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pnmn—mmmmmwmm.w4nmmu award from Children Court Jodge James N; Gehrig, right, mt a joint brotherhood meeting of the Hempstead Kiwanis, Lions and Rotary in the Hempstead Elks Club, Joining in the presentafion is Mm.mmnulnuhgh_m 5-District School Merger Heads for Rough Storm By RICHARD PRUSSIN and ROBERT WEDDLE There's trouble brewing on the state's plan to merge five East Nassau school districts . .. five kinds of trouble. Each district has its own ides of what it wants . .. and no two of them agree. The districts are Plainview, Old Bethpage, edge and Island Trees. Generally speaking, Bethpage is the only distnict that's agains merging with the others. A ma jority of its residents say the district can build its own . high school. and take care of its own grade school youngsters. But the pro-merger forces in Bethpage agree with state officials that they can have a much belter high school - at a lower cost - If they unite with the other districts. The other districts almost have to unite in order to have their own high school at ail. If each district tried to build its own, it would end up with a limited cur- riculum and limited facilities . . . at a higher cost. KEY TO the difference of opin- ton is the difference in industrial status of the five districts, A dis- Bethpage, Plain- trict that has- a lot of manlifac-| .CENTRALIZATION STUDY - Donald J. Whiiney, Plainedge Dis- turing gets a lot of industrial riot 1g School Board president, and Herman Williams, Plainview District 19 School Board president, looks ever figures on school populations and classroom facilities. The two executives Joined in centralization discussion by five eastern Nassau districts. money . . . and isn't eager to share it by merging with non » industrial neighbors. The neighbors, howev- er, see merger as a chance to ge in on some of the big tax funds. Here's how the five communi- ties line up on the proposed mer- ger: BETHPAGE - This is the only district that has a lot of industry. It has Grumman Aviation, the sprawling plane plant, and at least 12 other manufacturers. Its tax- payers are opposed to the suggest- ed merger. PLAINVIEW -- This district has mot any industry, but has room for a considerable amount . . . and plans are being made to Invite manufacturers into the area. Vot. ers lean away from merger, but haven't got the industrial tax. dol- lars in their treasury that Beth- page voters have to sway them. OLD BETHPAGE - These resi- dents are the least aroused | by 'the merger dispute. There are only 30 school children in the en- tire district, Their comparatively small vote probably will follow the trend. They know that without cen- tralization they can never have their own high school. PLAINEDGE*- This district has a $2.35 tax rate, which compares with $2.05 in Bethpage. Taxes are paid almost entirely by homeown- ers, whereas hall of Bethpage's taxes are paid by industry. These voters lean heavily toward centrall- zation. ' ISLAND TREES - This district has vistually no industry and has little reason to believe it ever will. Small homes are going up all over the district. The tax burden is heavy and residents would like to bee it essed by merging with the other districts. ® IN ALL five districts, of course, there are taxpayers on both sides of the issue. It's rapidly becoming the No. 1 local issue . .. Committees are being formed to these groups become, Just bow much influence the Staite -Education Department will most Oyster Bay and Northvflemp- stead Town_ schools. \I don't think they would ever use any threat,\ he said. He ex- plained that before the State Edu: cation Department would. author- ize, a referendum on any mer ger, it would have to be convinced that all school boazds involved are in favor of the plan . . and that popular sentiment backs them up in each district. HB SAID he was \very much encouraged\ by what's heppened in Sea Cliff, Glen Head ind Glen- wood Landing - three districts which will vote on a nterger Boon. \They have bad an unusual and intelligent leadership. We expect good results from their work.\ The three-district merge is sup- ported unanimously by trustees on the three boards. A joint commit- tee named by the boards is dis- tributing a brochure outlining the merger plan. If the proposed five - district Centralization merge: goes to a vote, a simple majority will be sufficient to pass it, even if the voters of any given district are opposed to the merger. In the three-district consolidation merger, however, a majority is required in each district. This is because in centralization each component district is repre- sented on 'the central board, In consolidation, component district lines are wiped out The high school problem came Into the limelight during the post- war housing boom. Before that, a school board could always pay a neighboring district to take its sec- ondary school students. But within another year ot two; there won't be a high school in the county that has room for outsiders. THE MERGERS are ested as a means of getting ter edu- cation at lower : one school board replaces three or five -where one high school zepiaces more than one - overhesd costa are cut drastically, One superin- tendent, one art director, one ath» letic director and one library -|- to give a few examples -- avoid duplicatiqn of-such personnel and tacilities. The student gets a great- er choice of sciences or languages. The state's influence inay be felt in a lessening o> elimina: tion of state ald to districts which reject the merger idem to hang on Senators Wrangle on Who Did It By EDWIN B. HAAKINSON ... WASHINGTON UA - A new sag In farm prices ~- the sixth drop in as many months -- added new fuel today to the sizzling dispule be- tween Republicans and Democrats about who is to blame und what to do. 'The Agriculture Department yes- terdry officially announced a/de- eline of 148 per cent from mid- anuary to mid » February which put Teveis 8.84 per cent below a year ago. This decline - plus a defense of Republican farm policies and of Becrelary of Agriculture Benson- touched off a lively exchange of verbal brickbats in the Senate late yesterday. Becretary Benson announced sev eral price - support moves expect- ed to stabllze the farm price lev- als. - He said the department for an- other year will continue to support butter and other datry products at 90. per cent of parity. Parity! is » price officially de- clared to be fair to farmers in terms of what they must buy. + SENATOR Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, ranking Republican and Appropriations Committee chairman, started the Senate wran- gle by blaming recent Democratic + |adrpinistrations for lower farm prices and income and \unmanage-/ able surpluses.\ | He said the new Eisenhower Ad- ministration and Secretary BBnson| would \restore again to American agriculture stability, freedom of action and local control.\ Then the Republican spokesman! hit bard at proposals by many) Democrats to lift the level of gov-) ernment price props. \The best informed sources in-| dicate that these (farm) prices are not likely to drop much lower,\ Bridges said. These remarks drew Instant pro- test from Democrats, with Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D, Minn.), and Robert S. Kerr (D, Okla.) lead- ing the attack. District To Vote On 2 New Schools A Farmingdale School District vote March 28 on a $3,000,000 bond| issue for two schools and four) Jschool sites was announced last might by Ernest Gilson, school board: president. Registration will be March 13 and 14 from 10 A.M. to 9 P.M. in the Farmingdale School. The school board has started a house-to-house canvass \to educate the 12,000 resi- dents of the district on how much we need the buildings and sites,\ {said Gilson. The board scheduled the vote on recommendations from Dr. Herb» ert Landry, educational consultant, who predicted doubled school popu- lation by 1084. The school board now is waiting to try for a share In a $24,000,000 Federal aid to schools bill now under considera-| tion by Congress. ' ucation commisstoner. A counter «Proposal has been made by the page Improve ment Association, which is inter- ested in expanding and consoll- dating that community's | various special districts. Tt proposes expansion of its school district\ (No. 21) north to Old Coun- try Road, south to the Southern tate Parkway and northeast to the Suffolk line, This would take in all of the Old - Bethpage district, the southern'part of the Plainview district and the norihern half of) the Plainedge district. It would leave half- districts in 'm tough financial position unless the balance of the Plainedge dis- trict joed the Massapequa dis- trict and the Island 'Trees district U.S. EMPLOYMENT DECLINES WASHINGTON (M- 'The Senate: House committee on reduction of nonessential Federal expenditures said today Uncle Sam had 2,584,310 civilian: employes at the end of Nassau Review - Star Saturday February 20, 1923, rege # arm Price Fall Spurs Dispute widening, which faces its f Monday. The Joint Council for S county. The 10 groups in the c limited power to condemn The $40,000,000 project Jones Beach State Parkway FIRST DUCATS - Surrogate Leonard W, Hall of Oyster Bay, gets a look ai a sign reserving his table at the 24th Lodge Charity Ball to be held April 4 for the benefit of the Point Merchant Marine Academy Chapel Fund, Hall bought first block of tickets for the affair. At right is Judge Franklin Edwards of Great Neck Plaza, ball chairman, Civics Flood Legislators With Parkway Protests Ten Nassau Civic groups today urged state legislators to vote against the proposed Southern State Parkway to the legislators protesting the bill. They say the open the 2 P.M. exercises at! denies homeowners all safeguards against property CON-(Bowdch Hall. Robert demnation, and denies the right of a public hearing on Jr., map showing land to be condemned as required by the/commerce for transportation, will enough land bordering the parkway for widening already without confiscating homes. Island State Park Commission chairman. The council claims 3,000 members in the Hempstead, _ Malverne, Lakeview and Valley Stream area. Kings Point To Graduale 2 Nassau Men Two Nassau men are among 128 cadet midshipmen who will go on sea duty after they graduate from Kings Point Merchant Ma- rine Academy at 2 P.M. Monday. More than a score of Nassau legislators, clergymen, diplomats] and military brass will attend (while the 128 receive Merchant Marine officer licenses, . ensigns' commissions in the U. 8. Maritime Bervice and Naval Reserve, and Bachelor of Science degrees. Ab the top of the list will be Burrogate Leonard W. Hall of Oys- ter Bay, Judge Hall helped spear- head the fight in Congress against cutting mcademy funds while he served in the House unti this year, With him will be Congress- men Frank J. Becker of Lyn- brook and Steven B. Derounian of Mineola. Religions services for graduates their families wit- be held in: the morning. Rev. Luther A. Wie- gle, Yale Divinity School dean em- eritus, will address worshippers at Protestant services conducted by Commander R. O. Harpole, the academy's senior chaplain. Cath oll services will be conducted by Lieutenant - Commander John T. McKenna, associate academy chap- lain. RabbL Alvan Rubin, acad- emy chaplain, and Rabbi Sidney Ballon of Nassau Community Tem- ple in West Hempstead will con- duct Jewish services. At 11 A.M. the graduates will at- tend ceremonies at which their class regimental command will be turned over to lower classmen. Rear Admiral Gordon McLintock irst vote in the State Senate outhern State Parkway wrote Blaine undersecretary of make the graduation address. McLintock will award the BA de- grees. The ex-cadets will then be sworn In as Navy and Maritime Bervice ensigns. Nassau men graduating are: (Theodore Lang Jr. of Freeport, and Eugene Tesoriero of Great Neck. Fourteen special awards will be made at the ceremony. ouncil say the bill allows un- homesites. They claim there's is proposed by Robert Moses, Authority president and Long Voters of Sch The Great Neck school board will tell residents Tuesday why It fa- vors spending $2,049,000 to meet district school building needs Taxpayers will vole March 16 on the four propositions to be outlined at the 8:15 P.M. meeting at Great Neck High School. Heading the proposals a $1,726,000 elementary school. The 16 - classroom school would be con- structed on a site already owned by the district. Is Great Neck Board to Tell Civic Association Elects New Slate George Dinkelacker was elected to succeed Victor Gough as presi- dent of the Garden City Cathedral Garden Civic Association last night. Others elected at the annual ool Needs Other propositions call for build- Ing a six - room wing on the Park- ville Elementary School for $250,- 000 and purchasing an 11 - acre site in Kings Point. Cost of the site, located to the north of Forest Row, would be $74,000. | on Cherry Lane-to Kings Point. The strip would be used by the village for street - widening purposes, a School spokesman said. Civilians To Drive -which have been grounded by a {patrolman shortage - will be driv- en by civilian drivers, County Ex- ecutive A. Holly Patterson announ- ced yesterday. Police_ Commisstoner John M Beckmann said two ambulrfices will be assigned to headquarters in Mineola and one at each of the six precinets. They will answer po- lice emergency calls around - the- Nassau's eight police ambulances Police Ambulances be rookie cops but failed to meet qualifications, he said. \Long waits for ambulances to arrive on the scene of an accident {will soon cease,\ Beckmann said. |\It has been Impossible for Muld- owbrook Hospital's ambulances to rover all the county at once.\ EXPLOSION KILLS 15 | _LUCCA, Iialy (INS) - Fifteen persons were killed yesterday when joined Levittown District 5. What's|January, after six successive|©10ck, he said. a factory at Gallicano blew Jeft of the Plairiview district of decline, which totaled) The 29 drivers on the ambulances|up. Ten others were injured. Gal- have to take care of: itself. 198. will be applicants who wanted toilicano is 20 miles from Lucca. - -.- - - _ ple of all districts invaived,\ ac-/to industrial tax money: This ohest ot umumm.mr4mnuumn:m~rwg Lynbrook, conter, who Lynbrook Board 'of 'Tyade officers, mmwm,mmmmhfi‘nf¢m¢h Jack lawn-“hymn- farewell Frank A; Gulotia, right, oastmaster, and Lymbrook Mayor Fred A. Grety, left, join the salutations, & Residents also will vote on wheth- er to deed a small strip of land mpeting, held in the Garden City Hbtel were B. J. Mallen, vice-presi- dent Mrs. E. E. Bloodgood, secre- tary,\ and Francis Ragusan,. trea- § STEPS UP - Audrey of West Hempsiead has been made a member of the Green Mountain Key, honorary lead- ership society at Green Moun- tain Junior College at Poultney, Koch Vi. She is a sophomore. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. Louis Koch of 158 St. Pauls Place. Clergy Backs Red Cross Fund Drive Nassau's 500 churches and syna- gogues have been asked to observe today and tomorrow as Red Cross Babbath and Sunday, P. Howard Covey, fund drive chairman, said today. \As in past years,\ Covey said. \many of Nassau's religious lead- ers will devole their sermons to the importance of Red Cross ser- vices in the community, the na- tion and the world.\ Glen Cove's drive committee will launch its fund - raising drive at an informal public rally tomorrow in Masonic Tmeple. ~ Speakers will be Admiral Oscar Badger and Howard G. Nelson, both of Glen Cove. Badger was commander of the Eastern Sea Frontier, commander of the Naval Reserve Fleet and Naval represen- tative to the United Nations, uptil he retired last year. Nelson, a hero of World War II, is the Glen Cove Veterans of Foreign Wars commander, The rally will run from 4 to 6 P.M. Mrs, Oscar Badger is ar- rangements chairman. William G. Mundy is fund chairman. VAMPS To CANVASS FOR $5 Two hundred vamps from. the Wantagh Pire District will start a house - to ~ house canvass tomor« row for funds needed for equip- / ment. The department, which an- swered 320 fire calls in 1982, hopes to complete the drive by the end of surer. Hofstra Rece On Royal Sta By HARRY SHELLAND Here's a special treat for Long Island philatelists. This week, Hof- stra College's library received from an anonymous donor a copy of the \Royal Philatelic Collection,\ m newly published study of one of the world's great stamp collections. Completed after more than five years of experimentation and com- piation by Sir John Wilson and edited by Clarence Winchester, this $190 volume was issued by per-| mission of tife late King George VI. The collection was begun by George V and is described in de- tail. Bound in red Niger Morocco, it bears the Royal Arms in gold! on the fornt and the Tudor rose! design on the back. | Its 868 pages include 12 facsl- mile photo - litho color plates and 64 monochrones depicting many of the collection's famous a n d valuable stamps. 'The public is | invited to visit the library to see the book. Library hours are : Mon- day . Thursday, 8:30 A.M. - 9 P.M.; Friday, 8:30 A.M. - 5 P.M.; Satur- day, 9 A.M.-~ noon. Ithe arrival April, Philatelically Speaking ives Volume mp Collection row afternoon in St. Anne's School, (Dartmouth Street, Stewart Manor, 'The organization meets an the first Monday and Third Wednesday of each month at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Koch, 111 Dover Parkway, Stewart Manor. In order to revise our stamp cliib listings, we would appreciate receiving from secretaries names of current officers, places and dates of meetings. We're also An- terested in news of organisation jactivities and members' stamp in- terests. To raise funds for floog disaster relief, the - Neth erlands has is- {sued a special 10- lcent stamp with {a surcharge of 10 [cents. Twenty Dutch ce Li equal to 6 U.S. cents. Proceeds will be used to aid the 300,000 flood victims. Portugal has Issued two new stamps commemorating the 1,400t anniversary of of WE RECEIVED a letter from the British Information Services in | Manhattan, advising that Cor- onation stamps will be issued in' the twopence - half - penny (2%40), | fourpence (4 d), one shilling and \ three . pence (1/34) and one shilling and sixpence (1/84) den- ominations, The British Post Office bas nev- or before issued 1/3d, or 1/64 stamps, No announcement has as yet been made on the date of is- sue or the date on which the stamps will be put on sale, * St. Martin o 1 Dume on the Tb- erian peninsula. The 1 escudo arel 3.50 - esc. bear a portrait of St. Martin by the artist Mamuel |Lapa. | | Five auctions conducted in New York and London .of the famous collection of Admiral Frederic R, [Harris brought approximately |s200,000 for the Italian states, the Lombardy - Venetia, Ceylon and Victoria items that made up the collection. Wotice af Dividends it‘lrJMb- t Srdad Hails re aes, *
