Daily News from New York, New York • 85

DAILY NEWS, i MONDAY; NOVEMBER 16, 1965 COraflJHIABJL By DOMINICK PELUSO As sure as night follows day. the post-election hexfoe replaces the campaign pledge when most political can Bar i didates make the transition from office seeker to office holder. ia. nsfCrtni This Is a political truism which the town's voters nsnnllv after their election choice has assumed office. However, in the case of Mayor-elect John V.

Iindsay the taxpayers are getting th bad news even before his camDais-n promises nave had an opportunity to dim in the public's mind. Confronted with what he estimates is a $500 million gap in the 1966-67 budget, Lindsay is already conditioning the citizens to the fact that the city may face new taxes even without the implementation of any of his profuse campaign promises. Describing himself as a "receiver in bankruptcy," the 43-year-old Congressman now claims that the city's fiscal crisis is more serious than he believed during his battle for the City Hall seat. True, the Lindsay forces issued a white paper in the campaign entitled "From Fiscal Decay to Recovery (The Restoration of Fiscal Stability to New York City)." But in that same white paper Vt lUr charging that rew lorn was "in the throes of a serious financial crisis," he also pinpointed those areas where he said the city Milton Moll en OW Jram may com tmm should find funds to eliminate a budgetary gap next year. Wfcere He Expected fo Get fee Cat To avert the "brink of disaster" the Mayor-elect said he ex- Expressway will connect with Williamsburg Bridge (top) and Manhattan Bridge (top right).

pected to obtain dough from the following sources: 1. $300 million to $400 million annually by ridding the city of waste and duplication of services. 2. $100 million in additional federal aid each year. 3.

$274 million a year in further state aid to education. 4. $100 million annually by revitalizing the city's economy and thus increasing the flow of revenues into the treasury. These sources, of course, total more than the $500 million Lindsay says the city needs to balance the budget next year. But even the Lindsay people now concede that not much of this money can be obtained for the city's forthcoming bugetary needs.

In fact, Gov. Rockefeller has already anticipated Lindsay's demand for more state aid by pointing out that financial assistance from Albany has jumped since Rocky has taken office. All of this leaves John Lindsay with a pie-in-the-sky financial program which, though it produced some votes, will not generate much dough for the city budget For the taxpayer it presents a threat of increased taxes and a blueprint of broken promises. Mefen Said to Hove Imsida Track The talk around City Hall is that Milton Mollen, former Housing and Redevelopment Board chairman and John Lindsay's unsuccessful candidate for controller, will realize a long-standing dream after uild il-way Mow, Moses Urges Robert Moses, chairman of the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, warned yesterday that immediate construction of the lower Manhattan elevated expressway is imperative to offset mounting construction costs and weakening of the city economy. In a report cautioning against for construction of the ramp connections at Manhattan Bridge Plaza and is ready to proceed with preparation of final plans and specifications for contracts covering the construction of the expressway." Moses outlined the benefits of an elevated highway to the further delay, he said: "Further procrastination will result in economic waste, and increased construction costs and will seriously jeopardize labor and construction plans.

Estimate Now $104 Million "The estimated cost has risen since 1958, when it could have ties, increased industrial activity and a general rise in prosperity and morale. Tenant Relocation Discussing tenant relocation, Moses said his agency would cooperate by contributing $9 million to "facilitate relocation and to build modern housing for site tenants in the area south of the expressway and east of Centre St." Under this plan, apartments renting for $16 to $18 a room would be built for some 1,800 persons. I deteriorating area with its low been built for $80 milllion, to the present estimate Ox $104 million. abe part to neavy traffic clog. Noting that Mayor Wagner had ging the streets, signed the required authorization i He said the improvement would in June, Moses added: I enable the local community to "The State Department of develop normally with improved Public Works has received bids I housing and recreactional facili Water Is Hp, But Boat (heer By WILLIAM RICB For the first time since last winter's upstate runoff failed to replenish the city's reservoirs, New York yesterday had more water in storage than on the same date last Jan.

1 when Lindsay takes office. It is reported that Mollen will become deputy mayor in City Hall, replacing Edward F. Cavanagh Jr. in the poet. With the Democrats again in the minority in the State Senate as a result of the election, look for another Albany donnybrook in their ranks over the minority leadership.

Queens Democratic State Sen. Jack Bronston, unsuccessful candidate for the majority leader's post when the Democrats controlled the Senate, plans to renew his bid for Democratic leadership in the upper house this time the minority spot. Bronston, who was backed by the forces aligned with Sen. Robert F. Kennedy when he sought the majority leadership, will contest Sen.

Joseph Zaretzki's claim to the job. Zaretzki, who hails from Manhattan, is now the majority leader and hopes to return to his old spot, in which he sarved until the Democrats got lucky and became the majority. The efficiency of New York's civil defense apparatus Is seriously doubted by many City Halters who were trapped in the historic building during last week's famous blackout Soon after the citywide power shutoff, city employes went searching for the civil defense survival kit which is supposed to be in public buildings, hoping to find candles to provide light Despite a basement-to-attic hunt, there was no sign of survival kit. However, candles were finally obtained from decorative candle-abra in the mayor's office. New Mayor for Saratoga Springs SHORT TAKES: James A.

Murphy, chief clerk of the Department of Marine and Aviation, is accepting congratulations on the election of his son, Jim as mayor of Saratoga Springs. The new mayor is son-in-law to upstate Rep. Carleton J. King. In case a lot of veteran police reporters are not feeling their ages, they are here reminded that one of the colleagues of their youth.

Irving Tillis, once with the old Brooklyn Eagle and now vice president and general manager of the Diplomat Hotel at Hollywood, has just become a grandfather. Grandson, a 6-po under, was born to his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Larry Tillis, White Plains. Julius C. C.

Edelstein, Mayor Wagner's executive assistant is under consideration for an academic post in urban atodies at CCNY. BNai B'rith Lodge 2100, composed of newspaper workers, has picked Mayor Wagner, Theodore Kneel and mayoral labor aid Morris Tarshis as their "men of the year" for mediating the recent newspaper strike and shutdown. Awards will be made at the lodge's 10th anniversary dinner April 10 at the Commodore. Harry CDonnell, public relations chief in Mayor-elect John V. Lindsay's successful campaign, returns to his post as Republican State Committee publicity boss after turning down a Lindsay offer of City Hall press spot year.

The supply stood at 167 billion gallons, or 35o of capacity. On Nov. 14, 1964, the reservoirs had 300 million gallons less and were Hudson River Basin Commission and the hundreds of independent local water agencies both municipal and private, in the metropolitan area." The rejection of the proposed $40 million Rondout Bypass tunnel, which it condemned as "being largely useless construction and an undesirable further concentration on the Delaware River source that has proven to be undefendable in the current water emergency." It called for the use of available funds for the elimination of leakage and waste in the distribution system and development of the Hudson River as a source. Overhaul of the city's water financing policy. tion of a Hudson River Basin commission to oversee development of a Hudson Raver water supply.

The report stated that the water problem is "clearly one of inadequate storage and distribution facilities resulting in temporary and local shortages, rather than lack of total available supply." The report also suggested: The creation of a consolidated, self-supporting water department In place of the city's Board of Water Supply and the Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity. The creation of a metropolitan agency responsible for overall studies dealing "with the relations between the Delaware River Basin Commission, the proposed at 34.9 of capacity. Despite this apparently bright spot in the city's long drout, Water Commissioner Armand D'Angelo warned that we have a long way to go before water restrictions can be lifted. Department engineers consider the normal supply for Nov. 14 to be 323.7 billion gallons, or 67.9 of capacity.

Budget Group Reports On another front in the battle to provide the city with enough water, the Citizens Budget Commission yesterday released a 50-page report which asked forma.