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Daily News from New York, New York • 6

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6C DAILY NEWS, FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1971 After a While You Lose Count I -f IT MlfHKl t' yi State Cbnnnnnission- Proposed to Curb Sarln Pensins lit 2 yf; -fH AttfiBlBj ffcirif -i 2d-' Uy THOMAS POSTER StaTf Correspondent of The News Albany, March 25 The wide disparity in pension systems for the million public employes in the state is so "confusing and complex" that they should be centralized and controlled by a new state pension system, State Sen. John J. Flynn (R-Yonkers) declared today. Flj-nn, who is chairman of the Senate Committee on Tensions and Civil Service and as former mayor of Yon leers, asked State Controller Arthur Levitt and legislative leaders to create a state pension commission to take over all of the various police, fire, teacher and other civil service Associated Press Wirephoto Just one big happy family are the Hund and Ebert families as they gather around the kitchen table in Onaga, Kan. Mrs.

Patricia Ebert plans to marry David Hund, Paxico, May 3 with the family total growing to 25 at that time if Hnd doesn't get cold feet. From left, are Eberts, Greg, Maureen, Shawn. Kevin, Hal, Eddie, Jerrjv Louiss and Mrs. Ebert. Following Hund clockwise are Tim Hund, holding Janet, Mary Ann.

Annette, foe, Alan, Tom, Teresa, Matthew, Patrick and Loren. Four of the Ebert children were not present. Cooke Firm on Closing Ch retirements systems. "There has got to be central control, otherwise the soaring costs and constant changes and Improvements will get us into deeper trouble than we're in now, if that is possible." Flynn paid Levitt wa3 "favor ably impressed' with the pro posal. The plan will be presented to a joint legislative committee on pensions beaded by State Sen.

Theodore Day R-Interlaken) that will investigate whether pension The Archdiocese of New York is "legally and morally empowered to close St. Sebastian's Church regardless of the objections of parishioners, a spokesman for Cardinal Cooke said yesterday. "No parish belongs to the parishioners; it belongs to the archdiocese," said Msgr. Francis Cos-tello. "The Catholic Church is a corporation, and Cardinal Cooke is president of the corporation.

The church is not a democracy, as a lot of people think. It's a hierarchy." Council io Press Fight in Court The parish council of St Sebastian's, 310 E. 24th has declared its intention to get a court Open Policy Boosts Prosh At City U. 35 The City University's freshman class has increased by about 35 since competitive requirements were scrapped to make way for open admissions last September. Dean Lester Brailey said yesterday at a conference at the Commodore Hotel that 35,000 freshmen were admitted to the 18 colleges of the university, compared with 26,000 who otherwise would have been admitted.

However, despite reports that a large majority of the students were from minority groups, deputy Chancellor Seymour Hy-man said the "less than 50 of the students are black." He explained that this was due to the great number of black dropouts from the city's high schools. Cites 1967 Figures According to Hyman, an esti in the process of selecting an attorney to press its case in court, Rosillo said. Asked if the archdiocese was prepared to meet a threatned legal challenge to its authority to shut down St. Sebastian's, Costello replied: "I don't know. I imagine so." Franciscan Friars Due to Leave Of particular annoyance to St.

Sebastian's parishioners is the fact that many of them would be absorbed by the Church of the Epiphany, 22d St. and Second Ave. They contend that St. Sebastian's was built after Italian immigrants were made unwelcome at Epiphany because of their different language and customs. Costello said that regardless of any court action, the Franciscan friars who serve St.

Sebastian's will be gone by March 31. Affection for the friars has been a primary motivation for fighting the shutdown, Rosillo had said. St. Sebastian's will remain open beyond March 31 as an Epiphany chapel "until the people there decide where they want to go," Costello said. He said that a primary reason for closing the church was that it was sapping the strength of Epiphany, Scapular and St.

Stephens. order enjoining the shutdown of their church, which Cooke has ordered closed as of March 31. The church was built in 1917 to serve Italian immigrants and is now primarily a Spanish-speaking parish. Informed vesterdav of Costello's statements. Jose Kosillo, a resident of Peter Cooper Village and president of the parish council, said: "We Zmit -tsp-' lyr" win still fight for our church!" The council is imv in mated 6.7 of the college's in ax an ia eel Let na coming freshmen were black and 4 Puerto Rican in 1967.

However, under open admis By EDWARD O'NEILL Mayor Lindsay and his proposed $880 million "survival" tax package came under fire from the Citizens Budget Commission yesterday. In its sharpest attack on Lindsay since he took office In 1966, the commission characterized the new tax package as a 'grave danger to the city's economy and to its very survival." sions, the figures were 13.7o black and 5.9 Puerto Rican, and of approximately 80,000 graduates of the college last year, lb were black and about 10 Puerto Rican. The three-day conference, John W. Larsen, president of I I the nonpartisan group, said called to take "a hard look" at the first year of open admissions, U.S. Budget Deficit Rises "There is a grave doubt that taxpayers business and individuals alike can survive this combina was criticized bv one educator who claimed that only 50 black students bad.

been admitted to Queens College under the pro tion of high taxes, poor services and low productivity." gram. The keynote speaker, Melvin Sees City Saddled The key to the mayor's fiscal problem, the commission charged. plied rap at the city for having reportedly paid consultants $160,000 to formulate the tax package, Larsen, who is president of the Bowery Savings Bank, said the package "seems to have been designed and assembled by management consultants with heavy reliance on computer print-outs." Larsen further "The city is not only seeking to tax residents beyond their ability to pay but has neglected to say what the money would be used for." At present, he concluded, "the public and the legislators have been asked to buy a pig in a poke." Taylor, principal at Benjamin Franklin HS. warned the 350 lies in "the astonishing mistakes made by the city representatives educators and administrators present against what he called Washington, March 25 (Special For the fifth consecutive month the federal budget ran in the red. The February deficit was $1,417 billion, the Treasury reported today, compared to a $1,341 billion in January.

There was a $43 million surplus in February, 1970. For the first eight months of the fiscal year, the deficit totals $19,379 billion vs. $8,152 billion a year ago. the university's efforts "to change students." two years ago settling disputes with policemen and police sergeants." That settlement, the organiza He said remedial programs now in use at the university "are often nothing more than a repeat of the same techniques which failed the students before." tion declared, "Saddled the city liabilities aggregating hundreds of millions of dollars." In an im Stale Sen. J.

J. Flynn Call control unit only anwr nyslems rbould be taken out of collective bargaining and put under the control of a state commission. I ay said bis committee will tart meeting late next month. He doubted that new legislation or recommendations could be drafted for action by the present legislature. Other Hills Stalled Meanwhile, Flynn said, about 250 pension bills are being bottled up in the Legislature because Senate Majority Leader Earl tV.

Itrydges (R-Niagara) has declared that he will not move any pension bills until Day comes up with a report. The Llrydges moratorium has no effect on a bill presented by Mayor Lindsay yesterday to implement a 20-year half-pay retirement plan worked out in November for 121,000 city employes who are members of District Council 37, American Federation of State. County and Municipal Employes Union. "The whole idea of this moratorium, Flynn said, "is to let the negotiators in New York City know that we're all seriously concerned that whatever agreements they work out on pensions will have an affect on the police, firemen and sanitation workers pen-nion benefits around the state. Now if a policeman gets a new benefit in New York City, then the policeman in Yonkers and in Buffalo and every other town cross the state demands the same improvement in his retirement plan." Cops Nab 3 md 3 In WiQffl I reasures By WILLIAM FEDERICI Three persons described as couriers and receivers of stolen irt treasures for an international theft ring were held in $100,000 bail each yesterday after a raid on a plush Manhattan apartment at 27 V.

55th St Police said they recovered $250,000 worth of sterling silver treasures and an original copy of Charles Dickens' "Pickwick Papers" in the raid. It followed giving evidence of trips to many parts of the world. One of those arrested, Vojialav Stanimirovc, 34, a Yugoslav artist who came here in 1962, was described by police as the leader of the operation here. Arrested with him was his wife, Branka, 22, and Alexander Karlanovic, 31, a taxi driver. Besides charges of criminal possession of stolen property, Stanimirovc also was charged with possession of a gun allegedly found in a desk drawer in the four-room apartment.

silver from a Miami museum on Monday. But experts ruled this out. Found in Luggage Descriptions of the recovered stolen treasures were sent to police throughout the country yesterday in the hope of finding the owners. The treasures were found in eight pieces of luggage with tags several months of investigation tial information describing them as receiving stolen art treasures from all parts of the country and selling them in Europe and South America. The cops moved in yesterday on information that the three had just received a fresh shipment.

At first, cops thought they had found part of a haul of priceless by safe and loft detectives com manded by Capt. Thomas The suspects had been under surveillance because confiden.

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