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PHOENIX June 28,1973L1CH NAMES PAIR TO PLANNING POSTS: Long Island College Hospital, Cobble Hill, has announced the appointment of Sigmund L. Friedman, M.I). and Miss M. Ann Coleman as Director and Co-Director of its newly established Planning Department. Dr. Friedman and Miss Coleman have, for a decade and a half worked as a team for the Health and Hospital Planning Council of Southern New York and its predecessor agencies where Dr. Friedman was Director and Miss Coleman, Assistant Director, of the Division for Planning and Consultation. Since 1968 they have been married. They are best known for their work on the measurement and correction of hospital obsolescence, a field to which they have made major contributions, and for development of hospitals' long-range plans in relation to community needs on the one hand and to hospital design on the other, the LICH announcement said.SUPER-SALESMAN AWARD: David Holden of Selma Wallace Associates Inc. received that firm%u2019s HangingInn Award at a year-end sales meeting in Hollywood, Florida, last weekend. Mr. Holden recently figured in a six-million dollar permanent take-out for a southern convention hotel. The small national mortgage brokerage firm located on Clinton Street recently finished the best year in the company%u2019s history.NAMED AT METHODIST HOSPITAL: Dr. Donald C. Kent has been appointed Director of Medicine at Methodist Hospital, effective July 1. Dr. Kent, a native of Bonesteel, S.D ., comes to Methodist from a post as Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, New York University. The new Director of Medicine earned hi: B.S. and M.D. degrees from the University ot Nebraska, and also attended Yale University. He is a member of numerous professional organizations, including: American Thoracic Society, American Medical Association, Brooklyn Thoracic Society, New York Academy of Medicine, American College of Chest Physicians, Alpha Omega Alpha, National Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association, Diplomate, American Board of Internal Medicine, and International Society of Internal Medicine.ANNOUNCE RETIREMENT: Dean Raymond E. Liste announced today the retirement of Professor Robert R. Sugarman, who has taught uninterruptedly at Brooklyn Law School for 46 years. Professor Sugarman, who will retain an office at the law school and will remain in close association with the faculty and students, has been granted the title of Professor Emeritus of Law.RECEIVES APPOINTMENT: Louis Valentino, a lifetime resident of South Brooklyn, has been appointed by Mayor Lindsay to a two-year term on the newly established Child Day Care Center Commission.FIRST WOMAN CONDUCTOR: Dorothy Klotzman, chairwoman of the Brooklyn College Department of Music, will become the first woman ever to conduct the Goldman Band at two concerts in early July. Prof. v %u2019otzman, who is also conductor of the college%u2019s j inphonic Band, will lead the Goldman ensemble July 7 in Prospect Park, and on July 8 at the Damrosch Bandshell in Lincoln Center. Both concerts are at 7:30 p.m. and free. A recipient last year of a prestigious Gifted Teaching Award from the Danforth Foundation,rrof. IMOlZIIian licit* uccn uii mu iciuuii)' at uiuuki^ii College since 1962 and head of her department since 1971. She has B.S. and M.S. degrees in composition from Juilliard. One of Prof. Klotzman%u2019s students, Deborah Pittman, clarinetist and concertmaster for the Symphonic Band, will also become the first woman to play in the Goldman Band, this summer.PS 124K Youngsters Visit City HallCity Council Majority Leader ihomas j . uune tiem ana rairomidn maaaeua Malysz (right) extend a welcome to City Hall to members of Class 5-4 at P.S. 124K, Fourth Avenue and 13th Street, Brooklyn. During a guided tour, the youngsters visited the Council while in session, toured the museum on the second floor, and visited the Mayor%u2019s and President of the Council%u2019s offices. Their guide was City Council staff member, Barry Clark. The students were accompanied by Ms. Fortunata Guarino, their teacher. Gertrude Agoglia is Principal of P.S. 124K.Local Race Target ofLib-GOP Vote PlotBY CORRINE COLEMANAlthough the local 52nd A. D. has been cited as one of the 11 New York State areas where Republican funds were allegedly furnished to Liberal Party campaigns in last year%u2019s races for State Assembly, the local activity, which so far includes the allegation that a letter promoting a Liberal vote was sent to registered Democrats under the auspices of Republican Harold Relkin (A former Queens Liberal who holds a patronage job on the Assembly Republican staff L met with no success in South Brooklyn.The divide-and-conquer tactic throughout the State, (which brings into question the possibility of improper channeling of Republican Assembly campaign funds! was used to siphon off Democratic votes to the Liberal side, for the ultimate benefit of the Republican candidate according to evidence uncovered by State Attorney General Louis J. Lefkowitz%u2019 investigators.However, last year%u2019s 52nd A. D. Liberal candidate, Charles Olstein, emerged a poor fourth with 735 votes, despite a letter citing his virtues received late in the campaign by local Democrats, some of whom recall feeling that %u201cit came out of left field, after an almost nonexistent campaign.%u201dOlstein, who says he %u201cdid absolutely zero mailings,%u201d and confined his campaign to participation in debates, greeting constituents at subway stops, and making the election day rounds, Haims no knowledge of a Ipttor orany other outside efforts in his behalf, until this week when the Attorney General%u2019s office advised him of the Relkin mailing.Assemblyman Michael Pesce who emerged victorious with 17,878 votes in the '72 race, believes that the Republicans were primarily concentrating on their own candidate Brooklyn Heights resident. Jane Weld. With Weld%u2019s views more liberal thanN those of theaverage Republican, %u201cone of their best professional campaigns%u201d was conducted in the hope of getting the vote of district Democraticregulars as well as liberals, he feels.Jane Weld who came in second with 9401 votes, says she knew of no Republican duplicity during the Assembly campaign, and feels that her race was entirely open and above board. However she noted that the Liberal party had at first endorsed Democrat Joseph Martuscello, (the then incumbent who was defeated in the June primary by reformer Pesce) and subsequently withdrew its support after Mantuscello's vote for repeal of the New York State Abortion Law. Though Liberal party questionnaires were given to Weld and Pesce afterwards, she wasBY DAVID ORMONTQuick thinking by the directors of the Nevins Senior Citizens and Day Care Center, 460 Atlantic Ave., averted a potential catastrophe, when fire broke out there last F'riday.About 100 senior citizens were having their lunch at 12:30 when they suddenly heard the sounds of fire gongs. Within moments wisps of smoke were seen. Mrs. Pat Jenkins the Center%u2019s new director, ordered all to leave immediately. The Day Care Center also was evacuated without incident. The youngsters found asylum from the driving rain a block away in a local church.Several fire engines soon appeared. The smoke was intense. The police assured concerned friends, ralatives and passers by, that no one had been hurt.Though the cause of the fire ha: not been established, someadvised that rather than choose between them, the decision was made to give the nomination to Olstein. Ix>cal Liberal Party, officials were not available for comment.Though it has been noted that the alleged R epublican-L iberal alliance during the 1972 Assembly races was centered in areas with %u201cDemocratic intraparty turmoil, the presence of freshman politicians, and local issues over which ideological differences could be exploited.\applied to last year%u2019s situation within the 52 A. D.The point was made by an observer that success would be dependent on at least the implicit collusion by the RegularContinued on Page 12theories attribute it to the vindictiveness of a local %u201choodlum%u201d who, angry about being kept out of the center, threw a lighted match into some trash awaiting pickup in an inside corridor. Members are suggesting that a policeman be stationed outside at all times to prevent reoccurence of the near disaster.The Nevins Senior Center, under new administration, is now known as the Atlantic Center for Older Citizens. It is run by Colony House. Delicious free lunches are stillEiYHilsb!1? to a!! urWn nrnnow also privileged to watch their favorite television programs on a color set. Activities include free trips (such as the one on June 28 to Bear Mountain), pool, bingo, chess, checkers, and a library from which books may be borrowed. Community singing, dancing, and lessons in art are also available. Senior citizens are invited to become members and join in the fun.Center EvacutedQuickly During Fire