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FARMINBDALE OBSERVER
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An Offictaf Newspaper of The Incorporated Village of Farmingdale — Serving Greater Farmingdale, Bethpage and Melville
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VOL. 8 NO. 25 Second Class Postage has been paid at Farmingdale, N. Y. t1735- Thursday, February 11, 1971
A SCOUT IS FRIENDLY, COURTEOUS, KIND. CHEERFUL . .
. Especially now during Boy Scout Anniversary Month when over 800
Leaders' wives were presented roses at their homes by Cubs and
Scouts of the Nassau County Council, Boy Scouts of America. Star
Scoot Paul A. Dumesnil of Troop 711 of Farmingdale recognizes
Marylyn Dumesnil for her personal sacrifice and generous en­couragement
of her husband who is Scoutmaster of Troop 711,
sponsored by St. Thomas R C. Church of Farmingdale.
Music for Farmingdale
Cancels Concert Series
If it was curiosity that killed the cat then it must have been apathy
that killed Music for Farmingdale. For this is what happened - the
planned and scheduled spring series of three concerts by the or­chestra
Da Camera at Weldon E. Howitt Junior High School has now
been cancelled. Not enough subscriptions were sold - and not enough
interest on the part of local residents was expressed - to enable the
Music for Farmingdale committee to go ahead.
To break even 500 subscriptions
to the series of three concerts, at
$ 10.00 for the series, had to be
sold. Something like half was
actually sold - suggesting that out
of approximately 80,000 people
living in the greater Farmingdale
area only 250 thought the concert
series worth $ 10.00.
Naturally the committee,
headed by Nancy Carman, is
disappointed. They have,
however, not yet thrown in the
towel. They are definitely not
disbanding and once the chore of
returning the money to the people
who had ordered and paid for
their tickets has been attended to
a future course for Music for
Farmingdale will be charted.
Where this course will lead to
remains to be seen. The fact that
a few short years ago Music for
Farmingdale was able to
generate over 1,000 subscriptions
from music lovers tends to dispel
some of the disappointment felt
by the Music for Farmingdale
committee.
Playground Project Under Way
Now that the Village Board has
decided to use the former Ger-ngrass
property on Staples St. as
a pre- schoolers' playground in
accordance with the desire of the
donor, the late Emil Gerngrass,
Brotherhood Week
In honor of " Brotherhood
Week" which is being observed
Ihe week of February 12- 22 the
Farmingdale Public Library is
sponsoring a program on the
American Indian. Mrs. Jay Paro,
an Algonquin Indian will show
slides ( » n the arts and crafts and
culture ol various Indian tribes.
The presentation will take
place at the South Farmingdale
Branch of the Public Library on
February 17, at 7: 30 P. M. and at
Main Street Library on February
19, at 4 P. M.
action is progressing rapidly to
fulfill the legacy. Bids have been
let and accepted for fencing and
playground equipment. If the
weather is cooperating only
halfway the playground, for
which a name has yet to be
selected, should be dedicated on
Memorial Day. And a more fit­ting
date could hardly be found.
Memorial Day is also the day
when the fountain in the Village
Green should be ready to squirt.
Hopefully by that time some of
the problems besetting the green,
namely the overabundance ol at
times overly boisterous youths
may be close to a solution.
One move that may exert a
controlling influence could be the
planned relocation of the police
booth now at Conklin St to a
place from where the Village
Green would be in permanent
view.
Proposal to Merge Aggie
School, B'klyn Polytech
Many people, and often we who are living here are
among them, do not realize that Farmingdale is a
college town. As a matter of fact - it is a town ( if one
can use this word for one couldn't really say college
village) of two higher institutions of learning - The
Agricultural and Technical College of the State
University and the Farmingdale Graduate School of
the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. If some New
York City lawmakers have their way, though, the two
will one day become one.
This, because eleven New York
City Republican legislators have
called for the merger of
Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn
with the State University System.
Assemblvmen Fdward J.
Tax Loss Pains
Library Board
The problem of the Far­mingdale
schools in regard to the
takeover of Republic Airfield by
the Metropolitan Transit
Authority with the resulting
revenue loss of up to $ 1 mil. is
also the Farmingdale Library's
( and for that matter the Far­mingdale
Youth Council's)
problem. For the library this
income loss of 10 per cent tran­slates
into something like
$ 35,000.00 and will reduce further
a budget that is not considered
sufficient even now.
At last Tuesday night's
meeting of the Library Board
matter was naturally discussed
alas without result. Board
chairman Warren Altman was
unable to attend and in his ab­sence
the matter of interviewing
candidates for the open seat on
the Library Board had to be
tabled. The two people that are
yet to be interviewed now have a
date with* the Library Board of
Trustees on February 16, after
which the process of deter­mination
as to the filling of the
vacancy should begin.
Exceptional Children
Committee With PTA
The Farmingdale Committee
for Exceptional Children an­nounces
that it has become a unit
of the National Congress of
Parents and Teachers. Hereafter
it will be called the Special
Education PTA ( SEPTA).
The Committee for Exceptional
Children was formed because
there was a desire on the part of
the parents ol children in the
special classes to have their own
parent teacher organization The
new Special h'ducation PTA will
continue to present educational
and informative programs far the
parents, and also have social
( unctions during the year lor the
children and their families.
Amann, Jr., Vito P. Battista,
Dominick L. DiCarlo, John T.
Flack, Robert F. Kelly, Joseph J.
Kunzeman, Alfred D. Lerner,
John G. Lopresto, Vincent Riccio,
Lucio F. Russo and Assem­blywoman
Rosemary R. Gun­ning,
have urged the State
University of merge Polytechnic
Institute's Brooklyn and Far­mingdale
facilities into the state
university system as a separate
unit. They have sent a letter to
this affect to the Hon. Ernest L.
Boyer, chancellor of the State
University.
The Rep - iblican Assembly
members have issued the
following joint statement;
" In 1968 the Legislature
directed the State University to
study the possibility of a per­manent
affiliation with
Polytechnic Institute of
Brooklyn. This action was taken
because it appeared Polytech
could not survive without ex­traordinary
public financial
assistance.
" Now, after funds being ap­propriated
during the past three
years to enable P. I. B. to carry
on, no definite, satisfactory af­filiation
program has yet been
accomplished.
" It would be unthinkable that
this splendid engineering school,
with an outstanding worldwide
reputation, should be compelled
to close. It is our intention to
exert every effort to save this
institution, which is the most
accessible engineering school
serving our constituencies."
Another Hat in the Ring
For Ed Ocker's Job
Finding volunteers for the not too glamorous job of committeeman
is like finding carfree souls to transport nitroglycerin, political
leaders have discovered. Candidates for Town of Oyster Bay
councilman, however, are easier to find. After it became known that
the dean of Tobay councilmen Ed Ocker was going to be appointed to
a county job, hats and bonnets ( the latter belonging to Adeline Petite
and Joan Cable) came flying into the ring. Another hat has now been
added to the collection of headgear - this one from David Huschle,
owner and operator of the Maine Maid Inn in Jericho. Huschle, last
year's Long Island Restaurant Man of the Year, announced his
availability to serve as Tobay councilman.
In an address given recently from business who have a day- to-before
the Long Island
Association of Commerce and
Industry, he indicated that
businessmen must become in­volved
in local government.
" There is a tremendous im­balance
of lawyers serving in our
legislatures and that includes the
Town of Oyster Bay", Huschle
said. " We must have more men
day working knowledge of the
problems facing the Town.
Things such as sanitation, waste
removal, labor, employment,
transportation, taxes, zoning and
building codes are all familiar to
us because we deal with them
constantly. All of us who work
( Continued ow I'age 2)
David Huschle. left, and Mrs. Huschle being congratulated by
Nassau County Executive Ralph P. Case upon being named Long
Island Restaurant Man Of The Year. 1970- 71. Huschle operates the
Main Maid Inn, Jericho.