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Vol. 3 No. 46
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Thursday, September 4, 1969
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Thomas R. Amato has been trying for three years to
obtain a special parking permit that would enable him
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"I have been trying to obtain a permit of this type for
years," Amato told O'Keefe yP
FniJif*6 Mr itt e n s e v e r ^ J e t t e r s to County Executive
Eugene Nickerson, The Paraplegic Veterans
Association, The Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
the U. S. Transportation Department, tneTresident of
the U.S. and the Veteran's Administration." Amato
said none of these were able to help him.
The new ordinance calls for the Town to set aside
public places, streets, or portions of streets, as parking
spaces for motor vehicles for the sole and exclusive use
by the holders of valid physically disabled driver
parking permits. These locations will be only in
unincorporated areas of the township.
The Superintendent of Parks will be authorized to
install a sign at each of these sites following the
issuance of such a permit. Fines will be levied
against violators.
Grunewald 'said any party with a permanent
physical disability—and he stressed permanency—
seriously impairing mobility as certified in writing by
a physician may make application to the Town Clerk
for a permit.
Photos Mn The News
NASSAU COUNTY
LAUNCHES SCHOOL
SAFETY DRIVE
Presentation of the first
"School's Open - Drive
Carefully" poster to Coun­ty
Executive Eugene
Nickerson to mark the
start of the Automobile
Club of New York's 24th
annual fall traffic safety
campaign in Nassau
County.
The black and_ orange poster
was presented to Mr. Nickerson
and Police Commissioner Fran­cis
B. Looney in a ceremony at
the County Executive Building in
Mineola by Gilbert B. Phillips,
president of the Automobile Club.
"THANKS, KIDS" "Eddie" Flynn, 14, of Bethpage
smiles approval as Mrs. Leon Dreyer (1), Director of
"Camp Green Twigs" presents gifts to teen-age
summer volunteers Shelley Wildman, 18, of East
Meadow and Jeff Sachs, 17, of Hewlett during end-of-season
party held at Nassau United Cerebral Palsy
Association's "Center for Living," Roosevelt.
R c p r e a o n l i n g lltv
County Cbunciroi tne"Boy"S*COUts
of America at the ceremony
Tenderfoot Scout Terence
McLaughlin, 11 years old, of 158
Burnwood Terrace, Stewart
Manor. He is a member of Troop
464. Boy Scouts in the county are
participating in the safety drive.
Over the weekend, more than
4,000 of the posters were placed
on utility and street poles in Nas­sau
County by police and school
officials. The posters, appealing
to motorists to use added caution
during the school re-opening
period, will remain on display at
major street intersections and
school crossings during Septem­ber
and October.
An additional reminder to
motorists in the New York metro-
Nix Sex Ed
Introduction of a pilot sex
education program in Rockvijle
Centre diocesan schools will not
take place until the diocesan
Board of Catholic Education
makes specific recom­mendations.
The Rev. Patrick Shanahan,
diocesan superintendent of
schools, pointed out that the
planned program was referred to
the board last May.
'The board needs all the
material on the program before it
can make recommendations and
there has been a delay in
readying the material,' Father.
Shanahan said.
The diocesan Board of Catholic
Education issued a statement
last May after heated con­troversy
surrounded the proposal
to introduce sex education
courses in diocesan schools.
The board pointed out it would
gather all the relevant In­formation
and make known the
findings of the study at a future
date.
Father Shanahan made it clear
that all the materials must be
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politan area will be provided by
the AAA in the form of nearly
200,000 bumper strips bearing the
safety message. With, the help of
the Boy Scouts, they will be dis­tributed
for use on buses, trucks,
official cars and passenger ve­hicles.
Starting with the first day of
school, members of the AAA
sponsored School Safety Patrols
reported for duty at school cross­ings
to insure the safety of local
school children by assisting
police and school crossing
guards.
The AAA campaign was begun
in 1946. Since then, traffic fatali­ties
among children from 5 to 14
years of age have been sharply
reduced in New York State de­spite
a considerable increase in
both motor vehicle registrations
and school enrollments.
HIGH HONOR: Rabbi Chaim Lipschitz, President of
the National Information Bureau for Jewish Life,
presents the Bureau's 1969 Friendship Award to John
W. Burke, of Syosset, right, for Burke's effort toward
improving brotherhood among men. Assemblyman
Martin Ginsberg, who was indicted to the Bureau's
Board of Governors at a breakfast honoring Burke, the
GOP candidate for Oyster Bay Town Supervisor, looks
on.