ALBANY
By Alex Rank
College News
Several days ago a state legislator
stopped in the corridor outside
the Assembly chamber and
offered his solution to the dilemma
of tongs of garbage piling up
on New York City streets.
" We should load it into the
trucks, bring it up here to Albany
and pass it through the Legislature,"
he said, and everyone
roared with laughter at the
thought of legislators voting on
pieces of garbage.
The laughter may have been a
cynical realization of the value
of much of the legislation passed
by the lawmakers, but it was also
exactly what Gov. Rockefeller
had in mind.
Instead of ordering the National
Guard into the city, he announced
he was taking over a part of local
government and then two days
later asked the Legislature to
approve it by passing a bill.
In effect, he asked the Legislature
to approve his giving city
sanitation workers more than
Mayor John Lindsay was willing
to give, and then forcing Lindsay
and city taxpayers to pay for it.
But there is a more cynical
lesson in all of this.
Rockefeller said he wouldn't
call out the National Guard because
he was afraid of violence
and bloodshed. r
Lindsay talked about it in a
speech in Buffalo the night Rockefeller's
bill died and the Legislature
got off the hook.
There are two classes of people
and one set of laws.
Negroes in the slums riot and
violate the laws, and the National
Guard is called in.
A union violates the law, and the
Guard is not called in.
This union, the sanitation
workers, is made up of public
employees.
There is a law in this state,
signed by the same governor
who refused to call out the Guard.
It specifically and without question
makes it illegal for employes
to strike.
The sanitation workers did go
on strike.
Since the end of World War
f
Two, said Lindsay, the National
Guard has been called out 72
times in 28 states, including
during 13 riots last summer in
Negro slums.
" I would like to think," said
Lindsay, " that these mobilizations
were ordered because the
rule of law was defied; not because
it was defied by Negroes."
Everyone, particularly those
whom liberals like to accuse of
being against the Negro, has said,
again and again, that in the case of
slum riots, the disapproval is of
violations of the law, not of
Negroes.
But the Negro goes to jail.
And the sanitation union, rich
and powerful, gets an $ 80,000
fine. It works out to about $ 8
for each union member - a cheap
price.
Lindsay talked about the law in
his speech.
He said an angry labor leader
came to him when he learned the
mayor had asked for the National
Guard.
The labor leader warned of
violence and said it would be an
attack on organized labor.
The labor leader said the situation
was not the same as a riot.
The man who carelessly throws
a match on a pile of rubbish is not
the same as the one tossing a
molotov cocktail.
" I argued that men are presumed
to recognize the consequences
of their actions," said
Lindsay.
1' he rubbish pile was there because
the union was on strike.
Presumption is the key to any
law. If it wasn't, everyone could
be regarded as a child and the
jails could be turned into nursery
schools.
" We cannot have one code for
those inside the Establishment
and a second for those who are
excluded from the Establishment,"
said Lindsay.
The labor leader, said Lindsay,
didn't see this.
" He was convinced that the
chaos caused by an illegal strike
should not be fought with the same
powers that would be employed
against the chaos caused by mob
violence," said Lindsay.
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THE WASHINGTON
WATCH
By Congressman John W Wydler
•
Robert Pokress, a Plainedge
High School graduate, and a Junior
at the United States Coast
Guard Academy, New London,
Connecticut has made the Dean's
List and ranks fifth in his school.
His mother is a Plaincdge High
School biology teacher.
Glenn Laguna, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Sherman Laguna of 109
Second Avenue, Massapequa Park
will play oboe in the opera orchestra
at the University of Hartford
in Connecticut at a performance
of " Tales of Hoffmann"
this week.
The people know what they
want. The goal of a public
official is to find out what his
constituents want and to do
everything possible to obtain it
for them.
There are many so- called experts
who are constantly informing
all who will listen what it is
the people really want. More
often than not they are wrong and
are merely reporting what they
want.
Since becoming a Congressman,
I have made it my business
to seek out and discover
what it is that the people in my
District really want. I had, of
course, the usual sources such
as the daily correspondence and
visits to my offices in both Washington
and in my District.
I believed, however, that I
needed more. Almost at once
I started sending a Questionnaire
to every resident of my District.
The response was so
great that I have continued this
every year. In the next few
weeks my fifth Annual Questionnaire
will be on its way to the
people.
Two years ago I started on a
new method of keeping up to date
on public views. I started visit-
Rodney H. Dow, the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Orrin B. Dow of 110
North Drive, North Massapequa,
Theodore F. Woodruff, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Woodruff of 56
Bayview Street East, M assapequa,
and Daniel E. Sullivan of 149
East Lake Avenue, Massapequa
Park, has attained Dean's List
status on the basis of having
achieved a grade average of B or
better during the first semester
of the academic year 1967- 68 at
Williams College, Williamstown,
Massachusetts.
ing local areas and inviting the
whole community to visit me and
share their thoughts hopes and
problems with me.
Last Saturday, at the Elmont
Post office, I had the first of
this year's Community Days.
Over 50 people came to see me
that day. The problems were
many; and the views were varied.
As I suspected, aircraft noise
was a prominent subject in that
area. I have been working on the
problem for years. What surprised
me was the community
concern with the problems of
teenage drug use.
I knew it was a problem but
not how serious it was. Last
year I obtained a new film on
drug use and offered it to the
schools in the District. I now
know that I have a new problem
on which the people want
help. My surprise has been
replaced by a resolve to draft
a federal law that will help wipe
out this scourage to our youth.
I heard the voice of the people
in Elmont that Saturday morning.
I will be visiting other
communities in my District to
get their views. It will make
me a better, more informed
and responsive representative of
the people.
Carol Rosenbaum of Massapequa
Park and Ixwise Santana
of Massapequa were named to
die Dean's List at State University
College at Geneseo, New
York.
Cheryl Dormeister of Farm-ingdale
was named to the Dean's
List at State University College
at Geneseo, New York.
Lynn Tugendhaft of Massapequa
Park is a member of the viola
section of the Long Island Youth
Orchestra which will perform on
Sunday, February 25 at 3 p. m. at
the Wantagh High School, Bel-tagh
Avenue, off Wantagh Avenue,
Wantagh.
The orchestra, which is composed
of 110 teenage musicians,
representing nearly 60 communities,
will be under the direction
of Martin Dreiwitz of Sea
Cliff.
Admission, in the form of contributions
to the Orchestra Fund,
will be $ 1.75 for adults and $ 1
for students.
Christopher Klesh, of 33 Mer-ritt
Road, Farmingdale, a sophomore
at Indiana University is
Chief Tympanist in the Indiana
University Concert Band.
He was also elected to serve
on the Advisory Council of Indiana
Memorial Union as well as
Cultural Coordinator at Wendell
Willkie Quad.
Nick Lopardo of Massapequa
Park, a senior at Susquehanna
University, was named second-team
offensive fullback on the
1967 All- Lutheran squad. Selections
are made from football-laying
Lutheran colleges throughout
the country.
Stephen Kindel of Massapequa
Park, a student at the Univei sity
of South Carolina, participated
in briefings at die Department
of Defense in the Pentagon and
with the Department of State on
a recent college tour to Washington,
D. C.
Walter Lee Bryant, of 30 Joyce
Avenue Massapequa, received the
degree of Bachelor of Science
from C. W. Post College of Long
Island University.
Ronald Ernest Smith, of 231
Wyngate Drive Massapequa, r e ceived
the degree of Bachelor of
Science from C. W. Post College
of Long Island University.
Dennis Thomas McGowan, of
258 Linden Street, Massapequa
Park, received the degree of
Bachelor of Arts from C. W. Post
College of Long Island University.
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Find Human Skeleton Is
In Nassau Shores
A skeleton of an unknown man
was unearthed in Massapequa on
Friday by New York Water Service
workmen digging a water- pipe
trench in front of 195 East Shore
Drive.
The skeleton was taken by the
Nassau County Police to Meadow-brook
Hospital where Chief Medical
Examiner Dr. Leslie Lukash
is conducting tests to determine
any facts which would help the
Homicide Squad in identification.
On preliminary examination,
Star Gazers To
The first March meeting of
the Jones Beach Star Gazers will
be held at West End Beach this
Sunday at 7: 00 p j n . with Francis
Flinsch, a member of the American
Association of Variable Star
Observers, discussing " Photographing
the Night Sky."
At the second March session
on March 17th at 7 p j n . , Alfred
Kolkin, Instruction Chairman of
the Astronomers Association,
Dr. Lukash has determined that
the skeleton has been probably
in the ground less than 50 years.
He is a male and he was probably
5* 10" tall. He was under 35 years
of age. There is no indication from
the skeleton that he met with a
violent death. The laboratory is
studying his teeth to help establish
further identification.
The identification process
could be aided by comparing
missing person's dental records
with the skeleton's teeth, it was
explained by the police.
Meet At Beach
wiU be the guest lecturer. His
topic will be " Telescopes for the
Amateur."
At each session, special attention
is given to Boy and Girl
Scouts working for astronomy
merit badges. A twelve, inch reflector
telescope and ten refractor
telescopes will be set up
for outdoor viewing. For star-gazers
who own their own telescopes,
a special area near the
lecturer will hp orovided.
Capitol Report
By Rep James Grover { jjjiJEr
Despite all governmental efforts
of the past five years to
wipe out poverty, welfare rolls
and their costs are steadily increasing.
We in Congress have
been forced to view our national
welfare efforts as a leaky boat,
which keeps filling witii water
faster than we can bail. We~
have had to admit that our approach
to welfare has been self-perpetuating
rather than self-eradicating.
A look at the situation
makes it obvious that some
new thinking is needed. We need
programs whose major outlook is
motivational and educational,
rather than custodial.
And Congress, after an initial
spurt of spending for Great
Society programs in the welfare
and poverty fields, is starting to
turn sour. Reports of excessive
spending, misuse of funds and improper
activity in many federally-
financed programs have
triggered a major investigation
by the General Accounting Office.
A small army of GAO
representatives and some private
accountants recruited by
GAO are now looking deeply into
me activities of the Office of
Economic Opportunity, the Department
of Labor, the Department
of Health, Education and
Welfare and even into die Agriculture
Department, which has
been making loans to the poor in
rural areas.
How can Congress justify die
billions already expended in the
poverty field in view of the welfare
figures for 1967? In a year
of general prosperity arid rising
employment, this nation saw
686,000 persons added to die welfare
rolls. This figure was triple
the national average for die past
five years and double die welfare
increase in 1966. In a time
of rising prosperity, we find
ourselves with almost 700,000
new persons living off the government!
And so, the federal government
has been forced to ask Congress
for an additional $ 1,135,000,000
to go along with die $ 4.1- billion
already approved for die federal
cost of various welfare programs
this year. In addition, of course,
state and local governments are
shelling out billions to match
the federal expenditures.
In Suffolk, a relatively conservative
county insofar as
spending goes, the welfare budget
has inc reased from $ 7,337,-
272 10 years ago to $ 50,520,481
today. Much of this increased
results from the necessity of
adhering to federal and state
regulations.
Some of our most liberal Congressmen,
faced widi the evidence
of diird generation welfare
families, are beginning to
admit that the thrust of our welfare
programs has been self-perpetuating.
A flood of money
can buy an awful lot of bootstraps,
but money alone never
motivated anyone to start pulling
himself up by those bootstraps.
Daler Dateline
By Robert Perinetti
In the November 14, 1967 i s sue
of me Daler Skyline, die
school papar, there appeared a
editorial by Gene Friedlander,
on the subject of Viet Nam. It
was evident diat Friedlander does
not support our government's
policy there. The editorial
sparked much discussion among
students and teachers. In die following
issue Mr. Lawrence, an
English teacher, countered tfiis
editorial widi a letter to die
editor. He was dien answered,
in die next issue, by students
and teachers alike who seemingly
supported die original editorial.
However, letters also appeared
in support' of our government's
policy and of Mr. Lawrence;
my own letter included.
Moreover, letters were not
the only reaction to die editorial.
I have noticed diat mere
lias been an increase in dis-
Farmingdale OBSERVER, Thursday, February 29, 1968
cussions among students and
teachers in die hallways and
classrooms. ( After class is over,
of course.) As you read In
my last article, die Social Studies
Department sponsored a talk
on vietnam. Also, on February
21, 1968, a student debate was
held on die subject.
Yes, die subject of Vietnam
has certainly hit die students
and faculty of FHS. Talks, discussions,
debates, arguments and
criticisms for and against die
war have been brought out into
die open. The opportunity for
students and teachers toairdieir
opinions has been made possible
by die school paper. I am sure
that letters will continually come
in to die paper and diat die discussions
will go on. But I hope
diat in die near future die war
will be over and die discussions
can end.
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