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CITY:T e n a n t P r e s s u r e S o c k e d K o c hBY JOHNS. TURCOTTMayor Koch%u2019s decisive loss in the City Council on two nominations to the sensitive Conciliation and Appeals Board (CAB), which adm inisters the city's rentstabilization laws, came as the result of fears that the administration was tipping the nine-member board in favor of the pro-landlord block.The rejected nominees, Robert Weaver, a former secretary of the federal Housing and Urban Development Administration, and Jacob Ward, a lawyer with housing clients, had already served as $15,000-a-year tenant representatives on the Board, despite their personal and professional ties to major real estate interests.The rejection, spearheaded by North Manhattan Councilmember Stanley E. Michels, a tenant lawyer, came about by a single vote Tuesday night, despite frantic last-second efforts on the part of Majority Leader Thomas Cuite and Finance Committee Chairman Edward Sadowsky to switch votes, marking the first time in history that the normally subservientCouncil had rejected a mayoral nominee.ARM TWISTA two-thirds majority is required for Council confirmations of mayoral nominees. The Council got through roll call on the two nominations with only one vote away from confirmation. Then, according to City Hall sources, Sadowsky got Queens Democrat Archie Spigner to change his voteMayor and Cuite.%u201d%u201c The Council has spoken,%u201d was C uite%u2019s only comment on the matter.%u201c We regret that the City Council didn%u2019t confirm the nominations,%u201d said a spokesman for Mayor Koch, who is reportedly %u201c slightly disthat both Weaver and Ward Will be considered for possible submission. jPUBLIC OR TENANT?The CAB, established in 1969 to deal with rent %u2022'Stabilization problems, originally; had an impartial chairman, four %u201c public%u201d repreto achieve confirmation. However, at the same time, another Queens Democrat, Sheldon Leffler, changed his vote from proconfirmation to an abstention, just as City Council President Carol Bellamy gavelled the vote to an end. As the gavel fell, Bronx Republican Joseph Savino, whose arm had apparently also been twisted by Sadowsky, the source said, tried to change his vote to achieve confirmation, but the gavel had already fallen, making a usually pro forma procedure an historical event.%u201c Tom Cuite handled it very sloppily,%u201d said a Council member requesting anonymity. %u201cThe rejection is a slap in the faces of both theTom Cuite handled it very sloppily.The rejectionis a slap in the face.%u2019turbed%u201d over the matter. However, sentatives and four %u201c landlord%u201d the spokesman made it clear that representatives. In 1974, %u201c public%u201d the Mayor will submit two more representatives was amended to candidates in the near future, and %u201c ten an t%u201d representatives. BothWard and Weaver were originally appointed to the Board in 1973 at $15,000-a-year as %u201c public%u201d representatives.%u201c Both Ward and Weaver are well-qualified and well-suited as public officials,%u201d said a Council observer, %u201c but neither have credentials as tenant representatives on CAB.%u201dNeither men were available for comment on their rejections by the Council. However, their respective backgrounds do not directly indicate sympathy with tenant problems.Ward, a partner with Domberand Ward, reportedly does work for both profit and non-profit housing companies.Weaver, distinguished professor of Urban Affairs at Hunter College, is on the Board of the Municipal Assistance Corporation, the Bowery Savings Bank and the Mutual Real Estate Investment Trust.Two other appointments of %u201c landlord%u201d representatives, Allan Stillman and Dale Hemmerdinger, were approved by the Council. This is Stillman%u2019s second term.Jury ConvictsA Con ArtistBY ROBERT CRANEA chameleon-like con artist was convicted yesterday by a State Supreme Court jury in Manhattan, of cheating two elderly women out of$11,700, their accumulated life savings, through classic renditions ot a get - rich - quick swindle.Blonde, hazel-eyed Judy Dakin, 20, used the %u201c pocketbook drop%u201d swindle, the jury said, to leave the two women holding stacks of worthless paper instead of the small fortunes they had been expecting.Police authorities said the Canadian-born defendant, who faces a possible seven year jail term, is aReporterOffers Book To JudgeA New Jersey judge refused yesterday to immediately accept a book manuscript offered to him by Myron Farber, the New York Times reporter jailed in Hackensack for refusing to turn over investigative files in the Dr. Mario E. Jascalevich murder trial.Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, the Times publisher, said the manuscript would enable %u201cthe courts, and the public, to put aside, once and for all, the irrelevant issue of a book manuscript.%u201dSulzberger said that by offering the book, Farber and the Times were hoping to redirect Arnold%u2019s attention to %u201cthe basic question%u2014 the right of a journalist to serve the pubik by protecting his undisclosed sources andhis confidential, unpublished information.%u201dRather than accept the document, Judge William Arnold set a b-~r.rir~ Fridcy to consider the offer. Farber had received half a 175,000 advance from Doubleday Books for a book on the case. But when Arnold demanded Farber%u2019s notes on the case, Doubleday returned the incomplete manuscript.known master of identity alternation, with a repertoire that includes wigs and tinted contract lenses.Ms. Dakin took the stand in her own defense, tearfully asserting her innocense in a dramatic depiction of the case as an instance of mistaken identity. Prosecutor James Payne denounced the performance, telling the jury in his summation that Ms. Dakin %u201c conned two women and she tried to con you.%u201dMrs. James Kleckner and Mrs. Ellen Toohill, the victims, told the jury that Ms. Dakin gained their confidence during street corner encounters earlier this summer and as a result lost $6,000 and $5,700 to her, respectively.The swindle, Payne said, amounted to %u201c economic murder%u201d on the two 73-year-old victims, both who were taken in by what they thought was Ms. Dakin%u2019s discovery of a bag full of lost money.According to the testimony, Ms. Dakin approached the women on separate occasions, explaining that she%u2019d just found the bag, filled with thousands of dollars, in a telephone booth. In reality, Payne said, the bag contained single dollars on top and play money below. Also in the bag was a note, reading that the money was destined to be sent out of the country to benefit Ugandan opponents of Uganda President Idi Amin.The victims testified that Ms. Dakin discussed with them what to do with the money, rejecting their suggestions to call the police, and suggesting, instead, calling a %u201c lawyer%u201d known to Ms. Dakin. The %u201c lawyer%u201d in turn told the women that since lost money can eventually be claimed by finders, he would hold the money in escrow until it could be split with Ms. Dakin.They said, however, that the %u201c lawyer%u201d also suggested the elderly women put up their own money as a %u201c good faith%u201d gesture, so tney wouldn%u2019t tell anyone else about their find. After withdrawing money from their accounts, they said, Ms. Dakin left them with their money, and with them holding the bag of worthless paper.This Guy Gets Off on RocksEveryone has his own little fetish, from orobation to a year and a day sentenced to 30 days for drunkenPatrick J. McCarthy%u2019s is that when in jail. And now, following the ness.he gets drunk, he likes to break the latest incident Saturday, he%u2019s back In May, he got drunk again and glass at U.S. Courthouses. in jail after a drying out rehabilita- broke a window in the OklahomaAt least 24 times in the past 10 tion trip to Texas. City federal courthouse. Authoriyears, up to and including last Because of the cost of replacingv fifes'sent him to a U. S. HospitalSaturday, McCarthy, according to glass, McCarthy%u2019s act is a felony, where he was found fit to stand police records, tossed rocks subjecting him to a possible 10 trial. He pled guilty and received through windows from Brooklyn years in jail and a $10,000 fine. three years probation, to Oklahoma. More than a year ago,McCarthy, The government gave him busHis record includes 21 shatter- 61, was sentenced in Manhattan for money back to Brooklyn, where he mgs at the courthouse on Foley violating probation on a previous said he wanted to serve the Square in Manhattan and one each offense, and sent to a federal probation, since he%u2019d once lived in at the U. S. Customs Court in Foley alcoholics rehabilitation center in Brooklyn.Square, the U. S. Courthouse in Fort Worth, Texas. Saturday, McCarthy got back to. r%u00ae%u00b0\During his stay, he was trained town, got drunk, broke a window atin Oklahoma City. as a iandscape gardener and the U. S. Court House in FoleyHe has appeared before 11 received a good behavior release Square, and was arrested. He will judges and three magistrates, and last spring. After a few days in be arraigned before a magistrate has received sentences ranging Oklahoma City, however, he was next week.Park Slope Study ConfirmsThe Obvious: Service StinksBy DAVID HABENSTREITA Park Slope community group has just conducted a study of Slope mail service and confirmed what they%u2019d all thought for a long time: their local mail service is %u201cinadequate.%u201dFrom July 11 through 13, members of the Park Slope Civic Council sent out 289 first class letters, all mailed before 8:30 a.m. They found that only 55 per cent of the letters mailed in 11215 to locations in the same district were received the next day, as were only 49 per cent of die letters sent out of the zone to other city zones. This casts some aspersions on the Post Office claim that any first class, zip coded letter mailed before 10 a.m. will be delivered anywhere in the city by the next business day.A Civic Council spokesman said that he was %u201cconvinced%u201d that the proDiem was not with me entire postal system, but was %u201cspecific in nature.%u201d He cited the study%u2019s finding that 82 per cent of the letters mailed from outside zip code 11215 were delivered on the next business day. The study alsoshowed that ten letters in the 11215 district were postmarked one to three days after they were mailed, indicating that pick-ups were skipped on those days.Postal district 11217, which also covers Boerum Hill and Downtown Brooklyn, as well as parts of Park Slope, didn%u2019t fare quite as badly, with 75 per cent of the letters mailed between locations in that district and 65 per cent of outgoing mail arriving the next day. None took more than three days, whereas in the 11215 area, 9 per cent took six days or more to arrive.Charles Steinberg, acting manager of the 11217 post Office, termed the study %u201cinaccurate.%u201d He claims that his district%u2019s service is %u201cas good as anywhere iij the city,%u201d and that 95 per cent of the first class letters mailed early in the day in the district arrive at their destination the next day.! Steinberg abruptly halted tne interview after he was %u201c informed by higher authorities%u201d that he was not supposed to talk to reporters.%u201d Vincent Oesterle, m anager of district 11215, also said that he was not allowed to talk to the press andso, would make no comment at all.Murray Stein, also said that he doubted the accuracy of the study. Although he had little to say about the two districts in question, Stein repeatedly asserted that Federal studies had shown that the nextday delivery rate has %u2018%u2018never gone below 95 per cent%u201d except during Christm as season and the blackout. He added that with such a %u201chigh level of service%u201d city-wide it would be %u201cvery unlikely%u201d that any two local districts could be as deficient as the study indicates. Stein did say that he would be willing to have members of his staff go over the study with the Civic Council to sete where improvements can bej made. PeterAltschuler, who worked on the Civic Council project, sees the results as %u201cammunition for a series of phone calls and letters demanding improved postal services for Park Slope residents.A n %u2014 L %u201e 1 ----------1 4 i L - , 4r u t o v t i t u v i o u u i m a h n v u v u vof the study to Stein and has so far received no response. He believes that the study %u201cdoesn%u2019t allow anything new. It just proves what the people of Park Slope have known for a long time.%u201dThursday, August 17, 1978