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PLAINVIEW PIAINEDGE SEAFORD
VOL. 9 NO. 19 Thursday, April 3,1975 10 cents per copy
Off the Press.
CAREERS in MARINE
SCIENCE and a series of film
and slide presentations and panel -
discussions of interest to
students, naturalists, fishermen,
d i v e r s , b o a t - o w n e r s,
professionals and just beach­combers
will occupy a full-day
meeting on Saturday, April 12, at
C.W. Post Center of Long Island
University.
The all-day session, which is
being co-sponsored by the
Department of Marine Science at
C.W. Post and the New York
Chapter of the American Littoral
Society, will be held from 10:30
a.m. through 5 p.m. in C.W.
Posts Hillwood Commons
Lecture Hall.
The morning session will direct
itself to careers in Marine
Science and will be open to high-school
and college students. It
will consist of short talks by
representatives from colleges,
universities, private industry,
government, utilities, marine .
science centers/ and The Sea
Grant Advisory Program.
A series of seminars with films,
slides and panel discussions will
occupy the afternoon session.
Subjects to be discussed will
include Marine Animal
Behavior; The Long Island Sound
Plan; Striped Bass - Research
and Trends; The Underwater
World - Lobsters and Wreck
Diving; The Causes and Cures of
Fish Kills and Mariculture.
The morning session for
students will be free of charge. A
$2 donation is requested for the
afternoon session. To reserve a
seat for the afternoon session
make out check or money order
in care of The Littoral Society
Seminar and mail to Dr. Phyllis
Cahn, Chairman, Marine Science
Department, C.W. Post Center of
Long Island University,
Greenvale, N.Y. 11548 or
telephone (516) 299-2427.
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The false notion that oil is
energy is oil is "root and branch
of much of the public confusion
about the true nature of the
Nation's energy and economic
condition," according to Nassau
County Executive Ralph G. Caso.
Writing in the Winter issue of
the magazine ENVIRONS, Caso
gives his impressions of the
hearing recently held by the
Interior Department to evaluate
the merits of the draft en­vironmental
impact statement
on Atlantic offshore oil drilling.
Equaling two words, energy
and oil, by both the oil companies
and the Interior Department has
"created the illusion that there is
an energy shortage when, in fact,
there is, or may be, only an oil
shortage," charges Caso. What
we should be working on is a
master plan to solve the real
energy shortage that will come
U we continue to rely blindly on
oil as ihe primary source of
energy. In ihe article, Caso goes
on to discuss the failure to
develop alternate sources of
energy and Nassau's legal battle
to prevent offshore oil drilling.
In other articles, the starvation
death of a seagull shows how
wildlife is endangered by man's
thoughtless disposal of litter. And
the contribution of New York's
Sea Grant Program to sensible
coastal development is also
discussed. The final article in the
Winter issue of ENVIRONS
focuses on cycling in Nassau
County and provides a map of
just one of the County's many
bike paths.
All the articles appearing in
ENVIRONS deal with some
aspect of Nassau County's en­vironment.
ENVIRONS is the official
publication of the Nassau County
Environmental Management
Council. Individual copies and
free subscriptions to ENVIRONS
may be obtained by writing to the
Nassau County Environmental
Management Council, 1505
Kellum Place, Mineola, N. Y.
1155011, or by calling (516) 535-
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THE APPOINTMENT OF
Ward L.E. MINTZ as director of
the Nassau County Museum for
the Fine Arts, which is being
created at the former Frick
Estate in Roslyn Harbor was
announced this week by County
Executive Ralph G. Caso.
Mintz, a graduate of Cornell
University, most recently served
as director of the Jamaica Center
Arts Project, a unique program
designed to incorporate the arts
into a major New York City
urban development program.
Previously, he was assistant to
the director of the Brooklyn
Museum.
Mintz, who now lives in
Manhattan, has been a consultant
to arts organizations in the
Metropolitan Area, including the
North Shore Community Arts
Center and the Municipal Arts
Society; served on the awards
panel for "Unique New York," a
statewide competition sponsored
by the New York State Council on
the Arts, and studied cultural
planning in Europe on a
fellowship from the Metropolitan
Museum of Art's International
Museum Studies Program.
He joins the staff of the
county's Office of Cultural
Development and will assist its
director, John Maerhofer, in
working on state and federal
funding for the museum's
professional staff and future
development.
Caso pointed out that a quarter
of the fine arts center director's
salary of $20,000 per year will be
paid through a grant from the
state Council on the Arts.
Facilities for the Nassau
Museum for the Fine Arts at the
Frick Estate are now being
planned by the architectural firm
of Gwathmey and Siegel.
STATE SENATOR RALPH J.
MARINO (R-Syosset) has
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Grumman To
Service Aircraft
Joseph G. Gavin, Jr., Chair­man
of the Board of Grumman
Aerospace Corporation, today
announced a plan to broaden the
use of the existing Bethpage
airport by sharing the 500 acre
facility with certain types of
small aircraft.
Grumman initiated the airport
utilization study almost two
years ago as part of the Cor­poration's
efforts to stabilize
employment levels and reduce
operating costs in order to
maintain a firm competitive
position with the other aerospace
manufacturers who, in many
instances, enjoy an edge because
they are located on municipally-operated
airports.
Gavin said, "We have already
ascertained that the present
runway length is more than
adequate to provide safe
operating standards as well as a
noise buffer zone." He em­phasized
that student pilots
would be prohibited from using
the airport and that landings and
takeoffs would be coordinated by
a control tower.
Nassau County keeps con­tingent
of police helicopters at
the airport.
Subcontractors, suppliers,
visiting dignitaries, NASA of­ficials,
Navy and other military
officials regularly fly into
Bethpage Airport.
N.A.B.
JERICHO, N. Y. - Arthur G.
Perfall, Chairman of the Long
Island Metro of the National
Alliance of Businessmen (NAB),
today reported that the Long
Island NAB had placed over
12,000 disadvantaged people in
meaningful jobs during the first
eight months of fiscal 1975, which
extends from July 1,1974, to June
30,1975. As a result, he said, the
group has already exceeded its
goals for fiscal 1975 by nearly
double.
NAB is a voluntary
organization of businessmen
working in cooperation with labor
and government agencies at
federal, state and local levels. It
was established eight years ago
by the President of the United
States to help "break the poverty
cycle" by locating employment
that would offer both on-the-job
training and advancement op­portunity
for the chronically
unemployed or underemployed.
Since then, the organization's
mandate has been expanded to
include JOBS (Job Opportunities
in the Business Sector) for
Vietnam-era veterans, disabled
veterans, ex-offenders, and poor
in-school youths.
Perfall, who is a Senior Vice-
President with the European-
American Bank & Trust Co., has
served as voluntary chairman of
the NAB Long Island Metro,
covering Nassau and Suffolk
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Bethpage School
Board Report
By Mary McCutcheon -
The Bethpage Board of
Education held its regular
monthly meeting on Thursday,
March 20th at 8 p.m. Ap­proximately
20 taxpayers at­tended
the meeting which began
with the approval of the minutes
of February 25th, 1975.
COMMUNICATIONS:
Mr. LoFaso read a letter from
the PTA Council requesting the
Board to ... think ecumenically
regarding Christmas and
Hanukkah observances ... em­phasizing
the need for students to
share in these and other holidays*
The Town of Oyster Bay ad­vised
the Board of Education of
the tremendous success re­garding
the Hockey Program and
commended Mr. E. Lavin, Bus-
*iness Manager, Mr. A. Ducato,
Junior High Assistant Principal
and the Custodial Staff for their
joint cooperation.
i The Bethpage Baseball
Association requested Mr.
LoFaso to be guest speaker of
their Opening Day Parade, May
4th. The starting time is 1 p.m. at
the Village Shopping Center -
parade then proceeds to the
Community Park and
Ceremonies commence at 2 p.m.
The entire Board of Education
was invited to march.
BOCES teachers have accepted
the latest salary offer ~ 6.2
percent increase in salary plus a
2.6 percent increase in in­crements,
for a total package of
8.86 percent.
State Senator Johnson has
requested strong support for the
major provisions of Senate Bill
3409. The Bill was still in the
Education Committee and
provides funding necessary to
give School Districts a fair
chance to continue quality
education. Mr. LoFaso suggested
the Bill should be supported by all
of the 56 School Boards on Long
Island.
Six members of the Family
Life Sex Education Committee
requested Dr. Larsen and the
Board of Education to review and
evaluate the text, "Tune Into
Health." The health book has
been in the school system 4 years
and covers areas of sexuality,
pre-marital sex, male and female
reproductive systems. The six
members of the committee stated
... the text was excellent in their
opinion, but questioned why a
curriculum was not structured
around the text ... if current
material was not covered why
was it not brought to the attention
of the administration and why
was the text not presented to the
Board of Education and the
committee at the onset of
establishing a Study Curriculum
Committee. The committee had
been informed by the Director of
Health at a January 9th meeting,
that only the mandated areas of
alcohol, tobacco, drugs and v.d.
were taught. When asked how a
teacher discusses v.d. without
getting into sex discussions he
replied ... we use the terminology
but do not define it. The parents
requested to be heard in
Executive Session, because the
subject areas being- discussed in
class at the present time covers
birth control methods, abortion,
etc.
SUPERINTENDENTS REPORT:
The board approved the
resignation of R. Sutton, In­dustrial
Arts, junior high and
Chess Club Advisor, Mrs. G.
Walsh. Also approved were
appointment of M. Stoller, Chess
Club Advisor; probationary
appointment of -Mrs*. -JDemasr
social studies, senior high filling
position for Mrs. Dietrich; Mr.
Harrington approved to the
substitute list for health and
physical education.
Registration Dates for Voting
have been approved for May 28th
from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. and May
31st from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The In-Service courses for
teachers regarding sports
medicine and prevention in in­juries
were approved.
The Jay Vee kick line
requested approval for a trip to
Wildwood State Park. Students
have raised funds and are to be
chaperoned by three teachers.
The cost to the district is bus
transportation.
Clerical Civil Service was
approved for Mrs. Feorio -
probationary period of 16 weeks.
The status of the Cafeteria was
reported as holding a profitable
margin.
The Vandal Alarm System has
developed several problems -
open telephone tie lines and dirty
relay contacts ~ these problems
have been corrected.
The Nassau County Depart­ment
of Health has inspected the
pool and their findings indicated
that the chlorine and ph readings
were within normal range.
Mr. LoFaso reported the fuel
oil savings for an 8 month period
of time from July 1974 to March
1975 totaled $97,000, under the
continuing energy conservation
program.
VANDALISM:
A six month period from July
through December on Vandalism
in the School District, was
reported to the Board. Financial
breakdown on each school is as
follows: High School - $3213;
Junior High - $2644; Central Blvd.
- $1920; Campagne - $725; Pine
Ave - $1333; Kramer Lane - $4255;
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