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TVTT 7 DAILY NEWS, FRID At OCTOBER 17, 1975 ta -i Mf i 7 fl IirB suds Shuts WMb Xm Tmrel HUdflfams By OWEN FITZGERALD The Transit Authority announced yesterday a broad extension of the hours 1 during which elderly and handicapped persons can ride the city's buses and subways I -J 'Kfcl iac Handicapped Stay in School The threatened dismissal of 1,000 handicapped children from 45 private scattered through, the city beer of a cutoff in state and city fur '3 was blocked ye-j by a restraining order ist the Board of Edu' issv 1 in Manhattan Supreme Court. Justice Irving Elr--'. n-baum, in signing the order, said the board must continue to pay the youngsters tuitions and leave them in their places. The deadline for completion of the plan will be decided among the interested parties today in the court. Polly Kline News photo by Charles Frattlnl Anne and Kenneth Kutzscher display photo of their daugh- ter Karen, 9, fighting for life against leukemia.

i at half tare. Effective Monday at 9 a.m. older citizens and the handicap- Ped with the requirfed identifica- tion cards can travel on the mass' transit system at half the 50-cent fare from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and from 6 p.m.

to 7 a.m. on Monday thorough Friday. The present half -fare program in effect since 1969 restricted the cut rate rides from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.

to mi dnight on weekdays. Reduced fare now in effect all day Saturday and Sunday for the two groups con- tinue unchanged. Half-fare travel is also available to all riders from Saturday at 6 p.m. to midnight Sunday. The virtual doubling of the cut rate riding hours from 11 to 2.

5 hours daily represents a sharp reversal of the transit agency's stance. As recently as last week, the TA said in response to de- mands by city councilmen for a round-the-clock half fare pro- gram that it couldn't extend the hours unless the city increased its $20 million annual subsidy for the cheaper rides. But at a meeting yesterday with Beame administration offi- cials, Council Majority Leader Thomas J. Cuite (D-Brooklyn) and other council members, John G. deRoos, TA senior executive officer, announced its new half- fare schedule.

Later, he said in a statement useful and convenient for them," said Yunich. First word of the new schedule yesterday came from Council woman Carol Greitzer (D-Manhattan), head of the Council's Mass Transit Committee, who has been pressing the TA' for the extension for months. Older citizen groups said the present limited schedule was unfair to those traveling to keep early medical appointments and limited their afternoon social activities. To qualify, for the half -fare for the elderly program persons must be city residents and 65 years old with no full time employment. They can apply to city's Department for the Aging at 250 Broadway or call (212) 566-0580.

Handicapped persons need not be city residents to qualify. They can obtain information and applications from the city's office for the handicapped at 280 Broadway (telephone 212 433-5265) or from the city's Human Resources Administration at 250 Church St. Officials at the offices for the aging and the handicapped said they estimated about 650,000 elderly persons hold transportation cards and that 15,000 to handicapped have received cards since the program for them began last month. I I 1 1 1 1 I 1 I i 1 tfoke, Pad Pleads For Glooc! "for By POLLY Its own resources almost exhausted, a Brooklyn private fund dedicated to helping" young leukemia I Families Homeless in Tire 60 Rages 2 Hours in Tremont By ALBERT DA VILA Sixty families were left homeless as a result of a five-alarm fire that raged for two hours yesterday in a six-story, two-tower apartment building in the Tremont sec victims appealed yesterday for blood donations for a 9-year-old girl at Downstate Medical Center, The child, Karen Kutzscher, was in an isolation room in 1 the hospital at 450 Clarkson reportedly holding her own but dependent on continuing transfusions to stay alive. Dr.

Audrey Brown said she needs the blood "during the next few I 1 days while fighting an infection superimposed in a relapse of I leukemia." 1 -1 I There is no shortage of supplies in the hospital's blood bank, a spokesman said, but Karen's father, overwhelmed by I "astronomical" medical costs, said he cannot pay the $50 a pint the blood costs. Kenneth Kutzscher, 34, a Borough Park contractor who lives with his wife, Anne, and two daughters at 1062 56th I said, "Karen had 91 pints of blood last time, last winter, I after she first became sick and spent 42 days in Maimonides I Hospital." I With blood contributions from family members and I others, the child is now using 14 units (pints), and will I I probably need 50 more and "another" 50 will have to be kept in reserve for next time," the father said. I "With all these expenses, I'm like wiped out," he said. I "We have insurance but it doesn't cover blood." 1 During that first bout with leukemia, a form of blood cancer, part of Karen's needs was provided by the Theresa Giordano Memorial Fund in the form of $440 for blood, the group's treasurer, Helen Granice said. "But we can't continue because we're helping so many I youngsters," Mrs.

Granice said. "If the kid's family were on I relief, the blood would be free, but the Kutzschers are mid- 1 die class and have to pay." 1 Blood donations may be made at the Downstate Medical Center blood bank after making an appointment by telephone. Any type of blood will be accepted and credited to the Kutzscher family. p.iiimiiiiitiiiiiiiiwiiiiitiitiiiimiiiiiiiBiiiKiifciw I that the new schedule will not mean added costs to either the authority or the city. David L.

Yunich, chairman of the parent Metropolitan Transportation Authority, hailed the revised schedule. "I believe it will go far to meet the needs of the elderly and handicapped for low cost transportation during hours that are in from New Jersey made it extremely difficult and dangerous for firemen to fight the blaze, according to Capt. Lloyd Williams of the department's Bronx headquarters. Williams traced the source. of the fire to the apartment of Lourdes Rivera on the fifth floor.

Led 10 to Safety "She went "to the store and when she returned she saw flames leaping out of her window," said Williams. "She alerted neighbors and called us. We theorize that she left something burning in her kitchen." Many elderly residents and "children were evacuated through the fire escapes because the heavy smoke made hallways impassable. Residents of the twl top floors lost all their belongings. Fireman Joseph Centrone, 43, of Engine Company 43, was credited with leading five adults and five children to safety through a fire escape.

As firemen fought the blaze, dozens of residents watched in shock as flames shot up through the ceiling while tons of water were pumped in. Many cried while others, too stunned to comprehend, simply looked blankly at the burning building. "The sixth floor is gone; that's where I live," said Steve 17, his face blackened by the smoke. "I went up to the roof and jumped onto the next building. I couldn't save a damn thing." Frank Carolan, his two' daughters crying helplessly near him, credited his dog, Snoopy, for saving his life.

"I work nights," Carolan said. "I' was sleeping. of a Strikes Leave Mi v5g By MARTIN KING Strikes by Teamsters and construction workers have forced the indefinite delay of next month's planned opening of the $6 million tramway between Roosevelt Island tion of the Bronx, The fire, which erupted at 10:04 a.m., left two floors in ruins. The rest of the building, at 2251 Sedgwick suffered heavy water damage. All occupants were safely evacuated.

Twenty firemen were treated for heat exhaustion and smoke inhalation. Jersey Winds It took 39 pieces of fire equipment and 196 firemen to combat the blaze. Units came from as far away as Manhattan. Heavy gusts of wind coming Un in Air Probe Guard In Search The U.S. Coast Guard has launched a probe into allegations of mishandling of search, and rescue operations for two Manhattan businessman who died after their boat sank in "heavy seas on Long Island Sound Sunday.

Lost were Bernard Genzler and Rene Ouvrard, both 52, whose bodies were washed ashore at Peconic Monday. Genzler was president Barry Electronics, 512 Broadway. Ouvrard was an executive. The -boat was the Barrylect. a Donald Gentile and Manhattan bide.

The word now is that the aerial' conveyance will not be in service until late December at the earliest and most likely, not until early next year. Although some of the estimated 100 families now living on what was formerly called Welfare Island in the East River expressed annoyance with the delay, most considered it just a minor inconvenience. The tramway will be the first of its kind to be used in a mass-transit system. It will be 3100 feet long with stations at 60th St. and Second Ave.

and on the island itself, just north of the Queensboro Bridge, which connects the island with bota Manhattan and Queens. Passengers will stand during the five-minute ride which will cost the same 50 cents charged on other city subways or buses. Baris Lampert, a spokesman for island residents, said that there had been only slight disappointment in the delay in completion of the project, "but management has so far bent over backwards to provide alternatives." He said that transportation is adequate even' without the tramway. The State Urban Development the Island's developer, provides free rush-hour bus service to Manhattan, and free shopping buses to Astoria, Queens, are provided two days a week. One drawback of the tramway is that it will place residents in a double-fare zone, and while they have been pushing for a reduced it is; unlikely that they will get it.

1. News photo by Tom Cunningham Firemen guide an elderly tenant from burning apartment at 2251 Sedgwick Ave. sudden the dog woke me up. He was barking, and then I saw the smoke coming in." The 60 families have been placed at various hotels in the Bronx and Manhattan by the Red Cross. The Department of Relocation and Management will try to find them apartments in the -coming days..