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Vol. 3 No. 27 Thursday, May 1, 1969 10< per copy
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From
The Publisher's Desk
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Burke Galls For
Master Plan Agency
For Surburban Living
Public Works Commissioner Herbert J. Simins
called for a massive birth control program - for
mosquitos.
"The mosquito population explosion occurs annually
and is aided and abetted by the careless homeowners,"
Simins said. "Just a few inches of water left around the
back yard for 8 to 10 days in the spring or summer can
be the incubator for literally hundreds of these pests."
Simins pointed out that the major effort aimed at
preventing large scale breeding is conducted by the
Department's 160-man Mosquito Control Division. .
Natural controls are emphasized through a program of
^maintaining freely flowing water through over
1^)00,000 feet of ditches, mostly in the salt marshes 200
miles of upland streams and ditches are regularly
cleaned and graded.
Where natural methods are not feasible, such as in
Nassau's 60,000 catch basins, mild insecticide sprays
are used every two weeks from April through October.
Mosquito control personnel also inspect 4,500 other
potential breeding places every 10 days to see if
cleaning or spraying is required.
"These efforts keep the County free of major sieges
of mosquitos," Simins noted, "But since our men are
limited in number and respect people's privacy they
just can't get around to every water accumulation in
Nassau. That's why we ask individual citizens to
eliminate all standing water such as in rain barrels, old
tires, unused swimming pools and clogged roof gutters.
And if a homeowner has a ornamental .garden.pool, he
should stock it with fish since they find mosquito larvae
a great delicacy."
"Remember," Simins concluded, "water that is
stagnant can mean mosquitos that are pregnant."
An urgent appeal 7or volunteers to serve as drivers
for cancer patients in their communities for the South
Oyster Bay Unit of the American Cancer Society,
Nassau Division, was made today by Mrs. James W.
Walch, 1,2 Adrene Drive, Old Bethpage, Unit Tran­sportation
Chairman.
Mrs. Walch explained the need arose from sudden
rise in the number of cancer patients requiring tran­sportation
to and from local hospitals for list-extending
treatment. •• ....;• '
Patients are transported from their homes to
hospitals within the Unit area which comprises Beth­page,
Farmingdale, Hicksville, Massapequa,
Massapequa Park, North Massapequa, Old Bethpage
and Plainview. The average trip requires- ap­proximately
one to two hours. Mrs. Walch emphasized
that volunteers will not be called upon to drive every
week but rather when the need exists.
Volunteers in the South Oyster Bay Unit area who
wish to help save a life may contact Mrs. Walch at 293-
9926.
The concept of government
close to the people was refined to
a new height today when Hemp­stead
Town Presiding Supervisor
Ralph G. Caso unveiled a bright
blue and gold "touring town
hall."
. Caso displayed a Dodge van,
called the 'Sportsman-Executive
Suite," which he described as
"literally an office on wheels4'
The van, recently purchased by
the town, will serve as the mobile
headquarters of the town s
Citizens Service, a complaint-answering
apparatus instituted
nearly a year ago.
The touring town hall is painted
in the town colors and has
"Citizens Service" clearly
marked across its roof,
John W. Burke, Oyster Bay
Republican Supervisor can­didate,
today called for the
creation of a professionally
assisted Town Planning Agency
to help regulate future Town
development on a suburban
pattern.
Burke, speaking to a luncheon
gathering of the Nassau County
Federation of Women's
Republican Clubs, said
establishment of a Town planning
body was necessary to cope with
the proposed urbanization of
Nassau County and Oyster Bay
embodied in the plans of the
Nassau County Planning Com­mission
and the Mitchel Field
Development Corporation.
"Knowing full well the type of
planning espoused by Mr,-
Nickerson's colleagues," said
Burke, "I see, as our obligation,
the formulations of planning
concepts designed to respond to
what the Town's people really
want for their Town. It will not do
to accept urbanization when the
people want suburbia; it will not
do to accept high-rise when
people have come here to live
away from the shadow of a city
skyline. . ."
"In answer to the challenge of
how to regulate our development
and growth in the Town of Oyster
Bay," said Burke, "I intend to
seek the establishment of a
planning advisory board-in
substance a Town planning"
agency to look to the future needs
of our Town; to present
professional planning on a
continuing basis so that at no
time will Hicksville or Bethpage
or any other community remain
in doubt about its present or its
future. The advisers I speak of,
assisted by competent and
recognized experts, will know the
direction a community seeks and
will provide the design for its
need accordingly.
"In effect, I envision that the
advisory board will have a
beginning, but no ending. It will
not reach final conclusions. It will
not, one day, say 'our work is
done.' Instead, in the pursuit of
its functions, it will remain on the
job to update its projections and
keep attuned to a way of life we
know and respect and have a
right to demand."
Burke said it would be,essential
that the planning agency not be a
costly addition to the Town's
budget and that it "advise--and
not direct- your elected
representatives."
Burke.cited the plans to build
14-story high-rise apartments
housing 31,000 persons at Mitchel
Field, and an April 9th statement
by the Director of the Nassau
County Planning Commission
"that vertical zoning is the an1
swer to Nassau's planning
problems," as evidence of a
campaign to destroy Nassau
County's suburban nature.
SMILING TRIO- Hempstead Town Presiding Su­pervisor
Ralph G. Caso (left), installing officer at
sixth annual installation luncheon of the Long Island
Restaurant and Caterers Association, swears in
Warren Spellman of Bethpage/new president. Look­ing
on (center) -is-Frdnk Antun, installed as board
chairman. Affair was held at Carl Hoppl's, Bald­win,
and Spellman's many friends from Bethpage
attended. The Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs were well
represented.
BATTLING FOR BURKE: The Bethpage Repub­lican
Club is wasting no time In getting busy
on John Burke's (fourth from left) campaign
for Oyster Bay Town Supervisor. Club mem­bers
posing with Burke, who made Bethpage
one of the first stops in his campaign are, from
left to right: Past President Sal Mosca; First
Vice President Eleanor Loeffler; President Dexter
Reed; Secretary Marge Cullen; Vice President
Tom LaSpina; Financial Secretary Dan Marrone and
Corresponding Secretary^Stu Levine.
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The Most Rev. Benedict D. Coscia, O.F.M., Bishop
of Jatai, Brazil, will administer the sacrament
of confirmation to about 380 youngsters in St.
Martin's Church, Bethpage, on Tuesday, May 6
in two ceremonies. The first will be at 3 p.m.
and the second at 4:30 p.m.
The Rev. Thomas D. Helfrick is the pastor of Stv
Martin's Parish.