File Application To Handle Lottery
Oyster Bay Town Is preparing
the necessary application for
permission to have the Town
Hall become a center for State
Lottery ticket sales, Councilman
Ralph J. Marino, Chairman
of the Town's Standing Committee
on Local Government, announced
this week.
Marino explained that Town
Clerk William B. O'Keefe has
received the forms from Samuel
Michelson, District Tax Supervisor,
and is processing the material
to enable the Town Hall
and its Annex in Hicksville to
become agents for ticket sales.
" We feel that the object of
the State Lottery for education
is extremely worthwhile and
should be aided by all agencies
in order to obtain the maximum
benefit from the funds raised,'*
said Marino. " By adding Oyster
Bay Town Hall to the list of
those acting as agents for Lottery
ticket sales, we hope to
boost the amount collected, which
will in turn increase the funds
granted Oyster Bay Town school
districts."
Marino, a former East Norwich
School Board member, said
several school districts within
the Town had their budgets rejected
" and this could possibly
have been avoided if more state
aid to education funds were dispensed
to local school districts."
Once the necessary application
is filed and approval r e ceived
the Town Clerk's office,
currently responsible for issuing
licenses, would handle the Lottery
ticket sales under the supervision
of Town Clerk William
Bud O'Keefe.
Center Receives Grant Continuation
The United States Office of
Education has continued funding
of the South Oyster Bay Supplementary
Education Center for a
second year with a renewal grant
of $ 230,000. Organized in July
1966 under Title HI of the Elementary
and Secondary Education
Act, the Center provided
material, curriculum programming,
television and other supplementary
services to the 3,000
teachers in 64 schools - public
and non - public - within the five
district area comprising Beth-page,
Farmingdale, Massapequa,
Plainedge and Plainview - Old
Bethpage.
So far, over 9,000 material requests
were processed, in service
courses were presented on
reading and the Asian World,
television uses and innovations
were developed and a curriculum
materials and media center was
organized.
With its Continuation Grant the
Center anticipates handling an
excess of 25,000 material requests
in the coming school year.
New catalogs of 16mm films, TV
tapes, transparencies and the
professional books, paperbacks,
journals should be available by
September.
The Material Resource Center
is aiming for development of
cross indexed, color coded catalog
of materials in each subject
area and grade level by media,
m addition the Center is obtaining
major studies, projects and
programs conducted throughout
the United States in all subject
areas for use in Curriculum Development
activities. Councils
and task forces will begin work
on material support for syllabus
construction, research, teacher
training and TV adaptation.
As tiie Center establishes
broader contacts with other educational
and private agencies,
a directory of consultant ser -
vices for each area will be
developed to assist schools in
programming and s p e c i a l
activities.
Town Claims
Attracted
The Oyster Bay Town Board's
' red carpet' treatment for
industrial expansion continues to
be reflected in the category of
building permits issued during
June., according to Councilman
Ralph J. Marino.
During the first six months
of this year, Marino noted, 32
industrial plants have located
in the Town of Oyster Bay, including
eight during June which
are now under construction. The
June permits represented industrial
construction costs of
$ 1,034,830 which were the second
largest for any month this
year. The March total was
largest at $ 3,502,498 concerning
15 permits for industrial
" V ' iog oi materials in each subject
Petito Proposes Safety Traffic Board
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Oyster Ray. Michael N. Petito asked the Town
Board on Tuesday to approve
creation of a seven- man Traffic
Safety Board to deal with the
problems of traffic on Town
roads.
The Supervisor told the Board
that half the money for the
Board's work would come from
the Federal Government which
gave the State the money to
be allocated to municipalities
on a rer capita basis. Oyster
Bay Town would qualify for a-bout
$ 40,000 a year, Petito said.
The Town would match the Federal
funds on a 50- 50 basis.
The Supervisor suggested that
the Town Board appoint five of
the Board members and he would
appoint the other two. The Board
members would not be salaried
but an executive director and a
secretary would be needed.
Among the problems that the
Board should tackle, Petito said,
were a " profile" of Town roads,
doing a thorough survey of all
of them from the standpoints of
defects, serviceability and adequacy—
the setting up of additional
safety campaigns, the feas-ability
of giving school districts
additional monies for driver education,
a study of accicent sites,
and a study of the comparative
values of various road surfaces
and surfacing methods.
He emphasized that the Town
must work in close cooperation
with Nassau County, which is also
in the process of creating a
Highway Safety Board through
a resolution Petito introduced
yesterday at the County Board
of Supervisors' meeting.
The money for the program
was allocated by the Federal
Government in the Highway Safety
Act of 1966. The act specified
that no money was to be
used for highway construction,
sign t- building or road repair.
According to the Supervisor;
there is additional State money
available should the new Board
come up with any particularly
worthy special projects or programs
or any original research
ideas.
Present Fifth In Conceit Series
The Massapequa Community
Band will present the fifth of a
series of six outdoor concerts
this Wednesday, August 2 at 8: 30
p. m.
The program will open with
the march Espana Cani followed
by the famous overture of Von
Suppe entitled Light C a v a l r y.
David Rosier will be clarinet
soloist and will play Concertino
for clarinet by Weber. The Band
will perform an original composition
written by Ivan Kaplan of
Massapequa. The remainder of
the program will include the
Sound Of Music Overture, Can
Can For Band and The March Of
The Steelmen.
In the event of rain, the concert
will be Jield in the high
school auditorium.
The concerts are sponsored by
the Recreation Department and
are held on the east lawn of the
Massapequa High School.
' Red Carpet'
Industry
buildings.
Marino said that industrial
location and re- location is administered
by the Town's Commerce
and Industry Department
headed by Irving A. James, Commissioner,
with practical and financial
aids available from the
Town's Industrial Development
Corporation, its financing arm.
The June list included a convent
school.
A total of 272 building permits
were issued during June,
representing construction costs
of $ 2,756,446, the best month
this year in numbers of permits
and second best as to costs.
In March there were 213 permits
valued at $ 5,238,909.
Master Plan To Be Studied
By Planning Commission
The Town of Oyster Bay's
Master Plan will be forwarded to
the Bi- County Planning Commission
for review before any action
is taken by the Town Board, Councilman
Ralph J. Marino, Chairman
of the Standing Committee on
Local Government Cooperation,
announced this week.
The Master Ran was prepared
by Planning Consultant Seymour
Still man, under the direction of
the Town's bi- partisan Planning
and Action Commission headed by
Dr. Edward J. Cook of C. W. Post
College, and is presently being
reviewed by the Town Board.
Councilman Marino pointed out
that Oyster Bay Town is the first
Town in Nassau County to develop
a Master Plan and " we are establishing
another first by forwarding
the Plan to the Bi- County
Planning Commission." He said
the Town's Planning and Action
Commission will be available to
meet with the Bi- County Planning
Commission to assist them in
their review of the Master Plan
should they deem it necessary.
The Plan will also be forwarded
to the Nassau County Planning
Commission for their study.
The Town's Master Plan,
eighteen months in development
by the Planning and Action Commission,
covers every phase of
local jurisdiction within the
Town. Fifteen separate preliminary
reports were issued by
the Department which are now being
compiled into one volume to
make up the entire Master Plan.
They will also be accompanied by
a map of the Town outlining land
use recommendations.
The Town Board will hold a
minimum of three public hearings
on the Master Plan; one on
the North Shore; one in the Mid-
Island area and one on the South
Shore. Dates for these public
hearings will be announced by the
Town Board in the near future,
Councilman Marino said.
Since the recommendations of
the Consultant and the Town Planners
also include special districts,
many of which a r e
governed by locally elected commissioners
or boards such as
school boards, library boards and
fire commissioners, " we will
hold a special meeting with the
various jurisdictions within the
Town so that they are fully informed
on the recommendations
of the planners.
Districts Urged To Apply For
Supplemental Assessments
County Executive Eugene Nick-erson
this week urged representatives
of 60 Nassau school districts
to apply immediately for
supplemental assessments that
could bring n a minimum of
$ 1,000,000 in added revenue from
new construction.
If school boards fail to apply
to the County before August 1,
they will forfeit their chances
for the additional funds, Nicker-son
said. Telephone calls were
made Monday by Nickerson's office
to all 60 districts informing
them of the urgency of applying
before the deadline.
Nassau tax rolls close April
30. The new law gives the
assessors six months more, from
May 1 to November 1 to increase
tax revenues.
Machinery for the assessments
was established May 2 with the
passage of an amendment to the
New York State Real Property
Law. This permits the collection
of taxes on a supplemental school
tax roll. The law includes only
those districts that do not lie
wholly or partly in a city, hi
Nassau, this would exclude only
Glen Cove and Long Beach.
" Additional revenue resulting
from this legislation will be of
assistance to hard- pressed
school districts throughout the
county," Nickerson said. " The
amendment provides an opportunity
for local school boards
to do something constructive
about their tax problems."
School districts must bear the
expense ' of a supplemental
assessment in their districts.
Because the bill authorized
" the governing body of a town,"
and not the county, to direct
the Board fo Assessors to assess
the new buildings and additions,
Nickerson directed County Attorney
Morris Schneider to ask the
New York State Attorney General
Louis Lefkowitz for an opinion
on the amendment.
Town Appropriates $ 190,000
For 2.5 Acre Land Purchase
$ 190,000 was appropriated for
the acquisition of 2.5 acres of
land for Park purposes by the
Town of Oyster Bay on Tuesday
following a public hearing.
The parcel of land is located
-< m on the east side of Hicksville
Road one half mile south of
Hempstead Turnpike and just
north of the inter section of Hicksville
Road and Stewart Avenue.
The land is within the confines
of the Bethpage Park District.
SECOND BEST: The Witch Doktors of the North Massapequa Fire Department
took second place at the 12th annual Nassau- Suffolk Rescue Tournament
held in Levittown on Saturday. Over 18 teams competed. Reading
from left to right are: Jack Pokress, Captain Mike McGroarty, Bill Babcock,
Steve Composto and victim Don Gaghan,
Summer Choral Workshop Readies ' Plain and Fancy
Pokress Photo
The Farmingdale Summer
Choral Workshop is busy rehearsing
the musical comedy
" Plain and Fancy" for a performance
on Wednesday, Aug. 9 at
8: 30 p. m. at the Farmingdale
Farmingdale OBSERVER Thursday, July 27, 1967
Senior High School auditorium.
Tickets, priced at $ 1.00 may
be obtained at the Farmingdale
Senior High School auditorium,
on weekdays between 8: 30 a. m.
and 12: 30 p. m.
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