Bethpage-Tribune_1976-10-14

              BETHPAGE
GE PUBLIC imi
OLD BETHB«GE
also serving ISLAND TREES
PLAINVIEW PLAINEDGE SEAFORD
VOL. 10 NO. 47 Thursday, October 14, 1976 10 cents per copy
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Campaign close Up: | Day-Night Hearings Set
Voter's Mandate \ For 1977 TOBAY Budget
By Shari Miller
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Town of Oyster Bay Coun­cilman
Thomas L. Clark (Con-servative-
Hicksville) will be
seeking reelection this
November. Councilman Clark
was appointed to the Town Board
after the resignation of Warren
M. Doolittle, who is now serving
as judge of the Fourth District
Court. At the time of his ap­pointment,
Mr. Clark was
characterized as "an individual
with all the qualifications
necessary to assure effective
representation for all Town
residents." Both Mr. Clark and
Justice Doolittle are residents of
Hicks ville.
Mr, Clark has over seventeen
years of experience as a local
businessman. Soon after joining
the Town Board, he became
Chairman of the Standing
Committee on Community
Services. In recognition of his
endeavors on the behalf of local Republican Party as well as his
youths, notably as a former own Conservative Party for
leader of the Hicksville Youth selection as successor to Justice
Council, Councilman Clark was Doolittle's seat,
made Co-chairman of the „ , '
Standing Committee on Youth. Councilman Clark; hopes to
His other past involvement with continue to serve his constituents
Oyster Bay youngsters included in t h e T o w n of Oyster Bay and
serving as a member of the w*u b e participating in public
Hicksville School Board for three debates, under the sponsorship of
years, where he was chosen t h e League of Women Voters,
President of the Board. with h i s Democratic opponent.
Police Report
He was endorsed by the
Eighth Precinct Report
On Saturday, October 10, a 35
year old women was killed in a
two car accident which occured
at South Oyster Bay Road and
Meadow Lane, Hicksville, at
about 6:30 p.m.
According to the police, Joann
Schwartz, 9 Clinton Lane,
Jericho, was attempting to make
a U-Turn on South Oyster Bay
Rd. when her car was hit by
another vehicle driven by
Thomas Veltry, 328 South Port
Street, Ronkonkoma.
An off-duty police officer of the
eighth precinct, Jerry Mirando,
who was with his wife and three
children, was at the scene of the
accident shortly after it occured.
In an attempt to free Ms. Sch­wartz
from her car, officer
Mirando had to smash the car
window open with his fist since
the door was caved in and
jammed shut.
After he removed Ms. Schwartz
from the wreck, he gave her
mouth to mouth resuscitation to
revive her. Police said Mirando
continued to aid Ms. Schwartz in
the County Police Ambulance
which took her to Mid-Island
Hospital in Bethpage, She died at
the hospital at 6:54 p.m.
Mr. Veltry was also taken to
Mid-Island with lacerations of the
face and head, and released.
The police also reported two
robberies which occured at
Keswick Park, Bethpage, bet­ween
the hours of 11:30 p.m.
October 10 and 1 a.m. October 11.
The first robbery involved a 16
year old student who was ac-cousted
by four or five unknown
white males. According to the
police, the boy was riding his
bicycle throught the park when
he was thrown to the ground and
robbed of $5 in cash. As a result of
the assault, it is believed he
suffered a broken shoulder and
was taken to Central General
Hospital in Plainview.
About one half hour later,
another 16 year old student was
robbed of $500 in Keswick Park,
police said. The police believe the
same unknown males were in­volved
in this robbery. Both
robberies are under in­vestigation,
On October 12, a burglary was
discovered at about 12:30 a.m. at
the American Gold Building, 400
Central Ave., Bethpage. The
police said, the burglar(s) went
in the front door, which had been
pryed open. The amount of lose is
not yet known.
The Town Board scheduled a
day and evening hearing for
October 19, on the Preliminary
Budget for 1977 which reflects
slight tax rate increases in the
General Town and Highway
budgets, no increase in the Part
Town budget and a tax decrease
in the Sanitation Collection
budget.
"The budget reflects no in­crease
in programs or the
number of full-time employees,"
Town Supervisor John W. Burke
said, "but cost increases,
primarily for materials, supplies
and debt service, force a slight
increase in some areas while our
efforts to streamline programs
reflect an actual decrease in
otheps.7'
Under the proposed budget, the
General Town tax. which has
been 77.5 cents per $100 assessed
valuation for two years, will
increase by five cents. For the
average home assessed at $7,500,
this increase will amount to less
than 32 cents a month in actual
taxe&paid.
' "Of the average homeowner's
total property tax bill, the
General Town tax as cost him
only $58.13 a year for each of the
last two years. If this proposed
budget is adopted, the General
Town tax bill for that homeowner
will be $61.88 for 1977," Burke
explained.
The General Fund budget
proposed for 1977 totals
$17,690,268, an increase- of
$1,388,447 Over the current
$16,301,821 General Fund. "While
normally such a cost increase
could have raised the tax rate by
Cotton Asks Berie To Haft
Work At Landfill Site
Dr. Donald E. Cotten, a
prominent environmentalist and
currently the 5th S.D.
Democratic State Senate can­didate,
has personally called on
the State Environmental Con­servation
Commissioner Peter
Berle to bring all work on the
controversial Plainview landfill
project to a halt, charging that a
"schism" within Berle's
Department has kept anti-landfill
data from reaching Berle's desk.
Cotten had stated that
" p r o g r e s s i v e ^ sanitary
engineers within DEC are
"afraid to speak out publicly
against the landfill for fear of
losing their jobs, since
traditionalists who favor sanitary
landfills, as the tried and true, no
matter what," appear to be in
controlling positions in the
Department. He noted that his
source for this charge was a
senior sanitary engineer within
DEC who was afraid to have his
name used.
Cotten Reiterated his position
that the Plainview site was a
particularly poor one for a land­fill
in terms of Long Island's
ground water supply-near the
exposed northern edge of the
geologic stratification sloping
downward to the south.He noted
that a progressive program of
resource recovery was the real
answer to Oyster Bay's solid
waste disposal problem.
"ItCresource recovery) will save
not only the environment of the
Bethpage/ Plainview area, but
the water supply of much of Long
Island.It will also help protect
mining, forest, and oil production
areas that must otherwise be
despoiled for want of fuel
about 10 or 11 cents per $100
assessed valuation," Burke
explained, "our greater com­puter
capacity has permitted us
to ascertain definite savings
realized during the current year
that will be included as revenue
in the 1977 budget."
The Part Town (Building,
Zoning, Planning and
Development) budget reflects no
increase in the current tax rate of
9.6 cents for $100 assessed
valuation. That proposed budget
totals $1,378,177, slightly higher
than the current $1,315,060 Part
Town budget. The Highway
budget as proposed for 1977 would
increase the tax rate by four
cents per $100 assessed valuation
to 75.2 cents. The proposed-High­way
budget totals $7,448,661, an
increase over the current total of
$6,884,941.
Sanitation Tax Down
The proposed budget for two
Sanitation Collection. Districts
administered by the Town
reflects savings greater than
those anticipated when the Town
revised its collection schedule
last April.
The total of the budgets for the
Sanitation Collection Districts as
proposed for 1977 is $7,102,640.
The current total is $7,466,446.
This* reduction will be reflected in
reduced tax rates in the two
Districts. In the larger area,
Districts No. 1, the rate will drop
3.8 cents per $100 assessed
valuation to $l.l47?ajid in District
2 the rate drops 1 cent to $1,365.
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recovery and materials recovery
from our trash and garbage," he
said.
Berle's Department recently
announced that it will hold public
hearings on the Town's landfill
plan but, since excavation at the
Plainview site will continue in the
interim, Dr. Cotten isn't satisfied.
He was highly critical of landfill
proponents who "have a face-saving
stake in the landfill," he
said.
BETHPAGE GETS THE GREEN LIGHT: Oyster Bay Town
Councilman Salvatore R. Mosca, left, joins Nassau County Com­missioner
of Public Works H. John Plock, Jr. in the Ceremony held
this week to commence the operation of the newly-installed traffic
flight on Stewart Avenue in Bethpage. The light was erected to
correct the safety problems that existed for the students of Bethpage
High School attempting to cross this busy thoroughfare, and was
made possible through the cooperation of Grumman Aerospace
officials who voluntarily aligned their roadways to permit this safety
addition.