L E T T E R S I* mithiiivd from PttgP 4)
dales, ask questions and change
views, on the local issues.
In order to plan the evening's
agenda, it is requested that the
candidates call CII 9- 4867 so that
his name will be placed on the
program for that evening.
The Farmingdalc
Democratic Club
Mildred Delflareo President
To The Editor:
Mr. AltmaiwTs announcement
of his candidacy to our library
board and his recent controvers)'
with the Methodist Church have
stirred several questions in my
mind. The first of these inquiries
is derived from material which
Mr. Altmarm has distributed
about the church and secondly
from a recent article about his
candidacy.
Mr. Altmam made reference
to his service as bom a steward
and a trustee of his church. He
neglected to say, however* that
he resigned as an elected official.
His reasons for resignation
as a trustee he says are
given by one Dr. A. W. Tozer
and include the stand taken by
the annual conference of the
Methodist Church. Firstly, Dr.
Tozer slates - '• the business
of the church is to know God,
to honor him, to promote his
interest, etc., there Is none secondary."
" That the church should
keep itself unspotted from the
world and whatever the consequences
every local church
should follow Christ, rejecting
trumped- up schemes and man
made programs.*' These are high
sounding phrases and undoubtedly
well intentioned. There are very-few
of us who favor the mingling
of church and state yet none
can deny that we hope the basic
beliefs of our religious leaders
will inspire our political leaders.
I ask Mr. Altmann, did Jesus
keep himself unspotted from the
world? Was he an obscure ascetic
expounding a philosophy that he
didnt live? I'ex haps we differ
in our interpretation but if the
church were to remain unspotted
then it would like Gray's desert
flower, " bloom unseen and waste
its sweetness on the desertair."
Secondly, in June of 1966 the
Methodist Church at its annual
conference re- affirmed its endorsement
of several well known
Civil Rights groups. One of these
groups today is led by a most
questionable representative of
me Negro people. The statement
of principles of the 1966 Conference
went to the printer on
April 1 of 1966. At this time,
toe leader of this group was a
moderate. Mr. Altmann took his
church to task in August of 1967
for making a commitment in
April of 1966 on an issue which
wasnt even relevant at the time
it was made. To suggest that the
Methodist Church supports civil
disobedience or encourages
racial violence is missing the
point. The Methodist Church like
all other Christian churches supports
a belief in the brotherhood
of man.
Another inquiry pertains to
Mr. Altmann's qualifications as
our library board candidate. An)'
citizen has a right to candidacy'
and I dont believe that a college
education is a requirement
but as he listed education at
two local universities as a qualification
I am curious to know
which degree he has that pertains
to his qualifications as a
trustee and why he thinks that
he can best serve this community
as a library board trustee. I
would like to know more about
his feelings with reference to
the " John Birch Society" and
his attitude toward censorship
of material. I expect every candidate
will have opinions on these
current and prevalent issues.
Inquiring as an
interested citizen,
Richard L. Fyfe
Paler Dateline
By Robert Perinetti
The life of a great leader,
Martin Luther King, was snuffed
out by an assassins bullet on a
Thursday evening last week. The
news of tins incident greatly
shocked the teachers and students
of FJIJS. There were mixed emotions
in the school. Some people
felt that Martin Luther King was
not a great leader. Many others
felt that he was a great man. He
was a true leader of the Negro
people and could have accomplished
much for them.
I also saw him as a great man.
ft i s true that violence did follow
him. But he did not want it; he was
a man of peace. He had a dream;
not just for toe Negro people, but
for all people.
On Friday, tribute was paid to
him at Fl IS. During lunch periods
the lecture hall was set up so
one could sit down and meditate.
Also, after school a memorial
service was held. On Tuesday
during the funeral service,
the auditorium was set up for the
same reason as the lecture hall.
Martin Luther King was truly a
great man and his death is a tragic
loss to the country. He was the
man on whose shoulders the
future of race relations might
have rested. As one teacher remarked,
" In the last five years
we have witnessed the assassinations
of two great men, John F.
Kennedy and Martin Luther King.
Luncheonette
Burglarized
Hrownie's Luncheonette at 693
South Main Street, South Farm-ingdale
was burglarized with a
reported loss of 148 cartons of
cigarettes valued at $ 370, according
to Eighth Precinct Police.
The burglars broke in through
a rear window sometime between
7 p. m. on Sunday and early Monday
morning.
Arrest Youth For
Stealing Auto
Police arrested Odell Collier,
19, of Wyandanch and charged him
with the unauthorized use of a
motor vehicle owned by Kent
Ahrens of 9 Pauline Drive, Farm-ingdale.
Pair Charged
With Theft
Peter Wagner, 16, of 143 Mid-wood
Avenue, and Michael Ves-poli,
16, of 32 Eagle Lane, both
of South Farmingdale were arrested
and charged with mird
degree burglary at 41 Eagle Lane.
The complainant, Arthur F. Spad-alik
reported $ 109 in U. S. currency
missing.
Father And Son Night
Father and Son Night will be
the feature at St. KiHan's Holy
Name Society's Monday, April
15th meeting. Slated for 8: 30
p. m. at the Conklin St., school.
Plan Dedication
Of Jewish Center
Plans for dedication of the new
synagogue addition to the Farmingdale
Jewish Center are being
made for Sunday, May 5 at 4 p. m.
Rabbi Mordecai Wax man of Great
Neck will be the main speaker.
Upon the opening of the new
addition, the Farmingdale Jewish
Center address will be 425 Fulton
Street instead of Prospect Street
and Cobb Place.
Library Board
Meeting Rescheduled
The regular April meeting of
the Farmingdale Public Library
Board of Trustees, which was
postponed from the second Tuesday
due to the services of Dr.
Martin Luther King, has been rescheduled
for Tuesday, April 16th
at 8: 30 P. M. in the South Farmingdale
Branch Library.
Candidates Invited to FJC
Forum
School and library board can-di
lates will speak at a Candidates
Forum at the Farmingdale
Jewish Center on Wednesday,
April 24 at 8: 30 p. m. at the
Farmingdale Jewish Center.
As We See It
By H i l l a rd P Boss and
Charles Gerston
Last week this column presented,
as a public service, a profile
of Paul Tilford, the incumbent
candidate for the Library Board,
ft was our hope that we could
follow this article with similar
profiles on the background and
views of Mr. Tilford's two announced
opponents, Arthur James
and Warren Altmann. Our efforts,
however, to interview these two
candidates, have met with failure.
Yet we still feel that tho community
deserves to know something
about their views. In light
of the refusal of Mr. James and
Mr. Altmann to grant us the
interview we requested, we are
forced to turn to theirpast statements
in order to present some
of their ideas to the voters.
It was quite difficult to find out
exactly what Mr. James' views
are. He announced his candidacy
almost a month ago, but he has
yet to say why he wants to run
or announce a platform. However,
this is old hat with Mr. James.
Last year he also ran for the
Library Board, and the only written
public statement he made
appeared in a brief biographical
statement to this newspaper. Mrc
James announced that he was
running because as a teacher of
English for 12 years he believes
that the " role of the free public
library in a free society can be
enhanced by one whose interests
have been primarily in the field
of education and books." So there
you have it! Mr. James wants the
more than 20,000 tax payers of
our library district to vote for
him because he is a teacher and
likes books.
A little research however, has
uncovered an additional indication
of Mr. James' views. In the
May 11, 1967 issue of NEWSDAY,
Mr. James was interviewed in a
story headlined " How Did the
First Bircher Win In Farming-dale?"
He described himself as
a " New England Conservative
who is in basic agreement with
Gorton's philosophies." ( Gorton,
as some readers might recall,
is Carl Gorton, who as a member
of the John Birch Society, was
elected to the Farmingdale Library
Board last May). James
goes on to say that he is ( a)
against censorship, but ( b) he
would keep from library shelves
the kind of books that the " average
boy and girl does not have
the maturity or reading background
for." Everything clear?
Mr. James is apparently proud
of the fact that he received 1,039
votes last year without campaign -
ing. He is obviously planning on
using the same bold strategy this
year. If he is trying to prove
that a candidate can win a local
election by saying nothing and
thereby antagonizing no one, Mr.
James makes an interesting academic
point. It's just too bad
that his experiment has to involve
the library needs of our
citizens.
As for Warren Altmann, when
we contacted him to request an
interview he at first expressed
a willingness to talk to us providing
that we first submit the
questions we would ask, and then
allow him to read the article
before it was published. We
agreed, and sent Mr. Altmann 13
questions dealing with such matters
as his background and qualifications,
past service to the
community, platform, and his
views on the library expansion,
the financial situation, and the
censorship problem. We even
gave him the opportunity to refute
the vicious rumor that he is
one of the founding fathers of
DEBT.
On the day of the planned interview,
Mr. Altmann changed his
mind and cancelled the interview.
Once again we were forced to go
to the candidate's past statements
to obtain his views.
We've re- read two letters sent
by Mr. Altmann to the local
press on the library situation.
On August 10, 1967, Mr. Altmann
criticized the trustees of the
Library Board for resubmitting
the library budget after it was
twice voted down. And on September
21, 1967, Mr. Altmann announced
that he opposed using
$ 34,000 collected in fines and fees
to build new shelves in the branch
library. If Mr. Altmann had permitted
our interview we certainly
would have asked him whether
he felt the taxpayers would prefer
to finance the construction
of a new library.
On the basis of these two letters
it seems that the library
patrons are confronted with a
candidate for the library board
who opposes the passage of library
budgets as well as necessary
expansion.
Daler Resident Assaulted, Robbed
Arnold Smith of 155 Main
Street, Farmingdale reported to
the Eighth Precinct Police that he
was assaulted by two unknown
white males and robbed of $ 80
in United States currency.
Eighth Precinct p o l i c e arrested
Michael Grimaldi, 18 of
58 Park Avenue, Amityville and
charged him with first degree
robbery.
LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF ANNUAL SCHOOL
DISTRICT MEETING
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the annual meeting of the inhabitants
of Union Free School
District No, 22, Towns of Oyster
Bay and Babylon, Counties of
Nassau and Suffolk, New York,
qualified to vote at school meetings
in said district, will be
held in the auditorium of the
Weldon Howitt Junior High
School, Van Cott and Grant Avenues,
Farmingdale, New York,
in said school district, on May
7, 1968 at 8: 30 o'clock P. M.
( DST), for the purpose of discussing
the school budget, public
library appropriation, and youth
council appropriation for the
ensuing fiscal year, and for the
transaction of such business a-is
authorized by the Education
Law*
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER
NOTICE that at the conclusion
of the meeting on May 7, 1968,
the same will be adjourned until
10 o'clock A. M. ( DST) Wed
nesday, May 8, 1968 at the gym
nasium, Weldon Howitt Junior
High School, for the purpose
of voting, between the hours of
10: 00 o'clock A. M. ( DST) to 10: 00
o'clock P. M. ( DST) on the fol
lowing separate matters: ( 1) the
school budget for the ensuing fis-
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cal year; ( 2) the public library
appropriation for the ensuing fiscal
year; ( 3) the youth council
appropriation for the ensuing fis-
Cril v 0 3r
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER
NOTICE that at the meeting of
May 8, 1968, two ( 2) members
are to be elected to the Board
of Education as follows:
One member is to be elected
for a full term to fill the vacancy
created bv the expiration of the
term of JOSEPHINE JONES,
whose term of office expires
on June 30, 1968.
One member is to be elected
for a full term to fill the vacancy
created by the expiration
of the term ol BERNARD LANG,
whose term of office expires
on June 30, 1968.
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER
NOTICE that one ( 1) trustee is
to be elected to the Board of
Trustees of the Farmingdale
l* ublic Library at said meeting
of May 8, 19* 18, as follow-:
One member is to be elected
for a full term of five ( 5) years
to fill the vacancy created by the
expiration of the term of PAUL
1TLFOH1), whose term of office
expires Of] June 30, 1968.
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER
NOTICE that all nominating petitions
of candidates for the office
of member of the Board
of Education and candidates for
the office of the member of the
Board of Trustees shall be filed
with the Clerk of the District
not later than April 24, 1968.
A separate petition shall be required
to nominate a candidate
to each separate office. Each petition
shall be directed to the
Clerk of the School District, shall
state the residence of the candidate
and shall describe the specific
vacancy on the Board of
Education and Board of Trustees
for winch the candidate is
nominated, which description
shall include at least the length
of the term of office and the name
of the last incumbent, if any*
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE
that each person entitled
ote must be registered. Registration
dates and hours are
• follows;
Wednesday, April 24, L968
10: 00 A. M. to 10: 00 P. M.
Saturday, April 27, 1968
10: 00 A, M. to 10: 00 P. M.
Said registration shall be held
at the Weldon Howitt Junior High
School, Van Cott and Grant Ave
nues, Farmingdale, New York.
The Register of the qualified
voters of said District
prepared at the last Annual District
Meeting and Election held
on May 2 and 3, 1967, and the Register
prepared for the Special
District Meetings held on June
10, 1967, August 29, 1967 and
February 10, 1968, shall be used
by said Board of Registration
as the basis for the preparation
of the Register for said Annual
Meeting, Any person whose
name appears on such Register
or who shall have been previously
registered for any Annual
or Special District Meeting
or Election and who shall
have voted at any Annual or
Special District Meeting or Election
held or conducted at any time
within two ( 2) years prior to
the preparation of the Register
for this Annual District Meeting
will not be required to register
personally for this Annual
District Meeting,
The Board of Registration will
meet during Uie Annual Meeting
and Flection of the District at the
place where tin annual meeting
and election are held for the
purpose of preparing a register
for- meetings or elections to
be held more than thirty ( 30)
days subsequent to this annual
meeting and election,
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER
NOTICE that the register will
be open for inspection by any
qualified voter of the school district
between the hours of 9: 00
o'clock A. M. and 4: 00 o'clock
P. M. ( prevailing time) during
the five days immediately preceding
the annual meeting, except
Sunday.
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE
that a copy of the proposed
budget for the ensuing
fiscal year 1968/ 69 may be obtained
by any taxpayer at the
office of the District Clerk, 521
Conklin Street, Farmingdale,
New York, and offices of the
principals of Farmingdale Senior
High School, Weldon Howitt
Junior High School, Mill Lane
Junior High School, Main Street
School, woodward Parkway
School, Last Farmingdale Memorial
School, \ lbany Avenue
School, Parkway Oaks School
and Northside School, at any
time during the period of seven
( 7) days immediately preceding
the annual meeting, between
the hours of 9: 00 o'clock
\. M. and 4: 00 o'clock P. M.( prevailing
time), Monday thrcxigh
Friday, inclusive.
Dated: April 8, 196 «
BY ORDER OF THF
BOARD OF EDUCATION
Veronica Hansen,
District Clerk
# 480 4T Observer April 11, 18
25, Ma\ 2j 1968,
Farmingdale OBSERVER, Thursday, April 11, 1968
