the leaders in the creation of the Liberal Party two years later, died of cancer Tuesday in his Manhattan home. Mr. Alfange had also run unsuccessfully as a Democrat in Manhattan's Silk Stocking district for a congressional seat in 1941. Mr. Alfange was born in Istanbul, Turkey, to Greek parents, and was brought to the United States as an infant.

He was active in ethnic organizations and was a past president of Ahepa, a Greek-American civic group. He was president of LaGuardia Memorial House, an East Harlem settlement house, for more than 40 years. He is survived by his wife, Thalia Perry; and a son, Dean of Leverett, Mass. John T. Burnell, 79, who headed the city's Office of Labor Relations from 1974 to 1977, where he was in charge of negotiating union contracts in the administration of Mayor Abe Beame, died Thursday in Mary Immaculate Hospital in Queens.

Mr. Burnell, who lived in Flushing, was director of the jobplacement program of the New York Central Labor Council before his appointment to city positions. A Brooklyn native, he had been a bus mechanic for the Transit Authority and held organizing positions in Local 100 of the Transport Workers Union and in Local 144 of the Service Employees International Union. In 1977, he became director of the city's Office of Labor-Management Relations. He is survived by his wife, Mabel, and a brother, Marsden of Manhattan.

Leonard D. Wickenden, 76, a best-selling novelist, short-story writer and editor, died of a heart attack Friday in his home in Weston, Conn. Mr. Wickenden wrote novels about family life and went on to become a senior editor at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc. He handled fiction, nonfiction and poetry, and was editor for such writers as Jessamyn West, Lillian Smith, Edward Louis Wallant, Wendell Berry and Catherine Dunham.

His first novel, "The Running of the Deer," was a best seller in 1937. He also wrote "The Wayfarers" (1945), "Tobias Brandywine" (1948), "Walk Like a Mortal" (1949), "The Dry Season" (1950) and "The Red Carpet" (1952). Richard H. Norwood, 73, a lawyer and a former executive with Rockefeller Center died of a heart embolism last Tuesday in a hospital in Long Branch, N.J. Mr.

Norwood, who lived in Bay Head, N.J., joined the New York law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley McCloy in 1946 after Army service in World War II. He joined the Rockefeller organization, now known as the Rockefeller Group, in 1949. He later was named vice president and general counsel, and retired in 1982. Survivors include two daughters, Brooks Hallock of Pound Ridge, N.Y., and Elizabeth Callahan of Chester, N.J.; a son, Richard of Little Silver, N.J., and five grandchildren. Youth Worker Recalled as a Hero of City By Curtis L.

Taylor Five days after he died when he raced into a burning building in Flatbush to save three children he thought were trapped inside, social worker Terence McGee is remembered as "one of the little people who hold this city together by living by example and working hard." "He sort of brought us back to the reality that we do all share more things in common than the external said Msgr. John McCullagh, chaplain for the New York City Police Department and pastor of St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, where McGee's funeral was held Saturday. "He didn't stop to think that the man he was trying to save was of a difference race. He was the type of person that thought everybody was his friend." Peter Steiniger, 19, was charged with firebombing the home for youths in Linden Blvd.

Wednesday, after he was thrown out for attacking a staff member, officials said. McGee, 27, was laid to rest after an emotional funeral, attended by Mayor Edward I. Koch. Family members described McGee as "one of God's special people who, throughout his life, gave everything he had away." McCullagh said McGee's brother, David, told him at the funeral mass, "He always gave everything away. As a little REGION kid he would always spend money on other kids.

He made the ultimate sacrifice of giving his life for somebody else, and he always received everything in McGee, the youngest of four children in a tight-knit Irish-Catholic family, was raised on Nobles Street, Greenpoint, around the corner from the church. He attended local parochial schools and spent much of his time at the Greenpoint YMCA, first as a youth member and later as a counselor working with neighborhood children. Supermarket ket Union Workers to Vote PACT from Page 6 benefits. With experts predicting that sters at a First National Supermarkets Pathmark workers are expected to return to their jobs tomorrow. Management representatives could not be reached for comment yesterday.

Nickolas Abondolo, president of Local 342-50, said that the supermarket industry representatives had agreed to all the union's major goals, according to a statement released by the union. Donart said that one of the union's top priorities in the negotiations was preserving current health-insurance the cost of covering union members could rise 17.5 percent annually over the next few years, the supermarket chains were hoping to pass a share of health-insurance costs on to their employees. This is one of three collective bargaining situations in the New York area where health insurance is a key issue in negotiations between labor leaders and management. It remains a major point of contention in the New York Telephone strike that has affected 40,000 workers since Aug. 6.

It was also an issue in a strike involving 525 Team- warehouse that threatened to affect shipments to 67 Finast supermarkets in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York. In earlier negotiations between the supermarket chains and labor leaders, the union said that management had hoped to recover some health-insurance costs by using monies from a scholarship fund for members' children and I a legal fund that provided basic legal services to members. That plan was not accepted by labor leaders and is not a part of the new proposal, Donart said. Gun-Toting Riders Scar Subway's 1st Day not released because of his age, was taken into custody when police found the semiautomatic handgun on him, Burns said. He was charged with juvenile delinquency.

Hunt was charged with criminal possession of a weapon and menacing, Burns said. Even before yesterday's incident, Roosevelt Island's older residents had said in interviews that they feared the subway link would bring an increase in crime. "They shouldn't have a subway," argued Teddy DiStefano, 77, who has lived on the island 14 years. "I imagine it's gonna bring the wrong kind of people on the island. There'll be muggings, Younger residents interviewed, however, welcomed the extra transportation option.

"It gives us more access to the said Joan Davis, 46, who has lived on the island 14 years and works in a video store on Main Street. "The subway is more convenient than the tramway, although I love the tramway its views are beautiful." Others were worried not about about SUBWAY from Page 2 the subway's effect on crime, but on the "It changes your whole attitude in the Jack Resnick, a Roosevelt Island resiisland's cherished tramway. Almost ev- morning." dent for 12 years and editor in chief of eryone, it seemed, was determined to According to the Roosevelt Island The Main Street Wire, the island's keep the tram alive. Operating the state agency that newspaper, said most people on the isSandra Neis, 42, an adjunct lecturer oversees the island, the tram has a land would have voted to do without in business management at Manhattan franchise agreement with the city to the subway if they had been asked. Community College, has lived on Roo- charge at least 25 cents more than the "It would be a raw deal if the state sevelt Island 13 years.

A candidate for cost of the subway. Starting today, took away the tram," he said. land partly because she liked the tram of the its operating deficit, which may Lexington Avenue in Manhattan, on ciation, president much. she of the said she island's moved residents to the asso- is- ture tram fare depends high will on $1 be $1.25. million ridership The due and to tram's the size fu- the The Roosevelt and new Island subway trains and at route 21st has is serviced stations by at AVOSMEN so run as as compe- and "We can't let it disappear," she said.

tition from the subway, studies project. Avenue in Long Island City. MONDAY, 3 Queens Men Held in New London, Conn. (AP) Three Police later arrested three men at the crack cocaine with intent to sell and New York City men have been arrested Colman Lodge in New London, where possession of drug paraphernalia, 8 on charges ranging from first-degree police also found some crack cocaine, Johnson said. sexual assault to possession of cocaine Johnson said.

Johnson said the investigation is con1989 with intent to sell after a woman re- He identified those arrested as Chris- tinuing and more charges are expected. ported she had been kidnaped, beaten topher Ranson, 22; Caleb Yancey, 17; New London police officer Wayne S. and raped, police said. and Ronnelle Colon, 18, all of Jamaica, Monty said the three suspects were beNew London police Sgt. Victor John- Queens.

ing held on $250,000 bond pending ar3 son said a woman arrived at Lawrence The three were charged with first-de- raignment today. and Memorial Hospital Saturday night gree kidnaping with a firearm, first-de- The victim, who Monty said knew shortly before 6 p.m. Saturday, report- gree sexual assault with a firearm, pos- her attackers, was listed in stable con- 4 ing she had been assaulted by four men. session of more than a half-gram of dition..