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VOL. 33 NO. 29
Na.ssau County Comp-troller
Peter T. King has
written to Gov. Cuomo ask-ing
him to sign into law the
bill recently passed by the
Senate and the Assembly to
curb the MTA's heretofore
unbridled power to arbitrar-ily
assess local governments
ior Long Island Railroad
station maintenance costs.
Under present law.
municipalities must pay
whatever station mainte-nance
bill the MTA presents
to them or the outstanding
amount is deducted from the
local government's state aid
funding. The municipalities
have no recourse in this mat-ter,
other than a lawsuit, no
matter how improper and
inaccurate these bills are.
King demonstrated the
signif icance of this abuse by
pointing out that "in addi-tion
to its inadequate level of
station maintenance, the
MTA has repeatedly over-billed
and improperly billed
Nassau County. For instance,
we have been charged for
I.IRR stations outside Nas-sau
County, for police pro-tection
that was never pro-vided
and for capital costs
d i s g u i s e d as operating
expenses. Even though the
MTA has been forced to
repay Nassau $1.3 million,
there are millions oi dollars
still being litigated."
S e n a t e I" r a n s p o r t a t i o n
Committee Chairman Nor-man
J. Levy (Rep. Merrick)
introduced legislation in
1984 and again in 1985 to
correct these MTA abuses.
Senator Levy's bills passed
the Senate both years but
were never allowed to come
to a vote in the Assembly.
Because all the municipal-ities
in the MTA region
e.xperienced similar abuses
from the MTA, King estab-lished
a bi-partisan coalition
in December 1985 led by
New York City Comptroller
Harrison J. Goldin, Suffolk
County Comptroller Joseph
R. Caputo and Dutchess
County Comptroller Paul
W. Hackett. This coalition
worked closely with Senator
Levy who drafted legislation
which requires the State
Budget Director to consult
with the county or city
Comptroller before the
MTA billing can be certified.
The bill passed the Senate
on June 18th and was passed
by the Assembly in its clos-ing
hours on July 3rd.
King said that this bill
"will force the MTA to curb
its arrogant disregard for
honest billing because, for
the first time, its actions will
be subject to outside scrut-iny.
This is a great victory
for all the people of the
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Wednesday, July 16,1986 30« PER COPY
C o m m u n S ^ J i ^ ' v
Girl Scouts
Beacon's C.E.O. Celebrates
1st Anniversary
A JOB WELL DONE. Sr. Nancy Marie Elder will be leav-ing
St. Raymond's School this year for a new position as
principal of-St. Agnes Elementary School in Baltimore,
Maryland. She was honored at the school's annual awards
assembly on June 19th, and was presented with many citia-tions,
proclaimations, and congratulatory letters from
prominent citizens and state and local organizations in
recognition for her six years of dedication and service to
both our school and community. Sr. Nancy is pictured
above (center) with Sr. Francine and Anthony Santino, a
Trustee of the Village of East Rockaway.
King Calls On Cuomo To Sign
MTA Legislation
By Ann Mayer
On Wednesday evening,
June nth, ELLM Com-munity
Girl Scout Leaders
culminated the year's activi-ties
with a dinner at the
Brown Derby Restaurant in
Malverne. This event also
culminated the two-year
term of Mrs. Sandra Bove,
of Malverne, as ELLM
Community Assocation
Chairman. Congratula-tions,
Sandra, on a job well
done. Mrs. Maureen Far-rell,
of Malverne, was the
chairperson of the dinner.
Mrs. Betty Knap, of Lyn-brook,
has been elected
Association Membership
Chairman and Mrs. Peg
Ricioppo, of Lynbrook, has,
been elected Coordinator of
Association Volunteers.
These two positions will
now take the place of a
Community Association
Chairman. Mrs. Knap and
Mrs. Ricioppo have been
active in Girl Scouting for
many years and come to
these positions very well
prepared.
This summer ELLM
Coriimunity is busy with the-
In-Transit International
Hostessing Program spon-sored
by the Nassau Council
of Girl Scouts. Mrs. Betty
Knap is chairperson of the
program in the ELLM
Community.
The guests are Girl Guides
f rom all over the world and
Girl Scouts from other areas
of the United States. They
stay in the area while partic-ipating
in orientation and
evaluation sessions with
staff from National Head-quarters
in New York City.
They then go on to partici-pate
in various programs
throughout the United
States. After they complete
their various programs, they
return to their hostess fami-lies
before returning to their
respective lands.
Mrs. Adrienne Wallace,
of Malverne, is hostess to
Jeanine Cooney, of Coope-ras
Cove, Texas, and Kristin
Larson, of San Ramon,
Calif ornia. These Scouts are
attending the 1986 National
Guide Camp in Norway.
Mrs. Wallace is also hostess
to two Girl Guides from
Colombo, Sri Lanka (for-merly
of Ceylon). They are
Ajanthie Gunawardena and
Maithree Wickramasinghe.
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It was just one year ago
that Frederick W. (Ted)
Eckhardt announced the
appointment of Charles
Hahm as president and
C.E.O. of the Beacon Fed-eral
Savings Bank Head-quarters
in Baldwin. Mr.
Hahm is a former president
fand member of the Board of
the Suffolk County Saving
and Loan Association.
A graduate of City Col-lege
of New York Hahm
attended graduate classes at
. Brooklyn Law School where
he earned his degree in Legal
Judisprudence and was
admitted to the New York
State Bar.
Hahm is also a graduate
of the School of Savings &
Loans, Indiana University;
is a past president of the
Alumni Association and
served as chairman of the
Graduate School Admis-
Our home life exhibit on
the upper floor of the
Museum, has a newly
painted background that
shows up the ejdiibits to a bet-ter
advantage. The
"mother" who is visiting the
nursery before leaving for a
ball, is wearing a hand made
wedding dress donated by
Mrs. Woolcock of Lyn-brook.
There is also a
recenty donated oil painting
of an East Rockaway scene,
painted and donated by Wil-liam
Timmin of Althouse
Avenue, who celebrated his
90th birthday last week.
The schoolroom down-stairs
has been brightened
by flags done by Centre
Avenue students in 1975.
The school "matm," is wear-ing
a cool, summer dress,
(circa 1915) donated by
Dorothy Horn of Barbsta-ble
Road. The Civil War
exhibit on the upper floor is
being held over as well as the,
uniforms and memorabilia
donated by Dr. Herbert
Mayer while she served in
South Pacific campaigns
during World War 2.
We use the word
"donated" over and over
again, and that is what
makes our Museum so uni-que.
We don't have to
s c r a m b l e around for
Charles Hahm
sions Advisory Committee.
He attended the Advanced
Management Program at
University of Southern Cali-fornia
and has taught sev-eral
courses at the local
chapter of the Institute of
Financial Education.
A member of the Advi-sory
Board, School of Busi-n
e s s A d m i n i s t r a t i o n,
Dowling College, he served
as chairman of the Salvation
Army Suffolk County Advi-sory
Board in 1979. Hahm is
also a past president of Long
Island Group of Savings and
Loan Association. In 1981
he was elected a director of
U.S. League of Savings
Associations and as national
president of Institute of
Financial Education. _
A U.S. Army veteran he
served in the European
Theatre during World War
II. Hahm and his wife, the
former Eleanor Born,
recently moved from Suf-folk
County to Lido Beach
arid joined the Lido Beach
Civic Association. They
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This Month At
The Museum
by Mildred Roemer
antiques to show from story about them and the
remote areas. All of our donors. That's what makes
exhibits have a personal working there so exciting.