December 12, 1968 FARMINGDALE OBSERVER PAGE 7
Senator Goodell Visits Long Island
Senator Charles E. Goodell
( R) made a three- day
visit to Nassau and Suffolk
Counties. One of the most
dramatic visits was at 3
p. m. on Wednesday in Hempstead
when he went to the
Day Care Center, Franklin
Avenue and then on to the
Office of Economic Opportunity
. . . and then an unscheduled
tour of the ghetto
area of the village of Hempstead.
The Observer was on
the scene with the Senator here
and in Amityville at Operation
Head Start and at the
Job Opportunity Center and
in Syosset on Tuesday morning
before the Long Island
Association's Executive
Breakfast for Business and
Industry.
The Hempstead Economic
Opportunity Council in its
effort to eradicate poverty in
the Village of Hempstead has
made meaningful progress in
the areas of employment, social
services, day care facilities,
health, recreation
and several other significant
areas. However, one area
which presents a seemingly
insurmountable problem is
housing, according to Tom
Donnelly of Bayview Place,
Massapequa, who is Director
of the Office of Economic Opportunity
of Nassau County.
Donnelly is shown with the
Senator in Picture A.
According to the Nassau
County Planning Commission,
Donnelly said, there exists in
the village of Hempstead 106
dilapidated units and over
300 deteriorated units which
are presently occupied. Many
of the families living under
these intolerable conditions
are nevertheless paying rents
which are quivalent to 25 or 50
percent of their total monthly
income. At the present time
no known positive steps are
being taken to remedy the
situation, by the local government."
In addition to the people
living under these conditions
there are over 30 welfare
families living in Hempstead
Motels because of non- existing
adequate housing.
Picture B— The Senator in
the middle of the Day Camp
Center in Hempstead.
Picture C— The Senator,
father of 5 boys, gets in a
playful mood with the young
sters.
Picture D— a little girl
plants a kiss on the Senator.
Goodell went on to an
unscheduled tour of the ghetto
area of Hempstead. The Senator
said that he wanted to
see where these Negro children
lived who were in
the Day Care center. He is
pictured viewing a house without
window panes, stuffed
with towels against the cold;
patched with cellophane at
some of the windows. This
house is rented to a Negro
family for $ 150 a month.
Picture E.
The Senator stood in the
garbage heaps and listened
as politely as he could to
the Mayor of Hempstead telling
him that the Village of
Hempstead was ahead with
urban renewal that these
conditions were corrected.
Donnelly told The Observer,
knowing the Senator, these
conditions will be corrected,
because he will carry this
plight to Washington and
do something about housing
and with his know how
and interest in free enterprise
together with government;
the Senator will fight
to end this inequity; this
injustice. The Negroes have a
dear friend in the senator
and so do the Mexican Americans
and the American
Indians— we asked this question
at the Executive Breakfast,
and he admitted that
he had not turned his ftill
attention to the plight of the
American Indian, but we have
full trust that he will indeed.
" Streamling Government"
and the related need for
setting up a new Hoover
Commission for the purpose
of assuring that sound business
principles are applied
to government operations,
was the theme of a talk presented
by U. S. Sen. Charles
E. Goodell, R.- Jamestown,
N. Y., at the Long Island
Association's weekly Executives
Breakfast Tuesday,
Dec. 10, at the Villa Victor
Restaurant, 274 Jericho
Tpke., Syosset.
Sen. Goodell, who made
his first visit to Long Island
since his appointment in
September to succeed the
late Sen. Robert E. Kennedy,
is a Jamestown lawyer
and was elected to the House
of Represenatives in a
special election in 1959. He
was appointed to the United
States Senate on Sept. 10,
1968.
The senator has been a
leader among Congressional
supporters of civil rights
legislation. In association
with the then Congressman
John Lindsay, he led a successful
drive to strenghten
the 1960 and 1964 civil rights
legislation.
He is an advocate of fiscal
priorities that will reduce
federal expenditures in areas
of lesser urgency, make possible
greater expenditures in
areas of human need and
relieve the pressures of inflation
and high interest
rates.
Picture A
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Picture E
