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A Prize Winning Weekly Serving The Greater Farmingdale . Area Since 1920 15C
An Official Newspaper for the Village of Farmingdale
VOL. 56 NO 7T Second Class Postage Paid
in Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735 Thursday, December 5, 1974
Copyright 1974 by
Island— Wide Publication, Inc. • price 15i - $ 5 per year
Vote On New Library Tuesday
AN ARTIST'S CONCEPTION of the main reading room of the
proposed new library in Farmingdale. The - public will vote on the
Holiday Accidents Claim 3
Two Farmingdale residents
and an elderly Queens man were
killed in traffic accidents over the
long Thanksgiving holiday
weekend.
Karen G. Epp, 23, of 15 Oak
Street, Farmingdale, died when
her car skidded on ice into the
path of an oncoming van on Route
29, near Greenwich, Conn., ac­cording
to New York State
Police.
Fredrick Fisher, 65, of 18
Sherman Road, Farmingdale,
was killed in East Farmingdale
when he was struck by a car
driven by Alan Kane, 24, of West
Babylon. Police said Kane was
driving northwest on Route 109
about 7: 30 p. m. when he hit
Fisher. The victim was
pronounced dead at 8 p. m. in
Brunswick Hospital, Amityville.
A 75 year old Queens man died
when his car left New Highway,
went through a fence at St.
Charles Cemetery and struck a
tree.
Suffolk police said the victim,
Joseph Passalacqua of Jamaica,
was northbound on New Highway
when his car went off the road
near the intersection of Conklin
Street. He was taken to Brun­swick
Hospital in Amityville,
where he was pronounced dead
on arrival at 12: 35 p. m. Police
said he might have suffered a
heart attack before the car left
the road.
Passalacqua was a retired
tailor, unmarried and was alone
in the car.
Nasser Cites Experience
Albert M. Nasser, who is
seeking re- election as Water
Commissioner on December 10,
recently stated that the South
Farmingdale Water District has
an experienced and efficient
team of Water Commissioners
which has proven itself again and
again in working for the interest
of the District consumers.
As an administrator of one of
the community's very precious
assets - water - Nasser stated
that he has participated in the
guidance of the expansion of the
water supply facilities for 21
years with vision and foresight.
His concern with water resources
started in 1953, when the South
Farmingdale Water District
provided only 770,000 gallons of
water on an average day. Ex­pansion
of water facilities during
his 21 years of service in the
water management field has
resulted in twelve deep South
Farmingdale Water District
wells with depths varying from
156 to 758 feet and an approved
capacity of 22,500,000 gallons per
day; four storage tanks with a
capacity of 3,200,000 gallons at
one time; and more than 120
miles of underground water
mains.
Excellent reports have been
received that the District keeps
ahead of the Standards of the
State of New York and U. S.
Public Health Service for clean,
$ 2,100,000 bond issue next Tuesday, December 10, in the Weldon E.
Howitt Junior High School.
Kerrigan
Unopposed
In Fire District
George Kerrigan will be
unopposed in seeking his second
five year term as a commissioner
of the South Farmingdale Fire
Department in the Tuesday,
December 10, election.
Ex- chief Kerrigan, who resides
at 102 Sunset Ave., South Far­mingdale,
is a charter member of
the South Farmingdale Fire
Department.
The election for both Fire
Commissioner and Water
Commissioner will be held from 4
to 10 p. m. at the South Far­mingdale
Fire Department's
headquarters on South Main
Street.
Winning Number*
The winners and winning
numbers in the Farmingdale
Merchant's weekly free drawing,
selected Friday, November 29,
are:
077513 125
John Hettrich, 169 Old Farms
Rd., Levittown.
009930 $ 15
114164 $ 10
Laura Lueck, 186 West Dr., N.
Massapequa
009875 $ 10
Patrica - Carroll, 54 Dowd St.,
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fresh and pure water. An
example of such a report is a
letter recently received from the
Nassau County Department of
Health stating in part as follows:
" According to our records, your
sampling results for both
physical and partial chemical
constituents were found to be
satisfactory. Therefore, your
quantity of partial chemical
sampling may now be reduced to
seven ( 7) per month from your
selected bacteriological sam­pling
locations. In addition, you
may reduce the sampling
frequency for physical testing to
that included in the semi- annual
distribution system complete
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Polls Open
At Howitt
Farmingdale voters,
registered to vote in! school
district elections, will go to the
polls this coming Tuesday,
December 10, to determine the
fate of the library board proposed
$ 2,100,000 bond issue to demolish
the old Main Street School and
construct a new modern central
library facility. If the voters
approve the new library, both the
existing library branches will be
. closed.
The Main Street, building,
which is owned by the library,
will be closed and sold. The South
Farmingdale branch, a rented
facility, would not have its lease
renewed after the 1976 e, xpiration
date.
According to library officials,
1 the lease on the South Far­mingdale
branch library will
expire in 1976 and would have to
be renewed at a $ 10,000 per year
increase from $ 25,000 to $ 35,000 or
purchased by the library
trustees.
The polls will be open from 10
a. m. to 10 p. m. at the Weldon E.
Howitt Junior High School.
New Library Look
The one- story building will be
faced with off- white quartz
aggregate. Daylight will flood the
interior through. skylights. The
most up- to- date artificial lighting
will assure reading comfort at all
times. The building's single
entrance lobby will also lead to
the adjoining I50- seat- all- purpose
meeting room. Stairs and ramps
will lead to the split- level
bookstack area. Free- standing
wooden book shelves and fur­nishings
will be movable to allow
flexibility as our community
needs change. The building will
be completely air- conditioned
and will have acoustical tile
ceilings and full carpeting.
More books and magazines. All
books, now stored in the
basements will be open shelves
and there will be space for 100,000
more books. With expensive
reference books in one location,
the money now spent on duplicate
sets can be used instead for new
books.
Audiovisual area will, have
recordings, cassette tapes,
pictures, microfilm readers, and
videotape equipment.
Separate children's area: The
young can select books from low
shelves, sit in small chairs to
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