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QL7 A Day's Outing in Fin Land DAILY NEWS, WEDNESDAY. JUNE 12, 1974 Frvy to Ball a Coal 62M Fmn. Buiet By MARK LIEBERMAN Repeating his opposition to the imposition of "nuisance" taxes, including the $15 annual auto-use levy, City Council Finance Committee Chairman Matthew J. Troy Jr. said yesterday Mayor Beame would have to trim $62 million from his proposed expense budget.

Troy said he had been unable to win agreement from city agency heads for cuts in the budget, which goes into effect News photo by DeMaria Scuba divers Andy Cohen (left) and Alan Vick of the National Park Service get ready to dive for specimens while students look on at Rockaway Inlet yesterday. Sixth-grade classes from PS 232 in Howard Beach were treated to a marine biology field day to learn about aquatic creatures and their habitat. The program, sponsored by the park service, has already served some 1,200 students this spring on the grounds of Rockaway Point Yacht Club. Authorized Bus Line Us Stalled I By JOHN TOSCANY I Although the Transit Authority was authorized to establish the Q-88 bus line in Queens six months ago, the agency has failed to put the new route into operation. The inaction apparently is due to its long-standing position that it is not accountable to the city's Franchise Bureau for its surface transportation operations.

next month. "Its more difficult to get cuts than I thought," the Queens Democrat said following a public hearing at City Hall on the mayor's tax package. "If I can't find cuts, they're eoing to have to. even though the administration is adamantly opposed to cutting the budget." Troy is seeking the cuts to eliminate the need for any of the nuisance taxes authorized three years ago by the Legislature and to pare by a dime the proposed 45-cent increase in the city's real-estate tax rate. Attendance Poor The nuisance taxes, which in clude the auto-use tax and a 20- cent increase to 25 cents in the Staten Island ferry fare, were up for consideration by the Finance Committee yesterday.

The committee also heard testimony on Beame's plan to hike the sales tax in the city by one penny to eight cents on the dollar and impose a 5 surcharge on wagers at offtrack betting facilities. There were only five listed speakers and six councilmen at the brief committee session. Only four of the committee's 15 members showed up. One speaker. Donald Phillips.

assistant secretary of the Auto mobile Club of New York, reported opposition to the auto-use tax proposal and Troy immediately assured him that the tax would not be imposed. Another speaker, Michael Pearl tax counsel to the New York Chamber of Commerce and In- 4- give any details about the authority's failure to begin the Q-88 operation. When asked why this had not been done, in view of the fact that it usually begins a new line within months of Board vof Estimate approval, the spokesman said: "Apparently the Franchise Bureau put limiting conditions on dustry, said the proposed taxes would be "counterproductive and lead to the loss of business and jobs." Troy attributed the poor attendance to his campaign against the nuisance levies. "I've been yelling so much that I won't go along with them that everybody is beginning to believe me," he said. Threatens Axe Cut The Queens lawmaker said tmi Bureau of the Budget was overly protective of the mayor's proposed budget.

"The budget office wants to show the mayor they did everything possible to cut the budget to the bone," he said. "They don't want their feathers ruttled." Trpy said he will meet with leaders of the Board of Estimate by next Tuesday to determine what changes either additions or cuts can be made in the mayor's budget, but indicated he would drop his "fine scalpel" and replace it with a "meat axe." A Council Bill Is Tough on Meth Clinics By LAWRIE MIFFLIN Legislation to insure stiffer city control over methodone maintenance clinics was introduced in the City Council yesterday by Councilman Carter Burden (D-L-Manhattan)) chairman of the Special Committee on Methodone. The bill calls for the abolition of private, profit-making methadone clinics, which have been repeatedly criticized by Burden a3 "fast-buck" operations that provide inadequate medical and rehabilitative care to addicts. The proposed legislation would require the registration and yearly inspection of all methadone programs by the Board of Health, and would make the location of new clinics subject to Board of Health approval, based on neighborhood need for such clinics. It would also limit the patient load to 300 per clinic and require every clinic to contract with local hospitals for related medical services needed by addict patients.

Twenty-four of the city's 156 methadone treatment programs are privately owned. They serve 8,000 patients, about one fourth of the 34,000 total. Burden charges that these clinics often violate state and federal guidelines by having, too few medical personnel, psychiatrists and so The line would link the Kego Prk-Elmhurst and Fresh Meadows areas and establish connections with four other privately serviced bus routes, three shopping- centers, several schools and government offices. When the Board of Estimate approved creation of of the route in last January, it was expectged it would be in operation in two or three months Franchise Bureau Rebuffed For several years, TA officials, principally Daniel T. Scannell, have held that their agency's bus operations are only subject to review by the city controller's office and have consistently rebuffed attempts by Franchise Bureau Director Morris Tarshis to monitor them.

The bureau, an arm of the Board of Estimate, makes recommendations on applications for new routes submitted by the TA and private bus line operators and checks on the latter group's operations. Until now, there was no clear authority for the Franchise Bureau or the Board of Estimate to mandate the TA to submit financial reports. But when the board approved the Q-88 line, the approved resolution stated specifically for the first time that the TA must after one year of operation, furnish the Franchise Bureau with pertinent information regarding number fo rpas-sengers carried and the profitor loss of the operation. Information Needed A spokesman for the bureau said this information was necessary to enable it to make a recommendation regarding the continuation' of the Q-88 line beyond the first year. A TA spokesman refused to our operation and we're supposed to get an opinion from the corporation counsel's office (regard- (ContinueJ on page 7XQ) Dad's a True Blue Pal S3 5 flfilson Is Promised landslide in Queens By THOMAS POSTER Queens Republicans told Gov.

Wilson yesterday that i he must carry the county by 300,000 votes or more in order to win election. They pledged to deliver the plurality. Queens County leader Melvin M. Klein of Far Rockaway met with Wilson and the new GOP state ticket at the Nassau Coliseum where the Republican State Convention picked its slate with a Klein favorite, Nassau County Executive Ralph Caso, for the lieutenant governor's spot. "They are our tvpes of candidates," Klein said.

"They will do 'very well in Queens because both of them come from counties made up of one and two-family homes." Klein, calling Caso a "neighbor," said: "The Wilson-Caso ticket has got to win big in Queens in order to override the traditional loss that Republican candidates take in the city. Queens is 5-2 Democratic but Gov. Wilson and Caso relate to homeowners. They will get a big Democratic vote in Queens." Gov, Rockefeller car Jed Queens four years ago with a 306,000 plurality. Mrs.

Harriet George of Jamaica Estates predicted- that Caso would deliver a strong homeowner vote and that Wilson has become a household word With Queens families. The Queens Republicans played a key role during the Republican conclave in delivering the New York city delegates to insure Caso's selection for lieutenant governor. The Wueens group, content that it had a "neighbor" on the state ticket, later joined in closed meetings to solidify the selection of Stephan Maye, of Rochester for comptroller. Wilson told the Queens leaders that he recognized the county as a bellwether and noted that in past elections as Queens voted so did the state. cial workers; too many patients, and inadequate safeguards against the diversion of methadone into illegal street sales.

"Every single protest against a methadone clinic in this city has been against a profit-making ciinic," said Paul Kerson. legislative aide to Burden. He added that clinics run by private, but nonprofit, organizations would noc be outlawed by Burden's bill. The bill would supplement existing federal and state laws concerning methadone, laws that Burden terms "totally inade quate." Police Officer Robert Ervolina of Ozone Park gets a hug from daughter Anna, 3, at graduation ceremonies at the 66th St. and Park Ave.

Armory yesterday. Family and friends saw 419 probationary officers graduate into the department's ranks..