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Vol. 6, No. 30
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May 15, 1971
John Neubert "What a shot f" cried an ABC came:raman as he filmed the Sikorsky S-61 ter placing a 6,000 pound concrete slab on Co-op City's Garage No. 2. The event brought out newsmen from all major New York television and newspaper media on Tuesday. It was the first full scale airlift of its type in the metropofüan area. The whirl of helicopter blades blew dust and sand at the awestruck spectators, but that didn't deter the first-day viewers er. Clearing the dust from from staring incessantly at his eyes and pointing skythe aerial display. The fire ward, one Co-op City prehydrant on Co-op City :ëou1eTomorrow is election day for. thé resident mem- vard was turned on to keep schooler captured the attenber of Riverbay Corporation's Bc".rd of Directors. One down the dust, and the tre- tion of all the photo journalstockholder (apartment owner) from each family in fully mendous wind of the heli- ísts there. occupied buildings is eligible to voto, copter ripped the gushing Windows of Buildings 3 water straight up off the and 9 were jammed with cuThere will be three voting locations. Residents of road and sprinkled the spec- rious faces . . . their noses Buildings 1 through 14 and the Tow"l Houses on DeFee, taters with an invisible mist. pressed against the window Debs and Cooper Places will vote at the second floor lobby With bright sun and temp- panes. The roar of the heliof the Community Center. Residents in Buildings 15 through eratures near 80 degrees, the copter engine echoed through 19 inclusively will vote in the Community Room of Buildcrowd didn't seem to mind the brick and glass canyons ing 16A. Those residing in Buildings 20, 21, 22 and 25 will the sprinkling a bit. Weath- of Co-op City, and residents vote in the Community Room of Building 22A. The polls ermen reported that Tuesday from as far as the other side will be open from 10 A.M. to 4 P.M. If no candidate musters was the finest day of the of the development stopped at least one-third of the total votes cast, a run off election to gaze at the aeronautical between the two front runners will be held Sunday, May season. TV newsmen from NBC feat. Shoppers and store 23rd. turned their 16mm cameras owners alike walked to the A sample of the balfot appears below. Final statements around to film the tots, who center of the Mall in Shop. by the candidates also appear in this issue. lined up on Dreiser Loo.. to ping Center No. 1 to watch. watch with wide-eyed wond(Continued on Page 7)
WHIRLY BIRD-HeHcotper over Co-op CHy Boule. vard with a three-ton concrete slab for placement on Garage No. 2. The airlift project was the first full scale operation of its type in the metropolitan area.
Look to Put Refuse in ontainers lVfore than four years of efforts on the part of Co-op management will pay off shortly with the introduction of a containerized refuse pick - up program here. Management is on the verge of finalizing an agreement with New York City's Environmental Protection Administration to establish a pilot project. The plan is for the housing company to provide standardized refuse containers 'outside the building, and the Sanitation Department to provide the · pick-up trucks with special fork lifts to empty the containers. The advantage to (Continued on Page 9)
New Garage SHc·kers for Bid gs I O thru 14 AH garage users from .Buildings 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 should pick up their 1971 garage stickers in Garage 3 on Saturday or Sunday, May 15th or 16th, between the hours ~f 8 A.M. and 12 ;Midnight. A special crew . has been arranged to handle this quickly. All car owners ar'e urged to cooperate and pick up their stickers at the stated time. Users of other garages will be notified when their nev,' stickers will be avail-
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allot ote For une 1 . Muriray Victor 1. Joseph Laznow 3 . Arthur Z. Cohen 4 . Earle Mcfield S . Frederick Beck Walte,r Da,nz
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Public Info Committee Pleads Not Guilty By Michael A. Sicilian Public Information Committee of the Adl'isory Council.
We are currently in the midst of a campaign to elect a third resident cooperator to the Board of Directors of the Riverbay Corporation. The Public Information Committee of the Advisory Council is charged with publicizing and overseeing the campaigns of the candidates and setting up and executing the actual election procedures. Much 3) Publicizing via the criticism has been directed newspaper and bulletin at this Committee for its ooard notices the two "Meet "failure" to generate wide inYour Candidates Nights" at terest in the forthcoming the Community Center on election on May 16th. PerApril 27 and May 6. haps our "failure" has re- , Of course, we could have suited from the following: done much more, such as: 1) 1) Having lead articles in the Co-op Times for the last taking time off from our four consecutive issues jobs and making announcestressing the importance and ments from sound trucks; 2) hiring skywriters to spread other pertinent data relative our message across the skies; to the election. 3) making spot announce. 2) Publishing statements the candidates in the last merits on radio and T.V.; three issues of the Times. on 8)