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VOL. 5 NO. 20 Thursday, March 18,1971 10c par copy
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1 Photos-In-The-News l David Huschle Criticizes
Bridge Stand By L.I.A.
MRS. RALPH G. CASO, wife of County Executive
Caso, accepts gift painting from Mrs. Lee Karcher
(center), president of Mid-Island Council of Girl
Scouts, at Council's seventh annual International lunch
at the Salisbury restaurant Taking part in presen­tation
(r) is Unsuk Giersbach, representing girl scouts
from Korea. -
^ Receiving Mass at Human Resources Center are, left
to right, Brian Kottbenbach (Garden City), Claude
Gignac (Jamaica), and John McMorrow (Bethpage),
during special Lenten Services being held for the
severely disabled students of Human Resources
School.
Both Catholic and Protestant clergy come to the
Center each week during Lent to offer services to the
disabled pupils and to the handicapped adults working
in Abilities Inc., the demonstration work center which
is also part of Human Resources Center. John is a third
grader of the School, which offers tuition/free in­struction
to over 190 disabled children and young
adults, from pre-school through senior high.
David Huschle, Jericho
businessman actively seeking an
appointment as Councilman to
the Oyster Bay Town Board,
strongly criticized the Long
Island Association of Commerce
and Industry yesterday in a
message to Bethpage Tribune.
Huschle, who attended the L.I.
A. reception in Albany March
second said he was "shocked" at
the position the Association has
taken regarding a Rye-Oyster
Bay Bridge. "To build this bridge
across the Sound at this location
is ludicrous", said Huschle "and
serves the least amount of people
for the most amount of money.
Had the L. I. A. spent as much
time and effort In wooing the
Governor of Connecticut as they
did Nelson Rockefeller, they
would have had a much better
plan. As it is, Uje Oyster Bay
Bridge completely fails in its
mission; that is, to end the "Dead
End" situation that the Island
suffers from."
"I feel" he continued, "that if a
bridge is to be built across the
Sound, more people would benefit
from it and more industries
served by a mid-sound span near
the Port Jefferson area. I have
advocated this for years and was
the first to name it the LINE
Bridge (Long Island-New
England). This crossing would
then serve not only the truckers,
who are the only ones to benefit
from the Rye span, according to
the L.I.A., but Long Island's
agriculture, industry and tourist
trade. The Island would be
completely opened up for New
Englander's to visit us and we to
visit them. Secondly, for Nassau
and Suffolk residents, a bridge
further east would place traffic
on our highways here and those in
Connecticut, in the areas where
they can tolerate it the most; out
East. "Why", he asked, "attract
more traffic on the western end of
the Expressway and parkways
when they are already over­burdened.
The Rye-Oyster Bay
Bridge might just as well be
replaced by another level on the
Throgs Neck Bridge," he stated.
"As far as freight terminals
are concerned" Huschle pointed'
out, "Our own Long Island
Railroad could use and provide
rail service to Nassau, Queens,
Brooklyn and Manhattan over the
existing Main Line running right
through the center of the Island.
Furthermore, it too could be
made a part of the span out east
and would be an additional help
in moving cargo to New England.
Accompanying Huschle to
Albany was Nick Monte, owner of
Gurney's Inn in Montauk. They
both agree that Eastern Long
Island could use some help,
especially off season, for the
tourist industry. Huschle, who
summers at Shelter Island, would
Enjoying L.I. Association State Affairs Reception in
Albany are Walter Van Der Waag, AssL, Chairmen of
the Board, Nat'L Bank of No. America, N.Y.S.
Assemblyman Joseph Margiotta, Nick Monte of
Montauk and David Huschle, Jericho.
like to see the hotel-motel owners
extending what now is basicly a
ten week season. "Both the North
and South Forks have so much to
offer in the Spring and Fall, when
rates are lower and restaurants
and beaches not as crowded."
"Fishing is superb in both spring
and fall," he said "and duck
hunting or even just bird wat­ching
is pretty in the fall. It would
be nice to have our neighbors
across the sound come over and
enjoy it," he concluded.
AWARD: Glen Cove Mayor Andrew DiPaola (left) and
Oyster Bay Councilman Lewis J. Yevoli (right)
present Vincent Suozzi (center) with the First Annual
Michael N. Petito Award on behalf of the Italian
American Democratic Federation of New York State.
The late Judge Petito was Oyster Bay Town Supervisor
from 1963-1969. Councilman Yevoli served as his
executive assistant and Mayor DiPaola sat on the
Nassau County Board of Supervisors with him. Vincent
Suozzi of Glen Cove received the Petito Memorial
Award for his outstanding public service to Nassau
County at the Federation's annual dinner held last
weekend in the Statler Hilton Hotel, Manhattan.