1962-07-25

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INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF
FARMINGDALE
SCHOOL DISTklCT NO. 22
PLAINEDGE
SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 18
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FARMINGDALE AREA. server farmingdale's / Mosf Complete Newspaper
Vol. 3 No. 34 Wednesday, July 25, 1962 Massapequa Park, L. I. 2nd Class Postage paid at Massapequa Park 10<:
Charge U nion Misleads Workers
Cites $ 40 Million In New Business, $ 13 Million in Capital Oatlays
Flori Lorr of North Massapequa, . Director of'Music For Long Island,
inc.' gave Governor Rockefeller an Honorary Lifetime Membership ' in
recognition of his steadfast devotion to the Arts and in appreciation of
his creation of The New York State Council for the Arts'. The grant in
funds, Mrs. Lorr explained, will enable Farmingdale to offer The New
York City Center Opera Co. and Orchestra in performances of four
popular operas in Farmingdale this coming winter.
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eleventh Ave
to get Storm Drains
Supervisor John J. Burns an­nounced
that the Oyster Bay Town
Board has approved the installa­tion
of storm water drainage fac­ilities
in Eleventh Avenue, South
Farmingdale.
Estimated cost of the project
is $ 18,596. The drainage will re­quire
785 feet of pipe extending
from Woodward Parkway westerly
to the Massapequa State Park
stream.
The project was advocated on the
Town Board by Councilman Mar-jorie
R. Post and Louis A. Sisia.
Install Rotary Officers
Officers for 1962- 63 of the
Farmingdale Rotary Club were?
formally installed in two cere­monies
held at recent meetings at
St. Thomas Undercroft:.
They are: Rouen M. Callahan,
President; Robert Stockbridge,
Vice President; Robert Spink,
Secretary; Fred Hackett; Treas­urers;
and Members of the Board
of Directors: Norman Foote ( Past
President); Eugene Jacobsen, Di­rector
of Club Service; Orrin B.
Dow, Director of International
Contacts; Dr. Richard C. Bureau,
Vocational Service and Emyr C.
Griffith, Community Service.
The Board of Education of Dis­trict
# 22 will hold a Special Meet­ing
on Monday, July 30 at 8: 30
p. m. at Weldon E. Howitt Jr.
High School.
' Rocky'Wins Crowd At
Town Meeting Thursday
Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller took on all comers
in a question and answer session held at the Mass­apequa
High School Auditorium last Thursday evening
The Governor, who came here with his State Cabinet,
answered questions ranging from Reapportionment to
the improvement of Sunrise Highway. At one point,
after having received a question regarding Vietnam,
The Chief Execuitve of the State said " I am not
President of the United States", which drew a round
of applause
A man who identified himself as
being from Floral Park, who was
seated on the front row asked,
" How do you stand on the sales
tax for education? We hear that
Speaker Carlino is for it- But how
about you?" To which the Govern­or
replied, « r that State Aid for
Education has been increased from
38% to 47%, but that he believes
in local control of education, and
if you are" to preserve control,
you must raise money- or find a
means to finance education locally.
The local real estate tax is having
an adverse affect on too many
people. Another means of rais­ing
funds is needed. " The Gover­nor
said that two years ago he
advocated legislation to permit
school boards on a County basis
to have some other source of
revenue besides real estate taxes.
It was not passed in the legisla­ture.
" A broader base of taxing
power locally will have to come
to solve the problem. What it
should be is up to your local
officials. One of the possibilities
however is a sales tax. Studies
prove that it would be necessary
to have it on a County basis for
collecting purposes^
Charles Anderson who said he
was from Massapequa Park, asked
about Reapportionment. " Why are
you opposed to calling a special
session of the Legislature, and
* why should Nassau with its large
population have so few representa7
Jives in Albany?
( Ed Note Andersen is the Demo­cratic
Leader of Massapequa Park)
The Governor quipped " This
question has a little hook in it".
He said that no group in Albany
has more voiciferous represent­ation
than these two Counties. As
far as State Aid- it's even called
the Nassau Plan. State Aid for
Nassau has increased 148%. In
1957, I was Chairman of the Con-situtional
Commission, and every
decade a Constitutional Conven­tion
can be proposed to the people.
The people themselves, during an­other
administration votedit down.
We have not reached a point of
panic and this question of reappor­tionment
which is important should
be dealt with on a non- partisan
bas is. and certainly this election
year is no time for a dispas
sionate view.
We must also develop a
philospohy. Let's wait for the
decision about reapportionment
before the Supreme Court nQw.
It will be a helpful decision^'
Mrs. Jules Teck of Plainedge
asked the Governor, if the Leg­islature
this year passes a law
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— Republic Aviation Corporation,
officials charged this week that
leaders of local Lodge 1987 IAM
had " ignored and disregarded" ef­forts
of federal mediators, Presi­dent
Kennedy and Secretary of
Labor Goldberg to reach agree­ment
on a new labor contract
and had conducted a " campaign
of fear" to mislead employees
in supporting the strike that shut
down the aircraft plant for 11
weeks.
Nearly 9,000 employees affected
are now back at work under terms
of a Taft- Hartley injunction in­voked
by President Kennedy on
June 18.
John J. Ryan, vice president and
chairman of the company's nego­tiation
committee, said that the
machinist's leaders " misleadem­ployees"
into believing they will
ultimately be laid off'and that
" therefore a strike is the lesser
of two evils."
But he pointed out that since
April 1 the company has received
60 new contracts, representing
some $ 40 million of new business,
it has 1,000 new job openings,
will spend nearly $ 13 million this
year on research and development
expansion, general plant improve­ments
and equipment moderniza­tion,
and has made its entry into
space work with 19 contracts from
the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration .
' Steady Work' Outlook
Emphasizing that the employ­ment
outlook that the company
would have " steady work for
everyone," Ryan declared that
" the only roadblock to more pro­gress
is our labor situation with
the IAM."
He announded that local 775 of
the United Association of Journey­men
and Apprentices of the Plumb­ing
and Pipefitting Industry had
signed a three- year agreement
with the company.
The terms were " strictly e-conomic,"
he said, calling for
total increases of 35 cents an
hour over the three years. Pre­viously
the International Brother­hood
of Electrical Workers had
signed a similar three- year con­tract
with the company. In ad­dition
to the International Assoc­iation
of Machinists, representing
8,500 production workers, four
craft unions represent an addit­ional
200 employees.
Ryan said there was " no par­allel"
for the demands of local
Lodge 1987, pointing out that on
the Coast the IAM this week reach­ed
agreement with Douglas Air­craft
without discussion of any
of the restricting provisions on
the so- called work rule " issues"
the local union committee " adam­antly
demands" of Republic.
• How' Vs. " Why*
The Republic official* said that
" how" you negotiate is as im­portant
as " what" you negotiate.
He said that in his opinion the
48 meetings held with the union
over the past four months had
made little progress and consisted
largely of the union committee's
" methodically nit- picking details
and arguing over definitions and
avoiding frank discussion of the
main problems." He reviewed the
conduct of the most recent meet­ings
since the injunction to support
his point.
Ryan said the union committee
" would not accept anything in the
way of proposals on the major
issues except on its own terms.'
The company had previously made
two full- scale attempts to draft
a contract acceptable to the IAM
and had made concessions on vir­tually
every contract item sub­mitted,
he said. Failing in these
efforts, Ryan said, the company
agreed to submitting any unre­solved
issues to a fact- finding
board or to binding arbitration.
All were rejected by the IAM, he
said.
Unless agreement is reached
earlier the members of the IAM
unit and the two unsigned craft
unions — the United Brotherhood
of Carpenters and Joiners and the
' International Union of Operating
Engineers — will vote by secret
ballot sometime between Aug. 14
and 29 on the company's final
offer. The vote will be conducted
by the National Labor Relations
Board and the results certified
by it. The 80- day injunction period
expires September 3.
Rotations To Host 76
Students & 14 Teachers
76 boys, 14 to 17 years of age,
together with 14 of their teachers
from the Forest Hill School of
London, England will stay at die
Long Island Agricultural and Tech­nical
Institute at Farmingdale for
one week beginning Monday, July
30, and will be the guests of the-
Farmingdale Rotary Club and other
Rotary Clubs in the United States.
Following their arrival the
guests will be entertained at lunch
by Ed WUson of the Bethpage
' Rotary Club at die Beau Sejour in
Bethpage. In the evening they will
be entertained at the 1iome of
Adelphi College President, Dawson
Eddy.
The Farmingdale Rotary Club
will host a Jones Beach excursion
Wednesday, according to Emry C.
Griffith and Orrin B. Dow.
A tour of Manhattan and a Mets
baseball game is on tap for Thurs­day,
while on Friday the English
guests will visit various homes in
Farmingdale.
The British group will then tour
Washington D. C., Ithaca, Buffalo,
New York, Canada and spend two
days atCampRiverdale, Long Lake
in the Adirondacks as the guest of
Farmingdale Rotarian, Fret1. Hack­ett.
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