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Thursday, July 9, 1970 10c per copy
Photos-in-the-News Local Man To Coach Baseball
At Farmingdale University
TWO CAPETS. Lucretia Belaus, a 1968 Library
Cadet and Susan Roistacher, a 1970 Cadet put the
finishing touches on a Vacation Time display in the
Children's Room of the Plainview-Old Bethpage Public
Library.
50 YEARS OF SERVICE: William E. Koutensky. right, president of
the Long Island National Bank, accepts a bronze plague from
Charles R. Carroll, Chairman of the Board of the bank. The award,
by the officers and directors of the bank, was in recognition of "50
years of dedicated service," and was given at ceremonies held in the
bank's board room at its main offices in Hicksville.
Senior Citizens Exempt
From Many Tobay Taxes
Supervisor John W. Burke
issued a reminder last week to all
elderly residents to take ad­vantage
of legislation recently
passed by the Town that will
enable more than 1,000 additional
senior citizens to take advantage
of a reduction in town property
taxes.
Burke noted that the Town
Board voted unanimously on
June 23 to increase, from the
current $3,000 to $5,000, the in­come
allowance for elderly
residents who claim a 50-per cent
property tax reduction. Burke
said the legislation was enacted
alter Gov. Rockefeller signed a
State law authorizing it in April.
Burke advised the senior
citizens to spread the word
among their friends. "Sometimes
a matter like this can get buried
in the morass of information
Ken Rocco of Bethpage, a
former minor league player, has
joined the Physical Education
Department of State University
at Farmingdale, where he also
will serve as the new coach of the
Aggies' baseball team.
In making this announcement
this week, Dr. Charles W. Laffin,
Jr., President of the College, said
that "the rich and varied
background, both academically
and physically, that Rocco
possesses will make him a
valuable addition to our faculty
and of great help to Athletic
Director Tom Watt."
The Corona-born Rocco suc­ceeds
Bruce Robbins as diamond
mentor. The latter will now
devote more time in coordinating
the massive 12-event, year-round
Intramural Athletic Program
that attracts more than. 1,000
students and members of the
staff. Robbins will also remain as
golf coach.
Rocco, who has served as
assistant to Robbins in baseball
last season, was outstanding as
an athlete at DeLaSalle Institute
and Massapequa High School
before launching an active
college career. He excelled in
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Late Bulletin
Island Trees lost
yesterday in its second
attempt to pass a school
budget.^ The proposed
budget went down by six
votes, 637 for vs. 643
against.
The library budget was
also defeated, losing 667 to
612.
A special Board of
Education meeting has
been called, for Tuesday,
July 14 to decide what
action to take on the
budget.
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distributed to the news media,"
Burke said. "It would be a shame
if even one person was forced to
sell a home because he was
unaware of his eligibility for a tax
saving."
Oyster Bay Receiver of Taxes
Solomon Newborn addressed the
Town Board at the public hearing
and asked for passage of the
proposal.
"I am delighted that the Board
responded so quickly," Newborn
said. "Right now we have 711
elderly residents claiming
exemptions. I would estimate
that the increased maximum
income will allow two or three
times that number to take ad­vantage
of a tax reduction."
basketball at LaSalle for two
years, then became a three-letter
man at Massapequa' High where
he starred in football (halfback),
baseball (outfielder) and brack
(sprints).
His college career was a most
impressive one, including time
out for a one-year stint with the
Cincinnati Redlegs farm team in
Tampa, Florida. An injured knee
brought an end to his short minor
league career but he continues to
be most active in semi-pro
baseball today, playing third
base for the Mineola Alumni in
the Nassau Baseball Alliance.
Rocco received his Associate
Arts degree in 1965 from Nassau
Community College, his Bachelor
of Science degree in Sciences and
Physical Education from the
University of Maryland in 1967*
took a Graduate Course in the
Philosophy of Education at St.
John's the following year and
expects to receive his Master's in
Physical Education at Queens
College this summer.
Extra-curricular activities
during his college days found
Rocco serving as Athletic
Chairman in the Dormitory
Division of Maryland, where he
not only made the Dean's List but
was the No. 1 graduate out of 200
in the college's Physical
Education Department.
While at Maryland, he was a
standout performer in the
college's intramural program,
excelling in basketball, baseball,
Softball, volleyball, bowling. He
also was inducted into the
college's Physical Education
honorary society, Phi Alpha
Epsilon.
Ken made the Dean's Lost at
Nassau Community College
(1963-65) and received that
collegels Achievement Award in
Physical Education in 1965; •
For the past two seasons, the
new Aggie coach has served as
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Town of Oyster Bay a. the
Hay path Community Park for
children and adults in Syosset.
According to Athletic Director
Tom Watt, Rocco has made many
friends here on campus during
his part-time assignment as
Assistant > Baseball Coach the
past season. "He is a good mixer,
enjoys working with young
people and has a vast knowledge
of baseball...all of which make
him an asset to our athletic
staff," declared Watt
TOH Seeks Land
Hempstead Town Presiding
Supervisor Ralph G. Caso's
recently-announced a plan to
create at least 300 federally-financed
low and middle income
housing units throughout the
town. This week, the town sought
to bolster the program, as the
town's Housing Authority
launched a daily and weekly
newspaper advertising campaign
lor available sites and private
buildings.
Caso considers his proposal to,
provide needed housing for young
married people, returning
veterans and senior citizens as
"the most practical approach" to
a housing shortage that is nation­wide
in scope. -The plan
designates 70 percent of the new
units for middle-income housing,
20 percent for tow income housing
and 10 percent for senior citizen
housing.
"Before we can properly plan,
we will need an inventory of
parcels and private buildings
available, and developers ready
to proceed under the strict
guidelines of federal housing
assistance programs," he ex
plained.
The Hempstead Housing
Authority's advertising cam­paign
aims to find builders
through legal ads placed in daily
newspapers and display ad­vertising
in all town weeklies.
Housing Authority chairman
Raymond H. Ma lone explained
that builders will be asked to
construe! housing on. available
sites on a turnkey basis, a federal
program under which a builder
erects housing and then sells it to
a local agency. Owners of private
buildings interested in selling, for
the purpose of rehabilitating
them are also being sought. .
Supervisor Caso noted that the
Hempstead Housing Authority
will apply to the U.S. Department
of Housing and Urban
Development for financing under
its Operation Turnkey program.
The housing authority, Caso
said, has .the power to sell to low-income
families at low; federally
- subsidized interest rates, or rent
with an option to buy.
In addition to the intensive
advertising campaign, the town's
Budding Department has already
begun a townwide survey to
locate suitable vacant housing.
Apartments Approved
Caso also announced this week
that the Town Housing Authority
has received approval from the
U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development on its plans
for the construction of a 144 unit
garden apartment complex for
senior citizens in Seaford.
The $3,288,500 federally
. financed project, said Caso, will
be constructed under the federal
turnkey program in which a
private source builds the
development and then turns it
over to the housing authority to
operate.