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Page 9 PHOENIX April 25, 1974Nuisance Noise:What to DoIf you%u2019re bothered by excessive noise, you can do something to stop it%u2014legally, the Brooklyn Heights Association tells area residents.%u201c Many persons may not be aware,%u2019 %u2019 said the BHA, %u201c that a City anti-noise law enacted in 1972 limits the use of noisy horns on motor vehicles and prohibits %u201c unnecessary noise%u2019 %u2019 from construction activity, industrial equipment, and even animals. The law also prohibits use of sound reproduction devices creating unnecessary noises, including any used upon any vehicle on any public street and any used for advertising purposes or to attract attention to any merchandising display.To report %u201c public nuisance%u201d noises of the type listed above, residents should call the Department of Air Resources at 966-7500. It is the major enforcer of the Noise Control Code, known officially as Local Law No. 57.The Code also has a section on anti-theft alarms, which is enforced by the Police Department. Under the law, burglar alarms in buildings must stop automatically within 15 minutes after activation, and car alarms w ithin 10 minutes. %u201c The purpose of an alarm is to alert the police to respond,%u201d the BHA pointed out. %u201c People should not hesitate to call the Police if an alarm doesn't stop.The Noise Code authorizes Police to disconnect motor vehicle alarms making unnecessary noise, and further requires that the owner%u2019s telephone number be displayed in all automobiles equipped with alarms.Any complaints about alarms in Brooklyn Heights should be referred to the 84th Precinct at 875-6811. Date, time of activation, length of alarm cycle, location and vehicle license number or building address will be useful, reminds the BHA. %u201c A note or call to the BHA office on any noise violation will also be h e lp fu l,%u2019 %u2019 said the Association, %u201c as we monitor noise complaints in an effort to stop continual offenders.%u201dALBANY REPORTDemocratic Assemblyman penalties for victimless crimes, Michael L. Pesce has just such as public intoxication and released the results of his 1974 prostitution; approved that legisjative questionnaire, a deposits be required on all compilation of responses from soft-drink containers; felt the about 1,000 households in his abortion law should be main52nd Assembly District-Brook- tained; favored strict regulation lyn Heights, Cobble Hill, Car- of firearms; approved prison roll Gardens, Red Hook, and reform.Park Slope/Sunset Park.The Brooklyn Heights com- As Pesce says, %u201c the resmunity supplied 47 per cent of pondents were much more the responses; Cobble Hill, 18 even|y divided on the issue of percent; Carroll Gardens, 15 full state assumption of welfare per cent; Park Slope/Sunset costs. and on the reinstatement Park, nine per cent; Red Hook, of capital punishment.%u201d four per cent. %u2019 The one real surprise wasThe questions Pesce asked that 51 per cent opposed a free his constituents reflected a transportation program for all range of issues-%u201d routine and city residents, to be financed by controversial,%u201d h e s a id -th a t ratsing the payroll tax, which have been or will be debated in w%u00b0uid have the effect of making the State Assembly this year, employers responsible for their W ith few exceptions, res- employees%u2019 transportation pondents tended to echo con- costs. In a district known for its ventional wisdom on the issues liberal sentiments and its high of the day-the majority favored population of blue-collar workthe elim ination of crim inal ers and working poor, it wouldnot have been unreasonable to expect a higher percentage of respondents in favor of such a measure.The final question asked respondents to place a check mark next to the three issues they consider most important in the City and in their own neighborhoods. The breakdown was: crime, 77 per cent; housing, 55 per cent; environ-*ireii, ji uom, education,46 per cent; employment, 42 per cent.-Dan IcoiariTell us whatyou're thinkingaboutlocal issues.Editor.U1 55 Atlantic AveThe Association urges residents to familiarize themselves with the Noise Control Code, which defines unnecessary noise as %u201c any excessive or unusually loud sound or any sound which eithe r annoys, disturbs, injures or endangersthe comfort, repose, health, peace or safety of a person, or which causes injury to plant or animal life , or damage to property or business.%u201dCredit for researching the details on this important law go to Bob Wilson of the BHA NoisePollution Control Committee. %u201c Remember that other people are probably disturbed by the same loud noise you are,%u201d said Wilson. %u201c By reporting offending sources you are helping your neighbor as well as yourself.%u201dCoalition Meets at Brooklyn College:Rally Speakers Urge NixonImpeachment to 'SaveSoul of America'BY DOROTHY EVANS%u201c Impeach Nixon for Crimes Against the People,%u2019%u2019 the banner across the back of the stage at Whitman Hall read, while the sign on the front of the lectern from which these patriots of justice were to speak bore the message, %u201c Nixon%u2019s the One.%u201dThe Brooklyn Impeachment Coalition massed an audience of over 2,000 Brooklyn residents in the campus auditorium W ednesday night, April 17. The speakers were Congressmen, labor leaders, public officials and representatives of over 30 organizations who had banded together for the first rally of its kind in the Borough of Brooklyn.They represented %u201cgovernment for the benefit of the people,%u201d as Rev. Herbert Oliver, pastor of Westminster Bethany Church, described it. %u201c Our elected officials cannot stand alone is this grave m easure,%u201d he said in the invocation. %u201c We must let them know that we are behind them. The time has come for the people to stand up for law and order.%u201dDaria Cherubini, of the Civil Liberties Union, acting as mistress of ceremonies, introduced Victor Gottbaum, executive director of District Council 37, AFL-CIO, the largest municipal union in the world. The fiery Gottbaum said, %u201c We are here not to seek agreement, for if we did not agree, we would not be here,%u201d %u201c This man should be impeached... We can no longer sit on our hands and do nothing.%u201c We must put everything on the table to see our own souls. It is not enough to externalize and point fingers. Impeachment is not a process to find out what we alreadyknow h u t to sa v e th e soul ofAmerica,%u201d Gottbaum said. U.S. Representative Shirley Chisholm spoke of the American people as %u201c gullible-sheep following sheep...Nixon is the culmination of a recognizable pattern of the ages-A man who believes he is King.%u201d she said, %u201c There have been criminal cases pending in our courts for i7 momhs. We waited for ten years for ourcountry to pull out of Vietnam. Many persons live from one day to the next, subject to veto of issues by the President in basic matters of health, education, substinance and employment,%u201d Chisholm said. %u201c You , the people must put pressure on members of the house now so that the Senate can move!%u201d %u201c We may all have come to this country in different ships, but we are all in the same boat now,%u201d Mrs. Chisholm said.Lowenstein, a Fort Greene resident and National Chairman of Americans for Democratic Action, who is presently considering running for U.S. Senate, referred to the statement by Conservative Senator James Buckley who said that Nixon should get out of office. %u201c People who care about this country and the rights of people agree. The U.S. have traditionally not allowed agencies to take the side of one branch%u2019of government against the other. However, this administration is so confused that no extreme is too much,%u201d Lowenstein said.\The moment of turning is at hand. Think of what is means that the rip off of America is about to be disclosed,%u201d the former Congressman said in relating problems concerning the poor in our own neighborhoods in Brooklyn. %u201c Robert Kennedy once said that the only way our people can live is with pride,-This will be our future!%u201dCongressperson Liz Holzman said, %u201c I do not come to praise Caesar, the President has taken the position of being not accountable to the criminal laws of the United States. We cannot tolerate anyone saying, i am not accountable to any law at any time. The President can be impeached for gross misuse of power. Proof must be given of grave abuse ofp o s itio n s o f h io h t r u s t . %u2019%u2019Holzman said thaT she had not voted for the confirmation of Vice President Gerald Ford, but when he took office he said,%u201c My life is open to you.%u201d And he turned over all of his files.\over nothing. A democracy is a government run by the people and for the people. The peopie are entitied to know ihe truth,\There were many other speakers, and folksingers. Comedian Dick Shawn said he was there in the name of \Benedict of the Metropolitan Council on Housing asked why there is no money for public housing, when private real estate is supported by subsidies. Delores Huerta of the United Farm Workers asked why an investigation of a plot to assassinate Caesar Chavez was squashed. Also, when a bill was passed by the Senate and Congress giving unemployment insurance to the farm workers of this nation, it was vetoed by the President, Ms. Huerta said.The audience was patient. They waited to hear the last and one of the most important speakers of the rally. Ramsey Clark, former AttorneyGeneral of the United States, and candidate for the U.S. Senate spoke most eloquently. %u201cThis is a test of the character of the American people, if we come apart or stand up together. Is integrity in constitutional government possible? If not, how can freedom be? %u201d he asked.He quoted from Benjamin Franklin wiio believed in the workability of the constitution. But Benjamin Franklin also said privately, \Constitution, but this Republic too shall certainly end in despotism if the people become so corrupt that they can no longer accept change.%u201d%u201c Abraham Lincoln believed deeply in the Constitution. On February 27, 1860 at Cooper Union, New York City, the problem was whether slavery should be extended. Where do we find the answer. %u2018In the Constitution of course,%u2019 said Mr. Lincoln. He sought the answers to his problems in the Constitution, as President of the United States. He thought the Constitution mattered.This was the way problems had to be solved.%u201d said Mr. Clark.Pablo Casals, artist and teacher, when he was in his 80%u2019s once said, %u201c Always be young and say things that are true.%u2019 If America dares to be young and to seek the truth, We Shall Overcome!%u201d said iormer Aiiurncy General Clark.