Insurgents Win Mrs. Williams To Ready Outdoor
Democrat insurgents won in Head Rosarians Concert Series
six Election District Committeeman
battles in North Massapequa
while eight Districts returned
incumbents.
Upsets came in the 4 E. D.
where Catherine Ford and Albert
Talmadge defeated Ruth Krongel
and Claire La Femina.
In the 9 E. D. insurgents'
Kathleen De Benedetto and Harry
Ronis defeated Milton Kessler
and Mary Schmidt.
In the 11 E. D. Gustave Coletti
and John Matte defeated Edward
McKiernan and Mario Colletti. :
In the 12 E. D. Marceline Kam-eron
and George Berkowitz defeated
incumbents Lawrence and
Patricia Greenspan.
Insurgents Dan Cassidy and
Anthony Case beat Regina Lan-arone
and John O'Leary in the
13 E. D.
Marge Mintzer and Stuart
Gordon defeated incumbents
Estelle Kessler and Harry
Schmidt.
Schmidt was considered a likely
candidate for Zone Leader.
Mrs. Harry Williams was e -
lected president of the St. Rose
of Lima Rosary Society for her
second term.
Also elected were Mrs. Harold
McCarty, vice- president; Mrs.
William Zang, treasurer; Mrs.
William Penzak Jr., Recording
Secretary and Mrs. William
Flannery, Corresponding Secretary.
Wydler Witness At Water Hearings
The opening concert of the 1967
summer series will be presented
by the Massapequa Community
Band on Wednesday evening July
5th at 8: 30 p. m. The concerts are
sponsored by the Recreation Department
of School District 23 as
part of the summer recreation program.
The Band is conducted by
Robert F. Martin of the Massapequa
High School music faculty.
The first concert of the season
will include selections representing
all types of music. Guest soloist
will be Louis Silvestre J r . son
of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Silvestre of
9 Harrison Place, Massapequa.
Silvestre will play a Baritone Horn
solo entitled f From The Shores Of
The Mighty Pacific'by Clarke. The
second half of the program will feature
the Overture to Sullivan's
H. M. S. Pinafore, Themes From
Great Italian Movies, Bolero Es-pagnole
of Lecuona and the delightful
singing march of Edward
Franko Goldman " On The Mall".
The concerts are presented on
the lawn of the Massapequa High
School and are free to the public.
In the event of rain, the Band will
play in the High School auditorium.
Congressman John W. Wydler
will be the lead- off witness in
hearings being held jointly by
the State of New York and the
United States Corps of Engineers
on the future water supply in
the. Nassau- Suffolk area.
The hearings will be held at
the Hofstra University Playhouse
starting at 2 p. m. on the
19th day of July. They are part
of hearings authorized by Congress
so that adequate planning
could properly proceed on the
long- range water supply needs
of the northeastern United States.
At the time the original hearings
were set up, the Long Island
area was made part of the
hearings to be held concerning
New York City. Congressman
Wydler immediately pointed out
to the Corps of Engineers that
the water supply problems of
Nassau and Suffolk counties were
unique and not connected with
those of the City of New York
and he suggested that special
hearings should be held on Long
Island. The hearings now planned
are in answer to this request.-
Congressman Wydler has also
arranged full cooperation of the
Bi- County Planning Commission
with the State of New York and
the Department of the Army in
conducting these hearings. Congressman
Wydler worked closely
with the Chairman of the Bi-
County Planning Commission,
Mr. Leonard W. Hall.
" The availability of adequate
and pure water in Nassau and
Suffolk counties in the years
ahead is one of our most important
problems", Congressman
Wydler said. " Water pollution
and an adequate supply of
drinking water are problems that
will overwhelm us unless we
plan adequately for them at this
time. It i s , therefore, appropriate
that the United States government
and the State of New
York are cooperating in an attempt
to get such planning underway."
" I am going to encourage all
local agencies, government officials
and interested businesses
to appear at these hearings so
that we may have all the information
available on the future
needs of our counties and the
manner in which our water can
remain pure and unpolluted",
stated Wydler. " I thank General
Koisch, Army Corps of Engineers,
for his cooperation in
arranging these hearings on Long
Island and I hope our local officials
will see that they are
fully successful."
In his testimony Congressman
Wydler intends to touch on his
proposals made some months
ago to include advance planning
facilities in any bridge across
the Long Island Sound for transportation
of water that may some
day need be brought into Long
Island from the Upper NeWYork,
New England area.
" These hearings will determine
the future health of the
people of our area, the future
growth of business and industry",
Wydler concluded. " They are
the key to our future success and
progress."
Set Dates For Book Returns
Massapequa school officials
have set up dates when private
and parochial school students
must return textbooks on loan
to them through the New York
State Textbook Act.
All books outstanding must be
returned to the district's Textbook
Center, Parkside Junior
High School, on Monday, Tuesday,
or Wednesday, June 26, 27, or
28.
Applications for books needed
for next year's classes will also
be accepted at that time. Private
school students may pick up the
forms at their own school. Deadline
for applications is June 30.
In order to qualify for free
loan under the law, a textbook
must be '• a book which a pupil
is required to use as a text
for a semester or more in a
particular class in the school
he legally attends". Reference
books, workbooks, review books,
test materials and kits, etc., do
not qualify.
This year the Massapequa
schools loaned over 6,000 textbooks
to eleven hundred resident
students attending over 35 private
and parochial schools. School officials
expect a slight increase
in the program next year.
Gorton Pleads Innocent To Charges
Farmingdale Library trustee-elect
Carl E. Gorton who was
charged with petty theft of a
controversial book from the library
because he considered the
publication ' obscene,' pleaded innocent
last Friday and trial was
set for October 3 by D i s t r i ct
Court Judge Julius R. Lippman.
Gorton was represented by Attorney
Mason L. Hampton who
asked for a jury trial.
Gorton claims mat he sought
removal of the book from the
library shelves where teenagers
would have access to it because
it violates a State law which
prohibits distribution of such literature
to minors.
The Library Board issued a
statement which reads in part:
The Supreme Court in the Roth
Case stated by way of approval of
a jury instruction, " The books,
pictures and circulars must be
judged as a whole, in their entire
context, and you are not to consider
detached or separate portions
in reaching a conclusion."
On the question of the exposure
of material in the adult area to
which children may go, we must
point to the Supreme Court's de-
Artists Display Works
cision in Butler vs Michigan.
Here the Court dealt with a
Statute making it a criminal offense
to display material unfit for
minors ( and here note die wording)
" into any family, school or
place of education." The Court
struck down the Statute as totally
invalid. To require the adult
collection to be free of material
which some may feel to be harmful
to minors would be to reduce
adults to material fit only for
children and as the Court stated
" to burn the house to roast the
Pig-"
Under these circum s t a n c e s ,
there would appear, to be no obscenity
under New York'State
Law, the resolution read.
Nassau County Clerk Franklin Hu Ornstein welcomes Brenda
Joan Daly age 5, formerly of Ireland. now of North Massapeaua,
following her naturalization as a citizen of the United States during
the ceremonies held recently in Mineola. Miss Daly is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Daly of North Massapequa.
The first showing of the work
of the newly formed Young Artists
of Massapequa group is on
display at the Central Avenue
building of the Massapequa Public
Library.
Photographs, paintings, drawings
and prints can be seen
at the library daily from 10
9 p. m. and Saturdays
a. nu to 5 p. m., until
a. m. to
from 10
July 5o
Young
are ten
Artists of Massapequa
college students who
reside in Massapequa and are
studying Art at Pratt Institute,
Stony Brook, Carnegie Tech, New
York Institute of Technology,
University of Bridgeport and
the School of Visual Arts in
New York City.
The oil paintings on exhibit
are by Norman Nilsen, Thomas
Drysdale, and Marylin Do'laru
The ink and charcoal drawings
are by Jane Sjursen and Elaine
Sollecito. Photographs were taken
by Wesley Steinberg, James
Olsen and Miss Dollar; and prints
were made by Norman Nilsen and
Miss Sollecito,,
The artists, who are entering
Art School in September,
are establishing a studio and
will be active in Art work this
summer.
CONTEST WINNER Doris Edith Steinhardt, center, of Farming-dale,
visits with her Congressman Rep. James R„ drover Jr.
during a Washington reception given for girls who topped the
Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow test. Doris, with her
advisor, Mrs. Anne Ileaney, toured historic spots in the Capital
and Colonial Williamsburg. As New York State winner in the annual
hoinemaking program, she received a $ 1,500 scholarship. 581,334
senior girls in 4,753 schools participated in the li)(*> 7 contest*
Farmingdale OBSERVER Thursday, June 22, 1967
Young artists from Massapequa assembling their work for exhibition at
tlie Massapequa Public Library are Elaine Sollecito and Thomas Drysdale.
The Exhibition will continue at the Central Avenue building until July 5.
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