1974-08-22

              A Prize Winning Weekly Serving The Greater Farmingdale Area Since 1920 ®
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An Official Newspaper for the Village of Farmingdale
VOL. 44 NO. 41
Second Class Postage Paid
in Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735 Thursday, August 22, 1974
Copyright 1974 by
Island- Wide Publication, Inc. price 15$ - $ 5 per year
3rd School Budget Vote Today!
COMRADES: Everyone's a friend at the annual Farmingdale Republican Club picnic, held Sunday at
the Chateau Restaurant. Here Assemblyman Stuart Levine, GOP Leader Frank Hynes and District
Court Judge Thomas Ryan link arms as they chat on the bandstand. More pictures of the day's
festivities are on page 8.
[ Post photo by Bob Starrett]
Police Focus On Bicycles
To Cut Accidents, Thefts
With bicycling becoming an
increasingly popular pastime
and means of transportation, the
Nassau County Police Depart­ment
reports a sharp upsurge in
police activity related to cycling.
Although there are no accurate
figures on the number of bikes in
Nassau, since unlike
automobiles, they do not have to
be registered, the Department
estimates there are about one
million of them in use. This
compares to approximately
850,000 cars.
Accompanying this huge
volume of bicycle traffic are
sizeable increases in the number
of accidents involving bicycles,
stolen bikes, arrests for bicycle
thefts and official notice of
violations by bike riders.
The most alarming increases
are those involving accidents
between bicycles and
automobiles and the number of
cyclists injured. During the first
six months of 1974 there were 373
such accidents in the Police
District ( that portion of the
county physically patrolled by
the Department's eight
precincts), as compared to 301
during the same period in 1973 -
an increase of 23 per cent.
The number of injured cyclists
during the same period also rose
by 23 per cent - 343 for 1974 as
compared to 279 for 1973.
Fatalities for this six month
period increased from two to six.
Significant increases have
been reported in the number of
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Homeowners Can Connect
To Sewer Interceptors
Homeowners along the routes
of interceptor lines can now
connect to the County sewer
system, Public Works Com­missioner
H. John Flock, Jr. told
the Post. Since interceptors, the
large diameter trunk lines, are
constructed in advance of the
smaller lateral lines, only those
properties actually abutting the
roads involved are eligible.
Interceptors H, 4C and 4D in
Farmingdale runs along
Crestwood Blvd. from Southern
State Parkway north to 10th
Avenue, west along 10th Avenue
Last Saturday's registration day produced 2,156 new
voters for today's third school budget referendum,
bringing the total eligible number of voters to a record
high 10,489. The polls will be open at Howitt Junior High
School until 10 o'clock tonight.
/ The " Committee To Pass The
Budget - No Austerity" has been
working to get out a strong pro-budget
vote to avoid the rigors of
austerity. Members feel that the
austerity provisions have more
negative aspects than they wish
to tolerate. They feel that the
elimination of the sports and
extra- curricular activities, in
addition to spoiling chances for
talented students to gain
Textbooks Ready
Textbooks will be distributed to
Farmingdale students attending
all non- public schools on Wed­nesday,
Thursday, and Friday,
August 28- 30. Hours for
distribution will be from 9 a. m. to
3 p. m. at the Main Street School.
Students attending St. Kilian's
and Our Lady of Lourdes Schools scholarships, will produce more
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own schools when they return in fear that the transportation
September. provisions will either cause
Realizing that several families
will be on vacation during this
time, a late pick- up date has been
established for Monday, Sep­tember
9, from 3 p. m. to 5 p. m. at
Main Street School.
Textbooks are distributed free
to all the students attending both
private ' and parochial schools
under provisions of the New York
State Law. The school district
provides textbooks to its own
students free of charge under the
same law.
Any student who did not return
all books borrowed last year from
the district must be prepared to
do so before receiving books for
the coming school year.
higher accident statistics among
the student population or result in
massive traffic jams around the
schools as parents drive their
younger children to school and
the high school aged students
drive their own cars.
The new budget total is
$ 27,265,758, showing a decrease of
$ 128,300 in expenditures. The tax
rate will be 34 cents lower that
originally proposed in Oyster
Bay and 46 cents lower for
Babylon.
An arrangement has been
made with the school lunch
contractor to offer regular
service at an increased price. Hot
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to Woodward Parkway, north on
Woodward Parkway to Spielman
Avenue, west on Spielman to
Kent Street, north on Kent to
Motor Avenue, west on Motor to
Heisser Lane, north on Heisser to
Fulton Street; along Willard
Avenue from Kent to Merritts
Road; and along Crestwood Blvd.
from 10th Avenue north to
Matthew, east on Matthew to
Oakwood Avenue, north on Oak-wood
to Orchard Street, east on
Orchard Street to Junard Drive,
north on Junard to South Main
Street.
MODERN WEATHER FORECASTS were explained by Harry
Wappler, TV Weatherman and lecturer of New York Telephone.
Wappler was the featured speaker at a meeting of Farmingdale
Rotary last Wednesday at Capt Andy's Restaurant. He holds a
radiosonde transmitter - a device carried aloft by weather balloons to
radio temperature, humidity, pressure, etc. from weather ground
stations. This data is sent by telephone to the National Weather Ser­vice
in the Washington, D. C. area for computer processing.