Bethpage-Tribune_1975-08-07

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VOL. 9 NO. 37 Thursday, August 7, 1975 10 cents per copy
Gerard Twombly Dem Choice
For TOB Councilman
Nassau County Comptroller M. Hallsted Christ (left) being shown an
interesting collection of international Rotary banners by Bethpage
Rotary Vice President Marvin Croes (right). Comptroller Christ was
in Bethpage to address the July 24 meeting of the Rotary Club.
Gerard Twombly, a Bethpage
resident for more than 16 years,
will join the Democratic Party's
ticket this year as a candidate for
the Oyster Bay Town Board.
Twombly, a graduate of Beth­page
High School and Hofstra
University, has been a leading
figure in local civic and political
affairs for several years. He has
been an active force in Common
Cause and the Long Island En­vironmental
Council, a member
of St. Martin of Tours Holy Name
Society, and a member of the
recently established Bethpage
Civic Association. His business
experience has been primarily in
the field of Management
Analysis, a background which
Democrats believe will be an
invaluable asset to Town
Government. He also served for a
time as Legislative Assistant to
Assemblyman Arthur J.. Kiemer.
Gerard Twombly
On the political scene,
Twombly was the Bethpage area
coordinator for the Town of
Oyster Bay Democratic Youth
Council in 1969-1970, and served
as the Democratic State Com­mitteeman
from the 10th
Assembly District from 1972 to
1974. In 1973, he was a member of
the Nassau County Democratic
Platform Committee.
A frequent and vocal critic of
the present Town ad­ministration,
Twombly has
pledged to serve as a "full-time
Councilman" if elected. He has
been outspoken on local issues,
especially the proposed General
Aviation Airport at Grumman
Aerospace Corporation's Beth­page
facility, which he firmly
opposes.
Twombly will be running as a
member of "JUDGE
DONOVAN'S TEAM", headed by
former District Court Judge
Francis J. Donovan, Democratic
candidate for Town Supervisor.
Hofstra President Urges Tax
Relief For Middle
Income Families
JUST PLAIN FOLK: Oyster Bay Town Clerk Ann R. Ocker, right,
and Werner Heckmann, Band leader of the German Revue, observe
Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Hugel as they demonstrate a German folk dance.
The performance, one in a series of Festival of Nations programs
was sponsored by the Town's Cultural and Performing Arts Division.
The event was held at Bethpage Community Park.
Hofstra University President
Robert L. Payton urged the
House Ways and Means Com­mittee
this week to consider tax
relief for middle income families
struggling to pay steadily rising
college tuition.
In a statement prepared for the
congressional committee - which
for the past month has been
holding hearings on tax reform
legislation ~ Mr. Payton offered a
series of suggestions in response
to the growing pressure of higher
education costs on middle income
families and the current financial
crisis in colleges and univer­sities.
Bethpage School Board Review
The regular monthly meeting
of the Bethpage Board of
Education was held on Tuesday,
July 29, 1975 at 8:25 p.m. All
Board members were present
except for M. Verderosa. Eleven
Taxpayers were in attendance.
BOARD OF EDUCATION AP­PROVED
MOTIONS:
School Attorney Louis Orfan to
represent the School District
regarding an action brought
against the District by J.
Chomsky.
Parent-Teacher Conferences
are scheduled for November 3, 5,
6,7 and 10,1975. These days will
be half or partial days.
The parking field at the Town
of Oyster Bay Community Park
will be used for Driver Education
instruction.
A one dollar a year parking fee
will be charged students utilizing
the East Parking lot. There are 91
spaces available. Dr. Larsen
explained the fee covers the cost
of parking stickers and gives the
administration an opportunity to
regulate the cars coming into the
parking field. Also, any problems
arising with a car, the student
can be contacted immediately
through the number registration
on the sticker.
The Board of Education op­posed
Bills S 4598 and S 6311 and
supported Bill S 6250. Now
awaiting action by Gov. Carey.
CO-ED HEALTH PROGRAM -
JR. HIGH SCHOOL
In response to the board of
education's request, the Family
Life-Sex Education Committee
would like to take this op­portunity
to state their reasons
for maintaining a segregated
health education program on the
junior nigh school level.
According to Mr. O'Connell's
statement to this committee the
board of education approved
changing the health program in
the junior high school to co-ed in
March 1975. However the com­mittee
is unable to locate a
motion in the official minutes
altering the junior high school
health program. If the existing
health program has been changed
to co-ed for the 1975-1976 school
year, this committee strongly
urges the board of education to
consider these important factors:
1. disparity between the
physiological and emotional
developments of preadolesccnt
male and female.
2. pressure of peer groups
prevent students from free and
honest discussion which defeats
the purpose of the entire
program.
3. sexual make-up of a class
should not have a bearing on
behavorial problems with a
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Mr. Payton spoke not only as
president of Hofstra, an 11,700-
student private university
located in Hempstead, N.Y. on
Long Island, but also as chair­man
of the Public Affairs
Committee of New York State's
Commission on Independent
Colleges and Universities. The
commission represents 103 in­dependent
educational in­stitutions.
The Hofstra president called
for stabilizing higher education
enrollments and for narrowing
the tuition gap that exists bet­ween
public and independent
colleges in the United States.
This gap, he said, has resulted
in students from upper income
families attending low tuition
public colleges, thus receiving a
subsidy of the cost of their
education that has the effect of a
tax credit.
"Middle income students at­tending
independent colleges and
paying high tuition," Mr. Payton
said, "suffer a tax penalty
because they are not eligible for
subsidy, either in the form of a
tax credit or a tax deduction."
To solve this problem, Mr.
Payton offered these as possible
solutions:
-Tax relief by tax credit.
-Treating all tuition alike, as it
is in the public alleges.
"Tax credit should be available
for all forms of tuition -- for un­dergraduate,
graduate, part-time
and full-time students," he said.
-If no "means test" is applied
to students in the public colleges,
there should be no "means test"
for students in the independent
colleges^
-Because almost all students
are expected to pay at least part
of the cost of their education, a
floor should be established below
which tax credits do not apply.
-r •* Because some institutions
may wish to provide special
programs that require high
tuition, there should be a ceiling
above which tax credits do not
apply.
- -^Separate minimum and
maximum levels of tuition should
perhaps be established for public
colleges, so that their tuitions are
not arbitrarily raised to divert
the present cost burden from the
states to the federal government.
Mr. Payton contended that his
proposed suggestions would give
middle income students freedom
of choice in deciding where to
enroll in college.
The current tuition gap, he
said, between public and in­dependent
institutions has
resulted in many of these
students selecting colleges on
economic rather than academic
grounds.
The Hofstra president said
such narrowing of choice is not
only detrimental to students
themselves, but also to society in
the long run. It has resulted, for
example, in the shift of students
from middle income families out
of the independent colleges and
into the public colleges, leading
to pressure for still further public
expansion at the same time that
the number of vacant seats and
classrooms in the independent
colleges has increased.
In New York State, for
example, the shift has been from
one-third public to two-thirds
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