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Daily News from New York, New York • 502

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Sermon in Traffic Sign fR bin Bay men cr. 7r 5 mm CM was way Masses- to CHURCH ZONE By POLLY KLINE The new and brighter day promised rush-hour riders on Brooklyn BMT trains by transit officials turns out to be somewhat less rosy than predicted, a survey disclosed yesterday. In fact, many of the improvements are cuts in This Suffolk County road sijrn Baiting (NEWS foto by Frank Mooney) tarries an admonition to passing motorists. It is displayed near th Hollow Congregational Church, near Riverhead. GO Wagner Raps CD Cutback at Center's Bow By ALFRED MIELE service.

At 12:01 A.M. next Thursday a series of changes will go into effect. Among the items billed as bringing joy to the heart of the straphanger are: (1) Elimination of the Culver line service to Chambers St. Instead, it will be a "shuttle' between Ditmas Ave. and Ninth a short distance with cnly two stations in between.

(2) Closing down of the Myrtle-Chambers line except dur-insr weekday rush hours. Here- rn I. Air- Service OKd Eastern Long-Island's dream of sche duled air service with MacArthur Field, Ronkonkoma, as the terminal appeared nearer realization yesterday on the basis of a Civil Aeronautics Board order authorizing Alleghany Airlines to stop at the field. tofcre, trains ran from Metro-! -T politan Ave. all the way tol" to take the respon-Chambers Manhattan, week- siblllty for providing and Records 7e Briifing To Deals in L.I.

Land gested highways preliminary to Official records linking John A. Britting, 60, former flight, from LaGuardia or Inter-Suffolk County deputy treasurer, to a series of alleged i national Airports. Meanwhile, a spokesman for iaiiu-Kau intuua neie muuuutcu hi eiiuente ienieiuay ai, financing an emergency program of protection for industrial plants was sharply criticized yesterday by Mayor Wagner during dedi- cation of the Manhattan Beach regional training; center for civil defense instructors. Singing out the House Appropriations Committee as his target, the Mayor asserted its 11 cut in the civil defense budget, amounting- to $31,235,000, was "dangerously inconsistent with the already too long de layed survival protection to which our people are emitiea ine event ef an enemy attack." Cites Red Advantage "The House Government Operations Committee has warned, that the inadequacy of American civil defense, as compared with the defenses of Russia, can give Russia an enormous advantage over the United States," he said. "Does the 41 cut constitute effective government action?" he concluded.

The school, -which the Mayor welcomed as a new seat of learning on the worldwide subject of civil defense, oceupies part of the former Manhattan Beach Air Force Base. U. S. Export: Romance A pretty Connecticut girl in an American ice skating show touring Russia has landed a U. S.

Marine from Flushing in Moscow. Marilyn MacDonald of Warehouse Point, said she will announce next week her engagement to Sgt.Jaek O'Brien of 35-60 161st Flushing, an embassy guard. O'Brien has been transferred to Bern. Switzerland. Miss MacDonald said she will go there after the show.

Holiday on Ice, ends its eight-week run in Moscow Friday night Nab Cop as Burglar Philadelphia, May 20 (UPI). Patrolman Donald McGinley. 29. was arrested today as a member of a burglary-holdup gang. hi3 trial in Riverhead.

Britting and Walter Salomon, 70, a Babylon real estate speculator, are on trial before Supreme Court Justice Arthur Markewich and an all-male jury on a con spiracy indictment. Chester F. Jacobs, present coun-j ty treasurer, was on the witness stand all day and will return today. He identified one document after another from the eounty nies i b-ivai. iney were JIOIU UIUCIS Oil tuuuijvwiicu land, he said, and were initialed! by Britting.

Subsequently, the state charges, Britting sold them to Salomon, and both, shared in the profits on the re-sale. Britting has been found guilty but is appealing his conviction on bribe-taking charges in another phase of the Suffolk scandals investigation. Salomon was tried separately last year on the indictment in the current trial, but he won a mistrial when the jury disagreed. iZS It a r- mm nan The CAB announcement in Washington, D. prompted elated comments from Nassau and Suffolk officials, who regarded the step as clearing th way lor industrial- and other de-i velopments while eliminating tho need for travel by car along con- Leslie O.

Barnes, Alleghanv pres- ident, expressed surprise at the ruling, saying the line had not applied for ue of the Islip Town airport as a scheduled stop in its service to points in the Middle Atlantic states area between Washington and Boston. Flight schedules, however, are being studied pending a final CAB decision, and the line hopes to begin service in September, the spokesman said. Among those praising the prospective Island service wer Nassau County Executive A. Holly Patterson, Chairman Norman 0. Klipp of the Suffolk Board of Supervisors, and Islip Supervisor Thomas A.

Harwoi-d. Harwood also disclosed that the CAB action will have no effect on service by Gateway Airlines from MacArthur Field, now scheduled to start June 25. Allefrhany officials said it's aircraft fteet comprises W-pas sengrer Condair turbo-prop eraft, 40-passengr Martins, and he industry's workhorses, the DC-3. ECiclnapiiig A case pf forgetf ulness caused an abduction scare yesterday. Mrs.

Margaret Jones, 29, of 114 Liberty reported that fi-month-old James Marshall, who wag being boarded at her home, disappeared from a carriage in front of the house while she was inside wtrminjr a bottle. an intensive search, police -contacted her husband, Isaiah, 31. Jones said he merely had forgotten to tell his wife that the mother, Willie Mae Marshall, had told him she would pick up the baby yester-terday. Police found the child with her. a neighborhood and limit it one and two-family, dwellings.

The Lincoln Civic Block Association sought the change to prevent the spread of slums to the area bounded roughly by St. John's Place, Lincoln Place, Brooklyn Ave. and Eastern Parkway. days from 6 A.M. to 8 p.m.

(3) Trimming of West End express service. In non-rush hours, trains will be short-stop ped at Chambers instead of going to 57th St They will go no farther than 36th Brooklyn, late at night and early in the morning-. (4 Curtailment of Brighton local service on Saturdays. Trains will run between Stiliwell and Franklin Aves. only, instead cf providing day-long service between Coney Island and Chambers St.

Some Brighter News A spokesman for the authority said these and the other changes were to "tailor the service to the traffic, for the sake of reliability." Fewer delays are expected, and "in the long run, everybody will be better satisfied," he said. The "broad revamping to speed the service," undertaken after a year's "intensive study," also includedon the brighter side: (1) A transfer point between the Ninth Sfc-BMT and the Fourth stations. (2) An increased number of trains on the West End-Nassau line. Trains will operate to Chambers St- via tunnel in borth directions, instead of using Manhattan Bridge ne way. 'i) Additional cars on Sea Beach trains, so that all will lave eight cars.

The schedules of Brighton and Fourth Ave. rush-hour "specials" were changed only slightly. Open Industry Park Canvass Commissioner J. Clarence its, of the department of real estate, disclosed yesterday that the city has begun to canvass in-tl us trial firms f6r possible occupants of its first industrial ark, to be located in a 100-acre tract in the Flatlands section of Lrooklyn. The urban renewal board, of which Davies is a member, has until October to present to the Hoard of Estimate for approval a plan for the use of the area.

Commissioner Davies disclosed that more than a dozen inquiries; had been received, mcludinif one from a major bakery expressing interest in 20 acres and another from a wholesale food distributor who wanted three acres. Davis said also that a choice is to be made soon from among five top-flight engineering fhms which will -be designated to prepare plans for the best use of the ereag-e, which is adjacent to the Welt Parkway, the Bay Ridpre division of the Long Island Rail Kad, and a station on the Ca-rarsie line of the BMT subway. i ueens Plaza's El of an Eyesore May 60 at Last Another piece of red tape was cut yesterday toward ridding Queensboro Plaza of an unsightly section of elevated rail structure which has been out of use 11 years. Sw- v-s L- Nvs. The City Planning; 'Commis sion approved the Transit Authority's request that the city "accept its surrender" of the old installation.

If the Board of Estimate goes along with the planning city engineers can and probably will recommend the demolition job. To be razed are pillars and track-bel the tracks have long! since been removed of the abandoned BMf link from the Queens, borougrh Bridge end of the Queensboro Plaza station to Jackson a distance of about three blocks. For years, the columns have impeded and endangered motorists in the congested Lonp Island City area. The plan board also took steps toward a new school in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant area. It recommended that a site for Public School 305 be obtained in a six-block area bounded by Gates, Tompkins, Putnam and Nostrand Aves.

In another Brooklyn action, the board granted the request of a homeowners' group re-zone A maze of rails in Queensboro Plaza. One section of structure which has been out of use for 11 years is slated for demolition..

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