Seek To Stop Courts
From Zoning Matters
Park Youth Commission Agrees
With Senator Curran Proposal
Councilman Ralph J. Marino,
Chairman of the Town Board's
Standing Committee on Local
Government Cooperation, asked
the Town Board on Tuesday,
to authorize the Town Attorney
to " closely follow, advise and
recommend action" regarding
the attempts to have the federal
courts take control over local
zoning matters. Marino said the
Town may enter the suit as a
" friend of the court".
He pointed to the action by
the Dolphin Lane Associates of
New Brunswick, New Jersey,
asking the federal courts to overturn
a sweeping up- zoning decision
enacted last September
by the Southampton Town Board
as possibly having far- reaching
implications on local control over
zoning. He added that the Southhampton
Town Board up- zoned
30,000 acres of its 96,000 acres
" to plan its community growth"
and that the New Jersey firm,
which brought the suit, owns
68 acres along Shinnecock Bay
and the Ocean.
" This court action could have
grave effects on the jurisdiction
a local community has over its
zoning," said Marino, explaining
why he is so concerned about
the case. " Until this unique case,
state courts have ruled on zoning
matters and the federal court
only came into play when a constitutional
question was involved,
and often the matter had been
heard by the state's highest
court." He added, the Dolphin
Lane firm's suit is obviously
intended to bypass state courts
and local municipalities.
Marino said that by the federal
courts initially dealing with a
zoning matter, a very real threat
to local control is a distinct
possibility.
He will urge the Board to direct
the Town Attorney, Bernard
F. McCaffrey, to closely watch
the proceedings and report back
to the Board any developments
that could possibly have an adverse
effect on the zoning powers
of the Town of Oyster Bay " which
would drastically affect our
balanced suburban community."
In a letter written to State
Senator Henry M. Curran this
week, Peter W. Epp, Trustee
of The Incorporated Village of
Massapequa Park and Chairman
of the Youth Commission advised
the Senator that members of the
Commission are in agreement
with Curran's proposed legislation
to make parents financially
responsible for any damage
caused as a result of their chil-
Fence Post
Results In
Drivers Death
Michael Aiello 32, of 27 Anchor
Drive, Massapequa, was fatally
injured 3: 15 a. m. on Sunday when
his car got out of control and
hit a fence on Forest Avenue north
of Jefferson Place. Aiello was
impaled on a metal fence post.
He was rushed to Meadow-brook
Hospital by police ambulance
and pronounced dead at
3: 47 a. m.
Urges Non w ?^ m$
Partisan Tax Study Laughter
Assemblyman Martin Ginsberg
of Plainview said that Gov.
Rockefeller's record state budget,
Mayor Lindsay's demand
for more taxes to keep New York
City out of the red and record
school budgets that will bring
all- time high school taxes, make
his long- time suggestion for a
non- partisan study of all state
and local taxes, more imperative
than ever.
" The continuing tax spiral and
the desperate search for new
tax sources, especially for education,
point up the glaring need
for such a study," he said. " A
review of the state and local
tax structure is long overdue
and the proof of this is the multitude
of tax bills introduced at
recent legislative sessions."
His proposed taxing study could
best be done by the State Constitutional
Convention opening
April 1, Ginsberg said. He noted
that there would be many fiscal
experts serving as deldgates or
consultants to the Convention and
that such a tax study should be
the group's first order of business.
" The present state budget is
well over $ 4- billion," said Ginsberg,
" with 45 per cent going to
education, the state's most important
service. In order to
finance education and all other
state services, the state has
resorted to various financing
programs and as of now, has
just about reached the bottom of
the taxing barrel."
" We must increase aid to education,"
Ginsberg continued, " as
well as build more roads, fight
drug addiction and end air pollution.
But where is the money
coming from? The taxpayer
just cannot keep shelling out
ad mauseum."
Economic necessities combined
with the non- partisan nature
of the Constitutional Convention,
the Assemblymen said, make this
by bette gill
• i
Hey, look, it isn't even Spring
and " Luv" has come to Long
Island via the Mineola Theatre!
Do you think that's a kooky way
to spell love? Wait till you see
the kooky play and you'll realize
it couldn't be spelled any other
way.
With a top notch cast of three
well- known stars, the wildly funny,
biting lines of author Murray
Schisgal, left Opening Night
audiences limp with varieties of
laughter ranging from giggles to
convulsive guffaws.
And what were they all laughing
at? Themselves! For this way
out comedy makes wicked sport
of all the favorite foibles of
" everyman". Mindy Carson
plays the wife, everybody's wife,
* c*. Jjw+ u^ i^, to perfection. Murray Hamilton,
Mrsas w & - - ** •—--* » — J
gates.
" The very least a tax study
can do," he said, " is lead to a
concise, simplified taxing program"
that will spread taxes
more equitably, let the taxpayer
know where his tax dollar goes
as
also to be her third, adds a new,
comic dimension to his recognized
ability as a serious actor.
But the real laurels must go to
Gabriel Dell who surely must
rank among the greatest comic
actors ever seen on stage. His
properly run local and state governments.*
Most of us realize that if we
• had to sell our possessions to
pay our bills we would be in
serious trouble. Liquidation of
assets to pay creditors is something
usually reserved for bankruptcy.
Yet the Administration is doing
this with Federal holdings and
hiding its effects from the A-merican
people.
Recently, Congress was asked
once again to raise the national
debt limit. The Administration
had run another deficit and needed
more " authority" to spend what it
didn't have. It is simple to argue
we must raise the debt limit or
the government will not be able
to pay its bill. It is true, however,
that routine approval encourages
those in charge to spend
more. For that reason I have
not votedforsuch increases without
some evidence of a plan that
will put our fiscal house in order.
Instead ofsuch sound planning assets nor raise our taxes. He
the government is engaged in a should cut this type of spending.
and still find enough revenue to Pantomine, his marvelous com-
, mand of exquisitely funny facial
expressions are priceless to
watch.
The crisp pace of this comedy
is due to the flawless direction
of Ian Cadenhead whose deft
touches raised it above the tasteless
farce it could easily have
been in less professional hands.
It is almost impossible to describe
the story or action of this
play. It all takes place on a bridge,
a setting realistically designed by
Elmon Webb. Two men, former
school chums, meet and act out
their pretentious charades of
success and failure for each other.
Milton, the married man, asks
his bachelor friend, Harry, to be
friendly to his wife so he can
persuade her to free him to
marry a new love. Harry and Ellen
do meet and fall in love and
marry . . . y e s , just like that!
The succeeding action and deliriously
funny ending are just too
wild to relate. You'll just have
to see it and enjoy it for yourself.
Gee, it's good to come out
of the theatre laughing for a
change.
Berner To Present
Mid Winter Concert
The Music Department of the
Alfred G. Berner High School i
of Massapequa will present its
Annual Mid- Winter concert on
Friday evening, March 3 at 8: 15
p. m. in the auditorium of the
Massapequa high School.
Tickets are available from any
members of the Berner Music
Department, and at the box office
deception of selling assets. A
private individual would be
accused of " defrauding his creditors."
In this case, it is you and
I being deceived.
The sale of certificates of
participation in Federal loan programs
gives the Federal government
money to spend. Next year
it is supposed to raise $ 5 Billion.
These high interest government
guaranteed loans will drain
money from other markets. The
government could spend upto$ 45
Billion this way without it showing
in the national debt.
The only ones we would be
fooling are ourselves. The President
has submitted a staggering
$ 135 Billion budget. He has increased
civilian spending for international
aid, agriculture, interest,
general government,
housing and labor, and health and
welfare. He should not sell our
dren's mischievious actions.
Epp said, " Too long diis much
needed legislation has been held
in abeyance. Children are a
product of dieir environment, and
the youthful offenders as such
reflect the laxity of their parents.
The irresponsible actions on the
part of that small percentage of
youths cannot forever go on without
some recourse to the innocent
bystander who is the target
for these restless youths.
We wish to extend our encouragement
to you in your endeavor
and if we can be of any
help, please let us know."
Members of the Commission
include: Mayor Rudolph Sick-inger,
William Eldard, Rev.
Charles Greene, Sal Musicaro,
and I Murray Pudalov.
PLANNING OPERA BENEFIT - Mrs. Walter Cox ( 1) of 260
Park Blvd., Massapequa Park and Mrs. John Flandina of 102
Ocean Avenue, Massapequa, discuss plans for an opera benefit
to be presented at the Massapequa High School on Saturday, March
11 at 8: 30 p. m. by the Italian Opera Showcase under die sponsorship
of the Cerebral Palsy Auxiliaries of the Massapequa. Proceeds
of the event, which will include Leoncavallo's " Pagliacci"
and Mascagni's " Cavalleria Husticana", will" go to the support
of the Nassau Cerebral Palsy Diagnostic and Treatment Center
at Roosevelt. The cast will include Josephine Dillworth of Massapequa,
finalist in the 1966 American Opera Auditions.
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