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VOL. 57 NO. 15 Second Class Postage Paid
in Farmlngrialf,, N. Y. 11735 Thursday, February 26, 1976 Copyright 1976 by
Island- Wide Publications, Inc. price 1 bi - $ 5 per year
Bd.' Leans' Toward Pky. Oaks
Considering Phase- out
CHILDREN'S DAY collectors Chris Cropsey and lose Santana get a donation for the Juvenile Diabetes
Foundation from Farmingdale Mayor John T. Hallahan, while co- ordinator Patricia Schriro looks on.
Funds for the drive, sponsored by the Women's Interfaith Council, can be turned in anytime this week
to either branch library. [ Post photo by Bob Starrett]
HardscrabbleSetMay22
At a special meeting Tuesday
night in the Farmingdale Village
Hall, the newly foirmed Hard-scrabble
Day Committee voted to
hold the third annual celebration
on Saturday, May 22, one week
prior to the Memorial Day
Weekend. Forty- five represen­tatives
of various clubs and
organizations in the Farmingdale
area attended.
Robert J. Starrett, editor/-
manager of the Farmingdale
Post was unanimously elected
chairman of the committee and
Mrs. Joseph Schweitzer, co-chairman.
Robert Moroney of the
Farmingdale Hawks and The
National Bank of North America
will serve as treasurer and
chairman of the Finance Com-
Other committee chairmen will
be named at the next meeting
Wednesday, March 3, at 8 p. m. in
the Village Hall The Lions Club
volunteered to handle public
relations and errect the overhead
street signs. Paul Goldfarb will
chair the committee to man the
command post the day of the fair.
Mary James will chair the
platform committee.
Volunteers who would be
willing to take on committee
assignments for Garbage Con­trol,
Entertainment, Lighting,
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Donations For Family
Of Murder Victim
Donations are being accepted
at Tommy's Gas Value Station
for the family of young Thomas
Moran, who was killed last week
in a hold- up of the gas station at
the corner of Main St. and Motor
Ave., South Farmingdale.
Police set road blocks and
questioned motorists at the in­tersection
seeking clues to the
murdejr of the 16 year old. Police
are looking for two men who were
seen leaving the station in a
battered turquoise Chevrolet
Nova about the time Moran was
murdered. The youth was found
by a customer at 7: 30 p. m. last
Wednesday sprawled behind a
cashier's desk in the station with
a .38 caj. bullet in his lower back-
He was pronounced dead on
Union Says
Board Lacks
arrival at Mid- Island at 8: 10 p. m.
Moran, who lived in Bethpage,
dropped out of Hicksville High
School last June to work and help
support his mother, two sisters
and two brothers living at home.
Another brother is married.
Moran was the " man of the
family" since his step- father
deserted the family three years
ago. The boy had been working
various jobs trying to make
enough money to get the family
off welfare.
The youth had been working at
the gas station for about three
weeks on the 3 to a shift for $ 2
per hour when he was killed.
Police said Moran's murderers
got away with $ 157.
Over Two Year Period
There will be no decision until April, but the Far­mingdale
Board of Education is " leaning toward" a two
year phaseout of the Parkway Oaks Elementary School.
An estimated 140 residents heard the news last Thur­sday
night at a special public hearing in the high school.
According to Robert Weiss,
president of the school board,
some shut- down will be forced by
declining enrollment, increased
mandated educational costs, and
lower state aid.
If the board enacts its present
plans they will close- down the 4th
thru 6th grades next year and K- 3
the following year. In addition to
the personnel savings, this would
save the district $ 159,000 the first
year and $ 220,000 the second.
Parkway Oaks was singled out
as the first school to be phased
out because repairs to that
building to keep it operational
would amount to three times the
amount required on any of the
other district schools. That
school would require $ 246,000 in
repairs by 1960. There is also no
restriction of sale of the school
site as there is at Northside. If
Northside is abandoned and not
used " for educational purposes"
the land reverts to the state park
system who donated the land, to
the district for the school.
State aid was once a 50- 50
proposition, but in this present
year's budget of $ 28,863,057 it
amounts to only $ 10,282,533
leaving the district to raise
$ 17,409,634 in local property
taxes. According to latest figures
from the state the district will
lose another $ 663,000 in aid this
year.
Add this to a reduction in
surplus revenues ( used up on a
tight budget this year) of $ 453,000
and increases of $ 199,000 in
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The Farmingdale Federation
of Teachers finds it an " un­fortunate
necessity" to charge
the Board of Education with
failing to negotiate in good faith.
" To date, only one Board
member, Lucille Goulding, has
attended any negotiating
sessions, the other six apparently
believing that this is not part of
their function as Beard mem­bers.
With rio apparent effort by
Board members to attend and
hear the teachers' point of view,
the task is left to the Board's paid
negotiator,, who is ndt an expert
in either education or finance,"
Uflion President Kenneth Deedy
stated.
" Many Board members
campaigned on a platform of
active involvement with contract
negotiations. The teachers' union
sees little evidence of that
promise being fulfilled to date.
Without the Board of Education's
active participation in the
negotiations process, the Far­mingdale
Federation of Teachers
believes that good faith
procedures are noticeably absent
and that an harmonious set­tlement
of contract proposals are
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Sam Cross Funeral Today
Funeral services for Samuel
Cross, who wrote the Fire Plugs
and Fishing Lines column for the
Post for several years, will be
held at Arthur F. White's Funeral
Home, Farmingdale, at l p. m.
today.
Sam passed away at the North-port
Veterans Hospital at 8 p. m.
Monday of cancer. A resident of
East Farmingdale and one of the
founding members of the East
Farmingdale Fire Department,
he is survived by bis wife, Eva.
Special services were conducted
at the funeral home by the East
Farmingdale Fire Department at
8 p. m. last night.
In addition to his involvement
with the fire departments, Sam
once operated a cleaning
business on Main Street in
Farmingdale and maintained a
dry cleaning plant in Bresiou
Gardens, a section of the
Republic Airport taken over by
the Metropolitan Transportation
Authority.
Interment will be in the Long
Island National Cemetery.