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VOL. 8 NO. 16 Thursday, March 7, 1974 10 cents per copy
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Assemblyman Stuart R. Levine (left) of the 10th District and
Michael Doyle of the William V. Doyle Agency, Bethpage, discuss
insurance legislation Tuesday in Albany. Both attended the annual
Legislative Day of the New York State Association of Insurance
Agents.
Unique Search Started By Friends
Of Nassau County Museum
Long Islanders are being asked
by the Friends of the Nassau
County Museum to check their
attics and basements for an
assortment of key antiques and
historic items, including one
unlikely home-contained item, an
original World War II
Republicbuilt P-47 Thunderbolt
aircraft.
The hunt for this historic air­craft
is all part of a major drive,
organized by the Friends
organization', to secure key an­tique
and historically-significant
additions for the Nassau County
Museum collections.
Dubbed as the Friends' "Ten
Most Wanted Items," the
program is designed to provide
an organized search throughout
all of Long Island for those fur­nishings
and objects which are
necessaryVfor permanent use at
the various facilities of the
museum, andespeciallyat the Old
Bethpage village restoration and
Nassau Hall in Muttontown.
Friends President Gerald S.
Kessler of Huntington Bay, a
National Bank of North America
Vice-President, said that the
Long Island-made P-47 Thun­derbolt,
a World War II
workhorse, is needed for the
proposed aerospace museum, in
Nassau County, and that the
other key objects were especially
necessary for use in Old Bethpage
Village dwellings, which are
included in Nassau's re-created
farm village of the 1850's. "No
stone will be left unturned in our
attempt to find and secure these
key pieces, wherever they are,"
Kessler said.
The non-profit Friends organi­zation,
with a membership of
about 1,000 Nassau and Suffolk
residents, assists in the develop­ment
and operation of Nassau
County's museum program,
including activities in the
historic, landmark preservation
and natural history fields. Much
of its efforts have been devoted to
obtaining, either through
donation or direct purchase, the
various antique furnishings that
have been and are being used to
. furnish the historic buildings at
Old B«
format
assistant
government and its residents an
estimated $1 million.
Besides the P-47 aircraft, the
Friends' "Ten Most Wanted
Items" list contains a set of four
Queen Anne side chairs (circa
1730), a New York Queen Anne
highboy (circa 1730), a "wag-on-the-
wall-clock" (circa 1730) and a
Dutch-New York pewter cup­board
(circa 1720-30), all for use
at the Schenck House in Old Beth­page.
Also needed are late-18th
and early 19th-century Oriental
rugs for Old Bethpage village and
Nassau Hall in Muttontown, as
well as a set of Sheraton, Hep-plewhite
or Duncan Phyfe chairs
(circa 1800), a Tambour desk
(circa 1800-1820), a Federal
period oil portrait of a prominent.
New Yorker (circa 1800) and a
Hepplewhite chest (circa 1790-
1810), all for Nassau Hall.
In an effort to locate the pieces,
the Friends group has produced
and printed a poster which
depicts each of the wanted items
for easy identification. The
posters have been distributed to
Nassau and Suffolk
organizations, libraries, offices
and public meeting places.
Members of the Friends have
also been asked to keep a wat-pieces
are acquired by the
organization, additional items
will be added to the list as
replacements and the ''search
will continue as an on-going
program." Anyone interested in
obtaining a copy of the "Ten Most
Wanted Items" poster or having
information as to the where­abouts
of any of the items should
contact the Friends group at
(516) 364-1050.
Volunteers for P.E.O.P.L.E. are shown during a recent meeting of
the group at the Walk-in-Center, at 280 Broadway, in Bethpage. Left
to right: Rose Morrone, Joan Spalding, Nancy Verderosa, Mike
Verderosa, Jim McKague (Program Director), Gene Gould (stan­ding)
and Al Wilscheck. The next meeting of P.E.O.P.L.E. will be
held on Thursday, Mach 14,1974, at 8:15 p.m., at the Bethpage High
School. Photo by Jerry Augusta
Record Turnout For Eighth Annual
Bethpage Panther's Awards Dinner
Pictured above at the 8th Annual Awards Dinner of the Bethpage
Panthers are, left to right: Chuck Johnson, BAMFO President;
Florence CuUem, Tribune Publisher ^John Schmidt, Center of the N-Y
Jets; Joe Carley, BAMFO Vice President and Sal Mosca, T.O.B.
Councilman. Mrs. CuUem is accepting Founders Award presented by
Mr. Johnson on behalf of the Bethpage Midget Football Association.
The Bethpage Association of
Midget Football held their Eighth
Annual Awards Dinner recently
at the Four Seasons Country Club
in Woodbury with well over five
hundred players, parents and
supporters in attendance. The
crowd was thrilled by the ap­pearance
of John Schmidt,
perennial All-League Center of
the New York Jets, who spoke to
the youngsters and then tried to
field their questions. The players
and parents also heard from
Bethpage Head Football Coach
Howard Vogts while the political
side was represented by Oyster
Bay Town Councilman Salvatore
Mosca.
The eveniogV festivities were
opened by Past, president Mince
DeVito who introduced his
successor, Panther President
Chuck Johnson. In brief remarks,
Johnson hailed the performance
of Panther teams during the 1973
season, taking particular note of
the Peanut and Jay Vee teams
which won Long Island Midget
Football League championships.
He also called for increased
parental participation during the
coming year to meet the ex­panding
needs of the various
teams fielded by BAMFO.
The 1974 Founders Award,
given to the person who has
contributed outstanding service
to the Panthers during the year,
went to Mrs. Florence Cullem,
Publisher of the Bethpage
Tribune. Mrs. Cullem fought
back tears of joy as she accepted
the award, made by the two men
who helped found Bethpage
Midget Football, Ben Zuk and
Dick Medford.
The Jets John Schmidt proved
to be a witty and entertaining
dinner speaker. The former
Hofstra star, however, warned
the youngsters of the severe
dangers of drug experimentation.
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A portion of the dab is shown at 8th Annual Awards Dinner of the
Bethpage Midget Football Association held February 11th at the
Four Seasons Club in Woodbury. Pictured, left to right, are: Ben
Zuk, Dick Medford, BUI LaSaUa, N-Y Jets Center John Schmidt.
Bethpage Football Coach Howie Vogts and Sal Mosca. Over 500
persons attended the affair.