1962-05-16

              DESIGNATED AS AN OFFICIAL.
NEWSPAPER BY THE
INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF
FARMINGDALE
SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 22
PLAINEDGE
SCHOOL, DISTRICT NO. 18
SERVING PLAINEDGE, BETH-*
PAGE AND THE GREATER
FARMINGDALE AREA.
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server Farmingdale s Most Complete Newspaper
VOL. 3 N O . 24 Wednesday, May 16, 1962 Massapequa Park, L . I . 2nd Class Posfsgs paid at Massapeiua Park 10$
Farmingdale Post Office To Be Dedicated Sunda u
The new Farmlngdale U. S. Post Office which will have Its dedication on Sunday, May
20 at 2 P. M. A special program with guest speakers has been planned.
Leo Morgan, Postmaster, appears in the upper right hand corner of the picture.
When Four Vehicles Meef June 23rd Date Set for School, Library,
IZtge ^ Lracn Youth Council Budgets Votes
A four vehicle collision, which was reported as being caused by
faulty brakes involved three trucks ( one of which carried six new
cars) and a passenger car last Wednesday afternoon at die corner of
Main and Fulton Streets. Two passengers in die cab of one of die
truck jumped before the moment of the impact. ( Photo by R. Miller)
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§ Registration for the newly # 22 who a r e ages 13 or 14, a r e=
= formed Farmlngdale Pony and Colt
j | Leagues will be held on Thursday,
= May 17 from 6: 30 to 9 p. m. at
jjf Woodward Parkway School.
= Boys who live in School District
eligible for die Pony League and=
15 and 16 year olds for the Colt=
League. §
For further information, call =
Robert Oakes at CHapel 9- 6280.=
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The Farmingdale Board of
Trustees Monday night discussed
the drainage project and reported
that diey were ready to award
contracts for work on Hillside,
Anita and Frirview Avenues,
Faxiidngdule.
Mayor Joseph Brune also an­nounced
that a meeting was set
for Friday with the Public Works
Department of Nassau County to
try to work out a committment
from the County for die completion
of die sump and drainage line to
connect Melville Road to Main
Street.
The Village has also com­missioned
die engineering firm
of Vorhees and Co. to survey die
project of the widening of Main
Street. The County of Nassau will
pay for the actual project, but
not the engineering planning, it
was learned.
The Village Board adopted the
1% utility tax on utilities, which
will add monies to die Village
Treasury from The Long Island
Lighting Co. and The New York
Telephone Co.
The Board of Education of District # 22, which
suffered a defeat of the school, library and Farm-ingdale
Youth Council budgets for the first time in
i t ' s history, ra< it Tuesday night and decided by u -
nanimous vote, to put up June 23, a referendum to '
the voters with the following four propositions on
the ballot; 1, a revised school district budget; 2, a
transportation proposition to change the ten mile
radius to 15 miles from the edge of the District to a
parochial or private school without designating the
amount of monies to be spent and not to become ef­fective
until September, 1963; the Farmingdale
Public Library budget ( without a change); and a r e ­vised
Farmingdale Youth Council budget.
Registration dates were set tor for Monday, June 4th, will give
Tuesday, June 12 and Saturday, the voters a chance to suggest
June 16 from 12 noon to 10 p. m. changes - both additions and sub-
Upon die suggestion of Board tractions, and tiiat the Board will
Member Joseph Kenney, the re- be flexible.
vised budget will not be called Board Member A. Terry W eath-
' tentative* or ' proposed' so diat ers told this reporter that the eat J -
the public hearing, which was set ( Continued on page 7)
Chevrolet, $ 1000 and $ 500 Prizes Spur Contestants
The BIGGEST circula­tion
drive ever attempted
by any newspaper in this
area, is now in full swing.
THE OBSERVER, which
i s intent on increasing i ts
readership by securing
the largest number of paid
subscribers of any week­ly
newspapers in this sec­tion
of Nassau County is
going a l l out in this gigan­t
ic effort. The usual hum
drum methods of " noth­ing"
give- aways has gone
by the boards.
The latest incentive in
this REALLY big promo­tion,
is that your favorite
organization of charity
can receive up to 45% of
subscription monies. Top
prizes include a 1962
Chevrolet ( from Bast
Chevrolet, Sunrise High­way,
Seaford), a $ 1000
second prize and $ 500,
third prize - going to the
to the three top contest­ants
piling up the most
points in the drive. Could
you ask for anything
more?
Throughout the area
served by THE MASSA­PEQUA
- PARK - MASSA­PEQUA
OBSERVER and
THE FARMINGDALE-BETHPAGE
OBSERVER ,
the big topic of conversa­tion
is: " Who will win the
BIG P r i z e s ? " The ques­tion
is particularly fore­most
in the minds of the
21 enrolled workers.
Contestants a r e signing
up present OBSERVER
subscribers and extending
their subscriptions to
garner additional points in
the contest as well as
bringing in a host of new
subscribers. Of course
the subscribers are
smart, because not only
a r e they saving money b e ­fore
the new higher sub­script
ion r a t e s go into ef­fect
at the close of this
contest, but they can in­dicate
their favorite char­ity
to which an additional
percent is donated in their
name.
Instead of waiting for
a contestant to call, many
readers are mailing and
bringing their subscrip­tions
in person to one of
The Observer offices at
either 1012 Park Boule­vard,
Massapequa Park
or to 465 Main Street The race i s very close
Farmingdale. The con- a" s of this week, and the
testant'sname may be in- leader should be over-dicated
to whose credit taken by about eight others
the Subscriber SO Wishes. ( Continued on Page 4)
Charles Bast ( left) oi Bast Chevrolet. Sealord is pictured above
presenting the keys to a new 1962 2 door Chevrolet to Observer
Publisher Frank J. KJesh. The car will go to the Observer contestant
who piles up the most points in the subscription campaign drive now on.
( nhtr prizes include > 1000 and $ 500 cash to second and third place
winners. ( See ad on page 11 )
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