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VOL. 58 NO. 11 Second Class Postage Paid
In Farmlngduli-, N. Y. 117.15 Thursday, January 27, 1977 Copyright 1977 by
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Farmingdale Attorney's
Court Adoption Ruling
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Featured In Law Review
A FOND FAREWELL reception honored former libary director Orrin Dow Sunday afternoon at the
Farmingdale Jewish Center. Dow accepted a position as director of the White Plains Library on
December 1 after serving as director of the Farmingdale Library for 20 years. Mayor John T. Hallahan
and Town of Oyster Bay Councilman Gregory Carman are shown presenting citations to Dow during
the affair. [ Post photo by Bob Starrett]
Carman Calls For Federal Aid
In letters addressed to
President Carter, Governor
Carey and all members of the
Long Island Congressional
Delegation, Oyster Bay Town
Councilman Gregory W. Carman
called on the Federal govern­ment
to provide immediate
financial and technological
assistance to help save Long
Island's groundwater supply.
Carman outlined the problem
Farmingdale Joins
March For Life
Two buses left Farmingdale,
Saturday, January 22-, at 6 a. m.
for Washington", B. C., to join over
75,000 others in the March for Life
protesting the fourth anniversary
of the U. S. Supreme Court
legalizing abortion.
The program began at 1 p. m.
on the Capitol steps with the
singing of the National Anthem.
Nellie J. Gray, president of the
March for Life spoke, followed by
several other inspiring talks by
pro- life legislators and leaders,
including James Buckley, calling
for a Human Life Amendment.
The thousands marched in
below freezing temperatures
down Pennsylvania Avenue to the
Ellipse opposite the White House
for closing ceremonies at 4: 30.
The Farmingdale group arrived,
back at 11 p. m.
to the officials indicating that
organic contaminants and
suspected viral disease causing
organisms are in the water
supply and there is a further
concern regarding the control of
residual pesticide contaminants.
Carman also explained some of
the problems local County and
State officials are having in
handling the problem since
" there are no standards or
criteria by which the long- range
ingestion of these materials can
Barber Retires
Sam Calderone, who has
operated his barber shop in
Farmingdale for the past 27
years, will officially retire this
weekend. Terry Sidota takes over
the shop at its present location,
485 Main Stree, on Monday.
Sam operated the
" Schoolhouse Barber Shop"
across from the Main Street
School. The building burned down
March 9,1975 and Sam moved to
his present location just two
doors away, opening Sam's
Barber Shop in the front of the
building on March 15.
Married in Italy in 1946, he
returned there for his bride after
World War II. He moved to
Farmingdale in 1950 from Sun-nyside,
Queens, where his four
sons were born and attended
Farmingdale schools.
be gauged, " although, it is clear,
from a long- range point of view
that they will be harmful to the
health of our population." To
stress the seriousness of the
situation Carman pointed out that
these suspected cancer-producing
agents have been
found in wells at a depth of more
than 600 feet.
" Local governmental bodies
are simply not financially nor
technologically equipped to cope
with these problems," according
to Carman. He indicated his
belief that the cause of the
problem on Long Island seems to
be related to the discharge of
dangerous waste into the ground
and, thereby, the groundwater.
Since this has been a practice for
many years throughout the
country, Carman believes that it
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Two Burglaries
Eighth precinct police reported
two burglaries last Friday night
in Farmingdale, both at the same
location, but in two different
business firms.
CBC Leasing of 345 Eastern
Parkway was entered through a
rear window and reported
assorted tools missing. Marina
Fork Life Co., also of 345 Eastern
Parkway, was entered through a
side door and is missing a tool
box.
Farmingdale Attorney Louis G.
Rudd received front page
treatment in the recent issue of
the New York Law Journal for a
decision he won before the Ap­pellate
Division Court. The court
ruled in favor of Rudd's clients,
adoptive parents, over the claim
of the child's natural parents who
changed their minds after
adoption proceedings had begun.
In a 3- 1 majority vote the court
ruled against the natural parents
of a child who was surrendered
for adoption shortly after birth, to
revoke their consent on the claim
they were deprived of formal
notice of the start of adoption
proceedings.
The court majority ruled that
the parents lost any chance to
revoke their, consent to adoption
by failing to file a formal notice of
revocation with Suffolk Family
Court within a prescribed thirty
day period. The child was born
September 2, 1975, and the
natural parents alerted the at­torney
for the prospective
adoptive parents of their " change
of mind" on December 12, 1975.
The baby was placed with the
adoptive parents only days after
its birth directly from the
hospital.
The majority, in an opinion by
Justice M. Henry Martuscello in
which Justices James D. Hopkins
and Vincent D. Damiani con­curred,
held the entire
proceeding to be proper. They
relied upon the provisions which
state that after parents sign an
irrevocable consent form ( done
in this case Sept. 16, 1975, two
weeks after the baby's birth)
such consent becomes
irrevocable thirty days after the
commencement of the adoption
proceeding .... unless written
notice of revocation is given
within the thirty days.
The majority, in an'opinion by
Justice M. Henry Martuscello in
. which Justices James D. Hopkins
ahii Vincent Di Damiani con­curred,
held the entire
proceeding to be proper. They
relied upon the provisions which
state that after parents sign an
irrevocable consent form ( done
in this case Sept. 16, 1975, two
weeks after the baby's birth)
such consent becomes
irrevocable thirty days after the
commencement of the adoption
proceeding ... unless^ written
notice of revocation is given
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TELETHON ' 77 will feature Tommy Hackett of Farmingdale in an
exciting televised demonstration of how he learns through the Bio-
Engineering Program. Here, while seemingly at play, be is actually
learning to sit properly, achieve greater coordination and com­municate.
Telethon ' 77 Chairman Mrs. Julian Heilbrunn asks you to
watch WOR- TV Ch. 9 on Saturday, Jan. 29 from 10: 30 p. m. right
through Sunday evening to " see what your dollars are doing for
Nassau's cerebral palsied children and adults."