Bethpage-Tribune_1969-06-12

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Vol. 3 No. 33 Thursday, June 12, 1969 10< per copy'
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Bethpage Budgets Vetoed
Plainedge Down; Island Trees OK'd Despite Bitter Campaig
Editor's Note: This Sunday is Father's Day, but as
County Executive Eugene Nickerson points out in the
article below, we should not forget the other half of the
human race.
Eight out of Icn of (he ap­plicants
to the Nassau County
Viicalional Center for Women are
seeking help to find a part-time
jo/).
Yet there are still few
businesses in Nassau, or
anywhere else, which offer op­portunities
for the part-time
working woman.
This is a serious failure to take
advantage of a great source of
woman power.
Many employers have an
urgent need for intelligent and
talented people. They are
overlooking hundreds of
thousands of women whose skills
are not being developed and used.
There is nothing sacred about
the traditional hours of nine to
live, five days a week. Working
mothers need flexibility of hours.
Split-shifts, shorter lunch
hours, and other adjustments are
not that difficult to achieve. It
means scraping off the crust of
tradition and beginning to think
about the problem with
imagination and concern.
A number of banks and
department stores have been
cooperating with our Vocational
Center in making available part-
UIIIIIU
lime work for mature women,
flexible hours for mothers of
schoolchildren, and equitable pay
for all women.
They are notable, however, for
their special interest in the
problem exceptions that prove
the rule.
Too often, part-time work is
highly specialized in shortage
professional areas or lends to be
dull and routine.
The best chances for part-time
work today are such vocations as
nurses, social workers, physical
or occupational therapists, legal
secretaries, retail salespeople,
waitresses, and key punch
operators.
Of course, overcoming old
barriers takes time and patience.
But events of the past few years
in our nation have proven con­clusively
that procrastination is a
policy fraught with danger.
D i s c r i m i n a t i o n a g a i n st
minorities is certainly no more
dangerous to the health of our
society than discrimination
against a majority.
In the long run, there is no
future for a society that
discriminates against women
and places loo low a value on
their working contributions
Dissension and dissatisfaction
were the dominant themes in
local school district elections
Wednesday. Out of the three
districts of Bethpage, Island
Trees and Plainedge, voters
approved only one school budget
and one transportation issue.
"It took over 45 minutes to get
one vote," claimed a Bethpage
housewife, as taxpayers came
out in force to defeat the school
budget by an overwhelming
margin.
Approximately 85 persons were
present in the Bethpage High
School Auditorium whenthe votes
were tallied. It was obvious from
the moment the results on the
first of the five voting machines
was read that the trend was
toward defeat of both school and
library budgets.
The results were as follows:
JVJO YES
School Budget
Library Budget
Prop. No. 1
(Transportation)
1800 756
1423 1105
1236 1245
(Passed)
Prop. No. 2
(Summer Recreation) 1518 785
In the contest for two seats on
the School Board ( 3 year terms)
Hugh J. Coyle (incumbent)
received 1573 votes to Albert
Firestone's 791; Charles W. Hearl
topped Lee Hilton (incumbent)
by 1670 votes to 705. Margaret E.
Lang (incumbent) was unop­posed
for the position of Library
Trustee (5 year term) and
collected 1686 votes.
Last year, after the school
budget was defeated (858-653) on
May 8, 1968, the board of
education voted unanimously at a
town meeting on May 10 to
resubmit the school budget.
Whether the school board will
decide to resubmit a budget after
this resounding defeat remains to
be seen.
The one school budget to
survive the voters was in Island
Tre^g. Taxpayers cast 1,060 votes,
in favor of the $7,977,150 budget,
with 856 opposed. The Library
budget was defeated 1,111 to 909.
The proposed $70,000 budget
would have upped the tax-rate by
.32, an increase from last year of
eight cents.
Although the new budget
brought the estimated tax-rate to
10.98, a jump of nearly a dollar,
fiscal issues took second place to
a bitter, hard-fought school board
election.
Only 16 votes decided two of the
four disputed trusteeships. An­thony
Lancellotti (1,202) votes,
beat Stanley Raeihle (1,186),
while Mrs. Lillian Rosa
(1,201),edged school board in-mumbent
Mrs. Lois O'Donnell
(1,185).
Tight victories were also
rcorded by incumbent Mrs.
Florence Cullem (1,207), who
downed Mrs. Elizabeth Evans
(1,164) by 43 votes, and by
Lawrence Zeis, (1,237), who
topped board veteran Gordon
Webb (1,154), with an 83-vote
margin.
Biggest winner of the night was
James Tucci, who outpolled
incumbent Nicholas Rosa (1,107)
by 121 votes. Rosa is the husband
of the new school board trustee.
The apparent secondary im­portance
of the budget to Island
Trees taxpayers was indicated by
the size of the budget and election
returns. While only 1,900 of 3,700
registered voters ( >nsidered the
school budget, and only 2,300
pushed a lever in each of the five
contests.
Much of the success of the
Island Trees school budget was
attributed to the diplomatic
budget review conducted by out­going
trustee Thomas Courtney
during the taxpayers' meeting
Tuesday night. Although fac­tionalism
was quite evident
during the session, held in the
high, school audirorium. the
entire audience gave resounding
agreement to the contention by
temporary chairman James
Tucci that "this was probably the
best-run budget-review in the
history of the district."
Meanwhile, Plainedge voters
joined a growing Island-wide
taxpayers revolution by rejecting
their $10,650,448 budget 2,298 to
1,564. They also vetoed the
library budget (2,348 to 1,490), as
well as a conroversial busing
proposition (2,431 to 1,396) and a
transportation issue (3,046 to
874).
The proposed school tax-rate
was 11.59, while the $259,750
library budget called for a .657
levy.
School board incumbent James
Ackley turnedback a challenge by
Henry Cardello (2,350 to 1,283),
while library trustee James
Walsh beat W. David Cuddeback
(2,064 to 1,522). Donald Kanter
won election to the school board
in an unopposed contest.
SERVICE SALUTE - Mort J. Husted of Evergreen
Ave., Bethpage, celebrates his Silver Anniversary with
Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp., on June 20.
With Manufacturing Master Scheduling Ad­ministration
at the Bethpage aerospace company, he
will be presented an engraved watch for his 25 years of
service, and honored at the company's annual
"Quarter Century Club" luncheon.
SCOUT OPEN HOUSE - Among the visitors to the Open House program for
Long Island Boy Scouts held recently by Grumman at its Peconic River facility
inCalvertonwas this group from Explorer Post 1000 of Bethpage. They are
shown here with advisor Ernie Treubig, a Grumman engineer. The post is
sponsored by Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. The Scouts are an
engineering specialty post, and are shown here with the Dual-Mode Lunar
Roving Vehicle, an apparatus capable of being along in a future Lunar Module
flight. Post 1000 assisted the Grumman staff at the Open House, and is composed
of boys in the 14-17 year age bracket.