Thieves Strip School)Of Audio Equipment

. More than $4,000 worth of audio-visual equipment, much of itdonated as senior class gifts over the years, was stolen this weekendfrom the Walt Whitman High School, in South Huntington', by thieveswho forced their way into the building between secruity guardchecks, police and school officials said. Huntington Second Squaddetectives, this week, are still seeking clues to the identity of theburglars and the whereabouts of

High School principal RussellOrlando said Tuesday that thetheft was discovered earlyMonday morning by a custodianwho noticed the north librarybroken into and called schoolofficials. The theft appears tohave . occurred between Sundayevening and early Mondaymorning, Orlando indicated.

The thieves , he continued ,made their way throughout thelarge school complex, forcingopen doors and breaking glasswindows to get inside variousrooms. After breaking openseveral locked cabinetsthroughout the building, Orlandosaid, they came upon the audiovisual room where thousands ofdollars in expensive equipment isstored.

Stolen, he said, were: movieprojector, two large amplifiers,two television monitors, a tapeplayer, fifteen microphones andfive mike stands, a portablepublic address system, cameras,a horn speaker, and variousphotographic equipment. Whilesome of the equipment is pur-chased by the district to use inschools, manyof the stolen goods,Orlando said, were paid'for anddonated by members of pastsenior classes as departing giftsto the school.

"The theft of these gifts ,especially, is of particularconcern to us," the principal said."They took the best equipment -

the equipment.all the best equipment. "

The school, said Orlando, isunder the surveillance bysecurity guards, who make"periodic checks of the schoolover the weekend." He said thedistrict'is insured to cover thestolen equipment.

Police sources, this week , saidthat equipment stolen is easilymarketable through illegalchannels. Items like tape decks,movie projectors, etc. can be soldquickly.

In other township areas , onMonday, three burglaries nettedthieves a total of $2,000 in cashand other valued household goodsincluding radio and steroequipment, police said.

Two of the burglaries occurredin Dix Hills. Murray Wagner, of 3Westwood Court, Dix Hills, toldpolice that his home was robbedof $300 in cash, a stereo set, aradio and a tape recorder.Robbers made their way into thehome through a nbrfhside win-dow. Another resident here ,Anthony Lazzaro, at 31 IngoldDrive was robbed of $800 in cashand at least $600 in jewelry whena door to his home .was brokenand thieves got into the house.

In a third burglary, the home ofThomas Dalton, of 9 ValleyDrive, was the scene of a $300theft, police said. A door on theeast side of the home providedburglars with an entrance ,Dalton reported.

Now Is Time To Start FightingGyp sy Moth Clusters Mere

Now is the time for HuntingtonTownship homeowners to searchfor gypsy moth egg clusters ontheir property, and If found, beprepared to spray this comingMay, ' , .

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¦ That'8 the word from both weSuffolk • Conn ty, CooperativeExtension Bureau and from theNow York State Department, ofEnvironmental Conservation; |nAlbany; And while both of thosedepartments Admit that ap-proximately 1300 acres oftownship land Is "considered tobe heavily infested" with eggmasses, It's uncertain whethercither the county or-thc state willImplement a program to , dealwith the proMom.

Huntington Town SupervisorJerome A, Ambro said that he "Isconcerned about tho problem; 1Bowaro of the problem; nnd Ispreparing to deal wllh theproblem." It Is not nn oasy nut tocrack, however , (In face of thoinability of government agonclosto go on private property ; and the

fact that the only acceptablepesticide at the present , since theban on DDT, Is Sevin which filesin the face of spme ¦ con-servationists,

Suffolk County LegislatorRegis O'Neil , in whoso area theLloyd Harbor property Is located,expressed particular concomovoxthe', prospects of gypsy mothdamage yesterday. "Tho Countydid take emergency measureslost year;" ho recalled, but saidthat he Iliad plans to bring themnttor up before the legislaturetliia week, "aimed at some sortof; program.". •

William Buzzard , a forestbiologist with tho Albany con-servation unit, told The Long-Islander this wock that maps are ,now being ¦ prepared showingexact locations of Infestation, asa result of tho egg mass countconducted by his department, lastfall and wintor.

"No formal program will boundertaken , however , untilCommissioner Henry L.

Diamond hands down a policy.Buzzard explained, A great doalhinges on the finances of thedepartment after tho budget ispassed, he added.

Said Suffol k CountyCooperative Extension agent H,D. Wells ,1 "Wo looked at the areaIn Dix Hills from Bagatelle Roadgoing oouth just recently. Wofound that the trees Were coveredwith gypsy moth egg massesfrom the ground up/

Homeowner's will find gypsymoth infestations on the leaves offorest , shade and fruit trees aswell as on many ornamentals. 'Asingle defoliation by caterpillarscan kill white pine, spruce andhemlock , say the exports, Twodefoliations can kill hardwoods',

Homeowners in Dix Hills lastyear wero dlsmayod when

. heavily Infostod ,ar«as wore\stripped of loaves by the cater-pillars , and tho crawling poststhemselves became a severe

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The subject of dredging Centerport Harbor con-sumed a chunk of Tuesday, both during the HuntingtonTown Board 's executive session and later at theregular town board hearing where residents filled thetown hall and waited until 4:30 to speak their piece.When they had finished, the clock stood at 6:30 andTown Supervisor Jerome A. Ambro announced theintentions of the town board.

"We will approach the Conservation Council for a recom-mendation as to the desirability and feasibility of moving in thisdirection ," said Ambro. "We will seek a new plan from the SuffolkCounty Department of Public Works, which plan orients itself topollution abatement in that harbor as opposed to the presentdredging plan which does not , and see if they can come up with afeasible program. If they do, I will hold a full-blown public hearing ona plan like that before we accept or reject it. I will report back assoon as they tell me, and the council tells me, whether'a' program likethis is at all possible ," said the town supervisor.Ills statement pleased the

various groups who sat in theoverflowing town hall Tuesdayafternoon until the public portionofthesession which ran until pastseven o'clock all told. Amongthose present were LeonardStevenson, of the CenterportCivic Association ; WilliamBertram of the Huntington BeachCivic Association; WallacePalmer of Centerport; JeromeSalvo of Prospect Road;Jacqueline Ingham of theCitizens Advisory Council ;Marilyn Walter of 47 ProspectPlace; Lawrence A, Donnelly ;and George Pezond, president ofthe Huntington Beach Com-munity Association. . . ' '. ¦ • '¦

Groups -which: formerly hadchosen sides on dredging or notdredging , appeared , to haveshifted together, favoring aprogram which . might , Include

. soiii e, dredging .aimed '.solely- at 'ipollwti'oh ;;c6ritr:o)jffibutt:v!ribt adS'• ¦dltlbnal-'morfthgifo iioU^ e'• ve:?; anSvehWel^ lere'nt.>bal!game";u' Ambirb>('cdnimeht8ff

Mrs . Laura1 Denby. read, .aistatehient: from; ACTION, iwhichsaid it; \yhQ(I^';i endorses.''Supervisor. Ambro and'the .'townboard in their stand '.'opposingthe dredging of ' CenterportHarbor without adequate accessfor the public;" A thorough studyof the ownership of the shorefrontproperty was recommended Intho prepared statement.

Lawrence A. Donnelly of 1062Washington Drive, Centerport,proposed three steps -as analternate course which he said"will eliminate pollution, providesafe , harbor for a moderatenumber of boats and keep thetidal flats intact for the wildlife. "It ivas proposed that majorpollution be stopped by correc-ting all the "offensive sewagedisposal practices of most of thecommercial establishmentssurrounding the har.tor. Second,Donnelly suggested1 installationof sand traps at the beBe of everystreet draining into the harborwith a regularly scheduledemptying by the town highwaydepartment; third, keeping thegates of Mill Dam open to permita very significant ' increase intidal water colume exchange,

Jacqueline Ingham of theConservation Advisory Councilcalled the original $400,000dredging project "way out oflino " saying It would " cost afamily between $300 Ui $500 while

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2ndSquadDetectivesBreak Thef t R ing

A "million dollar a year" car theft ring, with Its main"headquarters" In areas of Greonlawn, Huntington , and HuntingtonStation, was broken up this past weok when police arrested fouralleged ringleaders, three of them township residents. Tho threeyear old racket, dealing principally In the thef t of high-priced uportacars from Manhattan was squashed following un Intensive in-vestigation spearheaded by Huntington Second Squad detectivesover tho.past several months, Pollco Commissioner John L, Barryconfirmed,

Barry this week described thering as "a steal-to-ordor ringusing tho fashionable East Bide ofNow York City as the source ofsupply." Tho men woro skilled atpicking locks and jumpingignition systems of the cars,Barry explained.

"After months of Intensiveinvestigation Involving day andnight survelllanco using variousdisguises , tho Second SquadDetectives, along with tho autotheft squad, Identification sec-tion, and tho Intelligence squadascertained that this ring \ wasstealing approximately olghtcars per wcok, imports andsports models, both foreign landdomestic," Barry said, ""Thosedetectives developed enough

information on the operation oftills ring which eventually ledthem to tho operators."

Arrested were George Mc-Phoron , of 7 Glen-A-Llttlo Trail ,Huntington ; DennisPicclone , of 7Godfrey Avenue, Bayvllle; bothfree on ball; Alexander Watt , of04 Mnplewood Rond, HuntingtonStation ; and Charles Sidorowlcz ,of m E. Ut)i Street, HuntingtonStation, Watt was hold In SuffolkCounty Jail , Rlvorhoad, In liou of$3,(00 bail, Sidorowlcz, dotectlvossaid, was boing hold by Now YorkCity police on unrelated chargosof nossosBing counterfeit monoy,

All four wore arrestedfollowing the issuance by tho

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Contracts were signed byHuntington Town SupervisorJerome A. Ambro this week withtwo cable television companies,the North Suffolk CATV Systems,Inc., represented by Richard E.Bernard of 22 South OceanAvenue, Patchogue; and ] n-tercoiinty TV Corp., representedby David W. Smith of Goldwater& Flynn, 60 East 42nd Street, NewYork City .

The signing brings to three thenumber of franchises which havebeen granted for oeperation inthe Town of Huntington. If planswork out, all expect to be inoperation sometime this sum-mer.

The first firm to have beenauthorized for-operation locally -the Huntington TVCable Corp.,franchised on December 29, 1967 -is approximately 80 miles ofactivated cable ahead of theother two, according to what theowner-president , JamesNishimura, had to say this week.Operation in the East Northportarea was begun December 1, and"several hundred" subscribersare now signed up, Nishimurasaid, for 16 channel service.

"We are continuing to build"Nishimura said, "Recently wehave video-taped local eventssuch as the Huntington TownshipTheatre Group presentationwhich is to be shown on closed-circuit TV, and our own live openhouse from the Larkfield CountryClub. We have signed up the EastNorthport Junior High School andthe East Northport ElementarySchool on 5th Avenue." Futureplans include wiring of otherschools, especially in the Elwoodschool district. Cold weather, hasstymied laying of undergroundcable. , -; . / ' .

. :'.. '' Larry Zide; CATV cohsultant.to•the Town of; Huntington^ hasrecommended that the town holdoff from grafting further/franichises i-ror :i;cohsideririg ap-

. plicationsi for at leasts a-year to.^ ^hichidircctidn; thest 'cora?

.' Companies are required to signpermissive agreements with

• LILCO and ¦ the New YorkTelephone Company to use theirpoles or underground facilities.The annual charge of $5 per polehas been approved by the PublicService Commission.: -:

Both principals in- the NorthSuffolk CATV Systems, Inc. areHuntlngtori-natives , and areprofessionals in the fields oftelevision and electronics.Vincent C. Piano of Cold SpringHarbor is president , and MartinBruehl of Huntington is vice-president. .

"Our real long-range objectiveis eventually to offer coverage ofthings such as local sportingevents, town board meetings,civic gatherings and the like,"Bruehl said yesterday. This canbe achieved only after signing upenough homes to justify theexpense which would be entailed,he indicated. Presently, thecompany Is "geared up to startconstruction immediately", butthe first step In that direction 1B afeasibility study. "We plan to gointo tills with the town's CATVconsultant, and expect to be infull operation within a sixmonths' period," said Bruehl.

'David W. Smith told tho Long-Islander this week that In-tercounty TV Corp. "has not yetmade a selection of the area inwhich we intend to start. Thedecision is under study, We' hopeto be in operation In about threemonths," he stated,

Nishimura told Tho LongIslander this week that while theresults of the hearings scheduled

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3 Cable TVFirms SignWith Town

EllacksChargeBigotry in

High School •Teacher "discrimination

against black students " atHuntington High and Toaz JuniorHigh schools and a district-widedeaf ear to this problem, said tohave reached near-explosiveproportions , , were chargesleveled Tuesday night by a groupof young Huntington district 3black students during a publicschool board meeting.. Thestudents, most of high school age,accused the district leaders ofretaining several "bigoted"teachers here , while oustingthose more "open-minded" -withstudents.

What followed these ac-cusations was a promise bySchool Superintendent WilliamKeough to look into the situation.Keough said specifically that hewould arrange for meetingsbetween students and schoolofficials with the view towardgetting . to the core of Tuesdaynight's student grievances.

Seventeen-year old BarbaraWest , a sophomore just trans-ferred to Huntington HighSchool from Elwood District 1,sparked the issue ofdiscrimination. The girl told theschool board and an audience of150 residents that she wasrepeatedly insulted by a "truantofficer " Tuesday afternoon whenshe went to the high, school toregister.'for classes. She chargedshe had gone to the school toconfer, with a guidance counselorabout her classes but was laterreferred to the truant officer bythe counselor.

"He (truant officer) - didn't• : ¦even know me and he asked me> . '. are you coming here to learn or :.be part of that party group here. I ;came here tonight because I'm;insulted , by. what he said. My 'grades are . good,, . I'm;.Va goods

:student. i But . a'r black- student'I comes. -to i this;; s^pI^andiUhey;:; down i'you -. bef 6rfr^biiVgefi.s"ta'r-}ted," she.said. ??S''; -i i^;' yi

:¦:,'.; No jp.ecjfic^narnesr. ..w.e.r.e,mentiohed'v! in.v'4ihe V charges'because', .both *; the i;board andKeough;* saidSthe^^wwild^nofunder ' .boards policy;allow naniesmentioned and discussed at apublic school board meeting. Thepolicy, said board president Mrs.Anita Messinger , is designed toprotect the 'rights of a districtemployee until the board .candiscuss the matter in executivesession.

A white student at the meeting,Robert Engel , of Huntington ,supported charges by blackstudents that discriminationexists throughout the junior highschool and high school in thedistrict, "I'm a white student, butI've been in the district schoolssince sixth grade. And I can tellyou they leave the bigots in theschools and get rid of theteachers who are open minded."He said he knew of threeteachers, popular with students,who are not being asked to returnto teach in the schools this yearbecause of what he said arereasons related to these Studentcharges.

His statements were supportedby several of the fifteen blackstudents- who at one pointshouted simultaneously that ahigh school teacher had calledtwoj black girls "sluts" as hepassed them in the hall of thehigh school. Other students at, themeeting said they have been told

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Burglar'sW in ^

At EMAEleven township youths, all in

their middle to late teens, werearrested Tuesday night byHuntington ' Second Squaddetectives and charged with the$5,000 burglary two months ago ofa Huntington Station music store.Police officials said detectivesrecovered $3,000 worth of thestolen musical equipment ,stashed in the , basement ofEastern . Military Academy, inCold Spring Hills, where three ofthe arrested youths are students.

Inspector Russell Richards ,deputy chief of Suffolk detectivessaid Wednesday the arrestsculminated a, two-month in-vestigation by Huntingtondetectives into the January 10burglary of the Freeport MusicStore, at 455 Route 110, in Hun-tington Station. The theft , inwhich the youths are alleged tohave broken into the store duringthe night, resulted in the heist ofguitars , amplifiers, cymbals, andother types of musical equip-ment, he said.

Richards charged that after theyouths had burglarized the store,they went to a near-by diner and"announced that the back door ofthe store was open- and caused ashopping spree there. . ."

"Subsequently, during theirinvestigation, detectives foundabout ' $3 ,000 worth of theequipment in the basement ofEastern Military Academy, "Richard added.

Based on evidence gathered bydetectives, warrants were issuedin First District Court by JudgeAlexander Kramer, naming theeleven suspects. Police saidparents of the youths werecontacted and that most of themturned their children over ' topolice late Tuesday evening.

The ? following were arrestedand charged with; third degree

,!burglary;;Jonn Campbell, 17, of;105 : Maplewood ;• Road;: Kenneth.vBehneft^7i

;of!M garfeS&i?etvSalvatore Alibrlsdi'W.'of 8 StigoStreet;, :;fall mree' 'students ' at

>,Eastern-=?'Milltary v Academ y.:: Saiter? tef.'the'stp'Ciths: am$teoV:allstmiehfe-at;:WaU?V^^School, were,'Donald, McKehzie,'16, of 9 Berrywodd Drive;. 'JohnFerry, 17, of 14 Bridle Lane;Craig Ordway; 18, of 70 East 13thstreet ; Christopher Marascuillo,17, of 34 Evergreen Avenue;Frank Deasea, 17, of 17 YorkvilleLane, Huntington; Steven Atkins,17, of 6 Fairfield Lane; and AlMeissner , 17, of 2 JohnsfieldLane. ' .

The eleventh youth arrested,Thomas Brabazon, 18, of 7 CraigDrive, was additionally chargedwith criminal possession of stolenproperty. All eleven youths hailfrom the Huntington- HuntingtonStation area, police said,

All have been scheduled toappear this week in FirstDlstrictCourt, Hauppauge, to answer tothe charges. It could not belearned at press time when theyouths would appear in court.

Police officials said the Hun-tington detectives, under Lieut.Det. Hugo Romler will continuetheir investigation and that morearrests In connection with thiscase are imminent.

TJtoro'in taoMnal quality tp>tomo of tin thlnas that Sook'N Soil holpod toll tills put

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chonrjed hands and, four oweare now bolntfarlvon by nnwownari.

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If you're1 In tho prooou ofSpring Cltwnlnn, you hnvo a ,wondorful opportunity to 1

make on Inventory of thing*you no lono" need, but wouldfiko to o*t cath for. Make alist. Describe each Item accu-rately nnd put a fair price oneach ono, Fill out the handyorder form on Poao v 13 andsond thorn In. It's that oasy and ¦you can (jot *omo oxtra cathforyoursolf,

Seasoned ItemsFind| New Homes

The Grcenlawn Plaza Com-munity Association , in anewsletter put out this week ,charged that illegal multipleoccupancy of single familydwellings in that community "isspreading fast and the peoplewho should care the most seem tobe trying the hardest not to 'notice." The newsletter went onto charge that the HuntingtonTown Board "will tell you it isdoing something. But it Is on sucha small scale that it amounts tonothing.",

Harold Mortensen, assistanttown attorney, told the Long-Islander yesterday that on June 29

;>four search warrants were signed:• ¦ by; District Court?Judge William;; jMijPerryiiOn/July *o£ 1970, the.:£ tbwn movejb iti^m?the lour; with

'" deprTO Sli"d6W«Sm'ptV'a* ffceVdepartment:iiarid^the . building

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"We fouhd violations in all fourhomes. 'One had as nrtany as 18persons living there," Mortensen

' said. The town prepared thenecessary, court papers on allfour homes, and was ready totake the case to the SupremeCourt to evict if. necessary, • ac-cording to the town attorney 'soffice.

"Just prior to that , the townwas ' served with a restrainingnotice in the English Case, whichgrew out of charges that the townwas in violation for not providinghousing for those evicted fromhomes demolished for the urbanrenewal project in HuntingtonStation ," Mortensen went on."We subsequently checked outtiie names, and found that not oneof the 37 living in the four housesin Grcenlawn matched with anyof the names of re-located urbanrenewal families , !1 said theassistant (own attorney.,

The English Case is pending inFederal District Court, " We can 'tpursue until this determination is '.made." said Mortensen.

Community UnitsFlays Housing

\{j . The .- \ proposed .^plantv?; forwidening and improvement of tKe

:-Jericho, , Tiwhpike^ufeJiiip ? uiy,*: terseetion areJjoixig; cJiianged-bJ^*WS>Mow>-y6^K?S^&Dei> tm>rrt|y 6t':Ttah&ijotf otiff i ?nh-ey- l%ngl?

Islah'der"lear»ed-yesterday. ,} ""As a result of our meetings ¦[

with the Huntington PlanningDepartment and the schools inDistrict W. 13, we are makingmajor modifications in the designwith regard to school, access,"Walter Handlcmann, assistant toRegional Director Austin Emery,revealed this week. ¦' ' :• .

"Our recommendations to theFederal Highway Administrationin Washington, D.C. will bechanged," said HancQemann.i Aletter is being sent to thatdepartment telling what theBabylon engineers wouldrecommend at the; Intersection,

Handlemanii said they willprobably propose a pedestrianoverpass for Uie High School, andthat changes'- are being con-sidered In the takings which willallow for additional commercialproperties for relocations.

Handlemanii said the changesare being made "as a result ofinformation, brought forth at theDecember community meetingsin December." However , heIndicated that "our contact withthe community is about over." Assoon as the review of changes iscompleted, recommendationswill be forwarded to the FHA ,Proposed revised plans will beavailable for study at theBabylon office of the Departmentof Transportation when com-pleted.

ii TheXCountyvEedefcal^ Savings;;land Loan.Association-presehted:ife|plahs;: for Milding; {a : bank

vlbrahch.,and "first class" 'office .¦'#NU feflR«'*>Tsoutfii->side;-.of. .."'Jerlctltt,furritilke;Avest;;6f/,vWilt-' shire Drive, in Commackiduringa public hearing Tuesday/askingfor an extension of businessdepth. . Representing the bankwas Leon Lazer of 44 Elm Street,Huntington. The request for achange from C-6 GeneralBusiness and R-7 residential to C-6 business was the subject of theapplication.

The property is located mid-way between Larkfield Road andCommack Road on the south sideof Jericho Turnpike in Commack.Of the total 105,000 square feet inthe entire parcel, 45,000 squarefeet is already zoned for business.The application sought to rezonethe remaining 68 ,000 square feet ,Lazer said. , .

Lazer called Jericho Turnpike"a stain" on the development ofthe town, The ground-floor of thebuilding will house the bonk, withtwo upper floors to be rented forpublic'office space. The buildingwill comprise 40,750 square feet.

The County Federal Savingsand Loan Association, with itsmain office in Rockvillc Centre,is the second largest savings andloan on the Eastern seaboard,and the intent would be to Invest"more heavily in Suffolk County"according to Robert Thompson, avice president and mortgageofficer of the bank.

Plan Overpass Bank Asks OKFor • •. Bigh: School 0nCQmmack Site

. Dr* Sumner Rosen , Perb-appointed mediator , said '. 'Tuesday that tho obstacles whichhad delayed negotiations onterms and conditions of em-ployment between tho HalfHollow Hills TeachersAssociation and tho Board ofEducation have "beenremoved." Ho reported ,that theparties have scheduled anegotiation session within thenext 48 hours. Talks on the 1071-72contruct' bogan on January 25.Tho current contract runsthrough June 30. •

The PERB mediator alsoannounced that the improperpractice charge which was filedby the school board against thoTeachers Association has beenWithdrawn,

Henry Loids , chiof negotiatorfor the HHHTA , said "theHHHTA negotiating team Is mostploaspd with tho efforts of Dr.Rosoii to help . us resolve thonegotiation problems, I hope thattho do-escnlatlon of differenceswill continue and that we mayroach, early ngreomont on thocontract In i an atmosphere ofharmonious relationship," Loldsindicated that efforts woro beingmndo to sot up a ooosloii onThursday \ evening. It wassuitable , he said , to his group ofnegotiators. \

Dist. 5 DisputeNears Solution

Joseph G. Gavin , Jr., seniorvice prosident and spaceprograms Director of theGrumman Aerospace Cor-poration, has been awarded theNational Aeronautics and SpaceAdministration's DistinguishedPublic Service Medal, Therehave only been seven of theseawards presented since NASA'sinception in 1050.

The citation accompanying theaward presented to Gavin read inpart , "As the leador andrepresen tative of the LunarModule team at GrummanAerospace Corporation , inrecognition of tho team's out-standing skill which madepossible the successful use of theLunar Modulo as a rescue vehiclefor the sufe roturn to earth of theApollo 13 crew ."

G rum man's GavinGets NASA Award

An application by Laurel In-vestors , 350-Elwood Road, EastNorthport, to downzone fifteenacres of property from one-acreresidential to half-acreresidential zoning drew stiffopposition from homeowners inthe area of Stony Hollow Road ,Pulaski Road, Saratoga Avenueand Elwood Road where theparcel is located.

Owners of the property areCharles Stravino , Virginia Boveand Virginia Yaboni, who wererepresented at the public hearingTuesday afternoon by HowardPachman of 6143 Jericho Turn-pike, Commack. The down-zoning was soughtfor the purposeof constructing one-familydwellings . According to Pach-man, the change of zone wouldconform to the master plan whichcalls for medium density.

Fred Meyer, a city planner,told the board on behalf of theowners , that in his opinion theproperty is under a "prior zoningwhich is no longer practical." Hecontended the change of zonewould not affect the character ofthe neighborhood , melds thesurrounding zoning mix, andfollows recommendations of themaster plan. •

Town Councilman Clayton F.Mugrldge-who was out of town onTuesday- , left a letter of op-position to be read at the boardsession. Mugrldge :claimed, thejpetltiqriete ', ? |dbeBnUU;haye, agitlmateplea'

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•¦} . Marie Sarrd of, 851 ;'.. giilaski.Rbad . preseriteS;the:tbwn clerkwith 352 names on a" petitionasking that the application beturned doWn . ' "Everythingconsidered, It's an obnoxiousidea," she said.

Charles Bongiorno charged theboard with using the com-prehensive plan as a"camouflage to down-zone. . .Itthis town board is concerned overhow it is building up, open youreyes as to what ishappenlng," hesaid,, asking that the boardreconsider the situation.

Ruth Gazman of 39 ElwoodRoad pleaded , "no moredownzonings ," while L. J.Pasciutti of 18 Saratoga Avenuepresented pictures to point up hisargument that the area could nothold much more development."We're getting a little bit fed upwith sweeping, shoveling andballing," Pasciutti said, statingthat during the recent storm thecollection of rain water was sogreat that three pumps were stillpumping after seven hours in thearea.

Mrs. Theresa Gentile read aletter from a neighbor, Mrs. JolinP. WendJer of 24 HarborvlewDrive , Northport registeringopposition, and sold that "threesides of this application aredeveloped as one-acre plots."

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Down-zoningDraws Opposition

Rop, James R, Grover Jr. ofBabylon announced this week theaward of a $2,208,000 federalcontract to tho GrummanAerospace Corp, of Bothpoge,Tho contract covers dqslgn ,development and fabrication of nnavigation satellite system,

T|ie government immodintolyobligated Itself to $1,215,000 ofexpenditure under the contract,

$2,288,000 JobFor Grumman 's