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VOL. 10 NO. 41 Thursday, September 2,1976 10 cents per copy
MEETING THE PEOPLE is the major concern of Congressional
Candidate Tom Hogan (center).
Campaign Close-Up:
Tom Hogan
The People's Candidate
I Shari Miller
The following is the first
in a series of articles high­lighting
the different cam­paigns
for local, state and
national office in our area.
We hope that these articles
will help area voters to make
informed choices on Nov­ember
2. A voting public
should be an aware public.
The Hogan for Congress
campaign is currently underway
in the 3rd Congressional District.
Members of the campaign and
Tom Hogan himself are walking
throughout the district to meet
the people face-to-face and tell
them where' Tom Hogan, a
Republican-Conservative can­didate,
stands on various issues.
They are making this grass-roots
effort because they feel that the
district is not currently
represented as a community in
Congress.
A primary issuein Mr. Hogan's
campaign is the economy and the
"reckless spending of the
Democrat-controlled Congress."
The federal deficit went from $40
billion to $79 billion this year, and
Tom Hogan feels that deficit
spending must be stopped, "The
fiscal and economic policies of
Congress do not represent the
feelings of voters in our district,"
claims Tom Hogan. "Local
economic growth should be en­couraged
so that people can be
helped to help themselves."
Inflation, unemployment, and
high taxes are the main concerns
that the Hogan campaign has
heard voiced in its walks through
the area. "My opponent has voted
against defense spending while
throughout the district people
have voiced concern that we
must maintain a strong national
defense," said Mr. Hogan. He
cited the additional benefit of
maintaining a defense budget to
the local area in terms of
creating jobs in the many
businesses receiving government
contracts.
Pete Ingerman, the chief
Issues Advisor for the campaign,
noted that "there is a frustration
with government because people
feel that it has moved further and
further away from them. We
want to counteract the feeling
that people have no voice in the
government and we are taking
our campaign to the people."
Tom Hogan is interested in being
contacted by any individuals or
organizations within the area
that wish to discuss their con­cerns
with him, so that he may
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Plainedge Re-Vote
Voters in the Plainedge School
District will vote on the budget
for the upcoming school year on
September 15 from 12 noon to 10
pjn. All qualified voters - those
who registered on June 2,1976 or
after or who voted on June 11 or
after - may vote. Additional
registration will be held on
Thursday, September 9 from 12
noon to 1 p.m.
Both registration and voting
wUl be held in all three election
districts at the Eastplain School,
the J.H. West School and the
Southedge School. A meeting will
be held Thursday, September 9 at
8:30 p.m. at Plainedge High
School on Wyngate Drive to in­form
voters on the details of the
proposed budget.
Protest Lodged
With ULCO
A petition that was circulated
throughout homes on Wayne
Drive in Plainview, where
residents were without electricity
for eighty-four hours following
Hurricane Belle, has been
presented to LILCO by Assem­blyman
Lewis J. Yevoli (D-Old
Bethpage). The residents are
asking LILCO to make
arrangements to pay for food or
ancillary health service
necessitated by LILCO's failure
to restore power within 24 hours,
as residents claim was promised.
Assemblyman Yevoli has
called upon LILCO President
Charles Pierce to make
arrangements "to pay residents
who experienced a prolonged loss
of power for the amount of food
they were forced to dispose of or
any necessary health care costs
incurred." In a letter to Mr.
Pierce, Mr. Yevoli stated that he
had been told repeatedly by
LILCO personnnel that the
service would be restored within
24 hours following the power
failures. "It is patently obvious
that this tactic was employed
merely to pacify justifiably irate
individuals, rather than
providing a candid apprisal of the
situation. Unfortunately, many
individuals accepted LILCO's
response in good faith and did not
make other arrangements." Mr.
Yevoli feels that LILCO should be
held responsible for food spoilage
and dangers encountered by
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TOB Enacts
Local Laws
At a public meeting held
Tuesday, August 24 the Oyster
Bay Town Board adopted two
local laws after holding hearings
on the two laws during the same
meeting. Decisions on the part of
the Board were required to meet
deadlines for adoption of a law
protecting freshwater wetlands
and permitting a referendum this
November on legalizing certain
games of chance.
The freshwater wetlands or­dinance
had to be passed by
September 1 to maintain Town
control of wetlands within its
boundaries. Failure to do so
would have relinquished control
to the County or State depending
on their actions. The law,
establishilrg• procedures
regulating draining, dredging,
construction and other activities
in wetlands areas, is considered
"essentially a conservation
measure declaring wetlands
invaluable resources," according
to Supervisor Burke. It will not
become effective until the State
Department of Environmental
Conservation files official maps
with the Town sometime next
year. A provision of the local law
permits the town's Division of
Environmental Control to sup­plement
these maps if deemed
necessary.
The second law adopted will
permit a referendum to be placed
on the November 2 ballot
legalizing "Las Vegas Nights"
within the town. The proposal
incorporates regulations limiting
the operation of such events to
charitable organizations and
assuring proper conduct of the
games and disposition, of
proceeds. Several represen­tatives
of local organizations,
including the past Commander of
the Hicksville Veterans of
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GPCA Re-Elects Eisenstein
President Paul Eisenstein has
Been re-elected to lead the
Greater Plainview Community
Association for an unprecedented
third term. Also re-elected to
serve with Eisenstein for the
1976-1977 year are second term
Vice President Mike Polansky
and second term ^Treasurer
Bernard Snyder. + CafrBf Elsefi-stein
will serve as ,, the
New V.P. For Grumman
Phil Vassallo of Bethpage was
recently elected a vice president
of Grumman Aerospace Cor­poration.
He continues as
director of Corporate
Procurement Operations.
In announcing the election of
Vassallo, George Skurla,
chairman and president of the
company, touched on the in­creasing
importance of Cor­porate
Procurement Operations
in the future outlook of Grumman
Aerospace. "Corporate
Procurement Operations is
responsible for the expenditure of
more than 50 percent of all our
contract dollars, a total ex­ceeding
$500 million in 1975," he
said.
"How well we manage that
part of our business has a decided
impact on our profit picture. I'm
very pleased with the group's
recent performance and I'm
looking forward to continued
good work in the future," he
continued.
Vassallo, who came to the
company 18 years ago as a
structural engineer, got his first
exposure to procurement in the
early sixties when he travelled
around the country as part of an
engineering-management-
Phillip S. Vassallo
procurement team tLat worked
with potential suppliers for the F-ni
and Lunar Module (LM)
programs. -
Soon after, he moved into
Machining Operations (he
became director in 1970), and in
1973 was named deputy director
vf Manufacturing Operations, a
post he held until his assignment
to Corporate Procurement
Operations in 1974.
. , ; (Continued on page 12)
Association's Secretary.
In addition to the officers,
Stanley Feigenbaum has been
designated to serve as head of
GPCA's Community Safety
Committee and Elaine Sandler
has been redesignated to once
again chair the Membership
Committee. Other members of
GPCA's 1976-J977 Executive
Board are Helen Carballo, Myron
Holtz, Alan Dershowitz, Rose-
Marie Lopez, Phil Levinson,
Homer Potonides, Elaine
Zaremsky, John Voice, Aaron
Britvan.
In other action at its August
meeting, the GPCA Executive
Board voted additional financial
support for the joint legal fund
established by local civic groups
to oppose the Town's plans to
bury raw garbage at the'Plain-view
landfill site. The Executive
Board also discussed pending
traffic safety matters on Harvard
Drive, at the Sagamore
Street/ Sunnyside Boulevard
intersection, and at the Sylvia
Lane Old Country
Road Margaret Drive in­tersection,
and finalized plans for
the GPCA Bicentennial Arts and
Crafts Show to be held at
American Legion Hall on Sep­tember
19.
Finally, the GPCA Board met
with a delegation from the Cedar
Drive/Southern Parkway area
who have expressed concern over
plans by the Young Israel
congregation for the property at
132 Southern Parkway. GPCA
President Eisenstein has also
been in touch with represen­tatives
of Young Israel.
For more information about
GPCA and its activities, call Paul
Eisenstein at 822-4686.