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QUEENS qri-X IS ioci stops I i BROOKLYN TT be started by the Jsew lork City Transit Authority today. NEWS map by Staff Artist Williams Map shows express bus route between Hillside Ave. and 267th in Queens, and 23d Manhattan. JThe return route is on Madison Ave. A ZD I he service.

Known as the Hiil- side "Avenue-Manhattan Express and designated Q-18X, will operate during morning and evening rush hours. It will help ease the subway crunch in the area, a JlAarksmen Miss Range It's Shut By FRANK MOONEY With a silence that could be heard throughout Suffolk and beyound, the Brook-haven rifle range was quiet yesterday after having been abruptly closed down in what Transit Authority spokesman said. Estimated running time for rJ the 17-mile bus route to Manhattan will be about one hour. Buses are air-conditioned and have 47 individual parlor-coach, semi-re town otiicials termed a temporary measure for safety. The only area open to use was clining seats.

The one-way fare is $1. Exact fare in coins ana tokens is required. Express buses will leave 26 th St and Hillside Ave. a few blocks Evening express buses leave from 24th St. and Madison Avenue at 4:30, 4:45, 5 and 5:15 p.m.

Passengers in Manhattan can also board on Madison Ave. at 34th St, 42d St, 50th St, 59th St. and at Lexington Ave. Home-bound stops in Queens are the same as for the morning schedule. This is the second express route to be put into operation by the Transit Authority this year.

Last April 12, the authority began the Yorkville to Wall Street service a 30 minute run which is now in its 16th week of operation. The authority also operates three express routes on Staten Island, two going to Manhattan and one to Brooklyn. William J. Ronan, chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, said that the Hillside-Manhattan express bus "will provide an added convenience for residents along a populous and vital five-mile corridor in Qi'eens." He said that "we will be monitoring the service very closely to determine public acceptance on a day-to-day basis. Extra buses will be added as required." the skeet-shooting section where only shotguns are permitted.

High powered rifle and pistol target areas are closed. Meanwhile, gun clubs and individual marksmen were organizing to present a protest to the Town Board meeting tomorrow. The sudden closing came on the eve of the annual competition of the county Auxiliary Police organization in which several hundred were scheduled to compete yesterday. Town Councilman Robert Hughes, recreation committee chairman, who reportedly ordered the temporary closing, could not be reached for comment. He had previously issued a formal statement saying that an evaluation study is being undertaken to insure the continued 100 safe, but could be made safe by installation of shields.

Describing the range as one of the "greatest recreation areas in Brookhaven Town, and one that is used by 27 police departments to improve their skills," Bellport said: "As far as I'm concerned, there will be no permanent closing of the range and there is no need to reduce the area covered by the range as long -as safety regulations are met." Alfred Eid, Brookhaven Rod and Gun Club president, led a group to the range yesterday in an unsuccessful effort to establish all the facts about the closing. The range, about two miles east of the center of Medford, was established when that area was heavily wooded and sparsely settled. In recent years, the population sprawl has been gradually nearing the range. safe operation of the range, in view of increased development of the surrounding area. The study, to be made by town engineer Louis McLean, will also consider recommendations of the National Rifle Association, the county police department and other interested organizations, Hughes stated.

Town Councilman John Bell-port said he was notified of the closing by Hughes late Friday. According to Bellport, the action was taken because the Federal Housing Administration had declined to mortgage a nearby development because of its proximity to the range. Bellport said that Hughes requested the NRA to make an evaluation, which showed that parts of the range were not west of the Nassau County line, at 7, 7:15, 7:30 and 7:45 a.m. Buses will pick up passengers at nine stops on Hillside Commonwealth Winchester Springfield 215th Place. 211th Francis Lewis 197th St, and 188th St, the last Queens stop.

Buses run as an express for 12 miles along Queens Blvd. and over the Queensboro Bridge into Manhattan. The first stop is at 60th St. and Lexington Ave. Other Manhattan stops are along Fifth Ave.

at 59th 50th St, 42dSt, 34th St. and 23d St. and Students Get Key to New Study Tune By ELLEX FLEYSHER Queens high school kids, turned off by traditional educational programs, will have the chance this fall to select an alternate approach for the first time. Kremer Accuses U.S. Of OKing Oil Drilling Assemblyman Arthur J.

Kremer (D-Long Beach) accused the federal government yesterday of "putting the stamp of approval" on future offshore oil drilling near A "satellite high school, an- school methods. School Chancellor Harvey B. Scribner has repeatedly endorsed this approach, saying students must be offered a choice "about what they learn, when Long Island beaches and wetlands. rather than at the main school. Before making the switch, however, parental consent, as well as the okay of the school's guidance staff, will be required.

Specific programs are still on the drawing board, but the annex, like the four pilot programs already in operation, will stress informality and flexibility. While striving to overcome whatever academic deficiencies students may have, programs will they learn and how they learn. Kremer made his charge after releasing the contents of a letter During the last school year. sent to him by Kussell G. Way the four pilot schools, which had nexed to Andrew Jackson High in Cambria Heights, has been added to the city's four pilot schools already in operation.

Described by Board of Education officials as offering "a small, alternative school setting for students who feel they can function more effectively in a more intimate setting," the Queens satellite school will differ, in both appearance and organization, from its traditionally oriented parent institution. Using two store fronts at 207-18 and 207-20 Hollis Ave, Queens students will attend the school on a voluntary basis, electing to study at the specal storefront annex land, chief of the conservation for an enrollment of about 400 stu dents drew enthusiastic responses the U.S. Department of Interior. In that letter, according to Kre from school authorities. mer, Wayland indicated that the Other alternative schools planned for this year include federal government was encour be designed to capitalize on individual strengths and major in aging the exploration of oil and Wingate Prep in Brooklyn, which was prepared to grant oil drilling leases off the Atlantic coast.

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