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AN OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE VILLAGE OF FARMINGDALE
SERVING THE GREATER FARMINGDALE AREA, BETHPAGE AND MELVILLE
VOL 11 No. 4 Second Class Postage has been paid at Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735
Published by THE OBSERVER, Inc., Box 146, Farmingdale, N. Y. Thursday, September 13, 1973 .15c
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ALL SMILES: There were smiles on the faces of Oyster Bay Councilman Gregory
Carman, Farmingdale Mayor John Hallahan and Frank Hynes ( 1. to r.) last Sunday
during dedication ceremonies of Ellsworth W. Allen Park on Heisser Lane. Carman
presented Hynes with a plaque acknowledging the former Councilman's work in
helping to turn Allen Park into a reality. More pictures on page 9.
Photo: Hank Schleichkorn
Town Employs Local Man In
Pilot Program for Retarded
Town Supervisor John W. Burke an­nounced
this week that the Town Board
has approved the creation of a new title,
Special Worker- Laborer ( Retarded) and
that Gregory Happ of Farmingdale has
been selected to fill the position.
Under a new amendment to the New
York State Civil Service Law adopted in
February 1973, municipal governments
were encouraged to hire the mentally
retarded. The effective date of the law
was September 1.
The Town of Oyster Bay is the first
municipality in Nassau County to im­plement
this amendment and the new
title has been approved by the Nassau
County Civil Service Commission.
The Town Board resolution adopting
the new title authorizes the Comptroller
to accept reimbursement from the New
York State Department of Education,
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation for
the first three months of employment.
The starting salary for the position is $ 75
a week plus medical and dental benefits.
Happ, a 1973 graduate of the Special
Educable Retarded Class of Far­mingdale
High School, began work
September 6. He has been employed for
the past two years at a lawn mower
repair shop. He will be under the
supervision of Highway Division
Superintendent George Kunz and will be
employed in the Highway Division office
as a messenger and a general janitorial
assistant.
" This new position is a pilot program,"
Burke stated. " The Town is very anxious
to consider hiring more mentally han­dicapped
workers and I am very sure the
pilot program will prove to be nothing
short of successful."
Burke added that the hiring of Happ
would give the Town all the more op­portunity
to study where and to what
extent retarded workers could be used to
the best advantage of the individual and
the Town.
Town and Village Join
To Protest LILCO Plan
The Town of Oyster Bay and the Village of Farmingdale will be
joining hands to present a united front of protest and indignation when
the Long Island Lighting Company will be officially seeking per­mission
from the New York State Public Service Commission to
string a high tension power line atop gray steel posts of over 90 ft.
height through Farmingdale and parts of Oyster Bay Town.
This permission will be sought at the line will start in Holbrook in Suffolk
FOR BIKE SAFETY: Assemblyman Stuart R. Levine ( R-- Bethpage), center, points
out to two local youths one of the bicycle locations which should be covered " by ad­ditional
reflectors. The Bethpage lawmaker is developing legislation which would
provide greater bicycle visibility and safety by increasing reflectoi ization
requirements.
public hearing scheduled by the PSC for
Thursday, September 20, at 10: 30 a. m. at
Hempstead Town Hall on Front Street in
Hempstead. The hearing has been called
to consider LILCO's application for a
Certificate of Environmental Com­patibility
and Public Need which, if
granted, would pave the way for bisec­ting
Farmingdale with this overhead
power line along the Long Island
Railroad main line.
While town and village officials do not
dispute the public need of enlarged
energy transmission facilities they argue
that LILCO's present plans to fulfill this
need are incompatible with en­vironmental
needs. Rather to have this
transmission line tower 90 ft. and more
over Farmingdale's horizon the utility
should be required to install these
facilities underground.
On behalf of the Town of Oyster Bay
Board councilman Gregory W. Carman
has issued an appeal to all residents in
the affected area to attend the public
hearing on September 20 and to make
known to the PSC and LILCO their
desires regarding this project. Those that
will be unable to attend the PSC hearing
may make their point in writing, ad­dressing
their communication to the N.
Y. State Public Service Commission, 199
Church Street, New York, N. Y.
While councilman Carman will attend
the public hearing to lodge a protest on
behalf of the Town of Oyster Bay, Mayor
John Hallahan will speak in opposition to
LILCO's application on behalf of the
Village of Farmingdale.
At last Monday night's village board
meeting it was also decided to carry this
opposition one step further. The village
board voted unanimously to start a
petition drive designed to impress the
Public Service Commission.
To that end the village government will
make available to all interested persons,
groups and businesses blank forms ex­pressing
opposition to LILCO's ap­plication.
These forms will also be
distributed to^ all stores on Main Street
that agree with the aims of this protest.
Residents may add their names and
addresses to those already on record.
The petitions will be presented to the PSC
to underscore the general public's
unhappiness with LILCO's plans.
At a village board meeting on April 9
LILCO defended the construction of
overhead rather than underground
transmission lines on the basis of
economy. According to a LILCO
spokesman the additional cost of placing
these cables underground would be $ 1.65
mil. just for the relatively short stretch
through Farmingdale. The transmission
Street Closings
Nassau County Department oi Public
Works iias listed the expected street
closings lor September 14- 21, in the
Farmingdale area as: Heisser Lane from
Beverly Road to Fulton: Willard Avenue
from Graham to the cud; and Junard
from Juniper to Main Street. These will
be closed during working hours only.
County and terminate at the Newbridge
Road in Levittown.
Other village business discussed at
Monday night's board meeting dealt
briefly with the proposed 10 unit apart­ment
house on the westerly side of Main
Street on the edge of the village just north
of the railroad, and the proposed Mac-
Donald restaurant on Fulton Street at the
site of Dirty Ernie's.
The builders of the apartment house
have been granted one more extension
for the presentation of their final plans to
the Zoning Board of Appeals. The tar­diness
of MacDonald's in implementing
their plans for their restaurant raised
some eyebrows since the original im­pression
was that MacDonald's wanted
to move in a hurry. MacDonalu received
all necessary permissions to start
building since all requirements laid down
by the village board were met without
squabble.
Donald DeVeux
Air Force Cadet
Donald F. DeVeux, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Victor E. DeVeux of 59
Mill Road, Farmingdale, is
among more than 1,300 cadets
who have entered the U. S. Air
Force Academy class of ' 77.
Cadet De Veux was accepted into
the cadet wing after completing
six weeks of basic training which
included field training at a
simulated combat base near the
academy, physical conditioning
and survival instruction. The
cadet is starting a four- year
course of academic study and
military training leading to a
bachelor of science degree in one
of 21 major fields of interest
provided in the curriculum and a
Commission as an Air Force
second lieutenant. DeVeux is a
1973 graduate of Holy Trinity
Diocesan High School, Hicksville.