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VOL. 58. NO. 13 Second Class Postage Paid
in Farmingdale, N. Y. 117.35 Thursday, February 10, 1977 Copyright 1977 by
Island- Wide Publications, Inc. price 1 bi - $ 5 per year
Measles Shots
Postponed
A measles immunization
program, scheduled to begin
Friday in Farmingdale schools,
has been postponed because the
district's insurance carrier
issued a disclaimer of coverage
for any such program. Shots were
to have been administered in the
upper grades.
So far three cases of regular
measles and 40 cases of German
Measles ( rubella) have been
confirmed in the district. The
vast majority of the cases are in
the senior high school and Howitt
Junior High School. Two cases
have been discovered at St.
Kilian's Parochial School, but
none as yet at Mill Lane.
The outbreak has not affected
elementary aged students in the
district because the im­munization
program for younger
students, developed in more
recent years, has prov$ 4 ef­fective.
The district recommends
immunization to regular measles
with a live virus vaccine to all
students who have not had the
disease, the killed virus vaccine
only, shots before the age of 12
months or a vaccine before 1965
of an unknown exact type.
The German Measles ( rubella)
vaccine will be offered to boys
only in the school district,
because the district can not risk
administering a live vaccine of
rubella to a girl in the early
stages of pregnancy. Rubella has
its most deforming effect on the
fetus in the first three months,
which could be before the
detection of pregnancy.
Girls are advised by the district
to contact their own private
physicians or Nassau County
Health Department clinics. The
telephone number for the Health
Department Clinic in Plainview
is 420- 5200 for an appointment.
Hot Lunches
For Seniors
A hot lunch program' * cr
Farmingdale's senior citizens,
funded through the auspices of
Catholic Charities, is scheduled
to begin on a daily schedule at St.
Luke's Lutheran Church next
month.
The lunch program arranged
by the Village of Farmingdale,
Catholic Charities and the In-terfaith
Council will be the topic
of discussion at a meeting of the
Interfaith Council next Tuesday
evening, February 15, at 8 p. m. in
St. Luke's Fellowship Hall.
Guest speakers on the program
" Concerned Action for Senior
Citizens" will be Mayor John T.
Hallahan and Mrs. Elizabeth
Raynor, a representative of the
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KICKING OFF the district fund drive for sustaining memberships in the Boy Scouts are Connie DeZego
district SME chairman, Dave Osborne, district scout executive, and Councilman Gregory W. Carman,
Farmingdale community enroller. The drive will continue through the month of February, which is Boy
Scout month.
[ Post photo by Bob Starrett]
Children 9s Day Collection
Set For Sunday, Feb. 20
Plans for the annual children's
door- to- door collections of small
coins sponsored by the Far­mingdale
Children's Day com­mittee
have been set for Sunday,
February 20, and will coincide
with the Intersevice Clubs annual
Brotherhood Observance.
Proceeds of the collection will
create a special fund to purchase
Achiever Chairs which will
position Cerebral Palsy children
giving them greater in­dependence
and flexibility in
therapy, school and other daily
activities at the Cerebral Palsy
Center in Roosevelt.
The Farmingdale Children's
Day committee will once again
provide a central collection
center where youngsters may
bring their cannisters between
1: 30 - 3: 30 and share simple
refreshments in a spirit ot
community brotherhood. They
will also have an opportunity to
join the Interservice Clubs
presentation at 2: 00 pm of the
East Memorial School's award
winning chorus.
Farmingdale Children's Day is
a unique program designed to
promote an awareness in local
youth of the lives and needs of
children less fortunate than
themselves while fostering an
awareness of their respon­sibilities
in the world at large
through their active participation
in a charitable function.
The project is sponsored by the
Farmingdale Women's Interfaith
Council, which also conducts the
Community Interfaith Collection
for National Unicef Day which
raised $ 722 this past October.
Parkway Lighting
Hearing Set Here
Regional Director of Tran­sportation
Austin H. Emery
announced that a public hearing
will be held on Thursday,
February 17, to consider alter­natives
for maintaining Pakway
lighting in Nassau and Suffolk
Counties. The hearing called by
the State Department of Tran­sportation
will convene at 8 p. m.
at the Albany Avenue Public
School in North Massapequa.
Emery said, " I urge all in­terested
parties to attend and
express their views so we in DOT
can be sure our proposals are
fully responsive to public needs
and desires."
The Parkways included in this
lighting proposal are the Beth-page,
Northern, Sagtikos and
Sunken Meadow, and portions of
the Robert Moses, Southern and
Wantagh.
The lighting modification
proposals to be discussed are as
follows:
ALTERNATE 1:
Replace the existing lighting
system with a new modern
system only at interchanges and
where lighting is needed to
illuminate hazardous portions of
roadway. In areas where in­terchanges
are closely spaced at
less than one- half mile apart,
continuous lighting would be
provided.
ALTERNATE 2:
Install a modern lighting
system to provide continuous
lighting for the entire parkway
system.
ALTERNATE 3:
Retain the existing lighting
system as it presently exists.
Department representatives
will be available one hour before
the hearing and also after it and
will explain the alternates and
outline their advantages and
disadvantages as well as thetr
costs.
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School Bd.
OKs Purchase
Of Library
The Farmingdale Board of
Education adopted a resolution
for the purchase of the South
Farmingdale Branch Library
during Monday night's regular
February meeting. The district
will sell bonds to pay $ 250,000 to
S. F. Shopping Center, Inc. for the
purchase of the building.
The library board will be
responsible for the general
upkeep of the building, but the
school district will be responsible
for the structural repairs and will
retain title to the building and
property.
All problems concerning the-contract,
such as parking lot
maintenance and availability in
the event of the sale of the
shopping center, right of ways,
cesspool- sewet systems, etc.
have'been resolved in the con­tract
With the present owner.
The board authorized a con­tract
for a $ 5,000 engineering
survey of the high school
swimming pool to be awarded to
Peter DeJongh, consulting
engineer. The survey is to
establish the condition of the
pool, which is leaking around the
filter- drain system, seeping into
the electrical conduits and
causing short circuits.
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Fire Damages
High School
A $ 25,000 fire broke out at
Farmingdale Senior High School
Sunday afternoon destroying the
office and storerooms used by the
mechanical drafting department
The office and storeroom were
said to be totally destroyed by a
school district spokesman, a
second storeroom received major
damage, an adjacent classroom
received minor damage and
some water damage was caused
in one classroom below the fire
area.
The fire was apparently of
electrical cause and no arson is
suspected. It was confined to the
South West Corner of the high
school building by South Far­mingdale
Fire Department
volunteers. Firemen had to cut a
30 square foot hole in the roof of
the high school in order to fight
the fire.
The $ 25,000 estimated
damage should be completely
covered by the district's in­surance.
The Board of Education
publicly praised the firemen for
their response and efforts in
extinguishing the fire at Monday
night's board meeting.