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Island Trees Serving Bethpage - Plainview — Island Trees — Plainedge — Seaford Old Bethpage
VOL 5 NO. 45 Thursday, September 16,1971 10c per copy
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Photos - I n - The - News Burke Proposes Creation
Of Ecology Commission
WRITE; ON: John W. Burke, Supervisor of the Town of
Oyster Bay, autographs the cast of 14-year-old Kevin
McLean of Bethpage at a .recent picnic sponsored by
the Oyr.ter Bay - East Norwich Republican Clubs.
Kevin, a sophomore at Bethpage High, told Burke he
broke his arm after a fall while running; Burke hopes
he'll have better luck than Kevin while running for re­election
under the GOP banner.
CONCERNED ABOUT BICYCLE SAFETY; Hemp­stead
Town Councilman George Murphy chats with
William Maguire, 18, of Seaford about the coun­cilman's
new plan to aid the bicycling public. Part of
the proposal includes a bicycle path along Wantagh
and Meadowbrook Parkways to Jones Beach.
(See Story, Page 3)
Town Supervisor John W.
Burke this week proposed the
creation of a Town En­vironmental
Control Commission
to better deal with today's needs
in environmental management.
Burke, citing the "excellent
work" done by the Town
B e a u t i f i c a t i o n Authority
established in 1968, stated that it
was timely to consider
broadening the scope of the
Town's activities and take a more
realistic approach toward
preserving and restoring our
suburban environment. "The
Commission will allow us to tap
'the environmental talent pool
which we have in our com-
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Commission composed of fippjn
five.to nine members appointed
by the Town Board, initially for
staggered terms "of up to three
years, who would serve without
compensation. Two of the
members could be in the 16 to 21-
year-old age group. Ex-officio
members would include the
chairman of the Town Board
Goldweber Proposes
Clear Food-dating
Max Goldweber, Democratic
candidate for State Senate in the
4th District, last night told a
group of women supporters that
he favors clear, easy-to-read
listing of the last permitted day of
sale of perishable food items.
Speaking to a meeting at the
home of Mrs. Patricia Coffey, 21
Alden Lane, Levittown, Gold­weber
said a shopper "now needs
the skill of a cryptographer to
determine whether a carton of
cottage cheese has passed its
prime."
"Cracking the Japanese code
was nothing compared to what
the housewife goes through in the
supermarket trying to decipher
apparently meaningless com­binations
of letters and num­bers,"
Goldweber said. "Yet in
New York City, under the
provisions of a new law,
packages state very clearly, that
June 5 or October 8 is the last day
the item can be sold."
Goldweber said the Legislature
should extend the requirement
for straightforward open dating
of all eggs, bakery and dairy
products to the rest of New York
Stateand that he would introduce
such legislation if elected.
"A family in Levittown or East
Meadow has the same right to
know the age of what they buy in
the supermarket as the family in
Flushing or Bensonhurst,"
Goldweber concluded.
Committee on Environmental
Control, the chairman of the
Planning Advisory Board, the
director of the Division of En-viromental
control, the Town
harbor-master, the .chairman of
the South Oyster Bay Marine
Advisory Board and the Town
Attorney.
The powers and duties of the
Commission, as outlined by
Burke, include:
Advise the Town Board on
matters affecting the preser­vation,
development and use of
the natural apd manmade
features and conditions of the
Town
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issues.
Conduct studies, surveys and
inventories of the natural and
manmade features within. the
Town, with an up-to-date index of
all public and privately owned
spaces.
Serve as a coordinating force to
assist and unify the efforts of
groups and institutions within the
Town as well as maintain liaison
with local, State and Federal
agencies, associated with en­vironmental
control.
Work with the Planning Ad­visory
Board in developing
recommendations concerning
environmental improvement for.
inclusion in the master plan for
the Town.
The Commission would be
authorized to accept, in the name
of the Town, gifts or bequests of
property for the purpose of
conserving or property utilizing
open spaces and other land and
water resources.
"This is an excellent op­portunity
to provide a means far
igrjration of our suburban
support and expert _
the full-time, professionally
staffed Division of En­vironmental
Control, whose
director, David Mafrici, would
serve as executive secretary of
the Commission."
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Register To Vote
Nassau County Executive Ralph G. Case presents
proclamation designating Sept 17 as Citizenship bay
and the week beginning Sept 17 as Constitution Week
to James MacLeanof Brook ville, managing director of
annual Constitution Week and Citizenship Day
programs in Nassau. Observances mark the 184th
anniversary of the signing of the U. S. Constitution and
commend those who during the year have become
citizens either by coming of age or by naturalization.