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VOL. 8 NO. 4 0 Second Class Postage has been paid at Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735
Library Budget
Is Up 4% Cents
Although trustee Joseph
Crocco feared that the budget of
the Farmingdale library could go
up by up to $ 120,000, the figures
now compiled and to be presented
to the public are not quite as
fearful. As matters stand now,
the Board of Trustees of the
Farmingdale Public Library
proposes a budget of $ 396,900 for
the fiscal year 19711 72.
This compares with a budget of
$ 352,865 for the current fiscal
year. The increase of slightly
over $ 44,000 would result in a
library tax hike of approximately
4.5 cents per $ 100 of assessed
valuation Translated, this would
mean in the case of a home
assessed at $ 6,000 an increase of
$ 2.70 per year.
A public hearing, at which the
budget proposal will be officially
presented, has been called for
Tuesday, June 1 at the South
Farmingdale branch of the
library. The meeting will start at
8: 30 p. m.
HE OBSERVER, INC., Box 146, Farmingdale, N. Y. . Thursday, May 27, 1971
Zureck Resigns As
Farmingdale Mayor
Waves are suddenly rippling over Farmingdale's
usually placid political scene. Surprising its fellow
members on the Village Board of Trustees, Mayor
Joseph Zureck, in a letter addressed to the board,
announced his resignation effective last Monday. Ill
health, which has plagued the mayor for a con­siderable
time, was given as the reason for his
resignation.
NEW DEVICE: The effectiveness of antibiotics is electronically
determined in fractions of a second with the new antibiotic sen­sitivity
measuring system developed by Artek Systems Corporation,
Farmingdale, Long Island. Here, a standard petri dish bearing a
known culture carries samples to be measured into the machine on a
sliding tray, thereby replacing the laborious time consuming, less
accurate and more costly manual methods now in use. The Artek
system is believed to be the first automated device for measuring the
effectiveness of antibiotics available to pharmaceutical manufac­turers,
hospitals, and educational institutions.
School Rescue Bill Moving
Rush to End Legislative Session Causes Apprehension
The glimmer of hope that the Farmingdale school district may yet
be absolved from carrying the burden of the development of the
Republic Airfield into a major transporation hub by the Metropolitan
Transportation Authority, with a resulting tax loss of up to $ 1 million,
has turned into a bright ray of sunshine. The only cloud on the
horizon is now the fear that in its eagerness to close the books on this
session and to go home, the Legislature may not get around to
finishing the job.
After several years of not even
getting to first base the Far­mingdale
school district was able
to get its problem recognized in
Albany. Yeoman work performed
by State Senator Marino and
Assemblymen Healey, Mc­Carthy,
Burns and Ginsberg as
well as Superintendent of Schools
Dr. Kinzler finally started to pay
off.
Legislation sponsored by
Senator Ralph J. Marino,
requiring the State to reimburse
school districts the tax equivalent
of iand taken over by the State for
public use passed the Senate. The
bill is designed to protect
residents of a community from
an unconscionable jump in
property taxes to support school
districts, already a significant
burden to many.
Marino explained, " The
present loss to the Farmingdale
school district would be well over
a quarter of a million dollars
annually. The local homeowners
simply cannot be expected to
absorb the loss of such a sizable
source of tax revenue. Without
the taxes from this property, an
Holiday Postal Service
unfair burden would be levied on
the rest of the community. It is
unjust to impose severe hard­ships
on local residents when the
development of the airfield is
intended to benefit the entire
state. The State has a respon­sibility
and an obligation to
protect the local community from
this type of tax inequity."
The bill provides for state
reimbursement to the school
district the equivalent of the tax
which would be paid on a major
property purchase for a period of
fifteen years. Marino added,
" While progress and growth of
the State's facilities is important,
it must not be gained by im­poverishing
a local community."
From the Senate the bill moved
to the Rules Committee of the
Assembly, where Assemblymen
Healey and McCarthy started to
prv it loose for floor action. As
this issue of the OBSERVER
went to press a lot of prying was
going on, for the Legislature
wants to end this session before
the Memorial Day Weekend and
forget Albany for the rest of the
year. And if no action is taken
before the legislators close shop
in Albany, the whole process of
legislation has to start all over
again in January of next year.
A hopeful portent is the fact
that Assembly Speaker Perry B.
Duryea has taken a personal
interest in this bill and had his
legal staff working on some
additional language with the aim
to make it more invincible to
objections that the Governor
might possibly raise. It is after
all his signature that finally
makes this and any other bill a
legal document of law.
Taken as another hopeful sign
was the fact that Speaker Duryea
is the chairman of the Rules
Committee and that Minority
Leader Stanley Steingut is also a
member of this august body. And
it is this assemblage of
legislators which must free this
bill from its pidgeonhole before it
can be taken up on the floor.
Which would be more or less a
matter of routine if it receives the
blessing from the Rules Com­mittee.
Appointment of a mayor to
serve out the remaining ten
months of Mr. Zureck's term will
be the first order of business at
the next board meeting on June 7,
which will be held in executive
session. Trustee John Hallahan,
appointed deputy mayor at the
recent reorganization meeting of
the village board, would seem to
have the inside track because of
this designation.
That Hallahan happens to be
deputy mayor is, however, not
tantamount to being successor to
Mayor Zureck. The post of deputy
mayor is rotating among board
members by a gentlemen's
agreement and it was more fate
than design that John Hallahan
occupies the post this year.
If John Hallahan is indeed
appointed mayor, and if he
should like the job, this would
pose a problem for trustee
Norman Krasnow, who also has
an eye on the mayor's chair. Both
are members of the ruling
Liberty Party, which will have to
nominate a candidate for mayor
for the election next March.
Whether or not the rejected
candidate would be willing to
split the party is to early to
speculate. The fact remains,
though, that a lot of thinking and
maneuvering will occupy a lot of
people in the months to come.
Beside naming a successor for
Mayor Zureck, the village board
will also have to appoint a trustee
to serve until next March to take
the place of the trustee appointed
mayor. Traditionally he would
come from one of the appointed
officials of the village govern­ment
and be most likely the one
with the longest service record.
This would not include Pete
Allen, who nevertheless is said to
be interested in serving on the
village board.
Mayor Zureck was first elected
to public office as a trustee in 1955
for a two year term, and suc­cessfully
ran as a Liberty Party
candidate for lour additional two
year terms.
While serving as a trustee in
1963, and acting as Deputy Mayor
during the term of the late Joseph
Brune, who also resigned
because of ill health, Zureck was
appointed by the Board of
Trustees to fill the unexpired
lerm of Mayor Brune for a period
of six months.
In March, 1964, Zureck was
elected for a period of one year to
fill the balance of Mayor Brune's
unexpired term. In 1965 he was
again reelected for a full two year
term.
Having, by resolution requiring
permissive referendum, changed
the term of office from a two year
to a four year period, the Board of
Trustees amended such terms
affecting the Mayor and the
Board of Trustees to four year
periods during the year 1966.
In order to create a bi- annual
rotation to satisfy the four year
requirement, Mayor Zureck and
Trustees Drugan and Krasnow
ran for a five year term in 1967,
such terms expiring 1972.
Eight Candidates Run in
School and Library Races
Two lively weeks are in store
for Farmingdale residents, with
eight candidates vying for two
seats each on the Library Board
of Trustees and the Board of
Education . In addition to the
library board candidates in­cumbent
Robert M. Callahan and
his opponent Raymond E. Par-
Memorial Day Parade: Where and When
Post
regular
There
dow or
offices will observe
holiday schedules next
Monday, May 30, Memorial Day.
Day
will be no regular win-delivery
services but
special delivery services will he
available and many post offices
will keep lobbies open for access
to lock boxes and stamp
dispensing equipment.
on the Sat in- day preceding the
holiday May 29 regular
Saturday schedules, including
window and delivery services,
will b< observed
Everybody loves a parade -
and everybody therefore is ex­pected
to be either a participant
or spectator of the annual
Memorial Day Parade sponsored
by the Farmingdale Fire
Department on Monday. Here is
the what, how and when of the
parade, according to information
provided by 1st Deputy Fire Chief
Carl Sehlingloff:
The parade line- up is at 10 a m .
and the starting time is 10: 30
a. m. on the dot. The assembly
area is Thomas Powell Blvd.
between Yoakum Street and
Bethpage Rd. All units and
parents dropping off children are
asked to come to the assembly
area by way of Yoakum Street.
All veterans groups and the
Fire Department will hold ser­vices
at the cemeteries prior to
the parade. All units wishing to
place wreaths at the World War I
or World War II monuments at
Main Street school are asked to
report directly to the monuments
immediately alter the end of the
parade.
There will be three parade
divisions following the leadoff
unit with Grand Marshal Charles
Karp, immediate past chief of the
Fire Department, the Gold Star
mothers and the official cars
Town of Oyster Bay Supervisor
John W Burke has accepted an
invitation to be the main speaker.
The tree divisions are led by
their respective marshals, ex-chief
D. Glascott, ex- chief R.
Baldwin and ex- chief W. Sisco.
Beginning at 6 a. m. on Monday
the following streets will be'off
limits for through traffic as well
as parking:
Hose Street south of Weschc
Drive to Ru hard Street.
Richard Street west to Main
Street
Granl Avenue from Hose Street
west to Main Street.
These traffic restrictions will
remain in force until the con
elusion of the parade.
eels, and the two aspirants for the
one year remainder of the board
seat left open by Carl Gorton,
Mrs. Rose M. Foucek and
Nicholas B. Aleshin. four can­didates
have registered for the two
school board seats in contention.
Florence de Haan did decide
not to renew her lease on the
school board which led Frank
Gelish and Stanley D. Martyna to
announce their candidacies for
this vacancy.
Roy Spinetta's seat is also open
for contention and Mr. Spinetta
decided to run again for his seat.
This bruoght about a challenge
by Larry Enteen who will be
opposing Roy Spinetta
As an incumbent Mr Spinetta
is known to the residents which
he feels speaks for itself and will
assure his reelection.
Frank Gelish. of 51 West
Walnut Street, also seems to have
an edge on the other two can­didates
inso tar as public
recognition is concerned
Currently serving his fourth
term as the President of the
Farmingdale Youth Council, his
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