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ML 7 War on the IPimpeteer 'Rub' Leaflet Passers Rouse Ire D.AILY.NfVVSj. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 15. 197, is? 1 ri me 9 i 1 fvV CI I -l Jj "irj The army of handout artists who invade the midtown area daily with hundreds of thousands of leaflets advertising just about any- thing, but mostly peddling the services to be found in massage parlors may soon find themselves on the defensive. The Fifth Ave.

Association has decided to combat the invasion by pushing for legislation that would force such promoters off the streets. On 46th St." and Lexongton a sidewalk huckster handed out a leaflet "Which showed a bare-breasted pretty girl with" the inscription "Turn me over." There's the Rub On the other side were the name and address of a massage parolor that offered the qustomer an opportunity to reciprocate in the massage process. It said that the place was open 24 hours day, seven days a week. "The parlors are all over Manhattan, but mostly concentratedin mid-town," said Michael Grosso, executive vice president of the association. "We- get complaints from local residents and even out-of-towners," he said.

Grosso did not confine his criticism to the massage parlors but said the whole area was being inundated by the pamphleteers. He mentioned the recent influx of the "Moonies" followers of Sun Myung Moon and pointed out that because yesterday was Pri mary Day, even more were on the streets plugging for various candi- dates. But he said that the major problem is the porno pushers. The man who was handing out leaflets on 46th said: "I have to make a living man, but we really don't make no good money. You stand here and pass out maybe 800 pam- phlets a day and all you get is $2.25" an hour to start." He said that some of the parlors in the neighborhood might give their street men an occasional 25-cent raise of they stayed with job long enough.

"There is a day shift and a night shift but no difference in money," he added. Busy on West Side On the West Side, at, least a score of handout hustlers were operating on 45th St. alone. Passerby were handed a sheet which invited them to "Come Play In Our Hide Away." The leaflet boasted that it featured "the widest selection of the most beautiful girls in the city. In letter to City Corporation Counsel Bernard Richland, Crosso said, "While our Sanitation Department is making some effort of maintaining a level of service, our streets and roadways are vecoming more littered because there is no longer any activity on the part of the Police De- News Dhoto bv Jack Smith Massage parlor leaflet-passers such as forced off partment to stop the distribution of commercial handbills.

He said, "We are getting every piece of garbage handed out by side- I side its om leswe Aire -KiBclaimin By JERRY ADLER Hundreds of teachers on long-term leaves, who were not due hack in schools for a year or more, have reclaimed their joVjs in the last few days, Board of Education officials said yesterday. Symbol of freedom gets another honor fellow on E. 45th St. may soon be streets. walk pimps and this practice is growing worse each day." He called for the enactment of a law that would curtail the practice.

teachers returning early from leaves are older teachers near the top of the pay scale, "so it really costs us X2 young teachers when one comes back." Arrieale gave two reasons for the flood of canceled leaves: (1) With jobs still scarce, many are coming back to work because their husbands or wives have been laid off, and (2) since teachers do not accumulate seniority while on leave, some felt the need to put in another year of teaching to help protect them from additional layoffs that may ake place next fall. Guess on Attrition Officials are also concerned about the attrition rate among teachers. In sending out layoff notices, the Board of Education projected a very low attrition figure about 500 teachers, compared with 2,000 last year. Teachers traditionally retire in the first few weeks of September so th can collect their summer vacation pay. Therefore the exact number of retirements won't be knwon for several weeks If the Hoard of Education was wrong and more teachers in fact retir as some city and state officials suspect wiil happen then some of the 3,700 layoff notices may be recalled.

Arrieale said the main reason for projecting a low attrition rate is that there are virtually no new teachers left. They all have been laid off. "New teachers, who work a year or two and decide it's not- for them, are always tha biggest source of attrition," he said. In addition, he said, in the past many teachers have gotten advanced degrees and retired Into a colleg teaching job. With cutbacks lri the City University, this is happening less often, he iaid.

u' I Jobs They said this clouds the outlook for a recall some ot the UU layoli notices that have gone out to teachers. Frank Arrieale 2d, executive director of personnel for the board, said that more than 800 teachers who had been on leaves of absence mostly to raise children had shown up at the Board cf Education's "hiring halP' in the last few days "to come back to work. The total number of early returns may reach 1,300, he said. Seniority Counts Teachers on long-term leaves have the right to 'cancel their leaves without notice any September, school officials said. And they can bump another teacher out of a job if they have more seniority.

In fact, said Arrieale, many of the Landmark of East Harlem and continue to serve the needs of the community," Ms. Spatt said. Designed by Flagg The Scribner Building at 153-57 Fifth Ave. was built in 1893-94 and designed by the noted architect Ernest Flagg for Charles Scribner's Soils, the publishing firm. In 1973, the United Synagogue jot America, the Union of Conservative Jewish congregations, purchased the building.

The Bronx Post Office at 560 Grand Concourse was completed in 1937. The facade of the building is highlighted by two large sculptures which were th products of a national competition. And who designed the Statue of Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, of course. Statue at liberty a City as city designates it a landmark, millions of immigrants and visitors here, was erected in 1886. Already a national monument, it was conceived by French admirers of America as a monument to independence and a symbol of friends between the people of the two countries.

The Soldiers and Sailors Monument on Riverside Drive at 89th St completed in 1902 in memory of the New York- regiments that -fought in the civil War. The dignified white marble structure with 12 great Corthinthian columns rises 100 feet above a series of balus-traded terraces. St. Cecilia's Church and Convent was completed in 1887 according to the Romanesque Revival designs of the noted architectural firm of Napoleon Le Brun Sons. "The church and convent were constructed by and for the people Bl AL MIELE The Statue of Liberty, the Soldiers and Sailers Monument in Riverside Park, St.

Cecilia's Church and Convent on East 106th the Scribner Building on Fifth Ave. and 22d St. and the Bronx Post Ufiice on the Grand Concourse were designated as city landmarks yesterday by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. In announcing the designations," Beverly Moss Spatt, commission id the city is "enhanced by the Statue of Liberty's location here, and New York, in tunv has continuously shown to all the humanity expressed by the landmark." The colossal statue, which has be- come a svnfbol of American freedom to.