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More Letters the EditorPHOENIX, Pace Nine%u2018JsiJi%u00bb f - .%u2014 .. n u - : i U V i 1 J O IU JContinued from Page 6V% %u00ab* %u00bbnr%u00bb antLSAKA J \\ J \U U V W Cmas, Mr. Rooney, while even more young Americans became MIA%u2019s or POW%u2019s whose Christmas was spent in Hanoi%u2019s jails?While Mr. Nixon disgraces our country%u2014 in our own eyes and in the eyes of the world, have you ever opened your mouth, Mr. Rooney, to say %u201cEnough of this killing%u2014 it%u2019s killing our country!%u201dNo, you haven%u2019t%u2014 and it%u2019s time that you did!Sincerely yours,Yetta H. Bloom, Chairman Brooklyn Heights SANEResolutionsThe PHOENIX received the following report from the Brooklyn Heights Board of Trade:Another year has come to pass. We leave behind us no regrets, no wasted hopes. Your Board of Trade and all its members wish all of you a very %u201cHappy New Year,%u201d and pledge to do everything possible to make it so.Our past year has brought us still closer to the residents of Brooklyn Heights; most of us have become an integral part of this great community. Your needs and ours are one; your hopes are ours. While we have been striving to improve the safety and cleanliness of our neighborhood, we have also worked towards re-establishing some of the beauty of environment that had made Brooklyn HeightsRequest$3 MillionIncreaseThe Brooklyn Public Library requested an additional $3,233,996 over its present budget for the 1973- 74 fiscal year to cover the cost of providing library programs, services and resources. Kenneth F. Duchac, director of the library, presented the budget request to the City%u2019s Budget Office The total budget request was $16,905,576, the bulk of which is contained in the library%u2019s basic budget. Duchac pointed out that the $2,063,225 supplemental request is for services and materials which are %u201cnot supplementary; they are basic to the provision of good library service.%u201d These supplemental funds would finance full Saturday service at all libraries in Brooklyn and six hours of Sunday services at 26 libraries; 29 special officers to cope more adequately with security problems; funding of the currently federally-financed community coordinator and pre-school programs; hiring of 10 community residents to work in their neighborhood libraries; increase the pay scale of part-time workers to $2 an hour; and personnel to provide library service in two community multi-service centers now being planned in East New York and Brownsville.5UUALIIY BA M U U U U U 3COLlEGt flflHCflyPARTY CAKES AVA ILABLEAT ANY T IM E239 COURT ST.MA 4-5534famous in former years%u2014a closely krniieu cumiuuuiiy wiliiin a big city, a %u201ctownship%u201d and subways and banks and roaring traffic, a suburb in the center of a metropolis, a part of New York that has retained its heart ...this is Brooklyn Heights.When the Board of Trade organized two years ago, we knew that we would get the support of everyone for our reconstruction program. We embarked in ambitious undertakings, all brought to success because you cared, because we cared. The residents, the local politicians, the city officials, police and sanitation departments, commerce and park departments, the Downtown Development Agency, they all joined us in our efforts, and it shows! Thanks -We want to welcome at this time newcomers in our business area and wish them good luck. To others who have or are in the process of remodeling and improving their store, we also wish good luck. To all the merchants, best wishes. By bringing only the best m erchandise, goodwill, courtesy and service into our shopping area, they will be patronized by the residents and they will succeed.We, the merchants, pledge to serve you well this coming year and all the years that will follow. Our shopping area is able to supply you with most of the things you need. Shop in Brooklyn Heights and help in beautifying our great neighborhood.%u201cHappy New Year%u201dLouis Lewis PresidentBrooklyn Heights Board of TradePeter Abeson, director of Westport's Phone-A-Home Program (center) discusses his ideas about parent-child conflicts with John Jay teacher Elyse Rhodes (I.) and Linda Salome.Conflict With Parents DiscussedConflicts between teenagers and their parents exist in sprawling affluent communities as well as in congested urban neighborhoods. Recognizing the universality of generation-gap problems, the students at Park Slope%u2019s John Jay High School became interested in the work of Peter Abeson, director of Westport%u2019s Phone-A-Home Program, and invited him to talk to a group of 500 John Jay students.On December 11, Mr. Abeson made the trek from his Manhattan office to rap with John Jay students and teachers. He explained Phone-A-Home %u2014 what it can do and cannot do. This is strictly a volunteer program for Abeson who is an active businessman. In Westport, when a teenage child%u2019s differences with his family reach a point of friction where no reconciliation seems possible, Mr. Abeson and 17 other volunteer families make their homes available for a 24- to 48-hour*** The record albums and tapes sold in our warehouse for one dollar each are the same albums and tapes that you have paid four, five or six dollars for elsewhere.We are one of two warehouse outlets in the country for the disposal of record company over-runs.We are located in an out of the way iocation and it will be difficult for you to come to the warehouse%u2014but it will be worth the trip. Another unusual feature is that we are open ONLY EVERY SATURDAY AND SUNDAY 10-5. (Closed during the week.)Record & Tape W AREHOUSE163 - 8th St., Cor. 3rd Ave., BrooklynSA N D A LS, BA G S, BELTS, HATSSILVER JEW ELRY.ALSO C U STO M DESIGNS TO YOUR SPECIFICATION.Mon. & Wad. 11-7Tu%u00aes Thurs. Fri. & Sat. 11-9cooling off period. During this interim, counseling for the child and his parents can be arranged. Where there are serious problems in the picture, such as drugs, the run-away is referred to the proper agencies for help.In a question-answer period following Mr. Abeson%u2019s talk, John Jay students asked such salient questions as: %u201cHow about race differences? Would a black family take in a white kid? Or vice-versa? How do you get families tovolunteer? Who funds this? Does it cost money? Would a Westport family take in a Brooklyn kid?\Mr. Abeson explained that Phone-A-Home is strictly a community-based program. Each community would have to set it up facing its own internal problems. He offered his services to help Park Slope parents set up a similar program. The important outcome of the afternoon%u2019s encounter was the realization that Westport and Park Slope have a lot in common.* ------------ ****H appy N e w YearMy staff and I are availableto serve the people of Flatbush,South Brooklyn, Brooklyn Heights,and Park Slope at4 neighborhood offices.7 0 2 Church S treet2 8 6 C o u rt S treet7 8 M o n ta g u e S treet6 9 A S eventh A v e n u eI can be re a c h e d by p h o n e at: 2 8 7 - 0 2 4 0C a ro l B e iia m yState Senator, 23rd Senatorial DistrictNew Year's GreetingI look forw ard to servingall the people of the 52nd andI w ill be at my office Saturdays1 PM - 4 PMM y office staff w ill be h a p p y to h elp you:M on. & W ed. / - V PM ,S a tu rd a y s 10 A M - 1 PM875 - 2311 2 8 6 Court StreetMichael PesceAssemblyman, 52nd Assembly District