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: Vol. 7 No. 14
OPEN WIDE, PLEASE: Oyster Bay Town Coun­cilman
Salvatore R. Mosea gets preferential treatment
from Mrs. Viola Weydener, President of the Bethpage
Golden Age Club, at a party held at the Beau Sejour in
Bethpage. The Golden Age Club is run under the
auspices of the. Bethpage Senior Citizen Housing
Councilman Mosca, a resident of Bethpage.
1 to be the guest of honor.
Mayor JOHN V. LINDSAY (left) and Polytechnic
Institute of Brooklyn's Prof. PAUL It. DeCICClO of
Plainview, L. I. look over a scientific report that could
save the lives of countless persons trapped by future
fires in office skyscrapers.
The Mayor has just signed into law the report's
recommendation that all high buildings in New York
be required to pressurize their stairwells to serve as
escape routes when fires break out.
This recommendation, now law, was based on in­tensive
scientific tests that included the deliberate
setting of fires in a downtown Manhattan office
building.
Prof. DeCicco is director of Polytechnic Institute of
Brooklyn's Center for Urban Environmental Studies
(CUES), which conducted the fire tests for the New
York City Fire Department.
Thursday, February 22, 1973
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Grumman Gets Contract
For Space Tug Study
. Congressman Angelo D
Koncallo (R-N.Y.) announced
today that Grumman Aerospace
Corporation of Bethpage, New
York, has been awarded a
$750,000 NASA contract for the
study of. space tug systems.
Three other firms will also make
similar studies under the new
style of competitive phased
contracts now used by NASA and
the Defense Department; The two
Federal agencies will jointly fund
the contracts.
Roncallo, whose Third
Congressional District includes
Bethpage, stated that ' 4 am very
gratified that once, again the
Federal * government has
recognized the high quality of
Long Island industry. Grum-man's
LEM put a man on the
moon. The space tug could take
him even further!"
The space tug, if eventually
funded lor development in the
li>80"s, will be taken into low
earth orbit by a space shuttle.
From there it can blast off under
its own power to higher orbit, to
the Moon or even on' in­terplanetary
flight. Since it does
not have to make the effort of
breaking away from most of the
gravitational pull of the Earth
nor travel by itself -through the
atmosphere, it need not carry as
much fuel nor be as streamlined
as a rocket taking off from the
ground.
Grumman and one other
company will consider space tugs
using earth- storable fuels in
their studies. The other two
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Space Tt
Grumman a 10-month, $750,000 feasibility study con­tract
for the storable fuel Space Tug. The Space Tug
will provide the necessary thrust and guidance for
economical delivery of satellites to synchronous or
other high energy orbits. It will be delivered to low
earth orbit within the Space Shuttle's cargo com­partment
After completing its round-trip mission, the
Tug will be returned to earth aboard the Space Shuttle
for repeated use on other missions.
companies will study cyrogenic
fuels like liquid hydrogen and
oxygen, which are more difficult,
to store. Design, costs, schedules
and performance will also be
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investigated. The Defense
Department will assist in the
technical management of the
studies which will take about ten
months to complete,
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4-H News
.-"The 4-H Family Fair in
December has passed, but there
was an extra special, unexpected
divident from it, ten pints of blood
for Stephen Cundaro." Stated
B.O.B. 4-H Girls Club President,
Maureen Breidenbach. "On the
eve of the fair the 4-H'rs learned
that Stephen Cundaro, a ten year
old in the 4th grade at Central
Boulevard School, needed blood."
All during the day pleas were
made to the visitors, over the
P.A. system and through the
hastely made posters," please
donate a pint Ml blood for -
Stephen". Thanks to the fast
work of the B.O.B. 4-H Council
and to the generous donors
Stephen has 10 more pints of
blood that is desperately needed.
To Stephen Cundaro and his,
family all the 4-H members wish
you well and hope you are feeling
better.
Ronnie Schouder, chairlady of
Bethpage-Old Bethpage 4-H Girls
Club Community Services,-was
happy to announce that the first
Children's Christmas Gift
Collection Drive was so suc­cessful
it might become an an­nual
event.
"There was a very good
response from our wonderful 4-H
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4-H'ER OF THE MONTH: Oyster Bay Town Super­visor
John W. Burke presents a proclamation to
Christine Esposito of Old Bethpage proclaiming her 4-
H',er for the month of March. Ms. Esposito has been
active in the 4-H for most of her life and has completed
many projects, especially in the area of home
management.