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VOL. 13 NO. 26 Thursday, May 3, 1979 10 cent* per copy
Photos-In-The-News TOB CETA
Office Opens
Tag Day teen leaders, Laurie Alloy of Old Bethpage, who attends
John F. Kennedy High School and Robert Stein, Seaford of Seaford
High School, proudly display a poster to be used during the three day
teen campaign in support of the United Cerebral Palsy Association of
Nassau County Inc. on Sunday, May 6th; Friday May 11th and
Saturday, May 12th. Proceeds from this project, involving hundreds
of youngsters, will help support the outstanding work of the UCP
Nassau treatment and rehabilitation center in Roosevelt, L.I. which
serves over 1000 clients.
Jerry Krinsky of Plainview, right, president of Krinsky Enter­prises,
Inc., and a member of the American Cancer Society, Long
Island Division's theater party committee, discusses the upcoming
fundraiser with Walter Cooper of Dix Hills, chairman of the
division's crusade committee.
The 17th Annual Memorial Theater Party stars Sammy Davis Jr.
and is scheduled for May 7, 8:30 p.m., Westbury Music Fair. For
tickets, at $65 each, call 420-1981.
CLEARING THE WAY FOR SHERATON: Hempstead Town
Presiding Supervisor Al D'Am a to (right) and Hempstead Town
Supervisor Jim Bennett (left) admire the plans for the ten-story
atrium lobby planned for the new Sheraton Convention Center ad­jacent
to the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. With the
Supervisors is Miner Vander Ley, Director of Development for the
Sheraton Corporation.
Critical Food Shortage
A satellite office of the Office of
Employment and Training has
been opened in Hicksville by the
Town of Oyster Bay to better
serve those seeking employment
or training under the federally
funded Comprehensive Employ­ment
and Training Act (CETA),
according to Town Supervisor
Joseph Colby.
"The new office is located in
the former Bloomingdale Ele­mentary
School on Fordham
Road, Hicksville, which the Town
has leased from the Bethpage
School District," Colby said.
"Oyster Bay Town residents will
find this location far more con­venient
than having to travel to
Hempstead to avail themselves
of the many services offered
through the CETA program."
CETA offers a variety of
employment and training pro­grams
to assist the economically
disadvantaged, long-term
unemployed, and the working
poor. It is designed to combat
unemployment through class­room
training and skills training,
on-the-job training, and by place­ment
in temporary jobs with
various county, town, city and
village offices, as well as non­profit
organizations.
"Our CETA administrator
informs me that there are
literally hundreds of unfilled
positions open to unemployed
Town residents," Colby said.
"Counselors also are available at
the satellite office during work­ing
hours to assist the jobless in
finding the proper program that
will prepare the individual for the
job market."
The satellite office is open
Monday through Friday from 9
AM to 4:45 PM. Information on
eligibility for the various pro­grams
can be obtained by calling
681-4556.
TOB Hiring
Town residents between the
ages of 18 and 30 seeking tem­porary
work are being offered $4
per hour to work as temporary
sanitation workers.
Oyster Bay Town Councilman
Joseph J. Saladino, Chairman of
the Town Board Committee on
Sanitation, announced that posi­tions
as temporary sanitation
workers are available now and
temporary workers will be put on
immediately upon approval of
the Civil Service Commission.
"It is not easy work," Saladino
explained, "and that makes it
very important that anyone seek­ing
this position be in good health.
The temporary employees will
serve to fill in on Town sanitation
crews when regular employees
are on vacation or have a pro­longed
illness."
Sanitation crews work on Mon-,
days, Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Fridays, Saladino said. "For
many people looking for a tem-
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A critical food shortage effect­ing
the lives of thousands of
Nassau County residents because
of recent changes in federal Food
Stamp regulations, and because
of rapidly spiraling inflation and
high employment, has prompted
County Executive, Francis Pur-cell,
to proclaim Saturday, May
12th, Emergency Food Day.
A coalition of more than thirty
community agencies, organiza­tions
and colleges from through­out
Nassau County, including the
Department of Social Services,
have joined together in an effort
to collect non-perishable food
items and monetary donations
from county residents as a tem­porary
measure to insure that
people from the fifth most affl-'
uent community in the country
will not go hungry.
The emergency food drive,
which is being coordinated by the
Long Island Council of Churches,
and the Nassau Economic Oppor­tunity
Commission, came about
as a result of poorly projected
cost increases when the 1977 Food
Stamp Act was passed. The legis­lation
calls for a cost ceiling on
the amount of money that can be
spent over the life of the program
which expires in 1981. Projections
by the Congressional Budget Off­ice
(CBO) indicated that by 1979
food prices would rise 12.5 per­cent
compared with 1976 levels.
CBO now projects prices to rise
by 26 percent. The initial prb--
jections for 1980 were 16.9 per­cent,
but have now been revised
upwards to 36.2 percent. Because
of increased inflation the cost of
allbenefits have increased beyond
anticipated levels, and increased
unemployment has raised the
number of eligible applicants.
The spending ceiling for 1980 has
been set by law at $6.° billion,
with a projected actua* cost of
$7.5 billion, leaving an expected
shortfall of at least $1.3 billion
that will be lost to Food Stamp
program participants. As of April
1st, more than 4,000 people have
been cut from the Food Stamp
program in Nassau County alone
since the new regulations went
into effect in March.
The emergency food drive is
aimed at providing aid to all
families and individuals in crisis
as a result of illness, unemploy­ment,
escalating fuel bills, rent
increases, and late checks, which
may contribute to personal and
financial hardship. Nutritionally
balanced three day supplies of
food will be distributed to reci­pients
who are referred by an
accredited social service
organization or clergyman who
can verify need.
The special food collection cen­ters
will be opened throughout
Nassau County on Saturday, May
12th, from 9:30 AM to 6 PM (A
complete listing of the special
food collection centers is at­tached.)
All food collected will be
distributed to people in need by
the Emergency Food Center
operated by the Long Island
Council of Churches and other
food pantries in the county (SEE
ATTACHED). Any monetary
donations that are made will be
given to the Council of Chur­ches
Food Program to purchase
food wholesale when supplies at
the center are depleted.
Any individual or group that
would like to participate in this
drive or needs further informa­tion
should contact Marilyn
Marks, Director of Health and
Nutrition, at the EOC of Nassau,
106 Main Street, Hempstead,
N.Y. 11550, (516) 292-9710. or Jane
Winegard, Emergency Food
Coordinator, at the Long Island
Council of Churches, 249 Merrick
Road, Rockville Centre, N.Y.
11571, (516) 536-5250.
In Bethpage, The Society of St.
Vincent De Paul at 249 Broadway
is the emergency Food Center.
Contact Dick Scanlon 822-3132 for
Bethpage residents as well as
Farmingdale.
'Dollars For Democrats"
Members of the Nassau Demo­cratic
County Committee will hit
the streets on May 5th and 6th in
their annual "Dollars for Dems"
drive. The proceeds will be used
to fund Campaign '79 with the
town committees receiving 60
percent of the contributions
collected and the balance used in
the countywide races.
"Nassau Democratic cam­paigns
are traditionally supp­orted
by indiviaual contribu­tions,"
said Nassau Democratic
County Chairman Stanley Har-wood.
"This year is no exception
and we anticipate that the
majority of our County Com­mittee
members will be visiting
the homes of their neighbors and
inviting them to support the cam­paign
effort.
"People money is our basic
source of campaign funding and,
to the extent that Nassau res­idents
respond, the prospects for
two party government will be en­hanced
in our county." In addi­tion
to electing all of the mem­bers
of the board of supervisors,
members of the town boards and
other local officials will be
elected. At the county level a
chairman of the board of
assessors, county clerk and the
administrative judge of the Dis­trict
Court will also be chosen.
Plans call for the almost 2,4X)0
members of the county committ­ee
to have coffee and rolls at the
home of the local community
Democratic leader on Saturday
morning, May 5th and to then
spend the rest of the day visiting
their neighbors. The effort will
continue on Sunday and will
culminate late on Sunday after­noon
when county committee
members will journey to county
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