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A Prize Winning Weekly Serving The Greater Farmingdale Area Since 1920
An Official Newspaper far the Village of Farmingdale
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VOL. 57 NO. 18 Second Class Postage Paid
In Farmingdaie, N. Y. 11735 Thursday, March 18, 1976 Copyright 1976 by
bland— Wide Publications, Inc. price 15* - $ 5 per year
Vote Tuesday
For Library
HAPPY BHUMUTHDAT: Three yew « ttsrarinjlale Girt 8eeoUt* n* t> aa* fa* taa icy wind to keep
their candles Bt at they slag Happy Birthday to the Girl Scoot* of America last Friday evening. Area
Girl Scoots held their candle lighting ceremony on the corner of Main and Conhlin Streets. Scoots
across the country lift their " flames of freedom" aft exactly 9 p. m. to mark their 64th birthday and the
country's 200th. [ Post photo by Bob Starrett]
Hardscrabble ContestOpens
A contest, sponsored by the
Farmingdale Merchants
Association and The Far­mingdale
Post, to select Master
and Miss Hardscrabble gets
underway this week with a few
basic changes from last year's
contest.
The major change in the
contest is the age limit for the
youngsters. This year the
minimum age has been dropped
to four years, so children between
4 and 12 are eligible this year for
the title Master or Miss Hard­scrabble.
The youngsters, with per­mission
and support of their
parents, will compete for $ 300 in
prizes. The two top winners will
each receive a $ 100 savings bond
and the two runner- ups will each
receive $ 50 bonds.
The two winners, dressed in
colonial costume, will lead the
Hardscrabble Day procession
down Main Street on Saturday,
May 22. If the winner is a younger
child, he or she may be ac­companied
in the parade by a
parent.
. The winner will be selected by
voting on special ballots obtained
from the participating merchants
listed in the centerfold ad­vertisement
in this week's
edition. Each dollar spent in
Farmingdale is good for one vote
for the candidate of your choice.
The ballots may be cast for the
contest candidates in the ballot
boxes located in the two Far­mingdale
Library branches.
Parents who would like to enter
their youngsters in the contest
may do so by registering them at
the Farmingdale Post or at
Claire Studios, 237 Main Street,
Farmingdale. Contest photos,
taken by Claire Studios,
p r o f e s s i o n a l portrait
photographers, will appear in the
Farmingdale Post each week
during the contest. The photos,
will be taken at the studio each
Wednesday afternoon from 2 to 5
Burn Victim
Dies Monday
A South Farmingdale man who
was badly burned when he fell
asleep in his living room chair
last Friday and dropped a lighted
cigarette on his clothing, died
Monday in the Nassau County
Medical Center.
Vernon Smith, 55, of 4 Carman
Rd., apparently died because he
inhaled flames which burned bis
lungs, aonordief to the hospital.
He was burned over 30 per cent of
his chest and arms when his
flannel shirt caught fire as he
dosed in a hving room chair while
watching television.
Police reported that his wife,
Dorothy, ran to bis aid and put
out the flames when he awakened
screaming at about 6: 30 p. m. The
South Farmingdale Fire
Department and Rescue Squad
responded to the call.
p. m. free of charge. A parent
must accompany the contestant
to the photo studio for the picture
session to give official consent.
The voters of the Farmingdale School District will go
to the polls in Weldon E, Howitt Junior High School next
Tuesday, March 23, to vote on a special referendum to
allow the Farmingdale Public Library to purchase their
south branch building, which they have been renting for
the past 15 years.
The Board of Library Trustees
has the option to purchase the
bmlding, which was designed and
constructed for them in the Ski
Farber Shopping Center in 1960.
The $ 250,000 purchase price for
the building and ground was
written into the 15 year old lease
agreement as a purchase option
which could be exercised before
the expiration of the lease.
The lease will expire in October
this year and since other
proposals for new library
facilities have been defeated by
the voters, the library board feels
that the purchase of their present
south branch library is the
[ Continued on page 16.]
Light Vote
In Village
There were no surprises in
Tuesday's election in the Village
of Farmingdale. The unopposed
Liberty Party slate of Mayor
John T. Hallahan and Trustees
Owen W. Drugan and Fred
Rathgaber coasted to reelection
without so much as a single write-in
vote in opposition.
Bad weather, with cold rain
[ Continued on page 16]
OPEN HOUSE: Tony Iceoefti. proprietor of the now Fanolagdale Beetory, effers a treat to Janet
" Ace" Baker, chief purchasing officer of Nassau Ceoaty, and Farmiagdale Mayer John T.
daring his pre- openhig open noose party Sunday afternoon. The new story officially opens today at 216
Main Street. [ Post photo by Bob Starrett]