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%u00a3%u00a3X%u00bbX*!%u00bb;%u00bb!%u00abvX?X*XvX*XIAppropriations Will Block CUNYTil Baruch Moves To Brooklyn T h r o a t o n in r f f rv kirvl/T h o n k o il r\\f-----wt%u00bbvw***e> vW iiu iu v a v uthe City University%u2019s capital and expense appropriations until CUNY officials decide to relocate Baruch College in Brooklyn, City Councilman Fred Richmond said this week, %u201cBaruch College was committed as early as 1967 to relocating into Brooklyn%u2019s Atlantic Terminal Urban Renewal Area. Recently, however, the City University has been considering moving the school to a lower Manhattan location. That move would undercut the development of Brooklyn%u2019s downtown area.%u201d%u201cThe future of 2.5 million people living in Brooklyn depends upon the rehabilitation of the borough%u2019sbusiness district 9.nd the key to the multimillion dollar redevelopment is the building of Baruch College at the Atlantic Term inal,%u201d the councilman said. %u201cAs the City Councilman from downtown Brooklyn and a member of the City Council Finance Committee, I plan to use the Council%u2019s power of the purse string to force Baruch to live up to their commitment and relocate in Brooklyn. Not one book, faculty salary, one new building nor even one basketball will be allocated by the Finance Panel until Baruch officials decide to relocate at the Atlantic Terminal.%u201dRichmond reported that moving Baruch to a lower Manhattan office building would cost cinsp tn $fiomillion and would result in the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars in city real estate taxes. Ten thousand Baruch students and faculty commuting daily to lower Manhattan would further congest an already overpopulated, overcrowded area.%u201cThe question of moving Baruch to Brooklyn comes down to whether the City University wants to throw millions into lower Manhattan while once again neglecting the vital needs of Brooklyn,%u201d Richmond declared. %u201cWhether the City University wants to stifle the rehabilitation of New York%u2019s most populous borough and whether the CityUniversity is willing to take theresponsibility for the demise of one of the East Coasts busiest business districts.%u201d%u201cFor once the City has the opportunity,%u201d the councilman continued, %u201cto change a blighted deserted, dimly lit, dangerous area into a modern, dynamic hub for a revitalized borough.%u201d Richmond concluded by saying, %u201cThe time has come for the City University to assume its civic responsibility, live up to its 1967 commitment and relocate Baruch in downtown Brooklyn. To do anything else would not only be irresponsible, but a slap in the face to the boroughs elected officials, students and taxpayers.%u201dLibrary Council Launches DriveTo Restore Federal LSCA FundsThe Brooklyn Library Council issued a call to action at its last meeting, urging all individuals and organizations in the area to join the campaign to restore federal funds for Brooklyn%u2019s public library programs financed until now under the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA).President Nixon%u2019s proposed budget for fiscal year 1974 will eliminate many local library programs unless Congress takes positive action, the Council warns, adding it will be collecting signatures for petitions which will be forwarded to Brooklyn%u2019s representatives in Congress.Since the passage of LSCA in 1964, the Brooklyn Public Library has received funds to strengthen and expand efforts to aid residents in disadvantaged areas. The most widely known program of this sort has been the Community Coordinator project. Begun as an experiment in 1961, the project was expanded when it received LSCA funds in 1964. Its immediate goal is to widen awareness of the library as an information center and a source of continuing education in economically and culturally deprived communities. Ultimately, its goal is to find new ways of reaching those previouslyunreached residents who have the most to gain from the library%u2019s services.The coordinators work out in the community rather than within the library building. Fritz John, coordinator of the Cobble Hill-Red Hook area, reaches out into the community from his station at the Carroll Gardens Library. %u201cWe are conducting a variety of programs ranging from library orientation and registration visitis to discussion groups on urban problems.%u201d John said.Other library programs which will be affected by the federalContinued on Pane 11PHOENIX 'Name - It%u2019 ContestThree h a p p y, new PHOENIX subscribers w ere the fi/s t to nam e M a n u fa c tu re rs b a n k a t M o n ta g u e & H e n ry as a n sw e r in last w e e k %u2019s c o n te s t W in y o u rs e lf a 1 y e a r s u b s c rip tio n .. .. LANDMARKS OF NEW YORKMANUFACTURERS HANOVER TRUST COMPANYDESIGNED IN MODI FIE D ITALIAN RENAISSANCE STYLE BY YORK & SAWYER. THIS GRANITE AND .LIMESTONE STRUCTURE- WAS COMPLETED IN 1915 FOR BROOKLYN TRUST COMPANY, CHARTERED IN 1866. THAT IN STITUTIO N BECAME IN 1 9 5 0 PART O f MANUFACTURERS TRUST COMPANY WHICH ELEVEN YEARS LATER MERGED WITH THE HANOVER BANK...... <%u2022. ik iJ t ,,,) 0v. t-T;;%u2014 '%u2014THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUSTMothers March For Day Care;Protest New Federal Subsidy CutsBY CORRINE COLEMAN%u201cStop Adolph Nixon and Benito Weinberger now, before they wipe your mind out. Join the fight for day care!%u201dSo said the sign carried by Elizabeth Ramos, one of the 100 mothers who demonstrated with babies in strollers through South Brooklyn last Saturday, protesting the new federal day care guidelines which, they say, will render ineligible most of the working mothers whose children are the recipients of the subsidized day care program.Referring to President Nixon and to Health Education & Welfare Secretary Casper Weinberger, Mrs. Ramos said that their new ruling, effective March 16, will turn the day care centers into %u201cmassive baby sitting services,%u201d forcing out trained teachers, stopping medical services at the centers, and pushing in welfare recipients who will become %u201ca forced labor force.%u201d%u201cUnder the new rules, even a family of four earning more than $5400 after taxes couldn%u2019t be part of the program. I would have to quit my job to ttfke care of my daughter,%u201d she said. %u201cThen I%u2019ll have to go on welfare, and afterwards they%u2019ll let me dump her in the garbage dump.%u201dRamos explained that the now professionally maintained centers like the one her daughter attends on Nevins St. will become %u201cgarbage dumps%u201d or at best %u201cbaby sitting pools%u201d when welfare mothers are forced to replace professionals to work off thpir welfare subsidies. She said she willfight along with most of the 80 per cent of day care mothers affected. Seeming to come out of %u201c1984,%u201d the ruling which will force working people on to welfare and welfare people into jobs for which they are not necessarily suited at below minimum pay, will undermine an arrangement that has been until now, successfully accomplishing what it set out to do.Ramos has been able to earn $7200 as a voucher clerk at the South Brooklyn Community Corp.because of the %u201cbeautiful%u201d care her three-year-old daughter receives from 8 to 6 daily at the Nevins St. Day Care Center. %u201cThe center is her life, it%u2019s better than home %u2014 their attitudes are so wonderful, they even change Pampers without making an ugly face,%u201d Ramos says, adding that she%u2019ll have to give that up and go back to the biweekly $60 from welfare, if the new policy goes through.The mothers, as part of the Parents Advisory Committee,refused a state proposal which would have made families with earnings above $6500. ineligible, and would have forced those earning less to pay as much as $48 weekly. However, as Ramos says, the federal plan is even worse.Saturday%u2019s march began at Nevins St. and moved to Ind ep en d en t N eighborhood Democrat Headquarters at 286 Court where State Senator Carol Bellamy and State Assemblyman Mike Pesce pledged their support.The group joined by the two elected officials, moved to Congressman John Rooney%u2019s residence on Congress St. where there was no response to repeated doorbell rings and calls from outside the-house. The group, made up mostly of Nevins St. center mothers, but including some representatives of Head Start, the Gowanus Nursery and Day Care Centers (all of which are affected by the Fed. ruling) then dispersed to various parts ofContinued on Page 11