Newsday (Nassau Edition) from Hempstead, New York • 29

Bus shelter Leaves Riders Out in the Cold Wantagh-Nobody can say for sure how it got there, or who is responsible. But a bus shelter that elderly residents say they need to protect them from the cold is facing east on Seamans Neck Road when it should be around the corner, facing south on Jerusalem Avenue. The result: Drivers of the N-54 bus don't see the riders who wind up missing the bus, or the riders wait unprotected from the cold. Plea Reduced in Man's Death Mineola- North Valley Stream man pleaded guilty yesterday to a reduced charge of first-degree attempted assault in the killing of a Brooklyn man during a fight at an Elmont service station. He was sentenced to a maximum of three years in prison.

Josephy Mussi, 21, of 140 Alden- a member of Styx, a popular rock band, an impersonation that led her to give him $2,500, Nassau police said. George Pressley, 25, of 201 W. 79th was released on his own recognizance Friday after he was arraigned for criminal impersonation and second-degree grand larceny. He was arrested Thursday in Queens by Nassau detectives. According to police, Presley passed himself off as Jimmy Young, a member of the group Styx, when 1 he met Theresa LaRocca on a Long Island Rail Road train Nov.

29. Miss LaRocca, 20, who was returning home from her job at Montgomery Ward in Manhattan, exchanged telephone numbers with Pressley and the two made a date for Dec. 5. On that day, police said, Pressley told Miss LaRocca that she could make $15,000 in 30 days if she would give him $2,500. Three days later, she told police, she tried to withdraw from the deal, but Pressley told her that many people were involved and they would come after her if she pulled out.

She gave him the money, police said. A week later she saw a picture of the real Jimmy Young and telephoned police. Police said Pressley had been arrested by New York City police in similar scams. NYC Man ChargedWith Musical Ploy Mineola-An unemployed Manhattan electrician told a Massapequa Park woman that he was Man, 78, Is Killed In Head-On Crash Levittown- A 78-year-old retired electrician was killed about 11:30 AM yesterday when his car and another collided head-on at the intersection of Hempstead Turnpike and Wantagh Avenue. The intersection was described as the fourthhighest traffic accident location in Nassau County, according to a recent Newsday series on Long Island roads.

Killed was George Gravelle of 44 Harness Levittown. The driver of the other car was identified as Daniel Peck, 21, of 1967 Cole East Meadow. Gravelle was pronounced dead at Mid-Island Hospital in Bethpage. Peck and a passenger in his car, Edward Weiss, 18, of 1317 Prospect East Meadow, were admitted to the hospital in fair condition. Peck had a fractured leg; Weiss, cuts and bruises.

No charges were filed. There were 39 accidents at Hempstead Turnpike and Wantagh Avenue in the period from October, 1978, to September, 1979, according to figures compiled for the articles. LIRR Platform Extended Massapequa-The Long Island Rail Road platform at Brooklyn and Ocean Avenues here has been lengthened to accommodate 12-car trains. Now, the line said, all stations from Jamaica to Babylon can accommodate at least 10 cars. The project -was of- the Massapequa Park grade elimination, began in 1977, and still under way.

God it's been a very warm winter because last year people claimed they got pneumonia waiting for the bus," said Denis Higgins, a resident of the Wantagh senior citizens housing project, 1150 Seamans Neck Rd. Most residents of the project don't have cars, he said. He said he has been trying for three years to get the shelter moved. Higgins said former Assemb. George Murphy arranged to have the shelter erected a few years ago, but, for unknown reasons, it was put on Seamans Neck Road instead of Jerusalem Avenue.

In the last year, several persons, including Assemb. Fred Parola (R-Wantagh) and the employees of the Nassau County Planning BACO ALA DA Commission have urged Shelter Media of Queens, the firm that maintains the shelters, to move the structure around the corner. Alan Shapiro, a transportation planner for the county, said Shelter Media has been notified in writing and by telephone that the shelter should be moved. Both he and Parola said Jason Perline, head of the company, assured them that the shelter would be relocated. Perline could not be reached for comment.

Meanwhile, the elderly residents who take the N-54 bus are out in the cold. "All we can hope for is that the weather doesn't get worse now," Higgins said. "It's a mighty cold and windy corner -Marjorie Kaplan admitted fighting with Howard Bennett, 38, of Brooklyn on Nov. 9, but told acting County Court Judge Henry Kalinowski, "I never intended to kill him." According to the police report, the killing occurred after the two men exchanged Insults and began fighting at the gasoline station. HEM ABUSIC suojonpold EASTERN WE HAVE TO EARN OUR WINGS EVERY.