Bethpage-Tribune_1972-01-06

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Island Trees Serving Beth page - Plainview - Island Trees - Plainedge - Seaford Old Bethpage
Vol. 6 No. 9 Thursday, January 6,1972 10c par copy
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Photos - In - The - News Has BAD A Called It Quits ?
SUPERVISORS' MEJIIE^TO: Five o* six living men
who have served as Supervisors of the Town of Oyster
Bay look at a plaque listing the names of the 54
Supervisors the Town has had since 1693. The plaque
was donated by Harry Tappen, seated, who served the
longest term (1932-1951) of office. Standing, from left to
right, are Thomas Pynchon (1963)/John Burns (1958-
63), Charles Ransom (1951-53) anf John W. Burke who
has been Supervisor since 1970. The plaque was
presented during installation ceremonies for Town
officials held at Town Hall on January 2. Lewis Waters,
who held office from 1954 to 1957, was unable to attend.
Children's Librarian Leaves Plainedge
by Carol Clark
Elinor Healing, the much loved
head of the Children's Depart­ment
of the Plainview-Old Beth-page
Public Library is leaving
the library Jan. 14. Her husband
Ken, a Texaco employee, has
received a promotion that
necessitates their moving to
Houston, Texas.
Mrs. Healing joined the library
back in September of 1959 when
the library was still in a store, as
a clerical worker.' She soon saw
all the things a good children's
librarian could do for the young
people of a community and
decided that that was what she
wanted to do.
She entered C. W. Post library
school on a part time basis and
received her Masters degree in
Library Science in 1964. Two
years before-she received her
degree, then Library Director
Joseph Eisner recognized her
abilities and appointed her Head
Claiming a lack of funds and
structure, the Board of Directors
of BAD A (Bethpage Against
Drug Abuse) threw irf the towel
this week and decided to close its
counseling center. <
According to BADA's last
executive director, Bob Jacob,
the group's facility at 26 Railroad
Ave., and its other operations,
dosed following a "break-in" last
weekend (New Year's) by
several kids who had been in­volved
in the program. "It wasn't
a malicious break-in", claimed
Jacob, "the kids just had no
where else to go."
At the moment, the BADA
facility is being completely
wound down. Mrs. Lucille Kaye,
president of the Board of
Directors, spent much of the past
week dealing with LILCO, leases,
lock changes and other odds and
ends of final closing.
TBAD A itself remains in
• operation, at least untfl it of­ficially
notifies the Nassau
County Drug Commission, which
oversees community anti-drug
programs. As of Wednesday, Jan.
5, this had not been done.
While Jacob agreed with Mrs.
Kaye that money was a problem,
he claimed that neither the
landlord nor BADA's paid staff
had complained about not being
paid. Admitting that "I'm
prejudiced...I'd like to see BADA
continue", Jacob felt the
directors moved to close the
facility because of a "lack of
structure", a claim he countered
with the assertion that mere was
never any clear-cut policy from
the Board for him to follow. He
did not elaborate.
Jacob was informed "from the
start" that the machinery of state
funding (which matches up to 100
per cent of local resources) would
make the whole operation
"shaky." Mrs. Kay agreed that
"Money was a. recurrent
problem", and .one which com­munity
indifference only made
worse.
• As of presstime, it was unclear
whether BADA Itself, or just the
Railroad Ave, facility, was
shutting down.
Mrs. Kaye gave the TRjBUNE
the following statement:
The Executive Board of BADA
(Bethpage Against Drug Abuse)
has announced, with great
regret, the necessity to close the
BADA facility at 26 Railroad
Avenue m Bethpage. This action
is a direct consequence of two
factors:
(1) The continued lack of an
adequate pace of funding from
the New York State Drug
Program, and
(2) The inability of the
operating staff to establish and
maintain a constructive
program, and to correct a
number of major problems that
have decreased the effectiveness
of the facility.
Continued operation under
these conditions was considered
unacceptable.
The size of (he BADA facility its
staff, and its program were all
based on the BADA 1971 program
that had been approved by the
N.Y. State Drug Commission and
the Nassau County Drug Abuse
and Addiction Commission.
Operation of the facility and its
program was predicated on a
reasonable scheduling of funds
from the state. Bethpage now
joins other communities on Long
Island whose drug programs
have been curtailed by New York
The BADA facility has been
operating since June, 1971, and
during this time has served many
of the young people of this
community. To those young
people and others who will be
directly affected by this closing,
the BADA Executive Board
regrets the necessity to take this
action.
of the Children's Department.
In her nine years as head of the
children's department, Mrs.
Healing has built it up to be one of
the finest on Long Island. She has
expanded the collection to 'in­clude
over 30,000 books,
magazines, cassettes and film
strips. She has seen the children's
summer reading dubs grow in
membership from less than a
hundred to almost a thousand.
She has enriched the children's
lives by bringing in live ballet
performances, children's
authors, craft and lecture
demonstrations, plays and
special children's films.
Mrs. Healing will be greatly
missed by the children of
Plainview-Old Bethpage, their
parents, and the staff, all of
whom have grown to love this
warm, sensitive and beautiful
person.
Purcell Wants FCC To Expand
Island's Broadcasting Service
Bethpage Baseball League Opens Registration
The Bethpage Baseball
Association will hold registration
for all leagues Wednesday, Jan.
12 and Thursday, Jan. 20, at the
John F. Kennedy Jr. High School,
from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Registration will be for farm,
little league, Babe Ruth and
Ponytail divisions, and will be
held these two nights ONLY.
Parents must accompany
children who wish to register.
The Bethpage baseball
Association sponsors baseball for
boys from ages 8 to 18 and soft-ball
for girls ages 10 to 15.
Parents are urged to par­ticipate
in.the program. Help is
required on all levels, from
fathers who can coach or umpire
to mothers who can type, file, or
act as team mothers.
The price of chance books will
be the same as last year-$15 per
family
Boys entering the farm division
(8-yr. olds) must bring proof of
age.
Hempstead Town Presiding
Supervisor Francis T. Purcell
this week urged the Federal
Communications Commission to
recognize the shifts in population,
which have occurred on Long
Island since 1940 and assign at
least one commercial VHF TV
channel to Nassau County.
Purcell also asked the FCC to
authorize full-time operation and
increased power for the existing
AM radio stations in Nassau and
western Suffolk Counties.
"The U.S. Supreme Court
recognized this shift with its
historic 'one man, one vote'
decision of the 1960's", Purcell
said in the letter to FCC Chair­man
Dean Burch. "It's time for
the Federal Communications
Commission to end the second­hand
broadcasting service status
of the 2Vfe million people of Long
Island, as you have the authority
to do under Section 307 (b) of the
Communications Act of 1934," he
added.
Purcell contended that when it
comes to "vital news and public
affairs Nassau County and the
Town of Hempstead are almost
totally ignored" by the radio and
television stations licensed to
adjacent New York City.
He praised the local coverage
of the radio stations licensed to
communities in Nassau County
and nearby Suffolk County, but
noted that because of the absence
of a local commercial TV station
and the limited hours of operation
and power of the locally licensed
radio stations, Hempstead Town
and Nassau County do not benefit
from "a fair, efficient, and equit­able
distribution of radio ser­vice"
as provided for under the
Communications Act of 1934.
Purcell also cited a 1955 U.S.
Supreme Court decision which
stated that "Fairness to com­munities
is furthered by a
recognition of local needs for a
community radio mouthpiece."
The Supervisor urged the FCC
to recognize that Nassau and
Suffolk Counties are "a separate
suburban community no longer
tied socially or economically to
New York City" and suggested
the deletion of one or more of the
existing VHF TV channels now
licensed for New York City and
their re-assignment to Nassau
alternative,
Purcell suggested the allocation
of the unused channels 10 and / or
12 to Nassau County and urged
special consideration be given to
the holders of the construction
permit for channel 67 if and when
the new, VHF channels are
awarded.
The presiding supervisor noted
that the owners of channel 67
have announced plans to begin
broadcasting news and public
affairs programming of interest
to Nassau and Suffolk by 1972.
Purcell further appealed to the
FCC to make the necessary rule
changes or reallocations to allow
the AM radio stations in Nassau
and Suffolk to operate 24 hours
per day at sufficient increased
power to insure that their signals
reach all of the potential listeners
in the heavily populated sections
County. As. an . of our two counties."
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Local Banker Gets New Year Bonus
Joseph C. Libertelli, Manager
of the Reliance Federal Savings
& Loan Association branch at 572
Stewart Avenue, Bethpage,
received a New Year's present a
little early.
His wife, Gracemarie,
presented him with a beautiful
baby daughter on Dec. 31, 1971.
The baby, born at Hillcrest
General Hospital in Flushing,
could be termed "Daddy's Little
Deduction", arriving as she did
on the last day of 1971.
The Libertelli's are doubly
happy because the doctors ex­pected
trouble and were not sure
the baby would survive. With
some difficulty after birth, the
little girl is now doing fine. She
weighed 7lbs. 7ozs. and will be
named Jeanne.
The Libertelli's, who reside in
New Hyde Park, expect to take
the baby home soon.
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