Capitol Report
By Rep James Grover
The United States did not become
the world's greatest nation
by paying farmers not to plant
crops or by making more money
available to a family through
welfare payments than die head
of die house could earn by working.
This nation was not built
by men who limited tiieir efforts
because earning a great deal of
money put them in an income tax
bracket where additional hard
work just didn't pay.
This sort of diinking is r e flected
also in our Social Security
system and here is where most
Americans stand to suffer die
most. Originally, Social Security
was considered an investment.
The worker would put money into
diis pension fund and would get
die money back after he retired.
Unfortunately, due to inflation,
coverage of more and more
people who didn't pay anything
near what they are getting in
benefits, and actuarial sleight-of-
hand, a worker starting under
Social Security today figures to
get little more tiian half of die
money paid for his Social Security
investment.
It was anticipated when the fund
was set up 25 years ago that diere
would be a payout of $ 2- billion
in 1967 and tiiat diere would be
a 6 per cent annual tax on die
first $ 3,000 of income for this
year. Instead, the payout is
$ 26.3- billion and workers and
employers are paying 8.8 percent
of the first $ 6,600. Projections
had anticipated collections
of $ 2.8- billion this year.
Instead, with collections of $ 25.9-
billion, die fund will run half a
billion in debt. The trust fund,
which was to have been $ 54-
billion this year, is $ 23- billion,
less than a year of benefits.
The President is seeking more
benefits, which would have to be
financed by higher Social Security
taxes.
As the system is now set up,
a 21- year old man would invest
$ 32,496 in taxes and interest before
reaching retirement age at
65 and, if he lived to die age
of 78, would receive less tiian
$ 20,000 in benefits. That doesn't
seem very fair to tiiose of our
young people just starting out.
One of die reforms pushed by
Republicans is contained in my
bill which would allow persons to
continue to work witiiout losing
any of die Social Security benefits
for which tiiey've already
paid so dearly. Under my bill,
the $ 1,500 ceiling would be eliminated
on earnings by Social
Security recipients or retired
veterans on pension. This limitation
goes back to depression
days, when there wasn't enough
work to go around. This nation
can ill afford to lose the skills
of its older workers and my bill
would allow diese workers to r e main
productive while enjoying
tiieir full Social Security benefits.
This would insure them a higher
standard of living tiian under inflation-
eroded Social Security a-lone.
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COLLEGE NEWS
Herbert Friedman, son of Mrs.
Rose Friedman, of 455 Pacific
Street, Massapequa Park, and a
student at Millikin II., Decatur,
Illinois, will be doing his student
teaching in Decatur for the next
six weeks.
He is a member of Delta Sigma
Phi fraternity and has played
both football and baseball at Millikin
for four years. He will
graduate from Millikin this June.
Carol Fernandez of 54 Hallock
Street, Farmingdale, a member
of the Freshman class at C. W.
Post College of Long Island University,
Brookville, was inducted
into Sigma Alpha Theta, a social
sorority, in ceremonies recently
held at fhe college.
Michael Peter Barlotta of 44
Avenue I, Farmingdale, was
placed on the Dean's List at
Bryant College of Business Administration
in P r o v i d e n c e,
Rhode Island, for the last marking
period.
To Honor Koeppel
Edward Koeppel, a member
of the Board of Trustees of
Congregation Beth El, 99 Jerusalem
Avenue, Massapequa, will
be honored at an Israel Bond
testimonial breakfast on Sunday,
March 5 at 10 a. m. in the Congregation.
Zvi Luz, noted Israeli author
and educator, and the son of
Radish Luz, speaker of Israel's
Parliament, will be the guest
speaker.
LEGAL NOTICE ~
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Please take notice that the Board
of Education of U. F. S. D. # 18,
Plainedge Public Schools, Beth-page,
Town of Oyster Bay, Nassau
County, New York, hereby
invites the submission of sealed
bids for the following items:
Paint and Painters Supplies.
Specifications and instructions
to bidders may be obtained at
the office of Mr. G. Bretton,
Assistant Superintendent of
Schools, located at the Board
of Education Building, Hicksville
Road, South of Hempstead Turnpike,
Bethpage, New York. Sealed
bids will be received at this
office not later than 11: 00 A. M.
March 7, 1967 at which time
they shall be opened and read
publicly. The Board of Education
reserves the right to waive
any informalities or to reject
any or all bids or to accept
that bid or any single item from
any bid which in its judgment
is for the best interest of the
School District.
All bids shall be firm and acceptable
for 45 days after the
formal opening thereof; no bids
shall be withdrawn pending the
decision of the Board.
i Plainedge Public Schools
Bethpage, New York
By order of the Board of Education
U. F. S. D. # 18
Town of Oyster Bay
Nassau County, New York
G. Bretton
Ass't. Sup't. of Schools
# 79 IT Observer Mar. 2, 1967
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. . . The students of Farming-dale
High School and Adam Clayton
Powell have something in
common; they are both fighting
for their seat, Mr. Powell in
Congress, and we in the school
cafeteria. It seems that with
the growing number of students
at FHS, the limited facilities
in the cafeteria have created
problems in the accomodating
of 2500 students.
With the passage of the school
expansion proposal, it is the
hope of Daler Dateline that added
room be provided for not only
in the architecture's blue prints
but in actuality when the new
extension is completed in 1969.
Tomorrow ( Friday) night's
Seniors vs. Faculty Basketball
game should really be something
to see. Every year this game
becomes the melting pot of r e venge
as Farmingdale's seniors
retaliate for those " grades" during
the first semester. The game
will be played in the usual four
quarters with three teams from
each side playing in each quarter
and those who survive will
play the final quarter. You can
look forward to see Stan Lawrence,
Andy Briman, and Al Jones
to name a few, meeting the Farmingdale
faculty, consisting of Walt
Brem, Mr. DiFrancisco, and Mr.
Ri Redi, and many more in a
head- on collision that should supply
plenty of excitement from
the first jump to the winning
basket. . .
Asked To Plan For Data Processing
County Executive Eugene H.
Nickerson announced that he has
asked Supervisor Michael N.
Petito to undertake the planning
of a county - wide conference on
data processing. The conference'
will take place in the early spring
and will be hosted by County
government and the Nassau Community
College. Representatives
from all of the school districts,
the town, city and village governments,
and the special districts
will be invited.
" The purpose of this conference,"
said Nickerson, " is
to explore what is being done
elsewhere in the field of data
processing, what Nassau County
is now doing, and how existing
facilities can be used by other
municipalities and agencies
throughout the County. Hopefully,
this conference can lay the
groundwork for shared services
that will increase efficiency and
reduce costs for all those r e quiring
computer services."
Nassau County in its Bureau
of Management Information has
both a 1401 and a 1410 computer.
" I have been very much impressed
by the County's computer
operation," said Supervisor
Petito. " County Executive
Nickerson and I are convinced
that many other municipalities
can streamline their operations
and save themselves capital
expenditures by working out a
method of sharing our equipment
and the capabilities of our data
processing staff."
To Most Seminar
A group of high school students
from Farmingdale High School
will participate with over 400
high school students from Nassau
Suffolk and Queens Counties in
a " Home Economics Career
Meeting" on Thursday, March
9, from 3: 00 to 7: 15 at Farmingdale
High School.
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