Bethpage-Tribune_1975-12-04

              BETHB<KiE BOTHS; 11M LiiSARY i. r R3
B t T H P A C E LIB
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OLD BETHBMGE
also serving ISLAND TREES
PLAINVIEW PLAINEDGE SEAFORD
VOL. 10 NO. 2 Thursday, December 4, 1975 10 cents per copy
Holiday Fun Time Is Here! Caso Seeks Solar Energy Funds
Bethpage is getting ready for an old fashioned fun
holiday.
Santa Claus will arrive in Bethpage aboard a shiny
red fire truck at 11:00 A.M. in the Bethpage business
area of Broadway and Stewart Avenue. The Bethpage
Fire Department is helping Santa make the trip in
style and we are all looking forward to see the jolly old
gent.
In keeping with the holiday spirit, the Bethpage
Rotary Club is decorating a tree in Town for
everybody's pleasure.
The Kramer Lane Elementary School Board under
the able direction of Fred Cohen is planning to lend
their musical notes to the festivities on Saturday,
December 13th.
The Merchants Association at the Bethpage Shop­ping
Center have joined in Wishing all their year round
customers a Happy Holiday and to show appreciation
for their patronage are having a free drawing for many
lovely prizes.
They are also sponsoring a Holiday Poster Contest. Ii
is open to all children. Just be in the Bethpage Shop­ping
Center on Saturday, December 13th at 11:00 A.M.
with your holiday poster.
A cash prize of $25.00 will be given for the best poster
in the show. $10.00 cash prize for the second best entry -
cash prizes awarded by Merchants Association. Ten
additional prizes have been donated by the new Pizza
Hut.
Broadway Merchants are also on the Holiday
Bandwagon and they are preparing to decorate their
shops and put lighted Christmas trees outside their
stores. Participating shopkeepers are raffling free
turkeys starting December 13th and in this day of high
prices a chance at anything free is welcomed.
A number of holiday minded people are joining the
effort to put some fun into holiday shopping in your own
home town.
Spearheadingthe Holiday Festivities Committee are:
Jerry from GAP Travel and the Bethpage Merchants
Association, Flo Cullem, Bethpage Tribune; Leo and
Harriet Schottland, Bernie from Fairway Men and
Boy's Shop on Broadway; The Bethpage Rotary Club;
Fred Cohen, Kramer Lane Music Director, (Bethpage
School District), and the Bethpage Fire Department. A
special thank you to Charlie Keating of Eastern
Exterminating on Broadway for his help with the
decorations and Harry Flor of Fairplay Lumber and
the Pizza Hut.
This is strictly a do-it-yourself home style
celebration. Everyone participating is doing so at their
own expense of time and effort.
Join in the fun and visit the Bethpage shopping area
on Broadway and Stewart Avenues. You are sure to
find many fine items for your Christmas and Holiday
needs.
A vibrant and healthy commercial area is good for
the whole community. Shop locally and join the fun
HAPPY HOLIDAYS.
Demonstration Project With Poly-Tech
Santa will feel at home in his
winter outfit when he skates onto
the Cantiague Park Indoor Ice
Rink during the Christmas Skate
Party scheduled for Saturday,
December 20. The admission fee
of $1 for adults and 50 cents for
children under 18 will permit
Nassau skaters of all ages to
enjoy the ice from U a.m. to2:30.
p.m. Saint Nick will dispense
holiday greetings to all and candy
canes for the children as he zips
around the rink.
While the Christmas Skate
Party is in full swing, Girl
Scout Junior Troop No.29J will be
outdoors decorating the Can­tiague
Christmas tree at 12 noon,
followed by Christmas carolling.
The public is invited to join the
scouts in holiday festivities.
Nassau County has filed a
request for $157,835 in federal
funds for a solar energy research
project, County Executive Ralph
G. Caso announced today.
The solar heat demonstration
unit would be set up on the third
floor roof of the County Executive
Building at 1 West St., Mineola,
under a sub-contract with
Polytechnic Institute of New
York.
"One purpose of this project is
to gather test data on the ap­plication
of solar energy in the
Long Island area," Caso said.
"The information and findings
will be shared with other
researchers, with industry and
the community."
The request for the grant from
the U. S. Energy Research and
Development Administration has
been forwarded to Washington
through the Nassau General
Services Department Bureau of
Energy Resources. If approved,
the estimate is that the solar
energy system could be func­tioning
in less than two years.
Its first phase would be sup­plying
hot water and space
heating to the fourth and fifth
floors of the County Executive
Building. Next it would supply
supplementary heat and air
conditioning for the entire
building.
The proposal was prepared by
the energy bureau and Dr.
Richard S. Thorsen, head of the
Mechanical Engineering
Department of Polytechnic and
energy coordinator for the in­stitute.
Under the plan, Polytechnic
would provide engineering and
test services as a subcontractor
in the amount of $65,430. The rest
of the federal funds, $92,405 would
be used for equipment, in­stallation
and preparation for the
project.
The plan would be to install 170
solar energy collector panels on
the building roof.
Dr. Thorsen explained the
collectors are black-surfaced,
glass-covered plates three by six
feet. Heat is trapped within them
and picked up by water being
pumped through. Via lines
carried from the roof to the
building basement, this water
goes to a storage tank. A coil
through the tank is in turn heated
and that heated water would go
into the building's domestic heat
and hot water system. The same
system would be used for the
summer air conditioning to
supplement the present oil-fired
absorption system.
This joint effort will be made to
prove that solar energy can be
effectively applied on Long
Island," Thorsen said. "This
demonstration project has
special value here in Mineola- - in
the northeastern U. S.- - where
sunshine isn't constant. Har­nessing
solar energy hasn't evei
been a problem- The storage and
practical use of it, however, is the
technology which must be
proven."
Nassau General Services
Commissioner Francis E.
O'Connor, who is the county's
energy coordinator, will be
designated the project director
upon ERDA approval. Dr.
Thorsen and his staff from
Polytechnic will provide the
engineering services and county
heating and ventilation
technicians will attend the
system's functions.
Caso said this project is closely
allied with the Long Island-wide
effort to have the planned federal
government Solar Energy
Research Institute (SERI)
located here.
"I have made a committment
to the all-out effort to bring that
n~*:"^al energy cffsrt to a
location on Long Island," Caso
said. "The U. S. Energy
Research and Development
Administration is soon scheduled
to issue its request for site
proposals on what will be our
nation's first solar energy
laboratory. A vast campaign,
headed by Polytechnic, to bring
this project to the Northeast is
underway on many levels.
"Long Island has every
necessary resource to support the
location of SERI here, and we
have it in abundance. We have
the communications systems, the
transportation, the financial
community, the essential work
force, suitable space and ar­chitecture
and every other thing
necessary. We also have the
center of population required and
unquestionably we have a
tremendous shortage of natural
fuel resources."
SERI, approved by Congress
last year, would establish a
national laboratory for research
in solar energy dedicated to
development of technology and
the transfer of it to practical
uses. SERI is to be budgeted at
$50,000,000 per year beyond
construction costs and it is ex­pected
it would provide some
1,400 jobs in the community.
SOLAR HEAT PROJECT.. Viewing an artist's rendering of the
proposed solar heat demonstration project for which Nassau County
is seeking federal funds are, left to right, County Energy Coordinator
Francis E. O'Connor, Nassau County Executive Ralph G. Caso, Dr.
Richard Thorsen of New York Polytechnic Institute, and Robert
Sellers, executive secretary of the Long Island Association which
supports the application. The county has requested $157,835 for the
solar energy project to be installed on the third floor of the County
Executive Building in Mineola, under technical direction of Polytech
engineers.
Town Clerk Warns: Don't "Dog It' On New Licenses
Oyster Bay Town Clerk Ann R.
Ocker has announced t*»»t
residents Ishould have received
forms of renewal of dog licenses
by now and has urged that they
"don't wait until the last minute
and file immediately before the
December 31st deadline."
Mrs. Ocker said that completed
forms, accompanied by the
proper fee, for all dogs harbored
within the unincorporated areas
of the Town should be sent to her
office at Town Hall, Audrey
Avenue, Oyster Bay, N.Y. 11771
at the owner's earliest possible
convenience.
''Dog owners are encouraged to
m*ke sure that the renewal
forms are v v completed, in­cluding
an induction of the ap­propriate
fee and sex in the upper
left-hand corner," Mrs. Ocker
stated.
"The fact that anyone owning
or sheltering a dog must obtain
the license and tag serves to
protect both the owner and
animal," Mrs. Ocker said. "The
tag serves as an identification in
the event the animal strays or is
injured, and the license verifies
ownership."
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