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j. y-rvrvmiLJUi WW 1 i DEWS MONDAY, JULY .14, 1975 31 BROOKLYN Rain Forces Rally Indoors By JERRY ADLER Beset by on the part of its 300 appointed members, the Brooklyn Commission announced yesterday that it would open its membership to the ij i 7 I I i fWV. 1 ij if 'Hif public. Chairman Joseph Palisi an nounced the change to about 75 commission members at a brunch meeting at the Fort. Hamilton Officers Club.

62 members have paid their $5 dues this year," Palisi said. "Frankly, at this stage of the game the bicentennial is a failure in terms of public par ticipation." III News Dnoro dv Ea moiinari Its Job The commission was set up last Members of the Jewish War Veterans of New York State wait I year to coordinate bicentennial events in Brooklyn. Members under canopy for rain to stop at Coney Island and Brighton Beach Aves. An estimated 600 persons took part in Jewish Survival Day rally at the Brighton Beach Baths cafeteria. were chosen by the borough president.

But that arrangement' has not worked as well as was expected, Palisi said yesterday. Talking of ICINGS JALENDAR ceremonies two weeks ago at the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument in Fort Greene Park, Palisi call ed the turnout of fewer than 120 persons "embarrassing." "We must have more partici pation, and so we are welcoming anny citizens or former citizens Joseph Palisi in front of the circa 1643 Lady Moody Home, 27 Gravesend Neck Road, Brooklyn. Palisi, chairman of the Brooklyn Bicentennial Commission, announced he would open membership to public. of Brooklyn to join in our activi ties, Palisi said. Membership fees are $5 for adults and $1 for children under 18.

Palisi's address is Room 310, Brooklyn Borough Hall, Brook Here are some of the activities scheduled for tomorrow, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. TUESDAY: The Bennett Accordion Band will appear at Borough Hall Park Plaza, Fulton and Montague at 12:30 p.m. An Arts and Crafts Mobile will be at Keap St. between Bedford Ave. and Williamsburg St.

at 10:30 a.m. Two films, "Helen, Queen of the Nautch Girls," and "Beauty Knows No Pain," will be shown beginning at 3 p.m. in the Central Library at Grand Army Plaza. A puppet workshop forages 15-25 will be held from 8 p.m. to 10 pjn.

at 2916 Avenue M. WEDNESDAY: A Puppetmobile will be at Rugby Eoad between i- Foster and Newkirk Aves. at 11 a.m. Mid-day recitals will be presented at 1 p.m. at St.

Ann and the Holy Trinity Church, Clinton and Montague Sts. THURSDAY: Fisherman's United Methodist Church will hold rummage sale from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the church, 220 Bay 35th St. The Guggenheim Concerts will present a program of Viennese music at 8 p.m.

in Seaside Park. FRIDAY: The Masonic Club, 76th St. and Fourth Ave, will hold its bimonthly singles dance at 9 pan. lyn 11201. Palisi had some encouraging news about upcoming events, Atlantic Ave.

festival on Sept. 27, the West Indian Day carnival on Labor Day and an Irish "feis" next Memorial Day weekend. Councilman Sam Horwitz, the -only elected official who attended yesterday's 'meeting, vtt named a "hero of the bicentenni-" al" for providing a young volunteer to answer Palisi's office telephone something the commission had never had. Ridge antiques dealer, will dress the window with 18th century artifacts from his stock. A Special Stamp? Palisi also said there was a "very good" chance that the U.S.

Postal' Service- would issue a stamp commemorating the Battle of Long Island. Plan for publishing a "Brooklyn Bicentennial Calendar" were discussed and a number of festivals were promised, including an however. Dr. Abner Rosenberg, a former president of the of Old Brooklynites, announced that the commission had a promise of a display window on Hoyt St. from Abraham Straus.

Frank Scotto, a Bay amed Community Starts Staging atomebmk Mi By JERRY ADLER South Brooklyn, which despite its name is not in southern Brooklyn, is a neighborhood of brownstones and rundown tenements, shops, warehouses and businesses oriented to the adjoining waterfront. "It's a solid area, but it definitely has problems," said Nick CammarerL a mayoral assistant who develops summer programs. Cammareri's family has NEIGHBORHOOD REPORT I i-fltnP vj: v-v- s. fc" yi South Brooklyn News photo by Anthony Pescatora and Ann Cammareri in Henry St. bake shop.

Customer Marie Garafola chats with Millie owned a wholesale and retail bakery at 502 Henry St. "-since the 1920s." "There are stores that see the neighborhood starting to fade and they try to grab up as much a3 they can and not put a nickel back in," Cammareri said. "When you walk south on Court St, once you get past Fourth Place, things get dirty and depressing." To help reverse the trend, Cammareri's family has joined with several dozen other businessmen in organizing a South Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce. The project wa the brainchild of Rep. Fred Richmond (D-Brooklyn Heights), himself a millionaire businessman.

While still a councilman, Richmond helped revive the moribund Greenpoint Chamber of Commerce, at the other end of his district, which under the leadership of Jack Raber, president of the Greenpoint Savings Bank, has enrolled more than 75 active members in the last two years. In South Brooklyn Richmond contacted hundreds of businesses and civic groups for an organizational meeting last month, and 75 showed interest. Another meeting, at which permanent officers will be elected club, where they get together once a month for lunch and sponsor charities," Spanakos said. "It can do that, but it should also be a means to get work and business for its members. "We're especially interested in getting some government contracts for the area.

Let's say we've got one member who does one kind of work and another who does a different kind and we can put them together and bid jointly on a contract to service machinery, say then let's do it." "Take my father's bakery, for Instance," Camma- complicated business, and a chamber of commerce to help out would be a great thing." Spanakos is particularly interested in building up -South Brooklyn's port. "What many people don't realize is that if the -waterfront is healthy, then all the backup businesses up and down the side streets will be healthy, too," he said. As if to underscore this point, the organizational meeting was held in the International Longshoremen's Association meeting hall at 343 Court and ILA official Anthony Scotto said through a representative that he endorses the idea of a chamber of commerce in South Brooklyn. "It's still a solid area in alpl'of wayj," jQamnia-" -reri "This "is just' another way to mate it'bet- and bylaws drawn up, was scheduled lor July 24. 'ilhaeg Saanakosia "5oiarStre9t lawyer, is tempo ren.iaid.

"He could supply bread schools, or tf Jtead'of Silwf403t office cafeteria hut he dosrit "know how "This should not be a traditional go about on government contracts is a.