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Grover
Praised As
" Watchdog
Congressman James R.
Grover, Jr. of Babylon has been
presented with the " Watchdog of
the Treasury" Award by the
N a t i o n a l A s s o c i a t ed
Businessmen, Inc.
Walter L. Frankland, Jr.,
Executive Vice- President of the
nationwide group, praised Mr.
Grover's " 100 per cent record for
economy in government" while
making the presentation.
• Congressman Grover, a con­stant
opponent of unbridled
government spending, has been
honored in the past by the NAB
and other groups devoted to in­suring
that the taxpayer gets full
value for the money he sends to
Washington. The " Watchdog of
the Treasury" Award is based on
votes cast by Congressmen on
key fiscal matters.
Levine Subs
For Ginsberg
Assembly Speaker Perry B.
Duryea ( R- Montauk) announced
the appointment of Stuart R.
Levine of Bethpage as Ad­ministrative
Assistance in the
office of former Assemblyman
Martin Ginsberg who was
Chairman; of the Assembly
Standing Committee on Health.
Former Assemblyman Martin
Ginsberg was appointed last
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Farmingdale Topic of
Master Plan Hearing
Farmingdale residents have another chance next
Monday night to voice their opinions in regard to the
Town of Oyster Bays proposals for rerouting of traffic,
rezoning of various parcels of land, and the con­struction
of multi- family dwellings
corporated areas along Hempstead
Motor Ave.
in the unin-
Turnpike and
" LOOK FOR YOURSELF, MOM. I really didn't swallow the baby's
rattle." Mother eventually believed him, and, like everybody else,
Doris White of 65 Oakdale Blvd. allowed nothing to keep her from
enjoying the fun and frolic of the annual picnic of the Farmingdale
Hawks, The rattle, by the way, never did show up. ( Story On Page 3)
The meeting is being called by
the Tobay Planning Advisory
Board at the request of coun­cilman
GregoryW. Carman after
a previous meeting at
Massapequa High School ran into
overtime and left not much op­portunity
for Farmingdalers to
be heard.
Monday night's confab will
fitart at 8: 30 p. m. and will be held
in the auditorium of Bethpage
Senior High School, Cherry and
Stewart Avenues, in Bethpage.
Planning Advisory Board
chairman Dr. Lawarence
Royal Typewriters Return Majestically
Police are searching for a sixth
Farmingdale youth after having
arrested five area teens for
allegedly breaking into Far­mingdale
High School last week
and removing 31 Royal
typewriters valued at $ 10,000.
All of the typewriters have
been returned to the school.
Police said they were found
scattered throughout Far­mingdale
in various places in­cluding
sumps, and the houses of
of those arrested and of
those who had bought them.
Arrested, according to Far­mingdale
detectives, were
Vincent Valentino, 18, of 68
Walnut Avenue, East Far­mingdale;
Christopher Mielo, 16,
of 18 Birch Avenue, East Far­mingdale;
Alfred Miller, 16 of 102
Fallwood Parkway, Far­mingdale;
Douglas Maxwell, 18
of 71 Birch Avenue, East Far­mingdale;
and Michael Carlsen,
17 of 28 Meorkee Place, Far­mingdale.
All were charged with
3rd degree burglary, a class D
felony punishable by up to seven
years imprisonment. They were
released in the custody of their
parents and must reappear in
Mineola District Court next
Tuesday, August 29.
Still being sought is a Far­mingdale
youth, 20 years old, who
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Ravitch stressed that the plan, at
this stage, is a preliminary report
of proposals by the planning
advisory board and its con­sultants.
" The purpose of the
public meetings is to give the
citizens the opportunity to review
these proposals and comment on
them,'' Ravich said. " These
comments and suggestions
provide a very valuable input of
local knowledge and familiarity
of the area in question for the
guidance of the planning ad­visory
board in preparing its final
recommendations for the town
board."
Ravich also urged those who
cannot be present for the public
hearing to transmit their com­ments
and suggestions in writing
to the Planning Advisory Board,
Town Hall, Oyster Bay, N. Y.
11771.
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Special on the Way
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Politicians Pushing
Promises and Proposals
Traditionally, electioneering and campaigning starts as soon as
Labor Day is over. Occasionally, a candidate jumps the gun,
perhaps because he wants to test public reaction to his efforts, or
maybe because he feels he could use some additional exposure. At
any rate, some leaves are already rustling in the political wind,
with Carter Bales, the Democrats' candidate for the new 3rd
Congressional District announcing his " Ten Point Action
Program", while Owen Johnson, Republican candidate for the 4th
Senatorial District, and Stuart Levine, GOP standardbearer, in
the 10th Assembly District, tackle one problem each at a time.
In his " Ten Point Action Program" Bales promises:
1. Fight to stop the Rockefeller- Moses
Bridge.
" The Rockefeller- Moses Bridge is the
wrong bridge in the wrong place at the
wrong time."
1. Fight to control prices, not just
wages.
" Clearly, prices are not under control,
while wages have been held down. In­comes
cannot compete with the un­checked
infaltionary economy. To halt
this trend, prices must be kept in line as
well as wages."
3. Fight to bring federal aid to create
jobs in socially beneficial industry on
long Island.
" Government should work to help
defense plants to diversify to programs
in such socially useful areas as health
system research, environment protec­tion
and housing prefabrication as well
as mass transportation."
4. Fight for adequate revenue sharing
to reduce the burden of local property
tax.
" Homeowners are caught between the
increasing demand for better municipal
services and the high cost of providing
them. We must create an adequate
revenue sharing program to relieve this
burden."
5, Work to end the war in Viet Nam and
to bring home our POWs.
" Despite the problems, which surround
us here at home, we continue to spend the
bulk of our national wealth for the costs
of war. We have lost over 50,000
American lives in Viet Nam and spent
nearly $ 100 billion."
6. Fight for modern mass tran­sportation
on Long Island.
" Unless we have adequate rail and bus
facilities to counter our almost total
reliance on highways and cars things will
only get worse."
7. Work to ensure pension protection
and pension transferability for all
working men and women.
" The money a man pays into his
pension plan belongs to him and to him
alone. If he should change jobs, for
whatever reason, that money should be
easily and entirely transferred to his new
pension plan."
8. Fight for increases in Social Security
benefits.
" It is a national scandal that the
median income of individuals over 65 is
under $ 2,000 a year. Old age should not be
a time of poverty and fear."
9. Work to guarantee the security of
Israel.
" As long as the enemies of Israel
refuse to negotiate a just and lasting
peace in the Middle East, the United
States must stand by her democratic ally
to guarantee her security and freedom."
10. Fight to clean- up the environment
by taxing industrial polluters.
" No one has the right to pollute the
environment and those that do should be
forced to stop through penalty taxes."
From the Republican side came a
proposal for " merit- rate" no- fault in­surance
and a warning relating to drug
imports. 4th District State Senate
Republican candidate Owen Johnson of
West Babylon proposed a " merit- rating"
system for the no- fault auto insurance
concept, expected to be adopted by next
year's New York State Legislature.
Johnson commented that, " Any no-fault
plan passed in New York should
contain the obviously beneficial
provisions for prompt settlement of all
economic loss from bodily injury, as
proposed in the Gordon Law, but should
not tamper with traditional tort relation­ship
concerning property damage. In this
way, the poor fellow who cannot afford
collision coverage, will not be further
discriminated against, by losing any
right to recovery which he presently
has."
Stuart R. Levine, Republican can­didate
for the Assembly in the 10th
Assembly District, warned that the
illegal importation of heroin and other
dangerous drugs poses a major threat to
this country.
Levine said it is now evident that in­ternational
drug traffickers are opening
new routes to supply heroin in the United
States. He said the heroin is being sent
through Burma, Thailand, Laos, China
and Central and South America among
others to offset a crackdown on drug
factories in the Marsailles area by the
French government.
Levine credited such organizations as
the L. I. Restaurant and Caterers
Association which boycotted French
wines with pressuring the French
government to move against the nar
cotics factories.
" An all- out effort must be made by our
government, using every available
means, to see that the heroin menace
that was originally French oriented does
not develop in other areas." Levine
stated.