European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 6, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                              By Sally Ryan a staff writer f York City s Bronx Are what the big1 town had a generation ago and what sociologists say Rural areas everywhere May expect in another generation if Urban blight keeps creeping outward. N gambling numbers policy narcotics to racial and religious tensions they All t Are Here. And Federal state and count authorities have moved in too. One of the first stops on the clattering commuter lines out of new York s grand Central is mount Vernon a a City of 73,000. A sociologist or. Bert o e. Swanson charges organized crime flourishes openly there and is strangling attempts to control narcotics enforce housing codes and plan Urban renewal and school integration  set off an uproar in july when he said there was utter silence from officialdom surrounding the pres ence of the underworld in mount Verm. County executive Edwin g. Michaeli stche5tek co. Leens x Nassau co. I Long Island 10 Miles an a former Interior decorator says years ago Early in the 20th Century there were reports the mafia was operating in the county. If they Are Here now the local police should search them out. Well give them our  Michaelian a Republican says the problems spill Over from new York. The wonderful world of Westchester he Calls his Domain. A privileged Community a Symbol of the Good  crime increased 13 per cent from 1965 to 1966. Narcotics arrests have multiplied in the last three years and More and More of the arrests Are of White teen agers from Good Homes. Sheriff John e. Hoy says the narcotic filter up from East Harlem and similar new York  never thought we d get it Here he said. We never expected anything like this Here in Westchester county. Our youngsters have educational Opportunity they come from Fine Homes they have Good religious backgrounds and there it  we rounded up 155 youngsters official Edwin g. Michaelian vows backing for local police forces. On narcotics charges the sheriff  of them were Well to do some Middle class. Very few from the poorer areas. We called in their parents. Some of the mothers fainted when the Learned their children were using narcotics. They had no idea they were  this Spring 84 women were arrested most of them in the crowded Southern area containing 80 per cent of Westchester s population 90 per cent of its assessed valuation and 30 per Centof its land area. The Syndicate offered them $100 week for the use of their phones Hoy said. The women were divorced abandoned or on Relief. Some were of questionable morals. They had no source of income. There is an amazing knowledge bythe men on the other Side of the Law of these people in straitened Circum stances. They prey on  they also prey on the legitimate businessman. The government estimates that 00 per cent of the business and Industrial garbage in Westchester is handled by the mafia. The Independent garbage operators be Gan losing out about 1950 when Nicholas cockeyed Nick Ratteni and Phil Gia Morino a Yonkers n.y., bookmaker bought control of Westchester carting co. It now handles garbage for major companies in Westchester. And Ratteni identified by the government As an associate of Frank costello is known As Westchester s garbage King and lives on the Border of posh respectable Bronx Ville. In april 19g6, a Federal grand jury investigated reports that the mafia had used murder and mayhem to muscle inon the garbage business. The investigation began after a store owner protested the Price of rubbish removal had soared from $8 a month to $100. This summer Thomas m. Milo of the Bronx vice president of Queens City refuse collectors of Mamaroneck an new Rochelle was arrested on charges of threatening and intimidating a competitor. Milo is the son of Sabato Milo de scribed by officials As a member of the mafia s Vito Genovese family. Geno vese currently is serving a 15-year Pris on term but business goes on without him. The Clay before Milo was arrested police nabbed Short potbellied thick glassed Anthony Chick d Amore 67,and his brother Emanuel 64, and accused them of running a gambling operation out of a mount Vernon Gas station. Leonard Rubenfeld Westchester Short dark District attorney identified Anthony d Amore As part of the Sab Tomilo gambling Syndicate. Anthony the sheriff said had a record dating to1920 Emanuel to 1939. They were charged with mis demean ors carrying $500 fines and one year in jail. We have driven the bookmaker out of the stores and off the streets. But it is becoming increasingly difficult sheriff Hoy says. We cannot to Day apply to the court for wiretapping one of the tools we need to combat crime. The Laws have taken our Powers away from us he says. Give us some Laws with  the state investigation commission charged in 1963, after four weeks of hearings that a $30-million-a-year Gam bling operation flourished in Westchester. It listed 218 illegal gambling premises in 16 communities. The evidence indicated quite clearly that illegal gambling flourished with the knowledge and Protection of the police said Goodman Sarachan the commis Sion chairman. T,.__. He commission made 48 recommendations topped by a study of the feasibility of consolidating police functions at the county level. The county had and still has 40 separate police forces with about 2,200 men to cover 6 cities 18 towns and 22 villages spread Over 4, 5 Square Miles. The Republican dominated county Board of supervisors made up of Home Rule representatives of the county s hamlets pigeonholed the commission report. We studied it county executive Michaelian says. The sheriff District attorney and i made some  in new Rochelle a minister there. Albert Fay Hill dispatched squads of Young housewives and businessmen to gather evidence on organized crime. They recorded conversations of people placing bets. One Man got a Job in a Luncheonette to spy on the owner. Others trailed a Milkman. They turned Over their in formation to Federal officials. A Federal grand jury indicted the Milkman Anthony Turco 44, of Yonk ers on charges of violating Federal Gam bling Laws. The . Attorney said Turco picked up policy slips from retail stores and took bets from individual customers who stuck their choices i empty milk bottles. Joseph the Baker Calandruccio,54, new Rochelle father of four was indicted in june. A Federal grand jury charged him with six counts to extor Tion saying he had threatened Jerome Andrea of Norwalk Conn. D Andrea Rev. Albert Hill sent his House wives out to track Down crime. Had married Friend. Calandruccio s sex girl Wber 6, 1967 the stars and stripes june also was a bad month for John peanuts Manfredonia 54, described by Federal authorities As one of West Chester s major bookmakers and a Mem Ber of the Genovese family. He was fined $5,000 and sentenced to one year in prison for failure to Register As Gambler and pay the $50 tax. After that two of Manfredonia associates were accused of helping run a $1.5-million bookmaking  were charged specifically with failing to Purchase the $50 Fedei Al Gam bling  of the people of Westchester appeal1 resigned to their neighbors an their activities. It s been going on a dozen year Sal least said a bpm Ville i rain Moth or snug in a big while Brick House. Atthe clinic the numbers runner used to come in every Day. Lie was Peg legged and kept the slips in the socket of his artificial leg. The numbers flourish Here. People Don t take it very seriously. How can they when the state is running a lottery 13