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Vol 7 No. 8
Thursday, January 4; 1973
Photos In I Commission Reports
SEAFORD
10 cents per copy
PICKING A WINNER - Three year old Billy Davis is
shown drawing the winning coupon for the 1972 Holiday
Festival "Night on the Town', as his mother (C), Mrs.
Jean Davis. of^T.60 Jf.erusajem.-ft venue. Seaford, beams
her approval. Anne Garille (R), of Levittown, and
Therese Spellman, Office Manager of the Bethpage
Tribune, are happy by-standers..
Here little Billy very confidently shows the winning
coupon with smiles all around (the 'Night on the
Town" was sponsored as a community service during
the Holiday Season by the Bethpage Tribune with the
help of many of the merchants in the area). Mr. and
Mrs. William Farrell, of 15 Silber Avenue, Bethpage
are the lucky winners. The Farrells are the parents of 6
children and have resided in Bethpage for 11 years.
They are both very happy and thrilled by their good
fortune. Besides dinner, the theatre and an evening of
music and dancing, the Farrells will receive gift
certificates from many of the merchants in the local
Photo by Jerry Augusta
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When the Levittown-Island
Trees Youth Council honors
Whitey JFord at Levittown
Division High School, Saturday,
January 27, youngster's and
parents will see the game in
which Ford broke Babe Ruth's
World Series pitching record.
They will also see the last'shutout
Whitey pitched in a World Series.
The Ruth record of 29 and 1/3
consecutive scoreless innings of
Series pitching was set in 1918
when the Babe, later noted as the
game's greatest home run hitter,
beat the Chicago Cubs. Ford
wasn't even born then, but 43
years later, Whitey put into the
record books a Series record that'
may never be matched.
He blanked the Cincinatti Reds
2-0 in the opening 1961 Series
game to run his consecutive
Series string to 27 runless in­nings.
In the fourth game in
Cincinatti he pitched five more
scoreless frames before leaving
with an injured foot. But those
five runless innings gave him 32
in a row and he surpassed the
Babe's pitching feat. The next
year Ford went another one. and
two-thirds innings before being
scored on and beat the San
Francisco Giants 6-2. That gave
Ford 33 and 2/3 straight
.scoreless'innings in World Series
play. V
The highlights of the first and
fourth 1961 games will be shown,
An ironic note is that when
Babe Ruth died in 1948, Whitey
Ford was pitching for the Norfolk.
Tars, a Yankee farm team in the
Piedmont League. Whitey came
up to the Yankees for good in
1950. In 1973 he will be with the
Yankees to help young pitchers in
spring training.
The Levittown-Island Trees
Youth Council program is being
co-sponsored by The William-sburgh
Savings Bank. Youth
Council chairman Fred Neist hi
again being assisted by bank of­ficials
and former youth council
chairman Hy Krasney. Youth
Council officers also assisting are
vice-chairman Dolph Queripel,
treasurer Bill Mueller, secretary
Bill Ginna and special events
chairman Charles Warner.
Free tickets for the 2:30 P.M.
program on January 27, will be
available from the bank and
youth council officials the week of
January 15.
'Diploma' Attitude Contributes To Unrest
"Many of our so-called social
adjusters and educators have
subscribed to the 'new math' of
education in this State which says
'the appropriation of more and
more money equals more and
more quality education' and
they're flunking. Far from being
the truth, it is a matter of fact
that educational results in New
York State are worse now than
before, and 50 per cent or more of
the students in secondary
education in this State aijg^
*opotrts- ~ elthTSF physically or*"
mentally. Where is the progress?
Where are the results?"
With these thoughts as a
background, Assemblyman
Charles D. Henderson today
released the third report of the
Temporary State Commission to
Study the Gayses of Education
. pni-est;- Jiibeled "Academy ;or.
Battleground".
Henderson, chairman of the
commission which was appointed
originally to look into the causes
of college campus unrest in the
State and which has since shifted
its emphasis to the causes of
unrest in secondary schools,'
noted in his introduction to the
Report that "reported crime and
violence has increased
tremendously in City and
Metropolitan awia--eehot>ferfS^ie
increase in the City of Newv York
alone was 57.4 per cent in the past
year..."
The Hornell Assemblyman
pointed out that his bleak outlook
on the State's secondary
educational process is predicated
on previous Commission reports
whichcautiohed those responsible
for the educational system that
they must provide more relevant
-«dueafci©Hal.^pp9Ftuaitieste«ipet^
today's needs. "This is still not
being done," he observed, "and
-all we find is a continuing
deterioration, the formation of
new and more serious disruptive''
elementSjfor the school system
and the student to cope with, such
as street gangs, drugs, ill-guided
busing concepts and parent or
teacher-oriented outside
pressures which may be them­selves
the most disruptive factors
to an orderly and effective
educational process."
On top of these, Chairman
Henderson reflected that modern
social pressure for so-called
educational achievement (a
college diploma) is doing great
harm to many youngsters who
just are not motivated toward the
"baccalaureate syndrome", but
who could be useful, productive
citizens'if they were given the
right motivation and vocational
training.
Continuing, Mr. Henderson
said: "Our society has over­emphasized
the college degree as
the only way to a satisfying and
successful life, but there are
many valuable skilled oc­cupations
which do not demand
the four year college degree.
More information nd interest
should be instilled in the
vocational skills in the lower
grades to make students aware
that they can experience a great
deal of satisfaction from these
skills, and that there is as much
demand for good mechanics and
secretaries as there is for doctors
and lawyers.
"Achievements in vocational
and business skills should receive
equal recognition with those of
the college-bound student. We
m 11 s t r pm n VP thes tigma attached
to those who do not choose or, for
any number of reasons, cannot
attend four-year colleges." .
Referring again to the in­creased
'dropout' rate in - the
State, the commission chairman
explained: ','Ypu can count: the
physical dropouts because they
leave school since they are rvr»
longer legally compelled to
remain there. Even more tragic
are those who remain physically
in school but are mentally turned
off. They remain until they
receive a so-called diploma
(which is more like a certificate
of attendance to them), but they
still can't read or write. It has
been time needlessly wasted, and
they were turned off somewhere
along the way by a lack of
motivation which should be in­spired
bythose responsible for
the education of the young.
"Instead, these people fight
among themselves-teachers,
parents, special interest groups,
administrators, and as we have
pointed out before, reek more
havoc on the educational process
than the students could ever think
of doing."
All of this, Henderson noted,
thus leads to the increasingly
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which plague secondary schools
today. "In the big cities, it's the
re-emergence of gangs and gang­like
groups. This Spring, the
Commission found that 73 gangs *
were identified by the Ad­ministration
of one New York
City Community School District
alone. Gangs present a serious
problem to administrators and
faculty because discipline of any
one member results in the
group's rejection of the school's
authority."
The Education Unrest Com-
••••mi«H^n---i*pOTr^tslt6a~'e"Sffefisive~T'
research in non-metropolitan
areas of the State which proved
conclusively that if the tide of
trouble and disruption is not
corrected soon in metropolitan
areas, where it now flourishes
almost unabated, it will soon
spread to the suburban: and rural
school districts^ ,and. Jn sort!9
cases, already has.
Onthe, matter ofdrugs, Hen- "*"
derson said: "The greatest
enemy of drug addiction is work.
If young people would work and
appreciate the value of their own
worth, probably the use of nar­cotics
as an escape from
boredom and futility would
diminish. It doesn't matter if it's
a youngster from the ghetto or
one with too much time on his
hands living in a surburban area
or a so-called 'privileged
youngster' looking for thrills. The
sad thing is that those who do
indulge take along other youn-sters.
And then it really hurts.
- "Reordering our values and
emphasis on educational
curriculum thus satisfying the
needs of the students will go a
long Way in stamping out the
boredom and malcontent which
breeds disruptive elements such
as drugs, gang culture, and
classroom," Henderson cln- .
eluded.
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WHITE ELEPHANT SALE is held by 5th graders at
Joyce Road School in Plainview to help a needy family.
Charging $.25 cent each for old toys, joke books,
paperbacks, pottery and fireman's hats they r,aised
$25.00 in sales to other students. The class sale along
with fund raising effort by other 4th, 5th, and 6th
graders at the school, came to $470.00. A British
worker, Mr. "K." was adopted as the schools' needy
family. He has come to Nassau County to make a
better life for his family. The money will help bring his
Wife and children here.