Bethpage-Tribune_1975-01-23

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PLAINVIEW PLAINEDGE SEAFORD
VOL. 9 NO. 9 Thursday, January 23, 1975 10 cents per copy
You Don't Hove To Be
Italian To Enjoy- -
From February 10 to 24,1975 an
Italian Festival of food, wine and
fashion will take place at the St.
Regis Hotel in New York.
Organized by the Italian Trade
Commissioner, the two-week
Festival will feature nightly
fashion presentations along with
gourmet Italian foods and wines
in the Maisonette restaurant at
the St. Regis Hotel.
Four master chefs from C1GA
hotels will supervise the
Maisonette menu for this oc­casion
and will prepare all meals
during the two weeks of the
Festival. A selection of fine
Italian wines, such as Calissano
Barolo and Barbaresco, Melini
Chianti Classico and Orvieto,
Lamberti Soave and Amarone,
and Negri Inferno, chosen by the
chefs as the ideal ac­companiment
to their menu, will
be available to Maisonette diners
with their meal. These wines,
together with some of the more
unusual foods, will be flown in
from Italy on Alitalia jets
specifically for the Festival.
The entertainment highlight of
the Festival will be twice-nightly
musical fashion shows featuring
the unique creations of Roberta
di Camerino. These shows will be
choreographed by David Carter
and will include a full range of the
very popular Roberta di
Camerino designs, from scarves,
handbags and jewelry to evening
gowns and daytime dresses.
During the full two weeks of the
Festival, a special display of
Italian products arranged by the
Italian Government Travel Of­fice
will also be open to the
public, in the Boite Russe, at the
St. Regis Hotel.
On February 10, prior to the
opening of the Festival, a special
preview luncheon and fashion
show will be held at the
Maisonette for press only. A
reception for press and VIP's in
the Versailles Room of the St.
Regis later that day will officially
open the Festival.
The two-week Festival is in­tended
to give New Yorkers an
opportunity to experience, in a
plush NY setting, some of the
most elegant aspects of Italian
life. The chefs, the wines, the
menu, and the fashions all have
been selected on the basis of their
quality and prestige, and are
considered representative of the
finest in their field.
For decades CIGA Hotels have
operated the most exclusive and
luxurious hotels throughout Italy.
The four chefs who will be flown
to New York on Alitalia
specifically for this Festival are
recognized as masters in the art
of fine cooking, for which the
entire CIGA chain is so famous.
The men include Chef Minoggio
from the Principe e Savioa Hotel
in Milan, Chefs Sorzio and Perina
of the Grand Hotel des Bains in
Venice, and Chef Valle of the
Hotel Colombia in Genova.
Experts in wines as well as foods,
they have selected six brands of
quality Italian wines - altogether
30 individual wines from 6 of
Italy's wine producing regions -
as the only wines to be served
during the Festival.
The fashions presented at the
Festival will be likewise out­standing.
On the eve of the
opening her first U.S. boutique,
on Fifth Avenue, Roberta di
Camerino is daily gaining in­creased
recognition and acclaim
among Americans, and the
special designs being flown from
Italy via Alitalia for presentation
at the St. Regis will no doubt
further her reputation in this
country.
All travel arrangements for the
chefs, Roberta di Camerino
personnel, the fashions and the
wine are being handled by
Alitalia, one of the co-sponsors of
the Festival.
Paul Slater Has A Heart —
Paul D. Slater of Boston, a real
estate investor, has been ap­pointed
National Chairman for
the 1975 Heart Fund Campaign,
according to Peter F. Pill, Board
Chairman of the Nassau Heart
Association.
Mr. Slater will guide the ac­tivities
of 2,000,000 Heart Fund
volunteers seeking contributions
nationwide for the Association's
program of research, public and
professional education and
community service projects for
heart patients and their families.
He is the first New Englander to
head the nationwide Heart Fund
Campaign.
Mr. Slater is President of
Boston-based Albert M. Slater &
Son, real estate investors and one
of New England's largest private
financing organizations. He is a
Director of the United Trust
Yevoli Says No To Carey's Plans
ALBANY**- Assemblyman
Lewis J. Yevoli (D. -Old Beth-pate)
is urging fellow Nassau and
Surrolk County Legislators to
request that Governor Carey
abandon plans to decrease state
aid to school districts and to seek
alternatives to a proposed 10
cents per gallon tax on gasoline.
Yevoli said, "Governor Carey
showed courage and foresight in
mandating economies in many
areas outlined in his annual
message. He undoubtedly was
well intentioned but misguided in
calling for reductions in the state
aid formula and increases in the
gasoline tax. Even if our school
districts received the same
amount of assistance as last year
the financial ramifications would
be catastrophic. Shifting the
increased burden squarely on to
the shoulders of the hardpressed
homeowner would be a crippling
blow to suburbanites." Yevoli
continued, Without any increase
in the state aid formula our
school district couldn't function
even under the most austere
circumstances. The only way
local districts could hope to
survive next year would be by
proposing dramatic increases in
property taxes. It is virtually
impossible for the already
overtaxed homeowner to absorb
any further tax increases.''
"The Governors proposal to
impose an additonal 10 cents per
gallon tax on gasoline is equally
disastrous," Yevoli said, "this is
a regressive step, one that truly
places an unfair burden on the
motorist whose automobile is an
essential means of tran­sportation.
In Nassau and Suffolk
Counties we have almost 14
million passenger cars which
represents one out of every four
automobiles registered in the
entire State. Like most suburban
areas there is a lack of adequate
bus transportation coupled with
extremely costly rail transit,
consequently hundreds of
thousands of men and women are
forced to commute daily by
automobile. Any ill conceived
increase in the gasoline tax would
surely create more problems
than it was intended to solve.
Yevoli concluded, "Governor
Carey made several salient
points during last weeks State of
the State message and New York
States financial problmes which
have been perpetuated by
previous administrations must be
met head on. All forms of
government should give serious
consideration to making long
overdue adjustments in their
fiscal policies. Local
municipalities particularly have
abused their powers of taxation
by manipulating budgets, by
spending vast sums of money on'
wasteful projects, by continuing
antiquated procedures etc. As a
former Town Councilman on the
Oyster Bay Town Board I con­sistently
snowed how millions of
dollars could have been saved
annually. The time has come
when money saving programs
must be instituted and local of­ficials
must realize the well is
running dry. Parenthetically the
Governor should be thinking in
terms of consolidating many of
our state agencies which rather
than compliment each other only
duplicate services. A commission
should be appointed immediately
to determine the extent of these
costly bureaucricies and make
recommendations to eliminate
them whenever necessary.
Obviously there are numerous
economies that can be ef­fectuated
if a well planned
rational approach toward
government spending is adhered
to. These are very difficult times
for everyone, the Governor and
State Legislature must explore
new sources of revenue that will
not create any further burden on
the taxpayer. We must also in­stitute
meaningful economic
programs that will not endanger
the very existence of something
as basic as education.
Plainedge
Library Trustee Encourages Opposition
Company and holds directorships
in many other national and in­ternational
business and cor­porate
enterprises.
For the Heart Association, Mr.
Slater has been State Heart Fund
Chairman for Massachusetts for
the last three years, and also is
Vice Chairman of the Board. He
has served as General Campaign
Chairman of the Greater Boston
Chapter and as that Chapter's
Board Chairman. He is the
recipient of the Greater Boston
Heart Fund's Distinguished
Service Award. He also has been
Vice Chairman of the American
Heart Assocciation's Fund
Raising Advisory and Policy
Committee. Mi*. Slater has
continually set fund raising
records for the Heart Association
throughout his campaign
chairmanship.
An incumbent library trustee
today announced he would seek
re-election and, in an unusual
twist, stated he would encourage
one or more persons to actively
campaign for his seat.
The candidate is Jerome H.
Brown. He is a trustee of the
Plainedge Public Library,
Massapequa, NY. Mr. Brown,
who has a record of many years
of community service, is a
charter trustee of the library. He
was board chairman for almost
all of the 12 years of library's
existence.
"Unlike school board elec­tions,"
Brown asserted, "library
board elections rarely stir up any
heat. Often a candidate runs for a
library seat without opposition.
Even when there is competition,"
Brown said, "it is almost always
muted. Voters pull levers at the
polls with little or no knowledge
of the candidate they are ap­proving
or rejecting. If I can,
"Brown said, "I'm going to
change that this time."
Mr. Brown, whose extensive
and active experience in local
library affairs, coupled with
visits to libraries all over the
U.S., and abroad, during which
he often interviewed library
officials and employees, affords
Plainedge taxpayers a trustee
with a vast reservoir of library
background and knowledge.
"It is from the vantage point of
a senior library trustee that 1
view with growing dismay things
which have always been wrong
with library conduct" Brown
claimed, "and a number of
developments which, in my
opinion, are pretty sad," Brown
said.
"That's why I want to find
opponents. I want to air my ideas,
my misgivings, my thoughts, my
notions about what a library
ought to be doing in a recession,
my philosophy as a public man,
the significance of Watergate on
the lowly political unit
represented by a library board of
trustees," Brown said. "I have a
lot to say. I have taken strong
positions on the board. I have
very often stood alone. I resigned
as board chairman in December,
1973, because I was so remote
from board majority positions.
Now I'm going to try to find out if
I have a constituency out there,"
Brown stated. "If 1 can find some
people to talk to, maybe I can
discover someone who disagrees
strongly enough to throw his hat
in the ring and make a fight of it.
"This may be the only way,'
he said. "Not a dozen people have
attended board meetings, all told,
in the last two years or longer. If
they won't come to me, maybe,
somehow, I can get to them. I'm
going to try," Brown concluded.
"That s why I'm announcing this
early, Brown explained. "By
the way, that in itself is, I believe,
without precedent in Plainedge,"
Brown claimed. "I want to try, by
every means at my disposal, to
inform the voters of my views. I
want them to be informed. I want
them to go to the polls informed. I
want to talk to every Plainedge
resident I can reach. I want to
talk to Plainedge organizations,
in Plainedge homes, on
Plainedge street corners.
Anywhere. I want the voters to
know exactly what I think about
library financing, library ef­ficiency,
accountability of library
employees to the Board of
Trustees, and the accountability
of the Board of Trustees to the
community. I want to discuss
library quality. Library spen­ding,
the role and definition of a
library in the balance of the
current decade, and a host of
other subjects. I'm going to need
time. I want to arouse people, stir
people, goad them, if I am able,
to take an informed position, and
make an informed decision at the
polls six months from now,"
Brown stated.
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