1962-05-09

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Action Started On Budgets; To
Be Resubmitted To Voters
Action began in many quarters in District # 22 by interested citizens, concerned
parents, members of the Farmingdale Board of Education, the Board of Trustees
of the Farmingdale Public Library, and the Farmingdale Youth Council to seek
means to resubmit the budgets, which suffered defeat last week at the polls, to
the voters.
F'daleFire Department
Concert May 11
Pictured above is Chief Rocco Posillico of the Farmingdale Fire De­partment
holding the trophy awarded tothe Department for 2nd place for
the best appearing Department with less than 40men. The smiling man
at the right is Kenneth Wolf, Librarian of the Farmingdale Fire Depart­ment
Band, displaying a trophy for best appearing Department Band.
These awards were made following the parade for the Centennial
Celebration for the Protection Engine Company # 1 of the Huntington
Fire Department held at Huntington on Sunday, May 6th.
'" Mef Posilli ' o mentioned Ibis is the first award in this category
received by the department since 1949.
Receiving First Buddy Poppy
Mrs. Anne Nuzzi, newly elected president of the V. F. W. Auxiliary
and Mayor Joseph Brune receiving die first Buddy Poppy from Mrs.
Ann Trudden, chairman of the Poppy Drive for the Auxiliary.
The annual Benefit Concert of
the Farmingdale Fire Department
Band will be held Friday night,
May lldi at 8: 15 p. m. in the Main
Street School Auditorium.
The proceeds from the ticket
sale are used for scholarship funds
for deserving high school
graduates who wish to further their
musical education. Auditions for
the scholarships will be held in
the near future.
The program will include con­cert
music under the direction of
James Alduino and Dance Band
Selections conducted by Roger
Sherman. Guest soloist will be
Paul Sabastianelli, one of last
year's scholarship awardwinners.
Another highlight of the evening
will be the presentation of the
How They Voted
Incumbents Ethel 4tocchio and
Edward McNally went down to
defeat in School District # 22, along
with the school, library, andYduth
Council budgets. Wednesday night
G. Roger Cahaney garnered 1,984
votes and George Schriro 1,958
to Rocchio's 1,317 and McNally's
1.302.
The unprecedented defeat of the
school budget showed only 1,295
in favor while 1,929 were opposed.
The library budget went down by
a slim margin of 81 votes, with
1,558 voting ' yes* and 1,639 voting
• no'. The Farmingdale Youth
Council vote also'hit the dusr'with
the vote tally showing 1,460 in
favor and 1,733 opposed. The
biggest defeat came in the prop-:
osition to extend transportation
to private and parochial schools
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John Philip Sousa Award to James
Alduino, Concert Conductor of the
Department Band for his musical
accomplishments.
Tickets are available from any
member of the Band, The Music
Box, 398 Conklin Street, The
Farmingdale Music Center, 135N.
Main Street, Norman's Stationery,
326 Main Street and The Office
of the Observer, 465 Main Street.
Van Nostrand
Awarded $ 5 00
Scholarship
Philip C. Van Nostrand, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Van Nos­trand
of Prospect Street, Farm­ingdale,
was one of eight who re­ceived
a $ 500 scholarship award,
presented by New York Mayor
Wagner at ceremonies held at
CitvHalL L
The Board of Education was
scheduled to meet Wednesday eve­ning,
( tonight) in an executive s e s ­sion,
along with the two newly-elected
Board members, George
Schriro and G. Roger Cahaney
( who have been invited to sit in
on the deliberations, although they
do not take office until July 1),
to decide whether to accept the
austerity budget mandated by New
York State, or whether it is pos­sible
to cut any more from the
budget and resubmit it to the
voters - or to resubmit the bud­get
intact to die voters.
The propositions can not be
legally put on the ballot before
June 1, since ii is required by
law that a legal notice of the
propositions be published for four
weeks prior to the vote.
According to Board President,
Mrs. Florence DeHaan. Vie budget
cannot be slashed anymore, " be­cause
the Board presented a near
austerity budget to the voters. " I
mink the damage has been done.
Everything had been done already
in slashing the budget before it
was presented to the voters -
everything possible, that is, with­out
hurting the education of the
children." *
When asked whether the strike at
Republic bad a bad affect on the
vote in District # 22, Mrs. De
Haan said, " I don't think so. But
what I do blame are the banks
who send out new mortgage in­stallment
books with increased
monthly payments two or three
weeks prior to the vote, and a
raise in payments without an ex­planation.
It seems a shame that
the banks do not issue an ex­planation
of monthly installment
hikes. If the facts were known by
( Continued on page 16)
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