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PLAINVIEW PLAINEDGE SEAFORD
VOL. 7 No. 19
Thursday, March 29, 1973
10 cents per copy
Viewing The News
The Nassau County Press Association honored the Nassau County
Postmasters and their Assistants at a dinner at the Westbury Manor
on March 19th. The guest speaker for the evening was Lester L.
Wolff, 6th District United States Congressman. L-It Murray Rosen, a
Director of the Nassau County Press Association, Congressman
Lester L. Wolff and Fred Simon, President of the Association which
represents 51 weekly newspapers. Also enjoying the dinner as guests
of the BETHPAGE TRIBUNE are Bethpage Postmaster Patrick
Foley and Superintendent of Mails Louis Podeswa with Publisher
Florence Cullem. .
STOUT-HEARTED MEN....surround freshman Bethpage
Assemblyman Stuart R. Levine outside the Chamber in Albany. The
Bethpage Rotary Club made an all-day visit and were greeted by Ed
Fehrenbach, a former Assemblyman and now Vice-chairman of the
N.Y. State Thruway Commision and Speaker of the House,
Assemblyman Perry Duryea. A full day of travel and seeing at first
hand how the State Government works left these stout-hearted
Rotarians a wee bit weary as they landed In Bethpage late that night.
Banner Year For Golden Eagle Track
NORTH SHORE CHAMPIONS: Bethpage High
School's 880 yard Relay Team L. to R. Howie Singer,
Rich Kail, Bob Calleluori, & Bill Baldwin.
Coach Sam Proileau once again
led a strong team to North Shore,
County and State Honors.
Bill Baldwin once again proved
to be the top sprinter on the North
Shore. His two 6.4!s for .ttULlML
yard dash earned him the North
Shore Title. A pair of 6.4's and a
6.5 gave him third place in the
Nassau County Meet at Hofstra
and a chance to go to the State
Meet at Cornell University. For
his fine effort he came in 4th in
the State Meet.
Howie Singer proved to be the
Class 600 Yard Runner, by
winning both the North Shore and
Nassau County Title in the very
fine time of 1:17.3 and 1:16.2. His
excellent time of 1.14 flat gave
him second place in the State
Meet.
Rich Kail ran very well in the
North Shore Qualifications of the
300 yard dash and gained a 4th
spot in the County Meet. After a
disappointing start he placed 7th
in the State Meet.
The final real bright spot of the
season was the 880 yard relay.
The team of Bill Baldwin, Rich
Kail, Bob Colleluori and Howie
Singer won the North Shore
Championship and came in
second to Uniondale High School
in one of the most exciting races
• of the season.. ...; _„. '_
The Spring Track season has
opened with victories over
Levittown Division, Calhoun and
a tie with Great Neck South. Bill
Baldwin has run 100 yards of 10.2,
10 flat and 9.9 Howie Singer has
run 880 yards of 2.04 and 2:01.5
and a 440 yards of 2.04 and 2:01.5
and a 440 yard of 52.2.
The official league opening is
against Garden City on April 3 at
the High School's, all new all-weather
track. Home meets start
at 4 p.m. Why not come down and
enjoy lVfe hrs. of good excitement.
The Dad's Club of the High
- School will sponsor an in­vitational
meet on Memorial
Day, May 28, at 1 p.m. The top
teams of Nassau, Suffolk,
Catholic High Schools and Boy's^ press way
High of Brooklyn are being in- $1.50 for
vited.
Laie Bulletin
Nassau County
Executive Ralph G.
Caso and Oyster Bay
Town Supervisor John
Burke announced today
that the county will
install a traffic light on
Central Park Avenue in
Bethpage.
Caso said the decision
was made following'a
meeting in "his office
with Burke, Town
Councilman Salvatore
Mosca and some Beth­page
residents.
"After Ustenmg; to the
residents express
concern for the safety of
their children who have
to cross Central" Park
Avenue and reviewing
the initial survey
conducted- by the
Nassau Department ot
Public Works, it was
decided that a traffic
light would be in­stalled,"
Caso said.
He cited it as another
example of the county
working with the town in
"partnership govern­ment."
htm Set For Spring
Sunny days and drying soil at
Old Bethpage village restoration
will bring increased activity
around the Powell Farm. During
the spring months the fields and
gardens are plowed and
harrowed, the various crops and
vegetables must be planted and
pasture fences mended in an­ticipation
of grazing livestock on
lush grasses.
The farm is operated much as
it was wheni Richard Powell and
his family and hired: hands
worked it in 1850. The; farm
primarily used man and animal
power. It was this type of
operation that helped produce
nineteenth Century New York""
City.
Today the plowing and
harrowing are again done with
horses.and seeding,,planting and
cultivating depend on hand
methods, the spring field work
requires deliberate on-the spot
decisions to outguess the weather
and to work with the soil.
The farmers are training a set
of two year old steers as a
working team of oxen, and a foal
is expected from one of the
working mares this spring. Old
Bethpage village restoration,
operated by the Nassau County
Department of Recreation and
Parks, is a pre-Civil War farming
community located on Round
Swamp Road, Old Bethpage, exit
48 on the Long Island Ex-
Visitation fees are
adults and $.75 for
children.