Town Parks Offer Discounts
To Senior Citizens
Town Councilman Ralph J. Marino,
Town Board Majority
Leader, announced that senior
citizens, 65 years of age and
over, and their spouses will be
permitted membership in any
of the four community parks at
Bethpage Syosset - Woodbury,
Plainview- Old Bethpage and the
Marjorie R. Post Massapequa,
for a discount rate of $ 15 per
person for park district residents
and $ 20 per person for non-park
district but Oyster Bay
Town residents. If either one of
a couple is 65 years or over,
both will be eligible for the individual
discount.
Applications are also being
accepted for the senior citizens
discount plan which will permit
Town residents, 65 years or over
or widows and retirees, 60- 64
years of age, a ten percent discount
from member merchants
for such diversified services and
merchandise as clothing, hardware,
paints, flowers and dental
and optical work. Marino added
that there are 50 member stores
involved in the program and 400
applications for identifications
cards have been received.
Plans are underway to develop
a senior citizens summer program
that will include special
Music Department Plays Host
To Spring Festival Contest
The Farmingdale Music Department
will play host to the Annual
Spring Contest Festival of
the North Nassau Zone of the
New York State School Music
Association on Friday and Saturday,
May 17 and 18 at the Mill
Lane Junior High School. The festival
will begin on Friday at 3: 30
p. m. and will continue until 10
p. m. and on Saturday from 9 a. m.
to 6 p. m.
15 choirs, nine orchestras and
16 bands will be performing before
New York State appointed
judges representing 12 different
schools.
Farmingdale's Music Department
will be represented by the
High School Concert Band, the
High School A Cappella Chorus
and the Howitt Junior High School
string orchestra. They will all
perform on Friday; the band at
3: 30 p. m. the orchestra at 5 p. m.
and the chorus at 5 p. m.
Over 100 selected instrumental
and vocal music students from
Farmingdale schools will participate
in the NYSSMA solo contests
at Carle Place on Friday and
Saturday, May 24 and 25.
The Festival program is open
to the public.
Ginsberg To Receive Citation
The National Columbus^ Day
Committee will award a special
citation of merit to Assemblyman
Martin Ginsberg at a
luncheon in his honor on Sunday,
May 19 at 1 p. m. in the
Garden City Hotel,
The presentation to Ginsberg
is for his sponsorship of a law
to make Columbus Day a national
legal holiday.
Ginsberg has introduced Resolution
# 24, now awaiting Assembly
action, which calls upon
the federal government to declare
October 12 a national legal holiday.
Columbus, according to Ginsberg,
has never been accorded
the national honor due him for
his discoveries. A handful of
states, including New York, have
declared October 12, the anniversary
date of his first voyage,
a legal holiday. The federal
government has failed to take
similar action.
Commuter Parking Field
To Be Rededicated
A rededication ceremony will
be held at the Massapequa commuter
parking field of the Long
Island Railroad on Wednesday,
May 22 at 11 a. m. by the Oyster
Bay Town Board in memory of
Daniel W. Wall. The field was
named the '' Daniel W. Wall Memorial
Field" in 1956, although a
sign had never beforebeenplaced
there.
The placing of the sign will be
in tribute to the " untiringefforts
of Daniel W. Wall, who was responsible
for the creation of
these facilities", according to
Councilman Ralph J. Marino, Majority
Leader.
Wall served as a town councilman
from 1948- 1952 and Mayor
of Massapequa Park from 1941
to 1948.
days at the park, special beach
days and special events. Free
transportation will be offered.
The senior citizen's travel club
will have a four- day trip to
Williamsburg, Jamestown, and
Washington, D. C. from May 20
to May 23 and a special four-day
trip to Montreal, Canada,
June 24 to June 27. Further information
on the senior citizens
trips can be obtained by calling
WA 1- 5944. Other trips include
Niagara Falls, California, Las
Vegas, Pennsylvania Dutch,
Miami Beach, Bethlehem and
Hawaii.
Elks Ready
Flag Day Parade
Plans are underway for a Flag
Day Parade on Saturday, June
15, sponsored by the Massapequa
Elks # 2162.
Chairman of the event is John
Musicaro and William Schieffer
is Co- Chairman.
Since this is the Centennial
Year, the Elks plan a special
program on Friday, June 14,
which will feature two dance
bands, square dancing and a
block party in front of the Lodge,,
Lawther Named
ToBBB
Philip C. Lawther of 546 Central
Avenue, Massapequa, has
been named to Ihe Long Island
Better Business Bureau. Lawther
is Public Affairs Manager of Allstate
Insurance Companies and
Allstate Motor Club.
He started in the insurance
business in 1930 with the American
Automobile Insurance Co. He
joined Allstate in 1949 as Customer
Service Manager, was
named Public Relations Manager
in 1953 and Public Affairs Manager
in 1964. His memberships
include the Long Island Public
Relations Association, the Hof-stra
Council of Hofstra University,
the Long Island Safety
Council, and the Long Island Association.
K of C Hold First Degree
Farmingdale Council Knights
of Columbus held an exemplification
of the First Degree at the
Council Home on Morton Street.
The Degree team, under the
direction of Grand Knight Michael
Tilleli, conferred the honors on
Ronald J„ Byrnes, Joseph Capel-lini,
Carmine Di Domenico,
Michael J. Hartmann, Robert
Heuschkel, William J. Kraus,
Thomas J. McCarthy, Leandro A.
Mazzacco, John Morelli and Ray
A. Spinetta.
Rudolph Glaser, Merchant
Passes Away
Rudolph Glaser, age 50, of 32
Wenwood Drive, Massapequa
Park, and a merchant on Main
Street, Farmingdale for 21 years
was killed in an automobile accident
in West Babylon last Wednesday
evening. A funeral was held on
Friday at the I. J. Morris Funeral
Home in Hempstead.
Glaser came to this country
from Austria in 1939 and served
in the United States Army as a
Staff Sergeant from 1940 to 1945.
He was stationed in Okinawa and
Hawaii.
When he first came to Farmingdale's
Main Street he started
a children's clothing store, " The
New Children's Shop", which he
ran until 1963 when he established
" Rudy's Cheryl Ann" which featured
ladies apparel.
He was a member of the Royal
Arcanum, a former member of the
Farmingdale Jewish Center; an
honorary member of B'nai B'rith
in Farmingdale and a member of
Beth Sholom in Massapequa.
He is survived by his wife,
Rose, and four children: Ann,
age 19, Paul, age 16; David, age
ten and Susan, age six.
Reformed Church To Hold
Ground Breaking Ceremony
A Ground- Breaking Ceremony
for the new church building of
the Massapequa Reformed
Church will be held on Sunday,
May 19th beginning at 3: 00 p. m.
on the church grounds, Merrick
Road and Ocean Avenue.
Participating in the formal
ground - breaking will be: O.
Howard Davidsmeyer, Jr.,
Chairman of the Building Committee;
William C. Fahlbusch,
Vice - President of Consistory;
Mrs. Frank C. Muller, President
of the Women's Guild for
Christian Service; Miss Janet
Cole, President of the Senior
High Youth Fellowship; Miss
Mary Morgan, President of the
Junior High Youth Fellowship;
JoAnn Ware, representing the
Church School, and Pastor Donald
R. Baird.
Yorkers Cited At
State Convention
Several area Yorkers attended
the Annual Meeting of Yorkers,
junior members of the New York
State Historical Association and
brought back awards from Lake
Placid, New York.
Plainedge Yorkers received a
Chapter Achievement Trophy as
well as a trophy for the largest
total membership.
Shelley Baron of Packard Jr.
High School received an Honorable
mention in the Who's Who
among Yorker's category*
Lynn Levitt of Mill Lane Junior
High School received a Special
Award in the Governor's Trophy
Writing Contest and Michael
Klesh of Weldon E. Howitt Jr.
High School received a certificate
of merit.
Terence S. Hunt of Bethpage
High School, Carol Ghiorsi of
Mill Lane, Laura Greenfield of
Mill Lane and Natalie R. Karmel
of Mill Lane also received certificates
of merit.
Mill Lane received a special
award for their exhibit on sauerkraut.
Frank Weber is the sponsor
of the Weldon E. Howitt group;
Bette S. Wright of Mill Lane
and Richard Marks of Packard.
Commemorate 50th Anniversary
Of Air Mai
To commemorate the Golden
Anniversary of the First Flight
of Air Mail from Belmont Park
Race Track in New York, bound
for Washington via Philadelphia,
Postmaster Leo J. Morgan of
Farmingdale arranged the reen-actment
of this historical scene
at Republic Field.
Visiting dignitaries were
typical of the group of public
officials on hand for the
first flight. The flight took off
from the oval in Belmont Park,
Long Island to Philadelphia. At
that point the mail was transferred
to a waiting plane for
delivery in Washington, D. C.
where President Wilson together
with Postmaster General
Burleson and other members of
the president's cabinet anxiously
awaited the arrival.
While most of the mail on that
initial flight was commemorative,
, inaugural mail, fifty years
later all first class mail is being
flown on a space available basis.
One of the men who helped
arrange these flights was Major
H. H. Arnold, later to become
first General of the Air Force.
The first public service air
mail was flown with 100%
efficiency. The excellent record
was achieved through the capabilities
of pilot lieutenants, Stephen
Bonsai, H. Paul Culver,
James Edgerton, E. W. Kilgore,
Walter Miller, and Torrey Webb.
Army aviators flew the mail for
three months prior to civilian flyers
taking over.
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WHO'S IN CONTROL?
Attend this FREE Public Lecture
ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
by Charles W. Ferris
TUESDAY
MAY 21, 1968 AT 8: 30 P. M.
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST
4550 MERRICK R0A0
MASSAPEQUA, NEW YORK
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