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VOL. 9 NO. 44 Thursday, September 25, 1975 10 cents per copy
Featurette
HEAR YE . . . Nassau County Executive Ralph G. Caso and seven-year-
old Easter Seal Poster Child Rita Pajak, display a
Proclamation designating October 1-19 as Nassau Easter Seal
Bike-A-Thon time at Eisenhower Park. Proceeds from the Bike-
A-Thon will help fund the Easter Seal Day Camp, physical theraphy
and dental care at the Human Resourses School, information and
referral services and many more programs for the handicapped.
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L.I. Bids For Solar Energy
Research Institute
Acting as a stable assistant during the U.S. Junior International
Jumping Competitions held early this month at Stony Brook was
Barbara Cohen, 11 Farragut Road, Old Bethpage. Barbara is a
senior at John F. Kennedy High School and is also enrolled in the
large animal care course at the BOCES County Center in Westbury,
one of five occupational education centers operated by the Nassau
Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES).
The challenge of converting the
sun's rays into usable energy
forms to ease the nation's need
for fossil fuels will be solved by a
federally funded "Solar Energy
Research Institute" (SERI),
which could be located on Long
Island. Whether it will be located
on Long Island is in the hands of a
consortium of educational in­stitutions,
government and
businesses representing New
York State which will submit a
proposal in November. The
proposal is part of a national
competition which will decide the
best location for the solar energy
facility.
Six states are bidding for the
project: New York, Florida,
California, New Mexico, Arizona
and Texas.
"This competition is extremely
important for New York and
Long Island," stated Arthur Hug,
Jr., newly selected Chairman of
the Solar Energy Research In­stitute
Committee (SERICOM).
Hug, Chairman of the Board of
Long Island Trust Company, was
selected by participating con­sortium
members to head an
organized effort in support of the
consortium to help it bring the
solar energy facility to New York
and Long Island.
Spearheading the marketing
effort are the Long Island
Association of Commerce &
Industry and Long Island Mid-
Suffolk Businessmen's
Equal Rights
Amendment
The League of Women Voters
of the Town of Oyster Bay is
actively engaged in the campaign
for ratification of the New York
State Equal Rights Amendment
which will appear on the ballot
this November 4. This Amend­ment
is of special interest to
League, which was founded
during the struggle to attain the
vote for women in 1920, and which
has always affirmed the right of
all groups of people to equal
opportunity and protection from
legal, economic and ad­ministrative
discrimination.
In order to help the voting
public more fully understand the
provisions and effects of the
proposed Amendment, Tobay
League of Women Voters, in
conjunction with the Nassau
County Coalition for Equal
Rights, has set up a speakers'
bureau on the ERA. League
would welcome the opportunity to
address groups of concerned
citizens on this topic. Interested
organizations are asked to
contact Barbara Breslow at 293 -
4693 to arrange for a speaker;
either an entire program or a
brief presentation can be
provided.
Association. Their efforts are
directed at soliciting the support
of area firms for the proposal
effort and liaison to govern­mental
personalities and
agencies. Proposal activity and
coordination will be at the
Polytechnic Institute of New
York, Farmingdale location,
where Arthur L. Rossoff
(Assistant to the President) will
serve as SERICOM Executive
Secretary. Key cooperating
groups involved are Brookhaven
National Laboratory, State
University of New York at Stony
Brook and Albany, plus other
firms such as Long Island
Lighting Company, Grumman,
Burns & Roe, etc.
The group is preparing for the
reception of a request-for-proposal
which is expected to be
received in about two weeks. The
proposal must be submitted 45
days after R-F-P reception to the
Energy Research and
Development Administration
(ERDA), the nation's recently
formed research agency which is
spurring the development of all
forms of energy.
Cooperation and support has
also been indicated by the New
York State Energy Research and
Development Authority and the
New York State Department of
Commerce. Additional support is
currently being organized by the
consortium which is asking local
government and other New York
State companies to contribute
assistance, personnel and monies
to the proposal effort.
The proposed Solar Energy
Research Institute would be
located on any one of a number of
sites which are currently being
evaluated by the consortium. If
the national competition between
States is won by New York, the
establishment of SERI on Long
Island would:
• Generate initial construction
business of about $25 million
beginning in the first quarter of
1976, thus assisting the sagging
construction trades industry in
New York.
• Produce an operating facility
by the second quarter of 1976
which would eventually employ
as many as 1,000 people.
• Trigger for New York and
Long Island improved state of the
art in a host of technical com­panies.
The technology developed
is particularly significant for
electronic, power, instrument,
materials and aerospace com­pany
capabilities. These may be
called upon by SERI to par­ticipate
in applications.
According to Bob Sellers, the
Long Island Association's new
Executive Vice President, the
latter point is by far the most
lasting and important impact for
the greater New York area and
Long Island.
"SERFS job will be to in­vestigate
for ERDA the most
promising solar energy
disciplines and applications,
including economic feasibility as
compared to competitive energy
sources, leading directly to near-t
e rm m a n u f a c t u r i ng
capabilities," he explained. "The
idea behind SERI is to 'make it
all happen' through the total
brain power and technical
capabilities that exist in the
educational world as well as the
industrial sphere," he added.
Hug added that the "essence"
of this national effort is what the
press, government officials and
the people have been calling for:
"This is a major portion of the
official response to the national
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ST. DOMINIC'S HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI REUNION DANCE- - first
in over 20 years-/- is topic here as Tom Capozzoli (L) , chairman of
"A" gym for thp DOMS" building drive; alumnus Vincent "Skip"
Murphy C67), in charge of dance decorations, and alumnus Francis
Devine (*34), dance co-chairman, inspect school-logo decorations.
Event will be held on Saturday, October 4, in auditorium of the
Oyster Bay school. Proceeds go toward building fund for new school
gym. Co-chairman Mike Devlin, class of '67, was on week-end
military duty and unavailable for photo. Tickets $7.50 a person, are
available through chairmen. Contact them through P. O. Box 155,
Oyster Bay, N. Y. 11771.