Daily News from New York, New York • 145

SlWiKl NEWS MANHATTAN-BRONX SECTION; nvo MANHATTAN-BRONX SECTION NEW YORK'S PICTURE NEWSPAPER Copr. 1965 Mew Syndicate Co. Inc. New 10017, Sunday, February 14, 1965 mi By WILLIAM RICE An international art center to serve as a showcase for the world's artists, designers and architects has been designed for construction in the Lincoln Center area. It will be, according to its sponsors, the first of its i i 'J Tkind in America.

Hike Service Plans announced recently at a reception in Grade Mansion place the center's Cost at about $5.5 They JSWwww. nun i'iiiimi (NEWS foto by Fred Morgan) Principal Simpson Sasserath and Perry Milbauer examine reports on students. Business World Moves To Commercial School By JOHN MALLON Thirty five years ago Central Commercial High School opened its doors on E. 42d a few feet from the DAILY News Building, the Third Ave. el, the Irish saloons and away from the hub of the business world then downtown, (NEWS foto by Prank Hurley) Examining artist's concept of new center are (1.

to Herman P. Manteil, Catan-Rose, and Salvador Dali. include a four-story building which will house, among other things, several pavilions in which foreign nations will exhibit their art) fashion design, textiles, and the like. ForYoung Gardeners Youngsters 9 to 16 who would like to dig into the hobby of gardening are invited to sign up now for special gardening courses sponsored by the Bronx Botanical Garden. The planning and cultivating of gardens will be taught during spring and summer sessions.

Further information may be had from the Education Department, Botanical Garden, Bronx 10458, N.Y. Of Manhattan, Bronx Buses Transit improvements affecting three surface lines of the Manhattan and Bronx Surface- Transit Operating Authority will become effective starting today. Some four miles of bus service will be added to routes BX-34, BX-36 and M-100. Route BX-34, the 163rd St. Crosstown which has terminated it 155th St.

near St. Nicholas Ave. on the west end of the route, will be extended one mile to Riverside Drive by way of 155th Sroadway, 157th Riverside Drive, 155th to Hunts Point and Randalls Aves. in the Bronx. One-Mile Extension Route BX-36, 180th St.

Cross-town terminates at Chatterton nd Zerega Aves. in the Bronx. Every other bus on this line, instead of terminating at Chatter-ton and Zerega will travel an extended route of one mile to Pugsley and Story Aves. The turnoff point will be from White Plains Road and Westchester by way of White Plains Road, Houghton Pugsley Ave. to Pugsley and Story Aves.

Returning, the route will follow Story White Plains Road, Westchester Hugh Grant Circle, and on its regular route to West 181st St. and Broadway, Manhattan. Eastbound Unchanged The eastbound route from 180th St. to the Bronx will remain unchanged. Each bus will carry destination signs to differentiate between the present and new terminals in the Bronx.

Route M-100, Broadway-Kings-bridge, will be lengthened some two mile3 from its present terminal at 230th St. and Broadway to 239th St. and Riverdale Ave. The extended portion of the route will run on 231st Irwin Johnson Kappock Henry Hudson Parkway (east service road), to 239th and Riverdale the new terminal. Discontinue BX-10A Returning, the route will be the same except that the west service road of Henry Hudson Parkway will be used.

The route will continue to terminate at 125th St. and Third Ave. This improvement will eliminate the need for Route BX-10A. The Spuyten Duyvil service, which will be discontinued. The areas now served by the BX-10A will continue to be served by BX-10 between 231st St.

and Isham St. and by the extension to M-100 between 230th and 239th Sts. Cancer Group to Meet Concourse chapter of Cancer Care will hold its annual serve-a-luncheon in the Concourse Center of Israel, 2315 Grand Concourse, Bronx, at noon Wednesday. Mrs. Ruth Genzer is chairman of the luncheon committee.

Today, engulfed in a maze of new skyscrapers, the four-story brick schoolhouse finds itself in. the middle of the business community it strives to serve. It Fills Big Need "The large corporate firms have moved uptown to us and every year we supply them with hundreds of trained clerical and stenographic graduates," Perry Milbauer, the school's dean of admissions, said. "New York City is becoming more of a service area. There is a tremendous need for our kind of training," Milbauer said.

Central which draws select students from all over the 'city, offers preparation for a four-year liberal arts college education in addition to such clerical skills as stenography, accounting and merchandising. "No other school in the city offers this type of program," Milbauer added. Has Modern Machines Next to the slick structures of Manhattan's new Third the school resembles a remnant from the past. Despite its antiquated exterior, the school is equipped with the most modern technical machines. On the third floor is a key punch, sorter and tabulator to familiarize students with the latest business machines.

Tomor row accountants use electronic equipment with coded tape for bookkeeping. One room is equipped with 40 dictaphone machines. The school was. originally established in 1925 at 725 Broadway with 143 students. As the need for clerical and stenographic Zionist Breakfast Fort Independence District 67 of the Zionist Organization of America will serve a special breakfast for Riverdale and Kingsbridge residents at 10 A.M.

today in the Van Cort-landt Jewish Center, 3997 Gouverneur Bronx. Emery J. Worth, president of the host district, says the purpose of the breakfast is to revitalize Zionist groups in the area. Harry Branton, National ZOA Director of Membership and Organization, will speak. Several sites at Lincoln Center are under consideration.

All depends, he said, on a fund drive that was launched last week at a reception in Gracie Mansion. Wagner In As Chairman Mayor Wagner, Catan-Rose said, is chairman of the committee for the center's establishment. On its long list of patrons are Sen. Jacob Javits artist Salvador Dali; Robert Mc-Iver, chancelor of the New School, and many other governmental and educational leaders. Included in the plans is the expansion of the Catan-Rose Institute, a nonprofit, nonsec-tarian, co-educational institution founded in 1943.

School to Expand The school has about 150 students although, because of lack of space, only 38 are working full time toward three and four-year certificates of fine arts, interior, advertising, fashion design and art instructor certificates. Under the expansion, it will be able to handle 600 full-time students, both at the Lincoln Center site and at a campus in Queens. Girl Scouts List Adult Classes Classes in more than 70 subjects, aimed at helping Girl Scout leaders and p-ogram consultants, are being offered by the Girl Scout Council of Greater New York. The classes start Wednesday and run through May 27. Courses include space and the stars, creative writing, play production, prints, mobiles, displays and exhibits, and a variety of outdoor handicrafts.

A special group of three six-hour classes will be given at the Bronx Zoo on reptiles and amphibians, mamals and birds. The program is a project of the Education Division of the Girl Scout Council, 133 E. 92d St. of the Catan-Rose Institute of Art, the center's sponsor, said plans also are being made to set up a system of international awards which, he hopes, will someday be as recognized in the art world as the Nobel Prize is in other fields. Caih Prizes, Too Each award, Catan-Rose said, would carry a substantial cash prize which would attract entries from the cream of the, world's artists and designers.

Plans for the center, designed by Paul Damaz, who did work on the United Nations building, have been completed, Catan-Rose said. Fifty Years Of Dedication Sister Mary of the Angels, nursing sister at Mtiericordia Hospital, 600 E. 233d St, is celebrating her 50th year of nursing the sick. A native of Montreal, the nun has spent 28 years working in New York institutions. I -f help increased, the student body grew to 3,800.

Soon there were 22 annexes throughout the city. 2,500 Students Now In 1930 it was centralized at its midtown location, 214 E. 42d St Now there are 2,000 students at E. 42d St. and an additional 500 at the annex four blocks away at 209 E.

46th St. of our students get up as early as 5 A. M. to travel here from such outlying sections as Far Rockaway in Queens and Coney Island in Brooklyn," Milbauer said. Despite the varied am1, distant residences of many of the students, the school had the second highest attendance record in the city in the last attendance period.

Homework in All Subjects "We require the students to work. They get homework in every subject. There's no room for the faker," Milbauer said. In an era of almost daily reports of students attacking teachers, narcotics being distributed in classrooms and other "Blackboard Jungle" atrocities, Milbauer reports: "There are no disciplinary problems at Central Commercial. We send kids.

down to the principal's office for chewing gum." Integration in Practice The school is well integrated with the ethnic breakdown roughly, one third Puerto Rican, one third other white and one third Negro. impson Sasserath, who became principal last year, is currently expanding the college preparation program. Last year 200 entering freshmen enrolled for the combined college preparation and clerical skill course..