Daily News from New York, New York • 172

DAILY NEWS. MONDAY OnTYVRRR 7. 1974 giitu ii HiHHwiiitinimn tilfitf HFiimmff liirniMfUftfm iniintfMttf itfrnKiitntilitf tHiffnnfiitfiii iilmiTii if; juittifinuiti hi rnn iin mit imi i mil iuiftniiHjiti uj i tiTr tiutH itMHtmittFf tut iTim intiiti iftitiii hit itifif iiit 'ntn hih lit mtttntNi iiih iTtiimimiitinttMi HittHttiitiii iwj Hmntttitm i mi Kitiiiui khi iiMtHitii hiiiwh mitHtH iuiImi i mmNi ni Hmiimin Htfri i iT ium tint hiiih tin mi i mw Work BeMs mffloosevelfi isle Aerial- Tram By OWEN MORITZ Work has started on the city's first new mode of public transportation in a half century a $5.9 million aerial tramway linking a new community on Roosevelt Island, with Second Ave. in Manhattan. The tramway is actuallytwo cable cars put to mass transit use, with each cab capable of accommodating 125 persons in a three-minute ride between the $325-million Roosevelt Island community and a vertical bus terminal at the foot of the Queensborough Bridge in Manhattan.

Excavation is under way on three towers that will guide two cables 3,100 feet in length. The tramway will thus touch down on a platform 16 feet above Second permitting passengers to descend to buses below. For Next June The tramway itself is scheduled to be ready by next June, which is expected to be about five months after the island community opens for business. The first of 2,100 units of housing now under construction are due to be ready in January. Until the tramway is operative, the first tenants there will be 18,000 in all when the island community is finished later in the decade will thus have to board buses to the Queens Plaza subway interchange for the trip into Manhattan.

"We're negotiating now for express buses into Manhattan' sad a spikeswoman for the New York State Urban Development Corporation, whose subsidiary 13 building Roosevelt Island. A subway station, linking the island with the new 60th St. IND link, is under construction. But even optimists don't expect the line to be ready until 1981. The tramway's fare will be 35 cents or whatever the fare is then for the city's subways.

First Such System "The Roosevelt Island Tramway will represent the first use of an aerial tramway for mass transit in the United States," a corporation statement declared. "The alignment of the tramway will be along 60th parallel ta the Queensborough Bridge. Its path will be generally within the profile of the bridge. The corporation known to have explored other transit devices to link Manhattan with the-two-mile-long Roosevelt Island (formerly Welfare Island), which lies about 2,000 feet offshore. At one time, the corporation considered a ferry line, with docking facilities envisioned at the foot of 71st, 63d or 34th Union problems, a lack of direct access to bus and subway lines and high operating costs ruled out the plan.

The corporation points out the tramway Is pollution-free, that it compares favorably in energy saving with other mass transit systems and would Artist concept of tram crossing 60th St. to be safeguarded against power failure and midair suspension. An independtly powered rescue car i will be available. lllimililllimimifllMMMtflUJU Bern Entries IPoott Accent on Ethnics Bv BETH FALLON romanced Polish, Democratic statewide candidates Jewish, Italian and black voters yesterday at festivals and special events around the city Gubernatorial hopeful Rep i Hugh Carey urged the electorate to approve the 250 million railroad preservation bond issue, saying there would be a potential loss of 13,000 jobs and an economic loss of $370 million annually, as well as million in state tax revenue, if it fails. Speaking to a small group of educators at the Jewish Theological Seminary at Broadway and 122d Carey said he and Rep.

Wilbur Mills were exploring ways for money paid by parents to private schools to be defined as federally tax-deductible charitable donations, rather than tuition. "Never has the Supreme Court found any congressional program News photos by Harry Hamburg Hugh Carey leads family members ia Central Park Heart Fund Cyclethon before parade. 1 love hvits like a ffiunnmg Mate: By SAM ROBERTS Gov. Wilson reaffirmed his "full and enthusiastic" support for Sen. Jacob Javits yesterday, disclosing that he had personally pumped $6,000 into the Republican incumbent's campaign.

"I am just as much interested in the election of Jacob Javits as my Urges Forcft Replace Birtz Washington, Oct. 6 (UPI) Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz should be fired, Rep. William R. Cotter (D-Conn.) said today, "If there is to be any hope that food costs will slip rising." Cotter wrote to President Ford, asking- the dismissal of Butz, whom he called "totally insensitive" to rising food prices. for private or religious school students Title textbook, Head Start, etc.

unconstitutional," Carey said. "The court has also said it is a long-held congressional policy to allow deductions for gifts. "If as a philanthropist, can give 5(Ke of my income as a deductible gift to your school, why can't I give it to my local school? I think there is a loophole here that is logical, construtive and defensible," Carey said, before join-i Chancellor Gerson Ds.vid Cohen and others under the harvest festival Succoth booth, a huge leafy bower strung with fruits and vegetables. He followed that with a pro motional bike ride through Central Park with nine Carey offspring and one son-in-law for ths Heart Fund's Cyclethon next Sunday, before joining running mate Sen. Mary Anne Krupsak at the Pulaski Day Parade on Fifth Ave.

Meanwhile, Bronx Borough President Robert Abrams, candidate for attorney general, and Senate hopeful Ramsey Clark were at a Festival of Freedom for Soviet Jewry in Carl Shurz Park on the upper East ide. Both were to attend the Pclish parade and the Italian Food Festival in Central Park, and Clark was to drop by the Ebony Fish-ion Show at the Hilton before debating Sen. Jacob Javits list night. Sen. Krupsak, the only Polish statewide candidate, a button reading "I Am Fraud tt Be a Polish-American" at t'ht 42d St.

reviewing stand Pfcu flew to Binghamton lt Vlt for a two-day tour of thm S.taLU em Tier counties with tf (tV candidates for the Levtfci, self of any of my running mates he added. Seeking to dispel reports that Wilson plans to campaign with conservative Sen. 'James Buckley to shore up his right flank at the expense of Javits who has the Liberal line, the governor's staff said such stumping had been planned months ago. Wilson him self said he was personally rais ing funds for Javits since the Republican state organization was not contributing to the Sen ate race its observance of stricter Report Haig Pardon Plea Washington, Oct. 6 (UPI) Former White House chief of staff Alexnader Haig approached President Ford nine days before Richard Nixon's presidency ended about a possible pardon for the former Newsweek magazine reported today.

Newsweek said that Haig had approached Ford Aug. 1 about a passible pardon for Nixon. Newsweek said that Ford had given a negative answer the following day to James St. Clair, Nixon's lawyer. St.

Clair then told Ford that information would soon Be released that would force Nixon tj resign, Newsweek said. Democratics rivals before Jewish Associates of his team, chaired by Saumel Hausman and including Michael Leinwand of the Jewish Teachers Assn. "We can't play pattycake with those who. are destroying our communities and our lives," Wilson said, referring to the criminal element. He added that some responsibility must be borne by mayors who name Criminal Court judges.

Wilson also pledged to continue funding the full state share of City University. Dancing the hora on East 84th St. in a procession for Soviet Jews and reviewing the Pulaski Day Parade on Fifth Wilson was joined by Stephen May, controller candidate, and Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz, who endorsed the $250 million Rail Preservation Bond Issue and proposed a weekly state register to publicize hearings, rulings and statutes. Javits, who spoke at the rally for Soviet Jews, pledged to tie trade pacts with the Soviets to -rights for Soviet Jews. He also said he did nol oelieve his visit federal financial controls.

I Speaking of finances, the Republican governor curtly denied that he had ever received any monetary gift from former Gov. Rockefeller, who had extended his largess to former GOP State Chairman Judson Morhouse and Port Authority Chairman Wil-1 liam Ronan, among others. News photo by Ed Clarity Barbara Kozlowski, 4, of Brooklyn, waves with Gov. Wilson. to Havana took any sting out of criticism of the 1972 trip to Hanoi by his Democratic rival, Ramsey Clark.

Javits said his trip to Cuba had been sanctioned by the Senate and added that: "I wasn't used by the Cuban I was dealing with Nelson Rockefeller the man, not Nelson Rockefeller the great Wilson said. "I never discussed at all Nelson Rockefeller's personal business. I never asked him for a charitable contribution for someone I would never be so nresumptuous as to suggest how he should spend his money." Endorsed by the state Associa tion Electrical Workers' yes-. J. KtJ.

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