Leaves Raked On To County Roads
Against The Law
PTA Spells Out Services
To Non Public Students
Homeowners who follow the
practice allowed in some villages
of having homeowners rake
leaves into the street for subsequent
removal by village forces
i s not applicable to County roads
and is forbidden by the highway
law.
" If you don* know whether
or not your street is a County
road, call 333- 9400 and our Road
Maintenance people will advise
you."
Simins also urged people not to
burn leaves in the streetbecause
of the damage caused to pavements
as well as the pollution
and motorist visibility safety
problem.
" Stuffing leaves down drains
is another practice which can
have unpleasant results," Simins
added, " Because if it is followed
by rain, flooding can occur since
the runoff has no place to go. It
should also go without saying that
sewers are not set up to handle
leaves. Blockage in sewer lines,
if they are serious enough can
cause backups into the cellars
of nearby homes. Also, leaves
can foul the machinery at the disposal
plant causing expensive
r e p a i r s ."
Simins stated that bundling
leaves for pickup by local sanitation
departments was the best
disposal method.
In answer to recent announcements
that non public school
students are deprived of certain
services the Farmingdale Council
of PTA* s this week announced
that the following services are
available to all district students
attending non public schools: bus
transportation; textbooks for students
in grades 7- 12; remedial
reading; health services; psychologist
and psychiatrist service;
speech therapist; driver education;
job placement; summer
school; guidance services; audio-
visual and library materials.
Rose Foucek, President of the
PTA Council said that she felt
that it was important that parents
and taxpayers are aware
of these educational opportunities
in view of the recent information
given on radio and television
that non- public school children
are denied these services.
Discuss Discount Plan For Senior Citizens Gala » &<> Heads Dan Wail GOP ciub
Councilman Ralph J. Marino,
board majority leader, recommended
to the Town Board
that the Department of Recreation
and Community Activities
be permitted to work out plans
for a discount program for all
town senior citizens 65 or over.
Marino said meetings with senior
citizens groups indicated that
they were in favor of some sort of
discount plan where they could
get 10 per cent reductions on
goods purchased from department
stores and other merchants.
As outlined by Marino, the
Department of Recreation and
local senior citizens clubs would
negotiate with various merchants
who would be urged to participate
in the program and then a
list of those participating would
be made available to all senior
citizens.
The senior citizens interested
in the program would apply for a
free identification card to the
Town and would use this ID when
making purchases. Member
stores would be identified by a
plaque supplied by the Town.
As an additional incentive to
add to the basic list, all separate
community senior citizens clubs
would be asked to try to get additional
stores — 10 per cent of
their membership — to partici-
Proposal Would Give
Schools Direct Payment
Councilman Ralph J. Marino,
Board Majority Leader; has directed
the Town Recreation Director
to call a meeting of school
offlcals to discuss changing the
method of payment to school districts
Involved in the Town's recreation
aid program.
Marino said he recommended
that the program be changed to
permit the districts greater flexibility
and more control of their
recreation programs now under
the Town's guidance.
Currently the Town pays for the
school districts' recreation personnel
and materials on a regular
Dr. Arthur Rohr, Assistant
Superintendent of Massapequa
Schools, and a member of the
Massapequa Public School staff
for the past 29 years, will join
a research panel of educators
for this week a tour of European
schools. The study tour has been
arranged under the : auspices
of the Comparative Education
Society in Kent, Ohio. The group
made up of school district superintendents
and college professors
will tour elementary and
secondary schools in Athens,
Greece, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia,
Moscow, and Germany. The group
will study and compare methods
of organization and operation with
current practices now in use in
the United States public schools.
Dr. Rohr will return on November
22.
basis. Under Marino's new proposal,
the Town would give each
school district participating in
this town- school recreation program
one direct payment up to
$ 15,000 on January 1, 1968 for
use in paying for new or supplemental
recreation programs.
' T h i s new method would allow
school districts to exert greater
control over purchasing recreation
materials and paying recreation
personnel," said Marino.
Under the proposed change,
each school district desiring to
participate in the Town- school
recreation aid program would
submit an application prior to
January 1, 1968 outlining its programs,
expected materials and
personnel needed. Once it is approved
by the Department of Recreation
and Community Activities
the Town would grant the necessary
funds for the program for
the year 1968. At the end of the
program, the district would file
a report with the Town indicating
what has been accomplished in
recreation with the funds received
and justify reapplying for
1969.
Marino said that with a change
in the payments to the school
districts, the districts would receive
direct payments for the cost
of implementing new or supplemental
recreation programs
under the Town's recreation aid
formula instead of the current
method of the Town paying each
of the bills as they come due.
He added that James C. Ar-vanitis,
Recreation Director, is
calling a meeting of all Superintendents
of schools or their representatives
to discuss the proposed
change. The meeting will
be held on Thursday, November
9 at 3: 30 p. m. at the hearing room
In Oyster Bay Town Hall
pate. Those who succeed in
adding member stores would get
free bus transportation — supplied
by the town — to a one- day
trip of their choice.
Marino said the discount program
is another in the expanding
activities for senior citizens
which also include town- sponsored
senior citizens clubs, aid to
c l u b s presently in operation,
transportation for special trips,
help in the formation of new
senior citizens clubs and make
available specialists in arts and
crafts, painting, sculpture, and
lecturers to these clubs.
Former Newspaperman
To Lecture Here
Finding and f a c i n g reality
through an understanding of God
is the theme of a free public
lecture on Christian Science to be
given in Massapequa on Saturday,
November 11, by Ralph W.
Cessna, C. S. B., of Wilmette,
Illinois.
Cessna will speak in the Pequa
Theatre at 10: 30 A. M. under the
auspices of F i r s t Church of
Christ, Scientist, Massapequa.
Before entering the p u b l ic
practice of Christian Science in
1947, C e s s n a was a newspaperman,
w o r k i n g on newspapers
in his n a t i v e stateof
Michigan and also in Florida,
In a battle for officers posts
at the Daniel W. Wall Republican
Club held Monday night at Village
Hall in Massapequa Park, the
following officers were elected.
Tony Galasso was reelected
President; Rudolph Sickinger,
first Vice President; Letter Werner,
Second Vice President; Dorothy
Strick, Treasurer; Elaine
Galasso, Recording Secretary;
Anne Marchiacca, Corresponding
Secretary.' Elected to the
Board of Directors were: Charles
DiMuria, Vincent Prezzano and
Murray Pudalov.
The Club also took a position
against the proposed New York
State Constitution. Cited as
reasons were the fact that it is
being submitted as a package;
that it would mean higher taxes
for residents of Nassau County;
that the constitution is primarily
beneficial to the cities rather
than suburban areas; and that
welfare costs would become more
the burdens of the suburbs when
they are primarily a problem of
the cities.
Oyster Bay Town Supervisor Michael N. Petito ( left) is shown
planting a tree at Northedge School on Stewart A venue in Plainedge,
which commemorated U- N Day for 1967. Pictured with Petito is
Ruben Lowe, Northedge School PTA President.
There will be no garbage collections
for residents of the
Incorporated Village of Farming-dale
on Tuesday, November 7th,
Election Day, or on Saturday
November 11, Veterans Day.
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A North Massapequa man, Herbert
M. Goldstein of 23 Hastings
Road, was recently presented
with a certificate of commendation
by Supervisor Michael N.
Petito for " his untiring efforts
in assisting the Town of Oyster
Bay in the fields of air pollution,
water pollution and environmental
problems."
Goldstein, a member of the
legal department at Grumman
Aircraft Corporation, holds a
Masters degree in Chemical Engineering
from New York University.
He conducts P. E. Licensing
Review courses both at
the aerospace company and C. W.
Post College.
He has resided in Massapequa
for the past four years with his
wife Frances, and three children
Lisa, 8, and five year old twins,
Steven and Marsha.
For the past year Goldstein has
served as Science Advisor to the
Town Supervisor.
Berner Bits
by Wendy Tonken and Janet Meresman
Senior class activities are up
to their usual peak for this time
of the year. Mary Lou Arm-bruster
was voted the new treasurer
of the Senior class, in a
special election held last week.
Seniors have also been demonstrating
their school spirit by
purchasing Senior Mugs, which
are being sold for the first time
in Berner. The 1968 yearbook
is now being compiled and will be
published in the late spring. Outstanding
members of the Senior
class will be inducted into the National
Honor Society during an
Assembly to be held on Friday,
November 10.
The Junior class magazine
drive ended last Tuesday. Profits
from the drive will be used for
the Junior prom, which is slated
for May 10.
Results of the Freshman and
Sophomore elections are as follows:
9th grade president- Cindy
Oxberry; vice- president- Joanne
Szal; secretary- Karen Mc-
Loughlin and treasurer- Phyllis
Hyman. 10th grade president-
Lynn Tepper; vice- president-
Kevin McGrath; secretary- Elizabeth
Johnson, and treasurer-
Gary Pendergast.
Congratulations are also in
order for Anna Wischansky, a
fellow student at Berner, who
has placed as a runner- up in the
Miss Teenage America contest.
We are all anticipating this
weeks football game with Hewlett.
The Varsity team remains
undefeated but Hewlett has always
been one of Berner's stronger
opposition. A pep rally will be
held Friday to encourage a victory.
LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE
INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF
MASSAPEQUA PARK
NASSAU COUNTY. NEW YORK
LEGAL NOTICE
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE, that following
a Public Hearing held in
the Village Hall on October 30,.
1967, the Board of Trustees did
enact and ordain the following
amendments to the Code of Ordinances
of the Viilage of Massapequa
Park, New York:
BE IT RESOLVED, that Chapter
19, Article IV, Section 19- 62,
subdivision 3( b) be amended to
Farmingdale OBSERVER, Th
read as follows:
" In a Residence A A District,
twenty- five ( 25) feet."
AND, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED,
thatSection 19- 63, subdivision
3( b) be amended to read
as follows:
" In a Residence A A District, a
minimum of five ( 5) feet to garage
and six ( 6) feet to building,
with a minimum of thirty ( 3Q)
feet between structures of the
adjacent properties.''
AND, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED,
thatSection 19- 63, sub-ursday,
November 2, 1967
division 4 ( b) be amended to read
as follows:
" In Residence A A District,
where irregular and regular plots
exist side by side the sideyards
as specified in subdivision 3( b)
shall be determined as measured
from the front building line,, and
in no event, shall any structure
be less than five ( 5) feet from
the property line."
AND, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED,
that Section 19- 64, subdivision
1 be amended to read as
follows:
" The depth of front yard shall
be a minimum of twenty- five ( 25)
feet in a Residential A District,
and twenty- five ( 25) feet in a
Residential AA District. In a
Business G District the depth
shall be fixed by the board of
trustees."
This ordinance shall take effect
immediately.
By Order of the
Board of Trustees
October 31, 1967
I. JAMES A. BRODBECK,
Clerk- Treasurer of the Incorporated
Village of Massapequa
Park, do hereby certify that the
foregoing is a true copy as extracted
from the minutes of the
Public Hearing by the Board of
Trustees held on October 30,
1967 and I hereunto set my hand
and affix the seal of the Incorporated
Village of Massapequa
Park this 31st day of October
1967.
JAMES A. BRODBECK
Village ( lerk- Treasurer
( SEAL)
# 320 It Observer November 2,
1967
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