Newsday from New York, New York • 9

oois FiremeihKitts 1 cis Hospital in Roslyn for cuts and bruises Of the chest head and back Cilice said Then accompanied byhis wyer he went to the Sixth Precinct in Manhasset where he was questioned and released about 7 AM "There wasn't enough evidence to hold him on criminal charges at the Nassau Sgt Bill Gutersloh a departmental spokesman said "Our investigation is continuing and detectives are attempting to retrace every step of the Yetski was an employee of the North Hempstead Town Public Works Deparment and Ahern worked for the White Rose Tea Co occupation could not be learned was a Kings Point resident but Nassau and village police citing departmental policy refused to give his homo address because no charges were placed against him Village Police Commissioner Peter Kelly said O'Donnell has been a member of the department since 1973 bt refused to give any other background information By Patrick Brasley Kings A minor traffic incident led to an argument Saturday night in which an off-duty Kings Point police officer fatally shot a Great Neck volunteer fireman and seriously wounded two others Nassau County Police said yesterday The police officer Kevin SO who contended that he acted in self-defense was not charged But he was suspended with pay pending a grand jury investigation that was expected to begin this week A county police spokesman said had cuts and bruises but declined to say whether there had been a fight One of those shot John Yetski 20 of 188 Shore Rd Great Neck was dead on arrival at North Store University Hospital in Manhasset shortly before midnight His companions James Lawrence 29 and James Ahern 28 who both lived at 12 Forest Row Great Neck were listed in critical but stable condition after surgery at North Shore Investigators would not say what prompted the shooting only that the dispute which occurred about 11-20 PM at East Shore and Station Roads concerned a traffic incident Neighbors reported hearing loud arguing and cursing before the shooting Ira A Cavrell whose driveway at 165 Station Rd is only a short distance from the shooting scene -told a reporter that he was parking his car Saturday night after returning home with his daughter Diane 15 when he heard the shouting "There was a lot of profanity" he said "I started in to call the police when I heard the After calling police Cavrell went to the scene with his daughter who knew Yetski "John was on the ground There were a lot of police Diane became kind of hysterical" Cavrell said "John used to drop her off from skating She said he was one hell of a nice Yetski was hit twice in the chest and stomach and the others once each in the torso by bullets from 25-cal automatic pistol Four shots were fired police said was treated at St Fran Booth's a Fragile Window on World Lizzie Brown gives instructions to a subway passenger and take his chance snatching a Miss Felder a slim frail-looking woman tried to be realistic about the dangers a lot of harassment but the harassment comes from the she said "In the early hours you get it from the school kids In the evening hours the Night or day sunlight never enters the gloomy subway station Those long silent stretches of the night shift are a startling contrast to the bustle familiar to moot of the passengers who use that station during the day when Lizzie Brown is there watching the crowds grow then recede As the 'end of Lizzie Brown's shift drew near on a recent day the pace was picking up a little She waadttill sliding tokens through the aperture with the deftness of a croupier dealing gambling chips but she was counting dollar bills too and filling out forms "You have to keep it said Mrs' Brown one of the Transit 4000 railroad clerks without missing a beat in her count After nine years on the job she said one develops a certain digital nimbleness a facility for' riffling rapidly through stacks- of dollar bills together with an imperviousness to all the scare stories about atrocities committed against fellow workers 1 You think about Mrs Broom said as she left her seat and moved to a manual coin-counting machine "If you thought about it you Continued from Page 5 quiet end After 7 PM there are plenty of slow moments for her to worry about her -safety "I feel safe when I see a crowd of more than three she 'said "Or when I see someone hangin in the station for more than 10 minutes the biggest chicken down here" For one thing there's what she calls "a blind spot" at the mouth of a passageway leading from the booth to the south side of Hillside Avenue "I cant see behind that she said gesturing nervously toward the right-angled corner leading to the exit stairways Considering that she has to close the 153rd Street booth later in the night and carry money and tokens 150 yards to the Parsons Boulevard end of the station she worries about lurkers "Sometimes the patrolman doesn't get back in time to escort she said "There should be more officers especially when we're dealing with money and One Transit policeman whose beat alternates between Parsons Boulevard nd one stop to the east Sutphin Boulevard said that the only problems are from "isolated "There isn't any pattern said the officer who would not give his name With his footsteps echoing he strolled watchfully along the east-bound platform which at that moment did not hold a single passenger "Mostly we get crimes of opportunity The type of thing where a guy will look around see watching work" As she turned the handle on the machine it gobbled up quarters and spit them into a canvas bag But Mrs Brown has had one brush with a subway holdup about a year ago "One Sunday morning a guy tried to hold me up" she said "He held a gun up against the glass and asked me to open the door" Fortunately she was in one of the new fiberglass and steel booths with the windows "I didn't say she recounted 1 put the intercom speaker on and hollered for help" The would-be robber disappeared quickly up the stairs she Mrs Brown is married to a city bus driver and lives in Cambria Heights There is no required educational level for her job just the neccessity of passing a competitive Civil Service test She earns $674 an hour during her 40-hour week For that salary Mrs Brown spends more than seven hours a day (she gets a lunch break and a coffee break) in the rectangular booth that looks like a big fish and most of the time she is alone During rush hours however she has an "assist" another worker to help with the mobs that form outside the booth's thick windows Transport Workers Union organizer Robert Fulton says that those windows are resistant enough to stop a MagnumHullet or a shotgun but not resistant enough to stop a Howitzer Mn Brown can remember spending long hours in the quaint old booths that only had a few bus between her and the public "This is much she said The new booths which the authority started installing in 1961 are larger and have air conditioning and baseboard heaters "In the old ones all you got was a revolving fan and a space she said Most of the subway 573 full-time booths are bullet resistant and the Transit Authority recently let a $42-million contract to replace the remaining 65 old bootha with new ones Transit officials say the new booths have discouraged robberies and attempted robberies They say that the number of incidents involving booths dropped from 1145 to 299 between 1974 before most of the new booths were built and last year "Of Course' the figurasValaar repror tat in- e-creased police a Transit Authority spokesman said Bus Routes Changed in Queens ing and evening rush hour schedules Extra service will be available on the Q48 operating between LaGuar-dia and the IRT Main Street Flushing subway station at 30-minute intervals to the airport from 9 to 10:30 AM and from the airport from 9:30 to 11 AM The Q88 Springfield Boulevard route has been extended one-half mile past Union Turnpike to Hillside Avenue There will be a new terminal on file east aide of Springfield Boulevard north of Hillside Avenue And Irises no longer will turn left at 270th Street but will go to Lakeville Road turn left to 77th Avenue left at Hew lett Street and then back to Lakeville Road to their regular terminal Because midday ridership on the X-51 Fluahing-Manhattan express has remained light the spokesman said the buses will leave every hour until 5 PM from Sanford Avenue and Northern Boulevard starting with the 10 AM trip tomorrow There will be a bus at 5:20 and buses every hour after that until 8:20 PM In the Queens-bound X-51 service from 34th Street and Third Avenue starting with the 10:40 AM trip buses will leave hourly until 3:40 PM and then after the rush hour every hour starting at 6 PM until 9 PM the last departure The Transit Authority has announced several changes in Queens bus service including additional Sunday morning service on the Q48 to and from IxtlmnlM Airport an extension of the Q88 to Hillside Avenue and a revamping in the Cityline terminal of the Q44A A spokesman for the authority said that the Q88 and Q44A changes were maila in response to community requests Also beginning today the midday gffmdula of the X-51 will will go from half hour to hourly departures There will also be what the spokesman termed adjustments in morn.