1974-07-25

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in Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735 Thursday, July 25, 1974 Copyright 1974 by
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Village To Replace Water Mains
Health Dept. Orders
Replace Or Chlorinate
The mayor and trustees of the Village of Farmingdale
voted at their meeting Monday night to award a bid of
$ 780,000 to Bankert Construction Co. for the
replacement of sub- standard Water mains. Mayor John
T. Kaiiahan said the Nassau County Department of
Health has informed the village that it must either
replace certain mains or begin chloridation of village
water.
Rev. Raphael Schooff, O. S. B.
Bishop Names St. Kilian ' s
New Pastor & Assistants
Bishop Walter P. Kellenberg of
the Rockville Centre Catholic
Diocese named Rev. Donald R.
Shane as pastor of the Church of
St. Kilian, Farmingdale, to take
the place of Rev. Raphael
Schooff, O. S. B. who will be
leaving for Florida July 31.
Father Shane, secretary to
Bishop Kellenberg, will be pastor
of St. Kilian's Church, which has
been staffed by priests from the
Order of St. Benedict. A shortage
of priests in that Order has made
it necessary for diocesan priests
to staff St. Kilian's.
Rev. Maurus Cook, O. S. B. is
also being transferred from St.
Kilian's to residence at St.
Francis Xavier Residence, West
Hempstead.
Two new assistant priests have
been appointed by the Bishop to
serve with Father Shane at St.
Kilians. Rev. Gerald T. Corbin,
spiritual director of the Seminary
of Pius X, Uniondale, and Rev.
James J. Hart, assistant priest at
the Church of St. Gertrude,
Bayville, will be the two new
assistants.
Approximately 1,100 people
attended a Mass for the
parishioners of St. Kilian's
Church, Sunday, July 21, at 3
p. m., offered by Fr. Raphael. Fr.
Raphael leaves St. Kilian's to
assume his new duties as Pastor
of St. Anthony's Parish, San
Antonio, Florida, on or about July
31. A reception was held for Fr.
Raphael following the Mass and
over 2,000 parishioners and
friends shook his hand to wish
him well in his new assignment.
The Benedictine Order, which
has given the people of St. Kilian
and Farmingdale seventy- eight
years of service, from a parish of
a few hundred families to 3,700
families today, officially turns
the parish over to the Diocese of
Rockville Centre, August 1, at 12
p. m.
Fr. Raphael was presented
with many gifts, including a trip
to Rome, which was made
possible by the generosity of the
people of the parish he has served
faithfully more than nineteen
years. Mayor John T. Hallahan,
of Farmingdale, presented
Father with a Proclamation from
the community of Farmingdale
honoring him for his many ac­complishments.
Perhaps Fr. Raphael will be
best remembered for organizing
the St. Kilian Boychoir which has
achieved world- wide fame.
Father Shane, a native Long
Islander from Glen Cove, has
been secretary to Bishop
Kellenberg since 1971.
His parish assignments have
included Mary Immaculate in
Bellport; Sacred Heart, Cut-chogue;
St. James, Seaford; and
St. Martin of Tours, Bethpage.
He has also served on the
diocesan Priests' Advisory
Council and as a deanery con­fraternity
moderator.
Ordained in 1954, Father Shane
was educated at St. Patrick's
School in Glen Cove; Xavier High
School, New York; and Fordham
University in the Bronx. He
completed studies for the
priesthood at Immaculate
Conception Seminary, Hun­tington.
Hawks State
Budget View
The Board of Directors of the
Farmingdale Midget Football
Association, Inc. told the Post
this week they desire to have the
implied reference that their
Association was in favor of
passing the School Budget
retracted.
" Let it be known that this
Association is neither in favor or
opposed to the budget, but sup­ports
the idea of resubmittal of
the budget," they said.
Police Seek
Hit & Run
Car Driver
The eighth precinct detective
squad is looking for the driver of
a dark green compact sedan who
was involved in the hit and run
fatality of a Harvard pre- law
student from Farmingdale
Sunday night.
Police said Donald J. Hopper,
19, 21 Mill Road, Farmingdale,
was riding an orange motorcycle
east on the Hempstead Turnpike
shortly after 11 p. m. Sunday
when the dark green sedan made
a left turn in front of him into
Hemlock Drive.
Hopper's motorcycle hit the
passenger side door of the car,
but the car continued southbound
on Hemlock Drive without
stopping. Hopper, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Hopper, died of a
collapsed artery in Mid- Island
Hospital, Bethpage, early
Monday morning.
Lt. William Beach, commander
of the eighth squad detectives,
said he is asking all Farmingdale
residents to be on the lookout for
a dark green General Motors
compact, possibly a 1964 to 1969
Oldsmobile Cutlass, with a
missing right side door handle
and chrome strip and broken
right door glass. He said all in­formation
would be kept con­fidential
and should be phoned to
681- 8800, extension 51.
Hopper was a baseball
teammate of Steve Budney, who'
was killed in an automobile crash
on Round Swamp Road a litUe
over a year ago. The Steve
Budney Memorial Scholarship
was established in his honor and
a benefit baseball game between
his teammates and a local league
team is scheduled to be played at
The Ellsworth Allen Park on
Sunday, August 4, Now, plans are
being considered to make the
memorial a joint Budney- Hopper
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A total of 23 streets will be
affected by the water main in­stallation.
The village will be
replacing present four inch
mains and World War n vintage
asbestos construction mains with
23,700 feet of six, eight and twelve
inch water mains.
The project is subject to per­missive
referendum as a bond
issue must be floated to provide
funds. Mayor Hallahan stated
during Monday night's meeting,
" the time has come when this
project must be done. This
system has been neglected for 70
years." The incorporated village
purchased a private water
company servicing the area in
the early 1900' s, some of the four
inch mains date back to that era.
Samuel McLendon of the
village's engineering firm of
Holzmacher McLendon and
Murrell made the presentation of
the proposal to the board of
trustees. In addition to the Health
Dept. mandate, he said the
greater problem lies in adequate
fire coverage for the village.
Citing N. Y. Fire Insurance
water flow charts, McLendon
showed that four inch mains
provided only 300 gallons per
minute, while 6 inch mains
provided 1200 GPM and 8 inch
mains 1800 GPM. Farmingdale
Fire Dept. pumper trucks all
pump 1200 gallon per minute.
He said that if a faulty or
inadequate water main collapsed
under pumping pressure, it could
cause a vacuum in the collapsed
system and suck in anything
cross connected to the water
main, such as home boilers, hot
water systems or even sewers.
McLendon recommended that
the village replace as much as
possible of the sub- standard
water mains now, since the price
will continue to go up. The
present bid price will only be
guaranteed for 90 days, if it
should have to be re- bid after that
point it could go up five to ten
percent.
To be replaced are the asbestos
mains installed during World
War II and constantly breaking
down on Sherman, Jefferson and
Ridge Roads. The four inch water
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