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CITY STATE APPEARED IN A44 www.nynewsday.com 2004 8 APRIL FRIDAY, NEWSDAY, EARLIER EDITION INCIDENT ON JFK FLIGHT Police: Bad dog BY ERIK HOLM STAFF WRITER By all accounts, the dog was well-behaved. But the foulmouthed flier who owned her could have used a muzzle. The polite terrier and her unruly owner spent a night behind bars earlier this month after the woman downed several drinks on a flight from Kennedy Airport to Fort Lauderdale and screamed obscenities at airline staff and police, Broward County police said yesterday. Even after being arrested, Jayne Thorne, 43, who told police she lives in Long Beach, tried to kick out the window of a police car, according to the Broward sheriff's office. The incident began when flight attendants told her she could not remove her terrier from its carrier in midflight, and PATAKI'S PRAYER owner back of a patrol car, police said, she tried to kick out a window.

Police said Thorne told them she lived in Long Beach. But her phone number there has been disconnected, and a neighbor said she had moved away a few months ago. She did not return messages left at a possible residence in Florida. Cutie was held in an animal shelter while Thorne spent the night in jail. Thorne was charged with disorderly conduct, criminal mischief and resisting arrest, sher- iff's spokesman Hugh Graf said.

She had a hearing the next morning and was given probation. Cutie was not charged. First lady accepts guv's invite THE ASSOCIATED PRESS she replied, you all, I'll do what I want," a statement by the arresting officer said. Flight attendants told police Thorne tried repeatedly to remove the dog, Cutie, from its carrier during the April 12 flight on the airline Song. After she allegedly swore at the attendants, the captain radioed to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, and sheriff's deputies met her at the gate.

Thorne lit into the deputies, too, and after several minutes Jayne Thorne of her continued Jayne Thorne swearing, the police statement said, the deputies finally got out their handcuffs. But Thorne refused to put her hands behind her back. Placed in the BREAKFAST ALBANY First Lady Laura Bush will make a guest appearance at Gov. George Pataki's annual prayer breakfast next month, and the governor is hiking the ticket price, aides said yesterday. While all tickets to last year's event cost $25 each, the general admission price for the 10th annual event has been raised to $30 and Pataki is offering special VIP seating for tables of 10 that go for $1,000 or $500 a table.

The annual prayer breakfast at the state's Empire State Plaza convention center is hosted by the governor and his wife, Libby Pataki. Invitations to the May 11 event ask that checks be made out to "The Governor's Prayer Breakfast Trust Fund," which pays for the event. Pataki spokesman Kevin Quinn said the higher prices were needed to cover extra costs related to the 10th anniversary, including plans to give all guests a commemorative journal and pin. The invitation said any extra money raised from this year's event would be "held in trust to ensure the continuation of this tradition." Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group said he expected the event would be packed with lobbyists. "We've had 'pay-to-play' before, but this is the first time I ever heard of Horner said.

City reviews recycling requirements ents Since 1989, city law has set minimum tonnage totals for trash recycling. But despite court orders obtained by environmentalists, those numbers have never been achieved. Now, after two years of suspensions and restorations of recycling glass and plastic, elected officials face options: keep the same requirements, or modify or eliminate them. After a City Council hearing yesterday, Michael McMahon, chairman of the solid-waste committee, said a key question remains whether new rules would establish minimum tonnage, or a percentage of the waste stream that must be recy- CITY BRIEFS Rep: We get terminal, A New York congressman played political poker with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver yesterday, using the Second Avenue subway as a chip. Rep.

Vito Fossella (R-Staten Island) threatened to pull federal funding for the Second Avenue project unless Silver (D-Manhattan) backed off his threat to kill the renovation of the South Ferry Terminal. Last week, Silver's delegate on a board reviewing the MTA's capital plan vetoed the $400 million terminal project. A Silver spokeswoman said yesterday that the assemblyman fears the terminal will encroach on Battery Park and require moving a Sept. 11 memorial there. But Fossella said the South Ferry is needed to bring riders you get subway from the subway to the Staten Island ferry.

He said he has persuaded his House colleague and fellow Republican, Rep. Don Young, the influential chairman of the Transportation Committee, to hold up federal money for the Second Avenue transit project if Silver persisted in blocking the terminal renovation. The MTA is banking on billions in federal aid for the Second Avenue subway, a pet project of Silver's. "I have supported the subway system as a whole and the Second Avenue subway system, recognizing that it's in the best interests of the city," Fossella said. "I would hope that Speaker Silver would show me the same respect." JOSHUA ROBIN B'klyn deacon struck, killed by car A popular deacon at a Flatbush church was killed yesterday when he was standing near a bus stop and was hit by an out-of-control car, police said.

Alphus John, 52, of East Flatbush, was standing at Schenck and Liberty avenues at 11:37 a.m. yesterday when a man driving east on Liberty Avenue was cut off by another driver, then mounted the sidewalk, knocking over a fire hydrant, a bus stop sign and mowing down John, police said. John was declared dead at Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center at noon, police said. The driver, Erron Williams, 28, of East New York, was not charged, police said. He was taken to Brookdale with non-life-threatening injuries after his car flipped over onto the passenger side, police said.

John was a longtime deacon at God's Battalion of Prayer Ministries on Linden Boulevard. LINDSAY FABER Paratransit drivers continue strike A strike by paratransit drivers that was thought to have been settled Wednesday night has not ended. "It's still on," Ron Straci, lawyer for Local 1181 of the Amalgamated Transit Union, said about the strike, which affects thousands of disabled and elderly New Yorkers. Straci said the union thought the companies had offered drivers 4 percent raises every September. But when reviewing the paperwork, Straci said he found workers would receive 2 percent raises every September, plus another 2 percent on the anniversaries of their first day at work.

The union, which represents about 900 drivers, concluded that some employees would wait too long to see the increase, and so it reneged. Carolyn Daly, a spokeswoman for the four companies Atlantic Express, Transit Facility Management the Maggie Paratransit Corp. and MV Transportation Inc. disputed Straci's account. She said workers are offered at least a 4 percent raise on their anniversary date, for the next three years.

JOSHUA ROBIN AP PHOTO FIRST LADY Laura Bush in Texas earlier this month BY DAN JANISON STAFF WRITER cled. Enforcement, he added, is another problem. But Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty, whose agency is in charge of meeting the law's dictates, testified that the current tonnage mandates "do not reflect current reality." Doherty questioned the wisdom of creating new recycling rules, saying "goals" should be set instead, not only for residential refuse but for privately handled commercial trash. "Let me begin," Doherty said, "by affirming the administration's strong commitment to long-term recycling." New York is the only big U.S. city performing curbside recycling pickups, he noted.

A re-evaluation of the recycling law comes with the 2002 suspension of glass and plastic recycling, a budget-cutting measure that has been reversed. In addition, the city is due this fall to modify its long-term plans for trash disposal. Mark Izeman, senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, said the recycling law "has proven to be a policy success in the making," bringing the average amount recycled to 20 percent citywide in 2002. "To be sure, significant reforms must still be advanced," he said, adding that any changes should wait until the city completes a new analysis of what comprises its waste stream. Such an analysis hasn't been done in a decade, he said.

Slaying suspect surrenders to police When Waheeda Khan's boyfriend fled their Bronx apartment after allegedly beating her to death, police said it was quite possible he would leave the state and maybe even go to Canada. Yesterday, he was behind bars, his life on the lam ending when he surrendered quietly at the 17th Precinct station house in midtown. Police said Jacob Cecil, 57, killed Khan, 37, during an argument early Tuesday. It was just past 1 a.m. when Cecil sent Khan's oldest son, Safraz, 19, to buy him a chicken dinner from a fast food restaurant, police said.

While the son was gone, the couple argued. One police source said Khan a nurse who had just become an American citizen was angry that Cecil had sent her son out so late. Another police source, as well as friends and neighbors, said Cecil was angry because Khan was planning to fly to Guyana, where she grew up, and return with her husband in an effort to rekindle their marriage. Cecil turned himself in around midnight Wednesday and was charged with second-degree murder. ROCCO PARASCANDOLA.