Bethpage-Tribune_1972-12-14

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PLAINEDGE SEAFORD
Who Cares???
How do you explain to a small child that Santa Claus
will not come this year?
As Christmas time approaches, there are hundreds
of parents on Long Island who face this heartbreaking
problem.
The reason is as simple as it is frightening for these
famines: there just is not enough money.
They are living at near poverty levels, most
depending on some kind of public assistance merely to
sustain themselves on the bare necessities of day-to­day
living.
For them there will be no holly wreath on the door, no
Christmas free, no fancy Christmas dinner...and no
brightly-wrapped gifts. There can be no Santa .Claus
for these children.
These are the families which Catholic Charities
hopes to help in its annual Christmas Family Fund
appeal now through the Holiday Season.*
"We are asking Long Islanders to help ease the
anguish of these parents and to bring smiles to their
youngsters' faces during this happy time of the
commented i
TMrectwr«H
Father Fagan noted that i ...
helped this ryear are victims of the current high
unemployment picture on Long Island.
"But for the grace of God, mere go you and I. Many
of these people are our very own neighbors who were
laid off their jobs through no fault of their own,"
Father Fagan explained. 3
The program is also designed to bring some holiday
joy into the lives of many lonely senior citizens on Long
Island who have been forgotten by or no longer have
family or friends to help them to share in the Christ­mas
spirit.
"These poor lonely souls live only with the echoes of
happier years gone by when Christmas meant family
get-togethers, visiting neighbors and warm
celebration," Father Fagan said.
"Today they sit in nursing homes or as shut-ins witn
only these faded memories for company. Imagine the
joy even one small gift would bring to foem-IoTcnow
10 tents per copy
TOB Hearing January 9
On Code of Ethics Law
Deputy Post
To Saunders
Oyster Bay Town Supervisor
John W. Buike 'is expected to
announce the appointment of
Steven R. Saunders to the post of
Deputy Town Supervisor when
the Town Board meets Tuesday,
December 12. Saunders, 26-year-old
Director of the Town's Office
of Governmental'.Planning and
Research, would replace Car-melo
C. Tese, who was recently
appointed to the New York State
Family Court by Governor
unaers has played a key role
Oyster Bay Town Supervisor
John W. Burke announced today
that the Town Board will
schedule a public hearing for
Tuesday, January 9, to consider a
local law establishing a code of
ethics for officers and employees
of the Town.
The code; which provides
s t r i n g e n t ... d i s c l o s u re
requirements for applications
and legislation before the Town,
as well as disclosure of interest in
banks, financial institutions,
insurance companies and
companies engaged directly or
indirectly in business with the
Town, was prepared ' by S.
Stanley Kreutzer, counsel to the
»f«W:tiftirk. Citv Board of fctw*
Board of Ethics for Oyster Bay.
, At such time as the other two
. towns enact a similar code and
agreement is reached on a joint
Board of Ethics, we will amend
the local law accordingly.
"The proposed Code of Ethics
is a strict one," Burke said,
"calling for fines, imprisonment
and forfeiture of office for con­victed
violators.
"It covers all Town employees,
including elected officials,
consultants, agents and other
individuals working on behalf of
the Town, whether paid or un­paid."
The code provides that an of­ficer
-of • employe^ ?..
19m He was thstruni&italW the
structuring of the Town's first
Division of Environmental
Control and in the establishment
of the Oyster Bay Environmental
Control Commission.
Burke has also credited
Saunders with playing a major
part in the development of the
Town Youth Bureau, the first in
Nassau County, and with the
highly-successful Supervisor's
Summer Intern program for
college students.
Saunders has also played an
important role in the preparation
of the Oyster Bay Town Master
Plan, serving as Secretary to the
Planning Advisory Board.
A Washington & Lee University
graduate, Saunders served as a
legislative aide to Congressman
John W. Wydler and as history
a «odeI cede iSm^tii&m
adopted by the three towns-.
Oyster Bay is the first town to
take action on Kreutzer's plan.
"Expect fdr the addition of a
provision for establishment of a
Town Board of Ethics, it is the
same form and language as Mr.
Kreutzer's final recom­mendations,"
Burke said.
"We have inserted an ad­ditional
provision establishing a
-must provide information or
testimony in any investigation,
hearing or inquiry authorized by
the Town Board concerning his
office or official acts of conduct;
- i s prohibited from the
disclosure or use of confidential
information concerning the
property, government or affairs
(Continued on Page 19)
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Last year's Christmas Family Fund served nearly
2,000 families-including about 2,200 adults and 6,400
children of all races and creeds. A total of $45,000 was
raised. *
Persons wishing to support the fund may mail their
donations to Christmas Family Fund, Catholic
Charities Central Office, 50 North Park Avenue, Rock-ville
Centre, New York 11571.
eHRISTMAS SHOPPERS GUlDrf
Santa's Show of Christmas gifts,
now in your Hometown stores.
Get your "Lucky Couple" coupon
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Schoool, New Jersey, before
coming to Oyster Bay.
He is a former White House
correspondent for the Nassau
Broadcasting Company, N. J.;
and served briefly as a newsman
for stations WHWH-AM and
WTOA in Princeton, New Jersey.
Mr. Saunders has been a
member of the Nassau County
Economic Commission since 1970
was elected treasurer of the
C last year. He is also a
mber of the Nassau County
uth Board, the Panel, of Ab­ators,
American Arbitration
Association, and the Sigma Delta
Chi Professional Journalistic
Society, and is a Merit Badge
Counselor for the Nassau County
Council, Boy Scouts of America.
A long-time history buff,
Saunders is a trustee of the
Oyster Bay Historical Society,
Vice President of the Theodore
Roosevelt Association and has
won several awards for original
writings ojn American colonial
history.
Mr. Saunders, a lifelong
resident of Nassau County,
resides at 14 Winthrop Drive,
Woodbury.
TO HONOR THOSE WHO SERVED — L - R: Richard
Ahrens, Trustee of the Island Trees Board of
Education, congratulates former Board members.
Plaques paying tribute "From a Grateful Community"
were presented by Island Trees Taxpayers Association
President Frank Martin. Martin said "It is the only
way we can show these people who have given so much
to the community and our children how we feel about
them." L - R - Mrs. Winnogene Klotz (wife of
Superintendent of Island Trees) accepts for Dorothea
Griffin, former registrar and District Clerk. Former
Board President Florence Cullem (Publisher of the
TRIBUNE) former Vice - President of the Board
Gordon Webb and Anthony Lancellatti who served as
President during the 1971 - 72 term were surprised and
pleased. Someone in the audience summed it up. "It's
nice to be remembered!" pboto by j«*ry August*''
Story on Page 11S