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IWhat particularly disturbs us about the astonomical leaps the price of food has been making lately is that more children will go hungry in this country%u2014hungry for the kind of nutrients doctors have found necessary for normal physical and mental growth and development, hungry because their parents are too rich (or proud) for welfare, but too poor to pay for protein.Still Hungry in America, a report published before food prices took their most recent dramatic increase, points out that far too many American children suffer from such diseases of malnutrition as scurvy, beri beri, exotic diseases most of us thought were confined to the primitive wilds of an underdeveloped country.These hungry children are in America, in places like Beaufort County, S.C., the small mountain towns of Appalachia and sections of Brooklyn%u2014anywhere there is poverty and not enough money to buy the essential nutrients to sustain life.Children crippled by malnutrition are crippled physically and mentally through life. When they get to school they have trouble learning and often drop out of the school scene and into the drug scene before too many years of their short life is out.Social compassion for such children is no longer in vogue. Our nation's leaders are far too concerned with gagging the press and standing behind executive immunity to come out for some sort of realistic program to control food prices and insure that poor children don%u2019t go to school on empty stomachs.We support next week's national boycott of meat more in hopes that the act will be received on our President%u2019s sensitive political antennae than in hopes of manipulating prices by decreasing demand in the marketplace. The latter would oniy be temporary, over as soon as Saturday%u2019s steak. The former, we would hope, would persuade the President to do something more substantive about food prices, something that boes beyond kindly advice to buy only fruits that are in season.rDo you have something to iW%u00ab w e lc o m e your contributions tothe PHOENIX Community Forum P a g ePrefer 5 0 0 -7 5 0 word length.Send Your M aterial to: Editor,PHOENIX, 132 Clinton St., Brooklyn.Robert Burke Jones, PresiaenrMichael A. Armstrong, Publisher132 CLINTON ST.,BROOKLYN 11201TEL 6 4 3 -1 0 3 2One View of Parks' Future%u2018Way better than half our partesare pillaged desolate jungles,breeding grounds for crime andaddition. Why?In this writers opinion, this isexactly what the city intends themto be. Real estate is at the highestpremium ever. Many privatedevelopers and city agencies arehungry to acquire property.Private developers can buildiiigh-renl buildings on uiem andmake big profits. Constructionunion leaders can provide highpaying jobs for their people.Building contractors can makeplenty of money and pay theirinvestors huge dividends. City,state and federal housing commissioners will be able to justifythe big salaries they get off taxPayers money.When a park becomes a liabilityto a neighborhood instead of anasset, sooner or later the people inthe area will join together to get ridof it. Schools, hospitals, colleges,private industry, government andso forth are land-hungry in thisland-poor city and they have beensitting back waiting to gobble upthe parklands. They figure less badpublicity than putting people in theVIEW FROM THE PROMENADE: Photographer Pat O%u2019Connell took this picture of the BQE from the Promenade at 4 a.m. last week.'Don%u2019t Quote Me, ButBY SCORPIO%u2022 %u2022 %u2022Republican District Leader George Spanakos told anybody who would listen that the Brooklyn GOP was going to sandbag the candidacy of Bob Wagner for Mayor (on the Republican line) and the Brooklyn group certainly did its share in stopping things. In putting over the Rockefeller grand ploy nobody expected the biggest problem of all to be Wagner%u2019s tender feelings.*%u2605 %u2605 %u2605 %u2605 %u2605 %u2605The whole crowd was there last week for the formal groundbreaking of the second new building in downtown Brooklyn in the past two years. John Lindsay may be down for the count, but he still isn%u2019t out to judge from the response of the crowd and the multitude of officials who treated the mayor's appearance at the occasion like the state visit of a potentate. Lindsay has charm and wit, and as long as it lasts, he will outclass every minor league politico in Brooklyn orIf the consumers don%u2019t getthemselves together and organize,you just might find your local parkis a parking lot one of these finedays.Reprinted from the Newsletter ofthe New York City PlaygroundAssociations For Parks,necreauon ana Cultural Affairs.any other part of town. The Lindsay future might just be brighter thanks to the Rockefeller debacle over the resurrection of Bob Wagner.%u2605 %u2605 %u2605 %u2605 %u2605 %u2605 %u2605 %u2605Whoever wins the Democratic Prim ary for Borough President (and there seems To be less and less doubt about that outcome as each day passes) is home free in November The Brooklyn GOP didn't have to debate very long or very hard to come to the conclusion that anybody willing to make a race could have it. Last time around, Morris Kirsch was willing to pour money into what proved a hopeless situation. This time, there was no one available. Hence, the candidacy of Donald Kennelly, a St. Francis prof.%u2605 %u2605 %u2605 %u2605 %u2605 %u2605 %u2605The Brooklyn Democratic reformers didn't give much consideration to the candidacyWork For A CleaTo the Editor:The Brooklyn Heights Board ofTrade has been contacted by theN.Y. Dept, of Sanitation withrequests of cooperation towards acleaner Brooklyn Heights.We have been advised that thepresently existing sanitary lawsand regulations will be strictlyenforced as summer is approaching. They are seeking toeliminate the foul odors and thepollution that has plagued ourstreets during the hot months.They suggest that we abide bythe sanitary code, and offer a fewsuggestions: Keep garbage inclosed containers (bags or trashcans)- Sweep, and possibly washf h p < siH p u /a llrc: in fr* r \\ n t n f n n r ctm -A oor residences. Food Stores shouldhave facilities near their doors forthe disposal of wrappers or othertrash discarded by theircustomers. Garbage should not beput out on weekends; there is nopick up service on Sunday and noprivate carter pickup on Saturday. No car should be parked onmetered streets between 8 and 9AM, nor on alternate side streetswhere and when so indicated; thisis to permit adequate sweeping andwashing of all streets. Dog ownersshould curb their pets, allowing forsafe street crossing. Bulk disposalshould be only on prescribed daysor by appointment with theSanitation Dept.While they seek to avoidharrassment, and prefer not toissue summons, they will have todo so if the business people and theresidents refuse to cooperate.Summons for violations will beserved and repeated when warnings will be ignored.We want our streets clean,please cooperate.Louis LewisPresidentBrooklyn Heights Board of TradeRichard II ReviewTo Ms. Gina Lebowitz:Thank you for an interestingreview of Richard II as presentedat Brooklyn College. I enjoyed itContinued on Page 10IHof Bobby Steingut tson ui Assemblyman Stanley, Minority Leader there), but they might as well have. The campaign of Helen Polansky of Bay Ridge, who they did endorse for the post, is proving to be a pale shadow of Assemblyman Steve Solarz campaign for Borough President. Embarassment forces even the die-hard ideologues to admit that even Simon O%u2019Shea of Brooklyn Heights would have run a creditable race, and that what their organization has done is to hand the race to Steingut.%u2605 %u2605 %u2605 %u2605 %u2605 %u2605 %u2605 %u2605In case there was ever any doubt, Judge Joe Dowd is still looking longingly at a bid for a seat on Congress come the first opportunity. His friends say that privately, the Judge is itching for a fight against any comers %u2014 including Al Lowenstein, who Dowd says %u201c can't control himself in public.\Precincts HostMeetingsPolice precinct community councils hold monthly meetings where representatives of the police precinct together with elected officials from the community listen to citizen complaints and also help initiate and organize community activities%u2014 some recreational and social and others which serve to answer housing, sanitation and crime problems. Mark the date of your police precinct community council meeting on your calendar and attend.72nd Precinct %u2014 830 4th Avenue (965 4343) Meetings held the second Tuesday of each month at the Station.76th Precinct %u2014 191 Union Street (624 4412) Meetings held the first Tuesday of each month at the Station, beginning at 8:00 P.M.78th Precinct %u2014 dBR RproonStreet (783 2072) Meetings held the last Tuesday of each month at St. Augustine%u2019s Auditorium, Sterling Place & 6th Ave.84th Precinct %u2014 301 Gold Street (834 1150) Meetings held the third Wednesday ofoarh mrvn+U n* LJa4aI Ox /%u201c*>---------- %u2022 %u2022%u2022%u2022WMtllfUt I IUICI Ol. ucui gc,51 Clark Street, at 8:00 P.M. %u25a0Page Eight, PHOENIXPJBKPMEm rlU glH SStill HungryIn America