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DAILY NEWS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 18," 1971 7 ypON OS vj? by Mrs. Mercedes Dominguez Float with flamenco dancers nice IHlai Is Sees Meed hr On a Clemente Day By MERIEMIL RODRIGUEZ Don Cristobal Colon, Duque de Veragua, reportedly a direct descendant of Chrisopher Columbus, thought the United Hispanic American Parade, along Fifth yes ore Gov't Help terday was emocionante By PRESTON LAYTOX Mass transit in the metropolitan area will need increased government support if it is to retain its share of the transportation market between now and 1985, according to a transportation report released by the Tri-State Regional Planning Commission. NEwS pnoTO Dy Gordon Rynders and youths dancing jota are said: "I feel wonderful to be here. I'm pleased that this parade honors not only my ancestor, but also my country, Spain." Many times during the two-hour event, marchers would dash out to give flowers and other small presents to the duke and his wife. A man with the float of the Cuban Interamerican Club, passed around a basket full of fruits from which the duke picked a banana.

They Stomp Their Feet A Guatemalan girl gave the duchess a shawl from her country after pausing to do the son a traditional dance from Guatemala. A group of youths from the Casa Galicia, a Spanish civic club, did the jota in front of the stand, twirling, playing the castanets and stomping their feet to a tune played by three gaiteros (bag pipe players) and a score of women carrying panderetas (tambourines). The festive affair ended with a horse-drawn carriage from which Miss Spain of 1971 waved to a sympathetic crowd, preceding three floats depicting the Santa Maria, Nina and Pinta, the ships in which Columbus set out to sea. Parade (touching) The duke, who came from Madrid for the occasion, opened the parade, preceding 15,000 marchers who turned the avenue into a festival of music, dance and color. Notwithstanding the World Series, in which it was reported most Spanish speakers were rooting for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Roberto Clemente, about 000 onlookers showed up during the balmy afternoon.

Badillo Present The duke, who settled in the reviewing stand at 64th with his wife and other members of his entourage including Rep. Herman Badillo and members of the Latin American consular corps, sea NEWS photos by Mel Finkelstein and Alessandra Olero, 3. City and state ileal expert work to Mile the 30c fare. See Btory on page 14. bile driver versus the subway rider.

"The typical subway rider is just as likely to own an auto as any city resident," The report also said that "subways are not primarily the vehicle of the poor; rather, the poor of the region simply do not, or cannot, travel extensively. Subway riders have family incomes that are slightly above the average for New York City." In a separate development, the Welfare Island Development Coip. announced that it was readying a 120-passenger cable car, aerial bus, to link Manhattan's East Side with Welfare Island. The aerial bus, which may be a prototype of a new kind of urban transportation, will run over the west channel cf the East River at a height of 200 feet. The bus will rise from ground level at 7'M St.

and York Ave. and touch down again at the Motorgate, the planned focal center of the "new for 20.000 people on Welfare Inland. school rezoning, and crime is already vexing residents. Perhaps most of all, is rooted in a pervasive ing that entry to Forest Hili-and any midd'e-class area should be earned, not assigned. Mar.y of Forest Hills' tenants fk-d tliv slums.

Much rides on the Forest Hil's project's outcome. It is the vanguard of about a dozen low-income projects earmarked for middle-class areas to complement the city's housing renewal program in major slum areas. Federal officials have made it clear that over-all aid is contingent on the Forest Hills project. hr Poor 53 part of proceedings taken in SJ5-r- sS sit NEWS photo by Gordon Rynders Don Cristobal Colon, Duque de Veragua, on hand for parade. NEWS photo by Finkel'toin Frances Garcia, 5, is dressed for occasion.

35,000 persons did sign petitions against the project when it was announced last winter. The Queens Jewish Community Council, Long Island Commission of Rabbis and the Queens Rabbinical Group have denounced the project as a threat to the community's stability. The Forest Hills Residents Association, with 2,000 dues-paying members, is fighting the project in the courts. The project's supporters point out that neighborhood and Queens 3 ill il "lAIRDEX UNHEALTHFUL UNSATISFACTORY ACCEPTABLE GOOD Far 24 tu. Period Ending 3 06 pm, Yesterday.

TODAY: Pollution levels are expected to be good. Dept. of Air Resources liberal' i The report, entitled "Subway Riders and Manhattan Autos," said that by 1985 median household income in the metropolitan area will grow by "almost 40'" i and will increase automobile registration by 50 in the same period. Solutions Sought The report suggests that mass transit will not be able to take advantage of the rise in automobile use by raising "bridge tolls to defray current operating deficits because only of the trips made into Manhattan are by auto drivers. The Tri State Commission seeks solutions to problems affecting the New York metropolitan region, covering 21 counties in New York and New Jersey and six planning regions in southwest Connecticut.

The report was vague about recommending a fare increase for New York subway riders. It only said: "Subway riders will support a system that provides good service." The report did not make specific recommendations about future needs of the area, but dwelt on the current profile of automo- High-Rise residents will have first crack at living there; that crime in housing projects is one-third less than in the city as a whole; that the project obeys the city's traditional open-housing policies and federal guidelines; and that it will be an architectural showcase for scat-ter-site housing. But to critics, the picture is different the project seems extravagant at a cost of $30,000 per apartment; the cost of driving 100-foot pilings into the site's poor soil base is enormous; the project means more people when the area needs more services; the community has not been consulted: it comes on the heels of a school upheaval caused by high Forest Hills fights The social credentials -of Forest Hills, Queens, have always been sleeklv liberal voting up. mandates for such advocates of change as Adlai Stevenson and Eugene McCarthy, Kennedy and Lindsay when it wasn't always fashionable. By OWEN MORITZ does, people begin to realize it's a lot different than what they thought." Someone's else block is now 62d Drive and 108th St.

where the Housing Authority, barring a defeat in court, plans to build three 24-story developments, containing 840 apartments, 40 of them earmarked for the elderly. About 2,500 of New York's poor will live there. DeVoy says 90 of the com munity is against the project a figure open to challenge. But But the same credentials are being strained and tested, bent, spindled and, some say, mutilated as Forest Hills puts its middle tlass know-how to work against the coming of a $22 million low-income housing project plunk in its high-rise huddles. "It's easy to be liberal when it is someone else's block," says Simeon Golar, chairman of the Housing Authority.

Joseph DeVoy, chairman of the iij-member Planning Board 6, agrees: "It's easy to espouse a cause when it's a generality. But when it hits home, as this project.