1965-09-09

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SERVING GREATER FARMINGDALE. BETHPAGE & MELVILLE
Vol. 2 No. 43 Second Class Postage has been paid at Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735 Thursday, September 9, 1965
GOP FIGHT IT OUT
TUESDAY PRIMARY
Ginsberg Demands Phone
Company Cut Rates
The New York Telephone Com­pany
is arrogantly ignoring its
3,600 customers in Old Beth-page
and parts of Farmingdale
and Massapequa who have valid
complaints that they pay " long
distance rates for short distance
calls, " MartinGinsberg, Presi­dent
of the Plainview Chamber
of Commerce and Republican-
Liberal candidate in the new 9th
Assembly District, charged to­day.
For months, he said, Nassau
r e s i d e n t s with MYrtle 4 and
CHapel 9 phone numbers, have
protested vigorously but in vain,
that they a r e c h a r g e d ex­cessively
high bills because the
phone company claims the two
exchanges are in Suffolk County.
These Nassau residents are
also faced with dangerous con­fusion
Ginsberg said, because
police and fire emergency calls
are at times mistakenly routed
to Suffolk departments instead
of the proper Nassau one.
The phone company when
finally prodded into saying some­thing,
has vaguely said the whole
thing is a " local matter," Gins­berg
asserted and does not con­cern
the company's high officials.
" I have sent a letter to the
New York State Public Service
Commission demanding they call
an immediate public hearing on
this matter," Ginsberg declared.
" The PSC as the agency charged
with overseeing public utilities
and regulating them, is the proper
agency to hear this and to order
the phone company to act pro­perly
and responsibly to these
aggrieved Nassau residents."
" i urge them as strongly as
I know," he added, " to call
a hearing and listen to these
complaints. They will then, I
am certain, act in the best in­terests
of these 3,600 residents
of Nassau County."
$ 1,000,000 FIRE
Many Farmingdale residents
rushed out to see the reason for
the fire sirens Tuesday night and
expecially the big fireball in
the sky as they looked toward
Route 109 in East Farmingdale.
The spectacular blaze swept
through an industrial develop­ment
destroying a lumber yard,
nine freight cars and 11 ice cream
trucks causing one million
dollars of damage.
The fire broke out at the
Ajayem Lumber Corporation on
Gear Avenue, East Farmingdale
at about 8: 15 p. m. and swept
through the industrial area and
was a blaze seen from far and
near for over three hours. F i r e ­men
responded from East Far­mingdale,
Amityville, Babylon,
Copiague, North Amityville,
North Babylon, North Linden-hurst,
West Babylon Wyandanch
Farmingdale and Bethpage. The
fire was fed by piles of lumber.
It swept by the Long Island Rail­road
siding destroying the rail­road
freight cars and the ice
cream trucks owned by Good
Humor. Hoses were spread a-cross
a runway at Zahns air­port
and the Farmingdale CAP
came to the aid of the dangerous
traffic condition caused by many
siidit seers.
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Several of the 1,400 Weldon E. Howltt Junior High School students who
began classes on Wednesday of this week. A new addition, now under con­struction,
will accommodate an additional 1,000 students in September
1966. Additions to the Albany Avenue, Woodward Parkway and Parkway
Oaks schools were ready for opening day sessions. The Main Street renova­tion
was also completed in time.
Primary Day, Tuesday, September 14 is an im­portant
date for Republicans in this area.
The contest, Town of Oyster Bay wide in Repub­lican
circles, is for Councilmatic candidates. The
Republican organization designees are: Angelo
Roncallo of 222 Toronto Ave., Massapequa, Frank
Hynes of 60 Bethpage Road Farmingdale and Ralph
J. Marino of Gilbert Court, East Norwich. Although
they are not incumbents, they have each held
positions in the Republican organization and have
served in governmental capacities. Roncallo, a
Massapequa attorney is Republican leader of the
Massapequa Zone and has served as counsel for
the Joint Legislative Committee on Motor Boat.
Frank Hynes is the Republican Leader of Farming-dale
and has served and is still the Receiver of
Taxes of the Town of Oyster Bay. Ralph Marino is
a Republican Committeeman and is a trustee of the
Oyster Bay - East Norwich Board of Education.
He has been a practicing attorney in Oyster Bay
since 1955.
The insurgent Republican, who is a candidate
at large is Walter W. Cox of 260 Park Boulevard,
Massapequa Park. He is a Republican Committee­man.
He is also founder of the new Republican Club
of Massapequa Park. He is running Independent.
The ticket is headed by Edwin J. Fehrenbach of
14 Manchester Drive, Bethpage who has served as
Assemblyman of the Town of Oyster Bay and the
City of Glen Cove, for the past eight years. He is
being opposed by George Gruber of 215 North Walnut
North Massapequa, a Conservative candidate and
incumbent Democratic Supervisor of the Town of
Oyster Bay Michael M. Petito who has the Liberal
endorsement. Fehrenbach has no primary battle -
In North Massapequa there is a contest in the
9th Ed. of the 8th A. D. Incumbent Frank Scro is
being opposed by insurgent Bill Schilt and Thomas
Burriciello, the Republican designee is being op­posed
by insurgent Thomas O'Mara. Voters in this
area cast their ballot at the Albany Avenue School.
Other polling places in the North Massapequa
Zone where registered Republicans can cast their
vote on the Republican councilmatic candidates are
East Plain, Schwarting and Southedge schools in
Plainedge and at Albany Avenue school. The polls
are open 12 noon to 9 p. m.
The week of September 12-
19 was proclaimed Midget Foot­ball
Week in Farmingdale by
Mayor Joseph Zureck.
The proclamation reads:
WHEREAS: The Farmingdale
Midget Football Association
looks forward to another year
of operation, and
WHEREAS: Midget football is a
program of recreation, created
to appeal to young boys, age
9 through 13 inclusive, and
WHEREAS: Midget football
stresses the importance oi \
physical fitness, individual and
team effort, and
WHEREAS: Midget football is a
program supervised and di­rected
by adult citizens of our
community, who voluntarily
contribute of their time, knowl­edge
and effort.
NOW, THEREFORE, ( JOSEPH
ZURECK, Mayor of Farming-dale
do hereby proclaim the
week of September 12th through
September 18th as Midget Foot­ball
week in Farmingdale.