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Island Trees
Vol. 4 No. 31
Serving Bethpage - Plainview - Island Trees - Ploinedge - Seaford
Thursday, May 21, 1970
Phofos-in-the-News
GOP COMPAIGNERS: Two of the Republican candidates for
Nassau County office, Angelo D. Roncallo, left, and Hempstead
Town Presiding Supervisor Ralph G. Caso, center, pose for the
photographer with Bethpage Republican Club president Dexter Reed
priqgrto addressing the club membership: Roncallo is campaigning
for re-election to the County Comptroller's post while Caso has set hip
sights on the County, Executive spot.
. .SMALL TALK: Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John W, Burke chats
with Eric Becker, age 9, of the minor league at opening day
ceremonies of the Plainview Little League. Robert Keidan,
President of the Plainview Little League, smiles in approval.
Old Bethpage
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Burke Announces Cancellation
Of Controversial Spray In TOB
. Oyster Bay Town Supervisor
John W. Burke announced today
that the New York State Con­servation
Department has
agreed to cancel virtually all of
its plans to spray the con­troversial
pesticide Sevin
(carbaryl)in the Town of Oyster
Bay.
"We have been advised by Mr.
Charles H. Frommer, head of the
State Department's Bureau of-
Forest Insect and Disease
Control, that only one selected
site is to be sprayed with Sevin,"
Burke said. He added that the site
in question is a heavily-wooded
tract of land on , a 75-acre,"
privately-owned parcel in Oyster
Bay.
"The State originally wanted to
spray large sections througnout
;the Town in an effort to.control
the. gypsy moth, "Burke said:
"But plans to do so were canceled
following pressure from the
National Audubon Society, the
Nassau Fish and Game
Bishop Taylor
Confirmed 500 At
Sf. Martin of Tours
Association, numerous con­servationist
groups and the lack
of Towjn support for the plan."
Burke said he refused to en­dorse
the spraying plans because
they wire non-selective. "Large
scale (spraying such as is
proposed on morjs than 12,000
acres iij Suffolk County could be*
hazard ] to humans as well as
wildlife and could be as
dangerous to the environment as
defoliation by the gypsy moth,"
Burke commented.
The Town, Supervisor', who
campaigned for election on a
platform• of environmental
control, cited a report by the
Health Education and Welfare
Department which recom­mended
limiting the use of Sevin
because, recent experiments with
the pesticide revealed evidence
at birth defects in animals tested.
Burke said he supported the
National Audubon Society's
proposal that the spray program
be canceled and that the funds
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The Most Rev. John E. Taylor,
O.M.I., Bishop of Stockholm,
Sweden, administered the sacra­ment
of confirmation to about 500
youngsters in St. Martin of Tours
Church, Bethpage, on Monday,
May 18 at two ceremonies. The
first ceremony was hold at 11:00
a.m. and the second at 3:30 p.m.
The Rev. Thomas D. Helfrick is
the pastor of St. Martin of Tours
parish,
saved be directed toward
research of the natural enemies
of the gypsy moth, including
wasps, and a study now un­derway
to implement
sterilisation in. male gypsy
moths.
"Officials of the Conservation
Department as well as individual
ecologists and naturalists are
divided over the merits of Sevin "
Burke said. "We, know too little
about it to permit its widespread
use."
Burke added that the Town
presently has no plans to restrict
the use of Sevin by horticulturists
and custom sprayers because
most critics of the pestcide feel
controlled spraying hy in­dividuals
would cause little harm
and would not substantially
disturb the lite cycle of Hie bees,
insects and other creatures for
which the pesticide may be
lethol.
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, Now Principal At Gallow School
The Board of Education has
appointed Miss Mary; Ann
Kivlighn, Elementary Principal,
in the Island Trees Public
Schools, effective July 1, 1970.
Miss Kivlighn has a Bachelor of
Science Degree from Fordham
University cum laude in
secondary education with a
major in English and a minor in
history, a Master of Arts degree
from Queens College In
elementary education, and a
Certificate of Advanced Study in
Educational Administration from
Hofstra University.
Miss Kivlighn has worked in
District No. 26 since January of
1950. She has served two terms as
President of the Island Trees
Teachers' Association from
which organization she received
a life membership in 1958, and as
an elementary school grade
chairman. From 1964 to 1968 she
was Assistant Principal at
Stokes.
In her capacity as Reading
Director for the past two years,
she has initiated and im­plemented
the new reading
Miss Mary Ann Kivlighn
series.
Miss Kivlighn is certified as an
elementary school teacher, a
teacher of English on the
secondary level, elementary
school principal and elementary
school supervisor, secondary
school principal and as a school
district administrator.
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Harwood Applauds Chamber Efforts
SILENT PRAYER Nassau County Police Commissioner Francis
B. Looney, left, and the three presidents of the Department's line
organizations observe a moment of silence after placing a memorial
wreath honoring deceased members of the Department. Patrolman
Edward Lecci, right, of Levittown representing Jhe Patrolmen's
Benevolent Association; Detective Andrew Heberer. center, of
Woodbury representing the Detective's Association; and Sergeant
John Deppert of Massapequa Park representing the Superior Of­ficers'
Association joined Looney during ceremonies in front of
Police Headquarters, Mineola.
State Assemblyman Stanley
Harwood "strongly applauds and
endorses the petition drive of the
Save a Life Committee" initiated
by the Levittown Chamber of
Commerce in seeking to revise
drastic changes in traffic pat­terns
being effected on Hemp­stead
Turnpike.
"Two fatal accidents, literally
hundreds of telephone and mail
complaints from pedestrians,
motorists and parents of
schoolage children, and the
appeals of a number of mer­chants
whose businesses have
suffered critical losses, have
failed to effect a single change, to
postpone, or even temporarily to
delay the determined efforts of
our State Highways Department
to complete this million-dollar-plus
program exactly as it was
originally misconceived,"
Harwood said.
"Let us hope," he added in an
appearance before the Chamber,
" THAT THIS FINAfc APPEAL
DIRECT TO THE OFFICE OF
Governor Rockefeller and signed
by 60,000 of our residents, will
convince our public officials that
this community is determined to
protect its citizens from senseless
highway injuries and the in­convenience
of detouring un­necessarily
around our shopping
areas at considerable loss to local
businessmen."