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PLAINVIEW PLAINEDGE SEAFORD
VOL. 9 NO. 38 Thursday, August 14, 1975 10 cents per copy
Sponsors Needed For
Vietnamese Refugees
Adjustments - Receipts
BOCES Rental-Piacken
(Recepts 70,000. to 25,000.)
Appropriation of Balance increase
"AMERICA SINGS": Oyster Bay Town Councilman Salvatore R.
Mosca, center, diseusses the evening's program with, left to right,
Donna McKay, Peggy McCalmont, members of the Carl Olsen and
the Lyric Singers musical group, and Carl Olsen, who is the director
of the ensemble. The performance, which was held at the Plainview-
Old Bethpage Park, included a survey of the musical scene in
America. The performance was sponsored by the Town's Cultural
and Performing Arts Division.
Consumer News
Gasoline costs to Nassau
County motorists shot up four
cents a gallon in July to an
average 59.7 cents for regular
and 64.6 cents for premium,
according to a study of Fuel Costs
to Consumers released today by
the Nassau County Office of
Consumer Affairs.
Commissioner James E.
Picken said this was a 7 percent
increase for regular and a 6
percent increase for premium
grade gasoline for the month
from June to July, based on a
survey of 77 Nassau stations.
"Prices are taking off again,"
he said. "Consumers would be
well advised either to readjust
their driving habits or reallocate
their budgets."
Compared to March, 1974,
when the severe gasoline shor­tage
caused long lines, strained
tempers and high prices, it costs
9 percent more today to run a car
on regular gasoline and 10 per­cent
more to run it on premium
than it did then, he said. Prices at
that time averaged 54.7 cents and
58.6 cents respectively.
According to the study, since
March, 1974, Nassau consumers
are also paying 13 percent more
to heat their homes with oil and 25
percent more to run their electric
appliances and lights.
"Fuel and utilities have
become much costlier ex­penditures
than ever before,"
said Picken. "Like food, they are
necessities, they are on going, and
they are up sharply."
Number two home heating oil,
for instance, which now averages
38.2 cents a gallon, cost home
owners 33.9 cents in March, 1974,
and 22.1 cents in March, 1973. The
two-year increase was 73 per­cent.
Electric rates, he pointed out,
have been subject to four in­creases
since March, 1973, and
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Mrs. Yen Van has a dream. A
dream that she would like to live
on Long Island. Seven months
pregnant, Mrs. Yen Van is a
refugee of Southeast Asia who is
living in a - barracks in camp
Pendleton, CA.
Mrs. Yen Van also has a
recurrent nightmare. In the
nightmare, her husband is
stranded in Saigon as Communist
troops sweep toward the capital.
She and her three young children
manage to make it to the
dockside and are among the
nilling refugees vying for a spont
on one of the evacuation ships.
Carrying her youngest in her
arms. Mrs. Yen Van tries to keep
her other children near her, but
they disappear, lost in the crowd
of panicky refugees pressing
toward the boats.
Now among the thousands of
refugees living in one of the four
resettlement camps in this
country, Mrs. Yen Van and her
16-month old, the only other
member of her family to escape
from South Vietnam before the
fall of Saigon, are desperately in
need of a sponsor to help them
begin life anew. The Vietnamese
mother would like to come to
Long Island simply because the
name is familiar. Her brother, a
priest was an assistant at a
Suffolk parish at one time -- and
when you live in strange
surroundings reliving night­mares
even the most remote
association can be something to
cling to.
Finding and screening spon­sors
for Mrs. Yen Van and other
victims of the war in Southeast
Asia is the job of the Diocesan
Resettlement Council of Rock-ville
Centre Diocesan Catholic
Charities. The council works in
conjunction with the United
States Catholic Conference,
Migration and Refugee Services,
one of a number of agencies
undertaking resettlement work.
According to Mrs. Cecelia Rios,
staff member of the council,
the most important quality
needed by a sponsor is "a kind
and generous heart." Mrs. Rios
defines sponsorship as "a moral
commitment to offer food,
clothing and shelter to the
refugees and to try and find
employment for the head of the
family. Sponsors help acclimate
the Vietnamese to our society so
they can be self-sufficient," she
explains, adding that there are no
legalities involved.
Any individual or group can
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Plainedge School - Details of Budget Changes
Revenues from Taxation Budget of 6 / 11 / 75
$7,905,259
286- Inter Scholastic Reduction
551-100. .Summer Transportation
903-800. .Social Security Deferred
162-447..Building Repair Reserve
(From 25.000. to 12,500.)
5,000.
5,000.
140,000.
12,500.
45,000.
- 50,000
7,900,259.
Revenue from Taxation
379,504.
$7,520,755.
Proposed Budget 9 / 1 1 / 75
Code. Reduction of Expenditures ( + s increase)
101-410..School Board Conferences 400.
106-400.. Advertising-f rom 7 to 4 weeks 1,600.
124-150.. Education Aide 17,000
132-442. .Auditors' Fee + 50.
1,450.
9,773
400.
320.
1,475.
500.
25,500.
$15,227,450.
Est. Tax Rate-$18.26
148-160. .Printing (per bid prices)
162-160. .Groundskeeper
Two Air Conditioners
Bulletin Boards
Carpet Tiles, Vacuum Cleaner
Service Contract-Cash Registers
.Picken expense reductions-net
Athletic Storage (From 5,000. to 2,500.)
2,500.
+10,200.
162-200.
162-200.
162-200.
162-430.
Various
162-450.
202-160
202-160
211-110
Salary Adjustments negotiated
3,600.
ft Clerk-N E; ft Clerk-H S 4,400.
Teacher Pay Penalty-net 15,533.
211-110.. Reduction of Substitute Budget 37,000.
211-161..Learning Center Aides, replaced by
Federal Manpower Girl
211-200..Band Uniforms (From 10,000. to 5,000.)
5,000.
1,000.
5,900.
8,500.
20,000.
211-200
211-200
211-200
211-200
211-498
233-150
233-150
261-452
Filmstrips
.Piano
.School Equipmoent
. UniGrant Reserve
BOCES (18students)
Summer Elementary
.Summer High School
.Library Books
286- Reduction for IntraMurals
33,138.
5,215.
10,650.
10,400.
6,000.
VOTING INFORMATION
BUDGET MEETING DATE: Thursday, August 21,
1975, Plainedge High School, Wyngate Drive, 8:30
P.M.
WHO MAY VOTE: All qualified voters who registered
on June 4,1975, or any registration date thereafter;
or who voted on October 31,1973, or any voting date
thereafter.
If you are a qualified voter of Plainedge Union Free
School District, but are not registered, you may
register on the date indicated below.
WHEN AND WHERE TO REGISTER: Monday,
September 8, 1975, from 12 noon to 10:00 P.M., in
each of the three election districts; Eastplain School,
J.H. West School, and Southedge School.
VOTING DATE: Thursday, September 11, 1975, from
12 noon to 10:00 P.M., in each of the three election
districts; Eastplain School, J.H. West School, and
Southedge School.
VOTER QUALIFICATIONS
GENERAL: (You must have all): You must be (a)
citizen of the United States, (b) eighteen years of age
or over, (c) a resident of this district for thirty days
prior to date of voting, (September 11, 1975).
PLEASE NOTE THAT SCHOOL ELECTIONS ARE
COMPLETELY SEPARATE FROM GENERAL
ELECTIONS AND REGISTRATION FOR GENERAL
ELECTIONS DOES NOT QUALIFY YOU TO VOTE IN
SCHOOL ELECTIONS.