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Page Two, PHOENIXARTIST WINS AWARD: Hilde Weingarten Kevessof 140 Cadman Plaza West has won the AnonymousPrize for a graphic at the 32nd Annual NationalExhibition of the Painters and Sculptors Society ofNew Jersey. The show, held at the Jersey City Museumopens on Wednesday, April 4th from 7-10 p.m. and willrun through April 28th at 472 Jersey Ave., Jersey City,New Jersey.Adam iSTARS IN LIGHT OPERA: Valerie Adami, of ParkSlope, stars as Chloe in the Village Light OperaGroup%u2019s production of the rollicking Gilbert & Sullivanoperetta, Princess Ida, which opened last Saturday atthe Fashion Institute Theater in Manhattan. A%u201c respectful operatic perversion%u201d of Tennyson%u2019snarrative poem, %u201cThe Princess,%u201d Ida is a good-naturedspoof on the excesses of Women%u2019s Liberationmovements throughout history and, though seldomperformed, is considered one of the most lavish andbeautiful of the entire G&S series. Additional performances are scheduled for Friday and Saturday,April 13 & 14.Firemen pump streams of water into mass of smokeRags Set Pier BlazeA total of 30 pieces of equipment and 160 firemen were summoned to Pier 39 at the foot of Coffey St. in Red Hook last Friday to battle a fire that spewed out dense black smoke and smouldering fragments for almost three hours before it was brought under control by land-based fireman, Coast Guard ships and city fireboats. The fire began, cause unknown, in bales of rags that are stored on Pier39 and it spread to the timbers of the pier itself, causing a considerable portion of the pier to collapse. The first alarm was sounded at 2:31 p.m. and three more alarms were subsequently transmitted.Despite the magnitude of the blaze, there were no injuries but firemen had to face the added menace of flying %u201c brands%u201d (ignited material carried by air currents) that started otherfires in the surrounding area. Within two blocks of the burning pier, at 206 and 208 Conover St:, these sparks did set fire to the roofs and wooden siding of two m ultiple dwellings, which resulted in the sounding of another two alarms and the evacuation of tenants. Power lines at the entrance of the 208 address were also burned out. There were no injuries there.LICH Frustrates CPCOver Un-clear PlansSEVUSH BOOK OUT: Lee Sevush of BrooklynHeights is the author of %u201cLet%u2019s Play Recorder,%u201d aninstruction bode for children from four to nine, out thisweek. Published by %u201cLearning Unlimited,%u201d ofMilwaukee, Wise., the %u201cnew approach to learningmusic,%u201d includes a record with a student%u2019s book as wellas a teacher%u2019s manual complete with 90-minutecassette. Current, contemporary music is combinedwith traditional songs in the demonstration material.Sevush is Assistant Director of Music at the New YorkCity Board of Education and a Professor of Music atBrooklyn College.%u2022 %u2022 %u2022 %u2022 %u2022 %u2022 %u2022WILL RETIRE: Mrs. Estelle Rodman Pearlman,Brooklyn Heights resident, announced she will retire inJuly from her post as secretary to the Board of the CityHealth and Hospitals Corporation. Mrs. Pearlman, a62-year-old grandmother, was honored in 1969 by thelate Borough President Abe Stark, for her volunteerwork on behalf of the chronically ill. She has served asdirector of the Brooklyn Cancer Society, on the Boardof Directors of the Kings County March of Dimes, andas president of the Borough Park division of theKingsbrook Jewish Medical Center, for 25 years.# %u2022 %u2022 %u2022 %u2022 # *INDER PERSAUD, acting director of CumberlandHospital, has been named to the job officially andpermanently by the city%u2019s Health and Hospitals Corp.WILL BE LIBRARY TREASURER: Max Weiner,vice president of the American Bank and Trust Co., hasbeen elected Treasurer of the Brooklyn Public Library,succeeding H. Elliot Wales, who had served asTreasurer since 1969 Weiner m s at a meetingof the Library%u2019s Board of Trustees on March 20. Reelected at that same meeting were the following officers: Jay Sam Unger, President; Minneola P.Ingersoll, Vice President and Arthur B. Chase,Secretary. Mr. Weiner, who lives and works inBrooklyn, has been a member of the Brooklyn PublicLibrary%u2019s Board of Trustees since 1971 when he wasappointed by Mayor Lindsay to serve a five-year term.Representatives of the Community Planning Committee forLong Island College Hospitalwalked out of a meeting of theHospital%u2019s Planning andDevelopment Committee lastWednesday (April 4) afterpresenting a point-by-pointcriticism of the Hospital%u2019s committee%u2019s performance.They cited their frustrations ofthe past four months throughoutthe process of attempting to reachagreement on a plan for buildingreplacement facilities for theobsolete buildings which now makeup the Hospital%u2019s complex inCobble Hill.This latest move comes onlyweeks before a final May 1deadline for the Hospital to submitto the New York State healthauthorities a site selection plan forthe new facilities.The Hospital, five days after themeeting, announced that it was inthe process of drawing up a finalplan which will be submitted to itsown Planning and DevelopmentCommittee, then to its Board ofRegents before transmittal to theState, omitting the inclusion of .theCommunity Committee in the finalprocess.%u201cAlthough the CommunityPlanning Committee has taken noposition with respect to the presentplan,%u201d said the Hospital announcement on April 9, %u201c itnonetheless inc'udes all thesesignificant points which were theprincipal requests made by theI r p r ronrocontafiyoo y;hc attendedthe hospital%u2019s Planning andD e v e lo p m e n t C o m m itte emeetings.%u201dThe CPC disagreed, and saidthat %u201cAfter nearly four months ofdeliberations... the Hospital hasyet to resolve several of the mostfundamental problems.%u201d Amongthose cited in its presentation onM April 4 were;The space requirements of themain hospital buiiding. %u201cIt is stillunclear...less than four weeksbefore the Hospital%u2019s third application deadline%u201d whether morethan a third of the total 1 millionplus square of floor space theHospital claims it neqds must be inthe main hospital structure.Long Island College Hospital willpresent to N.Y. State healthauthorities by May 1 a siteselection plan for an acute generalhospital to replace its presentobsolescent building, John B.Wingate, president of the hospital,announced on April 9.Under the very preliminary siteplans now being drawn by hospitalarchitects, Ferrenz & Taylor, tomeet the May 1 deadline, andbased upon the hospital%u2019s need toprovide quality medical care aswell as the months of input fromthe Community Planning Committee (CPC) representatives, it isplanned to have buildings that willbe no higher than 13 stories.The buildings will be set wellback, away from the hospitalproperty line on Henry Street^ theannouncement said and they willnuL involve me use of anyresidential properties either insideor outside the landmark area. Theplan also provides for adequateparking facilities with trafficpatterns designed to move awayfrom the residential area.State authorities had agreed topostponement of the site selectionplan submission twice before, fromJanuary to March and from MarchConflicting opinions by Hospitalrepresentatives as to whether ornot the State Department of Healthholds hospitals to absolutelyminimal design solutions or not. Ifit does, many of the planspresented by the Hospital%u2019s ownarchitects could not possibly beContinued on Page 14to May 1. The proposed plan will bepresented to the next meeting ofthe hospital%u2019s Planning andDevelopment Committee and thento the hospital%u2019s Board of Regentsbefore transmittal to the State.The plan will be releasedpublicly as soon as it has beenprepared, Mr. Wingate said. Thisshould be at the end of April, headded.Because the hospital was askedto move back toward the BrooklynQueens Expressway and considerbuilding over the BQE and HicksStreet, many hours were spentdeveloping the best method ofdoing this consistent with medicalrequirements, cost and generalfeasibility. Meetings were heldwith the City Planning Commissioner where this wasrecommended and plans weresuggested haspd nn thesediscussions.The present plan includes use ofand replacement of some parklandnear the BQE for a parking garagewith a modern play and park areaon top and level with CongressStreet. The site of the present mainhospital building will be used asreplacement for parkland, if thisplan is approved by appropriateauthorities.Hospital To GiveSite Plan to State