Newsday (Nassau Edition) from Hempstead, New York • 15

Hempstead Blocks CORE Office Bid Lakeview Bias Claim to Be Heard Lakeview The State Division of Human Rights has found for a charge if racial discrimination in the Lakeview Fire admission practices A spokesman for the division said yesterday that James Foster regional director of the Long Island office found cause to the allegations of a filed by a 45-year-old Negro Eugene Reed A hearing on die case will be scheduled within one month to determine if there were any actual violations of the human rights laws when Reed was refused admittance to the department i division spokesman said Reed who was rejected by a secret vote for membership in November on what die volunteer fire department called character said last night back the state up cm just what they found I think the hairing will show that there is discrimination without- a William Bolch Jr the secretary said know nothing about it (the finding) not a discriminatory fire company and prove it if we have to By Edward Smith Hempstead A bid by Long Island CORE to establish a headquarters in an area of predominantly Negro Roosevelt which opposed the plan was blocked yesterday by town officials The Hempstead Town Board of Zoning Appeals killed the bid with its denial of a zoning variance that would have allowed die establishment of the Congress of Racial Equality headquarters as well as a community center in a vacant house on West Raymond Street near Nassau Road Long Island CORE Chairman Lamar Cox who had applied for the wimg change last September said that the town action was caused by that comes from die black community from colored people not black He said that CORE would not ahnylim its pinna The lengthy board of appeals decision came more than a month after a public hearing cm the CORE application and followed a dosed session of the board last Friday night Without referring to CORE the board ruled that the and of die community would be adversely affected by the noise from the center "With many youths attending at all hours during the day and night the usual standing around horsing around jocularity and noise must take the board decided The board further ruled that die building would be a fire hazard in such usage Cox labeled the decision bull flimsy cm shaky and said that while he did not know what CORE would do yet do some- thing maybe He said that CORE could still buy the house and know what restrictions there are for using your own home for Ed Sutherland secretary of the zoning board warned that if Cox should hold meetings hi die house he and other CORE members could run into trouble for violating die residential zoning of the neighborhood and from complaining neighbors Neighbors most of them Negro voiced their opposition at a Dec' 11 public hearing on application and their remarks precipitated a split in the Negro community While Cok was angered by die action of some Negroes who did not want CORE in the Negro community other Negro leaders did not share his ire Herman Washington a former CORE chairman who resigned in a policy conflict recently said have no objection to CORE coming into Roosevelt and I have no objection to the center But I have no opposition to the people of the community either those Lamar calls I am for all blacks and I see no need to split the community on this question I will not attack other blacks because they think differently than I Jobs Await Prisoners If Plan Is OKd jail and Sheriff Maurice Dean said last night none were yet involved in the work plan "There may be a 'few people up here who are critical of the Dean said I think most of them approve because it helps rehabilitate a man and lets him pay his own Those are the same arguments used by Maher who estimates that'he has made 250 speeches in the past two years drumming up support for work-release plans The speech is usually the same but die emphasis sometimes shifts according to the audience: certain groups are more apt to hear him stress economy (it costs 913000 a year to keep a prisoner in die Nassau jail work-release would have him pay part of his own way) Others hear him stress rehabilitation And all his audiences hear his assurances that hardened criminals will not be pqt out roaming the streets or used as strike-breakers or as cheap labor be a he said yesterday will only be used where there is a legitimate vacancy and will earn the regular wage If a union shop have to join just like everyone Most of the eligible prisoners would be persons serving three-to-eix-month sentences Maher said that they would include persons convicted of breaking-and-entering or lesser crimes 'Prisoners with records of assault alcoholism drug use sex offenses or major crimes would not be considered A bonded deputy would collect their pay deduct $5 a day for board at the jail and distribute the rest to tiie family creditors and into a bank account to be turned over to him when he leaves the jaiL By Tray Mario Mineola One month from now if the Nassau County work-release plan is approved a man serving a sentence for breaking into a service station may be leaving his cell for eight hours a day to pump Other carefully screened prisoners may be leaving the jail at 8 AM to board regular buses to take them to a funiture factory a machine shop or one of die more than two dozen jobs that already have been offered to inmates eligible for die program been Nassau Sheriff Joseph Maher said yesterday "The (state) corrections -commission won't even act on our application until February but already had more-job offers be able to There arb now 530 persons in the county jail but only about 100 are sentenced criminals die rest are awaiting trial for crimes ranging from robbery to murder And erf that 100 only a fraction (between 20 and 40) will be eligible for the program which Would allow certain prisoners to work at regular jobs for normal wages and return to their cells at the rad of the day Nassau was the first county in New York to permit fathers jailed for non-support to work during the day to make their support payments None of the 20 prisoners who have taken part in that program since October 1966 has tried to escape If die corrections commission as expected approves application It may also become the first county to allow convicts to work under those him terms The commission has approved Schuyler work-release plan but that sparsely-populated Finger lakes county has only 15 persons in its REHABILITATION Nassau Corrections Commission ar Waltar Flood centar and Sheriff Joseph Maher right discuss the proposed work-release program with a prisoner yesterday at the Nassau County Jail East Meadow LFs Channel 21 on the Beam at Last camera he was operating brushed past the music stand brought from his home to hold station identification cards and headed for the chief office to cue Michael Kuzmich of Woodaide Queens the announcer As the taped preview broadcasts of a sixth grade math course a piano recital and a garden show went out over the airways some members of the staff telephoned their wives to find out how the programs were being received dear signals woe reported The station had been scheduled to begin broadcasting Monday but was delayed a day by the late arrival of a technician to teBt Ch transmitter Edsall that it will be a few months before all the necessary equipment is installed Station manager William Pearce of Stony Brook said that the goal "doing a job for the was Ch 21 initially will broadcast educational and cultural shows of general interests as well as college credit courses Ideas for subsequent shows will be sought from educators and from the public The public also will be asked to contribute funds to sustain the operation John Lackas of Syoaset president of Long Island Educational Television Council Inc which operates Ch 21 said that private interests industry foundations the federal government and the public will be approached to contribute money WLIW currently relies on funds from the state and Nassau County Eventually Ch 21 plans live color programs and broadcasts from a mobile unit But in the coming months viewers will watch taped programs and films The immediate business of Ch 21 is to install electronic sound control equipment that will render unnecessary the chief engineer's screwdriver By Laurence Morrison nmAin City Someone asked shall we try it end the announcer leaned toward the borrowed microphone and said afternoon WUW now begins its broadcast And with that Long first television station Ch 21 was in business yesterday Tn business hardy Vital electronic equipment sat uncrated on the floor of the transmitter building at Nassau Community College Without its use chief engineer Wowwiel Edsall of Greenlawn periodically had to adjust the audio output level with a screwdriver anybody directing tills someone called' out said the program manager Albert Ttcirkfir of Baydde Queens Rrrhir left the television 15 1Vf Wednesday.