Bethpage-Tribune_1974-05-09

              BETHP/GE AMMVERSARY ISSMJE
also serving ISLAND TREES
OLD BETHP/GE PLAINVIEW PLAINEDGE SEAFORD
VOL. 8 NO. 25 Thursday,.May 9, 1974 10 cents per copy
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Tribune profile:
Green is the color of printer's ink
TAXING SITUATION: Oyster Bay Town Receiver of
Taxes Solomon Newborn (center) explains the hows
and shys of taxes to Tom Spina (left), President of the
Theodore Roosevelt Republican Club of Bethpage, and
Ed Gaynor, a member of the Club and former Com­missioner
of the Town of Oyster Bay Department of
Planning and Development. Newborn was the guest
^MlmnrtAo*i>rtl martintfof the Club.
—"'WfiiSidlby' Jtatfry Augusta '
While printers in New York
City man picket lines to protest
the advance of automation- - and
threats to their jobs- - a local man
is finding that the business has a
great future.
Bob Anna belle lives in Coram,
but he has spent most of his 25
years in Bethpage, where he also
owns and operates Island Wide
Graphics.
Last month was an important
one for Annabelle. After a fruitful
four-year partnership with
principals of Photonews, Island-
Wide Graphics became An-nabelle's
own personal property
in April.
Despite his youth, it has been a
long, steady climb for Annabelle,
who started out sweeping floors
at Photo-news some 10 years ago.
sHe did the work;, of. folding and
inserting papers; then moved on
to advanced camex^^^M^
work. ""• " -•• - . t
Within three years, he felt
confident enough to go into a
printing partnership on Central
Ave. While this venture did not
take off, it gave him a valuable
warm-up for the Island-Wide
business, which he began three
years later. ;t •
There is no doubt that Island-
Wide Graphics has taken off.
Since 1970. Annabelle reports, the
volume of his business has
doubled each year, a prosperity
reflected in the company's 4,500
square foot office on Benkert
Ave.
The printing industry still
features high demand, according
to Annabelle: "We're one of the
largest printers of wedding in­vitations
.in the area," he notes.
"But a lot of our biggest jobs are
from the hospital trade, school
publications and general
business printing."
Legal protection of real estate
customers has been another big
boom to printers such as An­nabelle.
"Much of our best work
is the offering statement on
property which New York State
requires real estate companies to
make available to their clients,"
he explains.
clientele has spared him some ofy,
the" crunch that newspaper
printers have felt, especially
when It comes to paper. "There's
hot really a shortage of paper,"
he argues, "just a problem in
getting certain grades of it.
Cheaper newsprint, for example,
is tight, because manufacturers
are making more expensive
grades, like the ones we buy for
posters, journal and the like."
Automation is also a problem
that does not faze Annabelle. As
his brother Fred, comptroller of
the company, sees it "you just
have to keep one step ahead of
things," For the Annabelles, that
means modern computer type­setting
machines, an in-plant
bindery, and a self-sustained
camera department which can
handle work in four colors up to
18 by 25 inches in size.
"What we have with this
equipment is speed, quality, and
accuracy," adds the younger
Annabelle, Who is a Democratic
Committeeman in the 10th A. D.
"It allows us to operate the way
we prefer: to take the job from
scratch, design it, set the type,
make the negatives and plates,
and even bind it if necessary."
"Best of aU," adds brother
wrong.
Ultimately, Bob would like to
specialize in magazine and book
work. In the meantime, though,
the Bethpage printer is hustling
ahead as president of what looks
to be a growing family business,
and as head of a growing family- -
his wife, Meryl expects then-first
child in September.
Woman's club wins service award
REMEMBER THE MISSING: Nassau County Executive Ralphiu.
Caso signs proclamation designating May 24 as "Students Petition
Day at the United Nations for our MIAs and POWs," a memorial
program sponsored by the Fort Wadsworth Committee for a Living
National Park Memorial consisting of students petitioning for United
Nations assistance in searching for our 1,088 servicemen listed as
missing in action. Taking part in ceremony are Leo A. Boiler,
committee chairman (right) and (standing) John R. Ray of Far-mingdale,
director of the county Veterans Service Agency.
At the annual convention of the
New York State Federation of
Women's Clubs held April 20
through May 2, the Bethpage
Woman's Club won second place
honors in their district for their
library activities in the com­munity.
In cooperation with the Beth­page
Public Library, the
Woman's Club has been
providing Homebound Service
for residents of Bethpage.
Through their efforts, patrons
who formerly were unable to
avail themselves of library
service have been receiving
books and other materials on a
regular basis.
The Bethpage Public Library
and the patrons who have been
receiving the service are very
grateful to the Women's Club for
their cooperation in this
program," said, a library
spokesman.
An award was also given to the
Bethpage Club for having
collected and distributed 9.000
books and magazines during the
past two years and distributed
them to the Association for the
Help of Retarded Children.
The regular monthly meeting
of the Woman's Club of Bethpage
will be held on Monday May 13 at
8:15 p.m. at the home of Mrs.
Ernest Marshall, 32 Coronet
Crescent, Bethpage. The
program for the evening will
feature a speaker from a boys
school, speaking on justice of
juveniles.
Four local couples celebrate 50th
POOL SHARKS: Oyster Bay Town Councilman Salvatore R. Mosca
(seventh from right) presents 'diplomas" to Town pool maintenance
men who have successfully completed a course on pool maintenance
given by the Nassau County Department of Health, Divisioni of
Environmental Health. The course centered mainly on pool filtration
and chemical operation. Those receiving certificates include (ex­treme
left) P. Houck, Bethpage; (3rd left) T. Zervos, Jr., Plainview;
f 4th left) F. Towers, Plainview; C. Saladino, Supervisor of Rinks and
Pools Plainview (to Mosca's left); B. Denner, Syosset; and (last
four on the right) J. Walters, Plainview; E. Fehringer. Plainview. J.
Fraser, Plainview and T. Zervos, Sr., Plainview.
The Rockville Centre Catholic
Diocese held its annual Golden
Wedding Celebration at 3 p.m.,
Sunday, May 5, in St. Agnes
Cathedral, Rockville Centre.
Bishop Walter P. Kellenberg will
preside at the event, sponsored
by the Diocesan Family Life
Bureau, and give to each
jubilarian couple a certificate
acknowledging their 50 years of
married life.
More than 200 couples from all
areas of Nassau and Suffolk
Counties will be participating in
the annual event. Designed
primarily to honor couples who
have completed 50 years of
marriage, the event also
celebrates the greatness and
holiness of the married state.
"Golden Jubilarians stanc as
true witnesses to the unbreakable
marriage bond and to the hap­piness
and fidelity which they,
with God's grace, have
achieved," noted the bishop.
Local Jubilarians were Mr. and .
Mrs. Joseph Schiavone, 6
Sherman Ave. and Mr. and Mrs.
Charles O'Neill, 24 Kevin Lane,
both Bethpage; and the Ryans of
15 Oak Drive and the Seuferts of
16 Knickerbocker Rd. So., both
Plainview.
Chinese auction May 22
The Island Trees PTA Council
will hold a Chinese Auction as a
scholarship fund raiser for Island
Trees on Wednesday May 22, at
8:30 PM in the General Purpose
room of the Island Trees Junior
High School. Wantagh Avenue,
Levittown.
Admission fee is a wrapped gift
which will be auctioned off during
the evening.
LEON RUSSELL: a performer
whose distinctive style and
talents have been acclaimed by
rock musicians as\ well as by
audiences worldwide, will appear
in concert in the Dome
Auditorium at C. W. Post Center
of Long Island University on
Tuesday. May 14 at 8 p.m.