1965-06-03

              Official Newspaper of The Incorporated Village Of Farmingdale 1 FARMINGDALE >*
Farmingdale s Complete Newspaper
V o l . 2 No. 29 Thursday, June 3, 1965 Second Class Postage has been paid at Farnvngdule, N. Y..
TOUR RETRACES BETHPAGE
PURCHASE ON SUNDAY The footsteps of Farmingdale pioneers and
Massapequa Indians will be retraced on & inday,
June 6 when the Farmingdale- Bethpage Historical
Society conducts an historic bus tour of 43 points
of interest in the ' Bethpage Purchase*. The tour
guides will be Alonzo and Iris Gibbs of Bethpage,
experts on the history of the 18 square mile
purchase which includes Farmingdale, Bethpage,
and parts of Melville and Plainview.
The bus tour will take one hour and a half and
will be 25 miles in length.
Among the sites to be viewed and described are:
the old Plainedge school on Hicksville Road; the
Beau Sejour; the home of Joshua Hubbs; Moscopas
or Muddy Hole; The Joshua Powell home; a Presby­terian
Church built in 1820; Round Pond, the site
of Abraham Wanzar's home, Broad Springs and
Bethpage Quaker Meeting House and Thomas
Powell's home.
The tour will begin at 3 p. m.
at the South Farmingdale Branch
library on Merritt Road which
is the southern most part of the
purchase and wind oast and west
to llicksvilto Hoad; then north to
Central Avenue and north on
Stewart Avenue to Farmers Ave­nue,
then on Broadway, Bethpage
Bethpage Purchase
to Plainview Road north to the
old Muddy Hole; north on Wash­ington
Boulevard, which was Old
Manetto Hill Road; south on Round
Swamp and east on Old Country
Road to the highest point on Nay's
Hill; down Sweet Hollow Road
South along Old Walt Whitman
Road to the Baiting Place Pur-chase
or the road to Huntington;
south to the intersection of Main
Street and Route 110; north on
Main Street which was called
South Path; north along the edge
of the Bethpage State Park on
Round Swamp Road to Winding
Road; east on Winding Road to
look at the Old Bethpage Village
Restoration; south on Crescent
Road; once again toRoundSwamp
Road; to Quaker Meeting House
Road and past Broad Springs to
the Thomas Powell home on Mer­ritt
Road.
Following a tour of the newly
restored Thomas Powell home on
Merritt Road which was built in
1700; refreshments will be
served by the pond.
The Bethpage Purchase was
made by Thomas Powell in 1695
from the Massapequa Indians,
It included an 18 square mile
area. Powell was a Quaker from
Huntington who came here for
religious freedom.
The tour is $ 1.50 for adults and
50 cents for children. If there
are sufficient numbers a second
tour will be made at 4: 30 p. m..
Census Bonanza
For Oyster Bay
The Town of Oyster Bay will
receive $ 933,911 more state aid
during the next five years based
on the preliminary figures of the
now - concluding special federal
census.
" I am gratified that the Town
Board saw fit to request the spe­cial
census this year," comment­ed
Town of Oyster Bay Council­man
Poulos, " in cooperation with
the other two towns and the city
of Glen Cove. This program has
produced the maximum aid under
the state's complicated formula
for the benefit of town taxpayers.
The formula will be revised upon
the next regular federal census
in 1970, when it is indicated the
annual aid l < nds will again in­crease."
Mr. Poulos pointed out that the
state aid reduces the local tax
cost for beaches, incineration,
highways, building, zoning and town
administration. He said that all
property owners who pay town
taxes inside or outside villages
will benefit from the increased
state aid payments to the Town.
There is reason to believe that
state aid based on the preliminary
report will increase as residents
uncounted on April 26, 1965 file
the required statement with the
Federal Census Bureau. The Oys­ter
Bay Office will remain open
for this purpose at 219 Park Ave­nue,
Hicksville, for a limited time.
The Town Board estimated that
state aid for 1966 would have been
$ 1, 732, 899 without the special
census. The head count added
$ 147, 459, making estimated re-
Making a stop on the preview of this Sunday's 18
square mile Bethpage Purchase tour to be given by the
Farmingdale Bethpage Historical Society at 3 p. m. are
Charter- Trustees Jean Hubbard and Gregory Carman.
Pictured is one of the spots to be seen on the 1 1/ 2- hour
bus tour. It is " Broad Spring" on Merritt Road^ and Quaker
Meeting House Road, at the western edge of Farmingdale.
The tour will beconducted by Alonzo and Iris Gibbs,
noted historians. It will end back at the Thomas Powell
home at 33 Merritt Road, Farmingdale ( built in 1700)
which recently has undergone extensive restoration.
The entire tour is $ 1.50 for adults and 50$ for children
and will begin at the South Farmingdale Library,
Merritt Road, South Farmingdale, A second tour, if
there is sufficient demand, will begin at 4: 30 p. m.
ceipts from state aid of $ 1,880,359
for next year. In each of the four
ensuing years the census will add
about $ 196, 612, thus totalling
$ 1, 929, 512.
Said Mr. Poulos, " The Town
Board will realize receipts of
$ 933,911 over the five- year per­iod--
and more if additional popu­lation
is added— at a cost of less
than $ 65,000— a net gain of at
least $ 868,911."
The preliminary population was
given by the Census Bureau at
324,083, as CQS£ » rdu with
290,055 in 1960, a net gain of
34,028. Incorporated villages ac­counted
for 7,569 people in the
net gain.
Seek Bids For
P. O. Cleanup
Postmaster Leo Morgan, re­quested
bids for the contract
cleaning of the Main Post Office
in Farmingdale.
Interested persons may re­ceive
the necessary contract
forms or other information by
calling the Postmaster at CI lapel
9- 1016 before 5 p. m. Monday,
June 7.
The building to be cleaned is a
12,000 square foot area and will
also include the cutting nf g^ ™ *
and ihe maintenance of the
grounds.