Transportation Top Long Island Problem, Gleason Says
Transportation is Long Island's
number one problem in
achieving orderly economic
growth in the next decade, according
to Harold V. Gleason,
of Massapequa, and presidentelect
of the Franklin National
Bank.
Gleason, who is also president
of the Long Island Association
of Industry and Commerce, added
that " transportation resources
simply had not kept up with the
rapid growth in the Island's population
over the past two
decades."
The president noted that " today
we are a lot closer to solutions
to Long Island's transportation
problems than a year ago." Final
solutions, he said, will depend
on voter approval of a $ 2.5 billion
New York State bond issue
to finance highways and air and
mass transit facilities, and decisions
of various transportation
authorities.
Gleason, who was also secretary
and a member of the Long
Island Bridge Study Committee
appointed by New York State Governor
Nelson A. Rockefeller,
noted that there had been a number
of studies conducted on the
feasibility of over the water links
with Westchester County and New
England.
" Bridges alone, of course, do
not solve our transportation problem."
he pointed out in an
article in the current issue of
the Investment Dealers Digest
which is devoted to Ixmg Island.
" We need access roads and high
speed highways that will provide
a corridor for the length
of the Island plus a system of
spur highways to important distribution
points."
Other neglected sectors in
transportation, he said, were
mass transit and air facilities.
He hailed the Long Island Rail
Road's planned program of high
speed trains which will begin
runs towards the end of next
year as a giant step in moving
commuters faster and more comfortably
between Nassau and Suffolk
counties and New York City.
Gleason said he favored Long
Island in the location of a fourth
jstport for the metropolitan area.
Petito Proposes Town Accept
Free Land For Ball Fields, Parks
Town Supervisor Michael N.
Petito has come up with a proposal
that may greatly increase
available land for little leagues
and midget football leagues in
the Township. Petito announced
today that Nassau County has
agreed to his plan that the Town
be allowed to lease county- owned
land suitable for baseball and
football fields and small parks
at no cost expect maintenance.
The parcels are located in various
parts of the Town and they
vary in size, the Supervisor
said, with some large enough to
accommodate a single athletic
field and others able to hold
several fields.
" I have made this proposal
after a lengthy study of our
athletic fields throughout the
Town and in all the school districts,
'* Petito announced. « 1
have concluded that there is such
interest in little league baseball
and football, we must make
more facilities available. lam
pleased that the County is cooperating
in this venture."
The County will lease the parcels,
located largely in Hicks-ville,
Bethpage and Farmingdale,
at no cost to the Town. Petito
said he will seek the support of
the Town Board for his proposal
and will make a further study to
determine if other sites could
be similarly used in other parts
of the Town.
Award Expressway Extension Contract
Governor Rocke f e l l e r announced
the award of a contract
for $ 3,029,740.20 to Hendrickson
Brothers, Inc., of ValleyStream,
for construction of the Wantagh-
Oyster Bay Expressway for 0.73-
mile under the supervision of the
State Department of Transportation.
The firm submitted
the lowest of eight bids.
The four- lane cement concrete
highway with 12- foot- wide raised
median and mall barrier will be
built from a point northwest of the
Ladonia Street- Riverside Drive
intersection normerly on new location
to northwest of the
Seamens Neck Road- Wil burne
Avenue intersection, where the
expressway's interchange with
Sunrise Highway is being built
under another contract.
Th\ s project will include construction
of a complete interchange
with Merrick Road and a
northbound exit ramp onto Seamens
Neck Road at Maple Street.
Work on 1.05 miles of access
roads will include improvements
to several streets.
Scheduled for completion by
June 18, 1969, all work will be
under supervision of Austin M.
Sarr, engineer in charge of the
Department's District Office at
Babylon.
Accuses Board of Ignoring Peoples Needs
Leland Badler, candidate of
the Tobay Independent and Democratic
Parties for Town Council,
this week accused the Republican
Town Board of ignoring " the
needs of the people" to " satisfy
the desires only of the get rich
quick real estate speculators'^
He stated that the Stillman plan
proposed industry north of Jericho
Turnpike in Syosset, apartments
in Syosset and apartments
in Bethpage. He asked why Still-man
had not held hearings before
making his proposals. He accused
the Republican Town Board
by hiring Stillman, of opening
** the door wide for the destruction
of the rural Syosset area and the
Bethpage zoning desired by the
residents". He stated that, even
if Stillman's Master Plan is rejected
by the Town Board, zoning
applicants can use the Master
Plan proposed by Stillman to
overturn future decisions of the
Town Board on applications for
zoning.
Badler contends that " The proposed
Master Plan of the Town
of Oyster Bay prepared by Seymour
Stillman is now a well-known
bondoggle in the Town of
Oyster Bay. The shocking fact
that the full amount of $ 78,000
has been paid to Mr. Stillman
for the so- called plan is a matter
of public record. It is also
a matter of public record that
the most important item of the
plan, the Land Use and Development
Map proposed by Mr. Stillman,
is nothing more than a
printed land use map which you
can get in Mineola or Town
Hall for a matter of pennies,
with crayoned suggestions by
Mr. Stillman.
" Professor Cook's Development
and Planning Action Commission
calls this merely a
• preliminary report'. Councilman
Ralph Marino and Professor
Cook continually make the point,
now, that this is not the Master
Plan of the Town, that it has
not been adopted and that in
the future, the Town Board will
hold hearings before making a
determination as to whether the
plan will be adopted.
" But as th § > Republican Town
Board well knows, they have put
the cart before the horse. For
any zoning attorney will tell them
that the damage has been done
whether the Master Plan is
adopted or rejected, as far as
zoning applicants are concerned.
" It seems to me that Long Island
would provide a logical setting
with its new high speed
trains, its transportation hubs
and its proximity to La Guardia
and Kennedy International air-
A Masquerade Dance, " Le Bal
Masque", will be held on Saturday,
October 28 in the auditorium
of St. Rose of Lima Church, to
benefit the CYO program in the
Hudadoff Takes Over As Music
Supervisor in School District 22
Igor Hudadoff
Igor Hudadoff, Band Director
at the Parkside School in Massapequa,
has been appointed District
Supervisor of Music for
the Farmingdale Public Schools.
Hudadoff is a graduate of Fast-man
School of Music of the University
of Rochester with a Bachelors
Degree in Music Education.
His post- graduate education was
taken at Albany State Teachers
College, Queens College, Brook- .
lyn College, and Hofstra University.
Hofstra University recently
granted him a Master of
Science Degree in Public School
Administration.
He is a Past- President of the
South Shore College Club and of
the Nassau Music Educator's
Association where he also served
for several years as First Vice-
President, Treasurer, and
Festival Chairman.
He is also a composer and
arranger with eleven major publications
for both Band and
Orchestra to his credit.
During the World War II Hudadoff
served as a Bandsman and
Librarian for the Second
Armored Division Band. In the
Korean War he completed the
Leaders Course at Fort Dix and
the Officer Candidate School at
Fort Bliss.
He resides with his wife, June
a Bucknell graduate, and two
young children in the Dix' Hills
section of Huntington Township.
ports. Overseas flights would
benefit especially by an Island
location served by high speed
access to New York City with
feeder lines to Westchester,
Connecticut and New Jersey."
List Further Exemptions For
Sr. Citizens and Veterans
Oyster Bay Town Receiver of
Taxes Solomon Newborn this
week announced further exemptions
for senior citizens and
veterans concerning their real
property.
Newborn said a recent opinion
from the Attorney General stated
that contract of sale date will now
govern the eligibility of senior
citizens who apply for 50 per cent
exemption in school and town tax
" provided they reside in the residence
from that date rather than
the closing date." The law states
that eligibility is based on
residing for five years at one
place and the new ruling might
help some persons meet that requirement
On the veterans front, Newborn
added that veterans who have
filed or plan to file for exemption
in general town tax on real
property can now include fleet
reserve retainer pay and
prisoner of war pay as eligible
fund money and increase their
exemption.
Further details on tax
problems and exemption eligibility,
may be obtained by calling
the Receiver of Taxes at WA 2-
5800.
parish. Prizes will be awarded
for costumes in various categories,
and an unmasking will be
held at midnight. Two bands will
be featured for continuous music v
McPartlin Opposes
Transportation Proposal
Joseph McPartlin, Democratic
candidate for Town Councilman,
for the town of Oyster Bay, this
week announced that he opposed
the transportation bond issue and
called upon the Republican ticket
to join with him in opposing
Governor Rockefeller's transportation
proposal.
McPartlin at a coffee klatch
in Massapequa Park, charged that
this was a two and a half billion
dollar gift to the Department
of Public Works withouth the
slightest control by the citizens
of New York State.
" Support of this bond proposal"
McPartlin declared " will
result in the Oyster Bay - Rye
Bridge becoming a reality and
the Atlantic Expressway coming
into existence." McPartlin further
stated that it was his belief
that this was the first step in the
destruction of the local suburban
communities.
McPartlin pointed out that
while this bond issue is called
a mass transportation bond issue,
over half the funds will go
for more private car highways.
He further said that if this transportation
bond issue was accompanied
by an overall, projected
transportation plan taking into
account that mass automobile
transportation is already obsolete,
it might be credible.
McPartlin further stated that the
impact of a transportation system
upon involved communities is
too great to be in the hands of
construction interests alone.
Highway construction is notorious
for its pork b a r r e l possibilities.
McPartlin called upon the
creation of a highway review
board which would exercise control
over the Department of Public
Works.
Stickers Pose Problems
An appeal to political candidates
to restrain their workers
from taking campaign stickers
to highway signs and utility poles
was made this week by Nassau
County Executive Eugene H.
Nickerson. Thousands of such
signs have sprouted throughout
the county in the past two years.
" The public quite rightly resents
the proliferation ofbumper
strips and posters now plastered
on telephone poles, road signs,
and even on the grounds of public
buildings. This not only menaces
motorists and pedestrians
but blights our shopping centers
and residential streets," Nickerson
said.
The county executive added,
" I appeal to those who are doing
this to refrain at once, particularly
as the taxpayers will be
forced to pay the cost of taking
the posters and bumper strips
down."
' Le Bal Masque', To Benefit CYO
Farmingdale OBSERVER, Thursdqy, October 19, 1967
•
Donald W. Teisberg, ( left) Executive Director of the Nassau
Council of Boy Stouts, accepts proclamation from Oyster Bay
Town Supervisor Michael N. Petito naming week of October 22nd as
Boy Scout Achievement Week in Township. Town Hall ceremonies
honor 20,000 youngsters active in scouting in Oyster Bay.
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