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VOL. 2. NO. 1 BETHPAGE, N Y., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1941 • PRICE: 5 CENTS
Newsgram One Year Old Today
With this issue of INewsgvam \\hich heralds the dniiiversary
of our first year in existence the pul)lishers of Newsgram wish to
extend their heartfeh thanks to all those who have been responsive
to Newsgram during this first year of its puhlic-ation.
We have made considerable progress since we first came into
existence on December ]2lh, 1940. Starting with 8 pages, four
of which were supplied by a newspaper syndicate. On January
21th, 1941, we were forced to drop the syndicated section and add
two more pages of our own to meet the demands for more news
and advertising space. Again on May 2nd, 1941, we were forced
to add two more additional pages making a total of 8 pages
devoted to news and advertising. On June 27th, 1941, we again
added 4 more pages wh,ich made a; total of twelve pages of which
Newsgram now consists.
CONGRATULATIONS TO NEWSGRAM
In statements received since last Thursday by mail, personal
visits and telephone calls we were congratulated by our many read-ers,
advertisers, local mrchants and well known townsfolk. For
this good-will feeling we are deeply grateful.
Drivers' Tests More Rigid
Auto drivers whose licenses
have expired are advised to seek
new licenses within one year or
they will be required to take new
and mot^ difficult tests.
According to David FT Soden,
District Tax Supervisor, when a
license has been defunct for more
than a year the Driver is re-quired
to pass new tests to ob-tain
another.
"It is no easy task for an old
Driver to pass the tests that are
given now," said Mr. Soden. "The
road test is more rigid than ever
before. We also have the require-ment
of-knowledge test, which
means that a driver must be able
to answer 100 questions on traf-fic
safety, of which the examiner
selects five at random.
"The vision test accounts for
some failures. Another consists
of reading and explaining traffic
signs, and this stumps many ap-plicants."
Boy Scouts See
Demonstration Of
Two-Way Radio
The Bethpnge Boy Scouts troop
and their parents wit*n essed a
practical demonstration of the
uses of the two-way radio as a
means of communication in an
emergency. The demonstration
was held in the school on Wed-nesday.
Victor Miller principal of the
school and operator of a trans-mitter
with the call letters
W2CET set up his equipment in
the school auditorium while a
mobile unit with the call letters
W2RZ was operated from an
automobile in the vicinity by Jo-seph
Mattison of Farmingdale
who acts as assistant co-ordinator
of the Nassau County defense
network.
Ml'. Miller is co-ordinator of
the amateur radio operators irr
Nassau County.
There are 40 stations roistered
with the county network, Mr. Mil
ler stated, and drills are held ev-ery
Wednesday night from some
point, from 7:30 to 8:30, to estab-lish
in practice what may be a
major means of vital communica-tion
in an emergency.
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Elected For Term Of 5 Years
County, City Plan Fire Aid
Herman Klingelhoefer was re-elected fire commissioner of the
Rcthpage Fire District here last Tuesday (Dec. 2nd). He was
unopposed in his run for re-election as comnvissioner. Klingel-hoefer,
who was elected for a term of five years is proprietor of
the Belhpage Meat Market on Broadway, Belhpage, and has been
member of the local fire department for many years.
The ekclion was held at the fire house on Stewart avenue.
Announce Betrothal
Of Daughter
The engagement of Miss Eileen
Gertrude Story of Garden City
to Richard Fargo Brown, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Percy Melville
Brown of Broadway and School
street, Bethpage, has been an-nounced
by her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest Duane Story of Ash
street. Garden City.
Miss Story was graduated from
Hollins College last June.
Mr. Brown was graduated from
Bucknell University in 1940 and
is attending the New York Uni-versity
Institute of fine arts. He
is connected with the Depart-ment
of Internal Revenue, First
District of Brooklyn.
To Sponsor Party
The Hicksville Businessmen's
Association will hold tlieir an-nual
Christmas party for tlie
Hicksville children at the Hicks-ville
theatre, December 22. All
children of Hicksville will be in-vited.
POSTPONE PROGRAM
The Missionary society of the
St. Luke's Lutheran church of
Farmingdale has postponed the
thanks offering program until
further notice, it was announce<l
by the president, Mrs. Emma
Lindros. The program was orig-inally
scheduled for December 7.
HIGHLIGHTS FOR 1941
Wardens Ordered
To Man! Posts
All air raid wardens have been
ordered to their posts all along
the eastern seaboard. Although
the number of persons involved is
not known it was said that there
are many more than took part in
to their posts were instructed to
the recent exercises.
All spotters that were ordered
report all planea The extent of
the tour of duty was not indi-cated
in a recent announcement
made by Mitchel Field authorities.
The announcement just read "All
personnel of the ground observa-tion
system of the first inter-ceptor
command will report to
their posts immediately."
A review of the highlights of
tlie past year since our existence
have shown this year to be one
of much progress in this com-munity.
The biggest event of
the year being the erection of
the new plant by the Grum-man
Aircraft Engineering Cor-poration.
The plant was erected
on the fai-m property formerly
owned by Andrew Neder on the
South Oyster Bay Road.
Bethpage got draft representa-tion
when Newsgram in an open
letter to Dr. Curtis, chairman
of the Selective Service Board 712
requested that Bethpage be rep-resented
on the Advisory Board
for the local board 712. Charles
R. Carroll, chairman of the Ad-visory
Board for the local board
announced the appointment of
John P. McGann to represent
Bethpage,
Francis Fox, thirteen year old
Boy Scout, drowned while at-tempting
to save his pal, Edwin
Okula, eight, in a rain-filled cul-vert
on Powell's road. A full
inspector's fimeral usually re-served
for police heroes was giv-en
the Fox boy.
The Archie McCord post of the
American Legion called on ex-service
men to register for emer-gency
service.
A new fire alarm box was in-stalled
on the iJorch at the home
of Hans Hogan ^ on Spruce street
in the northeastern section of
Bethpage.
Albert A. Lang was re-elected
commissioner of the Central
Park Water District for a term
of three years. He defeated his
opponent, John W. Klug, at an
election held May 1.
Francis Looney, Nassau Coun-ty
patrolman and lawyer, ran for
the position of school trustee on
the Bethpage School Board and
was elected over his opponent,
Raymond Amendola. Following
his election to this office Looney
resigned due to a police regula-tion.
RaymondAmendola was
then appointed to fill his place
which led to dissention on the
school board and eventually to
a ruling by the state commis-sioner
of education which de-clared
the appointment illegal.
A new election was held and
Frederick Kramer was elected to
the vost.
Patrolman Walter Looney of
Bethpage was the first Nassau
County patrolman to be inducted
FIRE AID SYSTEM
Plans for a mutual fire aid sys-tem
to cope with an emergency
situation in the event of an at-tack
by an enemy power have
been worked out by Nassau
County and officials of the City
of New York.
It is understood that New York
City will render assistance to any
part of Nassau County but Nas-sau
will only be required to aid
Brooklyn and Queens
LIST FIRE EQUIPMENT
A revised inventory of Nassau
County fii'e fighting equipment
has been completed and posted
by the Nassau Fire Commission,
supplementing a list prepared a
year ago.
It was reported there are 13
firehouses, 16,233 hydrants and
826 fire alai'm boxes in all fire
districts in tlie county. Person-nel
records showed there wel-e
7,544 firemen, including 1,055
trained in fire-aid and 770 emer-gency
squad members.
into the Army. Looney was in-ducted
on Jime 9.
The Bethpage drive for U^.O.
f\mds met with considerable suc-cess,
the drive was sponsored by
the Bethpage Vamps and it was
announced that Bethpage had
topped their quota in the U.S.O.
drive when it ended this fall.
An aluminum drive was started
by the local Boy Scout troop.
The drive ended in a complete
success, the scouts collecting
many pounds of imwanted alum-inum.
The members of the finance
committee of the Bethpage
School District reported the low-est
tax rate in thirty years due
to an increase in assessed valu-ation.
A civilian Defense Council was
organized in our community. The
first meeting of which was held
on August 29. Committee heads
and committees have been ap-pointed
to carry out their work
in conjunction with the National
Defense Council.
The Republicans made their
usual clean sweep in the Novem-ber
elections.
Judge Carmen of Farmingdale
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APP.ARATUS IN PLENTY
The listing of apparatus dis-closed
173 pumpers, 64 hose
trucks, 50 special service trucks,
10 aerial ladders, 9 ambulances,
38 emergency trucks and 10
chiefs' cars. Amounts of hose and
other equipment also have been
estimated.
Hold Christmas Sale
The Sewing circle of the Com-munity
Reformed church, .Jeru-salem
avenue, Hicksville, held
their annual Christmas sale and
tea last Thursday at the church.
All sorts of gifts were on sale
as well as homemade cake, etc.
The sale was conducted between
the hoiu-s of 2 p. m. to 5 p. m.
Tea and cake were served in the
chapel.
TO MEET DECEMBER Zl
The Dime Club of the St. Lukes
Lutheran church, Farmingdale,
will hold a Christmas meeting
in the auditorium of the church
on December 21.
KEEP EM ROLLING, KEEP EM FLYING! KEEP DEMOCRACY FROM DYING