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SERVING GREATER FARMINGDALE, BETHPAGE & MELVILLE
Vol. 3 No. 39 Second Class Postage has been paid at Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735 Thursday, May 19, 1966
Set Thursday, June 2 For Full Airing
OPINIONS VARY
RECREATION PLAN Opinions were expressed this week by Farmingdale school
and youth officials on Town of Oyster Bay Councilman Edward
J. Poulos' plan to give direct Town financial aid to school
districts to aid in the establishment of a year- round recrea­tional
program using school facilities based on school popu­lation
and age. The proposed plan differs from one proposed
by Supervisor Michael N. Petito, who earlier had come out
for the building of community centers.
A meeting of school superintendents, recreation officers,
and presidents of boards of education is scheduled for Thurs­day,
May 26 at 3 p. m. at Oyster Bay Town Hall. In the mean­time,
the date for the Farmingdale school district public
hearing on Town recreation plans has been set for Thursday,
June 2 at 8: 30 p. m. at the Parkway Oaks School, Carman
Road, Massapequa Park.
- Farmingdale School Board President Mrs. Lucille Gould-ing
told The FARMINGDALE OBSERVER that she would ap­proach
Poulos' plan with a large degree of caution since
school facilities are already over taxed. She said that there
were many ramifications to more use of school gymnasiums
and fields which had to be carefully considered and that school
districts should not be caught in a crossfire of political
moves.
The spokesman for the Republican majority on the Town
Board issued a press release this week quoting Dr. William
A. Kinzler, Superintendent of Schools as being in favor of
the Poulos plan. Dr. Kinzler was not able to be reached for
affirmation since he was out of town. He is proported to have
said, " the proposed pian has very good points ana is an out­standing
one. Not only does the plan have merit but it is
extremely flexible and still leaves the school district with
local control."
The plan would give Town funds
based on the special Oyster Bay
Town Census taken April, 1965
and cited Farmingdale as an ex­ample
of what monies can be re­ceived
by a school district.
Under a formula which would
give the school district one dol­lar
per person in the 0- 21 age
group, fifty- cents per person in
the 22- 59 years old age group,
and one dollar per person in the
age group over 60, Farmingdale
would get $ 65,500.00 to use for
recreation.
Poulos said the school district
could use the money to build a
swimming pool that could be used
during the day as a teaching
station and after school hours and
on weekends as a community
recreation area at no extra cost
to district taxpayers-
He added that if the school
district wanted to us the
$ 65,500.00 to reduce the
$ 97,000.00 Youth Council allot­ment
for recreation, it could
possibly save die school dis­trict
taxpayers on Youth Coun­cil
taxes- However, he stressed
that die use is strictly up to the
district provided it includes re­creation
programs for after
school hours.
Jack Goor, President of the
Farmingdale Youth Council gave
his unqualified support to the
plan and said that he is writing
to every member of the Town
Board, including the Supervisor,
outlinging his endorsement. He
said that the plan offers the pos­sibility
of greater utilization of
school for recreational activit­ies
and he praised Councilman
Poulos* progressive thinking in
suggesting a program that would
enhance school- town cooperation
in a venture " as important as
recreation".
Don Phelan, President of the
Viceroy Civic Association, had
expressed his opinion mat die
Town Board should first acquire
a park district site as had pre­viously
planned on Motor Ave­nue
and Heisser Lane for die
Farmingdale area before con­sidering
odier plans. He said
that land continues to become
more and more scarce and ex­pensive
and that die area need­ed
such land for recreational
use. It was not fair that Massa-equa
and Bethpage and other
districts have such land and
Farmingdale should not.
Stuart R. Gordon, Chairman
of die North Massapequa Civic
Association Committee on Re­creation
said mat die committee,
at an emergency meeting diis
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Group Opposes Mge Hogan GOP Candidate
Zone Change For Constitutional Convention
" It's been a long, long time," said August
Reyelts of Hull, Iowa to John Hinch after an
absence of 66 years. Hinch of 54 Washington
Street, Farmingdale hasn't seen his friend since
they were school mates in Germany 66 years
ago. Going back to Germany on a visit two years
ago, Reyelts met Hinch's brother and learned
that his former childhood friend lived in Farm­ingdale.
As soon as he returned to this country
he stopped in Farmingdale, looked up his old
friend. Both men are over 80 years of age.
Photo by Pokress
A petition by Joseph Gazza to
change the zoning of an half acre
plot from Residence T>' to Busi­ness
' F' on the southside corner
of Hempstead Turnpike, between
the east side of Chestnut and me
west side of Walnut Street, West
Farmingdale met witii opposition
from the West Farmingdale Civic
Association at a Town of Oyster
Bay hearing on Tuesday.
The request to downzone me
plot from one- family residential
to neighborhood business had
failed on three previous attempts
when the proposal had been to
erect a gas station. Gazza's law­yer
told me Board that in 11
years mere had not been a single
offer to buy the land for building
a home, probably because all
odier nearby property on Hemp­stead
Turnpike had been con­verted
to business use. Gazza
had received an offer for die
erection of a Carvel Dari- Freeze
store, not a stand, but a sit- down
operation, it was learned.
The seven homeowners who
appeared before die board said
that a drive- in- would be a teen­age
hangout and create a traffic
menace to die area. The peti­tion
was presented by Ruth Stein
of 4 West Chestnut Street.
Howard Thomas Hogan of Far­mingdale,
Justice of me Supreme
Court of the State of New York
Tenth Judicial District, is a Re­publican
candidate for District
Delegate to the Contitutional Con­vention
from me Third Senate
District.
For more dian a year, he has
served as Administrative Judge
for all the courts within Nassau
County, a designation bestowed on
him by the Appellate Division, Se­cond
Judicial Department.
From 1937 to 1955, he engaged
in appellate, trial and general law
practices in New York City and
the metropolitan area, with of­fices
in Oyster Bay, Farmingdale
and Mineola.
Last June he was appointed
Chairman of die Committee on
Condemnation and Tax Proceed­ing
of me State Association of Su­preme
Court Justices.
A distinguished public speaker
on me law and the judicial sys­tem,
he has lectured at Columbia
University, C„ W. Post College,
and before die Nassau County
Bar Association, die Nassau Tri­al
Lawyers Association, die Co­lumbia
Society of Real Estate
Appraisers, and the Tax Bar
Association of New York City.
An alumnus of Bucknell Uni­versity,
New York University
and Brooklyn Law School, Judge
Hogan is a member of the A-merican
Bar Association, New
York State Bar Association, Nas­sau
County Bar Association,
Brooklyn- Manhattan Trial Law­yers
Association, Nassau- Suffolk
Trial Lawyers Association, As­sociation
of Supreme Court Jus­tices,
Committee on Condemna­tion,
and the National Conference
of State Trial Judges. He is a
director of me Nassau- Suffolk
Conference of Christian and
Jews, Nassau County Cerebral
Palsy Association, and die Suf­folk
County Cerebral Palsy As­sociation
and Rehabilitation Cen­ter.
He is also a member of C. W.
Post College Associates, Boy
Scouts of America Advisory
Council, Girl Scouts of America
Advisory Council, Columbia So­ciety
Real Estate Appraisers,
Cancer Society of Nassau County,
Heart Association of Nassau
County, Legal Aid Society of Nas­sau
County and the American Le­gion.
A veteran of die Army Air
Force, Judge Hogan lives at 32
North Main St., Farmingdale,
widi his wife, Betty, and dieir
son, Howard Thomas, Jr.