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5, 3 NEWS photo by Jack Clarity Park Director James Linder watches as benches are repaired and debris is cleared away at Highbridge Park. i Mmny mskes hit Pmk By DANIEL O'GRADY A small army bearing the maple leaf insignia of the Parks Department attacked litter-strewn Highbridge Park at 8 a.m. yesterday to liberate it from beer cans and abandoned cars. watchmen and comfort stations so actually for the cleaning of the playground area we can only spare about three out of those 12 men daring the winter months," said Linden. Valuable Time Lost "They take care of cleaning the playgrounds, painting and so on.

The woodlands, the rugged terrain work, we normally clean up in the spring, when we get our spring seasonal people," he added. Next Monday, nine seasonal p3ople will be hired, so the park's clean-up crew will number 21. They'll work staggered schedule! to staff the park seven days a week. According to Linden, 75 of the workday is spent "cleaning up litter that should have been put in the baskets to start with. It's a waste of valuable time." Litter baskets have been replaced by heavy metal drums to discourage theft.

It will take about two weeks to comb the 118-acre park of trash, Lindsay said. The park extends from W. 155th St. north to Dyck-man between the Harlem River and St. Nicholas Ave.

a slope that falls away to the Harlem River. Crews were cleaning the. slope of litter especially beer cans. "Wo have to spend a great deal af money cleaning up after inconsiderate he said. "It could He put tc much more productive use, in repairing and painting, adding special recreational features." Of the 1,500 full-time Park Department employes in Manhattan, 12 are assigned to Highbridge.

"There are certain fixed posts wouldn't have been done this early if it hadn't been for The News series," he acknowledged. Asked what the cleanup detail was to do, Linden explained: "To clean up the park, to get it in shape, remove any hazardous conditions that might exist. That includes fixing benches which are broken, removing broken glass and removing several vehicles that have been driven into the park and abandoned." Linden paused to look down on Manhattan Parks Director James H. Linden directed a special clean-up crew of 21 men who were brought in to back up the usual 12-man park staff. Publicity Noted "The clean-up" program would normally have started on April 13," said Linden.

"But as a result of The News publicity on this park, we have put in special crews ahead of time. "The cleanup wouldn't have bqen on a crash basis, and it '(Conservatives Set Fe Rename Buddey By SAM ROBERTS James Buckley, who polled 1.1 million votes on the Conservative Party line in his 1968 race against Sen. Jacob Javits and Paul O'Dwyer, is expected to win the looks like -'(Soodbll Is Sy Solent Majority of Chief By RICHARD MATHIEU Staff Correspondent of The News Rochester, April 6 U.S. Sen. Charles Goodell sewed up the Republican designation for the senate today as the State Commitee shut out all opposition from inside the party.

The GOP leadership also ruled out any endorsement of Democratic State Controller party's packing tonight for a second Senate race. Bucklev's bid to enter a Repub Arthur Levitt. didacy" with Liberal Party Vice Chairman Alex Rose. He said he was shocked "that someone out of 20 million New-Yorkers had not risen to push Mr: Goodell out of the way." Buckley, whose mineral exploration firm is based in Manhattan, also has an apartment here. In a telegram to Lanigan and Gov.

Rockefeller, he said he hoped the Republicans would grant him the same privilege of running in a primary ais the Democrats granted Senate hopeful Morris Abram. Buckley who said after his 19(58 defeat that he had "no further political ambitions," declared he is running because New York's next senator should be willing to work with the Nixon administration "in a spirit of sympathy and cooperation." Gov. Rockefeller brr-kpd Goodell, whom he appointed to fill the vacant seat of the slan Robert F. Kennedy. Opposition to Goodell centered mainly on his outspoken criticism of President Nixon's Vietnam and national policies.

Gov. Rockefeller will be nominated for an unprecedented fourth term tomorrow, along w'th incumbents Lt. Gov. Malcolm Wilson and Stats Attorney Louis J. Lefkwitz.

Party Chairman Charles Lanigan emerged from a closed meeting of the party's Executive Committee to declare: "I think Sen. Goodell will receive the overwhelming vote of the delegates. I don't really expec the designation to be contested." They'll Just Abstain lican primary against incumbent Charles Goodell was rejected yesterday by GOP leaders. Assailing Goodell as the man who has "made a career of embarrassing a Republican administration," Buckley had asked the State Committee meeting in Rochester to permit him to run even though he is a registered Republican in Connecticut. Lanigan Bars Race But GOP State Chairman Charles Lanigan turned thumbs down on Buckley's request.

He told reporters: "I don't think it has been the policy of the Republican Party to find candidates from outside New York State." In a reference to Democratic designees Arthur Goldberg and Theodore Sorensen, Lanigan observed: "We're not looking outside the state let the Democrats go outside." 1 Kiernan O'Doherty, Conservative Party vice chairman who will preside at the State Committee parley at the Hotel McAlpin, said Buckley's chances of winning the Senate nod again are "pretty excellent." Mentions Alex Rose O'Doherty denied that the party has'been approached by Democrat Mario Procaccino and added: "I'd find it very hard to believe he would be permitted to run" in a Conservative primary. esqrjhed. himself as "the only candidate for the Sen'-' kU who has not cleared his can NEWS photo by Paul DeMaria via NEWS-AP Portable Wirephoto Nomination committee members Gordon Howe (left) and Richard Kosenman confer with State Committee Chairman Charles Lanigan at convention in Rochester. NicEterson (Declares Burns Bridge His assessment was supported by such anti-Goodell leaders as, for instance Nassau County Chairman Joseph Margiotta. Mar-giotta, who met with his county's delegates this morning, said the group had agreed to abstain from voting tomorrow- when Goodell's name comes up for a vote.

One delegate quipped: "The bar will be crowded when Goodell is in the main ballroom." Margiotta said simply: "We're just going to abstain. That's all. don't have a Lamgair declined to Kst the "That takes me out of contention for the Nassau County executive's post," he said at his Hotel Lancaster headquarters. His two-year term expires Dec. 31.

Nickerson faces Arthur J. Goldberg, the Democratic committee-designated candidate, and Howard Samuels; and Robert' M. Morzenthau. who' are circnlatinfer Samuels said yesterday that he is considering running with a slate of candidates, still to be picked. Morgenthau said he is certain that he will obtain the required 10,000 petition signatures in 47 of the state's 62 counties.

"My people are out gathering them -all over the at his headauarters. 277 By THOMAS POSTER Nassau County Executive Eugene H. Nickerson filed notice yesterday that he is a primary candidate for governor and "under no circumstances" will he withdraw to run for reelection to his present post. Jickerson filed, his independent cajididafy with we office of ecr retary of J(hn P.jLpnieno iu Albany..