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An Official* Newspaper uf The Incorporated Village of Farmingdale — Serving Gi
Vol. 8 No. 19 Second Class Postage ha* December 31,1970
New Bus Service From
Railroad Station
The Public Service Com­mission
today granted a
temporary certificate of
public convenience and
necessity to E. B. T., Inc., of
Copiague, Suffolk County, for
extensions of two common
routes, one a further extension
to serve the Walt Whitman
Shopping Center in Hun­tington
from Copiague and the
other an extension between
Copiague and Long Islan^
Railroad Station
mingdale.
The Copiague
will travel alt;
Road, Rout
Road tc_
AgrJB • Wfmical
or which
holds permanent
ority, and thence proceed
e station along Melville
RT4 under the temporary
authority. The Copiague-shopping
center route will
traverse E. B. T.' s per­manently
or temporarily
authorized route from
Copiague to Half Hollow Road
and then proceed along Old
South Path and New York
Avenue to the mart under the
new eviended authority.
At a public hearing, the
company testified that the
proposal is approved by bflS
the Tri- State Transiv^
Commissi.
PSC Examiner Albert A.
Vallone, who presided at the
hearing, recon. mends the
extensions in his report to the
PSC, saying that the grants
" would serve the public in­terest."
If E. B. T. desires
permanent authority it must
apply to the Commission at a
later date. The temporary
certificate expires on June 13,
1971.
Aggies to Resume
Athletic Program
Having culminated a busy
holiday program with the hosting
of its first annual Christmas
Basketball Tourney, the State
University at Farmingdale
athletic teams now look forward
to resuming their busy schedules
with the return to school.
Coach Tom Galeazzi's for­midable
basketball array, with
eight triumphs in nine starts and
victorious in the Schaefer-sponsored
Long Island Junior
College championship, faces an
international foe, the traveling
Czechoslovakia National quintet,
Monday night ( Jan. 4), at home.
In the event the crowds arrive,
the game will be shifted from
Roosevelt gym to Allard Field
House with 8 P. M. the starting
time.
On Wednesday, the Green and
White hoopsters will go to
Brooklyn to play Kingsborough
Community College and three
days later, Saturday, Jan. 9,
travel to Stone Ridge, N. Y., to
oppose Ulster C. C. The Indoor
track team, which has impressed
with its performances in the
series of A. A. U. Developmental
Meets, is to seek further honors in
the Metropolitan A. A. U. junior
championships at the Engineers
Armory, a week from tomorrow,
Friday, Jan. 9.
Coach Bob Hartman's
wrestling squad, which scored
highly in capturing its six- team
Invitation Tournament, then
offset a loss against a powerful
Keystone Jr. College outfit from
LaPlume, Pa., by crushing
Dutchess C. C. of Poughkeepsie,
has another rough foe, Hofstra
" B", on their mats next Thur­sday.
A local lad, a former Far­mingdale
High star, Bruce
Biondi, is spearheading the Aggie
grapplers with one of the most
outstanding records in both
scholastic and college annals.
The 118- pound ace, graduated
from Farmingdale High in June
1969, finished his schoolboy
career with an enviable record of
72 victories against ONLY two
reverses. Now as a Recreation
Supervision senior at the Aggies,
he has amassed 15 successive
triumphs without a loss in less
than two years of college com­petition.
He scored 12 of them as
a freshman and three more this
year, twelve of his overall
decisions coming via falls.
Coach Bob Hess' gymnastic
squad, a strong one in its second
year, returns to action a week
from tomorrow, Jan. 8, in a
double dual match involving
Suffolk C. C. and Monroe C. C. of
Rochester, N. Y., at home and the
following day, Jan. 9, travels to
Princeton to meet its Gym Club.
This will be a real test for the
Aggie athletes, who include
scholastic and State titleholders.
In bowling, Coach Bruce
Bobbins' charges, who avenged
their only setback in the
Metropolitan Community College
Is
The Bargai
A new^ year ; J
Some view it
prophet. But even wTtnouts!
kind of vision he has no hesitation
to assess the new year. He does it
with on » word: M- O- N- F- V. N « - » tj
the abundance but rather the U
of it. Of fhis he is sure: Money is
going to be the problem for
Farmingdale.
There is never enough of it and
as Mr. Zureck explains there
seem to be no more ways open to
the village government to raise
it. Increase taxes? The Mayor
shudders. The State is short of
League at the hands of
Kingsborough to end an unbeaten
slate that reached 7 in a row, will
go after its second title. Besides
the Community College circuit
honors, the Green and White will
seek the Region XV National Jr.
College crown a week from this
Saturday at Madison Square
Garden.
Capt. Helen Rakowski, Far­mingdale
native, captained her
team into first place in the torrid
SUATC Farmingdale Bowling
League, the Pinwhirls having
2343 total wood and 302.68
Petersen Points. Bill Timoney's
Sweepers are second, Dr. Bill
Reilly's The I. R. A. third and Dr.
Harvey Barke's Fireballs fourth.
Mrs. Rakowski, only woman
leader in the 10- team circuit, also
had high game honors of 236+ 27
263. Vic Pedone, Sweepers, was
best in high series play, 579+ 93
672.
Post Office Hours
The Post office will observe the
following holiday schedule on
New Year's day, Friday,
January 1, 1971!
There will be no regular win­dow,
delivery or collection ser­vice.
However, special delivery
service will be provided. Post
office lobby will be open for mail
deposit and purchase of stamps
from self- service machines. Lock
box service will be provided from
9: 00 A. M. to 3: 00 P. M.
Delivery and collection service
will be in effect on Saturday,
January 2. Window service will
be provided from 8: 00 A. M. to
12: 00 noon.
Normal Sunday service will be
in effect on Sunday, January 3.
There will be collection, lock box
and special delivery service.
r i ;
Mayor Jos. Zureck
money, the county is running out
of it, the town needs more. Where
does the village come in here? At
the tail end. Mr. Zureck does not
feel that on top of all other threat­ened
tax increases the village can
pile on one more.
Yet some of it will have to be
Romiag.
Here the Mayor points out that
Albany has some obligations -
the biggest being that the for­mula
for per capita aid to munici­palities
is revised. This formula,
Mr. Zureck points out, was de­veloped
in 1943 and is totally
inadequate and woefully unre­sponsive
to today's require­ments.
With the fiscal ending June 30,
1971 the first half of the calendar
year is not as big a problem as
the second half. Here the fact that
the contract with the firm re­sponsible
for garbage collections
runs out throws some ominous
shadows ahead. While nothing to
this effect has yet been said Mr.
Zureck is certain that the con­tractor
will ask for an undigest-able
increase in his charges.
( Continued on Page 7)
Robber Active Even
On Christmas Eve
The wicked do not rest -- even on Christmas Eve. It was a busy
week for our local police, what with robberies and burglaries, as the
following four incidents reported make abundantly clear.
On Dec. 24, at 5: 20 P. M. at
Conklin & Main Sts. in Far­mingdale
Charles Elser was
robbed while making a bank drop
at the Franklin National Bank.
He was approached by an armed
Picture Book Time
At Plainedge Library
Registration for the winter
series of Picture Book Time and
Story Time at the Plainedge
Public Library will take place the
week of January 4.
Story Time will be held every
Wednesday, starting January 13,
for children in kindergarten
through sixth grade, at 4: 00 p. m.
Two sessions of Picture Book
Time will be held every Thursday
for children ages three and one
half through five starting
January 14. The first session will
be held at 10: 15 a. m. and the
second, a repeat of the first, at
11: 30 a. m.
man. The robber demanded the
money in Mr. Elser's possession,
totaling $ 2,600. Robber was ap­proximately
5' 10", 30 years of
age, 180 lbs. and wearing black
jacket & brown hat.
On Dec. 22 at 8 P. M. at 153
Fulton Street Farmingdale,
Ralph's Esso Service Station was
robbed by two males driving a
dark Cadillac. The Station at­tendant
Vincent Santoro, was told
to put two tires on the car after
which he was attacked by the
men, who then drove away.
On Dec. 21, Norman Sirotta of
136 Greenwood Drive, N.
Massapequa, reported entry into
his home by a rear window.
Approximately $ 20 in U. S. coins
reported stolen.
On Dec. 24 at 190 Merritt Road,
Farmingdale, the A k P
Supermarket reported entry
through rear door. Loss deter­mined
at time to be three 30
gallon drums of assorted meats.