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Page Twelve, PHOENIXCPC Opposed ToPsychiatric UnitOn April 11 at a meeting at Boerum Hill%u2019s Cuyler-Warren Church, the Long Island College Hospital failed to make a scheduled presentation on behalf of the 100 psychiatric beds in its proposed expansion program at the monthly meeting of the Subregional Mental Health Planning Group for South Brooklyn, according to members of the Community Planning Committee for the hospital.Before the meeting had formally begun Dr. Frederic L. Gannon, assistant director of the department of psychiatry at LICH, announced that the Hospital was not prepared to make a presentation at this time, and immediately left, the CPC members advise and add that Dr. Jam es Finkelstein, whodescribed the psychiatric health program of the new South Beach Hospital on Staten Island, which is scheduled to open next month questioned LICH%u2019s need for such an addition. South Beach, which already is operating psychiatric units at 490 Fulton Street and St. Mary%u2019s Star of the Sea Church on Court Street, has primary jurisdiction over psychiatric health care in this part of Brooklyn for present and future projects.During the discussion period representatives of CPC opposed the LICH request for 100 psychiatric beds on two grounds: first, many studies have shown that a large institutional setting is not the ideal environment for the most effective treatment of mental patients; second, a psychiatric unitis not an integrally necessary department in a teaching hospital and LICH, which already is seeking to expand its Cobble Hill facility by more than two and a half times, should not be allowed to engage in any such gratuitous medical %u201cempire building.%u201dThe CPC people added, that the Hospital still has not attempted to develop a rationale for the 100 mental health beds it wants nine months after submitting its basic medical program to the State Department of Health (i.e., its Narrative Functional Program, Part II, dated August 1, 1972. This, they said should be of interest to the Department of Mental Hygiene, which must approve all proposals for new psychiatric units.Demonstration In SlopePark Slope%u2019s Garfield PI. was the scene of a transplanted community-action demonstration last Friday night when members of three Park Slope action groups plus local citizens and political leaders joined to support of the residents of Williamsburg%u2019s Northside, where 40 homeowners face eviction on April 30th by theCity%u2019s Economic Development Administration (EDA).The demonstration was a joint venture of the Northside Community Development Group, led by Ruby Stobiersky. and Park Slope%u2019s Neighborhood Tenant Council, Preservation Council, and 14th St. Civic Association. The coincidence that brought these groups togetherWifflch Supports r.S.8 RenovationCity Council candidate, Bob Wittich, announced his support for proposals to expand and renovate Public School 8 and for the simultaneous closing of Public School 7.Calling the proposals essential to providing quality education in this portion of Brooklyn. Wittich stated, %u201cWhile I was growing up in Farragut Houses in Ft. Greene, the city Board of Education promised to tear down Public School 7, since it was antiquated and surrounded by large factories. Apparently, the Board has forgotten its previous commitments since Public School 7 remains open despite the fact that its facilities are poor,%u201d he said.%u201cI consider the proposal to expand Public School 8 crucial to providing quality education to the communities of Brooklyn Heights and Farragut. Public School 7 has long ago outlived its usefulness; and to maintain the concept of pairing between these two communities, we must have a facility which can adequately service theV1IW ii.ichstudent population of both neighborhoods.%u201dWittich stated that action regarding both schools was long overdue and that he was committed to joining with any group that would fight the Board of Education%u2019s bureaucracy in seeing to it that a better physical plant would be developed at the Public School 8 location as quickly as possible.was that Kenneth Patton, administrator of the EDA, is a resident of Park Slope%u2019s Garfield PI. The theme of the evening was that Patton wouldn%u2019t sacrifice Garfield PI. for the good of NY industry so why this Williamsburg residential property, which has been condemned for factory expansion.The demonstration took the form of a funeral procession, with a hearse and cars full of mourners which arrived at Patton%u2019s house to deliver a coffin, representing the Northside neighborhood, to the doorstep of the man they charged was responsible. Neighbors reported Patton had left his house with his family a half-hour before the demonstration. The procession then marched to the Fuller PI. home of Tom Cuite, the City Council%u2019s Majority Leader, where the demonstration was repeated. Cuite was .blamed for holding up an investigation of the Northsiders complaints.Brunch ForFlanaganA Sunday brunch on April 29 in honor of John Flanagan for District 15 School Board has been set under the sponsorship of George Alwon, 1972 Democratic candidate for State Senate in Park Slope and Bay Ridge.Flanagan is the youngest of 29 candidates for the District 15 board, and vows he will express the %u201cneeds and opinions of the 1.1 million school students, who have no spokesman now.%u201d He is a recent graduate of John Jay high school.Guest speaker at the brunch will be Assemblyman Steve Solarz. The public is invited to the event, which will be held at 447 Sixth Avenue (corner 9th St.). Donation is $2 ($1 for students).I M f*BEAM:103-7 Ave.0789-5253imported coffee and teasCRANLYN MEATSP r im e M e a t s a p o u l t r yF is h - S . a W . C a n g o o d sB a r -B -Q C h ic k e nWe DeliverP h o n e M A 4 - 1 0 7 0 102 H icks StreetThe Community Committee of The Brooklyn Museum celebrates its 25th Anniversary with a scintillating Silver Jubilee Ball on April 28, and honors one of the great ladies who helped to make it all possible, Mrs. Tracy S. Voorhees, (center), first president and a charter member of the Committee. Planning the program with Mrs. Voorhees is (left) Mrs. Robert Dickes, president, and (right) another founding member, Mrs. Abbott A. Lippman. Tickets are still available through the Community Committee Office (789-2493) for $60. per coupie. Higher categories, from $75. receive an original etching by Harvey Dinnerstein. Mrs. Jacob Rosenberg is Ball Chairman, with Mrs. Rollin C. Bush, Mrs. Edward C. Maxwell and Mr. Robert A. Levinson serving as co-chairmen.Require Security In HotelsCity Councilman Fred Richmond last week introduced legislation to mandate better security and fire prevention in single-room occupancy hotels, with a bill that would require those SRO hotels with 500 or more rooms to maintain a television security system to provide video surveillance of all elevators, hallways, public rooms and spaces throughout the hotel. The TV system would have to be kept in good working order at all times.He said his bill would also require that all single-room occupancy hotels, regardless of size, have a switchboard telephone service, operated 24 hours a day bya qualified person. All exits except the main entrance would have to be equipped with break-away fire doors. All such exits that are not guarded by a doorman or licensed security guard would be locked at 9 p.m. nightly.%u201cWe must make sure that occupants of these hotels, who are mostly older people, not become the prey of thieves and killers,%u201d Richmond said. %u201cSingle-occupancy hotels must be made safe.%u201dViolations of the proposed local law would be punishable by a fine of not more than $500, by jail terms of not more than six months, or both. Civil penalties of $250 for each offense w'ould also be levied.May Designate Local AreasComplete Home Modernization Centergraphic KITCHENS, in c.%u2022 Stained G lass W ork * %u2022O rn a m e n ta l PlasterinaGeneralW | m %%u00ab -------Continued from Page 3Slope, Boerum Hill and Carroll Gardens will be designated landmarks districts in July, joining Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill and Stuyvesant Heights in Brooklyn as areas under LPC supervision.Any plans for exterior renovation, alteration or demolition of a building within a landmark district must be approved by the LPC which holds hearings every month. Although the commission is backed with some legal clout to enforce its rulings, violators are seldombrought to court and fined. The Commission says it prefers to convince rather than coerce building owners to comply with LPC guidelines.Preservationists are critical of this attitude, noting that many valuable buildings have been permanently damaged by illegal alterations. %u201cOnly the good guys bother to consult with LPC before making changes,%u201d one critic commented. %u201c The Permastone faction doesn%u2019t even know the Landmarks Preservation Commission exists.%u201dr u n u i r u i u ^ e t A D T U E U A U Erg# l u ru iiiin iiiv v i wit * iRICH \\RD 1 \\ l V J I li. V I V I - / 1 V \\ G W j i AV J h . A. i. / ? t v / v / i y / wnnnwnPk'Q t t V 7 i \\ i \\ k /2 0 4 S IX T H A V E., B R O O K LY N , N .Y 11215 212 6 3 6 - 6 3 4 8