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School aia ftCirKfitt f* ffff ffi c aDDtO V€ll ^ ^» « _ ^ ^ ^..^^^ g^ _ ^mt ^ ^nB^gi w ^ v\1111 ^ ^m^r^r m V w van It appears tua t no Long Island school district will lose sta te aid under a compromise reached Monday by the State Assembl y and Sena te . Actual passage of the measure , however , must await the outcome of the debate on state funding for Medicaid abortions which has held up passage of the state budget. Assembl yman I. William Bianchi , Jr., voted against the compromise because he said it wasn 't enough. He is pressing a suit by some 30 Long Island school districts which seeks to enjoin the Legislature from making any changes in Gov. Carey ' s earlier proposal. Bianchi hopes that the courts will enforce an earlier decision declaring the present method of financing education wholly through a real property tax is 1 in/- »r\n otlfiifirf-iMO I uiicunoniunuiiai. \We ' re still going ahead with the suit but chances ot over- turning the funding formula are slim , \ Assemblyman Bianchi said. \We want to put pressure on the Legislature to carry out the mandate of (State Supreme Court) Justice (Kingsley ) Smith' s decision , \ he said. In the Levittown case , Justice Smith ruled that the current method of financing education was unconstitutional because it discriminated against poorer districts. Bianchi feels that Carey ' s formula was a step toward im- plementing Smith ' s decision . Under the compromise , the burgeoning William Floyd School District would receive the greatest percentage increase - 22.81 percent-while the largest dollar increase--$3 , 223 , 162-will go to the Sachem School District. (continued on page 10) SCHOOL AID LAWSUIT - On Mar. 29 , 30 Suffolk school districts filed suit in Albany Supreme Cou-t to block adoption of the proposed New York State education budget because they feel the proposed formula discriminates against Suffolk districts. On April 16 the State Senate and Assembl y leaders must aooear before the Albany court to explain wh y they adopted the school aid formula. Shown entering Judge Conway ' s chambers in Albany to obtain a show cause order are: Left to right. Assemblyman Paul Harenberg (D-Bayport), Attorney Robert Sapir , Assemblyman I. William Bianchi. Jr. (D-Bellport ) and Assembl yman George Hochbrueckner (D-Coram). Paichoaue tax rate going up - See story on page 3 IT'S A BEAUTY - Jim Stavola of Shirley shows off a 12-inch rainbow trout caught during the first day of trout season on Sunday. Jim did his angling at Kaler ' s Pond in East Moriches. ™ i u * --Tony Jerome photo By KARL GROSSMAN x nc lica.i-uci LcioiXO p 'nc; di uic Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsy lva nia has con- vinced many in Suffol k that nuclear power is a threat to human survival. Those who were against it before are even more opposed now . Peop le on the fence are off the fence. AnH frVlO rloman^ wrotr r*ioi>-» rr 1 M «U/ I «^«,*-.*.. * *¦** *-* «•*!* - - uvuiuiiU »* u5 l lOlllg HI tilt V -UUIUV this week to stop the Long Island Lighting Company from starting up its first nuclear power plant , at Shoreham , and be forced to convert it to coal-power , and calls that LILCO be blocked from building two nuclear plants at Jamesport were at a thunderous level Meanwhile, there were these other Hpypinnmontc • • The state Public Service Commission on Tuesday suddenly suspended in- definitely state siting board hearings which were supposed to start on Monday in Riverhead on LILCO' s application to build two nuclear plants at Jamesport. » Friends of the Earth called for an immediate shutdown of all 72 nuclear power plants in the United States and a halt to construction of new ones. « Numerous demonstrations were being planned for Long Island including an \ occupation \ of the LICLO plant at Shoreham v Major Norman Keily , the county ' s director of emergency preparedness , said that in the event of a nuclear accident in Suffolk \ a lot of people are going to die. \ « An analysis prepared at Brookhaven National Laboratory proj ects \ prompt fatalities from an accident at a 1 , 000 megawatt plant at 45 , 000 and 70 , 000 people suffering injuries , basically cancer and genetic damage . Despite the rising tide against nuclear energy, a group of county politicians . -.l/^ /^r-f Inl II / \V~ » n ^««^„ u. L - . ff . 1 i-woi-oi IU i^iuvu ayyy zai. o IUJI uu Ut: dlieCieU by the accident in Harrisburg which threatened thousands of lives . The three have been dubbed the \Gang of Three \ and consist of Anthony Noto , a Republican and chairman of the count> legislature , Legislator Michael J. Grant , also a Republican , and Martin J. Feldman , a Democrat and front-runner for Suffolk County executive this year. \Amazing!\ exclaimed Legislator John Foley after a move Tuesday by the three at a meeting of the legislature^ \Maior Projects Committee \ in Hauppauge , to remove the county ' s special counsel. Ir- ving Like , a nationally- known en- vironmental lawyer who has been representing the county in its intervention in the Jamesport case , from it Bouncing Mr. Like has been a princi pal goal of LILCO \They complained about the totai legal fees of $90 , 000 for his firm , \ said Mr TT^l-.. Kmi ii „ j- . i _ _ - , . _ x < ->ic j . inaLb uu L encap cunsiQei ing what we ' re talking about , tragic in light of Three Mile Islanc. \ But , Foley said , it is \ consistent \ with the positions the trie has been taking. \I' m amazed at what ' s being done , \ said Legislator Floyd Linton. Mr. Noto said the near-disaster at the Three Mile Island plant doesn ' t \ affect my stand on nuclear power at all I' m still in favor of it , but now I think there should be more stringent controls. \ He said he thought there \had to be a better way with technology to improve the situation \ He denied he and Mr Grant and Dr Feldman. a dentist , intended to bounce Mr Like from representing the county in nuclear matters. \He could work with our at- torneys , \ said Noto The issue is scheduled to come up for- mallv at the full legislature ' s meehnp Tuesday, in Hauppauge Jan Hickman , a LILCO public relations person , said . \Nobody reall y knows what happened out there. It would be irresponsible to make a ju dgement until (continued on page 10) Hflrrishurcs A-nlnrrt m!ch.n v* — = —-~— s s S ^ B T S« s7 ^*? 5 ^pB S m MT ^^aj ^_B lWfl BBBBB F fH g @ £&& ¦? H ? S S • w -va«? <«* '**'n ass ^ ^ %m> 9 ^ W IBB ^W B S ^^BBV
