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in Farmlngdate, N. Y. 11735 Thursday, June 19, 1975 Copyright 1975 by
Island- Wide Publication, Inc. price \ Si - $ 5 per year
School Budget Defeated
Election Results
School Budget
YES 2468
MO 2590
Transportation
Yea 2 » 37
NO 2036
Sell Main St.
YES 3556
NO 1462
Library Budget
YES 2447
NO 2558
Buy Library
YES 2111
NO 2837
Youth Council
YES 2755
NO 1868
Candidates
Louis J. Avalone
2453
Bem Walking '
2366
Frank V. Ranieri
Elaine Korenge
1 8 88
Robert I. Went
2741
Lenore BarreUa
2633
Library Ed.
Joseph Crocco
3437
A PICKET LINE of Farmingdale residents marched in front of the Babylon Town HaU Tuesday
, evening prior to the Town Board's weekly 7 p. m. meeting, protesting a change in zoning of a 16 acre site
behind Mill Lane Jr. High School from light industrial to multiple dwelling. [ Post photo by Bob
Starrett]
Residents Protest Zone
Change By Babylon Bd.
Over three hundred Far­mingdale
residents jammed the
meeting room of the Babylon
Town Board Tuesday night after
walking a picket line in front of
the Town Hall protesting a zoning
change that would allow multiple
dwelling units to be built next to
their one family homes.
The residents, mostly mem­bers
of the Francis Manor Civic
Association, thwarted plans of
Semour Yanowicz last fall to
construct an industrial park in
the 16 acre site behind Mill Lane
Junior High School. The builder
obtained a change of zoning on
the property from light industrial
to MA, which permits multiple
housing. The homeowners con­sider
this change as bad as, if not
worse than light industry.
Aaron Barnett, supervisor of
the Town of Babylon, told the
spectators that the town board
was instructed by the court to
seek a compromise on the zoning
of the land and the MA change
was considered a compromise.
The residents pointed out that
the last compromise plan they
saw prior to the change in zoning
called for half of the site nearest
the private homes to be zoned
Residential B and the remaining
half near Route 110 to be MA. The
change making the entire site MA
was done without consideration
for the Farmingdale residents.
The local group also protested
that only two members of the
Babylon Town Board showed up
for a meeting on the zoning
change, which was called by the
civic association at " the con­venience
of the board."
Observer Publisher
Dies Suddenly Sat.
Mass for Gerhard Hirseland,
47, of Farmingdale, publisher of
The Farmingdale Observer, will
be offered today at 9: 30 a. m. in
St. Kilian's Catholic Church,
Farmingdale.
Burial in St. Charles Cemetery,
Pinelawn, will follow under the
direction of the McCourt and
Trudden Funeral Home, Far­mingdale,
Hirseland died
Saturday of an apparent heart
attack while attending a bowling
dinner at Musicaro's in Melville.
Hirseland and W. Eric Besser
of Farmingdale bought The
Farmingdale Observer, The
Massapequan Observer and The
Levittown Tribune in 1971.
Hirseland, born in Berlin, spent
two years in a Russian prisoner-of-
war camp. He came to the
United States in 1964 and was a
reporter on the German-language
daily, Staats- Zeitung
and Herold. He was also New
York correspondent for
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Carman Asks
0TB Seek
New Site
Oyster Bay Town Councilman
Gregory W. Carman is calling on
the Nassau Off- Track Betting
Corp. to seek a more suitable
location for a Farmingdale
betting parlor than the one
currently under consideration.
According to Carman, the OTB
officials are considering leasing a
vacant store on Hempstead
Turnpike near East Gate, ad­jacent
to a cocktail lounge. " I
believe this would be a very poor
selection for several reasons, one
especially, the traffic conditions
of the area," Carman said.
He explained that the small
row of storefronts are on the
border of a highly populated
residential area. " With the
traffic generated by the stores
currently operating at the
location, residents are already
living with above- normal traffic
on their streets. Adding a betting
parlor would make the situation
dangerous," Carman said.
At that location, Carman noted,
vehicles have to attempt to
merge into a heavily travelled
section of Hempstead Turnpike in
order to exit from the limited
parking area. As the parking lot
becomes backed up due to the
difficulties of the traffic con­dition,
Carman said that drivers
go through the surrounding
residential streets in search of an
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Rock Injures
LIRR Engineer
Youths throwing rocks at a
passing train caused serious
injury to the train's engineer last
Friday evening, according to 8th
precinct police.
Police said Peter Tomasello,
engineer on Long Island Railroad
train number 18, was hit in both
eyes by glass particles when the
window in his engine was
smashed by the rock attack.
The train was passing the Beth-page
Parkway at 6: 50 p. m. when
the window was broken.
Detective Barry Falk of the 8th
Squad arrested Raymond
Walicki, 18, of 685 Conklin St.,
Farmingdale, at 1 p. m. Sunday
and charged him with criminal
mischief m the third degree.
Walicki allegedly set fire to a
1966 red Mustang belonging to
Donald Walicki of Laurelton
Place, Farmingdale, at 10 p. m.
Saturday night in front of the
Conklin Street address.