The-Helm_1972-01-20; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

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LYNBROOK MALVERNE EAST ROCKAWAY
Vol. 11 No. 3S Bf««r«l 8«eoiid-Cla«» H«M*r
Poat Otfle«, Ljmbroek, N.T. LY 3-1300 THE FAMILY NEWSPAPER Thursday, January 20, 1972 I0«
Congressman Lent Assails Pur«eu saiutes udaii Personalities
"Wetport" Planning
Calling it a "drawing board
monstrosity" Congressman
Norman F. Lent has sharply
criticized the first phase of a two-part
study authorized by the
Federal Aviation Administration
on the feasibility of locating a 4th
New York area jetport in Atlantic
Ocean waters off Long Island's
South Shore.
After an in-depth study of the
three volume report, the 5th
District Representative attended
a meeting late last week in the
eastern regional offices of the
FAA at Kennedy International
Airport, and called for a halt to
further work on the proposal.
The wetport feasibility report
prepared by Saphier, Lerner
Schindler Environetics, studied
several sites in the metropolitan
area for possible use as a wetport
location, including Long Island
Sound and an area off Sandy
Hook, New Jersey, but settled on
one 31/2 miles south of the City of
Long Beach.
Said Congressman Lent,
"$210,000 of the taxpayers'
money has been spent thus far to
develop a proposal which far
over-stepped the mandate of-fered
the consulting firm by the
FAA, which was to study the
workability of an off-shore
location for the much-needed
airport, but," he continued, "this
report has instead offered up a
gargantuan ecological imbroglio,
incorporating a super-sized
nuclear power plant and sewage
treatment facility designed to
handle an eventual daily tran-sient
population of one million
people, and a deep-water
supertanker port for oil, liquified
natural gas and jet fuel big
enough to support the petroleum
needs of the entire northeastern
region of the United States." The
congressman continued, "The
real shocker is that this facility
would be located just 3 1/2 miles
off the shore of Long Beach on a
32 square mile platform that
would be geographically six
times larger than the City of Long
Beach itself!"
The enitre deep-water port and
jet platform would be protected
from the ocean by a twelve mile
long breakwater that would ef-fectively
create what Lent has
termed a "Dead Sea" in the
waters right off one of Long
Island's most popular
recreational beaches, stretching
from Hempstead Town Beach at
Point Lookout to Rockaway
Beach.
Designed to serve 300 million
anticipated jet-borne travelers a
year and a work force of up to
150,000 people by the time it
becariie fully operational, the
proposal suggested that the
wetport would be reached ex-clusively
by rail, yet the con-sultants
never contacted the
MTA to determine whether that
was possible. MTA represen-tatives
at the high-level meeting
claimed it was out of the
question, citing that the an-ticipated
passenger volume was
ten times the number currently
served by the entire Long Island
Railroad system.
"The consultants have
proposed a new Long Island off
the coast of Long Island," con-tinued
the Congressman, ". . .the
cost of which could run as high as
40 billion dollars, 'and have
established a setting for this
architectural pipe-dream so close
to already noise-harried Long
Island that it wouldn't solve the
noise problem anyway, while
dumping up to 41,000 tons of
pollutants into the air over our
coastline each year."
Congressman Lent concluded,
"I believe that the wetport
concept might remain as the only
viable solution to New York's
airport needs, but the proposal
advanced thus far is so off the
mark in regard to ecological
safeguards and its unsatisfactory
solution to the noise problem,
that investing another $180,000
for Phase II of this same plan
would be like buying more nails
for the coffin of a completely
infeasible concept."
Thorp Bill Aids
School District
Assemblyman John S. Thorp,
Jr. has introduced a bill which
would reimburse local school
districts for interest costs they
will incur as the result of the
postponement of state aid
payments.
The recent Special Session of
the Legislature passed Governor
Rockefeller's proposal to defer
payment of 16 2/3% of the annual
state aid payments from January
and February of each year to
May and June respectively. That
bill also provided for reim-bursement
of interest costs only
for the current school year.
Thorp voted against the measure
which was opposed by education
groups.
"This bill seeks to correct a
gross inequity," Assemblyman
Thorp said. "Deferring a
significant portion of the state aid
payments to the end of the school
year will force local school
districts to borrow funds to meet
current operating expenses in the
middle of the year. The net effect
will be to force an increase in
school property taxes which are
already at the confiscatory level.
It is just another example of the
short-sighted way in which the
state operates.
''I am hopeful that broad
support of this measure by school
boards and taxpayers will lead to
its passage so that it will be in
effect for the 1972 school year,"
Assemblyman Thorp concluded.
Hempstead Town Presiding
Supervisor Francis T. Purcell
today hailed the recognition of
former Interior Secretary
Stewart Udall that growth does
not always equal progress and he
invited the noted conservationist
to visit Hempstead Town to see
first hand how a local govern-ment
copes with environmental
problems.
In a recent Long Island speech,
Udall was quoted as saying:
"You reach a point where
growth and environmental
quality are incompatible. If I
lived here I'd look for ways of
slowing down growth."
Said Purcell: "That point of
incompatibility has been reached
in Hempstead and the town board
is going to do everything in its
power to prevent the destruction
of our environment through
heedless growth."
He pointed to the Nassau-
Suffolk Regional Plan as a threat
to the stability of Hempstead
Town. The plan calls for more
than 50,000 new housing units for
the town, which a l r ^ d y i s more
densely populated than the
average American city.
The town is home to 30 per cent
of all the people in Nassau and
Suffolk but has only 10 per cent of
that region's land area.
"We have reached a point
where any significant growth in
population would lead to a break-down
in essential municipal
services such as water supply,
solid waste disposal and sewage
treatment," Purcell said.
Udall similarly echoed Pur-cell's
sentiments when he called
for the construction of new towns
which would be environmentally
pure and would offer planned
development, racially balanced
housing and adequate tran-sportation.
bv Annette Ling
Ada Bus so
Mrs. Ada Busso the petite
dynamo and busy head of the
Lynbrook Chapter of Cerebral
Palsey was born in Malverne,
Her mother a member of
Gallagher family was born in
I^aiid gji
She graduated from Sacred
Heart Seminary, an Elementary
school for Catholics and Sacred
Heart Academy and spent the
last two years of her high school
years at Malverne High School
where she graduated. She spent
two years at New York
University majoring in Physical
Education until her gallant
husband decided that she would
be his bride. It is no wonder that
her husband Carlo fell in love
with her as she is an extremely
attractive woman with gentian
blue eyes, lovely blonde hair and
a marvelous figure. Ada even ten
years ago must have caused
heads to turn and she has a
marvelous sense of humor and a
trim and great figure due to her
interests in athletics. She met her
husband while both were
studying at N. Y.U. and they were
married in 1961.
Her husband was also majoring
in Physical Education and it
follows that they have many
mutual interests.
For a while, she taught at
Hewlett High School in the
Physical Education Dept. and
her husband is now a teacher in
Health Education in Valley
Stream Central High School.
They first settled in Malverne,
and then later on Lloyd Ave. in
Lynbrook and now have a lovely
home on Samuel Place.
Ada and her husband run a
Summer Camp for children in
Rutland, Vt. She loves Vermont
and the New England folks and
this writer can well understand
that. If you make friends with a
New England "Yankee" so-called
you have a friend for life
The couple have three children.
Christina, age 9, Francis X., age
8 and Paul, age 7 are their
children to date and they expect
an addition to their wonderful
family circle in May.
Ada's home is most tastefully ;
decorated and she prefers con-temporary
American styles. Her
favorite color combination
cannot be separated as it is red,
white, and blue.
In college she was an out-standing
woman athlete,
especially in diving and swim-ming
and was the undefeated
champion of her college in all
types of high diving for two
years. She swam and dived with
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PURCELL, D'AMATO STUDY COLISEUM PROGRESS: Hempstead Town
Presiding Supervisor Francis T. Purcell, r . , points out progress being made on
Nassau Coliseum while Supervisor Alfonse M. D'Amato scans the beautiful
arena. Slated to open in February,the 15,000 seat coliseum will bring the best
in professional sports to Long Island.