1962-06-27

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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 . 30 Wednesday, June 27, 1962
Farmingdale's Most Complete Newspaper
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Farmingdale Mourns
Passing of David Welsh
Farmingdale residents who knew and loved David
Welsh , former Republican Leader and Town of Oyster
Bay Receiver of Taxes were joined by hundreds of his
friends from The Town and County to grieve his passing
last Thursday at Lakeside Hospital at the age of 7 1 .
Services were held both on Sunday and Monday at the
Arthur White Funeral Home , Farmingdale. He was i n ­terred
at the Amityville Cemetery. He is survived by
his w i f e , Elizabeth.
" When I ran as a candidate
for District Court Judge of Nas­sau
County, I visited many pic­nics
and gatherings in the com­pany
of Mr. Welsh. Judge Willis
B. Carman of Farmingdale wrote
the Observer.
" It was a pleasure to see the
genuine respect and pleasure that
he was greeted with by hundreds,
young and old alike."
His motto was, " Greet and visit
with the people 265 days in the
year, and never lose the com­mon
touch.*'
He always had a sense of humor
and delighted many with his home
spun stories.
He will be greatly missed by
his many friends," the Judge said.
" We're all going to miss Dave
in all his civic activities and in
the Council of the Republican
Party. He was a terrific per­son
and he went out of his way
to help anybody he could", Far-mindale
Republican Leader ' Doc'
Allen told THE OBSERVER.
Alfred Kuntz, President of die
Farmingdale Republican Club also
lauded Dave Welsh for his many
acts of kindness.- and probably
the last of the ' old time poli­ticians'.
Democratic Leader Al Bereche
and former Democratic Leader
Jerry Blum said that Dave was
a terrific opponent politically, but
was always a friend and had their
deepest respect.
Town of Oyster Bay- Supervisor
John J. Burns and Supt. of High­ways
Thomas R. Pynchon today
expressed great sadness over the
passing of former Town Tax Re­ceiver
David Welsh of Farming-dale
who died at Lakeside Hos­pital,
Copiague, Thursday evening,
June 21, after a prolonged ill­ness.
Supervisor Burns stated: " Dur­ing
Dave Welsh's years of servict
to the people of the Town as Tax
Receiver and to his home com­munity
of Farmingdale where he
served with distinction in a num­ber
of local municipal posts, he
became endeared to all who knew
him for his dedication and tire­less
energy in every task he under­took.
His untimely death is a
great personal loss to me, mem­bers
of the Town Board and the
entire Town as a whole. We are
all saddened at the passing of-such
a fine person."
Superintendent Pynchon said:
" Dave Welsh was a loyal and true
friend of the Republican Party
and of myself. In his generation
he was an outstanding advocate
of strong local government re­sponsive
to the people and he
personified integrity and devotion
to municipal duties during his many
The Late David Welsh
years of political and public life.
Dave Welsh was, in short, a loyal
Republican of the old school, and
changing times have left too few
today. His memory will be cher­ished
at Town Hall where he was
such a fine Receiver of Taxes
and at Oyster Bay Republican
Headquarters where he was an
influence for the good of the party
and for experience in public of­fice."
Taylor Named
' Fireman of theYear'
Fireman John Taylor of the
Farmingdale Volunteer Fire De­partment
was selected as the r e ­cipient
of the Fireman of the Year
award by a Committee of which
Murray Tuck is Chairman.
Fireman Taylor was selected
because of his heroic act on the
night of July 23, 1961 when at great
personal risk he ascended a ladder
to the second story of a burning
building and single handedly
carried a 76 year old occupant to
safety. During this rescue, he suf­fered
burns on his left hand.
The committee also gave hon­orable
mention to Fireman James
J. Shannon Sr. of the East Farm­ingdale
Fire Company, who this
year will be 71 years old and will
complete 35 years of active con­tinuous
service widi the depart­ment.
During the past year he
has answered 57 fire calls and
over 100 rescue calls. Fireman
Shannon is a charter member of
the Department.
Other members of the com­mittee
were: Weldon E. Howitt
and Louis H. Jacobs.
Plan Summer Concerts
People who can perform on band
Instruments are welcome to join
the group which rehearses Monday
nights, starting July 2nd at the
Weldon E. Howitt Junior High
School.- All interested performers
should call CHapel 9 - 7600.
The Farmingdale Summer Com­munity
Concert Band will give a
series of three concerts at the band
shell of the Weldon E. Howitt Junior
High School grounds on Tuesday
evenings, July 10th, July 24th, and
August 7th.
Farmingdale Fire Department Plans
Gala 4th Celebration
PTA and Little League Help Get Vote Oat
In a record turnout of 4,999 voters ( out of a
total registration of 6,044) District 22 residents on
Saturday, June 23 approved the revised 1962- 63 School
Budget by 2,683 to 2,273. The Library and Youth
Council budgets received voter approval by 2700-
2158 respectively. The voters turned down 3059 to
1871 a proposition to extend private and parochial
school transportation from the present ten to a pro­posed
fifteen mile limit.
The approved revised School
Budget totals $ 9,851,980 or $ 113,
700 less than the original $ 9,965,
680 budget which was rejected on
May 2 by a vote of 1929- 1295.
By adding to this $ 113,700 expen­diture
reduction an increase of
$ 60,000 in state aid receipts, the
amount to be raised by taxes for
school purposes is $ 173,700 less
than called for in the original
budget.
The Trustees of the Farming-dale
Public Library expressed
gratification at die voter approval
of dieir program of library ser­vice
for the coming year. They
diank all the people who worked
so hard getting out the vote.
The school iax r « * reii> th** Oyster
Bay section of District 22 is esti­mated
at $ 6.39 per $ 100 of assessed
valuation, an increase of .30 over
the 1961- 62 rate of $ 6.09 and .21
less than the original 1962- 63
proposed budget's $ 6.60 rate. The
library tax is estimated at .28
and Youth Council at .10, each
showing a .01 increase over 1961-
62. The combined school - li­brary
- youth council rate for
1962- 63 in the Oyster Bay area is
estimated at $ 6.77, a .32 increase
over the 1961- 62 combined rate of
$ 6.45. This revised tax rate is
.21 less than the combined rate of
Youth Council
Registration
Thursday and Friday
Registration for participation in
Farmingdale Youth Council activ­ities
will be held this Thursday,
June 28 from 1 to 4 p. m. and F r i ­day,
June 29 from 9 a. m. to 12 noon
at die Senior High School gym.
for die high school program and
at die elementary school which
your child will attend.
Activities for grades eight to 12
are scheduled for 1 to 4 p. m.
widi evening activities from 6: 30
to 9 p. m. Monday dirough Thurs­day
at the high school.
Canteen Dances will be held
at the Howitt Jr. High School on
Friday evenings from 8: 30 to 11
p. m. under die stars. Dress will
be slacks and sport shirt for
boys and skirts and blouses for
die girls.
Supervised program will be con­ducted
at Mill Lane, Nordiside,
Woodward Parkway, Parkway
Oaks, Albany Avenue and East
Memorial schools and at Pinehurst
Park and Florgate Park.
A Pre- school Program for chil­dren
who will attend Kindergarten
next year will be held at Wood­ward
Parkway, Parkway Oaks and
Albany Avenue school.
Trophies that will be awarded to die best appearing units, after
die parade that will be held in die Incoperated Village of Farming-dale
in Wed., July die 4di.
The parade is sponsored by the Farmingdale Fire Department
and will kick off the gala 4th of July Celebration diat will be held
in the Municipal Parking Field behind the fire headquarters on Main
St.
The parade is scheduled to start at 5: 30 P. M. and will be followed
by a large variety show and carnival rides.
At dusk, James McGuire, a talented tenor of the Farmingdale
Fire Department will sing the National Anthem, that will signal die
s t a n of a spectular display of fireworks that will conclude the days
festivies.
During, the afternoon and evening of July the 4th, Cherry St. and
Rose St. in the Inc. Village of Farmingdale will be closed to all
trafflee due to die 4th of July Celebration and F ireworks diat is going
to be held In die parking field behind die Fire House In Farmingdale...
$ 6.98 called for in the original
1962- 63 budget rejected on May 2.
In die Babylon section of the
District, due to differences in a s ­sessed
valuations and equalization
rates, die tax rate for schools is
estimated at $ 9.87, .03 less than
die 1961- 62 rate of $ 9.09. The
library rate decreases .01 to .43
and the youth council remains at
.15. The total combined Babylon
tax rate is $ 10.45, .04 less tiian
the 1961- 62 combined rate of $ 10.
49. The Babylon area tax rate for
school purposes in the approved
revised budget is .34 less than In
the original budget rejected on
May 2.
L* st year, for the lirsttime, the
budge!, v; as placed cr then machines
as school district policy. Out of a
total registration of 3177 the vote
was 1271 for, and 1016 against.
On May 2 of diis year 5054 were
registered and die vote went 1295
for and 1929 against, widi a total of
3388 voting. The June 23vote show­ed
an increase of 1388 in die Yes
column, raising die affirmative
total from 1295 to 2683, and an
increase of 344 in die No column,
raising the negative vote from
1929 to 2 73. Thus the ranks of
Yes voters increased 1044 more
tiian die No voters, diereby over­coming
die May 2 deficit of 634
and furnishing an additional mar­gin
of 410 votes.
An importan factor in die suc­cess
of the June 23 vote is believed
by the School Board, to be die In­creased
registration achieved on
June 12 and 16 and the high per­centage
( 82.7%) of registrants
coming out to vote. After die May
2 voting, only 2922 persons were
registered for voting in the year
following. This figure was In­creased
by 1679 on Tuesday, June
12 and by anodic r 1443 on Saturday
June 16, bringing the total regis­tration
up to 6044. ( The only time
this registration figure had ever
been exceeded for budget vote was
in 1959 when diose who had regis­tered
for the November 1958 Senior
High School vote and the April,
1959 Nordiside and Mill Lane
School construction vote were car­ried
over on the books for a district
record registration of 7,699 — diat
year at die annual meeting die bud­get
was approved 223 to 87.)
A spokesman for die F arming -
dale School Board stated that otiier
important factors contributing to
the successful June 23 vote were:
die effective cooperation and sup­port
of the District P. T. A., The
Dad's Club, The Classroom Teach­ers
Association, die Library and
Youdi Council Organizations, die
local weekly press, die reduction
of die budget in response to die
May 2 vote, the School Board and
Administrations' information pro­gram,
and the general community
cooperative effort in behalf of
maintaining our educational pro­gram
without impairment.