1971-09-02

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An Officiaf Newspaper of The Incorporated Village of. Farmingdale — Serving Greater Farmingdale. Bethpage and Melville
VOL. 9 NO. 2 Second Class Postage has been paid at Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735 • Published bv THE OBSERVER, INC., Box 146, Farmingdale, N. Y. Thursday, S e p t e m b e r 2 1 9 71
MIRACLE ON CARMAN ROAD BRIDGE: It was indeed almost a
miracle that happened there. A boy riding his bicycle over the bridge
escaped certain injury, possibly death, when he managed to jump off
his bike just moments before an automobile, lost control and which
had crossed the dividing double line, pinned the bicycle to the fence.
The South Farmingdale Fire Department removed the car, after its
driver and the boy were attended to. Both were checked out at Mid-
Island Hospital.
Photo: Robert J. Greco
LI. Called Supermarket
For Stolen Automobiles
The startling information thai
Long Island is the easiest spot to
get your car pilfered and also to
purchase another one real cheap
was disclosed during the
stimulating three- day Northeast
Regional Auto Theft Seminar
held at Roosevelt Hall of State
University at Farmingdale.
With some 200 representatives
from police departments in many
parts of this country, insurance
agencies, F. B. I., automobile
manufactuerers, etc., present,
Lt. Joseph Chambers, head of the
Nassau County Police Depart­ment's
Auto Theft Squad, said.
" Nassau and Suffolk provide both
the supply and the demand for
stolen cars." He revealed that a
total of close to 9,000 cars were
stolen in Nassau and Suffolk last
year, with Nassau reporting
almost 6,500.
In disclosing that Nassau and
Suffolk Counties were " super­markets"
for car thieves, Lt.
Chambers brought out that large
parking areas, especially those at
Long Island's many railroad
stations, as well as big shopping
centers, are ideal spots for these
professional thieves. He
described how these thieves
would pick out a car in a parking
lot early any morning, write
down the plate number, model
and make obtain new plates and
forged registration already, then
return to steal it, usually from the
same parking space a few days
later.
Another interesting item was
brought out by Lt. Chambers-the
fact that stolen cars can be
sold without any difficulty.
" Suburban communities, with
their ftigh per capita incomes, in
most cases require a second or
third, car and the offer of a car,
expecially a new one at almost
half its retail price, complete
with new plates and forged
registration and bill of sale, has a
ready market," he said.
School Lunch
Managed by
Outside Firm
The school lunch program in
the Farmingdale Schools will
be managed by a con­cessionaire
ARA Services,
Inc. this school year.
According to school board
president Robert Campbell, a
savings of at least $ 40,000 is
expected. The concessionaire
will reduce the number of
employees from 108 to 97.
Trustees Lucille Goulding
and Terry Weathers - voted
against the bid award because
of concern for the employees.
Weathers was particularly
concerned about the
retirement status of some of
the people involved.
J. Richard Zutt, the
district's business manager,
explained that the con­cessionaire
had a meeting
with the former school lunch,
employees to explain the new
operating arrangement. As of
the night of board meeting he
did not yet know if all of the
employees who wished to
. return would be able to do so.
This bid for food service
management and the
authorization for the Board
president to sign the contract
was approved at a brief
special board meeting on
Wednesday evening, at which
the Observer's reporter was
the only public observer.
At the board meeting the
promotion of Mr. John Scuderi
to the position of chairman of
the English Department at
Mill Lane Junior High was
also approved.
Town Hall Decrees
inued Austerity
Budget Requests Come Under Careful Scrutiny
Austerity is the word. Some may even call it penny- pinching.
Whatever the definition is - the Town of Oyster Bay is going to see to
it that the fiscal year 1972, which started July 1, is not going to end in
red ink. Supervisor John Burke took steps to assure that even under
the present tight budget conditions essential services can be
maintained.
Burke ordered his budget
director, Joseph Macedonio, to
commence a careful line- by- line
review of the funds requested by
the department heads to deter­mine
where reductions can be
made in . their 1972 budget
requests. He said the budget,
resulting from Macedonio's
analysis, must meet the following
test:
" The finai budget document
must provide for the continuance
of essential Town services while
bearing in mind the constant
economic pressures that weigh
upon our homeowners."
The Supervisor tightened the
Town's fiscal belt in the Spring
when cutbacks in State aid
reduced State assistance by more
than $ 1 million.
" I am determined," Burke
said, " to keep that belt as tight as
possible. We must be fully
cognizant of the effect on our
taxpayers of the wage freeze and
the present economy as we
develop and ultimately adopt a
Town budget.
" I intend to give to the Town
Board for its consideration a
budget that recognizes the need
for local government to keep
Town expenditures in line with
existing conditions.
" I will also continue the
vigorous fiscal effort instituted
last year which enabled us to
avoid deficit financing of the
operating budget."
Clean Up
Shopping Centers
Or Else
Shopping centers throughout
the Oyster Bay Township have
been declared a prime target in a
townwide cleanup drive, ac­cording
to Town Councilman
Ralph Diamond, chairman of the
Town Board Committee on
Environmental Control.
PROCLAMATION
I, John T. Hallahan, Mayor of the Incorporated Village of Far­mingdale,
recognizing the tremendous influence of sports activity to.
the youth of our community and the important part played by the
sponsors, administrators and coaches of the Farmingdale Midget
Football League to provide such activity, do hereby authorize this
proclamation:
WHEREAS, through the efforts of responsible businessmen
and citizens of the community of Farmingdale, as represented
by Farmingdale Midget Football League in providing the youth
of this community with a regulated sports program, and,
WHEREAS, such sports program does develop a body- building
program in addition to a spirit of sportsmanship and com­petitiveness
to our youth, and,
WHEREAS, this program will enable our youth to develop
such attributes to the betterment of their future with benefits to
all concerned,
NOW THEREFORE, be it further,
RESOLVED, that I, John T. Hallahan, Mayor of the In­corporated
Village of Farmingdale, in recognition of the efforts
of the Farmingdale Midget Football League, do hereby proclaim
the week of September 12th to September 18th, 1971, as FAR­MINGDALE
FOOTBALL WEEK, and urge all residents of this
community to support the activities of this organization.
SIGNED:.... John T. Hallahan
Mayor
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LILCO: No Change in Procedures
Doria of 1971 did as much
damage as Donna, the full-fledged
hurricane which struck
Long Island in 1960, said Jack
Strandfeldt, spokesman for the
Long Island Lighting Company.
The main cause of power
disruption for some 250,000
customers was falling tree limbs
and consequent progressive
failure of transformers and
circuit breakers. Considering the
magnitude of the damage, the
wide area involved and the fact
mat for the great majority of
homes power was restored within
4 « hours ( although some were
without current for up to three
days), Strandfeldt was of the
opinion that emergency
procedures were adequate and
LILCO did as much as could be
expected under the cir­cumstances.
The most seriously affected
\ area was southeastern Nassau
and western Suffolk. Among the
earliest to suffer was the Sai^-
Lane area in Sea ford whelp,
according to electric clo<* k*? r
power failed at 3: 32 A. m.,
Saturday. Service was not
restored until 11: 58 A. M.,
Monday, an elapsed time of 56
hours and 26 minutes. " We were
lucky to get our power back as
soon as we did," a resident
reported, " because we managed
to capture a LILCO crew." Ac­cording
to his story, he noticed a
LILCO truck across the canal
from where he lives and went to
investigate the possibility that a
mistaken location had been
given. He learned that one house
in the area was dark and that the
crew had no instructions to
restore service to the ap­proximately
50- home area. " At
least come and look at our lines,"
he pleaded. The crew chief, in an
admirable display of initiative
acceded to the request and
determined that a tripped circuit
bie& er was the sole cause of the
fctftage . After checking in with
headquarters, up went the lad­der,
up went the lineman and in a
matter of seconds the damage,
despair and suffering of Sands
Lane ceased.
One crew chief toida distressed
customer that much of the
equiQjnent was substandard,
" old junk that should have been
replaced long ago." Strandfeldt
explained that LILCO keeps
abreast of all developments in the
field and that as new equipment
is developed it is installed.
The rumor concerning
LILCO'S reluctance to pay
overtime may have been
prompted by the Sunday evening
radio announcement that said
that crews would not work after
dark for safety reasons.
UPROOTED trees may be fun for kids, but for their parents they
present damage to property and pocket book -- with the damage to the
pocketbook very seldom recouped by insurance payments. Twins
Joseph and Jeffrey Boyle with a friend, Brian Slean, all of North
Massapequa, enjoy climbing a tree uprooted during the onslaught of
Doria. The 35 year old tree was located on Margaret Road.
Photo: Jack Pokress