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Page 18, PHOENIX, May 2, 197H 1 K f H t K t t O K V :R eport on the a ctiv ities of your local%u2605 City and State L egislators *New DistrictOffices AnnouncedState Senator Carol Bellamy and Assemblyman Michael L. Pesce have announced the recent relocation of their Brooklyn Heights and South Brooklyn district offices.The Heights office of the two local legislators is now the new West Brooklyn Independent Democrats Club at 157 Remsen Street Brooklyn 11201.Their South Brooklyn district offices have similarly moved with the Independent Neighborhood Democrats club to its new address, 356 Court Street, Brooklyn 11231.The telephone numbers of the new district offices remain unchanged. Either Senator Bellamy or Assemblyman Pesce may be contacted by calling the W.B.I.D. telephone number 522-4206, or the I.N.D. number, 875-2311.Their respective office hours will be by appointment only through the end of the 1974 Legislative Session in Albany. Thereafter, regular weekly hours will be established for both local legislators at each of the district offices.Senator Bellamy and Assemblyman Pesce stressed that local residents should feel free to contact them if they can be of any assistance.Bellamy ReportsOn Tenant BillHeights-South Brooklyn Senator Carol Bellamy has announced that the Senate passed a bill she introduced, which will allow' a tenant to institute proceedings in the housing part of the New York City Civil Court, to have a violation corrected when a landlord failed to correct the same within the time authorized.%u2018%u2018Present Housing Court regulations did allow a tenant to go into court in order to secure the issuance of a housing violation, and also when a landlord falselycertified the correction of a violation which had been issued. However, a tenant had little recourse in a situation after a violation had indeed been issued, but not corrected, nor followed up by the Department of Rent and Housing Maintenance,%u201d explained Senator Bellamy.%u201cThis legislation proposes an amendment to the present administrative code of the city of New York, to rectify this potential loophole,%u201d concluded the Senator.Local State Senator Carol Bellamy announced last week that the State Senate passed a bill she introduced which would simplify voting procedures. This legislation allows a voter who has changed his or her residence, but remained in the same election district, to vote in any election without re-registering in person prior to the election. Senator Bellamy explained, %u201cThis proposed change in the election law, significantly facilitates voting for the many New Yorkers wljo simply change apartm ents, or move to a different home within their same neighborhood and election district. It allows them to vote simply by stating the new address to the inspectors at the time of the election. The inspectors will then make the change of address notation on the registration poll record.%u201d This bill is now before the Assembly for action.Riccio ConductsHearingsHearings conducted by Park Slope Assemblyman Vincent Riccio and State Senator Richard Sehermerhorn last month on Mental Retardation have received extensive praise from various groups around the state.Among those commenting on the hearings was Joseph Weingold, Executive Director of the New York State Association for Retarded Children. %u201d 1 cannot tell you how impressed all of us were with the manner in which you conducted theA ( ordial invitation t oeveryone fib yearsolri*0r older t o U 5^BESTYEARSHtMCHKKlNt.AGtXXNT %u2022n *%u2022 to 'f t i'M Ptrtoni #2 . fan ot ov%u00ab,. # > LD i d n ' t To t h i s y %u00a3 A R iThe:>i v is it AAR,. 50UVLAKll <47 A \\ o w T A < %u00bb u c S t .B an k of C o m m e rc eBEST YEARSF R E E C H E C K IN G A C C O U N T 26 Court StreetPiusi Fintbuslv SUeepsHead Boy & Brownsville \\ What are the advmt%u00bbgn? 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He further remarked that Riccio was %u201c patient, and sympathetic.%u201d Doro thy Gasman, the President of the Welfare League (Letchworth Village Chapter) stated that %u201c It is very heartening to know of your support for our cause.%u201dIn a related development, the New York State Advisory Committee on Mental Retardation urged the adoption of Assembly bill number 7249 which was introduced by Assemblyman Riccio, and was under discussion at last month%u2019s hearings. Thomas A. Coughlin III, Executive Director of the Jefferson County Chapter of the Association for Retarded Children and Chairman of the Advisory Committee, told Riccio: %u2018%u2018The decision for support is based upon our feeling as persons interested in the field of mental retardation that the current system for the delivery of services to the mentally retarded has not been respnsive to the needs of the mentally retarded. The needs of the retarded are quite often subverted by the needs of the Department of Mental Hygiene as they relate to the total program of service operated by the Department.%u201dThe Riccio bill would establish a separate office for Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities in the Executive Department.Finney TestifiesFor Goy RightsPark Slope Democratic District Leader Louise Finney appeared at a public hearing of the City Council's General Welfare Committee on Thursday, April 18, to testify in favor of Intro. 2, the bill which bars employment and housing discrimination against homosexuals.%u201c It is a fundamental principle of the American political system,%u201d Ms. Finney said, %u201cthat all people are free to conduct their private lives as they see fit, so long as they injure no one and impinge upon the equal freedom of no one else. Th%u2019e question is not whether one approves of homosexuality,%u201d she argued. %u201c The whole point is that when it comes to getting a job or renting an apartment, a person%u2019s private sexual life is utterly irrelevant, and it is simply no one%u2019s business. American life is built upon such fundamental principles of toleration as this,\concluded.SONDRA%u2019S GALLERY OF ARTS is a silk flower shop, carrying live plants, pottery & gifts. (1058 Coney Is. Ave. (cor Foster Av.)Sam Beard, Democratic candidate for Congress in the local 14th Congressional District, announced his opposition to the proposal for a Pathmark supermarket with satellite stores on the west bank of the Gowanus-the side of the canal planned for residential development.The former aide to Senator Robert F. Kennedy declared that a supercenter on the six acres al-mg the waterway south of 5th Street would wipe out the hope for a new waterfront community with housing, parks, centers of culture and a marina, and would destroy the existing Carroll Gardens neighborhood with the arrival of heavy truck and auto traffic and the resulting pollution. Local shopkeepers--the butchers, bakers, grocers who have spent years in the area-would be jeopardized by the coming of the impersonal mart, Beard warned.%u201c 1 am determined to fight for a revitalized residential waterfront area and for preservation of Carroll Gardens as a %u2018walking-around community,%u2019 said the neighborhood-oriented candidate, whose %u201c Action Line%u201d telephone service has aided local residents in the receipt of housing, health and employment services.Elliot Urges Repeal ofVacancy DecontrolDonald H. Elliott, Democratic Candidate for Congress in the local 14th Congressional District, has urged the State Legislature to repeal vacancy decontrol and the Urstadt Law and reject the legislative proposal of Governor Malcolm Wilson which would keep vacancy decontrol intact and merely establish a series of administrative boards to regulate the system.Elliott said:%u201c The Vacancy Decontrol Law and the Urstadt Lawenacted by the State in 1971 have been an enormous disaapointment. They have subjected many thousands of tenants to runaway rents which they can ill afford. As Chairman of the City Planning Commission, I opposed vacancy decontrol and the Urstadt Law when they were passed three years ago. The steep and sometimes outrageous rent increases which so many of our City%u2019s 350,000 tenants have experienced have proved that those who vigorously opposed thelaws in 1971 were correct.%u2018%u2018Tenant advocates predicted that rents in many decontrolled apartments would rise drastically and we find now that increases of as much as 150% have been implemented. At a time when every New Yorker, especially the hard-pressed middle class, is faced with unprecedented inflation, effective rent control and rent stabilization must be restored and maintained as long as the City%u2019s low apartment vacancy rate persists.%u201dElliott stressed that legislation to repeal vacancy decontrol and the Urstadt Law has already been filed by a New York City bipartisan delegation of state legislators. The two-bill package is fully endorsed by Mayor Beame and the City Administration and is at the center of the impending debate ovet vacancy decontrol and home rule on rent matters for New York City.Rassin ChargesWith Mismanagement%u201c Congress and the New Y%u2019ork State Legislature could make subsidies readily available which, combined with substantial cuts in MTA waste, could save the 35-cent transit fare in New York City,%u201d Priscilla Rassin, candidate for the Democratic nomination for Congress in the 14th C.D., said this week.%u201c As a citizen of New York who has lived here all my life,%u201d Ms. Rassin said, %u201c I know that our mass transit is the life-blood of our City. However, it is one of the worst transit systems in the world, no substantial improvements are being made, and yet we are threatened with an increase in the 35-cent fare.%u201c The 1962 covenant which prevents the use of the Port Authority%u2019s $100 million reserve and $1 billion in borrowing power for urban mass transit must be repealed by the New Y%u2019ork State Legislature as it has been by the Legislature in New Jersey,%u201d- the candidate continued.%u2018%u2018We, taxpayers and transit riders, are footing the bill for careless mistakes made by the Transit Authority%u2019s poor management. Instead of first testing a model of the R-44 subway car, the MTA bought 300 of these cars and has another 745 on order. Theaverage cost of each car is $213,400, yet the MTA has spent another $1.3 million trying to get the defects out of the first 300. On the %u201c D%u201d line, R-44s account for 5% of the cars, but cause 25% of the breakdowns. According to the office of State Controller Arthur Levitt, these new cars need service every 6,500 miles although the 17-year-old cars now' being used require service only every 20,000 miles. The MTA should test a model car before buying hundreds. This wasteful purchase must be investigated.%u201d concluded Ms. Rassin.LIU to DoAntigone'The Long Island University Theatre will present a student/facultv Droduction of Jean Anouilh%u2019s classic of modern drama, %u201c Antigone,%u201d May 9-11 and 16-18 at the St. Felix Street Theatre, 126 St. Felix Street.The production is directed by Jack Cornwell, designed by Christopher Thomas with lighting by David Congdon. General admission is $1.50; students, $1. For further information and reservations,'call 834-6290.Scotto Funeral Home106 First PlaceBrooklyn, N.Y.Salvatore Buddy Scotto, President TR 5-2513