Bethpage-Newsgram_1941-10-01

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Vol. 1. No. 43 BETHPAGE, N. Y.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 1, 1941 12 Five Cents
Board O r d e r e d To A p p o i n t N e w M e m b e r To Fill
V a c a n c y Left By Resignation oF Francis Looney
DEFENSE
OF PLANS FOR AIR
GET DRAFT
RABD TEST
Approximately seventy - five
c o m m i t t e e defense council
chairmen attended their first
•direct contact meeting with the
Nassau County defense council
l a s t Thursday night at the
county defense headquarters,
Denton Building, Mineola,
Herbert L. Bodman, county
defense director, gave an out-line
of county and local defense
plans in connection with the
army air Corps maneuvers.
The local chairmen were
advised of the extent of local
unit participation desired by
the county headquarters. Plans
were made for a preliminary
t e s t of organization October 7
and for the co-operative civilian
maneuver test October 10.
The system of communica-tions
which were devised for
civilian defense and the method
of sending out an air raid a l a rm
was also explained.
Bodman pointed out that the
local councils should draw up
a list of available equipment,
which could be used in a raid.
I n the .coming test, one hour
before the sirens are scheduled
to blow, sealed envelopes will
be delivered to the local defense
California canned peaches are
eaten instead of "hot dogs" by
many patrons of English amuse-ment
parks and carnivals. Small
cans of the fruit are sold com-plete
with can opener and spoon.
—Food Field Reporter
Music Notes To Be
Regular Feature
starting with last week's'
issue of Newsgram, we intro-duced
a new column titled
"Music Notes" by Joseph F.
Matyas.
Mr. Matyas is a well known
music teacher in this vicinity
and is an authority on popular
and classical music and its
terois.
This column is to be a reg-ular
feature of Newsgram and
any questions in regard to these
articles should be addressed to
Music Editor, Box 841, Beth-page,
N. y.
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council addressed to the air
raid warden. The message is to
be opened at a specified time, in
the communication will be
imaginary incidents such as
destroyed buildings, oil tanks,
and fires of all descriptions, etc.
A system of light signals will
be used as warning signals in
the test. A yellow flash of
light will signify that the
b o m b e r s are twenty - five
minutes away, a blue light, fif-teen
minutes away, and a red
light, five to seven minutes
away. A white flash will be
the all clear signal.
Wlien the blue flash is
received at the county police
headquarters in Mineola, the
warning will be relayed to the
six county precincts, who will,
in t u r n , ' notify the patrolmen
on duty to inform the local
council.
During the test, the air raid
warden will contact the local
council with the report of the
imaginary incidents, and the
council will, in turn, contact
the county council who will
send out instructions regarding
the incidents.
As a result of a ruling made
Friday by State Commissioner
of Education Ernest C. Coles,
Raymond J. Amendola's ap-pointment
to the Bethpage
school board was declared
illegal. Coles, it is said, ruled
t h a t Amendola is not a mem-ber
of the board and ordered
the board to appoint a new
member to rcplace him.
The ruling was the result of
petitions filed by the dissenting
members of the board, Charles
Schwartz and Joseph Ellinger,
who protested the appointment
of Amendola to fill the vacancy
left by Francis Looney, Nassau
County patrolman, who defeat-ed
Amendola in the school elec-tions
May 7th.
A ruling by Commissioner
Abram V. Skidmore of the Nas-sau
County police prevented
Looney from taking office.
Looney, upon rcceipt of the
police commis«3ionor's ruling im-mediately
forwarded his resig-nation
to District Superinten-dent
of Schools John W. Chis-holm.
Chisholm witheld official
acceptance of Looney's resig-nation.
Following the resignation of
Looney the majority members
of the Bethpage School Board,
John Klug, Carmino Cava, and
Raymond Amendola declared
that a vacancy existed and at
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Appoint Carmen
Air Raid Warden
For Bethpage
The Nassau County Defense
Council has named nine air raid
wardens to assist Chief of the
W a r d e n Service, Sherman
Moreland, Jr., in organizing and
supervising zone defense.
Willis B. Carmen of Farming-dale
has been appointed the
air raid warden for fi^thpage.
C a r l e . Place, Farmingdale,
Ilicksville, Plainview, Jericho,
and Westbury.
They give you their aid—and
they need your aid Give to the
U. S. OJ
Republic Team
Cops Championship
The Republic Baschall team
of Farniingilale, beaten recently
in a two game series , by the
Grumman Boml)ers, took the
Nassau - Suffolk Championship
Siinday afternoon.
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. Association
Checks Up On
Business Firms
C o n t i n u i n g an industrial
survey of Nassau and Suffolk
Counties in cooperation with
the State Legislative Commit-tee
on Industrial and Labor
Relations, The Long Island As-sociation
is now checking up
400 business concerns reported
to have been established in the
two counties since 1932,
Comparing this list submitted
by the Legislative Committee
with a previous list of 275
concerns which were said to
have expired or emigrated be-tween
1932 and 1940 shows that
Long Island business and in-dustry
reputedly gained 103
new concerns in exccss of sucla
reported losses.
"The lists sent us by the
Legislative C o m m i t t e e for
chocking", said Meade C.'Dob-son,
Managing Director of The
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Local Merchants Postpone
BMA Organization Meeting
The proposed Bethpage Businessmen's Association ariparently
got off on the wrong foot last Friday night, when the sclieduled
meeting of the merchants was called off due to an inappropriate
time.
NAVY RECRUIT HOME ON LEAVE
Edward Koenderman, a well known and well liked local boy
who recently joined tiie United States Navy and who is now
a t t a c h e d to the Naval Training Station at Newport, R. I., was
back in town over the week-end visiting
|his many friends.
In an interview with a Newsgram
'reporter, Edward said, "There isn't any
[place I would r a t h e r be than in the Navy,
fit's swell!" "Of course," ho said, "It may
Ibe a year or so before I can serve aboard
Iship, but I am sure that, that time will
(pass quickly and I will be aboard a Navy
ship."
Koenderman said, "The atmosphere
at the training s t a t i o n is swell, the food is tops, we have movies
two or three times a week and we are allowed to participate
in any of the sporting events that we choose. We have football,
basketball, shuffleboard, ping pong, and lots of other sports
which we can join in if we want to. I have made many friends
at the training station," he said.
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Army Releasees
25 Men Doily
Release of enlisted men who
qualify for honorable discharges
under the Selective Service Ex-tension
Act began at Camp Up-ton
yesterday at the r a t e of 25
men a day, Lieut. Col. H. C.
Brenizer, commanding officer,
has announced.
Camp officials expect to ap-prove
release of from 350 to
400 men who have dependents,
who reached their 28th birth-day
prior to July i and before
induction, or who are married.
F i r s t to bo discharged will
be those with dependents and
those who can prove hardship
cases. Men whose current en-listments
expire will be second,
men over 28 third, adn married
men fourth.
New York Teachers
To Celebrate 99th-
Anniversary
The New York S t a t e Teach-ers'
Association will observe its
96th anniversary next month,
October 10th, by zone, or sec-tional
meetings, in ten different
localities of the state. The
Long Island zone meeting will
be held at Hempstead.
Friday night, being a night
when most of the local mer-chants
find it necessary to re-main
open for additional bus-iness
was said to be an unsuit-able
night a n d a h a t a Tuesday
or a Wednesday night would
be better suited for their meet-ing.
Many merchants who had
planned on attending the meet-ing
did not show for this rea-son,
it was said. It was decided
to postpone the meeting until
a f u t u r e date when it would be
possible for all to attend.
The purpose of organizing an
association of this typo would
be to improve and protect the
business interests of Bethpage
through a united effort.
The proposed bus route which
the Ilicksville Businessmen's
Association has submitted to
the Schenck Transportation
Company would be opposed by
the majority of the businessmen
on the grounds that people
would leave Bethpage and go to
Ilicksville to shop, thus taking
the business away from Beth-page.
I t was planned to visit each
merchant personally and inform
him of the time and place of the
next meeting. Many merchants
favored the Bethpage firehouse
on Stewart Avenue as their
next meeting place.