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DAILY NEWS NEW YORK'S PICTURE NEWSPAPER 9 MOLLIS HOWARD BEACH JAMAICA LAURELTON OZONE PARK RICHMOND KILL ROSEDALE ST. ALBANS THE ROCKAWAYS WOODHAVEN QSQL1 FRIDAY, OCTCSEB 22. 1976 mm Mbmm I ami mm By JOHN TOSCANO Proponents of a major park and recreational development on the St. Albans VA Hospital grounds won a long-sought victory yesterday when the Board of Estimate voted unanimously to apply for the 53-acre tract with the commitment to use it for park purposes. A late-blooming movement to have the city commit itself to build senior citizen facilities instead was rejected.

Under the resolution the Beame administration will apply for the land to the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Outdoor Recreation. The tract was declared surplus government property by the General Services Administration several years ago. News photo bv Nick Sorrentino Teacher Ruth Grossman's second-prade class is back. to normal after two-day student boycott at PS 159 in Bayside. 60-Acre Site At that time, the Veteran's Administration converted the hospital, which occupies 60 acres, to a nursing home for vote, Spignr stated that there was a great need in the community for parks for youngsters and adults alike.

"This can easily be seen by the large numbers of people that ha'e been making use of the meager facilities that are available there now," Spigner stated. Jim Hall president of the park association, said that in anticipation ot the city acquiring the property, "a successful organizational effort has been undertaken which has resulted in the establishment of a unique coalition of community agencies, individuals and offices focused on delivering optimum services to the youth and adult populations." In all, 70 dues-paying organizations had been formed into the Queens Federation of Youth Organizations, he said. Solomon Goodrich, the federation's executive director, noted that programs had been organized for about 4,000 youths. Future plans call for development of a staff to administer he programs, which will be funded by private and governmental sources. By ROBERT HERBERT Normal classes resumed at PS 159 in Bayside yester-day after parents called off a two-day boycott in a "good faith" gesture to the Board of Education.

veterans. Meanwhile, community youth organizations "and Councilman Archie Spigner (D-Jamaica) began the movement to have the other 53 acres turned over to the city for recreational purposes. During this period, a limited sports program has been functioning there. If theycity takes title to the property, which is in the general vicinity of Merrick" and Baisley the Southern Queens Parks Association will manage it and coordifate a year-round sports program. At a hearing preceding the board's grams and services at schools in Queens.

Natalie Winter, a member of the Parents Association at PS 159, said, "We are showing our good faith by returning our children to school. After the meeting, though, the presidents of all the Parents Associations in District 2o will vote to decide if there should be a unified boycott of thedistrict." Most of the parents who marched in demonstrations this week complained that the budget cuts have gone too deep and the result has been the loss of essential programs. PS 159 has lost teachers, a guidance counselor and the school librarian as well as language and science courses, and classroom sizes have been increased, according to Mrs. WTinter. Parent leaders said they decided to temporarily end the boycott when Marvin Weingart, superintendent of District 26, agreed to meet with parent leaders from throughout the district to discuss budget cuts and program losses.

The meeting has been tentatively scheduled for Wednesday in the district office at 196-25 Peck Fresh Meadows. A Parents Warning Parents warned, however, that further boycotts could follow if the ireting is not productive and if there is no satisfactory response from the central Board of Education. Several Parent Associations have held demonstrations over the past week to protest the steadily dwindling pro- Sunshine Over Flushing MX. plllpililiiipiilll Bedimie A Mospild is Tomorrow In St Albrni and intermediate-care center "two areas of critical need in metropolitan New York, where federal funds available to qualified veterans in private institutions is far short of the actual cost." The veterans agency has been using 151 nursing home beds at the hospital and 149 more are expected to be in use by the end of the year. The hospital will also soon open an beds, with occupancy expected by next April or May.

The spokesman said that the VA, since acquiring the hospital, has employed, private contractors to renovate, repair and modernize it to meet the stand Mr jf jfff fx3 nf v' vK nriiiMitfr tai -v; By BERNARD RABIN Federal officials, veterans and congressmen, from Brooklyn, Queens and Nassau are scheduled to attend dedication ceremonies at 10 a.m. tomorrow for the' St. Albans Veterans Administration Hospital, formerly the St. Alban3 Naval Hospital. VA Administrator Richard L.

Roude-bush and Dr. John D. Chase, the agency's chief medical director, will preside at the dedication ceremonies. It marks the climax of a long campaign by veteran's groups in the three-county area to convert former naval hospital into the newest of the VA system of 171 hospitals. The-ceremonies will be held in front Of the six-story building, off Linden Blvd.

Phased Out in 1973 Kavy phased out the hospital in September 1973 and the VA acquired it and its 117 acres on March 15, 1974. If accepted its first patient, Edward Keeffr," a 63-year-old veteran of World War II, on April 29 of that year. A VA Spokesman said the agency is operating St. Albans as a nursing home ards of both the agency and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals. Repair work will continue until thee building is completely modernized.

Jame3 S. Dooley, acting director of the Brooklyn VA Hospital, which has jurisdiction over St. Albans, said George Parsons, assistant director of the Brooklyn VA Hospital from 1972 until last November, has been named new director In Brooklyn and will supervise the continuing' work at St. Albans. Dr.

Anthony Nowicki is. chief of staff at St. Albans. Photographer Tom Middlemiss of The News captured this bucolic Scene in Flushing Meadows Park as the sun returned yesterday following Wednetday's rain. Today we can expect more sun, some clouds and temperatures in the 50s..