Bethpage-Tribune_1991-09-06

              AGE PUSLIC LIBRARY
YOUR OFFICIAL HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER
Sei^^mg Bethpage, Island Trees, Plainedge, Seaford, Old Befhpage and Plainview
VOL 24 NO. 40 September 6-12, 1991 25 CENTS
Militia liHuster
At Bethpage
Restoration
MEMBERS OF THE HEMPSTEAD LIGHT GUARDS will drill with
flintlock muskets during a re-creation of a Militia Muster at Old Bethpage
Village Restoration on Sunday, September 22, from 11 AM to 4:00 PM.
Farmers and shopkeepers will don
their uniforms and oil their muskets
for the re-creation of an 1840s" Militia
Muster" at Old Bethpage Village
Restoration on Sunday September 22
from 11 A.M. to 4:00 P.M.
Visitors can view company drills by
the common militia to the music oi
fife and drum, according to County
Executive Thomas S. Gulotta. Other
activities will include casting musket
balls, drills with flintlock muskets, and
company elections. The event culmi­nates
with a " regimental review" at
3 P.M.,complete with the village brass
band and the village's volunteer militia
unit, the Hempstead Light Guards.
In the mid-nineteenth century, the
muster was more holiday than military
drill, with men throughout town
excused from work to gather for a day
of sociali/inu and good-iialuicti km.
Visilt)rs lo Old licthpagc's iniislcr
siiDLild kLC|i lliis in iiiiiul if llic Hoops
are perhaps not as military as they
might expect. After all, they drilled
only once a year.
Old Bethpage Village Restoration,
operated by the Museum Services
Division of the Nassau County
Department of Recreation and Parks,
is located on Round Swamp Road in
Old Bethpage, one mile south of the
Long Island Expressway, exit 48.
Hours are 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. Ihe
village is open six days a week, closed
on Mondays. Admission to the his­torical
village ends one hour prior to
closing. A cafeteria, museum shop and
picnic area are located on the pre­mises.
Admission is $5 for adults, $4
for Nassau County resident adults, .S3
for children ages 5 to 17 and %2.5()
lt)r resident children, Senioi Citi/ens,
the disabled and volimlocr liiclmluers.
I'oi lufllK'i mloiuuilioii call 4.?i)
Grumman CEO Makes First
Public Address on Sept. 17
Renso Caporali, chairmati and
chief executive officer of (iruinman
Corporation, the region's largest
private employer, will make his first
major address to the long Island
business communit\ at the long
Island Association's l,\eeuti\e Break­fast
Meeting on luesdav, September
17 at the Crest Hollow Country Club
in Wotidbury.
As chairman and chief executi\e
officer of Ciruminan. Kenso "Cap"
Caporali is responsible lor the da\-
to-da\' operations and long range
planning lor one of the countr\'s
largest defense linns. Corporali has
been with (irumnian lor 32 \ears.
nsmg up the corporate laddei tiorn
structural flight test engineer to \ ice
president of coiporate lechnolog\
betoie being named to the lop \po\
a \ear ago.
Ihe Se[Meiribei I" breaklast, co
hosted b\ (iruniinan. will he held at
the Crest llollou Couiiu^ Cluh X-
^> a.m. Kesei\ations are SH) loi
members or S2() tor non-rnenibeis.
Ihe ruui-reser\ aiion price is s2() loi
e\er\()ne. A sell-out crowd is
expected, so eaii\ ICSL'IA alioiis aic
re(.|nested. ReseiA .it ions ina\ he
mailed to the 1 I.A, SO llaupjiaucc
Road. Coininack. I I, 1 1 •:-:s..44^).>, .u
call {'>\U) 4^)V-44(H).
Long Island Drug Bust
Amounts in 31 Indictments
Nassau Count\ District .Attorney
Denis Dillon. Nassau County Police
Commissioner Samuel Ro//i. and
Long Beach Police Chiel (lerald Valle
today aimounccd the filing of indict­ments
against 31 indi\ iduals lor selling
cocaine in Long Beach. In addition,
two juveniles will be prosecuted in the
L'amily Court for selling cocaine. I he
arrests follow a ten month undercover
investigation involving the Nassau
County Police Narcotics Bureau.
Long Beach Police Department and
the District Attorney's Burglary
Narcotics Bureau. Ihe arrests took
place this morning when approxi­mately
fifty police officers converged
on the Long Beach area.
According to Dillon, Ro//i and
Valle, over the span of the investiga­tion
31 defendants st)ld undercover
investigators amounts of crack
cocaine ranging in price from $20 -
$50. Many of the sales look place in
the vicinity of Riverside Blvd. and
I as! Pine Street m Lonj: Heacd
thrt)ugli sales were not iiniifed to these
areas, location \\eie !ai jjclcti as ,i
result oi cominuniiN cwm[i!amis.
Ihe U!uierco\ei iincsiigation \\as
headed b\ Assistant Nassau Count\
Police Chief Dtmald Kane; Inspector
(ieorge l)a\is. Head ol the Nassau
Count) Police Department's Narcot­ics
Bureau; Detecti\e ltd. I homas
Sofield of the Long Beach Police
Department; and Har\ey Melmcker.
Chief o[ the District Atiorne\'s
Burglary and Narcotics Bureau.
•All of those indicted will be
arraigned in the Nassau County
Court. Ihey are charged with Crim­inal
Sale of a Coiurolled Substance
in the Third Degree, a class "B"
F'clony, pimishable by up to 25 \ears
in prison. These chaiges are merely
an accusualion and the delendant is
presumed innocent until and unless
proven quilly.
Bethpage Lifeguard Saves
Life At Local Pool
On Wednesday August 2L 1991. at
The TLury Tappen Pool in (llcn-wood
Landing, most people were busy
enjoying the last month of summer.
One parent perhaps saw their life
about to change drastically though, as
her one \ear old vsaiKleied aua\ from
her arul fell itUo the pool, beginiung
iminedialcK lo drown, One \omm
lifeguard was alert and quick enough
to save the babv beiore any appaienl
damage was tlone. This lifeguard's
name is none other than our own
Susan Trost. Susan shouUI be pioud
ol herself. Not main people can sa\
that the\ sa\ed a life on then summer
job! (ileal uoinii Sue!
School's Openn.Drive Carefully