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Daily News from New York, New York • 145

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-ML7- -14- --t i a sM i DAILY NEWSTUESDAY, JULY 22, 1975 Df Gfepte! Canfts CoffQttnimiLn By HUGH WY ATT About 15.000 doctors employed by or affiliated with city-owned hospitals threatened yesterday to stage major job actions by the end of the summer if there are I II a further budget cuts The cutbacks, they claim, have brought about serious deficiencies in hospital services. The board of the city's -Health and Hospitals Corp. meets Thursday to weigh further cuts. The warning was made at a news conference called by Dr. Paul Spear, president of the Society of Urban Physicians, a group of 6,500 doctors employed at the city's 19 municipal hospitals.

He was joined at Bellevue Hospital by representatives of the Committee of Interns and Residents and the Advisory Council of Medical Boards. The council Is an organization of senior physicians at the hospitals and the committee represents the house staff. Spear, who is also chief of medicine at Morrisania" Hospital in the Bronx, which is to close in part because of the city's financial crisis, charged that Mayor Beame was "violating the spirit, of the law by interfering with tha operation "of the hospitals corporation. The agency was set up more than four years ago as a quasi-independent public benefit corporation. However, City Hall has News photo by Leonard Detrlck A crew from Neighborhood Youth Corps wages war on mounting garbage in South Bronx with brooms and elbow grease.

hlist Vgafth By ALBERT DAVILA Neighborhood Youth Corps workers yesterday began Ml 2 tlletili Slink ikeme By LAWRIE MIFFLIN The state Office of Drug Abuse Services has moved to revoke the license of a private methadone treatment program at 205 Second Ave. which has been the focus of community complaints and agency investigations over the last year, Deputy. Commissioner Dr. Seymour Joseph announced yesterday. South Bronx.

Using garbage bags supplied by the city, the youth workers will pack the bags, and the Sanitation. Department will pick them up on the sidewalk. "This is a pretty good thing," said Ricky Guerra, 17, a corps worker. "You get some money and clean up the neighborhood." The congressman said most of the workers were from the Bronx. He added that before the cleanup started, the workers were collecting the Youth Corps salary without having work assignments.

"These lots throughout my district are becoming a health hazard," Badillo said. "I can't think of a more constructive role for these young workers." During the impromptu news confefence at the lot, the congressman also proposed that Mayor Beame turn to the federal government to support bond sales during the fiscal crisis. Badillo urged both the mayor and Gov. Carey to seek federal guarantee of Big Mac bonds by the Federal Reserve Board. He said the bonds are backed by nearly $1 billion in city stock transfers and sales taxes.

a war against garbage in the "The idea is to help the mayor keep New York clean," said Rep. Herman Badillo, who organized the drive. "The mayor doesn't have the ability or desire to keep the city clean, so were doing it." Badillo contends that since the budget crisis began, Beanie has become lax on sanitation. The 70 workers," all high school students in their teens, will clean parks and empty lots throughout the South Bronx during the rest of the summer. They are being paid by the Neighborhood Youth Corps at the rate of $2.10 an hour for24 hours a week.

Truck Assigned "Many of the neighborhood youth workers assigned to my office wanted to participate in a useful program to improve their neighborhood," said Badillo. "I contacted the Department of Sanitation and they have assign ed a truck and worker to our project." Badillo said the empty lot on 148th St. and St. Ann's where the press conference was held, was typical of the garbage-infested lots which surround the Bronx slum area. tract quality physicians to tha municipal hospitals will be destroyed by, the necessity of firing such personnel," he added.

Joining Spear were, among others, Drs. Gerald Thomson, tiiicx vi iucuiti lie ai iiaiicui xj.ua- pital, and Dr. Lothar Werthelm, chairman of the Council of Medical Boards. Asked what the job action might entail, the doctors declined to comment publicly except to point out that they would not walk off their jobs "and endanger the lives of the patients." Privately some doctors indicated that such tactics as slowdowns and sickouts were under consideration. To date, at the request of Beame, the corporation has reduced its budget by more than $40 million, in addition to a cut taken in tha 1974-75 fiscal budget year.

The mayor is seeking cuts of mora than $80 million, of which $59 million would be applied to general medicine. Lambs the money, and He did," said the Rev. Paul Moore, pastor of the two-year-old congregation. The money completes a $122,500 sum required by the Tremont Savings and Loan Association of the Bronx, which owns the building, to close the contract. The building is being sold to the church group for $475,000.

Lawrle Mifflin tha documentation we've built up against him." James Capalino, an aide to Rsp. Edward Koch expressed concern over the relocation of Triebel's approximately 250 patients. He urged Joseph to exert whatever influence he could to see that the patients "are not rreferred lower East Side clinics," because of the large number of such programs in that area. Councilman Henrv Stern voted that Triebll's lease at 205 Second Ave. expires Aug.

31, and that his landlord has informed him It would not be renewed. Councilman's Comment "I would like to see Dr. Joseph proceed against the liva clinics in this neighborhood, not just one six weeks away from eviction," Stern said. William Stuhlbarg of the 14th Street Association, who was chairman at the meeting, said he was gratified that "a dialogue was established" with Dr. Joseph, and that he hoped this clinic's closing would be a start toward combating what he calls "the deterioration of E.

14th St." Triebel could not be reached for comment. He has two other clinics at 400 E. 77th St. and at 2 W. 116th St.

that will not be affected by this action. Lothar Wertheimer been Instrumental In forcing the corporation to reduce staffs and emergency programs, laboratory, home care, X-ray and other services, according to Spear. "Efforts In past years to at Church Gets The Manhattan Church of the Nazarene, which needed $30,000 by 3 p.m. yesterday to guarantee its purchase of the Lambs Club at 130 W. 44th received a $50,000 grant from its parent body, the national Church of the Nazarene, just six hours before the deadline.

"We" knew God would perform a miracle to bring in agency. But Joseph said it was "extremely unlikely" that such an appeal could be successful, given "the nature and quality of buses on the two avenues stopping only every eight blocks with a non-stop sprint between 72d and 58th Sts. The present schedule calls for a 71-minute run from 125th St. to South Ferry, Wagner said. "For sections of this lengthy trip the buses are almost empty and at other times they are packed.

People should not have to sit, much less stand, for over an hour on any local bus route," Wagner said. 'Every 2 Minutes Theoretically, the rush-hour headway on both avenues is two minutes. But the study found that "bunchin," up" at both terminals, and also through the midtown area, caused the delays and accounted for the long waiting periods. The legislators said they were in the midst of submitting their proposals directly to the MTA and added they expected an early answer. wvey RifiiGls CoCniony -Mew Huses IBad A meeting of public officials and community representatives in the office of Deputy Borough President Jolle Hammer, yesterday, Joseph said that the Mary Scranton Foundation clinic, run by Dr.

William A. Triebel, was "substantially lacking in compliance" with agency regulations. "In the past year we've met wtth Dr. Triebel, outlined the deficiencies to him, and given him ample time to correct them," Joseph eaid. "We haee gone beyond the call of duty in trying to assist Dr.

Triebel into compliance with program regulations." Triebel has 10 days to request an appeal hearing with the state ing to wait up to 30 minutes in bad weather only to have a fleet of buses arrive at once. -The plan, also proposed that the southern terminal of the M-15 line be moved during rush hours from South Ferry, north to Chatham Square, with free-transfer shuttle buses continuing south. The legislators also envisioned By JAMES DUDDY Several local legislators who yesterday disclosed the result of a recent survey which branded bus service on Manhattan's Second and First Aves. as the "worst in the city" -announced that they will submit a proposal to the MTA to allow express buses during rush hours. OlA.

37 tor 5iuay on geu The Board of Estimate has approved of $37,118 contract with the Community Council of New York to observe and monitor the income maintenance and other services to-the elderly under the Supplemental Security Income program. As part of the contract, Community Council representatives will check whether Department of Social Services workers are stationed in local Social Secuity Administration offices, and record how many elderly, residing in rent-controlled "and stabilized apartments, have applied for their rent-increase exemptions. The main sponsors of the plan, City Councilman-at-Large Robert Wagner Jr. (D. Manhattan) and Henry J.

Stern (L-Manhat-tan) along with State Sen. Carol Bellamy (D-Manhattan-Brook-lyn) held a sidewalk news conference yesterday morning at Second Ave. and 49th St. They issued statemtnts describing the problems riders have to face. "With the Second Ave.

Subway now reduced to a series of holes in the ground, the need for above-ground transportation on that thoroughfare and also on First Ave. is urgent," Stern Said. "The buses on these streets are among the busiest in the city." "These lines carry 19 million passengers a year. Yet service is sluggish, buses are bunched np bumper to bumper, and the ride is close to interminable," he added. The study conducted several months ago by volunteers in the legislators' offices, revealed waiting times of up to 19 minutes during rush hours.

This study also as many as eight buses traveled convoy style, all passing an average bus stop within two minutes. Passengers complained of hav.

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