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DAILY NEWS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1977 Asks IHIike Dedicated to Better Living Pel!) unity Sales Tax "lf By JOHN RANDAZZO A record $410.2 million budget for 1978 was proposed yesterday by Westchester County Executive Alfred DelBello. The budget recommends an immediate 8 county wide sales tax and the elimination of 171 jobs from the county payroll. Signed The budget is 3, or $11.9 million, more than the current budget. It calls for small additions to social services, which represents about 60 of the present budget, and adds $785,000 to the bus subsidy, increasing it to $4.5 million. DelBello "strongly urged" the Board of Legislators and the State Legislature to authorize the 8 sales tax to "reduce To Smother property taxes and give needed proper ty tax relief to the county's municipal ities and school districts." Gain rson in spite ot proposals to increase taxes and reduce staff, the county must still raise an additional $10.6 million "because of a $13.4 million increase in fixed, mandated and necessary costs, in eluding debt S2rvice, salary adjust ments, fuel and power costs and retire News photo by Len Detrick Ilousii-g Authority Chairman Joseph Christian holds salt and fruit for good luck while tenant Leona Bovette holds bread and broom for same reason as they help Mayor Beanie dedicate Harborview Terrace.

The two-building development between 54th and 56th between 10th and 11th was formally dedicated yesterday. It will house 250 families with 195 apartments reserved for elderly. Museum's Reptile Hail ment benefits, the county executive said. No property tax increase Is in the proposed budget, which must be ap proved by the county board. If the budget does not pass the board, and the State Legislature balks on the sales tax, property taxes will rise almost 9 from Had Shed Its Old Skin $21.92 per $1,000 to $23.85, he added.

westcnester present sales tax is By OWEN FITZGERALD A pair of anti-arson bills to offer $1,000 rewards and enable the city to slap liens on fire insurance proceeds were signed into law by Mayor Beame yesterday. The mayor and several of the coun-cilmen who had sponsored the fire insurance proposal deplored the fact that the insurance bill had been "watered down" in the enabling legislation passed by the State Legislature earlier this year. Critics earlier had blamed the banking lobby in Albany for succeeding in inserting the phrase, "except the claim of a mortgagee of record named in such policy," into the enabling bill. That, in effect, gives banks and other mortgagees prior claim to the city to fire policy proceeds. Eut the new law, said Beame, will give the city po er to place special liens on properties destroyed or damaged by fire on which there are municipal tax arrears.

The reward law enables the fire commissioner to post $1,000 rewards for information lead; to the detection, arrest and conviction of persons in arson cases. DID YOU KNOW: Some lizards (that's lizard with a z) have the happy faculty of shedding their tail when they fall prey to the toothy clutches of a predator and are able to walk away from it all, leaving their attackers terribly confused? PETER COUTROS DID YOU KNOWrOld Mam is the name of a Japanese liquor in which snakes are thrown in live to give it body, and doesn't that make you recoil? 5, with 4 going to the state and 1 to the county. Several cities levy their own: Mount Vernon, New Rochelle and White Plains have a 7 bite and Yonk-ers takes 8. DelBello said that two thirds of the boost in the sales tax could provide "revenue-sharing monies" to towns, villages and school districts (outside cities). The county would keep one third.

Of the 171 recommended job cutbacks, 24 are at the Westchester. County Medical Center, 14 in the sheriff's office, 12 in the Health Department and seven in the district attorney's office. The proposed budget was submitted to the county board Monday. It can add or subtract items, but must adopt a budget by Dee. 31 resix Museum's Exhibit DID YOU KNOW: Some reptiles can reproduce themselves without any help at all from the other gender? It's called parthenogensis, and where's the fun? DID YOU KNOW: All of the foregoing intelligence is something you can pick up first hand by going to the new Hall of Reptiles and Amphibians at the American Museum of Natural History, which will be open to the public this Friday? "The idea of redoing the hall was first projected in 1944," said Charles J.

Cole, the museum's associate curator of herpetology. Leaping lizards, -That's 33 years and three wars ago. But it takes that long to undo the old and do the new, especially when you get involved in all that "conceptualizing." The waiting has been worth it. The new display is a wondrous collection of reptilian beauties and freaks and their amphibian cousins. One of the more intriguing displays is one In which a 25-foot python is seen coiled around a tree stump, within easy striking distance of a jungle fowl poking its beak into a nearby pond.

In another enclosure, two species of frogs are exhibited and their viewing parameters are defined. "The frog with the eyes popping out of his head has 360 degrees of vision he can see what's going on behind him," explains Richard Zweifel, chairman of the herpetology department. Hmmmm. A frog that can see what's coming at him from all sides? Just what the Giants need at quarterback. Landmarks in 3 Varieties By ALFRED MIELE The interior of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Williams-burgh Savings Bank tower in Brooklyn and the former Lord Taylor building at 901 Broadway were designated as landmarks by the Land- 1 -I how error By DAVID MEDINA In what its trustees hope will bring in more people and also show the rest of the world that the Bronx is as culturally sophisticated as any other borough, the Bronx Museum of the Arts yesterday launched the most ambitious exhibit of its short 6--year career.

The exhibit is called, "Images of Horror and Fantasy," and it features some of the most vivid graphic and initios jr reservation iommission. I The exterior of the Metropolitan Mu seum of Art, at Fifth Ave. and 82d was designated as a landmark by the commission in 1967. In announcing the interior designation, commission chairman Beverly Moss Spatt said, "These grand interior spaces, through which most visitors enter the museum, enrich the experience and excitement of a visit to one of New York's greatest tourist attractions." The Williamsburgh Savings Bank exhibit I have done and touches upon basic questions of our time The idea was conceived by Dr. Judith Van Baron in conjunction with Dr.

Roberta J.M. Olson, and the exhibit is a prelude to a book they will publish by the same name. More Money Being Sought "Images of Horror and Fantasy" is the first effort by the museum's new board of trustees, which was reorganized last month and is now headed by Bronx businessman Frank Lugovinia. "The museum's total budget is and it is running at a $50,000 deficit," Lugovinia said. "For a borough with two million people, we are underfunded by about $400,000." He said that as president, his primary challenge will be to obtain additional funds for the museum and see to it that the institution is more responsive to the general make-up of the Bronx.

Lugovinia urged other businessmen to assist the museum by becoming patrons at $1,000 each. The museum is located in the Bronx County Building at 161st St. and the Grand Concourse. "Images of Horror and Fantasy" is scheduled to run until Dec. 30.

sculptural depictions of terror by many of the world's best-known artists. They include the first public showing of a 1931 Salvador Dali canvas entitled "The three Holocaust paintings by Philip Kvergood; and two paintings by the Mexican muralist David Siquieros. There are also several charcoal works by Sibylle Ruppert. From Madness to Fantasy The viewer is guided through a sequence of moods beginning with fear and despair to interpretations of madness, torture, pain, sex, sadism, death, war and destruction, and finally dreams and fantasies. The material is so raw that guest Curator Gert Schiff, who has been a professor of fine arts at Nsw York University since 1965, is advising any school officials who are thinking of bringing students to the museum to examine the exhibit beforehand and use their discretion.

"This is a serious exhibit," he said, though. "It was not conceived to give old spinsters goose pimples. "It is more ambitious than any other Lord Taylor building, chairman Spatt said, "It is a striking reminder of the period when the area from Broadway to Sixth Ave. between Eighth and 23d Sts. was New York's original shopping district and when Broadway was known as "The Ladies Mile." The four-story and attic building is designed in the French Second Empire Style and boasts a striking corner tower.

In other actions the commission also gave landmark status to a 70-year-old apartment building at 45E. 66th St. The 10-story building at the corner of Madison Ave. was among the earliest luxury apartment buildings constructed on the upper East Side. The commission deferred action on a proposal to designate tihe Astoria Motion Picture Center in Queens as a landmark.

The center, once used by Paramount Studios and by the U.S. Army, is now being used to film a television production of the Broadway musical, "The Whiz." structure at One Hanson Place, Brooklyn, is the tallest building in Brooklyn and Long Island and is easily recogniza ble from great distances. The 32-story, 512-foot-tall tower is crowned bv an exceptional illuminated four-faced dial clock and gilded copper dome. The setback tower is charasteristic of rost- World War I skyscrapers which were regulated by 1916 zoning laws mandating setbacks to allow light and air to reach surrounding streets. In announcing the designation of the.