The Observer 17 January 1962 Volume 3 Number 7

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Vol. 3 No .7 Wednesday, January 17, 1962 Massapequa Park, L. I. N. Y. 2nd Class Postage paid at Massapaqua Pork and
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Sunrise Fulcra! Honor Charier Members
A dinner was held at Beau Sejour In Bethpage on Tuesday, January 9th, to honor the charter members of
die Board of Directors of the Sunrise Federal Savings and Loan Association. Engraved plaques were pre­sented
by the Association to Charles O. Schmidt, Norman F. Sullivan, Halsey B. Knapp, Dr. W. Ellery Fol-lett
and Weldon E. Howitt in appreciation of their services as they have served continuously since the found­ing
of die association in 1934.
It was recalled by speakers at the dinner that the association has had a phenominal growth as die assets
at the time of the founding were only twenty- five thousand dollars and now the assets are nearly twenty- five
million.
The odier members of the Board are William T. Schwendler Willis B. Carman, and Arthur F. White who
have served for twenty- five years and Sebastian A, Albrecht and John O. Wagt^- r, Jr.
T » xv? c (.- refloat ft die dinner, in nd. I'. ticii to uV ah- r Rrecton w re: 0. J': tr Kcnn . oin, Executive
Vice President ard George Truppner, Jeanne Hardwlck, Assistant Secretaries, Howard Gtoerth, Assistant
Secretary, Branch Manager and Wallace Bethell, Assistant Treasurer, as well as Miss Sarah Howitt, Mr.
Gecrge Hardwick and Mesdames Schmidt, Sullivan, Knapp, Follett, Schwendler, Carman, White, Al­brecht,
Wagner, Kemmlein, Truppner, Geberth, and Bethell.
Many Respond To Formation
of Hale tor lomiiiillee
The first meeting of ilie Farmingdale Cancer Com­mittee
of the Nassau Division of American Cancer
Society was held at Northside School on January 9th.
Mrs. Judith Sturtz, Chairman of
die Farmingdale Cancer Commit­tee,
called the meeting to order and
introduced Mr. John Diebler,
Executive Director, Division of me
American Cancer Society, Mrs.
Virginia Nostrand, Chairman of
Volunteer Activities for Nassau
Division, and Mayor Joseph Brune.
Mayor Brune welcomed die in­terest
of the American Cancer So­ciety
in Farmingdale and assured
Mr. Diebler and Mrs. Nostrand of
die cooperation of die community.
it is the hope ofthls committee
to inform die public in Farming-dale
of die services available to
diem through die American Cancer
Society, as well as to help die
Society in these services. Mr.
Diebler outlined die operations of
( he American Cancer Society from
die national level to die county level
pointing wim just pride to the El-mont
Cancer Detection Center in
Nassau. Mrs. Nostrand gave an
outline of the society's functions
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TONFIKNTIAL iNfOKMATION'
MCST SET BY VISI 22 BOARD
Two important committee meet­ings
of die Farmingdale Board of
Education will take place next week
to which the public is Invited.
Botii meetings will be held at Wel­don
E. Howitt Jr. High School at
8: 30 p. m. On Tuesday, January
23rd, die Public Relations Com­mittee,
chaired by Board member
A. Terry Weadiers, will discuss
a petition signed by 23 residents
on die meaning of what diey term
" Confidential Information".
According to a Board spokes­man,
die matter of classroom
space shortages and die condition
of die Main Street school build­ing
are a matter of public record.
" Only certain information regard­ing
personnel and the considera­tion
of purchase of specific proper­ty
sites are, by necessity, dealt
with in executive session".
Mr. William Becker of 251
Wyoming Street, Norm Mas­sapequa
has been the chief advo­cate
of " a more open policy" of
discussing what he terms as " con­fidential
information". He has
charged that die district at large
was not cognizant of die rezoning
and that the Superintendent's
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Grumman Bomber
Gets Navy Off
The Navy nas signaled rneurum-man
Aircraft Corp. of Long Island
to go ahead witii die production of
a new low- level attack bomber.
The notice came last week when
die Bureau of Naval Weapons an­nounced
the award of an $ 86,050,
000 production contract. Grumman
has already received $ 200,000,000
during the past two years to develop
die plane, known as die A2F- 1,
and to ready production lines. A
Grumman spokesman said the
plane would be built at die com­pany's
Bethpage plant. No Increase
in employment Is expected, he said.
The plane is die Navy's first
attack bomber capable of operating
at altitudes low enough to avoid
enemy radar and in all- weather
conditions. With its own intricate
radar system, it can strike its
targets with either nuclear or con­ventional
weapons and with pin­point
accuracy, officials said.
The plane was also described as
being able to fly " toward a moun­tain,
up one side and down the
other without the crew ever seeing
it." The carrier- based plane will
carry a pilot and radar operator.
It was described as having great
stability at low altitudes where
rough air masses are most pre­valent.
Exact performance details
are secret.
Allee Back From
UN Visit to Taiwan
Back from Taiwan, having spent
die most exciting two weeks in his
life, beginning New Years Day,
David Alice, Dean of die Long Is­land
Agricultural and Technical
Institute at Farmingdale and a
member of die Board of Trustees
of die Incorporated Village of
Farmingdale, said diat die
achievements of these industrious
people was a revelation.
Mr. Allee traveled 20 hours by
air on die United Nations assign­ment.
He was selected as a tech­nical
assistance expert, to evaluate
a request by die Republic of China
for assistance in a technical- vo­cational
educational program
mostly In die fields of automotive
and diesel engines.
In his eight day visit in Taiwan,
he visited construction projects,
including dams, harbor develop­ment,
a superhighway and fac­tories.
Mr. Allee said die people
were moving so fast diatdielr pro­gress
was unbelievable. " It Is
particularly amazing since diey
have practically no tools wim which
to work. The actual workers were
alert and progressive. A few short
montiis ago diey were assembling
cars from Japanese parts, now diey
are making dielr own parts in
dielr own factories."
We learned diat Taiwan is about
300 miles long and 90 miles wide.
Of » h" 1! . Tuliiou inhabi'ants, there
" Dear Urn" Presented
The Sol Hurok production of
" Dear Liar" was presented Tues­day
night, ( January 16) at die
Weldon E. Howitt School for die
faculty and students of State Uni­versity's
Agricultural and Tech­nical
Institute.
DeviJ Allee
are nine million native Formosans
and two million immigrants from
die China mainland, as well as
many Americans.
There are four Rotary Clubs in
Taipai die capltol, one of which
Mr. Allee attended.
He said dwre is such a
tremendous mixture of die old
world and die new, which is not
blended that everywhere you look
is a picture. On die street you
see ox carts and buffalo, as well
as modern cars, mixed In
wim ducks and chickens.
We are looking forward to seeing
his pictures developed and hearing
more of diis most unusual and
i « rpoi tart £ Ssiguraeut.
Named Nassau Trustee
Mrs. Khan R. Musaof420akdale
Blvd.. Farmingdale, was elected to
die Nassau Library System Board
of Trustees at die Annual Meeting
held in Freeport. The Library Sys­tem
is a cooperative formed by 41
public libraries in Nassau. The
Libraries are combining efforts
to improve local serve dirough
centralization of repetitive cleri­cal
activities. Mrs. Musa will
serve as a representative for die
Bethpage, WcksviUe, Plainview,
Syosset and Farmingdale Public
Libraries. Mrs. Musa has been a
Trustee with die Library in Farm­ingdale
since 1932.
HuiTii For it Knight" Committee
Tickets are now available for The Farmingdale Council # 2204
Knights of Columbus " Queen For a Knight" Dance.
The dance will be held on Saturday evening, February 10th at
Lindenhurst K. of C. Hall, South Broadway and Reade Avenue, Linden-hurst.
Left to Right in Photo above are. Ticket Chairman John Leahy;
and Grand Knight Armando DeLucia dsiDributing tickets to Mike
Rienecken, Cosmo Scura and Tom Holmes. Tickets can be obtained
by calling CH 9 - 1359 or CH 9 - 5022.