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DAILY NEWS, THURSDAY NOVEMBER 2, 19G7 on ocky IPussSises lows or Transit 4 afrS "-V- Iiy RICHARD MATIIIEU That Jace across the car looked very familiar to the subway straphangers yesterday. Yet somehow it didn't seem to belong with them, all packed up in car 8406 of the Coney Island BMT heading down to 42d St. Nor to those who rode the shuttle from Times Square to Grand Central. Recognition came within a few seconds for most. The face belonged to millionaire Gov.

Nelson A. Rockfeller and Rocky was doing what conies naturally campaigning. He was taking his pitch for the $2.5 billion mass transportation bond issue to the people it affects the most. The riders on car 8400 responded to Rocky with promises to vote yes next Tuesday on the transportation issue. riJ r.

One unidentified woman was by newsmen what she thought Rocky was doing in the subway. She replied: "He's running for President, of course." She left the car before Rocky got a chance to buttonhole her. He Has Doughnuts With Jam Rcky shook hands, signed autographs, ate doughnuts atv.l pretzels, more doughnuts, shook more hands, tolj everybody within earshot to vote "Yes" and created his own rush-hour crowd during the one-hour ride. The ride normally takes about 15 minutes, but with the governor aboard it was not a normal ride. The trip was his first on the subways since his reelection campaign last vear.

He started it bv walking two blacks from his office at 22 W. 55th St. to the BMT with a bevy of newsmen milling around. The trip was intended to dramatize the need for bet NEWS photo by Hal Mathewson Gov. Rockefeller chats with subway-riding schoolgirls.

One girl got a laugh saying: "There's Mayor Lindsay." could personally snafu the subway system using only his popularity. John Levy, who said he lives in the Sheepshead Bay area of Brooklyn and commutes daily, got Rocky's autograph on the crowded 42d St. platform. He thanked Rocky and said: "You should ride it about 5 p. m.p governor!" what the bond issue is for, to improve the (Continued on page 24, col.

3) he ter mus- transit facilities. Rocky proved one thing Ms B'kBm MwftBmm By JOSEPH KIERNAN A mother and four children died yesterday after a three-alarm fire, apparently triggered by cleaning fluid, raged through their three-story frame Architect's rendering of combined theater-office tower proposed for site of Hotel Astor. An ISOO-seat theater is shown over a shopping arcade and another arcade and another house would go below. mte mum Fog- Men TBneajSeirs Iiy ALFRED MIELE A plan to encourage the construction of new theaters in the Times Square area was approved yesterday by the City Planning Commission and sent on to the Board of Estimate for final approval. tenement in Brooklyn.

All five perished after an hour-long battle by a team of 25 doctors and 15 nurses in Wvckoff Heights Hospital. The victims were Mrs. Hannah Canty, 25; her children, Christopher, 13 months, and Keisha, 8 months, and a brother and a sister of her husband, Lorraine Canty, 10, and Derron Canty, 8. Hospital authorities said they died of burns and smoke inhalation in their home, 104 Cornelia between Bushwick and Evergreen Bushwick. Buildings Damaged The flames spread to 102 Cornelia, and smoke and water damage was inflicted on six other structures.

All eight are attached three-story frame buildings. James Canty, father of the two youngest children, was at work when the fire erupted at 10:32 a.m. According to fire officials, a woman was cleaning her first-floor living room at 104 Cornelia with steel wool and a solvent when the liquid flared into flame. Police said a heater was nearby. The fire raced up the stairwell, spurring a second alarm st 10:38 and a third at 10:43.

Throngs milling about hampered the arrival of some fire apparatus at the scene. Climbs a Ladder Using a ladder. Fireman Jerry Horton of Ladder 112 entered the blazing third-floor apartment by way of a hall window and got out Mrs. Canty. Fireman Joseph Gildea of Ladder 111 passed the four children out to firemen on the ladder.

Resuscitation efforts were begun on the ladder, continued in three ambulances, as all five were rushed to the hospital. The two youngest children were dead on arrival. Doctors and nurses worked on the other two and the mother for an hour before they were pronounced dead. Fireman Horton was treated at the hospital for face burns. Under the plan, builders who should not be given the extra space to use as they see fit, without considering the problems of traffic congestion and parking.

Under the proposal, the builder would be able to decide for himself how to use the extra floor space. Builders Spurn Theaters The reasoning behind the plan is that builders will not erect new theaters in the area historically known as the Theater District unless they are offered the bonus. "Land is so valuable in the area that it is not economically feasible to put up new theaters," said Planning Commission Char-man Donald H. Elliot. "Office space produces much more revenue than a theater." As a result of the proposal, two new theatres have been planned for construction one on the site of the Astor Hotel at 44th St.

and Broadway, and the (Continued on page 4, col. 1) put up buildings in a new special theater district would be given bonuses in the form of increased iloor space if they include a legitimate theater in the plans. The bonus would amount to 44 additional office floor space, either in additional building height or in additional width, above and beyond the amount of floor space allowable undir present building codes. Boundaries Are Drawn The new district would be bounded by 40th and 57th Sts. and Sixth and Eighth Aves.

Originally, an area 400 feet west of Eighth Ave. yas included, but the area wa3 removed from the plans "to enable more consultation with persons living there so that we can come up with a plan satisfactory to all." One dissenting vote was cast at yesterday's planning commission meeting. Commissioner Beverly Moss Spatt voted "No" on the ground that builders 2 NEWS photo by Benjamin Paolino Fireman walks roof parapet as he checks on fire at 102 Cornelia Brooklyn. A mother and four children died next door..