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AN OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE VILLMUL Uh rARMINGDALE
SERVING THE GREATER FARMINGDALE AREA, BETHPAGE AND MELVILLE
VOL. 10 N O . 4 Second Class Postage has been paid at Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735 • Published by
School Board
Wants Slice of
Revenue Sharing
Anyone thinking that revenue
sharing will aid the local school
districts in reducing their levies
on residents should think again.
Revenue sharing will possibly
reduce town, county and state
taxes but not school taxes. The
bill which has just passed the
Senate does not provide direct
funds tor schools. Indirectly, it is
conceivable that the bill will
induce the State to increase aid to
education, but the local school
district is taking no chances.
The Farmindale's school board
has just informed Washington
about its feelings in this regard.
In a letter to all members of the
Senate Finance Committee the
board objected to this by- passing
of school districts. School taxes
account for about 55 percent of
the local homeowner's property
tax bill.
Board president Robert
Campbell indicated that, " The
board believes in the principle of
revenue sharing as an aid to local
governments, but is concerned
that in its present form the bill
makes no provisions for directing
funds to school districts."
The bill, already passed by the
House of Representatives, would
distribute $ 30,000,000,000 in
Federal funds to the states and
localities over the next five
years. The House bill restricts
the local governments to spen­ding
revenue sharing funds only
in certain categories, such as
public transit, sanitation, and
public safety - but not education.
" The bill as it now stands would
place local school districts at the
mercy and whim of local
governments for financial
assistance," said Campbell. He
called on local taxpayers to write
to Senators Javits and Buckley
and Congressman Grover in
regard to the bill on general
revenue sharing ( HR14370).
Washington representatives
should be urged to amend the
existing bill to include school
districts as directly eligible for
revenue sharing. School board
members also asked that com­munications
be directed to the
Senate Finance Committee
where the bill presently stands.
Swim Registration
Set for Saturday
Registration for the Far­mingdale
Youth Council swim­ming
instruction program for
students in grades 3 through 9
residing in School District 22, will
take place this Saturday.
According to Tony Tonachio,
director of recreation, parents
must register children this
Saturday at the High School pool,
between 10 a. m. and noon. This
program is self- sustaining and a
fee of $ 0.00 includes ten sessions
of Red Cross instruction and
insurance. Students are to supply
towels and swim suits ( girls need
bathing cap ). Classes will be
held at 10, 11 and 12 am
beginning on Saturday. Sop
tember 23.
THE OBSERVER, INC., Box 146. Farmingdale, N. Y. Thursday, S e p t . 1 4 , 1 9 7 2 » 1 5c
THEY' RE OFF AND KICKING: Roy Paiva sets up the tee for the
opening kick of the new season of the Farmingdale Hawks. A great
Opening Day Parade last Sunday and a glorious 36- 0 victory of the
Seniors in the Pop Warner Division over Syosset got the midget
football season off to a running start. For more on the Hawks' season
opening see page 5. Photo Hank Schleichkorn
New Workers'
RR Crossings Will
Be " Rehabilitated"
Stand up and cheer: The Long Island Railroad is
going to rehabilitate ( that's what they call it) its
grade level crossings in Farmingdale. While this
will result in some temporary inconvenience to
motorists, the results will hopefully make it wor­thwhile.
According to the timetable given by the
LIRR to the Farmingdale village board, the
rehabilitation project will start next Wednesday,
September 20, and take four to five weeks to com­pletion.
During the time this work is
underway, it will be necessary to
close off to traffic for a period of
24 hours one crossing at a time
for each track, east and west
bound. After one track has been
completed, there will be a dif­ference
in the level of each track,
and motorists will be warned by a
flashing signal to proceed with
caution at a restricted speed.
After the tracks have been
raised, the crossings Secatogue
Avenue, Main Street, Clinton
Street and Elizabeth Street will
be paved with a special crossing
pavement which will provide a
smooth, quiet ride for vehicles
using such crossings.
Upon completion of the work on
those four crossings, similar
activity will be undertaken at the
Merritt Road crossing.
It is hoped that further in­formation
regarding the work
schedule for each of the crossings
will be available to this
newspaper so that the public will
Concept
Offered at State U. Farmingdale
What is believed to be the only
formalized degree- credited
program for trade unionists in
the Eastern part of this country
will take place this Fall at the
State University at Farmingdale,
the oldest public institution of
higher education on Long Island,
Dr. Charles W. Laffin, Jr.,
president of the college, an­nounced
this week.
Through the combined efforts of
New York State Industrial
Commissioner Louis L. Levine,
Dr. Laffin and the leaders of
Local 138, International Union of
Operating Engineers, located in
Farmingdale, a dual instruction
p r o g r a m , " Automotive
Technology- Operating Engineers
Option," will provide four years
of regular academic and prac­tical
engineering experience for
apprentices of Local 138, who will
range in ages from 18 to 35.
The course, offered by the
Evening College will furnish the
apprentice an opportunity to
acquire an Associate in Applied
Science Degree while receiving
his credentials as a skilled
journeyman. As pointed out by
Dr. Laffin, " the innovative
program has met with
unanimous approval of the local
College Council ( Board of
Trustees), the College's
Curriculum Committee, and is
well received by the Long Island
labor movement.
" The additional course
provides a wide spectrum of
cultural and technical education,
and possesses maximum
resiliency in curriculum design
for modification for other labor
unions, its large scale adoption
by the trade union movement in
the Long Island community is a
foreseeable result. The need for
expanded labor education is
clear."
The last two decades have seen
remarkable new directions in
higher education, especially for
the traditionally disenfranchised,
i. e. minorities, senior citizens,
disadvantaged, and the
economically obsolete; and while
the definitive study is still to be
published regarding the efficacy
of these programs in terms of job
placement, employment enrich­ment,
and earnings, the need to
continue innovative education is
obvious.
The last 20 years have also
witnessed a remarkable
metamorphosis in the com­position
of the nation's labor
force. The growing employment
opportunities in the service and
government sectors of the
economy have experienced
parallel, if not greater growth
rates, in commensurate
educational programs.
In spite of this impressive
development, what has happened
to the trade union member who,
except for courses in collective
bargaining techniques, grievance
arbitration procedures, and ways
and means of administering a
union organization, has inad­vertently
overlooked by the na-tion's
higher educational in­stitutions?
In New York State, which has
experienced, especially in the
Long Island area, an unusually
high rate of unemployment
during the past two years ( in
Suffolk County the unem­ployment
for 1071- 72 was 9 per­cent),
the pressing need for new
directions in higher vocational
education is dramatically obvious.
Dr. Laffin states that " the
formalized program of in­struction
designed by the College
for the Operating Engineers'
apprentices of Local No. 138,
I. U. O. E., in cooperation with
Commissioner Levine will
establish a precedent in labor
education that will complement
the needs of our society for the
1971' s."
be aware of crossings to be closed
off to traffic.
At last Monday night's village
board meeting, with which the
lazy, hazy summer days were
officially declared to be over, the
Village Board of Trustees
authorized the Village Clerk to
institute a new procedure for
determining the make- up and
scheduling of official business by
agenda to be presented to them at
public meetings.
Such public meetings are held
at Village Hall on Main Street on
the second and fourth Mondays of
the month.
All official applications or
requests for personal ap­pearances
before the Board of
Trustees must be filed by noon
each Thursday preceding such
public meetings, otherwise such
request or application will be
held over to the subsequent
meeting.
The board members feel that
by this arrangement they have
the opportunity to analyze for
several days the problems
presented to them, so that a
meaningful interpretation may
be gained and thoughtful
discussion be the result.
This policy will be instituted at
once.
Something Old
Something New
The old referred to in above
headline is your old OBSERVER.
The new is our flag, our face, if
you will. For quite some time we
felt it should be changed, be more
open, more eye pleasing.
The design we are now sporting
was created for us by Hal
Bucksbaum, a well- known
commercial artists who operates
the Rodger King Studio at 1043A
Park Blvd. in Massapequa Park.
We hope you like it as well as we
do.
Something else is new, namely
our Classified Ads page. From
now on it will more closely
resemble traditional classified
pages and will be carried
simultaneously by all five Ob­server
Tribune newspapers.
Look to page 10 for further
details, including rates. We're
sure that you will find that our
classified ads assure the greatest
geographical coverage for the
least money.
One more word: The new
telephone number of our
classified department is 735- 45U7.
the new deadline for inclusion in
each week's newspapers is
Monday noon.