1967-03-02 3

              Petito Sets Seven Point Plan Bill Would Allow Disabled
For Summer Bay Improvement Persons To Deduct Costs
Town Supervisor Michael N.
Petito this week revealed a pro­posal
aimed at improving boating
conditions and reducing eel grass
and algae bloom problems in
South Qyster Bay by employing
facilities of both Nassau and
Suffolk Counties. A long- time
advocate of extending the East-
West Channel from the Nassau-
Suffolk border to Jones Inlet,
Petito said he has asked the
Chairman of the Bi- County Plan­ning
Commission, Leonard W.
Hall, to explore the use of Suf­folk
County Dredging equipment
by Nassau County to continue
the East- West Channel across
South Qyster Bay to Jones in­let.
The plan put forth by Petito
has received the support of Coun­ty
Executive Eugene H. Nicker-son.
In other phases of his proposal,
Petito said that the Town must
embark on a long- range plan to
construct lateral North - South
Channels from the proposed
East- West Channel extension to
the Massapequa shore areas. He
pointed out that this would ac­centuate
a " squeeze- box" type
flow of waters in South Oyster
Bay which would be of great
assistance in the continuing fight
against eel grass. The Super­visor
said the final report from
the $ 150,000 County study per­formed
by the engineering firm
of Leonard Wegman and Sons
would be presented shortly. The
study, which was approved last
year at Petito's request, in­cludes
a comprehensive evalua­tion
of South Oyster Bay's waters
and the ecology of the area on a
full four- season basis. Petito
said the final Wegman report
should be reviewed by the Town
and suggestions implemented
wherever possible.
Petito said he was also pre­pared
to call on the Town Board
to support his plan to have catch-nets
installed at the mouths of
Massapequa's canals this Sum­mer
to catch floating eel grass
before it travels to residential
areas. He said plans are already
being prepared by the Town En­gineer.
The Supervisor also made a
three- point proposal regarding
the Town's Scavenger machine,
purchased last summer to aid
in collecting floating eel grass.
Petito called for a complete re­port
from the Commissioner of
Public Works, the Department
of Beaches and the Town En­gineer
on the 1966 operation
of the machine with emphasis
on its effectiveness. Based on
the report to be submitted, the
Supervisor then requested a plan
to increase the effectiveness of
eel grass collection in 1967,
claiming he was not satisfied
with the 1966 operation of the
machine. He also asked the Board
to consider purchase or rental
of a barge to work with the col­lection
machine, preventing a
series of trips to shore which
cut down on the Scavenger's ef­ficiency.
In conclusion, the Supervisor
pointed out that his proposal to
extend the East- West Channel
was badly needed in view of the
recent County decision not to
dredge material from South Oys­ter
Bay for the proposed Sewer
District Three Plant at Seaford.
Fill for that project will come
largely from Jones Inlet.
Assemblyman Martin Ginsberg
of Plainview has introduced a bill
amending the State Tax Law to
allow disabled persons a deduc­tion
of up to $ 600 per year for
the cost of special transportation
incurred by them in going to and
coming from their place of em­ployment
once each day.
" There are many disabled per­sons
in New York State," said
Ginsberg, " Who must use special
transportation to get to and from
their jobs. Such persons should
not be penalized the extra cost
of this special transportation, es­pecially
when this special trans­portation
is necessary to their
livelihood. We should do all we
can to encourage such disabled
persons to earn their own way
and this is one small way of
doing it."
Under provisions of the Gins­berg
amendment which is co-sponsored
by State Senator Henry
H. Curran of Oyster Bay, Sec­tion
615 of the Tax Law would be
amended to allow a deduction
from Federal adjusted gross in­come
for special transportation
by a disabled person when his
or her attendance at a place of
employment is required or
deemed necessary under rules
and regulations prescribed by
the State Tax Commissioner.
The Ginsberg amendment also
defines a disabled person as one
who is blind to the extent that he
or she is entitled to an exemp­tion
for Federal income tax pur­poses,
or one who has lost the
use of a leg, both legs, an arm
or both arms to the extent that
public transportation can not be
used, or one who has a crippling
disease or infirmity to such an
extent that the use of public
transportation would constitute
an undue hardship.
If passedbythe Assembly and
Senate and signed into law by
the governor, the Ginsberg am­endment
would take immediate
effect and would apply to returns
for taxable years beginning on
and after Jan. 1„ 1967.
' Critical Health Problems' Bill
Provides Educational Attack
A " Critical Health Prob­lem"
bill establishing a five-year
educational attack in all the
schools and at the adult level di­rected
against cigarette smoking,
illicit use of drugs and narcotics
and excessive consumption of
alcohol was introduced this week
in the State Senate.
Co- sponsors of the bill were
Senator Edward J. Speno, Ma­jority
Leader Earl W. Brydges,
Minority Leader Joseph Zaret-zki,
• Senator Norman Lent and
Senator Seymour Thaler. The
legislation carries a $ 250,000
appropriation for the 1967- 68
year. Senators Brydges and Spe­no
had co- sponsored a similar
but less comprehensive bill in
1966. It passed the Senate but
failed in the Assembly.
The bill includes mandating
health curricula in all the el­ementary
and secondary schools
beginning at the fourth- grade lev­el;
establishing special training
programs to upgrade the ability
of health education teachers; de­veloping
cooperative health
training programs between
school districts and institutions
of higher education; organizing
an Educational Task Force, con­sisting
of scientists and athletes
to help conduct a series of re­gional
conference for adults con­cerning
cigarette smoking, drugs
and alcohol.
Prevention through health ed­ucation
is the key to the " C rit-ical
Health Problems" legisla-
Musicians In
All - County
J. H. S. Festival
Forty eight young musicians
from the junior high schools of
Massapequa participated in the
All- County Junior High Festival
at Seaford last Saturday evening.
The concert was sponsored by
the Nassau Music Educator's As­sociation
and featured the County
band, orchestra and chorus.
Guest conductors of these ex­cellent
groups included Dr. Paul
Van Bodegraven, chairman of the
music education department of
New York University, Clayton
Westermann, conductor of the
Huntington Festival Orchestra,
and Andrew Householder, di­rector
of choral music in Hunt­ington
High School.
Thirty members of the chor­uses,
ten orchestral, and seven
band musicians participated in
the County Festival.
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tion which would be a national
first. The State Education De­partment
in cooperation with the
Health Department would ope rate
the program. The U. S. Depart­ment
of Health, Education and
Welfare has expressed en­thusiasm
for it.
Senator Brydges has sponsored
much health and educational leg­islation
as has Senator Zaret-zki.
Senators Lent and Thaler
are currently the legislature's
leading sponsors of health legis­lation.
Senator Speno, chairman
of the Inter- Agency Committee
on Hazards of Smoking, has long
advocated continuous public
health education concerning cig­arette
smoking.
Toft Principal Speaker
At Annual Town GOP Dinner
Congressman Robert A. Taft,
Jr. of Ohio will be the principal
speaker at the annual dinner of
the Oyster Bay Town Republican
Committee to be held March 30
at the Garden City Hotel, Dinner
Chairman John Burke announced
today
The dinner is being held in
honor of Town Councilmen A.
Carl Grunewald, Edmund A.
Ocker and Edward J. Poulos.
Heading the list of Nassau dig­nitaries
are State Senator Edward
J. Speno, Henry M. Curran, As­semblymen
Martin Ginsberg and
Joseph Reilly, Councilman Frank
J. Hynes, Town Clerk William
B. 0* Keefe and Tax Receiver
Solomon Newborn. State Assem­bly
Minority Leader Perry B.
Duryea, Jr., and Suffolk County
Republican Chairman Robert A.
Curcio will also be in attendance.
Councilman Ralph J. Marino is
honorary chairman of the affair.
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major program suggested was in
the area of data processing.
A state sponsored course for
teachers is being offered at
Dutchess Community College in
the summer time for Data Pro­cessing
and Freeman stated that
one teacher is interested in the
course. Comparison of purchase
and rental costs of equipment
were discussed.
Trustee Bernard Lang then
made a strong point on the slow-learner
problem and stated that
he had hoped that solutions or
suggestions should have been
forthcoming. He stressed the
large number of jobs open in
shipping, packing, stock control
that are advertised. ' We must
find a new approach' Lang stated
for the slow learner and non
college bound. Lang said he
was more interested in this phase
than in data processing which
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District 22
A curriculum report on busi­ness
education was given last
Monday to the Board of Edu­cation
of School District 22
at Weldon E. Howitt J. H. S.
library.
It was pointed out by Louis
Freeman, that the Business Ed­ucation
Department offers com­plete
programs in secretarial
science, bookkeeping, clerical
practice and distribution. There
are elective courses for the col­lege-
bound student and for the
non- business education voca­tional
student.
It was pointed out by Mr. Free­man
that more must be done
for the slow learner and ways
must be found to something about
it.
He also stated that several
courses and programs should
be offered as soonas the new high
school addition is opened. The
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FUN
VS.
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Sunday March 5 2 P
**£*
Massapequa High School Gym
Ha Ifti me Exhibition by Little Wizards
N. Y. Jets Bill Mathis, Matt Snell, Ray Abruzzese, Ralph Baker
and more
HARLEM WIZARDS
Tony Jackson ( St. John's) Connie Hawkins ( formerly of Globe­trotters)
' Mandrake' Jordan, Stan Stirh ( St. Bonaventure's),
and more
T ickets $ 2.00
( in advance)
Sponsored by the
Massapequa Rotary Club
$ 2.50 at game time
$ 2 under 12
Call LI 1- 2497
OR PY 8- 9710
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