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Newsday (Nassau Edition) from Hempstead, New York • 11

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Hempstead, New York
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11
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1 i Ready Monday 9:30 AM To 9:30 PM BOUGHT OUT FROM A FAMOUS MAKER KNIT COAT AND X) RES COSTUMES i i Builder Keeps Plan For Discount Stores Oyster Bay The builder of a planned discount shopping center Woodbury that has been opposed by many residents angrily announced after meeting with tlie town board yesterday that he would continue to build the 200-store center because tlie board had refused to approve garden apartments for tlie site Myron Nelkin head of the Central Management Corp of Garden Citv stalked out of the board room and said going through with it This is a lot of muinbo Nelkin said that the lxnrd had asked him to dclav construction of the $1500000 center at the northeast comer of the Jericho Turnpike and the Wantagh-Oyster Bay Fxpresswav for several months until a master plan for that area was completed lawyer Charles Fiesel was heard to tell the board at the private session that it had failed for a year and a half to act on an April 1966 request for the rezoning of the 30-acre site and that theie was no reason for further delay The shopping center is already under construction on 10 acres of the' site already zoned for business Tlie rest is zoned residential Fiesel also said he would demand a poll of the board on the issue at next Tuesday's public meeting or soon tlicieafter Supervisor Micliacl Fetito a Democrat and his Republican npxtiient Town Councilman Ralph Marino the majority leader both refused to discuss tlie meeting The meeting with Nelkin and Fiesel was the second of the day in a lengthy six-hour session that also included meetings with representatives of ilie Syosset School Board Svnsset Chamber of Commerce and the Joint Civic Council Several participants at the meetings said that the civic association leaders were vehemently opposed to garden apartments for the site and preferred a shopping center of higlier Siialitv Tlie school board members were opposed but more flexible le participants said and the chamber of commerce repiesentatives favored the garden apartments The participants said that the town board privately favored construction of the apartments as either economically beneficial to the school system a point disputed by the school board and civic association leaders or the lesser of two evils Petito denied however tliat tlie board had made a private commitment to approve the request at a later date Aviation Tour Slated At MacArthur Field Bohemia A plane loaded with public officials was to fly here today from Kennedy Airport to help celebrate Aviation Fducilion Day with a tour of the Federal Aviation Agency's eastern flight control center at lamg Island MacArthur Airport New York City Council President Frank sa id lie has invited about 50 city state federal and long Island officials on the expedition to Islip to bring them up to date on tlie metropolitan area's increasing air traffic problems to develop creative solutions to these Viewing the center's facilities will be eight congressmen six state senators IS asscmblvmen nine of council colleagues and seven other officials from the FAA the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation Authority and Nassau and Suffolk (a unties Tlie inspection trip also will include a display of private corporate aircraft suitable for hedge Impping political campaign tours and a demonstration of sliort-takcoff-and-landing aircraft (sIDL) suitable for quick getaways Tlie group was to be briefed over breakfast in Kennedy International Hotel and fly here in time for lunch They were to licar the FAA's latest predictions of total saturation of the airspace and the need for a fourth metropolitan jetport was an early advocate of now-dormant proposals for a Calverton site for the jetport and his spokesman said last night that the Democratic council pics-dent was still interested During the FAA center tour the gathering will be able to ask FAA regional manager Chris Walk abont NYC BAN (New Ynk City Beacon Alpha Numerics) a radar-computer system in the a-ntcr designed to prevent midair collisions The device because of mechanical difficulties has proved virtually useless to flight controllers TV for LI Gets Final Nod Kewxrlay Washington Bureau Washington Long first television station received the silent approval yesterday of the Federal Communications Commission to turn itself on The FCC consented to the ultra-high frequency outlet in River-head the Suffolk County scat simply by doing nothing An FCC hearing examiner Forest McCIcnuing had given his approval Aug 10 If outsiders had filed exceptions during the next 50 days or if the commission had objected approval would have been held up The developers of the station have said that they hope to start broadcast ins as early as November 1968 The station WR1V-TV will broadcast on Ch 55 Its president and gcucral manager is Edward Wood Jr the 59-year-old operator of two Suffolk radio stations WRIV in Riverhead and WALK in Patclioguc Wood a founder in 1934 of the Mutual Broadcasting System has said WRIV-TV will broadcast from 6 AM until midnight daily offering local programs and syndicated shows and movies The station's UI1F signal he has said will cover all Suffolk east of a Jine running from Kings Park on the north to Bay Shore on the south Saturday September 30 1967 REG VALUE $90 FINEST WOOL DOUBLE KNIT TERRIFIC TAILORING SINGLE AND DOUBLE BREASTED STYLING BEAUTIFUL OUTFITS -V ft 269 FULTON AVENUE HEMPSTEAD telOSSL OPEN MON FRL 9:30 AM TO 9:30 PM YOU CAN CHARGE IT AT EMPIRE 11 mam.

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