1976-07-22

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A Prize Winning Weekly Serving The Greater Farmingdak Area Since 1920 ®
An Official Newspaper far the Village of Farmingdak
VOL. 57 NO. 36 Second Class Postage Paid
in FartninRdalc, N. Y. 11735 Thursday, July 22, 1976 Copyright. 1976 by
Island— Wide Publications, Inc. price 15* - $ 5 per year
Firemen's Drill,
Parade Saturday
In E. Farmingdale
The East Farmingdale Fire Department will host the
Town of Babylon Volunteer Firemen's parade and drill
this Saturday, July 24. Competition between the eleven
fire departments in the town will begin at 10 a. m. and
will be climaxed by a Firemen's Parade at 6 p. m.
As a prelude to Saturday's competition, the East
Farmingdale Volunteers opened an old fashion bazaar
on the fire headquarters grounds last night. The bazaar
will run every night thorugh Saturday at the Conklin
Street f irehouse.
CAMPAIGN KICK- OFF: Assemblyman Joseph Margiotta, Nassau County Republican Party Chair­man,
[ right] offers his congratulations and support to Oyster Bay Town Councilman Howard T. Hogan,
Jr. in his quest for the seat as Congressional Representative in the Third District. Farmingdale GOP
Leader Ray Radigan [ 2nd from left! also supported the candidate at a kick- off party Thursday evening
in the garden of Judge Howard T. Hogan, Sr. of Farmingdale [ left]. " Tommy" Hogan, a native of
Farmingdale, will challenge Rep. Jerome A. Ambro for the Congressional seat.
[ Post photo by Bob Starrett]
Rat Complaints Continue
Complaints - about an in­festation
of rats continued to be
reported to the Post this week as
more residents called to report
problems with the rodents.
Residents cited incidents of
sighting rats in the vacant field
Music Director
Doris Glahn Dies
Doris Glahn, music teacher
and director of instrumental
music at East Memorial
Elementary School, passed away
Friday, July 16, in her hometown
of Forty Forte, Pa.
Funeral services were held
Monday in Pennsylvania. Miss
Glahn is survived by two
brothers. She was 54.
Miss Glahn began her teaching
career in Pennsylvania in 1944.
She came to Farmingdale in
September, 1963, teaching music
at East Memorial. She has been
responsible for the instrumental
music for the school's winter and
spring concerts.
She returned to her home on
medical leave of absence from
the school district last Christmas,
where she succumbed to cancer.
adjacent to the V. F. W- parking
lot, along the adjoining railroad
tracks and also at the Sid Farber
Shopping Center on Merritts
Road.
Last week a Fulton Street
resident reported rats invading
her back yard, which backs up to
the railroad tracks. She said she
had trapped over a dozen of the
rodents.
Several James Street residents
complained this week that
children playing in the vacant lot,
which is overgrown with weeds,
uncovered a number of rats
hiding under debris.
A resident of Hart Street,
which backs up to the Sid Farber
Center off Fallwood Parkway,
reported an air- rifle hunting
expidition over the weekend
which netted over twenty rats at
the rear of the stores and in the
immediate neighborhood.
A call from The Post to
Supervisor John W. Burke's
office determined that the county
had eliminated its Rodent Control
team from the Nassau County
Health Department as an
economy move. The Town of
Oyster Bay, which had been
using the county team for such
complaints in the past, dispat­ched
its litter and refuse in­spectors
to investigate both
problem areas.
Pedestrian Dies
On Fulton St.
A 74 year old Farmingdale man
was killed Saturday afternoon as
he attempted to cross Fulton
Street and was struck by a car.
Felix Romero of 675 Fulton
Street, Farmingdale, was struck
by a westbound vehicle driven by
Marjorie Ekzall, 66, of Babylon,
as he walked across the highway
200 feet west of the Main Street
intersection.
The victim suffered head and
internal injuries and was ap­parently
dead at the scene of the
accident. He was pronounced
dead at Mid- Island Hospital,
where he was taken by the
Farmingdale Fire Dept. Rescue
Squad.
EXCHANGING GREETINGS: Farmingdale Mayor John T. Hallahan
presents a village proclamation to New Hope Choir Director David
Bolin of Irving, Texas, and receives in return greeting from the Mayor
of Irving, The New Hope Choir, a group of 70 talented teenagers, from
the Plymouth Park Baptist Church presented a program of spiritual
and patriotic music at the Farmingdale Baptist Church. ( Post photo
by Bob Starrett]
The parade route will be as
follows. Assembly point at the
Farmingdale R. R. Station
Parking Lot. The parade will
then proceed south on Secatogue
Ave. tor Conklin St., then east on
Conklin St. to the fire house
located on the corner of Conklin
St. and Carman's Road.
Both the bazaar and tour­nament
will also be held at
Conklin St. and Carman's Road.
The parade will be led by the
Suffolk and Nassau County Police
Dept. escorts. They will be
followed by the Grand Marshalls,
consisting of 50 yr. members
Fred Kraft, J. Schannon, Sr., and
C. Beardon, the town and county
officials and the East Far­mingdale
Fire Department Band,
men, ladies auxiliary and junior
brigade.
The first division will be led by
ex- chief Wm. Daly, followed by
the North Lindenhurst F. D.
Band, men, ladies aux., and
juniors; the Copiague F. D. Band,
men and juniors; the North
Amityville F. D.; the Wyandanch
F. D., band, men and ladies aux.;
and the M. T. A. Fire Department
from Republic Air Field.
The second division will be led
by ex- chief Phil Murtha, followed
by the Lindenhurst F. D. band,
men, ladies aux. and Jr.,; the
Amityville F. D. band, men and
ladies aux.; The West Babylon
F. D., band, men and ladies
aux.; and the Farmingdale F. D.
band, men and junior brigade.
The third division will be led by
ex- chief George Messeder,
followed by the Babylon F. D.
band and men; the Deer Park
F. D. band, men, ladies aux. and
Jrs.; the North Babylon F. D.
Band, men, ladies aux. and
juniors and the South Far­mingdale
F. D. Band and
firemen.
This promises to be a big
event and their is plenty of free
parking in the parking lot of the
Old Mill across from the
f irehouse.