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VOL. 32 NO. 13 August 6,1987 to August 12,1987 20 cents per copy
Nassau County Lifeguard
Team Winners
Long Islanders Return To The Party Line
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Winning smiles and winning team: Nassau County lifeguards came in first in the Eighth
Annual Bay Guard Invitational Lifeguard Tournament at Hempstead Harbor Park, Port
Washington. photo by RICK KOPSTEIN/PHOTO COMMUNICATIONS
More than 140 lifeguards,
comprised of five teams,
participated in the Eighth
Annual Bay Guard Invita­tional
Tournament spon­sored
by the Nassau County
Recreation and Parks
Department and the Sea­men's
Bank for Savings on
Wednesday (7/ 29) in Hemp-
Arthur White, 85,
Funeral Director
Arthur F. White, 85, of Farrningdale,
owner and director of a funeral home for
more than 60 years, died last week of a stroke
in Mid-Island Hospital in Bethpage.
Mr. White was born in Brooklyn in 1902
and moved to Amityville as a young boy. He
followed his father and uncle as a funeral
director, establishing his first funeral home
in Farmingdale in 1923, and a second in
Bethpage in 1946.
He was also a board member of the Sun­rise
Federal Savings and Loan, had served as
its president from 1956 to 1966, and was
board chairman from 1966 until his death.
White was a past president of Rotary Club
and was designated the Rotarians' Paul Har­ris
Fellow in 1978. He also was a member of
the Knights of Columbus, the Hicksville
chapter of the Elks and the Farmingdale-
Bethpage Historical Society.
Survivors include his wife Martha M.; a
son Robert A White of Farmingdale; two
daughters, Alice Williams of Nicholson, Pa.,
and Frances Hunt of Farmingdale; 10
grandchildren and three great grandchild­ren.
Visiting hours are 2-5 and 7-9 p.m. today
at the Arthur White Funeral Home in Farm­ingdale.
A funeral mass will be said at 11
a.m. tomorrow *at St. Kilian's Roman
Catholic Church, Farmingdale.
stead Harbor Park.
The teams represented
were Nassau County, the
Towns of Hempstead and
North Hempstead, the
Town of Oyster Bay, and
Sunken Meadow.
The lifeguards, comprised
Independent information
producers next month will
begin offering group calling
services to Long island tele­phone
customers over the
New York Telephone
network.
Several producers will
offer Nassau-Suffolk callers
the chance to dial special
numbers starting with "550"
and join a small group of
randomly selected people in
an unstructured discussion.
Calls can be made from
either rotary or push-button
telephones. Group calling
services will be reachable
only from phones in the 516
area code. The services will
expand to other areas in the
future.
The producers will have
full responsibility for their
services. New York Tele­phone
will provide the pro­ducers
with access to custo­mers
over its network and
will do the billing. The pro­ducers
will provide the
equipment that sets up the
multi-party calls and will
monitor the conversations.
Group calling services will
be more expensive than
standard local calls. Users of
group calling services will be
charged 20 cents for the first
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DWI Treatment Facility At NClUC
Nassau County Executive Thomas S. Gulotta and Hemp­stead
Presiding Supervisor Joseph N. Mondello have pro­posed
a plan to utilize a floor of the Nassau County Medical
Center in order to accomodate a new drunk driver treatment
program and to consolidate supervision of other inmates
being treated at the Medical Center. Both Gulotta and
Mondello indicated that they had been studying ihe concept
for several months.
Under the proposal, those serving time for drunk driving
offenses would now be housed on a secured floor at the
Medical Center and would receive therapy and treatment
during the term of their sentence. In addition, inmates from
the nearby County Correctional Facility who are receiving
treatment for other ailments at the Medical Center would be
consolidated and housed on a single secured lloor rather
than being spread throughout the Medical Center, thereby
providing greater security and a cost savings of $ 1.2 million
dollars annually in overtime costs for guards.
"Historically, the County jail has been alloted ten beds on
the lOth floor of the Medical Center to house ill prisoners,"
Gulotta said. "The beds are virtually always filled, and quite
frequently many other prisoners are also housed on other
floors at the Medical Center. This has necessitated the
assignment of Correctional Officers 24 hours a day to guard
each room housing a prisoner... thus burgeoning overtime
costs."
"Our proposal will have a two fold advantage...first we
will be able to reduce overtime costs by consolidating the
treatment of prisoners on one secured floor. Secondly, by
devoting the majority of the beds for therapeutic DWI
treatment we can provide a progressive approach to the
drunk driving problem while freeing up much needed space
at the Correctional Facility."
"For some time we have been seeking a suitable location
where a DWI therapeutic treatment facility could be estab­lished,"
Supervisor Mondello noted. "Our proposal would
centrally locate all incarcerated individuals receiving medi-minuteof
acalland 10 cents
for each additional minute.
There are no evening, week­end
or holiday discounts.
Group calling charges apply
whether a caller has Mes­sage
Rate, Flat Rate or
Basic Budget service.
Charges for "550" calls will
be listed on a separate page
of the New York Telephone
bill.
Producers of group cal­ling
services are required to
monitor conversations peri­odically
and disconnect
unruly or abusive callers.
Producers also must provide
a recorded introductory
message that states the
charges per minute, and a
tone every five minutes to
remind callers of how long
they have been on the line.
New York Telephone will
encourage responsible tele­phone
use through informa­tive
newspaper and radio
advertising, brochures, and
the monthly bill insert news­letter,
"Hello."
The first group calling
service was the rural party
line, on which a caller could
join in the neighbors conver­sation.
The first contempor­ary
version was started in
Brazil in 1980. The first
American group calling ser­vice
was New York Tele­phone's
Phone-a-Friend,
which was tested success­fully
in a marketing trail on
Long Island in 1984.
It's A Fact!
Celebrating a Century of Service ... Ann Cata­lanotto
of Bethpage has good reason to smile
these days. That's because her entry was chosen as
a winner in Norstar Bank of Long Island's 100th
Anniversary Century Sweepstakes at Norstar's
Bethpage branch. Norstar Bank is in the midst of
a yearlong celebration marking one hundred
years of service to the Long Island community.
Ms. Catalanotto (1) is pictured here accepting her
prize, a $500 U.S. Savings Bond, from Norstar
Bank's Branch Manager Glen Fuhrman.
cal treatment at the Nassau County Medical Center, This
would resolve a serious overtim£ staffing problem. It is a
sound cost effective measure which merits the fullest
consideration."
The proposal has been reviewed and discussed with the
adminisration of the Medical Center, members of the group
MADD, (Mothers Against Drunk Driving), the otfices of
Judges So! Wachtler and Leo Mc Ginity, as well as commun­ity
groups from the East Meadow/Salisbury area.
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