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VOL. 21 NO. 11 Week of June 26 - July 2,1986 20 cents per copy
Restored For A viation Museum
The airplane used by
Admiral Richard E. Byrd on
his Antarctic expeditions of
the 20's and 30's m\\ be on
display at the Cradle ot Avi­ation
Museum in Garden
City starting June 27.
The aircraft, a Fairchild
FC-2 which Byrd named the
"Stars and Stripes," has
undergone four years of
painstaking restoration
work since being obtained in
1982 on a permanent load
basis from the Smithson­ian's
National Air and Space
New NCPD
Car Insignia
On June 11th, Nassau County Police Commis­sioner
Samuel J. Rozzi unveiled the department's
new Police insignia which will be placed on all
marked, Nassau County Police vehicles.
The new decals duplicate the Department's
official emblem and will provide a higher degree
of visibility than the shield type markings which
have been used for the past 10 years.
The decals, in the shape of the Department's
patch, are of a greater reflective quality and are
more distinctive in nature.
Pictured with Commissioner Rozzi, right, is
Chief of Patrol, Lawrence Thorne.
Museum.
A restored Grumman
F9F Cougar, the Navy's first
swept-wing fighter in the
1950's, will also go on dis­play
for the first time on
June 27.
The restoration work on
both planes was performed
by a dedicated crew of 40
volunteers, most with avia­tion
experience.
The Grumman Cougar,
obtained from the Navy and
moved to Long Island from
New Jersey with the help of
Grumman, has been res­tored
to its 1956 conition
with the markings of the
Naval Air Station at Floyd
Bennett Field.
The "Stars and Stripes"
was manufactured at Fair-child
in Farmingdale in 1928
and was used by Bryd on his
Anarctic expeditions of
1929 and 1934.
In addition to the new
exhibits, the museum also
features a host of other air­craft
and artifacts that span
the entire history of air
travel, ranging from a
mockup of the Wright
brothers' plane to an actual
Grumman lunar module.
For further information,
call the museum at
222-1191.
Danger In Fireworks
Citing the danger of
explosive fireworks to life
and limb. Police Commis­sioner
Samuel J. Rozzi
today warned county resi­dents
not* to become
involved with pyrotechnics
this Fourth of July season.
"The fireworks being sold
illicitly these days pose a
positive danger to the life
and well-being of adults and
children," Rozzi said. Many
of them are more powerful
than industrial explosives.
Anyone who has the mis­taken
idea that M-80s and
Super M-80s are for fun is
putting his or her future in
jeopardy."
Bomb Squad experts
report that M-80sare more
powerful than a quarter
stick of dynamite and,
furthermore, that these
explosives are unpredictable.
"These 'bombs*can go off
at the first trace of a spark
and blow the users hands off
or destroy eyesight, " Rozzi
said. "The injury lists of past
years are grim testimony to
the fact that the 'fun' of fire­works
can ruin a person's
life."
Along with emphasizing
the danger, Rozzi warned
that extra patrols would be
out over the long July
Fourth weekend to crack
down on fireworks users and
sellers.
"State law is specific
about the illegal sale and use
of fireworks," the Commis­sioner
said. " in some cases,
it is a felony to offer or
expose for sale these heavy
explosives. The punishment
for conviction is up to four
years in jail or a fine of up to
$5,000."
He pointed out that dam­age
to property is as much a
threat as the danger of per­sonal
injury.
"It would be a shame to
have to remember this
Fourth of July —with its sig­nificance
in the great symbol
of the Statue of Liberty cen-tennial-
Because of a terri­ble
injury or other tragedy,"
Rozzi said. "Don't go near
fireworks or anyone who
has them.'*
The Nassau County
Police Department this
month distributed more
than 65,000 brochures to
young people and familes
through the school systems.
warning the public of fire­works
dangers and the
severe penalties of the law
against those who sell or use
these dangerous things.
Senior Wins Grumman
Scholarship
PARENTS SHARE JOY: Melissa Lin-Nei Chow
(C), winner of $22,000 Grumman scholarship,
with happy parents Reuben and Bernadette, after
they received word of award.
Melissa Lin-Mei Chow of Plainview, a senior at
John F. Kennedy High School, has won a Grum­man
Science and Engineering Scholarship worth
$22,000. The award includes $5,500 a year for
four years at any accredited engineering college of
her choice,
Grumman has awarded 12 such scholarships
this year to Long Island high school seniors.
Some 250 students competed for the awards.
Chow plans to study applied mathematics at
SUNY Binghamton. The challenge of mathemat­ics
captivates her. "I've always had a keen interest
in math," she says, "and have always done well in
it. I believe applied mathematics occupies a criti­cal
role in the theoretical aspects of science. I plan
to devote my life to science in this way and hope
my contribution will help make the world a better
place to live in for all."
A high honor student with a well-rounded scho­lastic
career. Chow finished number one in her
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