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Vol. 3 No. 31 Thursday, May 29, 1969 10< per copy
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The Memorial co-ordinated by the Island Trees Tax­payers'
Association will be unveiled and dedicated on
Friday, May 30, 1969 and the Honor Roll will also be
presented at the ceremonies commencing eleven A.M.
in front of the Island Trees Junior H.S. The Levittown
Memorial Day Parade will terminate in front of the
school prior to the dedication. The Reverend Lawrence
Ballweg of St. Bernard's R.C. Church, the Reverend
Harry Hall, Pastor of the Levittown Community
Church and Father Walters of the Episcopal Church of
Levittown will be present. The Grand Marshall, Mr.
Frank Gibbons, will deliver an address and the keynote
speaker will be the Hon. Paul J. Widlitz, Justice of the
Supreme Court. Everyone is invited to attend the
dedication and the Memorial Committee would like to
take this opportunity to publicly thank the entire
community for their financial and moral support
during the campaign.
TOHAYSKTSNKWMKMOHIAL l)AY THADK REGULATIONS
Acting upon the advice of
Oyster Bay Town Attorney
Bernard Ft McCaffrey, the Town
Board passed a local law last
week governing trade regulations
on Memorial Day.
Rescinded and repealed in its
entirety was a May 13. 1958 or­dinance
prohibiting most
businesses - other than food
suppliers and those considered to
be essential for the public good -
to operate any time on a
Memorial Day.
The new law prohibits all
trades, manufacturers, and all
those involved in public selling
from operating between 9 AM
and 1 PM. Food suppliers,
groceries, delicatessen dealers,
and similar small food suppliers
and restaurants are still per­mitted
to open before 1 PM under
the new law. Violators shall be
punishable by a fine of not more
than $100 or imprisonment for
Island Trees Negotiating Teams
Reach Agreement Board President
Gives Progress Report to District
Bethpage Candidates
more than 15 days or both.
McCaffrey said the Town took
this step after his staff reviewed
recent court decisions - he cited a
case against the Town of Hun­tington
as an example - ruling
against a municipality restric­ting
trade in its entirety on
Memorial Day. McCaffrey said it
was not the Town's wish to
diminish the importance of the
holiday by allowing firms to open
later in the day. "We feel,
however, that we will have a
belter chance of upholding this
law if it ever comes to a case
where we must go to court,"
McCaffrey commented.
He added that it has been
traditional in the Town of Oyster
Bay for the various parades and
memorial exercises to be con­ducted
within the hours of 9 A.M.
to 1 PM when most of the non­essential
businesses will be
restricted from operating.
Roberta C. Carlson, a senior at
John F. Kennedy High School of
Plainview and son of Mr. and
Mrs. Edward Carlson of 17
Edgewood Drive, Plainview, is
one of the ten winners of four-year
engineering college
scholarship for 1969 awarded by
Grumman Aircraft Engineering
Corp.
Carlson won one of the three
special grants awarded depen­dents
of Grumman Employees.
His father is in the Grumman
Accounting Dept. Young Carlson
plans to enter MIT this Fall and
major in Physics.
Some 274 college grants have
been made to Nassau and Suffolk
high school students by Grum­man
since the Engineering
Scholarship Plan was launched in
1944. Many of the early winners
now hold highly responsible
positions with the Bethpage
aerospace company.
The Grumman scholarships
provide the winners, all
graduating from high school this
June, with four full years of
tuition at any accredited
engineering school of their own
choice, plus laboratory fees.
The student winners may
choose to specialize in either
aeronautical, mechanical, civil,
electrical engineering, or other
suitable courses, including
physics^ and mathematics,
providing their primary interest
is a long term career in
engineering or supporting .fields
in the aerospace effort.
There was a record list of over
300 applicants for the grants this
year, including 70 vying for the
three special awards made an­nually
to "dependents" of
Grumman employees.
The three "dependent" grants
are made solely on the basis of
results in the College Entrance
Board tests in March, while the
other seven Grumman
Engineering Scholarships open to
any high-ranking senior in a
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Albert Firestone 12 Barnum
Avenue Bethpage announces his
candidacy for the Bethpage
School Board.
He is a long time resident of the
community and has two
daughters attending Bethpage
Public Schools. He has been
trained in the fields of manage­ment
and economics and is ac­tively
working as a contract
negotiator, administrator and
management specialist with
Lockheed Missiles and Space
Company,.
His academic background
includes purchasing, finance and
administrative management. He
holds a B.A. degree in economics
from the University of New
Hampshire, with some under­graduate
study at St. Anselm's
College. He also has an M.B.A.,
degree in management from
Hofslra University. He is active
in professional societies which
include the Natipnal Association
of Purchasing Management.
National Contract Management
'Association and the American
Management Association.
For years he has been an active
participant in Bethpage School
affairs: ,Over five years a
member of the Citizens Advisory
Committee on the" Budget;
Member Citizens Advisory
Committee on Secondary
Facilities, and member of
Citizens Advisory Committee on
Adult Education. Firestone is a
past vice president of the Friends
of the Bethpage Public Library.
Firestone states that he firmly
believes his academic back­ground
and business experiences
offers the community exceptional
leadership ability that will make
him a vital asset to the Bethpage
School Board.
Charles Hearl has entered the
race for a seat on the Bethpage
Board of Education. He has filed
against the incumbent trustee
Lee Hilton..
"We have have chartered the course and we can
move forward in Island Trees," said School Board
President Donald Ferris at the public meeting of the
Island Trees School District on Tuesday evening, May
28 at the Michael F. Stokes School. The meeting was
attended by a number of officers and members of the
Island Trees P-TA as well as the Island Trees Tax­payers
Association.
Ferris continued his statement by summing up the
achievements of the present Board of Education. He
gave what is termed the "President's Progress,
Report* and spoke for approximately 40 minutes on
the problems facing the Board during the year and the
solutions reached by the trustees.
He took time out of his summation to turn the floor
over to George Murphy, President of the Island Trees
Teachers Association. Murphy made the an­nouncement
that the Board negotiating team (James
Tucci, Thomas Courtney and Superintendent Leo
Miller) and the Teachers Association team had
reached a amicable settlement on the salary schedule
of 1969-70. Murphy praised the efforts of both teams
and said negotiations were carried out in a congenial
manner. The teacher swill meet today to ratify the new
contract. The schedule starts at $7200 on step 1 and give
$8000 at the MA level. The wage scale is on a one-year
basis but fringe benefits were negotiated on a two-year
package deal. The general concensus was that the
teachers "could live with this contract" considering
the financial situation of the district. It has been noted
Island Trees is a "low wealth area" and a "high Tax
district.".
for preparting a report on in­surance
costs and coverages over
the past few years. However,
since all the figures were not
available the report was ac­cepted
as incomplete.
Ferris spoke about the Board's
action in accepting the recom­mendations
of the Administration
and Education Committee im the
area of curriculum changes in the
district reading program. A
comprehensive study was made
of the needs of the district under
the direction of Miss Mary Ann
Kivlighn and Lloyd Rice and D-istrict
Superintendent Leo Miller.
New reading texts will be pur­chased
to bring the reading
curriculum up to date. The Board
also approved a complete survey
of the District's educational
program by the State Education
Department Evaluation Team.v
This will take place next year
since there is a waiting list for
this evaluation.
Board trustees Gordon Webb
and Lois O'Donnell were also
commended for their coopera­tion.
Both are novice trustees.
Ferris commended them for their
work on the Budget Committee
headed by James Tucci and '
members Thomas Courtney and
( l*irry,;BBrke.; Ferris said many
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Ferris continued his
"President's Report" by
highlighting the areas of fiscal
management, central ad­ministration,
insurance and the
recommendations of the
Management Survey team of
Booz, Allen and Hamilton. Ferris
pointed out that the survey was
conducted in the interest of the
taxpayers to "ensure efficient
utilization of the tax dollar". -
"The Board of Education, said
Ferris has expressed concern
over the mounting costs of
education in this district. Tax
dollars need to be spent wisely"..
.he said. The management surve-y
report indicated a restructuring
of management is needed for-more
efficient operation and
utilization of these tax dollars.
A new procedure, for setting up
District policy, recording it and
having it available for easy
reference had been recom­mended
by the. Board Vice
President Florence Cullem for the
past two years. The Management
Survey indicated this vital need
too. Mrs. Cullem has recom­mended
the Croft system and the
Board approved this.
Ferris also outlined broadly the
insurance survey made by the
Slate Insurance Department. He
commended trustee Larry Berke