8,000 Youngsters Ready
For Annual Easter Egg Hunt
Two TOB Republicans Get
Conservative Support
18,240 foil- covered eggs will
be hunted down by 8,000 youngsters
this Saturday at the annual
Massapequa Easter Egg Hunt
sponsored by the Recreation Department
of the Massapequa Public
Schools.
There will be two Hunts at
each of the seven schools. The
first is slated for 10: 00 a. m.
for Kindergarten and first grades
and the second Hunt is at 11: 00
am. for the second and third
grades. All students are requested
to attend the elementary
school nearest their home and
to only attend the Hunt for their
grade.
Four Lucky Prizes will be
awarded at each of the seven
schools.
115 teenage members of the
Massapequa High School and
Herner High School Recreation
Youth Councils are volunteering
their services for supervision.
Police Offer Program Titled
' Defensive Tactics For Women'
Nassau Police Commissioner
Francis B. Looney reported that
Defensive Tactics for Women
has been added to the county
police speakers program.
Defensive Tactics for Women
will include a 15 minute film,
pamphlets, and a talk covering
a few basic defensive tactics
for women.
The program is not intended to
turn women into defensive tactic
experts, but designed, with the
idea of showing women how to
repel an assailant by counter
attacking.
The new program will be a-vailable
to civic associations,
church groups, and other private,
non- political groups and organizations.
Organizations or groups interested
in obtaining the program for
a meeting should write to: Commissioner
Francis B. Looney,
Nassau County Police Department,
Mineola.
A. Carl Grunewald of Hlcks-ville,
Republican member of the
Oyster Bay Town Council, has received
the backing of the Conservative
Party in his bid for reelection
to an additional four-year
term. The group has also
agreed to endorse, William E.
Buchman, a Republican candidate
for reelection to the Jones Fund.
Asked if they had obtained the
consent of the Republican county
organization, which last year refused
to a l l ow any of its
candidates to accept Conservative
endorsement, both Grunewald
and Buchman indicated that
they, were acting on the basis of
their independent judgment.
According to Grunewald, " The
Conservative Party's consistent
dedication to principle, and its
refusal to accept patronage or
political reward, has earned it
the respect and admiration of
political leaders in this community."
" F u r t h e r m o r e " , Grunewald
continued, " the popularity of
the Party's beliefs, particularly
as regards economy in government
and holding the tax line, has
made the Party a serious political
force. Under the circumstances,
an office holder who r e sists
the conservative trend is
simply not responsive to the
needs and desires of his constituents."
Last year's Conservative
gubernatorial candidate, Dr. Paul
Adams, got 13 percent of the
Oyster Bay vote, the highestper-centage
of any town in Nassau
County, according to a spokesman
for the group.
Approve Creation Of County
Drug Commission
The Nassau County Board of
Supervisors diis week approved
a local law, introduced by Oyster
Bay Town Supervisor Michael
N. Petito two weeks ago, creating
an 18- member County Drug
Commission to deal with the
drug abuse and addiction problem
in Nassau.
Petito introduced his local law
after a two year study by the
Nassau County Task Force on
Narcotics, which he headed, recommended
the Commission's
creation.
The Task Force recommended
that a walk- in treatment center
be set up at Meadowbrook Hospital,
which has now been in
operation for many months.
It also recommended the
creation of a residential treatment
center at Mitchel Gardens.
This center opened for its first
patients three weeks ago and is
currently treating nine residents.
The Task Force's final recommendation
was that of the creation
of a Drug Commission with 12
members to be appointed by the
County Executive and six ex-officio
members, two of whom
are Petito and Hempstead Town
Presiding Supervisor Ralph G.
Caso.
The Board action was unani-
Urged To Destroy
Syringes, Needles
Town Councilman A. Carl
Grunewald is soliciting the help
and cooperation of the Nassau
County Health Department " in
impressing doctors widi the
necessity for destroying syringes
and hypodermic needles after
use, rather than discarding
them."
In a letter to Nassau Health
Commissioner Joseph H. Kinna-man,
Grunewald cited instances
where many discarded hypodermics
and syringes have been
collected by sanitation men
throughout Oyster Bay Town and
said tins represented a real
danger.
He said that " a special danger
exists in the use of single- service
plastic syringes which, once
used, are discarded amongst
other trash from physician's offices
and clinical laboratories."
Grunewald cited a letter from
Mark Kenyon, Executive Director
of the Nassau County Medical
Society, which pointed out
that plastic single - service
syringes cannot be sterilized
" and any individual attempting
to use diem for die purpose of
administering narcotic drugs
superimposes die danger of infection
on the initial danger of
narcotic addiction."
" These discarded hypodermics
and syringes are left easily
accessible near doctors' offices
and laboratories and can be readily
picked up by narcotic addicts,
' said Grunewald
He added diat diis problem is
county wide in scope and should
be dealt witii on a county level
as well as locally.
" Once articles of this nature
are destroyed before disposal,
it would be a great stride towards
eliminating their availability to
the addict and a definite step
towards helping resolve die narcotics
problem," said Grunewald.
Adopt Eel Grass
Net Plan For Bay
Town Councilman Angelo D.
Roncallo this week offered a
resolution, which was adopted,
appropriating $ 5,800 for the installation
of three experimental
eel grass nets in South Oyster
Bay at Nassau Shores, Massapequa.
Roncallo said that preliminary
underwater topographical work
was done last year and he hopes
that the nylon nets suspended
from piles and weighted with
chains can be installed this
spring. Each of the installations
will be protected by standard
navigation lights.
The impounding nets. Councilman
Roncallo said will be installed
at the mouth of canals
between Stillwater and Ripple-water
Avenues; Fairwater and
Edgewater Avenues; Clearwater
and Bright water Avenues, which
have been plagued by floating
masses of eel grass in recent
years.
The councilman said that the
plan will augment the marine
eel grass harvester which the
Town Board placed in service
at the height of the nuisance
last summer. The harvester
will catch floating eel grass and
associated debris in the bay and
it will also be used to pick up
the eel grass caught in the nets.
The nets, it is expected, will
prevent the eel grass from entering
the canals and clogging the
dead- ends.
'• These nets," said Roncallo,
' tore installed at an angle at the
mouth of the canal, leaving upward
of 50 feet as openings so
that boats may be operated without
obstruction.
" There is much to be done to
improve the waters of South
Oyster Bay both by the Town
and by the County of Nassau.
We are keeping a close watch
on conditions and believe they will
be better this year than they
were last year."
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