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AN OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE VILLAGE OF FARMINGDALE
SERVING THE GREATER FARMINGDALE AREA, BETHPAGE AND MELVILLE
Vol. 10 No. 13 Second Class Postage has been paid at Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735
Published by THE OBSERVER, Inc., Box 146, Farmingdale, N. Y. Thursday, November 16, 1972 » 15c
r Lions Are Rolling, Indeed Tobay Officials and Residents
Meet on Housing Controversy
The multiple housing controversy brewing in Farmingdale ever since the
Oyster Bay Master Plan made public proposals for the construction for apart­ment
houses in this area, will be publicly aired this Friday night, November 17,
when Town Supervisor John W. Burke as well as councilmen Gregory Carman
and Lewis Yevoli will meet with Farmingdale residents at the Farmingdale
Senior High School at 8: 30 p. m.
Whether the topic will be thrashed out in a peaceful dialog or turn into a con­frontation
should largely depend on how much Tobay officials and residents
to think alike or disagree.
The Farmingdale Football keeps rolling, indeed! Although in
the lough grind of the season every game is crucial and must be
won, last Saturday's clash with Syosset had to be the most im­portant
game of the season so far. Farmingdale and Syosset were
both unbeaten, both were eager to win the North Shore I crown
and to go to the final for the Nassau championship on November
24 at Hofstra. 9,000 people crammed into the Farmingdale field.
They saw Farmingdale clobber Syosset 36- 8. The visitors were
crushed by what must be the best team Farmingdale ever fielded.
The losers could not draw too much consolation from the fact that
they were the first team this season that was able to score at all
against the mighty Lions whose point record for the season now
stands at an amazing 285- 8.
For a rundown on the game by Bob Mule as well for pictures
turn to our sport pages.
Oh yes: there will be another "' game of the year" on November
24, when the Lions meet East Meadow at Hofstra for the County
crown.
The Dolphin Green, Viceroy,
and Frances Manor Civic
Associations, representing
concerned residents of Far­mingdale,
have joined forces to
present to the Town of Oyster
Bay a united front against the
proposed construction of ad­ditional
multi- family dwellings in
the Farmingdale area. This
proposed plan consists of ap­proximately
120 housing units.
Thirty five to forty five units are
planned for Motor Avenue and
the balance of seventy five units
io be built on Hempotead Turn­pike
where the site of Putt- Putt
Golf Course is now located.
The concern of the Civic
Associations, is that these multi-family
dwellings will increase the
population density and place an
even greater school tax burden
on the residents of Farmingdale.
Deadline Advanced
The Observer Office, 115 Front
Street in Massapequa Park will*
be closed on Friday, November
24. The deadline for next week's
edition has been advanced one
day. This means that copy for the
community log for the week ofr
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 reach our
office not later than Monday,
Novembver 20.
The associations are jointly
sponsoring this meeting and they
urge everyone to attend. This
meeting is designed to inform the
residents of the current plan
under consideration by the Town
of Oyster Bay and to determine
what alternate plan can be for­mulated
for the area.
Local Truckdriver Charged
With Second Degree Arson
Darwin Edwards, 29, was
arrested 4V2 hours after Far­mingdale
firemen had rescued
three persons from a burning
apartment on 150 Secatogue
Avenue in Farmingdale last
Sunday night.
The suspect, also living in that
two- story frame apartment
house, was arrested on Monday
morning at 4: 00 a. m. by Pt.
Patrick O'Gara of the Nassau
Police arson squad and charged
with arson 2nd degree in that " he
intentionally damaged a building
by setting fire in an apartment in
the presence of others".
The charges could have been
higher. But thanks to the Far­mingdale
fire department the
occupants of apartment E 7, Jose
Quionones, 24 his wife, Maria, 23,
and their 3- month- old son Jose
Jr., were rescued through the
window by firemen Gerry Ahem
and William Merrins. They were
rushed to Mid- Island hospital
where they were treated for
smoke inhalation and later
released.
Apartment E 7 suffered con­siderable
damage while all other
apartments were damaged by
smoke.
A fire department spokesman
said the firemen smelled gasoline
when they entered the building.
Fire Chief Carl Schlingloff said
that " when we got to the scene we
determined that the fire was of a
suspicious nature and we called
the Nassau County fire marshall
who determined that it was a fire
bombing."
PRICE Presents First Trophies
To Its Monthly Chess Champs
Victor Hackenberg in the
Senior Boys Division, John Happ
in the Junior Boys Division and
Lisa Hackenberg in the Girls
Division were the first chess
champions of PRICE, the Far
mingdale- based anti- drug abuse
organization.
The chess tournament of
PRICE got off to a fine start four
weeks ago and will be continued.
It will be held each Saturday
from noon on. Besides offering
young people between the ages of
13 and 22 an interesting alter­native
of spending the Saturday
afternoon, it gives the par­ticipants
a chance to engage in
challenging games, to make new
friends and possibly win a trophy.
Trophies will be awarded every
first Saturday of the month,
following playoffs between the
weekly winners.
Without the support and par­ticipation
by the community, the
chess tournament of PRICE
would be in jeopardy. PRICE
wishes to acknowledge the
assistance of Buddy Flanders of
Farmingdale Lanes in pur­chasing
the trophies and the fine
supervision rendered by Bob
Stettina. All young people of
Farmingdale are invited to at­tend
this Saturday's tournament
at PRICE headquarters.
On Monday, November 20, at
8: 00 p. m., PRICE will be visited
by Robert Wasserman, a hand­writing
expert. Mr. Wasserman
has appeared and performed
handwriting analysis at hundreds
of organizations. It should be an
exciting evening and everyone is
welcome.
Many requests for speaking
engagements have been received
by PRICE. Among those recently
fulfilled were the ones at Sr.
Citizens of Farmingdale on
November 8, at the Holy Name
Society of Our Lady of Lourdes
R. C. Church, Massapequa Park
on Nov. 13 and at B'nai Brith,
Farmingdale Branch at the
Farmingdale Jewish Center on
Nov. 14. All of these groups
received PRICE members en­thusiastically
and expressed
encouragement and good wishes
for the PRICE programs. Any
organizations or groups wishing a
speaking engagement may phone
293- 3480 or write to PRICE, 684
Main Street, Farmingdale, N. Y.
FOOTBALL AWARD: Henry Arnott, Manager of the South Far­mingdale
office of National Bank of North America is seen above
presenting an award to Nick Candito of Bethpage High School's
Football team. The bank will continue to award trophies to out­standing
athletes of most N « jsau bounty high schools. For more
details see story in this week's Communit> « -*> g.