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Page 2 PHOENIX March?, 1974/N e w sSENIORS ELECT IN CARROLL GARDENS -Members of the Carroll Park Senior Citizen Center,619 Henry St., have elected officers to oversee thebusy schedule of their center. Raymond Wilson isthe new president, Loretta Smith was elected vicepresident and Louise Ventriglia is secretary. JohnLicari has been named official Italian Interpreter.The center, under the direction of Roland Magee,has over 700 registered participants, and anyoneover 60 is invited to join in the center's activities.Social group worker at the Henry St. facility isSister Mary Josita.%u2022 f tINVITED TO JOIN ADVISORY COMMITTEE -James V. Mangano, general clerk and administrative director of the N.Y. State SupremeCourt, Kings County an6 Brooklyn Heights residenthas been invited to become a member of theCriminal Justice Advisory Committee at RemsenStreet%u2019s St. Francis College. The college offers theAssociate Degree in Criminal Justice and presently330 law enforcement officers are enrolled in theprogram. Mangano is one of five who have beeninvited to join this group because of their deepknowledge and experience in the law enforcementfield, a St. Francis spokesman said.Tax Commissioner Charles Berkman of GraceCourt receives Leadership Award at recent U.J.A,Israel Emergency Fund testimonial breakfast in hishonor at Bossert Hotel. The recent fund-raisingdrive raised more than $100,000 in the BrooklynHeights Cobble Hill area, organizers say. Left toright are: Benjamin Kolchinisky, co-chairman;Hon. James V. Mangano, awards presenter; Mr.Berkman; and Rubin Huffman, co-chairman.GRAPHICS AWARD %u2014 Hilde Weingarten Kevessof Cadman Plaza was the winner of a graphicsaward at the 34th Annual Exhibition of the Leagueof Present Day Artists, running through March 18at 15 Gramercy Park South in Manhattan, daily, 1-5p.m.FETE ANNIVERSARY OF PROBST - WilliamProbst, for the past five years chief executive at theProspect Park Bay Ridge Branch of the YMCA, washonored with a recent testimonial dinner inGreenooint commemorating his 25 years with theYMCA, all served in Brooklyn. More than 200friends and co workers attended the event, whichwas headed by Artie Budwiser. board member ofthe Greenpoint YMCA, where Probst hadpreviously served, and by Anthony Ceraso andVincent Saggese, board members of the Park Slopebranch Probst began his career at the old BrooklynCentral Branch on Hanson Place.Dr. Donald F. OthmerHEIGHTS INVENTOR%u2019S SYSTEM MAY SPEEDOIL %u2014 A new heating system for heating largeArctic oil pipelines by an electric %u201cskin effect%u201d thatdoes away with the need for insulation has beenpatertted by Columbia Heights resident Dr. DonaldF. Othmer, a distinguished professor of chemicalengineering at Polytechnic Institute of New York.The Othmer system uses an insulated wire runningthrough the steel pipeline as one leg of an alternating current and the inner surface of the pipeitself as the other. Since no current passes throughthe outer wall no insulation is needed and the pipeis safe to touch with the hand and will not disruptthe ecology of permafrost regions, says the inventor. Dr. Othmer holds more than 80 patents inthe U.S. and abroad.LIBRARY ELECTS NEW VICE PRESIDENT %u2014Howard Smith, Brooklyn businessman, has beennamed vice president of the Board of Trustees ofthe Brooklyn Public Library, succeeding MinneolaP. Ingersoll of Brooklyn Heights, who has served inthat post for the past two years. Smith is presidentof the Virginia Dare Extract Co. and also a trusteeof,the Y.M.C.A. of Brooklyn and past treasurer ofthe Prospect Park branch of the Y.M.C.A. Reelected at the Feb. 19 meeting was Jay Sam Unger,president; Arthur B. Chase, secretary; and MaxWeiner, treasurer.BERKELEY STUDENTS WIN POSTER AWARDS%u2014 Three students at Park Slope's Berkeley Institute, Lisa Giuffra, Andrea Binner and SuneetSingh, were honored for their poster work inceremonies Feb. 20 for their entries in the 25thAnnual Brotherhood Art Contest, sponsored by thePolice Athletic League. Their entries were based onthe theme %u201cUniversal Declaration of HumanRights. A commendation was also sent to thestudents' art teacher, Mrs. Carol Bickford, chairman of the Berkeley Art Department.NAMED TO HEAD BOARD %u2014 Stanley Person ofCobble Hill has been named to a second one-yearterm as president of the Brooklyn School forSpecial Children. /William Probst, director of the Prospect Parkbranch of the Y.M C.A. (second from left) washonored for 25 years of service to the Y at a recenttestimonial dinner. Here, from left are: VincentSaggesi, Prospect branch board member; Probst:Art Budwiser, chairman of the event; AnthonyCeraso, co-chairman; and Pat Romanelo, boardmember of the Greenpoint Y.B oerum%u00bb m A n rooc w 'w vto Z o n in gThe members of the Boerum Hill Association unanimously and enthusiastically endorsed the Atlantic Avenue Protective Zoning proposal made by the Office of Downtown Brooklyn Development at the Association%u2019s meeting February 28 at Bethlehem Lutheran Church.%u201cWe believe that the rezoning will protect Atlantic Ave., especially the vulnerable eastern end (Smith to Flatbush), from the threat of parking lots and gas stations,%u201d explained President Dennis Holt. %u201cIt will encourage development tempered with preservation.%u201dIn other developments, the Association has set Sun., June 2 as the date for its annual House Tour, which will be supplemented this year by a Flea Market. Charlene Shakley, chairman of the tour, and Heloise Gruneberg, chairman of the sale, are currently in the process of formulating the plans for the events.%u201cIn honor of Boerum Hill%u2019s recent designation as a Landmark Area,%u201d said Holt, %u201c we are arranging an Historical Exposition to go on exhibit around the time of the tour, which will describe in words and pictures the life and architecture of Old Boerum Hill.%u201d Police protection was also on tire agenda at the Thursday night meeting. %u201cIt appears now that our proposed to have Boerum Hill incorporated into one precinct instead of the current three-way split has not been received favorably by the police administration,%u201d Holt explained.%u201cWe are not withdrawing our proposal but we have given our support to Councilman Richmond%u2019s proposal for a mini-station in Boerum Hill that will serve as a focal point for the three precincts as a temporary measure,%u201d he continued.SLA Lim itsBars onFlatbushOne application for a liquor license was denied and a second one was terminated on Flatbush Avenue in late February by the N. Y. State Liquor Authority, it was revealed by Chairman Bertram D. Sarafan in a letter to City Councilman Fred Richmond received last week.Richmond, who had described the section of Flatbush Ave. between Atlatnic and Eighth Aves. as %u201cgin mill alley%u201d, had previously blasted the Commission for refusing to impose a moratorium on the issuance of licenses along the Avenue and allowing state licensed premises to be blatantly used for prostitution.Sarafan said the Commission had no power to arbitrarily refuse to issue licenses, and must consider each application on its merits, under the law. However, he revealed that %u201cSince Sept. 11, 1973, there has been a %u2018stop%u2019 in effect on Flatbush...against the issuance or transfer of any liquor license. This means that every application in the area must be referred to the full board of commissioners for decision.%u201dOn Feb. 20, the commission disapproved an application for alippnsp at 291-293 Flatbush andterminated one at 270 Flatbush. %u201c The disapproval was based primarily on the Authority%u2019s judgement that there were a sufficient number of licenses in the area to serve the public convenience,%u201d said Sarafan. \judgement was predicated upon a survey of the area conducted by the Authority last fall.%u201d He added, \isssued since last fall.%u201d