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An Official Newspaper for the Village of Farmingdale
VOL. 44 NO. 39 Second Class Postage Paid
in Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735 Thursday, August 8, 1974
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A Third School Budget Vote?
BLOCKING CLIFTON STREET a group of residents explain the
problem to Suffolk County Police Tuesday morning. Stopped by the
Town of Oyster Bay from using James Street to enter a construction
site on his property Art Janowitz attempted to use Mill Road and
Clifton Street as an access route. Residents objected to the use of the
residential streets by the construction equipment by blocking the
I Post photo by Bob Starrett]
s Block Clifton Street
,. ^ Residents of the Mill Road area
of South Farmingdale formed a
human wall Tuesday morning to
prevent constructidn equipment
from entering a land- locked
property in the Babylon section of
the area to construct an in­dustrial
park.
The residents set up beach
chairs across Clifton Street and
refused to move out of the way as
the Conroy Construction Co.
trucks tried to use the street as Since the building permit was
access to the property. issued last Wednesday, the
Suffolk County Police arrived construction crew had been
to find that the owner of the. entering the field at the end of
property, Seymore Janowitz, had# fcgames street in the Town of
a Town of Babylon building |
permit to construct foundations
for an industrial park on his
property, but had no way to get to
the property. They had planned
to go through the fence at the end
of Clifton Street.
Oyster Bay, where the dead end
was opened for the use of a town
drain sewer installation contract.
Oyster Bay residents com-
[ Continued on page 12]
The Committee for the
Resubmission of the Budget
presented their petitions con­taining
over 3100 signatures to
the Board of Education Monday
night and the board is expected to
honor the request for a third
budget vote. The board, however,
did not obligate itself to a
decision during Monday's
meeting.
School board members called a
special " executive session" for
last night to make their decision.
( Unfortunately, the Post was
already printed and in the mail at
that time). The petition sub­mitted
to the board calls for the
resubmission of the budget that
was defeated on June 29.
The letter accompanying the
petition and read to the public
during the meeting by Dave
Williams states that " We
strongly recommend the board
take action to submit this ( the
June 29 budget) to the voters at
the earliest opportunity. We
suggest a date of August 21 or 22,
provided the board can give the
specific per child cost factors of
instructional supplies before
registration for the new vote."
" This committee will continue
to help bring the facts of austerity
to the voters because the
petitions indicate that the
majority of voters do not want
austerity."
While the mood of the com­mittee
agrees with the mood of
the public for increased
economics, we do not feel that
austerity is economy. Therefore,
we ask the board to let the voters
eliminate austerity before school
opens."
If a vote is to be taken " before
school opens" it will have to be
before Tuesday, Sept. 3, since
I Continued on page 12]
Approve A- 10 Project
Congressman Angelo D.
Roncallo announced the
Department of Defense approval
of the release of $ 39,000,000 long
lead time production of the A- io
aircraft. This money will enable
Fairchild Republic of Far­mingdale,
to gear up for
production of the close- in support
aircraft.
The approval notification,
signed by Deputy Secretary of
Defense, William P. Clements,
allows for procurement of 52
aircraft, well above the original
estimate of between 25 and 30.
In making the announcement,
the Long Island Congressman
said, " This project is of major
importance to Long Island. Both
the work at Fairchild and the
sub- contracts and related jobs
the contact will generate, mean
about 17,000 jobs for us and we
need them desperately."
The Congressman praised the
A- 10 as an " excellent and needed
addition to our defense hard­ware."
Commenting on the
DOD's Defense System
Acquisition Review Council's
announcement to again review
the performance of the A- 10 later
this year, the Congressman said,
' This is an excellent plane, one
K unturned on page 12]
SHOP FARMINGDALE campaign got a boost from the Farmingdale Republican Club as the club
opened a bumper sticker drive. The stickers will be distributed to Farmingdale merchants and during
the annual Republican picnic at the Chateau Restaurant on August 18. James Mckenna, village clerk,
receives his sticker from Marge Pfoh, club secretary, while Bob Pfoh, president, presents stickers to
Mavor John T. llallahan and Lew Cohen, president of the Farmingdale Merchants Association.
y { Post photo by Bob Starrett]