1962-10-10

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Inc. Village of Farmingdal
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School District 18
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VoL 3 No. 45 Wednesday, Ofactrombeirn 1g0d, a1l9e6' 2s Most Complete 2nHd Celwasss pPoastpagee rP aid at Massapequa Park 10$
' Delinquency' Draws Crowds
Pets Come To Church Safety, Park, ng
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Bo a rd Agenda
Eight year old Penny Pieper ( left), and her dog ' Lucky* and ten
year old Clara Hampshire and her chinchilla ' Rocket*, participated
in the Blessing of the Pets ceremonies held last Sunday at the St.
Francis of Assisi Garden at St. Thomas Episcopal Church. Turtles,
lizards, hamsters, parakeets, cats and a guinea pig were some of
the other pets receiving the blessing from Father Rooco Grimaldi,
assisted by altar boy Douglas Pieper.
Irene Finger Reteives Paragon Award
Mr. Emmet Donelly, Principal
of the Farmingdale High School
this week announced that Irene
Finger, of 183 Staples Street,
Farmingdale will be among the
seniors of more than 100 Nassau
and Suffolk County high schools
who will be presented 1962 Para­gon
Oil Student Incentive Awards.
Qualifications for the annual A-wards,
which are being sponsored
by the Paragon Oil Comapny for the
fifth consecutive year, are set by
a committee of high school prin­cipals.
Their purpose is to give
recognition for scholastic achieve­ment,
and also encourage a better
understanding and appreciation of
the American free enterprise
system and its accomplishments.
One student is selected annually
in each of the Nassau and Suffolk
Counties high schools to receive
the Award which consists of a
certificate of merit and a $ 50
U. S. Savings Bond. Principals and
faculty members elect students
who, by the end of their junior
years, have made outstanding re­cords.
The Awards will be made at a
special ceremony which will be
attended by leading figures in the
fields of education and govern­ment,
at the State University at
Farmingdale on November 24.
1700 At Institute
State University's Agricultural
and Technical Institute at Far­mingdale
began its fifty first
year this fall with 1700 students
enrolled in its day session and
3600 in the evening classes, Dr.
Charles W. Laffin, Jr., President
of the college announced this week.
When classes began last month,
the student body included repre­sentatives
of all areas of New
York State as well as other states,
and several foreign countries.
Among the 1060 freshmen are
six students from Kenya who
completed an orientation course
A busy agenda is on tap for
the Incorporated Village of Farm­ingdale
Board next Monday night
at a public meeting to be held
at Village Hall. The regular meet­ing
was postponed last Monday
night due to the Jewish Religious
Holiday.
The agenda will include a dis­cussion
on changing the parking
limitations in downtown Farming-dale
particularly in the light of
two accidents last week.
This past week Mildred De Marco
of Fairview Road was hospital­ized
as a result of her car being
hit from behind by a sand truck
when she was parking her car near
the post office. A 39 year year
old woman from Floral Park was
killed recently when the car in
which she was riding was involved
in a head- on collision with a
car operated by Walter Schnader-
*> eck of 2 Sinclair Street, Farm
ingdale. The Sth Precinci saici
that Schnaderbeck was attempting
to make a left turn into Clinton
Street from the eastibound lane
of Conklin Street.
The Board will discuss the need
for traffic lights and take steps
for one at Clinton and Conklin
Streets.
Plans for a nursing home will
be submitted to the board on the
proposed site of Fulton Street and
Elsie Lane. The plans have been
approved by the State Housing
Commission, it was learned.
A building permit in the south­east
sector will raise the question
of the opening of several streets,
it was learned.
at Alfred Institute prior to their
two years of study at Farmingdale.
The new registration figures
represent an increase of four
hundred students over last year's
enrollment. The Freshman Class
was selected from 2700 applicants.
In order to meet the increasing
demand for educational programs,
the Institute will begin operating
on a year round bas'is in July
1963 according to President Laffin.
One of the largest crowds that has ever turned out
in District No. 22 PTA history came out Thursday
night at the Farmingdale Senior High School to hear
a panel discussion on juvenile delinquency. An over­flow
crowd filled Farmingdale Village Hall Tuesday
evening at the Farmingdale Youth Council meeting to
hear discussion and possible solutions to the growing
problem of ' rowdyism' and juvenile delinquency in
District No. 22.
quests from the audience, Jack
Goor, President of the Youth
Council said that he would sug­gest
to the Youth Board that meet­ings
be made public except for
those concerned with individual
youngsters, The Youth Board will
expand its function by seeking
out preventatives to the problem.
Many parents expressed con­cern
that action be started to do
something concrete about the
problem. As Mrs. George R.
Styskal fo 150 Thomas Powell
Bolvd, expressed it, '' I like the
town and want to stay here. I want
to see it kept a nice town."
A committee was formed to
meet with the youngsters to as­certain
grips and frictions caused
by inviting post greduate students
to canteen dances. Leon Scmitt
was appointed chairmen and
members are: Ray Magner, Nor­man
Oakes, Mike Weinstock,
Chris Oakes, Mrs. J. DeMartine.
Two youngsters who spoke on
the PTA panel were also invited
to speak at the Youth Council.
When asked why some of these
destructive incidents occured,
One answered, " Because kids are
bored".
The Naval Cadets program is
seeking supervisory personnel,
it was learned. The Little League
will hold a forum at the respec­tive
schools. The PBC will start
a basketball program for young-
. sters 10- 18 at the Main Street
School
On the heels of an OBSERVER
editorial two weeks ago on the
vandalism displayed by young
people at a theatre when eggs,
tomatoes, etc. were thrown at
the screen and at which time
theatre seats were slashed, the
interest is doing something con­crete
about the problem began to
grow. According to the theatre
manager there has been no further
recurrence of die incident, since
the theatre staff is now vigilant in
keeping these ' 50 hard core* young­sters
out. However, the theatre
manager said that he would like to
see a solution to the problem so that
innocent children are not restrict­ed
as welL
District Court Judge W? Uis B.
Carman Sr. moderated the panel
discussion at the Farmingdale Sen­ior
High School. Serving on the
panel were Family Court Repub­lican
Candidate, Judge Alexander
Berman, Nassau County District
Attorney, William Cahn, Farming-dale
Youth Council President Jack
Goor, and Farmingdale Youth
Board head, Harold Switts as well
as four District No. 22 senior high
school students.
The youngsters asked such ques­tions
as: " Why don't school offi­cials
stop the smoking on the
buses?" and they were asked in
turn, '' Are mere enough recrea­tion
facilities for you youngsters?"
D. A. Cahn spoke about the im­portance
of the home, church and
temple in building moral fibre.
He said that providing more rec-
At the Youth Council meeting,
it was pointed out that die rec­reational
activities were aimed
for the normal, youngsters - and
not those causing ' roudyisrrt and
juvenile delinquents. The Youth
Board, was established with a
' corrective' approach to aid these
youngsters. In response to re-
Oh Those Leaves
Residents of the Incorporated
Village of Farmingdale are re­quested
not to burn leaves in the
gutters, especially on those streets
having curbing.
If residents will deposit their
leaves in the gutter, the Village
Leaf Vacuum Truck will clean them
up, it was learned this week.
At The Thomas Powell Home
Assemblyman Edwin J. Fehrenbach of Bethpage
( center) and Senator Henry M. Curran of Oyster
Bay are being shown some of the antiques in the
Thomas Powell home by Observer editor Caroline
Bunting Klesh.
Looking at the original hand hewn beams in
the Thomas Powell home which was built in Farm­ingdale
in 1698 are Republican Congressional Can­didates
James Grover and John Wydler. The oc­casion
was a party in honor of Republican Town
of Oyster Bay Leader C. Bruce Pearsall of Massa­pequa
at the home of Observer publishers Caroline
and Frank Klesh.
Supreme Court Judges Albert Oppido ( left) and
Paul Kelly ( right) are shown a Scotch bagpipe in
the music room of die Thomas Powell Home by
Frank J. Klesh. in the 263 year old historic home.