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OBITUARIES District Court Judge be an annual recognition of outstanding contribution to the legal profession. "He was a person of a lot of energy and optimism," his daughter Betty Eigen of Flatbush, Brooklyn, said yesterday. "He loved life. He was a natural story teller and he loved children. He was just full of vitality and get up and go.

He always walked William Gitelman, Former By Tony Schaeffer STAFF WRITER William Gitelman, 86, of Merrick, former Nassau County District Court judge and county attorney, died of emphysema at his home Saturday. Judge Gitelman served on the District Court bench from January, 1972, to December, 1976, when he reached the mandatory retirement age, and was county attorney in the administration Gitelman of County Executive Ralph Caso in 1977. Judge Gitelman was a native of Pittsfield, and a graduate of New York University Law School. He moved to Merrick and started a law practice there in the 1930s. He was a founder and first president of the Merrick Little League Burt Supree, By Janice Berman STAFF WRITER Burt Supree, a senior editor and dance critic at the Village Voice and a former performer, collapsed and died Friday of a heart attack at the Eighth Avenue and 14th Street subway station, en route to meet friends to go to his country house for the weekend.

He was 51. Nationally known as a dance writer, Mr. Supree wrote for many publications, including the Los Angeles Chilling Guess In Weiss Case WEISS from Page 4 iar with the dorm, according to the report. The crime shows no evidence of robbery or anti-Semitism, the report says. Chaim lived on the third floor of one of three dormitories at the school.

He was the only student assigned to a single room. Anton Weiss has brought a $15 million negligence suit against the school, claiming the school was at fault because the lock on a back door of the dorm was broken, and there was no dorm counselor in the building that night. The school has denied it was negligent in any way. In court papers, school officials contend that Chaim was randomly selected for a single room. "In all probability, the offender would have had to have been close enough to know that Weiss' body had not been discovered before returning to the scene," the report says.

"Upon re-entry, the assailant found the room dark and raised the shade to provide additional light. Weiss' body was moved by the assailant, either to provide easier access to the window and shade or for the assailant to look under the body for anything incriminating left there. The window may have been opened by the assailant to discard some item which he later retrieved." 107 and a founder of the Merrick Jewish Center Men's Club. His many other community activities included work on behalf of Scouting and the Merrick Library. He also was a founder and first president of the the South Nassau Lawyers Association, which recently created the Honorable William Gitelman Distinguished Service Award to three steps ahead of everyone else." In addition to his daughter and Mae, his wife of 59 years, Judge Gitelman is survived by another daughter, Jane Toby of Champaign, and four grandchildren.

A service was held yesterday at Gutterman's funeral home, Rockville Centre, with burial in Mt. Ararat Cemetery, North Lindenhurst. George Jackson, Retired NYC Police Officer By Sid Cassese STAFF WRITER George Jackson, 67, of Freeport, a retired New York City police officer, died Sunday morning at South Nassau Communities Hospital in Oceanside shortly after a heart attack at his home. A Brooklyn native, he moved to Freeport in 1958, and was called "Mr. Sunshine" by hundreds of people in the community, said Marilyn Austin, a neighbor and friend of the family.

"He was an extraordinary man; he was our sunshine," she added. Mr. Jackson was cited by the police department for bravery in April, 1962, for helping thwart an armed robbery. He had been with the police for 25 years when he retired in 1978. During World War II, Mr.

Jackson served with the Coast Guard and was "one of the first Afro-Americans to be trained as a sonar technician," said his daughter, Cheryl Jenkins, of Coral Springs, Fla. Survivors include his wife of 40 years, Barbara, a retired Roosevelt school teacher; his mother, Emma Jackson, of Springfield Gardens, Queens; two more daughters, Valerie Fernandes of Jacksonville, and Maria West of Deridder, two sons, George IV of Freeport and Leonard of Marietta, a brother, Walter of Bay Shore; a sister, Gloria Martin, of Springfield Gardens; and 10 grandchildren. Visiting is from 7-9 p.m. tomorrow at the John N. Moore Funeral Home in Roosevelt.

A funeral service will be held at Memorial Presbyterian Church, Roosevelt, at 10 a.m. Thursday. Interment will be at Greenfield Cemetery, Hempstead. Nationally Known Editor, Dance Critic Times, The New York Times, British Mirabella, Elle, Interview, and Dance Ink. He was a contributor to "Body to Body," a book on dancers Bill T.

Jones and Arnie Zane. Mr. Supree authored three children's books, two in collaboration with performance artist Remy Charlip: "Harlequin and the Gift of Many Colors," which received an award from Bank Street College, and "Mother, Mother, I Feel Sick, Send for the Doctor Quick, Quick, Quick," which won the Boys Club of America Gold Medal. He also wrote "Bear's Heart." He joined the staff of the Voice in 1966, and wrote a column about children from 1973 to 1979. He began writing about dance in 1976.

As a performer he danced with Aileen Passloff, Elaine Summers, and did Indian dancing with Surya Kumari. He toured with eurythmist Sabina Nordoff and poet Daisy Alden. He also appeared as an extra, carrying a cushion, in the ballroom scene of the Kirov Ballet's "Cinderella" at Madison Square Garden in the 1970s. Mr. Supree was a member of the Bessie Awards selection committee, served on the New York State Council of the Arts Dance Panel and was an officer of the Dance Critics Association.

Born in Brooklyn, Mr. Supree was a graduate of CCNY. He lived in the East Village. He is survived by his brother, Robert Supree, of Manhattan, and his father. Memorial services are pending.

Tyson Taps Into Annuity By Wallace Matthews special permission to visit Tyson so that Tyson could STAFF WRITER sign some documents, including "tax returns and some Mike Tyson has tapped into one of his last remaining other paperwork." Horne could not be reached for comresources, pulling $1 million out of an annuity that was ment yesterday. established to provide for him after his boxing days were According to Khan's deposition, which is to be filed over. According to Tyson's former accountant, Mo- in the ongoing lawsuit between Tyson and Cayton, Tyhammed Khan, Tyson needed the money to pay off huge son has "no liquid assets," just real estate valued at legal bills accrued in connection with various legal several million dollars, dozens of expensive cars and actions, including Tyson's rape trial earlier this year. the annuity. Khan worked as an accountant for Don Bill Cayton, Tyson's former manager, said he was King Productions (DKP) starting in 1988, and became told yesterday that the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.

Tyson's accountant in 1989. Khan was one of six King approved a $1 million loan against the $2.8 million employees laid off last week by the promoter. fund set up for Tyson, who is serving. a six-year prison According to a source in the office of David Branson, sentence at the Indiana Youth Center for the July 19 Cayton's Washington, D.C.-based attorney, Vincent J. rape of Desiree Washington.

Fuller, who defended Tyson in the rape trial and Cayton said the annuity, set up with $2 million of charged Tyson a reported $2 million, asked Branson to Tyson's ring earnings in 1987, would have paid Tyson have Khan's deposition sealed, a request Branson annually beginning on June 30, 1994, his fused. The deposition has not been made public, but its 28th birthday. The account, the value of which had contents were revealed to Newsday by an attorney who grown over the last five years to $2.8 million, was set has read it and is involved in the case. up by Cayton and his late accountant, Charles Forman, Tyson earned an estimated $70 million in gross and was designed to be tamper-proof unless Tyson ap- purses during his seven-year career. On June 27, 1988, peared in person to withdraw money.

the same day he earned $21 million to knock out was the one thing I intended never to be chael Spinks in 91 seconds, Tyson sued to dissolve his touched," Cayton said. "But they pulled an end run on managerial contract with Cayton. The suit was settled us. It's unbelievable what's happening here." out of court a month later with Cayton agreeing to Cayton said the account was "invaded" by an un- reduce his share of Tyson's purses from 33 percent to identified member of Tyson's camp who brought docu- 20 percent. But several months later, Tyson filed a new ments signed by Tyson to Met Life's main office on suit against Cayton.

The contract officially expired on Madison Avenue. On April 16, Tyson's camp coordina- Feb. 12, 1992, but Cayton has not been paid for any of tor, John Horne, told Newsday he had been granted the seven Tyson fights since the Spinks fight..