1974-11-28

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A Prize Winning Weekly Serving The Greater FarmingdaleArea Since 1920 15C
VOL. 56 NO 7
Jfarmmgdale post
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An Official Newspaper for the Village of Farmingdale
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In Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735 Thursday, November 2ff, 1974 Copyright 1974 by
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Trustees Build Case For New Building
Seek ' Yes' Vote Dec 10
HE CAME IN HERE: Frank Randazzo, proprietor of Mediae's Men's Shop, potato to the whole in wall
of his store where the burglar entered and set off the alarm system. Police captured a Queens resident
hiding in a stolen car in the rear parking lot shortly after midnight. [ Post photo by Bob Starrett]
Burglar Visits Main Street
Burglars struck Farmingdale's
Main Street stores oyer this past
weekend and met with both
success and failure. One suc­cessfully
entered the J & J Shoe
Store at 322 Main Street and
escaped with $ 420 in cash.
The second ( police do not
believe it was the same man) was
not so fortunate, he spent most of
Sunday night smashing through
cement block walls only to end up
empty handed and under arrest.
According to Detective Bill
Lennon of the Eighth Squad,
Joseph Cahill, 35, of Queens
picked the lock on the rear door
of Jaylor's beauty salon, broke
through the wall into the Norge
Laundromat, then through the
second wall into Medine's Men's
Shop, where he set off the burglar
alarm.
Nasser Seeks Reelection
Albert M. Nasser filed his
petitions at the Water District
office for re- election as Water
Commissioner in the December
10 ( 4- 10 p. m.) election to be held
at the South Farmingdale
Firehouse on South Main Street &
Linden Avenue in South Far­mingdale;
and at the North
Massapequa Firehouse on
Broadway & Albany Avenue in
North Massapequa.
Nasser, who has resided in the
District since 1937, was.
associated with various aircraft
industries such as Roosevelt
School of Aviation, Floyd Bennett
Field, Liberty Aircraft, Colgate
Larsen Aircraft, and Seversky
Aircraft in Farmingdale, which
is presently known as Fairchild-
Hiller Corporation. He joined
Grumman Aircraft Corp. in 1941
and retired as assistant plant
manager in 1971 after 30 years
service.
Al Nasser is well known
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Police arrived and conducted a
search of the buildings. A police
officer searching the parking lot
behind the stores heard a police
radio broadcast, which he knew
wasn't coming from his own car.
He followed the sound and found
Cahill crouched on the floor of a
car, which turned out to be
stolen, listening to the police calls
on a portable radio.
Cahill was charged with 3rd
degree burglary, possesssion of a
stolen car, possession of
burglar's tools and possession of
a police radio.
Lew Cohen, proprietor of J & J
Shoe Store, told the Post their
burglary was discovered when
they opened for business Monday
morning. There was no visable
sign of forced entry into the store
and all the doors were still
locked. The thief obtained the
money from the cash register,
which had to be hand cranked
with the electricity off, and from
a strong box in Cohen's desk in a
back room.
The Farmingdale Public
Library Board of Trustees will
hold its second Public In­formation
on the New Library
Building proposition at the South
Farmingdale Branch Library on
Tuesday, December 3, at 8: 30
p. m. This will offer voters an
opportunity to be informed about
the referendum that will be voted
on Tuesday, December 10 at
Howitt Junior High from 10 am to
10 pm.
The Library Trustees believe
that the library is important to
the community - and it is used
more than most libraries in this
country.
Most Farmingdale residents
School Bd.
Views Vote
On Library
Once the Library Trustees had
determined the need for a new
building in Farmingdale, it was
up to the School Board to provide
for the vote that will seek public
approval of the move. They did
just that at a special session and
the decision is now in the hands of
the taxpayers. It will be settled in
balloting on Tuesday, December
10.
State law controls the
relationship between the two
local governing bodies. Since the
schools serve as the tax- levying
body, they are mandated to
provide the money and facilities
for the library vote on request.
With that procedural question
settled, the complicated issues of
ownership, financing, and tax
rates were placed on the table
and close attention will be
required by the public if a clear
picture is to be made regarding
these details.
Without any discussion of the
merits or cost of the proposition,
the School Board was faced with
several legal questions of finance
when briefed by Attorney Ken-drick
C. Smith of Farmingdale on
the matter. Smith confirmed that
the $ 2.1 million dollar bond issue
will be part of the school district's
indebtedness since the library
has no borrowing power and does
not set its own tax rate; thus, the
cost of the " mortgage" will show
up in the school district budget
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use the library at least oc­casionally.
And some come to the
library every day. They borrow
books ( an average of almost six
for every resident each year) and
also magazines, records, cassette
tapes, and pictures. The library
staff helps find the answers to
more than 35,000 questions every
year. Patrons go to the library
for children's Story hours and
programs for parents, for film
shows for teenagers, and for
meetings. Today when family
iWnfetrare strained by inflation
residents depend more and more
for recreation on library books,
magazines, and cassettes.
The Main Street Library ( in a
renovated bank building) and the
South Farmingdale Branch ( in a
remodeled storefront) are
crowded almost to their ceilings
with books. Neither library has
enough seats. Too often the book
wanted is one of the thousands
stored in the basements.
Borrowers have to request these
books by their titles and then wait
while a staff member carries
them up the stairs.
The windowless meeting room
in the basement of the South
Farmingdale Branch may not be
the best place, but programs and
club meetings are held there
almost every day. Programs at
the Main Street Library disrupt
the quiet of those who are doing
serious research.
Seven neighboring com­munities
have constructed
modern, functional new library
buildings in the last ten years.
Even with the high cost of
gasoline and busy schedules
residents visit these nearby
libraries to borrow more than
11,000 books a year.
Last year the Board asked
Edwin P. Beckerman, an ex­perienced
library consultant, to
study Farmingdale's library
building needs. He concluded that
the 17,000 total square feet of our
two libraries combined is less
than half of the absolute
minimum space needed for
Farmingdale's population. He
said we need at least 35,000 to
38.000 square feet of well-designed
library space. It would
be impossible to expand the Main
Street library enough to supply
the space required.
The Farmingdale School Board
has agreed to transfer to the
Library Board, without cost, the
site of the former Main Street
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