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VOL. 9 NO. 45 Thursday, October 2, 1975 10 cents per copy
Take Time For The Fair!
The 1975 Long Island Fair will be held at the Old Bethpage village
restoration, Old Bethpage, L.I., Friday through Monday, October 10-
13, 1975.
Dating back to 1841, the Long Island Fair is unique in that it is an
animal event involving the total metropolitan New York community.
Political Scenes
PARADE MUSIC: Inspiring music, at performed by Old Bethpage
village Brass Band members in 1840-period uniforms, will be part of
the official opening ceremonies of the 1975 Long Island Fair, set for
the Old Bethpage village restoration October 10-13,1975. The parade
(photo) down Main Street is a popular event, and the Brass Band will
perform regularly during the four-day Fair.
Donovan
Speaking on Tuesday,
September 30, before the Oyster
Bay unit of the Civil Service
Employees Association,
Democratic Town Supervisor
candidate Francis J' Donovan
pledged to take steps "to
eliminate the abuse of the civil
service system for political
purposes and to restore the
dignity of the civil service
employee."
Under present Town hiring
procedures, Donovan observed,
Department heads have the
option to choose among any of the
top three eligibles on a civil
service list. They can pass over
the first two eligibles and hire the
third without being required to
justify their action. Although he
concedes that this practice is
entirely legal under a literal
reading of the present Civil
Service Law, Donovan would like
~to*9ee,it"ctnrtailed.
Donovan proposes a self-imposed
Town limit on the
circumstances under which an
eligible person could be passed
over to those where "good and
sufficient reason" to do so exists.
In any such case, according to
Donovan, the person passed over
should be given the right to be
heard in his or her defense. In
this way, the present danger of
unfair favoritism would be done
away with.
"The civil service system was
designed to get 'spoils system'
politics out of government
employment," Donovan
concluded. "But the way it
operates now, nepotism,
cronyism and partisan politics
are all too prevalent in the hiring
process. Reform is long
overdue."
AGRICULTURAL ATTRACTION: The 1975 Long Island Fair will
again feature attractive displays of prize-winning vegetables and
fruits, grown by many Long Island home gardeners as well as
commercial farmers and entered in various competitions.
Birthright International Day
Pat Shea, director of Birthright
of Nassau-Suffolk and regional
consultant for all Birthright
organizations in New York State,
has officially announced Oct. 15.
as the first annual Birthright
International Day.
Birthright International Day is
a day for awareness. Birthrights
around the world will strive to
educate their communities about
the special needs of pregnant
women and their unborn
children.
, Mrs. Shea explained, "The
women who come to Birthright
for counseling and aid realize
that their lives have been
changed tremendously. Now they
must consider the future of the
life that they are bearing as well
as their own. Birthright
volunteers and services can help
that future to be brighter and
more hopeful."
Birthright of Nassau-Suffolk is
a non-profit, non-political, non-sectarian,
and totally volunteer
operated social service for
women with untimely or
unwanted pregnancies.
Birthright offers free pregnancy
tests, counseling, housing,
layettes and maternity clothes,
and referrals to reduced fee
medical care and legal advice.
County Legislature Candidates
Twombly
Gerard Twombly, Democratic
candidate for the Oyster Bay
Town Council, urged support for
the proposed County regulation
which would prohibit
supermarkets from using the
universal price code. The price
code is a computer system which
indicates the value of an item
without displaying the actual cost
in arabic numerals.
Twombly spoke at a Mineola
public hearing called by Nassau
County Commissioner of
Consumer Affairs James Picken.
The proposed regulation would
mandate that retail food stores
display a a price on all
"consumer commodities". The
regulation defines "consumer
commodities" as "all material,
solid, liquid or mixed....used or
intended for consumption by
human beings or domestic
animals..."
The Councilmatic candidate
was highly critical of the
universal price code. "Severe
consequences await the
consumer unless computerized
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Nassau Republicans unveiled
their candidates for the court-imposed
15-member county
legislature, at an early morning
breakfast at the Holiday Inn,
Hempstead on September 26,
1975.
The candidates were selected
by the 65-member Executive
Committee of the Party, as
provided by the by-laws of the
Party.
In introducing the candidates,
Assemblyman Joseph M.
Margiotta, Party Chairman, said
that the Republican Party was
running its best candidates from
each of the legislative districts.
"Although the Party has taken
a position opposing the creation
of the county legislature because
of its cost to the taxpayers, the
Party always runs the best
candidates available," the Party
leader said.
"We always put our best for­ward,"
he said. "The court has
imposed this plan and ruled that
candidates must run on the ballot
in November. We are running our
best and we are confident we
shall win a majority of the seats.
"Our candidates will ask the
voters to retain the present 6-
member Board of Supervisors, as
the taxpayers can't afford
another layer of government here
in Nassau. However, they shall
campaign vigorously to win their
legislative seat.
Margiotta explained the
predicament of the candidates'
position calling for the abolish­ment
of their job by comparing it
to a man who buys fire insurance
for his home. He buys it not
because he wants the house to
burn down, but because he wants
to protect his investment in case
the house does catch on fire.
"It's the same with the county
legislature. We're running to win,
not because we want a 15-
member county legislature.
We're running to win in in case
the people, in their wisdom,
decide they want a county
legislature. We feel that if there
is to be a county legislature, our
candidates are the most
representative of the people of
Nassau County, and should be
represented on the county
legislature."
"Give expensive government
the old one-two," will be the
slogan of the campaign against
the county legislature," he
revealed, "we will ask the people
to vote "yes" on County
Proposition Number One, to
retain the 6-member Board, and
to vote "no" on County
Proposition Number Two, to
create the new 15-member
legislature."
Following is a list of the can­didates:
1 L.D. - John F. Bogut of
Syosset; 2 L.D. - Ruth Koeppel of
Great Neck; 3 L.D. - Salvatore J.
Nicosia of Farmingdale; 4 L.D. -
Thomas L. Clark of Hicksville; 5
L.D. - Marvin L. Korobow of East
Hills, Roslyn; 6 L.D. - Kemp
Hannon of Garden City; 7 L.D. -
Joseph N. Mondello of Levittown;
8 L.D. - James D. Bennett of
Rockville Centre; 9 L.D. - Cecelia
J. Muscarella of Franklin
Square; 10 L.D. - Albert A.
D'Agostino of Valley Streem; 11
L.D. - Joseph Colby of
Massapequa Park; 12 L.D. -
Frederick E. Parola, Jr. of
Wantagh; 13 L.D. - Thomas S.
Gulotta of North Merrick; 14 L.D.
- Martin Bernstein of Oceanside
and 15 L.D. - Robert McDonald.
MR. CHAIRMAN: Assemblyman Joseph M. Margiotta (R-Union-dale),
right, is congratulated by Presiding Supervisor Francis T.
Purcell after Margiotta was re-elected to a fourth two-year term as
Nassau Republican Party Chairman, at the Party's reorganization
meeting. At the Party session, Margiotta was also re-elected to his
post as Hempstead Town GOP Chairman.