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VOL. 13 NO. 11 Thursday, January 18, 1979 10 cents per copy
Community Service: Reducing Keeping Water Safe
Pioneers Lend A Hand Vandalism
HELPING HAND — Terry Flanagan, a member of the Telephone
Pioneers of America, guides fingers of blind bowler using specially-developed
scorekeeper to learn how to bowl. Pioneers, a community
service organization of New York Telephone employees, have
donated a number of the devices to Nassau County's "Bowlerama"
program for the visually handicapped. The telephone workers have a
long history of service to the handicapped including development of
talking dolls and beep-baseballs for children and maintenance of
"talking books" record and tape players for the blind.
They may never bowl a perfect
'300', but some blind and visually-handicapped
Nassau residents
are enjoying several afternoons a
week at the bowling alley ~
thanks to the efforts of an in­novative
Nassau community
service organization.
Members of the Telephone
Pioneers of America's Nassau
Council, composed of active and
retired telephone company
employees, recently devised
special scorekeepers to make it
easier for the blind to learn to
bowl.
The scoring devices are about
eight inches square and are made
of masonite and plywood. They
have holes for ten plastic pegs
positioned as bowling pins.
Pioneers Cliff Bogseth of East
Meadow and Jerry Flanagan of
Malveme teamed up to make the
devices. Once the pieces are cut
out, they are easily assembled
with a screw driver and small
rivet gun. The group has
produced about 25 scorekeepers
thus far. They plan to make
another 50 which will be dis­tributed
upon request.
Some of the scorekeepers were
donated to the "Bowlerama"
program sponsored by Nassau
County's special recreation unit.
Members of the program^
which is open to people 18 years
old and up, bowl at Planders
Lanes in Uniondale on alleys
specially-equipped for their use.
"The scorekeepers are being
used by blind and handicapped
people who bowl several days a
week in our program," says
Rosemary DeCuzzi, coordinator
of the unit.
"One of our main objectives is
to get the handicapped back into
the mainstream of society and
life," DeCuzzi continues. "The
scorekeepers are helping make
this possible."
The concept for the devices ori­ginated
in the Queens chapter of
the Pioneer group where they are
also used by "sensory" bowling
leagues.
Mike Corso, 16, who lost his
sight at the age of 12, has enjoyed
using the Pioneer-supplied
devices and with its help he
bowled a tournament high 124
last spring.
"The competition was good,
but bowling a good game is what
really mattered," said Corso. "I
was the only bowler who is totally
blind, and I won even without the
extra points allowed as a handi­cap.
I felt pretty good about
that."
On the prospect of a national
tournament, Corso said: "I'd go
anywhere if it would help get
other blind people to try to bowl.
They think they can't do it, but
they can."
Other handicapped bowlers
have been helped by the efforts of
an upstate Pioneer who
developed a sophisticated,
"Touch and TeJl-a-Pin" score-keeper.
Amber lights and raised
prongs cue the blind and partially
sighted to the pins left standing.
A number of Pioneer Chapters
around the country have dup­licated
this unit for the handi­capped
in their areas.
State Senator Ralph J. Marino.
(R-Syosset) is sponsoring two
proposals in Albany aimed to cut
down vandalism that is fast
becoming a major problem on
Long Island.
The first bill will make parents
of youngsters aged ten to
eighteen liable for damages to
private property up to $1000.
Currently, the law requiring
parental restitution covers only
public property.
A second measure allows
school districts to supervise
young vandals found guilty of
damaging property. The school
would assign the juvenile to
perform services for the public
good in lieu of cash restitution or
sentences of probation ordered
by the Family Court.
"When youngsters committing,
property crimes are arrested and
found guilty," said Marino,
"school districts may appeal to
the court to take responsibility
. for those under sixteen years of
age. The alternative of making
the youngster work off his or her
sentence is the most meaningful
and appropriate form of punish-'
ment. Working in public service
fosters attitudes of responsibility
and appreciation of the rights and
property of others."
Marino, Chairman of the
Committee on Crime and
Correction and long the leading
force against violent juveniles in
New York State is an adherent of
"early intervention" as a means
of rehabilitating youngsters
before they harden into
criminals. "For most youngsters,
vandalism is a first step into
crime. Prevention is by far the
most effective means of reducing
crime rates."
"These two bills will go a long
way towards reducing the wanton
acts of irresponsible children,
and hopefully, averting more
serious crimes in the future."
I.T. Adult
Education
The Island Trees School Dis­trict's
Spring Adult Education
Brochure has been sent out to all
District residents. Additional
brochures can be obtained by
calling 731-4020, Ext. 249.
For the first time, residents
will be allowed to register by
mail up until January 29th. There
will be in-person registration in
the Lobby of the Island Trees
Junior High School on Tuesday,
January 30thfrom 7:00P.M. until
9:00P.M.
Classes usually meet from 8:00
P.M. to 10:00 P.M., once each
week, and the program runs for
10 sessions. Registration fee for
most courses is $15.00 unless
marked otherwise in the
brochure.
A SERIOUS LOOK: Assemblyman Lewis J. Yevoli (c), Donald
Middle ton N.Y.S. Dept. of Environmental Conservation (1), and Dr.
Charles Baulknight of Bethpage <r), look over the State's new testing
laboratory at Stonybrook. Assemblyman Yevoli led the successful
battle io have N.Y.S. appropriate 1200,000 for a laboratory on Long
Island to test all of Nassau and Suffolk Counties Public Water Supply
for the presence of toxic substances.
L.I. & Aviation
The Farmingdale-Bethpage
Historical Society will note the
seventy-fifth anniversary of
powered flight at a two-part
meeting on Wednesday evening
January 24, at Northside
Elementary School, Far-mingdale.
Long Island's role in aviation
during these seventy-five years
will receive special recognition in
a talk by William K. Kaiser,
curator of Nassau County's
Cradle of Aviation Museum,
Mitchel Field. Mr. Kaiser's
address, which will begin at 8:30
p.m., is entitled "Seventy-five
Years of Powered Flight: A Long
Island Perspective". The
speaker is a former history in­structor
at Hofstra University
and editor of the three volume
series, The Development of the
Aerospace Industry on Long
Island.
The award - winning docu­mentary
film, Kitty Hawk to
Paris: The Heroic Years, will be
shown at 7:30 p.m. It traces the
first twenty-five years of
aviation, from the Wright
Brothers' achievement at Kitty
Hawk to Charles Lindbergh's
flight to Paris. Those who can
arrive early are urged to view it.
All interested community
residents are invited to attend the
meeting, which will be held in
Northside's Bicentennial Hall.
The social hour which will con­clude
the meeting will include
refreshments and an opportunity
to view an exhibit of aviation
photos and models.
The Sewers Cometh
Anticipated Street Closings Due to Sewer Construction for Week
of January 22,1979- January 26,1979:
Contract 1002-3-P-l (Bethpage, Piainview laterals)
Meade Ave. from Stewart Ave. to 12th Street
Sherman Street from Stewart Ave. to Railroad Ave.
Grant Ave. from Stewart Ave. to Railroad Ave.
Burkhardt Ave. from Stewart Ave. to Railroad Ave.
Burkhardt Ave. from Stewart Ave. to Railroad Ave.
Grant Street for Stewart Ave. to Railroad Ave.
South 1st Street from Railroad Ave. to Sherman Ave.
South 2nd Street from Railroad Ave. to Sherman Ave.
South 3rd Street from Railroad Ave. to Sherman Ave.
South 4th Street from Railroad Ave. to Sherman Ave.
South 5th Street from Railroad Ave. to Sherman Ave.
South 6th Street from Railroad Ave. to Sherman Ave.
9th Street from Railroad Ave. to Thomas Ave.
11th Street from Railroad Ave. to Thomas Ave.
12th Street from Railroad Ave. to Thomas Ave.
Contract 1002-3-INT-16-2 (Piainview Interceptor)
Crest Lane at Stewart Ave. intersection
Eiffel Gate at Stewart Ave., intersection
Broadway from Ellen Street to Linden Ave.
Contract 1002-3-L-3 (Bethpage, Levittown laterals)
Roosevelt Street., Moore Drive
NOTE: Subject to change due to weather conditions or other
unforeseen occurrences.