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WHERE THE HISTORY OF YOUR COMMUNITY IS RECORDED WEEKLY
An Official Newspaper of The incorporated Village of Farmingdale — Serving Greater rarmingdale, Bethpage and Melville
Vol. 7 No. 30 Second Class Postage has been paid at Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735 Thursday, March 19,1970
POST OFFICE CLOSING
IMPACT GROWS
, Photo by Claire Studios, Inc.
The emptiness and lack of activity on Wednesday morning inside the Far-mingdale
Post Office is a sharp contrast to the usual business at the counters.
Photo by Claire Studios, Inc.
The scene pn Wednesday morning at the Farmingdale Post Office showsLetter
carriers on strike, Reading irui. left to right: Noe Cacciapolli and Murray Elkin.
Second In Spring Concert Series Slated For Saturday
The second of the Orchestra Da
Camera's Spring Concert Series
will be presented on Saturday
evening, March 21 at the Weldon
E Howitt Junior High School.
Violin soloist, Matthew
Raimondi, the Da Camera's
concertmaster, will play
Mozart's Concerto No. 5, K. 219
and guest conductor, Leon
Hyman, has chosen a program
including Beethoven's First
Symphony, Turina's L'Oracion
del Torero and Rossini's Barber
of Seville Overture.
Leon Hyman, currently a
member of the Conducting
Faculty at the Juilliard School of
Music, also conducted the Joffrey
Ballet in New York and during
the company's State Department
sponsored tour of the USSR. He
also has been guest conductor in
Detroit, Buffalo, Boston and
Tokyo.
The Da Camera, designated
" Showcase Orchestra" foi the
entire state of New York by Dr.
Vivienne Anderson, Director of
the Humanities and the Arts,
State Education, is known in
musical circles throughout the
United States as the active
chamber orchestra in the
country.
The third and final concert of
the season will take place on
April 18th, when subscribers will
be presented with " The Medium
and The Telephone" by Gian-
Carlo Menotti. The subscription
rate for the final pair of concerts
is $ 7.50.
Farmingdale Post Office was the first post office to
be effected on Long Island on Wednesday when the
strike called by Local 2764 of the National Association
of Letter Carriers spread from Manhattan and the
Bronx where carriers took action to strike. The
walkout was the first in the history of the United States
postal service.
By Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock, the Far­mingdale
Post Office shutdown was nearly complete.
The clerks, who were not striking did not cross the
picket lines and nothing but third class mail has been
sorted for box holders the night before. Half empty
mail boxes greeted the patrons. Stamps were being
sold, but that was all. Patrons were advised not to
leave any letters to be mailed.
According to Dick Famighetti, Vice President of
Local 2764, " Anyone who objects to the curtailment of
service should write to Congress. The Congressmen
voted themselves a 41 percent raise in salary. We have
gotten nothing. We were promised a raise since Oc­tober.
We fell the only way they will listen to us is with
a strike."
" Most of us have to have two jobs to support our
families. We have to lower ourselves to apply for
Welfare Assistance and Medicaid.
We hope that it won't last too long since we like our
jobs!
Pickets were also stationed at the substation in South
Farmingdale and at the annex at 302 Adams Road,
East Farmingdale.
The strike took effect at 12 midnight and was called
by the National Association of Letter Carriers and
covered almost all Long Island. Although it was the
letter carriers that went on strike, postal clerks
refused to cross the picket lines. This made the strike
almost 100 percent effective.
According to Farmingdale Postmaster Leo Morgan,
our large industrial area and heavy business area is
more crippled than most communities. Even The
Incorporated Village of Farmingdale was at a loss
because they were expecting the receipt of bonds from
Albany. Several mail order businesses located in
Farmingdale are particularly affected, Morgan said.
Morgan said that since the trailer drivers will not
cross the picket lines, it is not advisable to drop mail
into mail boxes. Mail should not even be brought to post
offices - since it is not going any place. It is better to
keep it. Best advise is to keep tuned to radio to see
when the strike ends.
Interviewed as to what this reporter thought as the
official post office slogan, Morgan said it was not, it
was from the Greek, Herodeus.
" Neither rain nor snow, nor gloom or night can stay
there courriers from the completion of their appointed
rounds".
The official motto is " Certainly, celerity and
security".
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