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200th Birthday U. S. A.
Fireworks
Sunday Night
In Village
Park Concert
Greets ' 76
Op Sail Ships
Oyster Bay Town Supervisor
John W. Burke announced that a
special " Concert in the Park,"
in honor of the visiting Dutch and
American cadets and officers
from Operation Sail ' 76, will be
held starting at 5: 30 p . to. on
Friday, July 2, in Theodore
Roosevelt Memorial Park ,
Oyster Bay.
" Residents who will be coming
to the park to see the seven
vessels participating in OpSail
' 76 will be further entertained
that evening at a Town- sponsored
Salute to Operation Sail Concert
in the Park," Burke said.
Square dancing for all will
start at 5: 30, to open the
evening's entertainment.
Professional caller " Frankie the
K" will be able to get even
neophytes in the art of square
dancing to do -- and enjoy -- the
simple and intricate figures
which are traditional to this
. lively folk art.
At 6: 30 there will be a program
of Sea Chanteys sung by Jeff
Warner and his " Sea Shanty"
group, who are noted for their
renditions of sailors' work songs
of the last 200 years. In addition,
there'll be a sing- along of widely-familiar
songs.
Rounding out the evening's
program will be dancing to the
music of the Mitchell Ayres
Orchestra, with Harry Terrill
and vocalist Marion Herman.
The four Dutch and three
American ships from Operation
Sail ' 76 will start arriving in
Oyster Bay harbor on the af­ternoon
of July 1st. Invited by
Dorothy Horton McGee, chair­man
of the Town's American
Revolution Bicentennial Com­mission,
the ships will be staying
overnight in the harbor and
through July 2. In the early hours
of July 3rd, they will head for
New York harbor to participate
in the 20- mile long line of sailing
ships parading up the Hudson on
the 4uS of July.
Queen of the Dutch ships
coming to Oyster Bay is the 120-
foot topsail schooner, Eendracht,
which, besides 16 officers and
crew, is carrying 21 cadets, nine
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WALKIN' AND WHEELIN' for the March of Dimes, residents of Daleview Nursing Home participated
in a " walk- a- thon" along Fulton Street Sunday afternoon. Leading the line are Bernie Weingart [ in
wheelchair] and Linda Fortuna, both from Nassau County March of Dimes. Daleview residents
completed the march in quarter mile cycles from the Nursing Home to Main Street and back.
[ Post photo by Bob Starrett]
School Bd. Names Manso
Acting Superintendent
The Farmingdale Board of
Education, officially appointed
Charles Manso as acting
Superintendent of Schools at their
fiscal year end meeting Monday
night. Manso will fill the vacancy
left by Dr. William A. Kinzler's
retirement and move to Coronado
Beach, California.
Manso, who has been serving
as one of the two assistant
superintendents in the Far­mingdale
District, can under
State Education Laws serve for
60 days as an acting superin­tendent.
The board can then
request an extension of an ad­ditional
60 days if they need more
time in their search of a new
Superintendent of Schools.
The board has indicated that
they will employ a consulting
firm to search for a successor.
Tuesday, July 6, has been set for
the annual reorganizational
meeting.
In other action the board made
the Citizens Advisory Committee
on Finance a permanent standing
committee of the board. It will
consist of 11 members.
The Prestige Roofing and
Siding Co. was awarded the
contract as low bidder to make
roof restorations on Weldon E.
Howitt Junior High School. The
contract was awarded in the
amount of $ 5,050.
The board declared a total of
3,364 units of pupil seating,
currently stored in various
buildings, as surplus. The Fire
Marshal's office declared the
storage of this equipment as a
fire hazard. The district will
donate 100 units to the United
Methodist Church and 100 units to
the Hebrew Academy of Nassau
County. The remaining usable
units will be sold at a public sale
in September.
Since it was the last meeting
for Mrs. Lucille Goulding, who is
retiring after 12 years on the
board and did not seek reelection,
the board passed a resolution
citing her for her service to the
community as a member of the
board.
Burglars hit
Fruit Queen
A burglar entered the Fruit
Queen at 575 Fulton Street,
Farmingdale twice during the
past week, according to Eighth
precinct police.
The thief broke through a side
window this week and took
assorted meats, canned goods
and cigarettes valued at $ 1400.
Last week the store was en­tered
through a rear window and
100 pounds of lobster was taken.
The 200th Birthday of our
nation will be celebrated" in
Farmingdale with a fireworks
display Sunday, July 4, beginning
at dusk ( approximately 9: 30).
The public can view the aerial
display from the parking field
behind Village Hall, or any of the
adjacent streets. The fireworks
will be launched from the Weldon
E. Howitt Junior High School
athletic field by the New York
Pyrotechnic Corp. of Bellport.
Hot Dogs, soda and beer will be
available at booths set up by the
Farmingdale Fire Department
Drill Team behind the firehouse.
Farmingdale's three fire
departments, with their junior
brigades and ladies auxiliary,
will engage in friendly com­petition
beginning at 5 p. m.
Teams from Farmingdale,
South Farmingdale and East
Farmingdale will compete in tug-of-
war, water ball, and bucket
brigade contests.
Behind the joyous celebration
should be the memories of a
seripus moment 200 years ago:
the signing of the Declaration of
Independence and the beginning
of our history as the United States
of America.
July Fourth, then, is a time for
reflection: The Declaration of
Independence is a legal
document - an orderly
declaration based on solid legal
principles and the high ideals of
the people who fought and died
for it. One of the great political
documents of history, it was the
formal, legal announcement that
separated the original Thirteen
Colonies from Great Britain and
made them into the United
States.
" We hold these truths to be self-evidenf,"
the document declares,
" that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable
Rights, that among these are
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of
Happiness."
The document went on to ex­plain
the cause which impelled
the colonies to make the
separation, setting forth the
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