Bethpage-Newsgram_1941-10-15

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HSCKSVSLLE A N D FARMINGDALE C H O R A L U N I T R a i d A l o M T IS
The Ilicksville Choral Society under the d Ireotion of Mrs. Elvvood Curtis of Hicksville (front
row center) is pictured here at its Annual Concert held in the Garden City Hotel last May.
CHORAL SOCIETY RESUMES
HOME OF DR. CURTIS FOR
REHEARSALS AT
COMING SEASON
The Woman's Choral of
Farmingdale held its first re-hearsal
of the 1941-1942 season
last Monday afternoon in the
basement of the Lutheran
Church on Main Street. An in-teresting
course of study and
entertainment is planned for
the Winter and Spring. The of-ficers
for the coming year are,
President, Mrs. II. A. Purcell;
Vice-president, Mrs. W. F.
Howe; Secretary and Treas-urer,
Miss Lillian Kraemer;
Custodian, Mrs. Pauline Deck-er.
The Choral will be pleased
to accept additional members.
Those interested should consult
with any of the officers.
The Choral since its incep-tion
nine years ago has been
under the direction of Mrs. El-vvood
A. Curtis of Hicksville,
for whom choral conducting is
a iiobby. Mrs. Curtis has a fine
background and training for
her hobby. She began as a child
with the study of tlae piano,
this was followed by several
years of vocal training with
Carlos Sanchez, opera singer,
of New Yoj"k City, followed by
eleven yeai^ of Choral conduct-ing
with Mme. Margarete Dess-off,
whose father was Con-ductor
of the Opera in Vienna
for twenty-five years. Mme.
Dessdorff was founder and
Conductor of the Desshoff
Choirs of New York City.
Mrs. Curtis is now vice-president
of the Musical Arts
Chorus of New York City of
which Dr. John Warren Erb
is conductor.
During recent years the
Farmingdale Women's Choral
unites with the Hicksville
Choral Society in an annual
joint concert which is held in
the Garden City Hotel. These
two choral groups formed a
large part of the chorus whoch
sang "Pilgrim's Progress," by
Dr. Stillman-Kelly at the Wal-dorf
Astoria in both 1940 and
1941. Mrs. Curtis has conducted
the Hicksville group for eight-een
years. These two groups
also took part in the Music
Festival of the New York Fed-eration
of Music Clubs held in
Carnegie Hall. On this occas-ion
Mrs. Curtis conducted a
massed Chorus of over three
hundred women's voices. These
groups sang at the World's
Fair and on Pliil Cook's hour
over WABC.
The Hicksville Choral So-ciety
resumed its rehearsals
Tuesday evening, October 7, at
the residence of Dr. and Mrs.
Elwood Curtis, 100 West Nich-
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REGISTRATION
Registration places will be
open in Oyster Bay township
on Saturday, October 18th,
from l:Oa p. m. to 10:00 p. m.
This is the last registration day
before the Nevember 4th elec-tions.
The local registration places
for the two districts of Beth-page
will be the school house
for district No. 38, and the
firehouse for district No. 3.
REGISTER or you may not
be permitted to vote at the
November 4th election.
Dance Art Studio
To Present Pupils
At Westbury Show
Svvoboda's Dance Art Studio
of 117 Broadway, Hicksville,
will present a number of pupils
in a Kiddie Revue "Stars of
Tomorrow," Saturday, Octo-ber
18th, 1941 at tlie Westbury
Theatre. There will be 2 shows
one in the afternoon, one in
the evening with two feature
pictures. There will be four
'group numbers insluding a
Mexican and Military Sccne,
also featuring several songs,
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Victor Miller Heads Amateur
Radio Operators For Nassau
With the Army Air Corps maneuvers nearing an end, tomorrow
being the last day, Nassau County is proving that its civil defense
organizations can give a good account of themselves.
The Nassau County Defense
Council and the 51 subordinate
defense councils through the
county, under the direction of
Col. Thomas M. Sherman (Col.
Sherman is taking the place of
Herbert L. Bodman who was
injured on Saturday) are giv-ing
definite proof of tlieir abil-ity
and worth in an air
raid, as tests nov.' in progress
throughout the county disclose.
On Friday, October 10th, at
11 minutes and thitry seconds
after 8 o'clock P. M., Col. Sher-man
received the blue light sig-nal
which signified tiiat "ene-my"
bombers were only a few
minutes away. He immediately
flashed the wai^ning signal to
the various civil defense units.
These units at once swung into
action and sounded tlie air raid
alarm signal at 12 minutes and
37 seconds after 8:C0 o'clock.
During the raid tlie defense
councils received notification of
various disastrous incidents
wliich were supposed to have
occurred in their locality. The
local councils then telephoned
the headquarters in Mineola
for instructions.
The first alarm that came
through seemed almost real.
The siren sounded. A few sec-onds
later lights blinked out in
homes and buildings as though
they were connccted to the
alarm system. Cars pulled clear
of the roadway and their lights
blinked out. People stood
around in tlie darkness in small
(luiet groups watching the sky
—watching the beams from
powerful lights searching the
sky for the enemy.
Tlie Bethpage Defense Coun-cil
under the leadership of
James "Happy" Norman con-ducted
their operations from
the Nevvsgram otlice and suc-cessfully
carried out their part
in the program.
The Betiipage Air Observa-tion
Post located at the homo
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Bethpage firemen Vv'cre called
to extinguish a burning trailer
on Stewart Avenue and Balsam
Place, Monday at 3:00 p. m.
The trailer was owned by
Ralph Gionatta, a contractor of
Roslyn.
Quick action on the part of
the firemen prevented a pos-sible
destruction of three hun-dred
acres of woodland. The
cause of the fire is of unknown
origin. Acting fire chief was
Sal Greco.
Not many sounds in life, and
I include all urban and all rural
sounds, exceed in interest a
knock at the door.
Charles Lamb.
L I. Booklet
Is Now on Sale
Nassau and Suffolk counties
have been afforded splendid
coverage in the "New York
State Recreation Booklet," a
product of the WPA Writers'
Project, published by Bacon &
Wicck, Northport, Long Island.
The booklet contains 48
pages and a State map and
furnishes accurate information
on recreation areas, sport facil-ities,
climate, traffic laws, fish-ing
and hunting accommoda-tions
and all points of interest
throughout Long Lsland and
the State.
KEEP 'EM ROLUNG, KEEP EM FLYING! K^EP DEMOCRACY FROM DYING!