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VOL. 10 NO. 7 Thursday, January 8, 1976 10 cents per copy,
Yevoli Urges Gov. to Help Hippo Discoteque In Plainview?
2,200 Aggie Students
Assemblyman Lewis J. Yevoli
(D-Old Bethpage), held an
emergency meeting at Far­mingdale
Agricultural and
Technical College Friday
January 2, to map out plans to
convince Governor Carey to
restore a $235,000 budget item to
the school in time for the evening
students registration scheduled
for January 26.
Assemblyman Yevoli met with
Dr. Charles Laffin, President of
the college, Fred Chernomas,
Chairman of Farmingdale's 300
member faculty action com­mittee,
several student
representatives, and Assem­blyman
John Flanagan (R-Greenlawn)
who serves on the
Assembly's higher education
committee. Yevoli said, "I and
other Long Island Legislators
were given a firm commitment
by Governor Carey last spring
that a $235,000 credit would be
available to Farmingdale to
allow it to increase its
enrollment. There are now 7,800
evening students attending the
college and another 5,000 were
admitted to summer school last
year. If this unwarranted cut
remains in effect 1,200 fewer
evening students would be
allowed to enroll in Farmingdale
for the coming spring semester
and an additional 1000 would"not
be able to attend the summer
session."
"The irony of the entire
situation", Yevoli continued, "is
that the withdrawal of the
$235,000 affects only those
programs which are self-supporting
and actually produce
a revenue for New York State.
Although the $235,000 is ap­propriated
to Farmingdale in the
form of a certificate, the money
is never really used because the
State is reimbursed more than
$235,000 as a result of the tuition
fees paid by the additional
students at the time of the
enrollment. There is no logic
attached to such a cut, and I
suspect that the reduction was
authorized by an overzealous
member of the budget office who
was unaware of the reim­bursement
system or chose to
arbitrarily ignore it."
According to statistics, Far­mingdale
is recognized as one of
the most economically run
colleges in the State University
System. The per student cost at
Farmingdale is $833 less per year
than at any of the other state
technical schools in the same
category. Yevoli said, "Far­mingdale
offers a unique
curriculum to all Nassau and
Suffolk residents. Tens of
thousands of Long Islanders as
well as out of towners have taken
full • a'dvant*j°r9i of its vsrictv of
courses which range from
mortuary sciences to aerospace
technology. Countless individuals
have had the opportunity to
improve their education and
increase their earning power at a
relatively inexpensive level.
Others have used the college as
an economic method of acquiring
a two year degree prior to
enrollment, in a higher priced
four year institution."
Yevoli said that he and
Assemblyman Flanagan would
attempt to meet with Governor
Carey in Albany this week. "We
have to move quickly", he said,
"to have the cut restored prior to
student registration on January
26. We intend to point out the
fallacy of $235,000 reduction to
the Governor as well as the
disasterous effect it will have on
the 2,200 students who will be
denied admission to Far­mingdale.
We want the Governor
to intervene with-the Budget
Department to restore the
$235,000 certificate. Governor
Carey gave us his word and we
intend to see to it that he keeps
it."
Public Hearing On Price Marking
Nassau Consumer Affairs
Commissioner James E. Ficken
announced that he will hold a
public hearing in Mineola on
Wednesday, January 14th, at 9:30
A.M., on a proposed regulation to
require that supermarkets
continue marking prices "con­spicuously,
plainly and clearly"
on consumer commodities.
"We are intent on adopting this
regulation before the universal
product code scanning systems
come into Nassau," Picken said.
"But we must give supermarkets
as well as consumers a chance to
be heard."
At a hearing in September,
many consumers testified in
favor of the regulation, which
would be adopted under Nassau's
Unfair Trade Practices law, but
few supermarkets represen­tatives
were able to appear.
Some food chains have
suggested the elimination of
price marking on individual
items with the advent of the UPC
scanning system, but Picken
believes that consumers are
outraged at the idea of shopping
from shelf signs only, and he
wishes to forestall the problem.
"Testimony, letters, and and
petitions with hundreds of names
have come to my office," he said.
"Shoppers say if there is no
marking they will not remember
prices and will not be able to
check for errors or compare
costs. Elderly consumers
complain that they cannot see the
•shelf signs."
Commented Picken, "con­sumers
are sufficiently abused in
the name of computerized
progress. We don't want to
permit another abuse."
The hearing will take place in
the Board of Supervisors Hearing
Boom in the County Executive
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Hippo Enterprises, Inc.
has petitioned the TOB for
a change of zone from
Business F. to Business G.
District to maintain and
operate thereon a night
club, discotheque and or
cocktail lounge at
P l a i n v i e w , N.Y.
( n / w / s i d e Woodbury
..Road and e/ side South
Oyster Bay Road.) The
hearing date is set for
February, 10, 1976
Under a Watergate-type
veil of secrecy, the
promoters are attempting
to add another "booze
establishment" in the
Plainview Shopping
Center.' '"" "\
It is our opinion that this
community of middle
income families are not
about to welcome this
enterprise. The operators
will be as welcome as a
thundering herd of Hippos.
The Clearview Village
Civic Association had
already picked up the
gauntlet and from our
sources we have learned
they will get strong sup­port
from the greater
Plainview Community
Association and others.
Apparently the ap­plicants
must be naive or
uniformed, or both.
Nassau County's OTB was
considering this very
same location last year.
After a huge hue and cry
by the local citizenry, OTB
thought it would be
politically wise to back off
this site. This made
everyone concerned very
happy.
Several years prior to
the OTB try, the owners of
the Shopping Center tried
to add a motion picture
theatre in the rear parking
lot of the center. They,
apparently, were so
confident that they poured
the foundation. After
another uproar from the
public they dropped their
plans for the movie. In-cidently
the Plainview
Movie is across the street
from this center and has
been serving the com­munity
for some time.
The foundation in back
of the center has since
been covered with grass
and is now a "park" —
(Birdseye History of The
Center)
Since the Plainview
Shopping Center was built
in 1954 there have been 2
bars - The Driftwood and
one in the China View
Restaurant approved for
this site. A few hundred
feet away and across the
street is Rogo's Bar — V4
mile there is Hi-Way Inn.
For the record — a little
background about the
Plainview Shopping
Center. The total site is
about 18V2 acres. In 1954
there was approx. 75,000
square feet of stores and
parking for approx. 2200
cars. Since the initial
approval, 34,500 square
feet of stores, entailing 13
different situations have
been added. There is now
parking for approximately
1,200 cars. (1,000 less).
Following is a list of the
additions / alterations....
Pamper Cleaners, Car
Wash, Daval's Fruit
Market, Handyman
Hardware, Milk Barn,
Kentucky Fried Chicken,
Lincoln Savings Bank, and
subsequent expansion,
Island Federal Bank,
Chase Manhattan Bank,
Beacon Photo, former A &
P expanded, Grand Union
expanded. The center now
had a total of ap­proximately
110,340
square feet (50 percent
larger).
If the builders of the
Plainview Shopping
Center had to appear
before the present - day
Board of Zoning Appeals
for approval of this 110,340
square foot center with
1,000 les,s parking area
would they recive ap­proval?
' Would they
qualify under present - day
environmental restric­tions
and today's traffic
count surveys? We
wonder.
It would seem the
Plainview Shopping
Center grew like Topsey —
No one minds progress —
and free enterprise is
encouraged in our republic
- but now a HIPPO in
Plainview? Wanna buy a
jungle?
Florence M. Cullem
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JACKSON NAMES CHETKOF COORDINATOR FOR 3RD
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT Discussing the upcoming New York
State Presidential Primary (April 6) with Senator Jackson are (left
to right) Thomas Lilly of Sea Cliff, member of Senator Jackson's
Law Committee, Senator Henry Jackson, former Congressman
Herbert Tenzer, and Bernard Chetkof of Plainview, 3RD
Congressional District Coordinator.
Chetkof, a Plainview attorney, cSvers portions of Nassau and
is a former vice chairman of the
Nassau County Democratic
Committee and currently is
Legislative Counsel to Assem­blyman
Lewis J. Yevoli. Active in
county politics since 1960,
Chetkof was a coordinator for
Hubert H. Humphrey in 1968,
campaign manager for Yevoli in
two Town of Oyster Bay races
and in his campaign for the
Assembly, and was himself a
candidate for Town Council in
X963.
The 3rd Congressional District
Suffolk Counties, including parts
of the towns of Oyster Bay,
Huntington, Babylon and the City
of Glen Cove.
Chetkof said he will be seeking
volunteers to assjst in the
Jackson campaign and that on
January 4th a meeting will be
held to nominate delegates and
alternates committed to the
Senator. The meeting will take
place at the Holiday Inn on
Sunnyside Blvd. in Plainview
(exit 46 L.I.E.) from 8 P.M. to 10
P.M.