The Observer 2

              George Meyerhoff Named Coletti Advocates New Inlet to Solve
To Water Board Eel Grass & Navigational Problems
The Town Board this week
named George Meyerhoff, of 25
Ninth Avenue, South Farming-dale
to the post of Water Com­missioner
of the South Farming-dale
Water District to fill the un­expired
term of Ellsworth TJoe*
Allen who passed away recently.
Meyerhoff, 43, who is employed
by Municipal Machinery Corp. in
Coram in public relations
has been active in the Farm-ingdale
Republican Club and the
AHRC.
Merchants To Gain
Customers From Phone Co.
More customers for Massape­qua
and Massapequa Park mer­chants
will become a fact when
the new New York Telephone
Building now nearing comple­tion
opens. The employees will
have lunch hours and probably
do shopping locally, it was
learned at Tuesday night's
Massapequa Chamber of Com­merce
meeting. In addition there
is a turn over every two years
of the young women employees
due to marriage and pregancies.
The Chamber also discussed,
plans to beautify the shopping
areas.
The meeting is held once a
month at the Marjorie R. Post
Community Park.
The dredging of a new inlet
at the end of the Amityville
channel is the answer to im­proving
the navigational waters
of the Town of Oyster Bay in
the Great South Bay and to the
eel grass problem, according to
Gus Coletti, Democratic Candi­date
for Town of Oyster Bay
Councilman who is seeking the
seat now held by Philip Healey
of Massapequa.
Coletti charged that the eel
grass nets that his opponent had
advocated and gotten through the
Town Board as well as the eel
grass catcher and thrasher were
merely ' sops' to the voters, but
no solution to the eel grass prob­lem.
He said that this was a
• waste of taxpayers money'. He
said that the dredging of a new
inlet could be financed through
Federal and State funds as well
as a cooperative effort between
the Town of Oyster Bay and the
Town of Babylon.
" All one has to do is to look
at the waters of the existing in­lets
to see what a greater flow
of water will do. It has a flush­ing
effectj the inlet would take
away stagnant conditions in the
canals as well. In time, the Town
of Oyster Bay would attract the
fishing indsutry with its charter
boats such as other areas.
" My opponent said that with
his measurers against eel grass,
that by September 1, 1968 90%
of the eel grass problem would
have disappearred. This is not
true".
At the same time, Coletti said
that the TOBAY Marina could be
improved by placing an ice ma­chine
and a milk machine for the
convenience of boaters at the
marina. He also advocated that
a playground be constructed there
since many boat owners have
small children who get on and off
Picking out a telephone man in any picture
of civic activity isn't easy. In their spare time, tele­phone
men — and women — look like all kinds of
people. They look like scoutmasters. Like hospital
aides. Like volunteer firemen. Like Little League
coaches. Sometimes, even like umpires. That's who
the telephone man in this picture is: he's Mike
Shanley ( center), a New York Telephone Communi­cations
Consultant, who umpires after hours for
both the American Legion and the Little League.
Service is a telephone tradition. Not just
telephone service on the job, but community serv­ice
off the job as well. Wherever you find people
devoting their spare time to helping others, you'll
find a telephone man in the picture.
New York Telephone
Part of the Nationwide Bell System
Can you find
the telephone man
in this
picture?
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boats at the dock for amusement,
which is a safety hazard, accord­ing
to the Democratic candidate.
The candidate moved to Seaford
in 1938 where as a boy he de­livered
newspapers tothe 63cus­tomers
- the entire total for a
daily in the Massapequas and
Seaford.
He was born in Brooklyn in
1935 and attended the Bishop Mc­Laughlin
High School in Brooklyn,
having commuted from Long
Island. He also attended St. Johns
University.
A resident of Massapequa for
over 12 years, he now resides at
265 Toronto Avenue, Massa­pequa.
He and his wife, Laura, have
four children, Kevin, age 11;
Laura, age ten; Mary, age seven
and one half; and Eileen, age six.
The children all attend the Ray­mond
J. Lockhart School.
Coletti is Past President of
the Democratic Club of Massa­pequa
and served on its Board
of Directors. He and his wife,
Laura have been Democratic
committeemen for the past 11
years.
Coletti is a charter member
of the Massapequa Elks; Direc­tor
of the Elks Saturday Basket­ball
League; he played on the Elks
Softball team; he is a member of
the Sons of Italy and coach on the
the National Little League in
Massapequa and coach for the
Midget Football team. He also
played softball in the Massapequa
Slo Ball League. He has bowled
for the VFW bowling league, and
was a semi pro baseball player
in the minor leagues.
Coletti is a Supervisor of an
automobile appraisal firm. Prior
to that he owned his own auto­mobile
repair business in Massa­pequa.
Mc Closkey Wants
, Reduction In Far
Assemblyman Francis P. M
Closkey this week urged die
Metropolitan Transportation Au­thority
to make restitution to
Long Island commuters for the
enormous inconvenience they ex­perienced
and the additional
money they had to spend due to
the recent slow- down in service
during the past few weeks.
The veteran legislator added,
" It's simple justice that any
reduction in service warrants
a reduction in fares. If the New
York City subway rider is not
able to use the subway trains,
he does not pay the fare. There
is no reason why the commuter
should be discriminated against
in this matter."
McCloskey continued that the
Metropolitan Transportation Au­thority
and the LIRR must work
out a program to compensate
the harried commuter not only
for the suffering he endured
during the long hot summer,
but the unavoidable likelihood
of a cold hard winter when train
service would be disrupted again.
He also urged Dr. William
Ronan, Chairman of the MTA,
to address himself to the prob­lem
of the commuter fares with
as much vigor as he is con­cerned
with the New York City
subway fares,
' McCloskey pointed out that the
commuter also faces the threat
of increased fares since the con­tract
with the Brotherhood of
Railroad Trainmen on the LIRR
expires October 1.
The MTA must face the plight
of the fares the Long Island
commuter pays with the same
concern it is giving New York
City subway riders.
The legislator with 14- years
in the Assembly said he would
re- introduce a bill in the next
session of the legislature which
would permit the Metropolitan
Transportation Authority to use
surplus funds from the Tri-borough
Bridge and Tunnel Au­thority
to subsidize fares of the
LIRR in the same manner it
now has the power to use those
funds to keep the New York
City subway fares at 20 cents.
Farmingdale OBSERVER Thursday, August 29, 1968