Efforts to Bring Intrepid To City Prompt Exhibit

A four‐week exhibition on efforts to bring the aircraft carrier Intrepid to New York City as a floating aerospace museum and Navy memorial will open Thursday at the Custom House, 6 World Trade Center.

The New York Council of the Navy League of the United States is staging the exhibition, which will open with a reception for city officials and leaders in the business community at 5:30 P.M.

Odysseys in Flight, a nonprofit organization headed by Michael D. Piccola of Wantagh, L.I., is spearheading the drive to bring the carrier to the city, with Pier 94 on the Hudson River now the most likely berth for the 41,000‐ton vessel.

Scale models of the Intrepid, which saw service in the Korean and Vietnam Wars in addition to World War II, will be among the items in the Navy League exhibition. There will also be displays recounting the history of flight, man's journey to the moon and other space explorations.

A motion picture and a slide presentation showing the Intrepid in action in the Pacific and diagrams of the layouts of the proposed museum will be shown at various intervals during the day. After the formal opening, the exhibition will be open from 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. daily. Admission is free.

According to Mr. Piccola, the Intrepid should be available for transfer to his organization in the spring. The project expects to raise $3 million by then, and taxexempt status will also be required before the transfer is made