Editorial
Library board meetings are not generally known
for large attendances nor do taxpayers show a
great degree of emotion over library budgets,
especially, when compared to school board meetings
and budgets.
All this has changed during the past three
months in Farmingdale. Ever since the candidacy
and subsequent election to office of library
trustee Carl E. Gorton, a John Bircher, and the
twice defeated library budget, the library district
has generated emotion seldom evidenced in library
annals.
Since the May 3 election of Gorton and the
simultaneous $ 352,865 budget defeat by over 400
votes on May 3, followed by a second $ 347,865
budget defeat in June, many events have transpired,-
including court actions.
It all started when Gorton removed a periodical
from the library, because he felt that a certain
passage was objectionable* and should not
fall into the hands of teenagers. He claimed it
should be in the library adult section. He is now
awaiting trial on petty larceny charges. The
Friends of the Library group contend that he
passed out 5,000 reprints of the passage and
exposed the ' objectionable* portion to teenagers.
Next he sought direct access to library files.
The other members of the Board agreed that
trustees are entitled to access to files, with the
stipulation that access to files be made accompanied
by a library staff member. Gorton took
the matter to the courts.
More recently, Gorton visited the library, with
a tape recorder, to observe a children's slow
reader program
ensued. An assistant librarian has brought court
action ' for twisting her arm'. Several other accusations
and charges have been made by both
sides. Other court actions are in the threat
stage.
There is no doubt that next Tuesday is an
important day for District 22 voters. If the
large volume of Letters to the Editor, which
we have received, is an indication, the polls
should be jam packed.
The main issue, as we see it, stems from the
implied! As a matter of fact,
if this service is not returned
to the community upon defeat
of the budget, I will institute
a taxpayer's suit against the
Board for unwarranted restriction
of community property! It
is obvious who is twisting whose
arm in an effort to pass the
budget.
The reply to question four is
pure prevarication. The fact is
that the cleaner is an independent
contractor who owns the Liberty
Maintenance Co. of the thirteen
establishments he cleans, ours
is the only one he does not contract
with, but rather is hired
as an employee for whom we
also pay employee benefits!
Mr. Callahan indicates that
question five is " hard to follow".
This is an amazing statement
for an attorney. The question
is perfectly clear and so is the
arithmetic. The assessed valuation
of the branch library is
approximately $ 43,000, which in
Cyster Bay, is 31 per cent of the
market value. This indicates a
real market value of slightly
less than $ 150,000, regardless of
the option price. As far as bond
issue costs, these would have
been balanced by the $ 5,000 per
year in taxes on the library we
are taxed to pay. Certainly,
there are many factors to consider,
but it appears the board
GORTON EDITORIAL
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has not given due consideration
to the primary one - cost.
In answer to question six, Mr.
Callahan states " A reading program
specialist fits in well with
the library program,—•'. Perhaps,
but does not keeping the
library open to everyone also
fit in well with the Library program?
I submit that the institution
of Special services, ( e s pecially
those which are the functions
of schools,) while curtailing
normal services, is mismanagement
of the highest order
and indicates a serious lack of
concern for providing the most
service to the community for the
least expense.
In reply to question seven, he
states," Indeed such a report
was submitted at the July meeting
attended by all Board members."
I happened to be one of those
Board members and did not receive
a trip report in writing,
as implied. Furthermore, at the
August meeting, my motion to
require the submission of such
reports was adopted, clearly indicating
the absence of such a
policy previously.
m answering question eight,
Mr. Callahan avoids the issue.
He states, " All trustees may
have access to all records."
He does not indicate that so
may all taxpayers. The reason
freedom of the right to read. Attempts at suppression,
whether it concerns freedom of the
press or the freedom to read is against our
national tradition. There is also the issue of the
freedom of library personnel to perform their
services without harassment.
Because of all this, the library budget should
During his visit an altercation n o t s u f f e r . if taxpayers feel that the library
board is remiss in the performance of an entrusted
duty, the time to speak out is in the voting
booth when they are up for reelection.
We, therefore, urge the passage of the budget
on Tuesday. For the rest, let the courts decide
on what is legally right.
The Supreme Court decision handed down at press
time regarding Gorton's petition for more direct
access to records decided that the majority board
had made reasonable regulation. Gorton's petition
was dismissed. FJK
LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE
FARMINGDALE CASES.
: BOARD OF APPEALS
Regular meeting of the Board
of Appeals, Town of Oyster Bay,
w. ill be held in the Town Board
Hearing Room, Town Hall, Oyster
Bay, on Wednesday, August 30,
1967 at 8.- 00 P. M.
_ COMMERCIAL CALENDAR
LEGA L NOTIC E
RESOLUTION # 1462- 1967
At a regular meeting of the
Town Board of the Town of Oyster
Bay, Nassau County, New York,
held in the Hearing Room, Town
Hall, Oyster Bay New York, on
Tuesday, August 15, 1967, at
10 o'clock A. M. prevailing time,
the following members of the
Town Board were present:
Supervisor, Michael N. Petito
Councilmen, Edmund A. Ocker
Edward J. Poulos
Frank J. Hynes
Ralph J. Marino
Angelo D. Roncallo
Absent: Councilman, A. Carl
Grunewald
Councilman Hynes offered the
following resolution and moved
its adoption:
RESOLUTION ADOPTING MAP
ENTITLED " M\ P OF PROPERTY
ON HEISSERS LANE,
FARMINGDALE, NASSAU CO.,
N. Y. TO BE ACQUIRED
BY THE TOWN OF OYSTER
BAY ON BEHALF OF THE
SOUTH FARMINGDALE PARK
DISTRICT FOR PARK PURPOSES,
SEC. 48, LOT 306,
BLOCK 518", DATED JANUARY
31, 1963, REVISED
MARCH 1, 1963, AND DIRECTING
THE TOWN ATTORNEY
TO ACQUIRE SAID
LAND IN FEE.
WHEREAS, a resolution was
heretofore adopted by this Board
on July 11, 1967, approving the
action of H. G. Holzmacher &
CASE # 67- 399
APPELLANT — Sam Audia, c/ o
Melvin B. Lippe, Esq., 493
Hempstead Turnpike, Elmont.
SUBJECT — Variance to erect a
commercial building on a plot
having less front yard, less
rear yard and a Special Permit
LEGAL NOTICE
Associates, Civil Engineers,
Hicksville & Melville, New York,
in preparing the map entitled,
" Map Of Property on Heissers
Lane, Farmingdale, Nassau
County, N. Y. to be Acquired by
the Town of Oyster Bay on behalf
of the South Farmingdale Park
District for Park Purposes, Sec.
48, Lot 306, Block 518", dated
January 31, 1963, revised March
1, 1963, and said map is now on
file in the Office of the Town
Clerk; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to law,
notice was duly published that a
hearing would be held by the Town
Board in respect to said map on
August 15, 1967, at 10 o'clock
A. M. prevailing time, at which
time a reasonable opportunity
would be affordedtoall interested
persons to make objections thereto
or suggest changes therein;
and
WHEREAS, a public hearing
• as duly held on said map pursuant
to the public notice as aforesaid
and it appears, after due
consideration, that no changes in
said map are required:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED,
that said map entitled
" Map of Property on Heissers
L^ ne, Farmingdale, Nassau Co.,
N. Y. to be Acquired by the Town
of Oyster Bay on behalf of the
South Farmingdale Park District
for Park Purposes, Sec. 48, Lot
306, Block 518", dated Jan. 31,
1963, revised Mar. 1, 1963, is
LEGAL NOTICE
for the reduction of off- street
parking.
LOCATION — Southwest corner
of Fallwood Parkway and Hart
Street, South Farmingdale.
OYSTER BAY, NEW YORK
AUGUST 21. 1967
LEGAL NOTICE
• • i > •
hereby adopted without change;
and, it is further
RESOLVED, that the Town Attorney
is hereby authorized and
directed to acquire said lands by
dedication, purchase, condemnation
proceeding or otherwise; and,
it is further
RESOLVED, that the compensation
to be paid to the owners
of such real property as may be
acquired hereunder by condemnation
proceeding shall be determined
by the Supreme Court without
a jury; and, be it further
RESOLVED, that the Town
Clerk is directed to have published
once in the Farmingdale
Post and The Farmingdale Observer
a copy of this resolution
as notice, pursuant to Section
11.71.0 of the Nassau County
Administrative Code, that title
to said lands will vest in the
Town of Oyster Bay upon the
entry of the Order of the Supreme
Court granting the application
to condemn said lands;
and, be it further
RESOLVED, that the Town
Clerk is directed to file a certified
copy of this resolution and
a copy of said map as adopted,
together with the affidavit of publication
as aforesaid, in the Nassau
County Clerk's Office pursuant
to Section 11- 22.0 ( c) of
the Nassau County Administrative
Code.
The foregoing resolution was
seconded by Councilman Marino
LEGAL NOTICE
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD
OF APPEALS
Town of Oyster Bay
Raymond H. Schoepflin,
Chairman
Ellsworth Allen, Secretary
# 250 lTObserver August 24,1967
LEGAL NOTICE
and adopted, upon roll call vote,
as follows:
Supervisor Petito Aye
Councilman Ocker Aye
Councilman Poulos Aye
Councilman Grunewald Absent
Councilman Hynes Aye
Councilman Marino Aye
Councilman Roncallo Aye
STATE OF NEW YORK. )
COUNTY OF NASSAU, ) ss.:
TOWN OF OYSTER BAY )
I, ANNA E. SMITH Deputy Town
Clerk of the Town of Oyster Bay,
and custodian of the Records of
said Town, DO HEREBY
CERTIFY that I have compared
the annexed with the original
Resolution # 1462- 1967 adopted by
the Town Board on August 15,
1967 adopting map entitled '' Map
of Property on Heissers Lane,
Farmingdale, Nassau Co., N. Y.
to be acquired by the Town of
Oyster Bay on behalf of the South
Farmingdale Park District for
Park Purposes, Sec. 48, Lot 306,
Block 518" filed in the Town
Clerk's Office and that the same
is a true transcript thereof, and
of the whole of such original
In Testimony Whereof, I have
hereunto signed my name
and affixed the seal of said
Town this 18th day of August,
1967
Anna E. Smith
Deputy Town Clerk.
TC- 7 # 251 IT Observer August
24, 1967
the issue is now pending in court
is the attempt to restrict my
examination of the files in the
same rriahner that the taxpayer
is restricted. This places in
the employees of the library,
greater authority than their employers,
which is patently ridiculous
and highly suspicious.
Concerning The Paris Review,
Mr. Callahan hides behind the
United States Supreme Court instead
of acting in the community
interest and completely Ignores
the rejection by the Board of my
proposal to establish an adult only
section in the library.
In answering question ten, Mr.
Callahan gets back to the practice
of prevarication. My allegation
that Brandon Films is a
distributor of Communist propaganda
is not unfounded, but is
completely documented from
Government sources. This
lengthy record will be available
in the minutes to anyone who
may wish to see the extent of
the citations over a period of 33
years. I believe the majority
of people in this community and
country object to our doing business
with the enemy, in whatever
guise, and especially when many
of our local young men are fighting
and dying in a struggle against
the most powerful, determined
and insidious enemy we have
ever faced. " Guilt by association"
is not the question' guilt
by collaboration is not a question,
it is a matter of record.
Mr. Callahan's statement that
1959 costs " have no relevance
to today's world" is a striking
admission of how our money is
being inflated. However, in eight
years I dont believe inflation
has been that bad to justify more
than doubling the cost of " superior
library service." Of course,
this " out- dated" book was given
to me by Mr. Dow in his continuing
effort to keep me fully
and acurately informed.
Well, the die is cast, the hour
is late and I have run out of space.
You will have to judge what is
fact and what is fiction, what is
reason and what is rhetoric. I
dont mink you are as badly in
need of help in doing that as some
of our " community leader's"
believe. I trust you will prove
it on Tuesday.
IN ERROR
The paid advertisement that
appeared in this newspaper last
week calling for the library budget
defeat was not paid for by Carl
E. Gorton, whose group is called
CARL ( Community Association
For Responsible Libraries), but
by Friends of Farmingdale, an
independent group of local taxpayers.
LIBRARIAN CLAIMS
( Continued from Page I)
the same tape.
Mrs. Stoyan has filed an assault
charge against Gorton in
the First District Court in Min-eola.
She also contended mat
" the printed word does not show
the insulting tone of voice mat
Mr. Gorton used when he spoke
to Mr. Rothman ( a reading
consultant), and to me. There
were two people in the library
whose voices are not recorded.
One was a man who said, when
Mr. Gorton asked him to give
him his name, ' Whatever I would
have to say would be incriminating
to you'. Another was a won-an
who asked Mr. Gorton to
lower his voice and who refused
to give her name to Mr. Gorton
when he asked her."
Bethpage
Wine & Liquor
LIC. L- 1882
CHARLESBUTTNER
Proprietor
328 Broadway, Bethpage
( opp. A& P)
WE 1- 0680
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