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VOL. 55 NO. 10 Second Class Postage Paid
in Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735 Thursday, January 17', 1974 Copyright 1973 by
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Northville Asks Feds For Fuel
LI Almost
Out Of Oil
Thousands of Long Island
homes were within 100 hours ol~-_
having their heating oil cut off
last weekend, according to
Harold Bernstein, chairman of
the Board, Northville Industries
Corp., largest independent oil
distributor on Long Island. In­dependent
oil dealers purchasing
heating oil from Northville
supply more than 250,000 Long
Island homes.
Bernstein spoke to 40 state and
local government leaders
Thursday about the energy crisis
and its possible impact on Long
Island.
" We are now assured of enough
heating oil to take care of these
Long Island homes through next;
Sunday, Jan. $ 0th," Earnsteih
added, " Thanks to the strong
legal action taken by the Federal
Energy Office in Washington,
D. C., we have been assured of
sufficient heating oil to supply
Long Island homes for the next
ten days at least.
" The price of home heating oil
is not expected to rise any further
for Long Islanders in January
and February this year, if North­ville
and other independent L. I.
oil distributors receive the
allocations of oil as provided
under the Emergency Petroleum
Allocation Act of 1973," Bernstein
pointed out.
' f'On Monday last week Nor-thville
did not have enough oil in
storage to meet the heating needs
of thousands of its customers who
would run out of oil beginning last
weekend," according to Joseph
J. lAckell, Northville vice
president. " For the past three
months our efforts to obtain for
our l, ong Island dealers a fair
share of heating oil under the
Mandatory Allocation Program
has been of no avail.
" On Tuesday we were ac­companied
by the Regional
. Federjal Energy Office to a
meeting in Washington arranged
by a group of independent Long
Islfend oil dealers. At this
meeting we were able to obtain
effective action on behalf of Long
Island homeowners in this very
critical situation. Direct action
has been taken by newly ap­pointed
administrators of the
Federal Energy Office, Frank
Zarb and John Weber, and the
head of the N. Y. Regional office
of the. FE. O., Gerald Turetsky,
and General Counsel Arnold
Gordon. With the help of James
E. Slechta, of the F. E. O.' s Office
of Petroleum Allocation, these
officials have been able to order
the supply to Northville of suf­ficient
heating oil to meet the
needs of its Long Island
customers af the very least
through January 20, with
assurances of additional action to
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FUND RAISING: Oyster Bay Town Councilman Gregory W. Carman
[ standing third from left] and Joseph J. Saladino [ standing right] help
finalize plans for the annual fund raising drive of the Paumanok Boy
Scout District. Stan Siedlecki [ standing third from right], District
Executive, and Ben Taussig [ seated center], District Committee
Chairman, go over some figures from last year's drive while other
committee, members Artie Horn [ standing left], Plainedge Scout
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Family Chairman; Bob Santangelo [ standing second from left], Beth-page
Scout Family Chairman; Frank Bondietti [ standing second from
right], Farmingdale Special Gifts Chairman; Connie DeZego [ seated
left, District Scout Family Chairman; and Nat Wolin [ seated right],
District Finance Chairman, look on. The month- long drive will begin
on January 21st wifh a kick- off celebration at the Roost in Bethpage.
Councilman Carman is serving as District Campaign Chairman and
Councilman Saladino is Plainedge Special Gifts Co- Chairman.
Kiwanis Opens HELPProgram
Mayor John T. Haiiahan of the
Village of Farmingdale will meet
with the members of the Kiwanis
Club of Farmingdale at their
regular meeting on Jan. 23 at
Fong's Restaurant to learn first
hand the details of the Kiwanis
1973- 74 Major Emphasis
Program " Give of Yourself by
Enriching the Lives of the
Aging."
The Kiwanis Club will also
announce the start of their
program " Operation H. E. L. P."
( Help Enrich Lives Personally)
which they hope will have the
support of the Mayor and other
community leaders.
As part of its observance of the
59th anniversary of Kiwanis
International on January 21 the
Kiwanis Club announced a major
new program dubbed " Operation
HELP" aimed at enriching the
* lives of senior citizens in our
community.
George Cserhalmi, president of
the local Kiwanis club, now in its
18th year of service in Far­mingdale
explained, " Actually
we were motivated to look into
the problems of the aging by our
International's 1973- 74 Major
Emphasis Program, ' Give of
Yourself by Enriching the Lives
of the Aging.' We've concluded
after study that as in most areas
there are hundreds of aging
residents here with unfilled needs
of all kinds which keep their later
years from being their greater
years and we've decided to try to
HELPX J
Recognising the limits of its
own resources the Kiwanis club
has determined to focus initially
on the needs of the over- 65
homebound residents of School
Jacob Marcus,
Builder, Dies
Jacob ( Max) Marcus,
prominent Farmingdale in­dustrial
builder, died this week,
following a long illness, in Long
Island Jewish Hospital, New
Hyde Park, at the age of 66.
Marcus, who lived at 54 Jervis
Ave., Farmingdale, anticipated
Long Island's building boom, and
was able to take advantage of it
in the 1950s and 1960s. He was
also Santa Claus to many welfare
children throughout the area,
buying presents for them and
wrapping them himself.
As a builder, Marcus was
responsible for the Hauppauge
Industrial Park and Stelber
Industries plant there, the largest
non- defense plant on Long Island.
He was one of the first to realize
the commercial- industrial
potential of land along Route 110
in Huntington before the Long
Island Expressway came
through. He built seven industrial
parks along Route 110.
Marcus is survived by his wife,
Nettie, and his son, Arnold.
Funeral services were private.
District 22. It has obtained
commitments of participation in
Operation HELP from the
Kiwanettes, a women's service
club composed of Kiwanis
members' wives, and from the
Farmingdale High School Key
Club, the Kiwanis- sponsored
youth service club.
Committees of the three clubs
will be formed immediately to
begin working on the firs* three
HELP projects: a senior helper
project ( involving door to door
local auto service, errands and
shopping, small handyman jobs,
etc.), an information and pen pal
project ( a continuing series of
Armed Bandits
Rob Laundromat
Two armed holdup men en­tered
the Laundromat at 122
South Front Street, Far­mingdale,
last Friday afternoon
and escaped with $ 100 in cash,
according to Eighth Precinct
police.
Margaret Kish of Massapequa
Park, attendant at the laun­dromat,
told police the two men
entered the store at 1: 50 p. m.
a/ med with a handgun.
The robbers were described as
male neg^ os, 21 to 23 years old,
5* 8" to 5' 9" tall. One wore a ski
cap and the other dark glasses
and a brown jacket. They made
their escape in a 1970 blue
Mustang.
mailings of helpful information
and personalized correspon­dence)
and a large type weekly
newspaper project ( involving
providing subscriptions to cer­tain
senior citizens groups and
needy senior citizens with sight
difficulties).
President Cserhalmi added,
" We regard this as only a
beginning and ourselves as
merely a catalyst for what we
hope will become a real com­munity
effort in which many
organizations and individuals
will become involved. Although
presently limited to these specific
projects for over- 65 homebounds
the HELP program will expand
to include other projects to enrich
the lives of other senior citizens
Javits Speaks
At Aggie school
Senator Jacob K. Javits ( R-NY),
will hold another in his
series of Reports to the people of
New York State for the residents
of Nassau and Suffolk Counties at
the Little Theater, Roosevelt
Hall, State University Agric. &
Tech. College, Farmingdale, 2: 30
p. m. today.
While the Senator will con­centrate
his remarks on the
energy crisis, the public and the
media are free to ask questions
on any other topic of national
interest.
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