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VOL. 57 NO. 44 StM'onit Olnss Postat? t? Paid
in Kurminioliitf. N. Y. it".*.' Thursday, September 16, 1976 Copyright 1976 by
Island- Wide Publications, Inr. price 15^— $ 5 per year
Police Charge
Homicide In
Crash Death
A 22 year old Farmingdale man
has been charged by police with
criminally negligent homicide, in
the death of a 68 year old retired
taxi driver.
The victim, Samuel Abrams of
Wantagh, was thrown from his
son's stationwagon when it struck
a utility pole after being hit
broadside at the intersection of
Hempstead Turnpike and
Hicksville Road.
Police also charged James F.
Finnegan of 1 Lawrence St.,
Farmingdale, with driving while
intoxicated. Police said witnesses
reported his car went through a
stoplight on Hempstead Turn­pike,
striking the Abrams
vehicle.
The stationwagon driven by
Leonard Abrams was southbound
on Hicksville Rd. and was turning
into Hempstead Tpke. when it
was struck by the eastbound car.
The victim's wife, Esther, was
trapped in the car for 30 minutes
until police could free her. She is
last reported in the intensive care
unit at Mid- Island Hospital.
Leonard Abrams and his wife,
Harriet, of Levittown suffered
extensive cuts and bruises.
Finnegan was held for ob­servation
at the Nassau County
Medical Center.
Dads9 Club
Has Secret
For Members
This Tuesday, the Farmingdale
High School Pads' Club, in ad­dition
to launching its fall
membership drive, will present
its plans for what promises to be
one of the most memorable and
unusual events ever staged on
Long Island. The project would
involve not only Farmingdale,
but surrounding towns as well,
and, therefore, its success will
hinge upon the number of active
participants in the Dads' Club.
The details of the event will be
announced at a membership rally
to be held this Tuesday,
Sept. 21, at 8: 30 pm in the high
school teachers' cafeteria. All
men, 18 years and older, who are
residents of School District # 22,
are urged to attend.
" Although the official an­nouncement
of the event cannot
be made until Tuesday," said a
club spokesman, " we can
guarantee that it will cause a
great deal of excitement."
2tTH ANNIVERSARY COMMITTEE for the Orchestra DaCamera plan for their 117* 77 season sub-scription
drive. The orchestra will present a series of three performances in Farmingdale and three in
Kings Park, with aU six available for the price of three with a season subscription. Launching the drive,
which is now underway are [ seated] Joyce Epstein, David Molnia, Orrin Dow, Lee LiCausi, Lynda
Reemer, [ standing] Flori Lorr and George Schriro. For tickets call 249- 56* 2.
[ Post photo by Bob Starrett]
Town Appeals Wire Edict
Oyster Bay Town Councilman
Salvatore R. Mosca announced
that, at his urging, the Town is
seeking to appeal a recent State
Public Service Commission
decision that would permit
construction of 93- foot towers
carrying high intensity power
lines through Bethpage.
Mosca said the Town has called
on the PSC for a re- hearing
regarding its determination to
allow replacement of existing 60-
foot poles with higher towers and
high intensity lines from the Long
Island Lighting Company sub­station
located in Farmingdale,
just west of Merritts Road and
the Long Island Railroad, run­ning
west to the LILCO
Newbridge Road substation in
the Town of Hempstead.
" While the recent PSC decision
calls for the undergrounding of
the high intensity lines through
the Village of Farmingdale, this
same decision unjustifiably
would permit the construction of
overhead lines in the neighboring
community of Bethpage," stated
Mosca. " Councilman ( Gregory
W.) Carman and I have opposed
the overhead lines concept since
the inception of LILCO's
Holbrook- to- Newbridge proposal.
I- will not be satisfied until the
PSC recognizes the injustice of its
present decision and requires the
undergrounding of the high in­tensity
lines thrbughout all
portions of our Town for which
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Fire Dept.
Hearing Set
Monday Night
A public hearing on the
proposed change- over of the
Village of Farmingdale Fire
Department from local dispat­ching
to the Nassau County Fire
Com. system will be held Monday
night, September 20, in the
Village Hall.
The 8 p. m. hearing before the
Mayor and Trustees of the
Village of Farmingdale will give
the village residents the op­portunity
to express their views
on whether or not they want the
village volunteers dispatched by
the county system •
The village has proposed the
conversion to the county system
to save money and avoid village
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Police Report
3 Burglaries
Eighth precinct police reported
two business burglaries and one
residential burglary in the
Farmingdale area this past
week.
Police said B & H Sanitation
Co., 60 Motor Ave. was entered
through the front door during the
night of Sept. 6 and an adding
machine was taken.
Smiles 5 & 10, 245 Main Street,
was entered through the rear
door during the night of Sep­tember
7 and 42 cartons of
cigarettes were reported
missing.
The residence at 81 Conklin
Street was entered through a
rear door sometime over the past
weekend. The loss is unknown.
Rotary Sending Seeds To Africa
The Farmingdale Rotary Club
is engaged in the third year of its
project for sending vegetable
seeds to Rotary Clubs in Africa
for free distribution to small
village schools, missions, or­phanages,
hospitals and
elsewhere that the local Rotary
Clubs find a need to help the
hungry raise their own food.
This year some 8,000 packets of
vegetable seed will be air­freighted
to Zambia and Kenya.
In Southern Africa, below the
equator the growing season is
opposite to ours, starting around
October, so that our 1976 unused
seed loses little in germination.
Several seed companies have
donated seed but most of the seed
was contributed by Flower Time
Inc., a Long Island chain of
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WORLD COMMUNITY SERVICE Chairman David Allee. committee members Carl A. Dittmeier,
Frank Dinda, Orrin Dow and W. EUery Follett package seed for shipment to Africa.