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THEY'RE ALL HEART: Presenting a check from the residents fund of Daleview Nursing home to the
Heart Fund Drive is Sina Betsos [ left, who was voted the resident with the biggest heart. IYIargo Pfoh,
area heart fund chairman, accepts the gift, while Joan Brodowski, director of activities for the nursing
home, looks on. The fund comes from the sale of art and craft items made by the residents, [ Post photo
by Bob Starrett]
No Job Loss Expected
Farmingdale's Board of Education at a meeting
Monday night decided to accept the recommendations
of the school district's Principals' Association for the
staffing of schools. This revision of the board's original
plan will eliminate only one administrative position
instead of two and will most likely mean that all present
administrators will retain posts in the Farmingdale
district.
One assistant principalship will
be eliminated, but the retirement
of Albany Avenue Elementary
School Principal John Grindle is
expected to eliminate the need to
release any of the present
assistant principals.
Although no considerations
have officially been made, it
is obvious one of the districts-assistant
principals is due for a
promotion to principal of Albany
Ave. School if attrition is to be the
factor; through the retirement of
Grindle, to - make up the lost
position.
If a replacement principal
should come from outside the
district, one of the district's
present assistants would still
face elimination. This, however,
is not likely to happen, since all of
the school districts assistant
principals are held in high
Vietnam Vets
Day Friday
The most neglected hero in
American history, without ex­ception,
is the Vietnam- era
veteran. Many reasons have been
suggested for our lack of aL-lent
ion: realization by the
American people that this war
was totally amoral and senseless,
and that this conflict occurred
during the Sixties, a decade when
this country could not provide the
needed " Domestic Tranquility."
On March 29, these forgotten
warriors will be given,
nationally, a special day. At the
State University at Farmingdale,
over 3,000 Vietnam- era veterans
on that day will participate in an
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Republic Gets Contract
For New Fighter Plane
Fairchild Republic of Far­mingdale,
is one of three com­panies
which was awarded
contracts for configuration
definition studies for the first
Advanced Fighter Technology
Integration demonstrator air­craft
( AFTI- 1).
The other companies to receive
contracts were McDonnell
Douglas, St. Louis, Mo.; and
Rockwell International, Los
Angeles, Cal. Total cost of the
contracts is $ 1,955,000, of which
Fairchild Republic will receive
$ 597,000.
Purpose of the AFTM program
is to integrate in one ex­perimental
vehicle advanced
aerospace technologies focused
on combat performance
capabilities. According to Dr.
Demetrius Zonars, AFTI
program manager and chief
scientist for the Air Force Flight
Dynamics Laboratory, ' in this
way, we can evaluate, through
actual flight demonstration,
individual technologies as well as
the overall effects of combination
of technologies. This will enable
us to prove new technologies
rapidly, thus speeding up the
process of their transition to new
systems."
The contracts will encompass
the first two phases of the AFTI- 1
program. Under Phase One, the
three contractors will establish
configurations which will be
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Youth Found Dead
in College Dorm
A Farmingdale freshman at
the State University College at
Oneonta was found unconscious
in his dormatory room at the
college and was pronounced dead
on arrival at Fox Memorial
Hospital in that city this past
weekend.
Otsego County coroner Jim
Hurley said Howard McCarty
Jr., 18, of 135 Crestwood Blvd.,
Farmingdale, died of an over­dose
of barbiturates. Hurley said
the accidential overdose was the
third death caused by drugs on
the Oneonta campus in the past
four years.
The findings were based on an
autopsy performed by Dr. Walter
Moore.
HONORED: Oyster Bay Town Councilmen Howard T. Hogan, Jr. [ center] and Gregory W. Carman
[ right] present a proclamation to Gene Leyendecker of Farmingdale in recognition of his contributions
to Farmingdale Little League and other youth activities- Leyendecker was feted at a dinner held at the
Huntington Town House. Leyendecker was one of the eo- founders of the Farmingdale Baseball League,
Inc. in 1952 and is currently holding the title of Executive Vice President, which was especially created
for him.