Town Board Mulls Youth Plan Augmt Bwy Mon* At
A totally new concept for Town Long Island State Parks
government to assume a leadership
role in the control, prevention
and cure of juvenile delinquency
and narcotics addiction
was outlined this week by Oyster
Bay Town Councilman Ralph J.
• Marino. The program, if approved
by the Supervisor and
Town Board, could within a few
years lead to $ 396,000 being
spent annually for youth services
in the Town, with $ 132,000
coming from available State aid
and as much as $ 54,000 from
participating villages.
The plan was prepared by Jerry
Marcus, the Youth Bureau Supervisor
of the Town's Department
of Recreation and Community
Activities, working in
conjunction with the department's
director, James C. Arvanitis, and
the Youth Recreation and Community
Activities Citizens Advisory
Committee.
The proposal calls for dividing
the Town into clusters or
branches for the purpose of staffing,
financing and programming
potential activities and facilities
geared to a community's specific
needs. The clusters would
each provide the youth services
to its communities and semi- independent
once launched by receiving
expert guidance and fi-
. nancial assistance from the
Town.
One advantage of the proposal
would be to provide a vehicle
for communities to use allocated
New York State Division for Youth
funds which are not now being u-tilized.
Only Farmingdale of the
Town's 18 villages, is now
receiving the available $ 3,000
a year in State funds given to any
village spending $ 6,000 annually
for youth services. Under the plan
advocated by Marino, each village
in any given cluster could
put up $ 3,000, and the Town would
put up the additional $ 3,000. Further
financing would come from
$ 25,000 New York State has set
aside for the development of the
Town of Oyster Bay's Youth Bureau.
The funds must be matched
by $ 50,000 in Town money. Also
$ 53,000 in state aid is available
to the Town for youth service
programs provided the Town
spends $ 106,000. These Town and
State funds, together with $ 54,000
in Town money, would total
$ 396,000 for eventual financing
of the plan.
Besides financing, advantages
of the plan would be the pooling
of purchase and specialized manpower;
servicing of large geographic
areas without losing
the personal local touch; utiliza-ton
of existing school and private
facilities; provide a program
which not only works with
the child, but also involves the
parents; and it offers a solution
to an ever increasing problem
of proper staffing. The rights,
duties, and prerogatives of local
school boards would in no way
be infringed upon.
The proposal considers the
number of people under 21 years
of age in each community, the
size of the area, the housing
conditions, the municipalities,
the school districts involved and
the existing programs and facilities.
Should the Town be divided
into five or six areas, one area
might consist of all of the youngsters
and appropriate facilities in
the Massapequa and Plainedge
school districts. The Town's
Youth Bureau would organize
each area so that it has its own
Youth Board.
The area would be served by
field or community workers who
operate out of the Town Youth
Bureau. With proper coordination
and good organization there
could be an inter- play between
the clusters, sharing of problems
and solutions, and unified
Town progress. Each cluster
could serve as a means for developing
a contract between the
Town, State or local organization
for a specific service. CThe
local organization would probably
be the school district and/ or
village or an officially recognized
Youngsters Engage In Beautification
A group of 30 boys and girls
between the ages of 16 to 21
are busy working beautifying sections
of the Town of Oyster
Bay under a State Hometown
Beautification Program, Councilman
Ralph J. Marino announced
this week.
Marino said the seven- week
program, which will end on Labor
Day, enables the youngsters,
many college students or college-bound,
to earn money that could
help with their college education.
The youngsters are being used
at the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial
Park in Oyster Bay and at
the Marjorie R. Post Massapequa
Community Park on various
beautification projects.
At Roosevelt Memorial Park
twenty youths are working on
the flower beds, re- finishing the
pathways, and trimming the grass
and hedges. The remaining ten
are seeding, planting, and trimming
existing foliage at the Massapequa
Community Park.
Each of those participating in
the program earn $ 1.50 per hour-the
State Division of Youdi contributes
$ 1.25 for twenty youths
while the Town makes up the
difference, for a 35- hour week.
group.) In the example of a cluster
consisting of Massapequa and
Plainedge, it might provide a
facility such as a gym while the
Town could provide the staffing.
The reverse could also work.
Offices and other facilities would
be established and developed
jointly between the individual
communities and the Town.
The Town's Youth Bureau
would coordinate all clusters
and Town youth activities; stimulate
and oversee Town and local
community activities; help develop
a Youth Board for each
community; provide training for
local professional staffers, lay
people who serve on Youth Boards
and parents and volunteers; supervise
branch activities; develop
standardized programs and
procedures; assist with youth
problems through the cluster;
coordinate Town- wide planning;
prepare a newsletter; develop
kits for establishing local youth
boards, community centers and
special programs; develop means
for providing emergency help
for youngsters removed from
home or in trouble; consult with
and advise officials regarding
legislaton affecting youngsters
and deinquency; check requests
and inquiries regarding suspected
problem areas or localities.
Marino said that the preliminary
1968 budget request for the
Town's Youth Bureau is $ 44,450,
of which half will be reimbursed
by the State. The overall program,
he stated, must be developed
slowly and carefully
through specifically designated
stages over a period of about five
years. He emphasized,, however,
that " we must begin today and
move this plan along as speedily
as we can. There's been e-nough
talking, planning and studying
done and the time has come
to convert these words into action
while our problem is still
controlled.
Town Gets
State Grant
The Oyster Bay Town Board
received a State grant amounting
to $ 20,810.70 toward the operation
of the Oyster Bay Sewer
District for 1967, it was
announced by Councilman Ralph
J. Marino.
The Commissioners of the district
were advised- of the State
aid so that it can be included
among revenues in the 1968 budget
which is being prepared.
Marino said that the grant represents
about one- third the
direct costs of operation and
maintenance of the treatment
Perry B. Duryea, Jr., President
of the Long Island State
Park Commission, announced
Special Events for the month of
August at the State Parks on
Long Island.
Children's Days are planned
for August 1 at Sunken Meadow
State Park, August 3 at Heck-scher
State Park, August 2, 9
and 16 at Jones Beach State Park.
The Annual Horsehoe Pitching
Tournaments will be conducted
at Belmont Lake, Heckscher,
Hempstead Lake and Valley
Stream State Parks on August 6.
Finals are at Hempstead Lake
State Park on August 13.
Fishing Clinics will be held at
10 a. m. on August 5, 19 and
26 at Jones Beach State Park,
and at the Captree Fishing Piers
at 2 p. m. This program is co-sponsored
by Penn Reel Company.
Family Fishing Days will
take place at Jones Beach Fishing
Piers at 11 a. m. on August
10 and Captree at 11 a. m. on
August 15. Awards are presented
by Abraham & Straus.
Jones Beach Fast Pitch, Open
Slow Pitch and Industrial Softball
Leagues will continue nightly
at the East and West Softball
Fields. Jones Beach Invitational
Soccer League games are
played on Saturdays and Sundays
at the East Stadium at 7: 15 p. m.
The Metro Long Island Industrial
Slow Pitch Tournament will open
at Jones Beach State Park on
August 15 and continue through
August 20.
The RollerSkatingShow, " Roller
Varieties of 1967" will take
place on Sunday, August 6. The
'• Cavalcade of Champions" is the
August 20 presentation. Both
shows at the Jones Beach Skating
Rink commence at 9 p. m.
On Sunday, August 13, at 9
p. m. at West End Beach # 2 the
Jones Beach Star Gazers will
hold their final summer program.
A special program of songs and
dances will be held at the Annual
Indian Pow Wow at the
Jones Beach Indian Village beginning
at 2 p. m. on August 20,
followed by a concert presented
by the United States Naval Base
Band, at the Jones Beach Music
Shell at 3 p. m.
The Third Annual Kite Flying
Contests will be held at Sunken
Meadow on August 22 and Heckscher
on August 29. The Second
Annual Kite Flying Contest at
Jones Beach will take place on
August 24.
Guy Lombardo's musical extravaganza
" Arabian Nights"
continues every evening at 8: 30
p. m. at the Jones Beach Theatre
with dancing nightly after the
show to the music of Guy Lom-bardo
and his Royal Canadians.
SBA Opens Nassau Office
For Help To Small Businesses
Small businessmen on Long
Island seeking loans and other
assistance from the Small Business
Administration will no
longer have to travel to New
York City.
Solomon Z. Ferziger, regional
director of the United States
Small Business Administration,
in a joint statement Wednesday
with County Executive Eugene
Nickerson said that a field
representative will be sent to
Nassau County to meet personally
on a regular basis with
applicants for Small Business
Administration loans and other
services.
The program will begin with
the representative present in
Nassau for one day each second
week, occupying office space in
Mineola made available by the
County government. If the volume
works which serves the hamlet j
of Oyster Bay.
He said the grants are made
for achieving progress in pollution
control measures which
are laid down by the State
Health Department.
of work warrants, the representative
will spend additional
time in the County.
Nickerson hailed the new arrangement
as evidence of federal-
county cooperation " for the
benefit of thousands of small
businessmen who find it difficult
to leave their firms and travel
to Manhattan for services and assistance."
Ferziger stated that the representatives
in Nassau will assist
businessmen in filing for
loans and would serve as a channel
for bringing other SBA services
and management- assistance
programs to Long Island.
Appointments with the newly
assigned field representative in
Nassau may be arranged by calling
the County's Department of
Commerce and Industry at PI 2-
3000, Ext. 3891.
Library Board To Meet
The Massapequa Public
Library, Board of Trustees will
hold a meeting on Monday, August
7, at 8 p. m. at the Central
Avenue Building.
Youth Council Reports On Activities
Miss Barbara Farrell, of the
Farmingdale Youth Council, led
450 costumed children around the
neighborhood in a merry costume
parade at the Woodward Parkway
School. Among the winners for the
prettiest, most original and funniest
costumes were : Gloria
Marcantoni, Dennis Wilpan, Patricia
Sepe, Chris Mclntyre,
Donna Silverman. Terry Mc-
Grath, Maureen Patterson, Anthony
Addeo, Lorraine Linde-strum,
Michelle Birney, Martin
Lindblad, Michelle Stenson, and
Bill Reidmen.
Northside Playground recently
held a parade on wheels after
which the children enjoyed pop-sicles.
The youngsters also took
a bowling trip.
Main St. Playground youngsters
won a softball game over
Northside by a score of 5- 1.
In the basketball double elimination
tournament Mill Lane
was victorious over Woodward
Parkway, and Albany Ave. beat
Parkway Oaks.
Pinehurst and Merritt Playgrounds
played two basketball
games with each team winning
one game. Tommy Byrnes pitched
a shut- out for Merritt with a
score of 2- 0.
Town Beaches Receive
Clean Bill Of Health
There is no danger of polluted
water to bathers at any of Nassau
County's 82 beaches, Executive
Eugene Nickerson announced
this week.
The county executive made his
announcement following the disclosure
that four New York City
beaches have been found " less
desirable for bathing" this week
than they were Junel.
Nickerson said he has received
this information from Dr. Joseph
H. Kinnaman, Nassau County
commissioner of health whose office
regularly inspects all county
beaches and grants permits.
" All the 82 beaches involved,"
Nickerson said, " not only meet
high water quality standards but
our county standards are more
strict than those employed by
New York City."
27 beaches are located in the
Town of Oyster Bay.
Last Thursday Youth Council
members took a trip to Yankee
Stadium.
On Friday youngsters from the
various playgrounds attended the
Westbury Music Fair.
A Pet Parade was held at
Florgate Park. Those without a
live pet, a stuffed animal had
to do.
The second session of the
Swimming Instructional Program
has concluded with Billy Fresh-hour
being rated the best of the
Polywogs, Karen O'Connor the
best of the Flounders; Judy Price
top rated Fish; John Mackey was
first in the Flying Fish Group
and Donna Mackey was tops in
the Shark Category
Result the Same
In a recount on the Transportation
Proposition in the
Plainedge School district vote
last Wednesday, the result was
the same with the defeat of the
former half mile student transportation
allowance. The recount
showed that there were seven
more W votes making for a
total of 1860 Ves' and 1897
' no' votes.
Farmingdale OBSERVER Thursday, August 3, 1967
KEEPING AN EYE ON THE TARGET at archery contest held recently
at Salisbury Park, are ( I. to r.) Gary Bowden, of Plain-edge;
County Executive Eugene H. Nickerson; and Bruce Bradford,
of Albertson.
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