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Daily News from New York, New York • 15

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For Daily Home Delivery Call 458-0320 DAILY NEWS, SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1969 15 Navy Yard May List 40,000 Jobs The planned industrial-shipbuilding complex at the Brooklyn Navy Yard will offer 30 to 40,000 jobs to borough residents, City Administration officials said yesterday. Hip Waw By TOM McMORROW A committee representing 26 Brooklyn civic organi Mayor Lindsay with double Mayoral aides ventured this opinion to' 10 visiting Congressmen, from non-urban areas foi'owing a of LindRrv's cabinet at the Navy Yard. The legislators, sat in on the city's weekly cabinet session. The city has an agreement with Washington to take over the former naval installation for $23.5 million. Under the arrangement, there is a six-year moratorium on the installment payments.

Starts Next Spring John Hilly, president of the Commerce, Labor and Industry Committee of Kings (CLICK), told the meeting a shipbuilding program will be undertaken by next spring by Seatrain, which now transports freight cars by water. CLICK is a non-profit organization which is assisting in the civilian development of the yard. A Better System After the meeting, Lindsay inspected a new garbage collection demonstration at the rear of the New York City Community Gol-lege near the Brooklyn Civic Center. He observed what i was described as a more efficient Legal (Flaw By SYLVIA Mayor Lindsay explains Navy Yard plans to visiting Congressmen. Second left is former Secretary of Interior Stewart Udall, now a Democratic Congressman from Utah.

system of collecting refuse from hospitals and other places that store large quantities of garbage in metal containers. When Lindsay returned to City Hall from his cabinet meeting, he declared the city's fight against Gov. Rockefeller's proposed 5 cut in "state aid is "far from over." Noting that the Legislature may work beyond the initially-scheduled Easter deadline, he said "there's a great deal of pressure being put on in Albany by my representative there." Fouls Up Sftudeirt Cfoasto Flight Instead of spending the summer in Europe. 700 disappointed New York State college students will get in refunds to spend at home. zations yesterday charged duplicity in his maneuvers Cross-Brooklyn Expres3vay, According to the committee, the mayor concealed details and the true purpose of both an $11.2 million contract with federal and state highway agencies and the hidden significance of a bill slater for action by the legislature next week.

In the contract Lindsay signed for an $11.2 million study of the project, a clause not previously reported in the press reads: this agreement shall be void and of no effect unless State legislation is enacted approving the Queens Interboro Expressway, as a part of the Interstate and State Arterial systems in New York Podell Is Helping The second half of the alleged Lindsay double -play, according to the committee, is the also -publicized addition of the Queens Interboro Expressway to Assembly Bill 570-Senate Bill 4240, call ing for approval ot the Cross Brooklyn Expresswav and Linear City. 1 Attorney Bernard Calm, co- Oneonta College, Dutchess Community College, New Paltz College, Syracuse College of Forestry, State University College at Stonybrook, Upstate Medical Center, Plattsburg College, Cornell University, Nassau Community College, New York City Community College, State University College at Potsdam, Buffalo College Herkimer Community College, Suffolk College, Brooklyn College, Queens College, Hunter College, Lehman College, Citv College and Bronx Community." libraries Open A Little Later A series of local area staff meetings scheduled by the Brooklyn Public Library will entail only minor interruptions of service to the public, with each "branch delaying its opening to 1 p.m. on one day. Notices will be posted at each library in advance of the affected date. Each meeting will bring together the staffs of six or seven- branches to "permit sharing of current information and developments." nite plan, but just a proposal," It was originally slated to go uito effect next September after it had been studied and possibly, modified, following consideration by parents and school officials in their local communities.

The postponement pushes it back to September 1970. In preparing to bring the proposal to the communities this week, Board of Education brass revealed earlier that local reactions might bring changes in it. However, spokesman for parents and high school principals voiced doubt they would be heeded. The mandatory phase of the plan, requiring long trips daily by many students either on school busses or public transportation. to make a pet project, the a reality.

Rep. Bertram Podell chairman of the Coordinating Committee of Civic Organizations Opposed to Cross-Brooklyn Expressway, went to Washington and obtained a copy of the Federal-State contract Lindsay signed Jan. 17. Brooklyn's Rep. Bert Podell has been working with his fellow-Brooklyn representatives John Murphy and Hugh Carey in helping the committee.

David Elihu Cohen, chairman of the committee, brought a photostat of the contract to the The News and pointed out the offending clause. "With that clause in there," he said, "it's vital to the Lindsay scheme to have the Queens expressway approved by the legislature, and that's why that bill has been the best-kept secret in Albany. They're going to try to slip it through this coming week as the legislature goes into its last-minute drive for A letter from the committee went out to every member of the legislature on Wednesday, urging the killing of the bill which would pave the way for "these unnecessary and perilously polluting truckways, that would bulldoze and tear through residential Brooklyn and Queens." Louis D. Laurino, president of the Queens Chamber of Commerce, queried about the bill, said he had never heard of it, and that he would bring it up at a board of directors' meeting next Tuesday. sparked one of the major community objections.

Some felt this decision should be left to the parents. Involved 'Skip Zoning In Brooklyn's Mill Basin and Bergen Beach areas, parent school groups came out in strong opposition to the "skip-zoning which would have sent 300 graduates from Junior High School 78 to Thomas Jefferson High School in Brownsville, outside their traditional high school zone. They held meetings almost nightly, sent protests to tha Mayor and the Board of Education and started plans to picket City Hall and school headquarter in downtown Bivoklyn. 1 The students had paid Brooklyn-based travel service for chartered flights between New York and London. But a legal flaw won't let them get off the ground, said Attorney General Louis J.

Lefkowitz yesterday. Lefkowitz has obtained a New York County Supreme Court judgment directing two men from Brooklyn and Manhattan, to turn about $80,000 oyer to his office for refunding to students at 2G colleges and universities. The men are Richard Rubinstein of 322 Linden Brooklyn, and Jonathan Camiel of 23D East 30th St. No Charter Agreement They charged the students $189 each for 'a promised round trip charter flight, additional services and a first night accommodation in a swinging London Lefkowitz says. The judgment says the men, who did business as Pathfinder Travel Service at the Linden Blvd.

address, promoted charter flights without a charter agree- CARTER College Name Change OKtl Albany, March 21 (UPI) The Assembly voted 90-20 yesterday to change the name of York College in Queens to Martin Luther King College- Th opposition centered largely on the contention that York College hadn't been consulted about the change. The measure now goes to the Senate. ment with an authorized air carrier. Carriers are authorized by the Civil Aeronautics Board to schedule such flights between the United States and foreign points. Camiel solicited customers on 26 campuses, offering 12 charter flights between New York and London, for the period June to August, 19G9, according to an affidavit filed in the court by cation with protest telegrams and letters, Opposed by Parents In addition, the i i United Parents Association, which considered the plan unworkable, sent a two-page critical letter to City Superintendent of "Schools Bernard E.

Donavan early this month and a spokesman for thfe High School Principals Association revealed that school heads were up in arms about the proposed changes. However, Dr. Brown insisted that school officials decided the Assistant Attorney General Stephen Mindell. The affidavit further claims that Camiel filed certificates of names of CUNY Champagne Flights and Student European Charter Flights last fall. Canadian Firm Involved Camiel and Rubinstein obtained charter agreements, dated January 27.

1969, from Donaldson International Airways of Toronto, Canada, which holds no authority from the CAB to engage in such transportation. But. the charter agreements, according to the Attorney General's papers, were never executed and no substitute airline was engaged. Camiel and Rubinstein consented to the entry of the judgement without admitting any violation of law, and each paid costs of $250. Lefkowitz says his office is now making refunds to students.

Students involved attend the following colleges: New York University, Harper College, Albany Coliege, Rockland Community College, Cortland College, Fashion Institute of Technology, rezoning proposal might be confusing to the parents if presented to them now for consideration when school decentralization is also in the forefront. "We therefore are' postponing major rezoning for a year, but will do minor rezoning where necessary to prevent schools from becoming completely segregated and to try to equalize some of the overcrowding." he said. "We will spend a year, instead of one month, studying the proposal." The rezoning was "not a defi Parents Brickbats 11 0 for a Year High School Rezoning Plan By MARY O'FLAHERTY Community opposition and confusion apparently have forced the Board of Education to call off for at least a year its proposed Brooklyn high school rezoning that would have mandated sending many children long distances outside their traditional I ft- neighborhood school zones. Executive Deputy Superintend ent Nathan Brown yesterday confirmed that the massive re-zoning recommendations, which had been scheduled for announcement, next week, have been "postponed" for another year's study. Though Brown denied emphatically that community, opposition played any part in school authorities' sudden decision to hold off their rezoning proposal, spokesmen for narent groups in some parts of Brooklyn revealed they have been bombarding Mayor Lindsay and the Board of Edu.

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