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NEWS BROOKLYN For Daily Home Delivery Call 458-0320 DAILY NEWS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1970 15 lei-Stay AM Cyfis Blasted i. fo) 3 andiciages By DONALD FLYNN Candidates to administer the Bedford-Stuyvesant antipoverty program yesterday protested unanimously against announced cuts in federal aid to community action pro i grams. I -4 i -'I NEWS photo by Nick Sorrentino Ribbon-rutting ceremony takes place at Kings Flaza shopping center. L. to r.

are Ruth L. Farkas. director of Alexander's. Brooklyn's interim Borough President Sebastian Leone, and David Yunich, president of Macy's. Kings Plaza Opens Nestor Llamas Nat Cooper he said.

"This has got to be changed or there's going to be trouble in this country. Llamas said he has sent telegrams of protest to Nixon, and that the Council Against Poverty is organizing a protest trip to Washington. "Congress the people of Middle America are not interested in poverty programs, he said. Charles Cunningham, of 1240 Pacific said: "I have seen my people being destroyed, eroded away. My contention is to light for the survival of humanity in Bedford-Stuyvesant to fight to the bitter end." The Youth In Action corporation supervises 20 community programs and has a budget of fi million or 10r; of the New York Citv poverty budget of $60 million.

Of that SCO million, the city provides $15 million and the Office of Economic Opportunity S45 million. Gathered at the Overseas Press Club, 54 W. 40th Manhattan, candidates for the election next Saturday complained that a $1.9 million budget slasb by the Nixon administration would "cut the heart" out of the program. Five areas of Bedford-Stuyvesant will elect three directors each to the Bedford-Stuyvesant Youth In Action Community Corporation, which has 52 members. It administers million in federal antipoverty funds, and i the nation's largest community action program.

Candidate Nat Cooper, of 110? Fulton declared: "The peopU of Bedford-Stuyvesant are not going to stand for this cut. Wc are talking nice. The nextpeoplr won't talk sc nice. Even, we are ready to stop traffic on tht Brooklyn Bridge." "We are not militants," added Sylvester Williams, "but if yor I 1th a 'RoyalToudi cut out community action, you'll see militants in Bedford-Stuyvesant." Nestor Llamas, deputy commissioner of the Community Development Agency, the city agency that oversees poverty programs, charged that "there is a conspiracy to cut out community action." "This country, generally speaking, is not committed to ending By HUGH WYATT After five years of planning and construction, Kings Plaza opened yesterday. Even at the ceremonies at 10 Student Cut Puttin LEU in let! Lighter Side For Av enue In an effort to brighten up Snyder seven additional street lights will be installed on the avenue between Ralph Ave.

and Kings Highway, the Brooklyn borough president's office has announced. By JOSEPH KIERNAN of Long Island University will be $1.5 million in the red iversity's open enrollment program has lured students who The Brooklyn Center this year because the eity ur ed LIU, Daniel Tyson, director of admissions for the Brook otherwise might have attend lyn Center, announced yest fday. a.m., carpenters were still hammering' away nearby putting on the finishing touches of a plaza whose architecture is enhanced with broad inner courts and mails, modernistic fountains, sculptures and numerous sitting areas. Big Population The plaza, at 5100 Kings Plaza (Flatbush Ave. and Avenue U), was designed to emphasize a cultural renaissance in Brooklyn.

It has been estimated that more than a million people live within ten minutes of the plaza, and another two million live within 20 minutes. Present at the ceremonies were Brooklyn's new interim borough president, Sebastian Leone; State Attorney General Louis J. Lefkowitz; David Yunich, president of Macy's; Rnth L. Farkas, director of Alexander's (both stores are part of the complex), Robert S. Solomon, the plaza's manager.

Continue Protest Outside, two blocks away, about 20 mothers continued their dents will be held Monday and Tuesday. Members of the student council and upper classmen will talk to the newcomers in the humanities-social science center on the downtown Brooklyn campus, Flatbush Ave. Extension and DeKalb Ave. On Wednesday, a dance and social for all new students will be held at 6 p.m. in the commuter cafeteria.

Classes begin on Thursday for the 1,000 day students, plus about 400 evening students and 500 graduate students. protests, charging that "the plaza had created dangerous traffic conditions. Peacefully and quietly, they blocked off E. 55th between Avenues and U. Since many of the mothers have a large number of children, they are asking for signs which will direct traffic along Flatbush instead of along the small residential streets.

The 23-acre plaza, which has a climate-control system maintaining a constant temperature of 72 degrees all year, will have 110 specialty stores and services. Although expecting 1,800 new and transfer students, the Brooklyn Center has processed onl; 1.050 new entrants, Tyson said The center depends almost entirely on student tuitions to support itself. "Unless we can get massive state aid, I can't see a place like LIU competing successfully any more," Tyson said. According to Tyson the biggesl decline has been with new students who live in the city. "We don't anticipate any decline in our dormitory students," Tyson said.

"But well have tc wait until next week to get a final figure." Registration continues through next week, with classes beginning Sept. 17. Brooklyn Center President Alexander Aldrich predicted in a newsletter sent to alumni last month that open enrollment would bring about a 25 drop in new students. "That prediction has come true," Tyson said yesterday. Despite the decline, however, orientation programs for about 1,000 freshmen and transfer stu Leaded Paint Still Big Threat Slum Youngsters By POLLY KLINE Hesitantly and with fear in her heart fear that she was perhaps too late a young Brooklyn mother led her 3-year-old boy into the Red Hook Gowanus district health center one day last week.

The center, at 250 Baltic was conducting one of its free clinics for detecting what has come to be recognized as a dangerous threat to slum children lead poisoning. Toddlers by the thousands have contracted the wasting illness by nibbling bits of old lead paint that have flaked from the walls and ceilings in their crumbling tenement homes. Mothers may have good cause to fear the poisoning, which at first shows symptoms only of a slight cold. But it can progress to anemia, Free Tests Sunday Children living in Brooklyn's Park Slope area, between Union and Sixth Sts. and Fourth and Eighth Aves, will receive tests for lead poisoning tomorrow from 9:30 a.m.

to 2:30 p.m. Under the program sponsored by the Health Department's bureau of lead poisoning control, doctors will take the needed samples of blood from the youngsters in their homes or at Methodist Hospital, 506 Sixth St. A similar testing effort Aug. 15 uncovered 12 cases of youngiters with "dangerously high" levels of led, out of 180 tested. convulsions, damage to the central nervous system, and death.

Free Clinics During Week In line with a new citywide drive, the Red Hook center is holding the free clinics weekdays from 9 to 11:30 a.m. and-from 12:30 to 3 p.m. Youngsters 1 to 6 are given blood tests at a rate of 100 to 150 a week. In one section of the health district, along grimy, crumbling Columbia St. between Hamilton and Atlantic four cases of poisoning were discovered in the last four months.

A special campaign to combat the hazard in that neighborhood has been started by the Young Puerto Ricans. This local group went through the area, trying to make tenement dwellers aware of the danger and making appointments for youngsters' checkups. Their drive will culminate Tuesday, when free tests will be given from 4:30 to 9 p.m. at the group's headquarters, 191 Columbia St. Paint Banned by Law The Health Department center does not stop at seeking out cases of lead poisoning, according to Barry Weisman, the district health educator.

Parents are instructed to take a child suspected of having a "significantly high" level of lead to the hospital and a public heath nurse makes sure this is done. Inspectors take samples of the old paint suspected of causing the trouble and order the lord to remove it xtf board it over. Interior, paint containing more than 1 lead Is banned but some is stilt foundjn old buildings. I. 0 iii i in.

ii i NEWS photo by Leroy Jakob Robert Quvus, 2, geta set for a lead poisoning lest by Estell Longston (r.) clinical technologist, and Virginia Brown at health tenter, 250 Baltic St, Brooklyn..