Daily News from New York, New York • 102

BATE APRTT. 13, 1077 8 Mir as littrfteLft By MARTIN KING A crackdown on those who drop on the street massage parlor circulars handed to them in the Times Square area got under way yesterday with sanitation cops handing out 33 summons for littering. In an extension of the city war on He said that originally the plan called for beefed-up patrolling of the Times Square area from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., but it was decided to put three men on the street during evening hours, when porn-land is more active. The fine for littering is $10, which can be mailed in by an offender, and those who received tickets yesterday did so without complaint, the spokesman said.

Failing to find a crowd of offenders in Times Square, our man strolled over to Lexington Ave. where he was handed three handbills advertising three pleasure places within three minutes. Two were collected in front of Grand Central at 43d St. and the other in front of Zum Zum's at 45th St. and Lexington Ave.

He could not find, however, a sanitation cop to hand him a ticket. and Broadway and the other two operated three blocks north, in front of Sophisticated Lady at 1595 Broadway. The Sophisticated Lady handbill advertised "Luxury for Less." Although most passersby ignored the handouts, the streets were still filled with the other usual litter. Nevertheless, a sanitation, spokesman said that in addition to the 33 summons, the department issued 21 warnings, 10 citations for sidewalk obstruction, one for a loose dog and another for improper use of a litter basket. The spokesman said he could not determine how many summons were issued for dropping massage parlor pornography, seven summons-armed Sanitation menpatrolle the midtown area from Sixth to Eight Aves.

and 41st to 55th Sts. The law had permitted only religious and political organizations to distribute handbills on the street until recently. Now anyone can distribute circulars. Authorities cannot prosecute those who hand them out only those who drop them on the But the sanitation men seemed to outnumber even those handing out the circulars yesterday. A two-hour morning walking tour of the area by a News reporter found only three young men handing out the circulars.

One stood on the corner of 45th St. A Harvest I Of Bargains By D. J. SAUNDERS I It looks like a little bit of the country a farmers' market 1 will return to the upper East Side again this summer. Community Planning Board 6 approved the market at a meeting Wednesday evening and efforts are 1 proceeding at full steam to place the back-of-trucks operation in a vacant lot on Second Ave.

between 1 58th and 59th Sts. for the second I year in a row. I Lys McLaughlin of the Council 1 on the Environment said the mar--; ket is to operate on Saturdays from I June 18 through Oct. 8. Charged Per Foot As with last year, farmers most of them from the Hudson Valley, some from New Jersey will bring in fresh produce, line up their trucks, open up the backs, hang their scales and display their produce for sale.

The farmers are charged 30 cents per square foot of truck size. This plus a $5,000 grant from the Fund for the City of New York and a $10,000 grant from the Kaplan Foundation pays for costs of running the market. Eye New Sites The market was such a success last year that the Council "on the Environment is tentatively planning similar markets on Union Square in Manhattan and the Brooklyn Academy of Music parking lot "on Flatbush and Atlantic Aves. The council also is considering two such markets in Harlem. i The council is a private, nonprof-; it organization affiliated with the mayor's office.

It was set up in 1970 by an executive order from the mayor. I News photo by Jim Hushes ftA IT I Mrs. James Cash Penney seems to enjoy job of giving out birth- 1 ww wwywi II I day cake at Penney Co. headquarters at 52d St. and Sixth Ave.

yesterday. Sirs. Penney's late husband founded J. C- Penney chain in Wyoming 75 years ago. Texas-size cake is to mark diamond jubilee of chain that now has 1,700 stores around the country.

Big Plans at filled Center For Heart Transplants By EDWARD EDELSON Science Editor With their first heart transplant recipient looking on, surgeons at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center yesterday described plans that could make their institution the East Coast capital of heart transplants. Tucker Park Gets an OK A bill to name a triangular park area bounded by W. 68th Columbus Ave. and Broadway for the late Metropolitan Opera tenor, Richard Tucker, was approved unanimously yesterday by the City Council's nine- member Parks Committee. Richard Tucker Park is-near Lincoln Center, which the late singer opened as a soloist with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic.

Tucker, a Brooklyn-born cantor, made his debut at the Met in 1945 and played 30 roles in 715 performances here and on tour. He died Jan. 18, 1975 at age 61. Islanders Are Hung Up on The Line Thousands of Roosevelt Island residents had to find alternate ways to and from the island yesterday as workmen tried to repair the malfunctioning electrical system that left 70 riders suspended in the tram for an hour and a half over the East River Wednesday night. The breakdown, which workmen blamed on the safety backup system, occurred even though the island had hired an expensive managing firm that promised to provide a "sophisticated preventive maintenance program." The 70 stranded passengers were finally brought down after spending about 90 minutes perched 310 feet in the air.

The tram was immediately shut down to prevent further mishaps. The repairs were made by workers of the VSL which was hired on Jan. 17 after the state's Urban Development Corp. Dropped an ITT subsidiary that had run the tram from May 1976. VSL had built the $6 million tramway.

Later, after getting the operating contract, it hired away a top UDC engineer, David Ozerkis, to run the tram. Ozerkis spent a better part of yesterday overseeing repair operations and arranging for buses for island residents. "I feel that there should be an institution in this area that provides this sort of service," said Dr. Keith Reemt-sma, the center's chief of surgery. Reemtsma said that several patients are being evaluated for possible heart transplants.

It is too early to say when the next transplant will take place, he said. But he said that he is "confident that there will be an increased number of patients because of the population area we are in." The only American institution with a major heart transplant program is Stanford University, which performed 22 operations last year. One of the persons present when Reemtsma spoke was Fred Pfitzner, a 48-year-oldtelevlsion repairman from Ridgewood, N.J., whose failing heart was replaced at Columbia-Presbyterian on Feb. 3. Pfitzner, who was accompanied by his wife and two of his three children, said he felt "just fine." He had been given only a few days to live before receiving the heart of a 22-year-old Merchant Marine Academy student who died in an auto accident.

Reemtsma said the transplant had to Become New Apartments The YWCA's 16-story building on Eighch Ave. between W. 51st and W. 52d SU. has been sold nad its buyer plans to renovate the structure into 190 one-bedroom and efficiency apartments.

The buyer, Benjamin Rosen, president of the Steven Organization said he will apply for federal funds to defray the rental costs. If he is unable to receive the federal monies, Rosen said he hopes to qualify for the city's J-51 tax-abatement program. been performed when it became obvious that nothing else could save Pfitzn-er's life. A few minutes later, as Reemtsma describe the Feb. 3 operation, Pfitzner saw a picture of his own diseased heart as it looked after its removal.

His reaction: "It's great. I like to see things like that." The ITT subsidiary, ITT Services Inc. of Cleveland, was charging $135,000 a year for operating the tram, plus managing the island's bus service, grounds maintenance and security systems. VSL is charging $200,000 a year for running the tramway alone for the first three years and $165,000 a year thereafter. The Roosevelt Island Development a part of UDC, has assumed responsibility for the other services that ITT had provided.

Larry Goldman, vice president of the Roosevelt Island said that VSL was providing the tramway with "the most sophisticated preventive maintenance program in the world." Regarding the breakdown, the tram's first major one, he said: "What can I tell you? Things happen." Ozerkis said, "It's just one of those things." He addzxsthat the sophisticated preventive maintenance program, though, is in operation. D. J. Saunders.