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An Official Newspaper for the Village of Farmingdak
VOL . ^ N O . 28 Second Class Postage Paid
in Fartningdale, N. Y. 11735 Thursday, May 23, 1974 Copyright 1974 by
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Election Results
School Budget
YES 1022
*° 3195
Repair Bond
YES 1286
NO 2846
Sell Adm. Bldg.
YES 2633
" 0 1570
Library Budget
YES 1777
NO 2395
Youth Council
YES 2274
NO 1675
lid. of Education
Raymond Parcels
2492
Joseph Molloy
1578
Frank Gelish
1575
Stanley Martina
2476
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Library Board
Irwin Jacovsky
1902
William Pins
2012
Fireworks Scheduled
For Hardscrabble Fair
READY FOR FAIR: Mrs. Norma Kornfeld, little Kathlyn McQuillan,
and Mrs. Hortensia Stoyan of the Farmingdale Public Library, are
posing in their turn- of- the- century costumes with some " primitive"
art which is going to be displayed on Saturdays Hardscrabble Fair in
Farmingdale Village.
Another big attraction has been
added to this Saturday's first
annual Hardscrabble Fair and
Sidewalk Sale in Farmingdale.
Mayor John T. Hallahan told the
Post yesterday that the annual
fireworks display will be held
Saturday night instead of July
4th. The display is scheduled for
9: 30 p. m.
In addition to the games and
rides and some 80 booths in the
Village Green, the Farmingdale
Merchants Association will be
conducting their first Sidewalk
Sale all along Main Street. Main
Street itself will be closed to
vehicle traffic from Prospect
Street to South Front Street,
turning the street into an open
walking mall.
The Farmingdale Post, in its
own booth on the Village Green,
will have Joe Kalif, " Magic
Carpet Over Broadway"
columnist. Kalif, who has drawn
caricatures of the greats and
the near greats in Hollywood and
on Broadway, will be drawing the
people of Farmingdale on
specially prepared front pages of
The Farmingdale Post.
The Post will also be signing up
Memorial Day Parade
Starts 10 a. nu Monday
Farmingdale's Memorial Day
Parade, under the sponsorship of
the Farmingdale Fire Depart­ment,
will be held Monday, May
27, starting promptly at 10 a. m.
The parade will follow its
traditional route from the staging
area on Thomas Powell Blvd.
down the length of Main Street
and terminating at the Main
Street School, where Memorial
Services will be held.
First Deputy Chief Joseph Sch­weitzer,
this year's parade
chairman, listed the day's order
of events as follows:
Parade line up at 9: 30 a. m. on
Thomas Powell Blvd. between
Bethpage Road and Yoakum
Avenue.
Parade Starts at 10: a. m.
sharp, all Veterans groups jyjd
Fire Departments will hold
Services at Cemetaries prior to
the start of the Parade.
All Units, and parents dropping
off children please come to
assembly area by way of
Yoakum Avenue.
Each unit contact your
designated Division. Marshal for
final instructions.
All Color Guards and Flag units
should remain at the reviewing
stand at the conclusion of the
Parade.
Any units wishing to place
wreaths at the World War I and
World War II Monuments at the
Main Street School will report to
the Monument directly after the
Parade ends at the Main Street
School.
The parade line up will be as
follows:
1. Police Escort
2. Grand Marshal - Ex Chief
William Kenney
3. Colors
4. Gold Star Mothers
5. Official Cars
1st Division
1. Division Marshal - Ex Chief
Carl Schlingloff
2. V. F. W. Post 516
3. V. F. W. Auxiliary
4. Weldon E. Howitt Jr. High
School Band
5. American Legion Post 449
6. Young Memorial Post 1803
American Legion
7. American Legion Auxiliary
8. Daughters of America
9. Cub Scouts
9A. Farmingdale Hawks
10. East Farmingdale
Department Band
11. East Farmingdale
Fire
Fire
Department and Ladies
Auxiliary
12. East Farmingdale
Department Apparatus
Fire
2nd. Division
1. Division Marshal - Ex Chief
Joseph Murphy
2. Farmingdale PBC Nautical
Cadets
3. Farmingdale Lions Club
4. Jetras Twirling Group - Mrs.
Everett
5. Mid Island Council Girl Scouts
( Continued on page 16)
teenage girls who would like to
participate in the " Miss Teen
Farmingdale" contest which will
be sponsored by the Post later
this summer.
Booths will open at 10 a. m. The
parade will assemble at 10: 30 at
the railway tracks at Main and S.
Front Street, and will march to
the fairgrounds on the village
green. Opening ceremonies will
start at ll - a. m. The en-
. tertainment will kick off with the
Dalerettes performing their
routine, followed by the Hard­scrabble
Folk Singers. The team
of Jeff & Jeff wil] hplay country
music and at 1: 30 p. m. the Long
Island Arena Players will present
a one- act play " Lovers and Other
Strangers." Don't miss the
maypole dancing by children
from St. James Catholic Church
School, and an, hour of en­tertainment
by members of the
Spanish Club of Farmingdale.
Times for all performances will
be posted on the fairgrounds.
The Farmingdale Public
Library booth will present a
program from 10 a. m. to 8 p. m.
There wijl be a story hour at 12
noon and at 3 p. m. At 10 a. m.
there will be a program of
recorded music and from 11 to 12
noon, there will be videotape
demonstrations. In the afternoon
several craft demonstrations will
be given at the library booth.
From 1 to 3 p. m. Mrs. Susan
Golding will do hand spinning: 3
to 5 p. m., Mrs. Nancy Bess will do
loom weaving and from 5 to 7
p. m. Mrs. Iren Albers will teach
rug braiding. There will be other
entertainment in various other
booths - so don't miss them.
A big attraction at any fair • the
food - will be plentiful and varied.
At Hardscrabble Fair you will be
able to savor for the first time
Spanish " churros," taste rice
with chicken and tropical
refreshments which you might
have had at the World's Fair. The
very popular sausage and pep­pers,
hot dogs and beer, cotton
candy for the young at heart,
cakes, coffee, soda - we have it
all. Outside the fairgrounds you
will find pizza at two different
stores on Main Street. For ice
cream try one of our justly
famous ice cream parlors.
All of Main Street will be a fair
that day. Art shows and sidewalk
sales by local merchants will
liven the avenue.
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