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AN OFFICIAL Ni • ARMINGDALE
SERVING THE GREATER FARhniNiiOALE AREA, BETHPAGE AND MELVILLE
VOL. 10 NO. 41
Second Class Postage has been paid at Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735
Published by THE OBSERVER, Inc., Box 146, Farmingdale, N. Y. Thursday, May 31, 1973 ,15c
School Board Reveals Lower
Tax Rates at Budget Hearing
The Board of Education announced at its budget hearing on Tuesday night
that the budget to be submitted to the voters of Farmingdale School District on
June 24 will carry a tax rate reduced by $. 36 for resident of Oyster Bay and $. 53
for those in Babylon Revenues from sources other than the local tax have in­creased
by $ 244,866 while expenditures have been lowered by $ 53,000 in com­parison
to the budget which was defeated on May 2.
The revised budget of $ 25,063,701 carries an estimated tax rate of $ 15,324 in
Oyster Bay and $ 22,476 in Babylon; increases of $ 1,037 and $ 2,306 over the 1972-
1973 budget.
CONTEST WINNERS: At Castle Harbour Beach and Golf Ciub,
Bermuda, recently are contest winners Mr. and Mrs. Anthony
DeLuca ( right) from Farmingdale with Mr. Tony Peck, general
manager of Castle Harbour and Miss Claudia Stobie, director public
relations. Mrs. DeLuca won a week's paid vacation for two at the
resort hotel on the NBC show ' Sale of the Century'.
Slate Music Contest
At Woodard Parkway
Woodward Parkway School
will be the site for the New York
State School Music Association's
Spring Contest Festival. On
Friday, June 1, and Saturday,
June 2, over 1,800 students from
North Nassau Zone schools will
be performing for a rating either
as Soloists or Ensemblists before
State- appointed adjudicators.
Students are required to
prepare a solo or ensemble listed
in the official NYSSMA manual,
as well as up to fiteen scales. An
additional requirement is sight
reading.
The music is listed in six levels
of difficulty; Level 6 being the
hardest. The adjudicators' role is
to award a letter grade ( A being
the highest possible) based op the
following categories : scales,
rhythm, technique, precision,
interpretation, musical effect
and sight reading.
Those high school students that
do well will be able to participate
next year in the Nassau County
High School Music Festival held
at C. W. Post College. Students
who performed especially well
will be picked for participation in
the select All State High School
Music Festival to be held next
December at the Concord Hotel
in the Catskills.
Farmingdale Schools have
entered a record number of
soloists ( 175) and ensemblists
( 71) this year. Last Spring,
Farmingdalers were awarded 101
" A" s for their efforts in the Solo
Competition and 16 " A" s in the
Ensemble portion of the Festival.
This year's Festival is being
chaired by Paul Erlanson, High
School Orchestra Director.
Additional state aid may still
be coming to Farmingdale if the
governor signs a bill by which the
state would provide payment in
lieu of taxes under certain cir­cumstances
for public use of real
estate. This bill would com­pensate
Farmingdale for some of
the revenue lost from the MTA
take over Republic. The bill had
passed the Assembly earlier and
made it through the Senate in the
closing hours of the session. The
governor has thirty days m which
to sign the bill.
The major items of increased
revenue in the proposed budget
are a 2.5 percent increase in State
aid of $ 170,000 and state aid for
textbooks for grades K- 6. Now
that state aid is provided for
elementary text books, these
would be provided to elementary
students under an austerity
budget.
The decrease in expenditures is
due to lower insurance rates, a
decrease in teacher aids, and a
reduction of one bus because of
the phasing out of the Breslau
Gardens community. In addition,
the cost of repairs for the roof of
the Parkway Oaks schools will be
taken from a capital reserve -
instead of the general fund.
Another fact in the reduction of
the tax rate is an increase of over
$ 288,000 in the assessed valuation
in the district.
The budget hearing on Tuesday
evening was poorly attended with
more administrators and board
members up front than people in
the audience.
The reduction in the amount
allocated for instructional sup­plies
as compared with the 1972-
1973 budget was criticized.
Trustee Terry Weathers stated
thai the board felt the amount
was adequate. Assistant
superintendent for the secondary
schools, Charles Manso, agreed
with the criticism.
Weathers said the board would
look into one specific allegation
that the math department at
Howitt received no money
whatsoever for instructional
supplies which would cripple
work in the math lab .
There was" also a comment
from the floor to consider staff
reductions and to consolidate
the school libraries with the
Farmingdale Library system.
Thij buf'. get is expected to be
adopted ai the next regular board
meeting on June 4.
Marilyn Hametz
Stops Parade but
Not Memorial Services
HEART TO HEART GIFT: At the annual meeting of the Nassau
Heart Association at the Hempstead Holiday Inn, members of the
Mended Hearts Chapter 45 ( Nassau/ Suffolk) proudly presented a
check to the newly installed Heart Association treasurer Peter F.
Pill ( Glen Head). Mrs. Herbert Roth ( Roslyn) co- chairman of
Mended Hearts ( extreme left),, poses with Mrs. Mimi Katzen
( Farmingdale) and Sidney Gorenberg ( Oceanside) as they share
congratulations on the highly successful and daring format
presented earlier in the afternoon session, when the Nassau Heart
Association presented a panel discussion on " Sexual Activity and the
Cardiovascular Patient".
The water was enough to wash
away the marchers and the wind
would have swept off the music
and so, the annual Farmingdale
Memorial Day Parade was
cancelled last Monday, May 28.
Richard Steenbuck, First
Deputy Chief of Farmingdale
Fire Department and chairman
of the parade, said he called the
parade off at approximately 8: 45
a. m. There is not, and cannot be,
any rain date for this parade.
According to Steenbuck this is the
first cancellation in about 30
years.
Members of the fire depart­ment
were the only prospective
participants who assembled at
Thomas Powell before it was
cancelled 45 minutes prior to the
official line- up time. The
department dispatched units to
drive through the village to an­nounce
to residents and those
involved that the event had been
cancelled.
According to Steenbuck all
officials and notables who had
planned to attend the affairs and
services were notified and did not
show. Among them were guest
speaker Congressman Angelo D.
Roncallo and Mayor John
Hallahan.
Wreaths placed before plaques
in front of Main Street School
reminded wet passers- by that
honoring the war dead of this
country, the aim of celebrating
Memorial Day, had not been
forgotten. Several services were
held throughout Farmingdale
including one each by the
American Legion Post 449,
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post
516, and Young Memorial Post
1803.
South Farmingdale Fire
Department held their services
while the East Farmingdale and
Farmingdale Fire Departments
combined efforts to do honors.
Burglary on
Memorial Day
A Memorial Day vacation had
an upsetting finish when
residents of Linwood Avenue,
Farmingdale, returned after four
days to find their home
burglarized. A cut screen window
was the mode of entry which led
to the loss of one stereo and two
speakers, a tape deck, a
television set, and several
hundred dollars.
Two other resident burglaries
were reported both on Friday,
May 26. The first occured ap­proximately
11: 30 a. m. at David
Drive, South Farmingdale. Loss
was unknown at the time of the
report. The second burglary took
place on Avon Drive, Far­mingdale,
7: 45- 10: 45 p. m., and
$ 30 was taken.
Carl Zaupel, 1129 Lampack
Avenue, Bayshore, was arrested
Monday, May 28, 3: 55 a. m., on
Main Street, Farmingdale.
Zaupel is 25 years old and in the
plumbing business. He was
arrested for possession of a
loaded firearm, .32 caliber, and
for possession of a dangerous
drug, marijuana.