Bethpage-Tribune_1971-07-29

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VOL. 5 « 0 . 38
Old Bethpage
Thursday, July 29,1971 10c par copy
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Photos-In-The-News i
Four Bethpage children watch the cast rehearse before
the showing off "The Emperor's Daughters," a play by
the Teen Repertory Theater of the Town of Oyster Bay
Department off Recreation and Community Activities.
Over one hundred youngsters attended the per­formance
last Thursday, July 22nd, at the Bethpage
Public Library.
Cast and children include, left to right: Yifat and Erez
Glass man, 22 Kunen Ave; Michelle Rosen, Queen;
Marguerite Lauri, Jester; Jerry Kay, King; Karolann
Waller, 87 Ellen St.; and Ernest Fikar, 13 Totten St.
COMPLETE HARMONY: Four Nassau County of­ficials
livened up the recent Barbershop Quartet
competition at Eisenhower Park with a guest ap­pearance.
From left to right are County Treasurer
John Scaduto, Comptroller Angelo Roncallo, Oyster
Bay Town Supervisor John W. Burke, who is a member
off the Board of Supervisors, and District Attorney
William Cahn.
BIG AIMS Has A Little Sister
Con Edison's "Big Allis"
generating plant in Astoria now
has a little sister at the Levittown
Office of The Green Point
Savings Bank. The Bank has
installed a standby generator and
has affectionately nicknamed it
"Baby Allis". Seeking to provide
continued service to its
depositors in the instances of
electrical "brownouts", "The
Green Point" is now equipped to
generate its own current to run
its teller machines, computer,
lighting and office equipment.
Also, in these instances of
emergency voltage cutbacks, the
neighborhood office of the Bank
will be helping to "Save A Watt"
by not drawing from the limited
power being provided by the
public utility to the area.
TOB ADOPTS
ABORTION
CONTROL LAW
Supervisor John W. Burke
today announced the adoption of
a local law by the Town Board
which is designed to prevent the
performance of justifiable
abortions in other than hospitals
duly licensed and accredited
under the New York State
Departmentjof Health and
having the equipment and
facilities acceptable to the State
Hospital Review and Planning
Council.
The Town Board held a public
hearing on the proposed local law
on June 29th following a five-month
study of various abortion
control laws by Town Attorney
Bernard F. McCaffrey.
Burke said the proposed law
was prompted by the Town
Board's concern for the health,
safety and welfare of the Town's
380,000 residents.
The proposed local law
provides for the following:
1. No person shall perform a
justifiable abortional act, as
defined by the Penal Law of the
State of New York, other than
at a hospital duly licensed and
accredited under the New York
State Departmentjof Health
and having equipment and
facilities acceptable to the
State Hospital Review and
Planning Council.
2. No justifiable abortional act, as
defined by the Penal Law of the
State of New York, shall be
allowed, permitted, or suffered
to be performed at any building
by the owner, lessee or oc­cupant
of such building, other
than at a hospital duly licensed
and accredited under the New
York State Department of
Health and having equipment
and facilities acceptable to the
State Hospital Review and
Planning Council.
3. Any person, firm or cor­poration
convicted of a
violation of this local law shall
be punished by a fine not ex­ceeding
One Thousand ($1000)
Dollars or by imprisonment for
not more than fifteen (15) days,
or both such fine and im­prisonment;
and each day such
• violation exists shall constitute
a separate offense.
Drug Unit
Gets $ $ $
^lyde R. Collins, executive
director of the Nassau County
Drug Abuse and Addiction
Commission, announced that the
first check-for $1,666.66- has
been mailed to Plainview-Old
Bethpage Council Against Drug
Abuse, the area's anti-drug
organization, under the state's
Youthful Drug Abuser program.
This first payment represents
one-twelfth of the Council's state-approved
budget of $20,000.
It's AOK For Island
Trees, Bethpage
School Budgets
Bethpage voters backed
(heir Board of Education
by turning out yesterday,
July 28, 1971 to approve
both the School and
Library Budgets.
The vote for the School
budget was 1490 yes to 1026
No. The Library vote was
1474 yes to 1030 No.
Bethpage is also a high
tax area but the voters
turned out to support the
budget and save the
district from an
"austerity" program.
The voters of the Island
Trees School District
overwhelmingly approved
the budget submitted by
the new Board of
Education. "The residents
of this District gave a vote
of confidence to this Board
and have indicated that
they approved of the ac­tions
we have taken thus
far" said James Tucci
Board President.
The budget which had
been resubmitted on July
27, 1971 was reduced by
$257,000 and the tax rate
was held down by freezing
top administrators
salaries and other areas
where the cuts could be
absorbed without hurting
the educational programs.
No courses were dropped
nor , extra- curricula-programs
denied.
A spokesman said "the
time has come when ac-c
o u n t a b i l i t y and
productivity will be ex­pected
for the dollars
expended for our
educational programs.
Island Trees has no in­dustry
and the tax burden
is borne by the
homeowners. It is a
district where incomes are
moderate and children
plentiful. We must always
consider the taxpayers
ability to pay while at the
same time offer our
students an educational
opportunity that will
enable them to compete
for college acceptance,
scholarships or the
available positigns in the
marketplace.
We commend our
constituents for its passing
this school budget and ask
for their continued con­fidence
and support during
the months ahead."
Bethpage Policeman
Mourned By 1500
High government officials and
Police Commissioner Patrick
Murphy paid their respects to
slain patrolman Robert Denton of
Bethpage.
Over 1500 paliceman and
bereaved family and friends
attended the funeral services at
theAcension Lutheran Church in
Bay Shore.
Twelve policemen from
Patrolman Denton's home
precinct in Brooklyn acted as pall
bearers and carried the flag-draped
casket. The funeral
procession proceeded ' to
Pinelawn National Cemetary and
he was buried with full military
honors.
Messages of sympathy have
been coming to the grieved
family from all over. A
spokesman said "It is high time
people realized the police are
only trying to do their'jobs. This
cop-killing has got to stop."
Patrolmen Denton leaves his"
wife Catherine and he is survived
by his parents Joseph and
Dorothy Denton and his brother
Ronald Denton.
Training Program For
Jobless Engineers
Governor Rockefeller has
approved two programs to
provide training for 45 engineers
who were laid off from aerospace
and defense employment in the
Long Island area.
The training will be given
under the Manpower Develop­ment
and Training Act, utilizing
Federal funds, by two agencies.