A Bit Of The World's Coming To Formingdale
As yet, Reverend Walker hasn't
paid the $ 150. trucking rate for
ten hours. But$ 150 is a lot cheaper
than the' $ 1,000, he said.
' I'm convinced,' the minister
told the OBSERVER, ' that this
is the best bargain ever.' ' Now
I can sleep just a bit better. He
no longer has to dream about
how magnificent all this looked
at the World's Fair. It's ours'
now. And it's something we're
all going to be very proud of
soon.
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Farmingdale will be the new
home of a portion of Protestant
Pavilion of the New York World's
Fair. And credit goes to the
Reverend Larry Walker, of the
Farmingdale Baptist Church,
whose ingenuity and foresight
brought this about.
The story all began when the
local minister was helping out
at the Pavilion. On the 1965
Labor Day weekend, the Reverend
Walker was asked to deliver
the sermon and hold services
at the World's FairChapel.
Looking out at the 30 foot spire-like
pylons which surrounded the
edifice at ground level and the
80 foot high steeple, the friendly,
outgoing minister began to think
on how all of this would look at his
contemplated new church building
on Carman Road. After all,
he reasoned, this would all be
torn down and carted away. Carted
away where? Wouldn't that
80 foot high fiberglass tower
look well as itsi lights shown over
Southern State Parkway, a major
thoroughfare which borders his
church?
After many inquiries and some
discussion with those in charge,
the demolition crew was instructed
about the transfer of ownership.
The Reverend Walker had
himself six fiberglass pylons.
They would form a semi circle
at ground level, each with spotlights
beaming up to the cross
at the top of the church spire.
The lowering, transporting and
the pylon erection at the new site
posed problems. Money was
one of them. Farmingdale a r chitect
Joseph DeMarco came
into the picture and offered ideas.
But not all of the pari shone rs saw
the project in the same light as
the youthful minister. Some, in
. fact, considered the whole thing
as a ' white elephant.' They felt
they were already being shackled
with a $ 175,000 building program.
The moving and unloading was to
cost $ 1,000. Even though the
minister was to use some of his
own funds in the momentous enterprise,
he felt that there must
be a cheaper solution.
One day while he was at the
Fair watching the demolition crew
dismantling the pylons and tower,
he casually leaned overand lifted
one end about two inches off the
ground. That night in his sleep
he could picture several strong
hands lifting the tower the necessary
two or three feet to put it
on a flatbed truck. With volunteer-help
of men from the church, they
lifted up one end of each tower,
placed it on the truck on a roller,
backed the truck up until the
leverage lifted the other end and
pushed it onto the 30 foot bed of
the truck. They were able to put
three on at a time and so in
two trips and about ten hours they
were able to move all six to the
property. The unloading was
easier, just rolling it off by
pulling the truck up and using six
or eight men as the heavy end
was dropped.
. Gillies Named
To New Post
Congressman James R. Grover
J r . announced the creation of a
Citizens Advisory Committee on
Legislation to serve the Second
Congressional District. The
group will be composed of civic
leaders within the district Who
will meet periodically to discuss
federal legislation and to act in
the capapcity of advisors on legislative
matters within the Second
District.
JohnE. Gillies of 165Prospect
Street, Farmingdale, has accepted
the Chairmanship of the group.
Judge Gillies, Police Justice of
Farmingdale, also is a former
member of the Farmingdale
Board of Education and is a
member of the law firm of Stern
and Gillies in Farmingdale.
Mrs. Gertrude Goltz ( center) is flanked by Judge
Willis B. Carman ( left) and Dr. Albert Ginsberg,
as the trio signed in for Tuesday's Village elections.
IMPORTANT HEARING ON APRIL5
A public hearing will be held by the Zoning
Board of Appeals of the Incorporated Village
of Farmingdale on Wednesday, April 5, at 8
p. m. at Village Hall.
The Zoning Board will hear the application
of Morris Karp and Son Inc., ' to reverse and
annul the decision or determination of the Board
of Trustees in initiating legal action against Morris
Karp and Son Inc., for alleged violation of Village
Zoning Ordinances'.
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Thursday, March 23, 1967 Farmingdale Observer Supplement
