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Vol. 6 No. 50 Thursday, October 26, 1972 10 cents per copy
TRICK or TREAT! Jowns Schedule Budget Hearing
ANYBODY WANT A CAT - Come on now - somebody out there
loves me. My name is SPOOKY and I am I month old. Meg Cullem
found me a week ago - I was wet, hungry and cold. I am a persian,
sniokey gray (that's why they called me SPOOKY) and I am real
cute and cuddly. The Cullem household now has 2 dogs and another
stray cat called NERO (Remember the Y.O.U. office cat - t h e same)
Things are getting hectic - Mamma Cullem is threatening to leave
home if someone doesn't claim me — not that she doesn't-love me --
but enough is enough!!, call WE 8-0626 weekdays 9-5 if you care
enough.
Dave Hurst of 36 Horizon Lane, Levittown is holding SPOOKY".
St. Martin's School
Unveils New System
The Hempstead Town
Board has received
the 1973 tentative budget
and set October 31 at 2:30
p.m. for a public hearing.
The hearing will be held in
the Town Hall Pavilion.
The preliminary budget
reflects an increase of .096
per hundred in the general
town tax rate, which af­fects
all town residents in
the incorporated and
unincorporated areas of
the town.
Presiding Supervisor
Francis T. Purcell, in his
determination to keep the
general fund tax increase
to a minimum, made cuts
of nearly $2 million from
departmental requests.
R e q u e s t s t o t a l i ng
$26,510,403.53 we're slitf-
LISTENING TIME: Sr. Mary Daria joins the students
of St. Martin of Tours in the first grade classroom
where they are listening to an audio tape. The school
has inaugurated an individualized instruction system
in their primary curriculum giving each child *ha
opportunity to progress at his own pace.
the
A demonstration of "moder­nized
teaching techniques" was
the highlight of a recent Parent-
School Meeting at St. Martin of
Tours School.
Parents of First, Second and
Third Graders were welcomed by
the Principal, Sister Janeann,
and Sister Daria, Primary Grade
Coordinator. Then the function of
the Principal's Advisory Board
was explained, and members of
the Board were introduced-to the
parents. It was pointed out by the
Board that due to increasing
parent participation in school
activities it has become
necessary to maintain a
"Parents Skills" file to allow all
Fathers and Mothers the op­portunity
to become involved.
Next on the evening's agenda
v. as a presentation of modernized
teaching techniques by Sister
Mary Ellen, which was followed
by an invitation for parents to
meet their child's teacher, and a
demonstration of the audio-visual
equipment now being used.
In her presentation to the
Primary Grade Parents, Sister
Mary Ellen described the two-year
research and planning effort
{Continued on Page 15)
The Town Board approved the
preliminary Town Budget for
1973 and setTuesday; Octobers*,
as the date for morning and
evening public hearings on the
matter.
"This proposed budget reflects
a basic hold-the-line principle
with respect to ad valorem
taxes," Town Supervisor John W.
Burke said, "however, mandated adjustments in such items as
debt services and employee
salaries and benefits have
required a slight upward ad­justment
in the 1973 tax rates.
"The approximately 3,000
items in the 1973 budget
represent 3,000 dilemmas with
which the the Town Board and
the Budget Officer must contend,-
maintaining the level and quality
of services now being provided to
a growing population without
unduly adding to the financial
burden the residents already
face" Burke added.
The General Fund budget,
which covers the major portion of
the costs of Town government,
totals $13,916,754 for next, year, an
increase of $1,643,411 over the
1972 budget. A portion of this will
cover increased services to
senior citizens, youth programs
and program for the handicapped
all. of which will be reimbursed
through Federal and State
agencies.
Another increase of $216,111 is
to cover anticipated increase in
incinerator operating costs to
handle the evermounting volume'
of garbage the Town must
dispose of. The resulting General
Fund tax rate has been set at
$.686 per $100 of assessed
valuation, ah increase of 7 cents
over the 1972, rate.In the com­bined
Part Town budget of
$977,111 for the Building
Department and the Zoning
Board, $79,641 has been
Town of Hempstead
mitted by department
heads. Purcell trimmed
this figure to
$24,709,321.84. The 1972
figure was $21,554,554.15.
Purcell attributed the
tax increase to contracted
and »merit salary raises,
civil service increments,
added fringe benefits
under the C.S.E.A. con­tract
and increased Social
Security contributions
totaling more than $5
million, as well as man­dated
expenses, a loss of
state aid and uncertainty
as to when federal revenue
sharing monies will
become a reality.
"By law,"noted Purcell,
"1 had to submit my
tentative budget to the
Town of Oyster Bay
designated for the creation of a
new Department of Planning and
Development to implement -the
planning programs the Town has
been working on for the past two
.years.
The 1973 Part Town tax rate is
$.104, up .021 from last year.
Other significant budget
figures include Highways at
,
$5,537,891 (.726 tax rate), and
Garbage Collection at $6,131,602
(1.113 tax rate).
The budget also covers many
Town Clerk by the end of
last month. As that legal
deadline approached
Congress had hot com­pleted
action on the
compromise version of the
differing House and Senate
revenue sharing bills. This
delay has prevented the.
U.S. Treasury Department
from computing the
amount Hempstead Town
can expect from the
measure. AH we had was a
promise, and I cannot run
our town on promises," he
said.
The increase in the
general fund will mean an
additional $&M a year it*
taxes l i J the owner of the
which is assesst
special district services, such as
parks, drainage, public parking
and lighting, whieh the Tewa^
provides and which are taxed
according to the services
provided.
To the average homeowner
with an assessed valuation of
$8,000 on his property, the
General Fund tax rate increase
will mean an additional $5.60 on
his tax bill next year plus the
costs of other special district
(Continued on Page 6)
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CRIME FIGHTERS: Stuart Levine, Republican
candidate for the Assembly in the 10th A. D., discusses
court reform with Sol Wachtler, Republican candidate
for the State Court of Appeals. Levine believes there
should be mandatory minimum jail sentences for
crimes of violence, drug peddlers and chronic of­fenders,
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