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WHERE THE HISTORY OF YOUR COMMUNITY IS RECORDED WEEKLY
An Official Newspaper of ( he Incorporated Village of Farmingdale — Serving Greater Farmingdale, Bethpage and Melville
VOL. 9 NO. 1 9 Second Class Postage has been paid at Farmingdale, N. V. 11735 • Published by THE OBSERVER, INC., Box 146, Farmingdale, N. Y. Thursday, December 30, 1971
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Now is the hour for us to celebrate
the New Year with a toast to everyone
for your friendship and patronage. Serving
you during the past months has been both a
privilege and a pleasure. We extend best wishes
for a happy and prosperous. year.
FARMINGDALE OBSERVER
It Should Be a Very Good Year
For Farmingdale University
Ir> 1972 State University at Farmingdale will continue to serve the Long Island
community as it has for more than a half- century. Both the day and the evening
college will expand the number of students they will be admitting. In the day
college, admissions will be offered to 3,523 graduating high school seniors out of
some 12,200 applications. This would be an increase of 5 percent over last year's
class. The addition will be distributed among those courses of study where ap­plications
have always been high.
These programs are in Com­munity
Service Assistant,
Business Administration, Liberal
Arts and Sciences and Recreation
Supervision. The Evening
College will also be ready to
accept some 7,000 men and
women who will either be con­tinuing
on a part- time basis to
study for degrees, or enter as
newly enrolled students. Many
residents of the Island find that
they can further their personal
career and avocational goals by
means of evening study.
Farmingdale will also meet
some of the increased enrollment
through the re introduction of
one- year certificate programs in
Aerospace Service Aide, Audio
Visual Communications and
Ornamental Horticulture. These
students can be accommodated
by using facilities already
available at the College. At this
time, the Admissions Depart­ment
hopes to accept about 100
freshmen into the one- year
certificate programs.
The State University of New
York Agricultural and Technical
College at Farmingdale, a public
two- year technical college which
gives the Associate in Science,
Associate in Arts and Associate
in Applied Science Degrees,
currently has an undergraduate
student body total of 11.815. This
figure ' includes a full- time
enrollment of 5,319 ( full- time
equivalency 5,850) and part- time,
0,496. Of this number, 7,796 are
men, 4,019 are women and 999 are
resident studens.
The college, throughout its
early years, offered programs
that were primarily agricultural
and horticultural
Among the full- time student
body, 999 reside on the campus,
and 4,320 commute daily 82
percent reside in the several
Counties Of Long Island and 17
percent live in Upstate New
York or elsewhere in the U S
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Policeman Shot
A Nassau County Policeman, investigating a hold­up
at County Line Delicatessen on South Main Street in
South Farmingdale on Wednesday night around 8: 00
p. m., was found shot to death minutes later in the
parking lot of the County Line Bowling Lanes only a
few blocks away from the hold- up place. Dead on
arrival at Brunswick General Hospital was patrolman
Richard Hose, 22, who had lived with his parents
Charles and Beatrice Rose at 14 Cinque Street, Far­mingdale.
The reception desk at police headquarters in Mineola
gave out no other information except that the
patrolman had been with the force since 1967 and had
become a patrolman in August 1970. There was no
confirmation nor denial whether the fatal shooting of
the patrolman, the first one this year within the Nassau
County police force, has any connection with the
robbery. The armed hold- up man got away with ap­proximately
$ 250.- in cash. His car was later found
abandoned in Amityville.
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' Ever Vigilant' Is
The Word for ' 72
Mayor Hallahan Assesses the New Year
What kind of a year will it be for Farmingdale - the
year about to dawn? A year in which extreme caution
will be the order of the 366 days ( it's a leap year, you
know), fiscally and governmentally speaking.
This assessment comes from
Farmingdale mayor John T.
Hallahan, who views the prospect
of reduced or at least late
arriving state aid payments not
necessarily with alarm, but
nevertheless with emotions far
short of joy.
Owing to the budget crunch
experienced by the state, the next
scheduled payment of state aid to
municipalities may be up to three
months late. And what comes
after that, namely the budget for
the fiscal year 1973, which ac­tually
starts on July 1, 1972,
nobody knows.
To mayor Hallahan this means
that the village government has
to be, as he phrases it, ever
vigilant in approving ex-peditures.
Where before every
item was scrutinized twice, it will
now have to be scrutinized four
times.
In other words: Belt- tightening
will become standard procedure.
In doing this, the mayor feels,
confident that this posture of
austerity need not have to be
accompanied by a reduction of
services to the village's
residents. As he points out:
" There are no major projects
contemplated or necessary. The
village is physically in good
shape and, given proper main­tenance,
will remain this way.
Thus there will be no heavy
demands placed on the budget,
barring unforeseen cir­cumstances
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If there were, the picture would
naturally change drastically. The
village's budget stands at around
John T. Hallahan
$ 900,000.00 and does not really
leave much room to maneuver.
Summing it up, mayor
Hallahan feels that the problems
coming up can and will be solved,
without placing an undue and
unbearable burden upon the
village's residents.
Such is the view from the top.
To this should be added the fact
that the village government, with
one exception, is soon going to get
a detailed reading of the
resident's judgement regarding
its actions and accomplishments
The year 1972 will be an election
year for the village as well, with
the mayor and three trustees up
for confirmation of their offices
via the voting machine