Bethpage-Tribune_1972-05-18

              BETHPAfiE PUBUg LIBRARY
Island Trees
Vol. 6 No. 28
Serving Bethpage Plainview - Island Trees - Plainedge - Seaford
Thursday, May 18,1972
Old Bethpage
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Photos - In - The - News Tobay Announces Major Plan
To Preserve Open Park Land
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UNTITLED.
Student Josefli
Public Library's second annual Young Adult
Contest, which attracted nearly 1M entries.
A SALUTE TO BETHPAGE YOUNGSTERS - A party
was held last month at the Central Blvd., School in
honor of the Bethpage children who helped raise funds
for Cerebral Palsy.
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McGovern Delegates Receive
120,000 'Extra' Signatures
The New York McGovern for
President Committee filed its
designating petitions last week to
qualify delegates in 37 of the
state's 39 Congressional
Districts.
The McGovern forces filed
167,716 signatures on their
petitions, far more than the 46,250
required by state law. Large
- groups of volunteers combed the
state during the past several
weeks gathering the names.
Richard Wade, co-chairman of
the New York McGovern Com­mittee,
said: "The fact that our
supporters were able to obtain so
many signatures indicates that
Senator McGovern's grass roots
organization is unsurpassed, and
that his own popularity is very
great indeed." ,
. The only other serious .con-tender
in the state's June 20
Presidential primary, Senator
Hubert Humphrey, did not file
any pledged delegate slates.
Wade and Bronx Borough
President Robert Abrams, the
other McGovern co-chairman,
sharply criticized Humphrey for
not filing his own slates, charging
him with "shying away from a
clear confrontation with Senator
McGovern in the largest delegate
slate in the nation."
The McGovern leaders accused
Humphrey of "back room
manipulation" for seeking in­stead
the votes of delegates on
uncommitted slates.
"Instead of going to- the people
of New York he is going to the
party leaders," they said of
Humphrey. "He had two months
to file Humphrey slates. He has,
however, preferred the back
room to open conventions when
selecting delegates."
"The issue in New York," said
Wade and Abrams, "is clear. The
choice is McGovern or Hum­phrey,
the new politics or the old
politics, grassroots democracy or
back room manipulation, the
future or the past."
Oyster Bay Town Supervisor
John W. Burke made public
Monday, May 15, the Town's
efforts to increase the park and
recreation areas within its
boundaries by more than 700
acres in four scattered locations.
Burke, who sketched in details
at a press conference that night,
praised the cooperation of
Nassau County Executive Ralph
G. Caso and other municipal
officials who have been working
with Burke and his staff in an
effort to develop federal financial
assistance for acquisition of the
park properties.
"Time is running out," Burke
said. "We must move not to
preserve and landbank our
dwindling natural resources of
in taking on such purchases has
long since passed.
"Partnership government is
necessary in order to make our
plan work - partnership at a
cooperative working level as well
as sharing at the financial level.
_ "As a result of our ongoing
comprehensive .study toward
development of a master plan in
Oyster Bay, we have determined
at least four sites that we feel
should be acquired as soon as
possible."
Burke outlined these locations
as:
1. Syosset: The Bruce Estate,
and some adjacent lands just
north, totaling 180 acres and
located north of Jericho Turnpike
across from the Town's Syosset-
Woodbury Community Park.
This would be purchased with
State and Town funds and be
utilized as a facility for all Oyster
Bay residents as a balance to the
50-acre John J. Burns Town Park
in Massapequa. The property
would be landbanked for the
present.
2. Woodbury: Assistance of
Federal funds to acquire more
than 200 acres of rolling woodland
and open farmland in the area of
Stillwell Lane, known as Stillwell
Woods. This park would even-
C a m p i n g S h ow
May 20
Eisenhower Park's eighth
annual Camping Show will be
held on May 20 and 21, between
the hours of 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.
Included in the show, spon­sored
by the Nassau Department
of Recreation and Parks, will be
various types of campers and
trailers and lectures on the
correct methods for setting up -a
campsite. The event will also
have demonstrations of decoy
carving, fly casting, fly tying and
bait casting.
Clinics in outdoor photography
will be held and techniques for
hunting and retrieving with dogs
will be featured.
The show will take place near
parking Field No. 3.
tually become a county facility
open to all Nassau residents.
3. Jericho: a) Acquisition of the
278-acre Meadowbrook Country
Club by the county for use as a
county golf course. To be funded
with the assistance of Federal
aid. b) A Town-operated park
facility for Jericho park district
residents to be established on
approximately 40 of the 278-acre
Meadowbrook purchase.
4. Acquisition by the Town of a
43-acre former Nike missile base
located off Brookville Road in the
village of Brookville. Burke said
the Town has already fded an
application with • the Federal
government to acquire this site
and utilize it in a unique inter-municipal
venture involving the
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the Village and the Town.
Burke said that the plan for the
use of the former missile base is a
concept of shared usage that may
be without precedent.
"This will be an educational
and recreational facility with five
major uses to be achieved," he
explained. '
These include:
1) A school for 800 handicapped
children, to be constructed,
operated and maintained by
BOCES on 7.7 acres.
2) Active recreation and play
areas for residents and han­dicapped
children, to be
developed and maintained by the
Town for year-round use by local
residents and for special use
during the summer by the Town's
Group Activities Program (GAP)
for the Handicapped. This would
involve approximately 300 of the
youngsters in the GAP program
and would utilize 8 acres.
3) An experimental farm to be
developed and maintained by the
Town and BOCES for use by
students enrolled in local schools
as part of the academic year
curriculum, for special projects,
for BOCES teaching, and during
the summer to provide a first­hand
agrarian experience for
young people who are interested
in fanning. Three acres would be
allocated for this use.
4) Reservation of two acres for
the site of a future Brookville
Village Hall and community
center to be constructed,
maintained and operated by the
Village.
5) Nature trails for the blind,
horticultural and ecological
study areas and preservation ot
existing wooded land in its
natural statevto be developed and
maintained Jointly Iw BQC1ES
ana the Town for public use are
-planned for the remaining 22.3
acres. ^MHUHHBK"
"The fact land that once'serveo*"
as a missile base containing the
necessary defensive armaments
of warfare can now be utilized to
ease the burden of the han­dicapped
is a dramatic evolution
of the use of this site," Burke
said.
"County Executive Caso has
endorsed our efforts to obtain the
Nike base and is joining us in
providing the administrative
spadework toward acquiring the
400 acres in Syosset and Wood­bury.
"The Town has initiated
discussions with officials from
the Nassau County Department
of Parks and Recreation and I am
hopeful that Mr. Caso, who has a
long history of making every
effort to preserve our park and
recreational heritage, will
continue to support this venture."
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School Vote Dates Set
Budget Hearings, Registration & Vote Set
For School Districts
BETHPAGE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 21
Registration Date - June 5 at the lobby of High School from 2 to 9
p.m.
Budget Hearing - June 13 in the High School Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Voting - June 14 in the High School Auditorium between 12 and 10
p.m.
PLAINEDGE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 18
Budget Hearing - May 25 at the Plainedge School at 8:30 p.m.
Registration - June 7 in the five election districts (Northedge, John
H. West, Eastplain, Southedge and Pickens Schools) from 12 to 10
p.m. s.- • '. '• .
'• Voting - June 14 in the five election districts from 12 to 10 p\m.
PLAINVIEW CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 4
Budget Hearing - May 22 at H.B. Mattlin Jr. High School at 9p.m.
Registration - May 25 at Jamaica Avenue, Joyce Rd. and Old Beth-page
Schools from 12 to 10 p.m. There will also be special registration
for 18 year old new voters on the same day at the districts two high
schools from 9a.m. to 2 p.m. (Registration on the 25th is for those not
previously registered in the May 3rd election.)
Voting - June 1 at Jamaica Avenue, Joyce Rd. and Old Bethpage
Schools from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
ISLAND TREES UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 26
Registration - June 3 and 7 in the High School South Cafeteria from
2 to 9 p.m.
Budget Hearing - June 13th at the High School Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Voting - June 14th in the High School Cafeteria from 2 to 9 p.m.