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VOL. 7 NO. 9
Thursday, January 18, 1973
News
From C.W. Post
There's More To Junk
Than Meets The Eye
10 cents per copy
Purcell
New
Supports Halt In
Subsidies
Ever wonder if Grandma's old
clock that's been sitting in the
attic collecting dust might be
valuable -- or if that vase you got
for a wedding present years ago
might be an antique?
You'll have an ideal op­portunity
to find out at an in­formal
talk by noted antiques
expert Sigmund Rothschild to be
given at the C. W. Post Center
Chapel. Lounge on January 24th.
-Mrf*"Rothschild, - who~~fcr • Trtr
adjunct professor at Post, is a
Senior Member of the American
Society of Appraisers and a
Fellow of the Incorporated
Society of Valuers and Auc­tioneers
of England. He is an
internationally recognized an­tiquarian
and authority on fine
art.
The talk, sponsored by the C.
W. Post Women's Association
will be held at 1:30 p.m. The
public is invited to this free
eiretttr-refreshment wtH- be
served.
Weekend College
C.W. Post's Weekend College,
which has provided long Islan­ders
with unique educational
advancement opportunities for
the past two years, will add a
The program of study, which
leads to the Associate of Arts
degree," will "Be added "to a
program that already features a
total of 115 undergraduate and
graduate courses in the liberal'
arts and sciences, education,
business, and library science. A
highly specialized upper division
Bachelor of Science program in
nursing or registered nurses is
the other degree offering of the
College.
The Associate of Arts degree in
General Studies will be the only
such degree offered in a Weekend
College format on Long Island.
Some 60 per cent of the more than
500 students who enroll in
Weekend College are un­dergraduates.
The new degree
program was designed to allow
Igpto jgureue a planned
course c««M^^l3bra^ravTQW"
additional options, in furthering
their academic careers.
Course requirements will be
drawn from the standard ot-ferings
of Post's undergraduate
curriculum. Although students
will be registered in Weekend
College, they will be accepted
through the standard admission
policies of the Center. If work or
study schedules need to be
altered, progress toward the
degree may be completed
through the more traditional
courses of study Post offers. -
WEEKEND COLLEGE SPRING
The Weekend College provides
students with the opportunity to
earn tipJto^afaL lanwU&Jn,,.Jl*
weeks, and is ideal for the adult
who is unable to attend classes
during the week. Offering un­dergraduate
and graduate
courses, the program has four
different time schedules with
courses meeting six Saturdays
beginning Feb. 17, six Sundays
beginning Feb. 18, two intensive
weekends, Feb. 10 and 11 and
April 7 and 8, and evenings
beginning Feb. 17.
Credit card payment, through
BankAmericard and Master
Charge is acceptable, and there
is reduced tuition for husbands
and wives who are enrolled in the
same course.
In addition to the adult course
offerings, children of Weekend
Hempstead Town Presiding
Supervisor Francis T. Purcell
today supported the Nixon Ad­ministration's
move to halt all
new commitments to subsidized
low and middle income housing
and call for a "reexamination of
housing priorities as well as a
complete restructing of HUD's
approach to the housing
problem".
"During this spending
moratorium, I urge the newly
appointed Housing . and* Urban%
Development Secretary James T7
Lynn to meet with local officials
on the grassroots level to hear
their views on - the housing
question," affirmed Purcell.
"Too many policy decisions are
being made by starry-eyed
planners who just don't un­derstand
the problems of selling
using to the public,"
'There can be no doubt that the
housing subsidy program in this
nation is a dismal failure,"
Purcell noted. "George Romney,
outgoing HUD secretary, has
publicly admitted that Federal
housing in this nation has been a
'20 billion dollar mistake.'
Because of this failure a tem­porary
halt in all federal spen­ding
for housing and
reexamination of this program is
long overdue." Purcell stated.
T0B to Appoint
New Town Clerk
Supervisor John W. Burke
announced this week that the
Town Board expects to appoint
Ann R. Ocker of Plainview to the
Purcell wiir offer a point
proposal to Hud officials in
Washington which could help
redirect the federal govern­ment's
efforts in the housing
field. *
1) The New HUD secretary
should establish regional ad­visory
boards throughout the
country to enable local com­munities
to participate in the
housing planning process on a
meaningful level.
...llJkiYing ojj fixed incomes and
in many cases unable to wbrk,lH"e
elderly have been hit the hardest
by spiraling inflation. Statistics
show that this group is the
poorest in the nation and each
year more are slipping to poverty
level. To aid our older Americans
a new effort must be made to
channel additional federal funds
senior cit
income housing is also needed to
help the senior citizen who does
not fit into the low-income
bracket.
3) All new federally subsidized
housing projects should pay 100
percent (they now pay less than
10 percent in lieu of taxes) of the
property taxes to those
municipalities which provide
vital services and to school
districts which educate their
children. This approach would
eliminate the tax burden which
besets many communities.
4) More emphasis should be
placed on the Turnkey II and
Turnkey III program which
enables low and middle income
families to become home owners.
This pride of ownership is the
element that has been lacking in '
most of the subsidized housing
programs across the country. In
the same vein massive low-income
housing complexes which
Mix sera,|o jfeittoizei Jhejjoor „
should be avoided in favor of
small garden type apartments.
Only in this way can the people be
assimilated into the mainstream
of the community.
"The way to sell public housing
is from the bottom up," Purcell
noted. "You must first find
programs that both meet the
them. Trying to"jam a" project
down the throats of the people
such as in Forest Hills is not the
answer," Purcell emphasized:
"Low income housing must not
be a trap, it must encourage the
individual to better himself and
his family," he affirmed.
Purcell pledged to seek a
meeting with James Lynn as soon
as he officially becomes the HUD
secretary to present his
proposals.
Good Police Work - A Good Team Effort
of age or older may be enrolled in regular meeting on ^Tuespryp
a special five week creative arts
learning experience at the Fiedel
School in Glen Cove.
Registration is open now
through February 18 for most
sessions. For further information
and a detailed brochure write to
Weekend College, C.W. Post
Center, Greenvale, New York
11548 or telephone (516) 299-2431.
New Main Street
A new "main street" is coming
to Greenvale. This main street
though will not run through the
center of town. Rather it will be
the hub of activity in the new $6
million student / faculty center
that will be completed this spring
on the campus of C.W. Post
Center. The building has been
under construction since the fall
of 1971.
The new building, to be named
"Hillwood Commons" will, ac­cording
to.'.vita, archetect Fred
Bentel, "change the entire
pattern of life on the Post cam­pus.
This building will offer
something for everyone at all
times."
Bentel, of Bentel and Bentel of
Locust Valley, N.Y., goes on to
explain, "our objective was to
organize all functions housed in
the building in such a way so as
to make each area unique and not
just another closed room off a
corridor."
The entire first floor of the
three story building was created
by the architect so as to give the
illusion that one is outdoors with
all areas facing "main street"
rather than a corridor.
All interior1 corridor walls,
including those of the lobby, are
of the same ribbed concrete
appearance as the entire exterior
of the building. During the day
the primary lighting of this area
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January 23. Mrs. Ocker will fill
the vacancy created when Isabel
R. Dodd resigned from the Board
on December 31, to accept a
position as Commissioner of the
Nassau County Board of Elec­tions.
Mrs. Ocker, a mother of three
and.-wife of former Oyster Bay
Town Board Majority Leader
Edmund A. Ocker, has a rich
background in Long Island civic,
governmental and political
matters.
She is Chairman of the Nassau
County Advisory Committee of
Consumer Affairs, Past
President of the Ladies Auxiliary
of the Plainview Fire Depart­ment,
and 10th Judicial District
Director, New York State
Federation of Republican
Women.
She has served as Chairman for
Heart Sunday for both Plainview
and Nassau County, and has been
a volunteer in fund drives for
Cancer and Red Cross.
Mrs. Ocker is a charter
member of the Church of the
Good Shepherd in Plainview,
Past President of the Priscilla
Guild, and has been active in Girl
Scouts for more than 15 years.
Nassau Police Commissioner
Louis J. Frank today commended
precinct detective squads and the
Crime Prevention Unit for a
series of burglary arrests this
week which cleared a total of 43
residence, 10 school and 5
hininafi„hur,glarifj, mtli.the
arrests of. 10 burglars in different
areas of the county.
"This same diligent police
team-work enabled us to reduce
burglaries by ten percent in the
first nine months of 1972," Frank
said.
"By analysing crime in­formation,
projecting . crime
. patterns, and utilizing plain­clothes
patrols, we can keep
burglars and would-be-burglars
off balance," the Commissioner
concluded. -
In the local area the following
burglaries were cleared:
Eighth Squad Detective Joseph
Stenson cleared five business
burglaries when he arrested
Edward Knudson, male, white, 17
years old of 4 Griddle Lane,
Levittown, and Louis Ricca,
male, white, 22 years old of 23
Rope Lane, Levittown. The two
men were arrested January 11
for the burglary last September
of a beauty parlor at 401-A
Jerusalertfs:Avenue, Levittown.
On January 11, Crime
Prevention Unit Patrolmen
Harold O'Leary and Harold Knox
began an investigation which
resulted in three arrests which
cleared 25 residence burglaries in
the Hicksville-Levittown areas.
The defendants are:
Robert Bell, male, white, 18
years old of 179 Sixth Street,
Hicksville, Matthew Spink, male,
white, 18 years old of 37 Foster
Lane, Westbury and Peter Reid,
i^^wMe^ Jfi. vejrsoldof 2 6 _
East Mth ^SYreC'IfitntmgloTr^
Station. The three youths were
specifically arrested and charged
with a burglary which occurred
on January 9, at 17 Academy
Lane, Levittown where $40. was
reported stolen.
Each Nassau Precinct *
Detective Squad has a special
burglary team which collects and
analyzes information; and then
coordinates and projects the
precinct's burglary enforcement
program.
Greenpoint Bank
Promotions
Promotions of officers at The -*•
Green Point Savings Bank were
announced by Charles W.
Gleason, Chairman of the Bank's
Board of Trustees-Elected Vice
Presidents were Manfred An­derson
and Mary E, McCahon.
Advanced to the position- of
Assistant Vice President were-*"
Carroll P. Ryan, John G. Fallon
and Eugene Paolella. Also,
Beatrice F Sorkiin and Frances
Kinald were designated Assistant
Managers.