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An Official Newspaper for the Village of Farmingdale
VOL. 55 NO. 24
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In Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735 Thursday, April 25, 1974 Copyright 1974 by
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Teachers Strike Averted
Contract Terms Set
For May 1 Hearing
Marathon negotiating sessions. over the past weekend
resulted in a tentative agreement for a two year
teachers' contract and averted a strike of union
teachers anticipated on Wednesday. The " memo of
agreement" was reached at 7 a. m.. Monday morning
following 30 hours of negotiations during the 48 hour
weekend.
At deadline time lor the Post
the terms of the contract set­tlement
were not available for
publication, since the agreement
reached by the negotiating teams
had not been ratified by the
teachers union membership, nor
approved by the full Board of
Education. Three of the seven
member school board are
reportedly opposed to the set­tlement.
NEW PARAMEDICS: Mayor John T. Ilailahan congratulates M. Fred Gerhard and Fireman Kich; ir< l
Happ of the Village Fire Dept. on their graduation from the Ambulance Medical Technician Course
given by V. E. E. B. at the Firemen's Training Center in Old Bethpage. This course qualifies the firemen
to operate. The Village s new cardiac alert equipment. Looking on are Fire Commissioners Norman
Krasnow and Fred Kathgeber. I Photo by Hank Kchleichkorn I
Molloy- Parcels File ^
For School Board Race
Board Trustee, Joseph G.
Molloy announced today the start
of his campaign for reelection to
the Farmingdale Board of
Education ( District 22). Molloy,
who was elected last spring to
complete an unexpired term,
currently chairs the Board's
Public Relations Committee and
serves on its Finance and Per­sonnel
Negotiations Committees.
• Molloy, 40, is married and a
nine year Farmingdale resident.
His oldest daughter graduated
\ l a s t year from Farmingdale
Senior High, and his three
younger children are still in the
sahaol system. His wife, Fran,
has beerfacttvf in voluntary work
at the elementa1% j » chool level
and is completing two " years of
service as president of the PTA at
Northside.
Molloy is currently completing
his twentieth year with Equitable
Life in the city. All his service has
^ been in the giant insurance
company's financial ad­ministration.
A college graduate
with a Bachelor of Science degree
earned at the evening division of
NYU's Washington Square
College, Molloy's major in
I Continued on page 12] Raymond E. Parcels
Raymond E. Parcels of 89
Sunset Ave., Farmingdale, has
announced his candidacy for
election to the Farmingdale
Board of Education, and will be
seeking the seat now presently
being held by Joseph Molloy.
Parcels is a ten ( 10) year
resident of Farmingdale, is
married with two children at­tending
Farmingdale Public
Schools; he has long been active
in school affairs and has run
unsuccessfully several times in
the past for a position on the
school board. Parcels is a data
processing consultant for
Programming Methods Inc., a
division of General Telephone
and Electronics. >
" After losing last year's
election" Parcels said, " I had
pretty much decided that it was
time for me to pack it in regar­ding
school board campaigns.
Secondly, two of the people who
were elected were newcomers
and I felt that all in all maybe
what this whole business needed
were some new faces and with it,
new ideas and new approaches to
some of our problems."
" From what I have witnessed
[ Continued on page 12]
Hills Mkt.
To Close
Saturday
Hills Supermarket on Conkl^
Street. Farmingdale. will close
its doors for the last time this
Saturday, April 27.
The 1 lills Corporation is closing
its Farmingdale store for good
and abandoning the building.
Local store employees have been
. transferred to other Hills
Markets in the area.
Attempts by the Post to reach
corporation executives in their
Brentwood headquarters for
details or comments on the
closing failed. Hills officers were
all " in an all day conference" and
could not be disturbed.
Rumors and speculation
around the village cite a dispute
between the corporation and the
owner of the building as the
reason for the store's closing.
This, however, could not be
confirmed.
With A& P closing its Main
Street Market a couple of years
ago, the departure of Hills will
leave Bohack's as the only major
supermarket chain store in the
downtown village area.
Faced with a 10.8% cost of
living increase, the negotiators
settled - for an effective cost of
8 3/ 4% on the full fear of the
package. The cost will be 7% in
September with 6% going to
salary and 1% to benefits. In
February an additional 3 1/ 2%
will be added, which would
amount to at 1 3/ 4% on the year's
cost. Any benefits would come
from the total package.
The union achieved a form of
job security at the expense of not
receiving a full cost of living
increase and giving up several
items which the Board of
Education has been trying to gain
for the past five years.
If ratified by the union and
approved by the school board, the
cost of the package will be
revealed at a budget hearing
[ Continued on page 12]
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