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Air LI Doctors Vote Break in Job Action By Sid Cassese and Robert Fresco In the first break in Long Island doctors' job actions, representatives of the medical staff at Southside Hospital in Bay Shore voted yesterday to return to a normal work schedule starting Monday. Moreover, starting today, the staffs of other Long Island hospitals have scheduled meetings to discuss ending their slowdown protesting the high cost of malpractice insurance. Dr. John Egner of West Islip, president-elect of the Suffolk County Medical Society, said the meetings reflect "a lot of sentiment" in favor of going back to full schedules. In the six days of the job action, scheduled surgery virtually has been eliminated and hundreds of hospital employees have been laid off.

Dr. William Kraft, president of the medical board at Southside, said the 300 doctors there are not satisfied with New York's new malpractice law. "We felt that it wasn't helping the public," Kraft said of the slowdown. "And it was giving physicians adverse publicity." Meanwhile, doctors in the state were threatened with more than bad publicity yesterday by the State Department of Education. The State Board of Medicine, the arm of the department that licenses all doctors in New York, issued a warning late in the day that "physicians, who withold their professional services may be charged with unprofessional conduct and subjected to disciplinary action under the Education Law." The board did not specify what action might be taken.

Spokesmen for both the Nassau and Suffolk County Medical Societies declined to comment on the warning. "This would be a legal question which would require further study," a Nassau society spokesman said. At a special meeting in Chicago on the malpractice insurance problem, the executive board of the American Federation of Physicians and Dentists voted unanimously to support the New York job action with legal and financial aid. In a statement issued after the meeting, the executive board urged Gov. Hugh Carey to disavow support of any license revocation for doctors to taking part in the job action.

Also in Albany yesterday, Carey promised to appoint a nine-member review panel to examine the state's malpractice law by early next week. A spokesman for the governor said that the new panel would include four state legislators and members of the medical profession. Several hundred downstate doctors meeting in Garden City voted Thursday night to continue their job action, despite Carey's promise to name the panel. Egner said, however, that each hospital staff will make its own decision on whether to continue to limit its medical practice to emergency work only. Most general practitioners and internists have been limiting their practice to patients they have treated before.

The staffs at Good Samaritan Hospital in West Islip and Huntington Hospital will hold meetings tomorrow morning to decide whether to go back to work Monday. Similar meetings will be held Monday evening at Lydia Hall Hospital in Freeport and North Shore Hospital in Manhasset. And there will be staff meetings Monday or Tuesday at Mercy Hospital in Rockville Centre and Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center in New Hyde Park. Meanwhile, hospital officials in both Nassau and Suffolk said yesterday that the number of emergency room patients was running only 10 or 15 per cent above the levels before the job action and the decline in the number of in-patients had leveled off in the past few days. "There hasn't been any particular abnormal activity" in the emergency room, said a spokesman for Brookhaven Memorial Hospital in Patchogue.

"This is not a crisis situation." Gypsy Moths Face Biological Warfare By Mitchell Freedman Long Island climate or continue Ridge God let loose a plague of breed from year to year. locusts against the Egyptians to free of now, we don't know of the Jews from bondage. Daniel secondary hosts they can Schweitzer is trying to let loose a Schweitzer said, adding that there plague of flies against gypsy moths to some indications they can use free Long Islanders from annual defol- tent caterpillars and canker worms iation of their garden trees and wood- their breeding cycle. The adult lands. and wasps live on plant nectar, he Schweitzer, a forester for the State Brookhaven Park was picked as Department of Environmental Conser- experiment site for several reasons, vation, is attempting to establish colo- cording to Schweitzer, who works nies of special flies and wasps in the the department's bureau of forest state park here as an experiment in bi- sects and disease.

It has a strong ological warfare against the gypsy moth. tation of gypsy moths, easy access, It is the first time since the early because it is not used by the the cocoons and egg clusters he is 1900s that the state biological ting out will not be disturbed. has tried warfare against the gypsy moth. At The foresters will collect 3,000 that time, a small swasp, apanteles me- moth caterpillars and 3,000 pupae lanoscelus, was imported from Japan this month and next month to check to attack the moth eggs. But that wasp how effective the wasps and flies only can attack the outside eggs in a at laying parasites in them.

But gypsy moth egg cluster, and it is a said it will be impossible to tell prime victim of other insects. "The in- well the experiment is working terest in it just about five years. stopped in the 1920s," Schweitzer said. The state agency this year used "No one knows why." concentrations of Sevin to The flies and wasps that Schweitzer gypsy moths in 18 Long Island and his assistant, Robert Galli, are re- totaling 2,904 acres. In the past, leasing in Brookhaven State Park have terial control was also tried, but been bred by the U.S.

Department of bacillus thurienginsis requires Agriculture in Trenton, N.J., where applications, compared to one tests have shown that as larvae they Sevin, and is more costly. Its use do, indeed, dine on gypsy moth eggs is limited to areas where the and larvae. But federal officials do not might enter waterways and know whether they can survive the shellfish beds, Schweitzer said. Newsday Photo by J. Michael Dombroski Environmental Conservation Department forester Dan Schweitzer attaches a container of wasps to a tree in Brookhaven State Park yesterday.

The department hopes that by establishing colonies of certain flies and wasps, it can dramatically reduce the gypsy moth population. Channel 67 Central Islip- -Channel 67 will go off the air June 20, the 19-month-old station announced yesterday. The station called its suspension of broadcasting temporary and said it would make an announcement within 30 days about its fall schedule. At the same time, the station's owner, Suburban Broadcasting said it had reached an agreement with a firm that produces television commercials, programs and feature films. The nature of the agreement was not revealed, but a prepared release said it "represents an expansion of the utilization of Suburban's multimillion-dollar facility." The station's president, David Polinger, read the to any use," are forest in flies said.

the acfor ininfes- and public, put- gypsy later on are they how for low control areas bacthe three for now spray affect Going Off Air June 20 problems. Last January one-fifth of the station's staff was laid off, and its twice-nightly half-hour news programs and most of its locally originated programing were eliminated. The station's president, David Polinger, read the prepared release over the telephone and refused to answer most questions. He did say that the programing suspension "is consistent with the rules of the Federal Communications Commission." FCC officials could not be reached for comment. Polinger would not comment on what effect the broadcasting suspension would have on station employees, although a source at the station told United Press International that it was "assumed" the workers would be laid off for at least the duration of the suspension.

One worker told Newsday that employees had not been told of either the broadcasting suspension or possible layoffs. The station began broadcasting in November, 1973. Polinger said last January that the UHF station reached about 300,000 Long Island viewers a week. At the outset, persons seeking to get the station on their home sets experienced reception problems, a situation the station attempted to correct by redirecting its antenna and boosting power. Suburban is suing RCA and Stainless Inc.

for $2 million for alleged neglegence in initially misdirecting the station's antenna. The suit is pending..