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VOL. 57 NO. 21 Second Class Postage Paid
In Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735 Thursday, April 8, 1976 Copyright 1976 by
Island- Wide Publications, Inc. price 15^ - $ 5 per year
Teachers Picket Board Of Ed.
Board Tables Vote
On School Closing
Residents of the Parkway Oaks area, seeking to
protest the closing of their school before the Board of
Education Monday night, had a hard time seeking
parking places for their cars at Farmingdale High
School. 550 members of the Farmingdale Classroom
Teachers Association were already there walking a
picket line in front of the school urging the board to
negotiate with them in person.
Ken Deedy, president of the
FARMINGDALE TEACHERS walk a picket Hae in front el Farmiagfele Ifigh Scfceel prier to MoeJay
night't Board of Education meeting protesting the board's refusal to attend negotiating sessions. Ac­cording
to Kenneth Deedy, union president, 550 of the district's 670 teachers joined the line of march.
[ Post photo by Bob Starrett]
Hardscrabble Contestants
Still JSigning Up For Prizes
Three new contestants joined
the competition for the title of
Master and Miss Hardscrabble
this week by signing up at Claire
Egg Rolling
l i b Sunday
The Kiwanis Club of Far­mingdale
will hold their annual
Easter Egg roll on Palm Sunday,
April 11, at 2 pm in the baseball
field behind Weldon E. Howitt Jr.
Hk# School. Children 3 to 10 are
eligible. There will be no ad­mission
charge.
Kiwanis President Dr. Andrew
Manxo and chairman of the af­fair,
Henry Hutter, invite all the
children to participate. The Egg
Roll will be divided into four
different age groups ( 34) ( 54)
( 7- 8) ( MO). All contestants will
receive Easter candy and prizes
will be awarded in each age
In the event of bad weather the
Egg roil will be rescheduled for
Eaater Sunday, same time- same
place ...
Studios on Main Street and
having their official contest
photos taken.
The photo studio will
photograph all contestants free of
charge and register them for the
contest. Contestants must be
accompanied by one of their
parents to give official per­mission
for the child to enter the
contest. You may register
anytime, but the picture taking
sessions, are held only between 2
and 5 p. m. each Wednesday.
Master and Miss Hardscrabble
will each receive a $ 100 savings
bond and will lead the Hard­scrabble
Day Parade down Main
Street at 11 a. m. on May 22. The
two runner- ups will be invited to
join Master a ™ ? Miss Hard­scrabble
in the parade and will
receive ISO savings bonds each.
Parents, relatives and friends
may vote for their contestants by
picking up ballots at any of the
participating Farmingdale
merchants' stores. The name of
the contestant is entered on the
ballot and the vote cast at either
Farmingdale Library Branch.
Every dollar spent while shop­ping
in Farmingdale is worth a
vote for one of the contestants.
Enntering the competition this
week were Dawn Dorfmeister,
age 4, of 105 Staples Street; Jill
Watkins, age 7, of 23 Woodward
Parkway; and Lisanne Bloeth,
age 9, of 161 East Drive, N.
Massapequa.
The Hardscrabble Committee
reports that permission has been
granted by the school district for
use of the Main Street School
property. The front lawn area
will become the entertainment
center for the fair. The Town of
Oyster Bay Snowmobile will open
its stage in front of the school for
a full day of entertainment The
rear parking fields will be open to
public parking for the day of the
fair.
Another entertainment area
will be located on the other end of
Main Street, near Front St.
From Tropiano, finance
committee chairman is now
signing up applicants for booth
for the fair. The deadline is April
30.
Clues and organisations from
the Farmingdale area will be
given first priority. Individuals
who seek booths for the fair, may
[ Continued on page 20]
Village Board
Reorganizes
The Incorporated Village of
Farmingdale held their annual
reorganizational meeting
Monday night at Village Hall.
Mayor John T. Hallahan and
Trustees Owen W. Drugan and
Fred Rathgeber, who won
reelection in the Village Election
March 16, were administered
their new oaths of office by
Norman Krasnow, clerk-treasurer.
Mayor Hallahan then reap­pointed
Trustee Willis B. Car­man,
Jr. as Deputy Mayor of the
village. Krasnow was appointed
- Clerk- Treasurer for a four year'
term and ' assessor and tax
collector for one year. Lillian
Kowalski was reappointed
Deputy Clerk.
The only new appointment was
in the naming of Kenneth Martin
to a five year term as Fire
Commissioner.
Renamed to their village
positions were Attorney Joseph
Stern, Village Prosecutor Robert
Callahan, Acting Village
Prosecutor Gregory Carman,
Acting Village Justice Charles
Cronin, Court Clerk Dorothy
Dugan, Chairman of the Board of
Fire Commissioners Rocco
Posillico, Fire Commissioner
Fred Rathgeber and Planning
Board Chairman Edwin Henn.
The board will continue to meet
in public session the second and
fourth Monday evenings of each
month.
Mayor Hallahan announced the
standing committee ap­pointments
for the Board of
Trustees. Serving on the various
village committees are:
Fiannce: Mayor Hallahan -
Chairman, Trustee Carman,
Trustee Rathgerber.
Personnel: Mayor HaMslun -
[ Continued en page 17]
teachers' union, claims the
Board of Education refuses to
negotiate with the teachers face
to face on their contract
proposals. The teachers' present
two year contract expired March
31 and, according to- Deedy, a
strike vote will be called for after
the Easter vacation if
negotiations are not progressing.
Members of the board,
however, claim that only one
other school district in Nassau
County ever enters face- to- face
negotiations with its teachers.
They say that the professional
negotiator hired by the board, the
same one hired by previous
boards, is empowered to speak
and negotiate for the board.
Board President Robert Weiss
stated that the board must ap­prove
the terms negotiated by its
professional negotiator just as
the members of the teachers'
union are called upon to ratify the
contract negotiated by their
union officials.
Once the picket lines broke up
and joined the crowd inside the
high school auditorium, they
hired an estimated 400 to 500
seats of the 1,000 seat auditorium.
Following a heated discussion
between the audience and the
board and between members of
the audience itself, a surprise
motion to table the vote on the
closing of Parkway Oaks School
for one week was approved. The
official vote will be taken at a
special meeting next Tuesday
night, April 13, at 8: 30 p. m. in the
high school. An unofficial poll of
the board revealed a 5- 2 vote in
favor of the proposed phase- out
of Parkway Oaks Elementary
School over the next two years.
The week's delay the 4- 3
majority of the board felt would
raised by Attorney David
Weinblatt on the future
pnariNhtira fy*" g the board on
final vote, however, is not ex­pected
to changi.