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Library Budget Represents
Hold- The- Line, Callahan Explains
In discussing the forthcoming
Farmingdale Public Library
budget Vote on Tuesday
August 29, Board President,
Robert Callahan issued ( he following
statement.
" The budget for 1967- 68 is
in fact a tight, hold- the- line
budget. It does not contemplate
any augmenting of services but
merely the re tens ion of the present
level of service. The increase
of nine per cent over
last year's budget is well within
the normal annual increase
of all Heal governmental services."
" The following increases are
simple unavoidable: Salaries,
( Including a 4% cost- of- living
increase and annual in- grade
raises, $ 9,790.00.
Books: ( This represents the
first increase in this item in
three years. TTie increase is
made necessary by the steady
advance in the cost of books
during recent years). $ 5,000.00
Employer Benefits: ( This increase
is mandated by the State
of New York and reflects increases
in pension contributions,
social security, etc., all beyond
the control of the Library Board)
$ 7,200.00
Increase for fuel, maintenance,
insurance, etc., resulting from
the uninterrupted cost increases
in these items. $ 2,200.00
All such increases, total
$ 24,190. of the gross increase
of $ 29,740.00.
What of the difference of
$ 5,550.00? Here we have an expenditure
of $ 3,000.00 for a
microfilm copier to provide students
doing research in back
issues of news magazines with
a handy, ease- to- use microfilm
copier in order to carry out
their assignments. It also saves
much needed space for the
smaller Main Street Library by
removing the necessity to store
large numbers of back copies
of these magazines. The remaining
sum of $ 2,550.00 is
scattered over the various items
of the budget and reflects cost
increases or moderate service
improvement to keep pace with
up- to- date library services."
" From all the above it may
be seen that the library budget
for 1967- 68 represents a hold-the-
line budget indicating a conservative
board philosophy well
aware of the pressing needs of
the local taxpayer and offering
adequate library services with
minimum impact on the homeowner."
St. Rose Committee Head Cites Reasons
To Change Blaine Amendment
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Industrial Arts Department and
Driver Training at the Senior
High School ata salaryof$ 12,639.
The Board accepted the rescinding
of a leave of absence of
Mrs. Barbara Phocas of the
Senior High School Home E-conomics
staff and reappointed
her to the same assignment at
the Senior High School for 1967-
68.
Dates were set for the inspection
of the schools prior to
school opening.
Superintendent of schools William
A. Kinzler reported that
the football and baseball fields
were in good condition, due
mostly to the plentiful rainfall.
A motion was passed to grant
the Suffolk County Board of E-lections
to use the East Memorial
School as a polling place for the
1967- 68 school year.
School District 22
At a special District 22 School
Board meeting on Monday, the appointment
and approval of School
Board Committees was announced.
Trustee Bernard bong
was named to the Curriculum
Committee; LeRoy Mollineaux to
Building and Grounds; Robert S.
Campbell to By Laws; A. Terry
Weathers, Finance;; Mrs. Josephine
Jones, High School Planning
Committee and Insurance;
Thomas J. Lavan, Public Relations
and School Board President
Mrs. Lucille Goulding to be
in charge of Personnel.
The Board accepted the retirement
request of Edward Powers,
former principal at the Albany
Avenue School.
Edward Armbruster was appointed
Acting chairman of the
" Equality belongs to all
children or it belongs to none
of them", stated Eugene J. Mc-
Mahon, Chairman of the St. Rose
of Lima Parish Coordinating
Committee for Justice and Peace,
in commending the recent action
taken by the Committee of Bill of
Rights and Suffrage of the Constitutional
Convention. The majority
vote, 15- 3 for repeal of the
Blaine Amendment, by the Committee,
is indicative of the desire
of delegates elected from
communities throughout the State
of New York to remove a law
enacted in an atmosphere of bigotry
from the New York State
Constitution," McMahon said.
The committee recommendation
is now before the full Cocrention.
McMahon said, " Intlie 73 years
that have elapsed since the
passage of the Blaine Amendment
certain changes have occurred
and perhaps the most important
is that the First Amendment
to the Federal Constitution
has been held applicable to the
states."
He continued. " A strange paradox
now exists in New York
State. All federal education programs
are designed for all children,
whereas, New York State,
in view of the discriminatory
Blaine Amendment, limits certain
educational programs, although
sponsored by the Federal
Government, to students in the
public schools. We do have a
double standard. New York discriminates
against children using
creed and not need as the determinant."
" In 1967, Troy, New York, under
a Federal program through
the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act of 1965, the use of
a swimming pool and gymnasium
facilities were denied because
the children attended parochial
schools," he added.
" In 1965 the Attorney General
of New York ruled that a program
of federal aid to education
could not use any facilities or
services paid for with state
funds," McMahon said.
In 1965 it was ruled that a
football team from a parochial
school could not rent a public
school football field, even though
the field was not in use at the
time. This was held to be an
indirect aid to the parochial
school. However, earlier the
same field had been made a-
New Students, Transfers
Must Register Next Week
Registration for new students
and transfers from private and
parochial schools in School District
# 22 will be held for all
grades, kindergarten to grade
12 at Weldon Howitt Jr. High
School, on Thursday, August 17
and Friday, August 18.
Registration will be held on
Thursday for last names beginning
with the letters A- K and
on Friday from L to Z. Registration
will take place from 9 a j n .
to 2 p. m. on both days.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Danielsen and daughter Carol, of Massa-pequa
Park, are pictured in their cabin aboard Swedish American
Line's M. S. Gripsholm as they sailed recently from New York
for a summer holiday in Scandinavia.
Danielsen is the Manager of the Swedish American Line's
Accounting Department.
vailable to the San Diego
Chargers, a professional profit-making
organization, free of
charge, McMahon continued.
' Is not an educational benefit
extended to 84% of the nations
children in public schools by 100%
of the people but arbitrarily excluded
from the 16% of the nations
children in private or parochial
schools, discrimination in its
worst form. Where the State of
New York compels school attendance
and refuses to share educationally
benefits equally — this
is discrimination," McMahon
added.
" Children are the issue. The
future of democracy in our
country rests on the educational
qualifications of the young. Education
is one of the greatest
resources of New York State. As
the late President Kennedy once
said: " Our requirements for
world leadership, our hopes for
economic growth, and the ' demands
of citizenship itself in an
era such as this, all require
the maximum development of
every young American's capacity,"
McMahon concluded.
Concert Finale
At Park
Forty Six Youngsters Enrolled
In Head Start Program
Forty - six children in the
Farmingdale Head Start Program
are enjoying many first hand
experiences. The program, under
the direction of Mrs. Selma Kahn,
is being held at the Northside
Elementary School and is financed
up to 80% from federal
funds.
One of the unique features of the
program is the high ratio of
adults to children in the classroom.
Each of the three classes
jas a teacher, a teacher's aide,
and at least three teenage volunteers.
Parents are invited to visit
and participate in the program
with the children.
A day each week is set aside
for mothers " to go to school* .
Among the opportunities offered
are lessons in art, typing, sewing,
and nutrition.
MASSAPEQUA SUN. AUG. 20
AT JOHN BURNS PARK^ BENEFIT POLICE BOYSCLUB
The final concert of the 1967
Salisbury Starlight Symphony
Series on Friday, August 11 will
offer an all- Tchaikowsky program
concluding with an aerial
fireworks accompaniment to the
" 1812 Overture."
The Long Island Philharmonic
Orchestra, under the baton of
Paul Elisha will perform at 8: 30
pjn. at the Salisbury Park Lakeside
Theatre.
" Tchaikowsky's original score
called for the use of brass cannon
during the dramatic war segment
of the 1812 Overture,"
Elisha said. " We will substitute
skyrockets timed at the appropriated
intervals."
The program will begin with
the " Fifth Symphony," followed
by " Serenade for Strings," and
" Rococo Variations for Cello and
Orchestra," featuring a violin
solo by Seymour Benstock. Spectators
are asked to bring chairs
or blankets.
' Soul" Christian Science
Sunday Lesson
" Soul" is the subject of this
week's Bible lesson to be read in
the Christian Science church in
Massapequa.
The Golden Text is from I
Chronicles: " Is not the Lord
your God with you? and hath he
not given you rest on every side?
Now set your heart and your soul
to seek the Lord your. God."
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