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By ROBERT J. GELINE The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey formally launched a drive yesterday to win approval in the two legislatures for its $400 million plan to create more than 30,000 new manufacturing jobs in New York City, Newark and Jersey City over the next decade. Govs. Carey of New York and Brendan Byrne of New Jersey said they were confident that their legislatures would authorize the plan to use Port Authority financing to build and market industrial parks in the three cities. Uncertain on Tax Measure But they and Port Authority Chairman Alan Sag-ner and Executive Director Peter C.

Goldmark cautioned that the proposed development faced difficult hurdles other than the two legislatures, and that the public snould not expect dramatic successes overnight. For example, Sagner conceded that, if a pending proposal in President Carter's tax reform plan that would eliminate tax free treatment of industrial devel Goldmark agreed that the development sites Included in an elaborate authority brochure on the project were primarily "Illustrative," and that final, site selection decisions would be made in concert with local officials. By issuing about $400 million of its own bonds, the agency hopes to finance acquisition, development and marketing of the industrial facilities to manufacturers from within the region who are expanding their facili-. ties or to industrial concerns locating here for the first time. Poliif Is New Jobs Goldmark listed a four-point rationale for the authority's new focus on creating manufacturing jobs: Manufacturing job loss has been the region' biggest economic problem.

Manufacturing employment is the region's greatest "wealth-producing" sector. Manufacturing concerns support port activity, trade and commerce. The jobs to be created would closely match the skills of those unemployed in the region. opment bonds is written into law, the authority's plan would have to be scuttled. He said he had been in close touch with the White House and the Treasury about the problematic part of "the President's pending tax package, but he could not say definitively that the provision would be stricken from the legislation.

Other problems that could delay implementation of the innovative industrial development scheme include exactly which sites in the proposed three cities actually be used for development. In New York City, the authority envisions developing a 336 acre site in the Spring Creek section of Brooklyn. However, both Gov. Carey and Mayor Koch stressed that the authority's choice of the Brooklyn acreage did not preclude building the industrial facili-ty in the South Bronx. Goldmark and other Port Authority officials stressed- that the focus of the development plan was on the creation of new manufacturing employment in the area, not in moving existing factories around within the region.

Levitt to Tell ESetiremeirt Plans Today $, TfcfCs ft lbs Vy5: ivjk ('? 4 yw.n UP1 photos kfslS ZlhAllf Slin fjfll Sean Christen, 11, tries his skateboard (left) yesterday on the snowy streets of Santa Fe. The New Mexico city was hit with more than six inches of snow as the nation "marked Sun Day. Down South meanwhile, this young woman (right) is figuring out a way to swim out of her stranded automobile on a downtown New Orleans street. The area was battered with 75-mph winds and torrential rains. Shut Bies in BR Station By THOMAS POSTER State Controller Arthur Levitt has decided- to retire when his sixth term ends this year, his top aides said yesterday.

Despite overtures from the four major political parties for possible joint endorsement, Levitt, who will be 78 in July, is said to have made the decision at the urging of his wife, Dorothy, and son, Arthur who is president of. the American Stock Exchange. The Democratic controller, 24 years office, is expected to make his an-noucement today. Levitt's retirement is expected to set off a Democratic primary fight between City Controller Harrison J. Goldin, who had said he would challenge Levitt in a primary fight; Stephen Berger, former executive director of the Emergency Financial Control Board, and others, possibly including Secretary of State Mario Cuomo.

Puffing on a long cigar in his 23d-floor office at 270 Broadway, Levitt asked one caller: "What do you hear? Who wants to run? You're kidding? Air "those people? That says a lot for me, doesn't it?" The controller is reportedly willing to endorse Berger as his successor but has told top Democrats he would support almost anyone over Goldin. Veteran of 2 Wars A veteran of World Wars I (as a private) and II (as a colonel), Levitt got his start in the Madison Democratic Club in Brooklyn where, in 1946, he managed the successful campaign of the late Assembly Speaker Irwin Stein-gut, father of the present- speaker, Stanley Steingut. Levitt was later named to the Board of Education, became its president in 1954 and was then nominated for controller. In 1958, when Nelson Rockefeller swept the state with a Republican Levitt was reelected with a large plurality and survived the next two Rockefeller sweeps. Levitt only lost one election, a primary fight against former Mayor Robert F.

Wagner in 1961. Nominated by the city's Democratic leaders, Levitt was trounced by Wagner, who waged his campaign against "political As controller, Levitt is one of the state's most powerful politicians. He is sole custodian of the $9.3 billion in the state pension funds, the largest such holding in the world. He has steadfastly refused to invest the pension funds in New York City securities vtil the city obtains a federal guarantee of its bonds, a position that has endeared him to public employes and local officials outside New York City. Med Office By STEVE GOLDSTEIN When Robert Fuhring had a heart attack on a train still in Grand Central Terminal shortly after 8 p.m.

Tuesday, the termi--nal's only medical office, with, a staff of one doctor and two nurses, already had closed at 4:30 p.m. as it does every day. Bv the time medical help arrived, Fuhring, 63, a science writer for a public relations firm, was pronounced dead at 8:08 p.m. When Fuhring was stricken, there were no trained medical people to help him No oxygen, either. Some bystand medical department and it's located in Grand Central because all our crews check in there." Van Wagoner explained that the office would assist passengers and even passers by who become ill, but since it is basically a company facility, it doesn't stay open beyond working hours.

So there is no medical care for the public at Grand Central. A check with "the Long Island Rail Road showed that there is no medical office at Penn Station or in Jamaica, either. Train personnel are simply instructed to call police in the event of a medical emergency. The MTA currently has a plan to give first-aid training to nearly 4,000 of its ers tried cardio pulmonary resuscitation. Conrail police dialed 911 and waited for a city ambulance.

As one Conrail spokesman said, Fuhring bad about the same chance as someone who collapses on the street. Maybe he had less -of a chance. Police radio cars are equipped with life-saving oxygen. -About 500,000 people pass through Grand Central every week Why does Conrail maintain a medical office that opens at 8:45 a.m. and closes in the middle of the evening rush? "This isn't meant as a public medical facility," said Conrail's Robert Van Wagoner.

"It's" really' our company E. Side Tower With Indoor Park' Is OKd of Queens and Sylvia Deutsch of Brooklyn voted against the plans for the. building, arguing that -the galleria did not provide sufficient public benefit to warrant granting the The plans must still be approved by the Board of Estimate. The Fisher Park Avenue Co. agreed to provide and maintain public toilets on the galleria street level and to contribute $100,000 to a special fund to improve the subway station on the south side of E.

53d St. at Madison Ave. The commission recommended that the controller set up Such a fund. Under the bonus plan, the Fisher Park Avenue a construction firm, will be able to add three more stories to the office tower than would otherwise have been permitted, a planning commission spokesman said. 'The indoor park or "galleria" will include 6,550 square feet of landscaped space and 9,810 square feet of retail space on its ground level with another 10,000 square feet of retail space on a mezzanine.

It will be accessible to the public from 7:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. and Include a skylight to allow it to be lit by direct Commission members Martin Gallent By MARK LIEBERMAN Construction of a 43-story office tower with a "indoor park" on the East Side has been approved by the City Planning Commission by a 4-to-2 vote, Commission Chairman Robert F. Wagner Jr. announced yesterday.

The new Fisher Brothers' building will be erected between E. 52d and 53d Sts. east of Madison Ave. In approving the plans, the commission also approved a zoning amendment to give the builders a "bonus" for creation of Ihe park..