1969-07-10

              INuDALE PUBLIC LIBRARY
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An Official Newspaper of The Incorporated Village of Farmingdale- Serving Greater
Vol. 6 No. 45
g Greater Farmingdale, Bethpage and Melville
Second Class Postage has been paid at Parmlagdale, N. Y. 1173S Thursday, July 10, 1969
DAV PLANS TO BUILD
104 HOUSING UNIT
Plans to erect four buildings to house 104 Senior Citizens housing
units in South Farmingdale, were made known this week by the
Disabled American Veterans, Department of New York.
The two story structures will be built on a nearly five acre site on
the northeast side of Main Street, 290 feet southeast of Daniel Drive.
A spokesman for the Disabled American Veterans, a non profit
organization, told the OBSERVER that the housing units will be made
available primarily to residents 62 years of age and over whose in­come
does not exceed $ 4,000 a year.
Plans for the purchase of the land have not yet been completed, but
an architect has been retained and drawings have been submitted to
the DAV.
The site, zoned light industry, straddles the Township of Babylon,
with a smaller portion located in the Town of Oyster Bay. A zoning
change application will have to be submitted for the multiple dwelling
plan, it was learned.
Huge Olympic Program
Starts On Aggies Campus
The huge sports complex at
State University at Farmingdale
will be the scene of a vast
Summer Olympic Developmental
Program, by the Long Island
Athletic Club, according to a joint
announcement by Dr. Charles W.
Lafi'in, Jr., President of the
college, and Mike Byrnes, head
coach of the Long Island Athletic
Club.
Stalling this Tuesday, July 8,
and continuing on successive
Tuesdays through August iith, the
track and field events will take
place from ( i to 9 p. m. The games
also will be held on Sundays,
August 3 through September 7,
from 9: 30 to 12 noon.
At the same time that these
track meets will be staged,
jogging tours will be held on the
college's three courses. Over 100
contestants are expected to
participate in the track and field
meets while arrangements are
being made to handle upwards of
.{ 00 for the jogs.
A day- long program, for both
the track and field athletes, as
well as the joggers, has been
arranged for a week from next
Sunday. July 13, with prizes to go
to the individual best times and
distances. This program will
start at 12 noon and continue
through 5 P. M.
While the huge program at the
Aggies' campus has been com­pleted,
veteran Long Island
Athletic Club coach Byrnes says
that entries are still welcome.
They may be sent to the club's
headquarters at 3689 Lufberry
Avenue, Wantagh.
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Book Borrowers Feel Impact Of
Library Services Cutback
The impact of two defeated
budgets on the Farmingdale
Public Library borrowers and
staff was felt severly the first
week of curtailled services. With
the Main Street library closed
and Bookmobile service
suspended, borrowers descended
with returnable books to the
South Farmingdale Branch
Library. The Branch Library,
with its own first week of cur­tailed
hours t was hard pressed
with a limited staff on Monday
from l to 9 p. m. and Tuesday
through Friday from one to five
p. m.
According to Mrs. Hortensia
Stoyan, Assistant Director, the
small staff at South Farmingdale
Branch worked at top speed in an
attempt to keep up with the
unusual number of books being
returned. She said that there had
been some criticism that
librarians were on duty in the
morning when the branch was not
open. She said this was made
necessary due to the enormous
behind the scenes work that had
to be done by a very limited staff.
Robert Callahan, President of
the Library Board of Trustees, -
said that a lot of people were
disappointed at the lack of full
library service. The Board just
doesn't have the money, he said,
to hire any replacements during
the vacation period.
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A community building featuring the first municipally- owned indoor
swimming facility in Nassau and Suffolk Counties, is planned for
Town of Oyster Bay residents on a 16.4 acre plot on Motor Avenue and
Heisser Lane South Farmingdale. The community building shown in
this artist's rendering will have approximatly 35,000 square feet of
total floor area and will include an Olympic size pool, bleachers and
dressing room capable of handling 1,000 people. The out- door facilities
include playing fields for all sports as well as a plaza for concerts.