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An Official Newspaper far the Village of Farmingdale
VOL. 56 NO • A Second Class Postage Paid'
in Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735 - ri_ OA 1Q7C copyright 1975 by
Thursday, JOnUOry 30, 1975 Island- Wide Publication. Inc.
price 154 - $ 5 per year
How Prepared
Are Our Grads
The vast majority of Farmingdale High School
graduates feel that they are well prepared to face their
future and a great number of them go on to some form of
higher education. This is the consensus of opinion
expressed Monday night at the special public report to
the Curriculum Committee of the Board of Education.
New Signal
For Motor Ave.
A CAR EXPLOSION early Saturday afternoon on Carmans Road brought South Farmingdale Firemen
responding to a " general alarm." Police and firemen searched the vehicle for evidence of a possible
bomb, but determined the blast came from a wiring short circuit igniting gasoline in the carburator.
I Post photo by Bob Starrett]
Heart Drive Opens Saturday
The annual Nassau County
Heart Fund drive will begin
Saturday ( February 1st) in the
greater Farmingdale area and
will include door- to- door can­vassing
for funds and the sale of
tickets to the Sweetheart Ball
scheduled for February 22.
" We'll be starting slowly," said
Marjorie Pfoh, drive chairman
for Farmingdale, " but by the end
of the month we hope to have
contacted every household in our
Preparing Rules
For Hardsprabble
The Farmingdale Public
Library and the Hardscrabble
Fair Committee stated this week
that information and applications
for the Fair, to be held on May 24
at the Village Green will be
available by February 17 at both
library buildings and in The
Farmingdale Post.
The guidelines, rules and
regulations concerning the Fair
will also be available at that
time.
The Committee expects to be
able to mail the guidelines and
applications to local service
organizations.
community." One of the greatest
needs of this year's drive is local
volunteers to conduct door- to-door
efforts in their own areas.
" We have had some residents
offer to handle their block but
there are still many blocks that
are not assigned," Mrs. Pfoh
said. She noted that volunteers
can determine for themselves
when they would be able to
conduct the door- to- door cam­paign
and they can devote as
much time as they feel is
necessary. " The areas being
covered by one volunteer is so
small that if a volunteer only had
30 minutes a day of free time,
Winning Number*
Winning Tickets in Far­mingdale
Merchants Ass'n.
" drawing on January 24th.
133245
146502
142755
142948
133291
112981
128816
142832
146280
003629
$ 25 gift certificate
$ 15 gift certificate
$ 10 gift certificate
$ 10 gift certificate
$ 10 gift certificate
$ 10 gift certificate
$ 5 gift certificate
$ 5 gif^ rtiftcate
$ 5 giffeertif icate
$ 5 gift certificate
Do not throw away losing
tickets. They are eligible for
master drawing to be announced.
they could probably cover the
area several times during the
month- long fund- raising effort,"
according to Mrs. Pfoh.
Any residents or local
organization wishing to help in
this most important cause can
volunteer by calling Mrs. Pfoh at
CH 9- 3244.
Meanwhile Mrs. Pfoh said that
plans are well underway for the
cocktail party and buffet that will
serve as this year's Sweetheart
Ball. The dance will be held at the
Holiday Manor in Bethpage and
will be highlighted by the
crowning of the Nassau County
Heart Fund's 1975 Sweetheart.
Tickets are available through
Mrs. Pfoh.
Million Dollar
Navy Contract
Congressman Jerome A.
Ambro announced that the Navy
has awarded a contract to
Hydrosystems, Inc., of 85
Sherwood Ave., Farmingdale, in
the amount of $ 1,055,000.
The contract is for a device
called a 2C 38A Cockpit
Proceedures Trainer and in­cludes
data, supplies and ser­vices.
The traffic signal at Merritts
Road and Motor Avenue,. South
Farmingdale, wUl be modernized
so that Merrfyts^ load traffic will
be stopped only when a vehicle is
actually waiting to enter from
Motor Avenue, Public Works
Commissioner H. John Plock, Jr.
told the Post.
A detector, or actuator, will be
installed under the pavement to
respond to the weight of the
vehicle.
Plock said the modernization is
part of the County's program to
eliminate unnecessary stopping
and starting which wastes gas
and creates air pollution.
Firemen Mark
86th Anniv.
The members of the Hook
Ladder and Hose Company No. 1,
Inc. of the Village of Far­mingdale
Fire Department
celebrated the companies 89th
year of uninterrupted volunteer
fire service to the Farmingdale
community at a dinner- dance
held at the Colonie Hill Country
Club this past Saturday, January
25.
The company was formed by a
group of residents in January
1886 and became the first
organized fire company in the
entire Farmingdale area.
The members purchased a
hand drawn ladder truck which
carried their ladders, tools and
leather buckets with their own
funds. Today the company, which
has over 80 members, operates a
100 ft. Aerial Ladder truck, a hose
truck equipped with high
pressure fog lines and a floodlight
truck.
Company Captain, Herbert
Ketchum, reported that the
committee sold over 200 tickets to
the active and associate mem­bers
and their guests and that a
good time was had by all at­tending.
The data, provided-^ by one
hundred graduates of the class of
1968, was presented by Principal
John McLennan and Len Marino,
director of guidance at the senior
high school. The class of 1968 was
selected to show what happens to
these students; five years after
they complete high school, thus
giving them time to establish
their pattern for the future.
Members of the class of ' 68
were sent questionnaires on the
basis of every seventh name on
the rolls of graduates in
alphabetical order to obtain a
one- seventh random sampling.
Each year the Guidance
Department makes known the
plans of seniors in the graduating
class. The five- year- after study
compared those plans with the
present status of the graduates.
The study showed 70 percent
said they planned to go on to
some form of higher education
when they graduated in 1968, 78
percent of the study group did
just that.
Occupations for the group
ranged from accountant and Air
Force Pilot to Xnray technician,
with three still in medical school
and two in law school. Only one
percent reported being unem­ployed
at present. Salaries
ranged from $ 100 per week to $ 285
per week, a $ 140 per week
average.
The majority of the sample
group, 50 percent, still lives in the
Farmingdale area. Another 30
percent is nearby in the greater
New York- Long Island area. The
remaining 20 percent is spread
from New Hampshire o to
California. Fifty- five percent say
they are employed in the career
field for which they trained in
high school.
Asked what courses were the
most helpful to them, the
majority of the sample group
indicated the skill courses such
as typing, driver education, etc.
Responding to " what courses
should you have taken- if of­fered,"
most indicated again the
skill courses and human
relations.
The majority of the college
students, 80 percent, said that
they were well prepared for
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