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VOL 1 NO. 48 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1941 32 PRICE: 5 CENTS
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please save them for the American Legion.
Help to bring a little cheer and happiness to
disabled veterans.
G.II.P. Ends Campaign
Hold l l a l l j Here
Congressman Leonard W. Hall gave a brief speech at the Re-publican
party held at the Theodore Roosevelt Repubicanl Clubhouse
here on the 27th,
All candidates who were run-ning
for office in the town of
Oyster Bay were present at the
rally except Republican Candi-date
for Councilman, Elmer
Brooks.
James "Happy" Norman, who
was running on the Republican
ticket together with Lloyd Deck-er,
is president of the Bethpage
Club.
Herbert Cooper, Nassau County
probation officer, also gave a
brief speech.
Following the speeches made by
the many candidates for office
and those of Hall and Cooper, a
short entertainment was given
and refreshments were served.
Norman ran together with
Lloyd Decker for Republican
Committeanan of the 28th dis-trict,
Walter Scherer and George
Seitz ran for Committeemen of
the Second District,
The Republicans wound ^up
their campaign with a rally last
Monday at the Masonic Temple on
Nicholai Street. All the candi-dates
running for office on the
Republican ticket were present at
the rally.
Schwarz Urges
Residents to
Save Old Paper
Stewart Avenue
Project Is Near
Completion
The paving of Stewart Avenue
is rapidly nearing completion. Al-ready
one lane of the road has
been opened to traffic and it is
understood that the other lane
will be ready in the near future.
The Stewart Avenue project
which was substituted - for the
Farmingdale road project which
was to have cost somewhere in
the neighborhood of $77,000 is es-timated
to cost about $124,000.
The reason for the improvement
of Stewart Avenue this year was
that Stewart avenue would be
more of value to the defense pro-gram
than the other road.
This is the fourth state aid
project this year. Ralph Jannotta
of Roslyn is the contractor who is
working on the project.
The assessment roll for the vil-lage
of Farmingdale for the fiscal
year begirming March 1, 1942, has
•been filed at the office of the
vilalge clerk in the village hall on
Main Street, and may be exam-ined
by anyone interested, durir.p,
business hours, uiitil November
18th.
Kramer Elected, Wins
BT Vote o£ 373-187
Carnegie Medal
Awarded To
Francis J. Fox
Francis Fox
Honored
JAMES "HAPPY" NORaiAN,
who ran for Committeenmn of the
28th district yesterday.
Charles Schwarz, new com-mander
of the Archie McCord
post, American Legion made an
appeal to all Bethpage residents
to save their old waste paper and
old newspapers for the members
of the American Legion. The pa-pers
it is said are to be sold and
the proceeds are to be used to
puixjhase gifts for the inmates of
the Veterans hospital at Kings
Park. The papers will be collected
by members of the Legion post
in a house to house canvass to
be started in the near future.
The American Legion post made
their last annual visit to the
Kings Park State Hospital on
June 22nd at which time they
presented the veterans with gifts
of candy, cigarettes, cakes, fruit,
ice cream, and many other items.
The St. Peter and St. Paul so-ciety
of Farmingdale will hold a
dance on November 8th at Vete-ran's
hall, Farmingdale. The Mes-dames
Paul Fuller, Stanley Nie-miec,
Charles Borowiec, Peter
Kubic, Frank Galeski, and Walter
Lomont are in charge of the ar-rangements.
Plans for a card party on No-vember
8 "Piilton hotel, Farm-aig(^
ale, w^re ciidcussed at a meet-las
of ti.o Farmingdale Social
club. Dancing will follow the card
games.
13 Draftees
Leave Today
A bronze medal for heroism
was awarded posthumously to
Francis J, Fox, Bethpage boy
scout hero, by the Carnegie
Fund Commission, Saturday.
The medal will be presented to
the parents of the boy, Mr. and
Mrs. Frank J. Fox of Stymus
Avenue.
Fox died on Saturday, Febru-ary
D, while attempting to rescue
his pal, Edwin Okula, 8, in a
rain-filled culvert on Powell's
road. Fox was on his way to the
Headquarters of his troop, No,
118, when he responded to cries
for help. Two youngsters said
that Edward Okula had fallen
into the culervt. Fox plunged
into the icy water but was over-come
by the cold water before he
could effect rescue. The Okula
boy had been sailing a toy boat
in the culvert swollen to a depth
of fifteen feet by the heavy rains
which had fallen. Slipping on
the ice-rimmed edge of the pool,
he fell into the water.
As both boys struggled in the
water, Frederick Kraemer, 18, of
Concord Street, Assistant Scout
Master of troop 118, who was
passing in his car, went to the
rescue. Meanwhile, Harold Auer,
also a member of the scout troop,
ran to a nearby house and sum-moned
the Bethpoge Fire De-partment.
When the vamps ar-rived,
both boys had been drag-ged
from the water. Firemen and
volunteers worked over Francis
with no avail, but Okula was re-vived.
Francis was a high school stu-dent,
as were the younger boys.
The boys had been particularly
active in work for Boy Scout
week, which opened that Sunday.
J. Russel Sprague, County ex-ecutive,
heard of the tragedy
soon after it had occurred and
called Police Commissioner, Ab-ram
W. Skidmore. He ordered
him to consult the father of the
dead boy and arrange an inspect-or's
funeral.
About a thousand persons at-tended
the services at St. Martin
of Tours Church, including coun-ty
officials, high police officers,
and community leaders. Nearly
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The first group of draftees,
thirteen of them, to be drafted
since the adoption of the pie-in-duction
physical examination plan
will leave this afternoon for Camp
Upton. They will meet at Draft
Beard 712 headquarters in the
Hicksville Courthouse. The induc-tion
of these men will bring the
number of men drafted from this
territory to 263.
Plainview F.D.
Dedicates New
Fire House
With the opening of dedication
ceremonies at 2:30 o'clock Sunday
afternoon, the new Plainview fire-house
on Plainview Road was for-mally
dedicated.
Fire Commissioners of the Beth-page
and Hicksville fire depart-ments
were special guests at the
affair. The equipment was moved
into the new building immediately
following a parade by the entire
fire department.
An invocation at the ceremonies
was given by the Reverend Wil-liam
D. Rusch, pastor of the
Trinity Lutlieran Church on
Nicholai Street, Hicksville. During
the ceremonies, speeches were
made by Supervisor Harry Tap-pen,
Town Clerk Edwin McQueen,
Councilman John R. Brandt, and
John W. Anderson, Elmer Brooks,
and Thomas C. Wade.
Stephen Mooddle is chief of the
Plainview Fire Department.
HOLD DRAWING
Mr. "Happy' Norman v/ishes to
announce that the Theodore Roo-sevelt
Republican Club will hold
its annual drawing of chance
books on Saturday, November 15.
There will be dancing and re-freshments
after the drawing.
Mr. "Buddy" Mazzara is chair-man
of the arrangements com-mittee.
The annual town Republican
Committeemen's dinner was held
Friday evening, October 24 at
Rothman's in East Norwich. The
local Republican committeemen
are Lloyd Decker, and James
"Happy" Nornjan, of tho twenti-eth
district, and George Seitz and
Walter Scherer of the seroud dis-trict.
Raymond J. Amendola was
defeated by Frederick Kramer
in his run for the school trus-tee
position on the Bethpage
Board of Education by an over-whelming
number of votes at
the' election held last Wednes-day
at the Bethpage School.
Kramer topped Amendola by a
vote of 272 to 187 in one of the
most bitterly contested elections
in years.
The election which caused
considerable interest on the part
of the Bethpage taxpayers was
the result of the resignation of
Francis B. Looney who was
elected to the school board over
Amendola last INIay.
Looney was forced to resign
almost immediately due to a de-partmental
ruling b y Police
Commissioner Abram Skidmore
who ruled that no policeman can
hold public office.
Looney then forwarded hia
resignation to District Superis-tendent
of Schools John W. Chis-holm.
Chisholm withheld of-ficial
acceptance of the resigna-tion.
Following the resignation of
Looney the majority members of
the Bethpage school board John
Klug, Carmino Cava, and Ray-mond
Amendola declared that a
vacancy existed and at a regu-lar
meeting of the board on
June 24th appointed Amendolai
to fill the vacancy left by,
Looney,
Dissension then split the board
since the reorganization meet-ing
which was held at the start
o f the fiscal year. Trustees
Charles Schwarz and Joseph El-linger
declared that Amendola'a
appointment was illegal and re-fused
to sit on the board at
their regular meetings. The disn
senting members then appealed
to State Commissioner Ernest E,
Coles for a ruling on the case.
Commissioner Coles then in a
ruling on Friday, September 24,
declared that Amendola's ap-pointment
was illegal. Coles
ruled it is said that Amendola
is not a member of the board
and ordered the hoard to ap-point
a new member to replace
him.
The Bethpage Board of Edu-cation
then held a special meet-ing'
on Monday evening, October
6, at the schoolhouse. The de-cisiou
and order of the Commis-sioner
of education was read.
After some discussion Schwarz
nominated Frederick Kramer to
fill the vacancy, Carmino Cava
found objection to Kramer be-
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