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VOL. 9 NO. 48 Thursday, October 23, 1975 10 cents per copy
Carey To Attend Press Association Dinner
Bethpage Tribune Publisher, Florence Cullem To Be Installed
As President Of The Nassau County Press Association
On Friday, October 31, the Press Association will
hold its annual Installation Dinner-Dance at Salisbury
Restaurant in Eisenhower Park, East Meadow.
Governor Hugh L. Carey will head the long list of
friends of the weekly community newspapers who will
attend the event and join in honoring the recipients of
the John Peter Zenger Awards for Community Service.
Member newspapers chose nominees on the basis of
their dedication and service to their local com­munities.
The Bethpage Tribune Award will be presented to
Richard Ahrens, President of the Island Trees Board
of Education.
Installation of officers of the Nassau County Press
Association will take place and the new officers are:
President, Florence Cullem, Bethpage Tribune; Vice
President, Lou Saunders, Mineola American; 2nd Vice
President, Bill Alston, Courier Newspapers; Recor­ding
Secretary, Emily Giblin, Franklin Square
Bulletin; Treasurer, Charles Warner, East
Rockaway Lynbrook Observer; and Corresponding
Secretary Rosemary McCarthy, Valley Stream
Courier. Board of Directors include: Jim Perri,
Baldwin Citizen; Ira Cahn, Massapequa Post and
Amityville Record; Irene Harris, Nassau Star; Fred
Simon, Elmonitor, and Wilma Pokress, Wan-tagh
Seaford Observer Tribune and
Bellmore Merrick.
This year is particularly significant because of the
Bicentennial and the historic role a Free Press has
played in the growth of this nation.
"For over 200 years, courageous men and women
have perservered and even died to keep this nation
free. We are now celebrating the observance of our
Bicentennial and the Spirit of Freedom. Community
Press was born out of this revolution and has con
John PZenger,
Patriot
ZENGER, John Peter
(1697-1746), was a printer and
publisher of colonial times. He
was born in Germany, and
came to New York when he
was thirteen. Zenger set up a
printing shop in 1726. Later he
became editor of the New
York Weekly Journal, a
newspaper opposed to the
administration of the British
Governor William Cosby.
Although some of Zenger's
powerful friends were thought
to have written major articles
for the Journal, he was held
responsible as editor. He was
brought to trial in 1735 for
criminal libel, but the jury
found him not guilty. This was
the first major victory for the
freedom of the press in the
American colonies.
The Zenger Memorial Hall
in Federal Hall, New York
City, was dedicated in 1953. It
was in the colonial City Hall on
this site that Zenger spent nine
months in jail, and was so ably
defended by the Philadelphia
lawyer, Andrew Hamilton.
The memorial hall contains an
exhibit of mural paintings and
dioramas, which depict the
trial and other scenes from
Zenger's life.
(The World Book En­cyclopedia)
tinuosly played a role as the protector of basic human
freedoms", stated Florence Cullem, newly elected
president of the Nassau County Press Association.
A highlight of the evening will be presentation of
Certificates of Appreciation awarded to legislators on
both sides of the aisle in both "houses in the State
Legislature. Their awareness of the role of the com­munity
press and its importance to their constituency
has been noticed by the publishers and editors.
Along the same trend, the first John Peter Zenger
Award for service to Journalism and a Free Press will
be presented to Governor Carey for his efforts in this
behalf, particularly his signing of the "shield bill,"
protecting reporters.
A citation will be given to State Senator Ralph
Mari no for his support of the Freedom of Information
Law, commonly referred to as the "sunshine law".
This law gives the citizen the opportunity to have
access to government records and offers the press
access to the so-called sacred cows in our public in­stitutions.
"There have been many attempts in the 200 years
since the birth of this nation to dilute the strength of the
Press and impede its growth. There have been many
insidious efforts to silence the Press, destroy it
economically, pressure it, harass its reporters and
editors, jail its members and threaten its publishers.
We must be ever vigilent and the precious freedom of a
Free Press must not be tampered with to feed the
political ambitions of thoughtless few. On the other
hand, the Press is not perfect and we must continuosly
strive for a responsible press. We must clean our own
house. The Free Press must never become the
puppet of government ... it must always remain the
constant watchdog", said Mrs. Cullem.
TOB Zaps Grumman Plan
arey
Oyster Bay Town Supervisor
John W. Burke and Councilman
Salvatore R. Mosca have an­nounced
the Town Board's ap­proval
of amendments to Oyster
Bay's Building Zone ordinance
which restrict the operation of
general aviation airports to
heavy industrial zones within the
Town.
"In terms of long-range
planning and community
preservation, it is the Town's
position that general aviation can
be permitted in no other than
heavy industrial zones," Burke
said.
The Town Supervisor said that
"those seeking to establish a
general aviation use in Oyster
Bay will have to first successfully
seek a change of zone to. In­dustrial
"I" (Heavy Industrial).1'
The Town Supervisor con­tinued,
stating that "successful
operation of general aviation
airports requires the storage of
large quantities of high octane
fuel." Burke explained that the
amendments place general
aviation in the same permitted
use category as acid and
chemical manufacture, gas
manufacture and petroleum
refining, and the manufacture or
storage of explosives.
The provisions do not permit
general aviation in an "H" (Light
Industrial) zone. Permitted uses
in this zone include baking plants
and veterinary hospitals; such
uses as scrap paper binding or
storage, and meat packing are
permitted with special exception
of the Town Board.
Councilman Mosca said that
the amendments "mandate and
assure that applicants seeking
general aviation use make a full
and detailed presentation of all
facts relating to their request
both to the members of the Town
Board and interested residents of
the community."
Mosca also assailed a recent
decision of the Nassau Planning
Commission, stating that that
body "had acted with limited
vision."
The Councilman, a resident of
Bethpage, said that the Com­mission
had acted in a capricious
and questionable manner by
treating the proposed amend­ments
to the Building Zone or­dinance
as though the Town
Board actually has an application
before it.
"We have never had an ap­plication
for general aviation use
before us," said Mosca. "The
exact intention of the amend­ments
passed today is to assure
that Grumman and any other
applicant seeking to establish
general aviation use would have
to submit such an application.
"The Planning Commission
has apparently taken the attitude
that 'half a loaf is better than
none' by straddling the fence and
suggesting that Grumman seek a
special exception of the Board
under light industrial zoning,"
MosoaT continued.
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