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Vol. 2 No. 11 Second Class Postage has been paid at Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735 Thursday, November 4, 1965
Voters Keep Petito As Supervisor
REPUBLICANS SWEEP
EXCEPT FOR FEHRENBACH It was a Republican sweep, except for the Town
Supervisor's post, but few seemed to know about it
in Farmingdale on Election Night. There was
gloom in the Republican headquarters in Massape-qua
Park and Massapequa and even in North Mas-sapequa
where the returns for Edwin J. Fehren­bach
were disappointing, but at 3 a. m. in the morning
it was found that the Republicans had won from the
Mineola tabulations.
The Farmingdale Republicans brought in safe
pluralities for the entire ticket except for Edwin
J. Fehrenbach who poiied 4091 votes in Farming-dale.
Petito garnered 3965 on the Democrat line
and 175 on the Liberal line for a total of 4144 votes.
Farmingdale* s own Frank Hynes, who was running
on the Republican ticket for Town of Oyster Bay
Councilman was the high winner having polled
4530 votes. Marino garnered 4381 votes and
ROnCallO 4 3 6 5 . ( See election tally on page 5 for more details)
The Republican Councilman candidates ended up
with a clear cut plurality in the Massapequa, North
Massapequa and Massapequa Park districts, while
Michael N. Petito incumbent Democrat Supervisor
won in Massapequa with a margin of 1,234 votes;
in Massapequa Park with 388 and in North Mas­sapequa
with 964. In the total Town of Oyster Bay
count with Petito pulling an extra support from the
North Shore, Petito won with a 5,475 plurality.
Petito polled 51,040 votes to Fehrenbach ( R)' s
45,565. The Conservative candidate, George W.
Gruber polled 4,353 votes.
A smiling but disappointed Ed Fehrenbach has a
kiss for his wife Lillian election night as the
returns were indicating a Democrat win for in­cumbent
Supervisor Michael N. Petito. CPOIH » M Photo)
The Town of Oyster Bay final
tabulations in Mineola showed a
victorious picture of Republicans
in Nassau County with the excep­tion
of Fehrenbach who had lost
to incumbent Democrat Petito
and the incumbent Sheriff hav­ing
won.
Martin Ginsberg, Republican
candidate for the * Hh A->\--. ibly
District polled 15,847 votes on
the Republican line and 1,349
votes on the Liberal line while
Murray Rosenthal, Democrat
candidate polled 14,458 votes
and Patrick Murphy, the Con­servative
gained 2,369 votes.
Ginsberg was the only Assembly
candidate on the Republican line
with Liberal endorsement.
In the Eight District Francis
Mc Closkey, Republican polled
16,659 votes to Henry A. Rigali's
13,399 on the Democrat ticket
and 799 on the Liberal ticket.
Francis Wells, Conservative
polled 2,872 votes. Mc. Closkey
had served as an assemblyman
before but had been defeated
last year.
William Burns in the 7th As­sembly
District polled 15,615
votes while the Rev. John W.
Lee with both Democrat and Li­beral
votes polled 11,490 while
Conservative Candidate Robert
L. Stevenson garnered 1,851
votes.
The Republicans gained con­trol
of the New York State Sen­ate
and Senator Henry, M. Curran
of the 4th Senatorial District who
had had such a close vote last
year garnered one of the highest
pluralities in Nassau County.
Curran who had Liberal as well
as Republican endorsement. Cur­ran
polled 49,532 votes on the
Republican and the Liberal line.
His combined Democratic oppon­ent,
Vincent B. Frontero polled
35,242 votes while the Conser­vative
candidate NowlC. Crowley
polled 3,978.
In the Third Senatorial Dis­trict
Elisha Barrett, Republican
polled 46,066 votes; Democrat-
Liberal William K. Woods 34,211
and Conservative Milton Turk:
4,712 votes.
The charter revision proposal
calling for reorganization of the
Nassau County Hoard of Super­visors
was defeated with the nays
158,104 to the yes: 145,728. The
proposition to make the office of
county sheriff an appointive
rather than an elective job was
passed.
Republican candidate Kenneth
B. Keating won election to the
State's highest court by the
largest plurality in his career
having won by 2 million votes.
High man on the ticket was in­cumbent
Republican Town Clerk,
William ' Bud' O'Keefe who polled
49,682 votes to his Democratic
opponent's total of 43,774; 41,-
179 being on the Democrai
and 2,595 on the Liberal Line.
Leading Councilman Candidate
was Ralph J. Marino ( R) who
polled 49,188 votes; to be followed
closely by Frank P. Hynes ( R)
49,169 and Angelo Roncallo's ( R)
total of 48,184.
Democrat- Liberal Councilman
polled as follows: James A. Rous-maniere
44,944; Mary A Motta:
44,397; Myron N. Steinberg 43,-
765.
The Conservative candidates
polled over 5,000 a piece.
Petito said, " Fehrenbach was
a worthy and formidable oppon­ent,
respected. The vote showed
that the people in the Town of
Oytser Bay won't want a one party
system.' 7 I will continue to do
the best I can for the Town, and
will be helped by Suburban Town
law giving the Supervisor more
power this year. However, I am
disappointed that I will not have
Democratic support on the Town
Board. I am deeply grateful for
the confidence that the people
have shown in me."
• " Fehrenbach conceded defeat
early at his Bethpage Campaign
headquarters. He speculated that
his vote as an assemblyman for
th « state sales tax was an insur­mountable
obstacle. " Petito ran
on the basis of my vote on the
sales tax instead of on his record
as supervisor. But I have no com­plaints
and i talk about it with­out
rancor. That's politics that's
a l l ."
Fehrenbach and his wife have
already left for a two week va­cation
in Florida, after receiving
the offer of Vice Presidency with
the Hempstead Banks, where he has
been serving as director of pub­lic
relations.
Petito and his wife plan to leave
for a one week vacation following
the Town of Oyster Bay budget
hearings today.
FULL SUPPORT of United States policy on Viet Nam was dra­matically
symbolized by this tableau depicting the flag raising
at Iwo Jima during the mass march down Fifth Avenue in New
York City last Saturday by students from State University's
Agricultural and Technical College at Farmingdale. Manning
the float are from left Robert Bottcher, mechanical technology
student, Robert Weckerle, biological technology student, Vincent
M icucci, construction technology student and Lewis Morley, chemical
technology student.