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By ERIC V. COPAGE questions people parking in our customer lot, they simply say they are going to the bank and walk through the bank to the store they were going to in the first place. "With the fee, this would be ten times worse; and it would make parking difficult in the surrounding neighborhoods, also." Peter Frankel, the manager of Richfield Clothes in the mall, said he doesn't think 50 cents will keep out people who specialize in shoplifting and car thefts. "Fifty cents an hour might work, but as a pervasive fee, I don't think it will do a thing," Frankel said. However, Roy Scott, the manager of Sam Goody's record store in the mall, took a wait-and see attitude.

"We're willing to let the fee go through," Scott said. "We don't anticipate that it will hurt business, and it just might do some good. Time will tell." Parking-lot improvements scheduled by the mall include a better and more efficient traffic flow pattern going into and out of the enclosed garage, an outside parking lot on the Avenue side of the mall, improved lighting, and additional security guards. The inside of the mall is due for better-dressed security personnel for higher visibility, new mall directories, and a new information booth. Concerned merchants from the mall and the surrounding area, as well as neighborhood residents and civic leaders, have scheduled a meeting for Wednesday to air their grievances and to discuss the issue, a spokesman for Community Board 18 said.

Plans to impose a parking fee in the Kings Plaza Shopping Mall is receiving mixed reactions from merchants in and around the shopping center. The 50-cent fee, which is scheduled to begin Oct 1, is being instituted to improve security and support renovation work for the 13-year-old mall, where parking has been free. George Ebert, the manager of the Bowery Savings Bank, said the parking fee would be a "disaster." Ebert said, "We have our own parking lot for bank customers, and right now it is difficult to keep illegal parkers out" "We have an unarmed security guard, but if he- ff Briber iasndl Si 1 an HHC spokesman, who pointed out that walk-in and emergency room treatj ment would be continued at the old hospital; it will become the site for a neighborhood family-care center. HHC officials have said that the Cumberland Hospital staff is essential to the expansion of Williamsburgh's Woodhull Hospital. "These people have already been oriented at the new hospital; and when we close Cumberland, we'll be able to' 'use them," said Tom Ricke, a vice president of Health and Hospitals.

i State Health Department spokesman Peter Slocum said the state would continue to monitor the status of operations at both Cumberland and Woodhull, but he could not say when a new state inspection report on Woodhull would be completed. Woodhull received failing marks on an inspection this spring. If the hospi tal passes the current inspection, HHC will expand the facility to more than 400 beds by the middle of September. There are about 150 beds at the hospital. By MIKE SANTAXGELO With fewer than 20 patients left in the place, the State Health Department late Friday approved the city Health and Hospital Corporation's plan to close Cumberland Hospital.

Keeping the aging Fort Greene hospital open is costing the HHC more than $1 million a month. It has a staff of nearly 950 people. Under the plan approved by the state, the patients, as well as patients under treatment for drug-abuse problems, would be transferred to Kings County Hospital. "We have urged that HHC continue to work closely with community groups oh this," said Ray Sweeney of the State Department of Health Systems Management, which is overseeing the closing of the hospital. "We have not given appproval for HHC to open any new beds at Woodhull Hospital and we understand that Kings County Hospital will be the main resource right now." "This is just in-patient closing," said 'A EOWARO UOUNARI DAILY NEWS Anti-Soviet campaign Representatives of Jewish Union of Russian Immigrants, Oceanfront Council for Soviet Jewry, Students Struggle for Russian Jewry and Shorefront YM-YWHA's Project Art hand out leaflets yesterday at Brighton Beach Bath and Racquet Club protesting Russian emigration policies.

CORCUCII BEAT COMPILED BY MIKE SANTANGELO In hospital emergency, he's feeling bruised baum's supermarket at Avenue and Ocean Ave. in Sheepshead Bay. Family, friends and firefighters' honored the memories of Fire LL James Cutillo and firefighters Harold F. Hastings, James P. McManus, George S.

Rice, Charles S. Bouton and William O'Connor. The most touching moment of the morning came when Bouton's daughter, Katherine, 15, thanked her dad's fellow firemen for the support the heroes' families have been given over the years. At IRS, Or. Ruth keeps it couth e.

HERE ARE LOTS of ruffled feathers because of Health and Hospitals Corp. President Stanley Brezenoff's decision to take personal charge of the problem-ridden Woodhull Hospital today. One report is that Ira Clark, HHC regional director in charge of Woodhull and Kings County Hospital, "stormed" through HHCs Manhattan headquarters the day after Brezenoffs decision became known. While the HHC chief is still said to have confidence in Clark, he is reported to be having second thoughts about Woodhull chief Carlos Loran. No commitment, just bologna Rabbi Yisroel Rosenfeld, Democratic leader of the 43d A.D.

in Crown Heights, lunched with Mayor Koch the other day at Bernstein's on Essex St, which serves kosher Chinese food. The rabbi is trying to lure the mayor into visiting Crown Heights "to show him what we've done and what can be done in our neighborhood." Well, Koch didn't say yes, but he didn't say no to the invite, and the trip into the city wasn't a total loss for the rabbi. He and the mayor were presented with a giant bologna that was described by one person in attendance as "long as a couch," and an egg roll "big as a chair." Music-without the mayhem tails at old Boys High School Field in Bedford: Stuyvesant last week, where he hosted the first in his Martin Luther King Jr. Concert Series with African singer Miriam Makeba as the leadoff star. More than 4,000 people showefl'up.

There was not a single violent incident reported after the music ended. Among those present and enjoying the music were Community School Board 17 Chairman Sylvester Leaks and Deputy Borough President William Thompson. 'Sinbad' ready to take a helm City Councilman Abraham Gerges (DNorth Brooklyn) is back in town after completing a feat of navigation that might have made Sinbad or maybe Popeye the Sailor proud. Gerges sailed his boat up the Hudson through the New York State canal network and across Lake Champlain up to Canada to the city of Montreal. Gerges is now set to get back to work in the Council and perhaps even pick up the reigns of a Council committee among the leadership positions left vacant in the wake of the sinking of the Council's at-large members.

Fire orphan gives thanks More than 200 firemen showed up Tuesday morning at SL Brendan's Catholic Church in Flatbush to mark the fifth anniversary of the death of six fire fighters in the roof collapse of the burning Wald- The recent Women's Day observance at the Brooklyn federal courthouse was expected by some to be a spicy affair. That's because the Internal Revenue Service called in psychologist and sex expert Dr. Ruth Westheimer to talk. A spokesperson for the IRS said Dr. Ruth's talk had nothing sexy about it; she just spoke about how she made a success of life in this country.

Victim lister adds victim-self Assemblyman Dan Feldman (D-Sheepshead Bay) jj thought he had finished up a survey of crime victims' reactions, when he discovered he had one of his own to add. It seems that Wednesday someone broke into the legislator's office at 1126 Kings Highway and removed two typewriters. So Feldman filled out one of his own questionnaires. State Sen. Marty Markowitz (D-Flatbush-Bedford J- 'jij Stuyvesant) was triumphant in his white top hat and.