Bethpage-Tribune_1976-04-22

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VOL. 10 NO. 22 Thursday, April 22, 1976 10 cents per copy
Most liev. Vincent .1. Baldwin.
D.D.
The Most Rev. Vincent J.
Baldwin, D.D., Auxiliary Bishop
Oops! We Made A Goof
The miniature doll house
donated by Stella Gelardi
for the Island Trees
Bicentennial Scholarship
Fund is valued at $1000
and not $100 as incorrectly
printed last week, Chances
are being sold in Island
Trees to raise funds for
scholarship for Island
Trees students. Our goal is
$3000. Chances are being
sold at the Island Trees-
Bethpage Bicentennial
Arts and Crafts Show,
Sunday, May 16th, at the
NASSAU MALL, Hemp-stead
Tpke., Levittown.
(Island Trees.)
Grumman Gets Grant AmbrO WaiTlS Officials
BICENTENNIAL COUNTRY FAIR: Hempstead Town Supervisor
AI D'Amato (center) clowns around with little Alonzo Whitney, 2 of
Westbury in anticipation of the upcoming Bicentennial Country Fair
sponsored by the Nassau Chapter of the Association for Children with
Learning Disabilities. The Fair will be held May 23 (rain date: May
30) from 1! a.m. until dusk on the North Campus of the New York
Institute of Technology in Old Westbury. Highlighting the Fair will
be the antics of clowns "Frodo" (2nd left) and DoiiMcEuer.y (right).
Supervisor D'Amato joined the clowns, Mrs. Sandra Whitney and
Lila Blum (left), executive director of the Nassau Chapter, to
promote the event.
Bishops To Administer Confirmation
The Most Rev! Benedict D.
Coscia, O.F.M., Bishop of Jatai,
Brazil, will administer the
sacrament of confirmation to
approximately 525 youngsters in
St. Bernard Church, Levittown,
on Thursday, April 29.
Bishop Coscia will also bless
the renovated rectory and out­door
statue.
Rev. James B. Richter is
pastor of St. Bernard parish.
Most Rev. Benedict D. Coscia.
O.F.M.. Bishop of Jatai. Brazil
and Vicar General of the Diocese
of Rockville Centre, also
Episcopal Vicar for Nassau
County will administer the
sacrament of confirmation to
approximately 200 youngsters in
St. Ignatius Loyola Church,
Hicksville on Tuesday, April 27.
On Tuesday, May 4, the Most
Rev. Benedict D. Coscia, O.F.M.,
Bishop of Jatai, Brazil, will
confirm 200 more youngsters.
Rev. Frederic J. Harrer is
pastor of St. Ignatius Loyola
parish.
For Summer Program
Grumman Aerospace Cor­poration,
of Bethpage, will
participate in an industrial
research program for college and
university faculty members
funded by the National Science
Foundation (NSF), according to
Congressman Norman F. Lent.
"Approximately 225 faculty
members from all across the
nation will be working in in­dustrial
laboratories under this
grant," Lent said. "The purpose
of this program is to improve
science teaching by offering
faculty an opportunity to in­crease
the relevance of their
course material:"
NSF awards totaling $1.3
million suppport 103 projects in 18
states and the District of
Columbia, including two projects
at Grumman: Microcomputer
Applications; and Materials and
Design for Aerospace Vehicles.
Many other industrial ap­plications
are covered in grants
to other corporations.
A directory (E-76-23) listing
laboratories offering Faculty
Research Participation projects
is available by writing to: Cen­tral
Processing Section, National
Science Foundation, Washington,
D.C. 20550.
The projects are open to faculty
members at U.S. institutions of
higher education, including
junior and community colleges,
who have at least four years of
full-time professional teaching
experience and an advanced
degree in a scientific discipline.
Information and applications can
be obtained directly from the
project managers listed in the
directory. Selection of par­ticipants
is made by the research
laboratories involved, not by the
National Science Foundation.
Of Revenue Sharing Threats
Warning that the Federal
Revenue Sharing program is
being torn apart by the political
left and right, Congressman
Jerome A. Ambro (3rd-N.Y.)
recently urged over 400 members
of the National Association of
Counties to pressure their local
Congressmen and Senators for
their support of the revenue
sharing bill when it reaches the
House floor.
At an association luncheon in
Washington, Ambro told the local
government representatives,
including Nassau and Suffolk
County Executives Ralph G. Caso
and John V. Klein, that it is up to
local administrators to make
known to Washington "their fears
of the consequences of a failure to
extend federal revenue sharing."
The highly-acclaimed program
expires December 31. Legislation
extending revenue sharing is now
bottled up in committee.
Ambro, Chairman of the House
Freshman Caucus, presided at
the Association's annual
Legislative Conference luncheon
honoring 19 former county of­ficials
who are first-term
Congressmen and members of
the Freshmen Caucus. A former
Huntington Town Supervisor and
member of the old Suffolk Board
of Supervisors, Ambro received
the group's "Distinguished
County Service Award" for his
work in Washington on behalf of
local government.
"There is a strange coalition of
liberals and conservatives who
are opposed to revenue sharing
for opposite political and
philosophical reasons," Ambro
remarked.
"The liberals claim the
program has not been responsive
to the social welfare needs of the
poor and underprivileged and are
trying to turn the revenue
sharing concept into a massive
social services project, which it
was never intended to be.
"The Conservatives, on the
other hand, charge that revenue
sharing has been too costly and
has spent too much on frivolous,
pie-in-the-sky programs and not
enough has been devoted to the
whole community.
"As a result of these conflicting
claims over what revenue
sharing should be doing, ex­tension
legislation has not moved
out of committee," Ambro told
the county representatives from
across the country.
There is sufficient support in
the House for the revenue sharing
concept to get legislation ext-neding
the program approved,
according to Ambro. "However,
it's up to local town and county'
administrators to lobby their
federal representatives into
forcing the legislation out of
committee where vying political
forces are bottling up the bill with
all manner of amendments," he
explained.
These amendments may also
erode support in the House for the
revenue sharing concept by
altering the purpose of the
program, Ambro pointed out.
Ambro reminded county of:
ficials that without a clearly-defined
revenue sharing program
soon, they will be preparing their
fiscal 1977 budgets with a. major
area of revenues in doubt. Most
municipalities begin preparing
their spending plans for next year
in the June-to-September period.
Community Association Names'Citizen Of The Year'
The Greater Plainview
Community Association has
announced that it will present its
i 1976 "Citizen of the Year" Award
to Plainview Baseball
Association President Irwin
Zolotorofe.
Zolotorofe, a resident of
Plainview for 22 years and an
' employee of the Plainview Water
District, is widely known for his
dedicated service to the com­munity's
athletic program and to
the youth of Plainview-Old Beth-page
generally. He has been
President of 1. the Plainview
Baseball Association for the past
five years, and spends the
greater part of his free time in
assuring that the baseball
program runs smoothly for the
750 local youngsters of all ages
who participate. He also is a past
President of the Plainview
Fathers Club and presently
serves as Vice President of the
Long Island Stan Musial League.
"Our choice of Irwin Zolotorofe
was a particularly happy one,"
observed GCPA President Paul
Eisenstein. "It is a sincere
pleasure to be able to give long
overdue recognition to this man
who has given so much of himself
to the youth of our community.
Plainview can be truly proud of
our 1976 Citizen of the Year."
The Award will be presented to
Zolotorofe at GPCA's Annual
Dinner Dance, to be held on
Friday evening, May 21, at the
Huntington Town House, Formal
presentation of the award will be
made by Congressman Jerome
Ambro. Others expected to be in
attendance include State Senator
Owne Johnson, Assemblyman
Lewis J. Yevoli, and Plainview-
Old Bethpage School Board
President Al Delman.
Anyone interested in joining
GPCA in honoring Irwin
Zolotorofe can purchase tickets
to the Dinner Dance ($12.50 per
person) from Carol Eisenstein
(822-4686).
Senate Passes Nassau Trade Bill
A measure authorizing Nassau
County to establish a free trade
zone has been passed in the
Senate said State Senator Ralph
J. Marino (R-Syosset). The zone
would be a duty free center where
foreign merchants can ship
materials for storage and
assembly before releasing their
wares for distribution.
The trade zone would be under
strict federal surveillance. Only
after finished products are ready
for release into the economy will
customs duties be paid.
Manufacturers utilizing the trade
zone would be able to ship
components that would not be
assembled until there is a
demand for the finished product.
The bill will now go to the
Assembly for approval.