Newsday from New York, New York • 9

'your Mrs Brown said "and you have failed She also said that her school would not accept becoming a K-through-8 facility just to satisfy a few bigoted people who have not yet accepted the fact that this is New York in Mitchell Mangum a Mack parent from IS 231 was visibly angry as he spoke He said that a year ago the board opened the annex at PS 138 because it said the Junior high school was overcrowded the school was really overcrowded what is the purpose of rinaing 231 at this he asked stated ayear ago that the school was overcrowded Every year this school board tries to create confusion in the black community and we are tired of it We will not sit bade and watch 231 Most of the white children at IB 231 chose to leave the main building for the annex leaving the main' school with a population that is 99 per cent black Black members of the board have voted 'against all the plans which the majority of the school board submitted The latest plan which was rejected by the Office for Civil Rights would have shut down IS 231 and turned pH other schools in the district 1 into K-through-8 facilities Several other black parents also spoke against the proposal to shut IS 231 Phyllis Brown president of the Parents Association at PS 62 said that the board was "folly aware that you would leave the main building a segregated when it created the annex Tine stability of Rosedsle wu i By Peggj Brown Queens Community School Board 29 voted last night to resist the federal order requiring1 the board to desegregate a school or face thekws of all its federal aid: Ina closed-session vote the -board decided against submitting further plana to the UfL Office for Civil Rights which had ordered the district to come up with an acceptable plan for egmgatfag IS 231 The board voted 6-STin favor of no action Black members David Bluford and Desiree Green- idge were outvoted by the five white members according to President Dolores Grant The votes on the issue have generally been divided along racial lines Board members Claudette Webb who is black and Joseph Albergo who is white were not presort for the vote-- Earlier this week the Office for Civil Rights re- jected a third plan submitted bythe majority mem-bets of the board William Valentine district direc- tor of the agency had given the bound until today to come up with an acceptable plan But Valentine wrote to tell the board that ifit-did not submit a plan by today the Office for Civil Rights would start enforcement proceedings that eventually could result in a loes of federal fending for the dia-triCt lit explaining the decision to an eudi-' ence of 150 people at a public meeting following the closed session Mrs Grant said the board wanted the enforcement proceedings to start so that "we will have our day to be She later said that "we will go all the way to Washington if we have and she was criticised for that remark by Daiay Manning a Mack parent really shocks me about the board is that supposed to represent District Mrs snning said we are going to have to go to the central board of education to say get rid of this The Office for Civil Rights charged in Septem-1 ber that the community board created segregation at the IS 231 building in 8pringfield Gardena when it opened an annex last foU at PS 138 in Rosedsle Flushing to Flushing Community Board 7 has named a committee to fight a federal proposal to put small planes using Flushing Airport under the control of the tower at LaGuanlia Airport Mary McVay who heads Community Planning Board No 7 which covers the'Flushing Airport i area named the committee after the airportfe oper- ator and a LaGuardia tower controller both spoke against the Federal Aviation Administration pro- Nposal calling it dangerous both to planes landing at Flushing and to planes coming into laGuardia in the same Small planes coming into Flushing now operate on visual-landing rules only In weather requiring instrument landings the planes are diverted to La-- Guardia VDnULI Mitchell Mangum-left and Phyllis Brown were two of the who spoke to i 29 after Its closed i Community leaders also fear that the proposal will result in lower jetliner traffic in an area now known as the "Flushing a portion of northeastern Queens over which jetliners must fly at 1200 feet or more according to FAA rules Tom Costello tiie president of Sunrise Aviation which operates Flushing Airport told the board during a session at the small facility that he attended an FAA meeting last Tuesday at Kennedy Aiipnrt at which a -federal official started by saying "When we dose the Flushing exclusion area But FAA offidalslssued a statement yesterday reiterating that their proposals to put Fludiing Airport under the control of the LaGuardia tower in no way alter the present flight paths into and out of LaGuardia Airport Regardless of the out- V- come of the study into the feasibility of the proposal jets would not use the air space now reserved for Flushing FAA officials also said that before the agency changes any rules it will hold "an informal air space meeting which will be open to those with an interest on this The FAA is considering the plan to avoid accidents like the (me over San Diego Sept 25 in which a small-private plana collided with a jetliner resulting in 144 deaths Costello expressed doubt about FAA intentions however and added: canget a court injunction against this if necessary John Behan director of aviation for the city told the meeting that the FAA proposal would be advertised and community residents then would have 45 days to register complaints He said the hunts would be evaluated before the FAA pro- coxnpl posal lwMin final Town Hall Plan Rejected flnafafllfr pill flirt liii piliua nwAw Tj Guardia control "would bo bringing the small planes into a funnel pattern together with the Mg jets Aside from the safety factor oar small planes would slow up the whole commercial traffic pattern at LaGuardia" The LaGuardia traffic controller who declined ive his name said "If you added the 80000 its from Flushing Airport to the LaGuardia traffic we in the control tower just would not be able to handle He said that if a plane waa flying at 5000 feet and a small plane was at 1000 feet tiw difference in height would not show up on the radar screen and the two planes would be merged into one target on the -si By Bni Kauftnan New York Craig Anderson the off-Broad-way producer who planned to turn Town Hall into two separate 500-seat theaters is now look-: ing for another midtown site because the New York City- Landmarks Reservation Commission has ruled against his proposed alterations Six of the 11 members voted this week against planned renovation of the 57-yearoid building on West 43rd Street which would have tuned it into a multipurpose hall for concerto drama and dance' The ball had been declared a city landmark in November requiring that any exterior and interior changes be approved by the iim 1 a totally rompromiaed aide Elena Axuola said "We cannot operate under the restrictions imposed upon us fay the commission We are in the process of seeking other suitable space in the same general Anderson could not be reached for comment'-: Speaking for the commission Patricia Rich "aid proposal was voted down because of strong public opposition to any changes that might affect the acoustics of the halLThe commission also felt Mr Anderson'k plans were inappropriate in concept for Town Anderson had maintained flat his proposal would not alter the acoustics -Axuola said that while she couldn't specify a figure a substantial financial loss had been in- curred for legal architectural and adndnistrar tive expenses 1 hold the landmarks commission directly responsible for Axuola said "They coula have given us an earlier indication that tilings would turn out this way" Anderson' producing director of the Hudson Guild Theater has a lease to operate Town Hall He alao has an option to-turn it back to the Town Hall Foundation if he cannot find a way to operate it The hall was acquired fay New York University as a gift but its operating expenses were too mum for the school It turned tbs facility over to the foundation which signed the lease with Anderson does not have the capabilities to separate height right he said Tn marginal visual weather from LaGuardia there is no way that we can see Flushing Airport arrivals and departures from that Costello said that be-' low 600 feet the small planes do not show up on the radar screen at alL The 15-member committee to save the Flushing Air Space Exclusion Corridor will be headed by Richard Wagonfeid He said that the Flushing whs just trying to stop what happened at.