Bethpage-Newsgram_1941-05-16

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Vol. I, No. 23 FRIDAY, MAY 16. T941 12 Price Five Cent's
Battalion Chief ''••T- Koid DiscussEon Lectures Vamps
Walter J. Dugan, Battalion
Chief of the New York City Fire
College gave an instructive talk
to firemen at a meeting held
Monday night at the Bethpage
School.
The lecture was the first in
a series of throe sponsored by
the Bethpage Fire Company No.
2, under the direction of Capt.
Arthur Auer and Harold Looney.
Describing firemen and fire de-partments
as "the nation's first
line of defense," Chief Dugan
stressed the need for adequate
facilities for fighting fires in the
event incendiary bombings should
come this way.
Chief Dugan also stated that
the Bethpage Water Main System
was small compared to ihe need
which may arise.
Dugan also called for a direct
telephonic alarm system to re-place
the telephone system now
in use.
Attending the lecture were
firemen from Hicksville, Jericho,
Piainview and Farmingdale. Also
present at the lecture were fire
chief^Sal J. Greco and Bethpage
fire commissioners Wiiliani De-
Fanis, John Wsetby, Herman
Klingelhofer, Frank Linn _and
Mathias Romscho.
S c o u t s T o LcsisncSi
Fmd Carrepdgri
The 1941 fund raising cam-paign
of the Nassau County
Council, Boy Scouts of America,
Inc., will start next Monday,
May 19th. This announcement
was made by tlie general
campaign chairman. Judge Cort-land
A. Johnson,
Albert A. Lang of Bethpage,
is among the chairmen appointed
lo serve the Middle section,
^ssau '^tes
Mrs. Sophie Schutter of Floral
Park is 75 years old but age
didn't keep her from chasing a
burglar out of her house the
other evening. It's lucky her
name isn't Schuthim!
The invasion is on, men,
they're dropping out of trees—
Yessir the tent caterpillar! For
goodness sake wait 'til the eve-ning
to burn their nests—then
you'll get more—they come home
in the evenings and you're apt
to destroy an empty nest in the
daytime.
Miss Mary Burke of Oyster
Bay was surprised when the local
paper reported that she had been
given a surprise party for she
had given a surprise party for
her sister Virginia who wasn't
at all surprised because she sur-prisingly
enough r e a d s the
papers. ^
The Parent-Teacher Associa-tion
of the Plainedge School held
a meeting IMonday evening at
which Mrs. Kenneth Hawkins
presided.
Topics under discussion w^ere
the establishment of a Health
Fund for a term of one year and
the registration for the Defense
Program. However it was decid-ed
to appoint a committee to
make a house to house canvas
rather than hold the registration
days 01 the 19th and 26ih as the
membci-s in the community are
busy on the farms at this time.
June 20th is scheduled to be
the last day of scliool for this
term and at this time pins ^^•ill
be awarded to all the children
going to the Farmingdale School.
Also ice-cream, cake and lemon-ade
will be served by the P. T, A,
on tiiis day.
Field Day will be held some-time
in June and shields with
the class letters w'ill be awarded
to lucky winners participating
in the sports events.
The next meeting will be held
in the fall, at which time the
election of officers wil take place.
For this meeting Mrs. Bernard
Reinke was appointed chairman
of the membership conmiittee, to
bo assisted by Mr. Robert Zer-roner.
^vlrs. Albert jNIoore was
appointed chaiiman of the re-freshment
commiltee.
Mrs. Albert Moore, Mrs. Joseph
]\Iallo, 3.1rs. Bernard Reinke, ]Mi'S.
Kenneth Hawkins and Mrs.
Arthur Clark were appointed to
arrange the furniture in the play
house of the Plainedge School.
P.-TA Cooperates
In Defense Plan
To Register Women
For Defense Work
The Parent-Teacher Associa-tion
of Bethpage and the Nassau
County Committee of the Ameri-can
Legion Auxiliary rae co-operating
with the Nassau
County Women's Committee for
Defense in a plan of voluntary
registi'ation of women as to their
abilities a nd training to fit
into a program of total defense.
The field will cover items such
as automobiles, business, enter-tainment,
consumer work, sew-nig,
education, first aid, home
economics, nursing, public speak-ing,
writing and many others.
Registration Days for Nasau
County will be Monday, May
19th and 26th from three to
nine p. m. The Superintendents
of Schools are co-operating with
the use of schools for this pur-pose.
The Adelphi College is co-operating
with the tabulations.
Looney Resigns From
Board Of Education
Reveal Sale
Of P. 0. Building
It has been reported from re-liable
sources that Raymond J,
Amendola, local real estate
broker, sold the Post Office
building property, corner Broad-way
and Baldwin Place, to
Sebastian Russo, local dry goods
merchant.
The property comprises a two
story brick structure with three
stores on ground floor, one of
which is occupied by the local
post office and one by John
Maggie, as a shore store. The
third store is vacant. In the rear
of this building there is a bakery,
oven and store room fronting
on Baldwin Place. The second
floor comprises four apartments.
]Mr. Russo plans on mo\ ing his
dry goods business from present
location, on Broadway to the
store in che post office building,
now occupied by the John Miggie
Shoe store.
Stricken In Chair
Monday Night
Mrs. Clara T. Foster, 64 years
old of Broadway and Linden
Street, vvas found dead Monday
evening at about 8:20 p. m. by
Michael J, Reagan of Fifth
Street.
Reagan, who was employed by
Mrs. Foster to cut the lawn,
finished his duties and entered
the house to call her. After
calling her a few times and not
receiving an answer he decided
to call in her neighbor, Mr.
Noonan. Mr, Noonan immediately
called Dr, Luttge, who pro-nounced
her dead. The body was
taken to the Meadowbrook
Morgue.
Detective Thomas Thornton,
Sergeant G e o r g e Freeman,
Patrolman Edward Piat, of the
Nassau County Police investi-gated
the case.
Funeral services were held at
one p. m. at Mowen's Funeral
Parlor Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. Foster is survived by her
husband, Mr. Edwin W. Foster,
who is at present in a conval-escent
home.
Resignation Follows Election
H e r e Wednesday, M a y 7th
As a result of an election held at the Bethpage Public
School last Wednesday night, May 7th, Francis Looney,
Nassau County Patrolman and lawyer was one of the two
candidates elected to the School Board by a large number
of votes over candidate Raymond J. Amendc-la, who was
running for re-election. A few
days later Mr. Looney nullified
his election to the School Board
by his resignation, which vvas
sent to tlie Superintendent of
Schools, J. W. Chisholm.
Tlie Civil Service regulations
under wiiich r,'a.isau County
patrolmen are subject was prob-ably
the reason which caused Mr.
Looney to tender his resignation.
Mr. Looney is a gradtiato^
tile Farmingdale High Cchool,
and tlie St. John's College. He
passed his bar examination re-cently
while continuing his duties
as a policeman.
The resignation of Mr, Looney
leaves a vacancy on the School
Board, It is reported that this
vacancy will be filled following
an appointment by Frank Graves,
Photo by courtesy of Nowsd.iy Commissioner of Education of
Francis Looney. youthful law- ^^ Yo,k when the
yer and po.icoman who ran for convenes July Lst.
School Board post Wednesday
night, iMay 7th.
Kay Bee Circle
The Kay Deo circle of the
King's Daughters, Farmingdale,
has made an appeal for toys and
games to provide a toy library
for children in hospitals and in-stitutions
in Nassau County. Do-nations
may be left at the homo
of Miss Wilma Ihlenburg of Pros«
pect Street, Farmingdale,
F e t e Guests At
Picnic Supper
Proror!5'jr r.nrr r.Irs. .TamcS C.
Drury of Windhorst Avenue,
entertained guests at a picnic
supper hold in their back yard
around the opon fireplace last
Saturday evening. Mr. and INIrs.
Vernon Green, Miss Dorothy
Fisher and Mr. George Corley,
friends of Prof, and Mrs. Drury
when formerly residing in Port-land,
Oregon, and now of Nev,'
York City, weix? among the
guests. I\Ir. Vernon Green is
an eminent cartoonist and
creator of "The Shadow". Mr.
Corley, also a cartoonist is of
the New York Jourral staff, and
Miss Fischer is a popular radio
singer. Also present were Mr.
and Mrs. Edwin V/igglesworth
of BethiJage.
Senior Stoilents
With tJie end of the school
year approaching and the fall
semester in sight, the Admis-sions
office announced Wednes^
day that Hofstra will play host
to a group of 250 high school
seniors who will visit the campus
to take part in a "typical college
day" this Friday.
Beginning at 9 A, M, the
students will attend whatever
classes appeal to them. Mimeo-graphed
class schedules will list
classes as well as a program for
the day. The college will serve
box lunches at noon. Later a
tea dance, to whicli tlio college
students as well as the guests
are invited, will be held,
Mrs. Marie Iltmr Cramer,
director of Admissions, requested
that the college students consider
themselAes iKU-sonal hosts to the
guests. She also suggested that
Hofstra stutients accomodate any
higii school students they know
who need transportation.
This is the first time that any
high school students have been
invited to spend a "typical
college day" here. Selection of
the guests depends upon their
high school principals.