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Vol. 4 No. 17 Thursday, February 12, 1970 10c per copy
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: The Publishers Desk
A A A A A AA
Guest Speaker PhotOS In The NeWS
The New York Reporters
Assocation, The New York State
Publishers Association, and The
New York State Press
Association have joined forces in
backing legislation introduced
this week in Albany, designed to
safeguard the right of working
•news reporters to protect the
source of their information.
This bill amends the civil rights
law to provide that no working
newsmen employed by, or con­nected
with, newspaper, press
association or wire service shall
be adjudged in • contempt by
court, legislature or ad­ministrative
body for refusing to
disclose his source of information
procured for publication and
formation procured and used for
news purposes on radio or
televison.
Similar laws exist in 12 other
states.
Protection of Newsmen against
the threat of contempt for refusal
to divulge confidential sources of
information has long been of deep
concern to this states' news
media.
Assemblyman Kremer stated,
"This Right To Know" bill would
protect the public against graft
and corruption in government by
encouraging reporters to seek out
the truth without fear of reprisal.
This measure will protect the
reporter from being the 'fall guy'
during a court action or a
legislative or administrative
investigation, and would not
make the reporters immune from
liable or slander if the facts of
their story are malicious."
Kremer also noted that
newspaper reporters who search
out graft and corruption in
government should be protected
from the possibility of reprisal by
dishonest officials.
The New York Reporters
Association for the past four
years has been in the forefront in
its fight for this needed
legislation although the
Publishers first backed such a
measure in 1931.
This legislation is considered
by the working news gathering
people as one of the most im­portant
pieces of legislation.
•ffectMia their, livelihood. But
more important, this measure
will, help to maintain for the
public one of our country's basic
freedoms, 'the press.'
State Senator John H. Hughes,
Syracuse Republican and
Assemblytan -Arthur J. Kremer,
Democrat Nassau County 14th
A.D. are sponsors of the bill along
with Assemblyman Joseph F.
Lisa, Democrat, Queens County
31st A.D.; Charles B. Rangel,
Democrat, New York County
72nd A.D.; Vincent R. Balletta
Jr., Republican, Nassau County
18th A.D.; Andrew J. Stein,
Democrat New York County 62nd
A.D.; Martin Rodell, Democrat
Queens County, 21st A.D.
In the past this measure has
had the endorsement of the New
York State Council of Churches.
Rockville Centre, N.Y.-The
students of Molloy College will
try to live on 28 cents per meal on
February 12 and 13 in the state­wide
observance of Welfare Week
sponsored by Students for a
Guaranteed Adequate Income
Now (GAIN).
The Molloy College students
are cooperating with groups at
Skidmore, Vassar, FordhaiR;
N.Y.U. and Columbia University
School of Social Work. J
The purpose of Welfare Week is
to focus on the need to reorder
state priorities to include a $5,500
annual income, according to a
Molloy spokesman. At Molloy
Reported oil exploration off
Montauk was actually an
already-concluded undersea
mapping expedition, Assembly
Speaker Perry B. Duryea Jr. of
Montauk reported this week.
Duryea, acting on complaints
from various Long Island groups,
who feared the effects of offshore
oil drilling on Long Island's
waterfront and on fishing off the
coast, learned that the reported
expedition was a joint mapping
venture by 25 oil companies. The
A highly-decorated Marine
Corps officer will be the guest
speaker at the Levittown-Island
Trees Republican Club meeting
8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 17 at
Levittown Hall.
Major Richard H. Esau, Jr.
will speak on the military image
in America today. Hewill discuss
the Vietnam War and tine:My Lai
incident. Twice wounded in
Vietnam, and decorated for
service there, Major Esau is a
native of Long Island
All interested Levittown and
Island Trees residents are
cordially invited. Refreshments
will be served.
Levittown Hall is located on
Levittown Parkway, south of Old
Country Road.
Seeks Permit
For School
Idle Lands
Hempstead Town will seek state
legislation to permit the leasing
of undeveloped park land as the
site for a school- for emotionally
disturbed children.
The school would be a facility
of the Nassau " Board of
Cooperative Educational Ser­vices
(BOCES). Under the
cooperative arrangement that
has been devised the town would
have free use of the building
during summer and non-school
hours for special recreation
programs in exchange for the
rent free lease.
The site in question is an idle
20-acre section at the southern tip
of the 62- acre Newbridge Road
Park in Bellmore. "The land is
ideally suited for a facility of this
kind," said Town Presiding
Supervisor Ralph G. Caso. It is
surrounded on its east, west and
south sides by water and on the
north by the park.
* Proximity to a wide range of
exploration, according to Paul recreational facilities is con-
Sheldon, vice president for public sidered one of the greatest assets
relations of Gulf Oil Co., is part of of the site,
a continuing mapping of the "Taxpayers stand to benefit in
Continental Shelf, and has now two ways from this venture in
been concluded. partnership government." Caso
Sheldon told Duryea that the added- "BOCES would lease the
testing involved no use of ex- land without charge, a financial
plosives or blasting, to avoid savings, and the town would have
disturbing sea life. The mapping available a specially equipped
was done through the use of building for a variety of
seismic devices, similar to radar, recreation programs."
through which underwater land Before the school can be built
masses can be mapped. however according to an opinion
itself the purpose is to
demonstrate to middle class
students what the welfare diet is
like.
The program at Molloy will
include a Welfare Briquet on
Thursday, February 12 from 5-7
p.m. in the Anselma Room.
Speakers will include a welfare
mother and a student coordinator
from the Columbia School of
Social Work, and a Welfare
Teach-in to be held on Friday,
February 13.
On Tuesday, February 17
interested students will take part
in the Poor Peoples' March on
Albany.
NICK NET—That's "dur'v boy"*(r.) being shown a
thing or two about basketball by New York Nets coach
York Larese. Nicky Net—actually Michael Stein-muller,
10, of Bethpage—has been one of the hits of the
show at recent Nets' games in Island Garden, West
Hempstead, with his dribbling and shot-making during
time-Outs.
NEW G.OiP. LEADER: Nathanial G. Cole, left, is
sworn in as president of the Plainview-Old Bethpage
Republican Club by Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John
W. Burke, rightf during recent installation ceremonies.
Bernard F. McCaffrey, the GOP Executive Leader for
the Plain view area, looks on.
from the state comptroller's
office, special legislation must be
obtained to permit the town to
lease land earmarked for
recreation.
Caso said Assemblyman
Joseph Margiotta of Uniondale
has agreed to introduce a private
bill which would specifically
empower Hempstead Town to
take this action. Chances of
passage are considered good.
"I'm gratified to be able to play
a part in providing decent school
facilities for these youngsters
who so desperately need our
help," Caso declared. He
asserted that the existing school,
a reconverted factory in
Hicksville is totally inadequate.
The cooperative undertaking
was an outgrowth of meetings
between Caso and Charles
Colangelo and Seymour Kligler,
BOCES president and attorney
respectively.
Assuming speedy approval by
the legislature, the school could
be in operation as early as this
September.