Bethpage-Tribune_1975-02-06

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OLD BETHPAGE
also serving ISLAND TREES
PLAINVIEW PLAINEDGE SEAFORD
VOL. 9 NO. 11 Thursday, February 6,1975
Gutterman's Comes
To Woodbury
Gutterman's, Inc. was founded
in 1892 by Abraham Gutterman a
Russian immigrant who came to
New York in 1885. He worked for
a livery stable and when he saved
enough money, he sent for his
wife, Rachel and his oldest
daughter, Dorothy. He eventually
opened the livery stable known as
A. Gutterman's & Sons, 49 Or­chard
St., New York City.
Benjamin Gutterman, the
eldest son, became the founder of
Gutterman's Funeral Chapel on
the East Side of New York City.
Since, they have grown to six
chapels serving the entire
metropolitan area, including all
of Long Island with Chapels in -
Rockville Centre, Forest Hills,
Bronx, Brooklyn, and Manhat­tan.
The newest Chapel is located at
8000 Jericho Turnpike, Woodbury
- serving Bethpage, Old Beth-page.
Flainview and Hicksville.
Gutterman's at Woodbury
offers modern and spacious
facilities and parking for 150
cars.
The brick and glass exterior
was designed by Gloster &
Gloster of Rockville Centre and
the interiors, including the stained
glass windows in the chapel, are
the creation of Albert Wood anr*
Five Sons located in Pr.t
Washington.
The main chapel seats 450
people and there are five smaller
chapels.
Steward Gutterman is Vice
President of the Corporation and
will personally supervise the
Woodbury Chapel. Mr. Gut­terman
is a resident of the
community, is married and has
three children.
Mr. Gutterman stated, "We
have long recognized the need for
a large and modern facilities to
serve the communities of this
area of Lnntf Island."
Full Disclosure
In Criminal Cases
Denis Dillon, District Attorney
of Nassau County announced
today that his office is instituting
a policy of full disclosure to
defendants in criminal cases.
Mr. Dillon said "starting
February 3rd we will give
defendants information they now
have to get through "motions" in
court. A process which is time
consuming, costly and which can
delay cases for months, and tie
up court calendars un­necessarily."
"With a full disclosure policy,"
the Nassau District attorney
said, "whatever the defense is
legally entitled to know, it will .
We will place nothing in the way
of Ihe defense preparing its
case".
Mr. Dillon explained that
"under the present system,
motion papers are filed in court
by the defense attorney when he
wants a ballistics, narcotics or
other report. Then the District
Attorney's office has to file
motion papers in reply. After
both sides have filed, the court
has to render a decision. This
consumes valuable court time in
addition to the time and expense
of the defense and the
prosecution.
"Since indictments often state
only the actual charge and lack
specifics, the defense must seek a
motion for a bill of particulars or
for disclosure and inspection in
order to know more about the
charge against the defendent."
"Now". Dillon said, "this will
no longer be necessary. Defense
attorneys will be given all the
information they need when the
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The regular monthly meeting of
the Bethpage Board of Education
was held on Tuesday, January 28,
1975 at 8 P.M. All Board members
were present except for Mr.
Iannello and eight taxpayers
attended. Prior to the regular
•board meeting, a Senior Citizens
hearing was held.
The Board of Education
authorized President Anthony
LoFaso to sign, on behalf of the
board, the amended contract of
Mr. Arthur Hecht, Ad­ministrative
Assistant to the
Superintendent. (The motion was
made at the December 17th
meeting by Mr. Resnick, and
seconded by Mr. Verderosa that
due to increase of assigned
responsibilities which include
Pupil Personnel and supervision
in other areas, Mr. Hechts salary
be increased by $2,500 to $25,500,
effective December 17, 1974. The
motion was' approved
unanimously.)
Under the regular agenda, the
first order of business was the
approval of the minutes of
December 17th.
The New York State School
Board Associations will hold a
l. 3eting on March 12th and the
School Board Forum will be held
at Hofstra University on March
15th - a day of interchange.
The Board received a thank
you note from Mrs. Orfan for a
basket of fruit.
A Hearing will be held on a
zoning variance - Anderson
Street and Central Avenue -
request two-family residence
hearing - January 30th - 8 P.M.
Under the Superintendent's
Report, the following were ap­proved:
A disability retirement
of Mr. Demler, Central Blvd.
School, effective Dec. 5;
maternity leave for Elaine
Duncan, effective February 28,
1975 - August 31, 1976; maternity
leave for Elizabeth Fabian,
Campagne School; Sal Murando,
Probationary appointment
physical education, effective
January 1, 1975; extra curricular
activities - Mr. White and Mr.
Moore; D. Fennelli - Ice Hockey
coach, $350.
The board approved the ac­cepting
from the Bethpage Dad's
Club, a donation of a scoreboard
for the Bethpage High School
gym.
Miss Brown was approved to be
placed on the substitute list
. (retired services).
In-Service Programs were
approved, covering Group
Dynamics and Behavioral
Techniques.
Sabbatical Leave requests
have been given to the Board of
Education for action at the
February meeting.
Health Service Contracts were
approved for St. Ladislaus and
Queen of the Rosary Academy.
There was an extension of 19
sick days, granted to G. Hebert,
switchboard operator.in the
district for many years. The
board also approved a clerical
change in title to account clerk
for Mrs. Crowley, February 1st.
Also, Mrs. Nyland, registered
nurse was added to the substitute
list.
Bids were received January 9th
on custodial supplies totaling
$17,125 approved also, Con­tinental
Business machines,
Typewriter repair service bids
received and awarded.
Concerning the vandal and fire
alarm systems, the board
requested a report from Mr.
Chomsky on corrective action
regarding some of the telephone
lines out because of rain. Mr.
Grosberg informed the board
that small adjustments had to be
made within the system - there
was problems with lack of
diagrams and the availability of
small parts.
The board authorized the
implementation of Mr. Chom­sky's
plan regarding the
reduction of consumption of
electricity at the expenditure of
$13,700, not to exceed $14,000.
Areas covered would be laundry -
to amortize in l'-k years, cost
$160; gym - to amortize in 2V2
years, cost $6,660; girls gym - to
'amortize in 4 years, cost $1,665;
pool area to amortize in 2V2
years, cost $4,000. Mr. LoFaso
said the anticipated savings after
approximately 2 years would be
$5,000 a year.
A parent informed the board
that it was impossible to comply
with a recent board policy
regarding readmission and usage
to the high school pool for her
child. (On October 22, 1974, the
child had severe eye irritation
and burning of the skin of the
lower and upper eye area from
chlorine that resulted in hospital
treatment.) Mr. Orfan said... the
board adopted a policy that the
child be tested for an allergic
chlorine reaction for the
protection of the child. The
parent continued. . . because
chlorine is a poison, allergists
will not do a skin test. The board
stated that they would accept a
note from the allergist that
chlorine test would be injurious to
the child. Discussion continued
regarding the chlorination of the
pool and Mr. Hilton noted from
his reports that since October,
the board had received reports on
the testing of the pool and the
Board of Health was brought in
on October 23rd and the chlorine
level was satisfactory. The
parent questioned how the
chlorine was dispensed into the
pool and if it was done
mechanically, suggesting a
malfunction of the equipment.
Mr. Orfan told the parent the
chlorine was dispensed annually
and tested by the pool operator
every hour who then submitted
wrtten reports to the board. Also,
the pool operator has been
directed by the board that if the
chlorine content is too high, he is
to close the pool immediately.
Mr. Orfan continued. . .
because a large number of
students use the pool it appears
that the two cases brought to the
board of education have a low
resistance to chlorine. The parent
said that prior to her daughter
coming out of the pool on October
22nd, 6 other students had left
the pool complaining of eye
irritation. At the November
board meeting, a cafeteria aid
noted that she had taken students
with eye irritation to the nurse.
These students had been in the
pool the period before lunch.
Transportation
A taxpayer appeared before
the board urging the Board of
Education at the end of the
current bus contract to go out to
bid. He said. . . there are many
bus companies in this area who
appear to transport at a less
expensive rate. He gave the
following comparison:
Bethpage - full-time bus (9 hr.)-
$15,000; part-time bus (4l/2 hr.)-
$13,800 district pays gas - 3-year
contract
Island Trees - full-time bus-
$10,000; part-time bus-$9,003
carrier pays gas - 2-year contract
Plainview - full-time bus (7V2
hr.)-$13,990; part-time (5 hr.)-
$12,990 carrier pays gas - 5-year
contract
Hicksville - full time bus (10
hr.)-$14,510; part-time (7 hr.) -
$14,457 district pays gas - 5-year
contract
.;. ,Farmingdale - full-time bus
(IOV2 hr.)-$15,142; part-time bus
(6 hr.)-$13,981 carrier pays gas -
5-year contract
Plainedge - full-time bus-
$13,700; carrier pays gas - 3-year
contract
Massapequa - full-time bus (10-
12 hr.)-$14,270; part-time bus (6
hr.)-$13,692 carrier pays gas - 5-
year contract
East Meadow-full-time bus (It)
hr.)-$ 13,950;' part-time bus (6
hr.)-$12,660 carrier pays gas-5
year contact.
Mr. LoFaso said the board
would cheek into the matter and
pointed out that the age and
safety features of the bus had to
be taken into consideration. He
also noted that even though Beth­page
was in a third year of its
contract, it was working on its
2nd year contract of $14,385.
Another taxpayer suggested
the board look into this and
establish a citizens committee
and Mr. LoFaso replied he did not
think a committee was necessary
that the board would check into
it. The taxpayer then asked to
have the request placed in the
minutes and Mr. LoFaso said it
was not board policy to place
requests in the minutes.
The taxpayer then asked if
there were any Saturday trips
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