Bethpage-Tribune_1970-05-28

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Island Trees
Vol. 4 No. 32
Serving Bethpage - Piainview - Island Trees - Plainedge - Seaford Old Bethpage
Thursday, May 28, 1970 10c per copy
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1 Burke Announces Youth Board, Bureau
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High school teachers and high school seniors are
needed as volunteer teachers and tutors in the Hofstra
University Upward Bound program this summer.
Upward Bound, supported by the U,S. Office of Edu­cation,
is a nationwide program to encourage high
school students of low achievement but high potential
to seek a college education. The Hofstra program this
summer will include 103 students from Inwood, Free-port,
Hempstead, Long Beach, Levittown, Roosevelt
and East Harlem.
Volunteers in Project VITAL (Volunteers Instruct­ors
and Tutors To Aid Learning) and Project HELP
(Hofstra Educational League for ProgressX will serve
on a part-time basis from July ,22 to August 27. Last
year 22 teachers and 84 high school students were in­volved
in the volunteer program.
Teacher volunteers are invited to write to Mrs. Row-ena
M. Smith, Upward Bound Office, 303 Mason Hall.
Student volunteers should write to Sheldon Shulman
Project HELP, Student Center. Both are located at
Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York 11550.
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Fred Niebuhr and his fellow was the first time he had en-
Supervisor John W. Burke
today announced Town Board
approval of his recommendation
to establish a Youth Bureau and a
13-member Youth Advisory
Board in the Town of Oyster Bay.
Burke's plan fulfills another of
his campaign pledges made last
October. He directed the depart­ment
of Recreation and Commu­nity
Activities in January to
conduct a review of existing
Town youth activities programs.
"The establishment of a Youth
Bureau is consistent with my
approach to youth problems, and
the recommendations of the
Recreation Department. The
Bureau will give us administra­tive
flexibility to encourage
development of programs to
meet the changing needs and
aspirations of our young people,"
He said; that the Bureau, to be
assistedj ttfe:-i¥;fl|*U» Advisory
Board, will actively cooperate
with edttoraotial, law enforce­ment,
drug control, welfare,
business, recreation and other
organizations concerned with
youth. "The Bureau is structured
so that the youth of our Town
shall be major participants in as
well as major beneficiaries of its
operation," Burke said.
Burke said the goals and ob­jectives
of the new Bureau would
include :
-to plan and encourage the
development of new services
considered essential for meeting
the needs of youth, or to endorse,
modifications of current ser-,
vices. *
-to grant financial aid to
community agencies in order to
expand current services or to
create new services for youth,
-to conduct an ongoing program
of research to determine the
needs of youth.
-to inventory community re-
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dinate the services of local,
public and private agencies
working with the Town's youth,
- to maintain a continuous
research program on social prob­lems
affecting youth, and new
ways of meeting the needs cre­ated
by these problems. .
"Supervisor Burke said the
Bureau would be organized so
that it could qualify for State Aid
under Article 19a of the Execu­tive
Law of the State of New
York.
"Thisis the first Youth Bureau
to be organized in Nassau County
with such a broad range of goals,
objectives and activities. It. was
designed with the Town's young
people in mind and should open
up clear-cut lines of communica­tion
between local government
and our younger citizens. The.
program has great promise and I
shall direct my full energy to
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brokers at Island Realty may
never receive an offer to join the
cast of "Mission Impossible,"
but they performed a feat recent­ly
that should at least entitle,
them to equal billing with that
formidable television group.
The "mission" was to find 200
available housing units for
employees of Lufthansa German
Airlines, which is moving its
North American headquarters
from New York City to a. site on
Hempstead Turnpike in East
• Meadow.-
Just how "impossible" this re­quest
was is evident in the hous­ing
conditions that exist on Long
Island and elsewhere in the
metropolitan area. The demand
for housing on the islam*, in par­ticular,
has been heightened by
the influx of industries that have
been attracted by lower taxes
and the island's accessibility to
major areas of commerce.
In fact, only 13,500 "dwelling
units" were built on the island
last year, despite the fact that
major planning groups have
called for 128,500 apartments by
1985, as opposed to the 44,500 that
now exist.
The market in single-family
and two-family homes is not
much better with the sharp re­duction
in home-building that
was brought on by excessive
economic conditions in the
country.
But when Lufthansa called on
Niebuhr for help in assisting its
employees to relocate, he ac­cepted
the challenge as readily as
if he had been asked to find a
good builder, even though Island
Realty is strictly an industrial
broker.
Niebuhr said that in the past he
had helped to relocate top execu­tives
of a company, but that this
countered a relocation on such a
large scale.
One reason he was willing to
help in this relocation was that he
believes a responsible- broker
helps his client any way that he
can. Another reason was that he
recognized that there is a trend in
industry to do more for their val­ued
employees to avoid losing
them when making what the
company considers to be a neces­sary
move.
This new attitude in industry is
evident in the large number of
new plants that are offering
recreational facilities for their
employees and that are trying to
creat pleasant working con­ditions.
Lufthansa is no exception. In
fact, its efforts to relocate its
employees is an outstanding
example of the changes in em­ployer-
employee relations.
How did Niebuhr find 200 avail­able
housing units in a tight
market? He got on the phone.
Island Realty is the largest in­dustrial
broker on the island, but;
it is not involved in residential
matters.
But Niebuhr's long experience
and reputation in the real estate
field served him well. He called
up a large number of brokers
with whom he had dealt from
time to time and explained his
problem.
' He said that he was not just
looking for housing units near
East Meadow because he was
aware that often an employee
would prefer not to be too close to
his place of business. But he
limited his search to Nassau and
western Suffolk counties.
A large number of Lufthansa's
employees lived in New Jersey
and Niebuhr kept this in mind too
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ESP-fact or fraud?
For many years controversy
has raged over ESP. Today,
parapsychology is regarded.by
many as a respectsble field of
study. Investigations are in
progress in numerous univer­sities;
several laboratories and
associations are committed to
full time research, and higher
degrees are awarded in the
subject.
A careful study of the work of
parapsychologists is most im­portant
for scientists say that if
their claims are correct, a
complete revision in con­temporary
scientific thought is
required at least comparable to
that made necessary in biology
by Darwin and in physics by
Einstein.
Raymond Van Over, one of
America's foremost experts n
parapsychology, will give a
lecture on ESP Wednesday, June
10, at 8:30 F.M* at,the Plainview-
Old Bethpage Public Library.
Van Over is the former editor
of the "International Journal of
Parapsychology" and the author
of two books "Classical Papers in
Parapsychology" ahd "Explorer
of the Mind".
Van Over, who is a member of
the faculty of Hofstra University
will discuss telepathy, the ap­parent
communication from one
person to another other than
thnough the channels of sense;
clairvoyance, the power of
discerning objects not present to
the senses; precognition,
clairvoyance or telepathy
relating to future events or
thoughts; and psychokinesis, the
influencing of physical objects,
such as dice, by willing a par­ticular
outcome.
Free tickets for this stimulating
lecture are now available at the
library.
LILY TAG HONORS: The Bethpage Council of the 4-H Clubs worked
actively to help the handicapped by distributing Lily Tags for the
Nassau (Easter Seal) Society for Crippled Children and Adults in
return for coins of concern donated by shoppers at centers in the
Bethpage area on Easter Seal Lily Tag Day, March 29. The 4-H'er
with the fullest cannister in the Bethpage Council was Donna
Scoglio,9, of Steven Drive, Piainview. Donna is seen here receiving a
gift of appreciation from Mrs. Janet Gosnell, Nassau Easter Seal
Society representative, at 4-H Awards night, held May 22 at Beth­page
High School
LATE BULLETIN
The Island Trees School board passed a resolution on
Tuesday evening to present a proposed budget for 1970
- 71 in the amount of $8,950,760 approximately a
$1,000,000 increase over the 1969 - 70 figure. The
proposed budget which will be voted on by the tax­payers
on June 10, 1970 will add arf estimated tax in­crease
of $1.42 per $100 of assessed valuation. The
Island Trees Library budget is estimated at $85,720 an
increase of $14,020 over last year and the estimated tax
increase is .04 cents or approximately .28 cents per
$100. The combined library and school tax is estimated
at $12.38 per $100.
Filing for seats on the Board of Education and the
Library Board had to be in before the deadline of
midnight last night. The candidates filed petitions with
the District Clerk, Mrs. Dorothea Griffin. Opposing the
incumbent Board of Education trustee Lillian Rosa for
a three - year term of office are Richard Twomey and
Marilyn Maurillo Remsen. Opposing veteran Board of
Education Trustee Donald Ferris is Robert E. Evans.
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