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VOL. 9 N O . 5 Second Class Postage has been paid at FarminKdale, N. Y. 11735 • Published bv THE OBSERVER, INC., Box 146, Farmingdale, N. Y. Thursday, S e p t e m b e r 2 3 , 1 9 7 1
Village Reacts to
Parking Gripes
The Farmingdale Village Board of Trustees did not lose much time
in tackling the parking problems of the Main Street area, which were
rather forcefully brought to the board's attention on Monday, Sep­tember
13, by a delegation of unhappy merchants. They complained
that the new alternate- side- of- the- street parking rule for Main Street
has removed so many parking spaces that their businesses are
hurting.
THE FIRST BLOW: Con­struction
of the Town of
Oyster Bay's North
Massapequa Community
Center, Albany Avenue, is
underway. Town Supervisor
John W. Burke swings the
sledge hammer while Town
Councilman Joseph J.
Saladino, left, looks on. Two
representatives of Gundersen
General Contractors, Hun­tington,
were on hand for the
ground breaking: George
Gundersen, president of the
firm ( next to Burke) and Bob
Gillespie, vice president. The
community center is being
constructed on the former site
of the No. Massapequa Fire
Department building.
While, at least for the time
being, no change in the alternate
side parking regulation is con­templated,
the village board at
its meeting last Monday night
moved speedily toward im­plementation
of their promise
given the week before, that the
parking problem will be
alleviated. More than 200 parking
spaces, according to the board,
would become available to the
shopping public, if the village
board and the merchants would
act in concert.
Toward this goal the Board of
Trustees authorized Superin­tendent
of Public Works Newman
to prepare a strip of vacant land
on the north side of South Front
Street, between Elizabeth and
Columbia Sts., for parking bet­ween
11 a. m. - 2 p. m., Monday
through Friday. This area would
provide for the parking of 31 cars,
with the businesses catering to
the luncheon trade being the
primary beneficiaries of these
additional spaces.
The Board of Trustees is
contemplating another area
available for parking, for
businessman and their em­ployees,
in the northerly area of
the village on a permit basis. If
this area is found acceptable, an
additional 50 or more cars can be
accomodated.
Mayor Hallahan, in com­menting
on these proposals,
noted that the cooperation of all
businessmen and employees of
the village is an essential
ingredient to the easing of
parking problems. The Municipal
Parking Fields are primarily for
the convenience of shoppers. In
Parking Field No. 4, ap­proximately
82 spaces are
provided for 8 hour parking of
employees and businessmen.
However, seldom more than 20
are ever occupied. On the other
hand, Parking Field No. 2, south­west
of Conklin and Main Street,
is overcrowded by employee
parking and something will have
to be done to overcome this
situation. The Board of Trustees
are considering such action
presently.
Mayor Hallahan issued an
appeal that the businessmen of
Farmingdale act in concert with
the Board of Trustees. They and
their employees will avail
themselves of the spaces for 8
hour parking that presently exist,
and with the additional areas
proposed, more than 200 cars can
be eliminated from the Municipal
Parking Fields. Such spaces then
would be available to the shop­ping
public.
Farmingdale Announces Cultural Program
Highway Repairs for
East Farmingdale
Town Councilman Salvatore
Mosca stated that the Depart­ment
of Public Works plans to
resurface various streets in the
community upon the completion
of design phase.
The Councilman reported that
the environmental improvements
were recommended by Public
Works Commissioner Gerard P.
Trot ta and will include Beechwood
Street, Hawthorne Street, Jervis
Avenue and neighboring areas.
Mosca said that upon com­pletion
of the design phases by
the Department of Public Works
and its consulting engineers, the
Town Board will authorize public
bidding on the project.
Dr. Charles W. Laffin, Jr.,
President of State University at
Farmingdale, announced that the
College Union Board and the
Student Activities Office have
arranged for an outstanding
program of Distinguished
Speakers, Performing Arts and
Motion Pictures for the school's
Fall Calendar.
Julian Bond, first black man to
take Oath of Office to Georgia
House of Representatives and a
member of the House's
Education, Insurance and State
Institutions and Properties
Committees, will be a feature of
the Speakers Series, Thursday,
November 4, at the college's
Roosevelt Little theatre at 8 P. M.
His topic will be " Collision
Course in a Divided America."
Another attractive speaker,
John Sack, outstanding war
correspondent, is to appear the
following Thursday, November
11, at 11 A. M. Chosen by Lt.
William Calley to write " Con­fessions
of Lieutenant Calley" on
the My Lai incident in Vietnam
and a witness in the Chicago
conspiracy trial, has as his topic,
" Lieutenant Calley."
The Speakers Series is slated to
begin October 14 with the man
and wife team, known as " The
Great Gardino", who hav proved
most popular with students
throughout the country, on their
demonstration lecture on
hypnotism.
The Performing Arts Series
gets underway Thursday, Oc­tober
7, with the play
" Marathon," starting at 7 o'clock
in the Roosevelt Little Theatre,
which will be the scene of five
other live performances during
the Fall season. " Marathon"
gives a capsulized view of the
philosophy and techniques used
by Marathon House in the
rehabilitation of addicts. Eight
ex- addicts, ages 15- 23 years old,
who are presently residents of the
House, recreate scenes that take
Library Board Still
One Member Short
The appointment of a
Librarv Trustee to bring the
Farmingdale Library Board
to lull stlength with five board
members was to take place i) n
Tuesday night's monthly
meeting of the board
However, since one board
member. Joseph (" rosso, could
not be present wfc HI the eight
candidates for the vacant seat
were interviewed, the board
finally agreed to postpone its
decision until the next mon­thly
meeting in October. The
other three board members,
Irwill JacOVSky, Mrs. Hose
Foucek and Robert Callahan,
had reached a tentative
agreemenl as to which can
didate they would like to
appoint.
place during addiction and
rehabilitation. While the play's
content uses drugs as a theme, it
is really a testimony and appeal
for communication. It is during
the " rap" session where the
experience of the audience as
they shared the various
situations covered in the play sets
the stage for a meaningful and
valuable dialogue between the
cast and viewers.
On October 21, Rita Toy,
ballerina, brings her Russian
Dance Ensemble to the Far­mingdale
campus. Each member
of this unique group has been
solely presented to audiences
with singular success. As a
group, they are outstanding as
each performer is an artist in his
or her own right.
An attractive Film Series will
feature such outstanding motion
pictures as " Zabriskie Point,"
October 5; " Butch Cassidy and
the Sundance Kid," featuring
Paul Newman and Robert
Redford on October 19; " The
Mouse That Roared," with Peter
Sellers and Jean Seberg on
November 2; " Guess Who's
Coming to Dinner," with a cast
including Spencer Tracey,
Katherine Hepburn and Sidney
Poitier in this Academy Award
winner, November 16; Truman
Capote's " In Cold Blood,"
November 30; " Mr. Magoo's
Christmas Carol," December 14,
and " Barefoot in the Park," with
Charles Boyer, Robert Redford
and Jane Fonda, January 11.
The Film Series will have two
showings each time, 6and 8 P. M.,
at Roosevelt Hall.
Will There Be School
Lunches on Monday ?
The new lunch program of
the Farmingdale schools,
managed under contract by a
Philadelphia firm rather than
by the school district itself, as
was past practice, got off to a
shaky start. Until yesterday,
the people working in the
cafeterias had not been paid
by their employer, A. R. A.
Management Service, for the
previous week's work. The
result was a work stoppage.
The employees eventually got
paid in cash, partly in dimes
and nickels, from the
children's lunch money.
A. R. A. Management Ser­vice
explained that the checks
for the employees has gone
astray. Tomorrow, Friday,
the next pay check is due. If
they should go astray again,
the possibility of a lunch- less
Monday looms. According to
information received by the
OBSERVER, the cafeteria
employees would consider
another work stoppage,
although they have been
threatened with dismissal if
such action were taken