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The Joint Council of Traffic
Safety Boards of Nassau County
representing the Traffic Safety
Boards of the County of Nassau
and the Towns of Hempstead,
' Oyster Bay and North Hemp­stead,
unanimously adopted a
resolution to form an Advisory
Committee to the Joint Council to
be known as the Nassau County
Traffic Safety Legislation Ad­visory
Committee.
One of the purposes of the Joint
Council is to initiate, review and
recommend legislation in the
field of traffic safety for the New
York State Legislature and the
United States.
The members of this Advisory
Committee will be asked to
comment on new or pending
legislation that the Joint Council
will forward to them, from time
to time, for their review. In ad-,
dition, each Committee. Member
would be encouraged "to forward
to the Council any proposed
legislation in the field of traffic
safety that they would recom­mend
for adoption by the ap­propriate
legislative bodies.
Those members who have
agreed to serve on this- Com- •
mittee are as follows:
B. Thomas Pantano -
Presiding Traffic Court '
Judge - Nassau County
District Court.
Edwin J. 'Loewy - President,
Nassau County Magistrates
Association
Stanley Harwood - New York
State Assemblyman
William Deeley - President,
Nassau County Bar '
Association
John Chamberlain
President, Nassau County
Criminal Courts
Association
(Francis B. Looney
J missioner, Nassau
. Police Department
Morris H. Schneider - Nassau
• County Attorney
William Cahn
County District Attorney
Howard E. Levitt - Town
Attorney, Town of Hemp­stead
Bernard McCaffrey - Town
Attorney, Town of Oyster
Bay
Lawrence Epstein - District
Director, New York State
Department of Motor
Vehicles
Paul Streb - Director of
Traffic Engineering, Nassau
County Department of Public
Works
Reasonable and appropriate
legislation plays an essential and
vital role in the never-ending
struggle to reduce accidents, and
the deaths and injuries resulting
therefrom. It is the fervent desire
of the Joint Council of Traffic
Safety Boards of Nassau County
that the proposals and recom­mendations
of this illustrious
body will add greatly in the
growing movement to end the
useless slaughter on our
highways.
Thursday, January 1, 1970
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Ring In The New
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MANY HANDS MAKE LIGHT WORK- Top L-R-John
Sullivan of St. Bernards School, Jerry Dumas of
Chaminade H. S. and John Masiello of Wisdom Lane
School join hands to put finishing touches over a
doorway.
L-R- Bob Coningsby of Wisdom Lane School and
Kevin Spillane add their efforts to those of Jerry
Pumas of Chaminade and John Sullivan and John
Mosiello. They worked along with adults to get the teen
centep ready for the New Years Eve Dance.
Bottom,-ADULTS and TEENAGERS *- j^in together to
in up debris. There is no "generation gap" here.
BY TOM CULLEM
If time and effort were all that were needed to suc­ceed,
the Levittown-Island Trees Youth Direction
Council would have no worries. For, thanks to the hard
work of old and young alike (but mostly young), the
Council's recreation center has been transformed from
a deserted supermarket to a vibrant young work of art
and entertainment.
Ail the good work may be for nothing, however,
unless the Council can raise $25,000 locally to finance
its activities. "Without the money to match state and
county funds," notes a Council spokesman, "we may
have nothing to do but board up the windows and shut
out the kids. There would be nothing else we could do."
Nothing else we could do how many times has that
phrase been heard in the juvenile courts? Boredom has
broken more windows and stolen more cars than
anything else", in Levittown and elsewhere contended
one youth working on the project. "But what else can
you do when there's no place to go but the street cor­ner?"
It was as an alternative to boredom that the Youth
Center was first conceived.
But the center is not just for "problem kids". Plans
call for recreational, social, cultural, and educational
activities at the site, located in the Center Lane
Shopping area.
Coordinating all these activities is Jim Edmundson,
who' took the task on as a part-time job that soon
became full-time. Edmundson is director of the job
Development center of NassauCounty's human rights
commission. He has put many hours of his own time on.
the job making an "impossible dream" come true. **
The 28-year old Edmundson expects some 800 young
people to participate in the center once it gets going
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