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DAILY NEWS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1965 A New Look for Grade Mansion wA4 SET ArTTrfffll v. n. By TED LEWIS Washington, Jan. 11 For the first time in 20 years, Congress is showing distinct signs of moving toward a sweeping streamlining of legislative machinery so it can do a better job with the mammoth problems it annually faces. Already 54 of the 100 Senators are listed as co-sponsors of resolution to establish a joint Congressional reorganization committee.

Similarly, majority support is assured in the House. This all means that before this session is over, the reorganization effort will get under way, and before the 1966 elections come around, Congress will have done a facelifting job on its tired old image. It is high time there was a significant move in this direction. Until it happens, such present early Congressional adjournment predictions as that of Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mans Artist's drawing of Gracie Mansion with proposed wing at right. field are political hashish.

Nobody tion. Off the room would be an in the know takes seriously Mansfield's estimate that this first session of the 89th Congress should be in shape to go home by Aug. 1. The legislators know they be known as the Susan Wagner Room in honor of the Mayor's late wife. Peter Grimm, president of the committee, said the wing was "in the mind first of Mrs.

Wagner. She suffered so much discomfiture and inconvenience" in entertaining the mansion's many visitors. The Susan Wagner room would be large enough to accommodate 50 dinner guests and about 150 persons at a recep- will be lucky if they finish their required chores by Labor Day. A open terrace, facing the park, that would accommodate 150 guests. The basement would contain a conference room for 30, offices for the Mayor and a secretary, coat rooms and lavatories, and TV and radio outlets to enable the Mayor to broadcast directly from the mansion.

Mott Schmidt will be the architect. more solid quitting date would be Oct. 1. If there is any question as to how the cumbersome, obsolete legislative machinery operates, it should be recalled that the 88th Congress did not adjourn until Sen. Milt Mansfield Him prediction im JmmbtmJ Oct.

23, less than two weeks before the election. And in 1963. -Ti Tn i it did not adjourn until Dec. 30, less than a week before it reconvened for its second session. The present state of the new Congress is a glaring example Plans for a $700,000 wing for Gracie Mansion first major renovation in its 165-year history were formally announced yesterday by the Committee for Gracie Mansion.

Officials said the money will be raised through contributions, with "somewhat more" than $400,000 already pledged. A feature of the one-story wing, which will be at the rear of the mansion in Carl Schurz Tark, will be the main hall, to Foiled in Try To Stop Fatal Bridge Jump Tracy S. Voorhees, 70, retired attorney, onetime undersecretary of the Army, Rutgers University trustee and frequent public servant, tried hard yesterday to prevent a young man from leaping to his death from Brooklyn Bridge, but lost. To keep trim, Voorhees often walks across the bridge from his home at 184 Columbia Heights. of the need of reforms, in the opinion of Sen.

A. S. Mike Monroney who has sparked the 1965 reorganization drive. Co-AKtbored fke Acf Wifft LoFolltH He points out that here is a week-old Congress raring to go and "bright-eyed and full of vim and vigor." But because of the creaky-legislative processes, it will be March 1 at the earliest before either House or Senate acts on any item of significance in the Presi dent's big Great Society legislative package. What Monroney has in mind in the way of reorganization Is important because he and the late Sen.

Robert LaFollette were coauthors of the 1945 Reorganization Act. That act constituted the first major reorganization in 60 years. He wants, for example, consideration eiven to a system whereby Congress would act on appropriation bills on a two-year, not one- year, basis. This would permit Congress to have one session for voting money to carry the $100-billion-plus requiement of the federal establishment, and another session to concentrate on other legislation. At the same time there is a corollary suggestion that Congres Brooklyn to lower Manhat sional committees meet while Congress is in recess so that Congress will have bills to consider immediately after it reconvenes.

As Monroney points out. Congress today definitely lacks the proper tools for facing trp to its greatest problem that of dealing with the federal budget of $100 billion or more. CPI Tetefoto Surgeon General Luther Terry and Sen. Maurine Neuberger discusses campaign to emphasize danger of smoking. U.S.

Reports a 2 to 7 Cigaret Smoking Prop As Ancient as Quill Pen High Stool "We are literally." he said, "attempting to run a business 10 tan. On the return leg of such a jaunt yesterday, Voorhees came upon Vernon Venny, 22, of 1 0 98 Union Bronx, perched on the outside bridge rail near the times as large as the Santa Fe Railroad and General Motors combined with machinery as obsolete as a quill pen, a slanting bookkeeper's desk and an old-fashioned high stool." In a speech urging the Senate to support the reorganization move, Monroney subtly reminded his colleagues that the image the public has of Congress is of fuddy-duddy legislators more interested in sticking to archaic traditions than in efficient, intelligent legisla Tracy 3. Brooklyn Voorheea Tower, poised By MICHAEL O'NEILL Washington, Jan. 11 (NEWS Bureau) Surgeon General Luther L. Terry announced today that a nationwide survey showed a 2 to 7 drop in cigaret smoking among Americans since the spotlight was put on tobacco health hazards.

He called this trend "encouraging More importantly, the Public "report to the nation," that the to jump. Using the persuasion which served him so well in a variety of chores for the government in national and international spheral, Voorhees talked Venny into returning to the footpath. But an instant later Venny vaulted the rail into the river. A tug, the Crol Moran, picked Venny up. He was tranfe red, alive, to a Coast Guard cutter, and the crew applied artificial resuscitation on the trip to the Battery.

But Venny was dead by the time an ambulance arrived. Health Service chief said, the study reveals that millions of time "is surely ripe to launch truly national effort that will convince people of the dangers of cigaret smoking." The surgeon general was un smokers have become "uneasy" about the cigaret-cancer link. They are "ready to be fully convinced that the time has come to change their smoking habits," Terry said. In view of this, he declared in a tive action. "Thousands upon thousands of capitol visitors," he remarked, "have been puzzled when they visit the galleries to hear a debate on a tax bill that has been widely publicized throughout the land, but instead find one or two lonely members on the floor discussing something entirely different say perhaps an amendment of the fishing laws for the District of Columbia." He thought it might help improve the Congressional image and certainly shorten the length of a Congressional sessionif both House and Senate went on a five-day work week, abandoning the present Tuesday-to-Thursday three-day schedule for meetings of the legislative bodies.

Some of the minor changes that Monroney and the co-sponsors of his reorganization resolution are anxious to put into effect are intriguing because they touch on Congressional prerogatives which many legislators value more than their own public image. A Fee or the Privilege of Viewing Congress One such suggestion is that the guides in the Capitol he put under civil service. As Monroney has dared to point out, "This is the only Capitol in the world where the people who bear the expenses of running the government are charged a 25-cent fee for the privilege of viewing the operation of the people's branch of the government, which is the Congress." There are other patronage plum areas which are going to come under close scrutiny during the upcoming reorganization study. An effort, for example, can be expected to end the present able, however, to spell out any Administration plans for a large-scale program beyond a modest, month-old request for $1.9 million to set up a national clearinghouse for smoking information. Should Cancel Ads Tipsy Driver Given Term For Uncorking His Fifth Today's progress report was issued in conjunction with a two-day meeting here of the National Ezekiel Vance, 60, a construe- Brooklyn, was arrested last sum- mer near his home by a cop who authority of Congressmen and Senators to appoint certain post masters and candidates for the military academies, and to turn over to the executive branch for action the settlement of various individual immigration or claims applications which Congress now iion worker, was sentenced yesterday in Brooklyn Supreme Court to 1 to 4 years in Sing Sing on his fifth fall as a drunk driver.

man should have been deprived of his privilege to drive after his second conviction." said Justice David L. Malbin. "It's just aa dangerous to give him a revolver to shoot down people in the street as it was to give him license." Vance, of 172 Sumpter has to consider in the form of "private bills." Inter-Agency Council on Smoking and Health. Emerson Foote, famed former advertising executive and chairman of the council, told the conference that the tobacco industry should voluntarily suspend cigaret advertising. Foote said it was virtually certain that at least 125,000 and possibly as many as 300,000 deaths a year were caused by smoking.

He termed either figure a "national catastrophe." testified that, on opening the door, "he fell out of the car." He was found guilty by a jury in October. Malbin sentenced him as a felony offender because of his previous convictions for drunk driving. In 1951, Vance got 30 days or $100. Four years later, he got a suspended 30-day sentence. In 1956, he received a l-to-4-year term, and in 1961 he got a suspended l-to-2-year sentence.

There Is slight argument that Congress, especially In the last few years, moves most ponderously its wonders to perform. Stream- lining it is certainly going to cost money. On the other hand the legislative branch is certainly worth more than the federal Fish and; Wildlife Service, which costs the taxpayers $110 million a year while Congress now operates on $89 million..