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if for Daily Home Delivery Call 458-0320 DAILY NEWS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1972 55 A Day in giiar- SepswsrEtoffi) Fight By MARK LIEBERMAN and BERT SHAN AS The battle over registration of several Brownsville youngsters into East Flatbush's Junior High School 285 closed the school to all children for a second day yesterday, as parents on both sides aand officials of both the local school board and central Board of Education held emerg work things out. NEWS photo by Jim Garrett At memorial service for slain Israeli athletes, Borough President Leone calls 72 Olympics "a ery of international friendship." Large crowd listen intently. Torch lis Passed to get." He added that the slain athletes represented the new Israel, a country absorbing Jews from all over the world. "Vicious Practice" The Rev. Charles A.

Diviney, car general of the Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, pledged op position to the "vicious practice of anti-Semitism by education, example and practice. He said that prayers for the athletes had been said during Sunday Mass in Brooklyn churches this past weekend. Representing the Protestaat churches and the Episcopal Dio cese of Brooklyn and Long Island was the W. J. Henson Jacobs, pastor of St.

Augustine Church, By MERIEMIL RODRIGUEZ Eleven candles burned on the steps of Brooklyn Borough Hall yesterday during a memorial service for the Israeli athletes murdered by Arab terrorists at the Munich Olympic games. As Cantor Mario Botoshansky chanted the El Molai Rachamim, the Hebrew prayer for the dead, tears came to the eyes of many of the elderly women in the crowd of 400 that gathered for the ecumenical service. A dozen speakers at the memorial called for peace and an end to such tragedies. "We must not cease in our efforts to erect safeguards for civilization," said W. Tapley Bennett, deputy representative of the United States at the United Nations Security Council.

Borough President Leone, who organized the service with the Brooklyn-Jewish Community Council, said "A we mourn ency meetings in an attempt to By late yesterday afternoon I the District 18 board had offered a compromise plan to register the 90 Brownsville children into another junior high school within the district. The plan was ac cepted by the central board, but rejected by the Brownsville parents. Meanwhile, Acting District 18 Superintendent Harvey Garner vowed to open the school today. The junior high, at 5909 Beverly Road, still has not had an open ing day for the new term. Gathering at Building Garner ordered the school closed early in the morning as parents on both sides of the dis pute gathered front of the building.

However, the gathering remained relatively peacefuL The community board com promise plan would send the 90 new registrants from the Tilden Houses in Brownsville to JHS 252 at E. 94th St. and Kings Highway. Parents of JHS 285 students had refused to accept the Brownsville youngsters, claiming they would upset the nearly 50-50 racial balance in the school, which has a registration of about 1,350. They also complained of overcrowding in JHS 285.

But, in rejecting the offer, the Brownsville parents noted that JHS 252 was nearly all nonwhite. They charged that the local board is trying to maintain integration at one school but willing to do the exact oposite at another. "The plan is unacceptable," said the Rev. Wilbert B. Miller a leader of the Brownsville parents.

"We are standing firm." The Rev. Miller vowed to "make sure no one else is registered in JHS 285" if the Brownsville youngsters couldn't be enrolled. the roadway has other hazards. These include entrances and exits without acceleration or deceleration lanes, insufficient median separation barriers and numerous small-radius roadway curves. Present improvement plans for the S-curve section include pavement resurfacing where needed, new three-foot high concrete median barriers to replace the present 16-inch high barriers, realignment where possible to VMlify S-eurves, installation QUEENS MM BROOKLYN The District 18 School Board, which takes in the entire East Flatbush-Canarsie area, approved the compromise plan at an emergency meeting Monday evening, offering it to the parents yesterday.

The board itself is split, with five Canarsie representatives and four East Flat-bush representatives. Although the compromise plan would find a spot for the Browns ville junior high school students, the local board did not yield on its refusal to register the approximately 50 elementary school youngsters who live in the Tilden Houses. Board Is Superseded "With the local board refusing to obey the central board's order on the elementary level, Deputy Schools Chancellor Irving Anker, acting for Chancellor Harvey Scribner, superseded the local board and told his official trustee begin the registration process. The trustee, Daniel Schreiber. who is the board's assistant superintendent for junior high superintendent for junior high schools, yesterday began taking the names of all elementary school registrants in PS 244.

Tiden Ave. and E. 54th St. He said he would assign the children to classes today. Anger said Schreiber is "under strict orders to register" all the Brownsville children who were supposed to have been rgistered in the iOstrict 18 elementary schools.

Anker also said that the chancellor's ruling to accept all the Tilden Houses registrants into the district to the central board, and a decision is expected "within a matter of davs." of waterfilled plastic buffers at accident-prone locations and creation of off-road storage spaces for disabled vehicles. The engineers working on the planning will also look into the possible widening of the roadway. Sidamon-Eristoff said, however, that concrete retaining wall for the cemeteries bordering both sides of the S-curve section of the parkway present a major obstacle to such action. The city official said he would like to have Interboro Parkway included in either the state arterial system or the federal highway system. He noted that such action would need enabling state legislation.

The winding roadway, which was opened in 1935 by Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, Parks Commissioner Robert Moses and Brooklyn Borough President Raymond V. IngersolL has been the scene of numerous fatal accidents over the years, especially from lane crossovers. A spokesman from the Automobile Club of New York, which has urged complete renovation of the parkway, said he hopes nest year's work will lead to a full modernization of the entire road- A. Sfi these young men of Israel, who were truly, the flower of a proud nation, we must take note that the Olympic Games have now become not the playground but the battleground of those powers that cannot abide a free nation no matter how small it may be' Leone who stood with a score of dignitaries on a platform with railings covered with black and purple cloth, called the Olympics a "mockery of international friendship." Consul General Michael Sha-shar of Israel said: "Let me assure that the more fanatic the Arab terrorists are going to become, the less they're going to Justice Albert A.

Bosch yes Lee is ever found competent to stand trial, he would be returned to the court's jurisdiction for trial. Charged With Stabbing Wife Lee, a 35-year-old former Lufthansa Airline employe, was charged with fatally stabbing his wife, Mary Joan, 37, in her parent's apartment 'at 89-08 70th Road, Forest Hills, last Oct. 10 in a "scheme" to collect $600,000 insurance. Lee was judged competent to stand trial after examination by Kings County Hospital psychiatrists in May but in the midst of his trial in June, Lee appeared to be deteriorating mentally and unable to confer with his attorney in preparing his defense. After hearing new psychiatric testimony, Bosch declared a mistrial and directed that Lee be committed to Kings County Hos pital for the new- psychiatric ex amination which resulted in Lee being: adjudged insane yesterday, City to Straighten Out the Interboro The first major facelifting for the accident-prone 37-year-old Interboro Parkway between Brooklyn and Queens is scheduled to begin next summer, Transportation administrator Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff announced yesterday.

Accused as Wife Killer, He Is Adjudged Insane By GERALD KESSLER Douglas E. Lee, whose "murder-for-insurance" trial in the fatal stabbing of his wife was cut short last June when he showed signs of depression, was adjudged insane He reported that the Board of Estimate has approved a design contract for an eventual reconstruction program. It will modify mainly the extremely dangerous curves between Cypress Hills St. and Forest Park Drive, Glendale. The affected section covers approximately 3,700 feet.

According to the city official, the four-lane, 4.7-mile roadway between Jamaica Brooklyn, and Grand Central Parkway, Kew Gardens, now handles up to cars daily, making it one of the heaviest traveled arteries in the city. "Interboro Parkway is an outmoded highway and urgently needs modernization for its entire length," Sidamon-Eristoff said. "The estimated cost of such a massive project would be between $60 million and $75 million, which neither the state nor city have." Seeking U.S. Funds He revealed that the city is now preparing an application to be made to the U.S.- Department of Transportation seeking federal funds for the over-all job. The commissioner said that, in addition to the.

S-curve- sectio by Queens Supreme Court terday. Bosch ordered Lee returned to the Kings County Hospital psychiatric ward until the State Commissioner of Mental Health finds an "appropriate institution" to which to commit him. Bosch acted on a report from two Kins County Hospital psychiatrists who, after a court-ordered six-week study, declared Lee a "psychotic depressive." "Dangerous Person" "I am of the opinion that this defendant is incapable of understanding the proceedings before this court or making a proper defense," Bosch said. "He has been adjudicated a dangerous person." With Lee standing beside him, apparently in a dazed state, defense attorney Maurice Edel-baum told the court he agreed with the findings. Assistant District Attorney Albert A.

Gaudelli, adding that he also was in accord with, the find ings, moved to put Lee's case on suspense, calendar jso 'that if.

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