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DAILY NEWS TUESDAY, JANUARY 17. 1978 BKL1 BROOKLYN TJh Sets Moving en Subway Transfer Points By RICHARD MESEROLE In a move expected to benefit more than 15 million riders annually, the Transit Authority yesterday opened three new interdivional subway transfer points, one in Brooklyn and two in Manhattan. Passengers may now transfer with clearing the lastturnstiles between stations was John DeRoos, the TA's senior executive officer "The transfer points offer a tremendous increase in convenience for the riders," said deRoos. "We will be losing a little in revenue initially, but we hope that the additional ridership will offset the loss." Frank McArdle, the city's Environmental Protection Commissioner, said the transfer points removed barriers which had prevented the movement of peorple. "We think this will be a big asset to the whole system because when you e- out paying an extra fare between the-IRT Seventh Ave.

line at 14th St. to both BMT and ID trains and from the 1RT Lexington Ave. line at Canal St. in Manhattan, to several BMT lines. In Brooklyn, a free transfer passage was opened up between the IRT Atlantic Ave.

station and the Pacific St. station. As a bonus, passengers from West End.Sea Beach and Foruth Ave. line-trains stopping at Pacific St. may now travel underground to the Atlantic Ave station of the Long Island Rail Road.

The Atlantic Ave. Subway station, serving Lexington Seventh and QB lines had previously been linked to the Pacific St. station, where and RR trains stop, by a corridor with turnstiles at either end, so a passenger -wishing to switch from one line to another hadeither to pay another fare there, or ride one of the other lines to another transfer point and then change trains, perhaps backtracking to get to the final destination. On hand for ceremonies in Brooklyn move the barriers, and people can move more easily in the system, then more people will use the system. This will encourage more people to use the system." Councilman Abe Gerges (D-Brook-lyn) also hailed the tranfer points as step in the right direction.

"We've been told by the Transit Authority for years that they have had to decrease service because of declining ridership. This is a real turn-around, because it is the first time the TA has increased services to encourage ridership." All three of the transfer points opened officially at 11 a.m. yesterday. Sanitmen Ordered on Overtime Ms Bird-Watch -for the Stork By JOAN SHEPARD When the word childbirth is mentioned, the first thought that comes to mind, of course, is a woman. However, according to the natural -childbirth philosophy, the father should be involved too in the birth.

So, last week when 17 women received their diplomas at Cumberland Hospital for successfully completing the natural-childbirth course, several were with their husbands. One father was so puroud and happy about the course that he was asked to speak. "It was the most wonderful experience of my life." said the new dad, Carl Walters, proudly. "I wanted to be with mv wife," said Walters. "I wanted to be there when she needed me," he said.

Moms Asked for It The course was instituted at Cumberland because women asked for it, said Dr. Inder Persaud, director of the Hospital. "It is important because the wives want their husbands to be with them during childbirth, "and the husbands want to be with their wives." Persaud said that there are fewer domplications and birth defects resulting from natural childbirth because no dugs or anesthesia are used. The course took eight weeks and each class was two hours long. The women received instruction from doctors, nurses and midwives.

The lecuters were supplemented with films. One woman, Salimah Abdul-Faat-tah, a mother of four, not only took the natural-childbirth classes but gave birth to her last child, Mumira Maryam, at home. "The birth was easy, it only took two hours and 45 minutes," she said. "My 3-year-old daughter cut the umbilical cord, and my husband was present," he said. Mrs.

Faattah said she thought it was important for her husband to be involved in the birth process. "I find News pnoro oy Wtihe Anaerson Carl Walters holding son David while wife, Anne, holds son Abraham as Dr. Inder Persaud presents diploma for completion of natural childbirth course at Cumberland Hospital. By MURRAY WEISS The Sanitation Department ordered its men in Queens on overtime lasf, night in an attempt to head off a repeat of circumstances that left many borough side streets impassable and halted garbage collection for days. Still running behind schedule on garbage collections curtailed to let crews battle back-to-back storms last week, the department declared a "snow alert" at 1 p.m.

and ordered its men to stav on the job at the end of the day shift. In Brooklyn over 300 men have been put on the midnight to 8 a.m. shift, "mainly for snow-fighting operations," a department spokesman said. Also, the possibility of additional precipitation and subfreezing temperatures caused Con Edison yesterday to call in cres on emergency standby. Most sidestreets in Brooklyn were passable we have a route through most of them," he said.

There was still ice on some of the roads, particularly so underneath parked cars, which the department "could do nothing about," he added. He said that, in anticipation of future bad weather, "boroughwide we have 26.757 tons of salt on hand and have alreadv used 18.959 tons in Brooklyn alone, to combat six previous winter storms. Power Trouble Persists In the meantime, about 6.600 residents on the Rockaway peninsula geared themselves for more cold weather as they have been without electric power since last Friday when it was knocked on I by fallen ice-covered trees. A spokesman for Long Island Lighting Co. said that she did not know when power would be restored.

But she hoped that the snow would not fall because "the working conditions are already the worst ever encountered by oar crews." Thousands of other residents had power restored by Sunday, she added. Unfortunately. National Weather Service predicts "at least four inches" possible up to six inches of snow will fall today. More snow is possible for later in the week, the forecaster said. A spokesman for Con Edison said that there are generally outages of some kind during snowstorms like the ones on Friday wliich left about 2,600 customers in Queens without power at various times.

ing at the Concorde Baptist Church, 833 Marcy Ave. The infant mortality rate in the area is 30.4 per 1.000 live births versus the national average of 15 per 1,000. "Something is very wrong," said Persaud. "The mothers in Fort Greene are not getting the care they need." After the ceremonies, coffee served and everyone talked about well, of course babies. that men who have been involved with childbirth take a different attitude toward their wives and their children.

It is not just women's work." Mona Marcel, who directed the course, said the classes were so popular that a secod course would be start on Jan. 22d. Prenatal Screening The hospital director also announced at the ceremonies that the hospital would start prenatal screen SfceWh Welfare Cash Si Charges lowing two major withdrawals during the final weeks of his office's investigation of her case. In addition to the bank account, Cipriani said, her husband was able to purchase two cars during the period she collected welfare. The second acr, a new station wagon, was financed with a $3,400 bank loan.

On the loan application, Cipriani said, the husband listed their joint earnings from their jobs af $425 a week. The DA's office is investigating the case, was $12 a week from the man who had made her pregnant. A year later, she pot a job at a bank under a different name and continued to collect welfare benefits, Cipriani said. In 1974, she got married and remained on the welfare rolls even though her husband was gainfully employed, he charged. During the four years she had other income, she had collected welfare illegally, Cipraini said.

Cites Bank Account In that time she allegedly built a bank account of more than $2,000. The account was closed, Cipriani. said, fol The acting- state welfare inspector general yesterday called for the prosecution of a Queens woman whom he said had collected $12,000 in benefits over four years while she was employed. The official, Ralph A. Cippriani.

has referred the case to Queens District Attorney John J. Santucci with a recommendation to prosecute her fro grand larceny. Cipriani did not identify the woman. He said she began receiving welfare in 1972 on a claim that her income.