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VOL. 10 NO. 43 Thursday, September 16,1976 10 cents per copy
Buckley & Levine
Win GOP Primary
Senator Buckley Stuart Levine
There were no surprises in last Tuesday's GOP
primary, as Senator James Buckley triumphed over
Peter Peyser in Nassau County voting. The voter
count revealed that Buckley had received 29,476
votes and Peyser had received 11,665 votes.
Although Bethpages own Stuart Levine beat in­surgent
Bruce Duncan on the GOP line 1,798 to 1,442,
it wasn't a total victory. Levine was originally
nominated by the Conservative party, but he lost the
line in the primary as Joseph L. Connelly, insurgent
Conservative, defeated Levine by a vote of 89-62.
TOB Seeks Appeal
Of PSC Ruling
Oyster Bay Town Councilman
Salvatore R. Mosca announced
that, at his urging, the Town is
seeking to appeal a recent State
Public Service Commission
decision that would permit
construction of 93-foot towers
carrying high intensity power
lines through Bethpage.
Mosca said the Town has called
on the PSC for a re-hearing
regarding its determination to
allow replacement of existing 60-
foot poles with higher lowers and
high intensity lines from the Long
Island Lighting Company sub­station
located in Farmingdale,
just west of Merritts Road and
the Long Island Railroad, run­ning
west to the LILCO
Newbridge Road substation in
the Town of Hempstead.
"While the recent PSC decision
calls for the undergrounding of
the high intensity lines through
the Village of Farmingdale, this
same decision unjustifiably
would permit the construction of
overhead lines in the neighboring
community of Bethpage," stated
Mosca. "Councilman Carman
and I have opposed the overhead
lines concept since the inception
of LILCO's Holbrook-to-New-bridge
proposal. J will not be
satisfied until the PSC recognizes
the injustice of its present
decision and requires the under-grounding
of the high intensity
lines throughout all portions of
our Town for which transmission
facilities are planned."
The Councilman explained that
the Town's appeal for a re­hearing
is based on the belief that
construction of the overhead lines
in any portion of Oyster Bay
would adversely affect the health
and safety of local residents, that
residents would be subject to the
likelihood of increased inter­ruption
of service due to exposure
of transmission facilities to
adverse weather conditions, that
the recent decision unjustly
discriminates against that
portion of the Town where
overhead lines would be per­mitted,
and on the basis of visual
and overall aesthetic con­siderations.
"It would be wrong to permit
the construction of high intensity
overhead lines in any part of our
Town," concluded Mosca, "and
continued pressure on the PSC
will, it is hoped, correct an initial
judgement which I most firmly
believe was faulty."
Annual Panther Parade
Kicks-Off New Season
The 1976 Pigskin Preview was
unveiled last Sunday as the Beth­page
Association of Midget
football opened another season
with a gala parde and plenty of
games for local fans. The
weatherman cooperated com­pletely
for the fifth straight year
as bright sunny skies and tem­peratures
in the 70's greeted the
marchers.
Led by this year's two parade
Grand Marshalls, Florence
Cullem, Editor of the Tribune and
Leo Schottland, veteran civic
leader, merchant and columnist,
the marchers got underway
shortly after 12 noon from the
Village shopping center on
Stewart Avenue and proceeded to
the high school field for opening
ceremonies. Color guards from
the Bethpage Fire Department,
the Archie McCord Post of the
American Legion and the
Bu tenor n Brothers Post,
Veterans of Foreign Wars
stepped off smartly in front of the
"Shamrocks," better known as
the American-Irish Drum and
Fife Corps of Rockaway Beach.
Led by Bandmaster Pat Kelly,
the State champions thrilled the
crowds along the parade route
and at the field with some of the
best band music heard in recent
years.
Also in the line of march were
the top public officials from the
area, including Congressman
Jerry Ambro, Assemblyman
Lewis J. Yevoli, Town Supervisor
John Bruke, Councilman
Salvatore Mosca and District
Court Judge Warren Doolittle.
They each extended brief
greetings and well wishes to the
Panthers at the field ceremonies
which were handled by BAMFO
Past President Chuck Johnson.
St. Martin's Begins
Religious Education
St. Martin of Tours will begin
its Religious Education Program
the week of September 19. The
general student fee this year is
$7.00 per student or a maximum
family fee of $20.00 (three or
more children).
According to the Religious
Education Treasurer, "the
student fees are needed to sup­port
the entire unit of our
program. These funds are used to
purchase the text books,
teachers' guides, films, records,
materials and supplies. Also
included is the adult instruction
program, the teen-age program,
the training of our volunteer
teachers and other educational
activities for our community."
The general student fee will be
collected and books distributed in
the Parish Hall on the following
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The current Panther President,
Tony DiLeonardo, extended his
congratulations to Parade
Chairman Joe Carley and asked
for more youngsters in the 7 to 9
year age bracket to join the
Panther Cub program.
Over a hundred young players
from the Panthers were in the
parade along with the high-spirited
cheerleaders who
marched with their instructors
from the Ladies Auxiliary, led by
Auxiliary President Joan Eliseo.
and Sandy Walakovits. Units of
the Bethpage Fire Department,
with sirens wailing, brought up
the last section of the parade. An
estimated three thousand per­sons
watched the parade or were
at the high school field for the
football doubleheader.
Panther's Parade Entered
In Congressional Record
Mr. AMBRO, Mr. Speaker, on
Sunday, September 12, the Beth-v
page Association of Midget
Football will hold its fourth an­nual
"kick off" day parade
marking the beginning of another
midget football season for the
Bethpage Panthers, Midget
Football, for those of my
colleagues who are not familiar
with it, is organized along lines
similar to little league baseball,
in that formal teams of
youngsters age 7 to 14 play
football against one another in
"league competition."
This will be the llth season of
midget football in the community
of Bethpage. There will be 125-130
young boys making up a total of 7
teams participating in this ac­tivity.
Four of these teams--the
Cub Squad-will play among
themselves and three teams will
compete with other teams in
Nassau, Suffolk and Queens,
Counties under a schedule, of 8 to
10 games during the season,
which runs from the middle of
September until Thanksgiving
weekend. In addition, 75 girls
participate in the cheerleading
activities. While the uniforms for
those taking part are paid for by
their parents, midget football
also depends for its support
upon the. active ladies auxiliary
which takes it upon itself to
support a number of fundraising
events, and a generous business
community whose financial help
is invaluable to the continuation
of this activity.
Mr. Speaker, every year
hundreds of youngsters and their
families participate in midget
football, not only learning the
rudiments of one of the most
popular sports in America, but
also learning to work and play
together in a sportsmanlike
fashion. This kind of a program
can help shape the values of a
youngster through his entire life.
All of those involved in the
Health Fair
You're invited to a special
FREE Health Fair at St. James
Church, 80 Hicksville Rd.,
Seaford on Friday, September 17.
organization and financial
support of the Bethpage Midget
Football program are to be
highly commended for the fine
community service that they are
performing and I am honored to
have been invited to participate
in their fourth annual parade at
the start of what I hope will be
another successful season of the
Bethpage Panthers.
Empty Tank Ends
Police Chase
Leonard Cohen, 37, of Long
Beach was arrested on Tuesday,
September 7, for reckless en-dangerment,
reckless driving
and two counts of leaving the
scene of an auto accident by
Eighth Precinct Police at
Hicksville Road, Massapequa.
According to the police, Cohen
was stopped by Sergeant Quinn of
the 8th precinct for failure to
signal and as he was being
checked for any previous
warrants, Cohen sped away
westbound on Hempstead 'Fur-pike.
• Sgt. Quinn and other police
officers pursued Cohen.
The police said, Cohen collided
with a vehicle at Bethpage Park­way
but continued on to Merritts
Road east to Southern State
Parkway then back north to
Central Avenue in Bethpage at
speeds in excess of 90 miles per
hour. The police continued the
chase as Cohen sped through
back roads in the vicinity of
Roosevelt Avenue, then south on
Stewart Avenue.
A police road block was set up
on Hempstead Turnpike. The
police said that one police officer,
patrolman Guidice, was standing
by the road block as Cohen's car
approached. According, to the
police, Guidice jumped out of the
cars way seconds before the (Jar
collided with a truck at the road
block site. Cohen then continued
southbound on Stewart still
traveling at 90 M.PH. onto
Hicksville Road. The chase *ended
when Cohen's vehicle ran out of
gas, one-half mile south of
Jerusalem Avenue, Massapequa.