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VOL. 21 NO. 21 Week of September 4 - September 10,1986 20 cents per copy
Pilot Recycling Program Study Bethpage Anniversary Day
The Oyster Bay Town
Board resolved today,
August 26, to authorize
funds to study source sepa­ration
and recycling pro­grams
with the goal of
implementing a mandatory
pilot recycling program.
The Town is in the process
of gathering information
that will aid in determining
how to proceed with a pilot
program and show what
markets are available for
recycled material, the pro­gram
will be conducted in a
limited test area and the
results analyzed before
being implemented townwide.
Letters have been sent to
municipalities which cur­rently
have some type of
recycling program request­ing
that they share their
experience^. -Among.* other,
questions it ha^been specifi­cally
asked what materials
they recycle and whether
they provide curbside
pickup or residents must
being selected items to a
designated location.
Town representatives are
having on-going conversa­tions
with representatives of
1986
Senior Gaines
The 1986 Long Island
Senior Games are fast
approaching, and now is the
time to sign up for a wee­kend
of fun, socializing,
recreational activities and
competitive sports. The
events will take place on
Saturday, September 20 and
Sunday, September 21 at
Mitchel Park in Uniondale,
at Nassau Community Col­lege
which is adjacent to the
Park, and at Eisenhower
Park in East Meadow. All
Long Island residents age 55
and over are encouraged to
participate in the wide range
of activities offered.
The aim of this program is
to offer organized recrea­tional
activities for older
adults, and to encourage fit­ness
as a lifetime activity.
The Senior Games are gen­erously
co-sponsored by
Chase Long Island.
Registration for the
events will remain open until
the start of the Games with
one exception. September
12 is the last date to sign up
for the very popualr Satur­day
evening program of
dinner, dancing and enter­tainment
which will be held
under a tent at Mitchel
other Long Island munici­palities,
including the Town
of Islip, to determine the
success rate of that govern­ment's
voluntary program.
Oyster Bay officials plan to
visit Camden County, New
Jersey to view its program
next week.
The Town's ultimate goal
is to compile data that will
show how much of the waste"
stream can be reduced by
recycling, and to institute an
appropriate recycling pro­gram
which will compliment
our plans for resource
recovery.
MILERUI
FORVETERAl
4,000 To Run For 4,000
y , Vifltnam KIA's
4,000 runners will rally
outside the Mitchell Field
Athletic Complex, Union-dale,
NY on Sunday, Sep­tember
7th at 9:30 AM for
the 5 Mile Run for Veterans,
in which each runner will
symbolize a Long Island
veteran killed in action dur­ing
the Vietnam War. The
proceeds will help fund the
Vietnam Veterans Resource
Center, a division of Help
Aid Direction, Hicksville,
Long Island.
An ecumenical inter-faith
religious service preceding
commences at 7:30 AM on
Sunday, September 7th. The
religious service will be
hsoted by eight (8) faiths and
is a tribute to our KIA's and
MIA's. All who wish to
attend are invited.
Opening ceremonies will
commence at 8:45 AM led
by Honorary Chairman
Francis T. Purcell, Nassau
County Executive. These
ceremonies are an historical
first for Long Island with
participants from many
aspects of the community.
The actual race will be
started by John F, Kelly,
General Manager/ Postmas-
Park. This event is open to
all seniors regardless of their
participation in the daytime
activities. There is a separate
fee of $7 for the dinner,
which must be paid in
advance.
Registration and check-in
for the daytime activities
will take place in the tent at
Mitchel Park on Saturday,
September 20, from 7 to
10:30 A.M. The fee for the
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ter. Queens Division, U.S.
Postal Service, a major
sponsor of the event. The
race will start promptly at
9:30 AM. During the race,
there will be entertainment
for the spectators and, after
the race, entertainment for
everyone.
The race is designed as a
community event. The Viet­nam
Veterans look forward
to everyone joining them for
the run and festivities on
September 7, 1986 at Mit­chel
Athletic Complex,
Uniondale, Long Island.
The big day is coming,
just one more week
away...and the committee
hopes that you all will be out
there to watch the parade
and join in the party down at
the community park. The
schedule of events is as
follows:
10 AM: Parade to Beth­page
Community Park.
Starts on Stewart Avenue
down around Park and Lin­coln
Ave., travels north to
Central Ave., then east to
Broadway, then north
through town to Benkert
Steet, west on Benkert back
to Stewart and then north to
finish up at the park.
11 AM: Forman Events -
Invocation by Father
George Keaveney, Pastor of
St. Martin of Tours RC
Church.
Star Spangled Bartner -
Linda Connelly.
God Bless America - Mr. &
Mrs. Kenneth Sara.
Pledge of Allegiance -
Michael Mancini, Bethpage
Fire Commissioner.
Introduction of Miss Beth­page
1986, Carol Rubenstrunk.
Introduction of elected offi­cials.
Presentation of var­ious
proclamations by
Supervisor Joseph Colby,
Assemblyman Fred Parola,
and Congressman Norman
Lent.
Guests of Honor, Francis B.
Looney, Former Nassau
$23,500 Grant For
Arson Prevention
Club President Kevin Galloway has announced that the
members of the Theodore Roosevelt Republican Club of
Bethpage will be welcoming some very special and distin­guished
guests at their next Club meeting.
New York State Senator John R. Dunne (6th S.D.) and
State Assemblyman Frederick E. Parola (14th A.D.) will be
joined by John Michael Galasso, Esq., who is the GOP's
Candidate for the 13th Assembly District, as the Club's
honored guests, on Monday, September 8, 1986, at the
American Legion Hall on Washington Street. The meeting
will begin at 8.00 P.M.
George F. Yochman, Executive Leader of the Bethpage
GOP Organization, added that "We're coming to the end of
our recess for the summer and we're anxious to resume from
where we left off in June, when Congressman Lent visited
with us. It's a privilege to have elected officials as distin­guished
and experienced as Senator John Dunne and
Assemblyman Fred Parola visit with us and help us get
underway again ... and Jack Galasso has exhibited a hard­working
character during his campaign for the 13th Assem­bly
District seat, which our Club members have found quite
admirable. It should be quirt an evening."
Members will also discuss the Club's plans to participate
in the Central Park/Bethpage 50th Anniversary Parade,
scheduled for September 13. The Club is ready and willing to
welcome new members to join with them and to BE A PART
OF IT!
BETHPAGE
ANNIVERSARY
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Cty. Police Commissioner
and Samuel J. Rozzi, Pres­ent
Nassau Cty. Police
Commissioner.
Benediction by Reverend
Jerry Stewart, Pastor, Beth­page
Assembly of God
Church.
NOON: Informal events -
Tree planting, WHLI
broadcast from park, Kar­ate
Demonstration, by
Police Boys Club, Camping
& Survival Demonstration -
Boy Scout Troops #603 &
#604, Smokey the Bear,
Nassau County Skatemo-bile,
U.S. Post Office offers
a special Bethpage 50th
Anniversary cancellation
stamp. Pick-up Softball
Game, Continuous Special
Events.
Refreshments will be
available for purchase and
families are invited to bring
their own picnic lunch.
History of Our Name
in 1687 Thomas Powell purchased, for 140 pounds sterling,
from the Marsapeaque, Secatogue, and Matinecoc Indians a
tract of land three and one-half miles wide (east and west)
and five miles deep (north and south), extending from the
Massatayun stream on the west (Broad Hollow, Bethpage)
to the Huntington (now Babylon) Town line on the east; and
from approximately Boundiary Avenue (Plainedge) to the
West Hills (Manetto Hill Road).
The deed for this land was not executed until 1695.
Powell, meanwhile, had named this property "Bethpage"
because it mirrored the geographical position of the Biblical
town of Bethpage (meaning "house of figs") which also lay
between Jericho and Jerusalem. Jerusalem was the name
given to Wantagh and Island Trees by Captain Seaman and
Robert Jackson when they purchased that area in 1644. As
early as 1699, deeds were mentioning Powell's lands as the
"Bethpage Purchase".
After the railroad was extended through the area in 1841,
the name Jerusalem Station was used for a time because the.
stop was designed to serve travellers from the town of Jeru­salem
- now Wantagh. The south shore branch of the rail­road
had not yet been built.
A Post Office was established on Jan. 29, 1857, with
Jeremiah T. Weaver as the first Postmaster, and the settle­ment
for the first time appeared as a village.
The town opened a road, called "The Road to Jerusalem
Station", from the depot to Central Avenue and north to
Plainview Road. But the early residents resented the fact
that their station should be named for a town six miles away,
and on March 1, 1867, they changed the name of the post
office to Central Park, and the road leading to the station to
Broadway. The railroad, however, clung for awhile to the
name "Jerusalem" and the town continued under two names
- one for its station and another for its post office. In 1878,
time tables still listed the stop as Jerusalem, but by 1882 it
was being listed as Central Park.
In the early 1930's a Central Park Improvement Associa­tion,
(CPIA), was formed with Mr. Al Lang Sr, as
Chairman.
In 1931, when the State Park Commission purchased the
Yoakum Estate, the Botto farms and other farms to create
Bethpage State Park, many members of the CPIA thought a
change of name for the town would be desirable. Mr. Ahern
therefore, wrote to Mr. Robert Moses, President of the State
Park Commission, pointing out that the name "Central
Park" had caused difficulties for the postal service and ask­ing
if the Commission would object to the town taking the^
name "Bethpage".
Mr. Moses had no objection and a petition, signed by 435
residents, (over half the number of patrons of the Post
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