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Energy Help For Seniors BENEFACTORS OF THE ARTS. Hempslead Town Presiding Super visor Al D'Amalo- (r.) is joined by Marge Rosen of the Town's Cultural Arts Oivislon as he is presented with a check by Castagna p.). Assistant Vice President of the Long (stand Region of Citibank. The bank co-sponsor of the Pefforming Arts Series, an annual program ol concerts organl 20 d through the Town's Cultural Arts Oivislon. Hearing On Oil Bealer Credit Proposed Law MmEOU - A public hearing for U r a months be en Friday. December M. will deal 'ore it demanded cajh on deliv- ------ a ----- a....,,.. 1 ...:.^. cry. Under the prooo«ed reo- iiUtlon. it would cot with a proposed county reflation frorn imposing harsher credit terms on consumers than they did Ja^ c a r . The hearing will be held in the County Attorney's HearinR Room on (he second floor of I West Street. Mmeola. beginning at U proposed reg- at be MnnhtM to cut the customer on in two months this year. Picken pointed out. however, that if wholesalers or credit sources raise their credit re quirements to the dealers, the regulation provides that dealers The regulation, which would be adopted under (he county's law Unfair Trade Practices. may apply to (he OfHce of Con sumer Affairs for permission to being proposed by The Office of Consumer Affairs at the direction of Nassau County Executive change their credit terms. Inthisconnection, Purcell said, I ll u i i > V A ;ii[ic k u u ii, r u i w c u \We arc urging the State legis- - ---------- till -YoyJJ lature to pass a bill which wou prohibit the wholesi^ers from Francis Purceil. • . stepping up their credit demands Similar to one recently adopted on retailers.\ in New York City, ihc regulation Violations of the county’s reg- would prohibit home heating oil plahon wbuld r e - ’- - ---------- - dealers from using more stringent investigation pe: payment schedules or credit between S ^ a n d terms than they did in the 197B-79 season, or from stepping up debt coiiection practices. Consumer Affairs Commis- sk>net James .PkVen cUed an example of a company whoso malties ranging $500. families purchase heating oil, Picken said, ..... . ............ * — — general policy was to carry a an already stressful-siiuadon.** \we are not asking the retailers to suffer hardship, but roerety to play fair 'wUh<conw sumersand not take advantage of an already stressful-situation.'* THE L c m b l A$ A ^ n READ A \ \ lE iu e I •Village News * • School News I • Recreation News I FOR •News of Clubs' • News of People • News of Events I V It Keeps \Giving\ 52 Weeks A Yeorl I ...MORE NEWS of thi* community than In any other publication ■ I IS Months for the cost of 1 year I m : (13 weeks REE) • only S6iK) • I 30 Months for the cost of 2 years I ■ (26 weeks FREE). ookTlOJOo\ I itaiEAOEE . ; V el ■ 45 Church Senet. P.CK Box-aia - , » ■ jytw a s a iN f a Gift Card ii ywr woM I Ftcqioct.Ne»Yackll52p l' am metotlng t_ j e r a □ 1 yaar, □ 2. irtar. tubaertpUen ta Fraawct'i ' only Mwtpapv. THE CEADEIt. . AdOftM Mail The Coupon todoyS If Happened,.. Years Ago I MU’iBOLA - A Senior Ciiiren Energy Conservation Senier for residents of the Towns of Hemp stead and North, ifempsfead is being conducted by the Nassau Couniy Department of Senior Cui/en Affairs in ctxrperatiun with (he Nassau County Division of Energy Resources and the Towns of Hempstead and North flcmpslead. - The project is designed to help reduce healing and electric bills for older homeow ners or renters, as well as to make older persons more comfortable in Ibcif homes. Workers will make appointments to perform the such ener^ con* servation checks as heating system inspection, combustion efTicicncy tests and insulation in spections. In addition, workers willl recommend energy conser ving alterations. Funds for the project are being made available by a special CETA cram. To be eligible for this free service. cUems may own or rent the house they live in and must be 60 years oi age or older. They must be residents of the Towns of Hempstead or North Hempstead. For further information. Hemp stead residents can call J79-59W. caiension 70. From contemporary newspapers and other sources. S C//nfon £. MeU < Freeport VUlaffe Historian i Phone. nSDING BOTTIES VNDER W S SIDE YARD GIVES HOMEOWNER A S EXCITING HOBBY W he\ rainwater leaked into the basement of this Hampton Place home amJ ruined half of a parquet floor, it made Arthur Kaye angry. But todayhe looks back at the incident aii a blessing in disguise. Costly repairs led him to lay a 15-foot underground pipe from the house to a new dry well. In doing so he became a \digger\ the type of bottle ‘ collector w ho finds his own artifacts rather than merely buy them. His shovel first struck hidden ashes and quantities of broken clam and oyster shells. This aroused Kaye’s curiosity, so he dug. deeper, suspecting that a tong abandoned garbage or trash dump had existed on his property. Next under the shells were bits of metal, leather, tools, pottery fragments, cast iron stove parts and broken glass. What made him want to shout for joy were some bottles — un broken ones — which his spade brought up. Re recalled boyhood years in Inwood. Long Island, where he and fellow playmates found pieces of glass insulators at a.dump in active use where electric utility workers had thrown the damaged materials. An underground trail o f \goodies intermingled with junk, lured Kaye to (he roots of a Norway fir tree. 40 feet tall and with a spread of about 25 feet, 'pierc, long guarded by the tree’s protective roots, he uncovered the\greatest number of intact bottles mixed in with three whcelbarrows-ful! of other things. Among other items found, the over joyed homeowner counted a wide variety of 470 bottles which appeared to be worth saving. Digging beneath the Norway fir was somewhat dangerous, even though safeguards helped prevent a landslide. -For his protection Kaye kept a garden hose alongside him. prepared to put it in his mouth for an emergency oxygen supply in case earth slid into (he tunnel. The tree, over calcium-rich seafood shells and coal ashes g i w much taller than others of the same species nearby. Could the calcium and good drainage provided by coal ashes have unproved opportunities for ' growth? Another question arose, too: How and when were those articles dis carded in a coihparativelv new South Freeport neighborhood? 'ihere are at least two clues: (1) Some of the prescription bottles found by Kaye carry dates as early as 1874. and (2) An old. abandoned lane ran near the spot, in an east-west direction. Long before Freeport became an incorporated village, residents had u s ^ their own wagons or carriages for taking trash to informal dumping places on low land. \ Itis reported by some neighbors that the now-abandoned lane once led to both the dump and a dock on Milbum Creek at Florence Avenue, because West End Avenue ended at Hampton Place a s late as 19t5. It is reported that Daniel Combs, a coal dealer, used the riglit-of-way to and from his dock. Stephen (and later Jacob) Johnson had a famy north ofCareyHace.westpf.Bayview Avenue for many years. The residence of Arthur and Marilyn Kaye at 15 Ha'mplon Hace was p.urdiued^in 1^59 from Carl and^^er^YouogquIst.. who q ^ e d land ^nearby 'which Ihey^'sold to. Progress^Land CorporatimV dei(ek>p^ Meister Beach in the 1930s. Kaye’s whole project grew out of aniun- fortunate (or perhaps fortunate) incident. Somehow a tro u ^ that had carried roof water from a leader on the Kaye’s house was knocked over. This forced Arthur to instail a dry welt and connecting pipe for drain* age. His discovery of the bottles opened the door to a new and ezeittog hobby for him. ? - . . ■ Research by this historian at the County Gerk’s office.in Mtneola un covered what pppean to be proof that a road from Bayview Avenue -westward to.thexlmnpjstarted about IDQieet-south of Hampton.PIace_ and was tmginally used by persons walking or driving to the doihp. In - the Meister Beach developers reserved an easement for the New York Telephone Co. so that it could Install telephone-telegraph wrires oh a long. 25-foot-wide strip of land there if necessary. (Note: Part o f next week's column will be devoted to more irtforma- tion about the neighborhood where Kaye discovered unusual bottles, and will tell about his hobby's development./ rep.normon f. lent umniinGTOA . HOUSE OF REPRESENTATTVES APPROVES HELP FOR * THE BATTERED SPOUSE t am happy to report that a b ill! severe problem, have cosponsored to prrwide - Because spouse abuse cuts much-nee<ted-help for. the bat*' across all s o ^ classes, ethnic tered spouse has received tcuu- groups, age brackets and geo- rive approval'from the House of graphic areas, it was dear that Represenutives, this past week, assistance was needpd at the In a ' preUmraaiy vote on H.R. federal level. As\a result, I jgmed '2977, .the Domestic Vmlence in sponsoring H.RT-2977. the Prevention and Services A a . the JXwiCstic Violence Prevention House gave a sotisuntial majority aodServvxsM . Itf j^rty I etc. - Ac I hoop fgarat IWcd fgamt to. the bBI. FoOowing formal . approval by the foil House, the - bin win go to the Senate, where t hope it win vria speedy approval-: • For loo long, the extent tbes problems of bartered spouses has been mostly hidden from ptti>Ge The Act centers it attenooo on k x ^ responses to the problem. It , avoids the loag ddays.'lacfc of personal attention'asd catangBng tape wfrkh the boreanerncy to W ashingtn tnfficts on almo^ an of its operations. The Pcanesric atmntiobyOfren tht^was because Violence Prevention and ServiM the victuhs were to afraid o r too Act provides frm£ng to stxsalate ashamed to admit that, ibetr state and local studies - and mates hnitalogrf them. Farther- support for private efforts to. more, hnle was betggnkjtg s i rbfc- with wife beating an^ to p rovi^ federal level to assist local c^nsetiag-fBr-tbeliQriLthe n c tia agencies in dealing with this (Coot, on Page T 61
