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Civic Groups to Fight Garbage Dump By Aileen Jacobson Melville--The storm of environmental protest over a plan by the Town of Oyster Bay to put compacted, raw garbage into a new landfill site in Plainview has spread into Suffolk County. "When the black cloud was over Plainview and Oyster Bay, it wasn't raining in Melville," Ed Baron, president of the Tuxedo Hills Civic Association in Melville, said at a meeting last night. "Now the cloud is drifting over, and we may get a little wet. If we're not careful, we'll get very wet." Members of civic groups in Plainview and the three groups in the Huntington area closest to the landfill site said at the meeting last night at the King of Kings Lutheran Church that they fear the garbage would pollute their water systems and cause odors and rats. Baron and Carole Fishman, representing the Greater Plainview Civic Association, said their group is planning legal action against the town to stop excavation until the State Department of Environmental Conservation approves the 1 town' plan.

Assemb. Lewis J. Yevoli (D-Old Bethpage) said that his staff would determine within 10 days which section of state law the citizen groups could use to file for an injunction, and which permits are needed by the town. Fishman and Ye voli both charged that when the proposal for the 65-acre landfill site, just north of the Long Island Expressway at the Suffolk County line, was placed before voters in 1972, the town promised that only incinerated garbage would be dumped there. Burned garbage, they said, would not cause such a water-pollution problem.

The Town's plan calls for a plastic liner to be placed at the bottom of the hole to prevent seepage. But the civic leaders contended that the liner, which they said has not been used before for this kind of project, could break. The town, Yevor said, has contended that no impact statement is required. The Town is now dumping its garbage at a site in Old Bethpage, which is almost full. A Huntington Town attorney at the meeting said that he would seek resolution from the Huntington Town Board to ask the state environmental commissioner to investigate the state's responsibility for the site.

Yevoli said that the commissioners of three water districts that could be affectedSouth Huntington and Jericho--also are upset and have been asked to send similar letters to Albany. The 70 to 80 people at the meeting voted to tax each family belonging to the civic associations in the affected area $25 to hire a lawyer to fight the case. Fishman said her group would meet in two weeks to decide on further action. Baron said the groups should fight the town now, before the excavation continues. "If we allow this cart to go before the horse," he said, "we'll let them feel they can do Ed Baron Politicians Caught in TV Studio Move By Leonard Levitt Garden City--The Nassau County executive has had to settle for a rerun; the Oyster Bay supervisor had to turn away invited guests.

Channel 21's move into a van is putting a dent in the television careers of Long Island's politicians. Earlier this month, Long Island's public broadcasting station, WLIW, announced that it was shifting its stu dio operations to a 40-by-10-foot van. For the past two years, the station has used a studio in Westbury, on the campus of the New York Institute of Technology, which provided the studio and equipment free of charge. Alexander Schuce, president of the institute and chairman of Channel 21's board of trustees, said the station had been told to vacate the studio for summer "upgrading," which he said had "been in the works for a long time." But the timing of the move has led to allegations by station employees that Channel 21 was forced out of the studio because its technicians voted April 30 to join the Radio and Television Broadcast Engineers of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. According to former studio manager Pierre Stevens, who lost his job in the move because he lacked a required license, the station, which has been fi- Be 11 286 88 Newsday Photo by Jim Peppler The van offers close quarters for the Channel 21 cameras nancially pressed, has been forced to spend $4,000 on new carnera equipment.

Station manager Charles Bell said he had known of the college's decision to close the studio before the technicians' vote but had not mentioned the decision to them because "our lawyers said you cannot say anything to these men that looks like promising Or threatening them. It would have seemed like a threat." He added: "It was the college's decision to close the studio. It was my decision when We move out." "We were scheduled to tape Monday May 3," said Elaine King, media coordinator for Nassau County Executive Ralph Caso. That morning, she said, the station's program director, Gerri Carmody, "informed me that she had just received a call from the institute saying that because the technicians had voted to unionize, they couldn't use the studio." Caso was to tape two sessions that day of his weekly program, "The Exeo utive's Round Table." The taping was postponed, and because one of the segsions was to be broadcast the next day, a rerun of his program was shown. After the operation was moved into the van, which is parked on Ellington Ave.

West in Garden City, Caso re sumed his taping schedule, although. Ms. King said, "it is very crowded." Frank DeStefano, public information officer for the Town of Oyster Bay, said he was told by the station that two civic leaders invited to appear with Su pervisor John Burke for a taping of the supervisor's show could not fit into the van. "If they don't think there's a prob lem, they just have to look at that van," DeStefano said. An Explosive Bicentennial al Pr Problem By A.

J. Carter The Bicentennial celebration should prove to be a bonanza for persons who deal in illegal fireworks, Long Island law enforcement authorities said yesterday. Police said they they have already, noticed increased activity by wholesalers who load up their cars with fireworks in the South, where such sales are legal, and bring their goods north in the hope of cashing in on the additional hoopla expected to accompany this July 4. Police fear that organized crime, too, is stepping up its involvement. "They're moving into it, and it's not for patriotic reasons," said Lt.

David Scanlon of the Suffolk police organized crime control bureau. Sgt. Keith Simpson, head of the Nassau police bomb squad, said he thought most Nassau county activity was by "small jobbers," but he added, "I know from talking to people from other metropolitan areas that organized crime is playing a part." One of the things that alarms police is that the activity they are noticing now, and have noticed for the past month, is of the type that does not usually occur until mid-June or closer to July 4. "Things are starting a little earlier this year," Simpson said. And the reason, he said, appears to be the Bicentennial.

Earlier this week, undercover Suffolk police posing as firecracker wholesalers arrested three men and confiscated more than $2,400 worth of fireworks. Police said the defendants told them they have been selling fire works illegally for the past five years and that business was especially brisk this year because of Bicentennial cele brations. Police in New Haven, earlier this week made arrests in a case in which 40 cases of fireworks were seized. And New York City police recently seized three truckloads full of fireworks imported from the South for local sale. Mi.