Bethpage-Newsgram_1941-08-13

              Set Dates For Grumman - Republic Games
story on Page 3
Vol. 1, No. 36 WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 13, 1941 Price Five Cents
Vamps and Grumman Men. To Clash In Comedy Game
"A cavalcade of fun and side-splitting
laughter will thunder
into Bethpage on August 26th at
8:30 P. M." said Harold Looney,
member of the Bethpage fire de-partment,
in reference to the
burro ball game scheduled be-tween
a Grumman shop team
and the local vamps. The event
will be held at Bethpage Ball
Field on Stewart Avenue and the
Railroad trenches. The Dodge
City Burro Ball Company will
trot a herd of "action-packed
little burros onto the field to be
ridden by outstanding men of
this town and the two Grumman
plants," said Looney. The game
will be Softball.
Looney continued, "Burros that
buck, burros that toss their
riders and lie down in the base
paths and burros that do 'wrong-way
Corrigans' when a homer is
hit will be the mounts of the
local riders in a wildly hilarious
game which will be played under
J g p s Romscho
Feted At Dinner
A f f a i r Given
A t Jones Beach
A dinner and reception was
tendered by the Board of Fire
Commissioners of the Bethpage
Fire Department to Mathias
Romscho in honor of his twenty-five
years of service as member
and chairman of the Board of
F i r e Commissioners at the
Boardwalk Cafe, Jones Beach, on
August 11.
Guests at the affair were
Mathias Romscho, Miss Violet
Romscho, Edward Sengstacken,
Herman Klingelhoefer, William
De Fanis, Frank Linn, John
Westby, Fred Rompf, Mirs. Ed-v.'
ard Sengstacken, Mrs. Herman
Klingelhoefer, Mrs. William De-
Fanis, Mi^. Frank Linn and ]Mrs.
John Westby.
Red Cross Offers
First Aid Course
The Nassau County Chapter,
American Red Cross will offer
a First Aid Course to be held
at the Municipal Hall, Jericho
Turnpike, Mineola, Thursday
afternoons from 2 to 4 beginning
August 14.
The course consists of tewenty
hours of instruction and covers
all emergency work included in
modern First Aid. Attention will
be given to methods handling
severe bleeding, burns, artificial
respiration, shock, bandaging,
fractures and transportation of
the injured. A nominal fee covers
cost of textbook and materials.
gigantic floodlights."
Among the men who will take
part in the comedy will be: Cap-tain
Sal Greco, Milton Deubel,
Louis iMaggi, Michael Simone,
Happy Norm.an, Ed Sengstacken,
Edward Thorne, A1 Bogner, P.
Miranda, Charles Campagne,
George and Charles Ludwig, Chic
Kozzi, A. Mimczyk, Charles
r T
Welcome, Boys!
Salvatore and Horacc Parisi,
both employed on government
construction work in Panama,
are planning to spend a thirty-day
leave of absence at their
home in Bethpage with relations
and friends, beginning on about
September 15.
L J
Eight Men To Report
For Draft Induction
Eight men who registered for
the draft with Local Draft Board
No. 712 are to report for induc-tion
at the Hicksville Court
House, Hicksville, New York,
The men are: Constantino
Krasielwicz, Sheppard Street,
Glen Head; Martin De Benedetto,
S t e w a r t Avenue, Bethpage;
Henry Frederick Penna, Dela-ware
Avenue, North Massapequa;
William Mautner, I\Ieadowbrook
Road, Syosset; George Hillsdon,
Jericho Road, Hicksville; Vin-cent
Schwarting, Clock's Boule-vard,
Massapequa; John Kisha-nuk,
Jerusalem Avenue, Hicks-ville;
and Raymond Frohnhoefer,
36 McKinley, Hicksville.
De Fanis Takes Title
To Printing Premises
Mr. William DeFanis, propri-etor
of the Bethpage Press px'int
shop on Broadway, Bethpage, re-cently
took title to the premises
of the shop. The transaction was
completed on Friday, August 8.
DeFanis is a commissioner of
the Bethpage Fjre Department
and a member of the Hicksville
Kiwanis club.
Hartigan, Jerry Albertson, A1
Grofenstein, Harry Belscha,
Fi'ank and IVIike Curcio, Robert
Lautem, John Page, Dominic
Agiesta, Art Auer, and IMike
Looney.
The complete list of Grumman
men has not yet been compiled,
but a "good time" has been guar-anteed.
Jorgensen Girl
Given Shower
Plans Wedding
For August 24
Mrs. Alonzo Gibbs, the for-mer
Iris Ebisch, and her mother,
]\Irs. Henry Ebisch were host-esses
Monday evening at a bridal
shower for IMiss Frances Jor-genson
of Farmingdale. Miss
Jorgenson, daughter of Mrs. John
Jorgenson, will become the bride
of Mr. Charles Kasper of Beth-page,
August 24th.
Miss Jorgensen isa graduate of
Farmingdale High School and a
former resident of Bethpage. Mr.
Kasper is employed by Republic
Aircraft Corporation of Fai'ming-dale.
The guests included ,Miss Ger-trude
Gordon of Brooklyn, the
INIesdames John Gifford, Emre
Altmann, Emanuel Friedman,
William Regan, Fred Kramer,
Gordon Furniss, William Mich-aels
and Ellen, Ruth, and Marion
Ebisch all of Bethpage. Also the
Misses Elizabeth and Catherine
Jorgensen, Amelia Zybillo, and
Mrs. Grace Gutheil, all of Farm-ingdale.
THINGS TO THINK
Hicksville merchants inaugur-ate
thrift days by giving away
$200. Macy (not Kingsland but
R. H.) says it's smart to be
thrifty but the only thrifty
people we've ever seen who gave
money away were the Marx
brothers who had rubber bands
attached to their ten dollar bills
. . . Henr-ee, Henry Aldrich is
sojourning over at Camp Upton
(so they tell us.) . . . A letter
from Nassau County Hstonan,
Merrit, te.lj. us tliat this
column is a most appropriate
place for a limerick contest since
Thomas Dongan of Hempstead
became the Earl of Limerick! . .
Lowest Tax Rate
In Thirty Years
$37,946.19 Needed in Taxes,
Cava and Amendola Repori*
"The citizens of Bethpage are this year receiving the
benefits of the lowest tax rate in 30 years," according to
Carmine Cava and Raymond J. Amendola, members of the
finance committee of the Bethpage school district.
Sum Reduced by $6,000
The assessed valuation for the local district, which is
district number twenty-one, is $6,455,495.00. The funds
which would usually have to be raised by taxation amount
to $43,946.19, but due to the unexpended moneys on hand
totalling $6,000.00, the sum which Ladies' Auxiliary
Inaugurated Here
With 20 Members
Mrs. Hans Benkert
Elec+ed President
A women's auxiliary of the
Bethpage Fire Department was
organized on Tuesday evening,
August 5, at the firehouse, with
over twenty women in attend-ance.
It vvas resolved that the
charter lists would remain open
for another month, so probably
many more women will wish to
become charter members who
were unable to attend the first
meeting.
Officers Elected
Miss Katherine Seitz was
elected temporary chairman and
conducted the meeting until the
following officers wei"e elected:
president, Mrs. Hans Benkert;
vice- president, Mrs. George
Seitz; secretary, Miss Marita
Looney; and treasurer, IMrs.
Charles Keuchler.
Committees Named
Com.mittees which were ap-pointed
for the year include:
publicity—Mrs. Theodore Damm,
Miss Katherine Seitz; sickncss
and distress—Mrs. Fred Benkert,
]\Irs. Arthur Auer, Mrs. Michael
Simone (to take charge of the
local territory); also Mrs. Harry
Belscha, Mrs. Charles Campagne,
IMiss Marie Norman (to take
charge of the North Bethpage
area); entertainment — Mrs.
Charles Ludwig,chairman, ]Mes-dames
Eugene Albertson, Cor-bett
Osworth, Salvatore Greco,
Fr.'d Lackert; also the IMisses
Lui^y Dam.m and Violet Rumscho.
ABOUT
Glen Cove was once known as
Mosquito Cove but—Hey! wait a
minute. NOT because mosquitos
were there but because Mocheto
in Indian means giassy flat plain.
. . . Speaking of Indian names.
Shelter Island was called MAN-HANSACKHA-
QUASHA WAR-NOCK
or, an island sheltered
by other islands . . . Victo«
Heiser, author of "An American
Doctor's Odyssey," visits hi*
mother in Westhampton which
h the same town where the
Hoffman twins co-authors of
"We Married an Englishman"
spoke recently for Britain.
must be raised by taxation has
been reduced to $37,946.19.
29 Cents Lower Than 1940
The report submitted by
Amendola and Cava stated that
the tax rate for the coming year
will total fifty-nine cents on the
dollar, a rate twenty-nine cents
lower than those of previous
years. In 1940 the tax rate was
eighty-eight cents on the dollar,
while in 1939 it totalled only
eighty-two cents on the dollar.
$30 Saving
The budget for the year cover-ing
the raising of $37,946.19 by
taxation represents a net saving
of approximately $30.00 on an
assessed valuation of $5,000.00.
After detailed research and
computation, this report vvas sub-mitted
to the Board of Education
by trustees Cava and Amendola.
Questionnaires
Sent To Six Men
D r a f t questionnaires were
mailed to the following men of
Bethpage who registered on July
1, 1941:
Charles Whitson, 50 Central
Boulevard; E r n e s t Recknei',
Hicksville Road; Hov,ard Silvers-ton,
Evergreen Avenue; Fran-cesco
Serafino, Broadway; Rob-ert
Purcell, Sheridan Avenue;
and Frank James Greco, Grant
Avenue and Fourth Street.
BELSCHA AND NORMAN
TO ATTEND CONVENTION
Mr. and !\Irs. Harry Belscha
of Stewart Avenue left Satur-day
morning for a vacation trip
through Canada. They will then
journey to Rochester to attend
the annual State Convention of
the American Legion. Mr. Bel-scha
is commandant of the
Archie McCord Post of the
American Legion of Bethpage.
"Happy" Norman, also of
Stewart Avenue left Tuesday
evening to attend the convention
as a delegate.
Members of Company Number
2 of the Bethpage Fire Depart-ment
held their beach party at
Tobay Beach last Sunday. The
outing was much the same as
that held by Company Number
1, but the party included more
people.
They're giving pJenty—can't
you a little? Help the
'U. S. O.! .
I .