Nickerson Seeks Partnership
To Bring Taxes Down
Board Invests $ 950,000
Nassau County Executive
Eugene H. Nickerson appealed
to Governor Rockefeller to " work
in partnership with local governments
to bring property taxes
down."
In releasing his letter, Nickerson
emphasized that he was
asking for a shifting of costs from
the local governments to the
State, and not advocating
additional expenditures or new
programs. The shifting of costs
involve school expenditures, welfare,
probation, mental health,
highways, and police. Wherever
necessary, the County Executive
intends to prepare legislation
embodying his proposals for submission
to the 1968 State Legislature.
" We have reached a point
where many small homeowners,
especially those living on fixed
or declining incomes, are in
serious danger of financial catastrophe.
" It is the State's responsibility
not merely to hold the line on
State- mandated property tax
levels but to work in partnership
with local government to bring
property taxes down.
" There is no question that
State assumption of these proper
responsibilities will result in
lower property taxes in every
community in our State."
Nickerson urged that the
Governor make possible property
tax reduction by shifting a portion
of State- mandated costs to
Albany, including $ 4,500,000 to
relieve Nassau's highest- taxed
school districts and an increase
in State aid to $ 800 a pupil for
all districts.
The County Executive requested
$ 19,430,000 in State aid
for local costs of the State's
Medicaid and welfare programs
and 75 per cent State reimbursement
for probation and mental
health services.
Nickerson wrote to the
Governor that Nassau residents
are " at present paying twice for
the same police protection, once
locally and once again to the
St. ite. The Nassau County policeman
carries out in our county
all the functions of the State
Police as well, and yet we receive
virtually no State aid for
his services."
In requesting 50 per cent State
reimbursement for County Police
costs, Nickerson wrote: " As
the founding fathers put an end
to taxation without representation,
I hope that this year you will
abolish double- taxation without
justification.
" The people of Nassau wish you
a Happy New Year.
Councilman Ralph J. Marino,
Board Majority Leader, said the
Town Board has approved the investment
of $ 950,000 of Town
Funds which are not needed for
current expenses as certificates
of deposits.
Marino said the board authorized
Town Comptroller Joseph W.
Macedonio to deposit the funds in
several banks for a period of 70
New Overseas Air Rates For Packages
To Military Personnel
Packages up to 30 pounds for
American military personnel
served by Army and Fleet Post
Offices overseas now can be sent
by air transportation at special
low rates.
Area residents using this new
airlift service will get much
faster delivery on parcels to
military personnel overseas on
a space- available basis upon payment
of the domestic parcel post
surface rate plus a flat $ 1 fee.
Packages weighing up to 30
pounds and not more than 60
inches in combined length and
girth qualify for the new special
airlift rate.
Postal patrons can get the airlift
service on packages mailed to
all military personnel at APO
and FPO addresses overseas, and
in Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto
Rico. The new airlift also applies
to parcels mailed back to
the States by servicemen from the
military post offices.
Parcels on which the $ 1 fee
is paid get air transportation
all the way— from here to the
port of embarkation, and from
there to the overseas base. Postal
patrons formerly had to pay air
parcel post rates to get similar
service.
In many instances thenew, air-lift
rates are considerably below
comparable air parcel post
charges.
Extend Deadline For Library Contest
The deadline for the Farming-dale
Public Library's 1968 photo
contest has been extended to
Wednesday, January 31st.
The entrants will be judged
by a panel of photo editors from
three newspapers. Cameras are
being furnished as prizes.
Amateur photographers of any
age may compete providing they
are eligible for a borrowers card
at the Farmingdale Public Library.
Library employees and
their families are disqualified
from competition.
Photo submitted must be un-retouched
black and white with
minimum photo size 8" x 10"
and maximum size 14" x 20".
Each contestant may send up
to five entries and photos must
be mounted.
Entries must be delivered to
the South Farmingdale Branch
Library by 9* 00 p. m. on Wednesday,
January 3lst. Contest
winners will be announced in
February.
MCTA Will Meet With Chamber
Of Commerces Re Transportation Future
Dr. William J. Ronan, chairman
of the Metropolitan Commuter
Transportation Authoi ity,
will meet on Tuesday, January
16 at 7 p. m. with representatives
of 43 community chambers of
commerce in Nassau County to
discuss the future of rail transportation
on Long Island.
Also participating in the meeting,
which will take place in the
County Executive Building in
Mineola, will be Nassau County
Executive Eugene H. Nickerson,
Frank Arkman, J r . , president of
the Long Island Rail Road, and
representatives of die Long Island
Association of Commerce
and Industry.
Sponsor of the conference is
the Nassau County Small Business
Advisory Council which was
established last year by Nickerson
to give local chambers of
commerce a broader role in
planning at the County level. The
conference will be open only to
authorized delegates from local
chambers of commerce and
boards of trade.
Dems Schedule Vietnam Debate
A Vietnam debate, pro and
con, will be offered by the 9th
A. D. Democratic organization on
Tuesday, January 16 at 8: 30p. m.
at the Massapequa Park Village
Hall.
Irving Harrison, an architect
from Merrick, who is a member
of the Steering Committee of the
Dissenting Democrats will speak
on the anti- Johnson side. Dr.
William Levantrosser, an Associate
Professor in Political
Science at Hofstra University
will take the administration's
side. He received his Doctorate
at Rutgers University, is a graduate
of the University of Michigan
and pursued post doctorate studies
at the Mershon Center for
Board Adopts Capital Budget Procedure
The Town Board adopted
a Capital Budget Procedure which
will help expedite the planning
and execution of a capital program,
Councilman Ralph J. Marino,
Board Majority Leader, announced.
Marino said the new procedure
establishes the responsibilities
and sets the dates and deadlines
for submission of capital projects
to the Town Board for
consideration.
Under the new procedure each
department head will be responsible
for submitting to the Supervisor
and Comptroller, on
or before August 1, written suggestions
for capital projects to
be undertaken within the next
six years, the estimated cost
and the proposed method of financing.
The date coincides with
the deadline for the annual operating
budget estimates and will
permit the department head to
prepare both simultaneously so
each can be referred to if needed.
Marino explained that the information
for capital projects
would be studied by the supervisor
before he would include
these recommendations in his
preliminary Capital Budget which
must be submitted to the Town
Board and Comptroller on or
before September 15.
He stressed that the capital
projects must be arranged in
order of priority and include the
effect, if any, on the operating
days and will earn the Town interest
at the rate of 5.5% per
annum.
The deposits were made in the
Chemical Bank New York Trust;
First National Bank of Glen Head;
First National City Bank; Franklin
National Bank; Long Island
National Bank; Long Island Trust
Company; and the Security National
Bank.
Residents Oppose Shopping
Center Application
Decision was reserved by the
Town of Oyster Bay Town Board
on a petition to have a five acre
site north of Merrick Road near
Redwood Lane in Massapequa
rezoned for a shopping center
after a three hour hearing. About
80 Massapequa residents who attended
the hearing were in opposition.
The petition was submitted by
Edward V. Manning and Edward
M. Pratt, trustee under die will
of Mary K Manning for a change
of Zone from Residence ' D' to
Business ' F ' . Part of the property
is currently a nursing home,
which die petitioners said would
be discontinued. The petitioners
Education and National Security
at Ohio State University. He is a
Colonel in the U. S. Army Reserves.
Alan Miller will be the moderator.
At the meeting, Arthur Friedman
of 24 Tenth Avenue, Farmingdale
will be installed as President
of the Democratic Club.
said diat die shopping center
would contain a supermarket, a
bank and stores as well as a
parking area.
A 500 name petition in opposition
was submitted by Al Miller
of 75 Tidewater Avenue, Massapequa.
Otiiers who spoke in
opposition were Robert Eagan,
President of the Nassau Shores
Civic Association. Jack H. Shar-nack.
President of the Beth
Sholom Jewish Center sent a
letter in opposition. Reasons
cited were traffic congestion,
devaluation of property values
and unsightly conditions. Paul
Vetrano of 75 Gem Lane helped
organize die mass attendance.
CAMP Wants Village To
Keep Present Status
The Civic Association of Massapequa
Park ( CAMP) went on
record on Tuesday night to keep
the Incorporated status of die
village. The vote which was
unanimous was in reaction to
Trustee Francis King's suggestion
Monday night mat die
village should ' de- incorporate*.
Mayor Andrew Senese was die
guest speaker and spoke of some
of the " frustrations" in ironing
out die public works department,
but told of the importance of
home rule.
The group also passed a resolution
that Nassau County should
encourage private industry to
erect a coliseum radier than
using County tax funds.
Martin Gannon was installed as
President of die group.
Grover To Inspect Panama Area
Congressman James R. Grover
J r . will tour Panama diis mondi
w i t h ot- feer m e m b e r s of the
Panama Canal Subcommittee of
the House Merchant Marine and
Fisheries Committee. The lawmaker
is scheduled to leave this
Friday, January 12, and will r e turn
January 22.
The subcommittee will make
aerial inspection.^ j*^—— zs£
routes for a se- - ~ —* canal
and will check facilities in die
Canal Zone.
G r o v e r , ranking Republican
member of die subcommittee,
conducted a similar tour in April,
1966.
Dems Set Up Annual Awards
For ' Outstanding Committemen'
A " Committeeman of die
Year" award, honoring a Democratic
committeeman or woman
in each of Nassau's 12 Assembly
Districts, will be launched at
the Nassau Democratic Committee's
Annual Reception on Sunday,
January 28, at die Roosevelt
Raceway Cloud Casino.
The winners, chosen for outstanding
party and community
service during 1967, will be presented
with watches and plaques.
The annual award was set up
by vote of die Nassau Democratic
Policy Committee, made up of
county officers and die state
committeeman and committee-woman
of each Assembly District.
costs of that department for the
three ensuing fiscal years.
Marino also said that the Supervisor's
preliminary capital
budget must also include any
amounts to be financed by direct
budgetary appropriations
during the fiscal year to which
the preliminary budget pertains.
A public hearing on the Supervisor's
preliminary capital program
would be held within 10
days after September 15 and
after the hearing.
Marino said the capital program
would include such projects
that would mean any physical
betterment or improvements
within the Town such as furnishings,
machinery, apparatus
or equipment, construction and
land acquisition and use.
Fgrmingcjale Q^^ RVEI?, Tbursdpy, Jpnuqry U , ) 968
Mrs. Edmund A. Ocher, Chairman of Nassau County February
Heart Sunday Drive and Town Councilman Philip B. Healey,
Massapequa, Area Chairman for the Massapequas, point up the
need for contributing to the Heart Association.
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