Daily News from New York, New York • 74

DAILY NEWS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1965 3B Brooklyn Queens Long Island 5 1 imiii XKIVS fr.tos hy Pin At Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, Air National Guardsmen in the 106th Air Grouu Drenare to fprrv mnr thun tnnc Flying on Holiday Wings. men in Vier Xam in an operation ra'ifd "Phritmas Star (1.. to R1 fol RavmnnH Mover onl Qrro i i uiiu tlllliaill liWC itilU I otoil VOrK inside the cabin of the plane securing the Ixixes of pifts. Presents were to demonstrate support for this country's effort in Viet Nam. LIBRARY BOOKING $2.8 MILLION PLAN My EI.INOR GREENE 400 More Cops, on Foot Wheels, To Join War on Crime in Borough Bv GROVER RYDER i entral he dquarters of the Brooklyn Tublic Library Police patrols in Brooklyn are to be beefed up with about 400 additional men.

ac- s-vstem at Invrersoi: on Grand Army Plaza, cording to announcement yesterday by Br rough President Abe Stark. He said residents haye been more protection. is making extensive expansion and modernization plans to provide greater stiviccs patrons there and users of its 54 branches throughout the 1. rough. Drawings and specifications for' -) or.i i-- -n "The petitions.

letters and telephone messages I continue to receie leae no doubt whatever that deep-seated fear persists." paid. "3Ianv of our residents are frightened at the thought of having- to venture out at nigrht. It is especially sad that such fear keeps thousands of our people from at-tending- evening religious services. Adults Start A Chorus A Plainview-Old Bethpage mmunity chorus leing organized by the adult education office and the district mu5c department of the Plain-view-Old Bethpage central school district. George Hutchison will be the conductor.

-n January, rehearsals will be held Nfonday nights, under the tentative plan. i1 ration of the entire Brooklyn system. To Cafeteria me project win re completed early in The plans for extensive changes and additions at the Building are beintr prepared by Francis Keally and Frederick Frost Jr. and Associates, associated architects. Actual construction work and modernization of the building interior will be spread over many months.

Work will be done in phases, carefully coordinated so all services for patrons can continue uninterrupted. More Space Needed "Since opening of the Inger-soll Building in 1941, many new services have been added, and demand for some existing ones hs Thev uant Srurit want It.e Str. -ur- lty which ci mf tn the increased as much as twentv- adjoinm luntr for employes will be mod IXKH (i.In t.y 1'aniii dfrfVi More patrol cars, more scooter patrols will be assigned to HrookUn. el nized and expanded. fold, said John A Humphrey, chief librarian.

"Now we are really feeling the need for more space." To expand library services At the Ingersoll Building, a two-story extension will be built between the structure's two wings. A one-storv addition the will bn 4 sistant chief inspector command-. lirooklyn Soutn. and John yne, i-hief assistant inspector o. North.

Stark said he had asked for the conference because of "continuing man on the hfat an i knowinjf they are safe hrri they want tu do me sh.ppinr rr i sm-ialize a little, for example Yy f.n the block going to a riiehbji hood movie in the evenir.p." Stark Police r.jn.T.i--ioner Vincent L. Bnjeriik informed him the stepped-up rro-tection will represent a 30'. escalation in a six-month period and "has been brought a'r-out by the availability of increased manpower and additional motorized equipment." Wliile terming the l-efed-up protection Stark said: "However, we still face a clear duty to strenphten law enforcement much more and to speak lip in support of the department's refpiests for increased "budgetary Ppropriations to carry on its work more effectively Stark said that of the nearlv 40O additional police who will be assigned to street patrol duty a majority will be in "the man-on- p.eas made to him by civic and provide needed garage sercive An important phase of modernization of the Ingersoll Building will be hetter lighting and instal-lat ion of air conditioning throughout the building. "Attendance always falls off during hot weather at libraries which are not air conditioned, said Frederick G. Frost ardhitedt, "and staff morale alo suffers." An important improvement for library patrons throughout Brooklyn will be relocation of the book processing department.

Be- be provided with more manpower which the people can plainly see for themselves and which serves instantly as a deterrent to the criminal-minded elements," Stark said. "Specifically, I have placed myself on record and urged the recruitment and training of at least :.000 more members of the department." Stark said that he met with Commissioner Broderick and five of the department's top-ranking officials in a pre-Thanksgiving conference at Police Headquarters. Commissioner Broderick i owner un its main floor, the two-and elderly individuals, especial- story extension will provide a ly, for more police protection in a large new adult service area to numoer of Brooklyn areas." seat more readers. At present. Stark said that as an out- Sunday afternoon use of the li-jjrowth of the conference, Brod- brary often is so heavy that only erick plans an expansion of the provide needed garage service utrjjai community reia' tions policy by "invoking the co- I tween 400,000 and 500.000 new books annually are received at the Ingersoll Building, and from aids at the conference included operation of and establishing nispecwjr jonn r.

s.ian.ey. close liaison with the J. chief of ber Borough President's Commu-staff Philip J. Walsh, chief of nity District Planning Boards in detectives; Patrick Whalen. as- Brooklyn." New Phone Reference Room Planned for the first floor of the main building are a large new telephone reference room for readers calling in with questions and a speedier system of returning books to the stacks via a chute instead of the present book ifte beat category.

Army Area io Be Sold Round-the-Clork Patrols Additional details of the ex-landed police activity include: The General Services Administration is offering for uol.CTS on a sealed bid basis part of the former Brooklyn there most are sent out to the branch libraries. Will Expedite Work At present these volumes go to the third floor for processing and then back to the first floor loading onto trucks to go to the branches. The architects' plans call for expediting this work by concentrating in on the first floor. A new unloading platform will be added to the Flatbush Ave. wing, and books will be transferred from it into the new processing area by conveyer belts.

A new loading platform and garage f6r' branch trucks also will be built. 2. Assignment of 1 more one- rtuny lerminai, annur tinier, liSA regional adminis trator, announced trucks. A belated addition will be escalators at each side of the entrance hall. Second floor improvements will include an enlarged reading and research room for high school and college students, an area with 11 cubicles for research writers, and an expanded microfilm area.

Third floor plans provide for remodeling and rearranging the executive offices, which handle supervision, guidance and admin- nan cars in the near future. J. Assignment of six of the department's new tactical radio-equipped scooter patros which have been used previously on an experimental basis. "I have said not once, but many times, that the department must The offering consists of a parcel of 2.95 acres on the south side of 65th between Second and Fourth Brooklyn. The land is improved with a railroad right of way, which is depressed 25 to 35 feet below adjacent gracfe and contains one main track, merging into four lead tracks to terminal yards.

Bids will be opened at 2 30 P.M. Dec. 27 at the Business Service Center, Room 1900, GSA, 30 Church Manhattan..