Bethpage-Newsgram_1941-09-03

              4,000 Expected At Grumman Outing
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\/o\. 1, No. 39 BETHPAGE, N. Y.. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 3. 1941 ^ 12 Five Cents
Bethpage P.-T.A.
To Hold Meeting
On September 11
Mrs. Henry Ebisch
Names Committees
The Executive board of the
Bethpage Parent-Teachers' Asso-ciation
has decided to postpone
the first meeting of the year
from September 4, until Sept-ember
11, 1941, according to
"Mrs. Henry Ebisch, president of
Fourth Street, Bethpage,
The Executive board for the
1941-42 school terms consists of
Mrs. Henry Gerhard, vice-presi-dent;
Miss Geraldine Martin,
treasurer and Miss Ina Stalter,
secretary.
Committees Named
The Standing General com-mittee
for the coming year is
headed by Mrs. Fred Kramer.
Mrs. Anthony Messina is in
charge of the membership com-mittee,
which encourages new
members to join at all times
during the year.
The Ways and Means com-mittee
has as chairman Mrs.
Fred Benkert, while Mrs. J. J.
Gifford will handle the publicity
for the P.-T.A.
Appoint Historian
Miss Mary Risley is the of-ficial
historian for the P.-T.A.,
and Mrs. Joseph Ellinger will
take charge of Friendship.
Miss Buchanan, local school
nurse will handle the Children's
Welfare.
Hostesses for the coming year
are Mrs. William Michaels and
Mrs. Emma Cassinger.
'^ssau ^tes
The Long Island Indians are
going to make Valley Stream
their home and they have
challenged the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Yes, we're talking about foot-ball.
The summer's over. Only
about 60 shopping days before
Christmas . . . 1500 persons will
stage a Port Washington black-out
on September 12. Flares
will be lit, sirens will wail and
bombs will go off all over the
place and that's the day we
picked to move home! What a
reception. Reminds us of the
time we struck out (with bases
loaded at Ebett's field (High
school game) but the vegetables
came in handy anyway . . . The
old Mill at Roslyn made the
paper boxes for Grover Cleve-land's
wedding cake . . . The
locust trees that are all over the
Island were originally planted
by Captain John Sands on the
point that bears his name—talk
about the spreading chestnut
ii'ee!
"Blood Bank" Plan
Mapped For Nassau
Legionnaires, Red Cross work-ers
and physicians of Nassau
County are cooperating in the
establishment of a reserve supply
of blood plasma for solvliers and
sailors, according to J. Louis
Neff, executive secretary of the
Nassau Medical society.
The Legion will take charge
of obtaining volunteer blood
donors. Each time that 50 per-sons
are ready to give a pint
of blood each, a mobile unit of
the Manhattan Red Cross chap-ter
will come to Nassau to draw
it.
The blood will be processed
and typed at Meadowbrook hos-pital,
and place'J in hermeticall
sealed containers which will
"keep" it for two years.
Charles Bilogan
Enlists in Army
Lieutenant Colonel John F.
Daye, Recruiting Offic er, South-ern
New York Recruiting Dis-trict,
announced today the enlist-ment
of Charles Warren Bilo-gan,
of Bethpage, L. I., at the
Recruiting Office, Army Building,
39 Whitehall Street, New York,
N. Y., for three years' service
with the regular Army.
In Air Corps
The son of Mr. Samuel Bilogan,
of Harrison Avenue, Bethpage,
young Bilogan has been assigned
to the Air Corps Replacement
Center, Initial Training School,
Maxwell Field, Alabama.
Farmingdale Graduate
Bilogan, who is twenty-five
years old, was graduated from
Farmingdale High School, Farm-ingdale,
New York, and attended
New York University, New York,
N. Y.
This information was released
from the Public Relations Office
of the United States Army,
Southern New York Recruiting
District, at 39 Whitehall Street,
New York, N. Y.
Bedell To Teach
Civilian Defense
Auxiliary Squads
For Bomb Protection
To Be Discussed
The Firemen's School of In-structions
under the direction of
Captain Bedell of the Nassau
County Vocational Education and
Extension Board will conduct
instructions in Civil Defense at
the Bethpage Fire House on the
evenings of September 9th, 16th,
and 23rd, 1941, at about 8:00
p. m.
Auxiliary Fire Squads
Instructions will cover the or-ganization
of Auxiliary Fire
Squads for the protection of
large offices and commercial
buildings, residential areas, in-dustrial
plants and factories
against the incendiary bomb
menace. Classes will also be
held on chemical warfare agents
and the use of the Regulation
U. S. Army Gas Mask and the
Burrell All Service Gas Mask
as a protection against such
gases.
Natural Resources
Lectures will also be conducted
on the use of natural and
auxiliary sources of water supply
for fire extinguishment in the
event the municipal water supply
system should be damaged by
aerial bombardments.
All Urged To Attend
Sal J. Greco, chief of the Beth-page
Fire Department, is looking
forward to a hundred percent
turnout by the members of his
department and also expects
many residents of Bethpage who
are so earnestly interested in
Civil Defense to be present at
these classes.
Defense Council
Elects Officers
James Norman Made Chairman;
D'owd Speaks on War Needs
With approximately 100 people in attendance, the first
meeting of the Bethpage chapter of the National Defense
Council was held last Friday night, August 29, at the
Theodore Roosevelt Republican clubhouse.
James "Happy" Norman, temporary chairman, ex-plained
the purpose of the meeting, which was to acquaint
local citizens with the available services here that might
be utilized in the event of war.
David Dowd, former sheriff of
Alterations Made
On Local School
In Time To Open
Three New Members
Appointed +o Staff
The 1941-42 school term opened
yesterdaJ^ September 2, accord-ing
to Victor Miller, supervising
principal. Mr. Miller reports
several changes in the faculty
of the Bethpage school.
School Nurse Secured
After much agitation over a
period of years, the Bethpage
school board has secured the
appointment of a school nui^se
for the local school, Miss Monica
C. Moore, a resident of upper
New York state.
New Fifth Grade Teachers
Miss Janet McGiil of Mendon,
New York, will teach fifth grade,
filling the vacancy created by
the absence of Mr. Douglas
O'Brien, former fifth - g r a d e
teacher.
Mr. George Schrieber, a grad-uate
of Buffalo State College,
will become a departmental
teacher in the Bethpage school.
He is a former resident of
Hormell, New York state.
Alterations Completed
Alterations on the school rooms
were completed in time for the
opening of school, Mr. Miller
reported. The only part of the
building upon which repairs are
still in operation is the audi-torium,
which will be finished
within a few days.
New C i v i l S e r v i c e Exams
New examinations important
to the defense program have
just been amiounced by the Civil
Service Commission. In connec-tion
with the pilot training
pi'ogram of the Civil Aeronautics
Administration, link t r a i n er
operators and instructors are
needed. To qualify for instructor
positions paying $3,200 a year,
applicants must have a com-mercial
pilot's certificate of
competency, a minimum of 500
solo flying hours, a flight in-structor's
rating, an instrument
rating, and must have completed
an approved link trainer opera-tor's
course of at least '3 months'
duration as well as 100 hours
as instructor of instrument fly-ing
in aircraft. To qualify for
link trainer operator positions,
paying $2,900 a year, applicants
must have a private or com-mercial
pilot's certificate of
competency, a minimum of 150.
solo flying hours, and have
completed an approved 3-month
link trainer operator course.
Applications will be accepted
until further notice.
Sufficient eligibles to meet the
needs of the various government
agencies have not been obtained
through previous examinations
forjunior meteorologists. The
Commission has therefore an-nounced
a new examination for
junior meteorologist positions
paying $2,000 a year. No written
test will be given, and applica-tions
will be accepted until June
30, 1942. Applicants must have
competed a 4-year college course
which included courses in dif-ferential
and integral calculus,
12 semester hours in physics and
6 in meteorology. For this last
course requirement, however, ap-plicants
may substitute one year
of professional experience in
appropriate meteorological work.
Two examinations have been
added to the list of office
machine positions for which the
Commission is currently accept-ing
applications for appointment
in Washington, D. C., only. They
are: Under graphotype operator,
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Nassau County, now affiliated
with the national headquarters
of the defense council, discussed
the county organization of the de-fense
council, pointing out that
there are in existence 12 units
which will be broken up into
smaller groups, such as the Beth-
• page defense council. Mr. Dowd
then enumerated the resources in
this town which will prove valu-able
in wartime: the fire and
police departments, public works,
public health, administration,
recreation, education nad com-munication.
Following Mr. Dovvd's address,
election of officers look place.
Mr, Norman was elected chair-man,
with John F. Vv'ard as vice-chairman
and Jack Gifford as
secretary.
Chairman Norman then ap-pointed
the following committee
heads: Sal Greco, fire and police;
Harold ^^ooney, assistant; Mrs.
A1 Guerin, administration; Harry
Strauber pu.blic works and trans-portation;
Miss Katherine Seitz,
recreation and education; Dr.
Louis Luttge, public health; Har-old
Koster, communications.
Mr. Norman called upon the
local Boy Scouts to aid in the
Air Raid Warning Service, which
will consist of a sham air battle
for tiiree days commencing on
October 9. The next general
meeting will be held on Sept-ember
30.
May Opens
Branch Store <|
This Saturday
May Company, Nassau's oldest
friendly-ci'edit jewelers, has e.\-
tended and invitation to all read-ers
of NEWSGRAM to attend a
preview and inspection of the
New Faimingdale store on the
inspection day, Thui-sday, Sept-ember
4th, and the grand opening
on Friday and Saturday, Sept-ember
5th and 6th.
Noted for "square dealing,
honest goods and lionest values",
May Company has become well-known
on Long Island for the
utmost cooperation with its cus-tomers,
as well as for its
complete stock of fine quality
blue white diamonds, nationally
advertised watches and varied
gifts.
The new store will be located
at 219 Main Street, Farmingdale.