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SEPTEMBER. 1979 fclos stall Sftl to' bdp pf oistolaS tomes t- I Mi -NV i V'r 1 By ROBERT CARROLL With winter and dollar-a-gal-lon heating oil just around the corner, more, than $5 million in federal money intended jo help the state's poor insulate their homes is going unspent. A state official who has been trying to get a two-year cash roadblock cleared explained yesterday that the major hin-, drance has been unrealistic federal regulations. "The over-all program is a valuable said Albert Webster, director of the state's Division of economic Opportunity, "but we need regulation changes. We've had some.

We need more. "I must say," added Webster, sounding a note of optimism, "that the federal Energy Department is trying to get the money moving. Two months ago I wouldn't have been so The federal weatherization program, as it is called, has been limping along since 1977. More than $278 million has been appropriated nationwide, with only about a fourth of it spent The state has an unexpended backlog of $800,000 from 1977 and another $4.4 million from last year. The state's grant this year is $18.4 million.

Volunteers and CETA According to Webster, the program initially was hampered by a provision that ail insulation work be done by volunteers or by Comprehensive Employment and Training Act workers. That provision recently was changed to- allow installation to be done by outside contractors when it became apparent that there weren't enough trained CETA workers to go around. But the rule change hasn't completely solved the problem. "The amount of money available to pay a contractor to supervise an installation is, on the average, $240," said Webster. "You can hardly get a decent supervisor for that" Further, he said, insulation contractors are swamped with a backlog of orders.

Hopes for more Webster hopes to coax more CETA money out of Washington so the weatherization program can compete for the available skilled installers. Robert Low, regional director of the federal Energy Department who has been pushing for regulation changes, said the program "was designed by a Congress not always concerned about urban centers." As an example, he said, apartment in poor neighborhoods initially could not get weatherization grants unless all tenants of a building qualified as poor. That provision has now been changed to allow a multiunit building to be "enveloped" if 75 of the tenants qualify as poor. "We have had many meetings and we are continually reevaluating our guide lines," said Low, "and there is a parallel effort on -the part of the state. It all should help get the money moving to where it will do the most good." Damcl JacinoDally News This happy band Joe Baldizzone, Mike Jobsky and Tony Civiletti (1.

to hold trophies outside Police Headquarters where they were awarded for taking first place in citywide band concert sponsored by the Police Department and WNBC-TV. Trio, all high schoolers, topped 50 bands competing in Central Park to take honors. They won by playing music composed by Civiletti. he mes to bat for a clean sweep BEAN APPLE POLISHER Ruth Plaza of hamburger wrappers, milk cartoons, beer bottles and other debris four hours work in all. "In one house I lived 30 years," he says.

"I'm" here 70 years in the Bronx, in this area. I hate to see it go to the dogs. I get it cleaned. Maybe that's what keeps me "alive. But to be truthful, it's catching up to me.

Today I was exhausted." Twelve years ago, as he saw the neighborhood, "a Garden of Eden," becoming more a paradise lost to grime, gutters, of handing out his own handwritten citations to motorists whose cars prevent "my" Sanitation Department sweepers from cleaning, of calling down the cops on those who don't move, of going up against burly bruisers and tell ing them to quit littering, of being called names and threatened with a broken of knowing that people thought him a nag, a kook, he was discouraged. "After 12 years of trying to keep it cleans I'm ready to throw my hands he growled after sweeping up Babe I By GEORGE JAMES Ninety-year-old William Hirsch-er, all Meet-6 of him, was out on 1 the Bronx streets again yesterday at JS a.m. fighting his private war for a "clean New York. Only yesterday, he was beginning to wonder if he shouldn't quit After 12 years of cleaning up 10 square blocks near Yankee Stadium, of haranguing merchants along 161st St to sweep not only their sidewalks but the he formed the Southwest Bronx Citizen League Inc. as his way of "lighting a candle." "It is better to light one candle than curse the darkness," he quotes.

But members have died or moved and he is the last one. Of all his "jobs, teacher, soldier, salesman, piece goods buyer, credit agent, this self-imposed job of street cleaner had been his favorite. Area colleges opening imMh feiver EuHOiney problems The number of students living on campus -has increased sharply, especially in metropolitan areas where off -campus housing is more expensive. Here's a rundown of what's coming up this year at the state's colleges and universities: At the City University, where tuition goes up $150 this year for freshmen, and sophomores to $925, a major emphasis will be on improving the university's relationship to the public schools and to the local business community. The university will open two college-affiliated public schools this fall, the A.

Philip Randolph School on the campus of City College and the Louis Armstrong Junior High School, which will be affiliated with Queens College. -j." The university also plans to initiate adult education programs with local labor unions and to introduce new programs in business administration, data processing, industrial engineering technology and college administration. In addition to the opening of a new performing arts complex at City College this fall, the university will resume construction on three long-deferred campuses. Starting in the new year construction will resume on a $95 million campus for Manhattan Community College, which was interrupted at the height of city's budget crisis. Bonds will be sold to raise approximately $200 million for extensive additions to Hunter College and a new campus for York College in Jamaica, Queens.

Plans for both campuses have been scaled down from previous plans because of lower enrollment projections. The university expects to name new presidents for million a year and is payable starting in 1980-81, will be used primarily to offset rising tuition fees. As a result of their improved financial status, many colleges are turning their attention back to improving the quality of educational programs and completing long-delayed construction projects. At the same time as the colleges face a gloomier enrollment picture in the 1980s, all are making plans to scale down long-range construction programs plan- REGlOfJAL REPORT ned in more prosperous times, and are seeking ways to attract older students An estimated 605,000 full-time students are expected to enroll in the state's colleges this fall, with more than 328,000 additional students attending part-time. Slightly higher than last year, the enrollment figures reflect an increase in number of high school graduates throughout the state.

They also reflect, college officials say, the tail end of the "baby boom" that swelled college enrollment through the 1960s and most of the 1970s. But a period of sharp decline in enrollment is expected. as the college-age population begins to dwindle next year. The-most pressing concern of college officials re mains increasing costs, including high energy bills and demands for faculty salary boosts. Tuition fees at most colleges increased this year, continuing the pattern of annual increases for the last few years.

Among students there is continued high Interest in pre-professional and graduate career programs with the greatest interest in business and- management pro-, By SHERYL MCCARTHY Colleges and universities in the metropolitan area start reopening this week and some of them "are more financially secure than they have been ior some time. City University of New York has. weathered the severe financial setbacks that come with the city's fiscal crisis. But the recently approved state financial takeover of funding of the 10 senior colleges means university officials no longer have to depend on the vagaries of the city's fiscal condition. But the educational scene has not been entirely peaceful.

Hofstra, in. Hempstead. L.I., the first day of classes Tuesday was marred by a brief strike by the 450-member faculty over salary increases. Some classes went on as scheduled, while in canceled classes students were issued reading assignments. Othmr fatuity $triks Elsewhere in the metropolitan area, school openings at two New Jersey colleges were marred by strikes.

At Union College in Cranford and Elizabeth, scheduled to start Tuesday for 5,000 students 'were canceled when 100 faculty members strike because of the failure to reach a new contract At Fairieigh Dickinson University, which has campuses in Teaneck, Rutherford and Madison, 500 faculty. i members struck yesterday after negotiations on a new icontract broke off. t- New York State's private colleges, which have been clamoring for increased state aid to help offset rising costs caused by inflation, this year received their first increase in per-student aid from the Legislature in several years. The extra aid, which will total about $22.