Daily News from New York, New York • 95

DAILY NEWS, FRIDAY, -NOVEMBER 20, 1964 c3 ftw few v. Si 'o. I i it fig) Jr (XEWS foto by Xick Sorrentlno) Workmen line up for their lunch (foto left) at Brooklyn Navy Yard then get together in cafeteria to discuss anouncement that the shipyard will be closed (above). Closing lo Cost 9,625 Jobs; Fort Jay Also Doomed By GERRY VAN DER HEUVEL Washington, Nov. 19 (NEWS Bureau) The Pentagon economy ax feli today on the Brooklyn Navy Yard and two other major defense installations in New York City.

The shipyard, Fort Jaj' on Governors Island and the Brooklyn Army Terminal were among the 95 establishments doomed by the department's drive to save close to $500 million annually. The Naval Training; Devices Center at Port Washington also Shocks llkkk By FRANK MAZZA and ARTHUR MULLIGAN Shock, dismay, disbelief and bitterness were expressed by local public officials from Mayor Warner on down yesterday with announcement of Defense Department plans to close the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the Brooklyn Army Terminal and Fort Jay on Governors Island. will be closed. W'ag-ner said he didn't believe T' that the decision on the part of Defense Secretary McN'amara City Loss Put At 114 Billion City Controller Abraham D. Beanie said yesterday that closing of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Closing of the shipyard alone will cost New York 9,625 jobs.

About 64,000 workers are involved nationally in the cuts announced by Defense Secretary McN'amara. An estimated $18.1 million a year, McN'amara said, would be saved by closing the Brooklyn Navy Yard alone. 1st Army to Move The 1st Army, now headquartered at Fort Jay will be moved to Fort Meade, where would cost local businessmen $1.25 billion and could damage the economy of the entire city. He said it would start a chain reaction which would bankrupt many small businesses in Brook-lyn and wipe out thousands of jobs outside the Navy yard. The NEW JISJ jjfjplli fllTj ylL BROOKLYN Defense Secretary McNa-mara, convinced President Johnson is solidly behind him, won't budge cm inch in his decision to close Brooklyn Navy Yard See Capitol Stuff.

Page 4. Controller Iteame resulting unemployment will increase welfare costs and the tax load on other business firms and taxpayers, he said. was final and said he would appeal the action to President Johnson and Congress. 'I refuse to consider Secretary McXamara's announcement as being: final," the Mayor said in a two-pa statement issued late yesterday at City Hall. "I consider it to be a tocsin of alarm, rather than a nail of doom." Statin; that he wished to have the decision reviewed, Wagner said that officials of the Defense Department would have to prove that the shutdowns were "consistent with the needs and requirements of the national defense and security, including that of New York." Other Considerations He said that considerations other than military ones were involved and would be brought to the attention of the President and Congress "as forcefully as I know how." He said that while he had high regard for McN'amara, he did not regard his judgment or that of the Defense Department "to be sacrosanct or beyond the possibility of error or unconscious prejudice." Also visibly upset at the news was Robert F.

Kennedy, who with Wagner and Sens. Keating and Javits had made a visit to Washington two weeks ago yesterday to confer on the matter with McN'amara. Calls for Committee Kennedy called for the creation of a committee of both public and private individuals to consider all aspects of the action. He said the Defense Department's decision "cannot be accepted on the basis of the limited evidence now available." "Such a committee could objectively valuata lotH.the mill- it will be consolidated with the 2d Army. McN'amara indicated that he intended to confer with Sen.

Jacob Javits and Sen-elect Robert Kennedy on whether to close the Brooklyn yard "in a relatively short time" six to nine months or in a period of about 18 months. No extension would go beyond two (NEWS Map by Staff Artist Ahlsent Brooklyn Navy Yard, Fort Jay and thm Brooklyn Army Terminal were ordered cloted by Defense Department. Remaining open are the Bayonne Naval Supply Depot and the Army Terminal at Cavea Point. N.J. tary needs and the other public costs and the final decision could then be accepted with the assurance that all factors had been carefully considered." What annoyed both Wagner and Kennedy as well as other public officials was that no one (Continued on pagu 8, col.

4) years, he said. McN'amara appeared at a crowded press conference accompanied by the Secretaries of A Na Yard. the Army, Navy and Air Force. His decisions, he said, "are absolutely, unequivocally irrevocable unless there is new evidence. "Chances of that," he added, "are damn small." "President Johnson fca3 laid on me an absolute requirement for economy and the elimination of waste and has told me he will accept any political pressure that results," the Secretary said.

Javits, nevertheless, did not give up hope that McNamara Missile Bases to Go Washington, Nov. 19 (AP) Fourteen Atlas and Titan missile bases, including the $170 million A tlas missile complex at Plattsburgh, N. are among the 95 military installations to be closed by the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Robert S. McN'amara announced today. The closings involve at least 130 liquid-fuel missiles located both above and below ground and deemed obsolete by the advent of Titan 2 and Minutemen missiles.

McN'amara estimated the total Airvone? Washington, Nov. 19 (News Bureau) The Defense Department intends to sell the Brooklyn Navy Yard after it has been closed down, hoping far community support in this action, officials said tonight. The Administration a 1 hopes to sell, at a tidy profit t9 taxpayers, the Fort Jay and Brooklyn Army Terminal lareas. i ti i i i i. ii ii annual savings in the shutdown of missile complexes at $117 million and a savjng in manpower of.

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