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VOL. 21 NO. 2 Week of April 24 - April 30,1986 20 cents per copy
L A Fair Gets A Permanent Home
Hempstead Town Presid­ing
Supervisor Thomas S.
Gulotta, Vice Chairman of
the Nassau County Board of
Supervisors, and Oyster Bay
Supervisor Joseph Colby
have announced that the
Board has approved funding
for the addition of an exhibi­tion
at the County run Old
Bethpage Village Restora­tion
which will recreate the
Spy Ring Part of Was/iington
ExhibH
Oyster Bay Town Historian Miss Dorothy H, McGee
headed up the Town of Oyster Bay delegation which
attended ceremonies opening the U.S. Army Intelligence
Corridor in the Pentagon Building, Washington, D.C. The
exhibit, which depicts the activities of intelligence services in
American wars from the colonial period to the present,
includes information on the Townsend-WoodhuU spy ring
provided by Miss McGee, who is also chairman of the
Town's Bicentennial Historical Commission. The ring,
which operated during the American Revolution, involved
Robert Townsend of Oyster Bay. Operating under the code
name "Culper, Jr.," Townsend, with the help of his sister,
Sally, provided General Washington with information that
exposed Benedict Arnold's plot to turn West Point over to
the British. Other Town representatives included John H.
Meyer (second from left), a member of the Commission, and
Kevin P. Conologue, Town Hall Liaison to the Commis­sion.
Hosts for the exhibit included Lt. General Sidney T.
Weinstein (second from right). Assistant Chief of Staff for
Intelligence, and Dr. Jerome J. Haggerty, Intelligence
Historian.
Navy Awards Grumman
A-6B Intruder Contract
Kep. Norman F. Lent (R-East
Rockaway) amd U,S.
Senator Alfonse D'Amato
(R-NY) announced today
that the U.S. Department of
the Navy has awarded the
Grumman Aerospace Cor­poration,
Bethpage, New
York, with a contract in the
amount of $87,500,800 for
the manufacture of 11 A-6E
Intruder aircraft.
"This contract demon­strates
the Navy's continued
confidence in the Grumman
team. Their established
record of experience and
outstanding performance is
second to none in the aero­space
industry. We are
extremely proud of Grum-man's
contribution to our
national security," the legis­lators
said.
The A-6E Intruder is ah
all-weather air-to-surface
attack aircraft. The A-6E's
mission is to destroy both
moving and fixed sea and
land targets in all weather
conditions and during dark­ness.
The Intruder's out­standing
technical capabili­ties
have been upgraded
with digital avionics. The
new cockpit displays will
give better, more useful,
information to flight crews.
"Grumman has helped
make Long Island a recog­nized
leader in the field of
aerospace technology, and
we congratulate them on
this award," Lent and
D'Amato said.
Mineola Fair grounds of
1867.
Once completed, the
recreated Fair Grounds will
be used to host the annual
Long Island Fair, which has
been held at Old Bethpage
Village since 1970.
Old Bethpage Village is a
recreation of^ typical Long
Island farming community
during the generation before
the Civil War. Consisting of
24 original period buildings
brought to Old Bethpage
from throughout Long
Island, the restoration rests
on the site of the old Powell
Farm - the Powell farm­house,
which still stands and
is open to the public, is the
only building at Old Beth­page
Village on its original
site.
According to Gulotta and
Colby, the County plans to
construct at the recreated
Fair Grounds: a main exhi­bition
building, carriage
sheds, horse stables, barns
and various auxiliary out­buildings
which will house
cattle, poultry and other
livestock.
Supervisors Gulotta and
Colby noted that the
authenticity of the recreated
structures will be achieved
by using old photos and an
1866 Currier and Ives litho­graph
of the Mineola loca­tion
as guides.
"The annual Long Island
Fair is a major special event
at Old Bethpage Village,"
Gulotta noted. "Increasing
attendance and community
interest over the years has
made it necessary to give
serious consideration to
providing the Fair with
permanent facilities. The
costs of accomodating the
Fair, through annual tent
rental and the rental of other
temporary housing facili­ties,
has become increas­ingly
prohibitive."
"By constructing a per­manent
home for the Long
Island Fair at the Village
Restoration, the County v^ltt
be providing the Fair with
the means to continue flour-
'ishing, while trimming the
costs of continued opera­tion,"
Supervisor Colby
noted. ^
In a unanimous vote, the
Board of - Supervisors
appropriated $900,000 to
undertake the proposed
reconstruction. An addi­tional
$600,000 of the total
$1.5 million project cost will
be raised from private
contributions.
Battling Banks For Heart
The second annual Battling Banks for Heart, a semi-athletic competition
designed for bank employees, was held in March for the benefit of the
American Heart Association. The competition, which raised over $30,000
to help in the fight against heart disease, attracted over 450 bankers
representing 23 Suffolk, Nassau and Queens Banks. Pictured here is the
team representing Bethpage Federal Credit Union (Bethpage).
Physically Challenged Youth 8-21 Eligible For Games
The sponsors of the New
York State Games for the
Physically Challenged have
put into operation an
awareness campaign in an
effort to notify every young
person with a disability that
the four-day program, May
29-June 1 is open to all of
them.
"This is across the board'
and in effect is a challenge
for the physically chal­lenged,"
said Project Di­rector
Susan Gordon Ryan'
in a .new outline of the
competition and fitness
workshops that will be con­ducted
at Mitchel Park and
Nassau Community College
in Uniondale, Long Island.
"It would be a shame if
these were young persons
anywhere who certainly
would enjoy the program
and derive long range bene­fits
from it, did not partici­pate
simply because the
word hadn't gotten around."
The procedures are sim­ple;
.ie emphasized, and the
first step for any person aged
8 to 21 is to write or call for
more information. The staff
headquarters will provide
applications upon request
for those who write to the
NYS Games for the Physi­cally
Challenged, PO Box
247, Belmont Lake State
Park, Babylon, N.Y. 11702.
Applications also may be
obtained by telephone with
a call to 516 669-1000 and
callers also can obtain
information regarding
volunteer work in the
program.
The deadline for applica­tions
to be turned in is May
7.
Sonja Kuntzler, the
Games Director, suggested
that the first step for any
young person with a disabil­ity
is to consider the swim­ming,
track, or field events
that they would enjoy and
enter them, up to a total of
six.
The disability categories
are for blind, deaf, spinal
cord injured, Cerebral
Palsy, amputee, and les
autres for all others.
The events are scheduled
to begin on Thursdasy even­ing,
May 29, in the swim­ming
facility at Nassau Col­lege
with a complete slate of
competition for all ages and
disabilities, in three catego­ries,
backstroke, breastroke,
and freestyle. Distances are
at 25, 50 and 100 yards and
there are four classes of
competition with the age
ranges 8-11, 12-15, 16-18,
and 19-21.
Thereafter on Friday the
program will be for track
events on the Olympics regu­lation
oval at Mitchel Park,
the scene two years ago for
the International Games for
the Disabled..
The track distances com­prise
for all medical classifi­cations,
20, 40, 60, 100, and
200 meter sprints, and 400,
800, and 1,500 meter longer
distance events. Each event
in track competition will be
structured for competitors
of all ages.
The final two days will be
devoted to field events with
the Saturday competition
for shot put, discus, javelin,
club, medicine (heavy) balal
thrust, precision ball throw­ing,
precision javelin, and
distance kick ball.
On Sunday's finale the
mornings only program
which will end with a gala
awards luncheon, will fea­ture
the high jump, and long
jump events, and a wheel
chair slalom.
There will be medal
awards to the first, second,
and third place finishers in
each division of each event.
Mrs. Kuntzler stressed
that the youngsters who
attend, either as participants
or in the non-competitive
workshops do not have to
have prior experience.