Democrat and Chronicle from Rochester, New York • Page 8

0 A FOCMCTER DEMOCRAT AMD CKROCLE Saturday. Aug. 14, 1976 The tuition is free at Around the State 1 university' But the New York Public Library is in turmoil. It faces the worst trouble in its history. Caught in the middle of the fiscal crisis, the library has lost jobs and hours have been shortened.

Since 1971, 463 of 1,392 jobs have been eliminated while more people than ever are using the library. All this prompted Couper to write in the library's annual report: "The prevailing concern in all these events of the last year is the ultimate dire effect of the constant nibble, the eating away at the core of what the institution is all about." 'every man's The Library of Congress has no branches and is funded by the federal government. Its librarians would be startled at the activity under way in some of New York's neighborhoods. Dozens of branches serve as shelters for hundreds of children who wait each day for their mothers to return home from work, and librarians become, in effect, foster parents. During winter the libraries in New York become warm shelters for thousands of the elderly.

They serve as community centers for voter registration drives, drug warning programs and efforts to help senior citizens obtain reduced fares nnsubways and buses. authors with contracts from publishing houses. The room is a haven for writers using the library's facilities. A shelf on one wall contaias samples of the almost 100 books that have been researched or written there. These range from Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique" to Theodore H.

White's "the Making of the President. 1964." Directly across the lobby is the Science and Technology section. For months one man visited that public room with its green reading lamps, carefully combing German periodicals on the subject of photocopying. He was Chester F. Carlson, at work inventing xerography.

Another user of the section studied the behavior of light rays and how they can be screened out. Upon that research and his other experiments, Edwin Land founded the Polardio empire. During World War II, American agents learned that a Japanese naval code was based on an outdated copy of the Mexico City telephone directory. Intelligence officers scoured Mexico but couldn't find a single copy of the book. The last remaining volume among the allied nations was found resting in the library's huge phone book and city directory file.

In the two-block-long main reading room, visitors may sift through about 10 million file cards in the central catalogue. The most shopworn entries are Shakespeare, Chaucer and sex. "The collections here are so enormously rich and fascintaing and interesting," said James W. Henderson, the library's research director. "I'm continuously learning.

"there is no other library like this one. It is closer to the Library of Congress than any other library. But it is not the enormous governmental bureaucracy that's the Library of Congress," said. The Los Angees Times NEW YORK It stands guarded by two stone lions nicknamed Patience and Fortitude, a great marble palace set amid shrubs and maple trees in mid Manhattan. When it was completed G5 years ago at the then-astronomical cost of more than $9 million.

President William Howard Taft marched in a solemn procession to proclaim from a platform erected in its central portico. "This day crowns a work of national importance." In the six decades since, generations of students, scholars, the curious and even the homeless have worn down the structure's wide front steps. The years and the pigeons have taken their toll, too; today the building is a grande dame whose makeup has begun to run. But great spirit and substance remain inside. It is, of course, the main building of the New York Public Library, on Fifth Avenue near Times Square the largest independent research library in the world.

"Ours is the only library in the world organized in the fashion it is," says Richard W. Couper, its president and chief executive officer. "We go from a branch library of 830 volumes to one of the major independent research libraries in the world." "This is one of the last free things in the city of New York," says Sherry Carr, the library's special projects officer. "You can educate yourself here. This is every man's university." Perhaps no other institution is so firmly anchored in the intellectual life of the city.

Behind two locked doors off the main lobby, the library contains perhaps the world's most exclusive writers' club. The Frederick Lewis Allen Memorial Room (named for the former editor of Harper's) is open to only a handful of carefully chosen TO FINISH IT, YOU START IT AT MORAN'S! Electric Flex Line WEED TRIMMER EDGER The revolutionary lawn care mechanic that trims, edges, cuts and manicures without blades. Petition drive starts Wire Serx ices NEW YORK One-time Democratic presidential hopeful Eugene McCarthy launched a New York and Connecticut petition campaign yesterday as an independent presidential candidate. "I always thought the Democrats were best when they were divided," McCarthy, said. "This idea of unity is a traditional Republican one." He accused Jimmy Carter of emphasizing only the negative aspects of the country and straying from the Democrats' traditional liberalism.

To appear on the November ballot in New York, McCarthy needs 20,000 signatures of people who did not vote in the primaries. Nursing owner charged NIAGARA FALLS Nursing-home owner Robert J. Bradley and his bookkeeper were accused yesterday of filing false Medicaid claims for more than $70,000 and using some of the money for such things as rental of a luxury car. Bradley, 54, owner of the Newfane Nursing Home, and Mrs. Roberta Castle vet ere, 48, were charged with second-degree grand larceny, attempted second-degree grand larceny and offering to file a false instrument, all felonies.

They pleaded innocent at their arraignment. Strike vote scheduled TON AW AN DA Some 450 production and maintenance workers at the Spaulding Fibre Co. plant here are scheduled to vote tomorrow on a pact ending their bitter 14-week strike. Rep. John J.

LaFalce, D-Kenmore announced the tenative agreement between the company and Lodge 2106 of the International Association of Machinists Aerospace Workers, following a 24-hour bargaining session. Oean supermarket burns OLEAN A fire yesterday destroyed a supermarket and bakery in this Cattaraugus County city and officials said damage could reach $1.5 million. More than 175 firemen from four communities battled the blaze for three hours before controlling it. One fireman was treated at a hospital for an eye injury and released. Long Island lights still out NEW YORK Some 35.000 Long Island residents were still without electricity yesterday as a result of Hurricane Belle, described as the most destructive to utility service in the island's history.

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