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VOL. 6 No. 22 Second Class Postage has been paid at Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735 JANUARY 30, 1969
School Bd Met With Legislators; Press For Aid
Farmingdale School Board President Mrs.
Lucille Goulding and Trustee A. Thrry
Weathers are pictured discussing Farming-dale's
proposed bills for additional State
Aid for education revenue this year with
Senator Ralph Marino ( extreme right) and
Farmingdale State U
Receives Two Grants
Assemblyman John McCarthy ( second from
left). Assemblyman Martin Ginsberg and
Assemblyman Frank McCloskey and a
representative from Senator Edward Speno's
office also attended the Saturday luncheon,
but were not pictured.
Photo by Claire Studios
At Farmingdale
Totaling $ 104,100
Dr. Charles W. Laffin,
Jr., President of State Uni­versity
at Farmingdale, an­nounced
that two grants
totaling $ 104,100 have been
awarded to the College. Un­der
the Vocational Education
Act of 1963, Farmingdale
has received $ 64,000 to be
used for the acquisition of
five Link aviation trainers
with accompanying instru­ments.
Under Title I of the
Omnibus Crime Control
and Safe Streets Act of
1968, the College has re­ceived
a $ 40,100 grant to
assist Police Science stu­dents
with loans and grants
to complete their studies.
According to Dr. Laffin,
these trainers are to be
used in conjunction with the
Aircraft Operations flight
training option. In com­menting
on the Omnibus
grant, Dr. Laffin said that
the repayment of both the
grants and loans can be
cancelled by future full-time
employment in a public,
state, local or fedgral^ law
enforcement agency.
The loans made under
the Omnibus grant are for up
to $ 1,800 per year to full-time
students. The grants
are for up to $ 600 per year
($ 300 per semester) for part-time
students who are
presently full- time em­ployees
of a publicly funded
law enforcement agency.
The District # 22 Board of Educatior, with bills
for State Aid for Education in mind, invited
State Senators and Assemblymen, as well as
representatives from the PTA, school adminis­tration,
teachers' unions and civic organizations,
to a luncheon meeting on Saturday at the Marc
Pierre Restaurant. Legislators who attended were:
State Senator Ralph Maino, Assemblyman Martin
Gisberg of the 6th Assembly District; Assem­blyman
Francis McCloskey of the 8th Assembly
District; Assemblyman John G. McCarthy
of the 6th Assembly District; and State Senator
Edward Speno sent an administrative aide as his
representative.
The legislative representatives were really on
the hot seat, as observed by all who attended.
Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller had recently
announced a five per cent cut in State Aid for
Education; and teachers' unions have been dis­cussing
raises. Without a single raise, the cost
of education for District 22 will increase due to
population increases and the need for paying
for the additions and improvements on the Farm­ingdale
Senior High School.
L. I. Aggies Will Serve
As Host To 25 Colleges
At Regional Tournament
Planning Bd. Recommends Conklin Downzoning
The Planning Board of the
Village of Farmingdale on
Monday night recommended
to the Village Board of
Trustees that the area on the
north side of Fulton and
Conklin Streets, starting 120
feet west of Clinton Street
and continuing west to a
point approximately 120 feet
of Clinton Street and con­tinuing
west to a point ap­proximately
120 feet easterly
of Merritt Road, to be con­sidered
west to a point ap­proximately
120 feet easter­ly
of Merritt Road, to be con­sidered
as a Business ' G'
District. A public hearing
had been held several weeks
ago with many residents
speaking for the change and
many speaking against.
Planning Board Chairman
Fred Rathgeber, in making
the Planning Board recom­mendations
to Mayor Joseph
Zuerck and the Board of
Trustees at the meet ng on
Monday evening, spoke in
behelf of the Planning Board
members, and enumerated a
series of reasons for their
recommendations.
The Planning Board re­port
pointed up " the gradual
deterioration of the residen-tail
area. Many former resi­dents
had sold their property
mostly to absentee owners.
Contrary to the require­ments
of a Residence ' A'
District ordinance, which
permitted only single- family
use, the new owners rented
the newly acquired property
for multiple family use.
That one home had been
converted to a rooming
house, all without prior
knowledge of the Building
Inspector and the Village
Clerk's office. Tht new ten­ants
failed to remove garbage
cans for a period of days,
never removing snow from
sidewalk areas and in gen­eral,
their lack of concern
over the appearance of the
homes greatly distressed
other property owners in the
area."
The report continued to
state, " Oh at least three or
four occasions, professional
people residing in the area
have made application to the
Board of Appeals to vary
the requirements of resi­dence
in order to practice
their profession, based on
the rearing of children in
proximity of the heavy traf­fic
on Conklin and Fulton
Streets. The Zoning Board of
Appeals has granted some of
the variance requests."
Rathgebercontined: " Other
residents in the area have
periodically complained about
the traffic conditions and
lack of parking facilities,
forcing clients of the pro­fessional
residents to park
on the thoroughfare, and
blocking the driveways of
other residents."
" Further, no building per­mit
applications to improve
any of the residences have
been issued for many years."
One of the main reasons
given for the reommended
change to Business ' G' was
that parking could be pro­vided
to the rear of the
buildings on land which abuts
the right of way of the Long
Island Rail Road main line
and a Nassau County- owned
sump.
( Continued on Page 6 )
The State University at
Farmingdale will serve as
host for the Region III
Recreation Tournament of
the Association of College
Unions- International on Feb­ruary
15- 16.
According to Michael
Fleming, Director of the
Student Union, at least 25
of the 65 member colleges
from Metropolitan New
York and Long Island,
New Jersey, Philadelphia,
Delaware and Puerto Rico,
are expected to come to
Farmingdale.
Students will compete in
bowling, billiards, table ten­nis,
chess and bridge. The
weekend of activities will
begin at 12 noon on Sat­urday,
February 15, and
continue through 11 o'clock
the same night, then resume
following a conference
breakfast the following
day until all winners are
decided. For the Aggies
last year, Victor Doko was
runner- up in table tennis
and the Misses Rochelle Res-ervato
and Donna Sciales
finished first and second in
the women's all- events com­petition.
Coach Bob Hartman's
wrestling team has only one
match this week, tackling
Westchester Community
College on the latter's mats
in Valhalla. On Friday, the
Aggies, who had their vic­tory
skein of three snapped
at the hands of the Orange
County Region SV title-holder,
are favored to repeat
over the upstaters. The
Aggies have won four of
their five matches.
In basketball, Coach
George Matola's quintet is
also visiting Westchester on
the same day as the Aggies'
wrestlers. In their first elev­en
games, Farmingdale has
won seven, lost four, and
outscored its opponents, 1070
to 979.
Fzrmingdale turned back
the challenges of 13 other
colleges in winning the Re­gion
XV, National Junior
College A. A title at Madison
Square Garden. The Ag­gies
upset the favored
Queensborough and Nassau
units, who previously had
turned back the new cham­pions
during the regular
season.
The Aggies rolled 900 or
better in seven of nine
games and averaged 930
pins per game. Farmingdale
also had high series with
2799 in the first match,
had high team game with a
1010 game, and placed
three men in the top five
highest average bowlers.
The men's team joined
Coach Sofia Ellsworth's wom­en's
unit, which captured
both the New York State
and South Eastern Region
A. A. for Junior College
crowns.
More than 250 students
will visit the Pines in South
Fallsburg for the 13th An­nual
Winter Carnival starting
Sunday and continuing
through Tuesday. Skimeister
Broc Dernic will set up the
slalom courses for the ski
races.