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4 -POST-GAZETTE: Feb. 2t, 1982 CityArea- Night police force to grow by 80 men -1 it; Sf if" i 1 5 I police "dog bites and water main breaks" do not relate to public safety. Coll replied that more police are assigned to Homewood-Brushton than the area's population would warrant because, he said, "We are aware of the problem." He conceded that only three of the 35 officers assigned to plainclothes police work in the city's eight neighborhood police stations are black but noted that he has ordered less plain-clothes duty to fill the demand for patrol and beat officers. He said, though, that two of the three plain-clothes black officers are assigned to the No. 5 station in East Liberty that covers Homewood-Brushton.

He agreed that many calls to police are not directly related to police work. He said, "Many of those calls have been eliminated but everyone paying taxes feels he is entitled to service from the police." Some residents asked Coll if he could rely on the Guardian Angels for more "protection on the street" but the superintendent said that legally he must consider the self-styled safety patrols "no more powerful than other citizens." Later in the day, the mayor's office released details of the redeployment plan that calls for reassigning 65 officers to the 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. shift and an additional 18 to the 3 p.m. to 11 p.m.

shift. Other police shifts are 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., when some patrol cars will be manned by one officer instead of two, and the 11 p.m. to 7 a.m., the least-active police period. Asserting that the current manpower distribution does not meet the heavy night demand, Coll said that after Monday's redeployment 49 percent of the total manpower in district stations will be assigned to one of the two peak-period night shifts.

Officers with seniority will have the first choice of shifts but the department has the final word on manpower assignments. The offi-. cers submitted their bids last week. The redeployment does not apply to station clerks, plain-clothes and K-9 officers. The new plan follows an Oct.

1 realignment of the department when the number of patrol car sectors in the city was reduced from 62 to 47 and 90 Traffic Division officers were moved to beat patrol during non-peak traffic hours. By Albert J. Neri Post-Gazette Staff Writer More than 80 city police officers will be shifted to night duty in a redeployment plan that goes into effect on Monday. The mayor's office and the police department said in a joint announcement yesterday that about 45 percent of the calls for police service come between 6 p.m. and 2 a.m.

and that manpower will be adjusted to meet the demand. There are 1,320 officers on the force. The plan, first reported last week, is based on a continuing study of police patrol operations. The announcement was made a few hours after a public hearing when representatives of the Homewood-Brushton community told City Council and police Superintendent Robert Coll that their predominantly black neighborhood does not have adequate police protection. Members of the Homewood-Brushton Civic Improvement Association and other groups called for regular beat patrolmen in their business district.

They said the neighborhood is plagued by robberies and burglaries. Vivian Lane, owner of a tavern-restaurant on Frankstown Avenue, said her place has been burglarized 10 times in three years despite expensive security measures. "A patrol car passing by is not the same deterrent as a walking policeman," one merchant said. ''That uniform has some weight," another business owner said. Coll would make no commitment but said that the new deployment plan should make more men available for beat patrols.

"If we have a man available, we'll put him there. But our first priority is to fill the motomed patrols," Coll said, adding that police protection over the last two decades has moved in the direction of patrol cars rather than beat officers. Harvey Adams, a former city police sergeant and a longtime critic of the department, said, "Police are assigned not by need but by politics." He argued that black neighborhoods have never received adequate protection. Adams, president of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, also argued that not enough black officers are assigned to plainclothes duty and that many calls to -S'-wS -s 1r Tom Hitchings, a fire department investigator, at the scene of the fire Retired Pitt assistant Tom Hritz Threat of war: A nagging ache I feel a toothache coming on. Part the problem is that I have been watching too much television lately.

Several weeks ago, it was a thing called "Twilight's Last Gleaming." Fiction, yes. But it chilled me to the bone. The subject was nuclear war. A few days later, it was another thing called "World War III." Fiction, yes. But it was even more sickening than "Twilight's Last Gleaming." And just the other night, it was a Home Box Office special on the predictions of Nostradamus, the 16th-century French astrologer.

I don't believe in astrology. But I wish 1 hadn't watched it. My generation was teethed on the ithreat of nuclear extinction. We grew up with a mushroom-shaped cloud hanging over our heads. Like 'toothaches usually do, the pain "eased up after a while and went Or maybe we just learned to ignore it.

But now, it's beginning to again. I There is too much talk of war lately. Pollsters talk too much about jit. Ronald Reagan and Alexander I Haig talk too much about it. Leonid Brezhnev talks too much about it.

It's like a dull pain in the jaw that know is going to get worse before it gets better. The tooth began going bad when I was a child, shortly before the end World War II. This thing in the desert and I wasn't even aware of it. It was called The Manhattan Project. And then two Herrible explosions in Japan.

An infection in my jaw that I didn't even know was there. There was a slight numbness throughout my childhood and adolescence. People were building bomb shelters. But no real pain. They built houses, too.

Millions of them. Houses with patios in the back yard where they grilled steaks and barbecued chicken. Maybe the numbness came from biting down too hard on a chicken bone. It lay there dormant until 1963 when it really hit me hard. It hurt so bad I thought it was going to kill me.

Cuba. A terrible, throbbing pain for two straight days. But diplomacy prevailed and it went away. That's the way it is with a toothache. It can vanish as quickly as it can appear.

It nagged me throughout the rest of the '60s and the '70s. The Vietnam War kept me constantly aware of it. So did a whole series of little wars tn the Mideast. It eased considerably when the draft was abolished. But that was only temporary.

Ronald Reagan came along and he is forever reminding me of that troublesome tooth. Every time he brings up the Subject of military superiority, I get i jolt in the jaw. It comes and goes like it always pas. There isn't always time to think about it. There are the more immediate problems the state of the economy, unemployment, inflation, staggering interest rates, organized and disorganized crime, civil rights, energy conservation, budget cutbacks all kinds of things to keep my mind off that tingling tooth.

'But then something always haptens something like El Salvador. Something like Afghanistan. Something like Poland. Twitches in my jaw. So why don't I go to a dentist? Why don't I go and have the infernal thing pulled out of my jaw? I can't.

Ronald Reagan and Leo-hid Brezhnev won't hear of it. They $ay it's too expensive. They say the fnoney is needed for other things rnore important things things like nuclear submarines and long-range (jombers and intercontinental ballistic missiles. They say that ridding myself of ftat aching tooth would be even worse than the pain itself. They say the extraction might even kill me.

(learn to live with a little pain, they advise. i Even though it's ludicrous, most people will take that advice. We oever go to the dentist until it's too te. We're always looking for a mjracle, a painless cure. We've gotten so used to the nagging pain that Jfiost of us don't notice it anymore.

Correction Sauer Mechanical Inc. was the affparent low base bidder on plumbing for the mini-Kane center in Glen fozel, and not Cost Mechanical Contractors as the Post-Gazette erroneously reported in yesterday's (editions. Police manpower redeployment For peak period from 6 p.m. to 2 asn. Percent ol Naw call for percent of Station aervice) manpower 2 (Hill District) 43.0 47.5 3 (Lawrenceville) 45.0 46.4 4 (Oakland) 43.0 49.0 5 (East Liberty, Homewood-Brushton) 44.0 46.9 6 Squirrel Hill, Point Breeze) 43.0 48.1 7 (Southside) 49.0 50.7 8 (West End, Mt.

Washington) 48.0 50.2 9 (North Side) 47.0 48.8 Effective March 1,1982. 1 IIS' pi jll ihllli'lllilTiffc'I'y Robert H. Bailie He was an instructor in the Pitt political science and geography departments from 1954 to 1960 when he joined the staff of Rep. William S. Moorhead, D-Downtown.

Before that he had been a legislative educational consultant for the United Steelworkers union. In 1963 Bailie returned to Pitt as administrative assistant to Chancellor Edward Litchfield and later served in the same capacity for Chancellors Stanton Crawford, David Kurtzman and the present chancellor, Wesley Posvar. In 1965 he was assistant secretary of the university and in 1966 he was director of Pitt's Office of went to the game with his brother and a friend from their home on Roslyn Street in Elizabeth Township. Brown admits that he remarked loudly upon the purported sexual proclivities of various Ranger players. Brown joined a group that shouted in unison a question about one player's masculinity.

They heaped particular abuse upon Rangers Polis and Phil Espo-sito. "I was calling Esposito Por-kie Pig. The whole section was yelling Porkie Pig," Brown recalled. After the game ended, Brown got up from his seat near the ice and was walking away when he saw "two or three" Rangers charging at him. He began hurrying to get away, he said.

"I was looking the other way. All I know is I got hit." National Hockey League security official William Gilchrist, said he interviewed Esposito and Polis after the incident. The officer said Esposito recalled that he was leaving the rink when Brown threw a handful of The Medical Assistance program is designed to help poor residents pay for prescriptions by providing a full or partial payment for the drugs by reimbursing the dispenser. Murray Pharmacy was given a longer suspLsion because its owners, Julius ana Irwin Hirsh, pleaded guilty last April to five felony that (Continued from Page 1) The fire spread to the third floor and firemen needed about two hours to bring the blaze under control. They did not leave until Bailie's body was brought out of the house at 10:05 a.m.

The Bureau of Fire sent 12 pumpers, three aerial trucks and four squads to the house on St. James Street, a short, narrow thoroughfare where cars are parked almost bumper-to-bumper and the space between residences is very small. The scene of the blaze is a half-block from busy Fifth Avenue. Regan said the investigation is continuing. Firefighter William J.

Lynch, 59, was admitted to Shadyside Hospital in fair condition with bruises. Two other firefighters, Joseph F. Ryan, 32, and John F. Segriff, 31, were treated. Firefighters Robert Hoffman, 52; George Devinney, 53, and Richard Pruszynski, 35, were treated at Presbyterian-University Hospital.

Two paramedics, John Moon, overcome by smoke, and Michael Chichwak, who suffered an eye injury, were treated at the scene. Bailie, a native of Springdale, was a graduate of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. He received a master's degree from Harvard and his doctorate in political science from Pitt, where he did his thesis on the work of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. VA freeze on hospitals may kill Aspinwall job 1 Bill Levis Post-Gazette killed Robert Bailie. dies in fire Commonwealth Relations.

Bailie was a founding board member of NEED Negro Emergency Education Fund and was a member of the UN Association of Pittsburgh. Informed of Bailie's death, Albert C. Van Dusen, professor and university chancellor emeritus at Pitt, said: "Dr. Bailie came to the university after a very successful period of service in Congressman Moorhead's office. He served in the key position of administrative assistant to Chancellor Litchfield and in other important roles at the university until physical disability required his retirement.

He had many good friends in the university and the Pittsburgh community and will be sorely missed." In addition to his wife, the former Catharine Westervelt, and son, Ames, Bailie is survived by two other sons, Robert H. Bailie 20, stationed with the U.S. Army at Fort Knox, and Stoughton Bailie, 18, of East Liberty. Friends may call from 11 a.m. until noon tomorrow at the parish, house of Calvary Episcopal Church, Shady Avenue and Walnut Street, Shadyside, where a memorial service will be held at noon.

Interment will be private. The family suggests memorial contributions to the University of Pittsburgh. Arrangements are being handled by H. Samson 537 N. Neville Oakland.

fan's suit ice, which hit the player in the face. According to the official, Polis said he reached over the protective glass around the rink and "tapped" Brown on the head. Brown said he endured repeated bouts of nausea, headaches and dizziness after the assault. His doctor said he had permanent traumatic epilepsy resulting from the blow on the head. He says he -must take medicine to control the condition.

But another doctor hired by the defendants said the blow was "too trivial" to cause epilepsy. Polis is retired from hockey and lives in British Columbia. Esposito is also retired as a player and currently does television color commentary for the Rangers. Common Pleas Judges Francis Barry and Leonard Staisey rejected the Rangers' request to be left out of the suit. The judges said a jury should decide if the Rangers have any liability.

The trial is scheduled for next month. Attorney Peter King represents Brown. counts in connection with the welfare department's fraud charges. State law requires a five-year suspension in such cases. The owners of Robinson Pharmacy, Matthew W.

Burns Jr. and Leo EinlotlvSiave not been convicted of any charges related to their suspension. IS 4 Currant percent of manpower 39.5 42.8 42.7 40.5 43.1 42.6 39.7 40.3 The Aspinwall hospital project was on the fiscal 1986 list. The resent hospital was built in 1925. ast June, in a report submitted to Congress by Dr.

Donald L. Custis, the VA's medical director, Aspinwall was listed as one of the 10 VA hospitals "most in need of construction, replacement or modernization." Nimmo said the projects will have to be justified under "new and defensible criteria." Thomas Gig-liotti, director of VA Medical District 5 of Western Pennsylvania, said he had no information yet on what the new guidelines are. "I'm going to get tons of flak," Nimmo said. "There will be expressions of outrage." Appointed last fall, Nimmo oversees a $25 billion budget, 250,000 employees and the nation's largest single medical systema network of 172 VA hospitals which care for 1,800,000 patients and 18 million outpatients annually. Nimmo said construction projects -won places on the VA's list on the basis of hometown and congression-' al pressures.

"Does it make sense to spend $280 million for a replacement VA hospital in Minneapolis," Nimmo asked, "where we've got 2,000 empty beds already there and where you've got a declining veteran population?" The Minneapolis project was scheduled to get underway by October 1983. stumps police Rangers still party to By Bohdan Hodiak Post-Gazette Staff Writer The Veterans Administration is reconsidering the proposed $99 million replacement or modernization of the Aspinwall VA Hospital. It is one of hundreds of new VA medical facilities across the country, many of them already approved by Congress, that will be reviewed and possibly cut or canceled, Robert Nimmo, the VA administrator, said yesterday. He said he expects a roar of protest over the move. Unless the new facilities can be justified on a basis of need, not politics, they won't be built, Nimmo said.

At stake are some $2.7 billion worth of construction projects planned for fiscal 1984 or later. The freeze does not include an additional $1 billion worth of projects intended to correct fire, safety, electrical and seismic deficiencies in existing VA facilities, In addition to the Aspinwall facility, a $5 million project for the VA Hospital in Butler for outpatient facility improvements could be cut. Budgeted for fiscal 1984, it was for the addition of a wing or a new building. The third project here, also fiscal 1984, is a $12 million new laundry facility at Highland Drive in East Liberty. It would also serve the Oakland, Aspinwall and Butler VA hospitals.

Murder-suicide State police said yesterday that they have found no clues or motives in a triple murder and suicide at a Washington County farmhouse last week, i Interviews with Melissa Lammie, 17, the sole survivor of the slayings, could not shed any light on why her stepfather, Lawrence Repep, 31, killed himself after shooting to death his wife and the couple's two young sons. Meanwhile, blood tests of Repep indicated there were no drugs or alcohol present, according to Washington County Coroner Farrell Jaciyyi. State Lt. Donald Regan in Washington County said By Jim Gallagher Post-Gazette Staff Writer Hockey fan David Brown says he was just leaving his seat at the Civic Arena when he was clubbed over the head with a hockey stick by an angry New York Ranger in 1978. "They the Rangers all had their sticks up and were swearing all kinds of names.

And I heard one of them say, 'Get that over Brown said in a sworn deposition. "I thought they were coming at me because I was hollering names at them." Brown, 22, said the attack turned him into an epileptic. He filed suit against the Rangers and Greg Polis, the player who Brown says attacked him in the stands. A two-judge panel in Common Pleas Court yesterday refused to release the Rangers from the suit. The team claimed it was not responsible for its players' actions, because the incident happened after the game ended.

Brown, who works in a car wash, Squirrel will be ineligible for the program for five years. Robinson Pharmacy, 2101 Perrys-ville Northside, will be ineligible for two years. The welfare department has accused both pharmacies of dispensing generic drugs Viile billing the state for higher-priced, brand-name drugs. Two city pharmacies suspended from state program was interviewed two or three times, and she could not offer a reason for the slayings. "We feel certain that she is telling us everything she knows.

She says she doesn't know what caused this or what set him off. Perhaps, this is something we may never know," he said. Regan said that Repep had no history of violence and that he and his wife, Ruth Ann, 38, apparently had a harmonious relationship. Also killed were Benjamin, 5, and Lawrence 3. Lammie was dressing for school.

I $hen she heard gunshots and saw her stepfather approaching her with a rifle. Post-Gazette Harrisburg Bureau HARRISBURG State Welfare Secretary Helen O'Bannon announced yesterday that two Pittsburgh pharmacies are among 10 health care providers in Pennsylvania that have been suspended from te Medical Assisjnce reimbursement program. Murray Pharmacy, 4201 Murray.