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VOL. 7 NO. 44 Thursday, September 2 0 , 1 9 73 10 cents per copy
Carmen Named Chairmen For United Fund Drive Plahiedge
Gregory W. Carman of Far-mingdale,
Oyster Bay Coun­cilman,
has accepted an ap­pointment
as Oyster Bay
Township Chairman for the 1973
campaign of the United Fund of
Long Island. Carman is a partner
in the law firm of Carman,
Callahan and Carman.
"Oyster Bay has been a pace­setter
for the Long Island Fund in
the past," said Carman, "and I
look forward this year to leading
the greatest township campaign
in Oyster Bay's history."
Well known for his active
participation in numerous, civic
activities, Carman is president of
the Savings and Loan Section,
New York Chapter of the
American Bar Association; an
associate member of the Far­mingdale
Volunteer Fire
Department; director and
treasurer for Rotary In­ternational;
former Co-chairman
of Music for Farmingdale; Vice-,
chairman of Paumanok District,
Nassau County Council of Boy
Scouts; and a charter trustee and
former president of the Far-mingdale-
Bethpage Historical
Society. He served as Community
Chairman for Farmingdale in the
1971 and 1972 campaigns of the
United Fund of Long Island.
In the next few weeks, Mr.
Carman will appoint village
chairmen for Syosset, Glen Cove,
Plainview, Jericho, Massapequa
and Farmingdale, among others.
They in turn will name chairmen
for the"Schools, Advanced Gifts
and Small firms drives.
H Grand Opening
A New Name On L I . •
9th Federal Sayings & Loan Opens
Getting ready for a
grand opening on Satur­day,
September 22nd the
Ninth Federal Savings and
Loan Association marks
its entrance into Long
Island.
President of the Ninth
Federal Francis E.
Kesicke invites everyone
to see the giant 7-story
ballopn being inflated and
actually ascent (weather
permitting) above L. I.
n e w e s t s a v i n gs
headquarters.
It will be a "fun day" to
be sure from 9 a.m. to 5
p.m. The new Ninth
Federal S & L office is
located at Haight Avenue,
Massapequa. There will be
free souvenirs for
everyone,' free . gifts for
new accounts and a chance
to enter the "Hello Neigh­bor''
sweepstakes.
Have a ball....come on
over and welcome a new
neighbor in town, the
Ninth Federal Savings and
Loan in Massapequa.
Acting Plainedge Superin­tendent
of Schools, Gerald
Bretton, expressed great hope
and enthusiasm for the upcoming
school year while commending
and applauding both teachers
and students for an "excellent"
first week of school.
Speaking at the September 13th
Plainedge Board of Education
meeting, Mr. Bretton went on to
emphasize that the problems of
the school district have, in the
past, unfortunately and unfairly
outweighed its many successes.
"I want to emphasize," said
Bretton, "that this is a very good
school district in terms of its
programs, staff and number of
problems...Our problems have
continually been taken out of
context in terms of all the good
and worthwhile that is going on."
Mdre specific, he cited-the-excellent
cooperation o£ students,
teachers and administration for a
successful first week of school,
praised the ''great stability!' of
the teaching staff, while adding
that transportation problems, for
the first week at least, have been
held to "a minimum."
He underlined the district's
Cooperative Area Programs
(CAPs), developed over the
summer by "fantastically hard
working teachers," and
petitioned the audience and
community-at-large for more
active support of district
programs and activities.
Revealing that the new CAP
programs would be discussed in
detail at the board's next two
public meetings, Bretton said
"the teachers have worked very
hard over the summer
developing materials for these
highly creative and exciting
courses."
In the context of his call for
more public support of district
activities, he added that a
number of school board com­mittees
were still unfilled, that
there were vacant positions on
the Dad's Club, while inviting the
audience-at-large to become part
of their local PTA's.
"The schools could use your
help," said Mr. Bretton. "If you
are interested in volunteering
your services, please submit your
name."
In related matters, Bretton
revealed that the district was still
in need of an industrial arts
teacher, still "very busy in­terviewing
for a language arts
coodinator," and still searching
for a qualified editor for Plain-talk,
the district's newsletter.
He added that class sizes were
"good,?* although "balancing"
was still going on.
Although the „ 1973-74 school
population was projected at
6,2000 students, Bretton an­nounced
that 6,i54 actually
size is over board policy" and
that there were "no empty
facilities in Plainedge."
Mr. Bretton also praised the
school board "for having the
courage to bring the Renovation
Bond Issue before the public
By Richard Wood
routine administrative matters.
A resolution sponsored by
Trustee Dominick Gagliardo to
officially recognize the Title I
Math Tutors, referred to as the
Plainedge Association of Tutorial
Specialists, as a contract
bargaining unit passed by a
unanimous vote.
Resolutions calling for an in-service
course in astronomy for
e l e m e n t a r y t e a c h e r s , • -i~- '•
probationary appointments, and
the approval of the faculty for the
Adult and Continuing Education
Program were also passed
unanimously. ^—
School. Board Vice-President
Doanld Kanter pointed out that
no decision had yet been made on
a new school superintendent and
that "the board was still in­terviewing"
prospective can- ""
In response to a question,
School Board President FrankJyn
J. McGratb said that the board
wished to see "two more can­didates"
recommended by the *
N.Y.U. screening committee.
McGrath also indicated that
tsona issue u»v>v — , .
again," punctuating his comment the board would be meeting
with the remark that many other "With representatives of the
" --*~ -,:--"™« nUanaoa in the school boards would be very
reluctant to. attempt such a
resubmission at this place in
time.
In conclusion, Mr. Bretton
reiterated his enthusiastic and
optimistic opening remarks:
"The thing I'd like to em­phasize
is that the problems that
are brought to our attention
should not discolor the good that
exists in Plainedge- We all know
that the bad often outshines the
good and that rumors and minor
problems often come to the
forefront, but we should realize
that we have an. excellent school
district in Plainedge."
The remainder of the board's
first meting of the.new school
dealt principally with
W i l l i 4»*»f> —? —
teachers to discuss changes in board's agenda," and welcomed
comments and suggestions from
members of the community.
A tentative voting date of
October 31st was mentioned in
connection with the district's
intention to resubmit the
Renovation Bond Issue before the
voters once again. The bond issue
, of course, was initially defeated
by the community in the June
elections.
The board's next two public
meetings, to be held September
20th and October 25th respec­tively,
will deal specifically with
the bond issue and the district's
new CAP programs. The public
was both invited and encouraged
mittees were still unfilled, that year uean |»mvi,,..v »--,..-., t„o _at.t„en, d„ .
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Roncallo Fetus Research
Amendment Passes Senate
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HAPPINESS IS LOWER BUS FARES ... Nassau County Executive
Ralph G. Caso (left), Adelaide Attard, commissioner of the county
Department of Senior Citizens Affairs, and Metropolitan Tran­sportation
Authority Chairman Dr. William J. Ronan share a happy
smile after working out the details for allowing county residents of 60
or older to ride for half-fare on county-owned buses. The new half-fare
plan, which will be In effect from 10 AM to 4 PM daily, began
Monday, Sept. 17. Caso had expressed hope when he took the buses
over that he could reduce fares for senior citizens.
An amendment to prevent live
fetus similar to that introduced
and championed by
Congressman Angelo D. RON-CALLO
(R+NY) has passed the
Senate by- an overwhelming 88-0.
The amendment sponsored by
Senator James L. Buckley (R-CONS.
NY) accomplishes the
same purpose as the Roncallo
amendment, i.e. it prevents the
use of money appropriated under
the Bio-medical Research bill
from being used to experiment on
living human fetuses. This ap­plies
to funding for the Depart­ment
of H.E.W. which includes
the National Institutes of Health.
Buckley, in introducing the
amendment, praised the spirit of
the Roncallo amendment and
agreed with statements which the
Long Island Freshman
Republican had made on the
Floor of the House decrying "this
barbarian practice" of live fetus
research.
While the Buckley amendment
includes only research on fetuses
resulting from induced abortions
and the Roncallo amendment
includes all fetuses, whether the
result of induced abortions or
natural miscarriage, the bills
aim at the same practice.
The Buckley amendment as
passed was further amended by -
the Kennedy amendment which
in effect set a time limit on the
research ban of one year to 18
months.
The Bio-Medical Research bill
will now go to a House-Senate
conference.
"I certainly feel that somesart
of fetus research ban will be kept
in the final bill." Congressman
Roncallo said, "as both my bill
with a vote of 354-9 and Senator
Buckley's bill. 88-0 have received
overwhelming bi-partisan sup­port
in their respective forums