Newsday (Suffolk Edition) from Melville, New York • 10

3 Firms Charged With Stealing Power porate offenders can be fined up to $1000 if they pay ULCO for the stolen electricity they do not they face fines of up to twice the value of the lectricity LILCO spokeswoman June' Bruce electricity spok said that the Manor East has paid a wire had been cut to "cause only partial registration on the meter" Recently both LILCO and Consolidated Edison have been trying to crack down on electricity theft by filing criminal complaints In January a Queens Judge ruled that electricity thieves can be charged with grand larceny a felony The charges filed yesterday however are for theft of services a misdemeanor It was understood that members of staff believe the Queens ruling is likely to be overturned on appeal which would result in the dismissal of any cases based on it Under the misdemeanor statute cor By Brian Donovan Mineola Three Nassau businesses were charged yesterday with thefts of electricity totaling $66376 through the alleged use of altered electric meters The firms were the Manor East a catering house at 201 Jerusalem Ave Massapequa accused of a $22086 theft Wingfield Associates which runs the Roosevelt Field Tennis Club in Roosevelt Field charged with a $38290 theft and Kosher Meat Farms Inc a meat market at 1172 Wantagh Ave Wan-taeh accused of a $6000 theft According to complaints filed in district court by Nassau District Attorney Denis Dillon's office Long Island Lighting Co investigators found that the electric meters at the three businesses had been either disconnected or altered to record only a fraction of the electricity actually used The accusations resulted from a continuing ULCO investigation of alleged electricity thefts that has led to criminal charges against five other LILCO customers in Suffolk and seven in Nassau Thomas Ocera Manor president didn't steal anything It must have been a defective meter" The court papers included a statement by a ULCO investigator Ronald Tate that $20000 toward the cost of the allegedly stolen power and that Kosher Meat Farms has paid for all the power it is accused of stealing The tennis club she said has not paid The meat lawyer Allen Riebesehl said his client would plead innocent Officials of the tennis club could not be reached for comment Werblin Asked To Help Promote Radio City Hall By Amei Wallach Newsday Cultural Affairs Specialist David (Sonny) Werblin "the man with a midas who last December took over the job of trying to solve Madison Square troubles is considering doing the same for Rap dio City Music Hall State officials are racing against a Wednesday deadline to reach an agreement with the city and Rockefeller Center on a way to save the hall The front-running plan is a proposal to subsidize the hall through an office tower to be built over it The problem once agreement has been readied would be to find a way of running the theater profitably While Lt Gov Mary Anne Krupsak could not be reached for comment Werblin Nevada? Photo by william Scntt Jr Hofstra President James Shuart talking to students sitting in at the administration building Hofstra Students Sit In By Michele Ingrassia More than 100 Hofstra University students occupied the campus administration building yesterday and prepared to Shuart conceded that conditions in many iff the six dorms which were built about 10 years ago and which house 1620 students have been a constant problem But he disputi remain there through toe weekend to protest $1000 in stu- the refusal to role ed the need for a suit and the propriety of using money from the $230000 student-financed activity fund to pay fin it "This doesn't fell under the rubric iff student Shuart said "But the basic reason why I cant sign toe check is that it is using university money to sue the same Shuart said Hofstra had sued the fold head of the Shubert organization about running the theater Schoenfeld would not comment The tower plan was evolved during three months of meetings between State Commerce Commissioner John Dyson and Alton Marshall chairman of Rockefeller Center and his agents "While it is probably premature to say that that plan has been agreed to in a spokesman for Commerce Commissioner Dyson said "it looks pretty good to most parties" Negotiations continued yesterday as the parties considered what appears to be the prime plan It calls for a 20-story office tower to be built over the hall with the rents from the office partially subsidizing Radio theatrical operations Rockefeller Center has said these operations lost $10 million over the past decade The Urban Development Corporation which Dyson has been nominated to head would operate both the tower and toe theater through a nonprofit corporation that would be a subsidiary of UDC Rockefeller Center would lease toe theater for $1 a year to this nonprofit organization which Werblin might head on a "pro basis while he remained chief executive officer iff Madison Square Garden No decision has been readied on whether the theater will dose its doors after April 12 even if an agreement on saving it is reached But the state is anxious that it remain in operation operation architect contractor window manufacturer and bonding agent two years ago but the is still pending He added that Hofstra dent activity funds to finance a suit challenging the safety of a dormitory After day-long talks Hofstra President James Shuart agreed to allow toe students to stay in toe building and to resume negotiations today The sit-in on toe second floor of toe administration building Weller Hall began at 9 -about the same time that the suit was filed in State Supreme Court on behalf of 38 students who live in the "Tower dormitory The suit charges that structural defects and improper maintenance in the 13-story building have caused serious flooding and leaking which in turn pose safety hazards The students are seeking $539600 in damages and an order that Hofstra and toe State Dormitory Authority dose Tower until repairs are made "On Election Day during a severe storm I woke up and had a big puddle under my has spent $76000 on repairs and recently hired a consultant to study the problems The controversy began Tuesday when the 38-member student senate voted unanimously to authorize the check only to find that Shuart would not sign it Senate President Gregory Scaldone said that while administrators nave the right to approvo allocations "their signature has been basically a rubber The fund comes from a $25 fee charged each student every term and it finances such activities as toe student newspaper and concerts The only tension in the sit-in came at about 4:50 PM when Shuart warned students that if they remained in the office areas overnight he might use an injunction to remove them However The students with the administration's approval speed jxto stsyjonly the hall areas Vit "That mean toe Rockettes will keep operating on toe spokesman said "but we want Radio City to remain an operating part of the theatrical life of New York ''That could become job The 69-year-old Brooklyn native who started as an office boy with the Music Corporation of America talent agency in 1932 and became its president in 1951 has been described as "toe man with the He turned toe Jets from a bankrupt football team into the Super Bowl champs As director and officer of Monmouth Park he con- and my slippers were floating around law Tower the time' I spend cleaning up I could spend on my Tower considered the worst has many crackedwalls and ceilings 3-wetrfloort! and peeling paint i image its ownership was giving the Garden and' help make it Olfrur-.