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8 ML DAILY NEWS, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1977 Htit! "I 111 li I II -rt' rp 4Si, live? of Woe By TRUCE DRAKE Washington (News Bureau) A group of New York City congressmen yesterday released a draft report compiled by two state agencies that, they said, knockec dowi. environmentalists' arguments in favor of imposing tolls on East River and Harlem River bridge crossings into 4 I 1 5. Man' ITS r. News photo by Leonard Detrick Christine FIvnn greels Horst Breier at tramwav station, Second Ave. at 60th St.

ir am my easy Rider Geis Champagne, Bubbles Over Manhattan. "What the study, basically shows is that toils do not provide a clean air plan for New York City," asserted Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman (D-Brooklyn), referring to a joint report by the State Transportation Department and Department ot Environmental Conservation on the 'engineering, environmental and socio-etonomie reevaluation" of the bridge toll plan. Instead, Rep. Holtzman said, the study suoports arguments that the tolls plan would have a "'tremendously harmful" and economic effect on the life of the city.

The city is under a Federal Court order to clean up its air to meet federal standards by carrying out a transportation coiitrol plan that includes putting tolls on 13 crossings that are now free. These were some of the preliminary report's findings that Rep. Holtzman and others said supported their case: That while Manhattan might reduce carbon monoxide pollution by 5 by discouraging automobile use, a study of six of ihe bridges indicated that cars backed up at to' booth sites would cause significant pollution increases in those "These significant increases pose a severe problem as to the legal acceptability of the tolling proposal, at least as it relates to those bridges located in areas," where pollution is already near or above federal standards, the report said. While the tolls could make $141 million a year available for mass transit use, they could adversely affect economic activity in the city by burdening individuals with $122 million a year in travel costs and by adding $16 million a year to the cost of business travel in the city as well as $23 million in extra costs for truck transportation. Most of the car trips to Manhattan that would be discouraged by tolls, the report said, would be trips "for shopping or social or recreation purposes made by travelers from lower-income households, and most of them occurring during nonpeak traffic periods." tolls would pose "a serious financial problem" for low-income persons mak ing trips that require a car, the report Suid.

Annenberg Adamant By ROBERT GELINE and D. J. SAUNDERS Despite a personal appeal from Mayor Beame and other top city officials, publisher Walter Annenberg told the mayor flatly yesterday that in no way would he reconsider his abrupt withdrawal of a $40 million pledge for an arts-communications center here. Beame said yesterday that he had phoned Annenberg twice asking him to "reconsider withdrawing his gift until we had an opportunity to study the proposal. He indicated his decision was final." Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton also got the cold shoulder from the former ambassador to England in a phone call last night.

Sutton quoted Annenberg as complaining that he had "been raked over the coals" by a city he does not "understand." Sutton described the publishiog tycoon as bitter" and adamant that he would not renew his offer. "If New York has so many layers of people to go through before you can give it $40 million, then I'd just as soon go elsewhere," Annenberg told Sutton. Annenberg withdrew his offer Tuesday after some civic leaders had expressed reservations about locating the center in a proposed new wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art that would occupy space intended for public use in Central Park. Top business and labor leaders, who had a "lively discussion" of the matter at a general meeting with Beame at Gracie Mansion yesterday, were said to be "shocked" at Annen-berg's decision. They had looked upon the gift as a catalyst for generating jobs and business opportunities in the communications field.

Brooklyn Borough President Howard Golden sent Annenberg a letter offering land adjacent to the Brooklyn Museum on Eastern Parkway as an alternative for the center. In a statement issued late yesterday, Beame said: "It is indeed regrettable that a gift of this magnitude, which could be a major cultural asset to the City of New York, is apparently lost to this city because of premature criticism and overreac-tion in the absence of the facts." Waiting to greet Breier were Christine Flynn and other representatives of the Roosevelt Island Development Corp. who invited him to be their guest for dinner last night at the Windows on the World Restaurant. 107 stories up in the World Trade Center. Brier came here from Bonn only three months ago to work for the UN Institute for Training and Research and moved into an apartment in Island House on Roosevelt Island only last Saturday with his wife Hil-gard and daughters Mirjam, 12, and Florian, 6.

He was not the only tram passenger to sip champagne yesterday morning. The bubbly was served to anyone who rode the aerial car from 9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Tramway service to and from Roosevelt Island started in May of last year and about 3,500 New Yorkers ride it on an average weekday. Passengers glide over the East River in comfortable 12 by 24-foot cars at a maximum height of 246 feet.

The fare is 50 cents. By MARTIN KING United Nations staffer Horst Breier had a champagne breakfast yesterday-, not because he planned the bubbly in his morning repast, but because he happened to be the one-millionth passenger to ride the aerial tramway from Roosevelt Island to Manhattan. The 38-year-old Breier was given the VIP treatment and handed a glass of champagne as he stepped off the tramway at 9:20 a.m. after the 3 minute glide from the East River island to Manhattan's Second Ave. at 60th St.

"I'm nervous, but pleased, very pleased," said Breier as he accepted the drink and a certificate that named him a historic rider on the tram. The nervousness was caused by the surprised rather than the ride, said Breier who hails from Bonn, West Germany. mm Dedicated fcr Youfn Jo. New Center By DAVID MEDINA Mayor Beame yesterday dedicated a new Jobs for Youth Inc. headquarters in Yorkville, saying city youths must have work.

Patients' SOsi Hole! Sit-In sors a summer work scholarship program and a reading program specifically geared to training youths to fill out job application forms. "We are a very personal said Frederick Lorber, executive director of the program. "In our summer program, corporate investors sponsor a youth for $550 for eight weeks of work in a field of his interest. The sponsors get a picture and a write up of the youth they are sponsoring and sometimes they even get to meet the youth in person." Nassau St. Mall Legislation Albany (News Bureau) Nassau St.

in downtown Manhattan would be turned into a pedestrian Mall under legislation proposed yesterday. I The bill, sponsored by Assembly man Louis DeSalvio (D-ManhattanJ would permit a special tax assessment areas to be created to improve the narrow street that winds through the heart of the financial district. Motor vehicles would be barred from the street that would become a shopping mall. Thomas Poster Founded in 1958 by members of the Yorkville Civic Council as a storefront neighborhood service, Jobs for Youth yesterday expanded into a two-story building at 1831 Second Ave. with 4.000 square feet of space which will house a counseling unit, a reading center and an employer service department.

"I am proud to say that the Jobs for Youth program, which serves out-of-school teenagers in all five boroughs of this city, got the right message 19 years ago hen it was established," Beame said. "That message is that a youth must have access to work. And, initially, the real issue is work, not what type of work." Funded primarily through corporate donations, Jobs for Youth is headed by a board of directors made up of some of the city's wealthier East Siders. Who Is Involved They include investment banker Thatcher M. Brown 3d and his wife Sally, Stuart Prince Greenspan and former U.S.

Attorney General Ramsey Clark. Ninetv-five per cent of the 1,648 youths served by the program last year were black and Hispanic and over 40 came from families on public assistance. In addition to placing young persons with snnll or medium-sized employers year round. Jobs for Youth also spon By CLAIRE SPIEGEL The families of patients at the Rosewood Manor home for adults in the Bronx staged a sit-in yesterday to bar the state from shutting the facility. The home at 2225 Lodovick Ave.

was ordered closed by the Board of Social Welfare effective Tuesday, but the re-sisters have kept it open, claiming it provides "unique and superior care." Efforts by the board last week to remove patients were "strongly protested with some threats," said Bernard Fisher, director of the board's metropolitan office. The home was ordered closed two weeks ago, he said, because the owner, Anthony Tutora, failed to fire his mother, a former owner who had been charg ed by the board with "mismanaging the personal funds of residents." Frances Schlesinger, chairman of the Rosewood Relatives Advisory Board, which claims to represent the 44 patients there and about a dozen relatives, said, "We have taken over the facility from the owners. Mr. Tutora is going by our instructions." Tutora disagreed, saying that he was ready to comply with the board order "100." Fisher charged that the families have been stirred up by the Tutoras, whom he characterized as "recalcitrant and resistant." The board, he said, has consulted with the state Attorney general's office "as to where we go from here how we get the patients out." He added that the Social Security Administration has already reduced, but not eliminated, payments to the home..