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NEWS, SEPTEMBER. 14, 1958 Money sin the Bag for Mane- No for Surgery and a Prayer Eugene Spagnoli and James Davis As the good citizens of Hoboken put it yesterday: "The money has been raised. Now is the time for prayers. By EDWARD O'NEILL One of the three Rs believed most neglected by the city's educational planners 'rithmetic is going to be taught during coming months to the Board of Education itself and new Schools Superintendent John J. Theobalds The teacher: bluntly outspoken Controller Lawrence E.

Gerosa.up to now the only voice in city government against spending orgies. His curriculum: a simple arithmetic course demonstrating that if the city gives in to all the spending plans of the Board of I LP Education, New York will become a town of bankrupts-many still uneducated, despite all the spending. In his effort to get the lesson over, Gerosa will even be lighting his colleagues in the Board of Estimate. He'll also be up against the loudest, most powerful spending lobby in the city, drawing howls from the well-organized professional educator groups, every PTA and every outfit of do-gooders. As ammunition, Gerosa will cite these facts: Since 1945 New York has built new schools to the tune of New school construction under way adds up to $130,882,000 more.

Another is -earmarked for future school construction. Also, in the upcoming capital budget the Board of Education is seeking new funds totaling And in 1960 the educators are setting their sights on The Prayers and fervent pood wishes are for little Marie Antoinette Minutillo. 2. who, crippled by a bladder defect since birth, now has a chance to become An expensive, new-type operation for Marie is now possible because the people if Hoboken, from the 'mayor down, raised $10,161.01 in less than a week, with the help of The News. Marie's plight became known cut side her family when the child's mother read of such an operation and appealed to Hoboken Director of Health and Welfare D'Amelio for advice.

li'Amelio investigated and reported the case to Mayor John J. (Irogan. He explained that Marie's father. Hector, a baker, earned $70 a week and that the operation was expensive. "Let's pet the money, said the mayor.

Within hours, the Marie Antoinette Minutillo Fund as in business. Washes Cars to Help City Councilman Louis Fran-rone washed cars in his spare time and turned over the proceeds to the fund. Children danced and played instruments in the ftreets to obtain coins for the fause and a policewoman worked an extra day a week as a baby fitter to aid the drive. Yesterday Mayor a through an aid, told The News that arrangements had been completed for Marie to enter Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center lere tomorrow. After two days of tests and preparation, surgery will be undertaken to remedy the defect exposed bladder.

The operation will take eight Lawrence E. Geroaa Arithmetic hit subject (NEWS foto Joe DiMaggio gives autographed baseball to Marie Antoinette Minutillo. Looking on is Hoboken Little Leaguer John Anrato. a referendum that will allow them to spend another $500,000,000 throueh 1P65. all exempt from the city borrowing limit.

That's a lot of cabbage, and Gerosa will tell them there just isn't that much cabbage in the municipal cabbage patch, and won't be unless the city goes perilously into hock. Referendum Defeat His Goal He'll stir more commotion by charging the board with wasting city funds by trying to construct edifices instead of schools with class0ms. He'll cite accusations that the board skyrockets school costs by bad planning, screwy last-minute changes in plans, hiring DiMaggio for his help in the whirlwind campaign started by The News. In the juvenile part of the drive, Grogan said Hoboken Little Leaguers John Aniato and Timothy McCarthy were valuable aids. hours, Grogan said.

If it is successful, Marie will be in a plaster cast for six months. "The fund has gone over the top, thanks to your paper," said the Mayor. He also expressed thanks to former Yankee star Joe U.S. Can't Stop Me, Faubus Says (Continue from page 3) is the legality of these laws upon to block Negro attendance at LSU's new branch there. Chairman Theo Cangelosi told the supervisors that he had queried the State Board of Education on the status of plans for a Southern branch in New Orleans, authorized by the 1956 legislature.

Southern has its main campus in Baton Rouge. Cangelosi made public a letter he received from State Education Superintendent Shelby Jackson, who said land for the branch had been purchased, preliminary plans approved and architects authorized to prepare final plans for bids. The 1956 act appropriated for a branch of Southern in New Orleans. which the Faubus proclamation hinges. The Governor claims they are Consitutional.

The federal government however quotes the 14th Amendment saying, "Xo state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States." LSU Seeks Means To Bar Negroes Biton Rouge, Sept. 13 (UPI). The Louisiana State University board of supervisors considered today establishing a branch of the Negro Southern University in New Orleans as a possible way of expensive consultants, and spendmgfor gaudy ornamentation, swimming pools, teacher lounges and other doodads. By the time Gerosa is through, city taxpayers will be so Svoused, he hopes, that the board's referendum will be soundly defeated. Gerosa will not ask the voters just to take his word for It.

His ace-in-the-hole, we hear, will be a demand that a committee of able citizens, professionals in construction, planning and management, be turned- loose on the whole school mess for a full repoit to the public. He'll hold off, though, we're told, and give the newly-installed Theobald a chance to move. If the super doesn't, the controller will. How brazen can some politicos get? Several characters around town supposedly high types, since they're running for important judicial offices with all-party or both major party endorsements and the blessing of the Bar Association-are nevertheless sending out dunning letters for campaign pontfibu-tions to lawyers. They're even putting the arm on poor barristers who can't afford it, but fear to say no to the greedy judges-to-be before whom they must earn a living.

How Greedy Can These Jokers Get? Many of the pressured contributions run from $50 to $100, and in several instances responses have run up to $1,000. One wheedling letter that we saw cited "mailing, postage and stationery expenses." It came from a guy with all endorsements, who doesn't have to send out a postcard and probably won't. How much money will be squeezed from the legal profession for the "campaign needs" of these sure-to-be elected jurists? An objective accounting would make interesting reading. Of course there are exceptions. One is City Councilman Arthur A.

Low, running for the City Court in Brooklyn with GOP and Dem backing against a Libeial candidate. Low has announced he will accept no contributions and has authorized no one to dun in his behalf. Laugh of the Week: It came from the northwest Bronx, where Jonathan Bingham, on-leave aid to Gov. Harriman, is running for state senator. Bingham, whose eager beaver campaigning includes musical serenades in front big apartment developments with the help cf his wife and their four children, all musicians, was driving on Bronx River Parkway in his sign-bedecked station wagon.

An equally eager beaver cop pulled him over and informed the candidate it was illegal to drive on parkways (how else would you. get through the Bronx?) with signs containing letters more than two inches in height. Well, the resourceful Jon solved that one, too. He's now the only politician in town with vote-for-me signs fully equipped with window shades! 1 Short Takes: Standards and Appeals Commissioner Sean Keating will move into City Hall shortly as an aid to Mayor Wagner. He replaces George F.

Keenan, who will be assigned elsewhere. i When Wagner took off Wednesday for Miami he had in his pockety finally, Investigation Commissioner Charles H. Tenney's acceptance of a bid to succeed Corporation Counsel Peter Campbell Brown. Lou Scalise, $l-a-year adviser to the Mayor, receiving the annual achievement award of the Textile Veterans Association on Oct. 9 at the Biltmore.

Assistant Corporation Counsel Louis Napolitano to be an honor guest at the Baseball International Foundation dinner Sept. 25 at the Waldorf. Proceeds go to help Italian baseball players of Rome. Ecn Schmier, for 15 years head of the Felony Court division of the Legal Aid Society, has resigned that post and will be sworn in as an assistant DA to Brooklyn's Ed Silver this week. government would have to integrate Central High School the original integration storm center without local help.

U.S. Marshal R. Beal Kidd has ordered special signs warning local citizens they might be arrested if they interfered with his deputies. Yesterday Faubus issued his pioclamation which ordered Little Rock's four high schools closed Monday morning. U.

S. Assistant Attorney General Malcolm Wilkey, working with "high ranking Justice Department aids," said today that the closing was one of several alternatives the Justice Department was anticipating. "This alternative is now the situation," he said, but refused to discuss what plans the department had for combating it. Little Rock citizens began expressing concern over the school closing. Parents of some senior etudents preparing to enter college feel the closing might set their children back a year in college.

The four high schools including the 600-student, all-Negro Horace Mann High School, were closed by proclamation after Faubus signed into law 15 state bills which granted him almost dictatorial powers in the school By stem. Six of the bills the "Faubus Package" were anti-integration measures and the remaining "Eennett Bills," introduced by legislators acting for Attorney Bruce Bennett, were aimed mainly 6t the NAACP in Arkansas. The additional Bennett bills Jet op a system for recalling the fchool board, provide methods for curtailing the activities of the JJAACP, and provide money for Carrying out "orderly administration cf the public school system." The big question in Little Rock "WE'LL TAKE WESTERN EUROPE EN 10 DAYS" The Kremlin That's the Soviet's answer to the U. S. Strategic Ait Command.

An intelligence report estimates that 22 crack divisions are ready to move. This is twice the force the Germans used to wreck France. While the President declares that the U. S. is tops in defense, some members of Congress, who know, say the President is wrong.

Is that why the President used the strong 'No Appeasement" theme in his address to the nation last Thursday night? How do we compare in military might, in atomic weapons, in mobile firepower with the Soviet? How effective would the new atomic submarines be in the event cf Soviet invasion? For a survey among top military and Government personnel, be sure to read Jerry Greene's explosive etory starting in tomorrow's DAILY.S NEWS Miw Tom's menial mwiwu.