Editorial
While The Observer publication sincerely believe
that the School District # 22 should aid the 86%
Negro Wyandanch school district in every way
possible, short of busing our own children out of
the district, we also advocate helping our own
Negro population, even though they constitute only
2% of the school district with approximately 170
families, most of whom live in East Farming-dale
in the Town of Babylon and in West Amityville
in the Town of Oyster Bay.
On Monday we attended a library sponsored
story- hour held at the corner of Madison and Lincoln
Streets. However, we were disheartened to hear
that a former program of busing children from
this area as well as other children on Main Street
to the South Farmingdale branch library for pre-kindergarten
story hour was discontinued a year
ago. The program had been in effect through May
of 1967 but was not continued due to lack of funds
attributed to the resubmission of the defeated
library budget. Other libary services at that
time were also curtailed.
According to a New York State Auditor's report,
the $ 300 of funds used for transportation was not
according to any State statutory provision. However,
according to library attorney, Kendrick Smith,
New York State had no law to prohibit the expenditure
either. The Board of Trustees have
broad powers which would enable this expenditure.
However, the trustees also were listening
to the voices of electorate led by Trustee Carl
E. Gorton which demanded * economy' as well
as the curtailment of extra services, similar to
any school services.
In addition we learned of the ' poverty pocket'
on Main Street according to the Census Tract
F 204 report of The Incorporated Village of
Farmingdale. Farmingdale ranks 12th in Nassau
County for communities with the highest proportion
of deteriorating and delapidated housing.
The majority of these other communities are waterfront
towns and include In wood, Long Beach, Bay-ville,
Roosevelt and Freeport. Farmingdale has
7.6% in delapidated housing.
The median income for Farmingdale is $ 7,650,
while the Nassau County median is $ 8,500. The
median education is 11.4 grade in Farmingdale
while 549 individuals over 25 have less than an
eighth grade education 132 people or 8% of the
Incorporated Village of Farmingdale have an annual
income under $ 3,000. »
The Farmingdale Village is practically a ' lilly-white'
community. It has five Negroes out of 6,128
or 1.1%, according to these 1960 statistics. The
Village ranks 93rd in a list of 94 communities
in Nassau County. Now this is not the District
22 school district. West Amityville is the nearest
Nassau County community with a large non- white
population and ranks 14th in the list of 94 communities.
There are no available statistics for East
Farmingdale in the Town of Babylon.
This ' poverty pocket* encompasses housing along
the railroad tracks, by the lumber yard in
Farmingdale as well as on both sides of Main
Streets and Washington Street.
We urge the Farmingdale Public Library Board
of Trustees to reinstate the busing head start
program in next year's budget and we urge all
concerned reseidents to express their opinion to
the board and to this newspaper.
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Letters To
The Editor
To the Editor:
Today I made the grade! It
seems I have been accepted into
that not- too- exclusive club " The
Royal Order of Birch Junk Mail."
I have just received a postcard
from " American Opinion," Belmont,
Massachusetts - on which
it is implied that the late Nobel
Prize winner and outstanding
humanitarian, Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. " associated with known
Communists at the Highlander
Folk School during the Labor
Day weekend of 1957." ( WOW!)
On the bottom of the postcard,
someone has childishly
printed a dare ( or was it a
breathless plea?) -" TAKE IT TO
FBI. GO ON."
Obviously the heat we have
been experiencing lately has
really gotton to somebody, and
that person apparently is suffering
intense " delusions of grandeur."
Was this innocuous card meant
to scare its recipient, or was it
merely sent by an egomaniacal
coward?
In anefforttobe a well- informed
citizen, I attended an OPEN
meeting of the John Birch Society
this past winter, which was held
at the South Farmingdale Branch
Library - an invitation having
been extended to the entire community
by " what's his name."
Films were shown atthe meeting.
And the same allegations
were made about Dr. King in the
film. Similar " Communist" tags
were also attached to President
Eisenhower, General Marshall,
Chief Justice Warren, Mrs.
Roosevelt - and literally dozens
of other prominent Americans.
These films, too, were obviously
the work of paranoid personalities,
and/ or truly malicious individuals.
So to the Corresponding Secretary
of the Royal Order of Birch
Junk Mail I could say - " Sorry,
not interested. You've got to be
kidding".'
Except, of course, they aren't
kidding - and that is the point!
The sooner we realize thatthis is
neither a game, a pointless prank,
a joke or merely an exercise of
one's " democratic rights" - but
an attempt to control an entire
community through fear, threats
and harrassment, and an appeal
to our baser attitudes ( such as
racial prejudice) - the sooner we
all realize what their ultimate
goal is, the quicker we canthwart
them!
Let us open our eyes, our minds
and our hearts - and begin to fight
back today •
Joan Bergman
475 Pacific St.
Massapequa Park
College News
John P. Paei Jr., son of Mri
Marion Randazzo, 57 Intervale
Ave., Farmingdale, a student at
Hofstra University, is attending
Army Reserve Officers'Training
Corps summer camp. The course
• began June 15 at Indiantown Gap
Military Reservation, Annville,
Pa.
Upon successful completion of
summer camp and graduation
from college, he is eligible to
be commissioned as a second
lieutenant in the United States
Army.
Cadet Paei is a 1964 graduate
of Farmingdale High School.
* * *
Janet Lynn Goetz of 2 Larken
Street, Farmingdale was named
to the Dean's List of the New
Dear Mr. Mangam,
State Commission of Human Rights
After reading the Newsday article
concerning Mr. Carl E. Gorton,
a vowed member of the John
Birch Society ( Do you speak up
for your convictions as Mr. Gorton
stands up for his?), I feel
compelled to write this letter.
Copies of this letter will be
mailed to the newspapers.
I also believe Mrs. Stoyan
should be removed from her
job of working with children. I
would also like to state that if
Mr. Gorton's efforts fail, I will
start new efforts. In the boards
dismissal of Mr. Gorton's
charge, that the board was prejudiced
against him, clearly indicates
to me he had an unfair
hearing, if the newspaper ( News-day)
report was co.- rect. The
report was stated as, " whether
the board was or was not prejudiced
against Mr. Gorton was
not the issue. I ask you, if they
were, do you think they could
be fair?
As for Mr. 0. Dow's statement
that " to the best of my
knowledge, no one had made any
complaints against Mrs. Stoyan."
I'll set Mr. Dow and the board
straight. I made a complaint to
Mr. Dow at the library board
meeting. I also have had two
other run- ins with Mrs. Stoyan of
which were never made public.
York State College of Home
Economics, Cornell University,
for the spring term, 1968.
* * *
Carol L. Molniaof Farming-dale
is studying rocks, fossils
and mapping problems in a
National Science Foundation geology
program at Texas A& M
University.
Participants were selected on
a nation- wide application basis
and are among the top ten per
cent of seniors in the United
States. Outstanding ability in
science and mathematics and scientific
motivation are prerequisites.
Miss Molnia, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. David S. Molnia, 119
Charles Street, attends Farmingdale
Senior High School.
At The State University
Dr. Charles W. Laffin, President
of State University Agricultural
and Technical College
at Farmingdale, announced that
the college has received three
grants, totalling $ 14,958.50 in
behalf of the Mathematics Dept.,
the Library and the Ornamental,
Horticulture Dept The Mathematics
Dept. received a Vocational
Education Act grant of
$ 8,900 to set up a " mathematical
laboratory," which will employ
sophisticated calculators so
that students can rapidly complete
mathematical problems.
* * *
The library received $ 5,000
from the Division of Higher Education
under Title II- A of the
Higher Education Act of 1965.
This money will be used to purchase
books for the expansion
of the library circulating volumes
. . . The Ornamental Horticulture
Dept. received a VEA
grant of $ 1,058.50 for the promotion
of a summer program
currently involved with seminar
training on the campus. Emphasis
is on floral* design and
arrangement.
* * *
There is an opening for an
Assistant Dean in the Evening
College at the State University
A & T College, Farmingdale.
The salary range is $ 8,750 to
$ 10,380. A person with an earned
Master degree with undergraduate
study or work experience
in a technical college would
be ideal for the position. However,
those with a Master's degree
will be considered. Interested
parties may contact Dr.
James F. Nihan, Dean, Evening
College, 516- MY 4- 7800, ext.
299. Dean Nihan says, " The
position is ideal for someone
who desires to gain experience
in the several phases of college
administration." The Evening
College's enrollment is
6,000 students each semester
and 3,000 in summer sessions.
The College is only 30 miles from
the cultural center of New York
City.
* * *
The President has received a
report from the State Education
Department, Office of the Associate
Commissioner for Elementary,
Secondary and Adult
Education, that the Amityville
Play School, located on the campus,
is registered by the Department
as a nursery school. The
Amityville Play School operates
as both a nursery school and as
a laboratory for the college's
students in the Nursery Education
curriculum.
* * *
Prof. Tom Watt, veteran chairman
of Phusical Education and
Athletic Director at State University
A & T College, Farmingdale,
has been called by the
Department of the Army to spend
this summer developing its unimportant
" Youth Opportunity
Program." A Lieut. Col. in the
Reserves, Watt's duties, according
to Col. John H. Maddox,
Chief, Personnel Services Division,
include: consultant on youth
recreation programs, assist on
formulating policy and writing
directives and papers oh these
subjects and assist in the evaluation
of ongoingyoughprograms
and in the development of new
programs and procedures.
* * *
The State University at Farm-ingdale's
Chapter of me Civil
Service Employees Assn. has
installed its new officers for
1968- 69. Rarren Joerchel,
Farmingdale, was named president;
Norman Kassowitz,
Brooklyn, 1st vice p r e s i d e n t;
Prof. Thomas Ladonsky, Farmingdale,
2nd vice president and
delegate; Mrs. Minnie Massari,
Levittown, sec'y; and Mrs. Harriet
Tucker, West Babylon, treas.
Edward Cleary, South Huntington,
field representative for Suffolk,
who will serve a two- year
term until June 1970, was the
installing officer.
The following retirees were
honored with a laminated plaqi
on behalf of State Universi
Farmingdale and the Civil
vice Chapter: Messrs. Ralph
Brewster, North Amityville;
Chester Kelly, Farmingdale and
William Timoney, Sr., East
Farmingdale, and P r o f e s s o rs
Joseph Gibbons, Farmingdale,
and George Nold, formerly of
North Massapequa and now living
in Orlando, Florida. The presentations
were made by Dr.
Charles W. Laffin, Jr., President
of the college, and Professor
Ladonsky, immediate past president
of the Chapter.
* * *
Thirty- two of the 42 members
of the Faculty Jogging Club at
the State University A & T College,
Farmingdale, who survived
the 12- week, thrice- weekly program
were honored with miniature
jogging trophies at a special
luncheon headed by College
President Laffin, one of the
spearheads in the health- building
project, believed to be the only
one of its kind in the nation's
college circles. The results
proved most beneficial from a
medical and health standpoint.
Each jogger went through physical
examinations before and after
the three- month project.
So overwhelming has been the
demand for jogging at the college
by off- campus groups, too, that
State University at Farmingdale
now has fashioned three marked
trails on school grounds, available
to the public. Athletic
Director Watt advises the public,
" To use your common sense
in jogging. Set your own pace
at the outset, jog leisurely, walk
in between, then increase your
pace and distance as you make
progress. Don't try to do too
much at the start.
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If you would like to hear them,
you can contact me at the address
at the close of this letter
( if you are interested in
justice).
I would also like to know what
kind of court system we have
when a person can be tried and
be found in contempt of court
when the title is the " Division
of Human Rights." What about
the rights of the person being
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tried? Any time you are fined
$ 100 or greater, shouldn't that
person have the right of a Jury
Trial?
If there is any more help that
I can render in the cause of justice,
please feel free to contact
me at:
In the voice of justice
BUI Sadler
124 Piatt Ave.
Farmingdale
Farmingdale OBSERVER, Thursday, July 25, 1968
