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PLAINVIEW PLAINEDGE SEAFORD
VOL. 8 NO. 40
Thursday, August 22,1974
Local Man Assigned New Post No off-shore Drilling Here
10 cents per copy
Caso Adds Fuel To The Fire
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David J . Epstein, 12 Allison Dr., Old Bethpage, has been elected an
assistant secretary in Manufacturers Hanover Trust's real estate
and mortgage department.
Mr^EpstehTi'started with the bank's data center in i960. He trans-
^ e r r e d t o tnepayrolt departrt*entT*sa unit- head-inT9B!»^wad-was named
department head in 1970. He was promoted to accounting officer and
wasassignedtotherealestateandmortgagedepartmentj
Roncallo Outraged At Senate
Action Against Grumman
IIT om chnrked
Congressman Angelo D
Roncallo (R-NY-3rd) said tonight
he was outraged at a resolution
passed by the Senate earlier
today which would disapprove
payment of an $100 million ad­vance
loan to Grumman for the
F-14 and other planes The
resolution was introduced by
Senator William Proxmire, a
Wisconsin Democrat, and passed
by a vote of 58-35. Under previous
agreement an advance payment
of over $25 million can be
disapproved by either House of
Congress without the con­currence
of the other. —
Did You Hear About This?
" I am shocked that this
measure was passed," the
Congressman said. "If
negotiations cannot proceed to
relieve this problem, I intend to
marshall a bi-partisan effort to
counteract this Senate action.
Grumman and the F-14 would
suffer greatly and unfairly and in
my opinion, the Senate has acted
harshly."
The Bethpage School Board
meeting for August has been
changed from August 27th to
August 29th (Thurs.).
Drilling for oil the Atlantic
and turning Long Island into a
petroleum province are not the
answers to the energy shortage,
says Nassau County Executive
Ralph G. Caso, particularly when
"nobody really knows what is
going on except the oil companies
and they are not telling
anybody."
"While Americans in the
Northeast were scrambling for
gasoline last winter, while
millions of people were being laid
off, while prices were soaring and
adding to inflation, the major oil
companies were posting record
profits and the biggest fuel
storage facility on Long Island
had 40 per cent more petroleum
than it had during the same
period a year e a r l i e r , " Caso said.
Caso*s statements are con­tained
in testimony prepared for
delivery1 xaiMOH'iow"CAugasr 200
before a Federal' Energy: Ad­ministration
hearing on Project
Independence. The hearing, one
of a series, is being held at 10:00
AM at the Carnegie International
Center, 345 East 46th Street,
Manhattan.
While noting that there are
reports that the major oil com­panies
are now cutting back
production because of high in­ventories,
Caso told the FEA
panel that he is not challenging
the concept of Project In­dependence.
"But I am here to challenge the
assertion that Long Island ,must
accept the risk of permanent,
long-range economic and en­vironmental
disaster in order to
facilitate a temporary, short-term
expedient that will not
really bring us any nearer to
independence," Caso stated.
The county executive said that
continued proposals to drill for oil
and gas in the Atlantic off Long
Island have "an unreal quality"
in light of explicit findings by the
U.S. Council on Environmental
Quality after a year-long study.
The council report says that
•offshore technology is not safe
and that a spill even 50 miles out
would have a 10 per cent
probability of reaching Long
continuous danger from.
everyday routine operations, and
that the most devastating impact
of offshore operations would be
the on-shore support facilities. In
Caso's opinion, on-shore facilities
"would make property values
plummet and destroy our shores
and wetlands."
Caso noted that he visited
Louisiana two weeks ago to ob­serve
that state's offshore oil
industry. He said that there was
absolutely no basis for com­parison
and that he had returned '
unconvinced. He pointed out that
the Louisiana Gulf coast has no
beaches and is sparsely
populated, in sharp contrast to
Long Island's Atlantic shoreline.
In addition, he cited a 1971 U.S.
E n v i r o n m e n t a l P r o t e c t i on
Agency report on an eight-week
offshore platform fire in the Gulf. "
The report said that "spills
varying in size from a few gallons
to many barrels are endemic to
the Gulf of Mexico. U.S. Coast
Guard surveillance flights report
three to seven pollution incidents
every week."
Addressing himself to the
' question of energy independence,
Caso proposed the consolidation
of the more than 35 federal
agencies that deal with energy
coordinate research into alter-:
nate sources of energy. "The
government today knows no
more about the oil industry than
the industry is willing to tell i t ,"
Caso declared. "The Federal
Energy Administration and other
federal agencies- are as com­pletely
dependent on the oil in­dustry
for their basic data as a
blind man is on his seeing eye
dog."
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Vets' Lonq Wait Worthwhile
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It seems as though every
summer, just about at this time,
the Congressional Record carries
some outraged commentary • by
Congressmen, who, like myself,
realize that the money we spend
doesn't grow on trees but must be
extracted from our friends and
neighbors. And when we see how
some of this money is wasted, our
blood pressure rises and the
already steamy Washington
summer heat really starts to
sizzle.
Here is a sample of the latest
revelations on how your money
was wasted. As you know, the
federal government supports a
great many research projects.
Many, if not most are serious and
worthwhile but some seem
designed to provide gainful
employment for otherwise im­pecunious
PHD's. Because if
these people have another way of
making a living, their federal
projects can only be classified as
privacy.
Here's ^a sample of the way
your money was wasted last
year.
* A study of why people say
" a i n ' t " . Cost, $121,000.
* A study of medieval Spanish
satire and invective, $8,500.
* A study of wild boar chasing
in Pakistan, $35,000.
# An investigation, of the dif­ferences
between American and
Indian whistling ducks, $5,000.
* A study of the perspiration
smell of Australian aborigines,
$70,000.
* Studying Polish bisexual
frogs, $6,000.
* A study of the blood
groupings of Polish Zlotnika pigs,
$20,000.
* A study of the mating calls of
Central American toads, $20,324.
* A probe of the conflicts
caused in Yugoslavian peasant
towns by fishing boat crewmen,
$15,000.
(Continued on Page 8)
The Nation's Vietnam - era
veterans, who have been waiting
for what must have seemed like
an eternity for a sorely - needed
increase in the level of their
educational benefits, are on the
threshold of what may be ranked
as the biggest "victory" to ,
develop out of their military
service during the '60's and early
70's.
After several months of par­tisan
haggling, a House - Senate
Conference Committee has now
reached an agreement that will
provide generous, if belated,
assistance to those of our young
veterans who have had great
difficulty in meeting both rising
tuition costs and the spiraling
cost of living.
The Conference Report must
still be approved by the House
and Senate, but swift action is
expected considering the extent
of the delay which the two Houses
(and the vets themselves) have
suffered for the past seven
months while a compromise was
being hammered out. What the*
Conferees have agreed to is a 23
percent boost in educational
benefits for the somewhat
"thankless" service so many of
our young men offered tr'
country during the Vietnam era -
the biggest such increase since
World War II.
The legislation would also
make these same veterans
eligible for loans to supplement
m
their monthly benefits, and ex­tend
their eligibility for the
benefits themselves from 36 to 45
months - an additional, school
year.
Specifically, benefits would
increase from $220 month to
$270 month for single veterans,
and married vets would see then-stipend
hiked from $261 month
to $321 month. Assistance to
veterans with one child will climb
from the present $298 month to
$366 month, and the supplement
for each additional dependent
will rise from $18 to $23 month.
It's important to remember here
that, unlike WW II veterans'
benefits, no additional payments
will be made to any educational
institution for tuition itself.
On top of their increased
benefits, each veteran will now
be eligible for supplementary
loans of up to $1,000 year, with
these funds to be drawn from a $7
billion, national life insurance
trust fund composed totally of
v e t e r a n s ' life insurance
premiums. While interest rates
must still be set by the Veterans'
Administration, the compromise
legislation calls for a ten - year
repayment period.
NEW PUBLIC HEALTH LAW TO CURTAIL ENVIRONMENTAL
HAZARDS -- Assemblyman Stuart R. Levine (R -Bethpage). right,
and Donald P. Hirshorn, Assistant Attorney General in Charge of
Department of Laws Legislative Bureau, discuss the wide-ranging
benefits of a new Public Health law effective Sept. 1.