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'%u2022to^iSlX, JuneTHE BROOKLYN BOTANICGARDEN has a new fllpiavailable In Its rental-salesf rogram. Entitled %u201cNature%u2019s, Colors - The Craft of Dyeing' with Plants,%u201d the 10% minuteI documentary with sound trackI describes the process of preparing and dyeing yams and fabricsfrom natural extracts of plantmaterial. For additional inforj matt on, call the Film Library,} MA 2-4433.A STAMP CLUB is forming at , the Brooklyn Public Library%u2019s | Grand Army Plaza branch. In- | terested collectors may join up at | the library anytime before June 30. For more information, call Joe Coppa, 622-1182.PRATT INSTITUTE%u2019S %u201cTimeless%u201d Design Team has won firstprize of $500 for the bestcontainer design In the firstnational %u201c Young DesignersCompetition, 1974%u201d sponsoredby the Wolf and Mary BraunFoundation. Clinton Hill%u2019s PrattInstitute was one of more than 12leading design schools thatparticipated in the competition.Pratt%u2019s team designed a new' bottle for a line of toilet water.%u2019> The winning entry is on display| at the Permanent Packaging Exhibit, 260 Fifth Ave. between 28and 29th Streets until June 28.%u2022%u25a0 aLAMAZE CHILDBIRTHCOURSES have proven quite ; popular at the YWCA, Third and Atlantic Avenues. As a result, the Y has scheduled additional s six week courses to begin July 17, Sept. 4 and October 16, on Wednesdays from 8 to 9:30 p.m. Both husbands and wives participate in the course. The mother should be beginning her eighth month and must have a doctor%u2019s note verifying that she may take the course. The course, conducted by a registered nurse, certified in Lamaze, costs $30 percouple. For information, call Pat Vivian at 875-1190 or 768-2977.AT 184 STERLING PLACE, TheBrooklyn Kidney Center, a regional non-profit center with cooperative medical units from six hospitals and medical centers has opened. The center has 20 henodialysis machines to provide out-patient artificial kidney services to patients from the six institutions. Participating hospitals and medical centers are: Brookdale Hospital, Coney Island Hospital, Downstate Medical Center, Jewish Hospital, Long Island College Hospital and Maimonides.WILLIAMSBURG%u201d SAVINGSBANK Vice President, William F. Shea has been named President of the Brooklyn Association for Mental Health. In his new post, Mr. Shea will oversee the Association%u2019s program of lay and professional education, direct patient services and a unique rehabilitation process for recovering mental patients.CLINTON HILL-FORT GREENEwill be visited by the BrooklynPublic Library%u2019s mobile unit,Library on Wheels, on Thursdays throughout the summerfrom June 24 through August 30.The bookmobiles will be atDeKalb and Classon Avenues onThursdays from 12:45 to 2:00; atDeKalb Ave. and Adelphl St.,2:15 to 3:15; at GowanusHouses, from 3:45 to 5:00.%u2022a%u00a9VOLUNTEER CONSUMERAIDES are needed by the Dept,of Consumer Affairs neighborhood offices. Volunteer aideshelp in receiving, investigatingand resolving consumer complaints. Special background andm u n u ig Mre u u i im | u u v u . T wlocal Brooklyn office is at 1468Fiatbush Ave., 434-1900.%u2022 a *SPEEDREADING is now being offered bv the Prospect Park YMCA, 357 Ninth St. The course, called %u201c Readfast,%u201d consists of six weekly sessions of 2 lAhours each. To register, call 524-8900 or 768-7100.PARK SLOPE resident, Mike Gold had an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation with Vance Hartke, Chairman of the Senate%u2019s Veterans Affairs Committee recently. Gold, Chairman of the Policy Committee of the Brooklyn College Veteran%u2019s Organization, accompanied a group of student veterans from the College%u2019s Downtown Campus to Washington to demonstrate for increased veterans benefits. As a result of testimony before Hartke%u2019s committee, the Committee recommended enactment of a Vietnam era GI bill which included extended eligibility, an 18'/: increase in benefits and tuitionu s s iM d iic tr a n u a tO a it p r o g r a m for student vets. IMangano. Dowd V/ I U d in 52ndSlope Dems FieldTwo Slates AfterThree-way Re-mapGiordano FacesPesce in 52ndDistrict Racefor AssemblyBY MICHAEL ALLENThe recent reapportionment of political lines in and around downtown Brooklyn is producing the greatest new activity in Park Slope, where reform Democrats suddenly find themselves split and segm ented into three different assembly districts and are vowing to have an impact on all three.The redistricting was enacted by the New York State Legislature in May, following a federal court order which said that political district lines in Brooklyn and Manhattan discriminated against minority representation.This week, the Central Brooklyn Independent Democrats, the reform political club in the Slope, announced that it would field full slates of candidates in local elections in both the 44th and the 51st Assembly Districts, two of the three areas that the Slope is now divided into.Cathy Rothenberger, a 33-yearold Park Slope mother of three children, will run for the Assemblyin the 44th, challenging incumbent Melvin Miller. Judith Eisenstein, a former court probation officer and resident of Berkeley Place, will run for female district leader. Henry Singer, a certified public accountant and college lecturer, will run for the male leadership.The portion of the 44th that includes Park Slope has had a strong reform Democratic orientation since it was first organized by the Park Slope Independent DemoTop Cop Reports toLocal Officials onHospital DisputeBY JOHN BLACKMOREPolice Commissioner Michael J. Codd provided City Councilman Fred Richmond and Assemblyman Michael Pesce with a summary of a departmental investigation of the actions of officers from the 76th Precinct when responding to a call to aid Mr. Sidney Simkovsky, who collapsed and died at the Columbia Street Playground last April 20. Witnesses to the tragedy cailed into question the actions by the officers who first arrived at the scene, after they refused to administer artificial respiration or other life-saving techniques which officers are presumably trained to give. The investigation, conducted by the Department%u2019s Office of Operations, was ordered by Commissioner Codd at the behest of local officials.Codd%u2019s report indicates that the first radio car arrived at the scene within two minutes after the call, and a police rescue truck within four minutes. (An ambulance from Cobble Hill%u2019s Long Island College Hospital reportedly arrived over eight minutes after a request to aid Mr. Simkovsky was received at their emergency room. The hospital is less than two blocks away. The actions of the LICH emergency room personnel are under separate investigation by Brooklyn District Attorney Eugene Gold.)In His letter O^dc! inHipatpe %u201c This incident reflects a most difficult alternative presented to responding personnel under emergency situations; that is, whether to attempt first aid on the scene or to risk short delay by transporting the victim to a modern and wellequipped hospital, such as Long Island College Hospital, where the utmost in medical resources are available . . . lhe officers in the instant situation chose to transport Mr. Simkovsky since the hospitalWilliam Giordano [left] to challenge Assemblyman Mike Pescefor 52nd A.D.crats for Eugene McCarthy in 1968 The recent reapportionment left an area running roughly from Sixth Avenue to Prospect Park West and from St. John%u2019s Place to Sixth Street in the 44th Assembly District. The major part of the district is in Fiatbush.In the 51st, the Central Brooklyn Independent Democrats will run a slate headed by Joe Ferris, Dem->- cratic nominee for the Assembly tr 1972. Monaghan will run again for the male leadership. Maida Asofsky of Eighth Avenue, a delegate to the 1972 Democrat:,- National Convention, will run for the female leadership. *IN THE BROOKLYN HEIGHTSSouth Brooklyn 52nd Assembh District, former Assemblyman and State Senator William Giordano is the standard-bearer for regular Democrats, challenging incumbent Assemblyman Michael Pesce, who announced last week he would sees re-election. Giordano was a long-time Assemblyman from the old 53rd District which, prior to reapportionment in 1972, included Gowanus, South Brooklyn and part of Carroll Gardens. Upon the death of State Senator William Ferrall lr 1971, Giordano moved up to the State Senate seat, which he won in a special election that year. He was defeated by Senator Carol Bellamy in the 1972 elections, and has since been Counsel to the New York C > Parking Violations Bureau.Petitioning began this week by members of the United Democratic Club (52nd A.D.) for Giordano and for re-election of James V. Man gano and Marge Dowd, both of Brooklyn Heights, as Democratic State Committeeman and Sta e Committeewoman, respectively Mangano, who has served in the State Legislature, as Sheriff of Kings County, and for the past decade as General Clerk of the Kings County Supreme Court, is currently %u201c dean%u201d of Democratic leaders in Brooklyn.Mangano and Dowd are being challenged by Sal Ferraioli of Carroll Gardens and Nancy Wolf of Brooklyn Heights for their leadership positions. Both Ferraioli and Wolf have been endorsed by the two reform Democratic clubs in the district, the West Brooklyn Independent Dems in the Heights, aiiu the Independent Neighborhood Democrats in Carroll Gardens.IN THE CONGRESSIONALsweepstakes, the independents are in a state of confusion in their quest for agreement on a choice for the Democratic nomination for the right to succeed Rep. John J. Rooney in the 14th District. Councilman Fred Richmond is expected to make his formal announcement for the seatCONTINUE ON I%u2019AOI- mwas less than two blocks away from their location.%u201dCodd added that the Police Department is currently launching a massive campaign to train all officers on the force in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and use of the appropriate equipment. He hopes that the training program and the dispersal of new equipment will greatly reduce the number of deaths in the city from heart attack.Codd%u2019s account fits with information reported earlier concerning the time frame surrounding the police actions. The account is also a plausible one, on one condition; that the officers from the first radio car indeed knew at the time that the emergency unit was on its way and would arrive shortly. There is no indication that they did. Witnesses on the scene, who requested that the officers administer artificial respiration, report that the officers did not indicate that other help was on the way. According to witness Shawn Thompson, the officers simply refused to administer the technique.The PHOENIX attempted to get comment from police headquarters to clarify this remaining question and other matters. The Commissioner%u2019s office, the Office of Press Relations, and the Office of the Chief of Operations all refused enm nipiit Th<%u00bb o ffirp undprwhose aegis the investigation was conducted, refused to acknowledge even the possibility of further comment unless The PHOENIXsubmitted its questions on official letterhead. %u201c What gives you the right todemand further comment?%u201d asked the departmental officer, who refused to give his name.Meanwhile, the District Attorney%u2019s investigation of the hospital's actions continues. No progress was reported this week.