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Speed Reading. Drug Use
Teaching Methods for Substitute
leachers. Always meant to take
time to learn more about any of
these? Now is the time. Courses
on these topics and many more
will be offered on and off campus
through the non-credit Con­tinuing
Education Program of
C.W. Post College. A total o£61
courses principally for adults for
personal and professional enrich­ment
are detailed in the spring
1970 brochure now available
Courses Will begin in early
February.
Courses in electronic data
processing, investment, money
management, and advertising as
well as art and dance workshops
for adults and Saturday morning
art workshops for high school
students will be given at Post
College. Courses in literature,
basic office skills, Afro-American
history, ESP, creative thinking,
psychology of the adolescent,
estate planning, organized crime,
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The Nassau County Association"
of Public School Adult Educators,
whose school districts register
over 50,000 adults each semester,
will hold its 18th Annual Inservice
Conference for • Teachers of
Adults at Hofstra University's
student center from 9 a.m. to 12
i noon on Saturday, January 31.
Mr. M.E. Schumacher, Jr.,
director of adult (continuing)
education for the Plainedge
Public School District and his
staff of teachers plan to take part
in the conference.
Francis X Driscoll, director of
continuing education for the
Sewanhaka School District, and
conference chairman, announced
the following program:
Dr. H.A. Enzer, chairman of
the Sociology Department at
Hofstra University, will discuss
the. Sociological Implications of
the 70s. -'
Michael D'Innocenzo, assistant
professor of history at Hofstra
University, and selected teacher
RAY HEATHERTON,
(Community Relations Director
of Franklin National Bank) will
be Master of Ceremonies of a
star-studded list of entertainers
at a fund-raising party to be
sponsored by the Citizens Against
Narcotic and Drug Abuse. The
proceeds of this gala event will be
used to further an accelerated
program of narcotics prevention
and will take place on Sunday,
February 15th 1970, at The
Hedges, 319 Jerusalem Avenue,
Hicksville, from 4 pm to 7:30 pm.
Headline performers include:
THE J.P.J. JAZZ QUARTET
made up of -four veteran
musicians, BUDD JOHNSON
(saxophonist and arranger),
BILL PEMBERTON (bassist),
and the United States and the
Soviet Union will be given in 13
Long Island communities. Speed
Reading will be offered in v five
communities: Freeport, Island
Park, Seaford, Syosset, and
Brentwood. The other com­munities
hosting Continuing
Education Program courses are
East Williston, Glen Cove, Glen
Head, Oyster Bay, Plainvtew-Old
Bethpage Hauppauge, and
N o r t h p o r t . Professional
Engineering (Phase II) will be
given at Grumman Corporation
in Bethpage.
Course fees range from $20 to
$100.
additional Information con­cerning
course offerings and
registration may be obtained by
writing to the Office of Con­tinuing
aiicl Adult Education, C.
W. Post College, P.O. Greenvale,
New York 11548 or by telephoning
299-2442. .
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of the year at Hofstra in 1966, will
speak of the Role of Women in the
70s.
Dr. Alfred Cohn, assistant
professor of psychology at
Hofstra Univeristy, will present
the Psychological Implications in
the 70s.
At the conclusion of the
program there will be a workshop
for prospective teachers of
adults, from 12:00-12:30, under
the direction of Raymond L.
Parker, director of continuing
education for the Uniondale
School District. The workshop is
intended for those who possess a
skill in some area that might be
of interest to other adults. Those
attending will learn how to go
about qualifying as teachers of
adults in the public schools of
Nassau County. In addition, those
with a bona fide skill will be in­cluded
in a directory that will be
mailed to all directors of adult
(continuing) education in Nassau
County.
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OLIVER JACKSON (drummer),
and DILL JONES (pianist).
Radio, TV, and Movie famous
JIMMY RUSHING, blues singer
and affectionately called "Mr.
5X5", will head the list of
vocalists; along with dashing
ERROL DESMOND, tenor-baritone,
and outstanding
balladeer; and JUDY SCOTT,
captivating Vocalist who opened
the Jerry Lewis TV Spectacular;
TONY DONATO, singer-guitarist
of the Three Coins Trio, will
render a selection of Italian and
Latin tunes; MARY ANN & AL
TYCE DUO will play popular
standards and show tunes.
The BERNICE JOHNSON
DANCERS will present "Lament
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Oyster Bay Supervisor John W.
Burke vowed today to press for
stiffer contract regulations for all
roadwork done near gas lines to
protect homeowners from the
hazards of explosions such as the
one that leveled a Massapequa
Park house on Monday.
Following an inspection of the
destroyed homesite with
Massapequa Park Mayor E.
Wayne Sunderland, Burke said,
"I am shocked that such a thing
could happen in an area where,
residents were known to have
complained about safety hazards
resulting from the construction
going on. It's a miracle that no
one was killed, but now a family
with three young children is
without a home. The place looks
asif it were hit in a World War II
bombing raid."
1 "iHuTRe" • said the^ Massapequa
Park accident occurred in
Nassau County Sewer District
No. 3, which extends as far north
as Route 25A in the Town of
Oyster Bay. "We must be sure
that, when work is undertaken in
other parts of this district in the
•"*$!***• simuar tragedies do not shall recommend further that
take place," said Burke. "We these devices be checked
.cannot expect thousands of regularly and the readings
townspeople to live in constant permanently logged to provide a
safely record for each project."
Burke said that he would ask
Nassau County Attorney Morris
Schneider and the County
Department of Public Works to
propose i stifle*— contract
specifications "at the earliest
possible date." He said the
contracts should attempt to fix
clearly the responsibility of
contractors involved in con­struction
to work closely with
utilities where gas lines might be
affected in any way.
Burke said he would recom­mend
that an on-site inspector be
provided by the contractor at all
times to preclude the possibility
ofdanger or damage to lives and
property.
"I think that gas detection and
monitoring devices should be
installed at such projects so that
trained personnel can maintain
constant vigilance against
escaping gas and warn of any
potential danger," said Burke. "I
During the inspection, Burke
and Sunderland were shown high
mounds of frozen dirt that had
been piled on top of shutoff valves
making it impossible to cut off
the flow of gas in time to avert a
tragedy. "This is intolerable and
contractors must be required to
avoid this danger without fail or
excuses," said Burke.
Burke's proposals followed the
explosion and fire that com­pletely
demolished the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Howard I. Wolfe,
1518 Lake Shore Drive,
Massapequa Park, minutes after
•** cowRte «nd their three young
children had fled the h e r e on
Monday night.
Burke said there have been
enough complaints about the
work in the area to warrant "a
hard look at the safety
precautions being taken by all
involved."
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Bus Relief-We Hope!
EXPRESS HOPE: Plans unveiled this week by County
Executive Eugene H. Nickerson included a proposal
for luxury express buses from Nassau County to
Manhattan noMtyunder consideration by the Public
Service Commission. Welcoming the County Executive
aboard a new Semke bus is the wife of the owner, Mrs.
Madeleine Semke, .who acted as hostess on trail run.
Nassau County Executive
Eugene H. Nickerson announced
his support today (THURSDAY,
JAN. 15) of a plan for deluxe
express bus service between four
points in Nassau County and
Manhattan.
Nickerson said that the
Jerusalem Avenue Bus Line,. IncT
had filed an application for such
service, during commuter hours,
with the State Public Service
Commission. A hearing on the
application will be held by the
PSC on Wednesday, January 21,
at 10 a.m. in the Executive
Building, Mineola.
The plan would involve the use
of new air-conditioned coaches
with reclining seats. Newspapers
will be provided, executive work
tables will be available, and a
hostess will serve coffee. Each
rider will be guaranteed a seat.
George Semke, president- of
Jerusalem Avenue Bus Lines,
Inc., said the proposed service
.will operate Monday to Friday
departing from Nassau County
every 20 to 30 minutes between
the hours of 6:50 a.m. and 8 a.m.
Service will begin at May's
Department Store in Levittown,
with boarding stops at
Eisenhower Park, Roosevelt
Field and Christopher Morley
Park.
The County will cooperate in
the project by providing free
park-and-ride centers at
Eisenhower Park and Morley
Park.
Return service, according to
Semke, will be provided between
4:30 p.m. and6 p.m. from the east
side of Manhattan.
Nickerson said that the purpose
of the proposal is to convert
present auto drivers to com­fortable
bus service and thus
relieve traffic congestion on
highways into Manhattan. He
said it would not affect rider ship
on the Long Island Rail Road
because the fares on the express
buses will be substantially higher
than the commutation rates on
the railroad.
The County Executive said that
the County's Department of
Public Transportation, beaded by
Russell Cunningham, had
assisted the bus company in
working out, details of the
operation. He <
that residents.,
new service would vsupport> ft at
the PSC hearing next Wed­nesday.
Information concerning the
service may be obtained from the
Department of Public Tran­sportation
at (516) 535-3255, or
from the Jerusalem Avenue Bus
Line at (516) IV 9-4200.