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Page Two, PHOENIXB o a rdSkirtsSiteBY CORRINE COLEMANReports of the December 19 meeting to discuss the overcrowding at John Jay High School omitted an important aspect of the evening%u2019s events, according to Peter Drago, a prominent member of the Carroll Gardens community who was present throughout the forum.Plans for the relief of the John Jay situation, like the projected conversion of Sarah J. Hale H.S. to a comprehensive setup, were discussed at the meeting and their approval described in last week%u2019s local press, including the PHOENIX. Suggestions that a new District 15 high school be built immediately were also quoted. However, Drago says that no mention was made of the reintroduction of the question of using the Gowanus site for a new upper school even though discussion with Phillip Kaplan, chairman of. the District 15 School Board, touched upon that subject.Noting that Kaplan arrived when the meeting was half over and that only one school board member was present during the entire proceedings, Drago says that a questioner asked the chairman why the school board had rejected the Gowanus-Gasworks site in a vote two years ago. When Kaplan answered that the board%u2019s vote reflected the viewpoint of the majority of the community, many of those present %u2014 remembering the series of open meetings at that time %u2014 felt that the opposite was true %u2014 that a small and vocal minority against the Gowanus site influenced the board%u2019s decision.B ro ad en S upportFor C lean C a n a lThe new year has begun and, still, the future of the Gowanus Canal is hanging. In an attempt to broaden community support for the Red Hook Interceptor%u2014a. prerequisite for cleaning up the canal%u2014an Ad Hoc Committee on the Gowanus has been formed and is planning a meeting on Jan. 25 at the Carroll Park Library.%u201cWe%u2019re trying to get new faces,%u201d said Nancy Wolf, an environmental activist in Brooklyn Heights. %u201cGroups like the Brooklyn Heights Association are now becoming interested in the canal%u2019s fate and we hope to unite a broad spectrumof environmental and community groups to pressure for immediate construction of the Interceptor.%u201dWhile the Red Hook Interceptor is a high priority for the city, its hands are tied without a large sum of money from state and federal sources, Ms. Wolf said, adding that the committee has written Congressman Rooney and has been in touch with state environmental officials.%u201cEPA Administrator Kretchmer has agreed to come to the meeting on the 25th,%u201d she said, %u201cif the state agrees to send a spokesman.%u201dPeace G roupDem onstratesIn ParkBY CORRINE COLEMANThough most of the local antiwar activity this week will relate to the Washington demonstration planned for Jan. 20, the Park Slope People Against the War will demonstrate in their own neighborhood on Saturday, Jan. 13. A march which will circle most of the Slope is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. outside of P.S. 321 on Seventh Ave. and First St. At 3 p.m., a rally and discussion will follow at St. John%u2019s Episcopal Church at 139 St. John%u2019s PI.Focusing on the Vietnam War as part and parcel of American foreign policy, rather than as an isolated error, the Park Slope People functions as a community oriented education and action group in the neighborhood West of Prospect Park.Though Brooklyn anti-war people are used to demonstrating in Washington and even in Manhattan, they have been less apt to create actions in their own neighborhoods, Jack Johnson, one of the founders of the group feels. %u201cThis is a crucial time for communities to show their anger %u2014 to arrange demonstrations in their own areas %u2014 to direct their energies to work in their home territory, he asserts.Formed on May 11, 1972, when seven Park Slope friends reacted in horror to America%u2019s mining of the harbors of Hai Phong and Hanoi, the group%u2019s first action four days later (a march through theSlopeneighborhood) enlisted 350 people. The PSPAW became official the evening of that demonstration and members have been meeting weekly since that time.Out again on the Park Slope streets when they heard of the bombing of the dikes of North Vietnam, the group leafleted, petitioned for support of the sevenpoint peace plan, and distributed a %u201cwar bulletin%u201d which is put together in California and gives %u201cinformation about goings on in Vietnam that is not widely circulated.%u201dReacting to the recent bombings of the Hanoi-Hai Phong area and the halting of peace talks, the PSPAW held another rally during ; the week before Christmas. After the Jan. 13 demonstration and rally, the group will concentrate mirenting buses so that the community can participate together in the Washington March on the 20th. During these last weeks, the PSPAW has been setting up tables on Saturdays in front of Bohaeks on Carroll St. and 7th Ave. and outside of Royal Farms on 9th St. between 5th and 6th Aves. Their meetings have been open to all, these days, and usually take place at the Mongoose in the Slope, on Mondays at 7:30. Members suggest that all those interested in attending meetings and participating in any way, phone 768-3959. The PSPAW: assuming unhappily that the war will continue beyond the 20th of January, plans to continue and increase its community effort.Party HeldSundayi v s m y v u i iAN ENGLISH SHERRY PARTY was held Sunday morningat the Park Slope home of Charles and JenniferMonaghan to raise money to pay off the campaign debtsof George Alwon, unsuccessful Reform Democraticcandidate for state senator in the 21st district. Picturedabove are Charles Monaghan, 51st A.D. DemocraticDistrict Leader, Dan Collins, Steve Solarz, recently announced candidate for the office of Brooklyn Borough President, and George Alwon. (PHOENIX Photo)BrooklynitesDrago feels that the Gasworks site (between 5th and 9th St. at the Gowanus border), although now reduced to about eight acres, is still the only viable setting for quick building of a district high school. He adds, that Board of Education statements still schedule funds for building of the school at that Gowanus site. %u201cSarah J. Hale won%u2019t do the job, especially with the expected phasing out of four diocesan schools,%u201d he says.Meanwhile the committee forConfinued on P ag e 11Urging Brooklynites to join and support the peaceful anti-war demonstratioh to be held in Washington, D. C., on January 20 to protest the recent escalation of the Vietnam conflict, many of Brooklyn%u2019s leaders, including State Sen. Carol Bellamy, AssemblymanMike Pesce, Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman, Allard Lowenstein and Brooklyn College Student Government President Paul Massas, have recently released statements endorsing the massive Inauguration Day war protest which is being jointlyorganized by the National Peace Action Coalition and the Peoples Coalition for Peace and Justice.Sen. Bellamy and Assemblyman Pesce are definitely planning to join the demonstration and lead Brooklynites in this anti-war march which will start at the Arlington National Cemetery and %u2022end with a rally at the Washington Monument. Pesce, in his statement endorsing the move, said %u201cI am joining my friends and other residents of South Brooklyn to demonstrate in Washington on January 20 to express our desire for peace in Indo-Cnina.%u201dDemonstration organizers are urging an immediate end to the bombing and immediate halt to the war. Sen. Bellamy, in a statement released this week, announced that she would, in addition to joining the marchers, co-sponsor a resolutionTopic Is War%u2018%u2018Today%u2019s Politics andNixon's War\subject of a talk by SanfordGottlieb at the BrooklynHeights SANE Public Forumon Wednesday, Jan. 17. Mr.Gottlieb is Nationalin the New York State Senate condemning the bombing of North Vietnam and urging an immediate end to U.S. military involvement in Southeast Asia.The Forum, which is free,will include a question andanswer period. It will beginat 8:30 p.m. in the Undercroft of The FirstUnitarian Church, MonroePlace at Pierrepont St., inBrooklyn Heights. Refreshments will be served.A major campaign to inform the Brooklyn public about the January 20 demonstration is now being conducted by such community groups as the. Brooklyn Moratorium Committee, Park Slope People Against the War (they are planning a peaceful protest this Saturday in the Slope), Bushwick-Ridgewood Friends for Peace, Brooklyn Women Strike for Peace, Brooklyn SANE, the West Brooklyn Independent Democrats (WBID), the Independent Neighborhood Democrats (IND) and the Brooklyn College Student Government. A high school antiwar center has been set up in the Flatbush area which is leafleting area high schools and is planning an organizing meeting this Saturday. There are also student centers in the student government offices of both Brooklyn College and New York City Community College.Many of these organizations are offering transportation to Washington January 20. The WBID is accepting reservations for a $15 round-trip train ride to Washington. The train will leave Penn Station at 7 a.m. and return at 6 p.m., Jan. 20. Tickets may be reserved oy calling or going Dy WBID, 78 Montague St., phone 522- 4206, or by calling Sen. Bellamy%u2019s office, 287-0242, or Ben Miller, U12- 1622. In addition, the IND is reportedly attempting to reserve train space for its constituents. Buses, sponsored by the National Peace Action Coalition (691-3270), will also be leaving from Union Sq., Manhattan, at b a.m., Jan. zu. and returning in the evening.To March