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Colored Sponge Has Appetite For South Bay
Bacteria ; Researchers Claim
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An orange- colored sponge that
lives in the Great South Ray has
been found to have a large appetite
for bacteria, and scientists
at FairchildHiller's Republic
Aviation Division Life Sciences
Department feel they have
found one easy method of removing
some of the water's pollutants.
LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE
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UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
NO. 22 OF THE TOWNS OF OYSTER
BAY, NASSAU COUNTY,
AND BABYLON, SUFFOLK
COUNTY, NEW YORK
NOTICE OF SPECIAL DISTRICT
MEETING
JUNE 10, 1967
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that pursuant to resolution of the
Board of Education adopted May
8, 1967, a Special District Meeting
ofthequalified voters of Union
Free School District No. 22 of the
Towns of Oyster Bay, Nassau
County, and Babylon, Suffolk
County, New York, will be held
in the gymnasium of the Weldon
E. Howitt Junior High School,
Van Cott and Grant Avenues,
Farmingdale, New York, in said
School district, on JUNE
10, 1967, at 9: 45 o'clock A. M.
( D. S. T. ) for the purpose of
voting upon the Propositions
stated below. The voting will be
by ballot as provided by the Education
Law and the polls will
remain open from 10: 00 o'clock
A. M. ( D. S, T. ) until 10: 00
o'clock P. M. ( D. S. T. ) and
as much longer as may be necessary
to enable the voters then
present to cast their ballots:
PROPOSITION NO. 1
RESOLVED:
That the School Budget for the
fiscal year 1967/ 68, as submitted,
is hereby approved.
PROPOSITION NO. 2
RESOLVED:
That the appropriation for the
public library for the fiscal year
1967/ 68, as submitted, is hereby
approved.
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NO-
. TiGE4bMJhe_ J5oard of Registration
of this School District shall
meei. on Saturday, June 3rd, 1967
from 10.- 00o, clockA. M.( D. S. T.)
until 10* 0 o'clock P. M. ( D. S. T.)
in the gymnasium of the Weldon
E. Howitt Junior High School,
Van Cott and Grant Avenues,
Farmingdale, New York, in said
School District, for the purpose
of preparing a Register of the
qualified voters of this School
District for said Special District
Meeting, at which time, any person
shall be entitled to have
his/ her name placed upon such
Register provided that at such
meeting of the Board of Regis-tration,
he/ she is known or
proven to the satisfaction of such
Board of Registration to be then
or thereafter entitled to vote
at the Special District Meeting
for which such Register is prepared.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN
that pursuant to Section 2014 of
the P'ducation Law, personal registration
is necessary. No
persons shall be entitled to vote
unless said person voted at the
District Meeting held on May 4,
1966, November 19, 1966 or May
3, 1967, or who registered on
May 2, 1967 or May 3, 1967.
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE
that the Register shall be
filed in the office of the District
Clerk, 521 Conkl in Street, Farmingdale,
New York, in said School
District, where it shall be open
for inspection by any qualified
voter of the District between the
hours of 9: 00 o'clock A. M.
( D. S. T.) and 4: 00 o'clock P. M.
( D. S. T.) on each day thereafter
( except Sundays up to and
including the day set for the
Special District Meeting.
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE
that a copy of the proposed
budget for the ensuing fiscal year
1967/ 68 may be obtained by any
taxpayer at the office of the District
Clerk, 521 Conklin Street,
Farmingdale, New York, and the
offices of the principals of Farmingdale
Senior High School, Weldon
E. Howitt Junior High School,
Mill Lane Junior High School,
Main Street School, Woodward
Parkway School, East Farming-dale
Memorial School, Albany
Avenue School, Parkway Oaks
School and Northside School, at
any time during the period of
seven ( 7) days immediately preceding
the Special District Meeting,
between the hours of 9: 00
o'clock A. M. ( D. S. T.) and
4: 00 o'clock P. M. ( D. S. T.),
Monday through Friday, inclusive.
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF
EDUCATION
DATED: MAY 8, 1967
VERONICA HANSEN,
DISTRICT CLERK
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After six months of experimentation
, that began last December
when two Republic scientists donned
scuba pear to retrieve a number
of redbeard sponges from the
pilings of the Captree Bridge in
Great South Bay, several of the
findings have now been published
in the Life Sciences journal. The
results indicate that the sponges,
which are found along the eastern
seaboard from Cape Cod,
Massachusetts, toCapeflatteras,
North Carolina, and in the West
Indies-, play an important role in
abating bacterial pollution of
coastal waters.
Peter Madri, a Republic microbiologist
who conducted, the
study, said that he felt " we've
stumbled onto somthing that could
help Long Island." Madri said
that the sponges, which are found
in the Great South Bay, could be
" planted near the shellfish beds
where they would probably keep
the water in and around the beds
clean." Since the sponges are
natural filtering animals that require
no care, it may be possible
to reduce bacterial pollutants by
strategically placing them along
the bay bottom in areas where
pollutant organisms are in significant
concentrations.
The fact that the redbeard
sponges, known technically as
Microcionia prolifera . thrive on
bacteria, was proven by Madri
and his fellow scientists, Dr.
George Claus, Steven Kunen and
former employee Miss Elisabeth
Moss. When Madri and Kunen retrieved
the sponges from the bay
they also collected sea water
which was sterilized and placed
into two 10- gallon tanks. The
sponges were cleaned of visible
contaminants and were placed in
one of the tanks while the second
was used as a control. Already
knowing through previous studies
thattheredbeard sponge contained
more fecal organisms than was
found in the surrounding waters,
the point to be proved, Madri
said, was " whether the Escherichia
coli ( an organism used to
measure the amount of fecal pollution)
was making a home in the
sponge or whether it was being
ingested and digested."
After an equal amount of concentrated
Escherichia coli was
placed in the tank containing the
sponges and the control tank of
sea water, sponge and water
samples were regularly taken
from each tank during a 12- day
period to determine the number
of bacterial pollutants present.
Water tested during the sixth
day indictaed that there were
approximately 1,000,000 bacterial
organism per cubic centimeter
in the control tank while
only 5,000 bacterial organisms
per cubic centimeter remained
in the other tank. A sample of
the sponge, however, contained
approximately 750,000 organ,
isms compared to less than 100
when first placed in the tank.
Although sea water itself has
the ability to remove pollutants
the experiment showed " that the
capacity of the sponge to remove
and eventually kill Escherichia
coli is over 30 times greater
than the value observed for the
bactericidal activity ( killing ef-
HUNGRY SPONGE: Microbiologist Peter Madri at Fairchild Hiller's
Republic Aviation Division examines a redbeard sponge during the
experiment with the orange- colored animals The research is being
conducted by Republic's Life Sciences Department to establish
rates of bacterial ingestion by the sponges.
Gorton Issues Statement
Carl E. Gorton, Farmingdale
Public Library trustee - elect
issued the following statements
this week to The Observer " in
view of all the statements and
actions of the library board with
reference to my action in removing
" The Paris Review"
from the open periodical shelves
of the South Farmingdale
Library."
Gorton made the following
points.
" The Board members made
public statements condemning my
action before reviewing the subject
magazine and without hearing
my case. This automatically
placed them in a prejudiced position.
Since my campaign was entirely
based on this issue, and
1,905 people supported my view,
I would expect to have been treated
with at least the courtesy
due if I had lost the election."
Gorton went on to say, " At
the Board meeting Tuesday night,
a motion to formally ' censure'
me was placed before the board
before I was permitted to present
my case for consideration.
When I was finally permitted to
present the subject material to
the board, they refused to examine
it and offered me the
choice of returning the book immediately
or face ' censure'. The
point was raised that the passage
I objected to, copies of
which I had given to each board
member, could not be reviewed
out of context. Although I believe
that no text could possibly
justify the objectionable passage,
I considered the request to be
feet) of the sea water alone." reasonable I therefore offered
Madri said that the experiment to return the book to the Board
has produced enough information
" to begin field experimentation."
He said that " if we
could culture these sponges in
great enough numbers, I feel
if they would agree to retain it
in their possession until their
review was completed. This they
refused to do", Gorton explained.
" I was, therefore, left with
that bacterial pollution in the Bay n o alternative but to retain pos-or
any other polluted estuary session of the magazine and ac-would
be significantly reduced." ce^ tne Board'c
D'Auria Receives Citation
Oyster Bay Town Republican
Leader Michael D'Auria received
the Nassau Heart Association's
Distinguished Service Medallion
at a dinner held recently at the
Garden City Hotel. D'Auria currently
is a member of the Board
of Directors, Executive Committee
and Fund Raising Advisory
Committee of the Association.
cept the Board's ' censure'
Furthermore, the subject meeting
was conducted under the most
difficult of conditions with glaring
lights, whirring and clicking
cameras and recorders and a
packed mob which gave to the occasion
all the earmarks of a
kangaroo court".
The trustee- elect then went on
to say, " The result was the same.
The Board had obviously planned
its action in advance and predetermined
my ' guilt' by ' unanimous'
decision. To quote,
library trustee, Mrs. Myra Van
Nostrand, who was not present
" We stick together".
Gorton also said, " It appeared
that Library Director, Orrin B.
Dow was conducting the meeting
rather than Board Chairman,
Mrs. Khan Musa. Inasmuch as
Mr. Dow is supposed to be responsible
to the board, this appeared
somewhat unusuaL"
Gorton made another point,
" Although the Board ' censured'
me of setting myself up as an
' arbiter of public tastes', such
is not the case at alL I am
interested in seeing that the libraries
material reflects the
public taste with the requirements
of the law. I do not feel
that obscene literature on the
library's magazine shelves
meets these criteria, unless I
misjudge the character of the
people of Farmingdale and I misunderstand
the law.
" Mr. Dow completely confirmed
my statement concerning
the disturbances at the South
Farmingdale Branch. Yet, a library
employee there, declared
in a letter to The Observer,
among other things, that no problem
existed. In view of his deliberate
mis- statement of fact,
his veracity is certainly questionable
on the ' other things'.
Inasmuch as I believe the library
board to have acted
illadvisably under strenuous conditions,
in ' censuring' me, I look
forward to being able to discuss
the issues with the board at the
next meeting in a more ameable
atmosphere."
Seek Folk Musk
Fans, Performers
Folk music fans and performers
will meet in the Community
Room of Massapequa's Bar Harbour
Library next Friday evening,
May 19, to continue the
third year of the successful series
of country musicales.
Anyone with a hankering to pick
a banjo, pluck a guitar, or croon
a country song, will find a place
in the spotlight.
Admission is free and curtain
time is 8: 00 p. m.
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