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Island Trees Serving Bethpage - Plainview — Island Trees — Plainedge — Seaford
Vol. 5 No. 14
Old Bethpage
Thursday, February 4, 1971 10e per copy
Handicapped Recreation Symposium
BRIEFING: Mrs. Adele Cherry of Plainview, left, chats with guests
prior to the start of a recent all-day Symposium for the Recreation
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Mrs. Cherry was co-chairman of the program, the first of its kinc
Joining her are, from left to right, Dr. Morton Thompson of the Town
of Hempstead Recreation Program for the Handicapped, Nassau
County Commissioner of Parks Richard Fitch and Oyster Bay Town
Supervisor John W. Burke. Oyster Bay was the first Nassau
municipality to initiate a recreation program for handicapped
youngsters.
Record Crowd
At Panther Dinner
Nearly four hundred persons
crowded into the Holiday Manor
in Bethpage on Sunday, January
3lst, for the Annual Awards
Dinner of the Bethpage Panthers
of the Long Island Midget
Football League. New York
Giant running back Bobby Duhon
was the guest of honor and he told
the local youngsters the im­portance
of football training in
their early years to give them the
desire to become a success in
later life. He emphasized the
necessity of getting a full
education while pursuing football
or other athletic careers. Panther
President Ben Zuk acted as
master of ceremonies and also
introduced Assemblyman Martin
Ginsberg and Bethpage Tribune
Editor Florence Cullem who both
congratulated the youngsters, the
coaches and the parents for one
of the most successful athletic
programs on Long Island.
The highlight of the afternoon
was the awarding of trophies to
the outstanding players on each
team, with the champion Jay
Vees getting the largest ovation
as they were introduced by their
head coach, Vinny DeVito. The
Jay Vees won their division
championship in 1970, the only
Panther unit to finish in first
place. The Most Valuable Player
Award on the. Jay Vees went to
Tommy Renker with Steve.
DeVito named as Best Offensive
Back, John Leone as Best
Defensive Back, Jimmy Walker
as Best Offensive Lineman and
Tom Schoppman Best Defensive
Lineman. The Coach's Award
went to Tom Quintan.
The other winners in the
various divisions were:
PEANUTS:
Most Valuable Player - Joe
Mongan
Best Offensive Back - Chris
Johnson
Best Defensive Back - Matt
Neville
Best Offensive Lineman - Ron
Joannou
Best Defensive Lineman - Gary
Draghi
Coach's Award - Kevin
Walakovits
PEE WEES:
Most Valuable Player - Jack
Nickerson
Best Offensive Back - Pete
Candito
Best Defensive Back - Shawn
Horan
Best Offensive Lineman - Brian
Mulcahy
Best Defensive Lineman - Dan
"Max" McGee
Coach's Award -Roger Bohnert
MIDGETS:
Most Valuable Player - Mike
Dill
Best Offensive Back - Fred
Capitelli
Best Defensive Back r Mike
Toomey^ ' •" ' ' * "
Best Offensive Lineman -
Kevin Smith
Best Defensive Lineman - Joe
Hirsch
Coach's Award - Ronnie Zuk
SENIORS:
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LEM: Success Story For LI
.The hopes and prayers of
thousands of Long Islanders,
whose hard work is embodied in
the bug-like module sitting high
atop the giant Saturn 5 rocket,
which soared skyward this week
along with the men and
machinery setting out on this
country's fourth lunar landing
mission. v. ,
As I. watched the silver rocket
with its precious human cargo
strain to free itself from the
bonds of Earth's gravity, I ex­perienced
a sense of profound
pride in the Long Island region
which has played such a
significant role in this nation's
space exploration program.
Along with LIA President Ford
Bartlet t, I was invited to the Cape
to witness the dramatic lift-off-as
toy
faces of dozens of scientists,
engineers and administrators
employed by Long Island firms
which have been involved in our
space program for over a decade.
While it would take more space
than I now have to detail the
many and varied significant
contributions to this program
made by numerous Nassau and
Suffolk County companies, I
would like to highlight the work
arid products of two of the
largest, Grumman Aerospace
Corp. which has been involved in
the Apollo program since 1952,
and Fairchild Space and Defense
Systems.
By now, the whole world is
familiar with Grumman's LM
(pronounced "lem"). The most
dramatic demonstration of this
space ferry held the world
breathless, for days last April
when the three astronauts of the
Apollo 13 mission navigated the
17-ton craft back to Earth as a
"life-boat" after a component
failure in the Service Module
forced the crew to abort the
mission.
The role of Grumman's LM-8
will be identical to that in other
Apollo missions: to ferry two
astronauts from the Command
Service Module (CSM) main­tained
in lunar orbit to the moon's
surface and back to the CSM.
During their planned stay on the.
measuring tem­peratures,
gravity and magnetic-field
strength; performing
communication experiments arid
conducting seismic tests. Local
explorations in the vicinity of the
LM landing site also are planned.
At lunar launching, the bottom
half of the LM will be used as a
launch platform and will remain
on the moon. After docking with
the Command Module, the LM
crewman will rejoin th third
astronaut, and the LM ascent
stage will separate and be drawn
back to the surface of the moon.
At peak production, Grum­man's
Lunar Module program
Form Island Trees Council
To Fight Drug Abuse
Thirty-five representatives
from local community
organizations met last week to
coordinate their efforts and filed
legal papers to incorporate a non­profit
citizens council that would
be eligible to apply for funds
under the N.Y. State Drug Youth
Abuse Act.
John Liberatore, chairman
of the newly formed Island Trees
Community Council, stated that
recreation funds are being cut by
both Hempstead Town and
Nassau County, but noted that a
sound program that receives
community suppport can be
established and matching funds
applied for.
Volunteers trained by the
Nassau County Drug Abuse and
Addiction Commission will work
with professionals in the com­munity
and from the school staff
to give aid, rehabilitation and
counselling to elementary, junior
and senior high school youths
faced with drug problems.
After school, evening, week­end
and summer recreation
program that will include sports,
vocational programs, lectures
and arts and crafts is being
was supported by about 6,000 of
the firm's scientists, engineers
and technicians. The program's
current value to Grumman ex­ceeds
$1.7 billion.
A successful Apollo 14 mission
will pave the way for a more
expanded Apollo 15 mission and, •
with it, the demonstration of
another valuable piece of space
hardware designed and
manufactured on Long Island:
Fairchild's moon-mapper. This
ultra-sensitive space camera will
be automatically snapping away
at the moon's features at an
altitude of 60 miles, while two
astronauts on the surface carry
out tests and experiments.
While its chores are not as
dramatic as those of,.
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outlined and funds and personnel
will come from the Island Trees
community.
Liberatore pointed out that in
matching funds, volunteer time,
facilities, equipment and
maintenance are considered
money. At present the council
plans to petition the board of
education for use of the Island
Trees schools which Liberatore
said "are being paid for by the
people of Island Trees but are
standing idle more hours than
they are open."
At last weeks meeting,
representatives of the districts
professional staff, the Drug
Abuse Committee of the Tax­payers
Association, PTA, the
Student Affairs Committee of the
Board of Education, the Levit-town-
Islarid Trees Youth Council,
sports and music organizations
and professional persons living in
the community were present.
Youths and adults who would
like to help the council succeed
should write: Island Trees
Community* Council, c / o 506
Whittier Avenue, Levittown NY
11756, or call 731-4208, 796-5948.
• previous method.
These two giants of the space
and defense industries represent
the acknowledged engineering
and technological genius of the
Long Island region. But they do
not stand alone.
They depend, as does much of
this nation's space program, on
the hundreds of smaller, less
publicized firms which have
helped make ours one of the
greatest regions in the nation.
And today, this region joins with
the rest of the world in wishing
the three brave Apollo 14
astronauts a safe and successful
mission.
Harwood Asks State
To License Auto Shops
A bill which would protect the
consumer from "dishonest and
fraudulent practices by motor
vehicle repair shop operators"
has been filed by Assemblyman
Stanley Harwood, (D. Levit­town).
The Harwood bill provides for
the regulating and licensing of
persons engaged in the business
of repairing and servicing motor
vehicles.
"New York State has rigid
equipment standards and in­spection
requirements for motor
vehicles," Harwood said, "but
what of the people who service
those vehicles? It's about time we
set the same high standards for
them."
Under the provisions of Har-wood's
bill, shop operators would
have to demonstrate technical
skill, training, experience, good
moral character and financial
stability before receiving the
State's stamp of approval.
Town Supervisor John W.
Burke announced this week that
the Town Board will not meet on
Tuesday, February 9, due to the
Annual State Association of
Towns Conference in New York
City. The Board will meet next on
February 16.