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A Prize Winning Weekly Serving The Greater Farmingdale Area Since 1920 ®
An Official Newspaper for the Village of Farmingdale
VOL. 55 NO. 15 Second Class Posti. t! e Pnid Thursday Fehruarv 91 1974
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ed Saturday
Police Seek Teen Vandals
Nassau County detectives and Long Island Railroad
investigators are seeking the persons responsible for
Saturday night's derailment of a train in the main line
track through Farmingdale and have reportedly located
a " couple" of prime suspects.
Library Board
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Mltlt TRACK CRKWS worked all day Sunday, cleaning up the debris and repairing the tracks of the
main line through Farmingdale following Saturday night's derailment of a six ear train. Kepairs were
completed, the upset deisel engine put back on the tracks and full service restored by Sunday evening.
Village Fights Rising Costs
Names Architect
At the regular February
meeting of the Farmingdale
Public Library Hoard of Trustees
the architect for the new building
project was selected. The choice
was Henry . J. Stojowski of
Manhattan and Locust Valley.
Stojowski has extensive ex­perience
in creative design of
libraries, hospitals, hotels and
religious facilities. He has done
work throughout the United
States and abroad. He is
presently a registered architect
in New York and in most of the
eastern adjoining states.
On Long Island his library
projects include the Wantagh
Public'Library, the Hempstead
and Oyster Hay Public libraries.
He is starting work with Far­mingdale
Trustees immediately
helping them with an evaluation
of sites for the proposed central
library facility.
The eastbound train on a run
from Hicksville to lionkonkoma
struck three " split rail" sections
on the tracks approximately 1 ,( HM)
feet east of MerriUs Road at 9: 28
The six car train has two diesel
engines, one in front and one in
back. The front wheels of the lead
engine and the wheels of the cars
all left the tracks. The power
diesel, at the end of the train,
rolled off the tracks and onto its
side.
The " split rail" sections were
described as short pieces of iron
used as connectors between
sections of rail. Recently, the
railroad has been repairing the
road bed in this area and
replacing the split rails with
welded scams.
Kepairs to the track were
completed Sunday night. Delays
of five tp^ ten minutes were
caused on the line as both east
and westbound trains had to use
the westbound track until repairs
were completed. »
Luckily, the train was
traveling slowly after stopping at
the Hicksville station.
In a letter to the Public Service
Commission, Mayor John T.
Hallahan officially lodged the
Village of Farmingdalc's formal
protest to a proposed 28% in­crease
by the Long Island
Lighting Company for street
lighting costs.
" Ove- the years, The mayor
wrote," we have instituted a
major lighting program in
Farmingdale that has been an
outstanding deterrent to crime. It
has improved security for all of
the citizens of the village im­measurably.
However,' with a 28
% increase in street lighting
costs, the continuation of further
implementation of our program
will be absolutely impossible to
achieve. I fully realize that costs
have risen for everyone, but it
seems to me that a 28% increase,
which they are applying for, is
beyond sound financial
reasoning; hence, I wish to
vigorously oppose their con­templated
increase and I trust
my letter will be entered into the
record and that the gentlemen on
the Board of the New York State
Public Service Commission will
take our plight into con­sideration."
" We have already been in­formed
of the eliminations of the
discount for municipal telephone
service," the manager said " It
seems to me that further rate
relief to the public utilities as
they affect municipalities, will
have a catastrophic effect on our
budgetary and tax structure
within the village."
The New York Telephone
Company has advised the Village
Clerk that starting July 1, a
discount rate of 25% of all bills
rendered to municipalities, being
non- obligatory, will be phased out
at the rate of 5% annually.
Also received from the Town of
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Children's Day Sunday
This Sunday, February 24,
thousands of youngsters will be
ringing doorbells in areas of
F a r m i n g d a l e , North
Massapequa, and Massapequa
Park asking their neighbors for
contributions to the tenth annual
Farmingdale Children's Day
collection for children, this year
benefiting the Nassau County
Spina Bifida Association's
Children's Leg Brace and Body
Appliance Fund.
Upon completion of their
rounds the young volunteers will
return their containers of small
coins to the central collection
center which will be open from 2
to 4 p. m. at the United Methodist
Church on Main Street. Each
child will have been supplied with
an official identification tag and a
covering for a collection con­tainer,
which will be identified by
the Farmingdale Children's Day
insignia, of children holding
hands in a circle on one panel,
and on another panel, the picture
of a smiling little boy seated
beside his arm crutches and leg
brace unit that reaches above his
waist which he must wear to
walk. He is a victim of Spina
Bifida — a birth defect.
Spina Bifida affects the
complete spinal nerve cord and
vertebrae development. As a
result, many children born with
its defects must, all their lives,
rely upon braces to walk. In
addition, they are subject to
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RELUCTANT PRINCESS: Three year old Geraldine Franco is
consoled by area Heart Fund Chairman Marge Pfoh after she was
crowned " Princess of the Ball" Saturday night at the Holiday Manor.
The Nassau County Heart Child has undergone two major heart
operations and has been hi the hospital six times hi her short lifetime.
[ Post photo by Bob Starrett]