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VOL. 6, NO 18 Se- ond Class Postage has been paid at Farmingdale, N„ Y. 11735 JANUARY 2, 1969
Public HearingOn Rezoning Conklin Street
An important public hearing will be held at Farrringdale
Village Hall this Wednesday, at 8: 30 p. m., by the Village
Board to consider the change of zoning from Residence ' A'
to Business ' G' of a 2,170- foot portion of the north side of
Fulton and Conklin Streets.
The proposed change would begin 120 feet east of
Merritt Road and proceed easterly.
If adopted, the change would then allow for a com­mercial
or professional office building, a medical center,
a club, fraternity house or lodge; single- family detached
dwelling including the office, studio or occupational rooms
of a doctor, dentist, architect, engineer, attorney or other
professional person, when located in the same building in
which the professional person resides.
Under Special Use permits, and after a public hearing,
the Board could also permit a nursing home, undertaking
establishment and veterinary hospital.
Churches, places of worship, parish houses, convents,
schools, non- profit educational institutions, financial insti­tutions,
telephone or telegraphic offices, and libraries
would also require a public hearing and a Special Use
permit.
Retail stores would be forbidden and structures would
not exceed two stories in height.
DalerWomanPresses For Improved Bus Service
A South Farmingdale resident brought a touch of
humor and made it clear that bus services needed im­provement
in Nassau County on Monday at the public
.'- earing before Nassau County Executive Eugene Nicker-son
and the Board of Supervisors in Mineola. The lady
who caused everyone to laugh and to get to the point that
bus transportation needed improvement was Mrs. Robert
,!, v, stcfcid jf 3 Seventh Avenue, S « wtt* Farmirgdale, wfco
appeared late in the proceedings in person, after a struggle
with the existing transportation from South Farmingdaie
to Mineola. Mrs. Wuestefeld started out with her two chil­dren,
ages six and seven, and related how she had
to take a taxi to the Farmingdale railroad station and
then from the Mineola station by cab to the hearing, it
not only took time, but cost her a total of $ 3.83. She esti­mated
for the benefit of the audience and the govern
mental officials in attendance, that her return ' voyage'
to South Farmingdale by bus, would cost $ 3.95. She said
that she had to figure the cost of a taxicab from the nearest
Scheduled launch of Apollo 9 is February 28 for the moon.
This Lunar Module which will land on the moon's surface
is being made right here in Bethpage at Grumman, ( see
story page 3.) Among the Farmingdale residents who are
engaged in the program are: Walter Dobson, manager of
Administrative Services - Space Program; Robert Jonas-sen,
on the Engineering Manager's staff; and Mrs. Jeanne
Olson, Secretary to the Vice President - Space Program.
bus stop to her home. The whole return trip, she said,
would be more expensive by bus than her trip to Mineola
via the LIRR.
Mrs. Wuestefeld told The Farmingdale Observer that
she moved to South Farmingdale a year and a half ago.
She said that she has been constantly telephoning and
writing Nassau County officials seeking more extensive
bus E8fcvt* 4jtort£ cuLsir! y in'South Farmingdaie. Tb" lady,
who ' put IjQpngdale on the map' at the public hearing,
pointed outufat South Farmingdale has three times the
population as The Incorporated Village of Farmingdale.
She said that the village residents are now being served
by two bus companies.
She asked that consideration be given for bus service
on such streets in South Farmingdale as Fallwood Parkway
Crestwood Boulevard, and Merritt Road. She then
handed in a petition to this effect with 172 signatures
of neighboring residents.
Mr. Nickerson has been urging for many years an
improvement in the bus transportation in the county. Last
week, this newspaper carried his ten- point program for
improvement. His program called for extended bus routes
to eliminate unnecessary transfers, route revision, co­ordinated
bus arrivals at train stations and adjustments
in fares, among other points aimed at improving bus
service in Nassau County.
Bus company officials stated that they did not agree
with Nickerson's proposals for Nassau County representa­tives
to inspect bus companies' books and for the County
to limit bus francises to two years.
The majority of those present at the hearing expressed
the desire that officials would forget politics and think
about the needs of the people.
The Republican Majority Board of Supervisors expressed the views
that Nickerson's proposals are too stringent. According to Supervisor
Francis T. Purcell of Hempstead, Chairman of the Board's transporta­tion
committee, the companies cannot afford to make costly improve­ments
without state or federal aid.
Richard Guido, Executive Director of the Nassau County Franchise
Council, agreed with James F. Conway, an attorney who represents
several of the bus companies, that a two- year franchise would make
it unworkable for bus companies to receive loans at banks