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32 DAILY NEWS, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1970 MmsS Py Prise To Qem the Aw, 'xpert Sssys By ROBERT CARROLL It will take "several years" at best until the carbon monoxide content in Manhattan's air is reduced to the safe level set by the federal government, a federal antipollution expert predicted yesterday. Report Gen Kenneth Johnson, regional director of the National Air Pollution Control Administration, said a change in traffic patterns and development of alternate means of transportation could speed the 7 III hr1 Nii3 J' Im KL And Husban cleansing process. "We must have public support and larger budgets so we can meet the standards set for a quality atmosphere," Johnson said. "I think that we are now NEWS photo by John Pedin Vincent Marchiselli, chairman of Bronx County Civic Association, surveys junk-littered Seton Falls Park in Baychester, Bronx. Are Divorcing Hollywood, April 15 (UPI) Pop singer Bobbie Gentry and William Harrah, a millionaire Nevada casino operator, will be divorced, according to a friend of Aliss Gentry's.

The marriage took place in Reno last Dec. 18 and the couple prepared to pay that price." Tells of a Drop Johnson said the amount of sulphur dioxide spewed into the air by oil and coal burning in New York City is still above the Spring in a (Park That Died danger level set by the federal government, although there has been a "significant droD" since last October. With the continuing By PETER COUTROS Somewhere a vine was trimmed and somewhere else a lady leaned out of a window to tend a flowerbox and intimations of spring rode the swell of a robin's song. In yet another place, the season of rebirth labored for naught, rendered im potent by the Six Pack Society and its wanton allies. In Seton Falls Park in the Bavchester sector of the Bronx, the rites of spring seemed to have switcnover to iow-sulphur oil, he said, "we expect we'll drop below the level in 1971." Johnson was one of several pollution experts in government and industry who addressed a seminar on air pollution at Cooper Union.

The all-day seminar was sponsored by the American Insurance Association. David R. Edwards, associate counsel for Aetna Life and Casualty said private litigation as a form of pollution control "is ssomething we'll be living with in the years to come, and the defenses against such litigation are going to get fewer and fewer." Aaron J. Teller, former dean of Cooper Union who is now president of Teller Environmental Systems, said the "loop" system of recycling waste-offers the best hope of halting pollution. "Pollu- tion steals resources from future Lri A ft fIMil come to a screeching: dead end.

What used to Quality Of Life be a sylvan retreat, only 45 minutes from Grand Central, wore a mantle of neglect and abuse. "The Parks Department is the main culprit here," said Vincent A. Marchiselli. treadine carefullv selli, "because of almost criminal neglect by the Parks administration and because of the dumpers and nig-ht riders who don't give a damn for the health and safety of other people." Describing the blighted area as a "macabre playground where kids play among shattered glass and rusty beer cans in burnt-out shells of autos," Marchiselli concluded that the city has "one hell of a nerve calling this a park; it's the same old story, the low -income people getting shortchanged again." Scours' Deed Went for Naught A few weeks ago, a group of Girl Scouts policed the area, leaving it cleaner than it had been in a long while (or since the last time the Sanitation Department picked up the rubbish). The Scouts posted signs, asking the public's cooperation in maintaining cleanliness.

Yesterday, one of these placards was barely discernible under a heap of rubble. "It's really nothing new," said Marion Hulse, a longtime resident of the area. "This has been going on for years and I have correspondence I exchanged with Robert Moses, when he was parks commissioner. That's how long this situation has persisted." A Voice in the Wilderness Sometimes, Marion Hulse remonstrates with the dumpers She is ordinarily a soft-spoken woman. When she's aroused, though, she can be loud as a hockey fan.

But the dumpers can't hear her, not when the clatter of garbage dumping fills the air. So Marion Hulse watches reporters making notes and television camera men focusing on the debris and she wishes them well, hoping they'll do something that will make Seton Falls Park green and clean again. on his crutches amid the massed debris. Marchi selli, crippled by polio in his youth, is chairman of the Bronx County Civic Association. At the juncture of Eden Terrace and Boiler accumulated garbage provided ideal grounds for a game of ringalevio played by the rats Bobbie Gentry Over, friend say separated five weeks ago, the friend said.

Legal representatives for Harrah, 58, and Miss Gentry, 27, are working out property and financial settlements before divorce papers are filed, probably in Nevada, the singer's friend said. It was the first marriage for Miss Gentry and the third for Harrah. His second wife divorced him after 20 years. generations, leuer saia, "wnue recycling preserves those resources." At New York University's Institute of Environmental Medicine yesterday, an eight-man team of Japanese environmental protection experts wound up a three-day symposium on pollution, during which they met with their New York City counterparts. which infest the site.

Behind Marchiselli, 27 acres of woodland struggled to turn green in the face of man-wrought pollution. There was a time when a brook ran through the undulating greenery but its refreshing gurgle has long since been choked off by refuse. People used to spread a blanket and picnic there, wary only of an occasional prying ant. No one picnics there anymore. "This situation exists," according to Marchi- Nickerson Pulls Out; lwys Me AM Moeirums By RICHARD BRA UN The director of the city's medicaid program confirmed yesterday that public funds would be used to pay for abortions under the state abortion reform law which goes into The Money Stopped (Continued from page 2) he said, "and I don't think eiieci duiy i.

I Dr- Lowell E. Bellin of the city AOPUfW PJHIfi Health Department said that the primary, it will be because he is black." Nickerson rejected the suggestion that he pulled out because of pressure from the old Kennedy forces backing Goldberg, including Kennedy brother-in-law Stephen Smith and Democratic State Chairman John J. Burns. Trying to impersonate Presi laV vi VI I I SiSS medicaid a blend of city, state and fnnHcs Vt a alwnrt? people's personal fortunes ought to determine if they can run for office." Touring the still-snowy north country near Pittsburgh and Watertown as he kicked off his campaign, Goldberg made it clear that excessive spending would be an issue in the battle against Nelson Rockefeller. He said that lie "profoundly regrets" Nickerson had to lenv.

1 1 JL paid for therapeutic abortions 111 OTP I ill an wiU contie to for them III VI VUiWiVJ hub under the new law. which allows termination of a preernancv for therapeutic abortions performed each year are for psychiatric reasons. Dr. Bellin said he expected the law to be felt hardest "in the market place" whei-e the going rate for an illegal abortion is about $900. "It will drive illegal butchers out of business," he said.

Urges a Detailed Medicare Pay Plan Washington, April 15 (AP) dent Nixon, Nickerson said, "Let any reason up to the 24th week. "The law means that the medically indigent will have access to the same proedures that middle an upper-class citizens have enjoyed for years," he said. He sakl that legal abortions Washington, April 15 (UPI) Theodore H. White, prize-winning author of books on presidential elections, warned Congress today that popular election of Presidents would lead to increased impact of ballot box fraud and might create chaos in the political system. "I believe the contry needs to The Blue Cross Association told have always been available to women with the resources to pay Senators today that new methods me make one thing perfectly clear, we are in debt." Meanwhile, Burns took himself off the state committee payroll to clear away any legal challenges to his working for Goldberg before the primary.

Samuels has demanded that Burns resign his post. Watertown, N.Y., April 15 (Special) Concerned by soaring expenses that knocked Eugene Nickerson out of the primaiy race, Arthur Goldberg pledged today to conduct a "Spartan campaign" without spending a cent of his own cash. "First of all, I can't afford It," the campaign because of financial reasons and added he would have supported "a man like Enprene Nickerson for the governorship if I though he could win." Sam Roberta Seek Census Workers The Census Bureau has openings for up to 4,000 workers throughout the city, Regional Census Director John Cullinane announced yesterday. Despite a special testing and hiring session last week, Cullinane said, there is still an urgent need for census workers, particularly blacks and -Puerto Ricans. lor psycmatric consultations necessary to get them.

Cites "Butchers' In Field The poor, he said, have had to resort to "butchers" because they were not "sophisticated enough to threaten suicide to get a legal abortion." In many hospitals, both public and private, the majority of the oi paying nospitais ana nursing homes under medicare should be developed to introduce strict cost controls. Bernard R. Tresnowski, vice president of the group, said there should be contracts with health care facilities negotiated in advance and based on previous years' expenditures. reiorm its election laws and reform them immediately," White advised, but not by direct popular elections. "Germany tried it and they got Adolf Hitler," he said.

White urged elimination of the ffice of presidential elector, but retention of electoral votes for the winners of each state..