Editorial
Both Sides Affected
The swearing in of Farmingdale library trustee
Carl E. Gorton at Tuesday's meeting turned out
as most people predicted. The meeting was termed
as tense and bitter with charges and countercharges.
Gorton, an avowed Birchite, who faces petty
larceny charges because he removed a copy of the
Paris Review magazine from the library, which
he considered obscene for youngsters, said that
he tried to borrow the latest edition of the publication
but was refused permission. A library official
said the magazine disappeared.
Gorton, who opposed the twice defeated library
budget is said to be in opposition to a third
August 29 budget vote.
The new trustee and others have voiced the
opinion that the August 29 vote will deprive
many people of casting a ballot because they
will be on vacation.
Personally, we just can't follow this kind of
reasoning. Wont as many people be away who
are for the budget as against it?
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Many people are asking what's with the 16 acres
of land which the Town acquired for recreational
purposes in South Farmingdale.
A town official told us that they are awaiting
possible Federal and State aid before consulting
an engineer to draw up plans.
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Congratulations to the Massapequa Park officials
for winning a pedestrian safety award for
the second time without a pedestrian fatality.
But it wasn't always that way. We remember when
the speed limit on village streets was 15 miles
an hour about ten years ago. No one observed that
kind of ridiculous speed limit. Those who did
were considered dangerous drivers. Most motorists
were inclined to set their own speed limits. With
the upping of the limit and the police vigilance,
speeding has been cut considerably.
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A Massapequa Park village trustee Peter W. Epp
has sent a communique to Town Supervisor Michael
N. Pet it o requesting a later closing hour at the
Marjorie Post Community Park. Epp contends
that the 9 p. m. closing allows the teenagers to
roam the streets with nothing to do. He's right.
An extra hour could possibly be the answer to
what Epp contends. All that is
is the town fathers to either
hour later or come up with the additional money
needed to expedite what appears to be an interesting
idea.
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THE WASHINGTON
l WATCH By Congressman
John W . Wydler
Utters
To The Editor
Dear Editor:
The July 6 issues of our local
Weekly newspapers advised
us that the Library Board held a
special ( secret - end of the
year) meeting and decided to resubmit
the origional over one
third of a million dollar budget
for 1967- 8 on Tuesday, August 29,
just a week before most taxpayers
will be returning from vacation.
Since it is the taxpayers who use
and pay, they should have the last
say on our Libraries operation
( not the so- called professionals);
thus, I suggest that the vote should
be held, say, Saturday, September
9 ( After schools have opened) and
the ballot ( to be factual, honest
and representative) should present
a choice to the stockholders
( taxpayers, owners and users) of
the library. Therefore, the ballot
should have three lines -( 1)
The 9.5% raised budget of $ 352,
865.00, ( 2) A 2% ( Cost Increase)
raised Budget of $ 329,587.50 and
( 3) last years ( austerity) budget of
$ 323,125.00. This would permit
the owner- users of the library to
more properly advise their Board
of Directors and ' Professional'
manager as to theirs desires as
owner- users.
The Director- Manager team
should also now, before the election,
use each weeks newspaper
to sell their bosses ( the taxpayer-users)
on the needs for each item
of the budget and first the issue
be settled democratically once
and for all. Thus, vindictive,
side- issue votes that use up the
budgetted monies could be eliminated
from the picture so that
the Director- Management team
would know that the owner- users
vote was a dollar mandate to them
and could not be construed as a
prejudiced, highly exaggerated
and miss- represented side issue
mandate.
Let's have a representatively
run library, for the people and by
the people.
William H. Moore, Sr.
P. S. Does the present School
Board election registration hold
for the new and third costly Library
election?
Had the recent House of Representatives
discussion on raising
the nation's temporary debt ceiling
been a discussion of tax
increases, the nation would have
reacted in anger. But there was
little reaction to the disgraceful
performance which the House,
under pressure from the President,
put on in raising the debt
limit from $ 336- btllion to $ 365-
billion.
Our taxpayers will pay for this
move, now and in the future, but
there were few voices raised
except on the Republican side of
the House of Representatives.
This same mote had been defeated
by 10 votes the first time
it came before the House, but the
arm- twisting for which the
President has become famous finally
prevailed. Certain fiscally-conservative
Democrats who
value their committee positions
more than they value this nation's
financial well- being did
a public about- face and the debt
ceiling rise was approved, 217-
196.
Those who live m the rosy
dream world of Great Society
finances will applaud this move.
" We owe this debt to ourselves,"*
they'll tell you. '" Our annual
deficits are keeping the economy
moving."
Let them tell this to the young
couples who must pay more for a
home mortgage, to the housewives
whose budgets are breaking
under the rising cost of living,
to the retired and to those on
fixed incomes. Growing government
spending sparks inflation
and die undisciplined activities
of the Great Society are
setting a new low for government
efficiency as they set a
new high for inflationary pressures.
We are told now that the deficit
for fiscal 1968 will reach
$ 33- billion— that government
spending will exceed revenues
by that fantastic amount. Interest
on the national debt will
increase to $ 14j2- billion in fiscal
1968, more money than it
took to run the whole federal
government a quarter century
ago.
To those of us who fought this
still- anOther increase in the debt
ceiling, the majority party's action
following the vote was inexcusable.
Democrats after
hearing that the debt limit was
being boosted, even those who
had voted against the move before
the President entered the
arena, stood and applauded. I
wonder what their reaction would
have been to a suggestion that this
administration be required to
cut costs and live within its in-
N » one, of course, dared make
such a suggestion in the never-never
land that is our nation's
capital. We Republicans, until
next year, are ignored. And if
the President at one time had an
economist on his staff who would
suggest a balanced budget, the
poor fellow must have been committed
long ago. The lights are
no longer turned off at the White
House, and quite obviously, the
fiscal floodgates are open.
Lane Honor Roll
The race in space is well
known to the American people
as our contest with the Soviet
Union to be the first to land a
man on the moon. The " waste
in space," I predict, will become
a known fact as the American
people realize that they are paying
for two massive and duplicating
space programs, the cost of
which runs into the billions of
dollars.
These duplicating programs
are the manned earth orbiting
programs of NASA and the Department
of Defense. The fact
that one is called MOL and the
other AA does not change the fact
that they both put a man on a
platform in space orbiting the
earth. Whether the things he does
on that platform are called or
classed as civilian or military
is of only academic interest.
As I reported in this year's
committee report, " These duplicating
programs will cost the
American taxpayers untold billions
to gather essentially the
same scientific data."
Some recognition of my doubts
has been heard from the President's
Science Advisory Committee.
Its recent report of February
indicates and suggests that NASA
might utilize the MOL capsule for
its manned earth orbiting programs.
1 believe that the
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programs should be combined and
utilize our best equipment. This
would clearly be the Saturn V
hardware we are now perfecting
and not the interior MOL equipment.
Since most of our astronauts
are military personnel anyway,
and NASA is committed to peaceful
space exploration, obviously
the two programs call for two
groups of astronauts. Here is an
instance of duplication in addition
to two sets of launch facilities,
two sets of boosters, two sets of
ground support facilities, two sets
of tracking facilities, two data
reduction centers, two recovery
operations, and more than two
costs to the U. S. taxpayers. The
result is duplication of one set
of data. I believe that this type
of unwarranted duplication is not
only wasteful but also destroys
the credence that the public has
in our nation's space program.
In the long run, we will destroy
the public desire to support our
national space effort. The executive
branch should react with
responsible for ( brightness in
recognizing the obvious and combine
these two programs. The
President should act to review
this matter and end this massive
and wasteful dpulication.
The best time to do it is right
now.
Dear Editor,
It is an appalling shame to
be part of a community that
makes a travesty and mockery
of die democratic processes.
In all elections but School and
Library Budgets is die will of
the people upheld, hi what other
lands where no opposition slate
is permitted.
The voters of this community
rejected the library budget on
two occassions. It will return
again, on Tuesday, August 29.
If it is defeated, will it return
again? If it is successful, will
it return again, and again, and
again?
Those who are perpetuating
this fraud assuredly will not
find the electorate so easily duped,
neither on the 29th of August,
nor when their turn for reelection
comes up.
Guy Morone
To Editor:
We have been residents of
Farmingdale since 1955 and have
availed ourselves of the services
offered by the Farmingdale Library
System almost since that
time. We have watched the Library
grow from the Warehouse
Building to the fine main office
we have now, our branch library
and Bookmobile. Our children
have used the Library since they
were old enough to look at books;
my youngest son had his library
card at age four. We are very
proud of our Library System.
We would most certainly support
it and vote " yes" ° n the
Library budget.
Mrs and Mrs. George Archer
To die Editor:
The Farmingdale Library
Board is putting up their budget
for a third time, and die inference
is that " the people want it."
What people'? The people who
vote have said no twice. And what
inducement has been made to influence
them to change their vote?
None— absolutely none!
hi these days of spiraling costs,
every business and every house-
6TH Marking Period
GRADE 7 JUNE 1967
Diane Abato. Barbara Bodof-sky,
Gregory Boyce, Steven
Cohen, Joanne Cottone, Larry
Eisenberg, Steven Fine, Jody
Gerard, Karen Hasey, Joyce
Heilig, Mitchell Held, Karen
Hesse, ttadinc Knteher. Lynn
Levitt, Dale Licata, Dale Lieata,
Wendy Magenheim, Barbara
Mansfield, liana Margarita,
Barbara McKinley, Susan Ifetx-ger,
Lawrence tfadler, Eliot Ohl-stein.
Rani Pelzman, Robert
Pleva, Patricia Onion, Michael
Ranzenhofer, Loretta Reid,
Marsha Resnick, Michael Row-man,
Barbara Sagar, Richard
Schneider, Yield Schwartz, EHen
Seeberger, Jeffrey Seigei, Jeanne
Staugaites, Donna Tiedemann and
Marc Weinblatt.
GRADE 8 JUNE 1967
Barbara Alters, Caryn Atlas,
Jeff Baraban, Barbara Castel-lano,
Richard Civil, Ueen
CrestoL Pat DeBona, Mary De-
Prano, Paul Dinas, Janet Dodds,
Richard FasaneDo, Joseph Fioc-cola,
Carol Friend, Ralph Gis-mondi,
Diane Godfrey, Joel Hen-ner,
John Holmes, Judith Jorgen-sen,
Debra Karlan, Richard
Kassler, Lloyd Kraus, Raymond
Kremer, Kathy Lawkins, Barbara
Lefsky, Marguerite Lock, Eve
Meyerson, Stephanie Reich, Alan
Bobbins, Catherine Rugino, Jean
Ryan, Robert Sehepp, Sandy
Simon, Lisa Tilford and Debra
Woodford.
GRADE 9 JUNE 1967
John Aleshin, Christine Am-mi
rati, Jay Berkowitz, Margery
Budoff, Gary Bnrkhardt, Dennis
Calano, Charles Cardillo, Janice
CasteUano, Karen mauler, Janet
Donnelly, Jay Fleitman, Diane
Fontana, Susan Friedelson,
Sharon Goodman, Linda Goor,
Donna Griffin, James Haimey,
Steven Hill, Mark Housman,
Nancy Jakobs, Lorrie Kajko,
Robin Kolker, Ronald Kornfeld,
Phyllis Launer, Martin Leopold,
Stephen Levin, Linda Miller,
Carol Momia, Barbara Pasek,
Peter Pavarini, John Pawlak,
Frances Pelzman, Celeste
Phillips, Frances Piccone, Gary
Pickns, Carolyn Pines, Maria
Pontillo, Linda Rappaport, Mark
Reiner, Adrienne, Razelle Ross,
James Sagarin, Clifford Scheer,
Brenda Sehefer, Steven Schon-haut,
Frederic Sehuessler, Judith
Silverman, Steven Skavaroneck,
Howard Solow, Valerie Spina,
Christine Steiner, Peter Tam-burello,
Gary Vogelsberg, Stuart
Wolkoff and James Wright.
bold has by necessity been forced
to give a closer watch to expenditures
and to cut costs wherever
possible. Is our Library Board
such an exalted essential? ff
these persons who have so earnestly
sought positions on mis
board were really capable and
responsible, surely they could
find ways of operating more efficiently,
and reducing expenses
and expenditures in an effort to
stop tins constant inflationary
spiral.
They cant keep up mis perennial
increase. Taxes are rapidly
becoming prohibitive. We all
want better facilities and better
materials but sooner or later we
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