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^ 1 Prize Winning Weekly Serving The Greater Farmingdale Area Since 1920t &
An Official Newspaper for the Village of farmingdale
VOL. 44 NO. 45 Second Class Postage Paid
In Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735 Thursday, September 19, 1974 Copyright 1974 by
Island- Wide Publication, Inc. price 1 5tf - $ 5 per year
B of E Opens Closed Door Policy
OPENING THE HAWKS SEASON Sunday afternoon following a parade down Main Street is a
delegation of Town and Village officials. Checking Hawk Steve Sullivan's equipment are II to r I
Councilman Howard T. Hogan, Jr., Supervisor John W. Burke, Mayor John T. Hallahan, Councilman
Gregory Carman, Hawks President Jim Keats and Councilman Salvatore Mosca.
I Post photo by Boh Starrelt ]
Deputy Clerk Retiring
Plans are being . made by
village officials and employees
for a retirement dinner honoring
Mrs. C. Myrtle Scheidel, Far-mingdale's
deputy village clerk.
The testimonial for Mrs.
Scheidel, who recently an­nounced
her retirement, will be
held October 4 at the Holiday
Manor, Bethpage.
Mrs. Scheidel became an
employee of the village in 1947 as
an assistant to former Village
C. Myrtle Scheidel
Clerk William A. Wesche. She
was appointed as the village's
first Deputy Village Clerk in 1949.
A lifelong resident of Far­mingdale,
she attended Main
Street School and graduated from
Farmingdale High School in 1933.
Daughter of former Supt. of
Public Works, the late Roswell C.
Ketcham, she is married to John
A. Scheidel, a Grumman em­ployee
and resides at 15 Balcom
Rd., Farmingdale. Their son,
John " Skip" Scheidel, Jr., is a
1961 graduate of Farmingdale
High and is married to the former
Marlene Hansen. They are. the
parents of two daughters, Laurie
and Keri and reside in Madison
Conn.
A member of St. Thomas'
Episcopal Church, she served as
organist for several years and
currently is a member of the
senior choir, the Episcopal
Churchwomen and a former
member of the Altar Guild.
Prior to her marriage, Mrs.
Scheidel was employed by In­dependent
Silk Dyeing Co. as a
member of the office staff and as
secretary to Rudolph H. Weber,
Sr., a former Mayor of the
Village of Farmingdale. She also
worked at Ranger Aircraft
during the early World War II
years.
Friends are invited to attend
the testimonial dinner and may
obtain tickets from Norman
Krasnow at Krasnow Insurance
or from Lillian Kowalski at
Village Hall.
Executive Sessions
No Longer Secret
In a move aimed at providing the public with more
information about what the Board of Education con­siders
in its executive sessions, several decisions of the
school trustees were made public this week. The new
procedure is one of a number of means by which the
Farmingdale Board will keep the residents informed of
its work and breaks precedent with past practices which
kept information about the sessions confidential.
w l ¥¥/* Several of the decisions will be
L U C K V W l l l l l C r S confirmed when the Board takes
* official action at its public
meeting which is to be held on
Monday, October 7. In prior
years, certain items which would
not require public action would
go unannounced unless there was
a specific reason to make the
decisions public. The new
procedure will provide more
information to the public and
make residents aware of actions
sooner than in the past.
Two decisions effecting the
operation of particular schools
were among the first made public
by the Board. At the Woodward
Parkway School, an ad­ministrative
position has been
vacant since the opening of
school. Mrs. Elizabeth Passman,
who had served as assistant
principal in the building, was
promoted to the principalship of
the Albany Avenue School. Miss
Sue llarloff, an elementary
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numbers selected by
Mayor John T. Hallahan and
Trustee Rocco Posillico in the
first Friday night drawing for the
Farmingdale Merchants'
Association are listed below.
Anyone holding a winning
number can claim the mer­chandise
certificate at the J & J
Shoe Store.
$ 25 ...... 026419
$ 15 026295
$ 10 ...... 048: 103
$ 10 ...... 068107
$ 10 038823
$ 10 060137
$ 5 066265
$ 5 072279
$ 5 060103
$ 5 026279
This Friday night's drawing
will be held in front of the Far­mingdale
Public Library, Main &
Conklin Streets, at 8: 30 p. m.
PICKING THE WINNERS in the Farmingdale Merchants Association's weekly Friday night drawing
is Farmingdale Mayor John T. Hallahan. Association President Lew Cohen of J& J Shoes gets ready to
record the winning numbers. This week's drawing will be in front of the library on Main St. at 8: 30 p. m.
I Post photo by Bob Starrelt I