The Observer 07 February 1962 Volume 3 Number 10

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Vol. 3 No. 10 Wednesday, FebrFuaarrym 7i, n 1g9d6a2l e's M/ aHssoapsetq uCa oPmarkp, l eLt. eI . NNe. Yw. spaper2 nd Class Postage paid at Massapequa Park and
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Fred Mirick Celebrates
His 91st Birthday Sun.
Fred F. Mirick, former resi­dent
of 358 Secatogue Avenue,
Farmingdale, will observe his 91st
birthday, February 11th.
Born in 1871, in Princeton,
Mass., Mr. Mirick married the
late Maude A. Frisbie on Septem­ber
14, 1898. In 1906, they moved
to Bronx, N. Y., from Worcester,
where he worked for the Stand­ard
Plunger Elevator Company.
They came to Farmingdale, May
1919 and he worked with the Bri­tish
American Tobacco Company,
Long Island Home in Amityville
and Independent Silk and Dye
Company until his retirement.
He was an ardent worker for
Bethpage Lodge # 975, F. and A. M.
which he joined in 1923, serving
as Tiler for 33 years. He was
Patron of Bethpage Chapter # 661
of the Order of the Eastern Star
four times also Grand Sentinel of
the Grand Chapter in 1942. He was
Councillor of Jesse Merritt Chap­ter
of the Order of DeMolav, the
Sunbeam Triangle Girls and the
Harriet Knoeckel Constellation
girls. Mr. Mirick was honored by
members of the constellation on
Saturday night, February 3rd in
observance of his birthday.
iVir. Mirick took an active part
in theatrics and was very inter-
.~ « > ted in baseball.
Only Women On
Pistol Team
fred f. Mi rick
Miss Terry Donlon of Farming-dale,
is the only woman member
ot the top pistoi team at Cirum-man
Aircraft Engineering Cor­poration,
Bethpage, where she has
worked for seventeen years.
She has always been interested
in sports, bowling, tennis, swim­ming
and horseback riding, so when
she read about the pistol team in
the plant paper, she decided to try
out for one of the teams. She
had nver fired a pistol, however
she had used a shot gun while
duck hunting on various occasions.
Last March she submitted
her application for joining the team
and found she was accepted and
encouraged by the team captain
Morton Weinberg and other
members of die team. Miss Don­lon
is anxious for other women
to come out for the pistol teams,
and eventually an all- women's
team formed.
Pike FIGHTSForRepublic
in Last Minute Stand
Many families in this area were alarmed by reports of predicted large scale
layoffs at Republic Aviation in Farmingdale.
It has been reported that by mid summer 1962, 2000 employees would be out
of work and by mid summer 1963, 9000 would be in the same category. These
figures only include men employed directly by Republic and do not consider
those whose jobs depend on sub contracts with Republic or other services in­directly
connected with the Republic operation. According to a reliable source,
there is only one new fighter aircraft plane up for contract award and nine com­panies
have been fighting for it. It was the decision of the US Department of De­fense
to purchase another type of plane rather than Republic's F 105.
According to Congressman Otis
Brotherhood
Fund Drive
Bethpage Lodge # 975 F. & A.
M. held a regular business meet­ing
on Friday, February 2nd at
the Masonic Temple, North Main
Street. Master George Cagnard
opened the meeting at 8 P. M.
A report was given by Chair­man
of the Blood Bank Commit­tee
stating that blood reserves
are down and donations will be
urgently needed at the blood drive
on Tuesday, April 17th.
There was an announcement of
the bowling match between the
DeMolay Boys and the men of the
Bethpage Lodge on Sunday, Feb­ruary
4th at the Farmingdale
Lanes.
A request was made for better
attendance at the Fellowcraft Club
on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays each
month.
( Continued on back page)
KoK Donee
February 10th
The Farmingdale Council Kn­ights
of Columbus # 2204 will hold
their annual St. Valentine's Dance
on Saturday night, February 10th
at the Lindenhurst K of C Hall,
South Broadway and Reader Ave­nue,
Lindenhurst.
The Knights will select a Queen
from the Ladies attending. She
will be crowned and receive many
gifts ....
Tickets are available at the
door or from the following chair­men:
T. Holmes, CH 9- 1359, C.
Greco, CH 9- 5022 or M. Rien-cker,
CH 9- 6140.
MONTHLY MEETING
The regular monthly meeting of
the Ladies Auxiliary, Farmingdale
Little League and Babe Ruth Lea­gue,
will be held on Thurday even­ing
February 8th at 8: 00 p. m. in
the W. E. Howitt Junior High
School Cafeteria.
Captain Ketcham Promoted
To Deputy Inspector
Nassau County Commissioner of
Police James J. Kelly announced
that effective Friday, February
9th, James R. Ketcham of Fulton
Street, Farmingdale, Aide to the
Commissioner of Police, will move
up from captain to deputy inspec­tor.
It was also announced recently
that Ketcham will instruct on the
subject on Criminal Law and the
Police In « he Spring tenr of the
Police Science Program of the
State University at Farmingdale.
Deputy Inspector Ketcham, who
has been officer of the staff of
the Office of Commissioner of
Police and Chief Inspector, also
serves as an instructor in the
Police Department's Training
Bureau.
Appointed to the county force
in 1945, Ketcham, 35, graduated
from St. John's University Law
School in 1956 and was admitted
to the Bar the same year. He was
promoted to sergeant in 1955,
lieutenant in 1958 and captain in
1961.
He is the son of Harry B. Ket­cham
of 951 Fulton Street and the
late Anna M. Ketcham. His brother
Richard C. Ketcham is a Detective
with the Nassau County Police
Department. He and his wife Lucy
who graduated from Main Street
Judge P. J. Kelly
Guest Speaker
G. O. P. Meeting
The Republican Club of Farm­ingdale
will hold their next re-ular
meeting at St. Thomas's Un­dercroft,
February I2that8; 30pm.
Guest speaker for the occasion
will be Honorable Paul J. Kelly,
Court Justice of the Court of Nas­sau.
His address will be " The
County Court and Your Tax Dol­lar".
The attendance of all members
will be appreciated. Refresh­ment
will be ser> ed.
High School in June of 1943, have
two children.
Please Take Notice
The next regular meeting of
the Board of Trustees,
scheduled for Monday,
February 12 th, 1962 has been
postponed until February 26th
1962 because of Lincoln's
Birthday holiday. A Special
meeting of the Board is
scheduled for Monday, Feb­ruary
19th, 1962.
James B. Ketcham
G. Pike, who during the past year,
has been warning of the danger to
our Long Island economy, which
such a cut back could create, suc­ceeded
last Friday in having the
Secretary of Defense agree to r e ­view
all the factual data and report
which led to the decision to drop
the Republic plane in favor of the
McDonne' plane in St. Louis, Mis­souri.
Pike said that he was handi­capped
in assisting Republic by
three things. The subject matter
as to the relative performance of
the two planes ( it is a secret) did
not give him sufficient factual data
to be used in the extensive cross
examination by the Air Force and
Defense Department. The second
problem is that Republic is a one
customer company ( The U. S. Air
Force) and simply did not wish to
step on Air Force toes. The third
handicap is not particular to Long
Island or Republic, but effects the
entire air force industry, it is
simply easing out of manned air­craft
business and moving more
and more heavily into the missle
field.
According to Pike, he has been
besieged by telegrams blaming him
for the Defense Department's de­cision,
since he is a Democrat
( Continued on page 12)
Last Minute Bus Flash
In an explosive public participa­tion
session at the Board of Edu­cation
meeting of District # 22 held
at Weldon E. Howitt on Tuesday
night, the East Memorial PTA Exe­cutive
Board revealed their dis­satisfaction
with Edward McNally,
Board Transportation Committee
Chairman's " evasive answers" to
the questions on school bus safety.
The PTA unit, which had threatened
to have their children boycott
school bus transportation, however
stated satisfaction with the offer
made on Saturday at an emergency
meeting by Mr. Jules Fleschner,
Secretary of the Star Bus company,
that his company would station
spotters to make sure that bus
drivers adhere to the company rule
that no loaded school bus travel
over Staples Street and the un­guarded
railroad crossing. They
also expressed relief that the bus
driver, who had violated this in­junction
last week, and who al­legedly
had disregarded blinking
lights has been suspended.
Mr. Carmine Scura, President
of Local 252 of the Transport
Union was present in the audience
and by Board approval was allowed
to speak. He stated that the Union
had concurred in the dismissal
of this driver for violating the com­pany
rule of trans versing Staples
Street. However, he appealed to
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New Office Building
Planned For Farmingdale
A new $ 300,000 office building,
which will be known as the Titan
Building, is being planned for
Farmingdale, L. I., with construc­tion
scheduled to start early this
year.
To be located on Main Street at
Conklin Street, it will contain 11*-
000 square feet of office space
plus 4,500 square feet of stores
on the ground floor. It adjoins a
municipal parking field.
The building will be three stories
high, full air- conditioned and pro­vide
automatic elevator service
to all floors.
As designed by architect Laur­ence
M. Werfcl, it will be built of
pre- cast concrete with a modern
exterior enhanced by a curtain
wall facade and glare- reducing
glass offices. An arcade will be
provided above the store fronts
Wheeler Associates will build
the new structure.
Krwin P. Stalk r has been nam­ed
as renting agent.