Robert D. Cicio Killed In Vietnam
Marine Private R o b e r t D.
Cicio, age 20 of 125 Plitt Avenue,
South Farmingdale, was
killed in Vietnam.
The young marine had been in
Vietnam less than three months
when he was killed near Khe
Sanho
He is a 1965 graduate of the
Farmingdale Senior High School.
He is survived by his parents,
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Post Office
Seeks Bids
Bids will be accepted by the
Postmaster of Farnrngdale, for
rental of the following vehicles
to be used at that office. Four
late model, less than two years
old, delivery- vans, 210 cubic feet
capacity, automatic transmission,
to be used between five and
six hours daily six days a week,
without driver. Two late model
station wagons, automatic transmission.
Bids will be accepted until
2: 00 p. m. on May 8, addressed
to the Postmaster, Farmingdale.
Further information maybe obtained
by contacting the Postmaster's
office at CH 9- 1016.
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Mr. and Mrs. Vito Cicio, a sister,
Constance and a brother, Victor.
Letters To The Editor
( Continued from page 4)
Charles Urobny, J r . , son of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Drobny
of 196 N. Wisconsin Ave., North
Massapequa, has been notified
of his appointment to the United
States Military Academy, West
Point, Class of 1972 by Congressman
John Wydler. Charles
is presently a member of the
1968 Graduation Class of Farmingdale
High School. He will enter
West Point on July 1st.
Proceeds of a book sale conducted by the Friends of the Farmingdale
Library are being turned over by Mrs. Aneke Sakellariou
co- chairman to Murray Tuck, representative of the Farmingdale
Scholarship fund. Mrs. Sandy Gerston ( not pictured) is also a co-chairman.
Association for the Help of Retarded Children, Poster girl Janie
Caggiano is surrounded by captain's of the Farmingdale Teenage
Drive to be conducted in Farmingdale, May 4th and 5th and 11th
and 12th, to raise funds for retarded children. Reading from left to
right are George Mayerhof of Farmingdale, Ammirati of Farming-dale
and Steven Carter of Massapequa Park. Any boy or girl in
junior high or high school in Farmingdale interested in joining the
campaign, may call: CH 9- 7440.
Pictured above are Marilyn Goldberg and Joseph De Palo, who
each won $ 200 in the annual vocal and instrumental auditions of
the Long Island Federation of Wom3ns Clubs. The audition was
held at the music room of Farmingdale Senior High School, under
the chairmanship of Mrs. William Scott Morgan. Adjudicator was
Dr. Donald Rowe of Hofstra University, and a dozen students from
various high schools in this section of Long Island competed.
Farmingdale OBSERVER, Thursday, May 2 , 1968
Dear Editor:
Next week the people of School
District 22 have a unique opportunity.
The choice in the upcoming
election is not merely
one of programs and policies;
of budgets and taxes. It is rather
one that questions our basic
beliefs and principles as Americans.
In the past our school and library
board elections have dealt
with the relatively simple matters
of how to plan, build and
improve the educational fa -
cilities in our community. The
candidates often differed on p r i orities
and budgets, on expansion
and costs. But there was always
the underlying goal of everyone
to maintain the highest possible
standards of excellence for our
schools and libraries.
Abruptly and dangerously this
situation has changed.
The desire to improve has been
replaced by one to destroy what
we have worked so hard to build
in Farmingdale. With rude manner
and insidious means, our
school and library board meetings
are interrupted, and our
mailboxes are filled with unsigned
declarations of half- truths
and misrepresentations.
An end to all of this must
come now.
Progress in our community
can only be achieved through
the thoughtful and respectful cooperation
of everyone, and not
through the mistrust and hate
bred by these new elements.
To maintain your rights as an
American to think, act, and, yes-even
read, what you want, and to
prevent this new and very dangerous
element in our community
from spreading suspicion and
fear, I urge you to vote for Lang
and Jones for school board and
Tilford for the library board.
Alan Laskin
University of Rochester ' 69
Dear Editor,
I think it is time for some
more conservative - minded people
on our library and school
boards, so I'm going to give
my full support to Mr. Altmann,
Mrs. De Haan and Mr. Spinetta.
I urge all concerned citizens
to do likewise.
Gayle Sadler
The Editor:
This letter is in answer to a
letter appearing over the signature
of a Mr. Dom'nic Aiello concerning
the funds held by the Library
Board for future use in e-recting
a mezzanine deck in the
South Farmingdale Library. Mr.
Aiello indicates that he desires
the matter to be submitted to a
referendum. The law in the State
of New York has been clearly
stated by our highest court, the
Court of Appeals in Mills v.
Sweeney, decided in 1916 and
since followed in a series of lower
court decisions. This leading
case holds that there is no authority
whatsoever for a local political
body to subm't matters before
them to a public referendum.
The only referenda allowable are
those specifically designated by
the legislature covering bond i s sues
and elections. A summary
of these cases recently appeared
in a decision by the New York
State Department of Audit and
Control - Opinion # 62- 1041 in
which the State Department reiterates
a clear rule in New York
State that there is no authority
for a submission of a referendum
such as the one recommended by
Mr. Aiello. It is clear that the
Department of Audit and Control
considers it an unlawful expenditure
of funds to conduct such a
referendum.
It might also be noted on this
subject that the sums Mr. Aiello
refers to com? from fines and
fees. Another recent opinion of
the State Comptroller's office,
Opinion 63- 689 clearly states that
the Board of Trustees has full
authority to retain overdue books
fines as well as cash gifts over
and above the budget voted at the
annual meeting and may retain
the same from year to year. The
Comptroller's office states the
following: " We know of no r e striction
on the expenditure of r e ceipts
which exceed estimated r e venues,
so long as the expenditures
are for lawful library purposes."
It might also be noted that the
funds referred to have been held
in an interest bearing account.
Considerable interest has been
earned from tax funds since the
Library Board is not allowed to
put tax funds in an interest bearing
account.
Robert M. Callahan
Dear Editor:
To expect board candidates to
meet most of the criteria of the
ideal trustee, as listed by the
New York State School Boards
Association, is to close the door
for public service not only on
the newcomers to our community,
but to some of our longtime residents.
Verily, some of the incumbents
on School and Library
Boards throughout New York -
State would even fail to meet the
minimal qualifications for these
important positions of public
trust.
For some down- to- earth
criteria, the following are
recommended and expected of
the candidates of my choice.
Foremost, I want a trustee
whose sole responsibility and
duty is to the entire community
he represents with the homeowner
taxpayer his prime concern.
No other loyalty or responsibility
should ever take
precedence over the welfare of
the people, especially in matters
concerning the management and
uses of taxpayers money.
In addition, I want a trustee
" who will accept a majority decision
other than his own", but
at the same time he must possess
the courage of his convictions
to issue a minority
opinion and not merely echo the
consensus for the sake of presenting
unanimity to the people
or to enhance his own ego in the
eges of his colleagues.
I want a trustee who will seek
to concentrate on gaining an
understanding of the needs and
wants of the taxpayer, and not
attempt to become a leader solely
by concentrating on himself in
his desire to bolster his own
ego and also in his desire for
selfgain, or self- aggrandize-mento
I want a trustee who will be
forthright and courageous in
protecting the people against any
onslaught of their tax money for
programs delegated by authority
outside his district, except those
absolutely mandated by the State
Education Department. I want a
trustee who will speak up for the
people and publicly support individual
views at public- participation
meetings.
I want a " trustee who is aware
that leadership often involves
converting public opinion from an
erroneous attitude to understanding
and acceptance," provided he
makes an attempt to consider
carefully how it appears from the
viewpoint of his critics and lays
the groundwork for a closer personal
relationship and understanding,
and does not use scorn,
ridicule, labels or even racism
in the conversion process.
Finally, I want a trustee who
is sincere, impartial, consistent,
asks for suggestions, admits
mistakes, gives credit where it's
due and above all a man or
woman who is considerate of
others.
In writing these recommendations,
Ihad in mind Mrs. Florence
DeHaan, Mr. Roy Spinetta for
School Board Trustees and for
Library Board Trustee, my
friend and neighbor, Mr„ Warren
W. Altmann.
I therefore urge all my friends,
neighbors and colleagues to vote
for them.
John C. Raffaele
To the Editor:
I am writing regarding the candidacy
of Mr. Paul Tilford to the
Board of the Farmingdale Public
Library.
What are the generally accepted
qualifications for a public
library trustee?
He ( or she) should be a person
of broad interests, and a-ware
of the contributions a good
public library can make toward
a better community. He should
be interested in what libraries
are doing all over the United
States and should know that it
is the public institution that can
give something to everyone in the
community, from thepre- school
child and his story hour to the
adult discussion group, business
men, art groups, music lovers,
high school and college students
and many others. A trustee
should have practical common
sense and be interested in the
best public library that the tax
payer can afford.
During the two years that Mr.
Paul Tilford has served on the
Board of the Farmingdale Public
Library, he has shown that he
has these qualifications and I
strongly recommend his election,
lone R. Musa
To the Editor:
The voters of District 22 are
faced with two alternatives next
Wednesday, May 8th. We can
vote for an incumbent school
board member, Bernard Lang,
who has contributed much to
the Farmingdale educational program
but who is now advocating
an arrangement with the Wyan-danch
School District which could
easily lead to busing of our children
to that district despite Mr.
Lang's protestations to the contrary.
He is also a proponent
of the large centralized school
district philosophy and seems
to think that local school boards
are no longer practical.
We can also vote for a former
school board president of equal
stature who has contributed even
more of her time and effort to
our district but who believes
strongly in the local school board
concept and who would vigorously
oppose any deal that could lead
to busing our children out of the
district, Mrs. Florence DeHaan.
Mr. Lang has convinced me
that given the opportunity, he
would not object to accepting
children from another district.
I contend that this would
eventually result in busing an
equal amount of our children
out of the district. It has happened
elsewhere several times.
This can only cause confusions,
bitterness and an eventual increase
in cost to our district.
The issue has nothing to do with
integration. I would feel the same
if we were asked to accept children
from Bethpage, Massapequa,
Plainview o r elsewhere.
I am not concerned with what
Mr. Lang has done for me over
the past nine years, although I
am grateful. I am concerned with
what he may do for me over the
next three years. Therefore, I
will vote for Mrs. Florence DeHaan
and I urge others to do
likewise.
Don Phelan
To the Editor:
It has happened again. Just
before D i s t r i c t 22 school
elections we find a complete unknown
running against Josephine
Jones, one of our finer school
board trustees. Mrs. Jones announced
her intentions to seek
office months ago. She has declared
her platform and her beliefs
very vividly in press releases,
verbally and in newspaper
interviews. Her opponents,
who in the vernacular, can be
properly termed a " Johnny Come
Lately" is giving the public and
other candidates little opportunity
to examine or question
his beliefs or reasons for running
for election.
Josephine Jones has been an
excellent representative of the
people of our community and she
will continue to be just that.
Mrs. Jones is against busing
children out of our district.
She insists that no students
be bussed into the district unless
there are absolute
guarantees that: There is no
cost to the taxpayers of this
district, planned class sizes are
maintained and the standards of
education in District # 22 are
maintained.
Don't vote for a " Johnny
Come Lately". Join our family
in supporting Mrs. Jones. She's
working for you and the children
of this district.
Mrs. William J. Becker
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Capell
of 7 Birch Ct., East Farming-dale,
spent the week end visiting
with their daughter Audrey,
son- in- law Eddie and grandson
Edward Wozny at Rochester, New
York where Edward is a Junior
at Rochester Institute of Tech-aol,
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