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kTTCSRA75Sr fear rn7iTOrn Tfo AJcfog Out Secret Plays fT for Daily Home Delivery Call 458-0320 DAILY NEWS, MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1970 39 (mltw! (enter Project Mde uer Sewer Pkat By HARRY DANYLUK The Environmental Protection Administration was accused yesterday by Bay Ridge civic leaders of hedging on plans for a 13-acre cultural center at Owl's Head Park which included a pledge to bury four sewerage treatment tanks on the site. The accusation was made by -aw 1- City Councilmen Thomas J. Cuite and Angelo Arculeo; Joseph Dai-done, chairman of Community Planning Board 10; and Vincent Kassenbrock, of the Bay Ridge Community Council. They said that last fall, the EPA promised primary, sludge-thickener, aeration and final tanks would be depressed and covered with a concrete slab along the narrow shoreline near 69th St. Following the committment, Diadone said, urban designers, community leaders and residents were asked to submit recommendations for a cultural center in the park.

The proposed center would include an outdoor amphitheater, a promenade, ice and roller skating rinks, a 69th St. pier j-estaurant, parking facilities and a pedestrian overpass on the Belt Parkway. Would Block View Now, it was charged, the EPA Physical ed instructor Stuart Bailin lines out some sure-fire strat-- egy to Nomad Club hoopsters at York College, Absorb- ing lore are Brace Epstein Richie Sabella and Charles Mardis, all sophomores. Petitions Will Smoke Coy Candidates By SAM ROBERTS The muddied Brooklyn political picture will become more clear cut but no less complex in two weeks when the candidates begin soliciting signatures for primary tests. The Legislature is expected to set March 31 or April 1 for the starting date, April 27 to 30 for filing petitions, Sketch shows harborside layout of cultural center.

plans to build a two-story extension along the shoreline from 67th to 69th which will partially block the view of the Verrazano Bridge, the Manhattan skyline and the statue of Liberty. An EPA spokesman was quoted as saying it is certain, at this point, that the plant extension can be depressed. "If it is feasible," he added, "it Kings possibility of using the roofs over the tanks for recreational purposes. Haven't the Money "We just don't have the funds," the spokesman said. It would require federal and state willingness to share the costs to enhance the shoreline concept with water pollution control.

"Just imagine the esthetic value of listening tc a concert while looking at the Manhattan skyline or the VeTfazano Bridge instead of looking at a two-story wall." Kassenbrock said that "the Bay Ridge residents will not stand for the EPA plan. There will be hell to pay." Arculeo and members of th community planning board and the Bay Ridge Community Council will discuss the issue at a meeting tonight at the Bay Ridge branch library at 73d St. and Ridge Blvd. would cost the city an additional million." Engineers are now studying the Mayor Lindsay, charges the redisricting there is a "despicable political tactic" designed to "deprive him of those neighborhoods from which he could draw support." RACE RELATIONS: Queens Councilman Mike Lazar claims to have ruled himself out of the running for office this year but plans an active role in the state Albany Meet on op (enter Set By ROGER WETHERINGTON The state commissioner of narcotics addiction control will meet with Queens of- and June 23 for the primary. The contestants include a hopefuls, children of more familiar candidates and former officeholders challenging everyone in sight, including Assembly varied collection of perennial Minority Leader Stanley Stein-gut and County Chairman Meade Esposito is being challenged for the leadership of the 39th AD by Irving Moldawsky, a militant Mario Procaccino stalwart.

Stein- gut is under attack from John Breslin for his Assembly seat and Jack Kranis for the leadership. Michael Wolin will be opposed by Max Bloom and Beadie Mar-kowitz will be challenged by Sandy Reichman in the 40th. Assemblyman Alfred Lama is likely to face fights from three 'challengers. V. A field of five candidates is expected to challenge William for the leadership of the 42d.

Leader Bernard Bloom in the 43d is being opposed by Richard Kranis (Jack's son) among others. Assemblyman George Cincotta and Sen. Jere-' miah Bloom also face challenges. Four candidates hope to run against Al Hesterberg in the 44th AD. Three (including former icals tomorrow to discuss their plan to buy a proposed addict treatment center in Howard Beach and turn it into a general hospital, City Councilman Walter Ward disclosed yester compaign.

He's now backing Ted Sorensen for the Senate. day. PARTY-LINE: Long Island Uni versity's Young Republican Club is soliciting contributions to keep its newsletter on a monthly pub Ward revealed plans for the meeting in Albany as some 300 demonstartors marced in front of the center, the Cross Bay Rehabilitation and Training Center, to announce their suppport of the hospital proposal. It calls for a croup of doctors to put up some $5 million to buy the facility. Ward said the meeting with Commissioner Lawrence Pierce will include himself, Assemblyman Frederick Schmidt and State Sen.

John Santucci, 'all Democrats. Called Underhanded Describing the planned center as "a prison, not a hospital," lishing scneaule. (Jlub President John Chwat says the newsletter is aimed at showing "regular party leaders that the young members of the GOP are working and con tributing to trie party. Ward charged that the state "moved in the middle of the night to purchase" the building. He said the state took the action while community groups were still n-gotiaing for the site.

The negotiations had begun as soon as the building then the Howard Park General Hospital, lost its Blue Cross accreditation and closed its doors in 1965, ha said. Says Hospital Needed Among the demonstrators yesterday was the Rev. John Dooley of St. Helena's parish, Howard Beach, who said the community needs a hospital for its 150,000 residents. He noted that the population is rapidly increas FOOD FOR THOUGHT: A din From Bruises to the Trophies ner to honor former Queens City Councilman Joseph Modugno and install him as president of the North Shore Council of Home p- ,7 Owners' Associations has been set for 6:30 p.m.

Sunday April 12 at the Villa Bianca in Flushing. On hand at the affair, chaired by William J. Fay o5 Whitestone, will be Lieut. Gov. Malcolm Wilson.

APPOINTED ROUNDS: John P. Scanlon, Democratic Park Slope politico and former English teacher has been named byMayor Lindsay to the post of assistant administrator in the city's Economic Development Administration. He'll be responsible for EDA's public affairs. NEITHER SHY NOR RETIRING: State Sen. Samuel Green-berg is keeping his potential successors from southern Brooklyn Councilman Kenneth Knigin) are 7 after Herb Lupka in the 45th, and one (Milton Goldner) may challenge Assemblyman Stephen Solarz.

the 48th AD, Tony DeCarlo exoects to run against leader and Councilman Howard Goldin, and Ruth Moskowitz, daughter of former Councilman is to challenge Al Lewis. DISTRICTING DISSENT: Patrick Beary, past president of the Queens Republican Committee of 200 and a present member of the board of directors of the John Foster Dulles Republican Club, is anxiously awaiting a court decision which may make it tougher for incumbent Rep. Seymour Hal-pern to win a likely party primary tbis June. Beary is challenging the January reapportionment of Halpern's 6th District, contending that "to suit the Congressman, St. Albans and the black portions of Hollis have been cut away from the district." Beary, a supporter of ing- A group of about 20 teenagers held a counter demonstration, some of them carrying signs saying: "Addicts Need Help." No Kidding, Kids Can Kid Abraham Straus will offer courses in magic and puppetry for kids aged 7 to 12 at its downtown Brooklyn store, Fulton and Hoyt daily from April 1 through April 4.

An admission fee of $1.50 will cover supplies for each worflcanop. Registration starts March 23 in the store's ninth-floor featura events office. nervous by his assertions that he's not ready to be succeeded. Greenberg admitted recently that he's done a lot of talking lately about quitting but stresses that as of now, there's "no question" that he'll be a candidate for reelection in the borough's 19th District. NEWS photo by Joe Farrlngton Navy Comdr.

James Fitzgerald, emcee at John Adams High School awards night, presents trophies to coach Kenneth Weinberg, Martin Doherty, baseball and basketball coach, Kevin McEnery, mst valuable player, and Francis McQuade, swim coach..