Bethpage-Newsgram_1941-04-04

              WELFARE COMMITTEE CHOSEN BY POPULAR VOTE NEWSGRAM Vol. 1 No. 17 FIVE CENTS PER COPY BETHPAGE, NEW YORK—FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1941 ^>1.50 per Year
SURPRISE SHOWER
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gesslein
were the dinner guests of Mr. and
Mrs. George Gesslein of Valley
Stream on Sunday. Upon return-ing
to their home on Herman Ave.
alt about 4 p. m. Mrs. Gesslein was
pleasantly surprised at a baby
shower, given in her honor by Mrs.
Walter Stolz and Marie Mazzara.
The guests attending the shower
were Mr. and Mrs. Liebold and
son; Mr. and Mrs. Klein and their
two sons; Miss Eleanor Miller,
Miss Eleanor Jackson, Miss Cath-erine
Callahan, Miss Marie Rielly,
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Millevolte, Mr.
and Mrs. Gerke, Mr. and Mrs.
George Bates and their daughter,
Grace, Mrs. Garry and her daugh-ters,
Kathleen and Jpsephine; Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Stolz, Mr. and
Mrs. Becker, Dr. George Miller,
Edward Nee, Mr. and Mrs. Laura
Divan, Mr. and Mrs. Frank 9hu-bota
Miss Eva Scarpino, Miss Ma-rie
Mazzara, Miss Irene Spindler,
and Mr. and Mrs. George Gesslein.
Mrs. Gesslein received many
beautiful gifts.
A buffet supper was served and
an enjoyable evening followed.
CELEBRATES HER
20th BIRTHDAY
Miss Viola Osenski of Stewart
Avenue, celebrated her twentieth
birtliday Saturday evening, at her
home.
Among her guests were her
mother, sister R'egina and broth-er
Mat/thew. Also Mr. and Mrs.
Benick, Mr. and Mrs. Kwopinski,
Leo and Frieda Benick, Eteve and
Joseph Rupenski, George Apen and
Frank Michalski of Brooklyn, John
Zulkofske and Charles Cheslock of
Hicksville and Mildred and Jo-sephine
Castelli of Bethpage.
A num'ber of games were played
after wthich refreshments were
served followed by dancing.
NASSAU NOTES
(Source - Nassau Papers)
By: Charles J. McDermott, Jr,
Oyster Bay—"The bride will be
attired in Navy Blue with Blue ac-cessories.
Could the accessories be
a mop and pail for blue Monday?
A Port Washington paper recent-ly
reported the loss of a boat cap-tain
at sea in —appropriately
enough—the Lost and Fonud col-umn.—
Two men died at Glen
Cove from drinking the contents of
a jug found on a junk heap. The
"Brooklyn Daily Eagle" explains It
by saying:—"Three others spat out
mouthfuls. The dead men, however
continued to imtoibe."—Nassau
County's assessed valuation is$l,-
135,000,000 a figure that might al-most
make us sit up and take no-tice
if we didn't have our minds
on Marlene Dietrich. There were
some hotly contested election^
herea/bout and aren't we lucky to
be ajble to get heated up about ri-val
candidates. It would be kinda
tough to go^ to the polling place
and just be allowed to put a check
by the wor "Yah." Hail Columbia!
BOY SCOUT NEWS
Mr. Emre Altniann of Sycamore
Avenue, the Committeeman of Boy
Scout Troop 118 presented five
Second-iClass Badges to the follow-ing
scouts: Anthony Campagne;
Philip Rozzi; Richard Winters;
Francis Mazzara and Nicholas Cor-ragio.
The troop is practicing fireman-ship,
knots, compass reading and
hopes to take the Blue Ribbon for
neatness which will be given at
the Farmlngdale-Bethpage Rally
in May.
BETHPAGE ROLLER
SKATING CLUB
The name of the Bethpage Roll-er
Skaiting Club has heen changed
to the "Bethpage \Rollers" at a
meeting held Wednesday at the
home of IMss Jeanette Michael ol
Third Street.
Skating jackets for the group
will be purchased from the collec-tion
of the monthly dues.
At the meeting memlbers are
paired off in order to learn the
dance routines. William Regan and
Marjorie Felice were the last two
members accepted, as the member-ship
books are no longer open to
new memlbers.
The following ibelong to the
club: George Roever, President;
Walter Koehler. Vice-President;
Joan Strau'her, Treasurer; Joan
Krajner, Secretary Junior Regan,
Marjorie Felice, Charles Keuchler
and eJanette Michaels.
After the meeting refreshments
were served.
Bethpage Man Miraculously
Escapes Death
A train struck a car at the unprotected Division Street crossing
of the Long Island Railroad at Farmingdale Saturday night, injuring
William Brown, 28, of Bethpage. Mr. Brown was riding with Herman
Spiegel, 52, well-known print-shop operator, and George Jones, 3?,
both of "Farmingdale, The two were killed instantly in the collision.
Mr. Brown was released from
the Meadowbrook hospital Sunday
after an overnight observation for
a concussion of the brain.
According to Patrolman Fratik
Cerney of the Farmingdale police,
Spiegel was driving his car nortl)
on Division street when the train
No. 246, bound for Lake Ronkon-lioma,
struck the machine, spun it
around and then carried it 85 feet
down the tracks.
Mr. Brown riding on the rear
seat was dazed by the crash but
told the first rescuers to arrive at
the scene that he was not hurt
Brown lives on Battle Row, Betfli-page.
Mr. Harold B. Friedman, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel Friedman oJ
Windhorst Avenue is expected
home to attend the wedding of hie
brother Dr. EWas Friedman on
Sunday April 6tli.
Harold Friedman is a student of
the University of Michigan of Ann
Arbor, Michigan.
PERSONAL ITEMS
George Roever, NEWSGRAIM
Carrier of Central Boulevard, cel-ebrated
his 14th birthday Monday,
and was the guest of honor at a
party and family gathering held at
his home in the evening.
A regular meeting of the P. T. A.
will be held Tuesday evening at
the Plainedge School. Mrs. Ken-neth
Hawkins will preside.
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Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Clark of New
Haven, Conn, will be the week-end
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Clark of Plainedge.
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Mrs. Christine Wagner, Mr. and
Mrs. Fanrk Drinkwater, William
and Frank Drinkwater, Jr., of
Bethipage, were guests at the first
birthday party ol" Koiberit Lee, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Lee, of
Rockville Centre. Sunday.
There were four generations
present at tihe event, Mrs. Wagner
being the baby's maternal great-grandmother.
Mrs. Lee is the for-mer
'Miss Anna Drinkwater of
Bethpage.
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Mrs. Emi'e Altmann and Mrs. J.
J. Glfford of BeUhpage were the
afternoon tea guests of Mrs. Her-man
Schwartz of Farmingdale on
Tuesday.
WATER DISTRICT
TO VOTE ON BID
The request of the comanission-er,
s of the Bethpage Water District
for permission to hold a special
election to decide whether the dis-trict
shall provide water for the
South Farmingdale water district,
had been approved by the Hemp-stead
Town Board on Wednesday.
Town Councilman John H. Mc-
Connell told the town board that
a public hearing was held in the
district and that the people evi-dently
want the service. There are
no objections to the proposed ar-rangement
the councilman pointed
out. The district lies mosltly with-in
the Town of Oyster Bay and the
sanction of the town board of that
community will have to be obtain-ed.
Local Men Receive
Questionnaires
Draft questionaires were mailed
to the following men of Bethpage
on April st and are due back Ap-ril
7th.:
Nicholas H. Candito, of Sherman
Avenue; Joseph D. Myer of Maple
St.; James H. Klingelhoefer of
First Street; Anthony J. Simone of
Stewart Avenue, Gaspare F. Cam-pagna
of Sherman Avenue and
John A. Scandale of Tenth Street.
A questionaire was mailed to
the following man of Bethpage,
New York on April 2, 1941 and it
is due back in this office on Ap-ril
7, 194il.:
Oi'der No. 214, Walter Dieterle,
Wavei'ly Avenue, Bethpage, New
York.
GIRL SCOUT
NEWS
Appointed Senior Inspector
Mr. Nat Paul, an inspector in
the wing department of the Grum-man
Aircraft & Engineering Cor-poration
has received an appoint-ment
as a Senior Inspector at the
Philadelphia Navy Yard. Mr. Paul
will leave Friday, April 4th for
Pliiladelphia and his new position.
The many friends Mr. Paul has
made hereabouts wish him suc-cess.
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Opening Postponed
Bethpage iState Park officials
postponed the driving contest
scheduled in conjunction with the
official opening of the state park
golf courses Sunday, on account
of the snow flurries. The driving
contest will take place this Sun-day,
April 6th.
Under direction of Miss Sarah
Howilt, senior Girl Scouts of Troop
No. 9, of Farmingdale, worked on
the bead jewelry which is the pres-ent
craft project. Later Friday
night members attended the sports
night exhibit in the Gymnasium oi
Farmingdale High S'chool.
The Fox Trot, waltz, Highland
Fling and Conga were taught to
the Bethpage Girl Scouts at a re-cent
gathering.
Six new memfbers joined the
scouts hist week. They were Win-ifred
Kuehn, Philomena Ruggiero,
Elise Vibiliotta, Josephine Zinzi
and Jennie Procida.
The Tenderfoot scout patrol are
planning to make wreath baskets
during the coming week.
AMERICA ON PARADE
"America On Parade" will toe
presented tonight in the auditori-um
of the Farmingdale Higli
S'chool with more than 300 stu-dents
of all grade taking part.
The historical and patriotic pa-geant
was written by Mrs. Inita
T. Jones, a junior high school his-tory
teacher.
In one of the scenes a «ong
"Thirteen Original States Are We"
was writen by Mrs. Jones and set
to music by Miss Borgwald. Cos-tumes
were made by several teaob-ers
and parents under the direc-tion
of Mrs. Herbert Klopp of the
Home Economics Department. ' '
The entire proceeds will be used
toward the Mary E. Ayles-worth
Memorial Library Fund wlhich has
been in process of aocuniul3,tion
for a period of two pears. Miae
Aylesworth taught in Farmingdale
High School for 19 years before
her death, and the establishment
of the memorial fund will be the
means of perpetuating her spirit o4
service to the scihool and commun-ity.
Annual Card Party
'['he Theodore Roosevelt Republi-can
Cluib will hold their grand an-nual
card party and dance on Ap-ril
lOtih at the Theodore Roose-velt
Club House on Washington
Street.
Mr. Henry Spindler is chairman
of the atl'air. Admission tickets
will be fifty cents per person.
Miss Elizabeth Fiesseler of Un-ion
City, N. J. spent the week-end
at the home of her sister, Mrs. F.
Young of Third Street.
Spring Play Rehearsal
.Members pf the Camplire girls
at Farmingdale spent Friday re-hearsing
thoir play, which will be
presented in the spring, under di-rection
of Mrs. Charles N. Jagoe.
The jketch will include all mem-'
bers, and is a part of their birth-day
celebration. The group hiked
to I^ethpage State Park on Satur-day,
enjoying an outdoor luncheon.
Mrs. F. Young of Third Street
i'Mertained her mother, Mrs. O.
Fiesseler of Union City, N. J.