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FABMMDALE OBSERVER
WHERE THE HISTORY OF YOUR COMMUNITY IS RECORDED WEEKLY
An Offioiaf Newspaper of The Incorporated Village of Farmingdale — Serving Greater Farmingdale, Bethpage and Melville
Vol. 8 No. 7 Second Class Postage has been paid at Farmingdale, N. Y. I 1735- Thursday, October 8, 1970
EXPECT 2,500 AT STATE
UNIVERSITY HOMECOMING
More than 2,500 alumni, their families, friends, students and faculty
members will be on hand for the 51st annual " Homecoming Day" at
State University at Farmingdale next Saturday, October 17, on the
College's campus. The themes of the full day's program will be:
" Carnival" for daytime activities and " The Age of Aquarius" for the
dinner- dance at the Roosevelt Hall gymnasium.
The day- long program will
honor members of the second
graduating class of 1920. At the
same time, it will serve as an­niversaries
for the Classes of 1930
( 40th reunion), 1945 ( 25th
reunion), 1950 ( 20th reunion) and
1960 ( 10th reunion). There are
more than 14,000 Farmingdale
alumni with an estimated 8,000
residing on Long Island.
There will be professional and
amateur entertainment for
adults and children, starting at 11
a. m. and continuing through 4
n., with a break for a chicken
barbecue from 11: 30 a. m. to 2
p. m. Free entertainment on the
Allard Field House rear lawns
will include pony rides,
mechanized
magicians and
truck
clowns
rides,
and a
Village Offers Free Wood Chips
The Highway Department of
the Village of Farmingdale is
ready to deliver to local residents
truck load lots of wood chips
gathered as a result of the recent
storm.
Village Clerk James McKenna
said that the chips make a fine
mulch bed.
Anything less than truckload
lots will not be delivered.
chimpanzee act by the famous
" Mr. Jiggs" and a Rock and Roll
band.
Features will be a colorful
parade of floats and the an­nouncing
of a Homecoming Day
Queen at 1 p. m. A varsity soccer
match between the Aggies and
Orange County C. C. at 2 p. m. and
a cross- country race also bet­ween
the two colleges at 3 p. m.
are other highlights of
Homecoming Day. More than 25
prizes will be awarded to lucky
ticket holders in the Sweepstakes
for the Alumni Scholarship Fund.
Returning alumni will register
in Allard Field House from 10
a. m. to 2 p. m. The dinner- dance
at 7 p. m. at Roosevelt Hall will
climax Homecoming activities.
I
Grover Receives Watch Dog Award
Congressman James R. Grover
Jr. has been named a recipient of
the Watchdog of the Treasury
Award issued annually by the
N a t i o n a l A s s o c i a t ed
Businessmen. He was the only
Congressman from New York
State to be given a 100 per cent
rating on economy voting, based
on a dozen key questions before
the House during 1970.
Congressman Grover has been
honored with this award ever
since the NAB began issuing its
ratings in 1964.
John C. Mason of Lincoln,
Nebraska, President of the
NAB said: " This is our program
of public education on how
Congress actually votes. We are a
non- partisan organization, but we
feel the importance of stopping
inflation in the United States is so
vital that we must publish these
voting patterns of our elected
lawmakers. We feel that full
credit should go to those who
have the courage to vote for
economy... After all, we are an
organization of small
businessmen and our members
are among those who suffer first
from the disease of inflation and
equally from the stern remedies
required to cure it."
Republic Receives Space
Food Study Contract
INFORMATION SERVICE: Oyster Bay Town Councilman Warren M. Doolittle,
GOP candidate for the Town Councilman, cuts the tape opening Farmingdale
GOP Voter Information Headquarters at 471 Main Street. Assisting in the project
are, left to right, GOP Executive Leader Frank Hynes, George Meyerhoff,
President of the Farmingdale Republican Club, and Margie Pfoh, Headquarters
Coordinator.
Spacemen and earthlings alike
are expected to benefit from a
study into the design and
fabrication of zero gravity food
systems by Fairchild Hiller's
Republic Aviation Division.
A seven- month $ 87,410 study
contract entitled " Space
Station / Base / Food System
Study" was recently awarded to
the division by the National
Aeronautics and Space Ad­ministration's
( NASA) Manned
Spacecraft Center, Houston,
Texas. And, as a result of this
grant, Republic will conduct a
literature search to identify and
define existing food system
requirements and hardware
scheduled for use aboard manned
spacecraft, and then generate
and innovate new concepts for
complete fcod systems.
" We want to give man as much
of an earth- like dining en­vironment
in space as possible,"
explained Bert Cooper,
Republic's food system study
manager. " Our major effort will
be to generate and innovate new
concepts and systems for com­plete
food systems on future
missions for crews of from ten to
one hundred persons, and up to
ten- year orbit programs."
Although the missions will last
up to ten years, shorter, six-month
resupply missions will
provide the space workers with
an adequate combination and
quantity of food during their stay.
Cooper said that besides
carefully studying combinations
of foods, other areas, such as food
selection, packaging techniques,
storage, reprocessing or cooking,
consumption, cleanup, and
logistics, will also be considered.
The selection of foods is im­portant
because the proper food
mix - such as combinations of
freeze- dried, frozen, wet pack
and iresh - must meet certain
nutritional calorie requirements.
Once these requirements are
established a decision can be
made as to how the supply can
best be packaged.
After the re- supply craft
reaches the space station with the
food, the packages will have to be
appropriately stored in facilities
such as chillers and freezers. The
size and design of these units
must also be studied to permit
best possible utilization.