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VOL. 20 NO. 30 Week of October 30 - November 6,1985 20 cents per copy
Loans Available to Gloria's
Hard Hit LI. Homeowners
U.S. Senator Altdnse D'Amato, Congressman Norman
Lent and Congressman Ray McGrath have announced that
Small Business Administration (SBA) low cost loans will be
made available to qualified homeowners, renters and small
busiricss owners who suffered damage as a result of the
hurricane force winds and rains of Hurricane Gloria.
Loans will bf made available to homeowners and renters
for structural damage for up to $100,000 with uninsured
'personal property losses allowable for up to $20,000.
Loans to small businesses will be available for structural
repairs or replacement for up to $500,000 and working
capital to replace loss revenues during and after the storm
for up to $500,000. All loans to individuals and small busi­ness
will have interest rates of 4% or 8% to be determined by
the ajpplicants income.
Loians will be considered on a case by case basis for those
who face uninsured losses.
"These low cost loans are being made available as a result
of the President earlier declaring Nassau and Suffolk Coun­ties,
federal disaster areas. Today's announcement will go a
k>ngway in aiding those uninsured homeowners, lentersand.
business owners who were struck hard by Hurricane Glo­ria,"
^enator D'Amato continued.
An earlier announcement by the Senator confirmed that
Long Island taxpayers will not have to be burdened with the
cost of cleaning up the wreckage left by Gloria with word
that the county, town and village governments eligible for
federal assistance in meeting the costs of repairing bridges,
roads, and public facilities as well as the costof removing the
tons of debris left as a result of Gloria's winds.
Lbtal governments will apply to the State for Federal
disaster relief. The State will then submit these applications
to the Federal Emergency management Administration
(FEMA). Washington will pay 75% of the qualifying costs,
the State will pay 12.5% and the localities will pick up the
remaining 12.5%. Initial estimates by FEMA show that local
governments will be eligible for at least $27 million.
Social Security
Information
To request an application be taken by telephone or to
report a postentitlement problem or event or to ask
any question, please telephone 576-9162.
DOCU MENTS NEEDED TO FILE FOR
SOCIAL SECURITY:
Social Security Card.
Public or religious record of birth.
Worker's W-2 forms for the past 2 years.
SURVIVORS WILL ALSO NEED:
Worker's social security number.
Proof of marriage.
Proof of death.
TO SUBMIT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Most information which is not complex or lengthy can
be handled by phone. Try responding by phone first,
being sure to get the name of the party to whom you
give the information.
TO SUBMIT ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS:
You may use the mail, being sure to put full identify­ing
information .on the item being submitted.
The Mineola, New York district office has installed
a "drop slot." Without waiting at all, you may drop off
documents and they will be promptly returned by
mail.
Stolen Property Easier Shopping For Seniors
On View
Some $3,000,000 in stolen
property, recovered by
police and the FBI, will go
on view at Nassau Head­quarters
in Mineola on
Monday, November 4th,
Police Commissioner
Samuel J. Rozzi announced
today.
The display includes
jewelry, sterling silver ser­vice,
coins and furs, which
were seized when authorities
shut down a major stolen
goods fence operation in
Queens at the end of last
November. The property
had been stolen prior to
November 30, 1984.
"The display has been
exhibited in several loca­tions
in the tri-state area in
recent. months," Comniis-;.
sioner Rozzi said. "We are
seeking to find the owners of
this property so it may be
returned'to them."
The exhibition will be
held from Noon to 8 P.M.
on November 4th in the
Assembly Hall of Police
Headquarters on Franklin
Avenue, between 14th and
15th Streets.
Anyone who has had such
property loss can view the
display provided they
supply personal identifica­tion
as well as a record of
loss or a missing property
case number from a police
agency. The event is not
open to the general public.
Holiday Sanit
Schedule
There will be no change in
the Town of Oyster Bay san­itation
collection schedule
for the Tuesday, November
5th, Election Day holiday
and the Monday, November
11th, Veterans'Day holiday.
Town government offices
will be closed on Tuesday,
November 5th, and on
Monday, November 11th.
Residents who have Town
sanitation collection can
expect their regular pickup.
Residents who have private
carting should check with
those agencies to see what
the holiday schedule is.
Remember
To Vote
on Nov, 5
'Nassau County Executive
Francis'T. Purcell ordered
his consumer affairs com­missioner,
James Picken, to
call, a meeting of Nassau
supermarket officials to
solve senior citizens' shop­ping
problems pinpointed in
a consumer affairs office
survey.
Purcell said many of the
problems are caused by
seniors' failing eyesight or
physical limitations and
sometimes by the super­markets'
storekeeping prac­tices.
Purcell said he
expected the supermarket
industry tp cooperate.
"It is to their advantage to
give their customers what
they want, and this survey
tells us clearly what senior
citizens ,need and want to
liiaicetlteir shopping tHp^^^^
easier," Purcell said, "if thie
industry does not act volun­tarily
to solve these prob­lems,
we will consider enact­ing
local regulations, which
would be enforced by the
consumer affairs office."
A total of 456 senior citi­zens
responded to the 13-
question survey, which was
conducted over the past six .
weeks at county senior citi­zen
centers, senior'citizen
clubs, town housing projects
and the seniormobile.
More than 82 per cent of
the respondents said they
wanted signs posted when
substitutes are being offered
for unavailable advertised
items. Nearly 80 per cent
asked for clearly legible
County Executive Francis T. Purcell, center,
reviews a survey of senior citizenV shopping prob­lems
with Senior Citizens Affairs Commissioner
Adelaide Aitard and Consumer Affairs Commis-sioiicir;^^
a meeting of supermarket officials to begin solving
the problems pinpointed in the survey. If the super­market
industry does not cooperate voluntarily,
Purcell said,.he will propose local regulations to
make shopping easier for older county residents.
numbers on cash registers,
and nearly 79 per cent
wanted shelf signs in large
print.
Large numbers also
wanted packages contairii.iig
one or two servings, and
asked that large packages be
broken up on request. They
also asked for benches
"where they could rest, easily
reachable buzzers in meat
departmens, and help when
returning bottles and taking
packages to cars. One group
requested transportation to
the supermarket.
Where the seniors were
invited to make other com­ments,
many wrote that high
shelves are out of reach,
more items should have pri­ces
marked on them, check­out
lines should be shor­tened
and more express lines
established, and aisles
should be kept clear of
clutter.
Plainedge Visits TO BAY
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Oyster Pay Town Supervisor Joseph Colby (center) was on hand to greet the
7th grade students of the Plainedge School District's Packard School on a
recent visit to the Nassau County Board of Supervisors. Accompanied by their
teacher, Richard Marks (back row, extreme right), the students received a
thproiigh explanation of County government from Supervisor Colby and
witnessed the proceedings of a regular Board meeting.