Bethpage-Newsgram_1941-01-31

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Vol. 1 No. '8 NEWSGRAM BETHPAGE, NEW YORK—FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1941 1 . 5 0 per Year Draft Representation Probable
Vamps Sponsor Annual Fete
Bethpagians to Play
At Dance Tomorrow
Cstfds, Bunco and Bowling
Will Feature Affair
The card , party and dance to be
given by Company No. 2 of the
Bethpage Fire Department at the
Grange Hall, Stewart Avenue, to-morrow
night, promises to be one
of the outstanding events of the lo-cal
social season, according to Mi-chael
Simone and Louis Donolli,
co-chairmen of the affair.
No effort or expense has been
spared, they said, to obtain attrac-tive
prizes for those who excel in
cards and games that will feature
the entertainment. The amusement
bill of fare includes pinochle, five
hundred, bridge, bunco and bowl-ing.
A door prize will also be
awarded.
Music for dancing will be fur-nished
by the Bethpagians, an or-chestra
composed of strictly local
talent.
Simone and Donolli will be as-sisted
in running the affair by Jo-seph
Ellinger, in charge of cards,
Charles Ludwig in charge of bowl-ing,
Albert Grafnstein, James Klin-gelhoefer,
Harold Looney and An-thony
Niemczyk.
Allen E. Moore Dies
After Long Illness
Allen E. Moore, a retired farmer,
died at his home on Hempstead
Turnpike, Bethpage, Saturday, aft-er
a long Illness. Mr. Moore was
80 years of age.
Funeral services were held on
Tuesday at 2:30 p. m. from White's
Funeral Home, Farmingdale.
Surviving are his wife, Sarah, a
son, Edwin, a grandson, Alfred, and
three great-grandsons, Alfred, Ger-ald
and Leonard.
Party for Professor
Professor and Mrs. James Drury
of Windhurst Avenue, entertained
guests at a dinner party in honor
of the professor's birthday. Among
the guests were Mr. and Mrs. Mon-loon
of Kew Gardens, George Beu-thorn
of Staten Island, Mr. and
Mrs. Lawrence M. Hughes of Free-port
a^nd Mr. and Mrs. Ohester
Walter of HicksTllle.
Mrs. Anna M. Nylund Dead;
Was Active in P-T.A. Affairs
VAMPS' ASSOCIATION
DEFERS NOMINATION
Nomination of officers of the
Bethpage Volunteer and Exempt
Firemen's Benevolent Association,
scheduled for Monday night, was
postponed until the February meet-ing.
Nomination and election will
be held at the same time at that
meeting, according to Fred C. Fox,
secretary.
Present officers of the organiza-tion
are Edward Sengstacken, pres-ident;
Arthur Auer, vice president;
Fred C. Fox, secretary; Harold E.
Looney, financial secretary and Al-bert
A. Lang Sr., treasurer. Trus-tees
are Louis Donolli and Anthony
Niemczyk of Company No. 2 and
Joseph Baldwin and Charles Cam-pagne
of Company No. 1.
Sunshine Pals Entertained
The Sunshine Pals were enter-tained
at the home of Mrs. Walter
Johnson of Richmond Hill this
week. Guests included Mrs. Edward
Sengstacken, Mrs. Charles Keuch
ler, Mrs. Charles Ludwig, Mrs.
George Seitz, Mrs. Herman Mohl-enhoff,
Mrs. Bernard Mohlenhoff,
Mrs. John Mohlenhoff and Mrs. Wil-liam
Mohlenhoff. Also Fred Benk-ert,
John Retzler and William
Mohlenhoff Sr.
Boys' Prize Contest
To be Announced
Bethpage boys seeking mem-bership
in the Newsgram Car-rier
Club, are requested to stop
in at the office any day after
school and leave their names
and addresses with the young
lady in charge.
The club, open to boys of 12
years and older, will conduct
a prize contest in the near fu-ture.
Details will be published
in the next issue.
> Mrs. Anna M. Nylund, 57, of Ev-ergreen
Avenue, died Sunday in the
Nassau Hospital, Mineola.
Mrs. Nylund was born in Norway
and came to this country 34 years
ago and had made her home in
Bethpage since 1923. Until her ill-ness
she was active in community
affairs. She was also a member of
the Theodore Roosevelt Republican
Club and the Parent-Teacher As-sociation
of Bethpage.
Surviving are two daughters,
Helen and Margaret Nylund, and EnthuSiastS Flock
four sons, Arnold, Harvey, Roy and j U^fUn^ap StatP Park
Charles. All are residents of Beth- * " OCinpdge iJIctie r <trK
page except Charles, who resides followers of the ski-trails have
in Hempstead. flocking to Bethpage S'tate
Park to try out their telemarlcs and
Christies on its white-clad slopes,
with plenty of snow underfoot.
Capacity crowds of skiers and
coasters thronged the park over the
week-end, and nightly crowds are
expected so long as conditions re-main
as they are.
The park is open daily from 8
a. m. until 11 p. m., during which
hours the winter sports bar and the
buffet lunch counter will also be
in service.
According to Chester Blakelock,
executive secretary of the Long Is-land
State Park Commission, the
i-ed ball is expected to go up at
any of the state parkg which have
ice skating facilities.
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Questionaires Mailed to
Eight More This Week
Questionaires were mailed
eight Bethpage men this week.
Charles E. Kasper, Seaman Ave-nue;
Emil H. Botsch, Hempstead
Turnpike, and Fred Facardi, Har-rison
Street, received their last
Friday.
The other five received theirs on
Monday. They are: August Jensen,
Floral Avenue; Joseph A. Podsiad-lo,
Haypath Road; Thomas Monte-marino,
Seventh Street and Sher-man
Avenue; Robert W. Gillespie,
Stewart Avenue, and Sidney C. El-lerby
Jr., Harrison Avenue.
Police Raid 750 Gallon Still
In Plainview; Arrest Two
A 750-gallon still seized in a raid on an innocent-appearing farm-^
house at Plainview was dismantled last week. Two men found on the
pi-emises are being hekl for arraignment before a federal commis-
.sioner in Brooklyn on a charge of operating an unlicensed still.
The plant, one of the largest^
found in Nassau in the past year,
was uncovered last Thursday night
in a raid by detectives of the Nas-sau
District Attorney's office and
federal agents. They arrested Or-am
Burnside, 20, of Fourth Street,
Bethpage, who said he was a far'fl-er,
and Charles Piazza, 56, AVho
claimed he was a shoemaker em-ployed
in Manhattan.
The still was installed on the
second floor of a house on Syca-more
Street, Plainview, in an iso-lated
section surrounded by farm
land on three sides and a wooded
tract on the fourth. The raiders
said it had evidently been In oper-ation
for a considerable time. They
said Piazza and his wife and four
children were HVIDS on the ground
floor.
The top floor had been reinforced
with timbers to support the heavy
eiiuipment which included the still
pot, a retort and 16 vats of 250
gallons capacity each. They were
tilled with sugar mash and about
250 gallons of finished alcohol was
found in a tank.
The raiding party included De-tectives
Robert McLaren, Theodore
Dixon Jr., Elmer Robinson and Jo-seph
Kreutiger, all of the district
attorney's staff.
INewsgram Letter
Gets Consideration
Bethpage Should Have a
Member, Curtis Says
Replying to NEWSGRAM'S open
letter of a week ago. Dr. Elwood
A. Curtis, chairman of Selective
Service Board No. 712, said Tues-day
that Bethpage should have rep-resentation
on the advisory com-mittee
and probably will have in
the near future, now that the mat-ter
has been brought up.
Failure to appoint a member of
this community to the committee
must have been to an oversight,
he said. He has referred NEWS-GRAM'S
communication to the
•proper authority, since the draft
board of which he is head and the
advisory committee are two dis-tinct
bodies.
The open letter was written at
the request of Bethpage mothers
who have sons of draft age. It
pointed out that this community is
not represented, although Plain-view,
Woodbury, Jericho and Syos-set—
smaller communities—are rep-resented.
Dr. Curtis' letter follows:
"Thanks very much for calling
my attention to the fact that Beth-page
has no representation on the
Advisory Board of this Selective
Service District. You certainly
should be represented and I feel
sure someone will be appointed in
the very near future.
"For your information, may I
sitate that the Advisory Committee
is an entirely different group of
men than the Draft Board. This
Advisory Committee and not the
Draft Board has the authority to
appoint, men in different sections
of the District for the convenience
of the registrants.
"The fact that there is no one
from your village on this commit-tee
is due, I am sure, to an over-sight
which can be easily correct-ed.
I am referring your communi-cation
to the proper authority.
"May I take this opportunity of
wisiiing your paper every possible
success and please me assured that
tliis Selective Service Board will be
pleased to receive any suggestion
for the convenience and the better-ment
of the registrants."
Miss Gloria Benelauqun has been
ill at her home on School Street
tbii pa«t week.
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