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Serving Bethpage - Plainview - Island Trees - Plainedge - Seaford
Vol. 3 No. 30 Thursday, May 22, 1969
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: The Publisher's Desk
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thJAH t h F ? g ? B o a r d of E l a t i o n met this week at
of t n ^ S r f f K " ^UKlding a n d w o r k e d o u t t h e details
fin^ aSS: * °l bUdg6t SinCG thGre has been no
'budJf^T ?," ^rsonnel salary increases, the
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^5e ? i I ? ° U 1 i t r e l e a S e d b y t h e B o a r d of Education is
^,949,115 and is an increase of $639,027 over the 1968-
69 budget figure. The Board spokesman said "everv
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m a d e t 0 ^eep costs in line without hurting-the
educational quality of the district. There was no
reduction in teaching or administrative personnel "
r.Zlu^uV^ *?u d g e t w i l 1 b e o n J u n e 11 at the Beth!
page High School from 12 noon to 10 p.m. The Annual
Meeting will take place on June 10 at 8:30 p.m. at the
Bethpage High School.
A spokesman for the Board also pointed out that two
seats for school board trustee for three-year terms and
one for-library trustee for a five-year term will be on
the ballot. The school trustee incumbents Lee Hilton
and Hugh Coyle will seek re-election. There will also be
two propositions to be voted on. A proposition for the
Summer Recreation Program at a cost of $27,700 would
only mean an additional 5 cents per hundred of
assessed valuation on the tax roll.
The second proposition is to~6hter a three-year bus
contract in order to economize on transportation costs.
Point Or" View
Perry B. Duryea, Jr.
Is there anything to be learned from the recent rash
of school budget defeats on Long Island? Or from the
tremendous problems which the Suffolk Board of
Supervisors encountered last year in producing a 1969
budget? Is there any conclusion to be drawn from the
difficulties which the Legislature encountered in
agreeing on a state budget for the next fiscal year and
on a tax program?
I think that the lesson is clear, if those of us in public
life are willing to learn. I believe that the average
American is being put to the wall by the rising cost of
living and by rising taxes. Even when his own income
increases, he finds that his real income is actually
shrinking because his pay isn't keeping up with rising
costs
The challenge to government, then, is to provide
services at the lowest possible cost, to insure ef­ficiency.
This applied not only not only in Albany and in
Riverhead but with the local fire district or school
district. Taxes have become so burdensome that our
citizens are demanding and are entitled to a full
dollar's worth of service for every tax dollar which is
raised. ••>
I've aimed at this goal in the Legislature through the
imposition of a series of reforms in procedure. We cut
the number of legislative committees in half, insisted
that they operate all year round and have eliminated a
number of procedures which produced waste through
duplication. In our reshaping of the Joint Legislative
Committee structure, we saved the state a half-million
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Employment Day
At Nassau College
More than 200 Long Island
firms with over 5,000 job of­ferings
and over 7,000 Nassau-
Suffolk high school students are
expected to participate in "Long
Island Employment Day v 1969,"
May 26-27 at Nassau Community
College in Garden City and May
28 at Hauppauge High School,
according to E-Day co-chairmen
James F. Demos and Larry G.
Swenson.
June high school graduates
from over 100 Long Island public
and parochial schools have been
invited to participate in the
jointly-sponsored community
project which, the co-chairmen
said, promises to be one of the
most significant events of its type
ever held on Long Island. Thus
far, about 80 area high schools
have expressed intent to par­ticipate.
"This is decidedly not aroutina-...
career day," said Demos and
Swenson. "E-Day 1969 is
specially tailored for the often-overlooked,
work-bound high
school student: All too often not
as much is done to help such
students prepare for the future -
largely because the emphasis on
relatively affluent Long Island is
on the college-bound."
It is estimated that about 30 per
cent of Long Island's graduating
high school seniors go directly
into the job-market, the co-chairmen
noted. "It is for those
students that E-Day is designed,"
they said. "Students have a
unique opportunity to be hired
right on the spot at E.-Day."
If E-Day is as large a success
as appears likely, much credit
must go to Demos and Swenson.
Both are experienced hands at
employment day programs.
Demos, executive chairman of
Nassau E-Day, is manager of
recruiting and research in the
Bureau of Career Planning,
Nassau County Office of Ad­ministrative
Services. He is also
a member of the Long Island
Personnel and Guidance
Association and directs that
organization's Vocational
Guidance Interest Group.
Swenson, vocational counselor,
Bay Shore High and chairman of
Suffolk E-Day, served as a
committee member; of the
Western Suffolk Personnel &
Guidance Association's highly
successful 1968 E-Day program
and is this year's President-elect.
Honorary Chairmen for the
Nassau event are Nassau County
Executive Eugene H. Nickerson;
Dr. Howard E. Imhof, President,
Nassau Association of Chief
School Administrators; and John
B. Rettaliata, Vice President,
Grumman Aircraft Engineering
Corp.
Suffolk County Executive H.
Lee Dennison, Thomas E. Dight,
President, Suffolk Chapter, New
York State Association of
Secondary School Ad­ministrators,
and Lou Tempera,
Suffolk Labor Commissioner, are
the Honorary Suffolk Chairmen.
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Bridge Opponents
Hold Strategy Session
CROSSING THEIR BRIDGES: Three men involved in
the fight to prevent construction of the Oyster Bay-Rye
Bridge put their heads together to develop plans tor
continuing their efforts. Edmund A. Ocker, right,
Majority Leader of the Oyster Bay Town Board,
journeyed to New York City to meet with Rye Mayor
Edmund C. Grainger Jr., left, and Robert DeGraff, a
spokesman for various North Shore Civic groups op­posed
to the bridge.
Opponents of the controversial
Long Island Sound bridge bet­ween
Oyster Bay and Rye, led by
a five-man contingent from the
Town of Oyster Bay, held a
strategy session with Rye of­ficials
last Thursday (May 15) on
continuing the fight against the
project.
Edmund A. Ocker, Republican
Majority Leader on the Town
Board, acted as spokesman after
the closed-door session and
said he planned to ask for a re-evaluation
of the project's cost
from the State. The State
Transportation Department has
already indicated the projected
cost has boomed from
$130,000,000 to $145,000,000 and
those figures do not include a
minimum of $10,000,000 in in­terest
charges.
Ocker and Rye Mayor Edmund
C. Grainger Jr. said they would
combine efforts to continue
pressing Gov. Nelson A.
Rockefeller to cancel con­struction
of the bridge at least
until the completion in 1971 of a
-.Connecticut-New York study of a
bridge further east on Long
Island.
Both Oyster Bay and Rye are
researching the legal aspects of
seeking a re-hearing because of
the closeness of the 4-3 decision
made by the State Court of Ap­peals
to allow construction of the
bridge.
"If there is a way to do it, we
will do it," said Ocker.
The other officials representing
the Town were Councilmen Philip
B. Healey, M. Hallsted Christ and
A. Carl Grunewald. Charles
Lynch of the Town Attorney's
staff acted as legal advisor.
Rising Costs May Affect Tobay Building Codes
Oyster Bay Town Clerk
William B. (Bud) O'Keefe said
today (Friday, May 16) that the
Town Board has scheduled public
hearings on May 27 concerning
two amendments to the Town
Building Code.
O'Keefe said the changes
concerned a slight increase in the
fees for issuing a Certificate of
Occupancy and for searches and
abstracts of Certificates. ->
The proposed Certificate of
Occupancy change calls for a fee
of three dollars for the costs of
improvements up to but not
exceeding $1,000 with an ad­ditional
dollar added for each
additional $1,000 or major
fraction thereof. The present fee
is one dollar for $500 (or less) in
the way of improvements.and
two dollars for improvements
ranging from $500 to $10,000. It
presently costs an additional one
dollar a thousand above $10,000
and an additional 50 cents a
thousand after $20,000 has been
reached.
The present fee for searching
and furnishing copies of a Cer­tificate,
of Occupancy is five
dollars for those dated prior to
January 1, 1957 and two dollars
for subsequent Certificates. The
new proposal would add one
dollar, but only for certificates
issued after January 1, 1957. If
approved, these amendments
would go into effect on July 1,
1969.