Plainedge Community Center
Given Green Light By Board
A year- round comm unity center,
proposed by Oyster Bay Town
Supervisor Michael N. Petito, is
now a bi- partisan project.
The Oyster Bay Town Board
gave its stamp of approval to
the supervisor's proposal and
authorized the retaining of appraisers
to evaluate a proposed
site on Hicksville- Massapequa
Road, south of Mary Lane and
west of Nibbe Avenue, as well
as giving the Supervisor the go-ahead
on seeking all possible
Federal and State funds for die
proposed center.
In April of last year Petito
proposed a network of seven such
centers, but modified his p'an to
accomodate the Plainedge pilov
program.
Three weeks ago the Supervisor,
paring his proposal to
one year- round recreation center,
asked the Town Board for
its approval. After a study the
Board agreed to go ahead witfi
the Plainedge facility with the
understanding that it was not to
be considered the first of network.
The community center will
contain a year- round swimming
pool, an auditorium for meetings
and theatrical productions,
and many other recreational facilities
for residents of all ages.
Both the Supervisor and die
Board; yesterday said die proposal
would provide needed recreational
facilities not only for
die young people in Plainedge
but also for entire families and
senior citizens.
Appoint Conservation Advisor
The Oyster Bay Town Board
named Robert Johnson, a Hofstra
University instructor in biology,
ecology and conservation as its
Marine Conservation Advisor,
announced Town Board Majority
Leader Edward J. Poulos.
Early this year the Board, in
its policy statement, said it would
employ an expert in the field of
conservation to develop a program
that would facilitate beach,
waterfront and harbor improvements
compatible with good conservation
practices.
" Our objective is to preserve
our natural resources while still
meeting the growing recreational
needs of Town residents through
the use of every modern conservation
technique known to science,"
Poulos said.
Johnson taught at Cornell University
and presently is an instructor
in Zoology, Ecology,
Evolution and Conservation at
Hofstra University. At the present
time he is working on doctoral
research on the shorelines
of Nassau County. Johnson will
( 1) devise a conservation plan for
underwater lands owned by the
Town of Oyster Bay to preserve
ecological balance between marine
and wildlife; ( 2) develop a
balanced program between recreation,
commercial and conservation
usage of underwater properties
in the South Oyster Bay
and north shore lands; ( 3) recommend
a plan to control eel-grass
and the development of conservation
practices to be em-terfront
improvements and, ( 4)
coordinate the Town's plan with
other municipalities including
New York State and the Federal
Government conservation authorities,
Nassau County, the
Towns of Hempstead and North
Hempstead and the Bi- County
Planning Commission.
As the Town's Marine Conservation
Advisor, Johnson will act
as consultant to the Commissioner
of Public Works and Superintendent
of Beaches and submit
his reports to them. The
new post carries a salary of
ployed during any necessary wa- $ 5,000 a year.
Singers to Spotlight Broadway
Composers, American Poets
The Island Singers, under the
direction of Herb Alper, will
present a panorama of America
as reflected in the music of
Broadway composers and American
Poets. The program will
take place on Saturday, March
4th, at 8: 30 p. m., at the Mill
Lane Junior High School, Farm-ingdale.
Tickets may be purchased
at the door.
OBSERVER Wins A First In New York
Press Association Contest
The Observer, was one of 47
weekly newspapers which received
awards at the New York Press
Association's annual Awards
Luncheon held at the Hotel Syracuse,
last Friday.
The first place award for ' Best
Single Advertising Idea' was entered
in the contest by The Farm-ingdale
Observer, although the
' idea' appeared in both Observer
publications.
Heading the list of award winners
was the Brighton- Pitsford
Post with six first place awards,
three second place and two third
place awards. The Amherst Bee
received the top award for suburban
newspapers and C. Alan
Baker, editor of the Messenger
of Baldwinsville, received a
plaque as the ' outstanding editor'.
" The Best Single Advertising
Idea" was the resu'. t of a classified
ad for ' Help Wanted'
by an industrial developer,
Marcus Associates of East Farm-ingdale,
who wanted Observer
readers to know of me many joo
opportunities being offered by
the vast developing industrial
complex. The idea mushroomed
into a multipage industrial supplement
which was carried in bodi
die Farmingdale and Massapequa
Observer publications.
In past years, OBSERVER
publications have been winning
First, Second and Third Place
Awards, including First Place
for Best News Story, among othe r
awards.
Co- Publisher and Editor Caroline Bunting Klesh is being congratulated for
having received the first place award in the category of ' Best Single Advertising
Idea' at the annual awards luncheon of the New York Press Association
held in Syracuse last Friday by George C. Wortley III, ( r) immediate Past
President of the Press Association and William Hansen of Metro Associated
Services Inc., who donated the plaque.
Farmingdale OBSERVER Thursday, February 16, 1967
Halsey Knapp To Address
Historical Society
Halsey B. Knapp. for 32 years
head of the State University Agricultural
and Technical College
at Farmingdale, will be the guest
s p e a k e r at the Farmingdale-
Bethpage Historical Society's
meeting on Sunday, February 19
at 3 p. m. at the South Farming-dale
Library.
After retiring from his college
post in 1956. Knapp spent
three and one hair years in the
Phillippmes as leader of a project
of the International Co- operation
Administration of the
United States Department of
State. Be then travelled extensively
in the Far East including
New Zealand. Japan, Thailand,
South Vietnam and Taiwan. He
returned to the Philippines in August
and September of 1961 as
a Consultant for the United Nations.
Knapp is a Director of the
Sunrise Federal Savings and Loan
Association of Farmingdale and
a Director of the New York State
Association of Farmingdale and
a Director of the New York State
Association for Crippled Children
and Adults. He is also Director
and Vice President of the
Planning and Policy Committee
of the Near East Foundation.
hi 1953- 54 Knapp was first
Vice President of Rotary International
and in 1962- 63 served
as. Personal Aide to the Rotary
mternational President.
Cultural Arts Workshop
Slates Open House
The first season of the Cultural
Arts Workshop of Massapequa
will culminate in an open
house for the parents of participating
children on Saturday,
March 4.
Four hundred seventy- five
boys and girls, grades K through
6, participated in the classes.
The subjects included in foe
workshop were: various types of
arts and crafts, music appreciation,
guitar, piano, drama, puppetry,
creative dance, ballet, and
tap dancing with most classes
offered at all grade levels.
Members of the Cultural Aits
Workshop, a volunteer organization
of parents interested in
providing a creative extra- curricular
program for tteir children,
are now making plans for
next year.
hi order to enlarge the scope
of the workshop, volunteers are
needed to lend their assistance
in creating the new program.
A general meeting is scheduled
for 8: 00 p. m. on Thursday, February
23, at ( tenia School auditorium.
Plans for next year
will be discussed and criticism
or suggestions aimed at improving
the curriculum will be
asked for. A committee will also
be elected to select a slate
of candidates for next year's
officers.
Present officers include:
President, Joyce Sklar; vice
president, Audrey Kurland;
treasurer, Rosalind Polsky; recording
secretary, Ann Johnston;
corresponding secretary, Adele
Lettennan, volunteer coordinators,
Ann Smalling and Dolores
Genovese.
Further information may be
obtained by calling Mrs. Joyce
Sklar at PY 8- 2013.
Capitol Report
By Rep James Graver
There is a growing feeling on
Capitol Hill that our government
structure, rather than Rep. Adam
C layton Powell, may be the greater
victim if Powell is denied his
seat in Congress. Many of us
who voted to bar him from his
seat pending inquiry have, in the
weeks since the action was taken,
considered further the Constitutional
implications if Powell
is permanently barred.
The Constitution sets only
three qualifications for a Con-;
gressman, those of age, citizenship
and residence. At the same
time, the Constitution gives the
House the right to question the
qualifications of its own members.
Yet none of these three
qualifications has been seriously
questioned in Mr. Powell's case.
It requires only a majority
vote to bar a Congressman from
his seat. Once he has taken the
oath, a two- thirds vote is required
to oust him from Congress.
Several weeks ago, it was
questionable whether a two -
thirds vote could be mustered
to oust Powell once he were
seated.
The action taken is easily explainable
against the emotional
backdrop of the first week of
Congress. But more and more
lawmakers are beginning to ask
whether it was wrong not to
seat Powell and THEN to question
his fitness to serve. It is
felt by many that, according to
a strict reading of die criteria
set forth in die Constitution,
he was qualified to take his
oath of office. Then, as a member,
his qualifications to remain
seated could be investigated on a
much broader basis and record.
The House, having barred the
taking of die oath of office, then
set up a select committee to
investigate Mr. Powell's qualifications
and fitness for office.
To mis committee, it gave a
very broad mandate and authority.
Did we put die cart before
the horse? Many Constitutional
lawyers mink so and so does die
Congressman- elect from Harlem.
But his soft sell in first
paying die basic judgment to
Mrs. James, mixed witii his hard
sell challenge to the House Committee,
has put foe Congress,
which was in a mood to settle
foe matter, back in foe same,
emotional, frustrating, legalistic
bind in which it found itself on
opening day.
Rev. Bowman To Deliver Radio Message
The Reverend Charles Bowman
of Massapequa Park Na/ arene
will deliver foe devotional message
on Sunday, March 5. a-
7: 35 a. m. on die Lift Up Thy
Voice program over Radio Station
WHiJ.
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