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Vol. 7 No. 12 Second Class Postage has been paid at Parmuicda> « > N Y l m » Thursday, November 13, 1969
TRUSTEES DENY CONFLICT
OF INTEREST CHARGES
Public discussion at the Farmingdale Village Board meeting
Monday night again centered around the Karp fertilizer factory; the
charges made several weeks ago by Mayor Joseph Zureck that
members of the village board and the administration had obstructed
the work of attorney Charles McDonald who had been hired by the
Board to prosecute in the village behalf in a civil action against
Morris Karp & Son and or Lebanon Chemical Corporation.
John Raffaele of Sullivan Road, Farmingdale asked for more in­formation
on the case against Karp. He also asked the Trustees to
state why they again voted to hire McDonald as Special Counsel to the
Village, and did not listen to Village Attorney's Joe Sterns advice
that he had not competently fulfilled the job given to him back in 1966.
Stern answered that he still believed his work done in a " very in­competent
manner' and that his advise was not asked for by village
trustees at this time. Trustee Norman Krasnow refused to state his
reasons for voting to rehire McDonald. Stern said that he did agree
with McDonald that the Village did not have evidence to institute a
criminal law proceeding and had only grounds for a civil action. Stern
said that he has refrained from giving any advise for three and one
half years, he has advised that it would be wise to prosecute in a civil
action.
Holdup Pair Ask
For Sandwich First
It was about 25 minutes to 11
p. m. on Saturday evening,
November 8th at the 7- 11 store at
85 Merritt Road in Farmingdale.
Anthony Mestrelli of 6 Hickory
Street, Farmingdale, the owner,
had had the usual number and
kind of customers. Housewives
who had forgotten to buy baking
powder at the supermarket;
husbands in for gingerale and
club soda for unexpected guests.
Teenagers in for candy and cake
and the younger set in for
' slurpies'. The big police dogs at
One Hour Martinizing had gone
home with its owner, Frank
Pfluger this particular evening
and it was relatively quiet.
Two black men came in and
asked for a ham and cheese
cashier and handed over to them
$ 506 worth of coins and paper
money.
According to the owner, the
black males were wearing dark
clothes and then ran up Merritt
road toward the Bethpage golf
course. They almost knocked
down a customer coming in the
door. He stayed and described
them to the detectives of the
Eighth Precinct who came at
once as soon as the owner called.
One other customer was in the
store and she stayed and spoke to
the detectives.
According to the owners, a hold
up and robbery took place at this
7- 11 three owners ago. More
recently the 7- 11 store on Main
Street was robbed and the 7- 11 on
Raffael asked Stern whether he
needed a legal permit to picket
Village Hall. Stern said no, that is
was his constitutional right to
picket.
Mrs. Docheck asked what
reason there was for the long
delay, and McDonald pleaded,
reportedly, according to
Krasonow and Drugan, the Fifth
Amendment. He would not
specify which trustees or which
members of village ad­ministration
had obstructed his
work . which he had charged.
Upon answer to a question
there is no code of ethics in the
New Police Service For Parents
Concerned With Narcotics
sandwich. Tony turned to take Route 109 in Farmingdale has
out the cheese to slice, and when been held up twice,
he went over to the slicing There are no new developments
machine, a gun was put in his on the solution of the crime,
face by one of his two black according to the Eighth Precinct
customers. He quietly went to the of the Nassau County Police.
Nassau Police Commissioner
Francis B. Looney announced a
new police service for parents
concerned about narcotics.
Any parent who believes a son
or daughter is using or misusing
narcotics or drugs can call
anonymously for help.
" Our Narcotics Bureau," said
Looney, " through long ex­perience,
can guide worried
parents to professional or
medical aid. Our concern, as in
all narcotics matters, is to help
young people who become in­volved
with narcotics."
Concerned parents can call
Pioneer 6- 1000 and ask for the
Narcotics Bureau. Then, after
outlining their problem, an ex­perienced
officer will direct them
to a source of help. At no time
need the caller identify himself or
herself.
" We have experienced such
calls in the past," Looney added,
" and want now to encourage
others to seek help in eliminating
a problem in our society."
The new program is an ex­tension
of the department's
Anonymous Analysis service. If
parents find a substance in their
home they suspect may be a drug
or narcotic, it can be placed in an
envelope addressed to the
Narcotics Bureau and left at
headquarters or a precinct
stationhouse. The person leaving
the envelope should write or type
some identifying code name or
initials on the envelope - no other
identification is necessary. In
four days, the person can call the
Narcotics Bureau, giving the
code name or initials, and receive
a report on the results of the
laboratory tests.
village. According to Carman
and Krasnow, each trustee has
the character to see issues
clearly.
Raffael said that Zureck three
and one half years promised to
solve the probvlem by himself.
He said that the late Mr. Hack-witz
action was illegal and the
late Mayor Joseph Brune did not
say that the operation was illegal,
but nothing was done.
This reporter is in the process
of doing extensive research in the
historical and current records
regarding the matter. The
problem legally is that the or­dinance
supposedly passed in
1922 is missing from the Village
minutes; and so far no legal
notice has been found that was
published in an official
newspaper.
There is also evidence that an
ordinance bearing on the Karp
situation was passed in other
years. So far no proof has been
found.
Weathers In Dialogue
On School Aid
Mrs. Sanford Fishman, ( left), Membership Chairman of the Mid-
Island Chapter Of Women's American ORT arranges a welcoming •
committee to greet the new Mid- Island S. Klein's in Hicksville.
Assisting her are Mrs. B. Rudolph, Mrs. A. Aschkenas, Mrs. I. Stech-man,
Mrs. M. Kaye and Mrs. B. Kravette along with their children.
ORT ( Organization for Rehabilitation Through Training) is the
world's largest non- governmental vocational training agency.
In Error
A report that Village Clerk
James McKenna ' had falsified
the minutes' as charged by
Mayor Joseph Zureck was in
error. The sentence should have
read that the minutes had not
reflected or had omitted the 2- 2
vote on an apartment application
by Posillico and Allen. According
to McKenna, he thought it was
just an informal discussion since
one trustee was missing.
A Terry Weathers, Trustee of
the Farmingdale School Board
and Robert Mackreth, Trustee of
the Plainedge Board of
Education, recently took part in
an extensive discussion of the
crisis facing education on Long
Island with Senator D. Clinton
Dominick of Newburgh, Chair­man
of the Joint Legislative
committee studying education in
New York State.
Weathers and Mackreth
participated as members of the
Executive Committee of the
Nassau Suffolk School Board
Association. Weathers is also
Nassau Co- chairman of the
Finance Committee of the
Association; Mackreth is also a
member of the Educational
Opportunity Committee of the
Association.
Taking part in the spirited four
hour discussion which was held at
West Hempstead High School, in
addition to Senator Dominick and
members of his Joint Legislative
Committee staff, were Assem­blymen
Joseph Margiotta,
Stanley Harwood and Charles
Jerabek and a member of
Assemblyman Duryea's staff.
The participants were
generally in agreement that the
New York State School property
tax had reached its practical
limits in almost every district in
the State and that alternates
ways of funding education had to
be found. Mr. Weathers pointed
out that the Association has
recommended a surtax on the
income tax returned to the
County of origin as being a most
equitable way of paying for the
basic education of our children.
While Senator Dominick did not
comment on the proposal, he did
thank Mr. Weathers and
Mackreth for his frank and
enlightening review of the state
of education on Long Island.