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inputs 9 But Very Warm Newadv Photos Phillip Davies Coke Stash Left High and Dry A cache of cocaine amounting to as much as 300 kilograms was found yesterday secreted within a 66000-pound 12-foot-high machine called a Yankee Dryer (above) which is used in the processing of toilet paper Below an Emergency Service worker helps unload the machine which was being stored in a Queens warehouse Police yesterday arrested seven men in connection with the smuggling of the cocaine By Michele I'arente STAFF WHITER The parent takeover is just a memory and the children have been settled in their new school since the fall but though PS 156 stands empty a full custodial staff continues to be assigned there A crew of six a head custodian three full-time staffers and two part-time cleaners remains at the Brownsville building even though it has been closed to students for maintenance since Oct 28 one of the employees said That plus the fact that two nearby schools don't have head custodians was revealed Tuesday night by a parent at a public meeting Chancellor Ramon Cortines held in Community School District 23 Cortines rolled his eyes in disbelief and said he try to work it Board of Education spokesman Bob Terte yesterday disputed the number of workers there saying only the custodian a coal burner operator one or two part-time cleaners" were assigned to F6 156 purpose of keeping staiT there is to keep the building from deteriorating further" Terte said PS 156 shut by Cortines for repairs and seized by parents for a week last October has been vacant since its 1200 students were moved to a new school Asbestos abatement in the building was halted late last year when funds ran out and a major renovation is not set to begin until September Yet said one custodian there a six-man crew remains open the doors for contractors and keep an eye on them we run the pipes so they don't burst and remove the snow from outside" he said He added that PS 156 still a Board of Ed building so it still has to he maintained" The average salary for a custodian is $58000 a year cleaners earn $1217 hour coal burner operators make $1437 an hour Even the head of the custodians' union said the workers might be better used elsewhere keep whatever is necessary to heat the building and do routine maintenence and have that money allocated to another building" said Joseph Stigliano president of Local 89 just move the guys over to where they're needed" he continued flexible" Within a dozen blocks of PS 156 two schools are without a head custodian and are operating with a skeletal crew As PS 12 the school attended by students from PS 156 a private contractor deans And the president of the Purents Association at PS 73 said her school's custodian had transferred out leaving only a coal burner operator one fulltime cleaner and a part-timer floors aren't swept and mopped and the garbage isn't picked up We have mice and rats roaches and even pigeons" said Gloria if i Disney to Spend $30M On 42ndStreet Theater i By David Henry Disney's investment indudes $8 -r staff whiter million in cash and a $21 million Gov Mario Cuomo and Mayor loan from the city and state for 20 Rudolph Giuliani yesterday signed yfs at 3 percent interest Cuomo on Mickey Mouse and his friends to generous interest rate to clean up 42nd Street hoping that Dwnu a small price to pity for the the Disney crew will accomplish benefits the well-known company what some of the best real estate wiUtaing to the area developers in the world is gold for us getting Dis- -Though sane details remain to Cuomo said be worked out the deal was a0 but Indeed when word first got out sealedyesterdayinaCityHaUnews last summer that Disney was in-conference the two officials staged terested in opening on 42nd yesterday with Michael Eisner the Street state officials began getting powerful chairman of the Walt Die- calls from other entertainment ney Co and a native of Manhat- companies about other sites on the Upper East Side block Two-thirds of the block Biwwr said Disney will spend with nine theaters are under the nearly $30 renovating the control of the state Urban Devel- New Amsterdam Theater on 42nd opment Corp Street between Seventh and have proposals coming in at Eighth Avenues Disney will use this point on all of our theaters-" the 91-year-old theater for live said Rebecca Robertson who shows including adaptations of- heads the prqject ibr the UDC Disney features and original pro- Eisner said opening on 42nd dKuns- The targeted opening is Street fits with Disney's business September of 1996 strategy which difliers from that of Murder-Robbery Gang Busted 5 Youths Nabbed By Bussell Ben-Ali STAFF WKITFH Five members of a band of youths who allegedly robbed and killed three Brooklyn merchants in a one-year reign of terror have been arrested police said yesterday The youths who police said from simple ripoffs to homicide-robberies when authorities failed to apprehend them began shooting shop owners in April who they felt had them during robberies felt that when they stuck a gun in your face and said me your money' that you should willingly turn it said Deputy limp Martin Johnson head of Brooklyn North Detectives "Anything other than that resulted in a The five ages 14 through 20 were arrested one by one between Jan 21 and Tuesday each charged in at least one of the 9-mm homicide-robberies one case they made the owner kneel down and shot Johnson said In another ease Johnson said "they got the store owner as he was closing up They put him up against the wall jiit-! iiu -in' nt ns -on winii lert h-ts-r Please see TERROR on Page $1 companies focused exclusively on creating video entertainment products for delivery into homes really decided to go the other way and try to get people outside of their homes and to be part of a more urban community People do not want to sit at hone and stare at each other" Eisner said.