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MT.7 TJAILY SEgTEHBER T7, T975 fidEse ais Talfo Cilapse bp By PETER McLAUGHLIN Lay teachers who staff 12 Catholic High Schools, Staten Island, "and the rest in upstate New York went on tne scnoois yesterday, morning alter negotiations tailed to an Mm HiiMiiiMM I IIIIIIIIM 1 News photo by Anthony Casale Lay teacher talks to students outside struck Cathedral High. School on E. 56th St. yesterday. 1 A spokesman tor the Uathoiic High School Association, which, operates the schools for the Archdiocese of New York, said that school attendance was "normal," at the struck schools.

The spokesman said that all schools were open and would continue to stay open. "Classes are being conducted in normal fashion," he said. "There are 558 teachers in the schools and 133 didn't report for work." Calls Strike "Effective" A spokesman for the Lay Faculty Association of the Archdiocese of New York, -which represents the striking teachers, termed the strike "effective." No new talks were scheduled the gilded, 19th century Gold Room as. a "public room" a focal point of community opposition. The application with, the parent Planning Commission is for a mixed-use permit.

A variance also is required. Under present zoning laws, the building could rise to 81" stories, but on a plot so narrow 100 by 100 feet. that the applicants are seeking somewhat lower height but far greater coverage on a large plot of land at a valuable intersection in Manhattan. between the striking teachers and representatives of the archdiocese. The picketing teachers in the Archdiocese of 'New York joined Catholic lay teachers who have been on strike' since Sept.

2 at five high, schools in the diocese embracing Brooklyn and Queens. The Brooklyn teachers met late yesterday afternoon with representatives of the Brooklyn Diocese at the Federal Mediation and Conciliation offices in Manhattan to continue talks in the contract dispute. The striking teachers at the five Brooklyn and Queens Catholic high schools will hold a membership meeting tonight at the Terrace on the Park, in Queens, to discuss the progress of the Over 7,000 students attend the struck schools in Brooklyn and Queens which have remained open during the strike. In the strike affecting the New York Archdiocese schools the key issues are wages and the strengthening of the teachers' tenure clause in their contract. William Gallagher, attorney! for the union, said that the teachers are asking average Increase in wages of $600 a year for each of two years.

A spokesman for the Catholic High School Association said "tentative agreement has been reached on all issues except salary. In addition to a longevity increase which average. $350 per teacher, the association has offered a $200 increase in each of two years." Union leaders have uemauuea mis a 11 $200 next year coupled with a drastic and unreasonable revision demanded $400 this year and 2d to MeWnveiled By JOHN TOSCANO and OWEN MORITZ Representatives of the Archdiocese of New York and real estate magnate Harry Helmsley indicated yesterday they would submit to the City Planning Commission by todav their revised plans for a -57-story office, apartment and hotel tower on the site Madison Ave. at of the historic villard Houses, Kevin McGrath, attorney for the archdiocese, withdrew an earlier plan for the proposed $41.5 million tower, known as New York Palace, from the Board of Standards and Appeals on Monday. The immediate effect of the move is that the revised plan must now be reviewed anew, by local Planning Board 5, whose earlier criticisms sent the plan back to the drawing boards.

New York Palace, first proposed 18 months ago, thus faces still another delay this one for at least two more months. "The plan is so minute "that six in Manhattan, Bronx, and strike and began picketing produce a settlement. Cattle Kill Draws Beef Rep. Fred Richmond of Brooklyn visited supermarkets yesterday to stump against a bill he says -will cost consumers up to $60 million a year. "It's a ripoff for the cattle barons and poses a health hazard for consumers," said Richmond of the Beef Research and Information Act, which is expected to come before the House of Representatives today.

The bill would set up a "beef board," which would levey voluntary assessments on cattlemen to fund research and promotion efforts on beef. Richmond said that the board would do more promoting than -research, and would do it at the consumers' expense, since the assessments would be passed along to buyers in the form of higher meat prices. Jerry Adler of the existing longevity and educational degree scale." Te local schools are Cardinal Hayes and. Spellman in the Bronx; Monsignor Farrell and moore tjatnoiic btaten lsiana; Bishop DuBois and Cathedral High School in Manhattan, as well as Cathedral's two annexes Immaculate Conception in the Bronx and St. Joseph's in Manhattan.

The othr Catholic high schools n-ffprtpH hv flip st.rikp srP" Arrh- bishop Stepinac in White Plains, Maria Regina, Hartsdale; John F. Kennedy, Somers; John A. rDuree, vjosueii; dimn a. vuiemau, 1 Kingston, and Our Lady, of I Lourdes in Poughkeepsie. Burke, Goshen; John A.

Coleman, News photo by Tom Cunningham pressway Police Station on several counts of assault and resisting arrest. Police said afterward that Steadly was incoherent and they could not ascertain any motive for his action. The cause of the fire was unde-i termined. Oiii ui.ijt. 'y- -y Warns lawmakers Mixing By JAMES DUDDY Two quick-thinking Bronx neighbors used a blanket a 2-year-old girl whose mother dropped thetot in desperation from the window of her burning fifth-, floor apartment yesterday.

The mother vas rescued minutes later. blaze broke out at 3 a.m. By BRIAN KATES Yonkers Corporation Counsel Eugene Fox warned city councilmen yesterday that he would not defend them if they decide to defy a court order to permit Sarah Lawrence College to build dormif bries for 92 students. there is no way our real estate committee can study it before the end of next month and we (the full board) probably won't consider it until, November at the earliest, commented William Stuhlbarg, chairman of Board 5. The latest plan for the complex calls for a 57-story, tower rising behind the landmark Villard Houses, with apartments occupying the top 10 stories, offices taking up nine stories and hotel rooms the bulk of space.

In a key concession to preservationists, the new plan, retains fcrnitay that if they vote to spend taxpayers' money, to hire lawyers for their defense, "they better because if they lose they will show that I was right and then how could they expend city funds?" Last week, the 13-member Council passed the issue to its Legislative and Codes Committee rather than vote on it. Nicholas Longo chairman of that committee, said the councilmen view the case as a conflict between the powers of the legislative branch and those of the judiciary. Longo also complained of what he termed Sarah Lawrence Col- lege President Charles DeCarlo "complete defiance of our zoning laws," and added that the college "builds whatever it damn well-please." The; controversy began in 1973 wnen we lonKers zoning jeoara of Appeals rejected the dormito ry plan on the grounds that it did not provide for sufficient off-street parking, that it was "out of '-character in appearance and usage" with the area, that it would "depreciate property values' that it may create traffic" hazards and that it violated the purpose of the area's zoning. in the apartment of Audrey Barksdale, 29, at 1357 Grant fire officials said. Neighbors rushed out into the street and while some called i firemen, Donald Jones and Clin-j ton Davis spotted the woman holding the child out the window at arms' length.

Grabbed Blanket i Jones, who lives in-the same building, dashed back into his ground-floor apartment and grab-! bed a blanket. Just -as he and David, who lives next door, stretched the blanket, the woman i released the child. -I Fire crews arriving at the scene called it a bull eye catch. "We couldn't have done better ourselves," said Fireman Gerald Madia. The youngster was taken to Bronx Lebanon Hospital, 1 where she was -pronounced good condition and treated and "These men are being recommended for civilian commendations," declared Battalion 17 Chief Gerard Flannagan.

Events then took a bizarre twist when firemen Madill and Joseph Nardone ascended in an aerial ladder to rescue the mother. "We spotted a man in the window and as we put the two into the cherry picker, the man seemed to go wild and started punching us," said "We just got done saving his In a private conference with Council leaders, Fox told the! councilmen they would obey or "be prepared to face the consequences" of defying a State Supreme Court ruling which overturned a City Council denial of permits to build a cluster of dormitories on the sprawling college campus in the Bronxville section of Yonkers. Last Friday, State Supreme Court Justice John C. Marbach siened a show-cause order call- on the Citv Council to show by Monday why it should not be nunished for contempt of court i in defying the order. Fines or Prison Terms If the Council, which has ada- mantly opposed granting the i permit to Sarah Lawrence, diso- beys the order, Fox said, each councilman could face fines of $250 or prison terms.

Fox, wno said ne wageu i "many battles with the Council over similar things," declared "1 simply can't defend them. When the court issues an order it must be obeyed. Not to do so would be like Nixon defying the Supreme Court ruling to turn over his tapes." Fox also said he told the coun cilmen at the two-hour-meeting1 Nurse at Bronx Lebanon Hospital holds Tamara Jackson, who was dropped from the window of a burning apartment into a blanket. life and here he is trying to shorten ours," be said. Once on the ground the man also punched several police officers, it was reported.

He was later identified as Leroy" Steadly, 29, of no known address, who was booked at the Cross Bnnx Ex.