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              Editorial Letters To The
Retiring President Jack Goor, who recently com­pleted
ten years at the helm of the Farmingdale
Youth Council, will be honored next Thursday,
April 4 at a testimonial dinner.
Goor, a physics teacher at East New York
Vocational High School in Brooklyn, moved to
South Farmingdale in 1955 and became active in
Youth Council activities.
The model Youth Council program, which Goor
ably headed, covers a wide range of recreational
cultural activities and in more recent years the
Youth Board was created out of necessity to help
young people in counselling, job finding and Big
Brother and Big Sister activity.
The Youth Council annual budget which is in the
area of $ 100,000 and calls for voter approval,
supplies funds in part, for the Farmingdale Base­ball
League, Police Boys Club, Civil Air Patrol,
Association For the Help of Retarded Children.
This year the South Shore Athletic Association
will also be assisted by the Youth Council.
Goor, who has been deeply involved in all
aspects of Youth Council, earned the selection of
' Man of the Year* by a Rotary, Kiwanis and
Lions clubs sponsored citation.
The tribute that the Farmingdale citizenry
will pay him next Thursday, is richly deserved.
We wish him well and hope that he will continue
his interest in Youth Council work.
The event will take place this Thursday, April
4 at Holiday Manor, Bethpage.
F. H. S. Honor Roll Announced
The following students achieved
Honor Roll status at the Farming-dale
Senior High School for the
fourth marking period:
Shelley Abramowitz, Janet Al-bers,
John Aleshin, Christine Am-mirati,
Gary Appel, Michael
Baron, Jay Berkowitz, Roslyn
Bodofsky, PatriciaBonafede, Rita
Borgs, Peter Bossis, Michael
Boyce, Marie Bruno, GaryBurk-hardt,
Charles Cardillo, Steven
Carter, Carol C hakr in, Linda Ci-trano,
Alan Cohen, Stephanie Co­hen,
Ellen Collins, Frances Cres-cimano,
Emidio Crocetti, Eugene
Dahl, Ronald Dale, Karen Daul-er,
'. Patricia Davis, Eric Deitel,
Bernadett Deliberti, Albert Di-bernardo,
Robert Doll, Janet Don­nelly,
Kathryn Drewes, Roberta
Durmann, Gail Eisenkraft, Made­line
Falagario, Georgette Fitz-patrict,
Jay Fleitman, Gary
Friend, Robert Giacobbe, Alan
Glaseroff, Marilyn Goldberg,
Karen Goldstein, Sharon Good­man,
Linda Goor, James Gould-ing,
Ira Green, Patricia Green,
Patricia Gregorovic, James Han-ney,
Sherry Hertzberg, Steven
Hill, Kathleen Humphreys, Alan
Janos, Edward Jordon, Lorrie
Kajko, Barbara Kaufman, Carol
Kellerman, Dennis Kesden, Anita
Kirwan, Robin Kolker, Ronald
Kornfeld, Salvatore Lecci, Mark
Lehman, Martin Leopold, Stephen
Levin, Caren Levine, Dawn Li-cata,
Catherine Lobello, Adele
Luning, Joanne Maccabe, Janet
Maier, Anthony Malanga, James
Mancuso, Susan Manzione, Gail
Meister, Richard Messiana, Di­ane
Metzger, Charlotte Meyn,
Linda Miller, Carol Monia, Don­na
Nidds, Blaise Noto, Karen
OBrien, Peter Pavarini, Fran
Pelzman, Frances Piccione. Gary
Pickus, Carolyn Pines, Antonina
Puleio, Donna Rader, ArleneRaff
Barry Rapoport, Linda Rappa-port,
Mark Reiner, Lucille Rivin,
Adrienne Robb, Janet Rose, Mark
Rosenbaum, Razelle Ross, Ja-nine
Roth, Judith Rothbard, James
Sagarin, Christine Salita, John
S card ina, Stewart Sc harfman, Ar -
thur Schifrin, Barbara Schlitt,
M e r r i e S c h r i r o . Frederic
Schuessler, Joanne Sellitto, Jill
Selsky, Priscilla Sicuranza, Ju­dith
Silverman, Steven Skavron-eck,
Howard Solow, Daniel Spec-tor,
Gail Spindler, William
Starke, Christine Steiner, Neil
Strickman, KarenSvendsen, Don­na
Swallow, Jean Swan, Terrence
Sweeney, Robin Taradash, Joan
Verini, Carol Vigliatore, Chris
Vogelsberg, Irene Vousoulas,
Jeanne Wagner, Victoria Wald,
Jonathon Warner, Helene Was-serman,
Karen Weitman, Rich­ard
Wolkoff, Steven Woodford,
Deborah Zeplin, David Elbaim,
Thomas O'Keefe and Mark Schlof-sky.
Datebook
SUNDAY MARCH 31
11 a. m. to 9 p. m. Hadassah
Bazaarj Spartan Masonic
Lodge, Sunrise Highway Grove
Street, Freeport
MONDAY APRIL 1
8: 30 p. m. Vietnam Assistance
Committee meeting, Albany
Ave. School
8: 30 p. m. Farmingdale Colum-biettes,
Knights of Columbus
Home,
TUESDAY, APRIL 2
8 p. m. TOB Baseball clinics
for coaches, Plainedge High
School.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3
8: 30 p. m. Budget Hearing, Dis­trict
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Dear Editor:
As one of apparently millions
of loyal Americans who stand in
opposition to current Vietnam
policies of our Government, I
take strong exception to being
branded treasonous as charged
by Mr. Francis Collins in these
columns last week.
Allow me to say I am not a
pacifist though I hold in total
respect those whose consciences
lead them to adopt this position.
Five members of my family
served in the British Armed
Forces during World War II,
four of them from 1939. I served
in the British Army for three
years. My father and mother
both worked in industry suffer­ing
bombardment at work and at
home. One brother who survived
the beaches of Dunkirk died on
another beach, Anzio, four years
later. Another brother, before
joining the Army, fought with the
London Fire Brigade during the
German blitz on London. I cata­logue
these facts in the spirit of
St. Paul, not to boast, but rather
simply to indicate that I and my
family are not without some ex­perience
in the area of patriot­ism
if, as Mr. Collins implies,
this is to be judged solely upon
support of military engagements
of one's nation. For some years
now I have been an American
and I am proud of this as is Mr.
Collins.
Mr. Collins uses the term
" un- American" to impugn the
loyalty and integrity of those
who in good conscience are un­able
to support present Vietnam
policy. The term implies that
somewhere there is to be found
a pre - determined absolute
standard of what is " American"
against which every action and
every word may be compared.
I don't believe there is any such
absolute standard. Certainly the
Constitution is not written in so
narrowly defined a way. On the
contrary, the Constitution recog­nizes
that Americans may hold
opinions at variance with one
another, even at variance with
the Government; a right Mr.
Collins is quick to seize upon
in other areas. Americans may
do this without being less Ameri­can
or less patriotic for doing
so.
I find it paradoxical that some
of your correspondents who warn
against the evils of " the Big
Brother Socialism" in regard
to domestic problems of the coun­try
accept without hesitation Gov­ernment
decisions committing
hundreds of thousands of young
American men to face death or
maiming in support of a corrupt
regime which, from all avail­able
evidence, does not com­mand
the loyalty of the people
of South Vietnam.
Many of your correspondents,
including Mr. Collins, write in
opposition to what they believe
is wasteful use of tax money,
nationally and locally. I see noth­ing
from them about the wasteful
expenditure of lives!
Albert H. Palmer
ing the hoses of the firemen who
are trying to put out the fire, while
the arsonists pour fuel on the
flames.
Your local fireman
Carl Gorton
Letter To The Editor:
I think it would be far more
worthwhile for a certain mem­ber
of the Schoolboard who is
up for re- election, to come up
with a constructive program, in­stead
of worrying out loud all over
town about who the opposition
candidates are going to be.
From some of the statements
that have been forthcoming, I
gather that all we have to look
forward to is a School Board
election that will be riddled with
invective, innuendo, and smears.
The issues of taxes, busing, and
vandalism are too great to be
submerged under an avalanche
of meaningless catch phrases.
Any board member who seeks
re- election in this manner will
be permanently retired by the
voters this coming May.
Raymond E. Parcels
89 Sunset Avenue
Farmingdale
Dear Editor:
It amazes me how Mrs. Helen
Meyer so lightly excuses her
distortion of the adage, The
price of liberty is eternal vigil­ance
by substituting peace for
liberty, and then proceeds to ex­press
indignation because I used
the synonym freedom for liberty
in a paraphrase of the original
quotation.
But this hypocritical double-standard
of hers apparently is not
enough. She then proceeds to
quote me as saying something I
never said, We are taking over.
On the contrary, I have frequent­ly
stated that we are losing and
mean by we, those of us who are
engaged in defending limited,
Constitutional government a-gainst
those who are attempting
to convert the U. S. A. into the
U. S. S. A.
The general strategic formula
for accomplishing this is, inter­nal
demoralization plus external
encirclement equals gradual sur­render.
This formula is rapidly
approaching success and people
like Helen Meyer are merely
uninformed dupes, ( such as it
used to be), who go around cutt-
Farmingdale Contingent
Joins March On Albany-
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teachers to join the March even
though he was unable to attend.
According to Lanzarone, the
group was aware that the state
aid hike would mean an increase
in State income taxes, but pre­ferred
the much- broader tax base
on a state level to be shared by
all taxpayers, than on an increase
on the local property tax levied
by each school district.
The group from Plainedge in­cluded
Board members James
Ackley, Jerri Palancia and 20
members of the Senior Citizens
and others from PTA. The PTA
had hired a bus to transport
the Plainedge contingent.
Lanzarone said that the chan­ces
for passage were not good,
but the group did receive some
encouragement from Long Island
Assemblymen Prescott Hunting­ton
and John McCarthy. He was
also pleased to have talked with
Richard Dunham, Deputy Direc­tor
of the Budget, who spoke in
behalf of Governor Nelson A.
Rockefeller who was not in
Albany.
Former Plainedge Trustee
William Lally, a teacher in J e r ­icho,
was also present.
Nassau C ounty Executive Eug­ene
Nicker son joined the march
from the Ten Eyck Hotel up the
hill to the Capitol.
Lanzarone said that he felt
that the legislature was im­pressed
by this evidence of sup­port
for more equitable financ­ing.
The pressure should be con­tinued,
he said.
The Farmingdale contingent
was led by Trustee A. Terry
Weathers, Superintendent of
Schools, Dr. William A. Kinzler,
Principals Guy Valentine, John
McLennan, and teachers, Ken
Deedy, Joseph Lubell, Ruth
Cahill, Lawrence Berke and Ar-lene
Kansen.
Weathers said that the Farm­ingdale
group met with Assem­blymen
Martin Ginsberg, and
Perry Duryea and Senators Henry
Curran and Edward Speno.
Hundreds of letters were de­livered
to the legislators by the
Farmingdale group.
Weathers said that, if the State
income tax surcharge of 3 per
cent instituted the average cost
to a Nassau family with an income
of $ 10,000 and four exemptions
would be $ 5.25 per year. ' If the
increase would have to be made
locally on property taxes, Weath­er
contends, the average home
owner would be faced with a hike
of more than $ 50 per year.'
Weathers stated that legisla­tors
showed concern and prom­ised
to do their best, but that
he would strongly urge that
letters be mailed this week in
support of S- 1065 by Dominick
and A1804 by Cottier and the
High Tax Aid bill S3531 by Speno
and A5435 by Ginsberg.
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People, Places
& Politics
** M0^*^ By Caroline Bunting K l e s hmim^^ 0
We just returned from hearing former Senator Barry Goldwater,
who spoke at the State University Agricultural and Technical College
at Farmingdale,, He was at his best and drew several standing ova­tions
from the student body. His topic was " Conservatism in
America". So far he has visited 76 college campuses in the last
12 months and says that he can't agree with the college prototype
portrayed in news magazines. The voting age should be lowered,
he went on, because of the highly intelligent and well informed
young people of this generation. He said that he believed that Presi­dent
Johnson was headed in the right direction in Vietnam and that
the conflict could possibly be over by November. He said that the
gold crisis was bringing the chickens home to roost. That we were
headed in this direction for the past 30 years because of deficit
spending. Within ten years the major parties will have realigned
themselves along Conservative- Liberal themes, he went on. He
believes that only with a show of military and economic strength
can we bring peace. He believes that Nixon and Johnson will be
the presidential candidates unless there is a deadlock for Rocke­feller
and Reagan. In that case, he thinks Reagan will win out.
He will be busy in Arizona running for the Senate. He keeps in
close contact with Vietnam through his ' ham radio' and thinks
we are doing better there than most believe.
The recent Nassau County poll showed that the enrolled Demo­crats
oppose the present United States policy by better than 9 to 1.
If the poll, which is pro Senator Robert F. Kennedy, is indicative,
where does this leave Town Supervisor Michael N. Petito, who is
strong pro Johnson?
If you are over 65 years of age and have not signed up for
medicare, you must do so by April 1st, otherwise you will not have
this opportunity again until 1909.
Herb N. Goldstein of Plainedge came up with the idea of getting
rid of a school austerity budget, when a budget is defeated. His
proposal would substitute last year's budget plus the inclusion of
mandated expenses. He said this system would not be too dis­similar
to defeated library budgets, but would include mandated
costs. He spoke of this idea at the Mineola Hearings of the State
Constitutional Convention last June and a Mrs. Rosemary Gunning
presented them to Senator Norman Lent who has not introduced such
a bill.
Speaking about bills, there's one now in the work that would
guarantee, if passed, tenure to Village Clerks who have served
for five years or more. Martin Gannon of Massapequa Park called
our attention to this one. It has been approved by the New York
State Association of City and Village Clerks and the New York
State Conference of Mayors.
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