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Vol. 3 NO. 41 Thursday, July 31, 1969 10< per cepy
From
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Congressman Lester L. Wolff, in an attempt to
further overcome the critical shortage of doctors that
the nation faces,last week introduced legislation which
would provide grants to develop training in medicine
under the Public Health Service Act.
Wolff said the bill, which would emphasize training
of general practitioners, would establish a three-year
assistance program for medical schools to expand
existing programs or to establish new ones. He also
said that priority would be given to those medical
schools which intend to increase their enrollments.
"As Dr. Roger Egberg, the new HEW Assistant
Secretary for Health recently noted, there is an urgent
need for more physicians, especially in the area of
family medicine. I believe this bill would be an
effective way to reduce this urgency," said Wolff.
He added that "if we have any intention 6f ever
solving the problem of providing enough doctors for
multiple medical needs, we must encourage young
people to enter medicine. Unfortunately, our medical
schools at present have neither the funds nor sufficient
facilities to cope with medical school increases in
enrollment." i
The bill has already been endorsed by medical
groups, including the Board of Directors of the
American Academy of General Practice which stated
they will encourage all fifty chapters to endorse it.
"We must provide our young people with every
opportunity to enter the vitally important and
intellectually stimulating field of medicine. But in
order to do this, our medical schools must have more
funds and have them as soon as possible,"
Congressman Wolff said.
Farmingdale Program
To Aid Disadvantaged
Dr. Charles W. Laffin, Jr.,
President of State University at
Farmingdale, today announced
that 47 incoming freshmen
chosen from such disadvantaged
target areas as New York's lower
East Side, Harlem and the
• Bronx; Brooklyn's Bedford-
Stuyvesant and Long Island's
Wyandanch and Lawrence, are
participating in the college's
"Wider Opportunities at Far­mingdale"
(WOAF) program.
This marks the second
"Summer - in-the - Country"
campus program designed to
provide educational op­portunities,
for a group of un­derprivileged
youngsters, who
otherwise would have little op­portunity
to enter the main­stream
of the academic world,
Laffin remarked.
The students will all be enrolled
in the college this September and,
as Dr. Laffin points out, "It is
certain that t^e help they receive
during the special seven week
program will enable them to
carry more adequately the load
in the regular Fall curriculum."
He added, "Previous ex­periences
show that many
children from disadvantaged
areas often fail to get an
academic program in high school
thus lacking adequate exposure
in English, Math and Science.
Therefore, our WOAF program is
centering its efforts in these three
areas, hopeful that it will bridge
the gap between the un­derprivileged
world and the
academic world."
All students in this special
remedial project are supported
financially during their seven
week residence on campus, July 7
to Aug. 21. Operating on a $22,000
budget, the program includes
room and board, books and
supplies, insurance and medical
attention and a $10 per week
stipend for the students. Faculty
salaries are also included.
William Washington, assistant
dean of students for special-programs,
emphasizes that "To
best serve each student in our
'Wider Opportunities' at Far­mingdale
program, we group
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To Arms
Ladies!
AN OPEN LETTER TO:
1) 90,000 'commuters of the
Long Island Railroad.
2) Central Island Commuters
Association.
3) Metropolitan Commuters
Association.
4) South Shore Commuters
Association.
None of you, including myself,
have the real time, the energy,
(and from sheer weariness of
riding the Long Island Railroad)
the fighting spirit needed to once
and for all free ourselves from
the CANCEROUS conditions
which have accumulated due to
management's and the em­ployees
of the. LIRR almost
complete breakdown (there is no
other term to be used at this
stage), combined with
ROCKEFELLER- RONAN
disregard for our everyday lives.
THEY'RE LAUGHING AT US
MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT
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Vietnam Casualty
A Requiem Mass was offered in
Bethpage Monday, July 28 for
Private First Class Daniel
McGrath, who died in Vietnam on
July 20. He was 20.
McGrath, a graduate of Island
Trees High School, died from
wounds suffered during a patrol.
Assigned to Vietnam last
January after enlistment in
September, McGrath was ser­ving
with the 199th U.S. Army
Light Brigade.
Pfc. McGrath leaves his
mother, Mrs. Catherine McGrath
of 32 Jupiter Lane and the widow
of Raymond McGrath, a career
officer in the U.S. Air Force. He
is also survived by his brother
John, sisters Mary and Mrs. Jane
Ruby, and grandmother Mrs.
Agnes Maurer.
Following the mass at St.
Martin of Tours, interment was
in Long Island National
Cemetery.
Photos In
The News
Oyster Bay Town Supervisor, Michael N. Petito (1)
discusses local government in America with (f,rom Lto
r.) Dagmar Brankamp-Germany; Finn Skjeldestad -
Norway; Jeanny Weyland - Luxembourg; Larbi
Chaabane -Morocco. The Supervisor invites a group of
more than 100 foreign exchange students to Oyster Bay
each year to exchange views on America and other
countires.
CALIFORNIA HERE I AM: Hempstead Town
Presiding Supervisor Ralph G. Caso listens attentively
as California Governor Ronald Reagan recalls history
of Mexican hat displayed in the latter's office. Caso,
chief executive of the largest township in the nation,
and Reagan, governor of the biggest state in the
country, discussed mutual problems during Caso's
recent vsit to the west coast.
EAGLE WATCH: Members of the Bethpage Kiwanis pose with their model of the
Grumman LM "Eagle", displayed recently in Bethpage. At left past-presiden
S S shows the photographer what a giant moon-man might look like next
fo the spaceship. Joining with Bob in front of the display at right are Frank
Biondo, president, Frances Mennona (1), and Jim Greco, Don Schiavetta,
secretary, and Joe Tirado (r).