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WHERE THE HISTORY OF YOUR COMMUNITY IS KtLUKUtu WEEKLY
An Official Newspaper of The Incorporated Village of Farmingdale — Serving Greater Farmingdale. Bethpage and Melville
VOL. 8 NO. 4 4 Second Class Postage has been paid at Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735 • Published by THE OBSERVER, INC., Box 146, Farmingdale, N. Y. Thursday, June 24, 1971
RETIREMENT: Gen. Otho C. VanExel of Hempstead, left,
Nassau County Director of Civil Defense, congratulates Daniel Gullo
upon his retirement as Lieutenant of the Farmingdale unit of CD
Auxiliary Police after 20 years of volunteer service. Gullo received a
Certificate of Commendation in ceremonies at Farmingdale Village
Hall.
New Parking Rules
Planned for Main Street
That a traffic problem exists on Farmingdale's Main Street is
obvious to anyone ever having used Main Street during business
hours. Not so obvious is the solution to this problem, since invariably
some discomforts will result whatever action is taken. To discuss
this matter, and to acquaint residents with a proposal to unravel
Main Street's traffic jams, a public hearing has been called for
Monday, June 28, at 8: 30 p. m. by the Farmingdale Village Board of
Trustees.
The proposal is to institute
alternate side of the street
parking. A recommendation to
this effect was made to the
village board by the Nassau
County Police Traffic Control
Bureau.
As envisioned by the police, the
following regulations would be
instituted:
There would be no parking at
any time on either side of Main
Street between Fulton Street and
Richard Street. For the rest of
Main Street, up to Melville Road,
parking would be permitted on
the east side only on Monday,
Wednesday and Friday, and on
the west side only on Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday.
The village board is inclined to
agree with the police recom­mendations.
At the board
meeting on Monday night every
resident of the Village of Far­mingdale
may have his or her
say, however.
To take effect, the alternate
side of the street parking
regulation will have to become an
amendment to the Vehicle and
Traffic Ordinance of the village.
In conjunction with this
amendment, and in accordance
with the County of Nassau
stipulating that parking meter
violations are subject to a fine of
$ 5.00, the board also proposes to
increase the fine for parking
meter violations from $ 1.00 to
$ 2.00 for each violation within the
Village of Farmingdale.
In view of the fact that no
parking is permitted on either
side of the street on Elizabeth
Street from North Front Street to
Secatogue Avenue, the board is
considering the installation of a
15 minute loading zone area to
residents of the apartment house
at 25 Elizabeth Street to unload
groceries and other purchases
too bulky to carry any distance.
Youth Council Starts 21st
Summer Recreation Activity
The Farmingdale Youth
Council will begin its 21st year of
sponsoring a summer recreation
program for the youngsters of the
Farmingdale School District.
Registration will begin on
Wednesday, June 30th from 1.00
to 4: 00 p. m. and on Thursday,
July 1st from 9 a. m.- 12 noon at
the center planning to attend.
Programs will ' begin on
Tuesday, July 6th at each of the
six elementary schools, Mill Lane
Jr. High, and the three town
parks at Florgate, Merritt Road,
and Pinehurst for the youngsters
in grades 1- 8. Youngsters in
grades 9- 12 begin their activities
at the Senior High School and
Howitt Jr. High in the afternoon
from 1- 4 and from 6: 30 to 9 p. m.
starting on July 6th. The
programs at the various centers
will be open through August 13th.
The Youth Council will also
conduct a recreation program for
pre- kindergarten children who
will be attending kindergarten
next fall. The program will
operate from July 6th to August
13th at the Woodward Parkway,
Parkway Oaks, Main Street and
Albany Avenue Schools under the
supervision of a well- qualified
and trained teacher. This is a
self- sustaining program and a
$ 15.00 fee is required.
The Swimming program will
also start at both the outdoor
Howitt Pool for youngsters
enrolled in grades 1- 4 and at the
Senior High Pool for youngsters
enrolled in grades 5- 9. Sign ups
will be held on Wednesday, June
30th from 1: 30- 4 p. m. and on
Thurs., July 1st from 9- 12 noon
for those children in grades 1- 4 at
the Howitt Pool and from 9- 12
noon and 1- 4 p. m. on Thursday,
July 1st for those children in
grades 5- 9 at the Senior High
Pool. Registration must first be
completed at a neighborhood
center. Both of the swimming,
pools will be open through August
27th.
For July 4 it's Budget Revote Is
Fireworks Again Held On Saturday
The Village of Farmingdale
will hold its 11th Annual
Fireworks Display on Saturday,
July 3 at 9: 30' P. M. The rain date
is July 4 same time.
As in the past years, the display
will be conducted by the New
York Pyrotechnic Corp. of
Bellport, N. Y., and should last
about one to one- half hour, with
approximately 80 shells of
varying intensity and color being
fired at the Weldon E. Howitt Jr.
High School Athletic Field.
Cherry Street, from Conklin
Street south to Grant Avenue will
be closed off to traffic, in addition
to Rose St. north to the
Parking Field No. 4 of the village
of Farmingdale. The entrance to
this field from Main Street will
also be closed to traffic.
The Farmingdale Fire
Department Drill Team will be
selling their usual " goodies" for
young and old alike at the rear of
the Fire Department
Headquarters.
This event has been one of Long
Island's outstanding displays
over the past decade and the
Board of Trustees invites all to
witness this spectacle.
Oil Tank Farm
Has Opposition
Residents of Farmingdale are
quite upset about plans by the
Northville Dock Corporation to
build a pipeline from Holtsville to
Prince Boulevard in East Far­mingdale
and the subsequent
erection of oil storage tanks in
that area. Upset, because they do
not seem to have anything to say
about it, since this is strictly a
Suffolk County matter in an area
which has been zoned for heavy
industry.
Even the town of Babylon has
no say on that matter. This
became obvious when the
councilmen were presented with
an injunction to stop discussing
the matter at a stormy town hall
meeting last week.
The Northville Dock Cor­poration
claims that the building
of the pipeline does not create
any danger whatsoever for
residents. Residents of East
Farmingdale are afraid however,
that the project primarily the oil
tank farm, will make life un­pleasant
for them and will cause
real estate values to go down.
Volunteers Needed
The Farmingdale school
district is looking for volun­teers
for its rapidly increasing
summer reading program.
For this remedial program
volunteers of high school and
college age are needed to
assist teachers in reading and
to work with non- English
speaking pupils.
The programs runs from
June 25 through July 30 for
four hours each school day.
Classes will be held at East
Memorial and at Parkwry
Oaks Elementary schools.
Instead of pay, hard work and
the satisfaction of having
helped a valuable cause is
offered.
Interested parties should
contact John J. Regan by
calling ( II 9- 7490.
Voting for the school and library budgets will take
place on Saturday from 10 a. m. to 10 p. m. at Far­mingdale
Senior High School. Both budgets have been
resubmitted by their respective boards without change
after their defeat on June 9.
In a message to the residents of
the Farmingdale School district
Superintendent of Schools, Dr.
William Kinzler, urged support
and adoption of the budget. " The
taxpayers, without doubt, wonder
whether or not the message of
keeping expenses down ever gets
across to the school board and the
superintendent. Believe me, we
have worked at it, and worked
hard", he said.
Kinzler stated that the Board of
Education had made already
deep cuts before the budget was
presented to the voters the first
time around. Some of those cuts
are, according to the latest school
district newsletter, in areas
which would be eliminated if an
austerity budget went into effect.
These reductions amounted to
$ 187,000. If the budget fails on
Saturday, the total reduction
upon adoption of an austerity
budget would amount to $ 568,000.
The areas affected by austerity
would be, again according to the
newsletter, instructional supplies
and equipment, textbook rental
for grades 1- 6, library books,
interscholastic athletics and
clubs, competitions, summer
session, lunch program, athletic
transportation and tran­sportation
over ten miles. The tax
increase under an austerity
budget, computed for a house
assessed at $ 6,000, would be
$ 44.00 in contrast to an increase
of $ 78.00 for the budget to be
presented again.
What will happen if the
resubmitted budget is defeated
once more? The Board of
Education has given no in­dication
that it would come back
to the voters a third time, either
with the then twice defeated
budget or a reduced budget. In its
latest newsletter it discusses only
the implications of an austerity
budget as an alternative to the
proposed budget.
Speaking for himself, trustee
Terry Weathers indicated that he
would consider a third vote only if
a petition to that effect would be
forthcoming from the public,
signed by as many people as
negative votes were cast on
either June 9 or June 26. The
number of signatures on this
petition would have to correspond
to the higher number of negative
votes.
A possible tax reduction,
amounting to 11 or 12 cents per
$ 100.00 assessed valuation ($ 6.60 -
7.20 per year for ahouse assessed
at $ 6,000), could be the result of
the legislation passed in Albany
which calls for reimbursement of
tax revenue lost due to take- over
of taxable property by a tax-exempt
state agency. Under this
bill the Farmingdale school
district would receive between
$ 110,000 and $ 120,000 for Republic
Airfield property taken over by
the Metropolitan Transportation
Authority, according to figures
compiled by school district
business manager J. Richard
Zutt.
For this bill to become law,
however, and to take effect, the
signature of Governor
Rockefeller still needs to be af­fixed
to the legislation, which
means that the chickens have not
yet hatched.
Concurrent with the school
budget the library budget, also
defeated on June 9, will be
resubmitted Saturday, also
unchanged. This decision was
taken by the library board, with
Mrs. Rose Foucek filling the
heretofore vacant fifth seat. On
her motion a decision was made
to expand the business hours at
both libraries, provided the
budget passes Saturday.
Two Local Firms Take
Part in New JOP Training
Governor Rockefeller has
approved two new Jobs Optional
Programs ( JOP) developed by
the State Labor Department's
Division of Employment to
upgrade two workers and to
provide training for 12 Nassau
County unemployed persons in
skilled occupations.
Jayne Textile Printing Corp.,
Farmingdale, is sponsoring a
program for 12 persons, two of
whom will be upgraded. Of the
total, eight will be hired from
among the disadvantaged.
Training will be in four different
occupations: photographic
screen maker, colorist assistant,
cloth printer, and machine cloth
examiner.
The second program will be at
Enark Industries, Inc., also in
Farmingdale, where two persons
will receive training as
machinists in a pre-apprenticeship
program.
The Jobs Optional Program
provides on- the- job training
under the Manpower Develop­ment
and Training Act. JOP
offers employers the opportunity
to hire and train disadvantaged
and non- disadvantaged persons
for permanent employment in
jobs that can lead to ad­vancement
or higher respon­sibility.
The program also
enables employers to upgrade
present employees into oc­cupations
requiring higher skills
or into jobs in which theje is a
shortage of skilled workers.
Jayne Textile Printing will be
reimbursed $ 14,238 and Enark
Industries will receive $ 3,360.
Reimbursement by the Division
of Employement is for a portion
of each trainee's wages. Federal
Manpower Development and
Training Act funds are utilized.
Employers wanting in­formation
on how to establish a
Jobs Optional Program may
write to the Division of Em­ployment,
New York State
Department of Labor, State
Office Building Campus, Albany,
12201.