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Wedfescfay, October 31, 1962 2nd Class Postage Paid at Massapequa Park 10$
Discuss Sports Clinic School Insurance
Hassle Continues
Or. Charles W. Laffin Jr., President of the State University Long
Island Agricultural and Technical Institute at Farmingdale ( seated
right), met with Nassau County Executive, Eugene Nickerson at the
Nassau County Shelter to finalize plans for the invitation of a sports
clinic to he sponsored by the Institute for the children of the County
Shelter. Also pictured are: Director Leon Shapiro ( left standing)
and Donald Aslaksen, Varsity Club President of the State University
at Farmingdale. The college will instruct the shelter students in
football and basketball. The women students at the school will give
an exhibition of cheer leading and baton twirling to the girls of the
Shelter.
Publish History
of Beffcpage
" Some towns and cities, such
as Levittown or Washington, D. C.,
are die result of car( eful planning;
other communities come into
being house by house, store by
store". A community shaped
through the latter form of devel­opment
is Bethpage, according to
a new book - just published -
titled " Bethpage Bygones'
The authors, Iris and Alonzo
Gibbs describe the development
of die Long Island community in
mis way: " Swede and Italian,
German and Yankee have joined
to make it - - each living for a
time apart and eventually merg­ing,
intermingling to the one rich
blood, free of prejudice and
bigotry, diat is our democracy' .
Bethpage Bygones traces die
history of this one community from
its earliest roots; from the original
purchases of land from the Ind­ians
— to its present- day existance
as one of Long Island's most
active and industrious com­munities.
Its sixty- plus pages make Beth­page
Bygones brief but enjoyable
reading - a work which will at
once interest, amuse and inform
even the most disinterested sub­urbanite.
The book is ably il­lustrated
by professional cartoon­ist
Bill Lignante and these illus­trations
call to mind many of die
early structures situated in the
Bethpage area.
The Bethpage Chamber of Com­merce
is the group actually to
be credited with the publication of
Bygones, The business group took
to underwriting the costs of pub­lishing
the volume in order that
a complete history of the com­munity
might be made available
to all the residents of Bethpage.
The project has thus far been
commended by the local schools,
library and a wide variety of org­anizations.
Distribution of die book is being
arranged through schools and the
library and copies are on sale in
every Chamber of Commerce
member- store in Bethpage.
Scout Drive
This Weekend
The annual Boy Scout house- to-house
Finance Drive will take place
in Farmingdale this Saturday and
Sunday, November 3 and 4, accord­ing
to Joe Ryan, General Solicita­tions
Chairman. The Drive will
begin with a " kick off" breakfast
at 8: 30 A. M. in W. E. Howitt Junior
H. S. Cafeteria. At 9 A . M. a county-wide
radio broadcast will be
beamed into the cafeteria. At the
breakfast the workers kits will be
handed out.
Mr. Ryan would like to thank the
workers of all the Cub Packs, Scout
Troops and Posts for their cooper­ation
and urges them to attend die
breakfast at 8: 30, and remit all
contributions to die committee at
Farmingdale Village Hall on Main
Street.
Approximately 200 volunteers
will be going house to house this
weekend to receive contributions
towards Scouting in Farmingdale.
Post Office Getting
Ready For Christmas
Bids will be accepted for the
hire of a motor vehicle to be used
at the Farmingdale Post Office
for delivery of parcel post during
die Christmas period. Vehicle de­sired
is to have a capacity of 240
cubic feet and be inclosed.
Persons interested in renting
such a motor vehicle to die Post
Office may obtain the necessary
forms in the Office of the Post­master.
Bids will be accepted until 5: 00
P. M. on November 7, 1962.
Hadassah Paid Up
Party This Saturday
The Center Island Chapter of
Hadassah will have a Paid Up
Membership Party on Saturday
evening, November 3, at 8: 30 P. M.
at the Farmingdale Jewish Center,
at Cobb Place and Fulton Street in
Farmingdale. An orchestra will
provide music fordancing and re­freshments
will be served. Ad­mission
will be the 1962- 1963
Hadassah dues of $ 6.50 per couple.
Mrs. Burbeck, Chmn
of ' Voice From Home'
" Voice from Home," a new
channel of communication between"
servicemen and women and their
families, is being offered by die
Nassau Red Cross Home Service
Department in time for die
holidays, it was announced by Mrs.
Joseph H. Burbeck of Round Swamp
Road Farmingdale, Home Service
Chairman.
The project will provide Christ­mas
cheers to die Armed Forces
personnel separated from their
families.
Servicemen's families are
invited to come to die Chapter
House, 264 Old Country Road,
Mineola, by appointment, and re­cord
a 30- minute message on a
small disc that can be mailed over­seas.
Field Directors on military
bases overseas and military hos­pitals
in this country have players
which die servicemen end women
may use.
Mrs. Burbeck said diat Nassau
Red Cross Home Service plans
to make this a year- round project
so that not only die Christmas
holidays but birthdays, anniver­saries
and other events widi family
significance may be celebrated by
die servicemen and women widi
" Voice from Home."
This service is provided widiout
charge by die Nassau Red Cross
Home Service Department, Mrs.
Burbeck added.
Appointments for die recordings
by Armed Forces dependents and
other relatives should be made in
advance by calling die Home
Service Department of die Nassau
Red Cross at Pioneer 7- 3500.
Tops Again!
For die second consecutive year,
die Vanguards Drum and Bugle
Corps, sponsored by die East
Farmingdale Fire Department,
won die Northeastern States Junior
Drum and Bugle Corps Champion­ship,
in competition widi the tip
corps from seven states.
In die competition, which was
held in Cheshire, Connecticut on
October 20th, other championship,
in competition widi die top corps
were won by members of die Corps;
die Northeastern Female In­dividual
Drummer championships
by Anna Kopitsch, and die North­eastern
Female Twirling Champ­ionship
by Anna Kopitsch, and the
Northeastern Female Twirling
Championship by Diane Warta.
On their arrival back in Farm­ingdale
the next afternoon, die
Corps and their parents who had
accompanied them, were met by
firemen and ten pieces of fire
equipment from the East Farming-dale,
Farmingdale, and Soum
Farmingdale . Fire Departments.
They were escorted through die
village by a police escort and then
to the East Farmingdale Fire-house.
After giving an exhibition
of their playing, a party was held
for die returned victors and their
friends.
The hassle over school insurance continued in
District # 22 this past week. Last Wednesday night's
Special Board of Education meeting at which the
Insurance Advisory Committee submitted its final
report, ended in a mass of flying innuendos and no
action on the placing of insurance policies. At a
Special Board meeting held this past Monday night
on the same subject, more fireworks developed and
no action was taken. A hurried protest meeting of
the IAC was called Tuesday evening at which time it
was hinted that mass resignations by the IAC members
might be forthcoming. Another Board meeting was
scheduled for Wednesday on the same insurance topic.
Board should be more interested
in protection than in'bargainhunt­ing'.
The Board has the responsi­bility
to protect the community,
Weadiers said.
The IAC further recommended
that another IAC be formed and
tiiat the agents for die district
be chosen irom the new group.
Oi Monday night, the Specin!
Meeting was called to order ai
9: 45 p. m. after a lengthy executive
session.
Trustee Kenney . made a motion
that all insurance be placed on
competitive bid and that this would
begin next year, terminating all
policies at that time and that die
Board would leave the present
policies as is for tiiis year. Trus­tees
Schriro and Lang said tiiat
while tiiey were in favor of com­petitive
bidding, they would not
choose to wait a year for die sav­ings.
It was also pointed out by
Trustee Lang tiiat it would be im­practical
to have all policies ex­pire
at the same time, due to
cancellation costs and the fact
tiiat some policies are written on
a three or five year basis to obtain
reduced rates.
Last • Wednesday evening, ac­cording
to the IAC's report, sub­mitted
, die Board was told that
by changing policies and placing
diem with different companies, die
District could make significant
savings.
Trustee Joseph Kenney lashed out
at the IAC and on « member of the
IAC's in the audience last
Monday stated " It looks to me like
everybody wants a cut".
Among the IAC recommen­dations
made were a change in
policies on workmans com­pensation
and boiler insurance.
Trustee George5 Schriro, the
Board's Insurance Chairman made
a motion to place the workmens
compensation insurance, accord­ing
to die recommendation. The
motion was tabled. In tabling the
motion. Board President A. Terry
Weathers said that the District
broker should be given a chance to
speak and to state his case be­fore
the Board. Mr. Weadiers
further commented that the broker
had handled die District's
insurance very well as far as pro­tection
was concerned, which he
stated is the Board's primary
responsibility. He said that die ( Continued on Page 15)
Lions Club President Edmund Green ( right) holds copy of the de-- ..
of the original Bethpage Purchase made by Thomas Powell in 1695
from the Marsapeque Indians at Tuesday's regular meeting of the
Lions Club held at die Thomas Powell Home at 33 Merritt Rd., Farm­ingdale.
Members of die Club heard a talk on die history of the home
and a tour of the historic Quaker home followed die meeting.