Bethpage-Tribune_1976-06-17

              BETHB^GE W 1 KWAK WM* UERMY
OLDBETHB«GE
also serving ISLAND TREES
PLAINVIEW PLAINEDGE SEAFORD
VOL. JO NO. 30 Thursday, June 17, 1976 10 cents per copy
Bethpage Approves Budget
MAINTENANCE ENGINEER AWARD: Hempstead Town Super­visor
AI D'Amato (2nd left) presents a citation of appreciation to
John Haarhouse of Plainview (2nd right) for distinguished services
in the field of Plant Maintenance Engineering at a seminar held at
llofstra Universitv. Also at the presentation were Chairman John
Siharium of Lido Beach (left) and John Fuchs of Merrick, director of
the seminar. Mr. Haarhouse was also joined hy his wife in accepting
the award.
St. John's Student Selected
For College President's Society
Mr. David T. Fowler, III, son of
Mr. and Mrs. David Fowler, Jr.,
of Bethpage, has been selected
for membership in The
President's Society of St. John's
University for the academic year
1976-77.
The President's Society,
founded in 1968, honors those
students who combine scholar­ship,
integrity, maturity and a
well-rounded personality with
University-wide awareness,
participation and leadership,
especially by their significant
contribution to the extra­curricular
life of the University.
Members of the Society are
considered as part of the
President's official staff, and will
be designated by him for special
duties at University functions.
Mr. Fowler will be graduating
The proposed Bethpage school
budget was approved by voters in
the district election held on
Wednesday.
In addition, the proposed
library budget was passed. The
two school board candidates and
the library board trustee, all
running unopposed for re­election,
were voted in.
The school budget of
$13,721,445, increased from the
current budget of $13,676,181, was
passed with 661 votes to 401 votes,
or 62 per cent to 38 per cent. The
tax rate was increased from
$14.66 to $15.61.
The library budget was passed
by a greater margin, 689 to 360, or
66 per cent to 34 per cent. The
Burke Announces
By Bruce Kalter
library budget has been in­creased
from the current year
about $16,000, to $329,565.
Incumbents Harold Resnick
and Anthony LoFaso ran unop­posed
for three-year terms on the
school board. Both were voted in,
Resnick receiving 807 votes and
LoFaso garnering 835. Incum­bent
Claire Jackman ran
unopposed for the vacant library
board seat. She obtained 813
votes, giving her another five-year
term.
Asked why he felt the school
budget passed, Resnick said, "I
consider it a fair budget, one that
didn't affect the educational
values of the district in any way."
LoFaso said he was
"delighted'* that the budget was
approved. "It was a sensible
budget,'' he said. "The expenses
were reasonably contained."
District Clerk Eleanor Behrik
said afterwards, "I didn't have
any doubt that it (the school
budget) would pass. With
everything going up, the budget
can't remain the same."
Expenses are increasing, she
said, and the budget must reflect
those increases.
Only 1,062 district residents
voted in the Bethpage election,
approximately half of last year's
figure. Behrik called it a "light
turnout."
Disappointed with this, Behrik
said, "I attribute it to a lack of a
contest," referring to the
unopposed board candidates. "A
contest always generates more
interest," she said.
Highway Improvements T a x p a y e r s R a l ly
At Levittown Hall
Pictured above are the Very Rev.
Joseph T. Cahill. CM., President
of St. John's University and
David T. Fowler.
from St. John's University (St.
John's College) in May, 1977, with
a Bachelor of Arts in Government
and Politics.
Marino Nominated For Re-Election
State Senator Ralph J. Marino,
Republican of Syosset, has been
nominated to run for re-election
to office as the Fifth Senate
District's representative in
Albany.
Marino was tapped as the
Nassau County Republican
Committee's candidate at its
nominating convention last week.
He is seeking a fifth term to the
Senate where he has gained in­fluential
seniority and serves as
the Chairman of the Select
Committee on Crime and the
Senate Committee on Crime and
Correction.
During his eight years in office,
Marino has sponsored hundreds
of laws benefitting education,
senior citizens, consumers, the
environment, crime control and
home rule. He has won a
statewide reputation as the
father of New York State's
"Sunshine Laws" mandating
openness in government at every
level. He is also author of the
largest body of anti-crime and
correctional reforms in the
history of the state.
He formerly served as
Chairman of the Temporary
State Commission on Tax Liens
and Mortgage Frauds, Chairman
of the Judiciary Sub-Commission
on Tax Liens and Mortgage
Frauds, Chairman of the
Judiciary Sub-Committee on the
Right of Privacy and Chairman
of the Committee on Towns and
Counties.
The lawmaker's district takes
in the entire North Shore from
Glen Cove to the Suffolk County
line, and runs-southward through
Syosset, Jericho, Hicksville,
Bethpage. Plainedge, North
Massapequa, Massapequa and
parts of Levittown, Wantagh and
Seai'ord.
Oyster Bay Town Supervisor
John W. Burke announced that
the Town Board has awarded a
contract providing for concrete
reconstruction along roads in
Syosset, Hicksville, Plainview,
Old Bethpage and Oyster Bay.
The work entails the renovation
of concrete curbing and aprons
where needed, as well as the
placement of sidewalk ramps for
the handicapped at intersections
along the following local
thoroughfares:
Plainview: Debora Drive and
Dorothea Street; Eleanor and
Alma Lanes; Halcourt and
Clover Mill Drives; Lean Lane
and Dolores Place; Burton
Avenue; Diane and Annette
Courts.
Old Bethpage: Colonial Road;
Piper Place; Sheridan Street;
Belaire Drive; Belaire and Fams
Courts; Maggio Lane; Lark
Avenue and Lark Court; Sher­man
Road; Lee Place, Haven
Lane and Marc Court; East Park
Court.
Burke said the contract for the
work was awarded to DeGore
Construction, Inc., the lowest of
five bidders, for $223,525;
DeGore's bid came in ap­proximately
$55,000 under the
initial estimated cost of the
project.
Planned Use Report
Released For Federal
Revenue Sharing
In compliance with regulations
of the State and Local Assistance
Act of 1972, the Oyster Bay Town
Board on Tuesday, June 15,
authorized publication of a report
indicating the Town's planned
expenditure of $912,501 in federal
revenue sharing funds allocated
for the period July 1, 1976 -
December 31, 1976.
Town Supervisor John W.
Burke explained that the funds
will be used for on-going en­viron
mental protection
programs.
The Taxpayers Union of Long
Island, Inc. will culminate its
first six months with a mass
taxpayers rally at Levittown
Hall, on June 22, at 8:30 p.m. The
hall is located on Levittown
Parkway, \z mile south of Old
Country Road, l/4 mile east of
Wantagh Parkway, Old Country
Road exit.
T.U.L.I. is the last hope of the
taxpayers according to its' Co-
Chairman and founders, John
Scarpa and Mario V. Colleluori.
The special interest groups
continue to grab whatever is left
in the pork barrel and spineless,
acquiescing politicians are only
too eager to please," said Mr.
Scarpa.
•If the taxpayers do not group
together to slow down the
runaway spending," he con­tinued,
"we can expect to pay four
times the taxes we are now
paying within five years."
According to the co-chairmen,
the Nassau County Budget for
1976 is unbalanced. Expenditures
are understated and revenues
overstated. "The resulting deficit
at the end of 1976 will be
devastating. Yet, no attempt has
been made by the present ad­ministration
to hold down,
spending."
•The school budgets have all
been presented carrying their
annual increases that if per­mitted
to continue will destroy
the financial stability of large
numbers of families and
education itself."
•This can all be turned around
if the taxpayers stop acting like
the sheep the politicians think
they are and band together under
one banner to become a counter-force
against the well heeled
special interest groups."
•Those of us who have
dedicated ourselves to reducing
the unbearable tax burden,"
Scarpa said, "cannot do it alone.
We need the support of all the
taxpayers of Nassau County. If
the taxpayers turn out in mass on
June 22nd, 1976, Colleluori said,
it will act as a message, loud and
clear to everyone spending and
receiving our tax monies that we
have had enough and mean to
have our taxes reduced."
In 1776, Scarpa concluded, our
forefathers abolished taxation
without representation. In 1976
we want to abolish taxation with
misrepresentation.
Representing Plainedge in the 12th. annual 1976 Cerebral Palsy "Tag
Day" fund raising drive are: (1-r) Nancy Gannon, Sandra Wall, Eric
Kilanowski, Gerard Foley, Stephen Foley and (rear) Thomas W.
Foley (Adult Supervisor) -just five of some five thousand concerned
young people working in support of Nassau's Cerebral Palsied.