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Vol. 3 No. 26 Thursday, April 24, 1969 10< per copy
e Bailiwick
by Muriel Taylor
Nassau Prest
Names New
Slate off Officers
Visiting Nurse Program Expands
Do you realize that a New
York State Board on Tuesday,
April 15th, announced a deci­sion
that will have a profound
affect on the Bethpage (U.F.S.D.)
#21) District, and other State
School Districts, in the im­mediate
future and for a long
time to come?
The State's Public Employment
Relations Board (PERB) in its
release (which I quote in its
entirety) stated that it had "re­fused
to accept the recommen­dation
of a hearing officer charg­ing
'extreme provocation' by the
employer in a strike of teachers
in Bethpage, Long Island last
October. ,
"In a unanimous decision an­nounced
today (Tuesday, April
15), the State ordered forfei­ture
of dues deduction privileges
of the Bethpage Federation of
Teachers for six months, com­mencing
on the first practicable
date, and to be restored at the
end of six months only after
the Federation 'has affirmedthat
it no longer asserts the right
to strike against any govern -
ment.' . , ". '*
"Sidney A. Wolff, the hearing
officer appointed by PERB to
hear the case, found that the 12-
day walkout in October, 1968
resulted from Extreme provoca­tion'
by the Bethpage School
Board and recommended that the
penalties of the Taylor Law be
suspended or, if imposed, be
'of the mildest nature.'
"In its decision, the State
Board said that the Bethpage
Federation of Teachers engaged
in a strike in violation of Sec­tion
210.1 of the Taylor Law.
'Some of the conduct of the em­ployer.
. .was provocative and
was not conducive to the im­plementation
of its obligations
and responsibilities to engage
in good faith negotiations with the
recognized negotiating agent of
the employees.' On the other
hand, the Board said the use of a
strike threat by the employee
organization as part of the ne­gotiating
process is not coun­tenanced
by the Taylor Law:
"The Board further statedthat
it did not believe that the con­duct
of the employer, when mea­sured,
against the conduct of the
Federation, was sufficient to
wSrant a withholding of any
TancX. for the concerted work
stoppage prohibited by law. The
Board agreed, however,that the
'conduct of the employer should
be taken into consideration in
fixing the duration of the pen­alty
to be imposed.'
"In view of these considera­tions,
the Board imposed 'a pen­alty
which is less than it other­wise
might have been."
• I spoke with Mr. Lee Hilton, •
President of the Bethpage Board
of Education, and Mr. Guido A-gostini,
President of the Beth­page
Federation of Teachers,
and told them I would like to
print their comments in regard
to this PERB decision. Follow­ing
is their word-for-word reply:
Mr. Hilton: "It is something
I predicted would happen; I feel
that the Board of Education has
been exonerated. The blame for
the strike has been placed
squarely "where it belongs—on
the Union." ..v .. -j •,'
Mr. Agostini: "This decision
is calculated to strengthen the
hand of the public employer who
is determined to negotiate in ted
faith. PERB has proven to be a
tool of the Boards of Education
by this decision. PERB failed
to hear: any new evidence other
than the hearing officer's re­port
which was entirely based on
testimony presented by Dr. Lar-sen
and the Assistant Super­intendent
of Schools, or new ev­idence
which was favorable to
the teachers of Bethpage. Yet
PERB took the same set of facts
that Mr. Wolff heard and twisted
around to fit a precon-
A slate of candidates to serve
as officers of the Nassau County
Press Association for the ensuing
year, was announced last Friday
night (April 18) by the
Nominating Committee and will
be presented to the membership
for approval at the annual
election meeting next month.
Heading the list of candidates
selected is Murray Rosen,
publisher of the Long Island
Examiner, a Hempstead weekly
newspaper, who was named to
succeeed Sheila Hoegl Noeth,
publisher of the Beacon
newspapers, the Syosset Tribune
and the Plainview and Mid-Island
Herald. Rosen a successful
businessman and well known
community leader in the Village
of Hempstead also owns the
Empire Sportswear Company in
Hempstead and Huntington,., and
the Bohack Shopping Center in
Bethpage. . .
The slate includes: Martin
Weiss, publisher of the Westbury
Times, as first vice, president;
Joseph Merendino, publisher of
the Farmingdale Post and South
East Enterprise, as second vice
president. Also: Sally Mackreth
publisher of the Malverne
Herald, as recording secretary;
Irene Harris, editor of the Nassau
Star in Long Beach, as
corresponding secretary and
Glory Amsterdam, publisher oi
the Wantagh-Seaford Citizen, as
treasurer., . .
Two directors were nominated
them around to m a precon- . t n e committee. They include
ceived judgment that they hadal- * Nicholas Napoli, publisher ot
ready reached. Judging by the h e B a l d w i n citizen, for a second
current negotiations the Board. and Fi o rence Cullem,
of Education has apparently taken b, i s h e r 0f the Bethpage
this decision by PERB asagreen P lQ r e p l a c e presidential
light to repeat the urrfortunate "™ ^ Rosen
bad-faith bargaining which took norm Committee
place last Spring. Hopefully the ™ N0™ u r|commended
Board of Education will not mis- J""0""4^ regUlarly scheduled
calculate based on the recent slate at thereg y N a s g au
PERB decision the intention of April HK<I .
Joseph H. Kinnaman, Nassau County Heal^
Commissioner, and Mrs. Frank J. Hynes, wife
of the Oyster Bay Town Councilman, with Mrs.
Charles Fielding Young, newly elected ^president,
examine map at the territory covered by tne
Oyster Bay Visiting Nurse Association, inciuoing
the recent expansion into the Bethpage-Plamview
^ e a (See Story Page 2)
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the Bethpage Federation to
achieve a fair and equitable con­tract
which will benefit the in­terest
of the teachers, children
and residents of Bethpage."
County Press Association-an
organization comprised of the
publishers of 51 weekly
newspapers in Nassau 'County.
The election meeting •>'•-
, ..,., d ? i £ t o T S e next scheduled for Friday night May
week^s columnto,a continuation 16. also in the Garden City Hotel,
of this subject (namely the PERB ••• • • •-< <i
decision and its effects,) as I
feel it certainly merits our i n ­terest
and continuing awareness
(and the column has already gone
well beyond its normal length.;
it was announced.
WESTBURY MUSIC FAIR
1CUOI1 I U I w.*. ——• —
Scholarship For Nurses Offered
By Mid-Island Hospital
Attending physicians a^ Mid- .
island Hospital. BethPag
rf
e\„ «n
York, are doing somethingto J m
the widening gap in the shortage
5 student nurse enrollment, so
savs Mrs. Marie Maniac, Ad-mSS,
aat°rrecent Medical Staff
meeting., the J * * - * ^
Staff unanimously agrtea i
nrovide^cholarships o $20000
for each of five students in the
^ ^ S i m o r i h e n " Executive
i f i f t f t ^ l o s p i t n l , was so
impressed with the Medical
Staff's decision to set up a
Scholarship Fund that he decided
to ioin in the move by con­tributing
an equal amount to the
Fund allocated for th s purpose.
Dr Harry Abe, President of he
Medical Board, has indicated
that selections will be made
among the following high
schools: Bethpage, Farmingdale,
LevUtown. Plainedge, Plainview
Massapequa, Seaford. and
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The "Don Rickles Show," starring
TV & nite club comic sensation,
Don Rickles with his all-star show,
appear in person at the Westbury
(LI) Music Fair for two weeks,
Monday, April 28, thru Sunday
May 11. Call 333-0533 for all
ticket information.
Marion Hart, Senior at Island Trees High School
. £ £ M r s . Ruth Mulcahy of Mallard ^ • £ * *»
student Aid Fund For Island Treet (SAFFIl).
luden volunteers from the high school will be
ringing doorbells throughout the community to
ask f^ a dollar contribution for the Fund: All
money collected will be for $500» Bdjotardup.£
many eligible graduates of the Island
as
High School,
provide.
1 U 1 C E l ( M 4 « v i » v «
Class of '69 as the contributions