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DAILY NEWS MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1967 By FRED LOETTERLE if. The city will soon be busting out all over with playgrounds and patches of green. Gov. Rockefeller yesterday urged the new state park commission for the city to advance bold new park ideas. The commission responded by pinpointing possible sites for six state and city agencies, the authority also has undertaken the renewal of Columbus Circle, providing a new plaza for the famou.5 column and statue of Colu.nbus.

and ravamping sections of Broadway leading to Lincoln Square. Rockefeller, defining the role parks in the city. At the same time, the Tribor-ough Bridge and Tunnel Authority announced that a 45-acre sports and recreation area, featuring a night-lighted ball field, will open next spring' at Sunken Meadow on Randalls Island. Brochure Released The landfill park, which South Bronx kids can reach by walking across an extension of the Tri-borough Bridge, was one of a spate of park projects outlined by the authority in released yesterday. The new park, adjacent to "Wards Island, will have every 4 C5 4t of his new park commission, said: Landfill park will open at Sunken Meadow on Randalls Island (arrow).

thing to make a Little Leaguer happy five ball fields, one with floodlights for night games, and a field house equipped with lock "This is a new venture for the state creating parks within the city of New York and it is a great opportunity to provide light, air, green space and outdoor recreation where it is needed most." Conference House At its first meeting held yesterday in the governor's office here, the commission reviewed these six park sites: The historic Conference House and surrounding wooded area in "southeast Staten Island. This 310-acre area could accommodate senior citizens and teenagers with facilities including a beach, pool and fishing pier, campsites and picnicking areas, and an historic program centered on the Conference House. ers, showers and a team meeting room. Blueprints have been approved already for construction of 19- The 9-acre section bounded by 122d and 125th Sts. and Second and Third Aves.

The commission said development might include an indoor community sports center, half below ground level, complete with cafeteria, club rooms, playgrounds and ball courts. A 36-acra portion of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, declared surplus by the federal govern The east shore of the Harlem River in the Bronx, a 67-acre strip near the Bronx campus of New York University, which could be equipped with a marina, ice skating rink and playgrounds. Fort Totten in Queens, 146 acres declared surplus by the federal government and now available for construction. Suggested development would include a marine sciences center, a basin for father-son sailboating, and beach and pool swimming. ment, would provide facilities far a marina.

Existing buildings could house workshops in the creative arts. An inner-city park, on 7 acres of Welfare Island, would contain a large indoor-outdoor swimming pool constructed so that its roof would roll back and serve as a bandshell for summer concerts. terraced area at the island's center would provide for winter its skating and summer dancing. vest-pocket parks along the Hen ry Hudson Parkway, the IS assau Expressway, the Long Island Expressway and the Richmond Parkway in Staten Island. In cooperation with the Make New York Beautiful Committee iJl Ion Mew Taxes tiaras of Need flor rr: -l il xl -1 ill-King vii me reaswis vn crease was spelled out today by By ROBERT CARROLL Declaring that "we are facing a crisis," Gov.

Rockefeller warned yesterday that the state would have to raise between $50 0 million and $600 million in new taxes next State Controller Arthur Levitt. have made a tax boost inevitable, the Governor said state aid to local communities was soaring in the areas of welfare, education In a letter to legislators, the year if it is to continue its aid to local communities. top elected Democrat in the state Rockefeller, as usual, wouldn't and medicaid. fell to less than 20 this year. During the same period, Levitt said, the individual's share of the tax load rose from 63 to 84.

Hint of What's Coming? Rockefeller just about conced He said legislation has been proposed to increase welfare aid by $150 million and to raise the ceiling on aid per school pupil from $660 per year to $800. The latter boost, he estimated, would put an added $240 million-a-year ed that business taxes would go up when, in a recent interview, he noted that none of the state's five main business taxes has drain on the state treasury. speculate on what form the new taxes would take, but he's known to favor a business tax hike and possibly a rise in income taxes. The state income tax, last raised in 1959, varies between 2 and 10. The state sales tax, initiated in 1965, is 2, to which state law permits communities to add a maximum of 3 locally, for a total of 5.

Many New York municipalities, including our town, have done so. Other Taxes New York city residents also have a local income tax ranging from two fifths of 1 to a max administration said that Got. Rockefeller would be asking them-to "adopt new or increased taxes totaling hundreds of millions of dollars." "It is regrettable that you will be asked to take this action with relatively little time for consideration of the effects of the increased tax burden on the economy of the state, or even, for that matter, of the impact on the millions of taxpayers," Levitt wrote. The present state budget $4.6 billion. Levitt said that locally imposed increases in sales and real estate taxes were ers here are slapped with a commuter tax of from one fourth to three eighths of 1 of income.

State Controller Arthur Levitt, commenting on the "real probability" of a tax increase next year, told WNBC-TV's Man in Office audience that he foresaw "some additional taxes on business" and an increase in the personal income tax. Business, sai' Vvitt, "has not borne its share of the tax burden" through the years. Levitt said that while the businessman provided 37 of the state's tax revenue in 1945, his contribution As for medicaid, Rockefeller been hiked in the nine years of his administration. estimated that costs next year could rise $95 million above the Rockefeller spoke to newsmen at the Roosevelt Hotel before meeting with the U.S. Olympic current level.

Impact of Tax Hike Discussed by Levitt Committee and urging members to choose upstate New York a Lake Placid as the site for the Albany, Dec. 17 (UPI) The impact of a major state tax in 1976 Winter Olympics. imum f2. Nonresident work 2 Pull Would-IBe Rescuer from River jNL tag? fri fa II A Bronx man who attempted to save his drowning friend from the frigid waters of the East River was saved from a similar fate himself thanks to the alert efforts of two NEWS deliverymen yesterday. The deliverymen, Frank Brog-den and Marvin Ross, were driving their trucks north along East River Drive at 5 a.m.

when they spotted two men struggling in the river off E. 63d St. Toss a Life Line Brogden and Ross quickly fashioned a life line out of news-paperbundle cord and tossed it to the men. But the cord was too flimsy to pull them in. Holding Brogden by the ankles, Ross then lowered his companion into the water near one of the men.

Brogden managed to grasp the man's arm and pull him ashore. The other disappeared in the murky riven Attempted Rescue The rescued man, Vartold Ortiz, 19, of 956 Fox Bronx, said ha had dived in the river. News deliverymen Marvin Ross (left) and Frank Brogden pulled man from tha water. from a party and had parked temporarily near tha river. Vazquez, also of 956 Fox had walked near the edge of the river, lost his balance and toppled In.

trying to save his friend Gamaliel Vazquez, 25, who had fallen off the embankment. Ortiz said that he, Vazquei and their wives were returning NEWS photos by ChsrlPB Ruppmann he was rescued from the East Vartold Ortiz after.