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DAILY NEWS, THURSDAY, MAY 8, l'JVb lili 1 1 i Roosevelt Island Girl Is Alone in Class By ELEANOR SWERTLOW Few New Yorkers have ever seen a one-room schoolhouse. Now the city has. a one-student school at a cost of about $1,000 a week salaries alone. Rachael Keilin is the only student at PS 217, which is on Roosevelt Island. It is a brand-new school that has ample space for 225 youngsters, but since its opening this week, two full-time teachers and a volunteer aide, plus a school secretary and a custodian, have been on hand solely -for the education of Rachael, who is 6.

The odd situation could continue through the end of the school year. Formerly of the upper West Side, Rachael mm 7 'X51 I and her mother, Sharon, moved to Roosevelt Island last Thursday, among the first tenants in the new Urban Development Corp. housing project on the island. The Board of Education had promised the -Urban Development Corp. that when the first tenants moved in, there would be a 3chool.

So Mrs. Keilin, who could have sent Rachael back to PS 87 on W. 78th-St every day, opted for a new building and the exclusive attention of two devoted teachers. "I must say, she's loving every minute of it," Mrs. Keilin said.

"It was a very difficult decision for me, but it has worked out very nicely," Arriving at school at 8:45, Rachael learns her ABCs and her l-2-3s. Mrs. Sally Leif er and Mrs. Dolores Williams take turns teaching her. Adrian Biagioli, a doctoral candidate from Columbia University, helps out.

School secretary Fanny Kaufman also chats with the child. "I'd love it for Rachael to be able to have lunch with other children or to have some kids to interact with, but I guess that will come later," Mrs. Keilin said. Next week, Mrs. Keilin said, some children frosa Rachel's old school will take a field trip" out to Roosevelt Island to visit'their old school friend.

They'd Be Working, Anyhow Mrs. Charlotte acting director of Roosevelt Island schools, isn't at all sure when, new students will be coming to the school. We'll take them as they move onto the island," she said. It is possible, she conceded, that Rachael will be all alone for the rest of. the school The school staff would be there even without Rachael.

"They "are part of the planning team and have been in the building for the past six weeks, anyway," Mrs. Schiff said. Teacher Williajns said yesterday that, academically, a child does best when she is on her own. "At the rate Rachael's going," she said, "if she continued alone, there's no question she could advance several grades." News photo by Dan Godfrey Pooch is carried down ladder to safety by ASPCA man. Lb 0 IPanp, iSne Kes News photo by Jim Garrett Amazing what a girl can do working alone.

Tina Setts Povjn tto EBusiness London, May 7 7AP) Christina Onassis went nightclubbing into the small Community Canine Care By DONALD SINGLETON The combined -efforts of several city agencies managed to resolve a neighborhood crisis on Manhat- I tan's Upper West Side yesterday mornin I The center of the crisis was one small brown female dog, name and age unknown, which had been sealed up inside an abandoned apartment house three weeks ago, ami which was' virtually adopted by the neighborhood. The dog apparently would make the rounds through the empty, burned-out rooms of the five-story building at 100 W. 97th occasionally poking its head out a wifcdow to look I around. People in the neighborhood would see' the animal, and some of -them took to throwing dog food up through the broken second-floor windows. Others called for help.

"The ASPCA. people came lots of times, but every time 1 they put a ladder up the dog got scared and ran away," said Shelley Kiffin of 135 W. 96th St. "Then I didn't see the dog for a couple of days, and I thought they had caught her. But this morning I passed, I could hear her crying.

So I went home and called the Police Department, the Fire De-. 1 partment, The Daily News, and Mayor Beame's office." -1 Soon there was a small armada of police and ASPCA vehicles on the scene. ASPCA agents borroved a ladder fron a nearby Housing Authority project, and, as a gather- I ed to watch, a rescue party entered the building. 'i 'Ten minutes passed, then 20, then half an hour. Tension rose in the crowd when one of the cops called down for a rope, And a cheer went up as Louis Romero, a mechanic and chauf- fevfr with the ASPCA, emerged on a second-floor fire escape i landing, holding the dog in his arms.

The animal seemed well-fed, despite her three weeks of captivity, a period during which at least two fires hit the I vacant 4 i If the dog's owner doesn't show up within 8 hours, animal will be put up for, adoption, the ASPCA said. i-i itiitmmitiiiiiiiiiHUHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiitii hours today, then quickly turned to her new role as multimillionaire businesswoman. The 24-year-old heiress to the $960 million shipping empire of her father, the late Aristotle tomorrow' for New York for similar talks. She has worked in the. Onassis office in New York for some time and knows top officials As for her romance with Peter Goulandris, heir to another Greek shipping fortune and reportedly the man her father hoped she would marry, Christina was quoted as saying: "I'm not going to niarry Peter, not because it's too my father's death, but because I don't have plans to marry him or anyone else." I'm also an Onassis.

If there's anything to discuss, you will deal with me." Miss Onassis may have inherited a lot of problems along with the Onassis empire, shipping experts say. Tankers, a main part of the Onassis holdings, are in the- doldrums because of. the world oil situation. After her talks at the Shell building -today, Miss Onassis drove to the-- City, London's financial district, for talks with bankers'. Nigel Neilson, her personal spokesman, said she will leave Onassis, conferred with Sir i rank McFadzean, chairman of Shell Transport and Trading a part of the giant Anglo-Dutch Oil concern, Royal Dutch Shell.

She had spent most of yesterday talking with British oilmen and lunched for three hours with Sir Eric Drake, head of British Petroleum. A spokesman said it was the first time she had met the London men with whom her father did business. She was quoted as telling the oilmen, "although I'm a woman, Ford. Mies iheWiiin InlisPvhmh kfl'Xo the Hlmes summoned Burch for a requesting" he proceed and naming' the men to be invited for the political review. Politically, Ford made a shrewd.

choice in the selection of his "steering committee" which among other items will recommend a name for a chairman another for a finance chairman. tional leadership. But disaffection of some of the more conservative elements of the GOP, and the active "noncandida-cy" of ex-Gov. Ronald Reagan have combined to force the Ford hand. The President has been, plagued with persistent rumors that he really didn't intend to run next year, that he was playing a charade and would pull out in due time.

He and his friends have sus- YpAPDTOLA By JERRY GREENE Washington, May 7 Seven of President Ford's friends, ranging from left to right, sat down together today and unofficially launched his unofficial campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 1976 by agreeing to hire a lawyer to keep the whole thing legal. Dean Burch was the leader of the broadly assorted group. He said later that he would present recommendations to Ford within a few days and that a formal campaign organization to run the show would be created shortly thereafter. Burch said no other decisions were made today beyond one to employ counsel a step taken not only with a sorrowful eye on Watergate, but also with a wary concern about the new campaign reform law and financial -)it-falls. Ford, of course, is being pushed into an open, candidacy long before he wanted this to be done.

He has had the belief that his public appearance as a candidate, would whatever -clout he had as President in exercise of na- ates and campaign professionals; and Leon Parma, California aviation indus- trialist and Republican leader and' golfing partner of the President. Laird, long-time Wisconsin congressman and close friend of Ford, was' the natural choice for campaign chair- an," but served notice his personal commitments preclude his devoting full time to the job. Whoever is tapped will find Laird near at hand. And the cam-' paign organization will be for nomina-'i tion purposes only. Ford is committed to i use of the national committee and the regular party structure for the battle against the Democrats after nomina-' tion.

Ford is committed also to helping any and all GOP congressional" candi7J dates. He said last night he will be making an effort to assist in building the Republican Party this i year. While he was still vice president last year, he spoke out several times to' criticize in blunt language the practice! of a presidential candidate sealing him-i self off from the party regulars, soak-fc uig up most of the Republican moneys and running- virtually as a -loner as" Nixon had done in 1972. Burc) himself, campaign director for Barry Goldwater (Ariz.) in 1964, former chairman of the GOP National Corrmittee, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, called into the White House to coordi--' nate Richard Nixon's public not legal defense in the waning hours before resignation, is recognized as a- conservative stalwart. The other members of the advance party: Robert Douglass, close associate of Vice President Rockefeller; former Pennsylvania Gov.

William W. Scranton, a GOP liberal leader who sought to deny the presidential nomination to Goldwater; Nebraska GOP leader Richard Herman, a popular conservative; former Defense Secretary Melvin R. forme Eisenhower'-, and Nixon aide Bryce Harlow, both moder pected the reports were planted by political- enemies; more likely they sur-r faced through veteran, standard type Republicans who feared they did not have a winner in the stolid, plain spoken occupant of the White House. Ford sought to answer skeptics in his press conference last night when he said, "I will be at the proper time a candidate in a legal sense and no one should feel otherwise." 1 There is, for the record, substantial evidence to back both the President and Burch. The President received a staff -proposal- or campaign plans oa April 28.

Four days later he.