Daily News from New York, New York • 57

DAILY NEWS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1974 in By THOMAS POSTER and ROBERT CARROLL Within a half hour after Gov. Wilson had rejected his plea for statewide mandatory regulations on gasoline sales, Mayor Beame' announced yesterday that he was proceeding at once with his plan for a mandatory sales system here. "My feeling," Beame told a hastily called news conference at City Hall, "is that because we have such a limited supply of gas it becomes more important that we have some sort of system to distribute it equally." iiiiiiit HiiinHRWi i 'I I NEW-YORK CONN. Greenwich -J-j Port Chester T. O- -7 WESTCHESTER -f wAfv 0 A 5 NASSAU New York it QUEENS At Albany, Wilson, declaring that "I don't want to over-react I don't want to panic," said that he was going along at present with his voluntary plan, which is getting only so-so compliance from service station operators.

Beame said that the Council would tape up the necessary legislation today or tomorrow and his sales plan might go into effect as early as next week. Under the Beame plan, cars with even-numbered license plates would he permitted to buy gasoline on even-numbered days and cars with odd-numbered plates would be served on odd-numbered days. In addition, stations would have to post hours of operation and other sales information and motorists would be denied gas if they have more than half a tank. Also supplies would be set aside News photo by Harry Hamburg Attendant fills tank of customer willing to pay price on Route 1 in South Brunswick, N.J. (is Really (Pinches 2 Towns in East By LARRY COLE The first widespread closing of gas pumps in the metropolitan area began jes-terday morning when all 36 independently-owned service stations in suburban Green News map by Bob Juffras Station operators were not selling gasoline in Greenwich and most of Port Chester.

for doctors and emergency uses. Beame said he was also "seriously considering" relaxing alter-nate-side-of-the-street parking regulations to save the gas that motorists would use searching for parking spaces. In Port Chester yesterday, about 75 of the gas stations closed to protest federal regulations against discriminatory gas sales and the gasoline shortage in general. It was the first such shutdown in the state. Some stations in White Plains, Rye and Harrison also joined in the protest.

In Connecticut, all 46 service stations in Greenwich shut down in a similar protestVarious service station organizations throughout New York state" were meeting last night to consider "selling out" their gas supplies and then shutting down. The gasoline supply seemed to be little improved in the metropolitan area yesterday, with lines reported to be six blocks and wich, stopped selling gas. In neighboring Port Chester, Westchester, 75 of the service stations refused to sell gas. However, similar threats of closings at White Plains and Harrison, in staggered shifts from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Identification cards will be given to those deemed entitled to buy gas, and police officers will be present at each station to insure that only properly designated persons are allowed to tank up. These will include, Baran explained, public safety personnel, doctors, nurses, hospital staffers and specific individuals such as Robert H. Austin Jr. who is afflicted with a serious kidney ailment and must drive to New Haven twice a week for special treatment. Explaining the position taken by himself and other station (Continued on page 46, col.

4) said their Greenwich and Port Chester counterparts would settle for 25. Until they get that, he says, they will do repair work but sell no gas. Contingency Plans Contingency plans for the sale of gas to persons whose automobile is deemed necessary for their safety or health will go into effect today. Under a plan worked out by First Selectman William Lewis, Police Chief Stephen Baran and the station owners, said the owners' representative, attorney Richard Roina, "unitl we get a proper response from energy officials." That proper response, Roina declared, will be something similar to the arrangement worked out in the states of Washington and Oregon earlier this month when a West Coast federal energy office ruled that station owners might hold back a percentage of their gas for regular customers. In Seattle, the owners were failed to materialize.

Insisting on the right to reserve 25 of their gas allocation for regular customers, the stations in Greenwich locked their pumps, leaving the community with only two oil-company operated stations as sources of fuel. About seven stations operated in Port Chester. gas will stay in the pumps, four Greenwich service stations allowed to reserve 30So of their (Continued on page 46, cel. 1) supply for this purpose, but Roina will sell gas for two hours each 7 Will the leal Movie Mayor Stand Mp: Bv OWEN MORITZ fil abrasive deputy mayor is actor Tony Roberts in a role which, as in the book, resembles Richard Aurelio, Lindsay's former chief political tactician. Roberts also played the David Durk-like character in "Serpico." "Durk is mad at me but really at the book," Roberts says.

"I doubt if Aurelio would want to know me after this." To duplicate Gracie Mansion, the producers were given use of Wave Hill, a magnificent Colonial-era 20 acre estate and mansion in Riverdale overlooking the Hudson. The film's political cynicism pervades the place. "I know a million dollars Is a lot of money," he celluloid mayor's wife tells her husband. "But just think what youH get in return." "What?" "Eighteen sure votes," she answers, a reference to 18 hostages being held aboard an uncoupled subway car. Later, director Sargente was asked about the whole scene and Beanie's likely reaction to it.

"He won't like it." A press aide to Beame said that the administration knows about the film, but has not been asked in as consultants on the Gracie Mansion sequence. "The movie was approved by a prior administration," the aide said. Two, Three," now being shot here and likely to generate as much controversy as the police story, "Serpico." The movie, based on the big-selling book, was authorized for filming in New York by the Lindsay administration last year. And the mayor, as portrayed in the book, bears a vague likeness to Lindsay. The casting of the mayor's role, however, was not done until after Beame's election.

The part was finally snared by actor Lee Wallace, a man of medium height, whose most recent role was that of Molly Goldberg's husband in the Broadway play, "Molly." Wallace and director Joe Sargente acknowledge that there is something of the Beame personality in the mayor who Wallace portrays. "We were essentially trying to satirize the mayor," Wallace says; "Not lay him out." But is the mayor being satirized or burlesqued? What emerges is a character who whines and snivels his way, partly because of a runny nose and 103.5 temperature, through a fast-breaking crisis. While Wallace plays a role that partly resembles the real-life mayor, his petite, red-haired wife on stage, Doris Roberts, looks quite a bit like Mary Beame. "A coincidence," smiles Sargente. Playing the tough-minded and The study, with high-ceiling and redwood paneling is straight out of Gracie Mansion.

And there, talking with a New York inflection, sits his honor, the mayor. "What will they think?" sighs the flu-ridden mayor to his inner circle, debating whether to fork over $1 million to four desperadoes who have hijacked an IRT train filled with riders. "He means, what will the voters think?" his wife chimes in. "Just what you'd expect," fires back the deputy mayor. "The Times will sup- port you, The News will knock you and the Post will take both sides at the same time.

The rich'U support you. Likewise the blacks. The Puerto Ricans won't give a The seconds flit by, his aides ease out and His Honor turns to Mrs. Honor: "I thought I handled it all right." "Like a regular Fiorello LaGuar-dia," she says. Fiorello, he isn't.

But is he Abe Beame? Is that Abe Beame, in his brown bathrobe, and his inner circle mouthing the most flagrant cynicisms and purple expletives ever attributed to political characters in films or on stage? The scene is from a forthcoming movie, "The Taking of Pelham, One, News photo by Jack Smith Lee Wallace and Doris Roberts as the mayor and his wife in new BiwWMmiMPMmiiiiiiiraiimiiiiiiiiraiiiWiimra i 'j i 5 i.