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My "Fair" La^dy
MASSAPEQUA GIRL IS LOCAL
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FAIR" WINNER
»-. ^ Seaford Avenue,
Massapequa, accepts her prize - a1^5 Camera^et==^
from Carmela Altamore, Teen President of the Youth
Organization Unlimited of Bethpage, while J. Gordon
Schaetzel (left), rear Adtilt President, and Donald
Keerans look on. yf
At the recent Town of Oyster Bay Youth Spring
Festival held at the John J. Burns Park, Massapequa,
Liz stopped in at the Bethpage booth and took a guess
at the number of beans in the jar (being held by Mr.
Keerans who counted them). Liz won out over several
hundred entrants.
;•"• Y.O.U. of Bethpage sponsors the Bethpage Hotline
and the summer Youth Employment Service.
FOR THE HANDICAPPED: Nassau Family Court Judge Martin
Ginsberg watches as Governor signs into Law a bill requiring all
public buildings and facilities in the state to be designed and con­structed
so as to be easily accesible to the physically handicapped.
Prior to his recent appointment to Family Court, Judge Ginsberg
served in the Assembly and introduced this bill which was the first
ever to be co-sponsored by every member of that legislative body.
Nassau County Executive
Ralph G. Caso announced today
that contracts have been Signed
with four major private bus
companies-Hempstead Bus Bee
Big Angie
Fights Busing
The need to fight the concept
that busing is an integral part of
providing quality education
became even more clear when it
was revealed that the State
Education Commissioner had
ordered the reassignment of
students in Huntington according
to racial quotas, Angelo Roncallo
said today.
While not directly attacking the
order as it effects the Huntington
School District, the Republican
candidate for Congress in the 3rd
CD. noted that the decision
pointed out how important it will
J^Jor-__°PPonents for forced
busing to work for passage of an
amendment to the U.S. Con­stitution
which would ban the
assignment of students to a
particular school because of
race, creed, or national origin.
Such an amendment has been
drawn up by Rep. Norman Lent
(R- Bast Rockaway) but needs
* i f * t sK support m Congress
nseroreIt can start along the paui
to becoming part of the Con­stitution.
"It should be obvious now that
there is still a mentality in this
country that believes the neigh­borhood
school concept should be
cast aside and children should be
placed- on buses every day in
order to improve their quality 01
education,". Roncallo said. "To
me a ride On a bus seems to offer
very little to the child who is
having=difficuliyJle^nJM how to fuiitimestudents
Bus Service Gets A Lift
stabilizes the fares of all bus
companies in the county at 40-
cents a ride.
Under conditions of the con­Line,
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levels of bus service throughout - - ^ ve. l-?0 'OW' s t a 8 e C o a ch
the county,
At the same time, Caso an­nounced
that he was able to hold
Schenck to a nickel increase in
fares. The line had filed with the
State Department of Tran­sportation
to raise the fare 10
cents. Caso said that the ad­ditional
nickel "will merely
return the fare level to what it
was last year." Fares were
reduced by a nickel last year
under a state demonstration
project. The 5-cent increase
$90,000 and Hempstead $30,000
Meanwhile, Caso said
negotiations between the county
and 10 privately-owned bus
companies for the county's
acquisition of all rolling stock
was continuing. Caso announced
in June that the bus system in
Nassau had reached the end of
the line and that while he had
resisted public ownership of
buses, such acquisition must be
made at this time. Caso is taking
a direct part in the negotiations
for acquisition. -
Caso Supports Expanded Full Time
Student Program At Nassau College
Nassau, .C«trnty Executive
- HMpPG)r%anWK|Ha|'> presented
the Board of Supervisors a
proposed > IA72-7S Nassau Com­munity
College budget tJhat
greatly expands the full-time
student program at the school's
evening division.
Caso said funds are being
provided so that 3,000 full-time
students can attend classes at
night, as compared to about 1,000
now in attendance. He pointed out
that in terms of cost,— it is
equivalent to adding 1,250 new,
read.
Roncallo expressed his belief
that "the Lent amendment to the
Constitution seems to be the only
weapon the people have to force
certain governmental agencies to
start looking for methods to
improve the educational system
so that we can be sure Johnny is
learning to read and not be
concerned as to whether Johnny
is learning to ride." *
Not having seen Commissioner
Ewald Nyquist's order con­cerning
the schools in Hun­tington,
Roncallo could not
comment on that specific case.
However, he noted that he never
believed that a racial quota or
any other discriminatory quota
could be considered an aide to
education.
"I have felt that the closer the
school building is to a student's
home, the more the educational,
system can offer," Roncallo
explained. "It is difficult for a
student who has a bus to catch to
get home, to stay after school to
become involved in ex­tracurricular
activities.
"When distance to the nearest
school forces the use of buses,
there is little else anyone can do.
But, it seems foolish to purposely
take a student away from the
nearest school and bus him
across town," Roncallo said.
While in some districts the
distance across town might not
be that great, that should not be
used as an excuse to further
entrench the busing concept and
destroy the neighborhood school,
according to Roncallo.
He also noted that the
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There is an ever-increasing
demand for a college degree. The
college's day division, however,
is operating at capacity, so we
have decided to expand the
evening division's educational
opportunity," Caso said.
The proposed budget amounts
to $21,136,459, an increase of
$1,753,729 over last year. The
increase represents contractual
costs for faculty, professional
and civil service employees and
the cost of expanding the evening
program.
The tax rate would increase l 6-
cents per $100 'of assessed
valuation, Caso said, noting that
the increase would .mean an
additional $1.12 a' year for a
homeowner whose house is
assessed at $7,000.
Caso said, "I feel this is a small
price to pay for an education that
will properly equip our youth to
meet the challenges that confront
society. The additional cost in­curred
by this commitment to —
higher education was held to a
minimum through the coor­dinated
effort of my Office of
Management and Budgets and
the college's board of trustees—
and administration." '
Last year, Caso submitted a
college budget that lowered the
tax rate for the first time in the
history of the school.
Johnson Calls For "Clean-Up" Bond
State Senate Republican
candidate Owen Johnson of West
Babylon today proposed that the
State Legislature require all
industries having Long Island
water shorelineJ§acilities, or
shipping firms which tank
pollutant products, to post a
'clean-up' bond with the State
Department of Environmental
(Conservation.
Johnson, whose district
•• includes much beach front in the
Great jjouth Bay area around
Fire Island said he was,
"extremely concerned about the '
continuous oil pollution damage,
done by various barges and
tankers or terminal facilities this
past year." "It has hurt our
beaches and the quality of our
water considerably," Johnson
said.
"Too often," he continued,
"there is no follow-up with
cleaning after a spill or seepage.
If there is a clean-up there is no
special arrangement on funding,
and more than likely, the public,
through local government gets
stuck with the tab." Johnson
explained that another problem
is the state or local government
taking months.
Johnson, an insurance
executive, suggested that a
$500,000 registered 'Clean-up.
bond which could be posted by the
company or a bonding firm,
would be a form of public
insurance against possible future
accidents or carelessness. "It
would be a healthy step to speed
environmental restoration in the
event of another Long Island oil
pollution disaster," he said.
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