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N e w s b r i e f s :ASPCA Marks$ For ShelterThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) has earmarked $500,000 to be spent this year improving conditions in their Brooklyn Animal Shelter. The agreement, made with the Board of Health, states that the ASPCA must either locate a new Brooklyn shelter, or spend at least $300,000 improving conditions in their existing shelter at 233 Butler Street. Renovations would include structural work, remodelling, and modernization of the facility. %u201c Our definite preference,%u201d said ASPCA staff attorney Elinor Wolbegott, %u201c is finding a new site in Brooklyn.%u201d She estimates that costs for a new shelter could run as high as $700,000 to $1 million.The deal was made, said Wolbegott, because the Department of Health %u201c didn%u2019t want (the ASPCA) to prolong finding a new shelter.%u201d If a suitable new home is not located by March 31, then money must be sunk into renovating the existing structure, which, according to Borough President Howard Golden, %u201c is in deplorable condition.%u201dASPCA representatives are now looking for acceptable new shelter locations. %u201c A new building,%u201d said Wolbegott, %u201c will cost that much more; but it would be much more humane having a modern shelter than trying to renovate the old building.%u201dHospital ChoosesFund Drive ChairThe Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, having embarked on construction of approved parts of a $55 million Modernization Program, has announced the appointment ofW. Gordon Innes as chairman of an upcoming fund-raising campagin. The campagin is targeted to raise $6 million over the course of three years.%u201cThe success of the hospital%u2019s modernization program will greatly depend on corporations who are committed to supporting their communities by making contributions through their foundations, and on small and medium-size businesses giving what they can afford,%u201d said Innes.Innes has been a member of the Board of Trustees for the Methodist Hospital since 1970, is now Chairman of the Executive Committe and holds ex-officio m em bership status on several other committees. He is also the Treasurer of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, and is now VicePresident of the Manufacturer%u2019s Hanover Trust Company.Modernization plans call for the remodelling of the Operating Suite in the Miner Pavilion. The 1915 Nurses%u2019 Residence will be razed to make room for the construction of a 334-bed building. Projects are expected to be completed by 1982.Amity Rent StrikeDecision ReachedAfter nearly five months of discussion, negotiation and legal action, rent-striking tenants at 186 Amity Street have reached a settlem ent with their landlord, Martin Baumarind.Following several postponements to allow the landlord time to make repairs, the case was disposed of before Civil Court Judge Lorraine Miner on Nov. 28 and the eight tenants are signing over nearly $3800 of rent money for October and November.%u201c We are not totally satisfied as far as all of our demands,%u201d saidN . Y . P . D .THE AMITY STREET HORROR:Three hours after a man checked into Long Island College Hospital with stab wounds, police arrested 63-year old Francisco Torres of 116 Wyckoff St. in front of the hospital at 340 Amity St. Torres, collared by 76th Precinct Officer William Panzella at 11:30 p.m. on Nov. 23, allegedly stabbed the man in the body earlier that evening at 177 Amity St. Torres is charged with second-degree assault and possession of a dangerous weapon.HOYT AND WYCKOFF,..: Michael Mandarino, 24, of 394 Clinton Ave., was arrested at 3:30 p.m. on Nov. 21 by Officer George Klingberg of the 76th Precinct. Klingberg observed Mandarino with a glassine envelope of alleged heroin at the corner of Hoyt and Wyckoff Sts....AND HOYT AND WYCKOFF:Wilfredo Velez, 31, of 572 Park PI. was arrested, again by Officer George Klingberg, on the streetcorner of Hoyt and Wyckoff on Nov. 20 at 4:35 p.m. Velez was allegedly seen with three tin-foil containers of what appeared to be heroin.TEMPERED STEEL: According to police, 27-year-old Cesar Maldonado, of 307 Van Brunt St., allegedly wounded a man in the chest with a knife after an argument on Nov. 10 at 9:15 p.m. 76th Precinct Officer William Buchinsky naobea iviaiaonaao at a.m. on Nov. 21, charging him with assault and possession of a dangerous weapon. The incident took place on the corner of Walcott and Richard Sts.A FALLING OUT: 43 year-oldJames Shelton, of 67 Hanson PL, was arrested on November 25 at 2:45 p.m. and charged with the murder of Bobby Griffin, 36. The arrest was made by Detective Thomas Grandiametti of the 11th Homicide Division eight hours after the murder took place. Police say Griffin was a pimp and Shelton had rented rooms to him. The two had a falling out and during an argument that morning in front of 666 Fulton St., Shelton shot Griffin, killing him. Shelton was charged with second degree murder.CHARGED WITH ROBBERY: Darrell Thomas, 18, of 42 St. Marks PL, along with another youth, who is still at large, allegedly forcibly took money from 43 year-old Discorides Santiago on Nov. 15 in front of 345 Dean St. Thomas was arrested in his home ten days later by Detective Richard Brown of the 78th Precinct Investigations Unit and charged with robbery.PLAYING WITH DANGEROUS INSTRUMENTS: 19-year old Danny Ramos was arrested at home at 74 Prospect PL on November 25 at 11:30 p.m . and charged with assault and possession of a dangerous instrument. Police say Ramos allegedly hit a 30 year old woman in the head with a fireplace poker outside of 45 Plaza St.PUNCHED AND THREATENED: Officer James Moran of the 78th Precinct arrested Pablo Rivera, 28, of 572 Union St., Nov. 25 at 1:30 a.m. and charged him with assault, menacing and possession of a dangerous instrument after he allegedly punched Candida Bayala, 30, and threatened her with a stick.Assemblyman Mike Pesce, who was counsel for the tenants. %u201c But, if I may be philosopher for a moment, you never get 100 percent on anything.%u201d Some of the outstanding unmet demands include adequate rodent and pest extermination, which Pesce said is %u201c probably just a misunderstanding between the landlord and the exterminator;%u201d the full repayment of interest on security deposits made by the tenants; day-to-day maintenance and cleanliness problems; and the lack of attention paid to the building by the superintendent.Parental BoycottOver 154 PrincipalA dispute over the appointment of a new principal caused a brief boycott by parents of a Windsor Terrace elem entary school last week.The District 15 local school board%u2019s decision to select Harvey Possner, an assistant principal at Boerum Hill%u2019s P.S. 38, as the new principal of P.S. 154, 11th Avenue and Windsor Place, was opposed by both the parents and the PTA officers present at the November 29 m eeting. Parents objected to Possner%u2019s selection because he already had been rejected and was not among the three candidates chosen by the school%u2019s PTA. The following day a boycott started that kept over half the school%u2019s pupils home November 30 and December 1.After two days parents decided to end the boycott as abruptly as it began. Kathy Keats, a parent leader, said it was decided that while the protest was necessary so was the children%u2019s return to school. Now, the group has decided to accept Possner as the new principal after all.%u201c We don%u2019t want to jeopardize our school. We just want to let the district office know our objections as to how this decision was made,%u201d said Keats, who added that a new PTA is being formed following the resignation of former leaders.Keats complained that neither the district board nor the former PTA leadership had allowed enough parent input into the selection process.%u201cThere were over 50 candidates and the parents only saw six when it came time to make a decision and then the local school board went against the decentralization process by overruling the parents%u2019 decision.%u201dWhile admitting that appointing principals who are not among the PTA-chosen candidates is %u201c very rare%u201d District 15 school board chairman Phil Kaplan insisted that the parents%u2019 opposition was more %u201c political%u201d than educational.%u201c Many parents already had their minds made up on who they wanted and they turned it into a, popularity contest,%u201d said Kaplan. %u201c Candidates for principal and the board members who supported them became the issue and the dispute had more to do with local politics than candidate qualifications.%u201dDist. 15 TeachersReceive AwardsTwo School District 15 teachers were selected as %u201c Excellent Representatives of Quality Teaching Staff in the District%u201d and were presented with the awards at the Nov. 29 board meeting. Chancellor Frank J. Macchiarola presented citations for recognition of excellent to Donald Lynch, of Junior High School 142 at 610 Henry St., and aTHAT WAS THE YEAR THAT WAS: 40 individuals were namedMan, Woman or Youth of the Year by the YMCA of Greater NewYork at its Annual Dinner on Nov. 21. Above are Man of theYear Samuel Underberg (left), of 20 East 9th St., and Youth ofthe Year Virginia Mayer (right), of 224 Senator St., bothnamed by the Prospect Park Branch YMCA.city-wide award honoring Ethel Steinberg, of Public School 154, at 11th Ave. and Windsor PLIn other actions, Vera Stasny, of P.S. 1, was one out of six teachers chosen out of 500 applicants, city-wide to work in the %u201c Teacher%u2019s C enter,%u201d funded by a federal grant, with locations in each borough, designed to help teachers better teaching techniques. The assignment of Harvey Possner as principal of P.S. 154 was approved by a majority vote despite parental protests to the appointment at the meeting.A resolution for an Emergency School Assistance Act (ESAA) proposal for 1979-80 for $1,350,000 was approved unanimously by the board. The financial assistance is being made available to help develop integration in the following eligible schools: P.S. 130, 230, St. Michael%u2019s School, JHS 51, IS 88 and 293. The funds, in addition, allow for pilot grants to be awarded to participants in P.S. 1, 15 and 27.The next board meeting is scheduled for Dec. 19 at P.S. 67, 51 St. Edwards St.%u2014V.L.Boerum Hill Asso.Officers ElectedNew officers were elected at the November 14 m eeting of the Boerum Hill Association. The officers include Lillian Beckford, President; Len Walit, Vice-president; Pat Sneider, Secretary; Bob Wilson, Treasurer. Three members at large elected were Dom Fernandez, Jim Wallcer and David Ramsay.The Association will hold general meetings on the fourth Tuesday of every other month beginning January 1979.Both LIRR BidsRejected by MTAThe Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) announced on November 30th that it had rejected two bids submitted for the reconstruction of the Long Island Railroad Flatbush Avenue terminal, citing excessive costs.The bids, submitted on November 3d by Spearin, Preston and Burrows and the Slattery Construction Company, both exceeded the $20 million dollars that had been allotted by the state for the project. The Spearin, Preston and Burrows bid was $37,722,000; Slattery%u2019s was $42,570,000.MTA chairman Harold Fishersaid that the MTA will %u201c review project specifications to determine whether they can be altered as to bring the cost within reasonable limits without destroying the essential elements%u201d before bids are taken again on the project, probably in Janurary or February.Construction will take an estimated 36 months once work begins, the MTA says.3. Bkiyn FightsFranklin BankSouth Brooklyn Against Investment Discrimination, AID, has filed a challenge with the New York State Banking Department against the Franklin Savings Bank%u2019s application to open a branch office in Manhattan.The challenge stated that %u201c Franklin Savings%u2019 discriminatory lending policies are so blatant that, before making a recommendation to the Banking Board.....the Banking Department should ask the bank to submit additional information.%u201dThe information asked for includes: terms and conditions for mortgage lending; the number and dollar amoulU of mortgage loans made on properties located in Brooklyn; number of loans denied in Brooklyn; and the allocation of funds to advertise the availability of mortgages.The Franklin Savings Bank is a mutual savings bank chartered by New York State. Their three Brooklyn branches have a total amount of $481 million in deposits. According to AID, Franklin%u2019s mortgage portfolio amounts up to only $16 million, which means that for every dollar that Brooklyn residents put into the Franklin Savings Bank they receive three cents in return in the form of mortgage loans.AIDmembers also claim when owned. The stability of Brooklyn%u2019s origination department they were told either that mortgages were not available or that the bank would only consider properties with a value of over $200,000 dollars because smaller parcels were too difficult to appraise.Studies by private groups and also by New York State's Banking Department have demonstrated a critical credit shortage for residential properties in Brooklyn, 95_____ * f . %u00ab.! I- - .............* -%u25a0 *p u v , u a u i w h i c h a i c p n v a i t i )owned. Th e stability of Brooklyn%u2019s housing market, AID contends, depends on credit needs of neighborhood people being satisfied. %u2014I.V.S.December 7,1978, THE PHOENIX. Page 25