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Expansion PlanInvestigated By CHPAPHOENIX, Page ElevenBY LYNNE GRIFOIn response to the complicated, confused, and often tense situation created in Park Slope due to the proposed expansion of Methodist Hospital and the strong opposition from community residents in response, the Comprehensive Health Planning Agency (CHPA) has undertaken a study of the hospital%u2019s development plans and the impact that expansion would have on the surrounding area.This is the first time that the planning agency, an arm of the city Health Services Administration, had conducted such a study and it is viewed by the agency as an opportunity not only to determine the validity of Methodist%u2019s expansion plans, but also to develop policy that will be useful as similar situations, arise throughout the city.A committee named by the CHPA has already begun preliminary discussions with hospital officials and community leaders. Meanwhile, members of the community and politicians including, most recently, Assemblyman Vincent Riccio, have called upon the State Health Department and other city and state health agencies to declare a moratorium on all expansion by Methodist until the CHPA has completed its study. The community organizations thai have made this appeal are the Park Slope Preservation Council, the Tenants of Methodist Hospital Association, and the South Brooklyn Community Corporation.All this comes in the wake of a recent announcement that the City Health Department had decided to withhold $100,000 of the $309,000 Methodist was scheduled toDeiro ChallengesTom Cuite For CouncilPeter Deiro of Carroll Gardens announced today that he was a candidate for the City Council in the 30th District. The district covers Carroll Gardens, Park Slope And Red Hook and parts of Flatbush, Cobble Hill and Borough Park.Mr. Deiro is chairman of the Federal Subcommittee on the Ad Hoc Committee to Clean the Gowanus Canal. In this capacity, he led the drive to pressure federal elected officials and the EPA to release funds for the Red Hook Interceptor Sewers and Sewage Treatment Plant. He was on the Executive Board of Citizens for a Better New York and now represents that group on the South Brooklyn Development Council. He is also a member of the Carroll Gardens Association and he is the 2nd Vice President of Independent Neighborhood Democrats.Mr. Deiro indicated that he was running for office to provide honest representation for South Brooklyn in the city%u2019s government. He stated that %u201c although Tom Cuite is majority leader in the City Council, he has never used his position to obtain adequate city services for this district. He has allowed the Gowanus Canal to remain an open sewer for all these years. He pushed the MBR program through the City Council which benefits the real estate interests in this city at the expense of the elderly and all those who live in rent controlled apartments.%u2019%u2019When the Board of Estimate held hearings on the proposed containerport,%u201d Deiro continued, %u201cCuite did not even bother to testify in support of this project which will provide jobs for hundreds of longshoremen. Mr. Cuite has abused the public trust of his constituents and worked instead for real estate and other special interests.%u201dDay Care...Continued from Page 3South Brooklyn where they collected signatures for petitions to Nixon and Weinberger. Additional neighborhood and city-wide meetings are planned, the mothers say.Councilman Cuite, now serving his second term, became majority leader of the Council in 1970, after serving previously as chairman of the Council%u2019s powerful Finance Committee. Also a Democrat, Cuite lives on Fuller Place.thewindow blind for people who hate Venetian blindsLibrary...Continued from Page 3cutoff are the Pre-School Aides and the Brooklyn Librarian.Those interested in helping with a borough-wide campaign to restore federal library funds are asked to call or write Mrs. Jeanne James, President, Brooklyn Library Council, 110 New York Ave., Brooklyn 11238, 467-4204.%u2022 N arrow s la ts ...One skin n y lit t le Inch; %u00a3No tapes.*.E lim in a te s cle a n in g problem s>H o T ilt C o rds... D is c o v e r theMagic Wend9 O pen...The blind seems to vanish%u2022 C lo s e d ..Absolut*P riv a c y4IM KO P A M T A $ T ir COLORSMeasured and Installed FREEfor Estimate Call:636-1550lumenkraftin park slope145 seventh avenue.receive this year under the Ghetto Medicine Contract. The Health Department instructed the hospital that it had to meet four conditions which included the appointment of a director of ambulatory care, the number of sessions of general and pediatrics offered, and the unreasonable delay in provision of hospital service, before it could requalify for the money.A spokesman for Methodist, Robert Green, stated that as of March 9 the hospital had received no word from the Health Department as to whether the $100,000 was to be withheld permanently.Methodist Hospital itself has sought to improve prospects for expansion and its image over the last few weeks. Specifically, the Park Slope institution has announced that it is now offering a record sum of $16,500 as a relocation bonus to each of the 22 tenants still living in the buildings on Seventh Ave. and on Fifth St., part of the proposed expansion site. The tenants will be eligible for the bonus if all agree jointly to be out of their homes within 90 days of March 1. Under Methodist%u2019s Relocation Policy, which went into effect on March 1, tenants who refuse to move will face eviction proceedings beginning Sept. 1.In an effort* 9to educate the community in regards to its desires to rebuild and expand its. %u00ab%u00bbEmergency Entrance o f M e th o d is t H osp ita ltacilities, Methodist held an open meeting of its Ambulatory Care Services Advisory Committee last week in the Nurses Residence. Dr. Vincent Larkin, director of Medical Affairs, described some of the reasons that expansion is necessary. He said there was %u201ca shortage of space and obsolescence that results in overcrowding, prolonged waiting time for appointments, absence of services needed for comprehensive programs and a lack of personal dignity (for the patients) stemming from lack of privacy.%u201dDr. Larkin also told the audience of 45 people (two-thirds of.whom were hospital personnel and who really didn%u2019t need convincing) that Census figures show that the black and Spanish population in the hospital%u2019s coverage area increased from 10 per cent of the total population in 1960 to 20 per cent in 1970. %u201cThese people,%u201d the doctor stated, %u201chave a greater need for health services than many of the middle-class whites they have replaced.%u201dCATHOLIC EDUCATION1973Brooklyn Heights-Cobble HillOur schools are sponsoring a Registration Programfor the Fall term, 1973. We have a lot to offer families interested in individualized quality education fortheir children.Our school are committed to the development of thewhole child -- each with his own religious, academicand emotional potential.Over a century and a half of tradition and experience leads us to invite the members of our communitiesto seriously consider the values of Catholic PrimaryEducation for their children.%u2022 %u2022 %u2022 %u2022 %u2022 %u2022 %u2022 %u2022 %u2022 %u2022 %u2022Registration DatesTuesday, March 20, to and including Saturday, March 2410 a.m. - 12 noon%u2022 %u2022 %u2022 %u00ab *SCHOOLS(Please contact local parish)SAINT CHARLES BORROMEO, 23 Sidney PlaceKindergarten through 7th Grade eligibleSAINT PAUL'S SCHOOL, 209 Warren StreetGrades 1-6 eligibleSAINT PETER'S SCHOOL,- 397 Hicks StreetKindergarten through 6th grade eligible