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VOL. 6 No. 47 Thursday, September 28,1972 10c per copy
East tliver Savings Bank opened its Massapequa
office in the White-ModeU Shopping Center* 5500
Sunrise Highway on September 22. The Honorable
Ralph G. Caso, county executive fo* Nassaui County,
and Dr. Austin'S. Murphy, chairman and president of
the bank, cut the "ribbon of dollars", officially opening
the new office.
The Massapequa office
represents East River Savings
Bank's first branch outside New
York City., East River, with
assets in excess of one billion
dollars, operates eight additional
offices in Manhattan and Staten
Island.
The new office will be under the
supervision of William F. Loeser,
branch manager, and Anthony J.
-Esposito, assistant branch
manager. The facility will offer a
full range of saving bank ser­vices,
including low cost Savings'
Bank Life Insurance, home
mortgages, home improvement
loans, cooperative apartment
loans and loans for education as
well as offering the investor and
saver a high interest on savings
accounts. In discussing East
River's historic step, Dr. Murphy
said, "East River Savings Bank's
new office will offer the residents
of the local area modern and
convenient savings bank ser­vices,
backed by 124 years of
banking experience. We envision
the tremendous future of Long
Island and eagerly accept the
challenge of participating in its
growth and expansion."
As part of the opening
festivities, East River presented
Hunt's Wild West Circus on
Saturday, September 23. The
show is reminiscent of by-gone
days when Buck's "Bring 'em
Back Alive" Circus performed on
the site where the bank is now
located. The circus will continue
on three successive Saturdays
with shows at 11:00,1:00 and 3:00
and will feature performances by
Cowboy Joe Phillips and his
wonder dogs, the Trailmasters,
Dr. Ben Crazy and his Gorilla
Assistant, and Cowboy Joe
Phillips and Golden Mist, his
dancing horse as well as magical
and comedy acts.
Oldsters Get A Break At Track
Senior Citizens will be the
winners at Belmont Park Race
Track under a-new admissions
plan instituted by the New York
Racing Association.
Each Tuesday throughout the
rest of the Belmont meeting and
when racing returns to Aqueduct
on October 16, senior citizens will
be admitted to the grandstand
' area at a 50 cents fee upon
presentation before the , fourth
race of the Senior Citizens card or
Medicare card. This will entitle
them to spend an exciting af­ternoon
attbe track watching the
thoroughbreds compete in the
day's nine races which begin at
1:30 p.m.
, Special gates through which
which senior citizens may enter
are located near the bus terminal
at the West end of the Belmont
grandstand, to the paddock gate,
and at the fate on the lawn at the
East End of the grandstand.
The New York Racing
Association received permission
from the State Racing Com­mission
to institute this special
promotion in an attempt to
reverse the approximate 20
percent decline in admissions. It
has also received approval to
admit all minors under 18 years
of age every day for a 50 cents
fee. They must be accompanied
by a parewt or guardian. The 50
cents fee covers all admission
taxes which must be paid.
These ang'the first of a series of
special promotions, which the
N.Y.R.A. will undertake in order
to bolster attendance at the New
York tracks.
The Town of Oyster Bay's
©epart«»eW of Recrption^land
Community Activities will again
greet the Fall season with a
variety of trips to New York
City's many outstanding event
sand places of interest.
This year's schedule includes
tours of museums, City Hall and
the United Nations; a Broadway
matinee; tht Christmas show at
Radio City Music Hall; and op­portunities
foe holiday shopping.
On five specified Wednesdays,
beginning October 11, the tour
group will board a bus at the
Syosset - Woodbury Community
Park at 9:30 A.M. Departure
from New York City will be at
3:15 P.M.
The New York City Trips
program is offered by CAPA
(Cultural and Performing Arts
Division of the Town of Oyster
Bay Department of Recreation
Polo Finale Hears
Because the season for polo at
. Bethpage, State Park has only a
short while to go, and since the
matches yet to be played must be
squeezed in, the finals of the
Shaw W. Robinson Memorial
Tournament will be held later.
The game this Sunday, October 1,
will now be a Brookville versus
Sands Point special. An en­counter
always teeming with
action plus.
Game time is 3:30 P.M. Ad­mission
is $1.50 for adults.
Sunday September 24 saw the
second of the Shaw W. Robinson
series on the Bethpage Park Polo
Field, Meadow Brook walloping
Brookville nine to one. The first
game was played a practice field
September 19th played between
Huntington's Fred Braunstein,
John Gayer, Paul Rizzo and Allen
Jerkens and Aiken's Ted Shapiro,
John Greenleaf, G. H. "Pete"
Bostwick and Peter Daly edging
Aiken out seven to five.
The third of the matches bet­ween
Huntington and Bethpage's
Mike Gerard, Tony Cappola,
Dave Rizzo and Fred Guest will
go on target during the week and
will decide which team will meet
Meadow Brook for the finals.
New Ice Rink Opens
Hempstead Town's indoor
artificial ice skating rink at
Newbridge Road Park, Bellmore,
will open for the 1972-73 season on
Saturday, October 7.
Open to the general public
every day except Tuesday (when
it's available for group rentals),
the rink will house a full array of
programs through the winter
months.
Located at the southern tip of
Newbridge Road, the indoor rink
charges the following admission
rates: resident children, 50
cents; resident adults, $1.00; non­resident
children, 75 cents, non­resident
adults, $1.50; spectators
(for public sessions), 25 cents;
resident discount cards, $5.00;
public dance classes, $2.50; and
patch sessions, $1.50 per person,
per session.
and Community-Actiwtia^-——
Registration fee for the five
trips is $24.00 (Admissions, tour
fees, luncheons and theatre
tickets are not included.) Town of
Oyster Bay residents interested
in participating may register
September 19-21 at the Syosset -
Woodbury Community Center,
7800 Jricho Turnpike, Woodbury,
from 10 A.M. until 3 P.M. Mail-in
registration will be accepted if.
*p»stmarkeff"ho later.than Sep­tember
15. Checks should be
made payable to BUTTERNUT
TOURS and mailed to CAPA at
the above address. .
The '72 schedule is as follows:
Oct. 11 - Guided tour of the
Brooklyn Museum and lecture
tour of a Decorative Art Museum
(fee $1.00)
Oct. 25 -Guided tour fo the
United Nations building (fee
$1.50), a General Assembly
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Delegates' Dining Room (fee
$5.00) and a visit to the gift center
and souvenir shops.
Nov. 8 - Guided tour of City
Hall, the New York City Police
Academy and museum.
Nov. 29 - Broadway matinee,
choice presently undetermined \
(ticket $8.00) Group leaves
Woodbury at 10:30 A.M. and
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Dec. 13 - Radio City Music Hall^
- "1776" filmed with the original
Broadway cast, and the spec­tacular
Christmas show (fee
$2.50.)
Residents interested in in­dividual
sightseeing and shop­ping
"stops" may do su- during ,
each of the scheduled trips to
New York City.
For further information, call
921-5944.
Mark J. amino, son of Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas Cimino of
Plainview, New York, is welcomed by Cadet Major
Michael Maggio. Mark enters La Salle Military
Academy, Oakdale, Long Island, New York, as a
sophomore.
Health Clinic Opens Nearby
Dr. John Branche, chairman of
the Nassau County Mental Health
Board, announced, the opening of
a new out-patient mental health
facility, the East Plains Mental
Health Center, under the
direction of the Family Service
Association of Nassau County.
The East Plains Center,
located at 35 Broadway (Barclay
Plaza Building) Hicksville, is
headed by Dr. Arthur M. Stern­berg,
Medical Director, and
Robert M. Bressler, Ad­ministrative
Director. It will
serve Catchment Area No. 5,
comprising the school districts in
the communities of Bethpage,
Farmingdale, Hicksville, Island
Trees, Jericho, Plainedge, and
Plainview-Old Bethpage, a
population of about 216,000. The
services, provided under con­tract
with the Nassau County
Mental Health Board, are
available to people of low and
moderate income, with fees
based on a sliding scale.
With a professional staff
consisting of psychiatrists,
psychologists, social work
therapists, and mental health
aides, the Center will also utilize
volunteers to assist in carrying
out its programs. "In addition to
serving those who apply," asid
Dr. Salvatore Ambrosino,
Executive Director of FSA,
"attention will be directed
towards reaching out and ex­tending
services to the socially-economically
deprived, persons
with drinking problems, senior
citizens, and the severely
emotionally distubred."
An advisory board,
representing -the Catchment
Area, will be created, It will help
determine policy, review
programs and budgets, and be
responsible to the Board- of
Directors of Family Service
Association.
The agency will hold an Open
House on Friday, September 29
from 2 to 5 P.M., at 35 Broadway,
Hicksville, with Honorable Ralph
G. Caso, Nassau County
Executive, representatives of the
Nassau County Mental Health
Board, and interested individuals
and organizations attending.