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Br, William J. Ferrall, State Senator, Dies Dentist Stabbed On Promenade Bomb Suspect Held In $50 Dail The Bank Opens A Half-Million Crimes ditorial, page 4 233 ATLANTIC AVENUE PLAN REVIVED story, Page 4 THIS WEEK'S TOP STORIES BROOKLYN PfD) nn Iru an Thirty-Second Year. No. A HIE NEWS Copyright Present Future of These Historic Communities Thursday, December 17. 1970 Weekend Kaleidoscope William J.

Ferrall, State Senator. Dies The Bank Will Open Friday Will Have Something For All 55CG Bail Set For Martin Lewis, Bombing Suspect Martin Lewis, along with five other suspects allegedly involved in a plot to firebomb the First National City at 91st St. and Amsterdam was indicted last week and ordered held in $50,000 bail. Martin Lewis, a student at the New School For Social Research, lives at 157 Hicks St. Attorneys for the six suspects continue to deny allegations that their clients are members of the revolutionary Weathermen, a group which emerged as a splinter faction when SDS apart.

Last Thursday, police arrested two young women and charged them with the fire-bombing of the Royal National Bank, located at Fifth Ave. at 28th St. Authorities are investigating a possible link between the two women and the six arrested earlier. COBB Devoted to the Past, 1.560 it appeared in 1868 is presently in Spain. They all work without pay, and they enticed a lot of people to do likewise.

Melanie Herman says e-verythtng is possible. 'People must be gently brought to a common level of understanding," she says. 'You don't put people up against the wall when they think differently; you expose them to alternative ways of thinking." Miss Herman sees The Bank as place where disparate elements of the community can come together and enjoy the same things. Miss Herman and her colleagues have obviously made great many people see things as they do, as most the renovation work done the building was done without cost. From painting to theatre construction, and the scores of tasks in between.

Little things like the creation of a sound studio and a screening room in stone vaults of the building beneaththeground. Lit-f Continued on Page 5) B.H.P. 15 CENTS William J. Ferrall repeal "Blaine' of the so-called Amendment. Mr.

Ferrall was also a member of the Joint Legislative Committee Continued on Pse 5) MARCH OF DIMES RITA MORENO' feminine lead of the Broadway hit' "Last of the Red Hot Lovers," presided at the transit workers' ninth annual charity ceremony, Tuesday, December 15, to distribute nearly $75,000 to local charitable and welfare organizations. The National Foundation March of Dimes, which seeks the causes and preventives for a variety of birth defects, will be among the recipients. Ceremonies took place at the Klitgord Auditorium, New York Community College, JayandTil-lary Streets. iLiL I Dentist, Friend, Daughter Attacked On Promenade Recent winner of the 22nd state senatorial district election, William J. Ferrall, is dead at 65.

Mr. Ferrall died Sunday in the Veteran Administration Hospital, Manhattan. A Mr. Ferrall had served in the Assembly since 1963, but resigned to run for the 22nd S.D. senate seat in a special election in February 1966.

He retained his seat in the past election against a bid by Nathaniel Hendricks. A native of Brooklyn, Mr. Ferrall earned a law degree from Fordham University. He served in the Coast Guard from 1942 to 1946. In the Assembly, Mr.

Ferrall sponsored legislation to allow school boards to provide textbooks to pupils in private and parochial schools. He favored the They were told: "Don't move or you're dead." But Dr. Rasi, a wrestler in his youth, did move. In his attempt to disarm the man with the knife, he suffered superficial wounds on his throat; but he managed to twist his assailant's arm so hard that he freed himself. At the same time, the other dentist, a man of 67, also succeeded in breaking loose, but suffered, in the process, a slash wound on his throat, and a deep cut upon his hand which later required emergency stitching.

At that point the five assailants piled onto Dr. Rasi and, in the scuffle, the doctor was stabbed in the back The knife penetrated his coat and underclothing, but left only superficial wounds. Mrs. Rasi, who sat wait- lnguinJhe heard her husband shouting which ultimately caused the attackers to flee. The Colorado dentist was (Continued on Pct 5) THE BANK, No.

1 Front as In 1868 it was a bank. Now it is called The Bank, and promises to boast a treasury of a different sort altogether. And the vault doors at Number 1 Front Street will open this Friday for everyone to see. The community cultural center after a year of informal activity on the side, inaugurates this new season of regularly scheduled events with the New Feminists Repertory Company, The DMZ political satirists, Quog, the multi-media music theatre group, demonstrations and exhibits by a variety of craftsmen from the American Crafts Council, demonstrations and experiments in quadra-sonic sound, experimental live music performances by jazz and rock musicians, screenings of classic films, and classes in karate, acting, and playwriting. The organization behind all this is made up of five young Brooklynites: Mela-nie Herman, Morris Ashear, Ron Spalding, George Aca-nodotz, and Roy Levine, who a a of on the One of the first things Dr.

Arthur S. Rasi does when an out-of-town friend pays him a visit, is to take him for a walk on the promenade to show him what Dr. Rasi calls "the greatest man-made view in the world." Last Friday night was no different. Dr. Rasi, a Brooklyn Heights dentist, and his wife and daughter, were entertaining a friend from Denver who had come to New York to attend a dental convention.

They were driving around the Heights showing the Colorado dentist the sights, and then decided to go for a stroll on the promenade. Dr. his daughter Lee, and their friend alighted the car at the foot of Pierrepont walked to the railing of the promenade, and were looking at the downtown skyline, when, from nowhere, five young men appeared, two of whom grabbed the doctors from behind and held knives to their throats..