Bethpage-Tribune_1970-08-20

              - BETHPAfiE' PUBUP UBWBI
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Vol. 4 No. 43
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Thursday, August 20, 1970
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K I An Open letter
j - ~ W M M * J AN OPEN LETTER
BETHPAGE WINNER: Oyster Bay Tcwn Councilman
Lewis J. Yevoli crowns Patricia Carey, 17, of
Hicksville, the, winner of the semifinal round in the
Town search for "Miss Tobay." Miss Carey will
represent the Bethpage Community Park in the Town
finals along with Kathleen Lott of Farmingdale, 16-
year-old runner-up.
FACE OFF: Oyster Bay Town Councilman Warren M.
Doolittle drops the ball for a practice face-off prior to
an intra-league game featuring the top players com­peting
in the Town of Oyster Bay Lacrosse League.
Rick Kramer of Bethpage, left, and Bob DeSimone of
Plainview warmed up well and scored in helping their
"B" team defeat the "A" team, 6-1, under the lights at
John J. Burns Park.
"IATTBUI——™»
Island Trees sets 1970-71 tax rate at - Library 28
cents per $100; School 11.74 per $100; Total 12.02 per
$100 of assessed valuation.
A spokesman told the TRIBUNE this is an increase
of $1.12 over last years rate.
Contest
_ Eight contestants, represen­ting
almost every area of the
S ^ ' JlU *** for *e title of
JMiss Tobay" at the, Mid-Island
Shopping Plaza Mall, Hicksville,
Friday night at 8:30 p.m.
The annual town search for its
most beautiful girl (age 14-19)
has drawn a larger field of
competitors than ever before.
The eight misses hoping to be
crowned queen have already won
or finished second in preliminary
rounds held at the Town's four
community parks. They will be
competing for prizes that include
a diamond pendant, formal gown
and assorted other gifts. The
oy the ^Mid-Island Merchants
A ^ g o n ^ a n d the Dollar
J*? finalists are:
-ji««irene Brent, 17, of 46 Circle
• •• *yosset. Laurene captured
. >Ssot-Woodbury Park title.
._ attends the Laboratory In­stitute
of Merchandising.
Deborah' Paddison, 17, of 43
Henry Drive, Glen Cove. Debbie
was runner-up to Laurene. She is
a student at Glen Cove High
School.
Barbara Panico, 15, of 42
Juniper Street, Farmingdale.
This Farmingdale High student
won first palce at Plainview-Old
Bethpage Community Pack.
Denise Zawol, 17, of 4 Prospect
Place, Palinview. Denise was
runner up to Miss Panico and
attends Palinview High.
Patricia Colleen Carey, 17, 6
Preston Lane, Hicksville. This
Irish miss, a student at Hicksville
High, won first place in the
competition held at Bethpage
Community Park.
Kathleen Lott, 56 Grant Street,
Farmingdale. Kathy, runner up
to Pat Carey, is a 16 year old
student at Farmingdale High.
Donna Marie Skipper, 18, 1015
Lake Shore Drive, Massapequa
Park. Donna, a student at the
Pilgrim State School of Nursing,
• won the Marjorie R. Post
Community Park crown.
Debbie Tiersch, 17, of 480
Syracuse Avenue, Massapequa.
A Student at Holy Trinity High,
Hicksville, Debbie finished
behind Miss Skipper in the
semifinal balloting. . .
Parking Hearing
Town Councilman Warren M.
Doolittle announced today that a
public hearing to consider the
acquisition and improvements of
land in Bethpage, has been
scheduled for Tuesday, August
25, at 10 a.m. in Town Hall,
Audrey Avenue, Oyster Bay.
Doolittle said the Board will
discuss the acquisition and im­provements
of the property in
Bethpage, adjacent to the
existing Town parking fields.
ffffloESSg-PARENTS ™>TAX-In
the hope that we may bring a few vet-unknnwn
to round out" the situation, so to speak- much has
been done, much has been said, by a goodly n X t e r tf
concerned and interested people*yet fi£ H o S n i
mLb w S a l d i n r e g a r d to * e * « * concerned thf
wwo^uldd[^slihghTt tthe^ ta^x^pa'y e*rs», fsoUr? wd een rt se-a l»iz e^ t hnaott tSheti sswuee
of money is out of our realm as students and we ^ W
not be so precocious as to "stirk -«^«! wwL™ - ,f would
they do not belong. Howeversing LTf! m
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whe^e
The question of "What We Pan T ^ ^ IT Li
t r a n ^ r " ^ ! : „ °"^r *™^ programs, wsw books,
the much larger,"much^riSe' imj^rtetn «
e4uc^|on, these are really qmte'mmor £££.%£
.will not lose any educatmnal experience by having to
walk to school or by eating peanut butter and jelly
sandwiches for lunch. Where we will suffer our most
important losses is in the area which bears the much
overused and abused name, quality education.
On the academic side, education under an austerity
program will be, for all intents and purposes, a "3 R's"
affair. We will receive in education the absolute
minimum that a school could provide yet still call itself
a school. Our libraries, which, frankly, are badly in
need of improvement, will remain unimproved; even
the most simple laboratory equipment will depreciate
due to lack of money to maintain it, not to mention the
more delicate equipment which requires, but will not
get, constant maintenance. On the elementary school
levels as well, students will suffer: there will be few,
perhaps no,, simple art supplies, developmental work­books,
and learning aids which, trivial as they sound,
are vital in the early, exploratory stages of education.
These few of the perhaps hundreds of such losses
cover only material aspects; there are losses On a
larger scale as well. Ignoring for the moment the
obvious disappointment, frustration, and outright
despair of having to put in hours of work (and do not
think that education is anything but hard work, and
plenty of it) for what, when all is said and done, is a r
substandard education, there is the fact that Bethpage
students under austerity will not be able to compete
with students from other schools, this mostly in the
area of college admissions. What with the college
admissions situation the way it is today, the student
under austerity has greatly reduced chance of being
accepted to the college of his choice, no matter what
his previous record.
Yet there is more to education than the academic
side. Extra-curricular activities are just as important,
just as essential to education as academic work. Aside
from the fact that students enjoy them, they, in effect,
provide the only area in which learned information can
be put to use. The students thus gain what they are
often ridiculed for not having: experience" that would
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