Bethpage-Newsgram_1941-07-16

              Grumman Yankees Win Two, Bombers Split
NEW See Pages 4 and 5
Vol. 1. No. 32 WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1941 Price Five Cents
Nassau Firemen
Hold Convention
Discuss Plans For Geneva Conference;
Pollini, Newly Elected, Takes Office
The new headquarters of the Farmingdale Fire Depart-ment
was the scene of the last quarterly meeting of the
Nassau County Firemen's association, held on July 9. The
chief accomplishment of the meeting was the scheduling
of the annual memorial services, to occur on September 21
at the Roslyn Episcopal Church.
Plans also were made for the establishment of special
heaGquarters tor the Nassau
vamps at the State Convention in
Geneva, N, Y. James Mclnnes,
Jr., secretary of the association,
reported that approximately 300
Nassau volunteers will attend
the get-to-gether.
Discuss Army Firem•e n
Another matter which received
considerable attention at the
meeting was the question of
whether or not firemen who have
joined the army should be
permitted to fight fires while
home on leave. Bernard J.
Loonam, vice-chairman of the
law committee, quoting counsel
Seth Cole, stated that firemen
now in service in the army are
covered by insurance when
'answering fire alarms while
home on leave. The members
of the association decided, how-ever,
that men on leave could
serve only with the consent of
the chiefs of the various fire
departments. Mario Pollini of
Malverne, newly elected presi-dent,
said that he would work
out a plan to allow women to
help in every way possible
during the defense emergency,
after members of the Ladies
Auxiliary of South Hempstead
had asked for the right to take
an actn'e part in fighting fires. i
"^ssau ^tes
, S. W. Wang applied for a job
at a L. I. Airplane plant thus:
"I can drive 'a typewriter with
good noise . . . My last job has
left itself from me, for the good
reason that the large man has
dead. It was on account of no
fault of mine . . . P. S.: Did he
get the job? . . . We used to
think that the names of some
of the Frostbite boats were
peculiar but "Perry's Meat
Balls," "Ten Spare Ribs" and
"Discarded All-Stars" the names
of some of the baseball teams at
Grumman's have them beaten
. . . Among those present at
Edith Roosevelt Derby's wedding
recently in Oyster Bay were
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Mrs.
Kermit Roosevelt, Mr. and
Mrs. Archibald Roosevelt, Mrs.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and we'll
bet that not one of them voted
Koosevelt!
Michaels, Kraft
Announce Troth
Mr. and Mrs. William Michaels
of Third Street, announced the
engagement of their son. Corporal
John Michaels, to Miss Julia
Kraft of Lindenhurst, son of
Mr. and Mrs. George Kraft, at
a family gathering Saturday
evening.
Those present were Mr. and
Mrs. William Michaels and
daughters, Elizabeth and Jean-nette,
and sons, Herman and
William, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. George
Kraft and son, George, Jr., Mr.
and Mrs. Wickey and daughter,
Catherine, of Lindenhurst, Mr.
and Mrs. W. Wylie of Bayside,
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Smith of
New Brunswick, N. J. and Mr.
and Mrs. George Steinhauser
and children, Rose Marie, Law-rence
and John of Boontoon,
N. J.
St. Martin's Church
Plans Monster Bazaar^
St. Martin's Church will hold
a monster bazaar on July 18,
19, 25 and 26 at the Parish Hall,
Broadway, Bethpage, L. I. There
will be many and varied prizes
for people of all ages. Under
the chairmanship of Joseph
Ellinger, the committee has
worked to make the affair a
pleasing and entertaining one.
A cordial invitation is extended
to the citizens of the surrounding
community, and to all employees
of the Grumman plant.
Auto Owners and
After January 1, 1942, no
prudent automobile owner or
driver will own or drive an auto-mobile
which is not covered by
a property damage and bodily
injury liability insurance policy
iijsued by an insurance company
of the first rank. In the legisla-tive
session of 1941 the Legisla-ture
of the State of New York
enacted Article 6A of the
Vehicle and Traffic Law entitled
"Financial Responsibility f or
Operation of Motor Vehicles".
Such laws are sometimes
loosely called "Compulsory In-surance
Laws" and that name
2nd Draft Lottery
Set For Thursday
750,000 Will Learn
Order of Service
In 2-hour Drawing
750,000 new registrants for the
draft will know next Thursday
night the date on which they
will be called into service since
the selective service officials in
Washington have announced that
time tentatively as the date for
the second national lottery.
Sclieduled for 7 P. M.
All young men who have
reached the age of 21 since the
first registration day are termed
"new registrants" and will be
included in the lottery. The
procedure of drawing the 750
capsules from the large glass
bowl is scheduled for 7 P. M.
and is expected to last for at
lefist two hours, accompanied by
all the noise and excitement and
ceremony which accompanied the
first drawing on October 29.
New Numbers Mixed With Ol'd
Numbers of men previously
i-^gistered will be mixed in with
those of the new registrants.
On last Thursday, nineteen men
were sent to induction centers
by the Hicksville draft board,
which is six short of the estab-lished
quota. It was announced
that men of 28 or over- were
gran led temporary deferment,
v/hich corresponded with the
request of the national selective
service board. Of these men,
18 left from Hicksville. Still
another was to be inducted froni
Oklahoma.
Campfire Girls
Attend Picnic
Last Saturday the Campfire
Girls of Farmingdale attended
an all-day picnic at Heckscher
State park under the direction
of their guardian, Mrs. Albert
Gucker.
The girls left from the front
of the high school at approxi-mately
8:30 A. M. It was
revealed that their regular meet-ings
have been discontinued for
the summer months.
Bethpage Approaches Quota of J250
Under Direction of Fire Department
In Local Canvass for II. S. 0. Funds
Money Is Sought In House-to-House Appeal;
James Nornnan Heads Comnni+tee of Six Vannps
The Bethpage drive for funds for the U.S.O., which
is being sponsored by members of the Bethpage fire depart-ment,
had its official beginning last Sunday afternoon,
according to Salvatore Greco, Fire Chief.
Canvass for Funds
Under the direction of James "Happy" Norman, chair-man,
the drive consists of a house-tc-house canvass with
the company trucks and apparatus.
At the last meeting of the vamps, held on Friday
night, Chairman Norman an-
Melone Boys
Have Birthdays
Master Jay Talbot Melone and
Master Francis Arthur Melone,
sons of Dr. and Mrs. Charles P.
Melone of Central Ave., cele-brated
their fourth and first
birthdays, respectively, at a
party last Thursday afternoon.
Two tables on the lawn of
their home were decorated in
pink and blue, with multi-col-ored
baloons hanging from the
trees.
Guests of the two children in-cluded:
June Ludwig, Barbara
Ludwig, Roslyn Morley, Mary
Ellen Gesselein, Shirley Kohler,
Lois Seitz, Fred Ludwig, Gerald
Seitz, Edwin Henn, Thomas
Sghia, Robert Markland, John
Deubel, George Smith, Russell
Duryea, Judy Kohler, Natalie
Anne Sghia, Bruce Kohler and
Peggy Ann Schneider.
Six In Bethpage
Get Questionnaires
The latest report from Local
Draft Board No. 712, at Hicks-ville
C<^urt House, Hicksville,
L. I., reveals that draft question-naires
were mailed to six Beth-page
men on July 7 and are due
back in the office by July 17.
The men who received ques-tionnaires
are Joseph Botto, Jr.
of Plainvievv Road; Emil Peter,
of First Street and Railroad
Avenue; William Henry Gibby
of Stewart Avenue; Harry H. .L.
Van Tassell, of Pershing Avenue;
John Tedesco of Stewart Avenue;
and Charles John Breznak of
Central Avenue.
Drivers-Read and Play Safe!!
describes their effect, although
technically they do not require
automobile owners to take out
insurance.
Article 6A of the New York
Vehicle and Traffic Law contains
numerous qualifying provisions
which are too detailed to discuss
in an article of this kind, but,
subject to such qualifications, the
broader aspects of the law may
be summarized as follows:
The Commissioner of Motor
Vehicles is given broad powers
to suspend or revoke operators'
and chauffeurs' licenses and to
revoke registration certificates
and registration plates of motor
vehicles.
1. Such action may be taken by
the Commissioner upon any
reasonable ground appearing
on the records of the Motor
Vehicle Bureau.
2. The Commissioner of Motor
Vehicles shall suspend or
revoke driver's licenses and
owner's registration certific-ates
and registration plates of
any person convicted of any
offense under the Vehicle and
Traffic Law, unless such
person shall have already
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nounced that the quota set for
Bethpage is $250. The drive
will probably end on August 1.
According to Norman, all funds
collected in Bethpage will be
turned over to national head-quarters,
where the money will
be used to provide recreational
facilities for the boys and men
in the various branches of the
service.
In addition to Mr. Norman,
the assisting committee consists
of Fire Chief Sal Greco, Charles
Campagne, Eugene Albertson,
Charles Keuchler and Fred
Kramer. Each of the six com-mitteemen
will have charge of
a zone and supervise collections.
At Friday's meeting, receipts,
buttons and zone literature were
distributed to the men, who are
making collections in uniform.
Committee members have re-ported
that the drive is going
splendidly, with only two persons
refusing out of all those who
have been approached so far.
The citizens of Bethpage are,
apparently, more than ready to
cooperate in this project, termed
the "army behind the army."
Thomas F. Dewey, district
attorney of New York State, is
at the head of the national
United Service Organizations.
The work has taken him all over
tlie country, making speeches
and organizing local groups. On
several occasions the U. S. O.
drive has received publicity in
the newsreels.
T/ie boys of the service need
your help! Give to the U. S. O.!
Serial Numbers
Issued By Board
Orange cards with the signa-tures
of registrants in the second
draft registration were shuffled
and serial numbers issued by
members of Selective Service
Board 712 at the Hicksville
Courthouse at their last week's
meeting. More than 200 men
who had reached the age of 21
since the first registration on
October 29, 1940, were assigned
numbers. Chief Clerk Thomas
J. Costello announced that this
preparation was made so that
local registrants would be ready
for the national lottery to be
held in Washington tomorrow
night at 7 P. M.
The musicians who invented
swing ought to.
—O. O. Mclntyre