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fV Akiliia iiihJi nil Jf Editorial I Iearing on on Page 45 By Maureen New York State Senate Minority Leader Joseph Zarctzki (D-Manhattan) predicted last night that off-track betting would be legalized in 1965 when Gov Rockefeller will be forced to face a state deficit lie said state-Republicans now plan to block action this year or next on the off-track betting issue because they want to hobble the governor during his stretch drive for the White House Zarctzki made his statements while denying reports that a deal is in the works wherebv the COP-controllcd Legislature would approve off-track betting in 1965 if the Democrats let the controversy cool during presidential campaign However he virtually confirmed the substance or these reports by predicting that the Legislature would approve an off-track gambling bill in 1965 when the presidential race is over presidential ambitions will interfere with the proper conduct of state preventing action on the measure Zarctzki said will not want to deal with the off-track betting issue when he is trying to appeal for national votes By 1965 he declared state will be more than $500000000 in a Implying that Rockefeller would lose his White House bid Zaretski added: can either double the income tax order a statewide sales tax or go into bankruptcy (in 1965) Mv guess is that lie will seek the revenue from taxes on off-track llie Democrats have been introducing off-track betting bilk in the Legislature for the past five years They have never succeeded in getting them out of committee (the Democrats) wifi continue battling for off-track betting" Zarctzki said I concede that it appears certain that the Republicans will not allow a floor debate in the next session The political deal for approval of a betting bill in 1965 reported in a New York Citv paper yesterday was also denied by the GOP state chairman redcrick A Young of Essex Countv According to the story he was negotiating with Zaretzki on the issue State Senate Majority Leader Walter Mahoney (R-Buffalo) also maintained that the report was without Mayor Warner a long-time booster of off-track betting said certainly be a party to any deal and I am sure Sen Zaretzki and Anthony Travia (D-Brooklyn minority leader in the State Assembly) would not make any Meanwhile the onlv Democrat holding statewide office Controller Arthur Levitt came out yesterday for the first time in support of legislative action on the issue Levitt said he felt the Legislature had an to consider the issue although he personally objected to' offtrack betting moral grounds Despite Democratic hopes Sen Elisha Barrett (R-Brigntwaters) said yesterday it was doubtful that an off-track betting bill would get out of committee in the next session He is chairman of the Senate Finance Committee which would deal with the measure Barrett who had proposed a joint legislative committee to study the issue said that he would be satisfied if the Committee on the Affairs of the City of New York handles the study 'March if Corks StatelHIopesIFor Cheaper Booze New York Thirsty New hopes for cut-rate booze were dampened yesterdav by a state legislator who announced that as far as he was concerned liquor laws would not be revised to allow competitive price-cutting in the liquor industry State Sen John Marchi (R-Staten Island) said that his Joint Legislative Committee for the Study of the Alcoholic Beverage Con- trail Law would seek to lift the 15-year moratorium on package liquor stores and to eliminate the requirement that bar owners serve food But while he agreed to these two recommendations of the Moreland Act Commission he rejected the call for ending price-fixing in the liquor industry Commssion members had said there was no reason that consumers should nbt benefit by free competition By calling for the changes now Marchi is beating the Moreland Act Commission to the punch The commission appointed last winter to study the liquor laws dealt with these specific problems at recent hearings and is expected to recommend similar changes in a report in January The commission is studying the possibility of a complete revision of the liquor laws stand paralleled that of liquor industry spokesmen who had protested strongly at the hearings about an end to price-fixing At the press conference yesterday which followed a meeting of his committee he said that liquor Was not quite the same as other and it required little more reverence or caution in its Moreland Act Commission has done brilliant work But it has challenged the fundamental concept of the present law which is that orderly distribution is necessary to promote temperance in he said Tire lifting of the moratorium on liquor license docs not require legislative action however for it is a policy set by the State Liquor Authority (SLA) administrators not oy the Legislature Marchi said he would also ask for changes in the SLA procedure for hearings on violations of the liquor laws and in addition would ask for a provision to allow automatic renewal of licenses The SLA hearing officer now he said is judge jurv and a situation that he said is with These functions should be separated he said they are handled dispassionately by people not involved in the enforcement Hie legislator declined to comment on charges of graft and corruption in the SLA York has one of the best enforcement records in the United Marchi said no matter where you go you always hear rumors about graft and 2 on With Soda show is picking up tremendously The week end is almost a he beamed sure it has hdped the box he said Recently some theater owners have sought permission to sell as opposed to give away alcoholic beverages during intermission a practice which is fairly widespread in Europe The proposal has been marked by contro-versy Police said they believe it is illegal for the theater to give liquor away as long as it considered part of what the patron buys his ticket for Last playgoers found drinks at intermission a hit think it is a wonderful idea Franklv I think it loosens up the said theatergoer Barry Fisher of Manhattan The only teetotalers discernible were four student nurses who sipped ginger ale from paper cups certainly beats that orange thev agreed has a definite place in the declared Eustcr New York A happy throng of Broadway theatergoers downed free drinks of scotch and rye during intermission last night and un-animouslv declared that they hoped tliat the new was here to stay The scene was the basement lounge of the Little Theater 240 44th St where To a mildly received musical drama of religious racketeering was playing to a capacity house Last week the management announced that the production would dose this Saturday But that was before Roger us ter 31 enterprising young owner of the Broadway playhouse decided to give away drinks during intermission at all evening performances Business has been brisk ever since lose said Langston Hughes author of the play and a bourbon man himself But he drank the available rye instead as he counted noses among the nearly 200 served during the 20-minute intermission saw TssmEasT: eiisrra sft Senate Poire DsDe Meaning Mexft Momtih in September and plans to resume hearings early in 1964 The seashore proposal was unveiled by the Interior Department last June A Fire Island national seashore had been a subject of discussion for several years It envisioned a national seashore covering 52 miles along the southern shore of Long Island While the concept of a national seashore has won wide acceptance local interests want it limited to tire 32-milc-long Fire Island eliminating the 20 miles of Southampton Town beach included in the Interior Department plan This view has won wide congressional acceptance and it is expected that the Southampton Town section will be dropped before a bill is enacted next year Javits said he also was pleased that the hearings had been set confirms indications which I have been receiving that the Fire Island measure will receive major priority status in the Interior Committee next lie said No Date Yet A date lias not yet been set for the Washington hearing which will be held primarily to hear witnesses from the Interior Department Witnesses from the Long Island area also will be heard if they wish but the committee informed Keating that it plans to inspect Fire Island and hold a hearing there in the spring A House Interior subcommittee held a hearing on Fire Island (Newsday Washington Bureau) Washington A Senate Interior subcommittee will hold its first preliminary hearing on the Fire Island national seashore proposal early next month in Washington Sen Kenneth Keating (R-NY) announced yesterday Keating said he was pleased that the show is on the and added: any unforeseen development I am very confident legislation will be enacted next Preliminary hearings on the measure have already begun in the House Keating and Sen Jacob Javits (R-NY) had been pressing the Senate subcommittee to schedule hearings this year to lay the groundwork for congressional action 7 Friday Msvtmbir 15 1VA3.