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VOL. 5 No. 49
Old Bethpage
Thursday, October 14,1971 10c per copy
Democrats Urge TOH Republicans
To Show Signs of Heeding New Law
HONORED GUEST: Mrs. Marge Cullen, Cocktail
Party Chairman, presents bouquest of roses to Mrs.
Marge Mosca, charming wife of Oyster Bay Town
festivities, left to right, are New York State Assem­blyman
Martin Ginsberg; Cliff Daley, Bethpage
Republican Leader, and Tom Spina, vice president of
the Theodore Roosevelt Republican Club. The occasion
was a cocktail party held recently at the Beau Sejour
Restaurant, Bethpage, honoring the Councilman.
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| Evaluation Team Visits Bethpage High School |
The Bethpage Senior High The committee on evaluation
School will welcome a visiting will spend the following three
committee of twenty-seven days in meetings, conferences,
secondary school evaluators interviews, classroom visits and
from the Middle States Accred- observations and assessment of
itation Commission at a buffet the school's program and curric-supper
in the high school faculty ulum. A preliminary report will
dining room Monday, Oct. 18. be made to the school staff by the
Members of the Board of chairman of the evaluating
Education, Central Admini- committee the last day of the
stration, high school admini- evaluation,
stration, supervisors, depart- The formal report, evaluation
merit chairmen, student repre- and accreditation is filed with the
sentatives and the PTA will be Board of Education by the Middle
present for the beginning of the States Commission during the
high school's second evaluation, ensuing year.
" Two Democratic candidates for
Town of Hempstead offices paid
tribute last week "Keep the Town
Beautiful" ordinance approved
last week by the all-Republican
members of the Town board.
But the gesture also held a
"damning with faint praise"
element for the GOP political
organization.
Town Council candidate Feme
Steckler and her Town Receiver
of Taxes running mate, Glenn
Rosso, praised the new law
prohibiting all kinds of com­mercial
and other signs in the
town's unincorporated areas.
"We've been complaining
about these ecological eyesores
for years and-we're happy the
board members finally gbf ..'the
word. Biii' what a pity their
timing won't save our com­munities
from the worst of these
'abortions' (as the town
spokesman called them) - the
literally hundreds of Republican
political signs that, now clutter
every available rooftop, wall and
empty lot from one end of the
And in Oyster Bay
Town of Hempstead to the other.
Ironically, most appeal to the
voter to "Save Suburbia.4
"And Mr. (Presiding Super­visor
Francis) Purcell, • com­menting
on the new ordinance,
spoke of a 'honky tonk' at­mosphere
on our main thorough­fares.
The "Save Suburbia"
Party is stealing its lines from
Democratic campaign speeches
over the past decade. Republican
downzoning created the honky
tonks. The ugly signs came later,
Mr. Purcell.
"For ten years", the
D e m o c r a t i c c a n d i d a t es
statement continued, "we've
been seeking a GOP agreement
to ban all politic;al signsj
this past summer, Nassau!
GOP Chairman Joseph Margiotta
gave lip service to the concept
but again demurred on the ban
proposal.
"It is sheer hypocrisy to pass
laws banning these en­vironmental
blights' while their
own political clubs are erecting
them on every street corner," the
Democratic candidates charged.
Noting that the new law doesn't
take effect until January, and in
some instances for as long as two
years later, Rosso and Mrs.
Steckler urge Margiotta "To •
direct your candidates to observe
the spirit as well as the letter of
the law, for it is a truly wor­thwhile
ordinance."
"Let them summon the same
"volunteer" army of town and
county employees who put them
up • every - year, and have them
removed.
"Because if they don't come
down now, we all know what will
happen. They will remain tor
months while property owners
waar-st „o£—looking . ja.%; tt»em,
youngsters smash some to debris
oh the sidewalk and others are
storm-damaged and left to litter
the neighborhood—torn, rain-soaked,
illegible, ugly blobs of
fading color, flapping in the wind,
a landscape blight and
sometimes a dangerous
distraction to passing motorists,"
the statement concluded.
Gutheil Denounces GOP "Billboard Blitz"
Calling the recent ban on
political pole signs", "a
meaningless and feeble gesture in
view of the ensuing Republican
billboard blitz," Bob Gutheil,
Democratic candidate for Oyster
Bay Supervisor, announced
Monday that his campaign would
be completely signless.
"I have never seen the face of
our town so scarred by so many
BADA Back in Business; Seek More Money, Interest
After more than a year of
operation, Bethpage Against
Drug Abuse (BADA) is set to
renew community interest with a
fund-raising and membership
dnve. BADA President Tony
Georgan announced that Mrs.
Maria Trivelli, a veteran of
service to many community
endeavors, would be Chairman of
the effort to gain greater com­munity
acceptance of BADA.
Georgan stated: "A number of
people have put an awful lot of
time and effort into this
organization, and sometime I get
the feeling that perhaps Beth-'
page doesn't really care that
much. We have professional
people who are willing to help
youngsters in trouble with drugs,
but somehow the message
doesn't seem to be getting to
enough people." Georgan ad­mitted
that BADA started with a
real bang when it got started
more than a year ago, but he
cited a continuing decline in
community interest. The
organization has a full-time
facility at 26 Railroad Avenue,
Bethpage which is open from 10
AM to 10 PM Monday through
Friday.
To get the new drive underway,
an open house will be held at the
BADA headquarters on Sunday,
October 24th from 10 AM to 3 PM.
Local residents are invited to
come and tour the Railroad
Avenue structure, located just off
Stewart Avenue west of the L-I-R-R-
station.
In assuming the chairman's
post for the membership and
fund-raising drive, Mrs. Trivelli
said: "Our biggest fight is
against community apathy. For
some reason, most people seem
to think that youth problems
don't happen in their neigh­borhood.
If the adults show some
interest, it just has to help the
young people." A series of
community meetings will be held
in the coming weeks in the homes
of volunteers to push the renewed
effort to get matching funds.
BADA receives state funds but
only at the same level that they
raise moneys of their own..
BADA officials said they are
banking on more assistance from
other community civic groups
and from the religious
organizations. In concluding
remarks, Georgan added:
"Everyone in Bethpage has some
stake in our organization. If we
had a perfect society, there would
be no need for BADA, but as
conditions now exist, we're
needed badly. I just hope that
some of the people who have been
sitting on the sidelines most of
their lives will contribute their
time, services or funds to our
appeal." The BADA phone
number is 822-4888.
garish political posters,
billboards and trestle signs, "
said Gutheil, "and there will be
NO Democratic signs to con­tribute
to the campaign pollution
level in Oyster Bay."
Gutheil suggested that
Supervisor Burke assign his
newly created environmental
commission the task of removing
all Republican signs in the town
as a demonstration of all those in
the town who are repulsed by the
fact that the Republicans have
Meanwhile
seen fitx*to paint the town a
hideous orange. The most ironic
touch of all," said Gutheil, "is
their painted promise to keep
suburbia green."
The 32-year old supervisory
candidate said he had been of­fered
several sign locations by
local people interested in his
campaign, but had turned them
all down. He also said he had
cancelled four railroad trestle
signs ordered for him by the
County Democratic organization.
Another Ecology Committee
Continuing his efforts to
preserve and protect the
suburban nature of Hempstead
Town, Presiding Supervisor
Francis T. Purcell has an­nounced
the creation of an En­vironmental
Control Sub­committee
to combat pollution in
all its forms.
"We have to act now to protect
our town from these disin­tegrating
forces," stated Purcell.
"This committee will keep the
Town Board informed of the
latest methods to battle the
constant threat ofpollution.
A permanent subcommittee of
the town's Citizen's Advisory
Planning Board, its main func­tion
will be to study new methods
of waste disposal, air
purification, noise abatement
and traffic control and make
recommendations to the Town
Board.
Purcell has appointed Jack
Rose, a member of the advisory
planning board from Inwood, to
chair the committee. Other
members include the board's
vice chairman, Harold Abbott of
Levittown, Seymour Korn of
Freeport and David Rothbaum of
East Meadow. Board Chairman
Charles M. Krull is also a com­mittee
member.
"The subcommittee will
initiate meetings, hearings and
independent studies to determine
the best ways Hempstead Town
can battle pollution," Purcell
condluded.
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