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Daily News from New York, New York • 7

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DAILY NEWS, THURSDAY, 1974 Ubrairy Trasfiees ir Rescind Pecisioii bans TVS By LAWRIE MIFFLIN The board of trustees of the New York Public Library j'esterday rescinded an Oct. 10 decision to close three neighborhood branch libraries in Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island. News photo by Tom Cunningham Priest comforts Alfred and Margaret Pucci, parents of slain youth, outside Holy Rosary Church. Neighbors Mourn Skin Youth Because of fund shortages, the three branches had been scheduled to shut down Nov. 18.

About 60 staff members were to be assigned to "bther branches. Board chairman Frederick H. Burkhardt said no decision has been made as to "how much where and how" cutbacks in services would be made to achieve the necessary budget trims. Library president Richard W. Coup-er will meet with Mayor Beame tomorrow to find out what the library budget allotment will be.

"It is clear that mass cuts in public services will have to be made," said Edwin S. Holmgren, director of branch services, "such as reducing service at some branches from six days a week to five." Community Pressure The board of trustees met to make the decision after a smaller meeting of the board's committee on branch libraries adjourned. At that committee meeting, about 25 community residents, several library staff members and six elected officials urged Burkhardt, Couper and Holmgren to rescin the decision By JOHN LEWIS Louis N. Pucci, the 20-year-old Ford-ham University student who "Avas slain while trying to warn a grocer of a possible robbery, was buried yesterday following a Mass of the Resurrection attended by a large crowd of friends and neighbors at Holy Rosary Church in A3 the cortege turned into 119th the bells of Holy Rosary Church, where Louis was an altar boy, began to toll. More than 1,000 persons pressed inside the church.

Students from Fordham lined the entranceway as the coffin was carried up the steps. Behind were Louis' parents, Alfred and Margaret Pucci, and behind them were his sister, Margaret, 18, and his brother, Alfred 15. The pastor, Msgr. Victor Pavis, officiated, at the Mass of the which was celebrated with 20 other priests from the parish and Fordham University and Fordham Prep. Msgr.

Pavis said Louis had joined a long line of young heroes who have given their lives. When the Mass. ended, about 100 cars lined up behind the hearse. Before leaving for St. Raymond's Cemetery in the Bronx, the cortege circled the area.

It passed Louis' school, his home, the small store where he was slain. It was Louis' last trip through the old neighborhood that he lived and died for. East Harlem. The youth's body was taken to the church in 'a hronze casket- from a funeral home on E. 116th St.

An honor guard of Boy Scouts from the troop that Louis once served as scout and scout leader escorted the body. Pucci was killed last-Thursday after he warned a neighborhood shopkeeper about a gang of boys who were acting outside the store. One of the gang followed Pucci into the store and fired a single shot, striking Pucci in the neck. He died later at Metropolitan Hospital. i to close the Jefferson Market branch in Greenwich Village, the Baychester branch in Co-op City and the Todt Hill Westerleigh branch on Staten Island.

SfflW ill Close Plant for Week By BRIAN KATES "We got behind the board's stand and got people to write letters and show their concern over the three libraries closing," said Barbara Pisetzner, ro-chair- General Motors announced yesterday that it will shut down its plant in North Tarrytown lor one week beginning Monday. The decision, which GM officials said was reached "to bring field inventory in line with consumer demand," came after 2,000 man of Staten Island Ad Hoc Committee to Save Our Libraries. Village. "He could then say that it was the library's decision to make the cutbacks by closing those branches, not his." The women' said they felt community groups would still support the library in its request for more city funds, but on the condition that cutbacks be spread across the whole system. Councilwoman Carol GreiUer added that unless Beame offers additional funds at his meeting Friday with the heads of city- funded cultural institutions, library services would be severely reduced.

Of the 83 libraries in Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island that make up the New York Public Library system, 13 are now open six days a week. First Houses Is Designated A Landmark By ALFRED MIELE First Houses, the first public low-income housing project in' the nation, was designated a landmark yesterday by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. The housing complex on Avenue A between Second and Third Sts. on the lower east side, openai Dec. 3, 1935, and is the first, to receive landmark status.

In announcing the action, Commission Chairman Beverly Moss Spatt said the designation honors "a great, unique social development the responsibility of society to provide for every human being decent housing within a high-quality, humane environment." Library Interior Cited In other action, the commission used for the first time its recently acquired authority to designate interiors of buildings by naming as a landmark the New York Public Library's main lobby, staircases and central hall. The exterior of the building, at 42d St. and Fifth is already an official landmark. The American Radiator Building at 40 W. 40th St.

was also designated as a landmark by the commission. The building: is the first modern skyscraper to be designated. It was constructed -in 1924 and has a first floor facade of bronze and polished black granite. Park and Restaurant The commission also designated, as a scenic landmark, Bryant Park between 40th and 42d from the New York Public Library to Sixth Ave. It also gave landmark status to Gage Tollner, a restaurant at 372 Fulton Brooklyn.

The restaurant has been at the location, in the center of downtown Brooklyn, since 1892. Two adjoining buildings in Jamaica, Queens, were named as landmarks, the Jamaica Savings Bank and the Register Jamaica Arts Center. The bank, built in 1898, was cited by the commission as "an excellent example of the Beaux-Arts style of architecture." The commission actions bring the number of individual city "But then their strategy back workers were laid off at the plant last Monday. -Two other plants, in Vay Nuys, fired they hoped community outrage would force tie mayor to give the whole system more money, but it didn work. with jobs openings in the county, but have been unable to make any appreciable dent.

in the un-ployment, according to the Westchester County Association, which is leading the effort. possibility. Working from data provided by GM, local business and industrial leaders are attempting to match the laid-off workers' skills "That only got Beame off the hook, said Ruth Wittenberg, a 50-year resident of Greenwich ffl ayor's Reputation hat Steak By MARK LIEBERMAN Mayor Beame, considered an expert at cutting fat from municipal budgets, found yesterday that his talent does not extend to trimming fat from meat on the hook. Orarbed in a white helmet and and Willow Run, which also had drastic cutbacks last week, will suspend operations, as well, according to GM. A total of 72,000 auto workers nationwide are affected by temporary shutdowns, according to a spokesman for the world's largest corporation.

All the plants produce compact cars. The 1,900 workers affected by the temporary shutdown in North Tarrytown have been guaranteed a return to the job within a week, a GM spokesman said. In the meantime, they will receive 95 of their base pay through contracted supplemental unemployment benefits. However, a spokesman for the Westchester County Office of Manpower Management said this would erode the amount of supplemental unemployment benefits available to the 2,000 workers laid off last week, whose chances of reemployment are slim, according to local labor leaders. "The SUB money reduces in proportion to the number of people who are drawing it," the Manpower representative said, adding, "It won't be long at this rate before they'll reach the bottom of the barrel." Officials of United Auto Workers Local 664 in North Tarrytown were not available for comment.

However, union members expressed no surprise at the announcement. Several mentioned that rumors were circulating that 'fW long white coat, Beame tried his hand at the fat trimming on a tour of the Gansevoort Market on the West Side to mark the signing of a 30-year lease between the city and the 18-member wholesale meat and poultry cooperative. After Beanie's attempt, he was told by Alfred Mayer, president of the co-op, that he had cut too deeply. The mayor was a little more successful in his budget trimming, noting that the lease will ease pressures on the city's hard-pressed capital budget. Beame said that under the terms of the lease the co-op will receive a $232,000 rent credit in return for making maintenance and capital improvements at the market.

Without these terms, the improvements would have had to be financed "with capital budget funds. The rental to the city will range from $225,000 in the first year to $481,412 in the last year of the lease for the one-square block site bounded by West, Little W. 12th, Washington and Gansevoort Sts. KBaaiers ha2eL" the lease News photo by Frank Russo Butcher Gene Johnson looks on as Mayor Beame trims some fat. tne-plant wouia snui uuwii again in December.

County Executive Alfred Del-Bello has expressed concern that the plant may shut down permanently, and he is trying to persuade newly elected GM President Elliot Estes to diversify production in order to avert ilhat landmarks to 443, plu3 one in the security of a long-term lease instead of the previous system of annual permits." "major advance." He "For this first time since this building was opened by the city in 1950, both; tenant -and" landlord -btve terior, three scemc and 2o historic landmarks..

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