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An Officiar Newspaper of The Incorporated Village of Farmingdale — Serving Greater F. • N - thpage and Melville
VOL. 8 NO. 4 8 Second Class Postage has been paid at Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735 • Published by THE OBSERVER, INC., Box 146, Farmingdale, N. V. Thursday, J u l y 2 2 , 1 9 71
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
SCHOLARSHIP: Susan Johnson is shown receiving the first Ger-ngras
Memorial Scholarship award from the Farmingdale Fire
Department. The college fund award will be given annually to a son
or daughter of a member of the Farmingdale Fire Department.
Viewing the presentation are left to right Chief Joseph Murphy, Ex.
Chief Ed Keck, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Benson, Susan's parents and
Commissioner August Becker. Photo: Jack Pokress
MAPPING PLANS: Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John W. Burke,
right, and Town Councilman Salvatore Mosca, center, review
drainage plans with Neil Hefferman, job inspector for the consulting
engineer, Sidney B. Bowne and Son , at Junuard Drive and Juniper
Street, South Farmingdale. This Department of Public Works
project was recommended by the Supervisor during the past year
and is designed and engineered to control storm water run- off. The
construction now underway will also include Oakwood Avenue,
Frank Avenue, Orchard Street and a portion of Cypress Street.
GOVERNOR'as citation; Jay Schleichkorn right of Farmingdale
was honored recently by the Governor's Committee on the Em­ployment
of the Handicapped at special ceremonies held in New
York City. He received the Governor's Citation for Meritorious
Service for his activities as a pioneer in the service to the disabled.
Schleichkorn has served as Executive Director of the United
Cerebral Palsy Associations of New York State for the past IS years,
and has now assumed the position as Director of a new Program in
Physical Therapy at the State University of New York at Stony
Brook. The Citation was presented by Dr. Irving Friedman ( left),
Executive Secretary of the Governor's Committee.
Farmingdale School Board
Stymied by 2,000 Petitions
It promises to be long, weary summer for the Board
of Education and administrators of UFSD 22. After
having the budget submitted to the voters twice
without success it turns out now that a sizeable number
of residents will not accept the austerity budget either.
At last Monday's marathon session of the School
Board, the fact that over 2,000 petitions were received
caused a lot of soulsearching, debate and
disagreement.
The 2,000 petitions, all asking
for a resubmission of the budget,
were split into three sides. One
group asked for resubmission of
the already twice defeated
budget, another group wanted a
revised budget to vote on and the
third and least precise group,
simply asked for the resub­mission
of a budget.
The petitions, therefore, could
not be regarded as a clear
mandate in any form. This was
compounded by the fact that the
board itself was split ap­proximately
the same way as
were the petitions.
While the board somehow
managed to unanimously express
its appreciation of the sentiment
of the petitions, it went no further
than that at the meeting. It was
decided to meet again on
Tuesday, July 27, to study the
problem futher and possibly
come to a decision what kind of a
budget to resubmit or not to
resubmit.
The committees of the board
were named the same evening.
Mr. Roy Spinetta will chair the
committee for buildings and
grounds with Mr. Frank Gelish as
member. Gelish will head the
committee on by- laws, with Mr.
Robert Weiss as member. The
other committees are:
Curriculum: Mr. Robert Weiss,
chairman, Mr. Thomas La van,
member; Finance: Mr. Terry
Weathers, ehairman; Personnel
and transportation: Mrs. Lucille
Goulding, chairman; Lunch and
Public Relations: Mr. Robert
Campbell, chairman.
The summer school salary
schedules were derived at under
a somewhat complicated for­mula.
It will range from a low of
$ 29.- a day to $ 42.-.
Mrs. Newman Makes Case
For Underground Lines
Mrs. Lorraine Newman, who
plans to unseat Town of Oyster
Bay Councilman Joseph Saladino
in the fall, is requesting a cost
survey to study the feasibility of
putting electric and telephone
lines underground at the same
time when excavations are
carried out to accommodate
sewer pipes.
" I should think that removing
unsightly power lines and putting
them underground would do a lot
to improve the appearance of our
area," she stated," it could be
tried in a test area first. In any
case, people should have a
choice in that matter."
Mrs. Newman appeared before
the Town Board of Oyster Bay
last week and expressed her
strong objection to the lack of
interest displayed by the board in
regards to the trees that have
been destroyed along Merrick
Road." If just a litUe effort on
part of the independent Parents
and Taxpayers managed to save
the last remaining tree thre, how
many trees could have been
saved if Mr. Saladino had done
something about it in April when
he was appointed to the post of
councilman," she said.
L. I. Aggie Chairman Sees Many
Changes Coming in Agriculture
" Many changes will take place
in land, machines, animals, crops
and man in the production,
processing, and marketing of
food and fiber in the years
ahead," is the prediction made
by Professor Robert R. Stock-bridge,
Chairman of the
Agriculture Department at State
University at Farmingdale.
In discusssing the all-important
picture of agriculture
in " The 70* s and Beyond,"
Professor Stockbridge points out
that " new forms of fertilization
and micro unit techniques will be
used in the conservation of good
agricultural lands; agriculture
machines in the future will tend
to reduce man to a ' push button
operator' and much land will be
under some type of canopy so
that the environmental factors
required for the most efficient
production may be controlled."
An outstanding authority on
animal science technology and
soil conservation, the Far­mingdale
chairman, who is most
enthusiastic about the
resurgence of both adults and
young students alike in the back
t o - t h e - f a rm movement,
described the overwhelming
interest prevailing today in the
field of agriculture. " Here at
Farmingdale University the
back- to- the- land movement is
very much alive, well and
growing with the Fall enrollment
of agriculture students at the
college jumping at least 20 per
cent to over 400 students in day
and night classes. It has been
growing steadily in recent
years," he said.
" This," he added, " is quite a
change for Farmingdale, which
began as the State Institute of
Applied Agriculture when
founded in 1912, and as Long
Island became highly
technicalized, the college
changed, too." Said Professor
Stockbridge, " I perceive a
definite trend here of people
more than ever wanting to go
back to the land."
In this respect, he observes, in
the following observations of his,
the tremendous changes that can
be expected in the agricultural
field in the 1970' s and beyond :
" The conservation of good
agricultural lands at strategic
points in the country is an im­mediate
concern. It must be
accomplished by green belt areas
being established and required.
The land, in agricultural use in
the future, will be expertly
handled, using new forms of
fertilization and micro unit
techniques. Water for crops and
animal use will be expertly
utilized. Much land will be under
some type of canopy so that the
environmental factors required
for the most efficient production
may be controlled.
" The machines in agriculture
will tend to reduce man to a ' push
button operatior' but he will have
to be able to operate intelligently
and have efficient means of
maintenance at hand to eliminate
costly stops in procedure.
" Animals of the future are
going to be highly selected and
bred more specifically than they
are at the present, for particular
purposes?
Prof. Robert Stockbridge,
Chairman of Agriculture, State
University at Farmingdale.