Bethpage-Newsgram_1941-04-11

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Vol. 1 No. 18 NEWSGRAM FIVE CENTS PER COPY BETHPAGE, NEW YORK— FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1941 SI.50 per Year
G. 0 . P. CARD PARTY
NEXT SATURDAY
The day is drawing nearer for
the Theodore Roosevelt Republican
Club Card Party, which will be
held at. their club house on Wash-ington
Street, April 19th, 1941.
Mrs. Henry Spinder is chair-man
and is assisted by Mr. and
Mrs. J. J. Gifford, Mr. Harvey Ny-lund,
Mr. George Seltz, Miss Maude
Robinson, Mr. Emre Altmann and
Mr. Happy Norman.
Beantiful prizes will be awarded
to the lucky winners in pinochle,
bridge and bunco.
Admission of 50c includes a
chance on the door prize.
Campagnas Honor Son
With Birthday Party
Mr. and Mrs. Gaspar Campagna
gave a birthday party in honor of
their baby son, Salvatore Campag-na,
who was one year old, on
Palm Sunday, April 6th. The party
was_held in the Colonial Restau-
' r a n t B e t h ^ g e L. I. The guests in-vited
were mainly relatives i n-cluding
the children, and consisted
of about forty persons, among
whom were the following:
Mr. and Mrs. Salvatore Campag-na
& Family of Bethpage; Mr. and
Mrs. Ferdinand Mirro & Family of
Corona, L. I.; Mr. and Mrs. Don
Cioffetti of Corona; Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Casale & Family of Cor-ona;
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Procida
& Family of Bethpage; Mr. and
Mrs. Michael Ruggiero & Family of
Bethpage; Mr. and Mrs. Anthony
Campagna & Family of Bethipage;
Mr. and Mrs. Eugen Giannone &
Family of Corona; Mr. and Mrs.
Peter Morelli of Corona; Mr. and
Mrs. Anthony Mirro fo Oorona;
Mr. and Mrs. Armand Renga &
Family of Queens Village; Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph Corcia & Family of
Corona; Mr. and Mrs. George Tom-ich
of Louig Island City: Mrs. Rose
Mirro and Mr. Frank Mirro, also
of Long Island City.
NOTICE!
Celebrates Birthday
Frank Drinkwater, Jr. was given
a birthday iparty celeibration by
his parents Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Drinkwater of Central Avenue, on
Tuesday night.
Those present were Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Baldwin, and children, Ev-erett,
Walter and DeWitt; Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Wagner and son Ed-ward
of Farmingdale, Mary and
Helen Engeler of Hicksville, Mr.
James Collins, Miss Gertrude Herte
also of Hicksville, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Becker and Audrey Beck-er
of Amltyville, Mrs. Christine
Wanger, Mr. Walter Scherer and
Miaa Viola Miller of Jericho.
Loss of property from rub
bish, brush and grass fires will
be prevented by complying
with the Conservation Law:
'Sec. 6. No person shall
set, or cause to be set, fire
for the purpose of clearing
land or burning logs, brush,
stum^is, or dry grass in any
part of or in the Town of
Oyster Bay, Nassau County,
excepting the city of Glen
Cove, without ifi'r^t Ihia^in^
obtained from a district ran-ger
or fire warden a written
permit to do so. (Effeative
March 15, 1931.)
Permits are given free of
charge upon application. For
the district in which Bethpage
is included apply for ipermit
from local fire warden, Wil-liam
DeFanis, Broadway, Beth-page.
The above regulation and
laws are effective in this town,
and any violation constitutes
a misdemeanor.
STATE CONSERVATION
FIRE WARDEN,
WILLIAM iDeFANIS.
Plan New Caddie System
At Bethpage State Park
A complete and permanent list
of all the caddies will be placed
on file, as the boys respond to
the call for 900 caddies. This list
will be divided into groups of 35.
Each group will be nurifbered and
i-otated so that every day a new
assemblage wil Istart out.
This new systean is planned to
insure better service and to guard
against the shortage of caddies,
which the golf courses have ex-perienced
for the past several
years.
The Park officials have also es-talblished
special facilities for the
caddies at Bethpage Golf Course.
They have encouraged the boys to
play golf whenever possible and
all caddies will be allowed to play
golf on one of the four courses
at the park free every Monday
during the season. At the end of
the year special tournaments will
be arranged for the boys and pri-zes
awarded.
The caddie yard is provided with
a softlball diamond, basketball
hoops, checker boards, etc. for use
while the boys await their call to
a group for caddy duty.
EASTER DAWN SERVICE
AT BETHPAGE PARK
Easter S'unday morn, Sunrise
Services will be held again at the
Bethpage State Park under the
auspices of the Rotary Club and all
the Churches have been invited to
attend. This dawn service has be-come
an event not to be missed.
Inspiring address and good mu-sic
are assured. Hon. Cortland A.
Johnson, County Judge of Nassau
County is to be the speaker and
the combined choir of churches
and members of the Women's
Choral Society will be assisted by
a brass quartette. Try to attend.
In case of rain it will be held
iidoors. i
The meeting of the Theodore
Roosevelt Clulb will be held Mon-day
at the clubhouse. The guest
speaker will be Adam Yuloh of the
Nassau County Police, whose topic
will be "Identification Marks."
Bethpage Librarian
Lists New Books
The Librarian o f , t h e Bethpage
library, Mrs. Mathilda Fredericks,
has announced the addition of
many new books and the list in-cludes:
"Animals Through the Years,"
by W. M. Buck, "Pete" Tom Rob-inson,
"High Hurdles" F. Dun-ocmbe,
"Sports and Games" Har-old
Keith; "Old Jules," Marie San-doz;
"Danger in my Business," J.
Craig; "Let the People Sing," J.
B. Priestley; "I'm a Stranger Here,
Myself," 0. Nash; "The Need We
Have," H. Gibbs; "Three Harbors,"
V. Mason; "For Whom the Bell
Tolls," Hemingway; "New Alpha-bet
of Aviation," Shenton; "Benja-min
Blake," Marchall; "War on
the Range," Grimstead; "Hawk's
Nest," Skidmore; "Children of
God," Vardis Fisher.
Also "The Broken Vase" Skid-more;
"Circuimstantial Evidence,"
Groft; "Mourned on Monday,"
Reilly; "This Above All," Knight;
"Who is this Girl," Miller; "Gun
Smoke on the Mesa," Dresser;
"Gunsight Kid," Fox; "My Theo-dosla,"
Seton; "Lover's Alibi,"
Widdemer; "Up at the Villa,"
Maugham; "Hostess of the Sky-way,"
Wilson; "Lonesome River,"
"Hawkins and Girl Scouts' Latest
Handbook.
Plainedge P.T.A. Discuss
Defense Project Program
Aircraft Display at
Christy's Men's Shop
Have you seen Christy's airplane
exhibit?
Models of uor latest type planes
and photos of some of the facto-ries
manufacturing these airplanes
in this vicinity are on display In
the show window of Christy's
Man's Shop, 200 Main St., Farm-ingdale.
Mr. Christy carries a complete
and up-to-the-minute line of Men's
wearing apparel at all times.
Five Hundred Club Plans
Annual Theatre Party
At a meeting last Saturday the
500 Club decided to see the play
"Arsenic and Old Lace" in New
York City, for their annual thea-tre
party.
The club has been in existence
for the past twenty years and the
same members have again been
reelected to oyice, namely: Miss
Maude Roibinson, President; Mrs.
Mathilda Fredericks, Treasurer,
and Mrs| George Kearns, Secretary.
Miss Robinson and Mrs. Nettie
Barnet were elected to secure tick-ets
for the play.
Cards and refreshments followed
the business session.
Bethpage Legion Attends
Army Day Parade
^ A delegation of the American
Legion Post Bethpage, attended
the Army Day Parade in Mineola,
last Saturday. Commander Harry
Belscha was in charge.
Unlike any previous period, Ar-my
Day this year was recognized
by the American people as an im-portant
event in the face of a gi^
gantic national defense program
to combat renewed totalitarian ag-gression.
People all over the County turn-ed
out to see the soldiers. Many
draftees marched with the regu-lars.
There was a feeling throughout
the throngs of pride in their army
and security in the knowledge that
everything possible is being done
to handle any invader of our lib-erty
and country.
PERSONAL ITEMS
The Emera Chapter, O. E. S.,
will hold their meeting in the Ma-sonic
Temple next Wednesday eve-ning
at 8 o'clock. A social hour
will follow the meeting.
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Miss Elizabeth Fiesseler of Union
City, N. J., will spend the coming
week-end at the home of Mrs. F.
Young of Third Street.
Mrs. O. Fiesaelea- of Union City,
N. J., visited her daughter, Mrs. F.
Young of Third Street on Tuesday.
Mrs. Ernest IReckner of Hicks-ville
Road is on the sick list this
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Waldman
of Fiftih Street were guests at the
wedding of (Miss Yette Morgansteln
to Robert Robinson last Sunday.
The Plainedge P. T. A. held a
meeting 8:30 p. m. Tuesday eve-ning
in the Plainedge School at
which Mrs. Kenneth H?i>wkens pre-sided.
Mrs. Frank Wechted waM tho
guest speaker and her loipics were
"Parents Education" and the new
Project now underway on how the
P. T. A. can co-operate with the
defense program.
Mrs. Wechtel was informed of
the completed projects 'of the
Plainedeg School whiclh were: The
Library of 1940; the Curio Caibi-net
of 1940 and the little Play
House for girls which ha« just
been finished.
The Nominating Committee re-ported
that the election of officers
will take place at the next meet-ing
to be held sometime next
month.
After the meeting retreshmei'tft
were served. The table was dec -
orated with daffodils and narciS'
sus. An Easter Card watt set at
each place.
Theose present were: Mr. and
Mrs. Kenneth Hawkins, Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Wechtel, Mr Roberi
Zerrener, Mrs. Catherine Allen,
Mrs. C. Demmerle, Mrs. Arthur
Clark, Miss H. A. Burkholder and
Miss Mary Burkholder.
Mrs. Frank Wechtel. the guost
speaker was presented with a bou-quet
of daffodils and narciissus at
the close of the session.
Engagements Announced
Mr. Louis J. Isemann of 13V Wil-liam
St., Farmingdale, wishes to
announce the engagement of his
daughter, Margaret Anna to Louis
Uccellini, son of Mr. and Mrs. Car-lo
Uccellini of Bethpage.
The Expert Bridge Club met at
the home of Mrs. Charles P. Melon©
of Central Avenue, Tuesday eve-ning.
Those attending were: Mrn.
Milton Deubel of Bethpage; Mrs.
George Smith, Mrs. Ruftsel Duryea,
Mrs. Herbert Brothers, Mrs. Md-ward
Kahl, Mrs. Ralph Widder, all
of Farmingdale, and Mrs. Edna
Moody of Hemipstead.
Fire Department
Holds Election
The Bethpage Fire Depart-ment,
Comipany No. 3, held an
election Tuesday night, and t!ho
following officers were elected:
William iDeFanis, oaptala; Bu-gene
Albertson, lieutenant; Wal-ter
Schea-er, secretary; Charles
Keucihler, treasurea-.