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An Official Newspaper of The Incorporated Village of Farmingdale — Serving Greater Farmingdale, Bethpage and Melville
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Vol. 7 No. 15 Second Class Postage has been paid at Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735 Thursday, December 4, 1969
DOGS TO PROTECT
DISTRICT The School District 22 Board of Education, this week approved the
use of guard dogs for building security beginning this Saturday. A six-month
trial use has been arranged with Universal K- 9 Security, In­corporated,
at a cost of $ 4,000 for two unnamed schools. Dogs will be
used in addition to the regular security patrol now operating in this
district. The move was made to offset an increase in break and entry
and vandalism.
At present, an around- the- clockcleaning schedule is supplemented
by use of the security force on certain weekend and holiday periods.
The dogs will be in use only during periods when buildings are not in
use by students or other authorized groups.
The school district has joined at least five other Long Island school
districts in using the canine security patrol. Dogs are now in use in the
Brentwood, Middle Country, Sachem, Malverne and Copiague
J:_. • . » T • » M u cuau provides dogs for a supermarket chain,
several nationally- known retail stores and the Long Island Lighting
Company, it was learned.
The dogs were demonstrated to pupils in a limited number of
schools. Children saw how the dogs will refuse food, when offered by
anyone other than the trainer. The dogs, used in pairs, can keep six
SCHOOLS
people at bay. Although they have been trained to work in pairs, they
will split up if entry is made at different parts of a building.
If an intruder enters the building, he will be held at bay until a
trainer arrives. The security company provides continuous patrol of
the buildings where dogs are in use. The dogs have been trained to
assist in patrolling the school grounds in the company of a trainer.
K- 9 Security uses a particular breed of dog, the rothweiler, in ad­dition
to shepherds and dobermans. The rothweiler is about the size of
a doberman, but has the overall body build of the heavier shepherd.
On seeing the dogs, you are certain they can do the job they are
trained to do.
A spokesman for K- 9 said the dogs relied mainly on the senses of
t hearing and smell in their work. The hearing of these dogs is about six
to seven times more acute than that of a man. Their sense of smell is
about 70 per cent better than a man's.
The District's experience with glass damage and vandalism has
been fortunate, relative toother area districts.' However, with the
asset of early darkness and the vacation periods coming soon, the dog
patrol has been instituted.
Coach Don Snyder's Far­mingdale
High School football
Lions, which copped the North
Shore League I title two weeks
ago, wound up the season with a
convincing 38- 14 win over Beth-page
before 4,000 fans at home in
the annual Kiwanis trophy game
for a 8- 0 record.
The favored Dalers, who held a
slim 14- 6 halftime lead, were
Dalers End Pigskin Season With 8- 0 Record
being hard- pressed by the
visitors at the beginning of the
fourth quarter 22- 14, when
quarterback Don Stewart, a
poised six- foot 175- pound junior
faced a third and ten situation.
A strong rush was being put on
Stewart as he faded back to pass.
Just as he was hit, he lobbed a
short swing pass to Rick Gerardi,
who hurdled over would- be
tacklers down the sideline for 26
yards for a first down. Stewart
followed with his third touchdown
pass on another screen to Jer-mome
Williams to put the
gameout of reach.
Farmingdale scores were
notched by Romano on 47 and 54
pass plays; Ryan on a three yard
burst; Williams 21
from Stewart and
Gerardi run.
yard pass
a one- yard
Three farmingdale linemen
and three backs were named to
the North Shore I league team
this week by the Nassau Football
Coaches Association. Linemen
named were: Mark Altschuld,
Robert Billinger and Nelson
Giordano. Don Stewart, Rick
Gerardi and Vic Bonventre were
the backs chosen by the coaches.
With the return of Stewart, a
junior, and a host of returning
lettermen, the Dalers are looking
ahead to another fine football
season next year after being
rated fourth best in the County by
a daily newspaper.
. , F!? wl? y> v i c e President of Banker's Trust, Farmingdale"
looks at the first place winner in the annual doll- dressing contest
sponsored by the bank. Miss Rosalie Citrano of Farmingdale, an
employee of the bank displays the winning doll. Miss Citrano took first
9 f nf!! l0n? ^ e b a n k emPI oyees who dressed the dolls. Rose Nielsen
and Mildred DeMarco were the judges Jack Pokress Photo
Pretty cheer leaders and the Farmingdale Senior High School lion
mascot added to the color of the annual football game on
Thanksgiving Day with Bethpage which the Dalers won.
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