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--ni i. T.n... ft. MONDAY. FEBRUARY 7.

1977 BQLI Cold Bird, Warm Heart Con Ed Prs Eons to le Heard by IPSE By BERNARD RABIN The State Public Sen-ice Commission, assuming the role cf "honest broker," will decide whether Con Edison or six Cambria Heights homeowners are responsible for the cost of installing new electric service IF llocitrcls Associated Press phota Terry Mundy, 4, is a big hit with seagulls on frozen Jamaica Bay. Terry is feeding hungry birds who have had to rely on humans since ice covered their normal feeding grounds. in their homes. A spokesman for the utility said the state agency decided to step into the case at the- request of Bernice and Per-cell Harris of 114-44 207th St The couple refused to bear the expense of rerouting current directly to each of the six houses from a "loop service" arrangement formerly used to provide electricity to all the houses. The spokesman said the PSC, after hearing the plea from the Harris couple, asked the utility to withhold any action to discontinue service until it can hear the case.

Cable Caught Fire The case came to light last fall when a cable connected to a feeder that was part of the loop service caught fire. The underground cable was hooked up to a utility pole at the curb in front of the Harris home. The loop service arrangement was commonly used before World War II to provide electric power to a cluster of homes. After the fire, the couple refused to let Con Ed rebury the cable. They demanded instead that the feeder arrangement be removed and that the utility provide direct electric service to each house.

Harris rejected the company's demand that he bear the expense of rerouting the current to his neighbors and said Con Ed should pay for the necessary installations. The company said the cost should be borne by Harris, a laid-off public school custodian, and threatened to shut off his service if he refused. Temporary Arrangement Meanwhile, the utility set up a temporary arrangement by running a 50-foot cable from the utility pole over a tree, down the outside wall of the Harris house, through a rear window and into the basement feeder. The utility spokesman said repairs for rerouting the current must be done by a licensed electrician and would cost an estimated $300 to S600 per house. The other owners involved in the hassle have said they support the Harris couple's battle with the utility and have refused to comply with a Con Ed 30-day deadline, which is now in abeyance, pending the PSC decision.

The homeowners receiving electric service from the feeder in the Harris basement live at 114-28. 11434. 114-38, 114-40, 114-46 and 114-50 207th St. The house at 114-30 207th St. also receives the current but is vacant.

ursinci Homo in Qugbiis Missing Says Man, 77,1 By HARRY DANYLUK and the staff at the Resort Nursing know where all the patients were. PLANNING The following community planning boards will meet in Queens this week. Members of the local boards are empowered by the City Charter to review any matter relating to the development or quality of life within a board's area. The boards take positions on thes matters and offer advice to the Borough Improvement Board and the borough president. Local boards meeting are: BOARD (Fresh Meadows-Kew Gardens Hills) will meet at 8 p.m.

Wednesday in the second-floor conference room of Queens Borough HalL 120-55 Queens Kew Gardens. Members will discuss the proposed soccer field at Cunningham Park, the planned installation of new curbing and sidewalks along 65th Ave, and the plan for one-way streets throughout the planning board are, according to board chairman Albert Daly. A speaker from the city's Health Services Administration also will address the meeting concerning health problems in the area. BOARD 9 (Kew Gardens-Richmond Hill-Woodhaven) will meet at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the second-floor conference room of Queens Borough HalL 120-55 Queens Kew Gardens, to hear a report by the search committee assigned to hire a district manager far the planning board.

BOARD 11 (Bayside -Little Neck-Douglaston) will meet at 8 tonight at the Colonial Church, Bell Blvd. and 53d Ave, Bayside. Members will discuss committee assignments and the implementation of new community board bylaws. BOARD 14 (Roekaway-Broad Channel) will meet at 8 p.m, tomorrow at the Daniel O'Connor American Legion Post, 301 Beach 92d St, "Far Rockaway. Members will hear a report from the search committee assigned to hire a district manager and will discuss the proposed annex to Queensborough.

Community College. SCHOOLS The following community school boards have announced public meetings in Queens this week. The boards oversee operations and set policy in the seven community school districts in Queens. The boards consult frequently with the Board of Education. DISTRICT 28 (Rego Park Forest Hills-Jamaica-South Jamaica) will meet at 8:15 tonight in the district office, 70-48 Austin St, Forest Hills, to discuss ways in which the Board of Education has strengthened its authority and has reduced the powers of the city's community school boards.

DISTRICT 30 (Astoria-Woodside-Jackson Heights-Elmhurst- Corona) will meet at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow at Junior High School 10, 31st Ave. and 45ih St, Long Island City. Members will vote on a resolution calling for the board participation in a state-mandated free breakfast program for needy students. It was 5:45 yesterday morning Home in Rockaway Beach did not William Turner, 77, inadequately clad in trousers and a golf jacket, had disappeared into the frigid night.

It was seven degrees and the nurses were worried. "He is a confused and disoriented tvpe of person," said one nurse who works at the home, at 430 Beach 68th St. He was last seen at 9:15 p.m. Saturday. Turner has run away from the nursing home twice before.

The first time was last April 12. He was found two weeks later wandering around Staten Island. He walked out again on Dec. 14. A day later he was found in a Brooklyn Hospital.

"I guess he just doesn't like it there," a detective in the Missing Persons Bureau said yesterday. Detectives do not know where Turner is but yesterday they were confident that he was alive and suspect he may be riding the subway somewhere. Turner is described as gray-haired, 5' 162 pounds, blue-eyed and stocky. He is wearing a yellow sweater, black jacket, black pants and black shoes. The Missing Persons Bureau said that a lot of elderly persons run away.

"It's nothing they do on purpose. It happens a lot with senile people. They get as lost as if they were children." oils Into SlotkoviuyBouTdiwIk tr the resurfacing of tennis courts, repairing of park benches, planting of new trees, repaying of asphalt playgrounds and the general sprucing up of neighborhood parks. The redecking of the Rockaway boardwalk got under way during the summer of 1975 under a $1,065,000 project. However, in December 1975, after about a portion of the seven-mile long boardwalk had been torn up.

Park Department officials announced that the redecking project was being suspended because of shortage of funds. Patch-Up Work Subsequently, the Parks Department reinstalled new lumber over the torn-up area at an estimated cost of about but the rest of the badly deteriorating boardwalk was left as it had been. The redecking of the Rockaway By JOYCE WHITE The Rockaway boardwalk which has undergone on-and-off reconstruction during the city's budget crisis is scheduled to be refurbished this year under a $19 million citywide park improvement program. The program, which will be funded by $10 million in federal money and $9 million from the city's budget, was announced over the weekend by Mayor Beame. Besides the Rockaway boardwalk, eight other Queens recreational sites are scheduled to be upgraded.

Beame, in announcing the program, said that "the improvements will make our town more livable by enhancing the attractiveness of our many neighborhoods throughout the city." ty Planning Board No. 14, who said that the "entire community has been waiting for the project for a long time." "Presently the boardwalk Is in deplorable condition," Stein added. "We are pleased to learn that the walk will soon be made usable again. I am sure that the redecking will be an incentive for people to come and visit the Rockaway peninsula this summer and to find out what a nice place it is to live here." The other Queens projects which will be improved under the $19 million program, are the John F. Murray Park, Woodside; the Bayswater Park Hockey Rink, Edgemere; the Forest Park Band-shell.

Glendale; Juniper Valley Park, Middle Village; the Rochdale Athletic Field, Jamaica; the playground at IS 237, Flushing; repair of boilers at Shea Stadium. Corona, and the Ravenswood Houses, Long Island City. boardwalk was praised -yesterday by George R. Stein, chairman of Communi- He said the program will provide tor i jaghi jlr in.