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NEWSPAPER BY THE
INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF
FARMINGDALE
SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 22
PLAINEDGE
SCHOOL, DISTRICT NO. 18
SERVING PLAINEDGE, BETH-PAGE
AND THE GREATER
FARMINGDALE AREA.
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V O L . 3 N O , 25 Wednesday, May 23, 1962 Massapequa Park, L. I. 2nd Class Postage paid at Massapequa Park 10<:
Village Board Nixes Apt. Bid
Village Clean Up
The Village of Farmingdale will
conduct a Spring Clean- up Drive
for residents of the Incorporated
Village only, on Monday, June
11th and Tuesday, June 12th.
Residents will have an op­portunity
to dispose of non-combustible
items, such as old
washing machines, refrigerators,
gas ranges, bed springs, mat­tresses,
furniture, broken toys,
building materials and tree limbs.
Regardless of when you put out
your gar gage on the regular
collection days, the special clean­up
days will be as follows:
Monday, June 11th - All of the
territory situated West of Main
Street.
Tuesday, June 12th - Both sides
of Main Street, between Bethpage
Road and the Babylon Railroad
tracks and all of the territory East
of Main Street.
Village Hall was jammed with standing room only
Monday night for the public hearings before the
Board of Trustees of a petition for a Special Use
Permit for the purpose of the erection of a garden-type
apartment house on a rectangular parcel bound­ed
on the North by Sullivan Road, East by Oakdale,
South by the LIRR Main Line right- of- way and on
the West by Ivy Street.
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The Annual Inter Service Club
Stag Dinner was held last Wed­nesday
evening at The Lobster-man,
fornferly TCasa Loux,
Farmingdale.
» >^ » « ...,„ ^. ocond f r om !_,) the
Farmingdale Kiwanis Clufy acted
as host, assisted by Rotary Club
President Norman Foote; Frank
Hynes of Lions; and Sy Green-berg
of B'nai B'rith.
District Court Judge Willis B.
Carman, a senior member of the
inter- sen/ ice club event, address­ed
the gathering and complimented
President Minn and Chairman Ron
snircore for the continuation of this
tradition.
The Farmingdale High School
Jazz Band led by Al Flore, pro­vided
entertainment for the e v e ­ning
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OBSERVER circulation soars
as contest enters final stage.
Just two weeks from next Friday
marks the close of the Observer's
Subscription contest, which con­tinues
to get more exciting as each
day goes by.
Each contestant realizes that
every day and hour counts - a day
lost now is lost forever, as far as
the campaign is concerned. So
close are some of the : op contest­ants
running that it is almost an
impossibility to say who is in first
place, as several contestants are
really out there working long hours
and late.
Several people have called, ask­ing
how the extension subscription
works, just how could it help the
subscriber as well as the con­testant.
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Car mans Road
To Be Resurfaced
The Town of Oyster Bay Board
has approved the resurfacing of
Carmans Road, South Farmingdale
and Massapequa from Sunrise
Highway to near Westwood Drive
South, it was announced by Super­visor
John J. Burns.
The project was recommended
by Highway Supt. Thomas R.
Pynchon, and advocated on the
Board by Councilman Marjorie
R. Post and Councilman Louis
A. Sisia.
The project will improve about
2100 feet of the roadway, increas­ing
the width of the pavement from
30 feet to 56 feet. It will include
sidewalks, curbs and storm water
drainage.
The road surface will be first
class, including a concrete base
with bituminous riding surface.
Engineers estimate the cost at
about $ 184,374. When completed
the sharp turn at Low den Street
will be widened.
Rabbi Simon
To Be Installed
Rabbi Abraham Simon, the newly
elected spiritual leader of the
Farmingdale Jewish Center will be
installed Sunday on May 27 at 4 pjn.
William Rappaport, Vice- Presi­dent
of the Congregation, will in­augurate
the Program of the Serv­ice,
and Norman Krasnow, Presi­dent
of the Farmingdale Jewish
Center will deliver the Address of
Welcome.
Kabbi Harry E. Schwartz of Con­gregation
Beth Israel, Hempstead,
will be the Installing Rabbi at the
Service. Rabbi Schwartz willrep-resent
the Jewish Theological
Seminary and the Rabbinical As­sembly
of America.
The Invocation will be delivered
by Rabbi Leon Spielman of the
Beth Sholom Center in Amityville,
and Rabbi Julius Goldberg of the
Plainview Jewish Center will read
the Scriptural Portion.
Other members oi the Congre­gation
who will have a part in the
Service are: Mrs. Irene Wolkoff,
Sisterhood President, Mr. Jack
Tenen, President of the Men's
Club, and Jack Zeldin, Congrega­tional
Vice- President.
Cantor Kalman Fliegelrnan will
chant the musical portion of the
Service, and accompaniment for
the Cantor and for the Congrega­tional
Hymns will be provided by
Mrs. Bernice Carlton.
Following the Service, the
Sisterhood ol the Center will be
Hosts at a Reception honoring
Rabbi Simon.
Murray Frost is Chairman of
the installation Planning Commit­tee,
with Newcomb B. Pines serv­ing
as Co- chairman.
Upon petition of Craftsman Con­duction
Corporation, a public
hearing was also held to rezone
Residence BB, which is presently
owned by the petitioner, which is
now located partially in Residence
AB and partially in Business D
Districts.
The Village Hall was filled with
standing room only with resident
living on Sullivan, Oakdale and Ivy
Streets, who were unanimously
opposed to the granting of any kind
of permission which would allow
an apartment building to be
errected. A petition with 140
P l a i n e d g e C h a n g e s R e f e r e n d um
The pvrtpnnitinna or* the referendum for classrooant
space to be submitted to the voters for the eighth
successive time in Plainedge were changed last
Tuesday night by the Board of Education of District
# 18 in the first unanimous vote on space in history
of this seven man Board. The propositions will offer
a choice to the voters of which supercedes the de­cision
a week ago Thursday night to offer to the
voters a 750 pupil junior high school building and
750 pupil elementary seat additions, which had been
declared ' inadequate' by Dr. John Rlnehart, Super­intendent
of Schools.
, It was decided that the fol­lowing
four propositions be pre­sented
to die public on June 16,
. 1. A 1000 pupil Junior high
school - $ 2,400,000., 2. A 14
room addition to the Schwarttng
School - $ 714,000. 3. A 14 room
addition to die Plcken School -
$ 714,000., 4. An 11 room addi­tion
to the John H. West School-
$ 596,000.
Six members of die Board of
Education were present at die
meeting and voted unanimously that
the above items be placed on die
ballot as separate propositions and.
submitted to die public on Ji
16, 1962. Mrs. Anderson, who wan
absent, assured the Board of Edu­cation
by telephone, that she fa­vored
presenting the school needs
on four separate proposition* as
outlined above.
Henry Welnstem, President of
die Board of Education gave THE
OBSERVER the following state­ment
regarding the reason for die
change. " Overwhelming majori­ties
In die past fell short of die
2/ 3 requirement. Critics of a com­bined
plan had stated that all or part
of die referendum would have thdr
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signitures had been submitted to
die Board prior to the hearing stat­ing.
' We, the undersigned, the
residents of the Farmingdale Park
Gardens area, request that you
deny die petition of the Crafts­man
Construction Corp. to rezone
die area tiiat is now in the " AB"
District to a " BB" District, which
permits the erection of multiple
dwellings."
" May we remind you that the resi­dents
of diis area have gone to con-iderable
expense in time and
money to prevent multiple dwell­ings
in the area by the process
of upgrading the village zoning
to conform widi the deed re
Etrictian. An apartment on Sul­livan
Road would severely damage
die character of th area as plan-ned:'
* In addition, we also request that
you deny die Craftsman Constru­ction
Corp. petition to erect a 20
unit apartment on die same site."
Attorney William Niles repre­senting
die petitioner, took a hold
of the 1915 photograph of Main
Street ( see picture below) which
was on die Board's table and said
tiiat this was the best exhibition
in favor of progress. That people
had resisted progress and modern­ization
and convenience in the
past, yet Farmingdale had moved
ahead
Mr. Al Holloway, evidentally
a principal of die construction
firm, told die audience that he
also owned property outside the
limits of The Incorporated Vil­lage
of Farmingdale which was
near their homes zoned for business
and said that he could erect indus­trial
buildings instead of apart­ments
if he wished. The Mayor
Brune explained to die audience
diat tney would
have die same right to attend
a hearing in the Townships if this
ever came to pass.
Mr. William Dawson of 77 Sul­livan
Road was the spokesman for
the residents
At press time, it was learned
diat the Village Board had decided
Monday night to deny the petition
of the applicant to grant a Special
Permit or to rezone the property
for apartment dwellings. After lis­tening
to the views expressed by the
residents. In odier instances, the
Village Board has granted permis­sion
to erect apartment dwellings
in Farmingdale and at least two
have been built and are fully rent­ed.
The neighboring Village of
Massapequa Park has never
granted permission for apartment
dwellings to date, an the Town
of Oyster Bay has granted very
few.
Although the weather may not be like that pictured above, this week,
this is the way Main Street, Farmingdale was way back in 1915. This
picture was received this week from a resident ol White Plains, who said
in his letter to Mayor Joseph Prune, " It is only appropriate that Farm­ingdale
have this picture in their possession."
Special Board of Education
meeting to be held on Monday-
May 28lh at the How in Junior
High School Auditorium at 8: 3Q
PM located at Van Con and Crant
Avenue. Farmingdale. Curriculum
and other items ol interest will-be
discussed.