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Greenpoint Home News from Brooklyn, New York • 3

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4 -)gi? I -5ZN rID ri? iGJnonn that he had never done or said anything to aid Chester in an alleged shakedown of Paul Claude, owner of a plumbing firm at 21 Franklin Brooklyn. Retired Police Capt. William C. Beneke yesterday testified before a Brooklyn grand jury investigating a manufacturers assertion that police assisted labor racketeer Max Chester in a shakedown of the businessman in August, 1954.1. Beneke, who lives a.t 29-12 163d Flushing, vehemently insisted outside the grand jury rooms The Queens Chamber of Commerce called on all Queens businessmen and taxpayers interested in preserving the 15-cent subway fare and securing new rapid transit construction for the borough in this generation to urge the City Administration to sell its Transit Authority-operated power plants to Consolidated Edison Company for $90,000,000 Simeon Heller of Flushing, He who has conferred a kindness should be silent, he who has received one should speak of it.

Seneca. Did you make Mew VbrkfMA dirty s. Division in Rego. Park. "Theres no logical excuse, Mr.

Heller declared, "for delaying the sale of the City-owned plants at 59th Street, 74th Street and Kent: Avenue for $20,000,000 to Consolidated Edison Company. All Queens businessmen and taxpayers interested in preserving the 15-cent fare and securing new rapid transit facilities for our borough in this generation should demand it. "An analysis of Con Edisons offer to the City, apart from the $90 million, indicates that the City would save about $56,000,000 additional over the first ten-year period and about $5,750,000 annually thereafter. But most important of all, the Transit Authority and the City would not be obliged to continue rehabilitating these power stations. "The Transti Authorit.ydespite logical arguments to the contrary--- has steadfastily insisted on spending nearly $200,000,000 for.

the rehabilitation of City-owned power stations. Yet it could sell these power plants to Con Ed at a profit and purchase power from this public utility at cheaper rates than power can now be -produced- by City power stations. vJrvILEl nh 77( Dont throw trash -on the ground. Use the litter basket. is a letter from Chairman Ileller, requesting to appear at these executive hearings present the Chambers recommendations and carefully-considered reasons for the proposed sale of power plants.

The Chamber spokesman pointed out that if the Transit Authority's costly plant rehabilitation program were halted immediately, the power plants sold to Con Ed, remaining funds of the $500 million originally intended for new subway construction (but used exclusively by the TA for rehabilitation work and neAv equipment) frozen for new transit construction, and other "obvious economies in the system were undertaken, ihe Transit Authority and the City "would have immediately available over $250,000,000 for new construction. Mr. Heller stressed the "absolute minimum Queens deserves from this visionary fund is: A new subway tunnel under the East River at -76th Street, extending through --Wood and linking up with the Rockaway chairman the Chambers Transit Committee, suggested that Queens industrialists, businessmen, representatives of some 250 civic groups, and individual taxpayers communicate with City Administrator Charles F. Preus-se, chairman of the Mayors Committee on Transit Power Plants, to "let the City know exactly where Queens stands. At the same time, Chairman Heller scheduled a meeting of his Transit Committee on Tuesday, Aug.

3 3th, and extended an invitation to key civic leaders in the borough, who in the past served on a Chamber-civic steering committee on transit matters, to help map the Chambers borough-wide campaign to Induce the City to sell its three power stations. The "invitation only transit confab will be called in Chamber Headquarters, 24-16 Bridge Plaza South, Long Island It is intended to immediately precede mid-August executive hearings on the proposed sale of power stations, as announced by City Administrator Preusse. in Mr. Preusses hands v.w. A CLEANER NEW YORK IS UP TO YOU I CITIZENS' COMMITTEE TO KEEP NEW TORK CITY CLEAN i-, yt i fBk: BOaEmaifflE Ely ioighbors OJ in fsiQSSllfU KfiSL EflUimKQ YOU? 5b? CcHsff PRESEiNTS A few drops of OUTGROlffi brine blessed tf pain of to grown nstl.

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