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AN OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE VILLAGE OF FARMINGDALE
SERVING THE GREATER FARMINGDALE AREA, BETHPAGE AND MELVILLE
VOL. 11 No. 15 Second Class Postage has been paid at Fanningdale, N. Y. 11735
Published by HIBER PUBLISHING, INC., Box 146, Farmingdale, N. Y. Thursday, November 29, 1973
NEW AT VILLAGE PARK: Farmingdale Rotarians Hugh Newman, Carl Dittmeier,
and Jim McKenna along with Youth Board Big Brother John Bogens admire newly
installed bicycle rack at the Village Park. The rack is the first of series of projects
under taken by Rotary to assist the Village and Youth Council to better serve the
community.
Venereal Disease Problem to
Be Presented at Junior High
A factual presentation of the problems
of v « nereal disease will be added to the
heal' h education course at the two Junior
Highs this school year. This added
subject matter and some of the other
progiams in Health Education were
discussed at the Farmingdale
curriculum meeting on Wednesday
evening.
Charles Manso, assistant superin­tendent
of schools, explained that human
sexuality, an optional subject recom­mended
by the State Department of
Education for the Junior High and
Elementary schools, is not taught at
Farmingdale. V. D. will be taught as part
of communicable diseases. Manso said
the needs of the community were not
being met when this area was omitted.
Members of the health education staff
added that syphilis and gonorrhea are
second to the common cold in prevalence
in the U. S. There are venereal disease
problems in Farmingdale and pregnancy
problems in the eleventh and twelfth
grades and even as early as the seventh
Painter Charged
With Assault
A 25 year old painter from Jamaica was
arrested in Farmingdale for assault last
Friday. Daniel O'Keeie had allegedly
menaced a number of people before
Sergeant Quinn of the Eighth Precinct
came to the scene. O'Keeie then injured
one of the policeman's lingers with a 12
inch hunting knife. The incident occured
at 8: 30 p. m.
A young boy was slightly injured
November 20 as he attempted to cross
Secatogue Avenue, Farmingdale.
Kenneth Kiernan, also of Farmingdale,
was driving north when he collided with
six year old Christopher Koza of
Secatogue. The boy bruised his knee, but
medical aid was refused by his parents at
the scene.
Drovel Tool Manufacturing on Potter
Street, Farmingdale, was burglarized
between November 21 and 23 Entry was
allegedly made through the front win­dow,
but loss was unknown at the time.
However, some criminal damage was
done inside the building.
grade. Frank Monte commented that he
feels and has also gotten feedback from
the students that they feel stifled that
qualified teachers are not allowed to
teach human sexuality because of
community rules.
The health program as explained by
Michael Tartamella, director, and other
members of the staff is designed to
promote the physical and mental well -
being of the students. It includes the
subjects of drug and alcohol abuse and
safety, as mandated by the State
Education Department.
The health program on the elementary
level is handled primarily by the regular
teachers with the aid of the nurse
teachers. The subjects the nurse teaches
have dealt with in classes range from use
of public toilet facilities to peripheral
vision and eye injuries. Television tapes
for a program " Inside out", developed by
the Rockville Center archdiocese, to help
in the learning of values, attitudes, and
decision making are being used in Our
Lady of Lourdes School and are available
to the public schools.
There are a variety of special
programs in the high school. An adult
teaching program in Alcoholism has the
side effect of easing communication
between students and their parents. A
slim and trim program includes special
gym classes, instruction in nutrition and
conferences with parents to help obese
students. Peer leadership, an alternative
to drugs programs, helps students deal
with human relations. After a basic 10
week program with specialization in a
subject, the high school students involved
have worked with fifth and sixth graders
at Woodward Parkway school.
The peer leadership concept is being
expanded by a Nassau County grant so
that fourteen staff members are now
running after school groups.
There are also programs for Special
education students and for Community
involvement.
Less than half a dozen members of the
public attended the meeting. Individual
notices had not been sent home because
of the paper shortage but the meeting
had been announced on the school
speaker systems and releases had been
sent to local papers.
Marilyn Hametz
School Board to Act
On Fuel Conservation
Official word on the after- hour school
closing reported last week is expected to
come from the Farmingdale School Board
Monday evening. According to school
spokesman John Reagan, certain
clarifications need to be made. However,
due to the fuel shortage, program cur­tailments
will most probably be forth­coming.
These changes should be put
in effect following the holiday winter
recess, which runs December 24-
January 1 at present, not the winter
recess in February.
The first to be effected by the
suggested cutback would be evening
programs such as Adult Education,
Swimming and Police Boys Club.
Working on the precept that boilers are
shut down shortly before the close of the
school day there may be sufficient heat in
the building for extra- curricular school
programs and other afternoon meetings.
Considerations toward restarting or
delaying any programs hinge on the
amount of light, the possible change in
Daylight Savings Time and, of course,
enough fuel.
A variety of contingency measures are
in the planning stages, but Reagan points
out that at present, no determination or
calendar change has been decided upon.
A great deal depends on just how much
fuel can be saved by original con­servation
moves, a change in state fuel
allotment, and, least predictable of all,
the weather conditions.
In essence, most measures would
provide for an extension of the February
recess. This is scheduled to start
February 11 to February 18, George
Washington's birthday. Extensions
would come from snow days or the April
Easter recess. The school year, in any
case, should not have to be extended
more than a week in June, but here
Reagan says the Regent examination
dates might cause complications.
No one can doubt or underestimate the
impact of any calendar changes for the
school year. When questioned how soon
families could be notified about calendar
changes Reagan offered little con­solation.
Not being able to predict the
weather and numerous technicalities,
parents would know as soon as possible to
allow for arrangements with vacations
and child care.
Reagan commented: " We realize any
change would have a tremendous impact
on many families, however, the schools
are faced with a major curtailment of
fuel supplies."
The state has notified the schools that
they will receive as of January, 15 per
cent less fuel than last year. The Far­mingdale
schools hope to save now so no
one will have to pay later.
Local Company
Honors Firemen
The Farmingdale Village Volunteer
Fire Department has won special
recognition for community service from
Halco Division of Wagner Seed Com­pany,
Farmingdale, in the form of a
resuscitator for its rescue squad.
The resuscitator was presented to the
volunteer firemen by Halco in
cooperation with Dow Chemical U. S. A.
Halco serves as an area distributor for
Dow agricultural products. The
resuscitator was an award earned by
Halco for its sales performance in a
special Dow marketing promotion
program.
In announcing the presentation, Lou
Kircher of Halco noted that the Far­mingdale
department is one of the most
experienced in the nation, having been
founded in 1890. Today, it is 150- men
strong and under the supervision of Chief
Richard Steenbuck.
Rususcitators provide artificial
respiration and are invaluable in aiding
the recovery of drowning, asphyxiation
and heart attack cases.
A Gas Station Must Be -
Even If There is No Gas
At this point in time the world may not need another gas station, but the Town of
Oyster Bay must nevertheless grant a permit for the construction of one. Its location
would be at the northeast corner of Merritt Road and Motor Avenue.
For almost four years the issue of Court in Mineola, appealed, and was
whether or not to permit a gasoline
service station to be built at this corner
has occupied the minds of lawyers, many
Farmingdale residents and even parents
of young children from as far away as
Seaford and Plain view. This because of
immediate neighbor of the* gas station
would be the Camp Monchatea Nursery
School.
Jack Zeldin, who until recently owned
Camp Monchatea, took legal steps to
prevent the construction of the gas
station. His adversary was the Town Of
Oyster Bay, which had granted the
necessary special land use permit in
1971. Last December, though, the Town
refused the Exxon Corp., which now
owns the land, another permit extension
after having granted granted already
two.
Now the town found itself confronted
with the Exxon Corp. instead of Jack
Zeldin. Exxon sued for another permit
extension, lost the case in the Supreme
upheld. The Appelate Division ruled that
the Town of Oyster Bay must reinstate
the special land use permit allowing the
construction of a gas station at Merritt
Road and Motor Avenue and must grant
another six month extension of this
perm| t.
The town has until December 13 to
weigh its options and to decide whether
or not this case should go into appeal
once more. No decision has been made
yet.
Also studying this matter are the new
owners of Camp Mochatea. One of them,
Mark Hokenson, told the OBSERVER
that he and his partners have not yet
made up their minds which course of
action to take.
As far as the Exxon Corp. is concerned
they may eventually wind up with the
right to build a gas station that will have
no gas to sell.
Justice, though, will have emerged
triumphant.