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i An Official Newspaper of The incorporated Village of Farmingdale- Serving Greater Farmingdale, detnpagv atiH Melville ,
Vol. 7 No. 10 Second Class Postage has been paid at Fannlagdale, N. Y. 11711 Thursday, October 30, 1969
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RECENT CHARGES MAY
AFFECT TUESDAY VOTE As Tuesday Election Day . November 4th draws near,
more interest in this ' off- year' election due to the
' rezoning for profit allegations' being made by
( Newsday) against State Senator Edward Speno, a
Republican, who just last week announced that his hat
was in the ring for the position of United States
Senator, opposing Senator Charles Goodell, ( R).
Speno had announced to the press his own personal
wealth and financial statement with his CPA firm,
Farmingdale's Albrecht and Marmaro. It amounted
to over two million dollars. The charges have received
extreme television coverage.
Many Farmingdale residents are also showing
mounting concern for its own resident Frank J. Hynes
who is running for reelection as Town of Oyster Bay
Councilman. He is also Republican Leader of Far­mingdale.
Hynes did not receive Conservative en­dorsement
due mainly to his stand in favor of the
OysterBay- Rye bridge, which according to many
political pundits makes" it ' tough' to win. However,
Hynes did get his name placed on a second line on the
ballot by the newly formed VIP ( Voters Independent
Party.) The officers of this organization are all
Democrats, according to their ads including David
Weinblatt, Treasurer, whose law practice is on Merritt
Road in Farmingdale. Weinblatt is also Town of Oyster
Bay Attorney. Many of the signers of the petition for
the VIP party are Republicans, however. It is expected
that many liberal Democrats who do not approve of the
Conservative endorsed Democratic candidates, Louis
Yevoli, and Louis Orfan, will pull the lever for Hynes
and Hallsted Christ, as well as incumbent Town Clerk
Bud O'Keefe. O'Keefe is well known in Farmingdale
since he has served as a trustee of the Farmingdale-
Bethpage Historical Society and frequently visits
Farmingdale.
The large Conservative
enrollment in Farmingdale is
expected to show at the polls on
Tuesday according to all
predictions. Farmingdale has the
highest percentage in Nassau
County of Conservative vote
going by last year's 13 percent.
According to Tom Benker, Vice
Chairman of the Massapequa
Conservative Committee, the
Farmingdale Conservative Club
and organization has been
' maverick' and also illegal, in the
past since Farmingdale has
adopted many stands differing
from the New York State Con­servative
Party. Last year the
Conservative endorsement was
for Richard Nixon for President
not for Wallace. Benker states
that the Conservative Party is
made up of a lot of people who
aren't politicians, and in some
cases they were naive they
endorsed Burke for Supervisor
when he later went against the
Conservative party's stand on
housing and sex education. He
said many Conservatives
planned to skip the Supervisor
poll in the voting booth. He said
that they endorsed Orfan and
Yevoli because their philosophy
was at least 60 percent of theirs.
The Democrats, according
tdBetty Ward of Farmingdale,
State Democratic Woman
Chairman , have a resurgence of
hope in thelast few weeks due to
the recent disclosures. Super­visor
Candidate James
Rousmaniere last Thursday
( when we were off the press)'
charged that AngeloD. Roncallo,
Town Republican Leader and
Nassau County Comptroller and
former Massapequa Republican
Leader and former Massapequa
Republican Leader and Town
Republican C. Bruce Pearsall,
with using their positions as well
as being attorneys for gaining
rezoning for personal profit. He
cited the rezoning of " Point of
Woods", a garden apartment
complex opposite Berner High
School on Carman Road in East
Massapequa or West Amityville
as a case in point. The charges
were denied by Roncallo and
Pearsall.
According to Irwin T. Meyers,
Democratic Candidate for Town
clerk, and a resident of 89 Silber
Avenue, Bethpage, " I pray that
the Democratic Party will do
better and not ever get them­selves
involved in any such
wrangles. I hope and pray that
after 60 years of Republican
domination in the Town of Oyster
Bay, that they will not be in­volved
in any partisan shen-nanigans."
One party rule is not a
safeguard for the people.
According to Allan Miller, 9th
AD Democratic Leader and a
resident of Massapequa,
" Democratic chances are ex-t
r e m e l y p r o m i s i n g.
Rousmaniere's campign has
peaked at just the right time and
the other candidates are running
well."
According to Roy Burnell,
Democratic Leader in Far­mingdale,
" It looks pretty good
for our side. The Democrats have
the right issues and the public is
beginning to understand them
better. A fine group of men are
running on the Democratic line".
Angelo Roncallo, Rep. GOP
Leader said, " I believe John
Burke will be victorious. It will be
close for COUNCILMEN Hynes
and Christ - Healey will be over­whelmingly
re- elected and Baker
will be elected."
Irwin T. Myers of Bethpage,
Democratic Candidate for Town
Clerk has served as Senior
Construction Inspector for
Nassau County Department . of
Public Works for over 15 years.
He headed final Audit section for
the War Assets Administration.
He told THE OBSERVER that he
sought the position of town Clerk
because he believes that he could
do the job better." 1' maiways a
demon for efficiency?' He wants to
get the merchants of Oyster Bay
together.
Up for election on Tuesday axe;
For the office of Town
Supervisor, John W. Burke of
Syosset is running for the office of
Town Supervisor in Oyster Bay
on the Republican and Con­servative
line. He attended St.
John's University, where he
received a B. B. A. degree, he
received a L. L. B. degree from
Cornell, and a degree in taxation
from N. Y. U. He stated that he
has tried to maintain the aura of
suburban community for Oyster
Bay, and that he's trying to
combat the garbage problem in
the township on a regional basis.
James A. Rousmaniere is
running for Town'Supervisor also
on the Democratic ticket. He
received his B. A. and his L. L. B.
( Continued from Page H)
' Rezoning For Profit', Levied At Village Board
One of the larger turnouts of
Farmingdale Village taxpayers
in recent years filled Village Hall
on Monday night and waited one
hour and 15 minutes for the Board
of Trustees to complete an
executive session while Mayor
Joseph Zureck and members of
the Board of Trustees met with
Freeport attorney, Charles
McDonald. McDonald had been
hired by the Mayor and the Board
over a year ago to investigate the
alleged violations of village or­dinances
by the Morris Karp
fertilizer factory. In January he
was fired by the board but
recently rehired by Zureck as his
personal attorney after the
Mayor's statements three weeks
ago that some trustees and
members of administration had
been ' usurping his powers as
mayor;' undermined the Karp
litigation; falsified the minutes
regarding an apartment house
application and had published a
legal notice on the proposed
expansion of Sunrise Federal
Savings and Loan and made
application to the Zoning Board
of Appeals, while the matter was
still before the village Board.
Last week, the trustees issued a
joint statement denying some of
the allegations.
A contingent of Sullivan Road
residents who have been com­plaining
over the years ' of suf­fering'
from the alleged
violations of the fertilizer plant
were present to support Mayor
Zureck while others came in
opposition to three- story apart­ment
application by Allen and
Posillico near Prospect Place.
At 9: 15 p. m. when the Board
entered from executive session,
there was a a wave of disap­pointment
when it appeared that
there would be no public par­ticipation.
Upon the plea of John
C. Raffaele of 26 Sullivan Road,
those present were allowed to
speak.
Mrs. Rose Dudek of 48 Prospect
Place, Farmingdale said,
" Mayor Zureck we're often home
and can slumber peacefully
knowing that you are at the helm
and protecting the small
homeowners."
Raffaele asked the Board, " If
the Board decides to continue the
Karp case, will the trustees, who
have any possible conflict of
interest in the case, as well as
members of the zoning Board of
Appeals", publicly disqualify
themselves
Trustee John Ha 11ahan an­swered
that no trustee wished to
disqualify himself, because they
were all interested in the welfare
of the Farmingdale community."
Raffaele then charged that if
there were a stalemate, he would
• request that Mayor Zureck
contact either the District At­torney's
office in Nassau County
or the State Attorney General.
Raffaele said the Mayor
Zureck did not act irresponsibly
as the trustees had charged in
last week's statement, but that
Zureck had acted responsibly for
the protection of the small
homeowner's interest.
' Raffaele charged the Board
with laxity in not investigating
violations when they failed to
investigate the death of a Karp
employee, Emilio Barello as
reported in the Farmingdale
Observer on August 25 when he
suffered death due to a pile of
loose fertilizer that reportedly
fell on him. He said that he would
picket Village Hall if no action
was forthcoming since it seemed
as serious to him as the recently
uncovered Suffolk County zoning
deals. " Farmingdale Village was
rezoning for profit," he charged
the trustees.
Trustee Hallahan said that the
Karp situation was a difficult
legal one and the village could not
cast charges that they couldn't
back up and that might be thrown
out of court. He said everyone in
the village administration was
interested in good government.
* A Mrs. L. Waters of 25 Clinton
Street, Farmingdale said that if it
weren't for her and people like
her pestering the village a lot of
things wouldn't be accomplished.
She said that she had called and
alerted the village to a bookie
operating on Main Street, who
was quickly ousted and more
recently to trees being cut down
on Clinton Street. When she
called the Village Clerk he said
he didn't know anything about it.
She called him again and said
they were village workmen doing
the job. No one cuts down trees in
the ' fancy residential section up
on the hill,' she charged.
Raffaele again asked that
members of the board should
• disqualify themselves from
discussing Karp if the trustee
were a friend or a business
associate.
In answer to another residents
( Continued on Page H)