Bethpage-Tribune_1974-09-19

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VOL. 8 NO. 44
also serving I S L A N D TREES
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Thursday, September 19, 1974 10 cents per copy
GOING.. GOING..: Oyster Bay Town Councilman Salvatore R.
Mosca gets ready to throw out the first ball of the season for the
Bethpage Panthers during opening day ceremonies at the Bethpage
High School Field. Joe Carley (left), Vice-President of the Panthers
and President Chuck Johnson offer a few words of encouragement
while Panthers (left to right) Billy Zuck and Ed Mangano of Beth­page
and Gary Colan of Hlcksville hold the team banner high.
The Bethpage Association of Midget Football "Panthers" held their
1974 Kick-off on September 15th at the Bethpage High School. Joining
in the annual celebration are pictured, from left to right, Councilman
Sal Mosca, Congressman Angelo Roncallo, Assemblyman Stu
Levine, young Jack Hefferon (kicking off the season) and Coach
Howie Vegts.
photo by Jerry Augusta
HEY GOOD LOOKING - Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Ramsey
Clark with actor Paul Newman who is actively supporting the former
Attorney General. Newman is very active in Democratic politics as a
concerned citizen.
Overnight Ripoffs
D'Amato Reveals Price Increases Do Flips At Local Supermarkets
Hempstead Town Supervisor
Al D'Amato today called for a
public hearing to determine the
need for regulations prohibiting
the multiple" price increases
slapped on a product already
sitting on a supermarket shelf.
"Many of these super­markets,"
explained D Amato,"
are changing the prices on goods
now on the shelves several times
a week, sometimes daily. I
shopped within the shadows of
Town Hall, observed a container
of coffee for $2.19 and when I
returned an hour later, the coffee
had been res tamped "$2.33."
D'Amato charged, "these
overnight ripoffs of the consumer
must stop. There is no need to
restamp products already on the
shelves. The original price in­sures
-a comfortable profit
margin for the supermarkets.
The added price increases insure
a>«Cty excess profit at, the ex­pense
Of you and me."
Displaying, at a press con­ference,
several .containers and
boxes of produce bought at local
supermarkets D'Amato said,
"here are countless Examples of
what we are talking about Bottles
and cans stamped three, four,
evem five times. Not only does
this practice make the price
impossible to determine, but it
significantly contributes to the
rising cost of food. There is ab­solutely
no need to burden the
consumer with this type of in­justice.
This practice should be
illegal and without a doubt is
definitely wrong.
"After a two month in­vestigation
by my office into
multiple price fixing, I am
asking, Nassau Consumer Affairs
Commissioner James Picken to
hold a public hearing on this
OVERNIGHT RIPOFFS - Hempstead Town Supervisor Al D'Amato
displays some of the products bought in local supermarkets which
have multiple price increases forcing the cost of food to rise..
D'Amato is asking for a county law which would eliminate the
multiple increases.
problem and to seriously look into
the rules and regulations pur­suant
to the authority vested in
the Commission of Consumer
Affairs which governs un­conscionable
trade practices.
This would stop what I call
overnight ripoffs," said
D'Amato.
D'Amato concluded, "We are
living in hard financial times.
Consumers can understand some
food price hikes, with the in­creased
cost of fertilizer and bad
weather forcing crop reduction.
However, excess cost wrung out
of you and me by multiple price
increases on packages already on
the shelf must stop and is morally
wrong "
Seaman's Bank Opens
Local Branch Sept. 23 The Seamen's Bank for Savings
will open its second Long Island
Office on Monday, September
23rd, at 4276 Hempstead Turn-pide,
Bethpage, according to E.
Virgil Conway, Chairman of the
Board and President.
In announcing the opening, Mr.
Conway said, "We are pleased to
be able to make our complete
range of banking services
available to the residents of
Bethpage, Plainedge and
surrounding communities. Many
are old friends who have been
depositors at our Manhattan
branches, and this will be an
added convenience to them at
home base."
Designated as the Seamen's
Bethpage Plainedge office, the
new facility will occupy the entire
5,500 square feet of an existing
structure whose exterior is being
refurbished to retain its colonial
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The Seamen's Bank for Savings will open its second Long Island
office in these quarters Monday, Sept. 23, to serve Beth­page
Plainedge area. Drawing shows how structure at 4276
Hempstead Turnpike is being refurbished in Colonial style by noted
u. hitectural firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Flagpole will fly
American flag, with "S-B-S" signals displayed on yardarm. Porte
cochere serves drive-in clients. Opening-month celebration includes
special gift program from Sept. 27 to Oct. 26 for various categories of
deposits, from $100 up. During this period the new Seamen's office
will have extended banking hours: 9 A.M. to 8 P.M. weekdays, 9 A.M.
to 5 P.M. Saturdays.