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Vol. 10 No. 12
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Published by THE OBSERVER, Inc., Box 146, Farmingdale, N. Y. Thursday, November 9, 1972 • ISc
GOP Winners Relax after Big Sweep
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Whatever devine master has
authored the plot for this season,
he must have used last year's
Observer Office Is
Closed November 24
The staff of the Observer
newspapers is taking a mini-vacation
on Thanksgiving
weekend ( not really by choice but
not too reluctantly either.)
The office on 115 Front Street in
Massapequa Park will be closed
on Friday, November 24. Due to
the Thursday holiday, the
newspapers will have to be
printed one day earlier, on
Wednesday. The deadline for the
papers, therefore, will have to be
advanced one day also. This
means that copy for the com­munity
log for the week of
November 20 will have to be in
the office not later than Friday,
November 17. The same applies
to the insertion for classified and
business and service directory
advertising. Copy for publication
in the Observer should roach our
Office not later than Monday.
November 20.
The battles in the great campaign of 1972 were over, the dust began to settle a
bit, and the victors on Election Day were just beginning to get used to being
called winners -- some for the very first time.
All of them, however, had one thing very evidently in common: membership in
the Grand Old Party.
BIG WINNERS: Recipients of a large GOP vote, newly elected
Congressman Angelo Roncallo of the Third Congressional District,
left, and Philip B. Healey, winner in the 11th Assembly District,
reflect signs of relief upon hearing the outcome of their races on
flection night. ( Observer photo by Jack Pokress)
The BIG Preview:
Farmingdale vs. Syosset
Bob Mule, our Farmingdale High School reporter and himself one
of stars on the Farmingdale Lions, analyses the big game between
the two unbeaten football giants on Long Island. Farmingdale and
Syosset meet this Saturday at 1: 30 p. m. at Farmingdale. There is
more at stake than just the championship of North Shore Division
One:
happenings for a script.
Remember last year? There
were three playoff games instead
of one. In order for the Dalers to
make it into that all important
playoff series, they had to meet
head on the only other undefeated
team in North Shore One, a team
equally bent on capturing the
division crown as they were.
Yes, just 370 days ago, the
Lions were about to play the
undefeated Port Washington
Vikings in a game that would
decide the champion of the
strongest division in high school
football.
But this year, the tables are
turned. For one, Port Washington
is not the team that the Lions will
have to beat. Last year, Port was
called an " all senior team'' as all
members on the starting team
were graduating that year. As
destiny had it, it should have been
their year. Farmingdale on the
other hand, had a gentle mixture
of juniors and seniors. Not so this
year. This Saturday at Far­mingdale
High, when five
thousand people will jam the
stands, it will be Syosset who has
" We're going to take 10 days off
and go to Key Biscayne," a still
jubilant Angelo Roncallo said
from his Massapequa home last
night. " Things are still hectic
around the house."
Roncallo, to no one's surprise,
scored an impressive victory
over Democrat Carter Bales,
Conservative Lawrence Russo,
and Liberal Leo James, in the
new Third Congressional District
designed with him in mind. Still
unofficial returns yesterday
showed Roncallo with a total of
108,146 votes, 66,106 coming from
Nassau County and 42,040 coming
from Suffolk. Democrat Bales got
75,428 votes, 43,627 from Nassau
and 31,801 from Suffolk. Russo,
who put in a strong showing, got
8,033 Nassau votes and 7,069
Suffolk votes for a total of 15,102.
James had curtailed his cam­paign
earlier in the race for
health reasons, although he did
record a total of 3,342 votes.
" I didn't think I would win this
big," Roncallo said. " I thought
the margin might only be half of
what it was. I campaigned
against McGovern too," he ex­plained.
" I support President
Nixon and I was willing to say I
would go against the McGovern
policies," he said. " This worked
very effectively." Reflecting a
moment, he said: " I don't know
if it worked. I might have just
been very lucky."
In Farmingdale, meanwhile,
Stuart Levine, a 25 year old
Plainview- Bethpage high school
teacher, defeated 40 year old
Democrat Sondra Ghitelman by a
wide margin in the newly created
10th Assembly District. In the
first political outing for both
candidates, Levine received
25,913 ballots to 17,988 for Mrs.
Ghitleman. The Liberal in the
race, Charles Hoffman, 26, got
1,102 votes. Levine was a former
aide to Plainview Assemblyman
Martin'Ginsberg, who last night
was elected a Family Court
Judge. The new Assemblyman is
a recent graduate of C. W. Post
College of Long Island Univer­sity.
Massapequa Assemblyman
Philip B. Healey announced
yesterday that he was leaving
next week for a seven day stay in
the Bahamas, following his
smashing victory over Democrat
Patrick W. Doherty and Mitchell
Kaufman, the Liberal candidate.
Healey received 32,934 votes in
his bid for a second term, to 21
year old Doherty's 13,666 votes,
and 20 year old Kaufman's 1,133.
" I'm very pleased people voted
for me," Healey told the Ob­server
yesterday. " I pledge to
continue to give them the same
kind of fine representation they
have indicated I gave them
during my first term." A central
theme of Healey's campaign was
the rising tax rate within the
district.
Healey, by the way, got 69 per
cent of the votes in his district,
making him the top vote getter in
Nassau county.
Oyster Bay Town Councilman
Gregory W. Carman wasted no
time at all in getting away from
the rigors of campaigning. " He
was pretty tired," a spokesman
for the Farmingdale councilman
said following his victory over
Democrat James Valente, 75,330
to 49,742. He left on a brief
vacation the morning following
his victory, along with his wife.
Unofficial results in the
balloting on the TOBAY con­troversial
landfill park
referendum, which allows the
town to buy a 65 acre site in
Plainview to use as a dumping
ground for Oyster Bay's solid
wastes, seems to have won
narrow voter approval, 60,015 to
56,288. Approval of the measure
provides for a $ 6,000,000 bond
issue to purchase the site, at
Round Swamp Road and the Long
Island Expressway. The measure
was actively supported by
Supervisor John W. Burke, while
Councilman Louis Yevoli and
members of the Greater Plain-view
Community Association and
the Washington Avenue Civic
Association sought its defeat. The
opposition groups were critical of
the parcel's high cost, its
proximity to homes in the area,
and removal of the parcel from
the tax rolls.
Local Election
Box Score
3rd CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT
Angelo Roncallo
Carter Bales
10th ASSEMBL Y DISTRICT
Stuart Levine
Sondra Ghitelman
11th ASSEMBL Y DISTRICT
Philip Healey
Patrick Doherty
4th SENA TORIAL DISTRICT
Owen Johnson
James McDonald
0 YSTER BA Y TOWN BOA RD
Gregory Carman
James Valente
LANDFILL REFERENDUM
Yes
No
108,146
75,428
25,913
17,988
32,934
13,666
59,648
35,813
75,330
49,742
60,015
56,288^/
Dolphin Green Invites Mayor Hallahan
( Continued on Page 12)
The Dolphin Green Civic Association has invited
John T. Hallahan, Mayor of the village of Far­mingdale,
to the public meeting on November 17 at
the Farmingdale High School. The meeting,
jointly sponsored by the civic associations Dolphin
Green, Viceroy and Frances Manor, will deal with
the Master Plan proposals by the Oyster Hay
Planning Commission. Town Supervisor John W.
Burke as well as a number of town councilmen
have indicated that they will present
The civic associations, in a letter to Mayor
Hallahan have expressed " disappointment' about
the approval of the village of 28 apartment units on
745 Conklin Street, of which, according to the civic
associations, about 25 percent will be two bedroom
apartments instead of three percent as was done
in the past. The letter continues: " We want
Farmingdale to remain suburban and to maintain
a revenue surplus from apartments by limiting the
number (> l two bedroom apartments to three
percent."'
According to village hall, only lour two bedroom
apartments have been planned tor that particular
apartment complex