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BROOKLYN EAGLE, SUN APRIL" 13, 1947 Heffeman Urges Action on 2 Bills George Currie's fortably will do more than anything GOVERNOR SIGHS BILL GIVING II. Y. TUTORS TOP PAY Yenner-Gren Out As Backer of Huge meajure, no action having been taken durtng tha previous Congress. Meanwhile, the War Damage Corporation remain in operation, accumulating a vast amount of money and having Incurred little losses. Each Sunday the Brooklyn Eagle publithee en article rpecially written by member of the Brooklyn Congreuional delegation on vital isnue under debate at the national eepital.

Each Repreeenta-tive telecU kie OKU tubjeet and treate it vitket. else to make these veteran self-sufficient. I hope that the people of Brooklyn will become Interested in my proposal and lend support to hastening action by the Congress Reading over the following fig By Res. JAMES J. HEFTERNAN Railroad System ures It will be Sfen that this public service has really become big business.

on H.R. 2101. War Damage Corporation World War II has been over for nearly two years but we can still Axel Wenner-Oren, multi-million Eleventh Congreuional District Statistical studies indicate that approximately 2,400 veterans of World War II suffered spinal cord injuries. About 1,200 of these are now in Veterans Churches in Brooklyn are part and parcel of our borough i Special to the Brooklyn Eagle Albany. April The controversial bill mandating a permanent basic salary schedule for the State' 77,000 public school teachers, became law today as the measure was signed by Governor Dewey.

Not for nothing was Brooklyn called. In its great day of civic Independence, the "City of Churches." Brooklynites have their worshipful moments, even in this present day of international disputatiousness. aire Swedish Industrialist, whose name was on the United State blacklist during the war, abandoned suddenly yesterday a proposal to help back vast New York metropolitan area railroad network. Wenner-Oren, tall, white-haired and 65, said at press conference In his Manhattan hotel that until a few hour earlier he had bsea The Governor, announcing his ap- nlrl a anrl what harm, tthom In hurricanes. But VOtf1 P11 ta memorandum explaining Administration hospitals.

It is estimated that 'some 500 of the 1,200 will probably remain in hospitals permanently, or for the greater part of their lives. However, this does not have to be the case if a bill I have introduced in the 80th Congress, H. R. 2101, can be enacted into law. This measure provides for special housing to fit the needs of the paraplegic remember the black days of 1942 when the Japanese conquered all of Malaysia, occupied Burma and threatened India while the German armies approached the Volga and the Suez.

During that time Germany and Japan came close to realizing their dreams of world conquest, and we began to realize the threats to our civilian population. We read about, and saw vivid newsreels of, the devastating bliti of England and Number of policies issued 6.500.000. Number of policy renewals 3200.000. Net premium collections for the entire War Damage Program amount to against which have been charged fiduciary agents' expense reimbursements of $5,466,640.05, producer's commissions of $16279,049.79, expenses of $4,227,936.29 and Claims paid $73,063.99. The corporation's fiduciary agents participating In the program have an interest of The net of the foregoing is $201,961,682.81 and represents funds on hand derived from the sale of war damage insurance coverage.

can still ride the Staten Island ferry and remark to your neighbor that many spires do rise into the landscape, from nighfst statewide schedule of teach-Bay Ridge to our flagless Grand Canyon, called Court St. ere' salaries in the nation and ac-Thev are a reminder to the world's shipping which comes compiishe a dosen nouble gains in W9- Hrfferaaa receptive to the idea of tho construction of a $500,000,000 railroad system Involving the purchase of tha Long Island Railroad and linking education at one stroke. into our port that we are not a godless people. Along with the main bill, the Governor signed a measure that in we thought seriously of the horrors of having our families and homes New Jersey and Long island tnrougn Manhattan. cludes regular substitute teachers bombed and burned.

in provisions for a 300-a-year in In those dark days of 1942, Con crease and sets up additional State gress enacted legislation establish ing the War Damage Corporation, veteran. The Veterans Administration is authorized to acquire the sites and sell the homes or housing units to veterans qualified to purchase them at one-third the actual cost, the Government to stand the remainder. This proposal of sale, instead of an outright gift, was advanced after I came to the conclusion, through discussion with officials of the Veterans Administration and the armed services, that the veterans desired actively to participate in the purchase of their own homes, rather than feel they were receiving a Government gratuity. which was to use its funds to pro Many noble piles, either now or about to become, centenarians, testify to the profound regard for the religious life in our community. From time to time, this column has made note of the same.

Today, let us talk about the Hanson Place Central Methodist Church, of which the Rev. John Emerson Zeiter is pastor. His handsome ecclesiastical pile is twenty years old, but the congregation of "Hanson Place" really began in 1847. "But I'm going to drop the whol thing." he said "I have had several calls this morning from friends advising me not to get into It I never really said I was going to get Into It. "Naturally a project of this kind, with its normouc social, economic and financial implications, could not but capture my Interest and.

vide, through Insurance, reasonable protection against loss of or damage to property, real and personal, that A portion of the plan I have advocated for the past two years will soon be accomplished. I understand the War Damage Corporation will be dissolved during the fiscal year 1947, but the plan Is to transfer might result from enemy attack. It aid for school districts to meet the increase In the school year ending March 31. 1948. City Costs Boosted Mayor O'Dwyer has estimated the newly-approved legislation will cost New York City approximately in the coming fiscal year in increased educational costs and has declared that to help meet the expense it will be necessary for the city to levy the proposed $5 a year tax on passenger adtomobiles and the $10 levy on commercial motor was not the intent of Congress that this protection was to be provided so as to result in a profit to the its assets and liabilities to the Re recognizing its great potential bene construction Finance Corporation and, on final liquidation, profits of made-to-order has been put into Government, button the contrary, over $200,000,000 will be paid into The young'11 wa rrna" puonc service effect in Dallas, Texas.

Structural housing refinements and special home appurtenances are necessary for some paraplegic veterans. This applies equally to other severely disabled veterans whose disabilities do not stem from mat uie government aione couia the miscellaneous receipts of the The Methodists had moved into Brooklyn as early as 1766, when Captain Webb, an Englishman and a "local preacher," for all his British Army trappings, came across the East River to preach the inaugural Methodist sermon. Wollman Hickson, however, was the first to preach his gospel regularly and it had to be in the public places, in that dav His sermons were delivered standine upon a table. His veteran was given the land and the home by a group of his neighbors. fit to the oublic, I indicated my Interest 'n the matter if it could bo tied up with my philanthropic activities.

I therefore asked for further information and particular and had hoped that other men of 'my way of thinking might Join in the ntudv of the nrolect. I find, how provide. Abolition Sought in '44 Treasury Department. Who Will Get Surplus Funds? All disabled veterans are not so vehicles. spinal cord lesions, and it Is hoped I fortunate, and while it is hoped Assuming that after such liquida The salary schedule bill, after its that the bill will take care of all The defeat of Germany and Japan was accomplished by the great military might of the United tion about $200,000,000 will be left that other communities will become Interested in providing homes simi- qualUed disabled veterans on an ever, that specialist In the railroad to put Into the general fund of good works led to the sending of circuit riders, not only to' enactment by the J.

was of the eqajtable basis, lar to his, we cannot assure it the Treasury, where will it go and Teachers' Salary Conference as a "disappointment." They declared its major defect was the so-called "superior merit" provision which, they said, would limit the number of teachers reaching maximum salary who will get it? It will actually help no one unless it is used to refund to the policy holders the amounts paid in war risk insurance. True, the individual amounts might be small, but each citizen's refund would be important to him and in States and its Allies, without serious enemy attack on our shores. The purpose of the War Damage Corporation no longer existed and I Introduced a bill in January, 1944, providing for abolishment of this corporation and for the refund of unused Insurance premiums to policy holders. In January, 1945, and again in except by legislation through the Congress. This special housing will enable paraplegics to lead nearly normal lives: it will get them out of the hospitals much sooner than would be possible otherwise, and it will give them their own homes, suited to their own needs.

That pride of field are very skeptical as to ine practical realization of the plan and I therefore have decided not to go any further in the matter." Wenner-Oren, whose alleged dealings with Nazi interests before the war put his nam on the State Department's blacklist of 15.000 individuals and firm. ald he was returning to his home In Mexico within the next two or three days. A home for a paraplegic veteran should have ramps or elevators, low slidlng-door closets, tables adjusted to accommodate a wheelchair beneath, and many other plans alien to the usual house but absolutely necessary if we are to help these men out of the hospitals as soon as possible. This plan of a paraplegic's home standards. They asserted the 1948 but also to Long Island.

The first church of the growing congregation was on Sands dedicated in 1787. From this sprang Brooklyn's first Sunday School, held in Thomas Kirk's printing office, on Adams between Sands and High. "Father Snow, a venerable man of God, was Superintendent; and Judge Dyck-man, a man of renown, was one of its teachers." The Methodists prospered, so that a new church was dedicated, April 6, 1824, at York and Gold Sts. The Rev. John Summerfield, later a bishop, preached the sermon.

By 1847 Brooklyn had twelve school districts, with 5,455 a government of the people, by the Legislature would be asked to remedy what they" called the "bad people and for the people, they are entitled to it. possession, and ability to live com- January, 1947, I reintroduced this features" of the bill. "The Increases provided In the teachers' salary schedules," Dewey said in his memorandum, "are per wiiuiiBiiNmiiiaimMiinu.iiiiiiiuiaiiiKBif,.:!! a i ABRAHAM manent and greatly exceed the emergency temporary Increases en-i acted earlier in the legislative ses-' children enrolled. "The Long Island Railroad was put through from Atlantic St. and the Flatbush Road, now Flat- sion." bush I read from the 100th anniversary brochure.

"New $5,125 Top Minimum i TALKING ABOUT LOW PRICES? homes grew up around the railroad. So the people built a new house of worship on Dean known as Dean St. Methodist Church. But the work did not prosper here, because it was not 'in the way of the Lord'. Yet must 'Dean be known as the beginning of our venture, and 1847 the year of our (Hanson Place) beginning.

The Governor's reference was to the $32,000,000 teachers' emergency salary bill passed by the Legislature in January on the recommendation on his special committee on education, which also framed the legislation he approved today. The new law provides minimum salaries for classroom teachers as follows: In school districts having a population of less than 100,000, $2,000 to In districts exceeding 100,000 population, $2,200 to $4,510, and in New York City, $2,500 to $5,125. Just at this oil "And a certain woman named Mary Powers, who had been a power for God in the Church and in establishment. With prophetic eyes she foresaw that one day the buying of land at the crossroads of this new settlement. With prophetic eyes she forsaw that one day this would be the crossroads of a mighty city, where lines of traffic would converge.

Here was the place to build a house to the living God. "She gave of her substance $1,000 towards the purchase of the land. Others began to share her vision and at the end of ten years at Dean her vision became a reality. And in the year 1857 the new church was built on Hanson Place and St. Felix St.

And the name of it was called 'Hanson Place Methodist Thus the lineage of this centenarian among our churches, The Tablet Calls PR. Total Failure; Asks Its Repeal New York City' ten-year-old method of electing members of the City Council by the so-called Proportional Representation system has The congregation is a merger of the Fleet First Place, Summerfield and Hanson Place Societies, strong in their works for the betterment of Brooklyn. They encountered some trouble, however, as they reached for a "Cathedral of Service," under the leadership of Dr. J. Lane Miller and MISSES' AND WOMEN'S 59.95 TO 89.95 BETTER SPRING COATS William Judd.

become a "total failure" and should' be repealed. The Tablet, official organ of the Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, said in an editorial pub-, lished In yesterday's issue. The editorial declared the two Communists now occupying positions in the Council carry two-thirds as much weight as the three The congregation had great plans in hand and actually bought a site on Lafayette Ave. and Ashland Place; but the subway diggings "had dislodged the walls of the church, so much so that they were declared unsafe, and a congrega tion of 1,650 members found themselves 'a Church without a For a while, these good people worshiped in the Academy of Music. Republican members, "although anyone with half an eye can see the disproportion between Communist party membership and membership in the Republican party." The editorial made this observation in asserting that Proportional Representation had given minor dissident elements in the city a power far beyond the Importance of the minorities, represented.

A referendum at the nex', election to repeal the system has been under discussion by members of the two major parties. Representatives on at only tody 111 14 of the American Legion and other uujjo iiavc vuuic uuv 111 lavil 11 its elimination. I Under the heading, "An End to 'P. The Tablet's editorial said: I But this wouldn't do. So the congregation worked to bring stones from Nazareth, Bethlehem, the Sea of Galilee.

A real Bethlehem manger was brought to the children's chapel. "And great art in the form of windows, carvings and symbolism was lavished upon it (the new building, at 144 St. Felix St.) to make it a fitting Cathedral for the Most High God." The old church yielded its stained glass and other memorials, to lend the dignity of the "dim religious light" to a congregation determined to rise above the weakened underpinnings of subway construction. Mr. space won't allow him to go much deeper into the traditions of the noble edifice now in being.

But I should say something about the wood carvings of Edgar Keen, who came to this country from Stratford-on -Avon, England. These are figures of the Apostles, set in niches, along the Communion Rail. Not all are yet In place. But this fine work goes on, apace. Each figure is designed as a memorial.

Hanson Place Central Methodist Church enters upon the hundredth year next month, still a vigorous and valuable part of the community of that Brooklyn which is not a baseball war or a radio flippancy. It is, truly, part and parcel of our real borough. 'P. R. the system adopted by the voters of our city eleven years ago for choosing members of the City Council, should be repealed.

A movement to put an end to 'P. by popular referendum this Fall Is now under way. It deserves thei support of ajl intelligent and civic-j minded voters. 'P. ft.

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