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Daily News from New York, New York • 5

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Daily Newsi
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New York, New York
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DAILY NEWS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, .1973 54M for S.I. (onto BBOOttYtf By MARK LIEBERMAV iWonpg chMget of a '100 million giveaway to bail out a debt-ridden shipping line, the ity Council and Eoard of Estimate last approved a capital budget amendment to allow the purchase of 514 acres in Staten Island as the site for a contain- erport and an industrial park." The Council vote! 30 to 5, with Lines. The line will move its con- prejudgment or evaluation of two abstentions, to add $54.2 operations from Port any plan or proposal bv anv charged that the city's action would directly benefit American Export Industries. The firm was reported, during a hearing of the Council's Finance Committee earlier in the day, to be $37 million in debt to various banks. In addition to the purchase.

Curry said, the citv will spend D- 7 VS-, STATEN ISLAND 1.V 9 OOTEf iOG -f" iff CROSSING 1-- imiuuii w.iur tapai buuci to "ra --ompany, corporation, group or bv enable the city to buy the land the Port of York Autho- tnuiviaual lor the containerport. Sutton did not appear to cast $30 million at Howland Hook in the north- 10 a xaten island, west corner of the borough. The The board's vote was delayed seller is American Export In- until after 8 p. m. in order to dustries, owner and operator of accommodate Richmond Borough a vote.

Controller Abraham D. Beame. to develop the site Lines out of the re-years of a 20-yeRr to rent five North and let U.S. maining 10 commitment voting for the amendment, took American Export Lines, -which resident Kooert T. Connor.

rrcA'it fn- th 1. will oe one ot two major tenants. ui8 a uinner in velopment proposal and the com at the site. honor of Gen. Yakubu Gowon of Nigeria, chairman of tbo mitment 01 U.S.

Lines. Beame said, in a statement read for him, that he would carefully examine leases and contracts for the site when they came to the board for consideration. (Hudson) Riverpiers at a cost of $23 million. The president of the firm, Ellis B. Gardner, a director of American Export Lines, conceded that his company owed the city $1.44 million in real estate taxes.

Curry and Queens Democrat Continued on pogm 65, col. 1 Organization of African Unity. Manhattan Borough- President Percy Sutton was the host. Connor returned to stress that the vote was for the cauital A Unanimous Vote The Board of Estimate voted unanimously for the proposal, under which the city will lease the 175-acre maritime facility at Howland Hook to United States A critic of the purchase, Coun- NEWS mat by jtsH rti Map locates Howland H00V area of Staten Island. Midget amendment and "not a cilman Edward V.

Curry Four Hurt in Subway Derailment Elooseveli Island cum Sr inl Tramway Okayei By JOHN TOSCANO A $2.5 million aerial tramway over the East River between Roosevelt Island and Manhattan wa? approved unanimously late yesterday by the Board of Estimate following a three-hour public hearing. I 1 1 .1 i I 1 ne. noei caoie car system, liic i first ever to be built here, will operate from the southwestern i part of the former Welfare Island, I where a huge new town is under construction, over the river and along E. 60th St. to a terminal I on the southwest corner of E.

The Winners NEW YORK: 244851 NEW JERSEY: WEEKLY: 391260 DAILY: 59937 warm wtti ana becona Ave. Edward Logue, executive of-! ficer of the Urban Development which is sponsoring con- struction of 5,000 housing units on the island ranging from low-! income to luxury apartments, told the board the tramway was vital CONNECTICUT: 65727 MASSACHUSETTS: 323643 PENNSYLVANIA: I 10 ne lsiana development. i He said that in addition to Prizes in the weekly lotteries: Y. N.J Conn. Mass Penna.

S50OJ 5.009 2.500 2 .000 NEWS phofo by Aaronson NEWS photo by D'n Cronin Subway worker inspects derailed car (photo left) as injured passenger (photo right) is wheeled to ambulance from the Bergen St. station in Brooklyn last night. i transporting future residents to 'f i'g30 i Manhattan for work and pleasure First 5 trips, it was also essential to ast soo transport employes, visitors and Last 3 so a 2.0 4 150 25 230 20 V) 20 25 Mid 3 pitals and citv residents to the 40 5 Mixed Last 2 (A) (B TA officials said two of the eight cars derailed and the third rail was torn up. Power was restored shortly before 11:30 p.m. Officials expected normal service by morning.

Police and Fire Department rescue units helped passengers pass along the track to the station after power was cut off at p.m. Police reported a fire and heavy smoke condition ir. the tunnel. An IRT express subway train derailed last night in a tunnel 10 feet south of the Bergen Si. station, near Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, slightly injuring four passengers, the Transit Authority reported.

x-Na prizes in these caeories. A New York ticket wirtt the last two digits right sets you five tree tickets for an future weekly lottery at any sales outlet IB In New Jersey, a ticket with tte first two or last two right auatifies for the semifinals of the Million Dollar Ora. Winning Later may be found on page 40. acres of parkland and recreational facilities being developed there. Subway Planned The only access to the island from Manhattan now is via the Queensborough Bridge.

Subway service is expected to be readv by 1981. Opponents of the plan argued that the tramway would increase traffic problems on Second Ave- t. 1 (Council Votes 3d Remap Bill J3 UHt.N IIlitKALU and reduce nronertr va which the firm will build a S40 million refinery on a 2-acre sits in the Stapleton section of the Staten Island waterfront. The city will provide $3 million for site improvement, including removal of piers, but expects to The Citv Council passed last nisjht a plan for reappoi'tionment of Council dis- ues in the area, trict. and sent it to Mayor Lindsay, hoping that he would not veto it.

Already this The rff' vear, the mayor has vetoed two Council reapportionment plans. capable of carrying 125 persons. retrieve $1 million of that from The redisricting bill was passed A round-trip will take ahout five; rents. minutes and cost 35c. The fare Action Deferred will be collected only on tne is- i i -r i.

The board deferred action on a capital-budget appra-priatton which will be matched by Bloomgingda'e's department store to fund the rehabilitation of the Central Park Mall. It deferred action on a request by the Carev Bus Co. to terminals iaiiu, so pact" lor tut? terminal can be kept to a mini-j mum. Other Actions In other action, the board: Approved a $7.9 million I canital-budget grant to the Re bv a 23-3 vnT after a two-hour de- bate in which Council leaders contended that the proposed dis- trict line would meet court re- i quirements and overcome Lind- say's objection-. Hearing Next Friday I Lindsay ha3 scheduled the public hearing that is required befor? he acts on the bill for 3 p.m.

next Friday at City HalL His office said' last night that he would have no comment on i the measure until the hearing, Yom Kippm Starts Tonight Jews observe their most solemn holy day. Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, beginning at sundown tonight. The Long Island Rail Road will provide additional serviee for commuters from Penn Station returning home early. Extra trains destined for Far Rockaway, Queens, and for Babylon, Long Beach and Great Neck will depart in mid-afternoon. City Hall Park was temporarily renamed Babi Yar Memorial Park yesterday to commemorate the 32d anniversary of the Nazi massacre of 100,000 Jews in a ravine near Kier in the Soviet Union.

Deputy Mayor Edward Morrison read a proclamation signed by Mayor Lindsay designating Oct. 4 t- Oct. 14 as Babi Yar memorial days. packing regulations will bs sus service from the East Side Air- habilitation Mortgage Insurance which will provide home lines terminal, an action wnih, improvement mortgages toj opponents charge, will hasten the homeowners in transitional planned shutdown of the terminal. The hearing will taka place just pended tomorrow for Yom Kippur and on Monday far Columbus -William Reel areas designateu as jseignoor-hood Preservation Districts.

The hope is to stimulate the flow of private capital into those areas and arrest housing decay. Designated a 12-s a e-block area bounded roughly by Canal and E. Houston Sts. and Broadway and East Broadway as the SoHo Cast Iron District to preserve the many turn-of-the-century buildings which have cast iron fronts. Approved a lease Day.

House OKs 216M For Info Agency Washington, Oct. 4, (AP A $216.7 million authorization bill for the United States Information Agency, requiring the agency to give Congress access t3 information, was passed by ths Hjus on a viee vota today. Th legi-s-lation, wrksi, out by a conferanca cs, ti tbs Sent far. fi'iol c-M'SLes- three davs before th? deadline of Oct. 15 that was fixed by the State Court of Appeals far the drafting of new lines by the Council.

The plan that passed last night, like its unsuccessful predecessors, calls fsr six additional Council 3eati, at least four of theai earmarked fjr black or PaertD Ricau, represeutatian. Council thus wuld. be mprsedL ftrit.ii7-, The- Council special reapportionment committee, urged unanimous approval. Sil defy any so-oaMed nonpartisan cjmniitteaf any plan would not take effect until next year, and therefore would have no bearing on next month'3 flections. tlte voting last night Councilman 3viidoliU DiBlasi (D- tb'an tMs' cimivsittee between tae city and t'ie BrJoki-roVyd of 1 thfeH i(t-M (Mtil.

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