Petito Unveils Capital Budget
The first Capital Budget in the
history of Oyster Bay Township,
drawn up by Supervisor Michael
N. Petito, was unveiled this past
week. Included in the Petito programs
are a Community Center
for the Plainedge area, expansion
of the program to combat eel
grass in the waters off the southern
portion of the Township,
major recreation improvements
for Burns Park in Massapequa
and provision for major improvements
at Town Beaches.
A large portion of the total
$ 45,482,800 budget concerns itself
with highway and drainage
improvements. Also included in
the Capital proposals are a park
for Farmingdale and an addition
to Town Hall, Cyster Bay.
Petito plans to distribute
copies of the Capital Budget to
various central locations in the
Township, especially to libraries
and village halls, so
that the residents can study
projects proposed over the next
six year period and make their
own decision as to what is most
necessary and deserves priority.
Petito also pointed out that
the Town Capital Budget will
serve as a guide to other municipalities,
including Nassau
County and the Incorporated villages,
to compare similar or
adjoining projects of their own
with the Town's. He said this
would avoid duplication of efforts
in road repairs or pipe
placements by adjacent municipalities.
The Capital Budget was prepared
at Petito's direction by
Morris C. Lipsman, Town Director
of Finance. Of the total
Budget, 46.2%; or $ 20,978,500
is concerned with highway and
drainage projects.
Met Concert Master Guest Artist
of Massapequa Symphony
Violinist Raymond Gniewek,
concert master of the Metropolitan
Opera Company, will be
the guestartistof the Massapequa
Symphony Orchestra in the final
concert of the tenth anniversary
season to be held on Saturday.
April 29 at 8: 30 p. m„ in the
Massapequa High School auditorium.
The concertmaster will perform
the well known violin concerto
of Peter Tschaikowsky. The
orchestra, conducted by H. Dud-
250 New
ley Mairs, will perform the Overture
to the opera « Der Freis-chutz*
by Weber and the seventh
symphony of Beethoven.
A resident of Hempstead, Raymond
Gniewek, is the first
American- born violinist to hold
the position of concertmaster
with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
which he has held since
1957. A graduate of the Eastman
School of Music in Rochester,
he toured as soloist with the
Rochester Philharmonic and also
played with the Chicago Symphony
in the television series, ' Great
Music'
The annual $ 500 scholarship
for a local high school senior
with outstanding ability in music
will be awarded during the program
. The scholarship is given by
the Massapequa Symphony Society.
Tickets will be available at the
box office before concert time.
For reservations, call PY 8- 3092
or PY 9- 7664. Adult tickets,
$ 3.50; students, $ 1.50
Speed Passenger
Cars For Long Island R. R.
Dr. William J. Ronan, Chairman
of the Metropolitan Commuter
Transportation Authority,
announced this week that the
Authority had invited bids for the
construction of 250 new highspeed
electric passenger cars
for the Long Island Rail Road.
The 250 new cars represent
half of the initial car replacement
program as part of the first phase
of the Long Island Railroad Modernization
Program. They are
designed to provide the most
advanced technological and styling
improvements for the comfort
and safety of the almost 74
million passengers who use the
railroad each year.
The bids will be opened on
June 8.
The new cars shall be capable
of high acceleration and braking
rates, together with speeds of
100 miles per hour. The Authority
further specified that " rid-
Mull Meeting Hall For
N. Massapequa Half Acre Site
An engineering study to determine
the feasibility of construction
of a small meeting
hall to be located on Albany
Avenue in North Massapequa on
the site formerly occupied by
the Highway Department is now
under way, Councilman Angelo
D. Roncallo announced this week.
The site was formerly utilized
by the Highway Department for
the storage of equipment and a
small building is on the site that
was used by Highway Department
supervisory personnel. The
present building will be demolished
as it has been declared
unsuitable for public use by die
Department of Public Works.
Roncallo said the land might be
suitable for the construction of
a small, inexpensive building that
could be used by local organizations
as a meeting hall. The
site is approximately one- half
acre in size.
The Highway Department is
now operating from a new garage
on Carman Mill Road, Massapequa.
ing qualities at all speeds up to
100 miles an hour shall be equal
or superior to that of all contemporary
self- propelled rail
vehicles."
Each car will be equipped with
a public address system for
crew - to - passenger announcements.
Trains will also be capable
of two- way radio communication
between crew and wayside
units.
Each car, which will have a
seating capacity of 122, will be
furnished with contoured passenger
seats upholstered in a
durable, washable fabric over a
foam base at least four inches
thick. Carpeting and rubber tile
are the materials specified for
the flooring.
Windows will be of exceptional
strength, double- glazed with a
clear tempered outer pane and
an inner pane of safety glass
tinted for glare reduction. Fluorescent
lighting in the cars will
be equipped with special lenses
to provide excellent reading light
without glare. All cars will be
soundproofed, as well.
Interior temperatures will be
thermostatically controlled to inr.
The beginning of the Town of Oyster Bay sponsored recreation programs in schools began last
Saturday at Plainedge with an overwhelming turnout for the morning and afternoon sessions. Pictured
is Frank Franceschine leaching basketball fundamentals to l. eah Ciaskin, Mary Gaskin, Linda
( Jale and Dolores Cappellu/./ o.
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North Massapequa attorney and civic leader, Stuart R. Gordon,
addressed students at Hofstra University rally to reduce die
voting age to 18. Present at the rally were North Hempstead
Supervisor Sol Wachtler, County Executive Eugene Nickerson,
Hempstead Supervisor Ralph Caso, and Constitutional Delegate
Abe Selden. Each of the speakers supported die reducing of the
voting age to 18.
The students are now organizing a mass rally to be held in
Albany to impress the delegates with die merit of their cause.
sure room temperature conditions
regardless of outdoor cold
or heat. Relative humidity will
not exceed 60 percent under any
conditions.
The Metropolitan Commuter
Transportation Authority created
by the State Legislature in 1965,
purchased the Long Island Rail
Road from the Pennsylvania Railroad
on January 20, 1966 for $ 65
million, and promptly began the
development and execution of the
modernization program.
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