PAGE 3 FARMINGDALE OBSERVER December 12, 1968
F'dale Library Trustees Rap Report
( Continued from Page 1) building sometime in 1969.
A five point proposal for
the expansion of library facilities
of the Farmingdale
Public Library was discussed
by the Board of Trustees on
Tuesday night at the South
Farmingdale Branch. The
proposals were in a booklet
entitled: " Report on Library
Building Problems at Farmingdale,"
submitted by Joseph
L. Wheeler, the consultant
hired by the Board to investigate
the pros and the
cons of erecting a mezzanine
at the South Farmingdale
Branch.
Wheeler made the following
recommendations in his summary
of the report under
discussion on Tuesday night.
" 1 . Immediate installation of
the mezzanine at South Branch
using the $ 39,000 of present
accumulated funds.
2. Purchase by the School
District of the South Branch
3. Purchase of the pair
of properties 50 x 125 adjoining
the Central Library, within
the subsequent year or two.
4. Enlargement of the Central
Library . . . within five
years so that the library may
forge ahead and serve the
entire School District much
more effectively.
5. Adoption of a resolution
that there will be no
additional branch until Farmingdale
reaches a population
of at least 100,000, a
long time hence. . . The
devotion, morale and efficiency
of the personnel is
unusually high, but with a
branch library lending more
books ( 182,000 vs 112,000) and
handling more reference- informational
questions ( 3,567
vs 2,149 in six months) than
central, the Trustees and
community should plan to
get into better balance.
This report was the 173rd
project by Wheeler, who has
served as a consultant to
libraries throughout the United
States. He is a resident
of Benson, Vermont. His report
was dated, November
21, 1968.
President of the Library
Board of Trustees, Robert
Callahan said that he was
not prepared to support these
recommendations at this time.
As a matter of fact Callahan
told the Observer that he
had some reservations about
them. He also felt that the
eight year lease on the
branch still should be honored.
Trustee Warran Alt-mann
also said that the
report deserved further study
before making any decisions.
However, Trustee Carl E.
Gorton announced his onoosi-
However, Trustee Carl E. «
Gorton announced his opposition
to the recommenda-
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tions and Trustee Albert
Meyerstein also stated his
opposition to the purchase
of the South Farmingdale
Branch ! building and issued
a statement to the press.
Gorton said that the South
Branch library was a bad
buy and Meyerstein agreed
that the meeting room was
inadequate at the branch
library and that it should
be a more suitable building.
Callahan told The Observer
that in order to build a big
enough central building it
would cost a great deal of
money. It cost Plainedge
$ 700,000 and the Plainedge
Library District only includes
25,000. Callahan agreed that
the library should go ahead
and erect the mezzanine
deck, but she has not decided
on whether it was wise or not
to purchase the land in the
rear of the Central building,
which is located on the corner
of Main and Conklin.
Warner Honored For 40 Years Of Service
The 14th Distinguished
Service Medal, Nassau
County's highest award, was
presented to a man who
has spent his 40- year career
working for the Young
Men's Christian Association.
At a surprise " Recognition
Dinner" held at the
Westbury Manor on Jericho
Tpke., Frank Warner, of
Brookville, received the
medal from County Executive
Eugene H. Nickerson.
Warner, General Secretary
of the Nassau- Suffolk YMCA,
is retiring at the age of 65.
In making the presentation,
Nickerson said, " This
award is being presented to
you for two reasons — because
you have devoted
your life to working for one
of the finest philanthropic
organizations in the country,
and because you have
brought so much pleasure
to millions of Americans
through your music."
Warner has achieved national
recognition as a collector
and interpreter of
traditional American folk
music. He has appeared in
this role before numerous
live audiences as well as
on radio, television, and the
motion picture screen. He
has made commercial recordings
of traditional music
under several labels. A
member of the Board of Directors
of the Newport Folk
Foundation, Warner is past
president of the New York
State Folklore Society, a
FRANK WARNER
trustee of the National Folk
Arts Center, has been a consultant
on folklore to the
New York State Historical
Association, and is a leader
in the Country Dance and
Song Society of America.
He contributes to various
publications and is the author
of " Folk Songs and
Ballads to the Eastern Seaboard,
from a Collector's
Notebook."
During his years on Long
Island, Warner has also
been active in the Long
Island Fund and the United
Fund of Long Island, and
in the Health and Welfare
Council of Nassau County,
having served as chairman
of the Youth Division and as
chairman of the Agencies
Executives Council. He is
a member of the University
Club of Long Island, a
trustee and vice president
of the Nassau County Historical
Society, and a member
of the Friends of the
Nassau County Historical
Museum.
Warner's father was General
Secretary of the
YMCA in Selma, Alabama.
His mother, Mabel Preston
Warner, was for many years
contralto soloist with the
Duke University Choir. Frank
Warner was graduated from
Duke University in 1925.
His first job after college
was as Youth Director for
the West Market Street Methodist
Church in Greensboro,
North Carolina, and in 1928
he joined the Y staff as
Boys Secretary. In 1952 he
became General Executive
of the Nassau - Suffolk
YMCA. Warner and his wife,
the former Anne Locher,
live in a converted barn on
Hegeman's Lane in Old
Brookville. Their sons are
Jonathan Francis Warner
who finished his junior year
at Weldon E. Howitt High
School in Farmingdale before
transferring to Friends
Academy, graduated from
Duke Univ. in 1965 and
spent two years in the U. S.
Navy as a supply officer. He
is now associate editor of
Literary Guild, Doubleday
& Co. in NYC.
Gerret Warner who finished
8th grade in Farmingdale
and graduated
from Duke in 1968. He is
director of Audio Visual
Services for the New York
Institute of Technology in
Old Westbury.
The Warners lived on
Merritt Road in Farmingdale
from 1953 through 1961.
COUNTY PASSES SALES TAX
The majority statement on
the 1969 budget was issued
by presiding Supervisor Ralph
G. Caso on Monday.
Caso said: As a result
of a budget prepared and
presented by County Executive
Eugene H. Nickerson,
the Nassau County Board
of Supervisors found itself
in an obvious dilemma. In
handing down his budget,
Mr. Nickerson was, in effect
saying to the board: The
choice is yours — accept
my proposal for a 2 percent
county sales tax or
raise the county property
tax to what, in the judgment
of the members of the board,
was an unconscionable level."
" It is supremely ironic
that the County Executive
presented a budget even
higher than the amount requested
by his department
heads after a round of well-publicized
preliminary hearings
with the same department
heads, supposedly to
reduce budgetary appropriations,"
Caso said.
" How then was the Board
of Supervisors to proceed?
Many people wanted to have
their cake and eat it too.
" Don't impose a sales tax,"
they said. " We want the
property tax reduced." In
what may be the understatement
of the year, to
achieve both objectives would
have been no easy task. Mr.
Nickerson, with the effrontery
which has become his
trademark, computed into
his budget additional revenues
of $ 51.8 million that
would be realized from a
2 percent county sales tax
that hadn't even been approved
by this board. And
despite this additional rev
euue, his projected county
property tax rate reflected
a 9 cent increase, from the
current $ 3.12 per $ 100 of
assessed valuation to $ 3,21.
Without the sales tax revenue,
the property tax would
jump to an incredible level
of more than $ 4.80."
" Let us not forget either
that we are caught in a
fiscal bind of the county
Executive's own making,"
Caro concluded.
A few weeks ago we
wrote an unfortunate new
chapter in the fiscal annals
of Nassau County when we
went into deficit financing
for the first time as we
were forced to approve more
Legal Notice
BOARD OF APPEALS
Regular meeting of the Board
of Appeals, Town of Oyster Bay,
will be held in the Town
Board Hearing Room, Town
Hall, Oyster Bay, on Thursday,
December 19, 1968 at
8: 00 p. m.
CASE 68- 604
APPELLANT— Arthur & Patricia
Filete, 94 Boston Avenue,
Massapequa.
SUBJECT— Variance to extend
an attached garage having
one less side yard and less
aggregate side yards than
the Ordinance requires.
LOCATION— South side of Boston
Avenue, 340 ft. west of
Central Avenue, Massapequa.
CASE # 68- 605
APPELLANT— John Connolly,
84 North Walnut Street, North
Massapequa. c/ o D. F.
Gagliardo Drafting Service,
693 Broadway, Massapequa.
SUBJECT— Variance to erect
an addition having less rear
yard than the Ordinance requires,
with the encroachment
of eave and gutter.
LOCATION— South side of North
Walnut Street, 140 ft. east of
Plant Court, North Massapequa.
CASE # 68- 608
APPELLANT— Richard Building
Corp., c/ o Edward J. Mc-
Gown, Esq., 670 Broadway,
Massapequa.
SUBJECT— Variance to erect a
residence on a plot having
less width, area, front setback
and two less side yards
than the Ordinance requires,
with the encroachment of a
chimney.
LOCATION— South side of Ohio
Avenue, 124.81 ft. west of
Forest Avenue, Massapequa.
CASE # 68- 613
APPELANT— Howard and Helen
Muller, 13 Iriquois Street
East, Massapequa.
SUBJECT— Variance to erect
an attached garage having
one less side yard and less
total side yards than the Ordinance
requires.
LOCATION— North side of Iriquois
Street East, 381.74 ft.
west of Shinnecock Avenue,
Massapequa.
CASE# 68- 618
APPEALANT— Alvo Eckert, 20
Rugby Road, Massapequa,
c/ o R& H Drafting, 2900
Hempstead Tpke., Levittown.
SUBJECT— Variance to erect
an attached garage with
breezeway having less rear
yard than the Ordinance re
uires, also the encroachment
of eave and gutter.
LOCATIN— Southeast corner of
Rugby Road, and Darby
Road, Massapequa.
CASE # 68- 621
APPELLANT — Rudolph and
Gladys Lazina, S Jacqueline
Road, Massapequa. c/ o
R& H Drafting, 2900 Hempstead
Tpke., Levittown.
SUBJECT— Variance to erect
an addition having less front
setback than the Ordinance
requires, also the encroachment
of eave and gutter.
LOCATION— South side of J at
queline Road, 115 ft. west of
Eleanor Drive, Massapequa.
BY ORDER OF THE
BOARD OF APPEALS
Town of Oyster Bay
Raymond H. Schoepflin,
Chairman
OYSTER BAY, NEW YORK
DECEMBER 9, 196S
# 6 Obs IT Dec. 12, 1968
Joeph Hydrusko, of 33
Alhambra Rd., Massapequa,
attended the Pearl Harbor
Survivors Association Convention
and reunion held
last week in Seattle. Wash
ington.
Hydrusko, District Direc
tor of the group's six North
eastern states, was elected
to a fourth term of office
