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Page Ten, PHOENIXNonpartisan ReformPanel to Screen inSearch for JudgesB ro o k ly n L e g a l Services L a w y e r D a v id S. P re m m in g e r (le ft) a n d la w s tu d e n t W illia m J. Le vis.Director: No Dangerto Legal ServicesThe OEO funded South BrooklynCommunity Action Legal Services,based on Court and Pacific Sts. isnot in danger, attorney directorChip Grey says. Although theagency offering free legal servicesto people with incomes below $4000will 1x3 moved to HEW in July, thethewindow blind for people who hateV e n e t ia nblindsNixon budget does not call for a cutin its funding, he advises. CAL willremain at its present locationservicing almost all of BrooklynSouth of Flatbush Ave. and continuing to take %u201cas many cases ascan be handled.%u201d Emphasizinggroup action like tenant committeesuits against landlords and rentstrikes, the agency also works withindividuals in all save criminalsituations. A recently begun%u201cdivorce mill%u201d with a womanlawyer and severalparaprofessionals has alreadytried 500 cases, Grey says. Thoughthere is no immediate problem forthe local legal group which hasbeen part of a structure worked inbehalf of the people against theestablishment, the break fromOEO may be bad for the community legal agencies in otherstates like Mississippi andCalifornia, Grey fears. Thus hethinks that an independent corporation ought to be set up to administer the services nationally.An independent nonpartisanjudicial screening panel has issuedan invitation to all Brooklyn andStaten Island lawyers to appearbefore it for possible endorsementas candidates for the New YorkState Supreme Court bench.The group, called the CitizensIndependent Screening Panel, iscomposed of members of leadingcivic, legal, labor and businessgroups. It will interview candidates for three Supreme Courtjudgeships which will be contestedin November in the Second JudicialDistrict, comprising Brooklyn andStaten Island. It is the first suchpanel to operate in Kings and Richmond counties.Only qualifications for the benchwill be considered by the panel.Party affiliation, or lack of it, willnot be a criterion.The Independent ScreeningPanel was formed by the BrooklynCommittee to Reform JudicialSelection, an affiliate of thecitywide Committee to ReformJudicial Selection, which has beensponsoring screening panels inNew York County since 1967.Supreme Court judges who haveattained the bench after election byindependent panels in New Yorkinclude Edward J. Greenfield,Martin B. Stecher, Herbert B.Evans, Hilda G. Schwartz andMartin Evans.Members of the IndependentScreening Panel, all Brooklynresidents, include: Ronald DelFranco of 3510 Glenwood Road,nominated by the Congress ofItalian-American Organizations;Irving Glasgow of 93 MidwoodStreet, assistant general counsel ofDistrict Council 37, AmericanFederation of State, County andMunicipal Employees, nominatedby District Council 37; Donald E.Moore of 128 Willow Street,director of the Downtown BrooklynDevelopment Association; SherylParker of 100 Ocean Parkway,nominated by the League ofWomen Voters; Jose Rivera of 295Washington Avenue, staff attorneyof and nominated by the PuertoRican Legal Defense andEducation Fund; and David G.Trager of 175 Congress Street,professor of constitutional law atBrooklyn Law School and formerchief of the appeals division, officeof the United States Attorney,Eastern District. Three additionalmembers will be named later.Chairmen of the Brooklyn Committee to Reform Judicial Selection are Charles Monaghan of 534Third Street and Paul Asofsky of617 Eighth Avenue.Lawyers interested in appearingbefore the panel should submit aresume to the temporary secretaryof the group, Jose Rivera, at thePuerto Rican Legal Defense andEducation Fund, 815 SecondAvenue, New' York, 4N.Y. 10017.Professor Trager is temporarychairman of the screening panel.Unraveling PS 7-8 ControversyBY CORRINE COLEMANCharging last year%u2019s leadershipof the P.S. 7-8 Parent-TeachersAssociation and the District 13Community School Board withsitting on a proposal to constructan addition and recreationalfacilities to expand P.S. 8, P.T.A.member Seymour Pustilnik isenlisting the support of BrooklynHeights and Farragut parentstowards pushing the project now,he says.Pustilnik, believes that construction of a central school willmore effectively integrate thechildren from the two communitieswho have been utilizing the twoschools (grades 1-4 in P.S. 8 in theHeights %u2014 a mostly white neighborhood %u2014 and 5 and 6 grade atP.S. 7 in Farragut %u2014 a primarilyBlack area) since the pairingbegan in 1964. Noting that amajority of the P.T.A. membership had voted for a combined7-8 at a November 1971 meeting, heis puzzled by what he claims werelast year%u2019s co-presidents%u2019withholding of a letter by theEducational Construction Fund%u201cexpressing its willingness toconstruct such an addition andrecreational facilities on Block 207,the Poplar Street block just north%u2019of the P.S. 8 building.%u201dLike much of the atmospheresurrounding the 7-8 pairing sinceits beginnings eight and a halfyears ago, the issue of a centralschool located not in centralterritory (between 7 and 8), but inthe midst of Brooklyn Heights,continues to remain hazy. Thoughpast P.T.A. Presidents BarbaraWeisberg and Ernestine Williamshave not responded to Pustilnik%u2019scharges, P.T.A. spokesman HarrySmith denies that any effortstowards establishing a centralschool were blocked by last year%u2019sleadership. Smith sees littlepossibility of such a school beingbuilt in the near future however.The Educational ConstructionFund, according to spokeswomanCheryl Weed, did forward a letterto the 7-8 presidents in March 1972.However, she emphasized theFund, a public benefit corporationset up by the state to build publicContinued on Page 20PHOENIX AdsGet ResultsPrince At LuncheonWell-known director andproducer Harold Prince will be theguest of honor at the luncheon ofthe Friends of the Brooklyn%u2022iNairow * lots a .On* skinnyIH tl* Inch%u2022 N o ta p e s *.. 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Hehas been director and producer of%u201cZorba,%u201d %u201cCabaret%u201d and %u201cCompany%u201d and has produced such hitsas %u201cWest Side Story%u201d and %u201cAFunny Thing Happened on the Wayto the Forum.%u201d This season hedirected a revival of EugeneO%u2019Neill%u2019s %u201cThe Great God Brown%u201dfor the New Phoenix RepertoryCompany, but of course he is bestknown for %u201cA Little Night Music,%u201done of this season%u2019s Broadway hits.The Friends of the Academysponsor a number of such eventsduring the year to increase community support for the Academy.0 4S? & %u2014 %u25a0%u2014 W ^%u2022 STEPPING STONE %u2022** POTTERY%u2019****w holesale - retail - special ordersclasses - workshop224 Atlantic A venue 624-9575|LETTERS |Continued from Page 8Let me point out that the passagequoted correctly reads,%u201cFor God%u2019s sake let us sit upon thegroundAnd tell stories of the death ofkings%u201d...I think, read this way, the effectis stronger.Thanks again for your article,Sincerely,Dorothy E. 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