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VOL. 86 NO. 37 Second Class Postage Paid
In Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735 THURSDAY, JULY « . 19T5 » * mZSZfcl£ l£ t. „.. price 1 $ 4 - $ 5 per year
School Board
Asks Meeting
With Governor
Woman Fleas
To Burglar
For Purse
GENTLE HANDLING: Rescue squad volunteers gently ease an accident victim onto a stretcher before
taking him to Brunswick Hospital, Amityville Saturday afternoon. John Pellicano of 373 Staples St.,
Farmingdale, suffered back injuries in a two car collision at the intersection of Staples and Fulton
Streets at 12: 53 p. m. Mrs. Rose Dazy of Amityville was also taken to Brunswick. Both Farmingdale and
South Farmingdale Rescue squads responded. [ Post photo by Bob Starrett]
Board To Rule On 2nd Vote
A key executive session
meeting of the Farmingdale
School Board this week may
determine if the Board is going to
resubmit its budget to district
residents for a second vote. If the
district is going to attempt to
start the school year under a
regular budget operation, the
Board must make this decision in
short order.
The seven- member Board will
hear the details of an austerity
operation from school ad­ministrators
Thursday evening.
It is known that the Board is
under pressure from the com­munity
on both sides of the issue
and some Board members are
leaning toward a re- vote at this
time.
Results of the meeting, if any,
will me made known at a special
public meeting to be held next
Monday evening at 8: 30 p. m. at
the Senior High School. The
meeting will also serve as a
forum for residents to express
their own views in regard to the
re- vote.
At the time of the first vote
there were doubts regarding the
amount of state aid the district
would receive. The Legislature
had not passed an aid bill and
several residents indicated that
they did not know if they were
voting on a tax increase of $ 1.09
or $ 2.09 per hundred. With the
same dollar amount of state aid
now guaranteed, the $ 1.09 figure
has been confirmed.
With the austerity budget
earring an increase in taxes of 32
cents and the voters having
approved a transportation
contract costing 29 cents in the
June voting, 61 cents of the $ 1.09
increase is already a reality for
residents. The balance of the tax
rate increase represents services
and program cuts not permitted
under the austerity operation.
Some of these, such as, funds for
extra - auricular activities and
fees for students for supplies are
well- known to district residents.
In an attempt to make a final breakthrough on the
proposed legislation giving special financial aid to the
Farmingdale School District, the Board of Education
and administration have called on Governor Carey to
grant a personal meeting before acting on the bill.
In a telegram to Carey, School
Board President Robert Weiss
and Superintendent of Schools
William Kinzler requested the
meeting " in light of the burden
the MTA has placed on the 45,000
residents of the Farmingdale,
Massapequa Park, North
Massapequa, and North
Amityville communities by the
tax- exempt status of Republic
Airport."
The move comes on the heels of
a district - wide effort to get in­dividual
taxpayers to write to the
Governor in support of the bill.
School officials, are asking
parents, homeowners, and
businessmen to write and wire
the Governor regarding Senate
Bill 05262- A. Letters and
telegrams should be mailed to
Governor Carey, Executive
Chambers, Albany, New York
12224.
In other related moves the
Dads' Club has agreed to
distribute fact sheets and form
[ Continued on page 121
An eighty year old Far­mingdale
woman appealed to the
Post this week to ask her burglar
to return her pocketbook with the
important papers intact.
With tears in her voice, Mrs.
M. G. Sottong of 335 Melville
Road, Farmingdale, told how her
home was robbed while she and
her daughter were weeding their
garden Tuesday afternoon. Her
white pocketbook, containing
$ 300 to pay bills and all her im­portant
papers for social
security, etc., was taken.
" I don't expect to get the
money, though I certainly need it,
[ Continued on page 12]
Home Canvas Saturday
For Dad's Club Funds
The regular weekly meeting of
the Pads' Club committee to
" Keep Farmingdale # l" was held
in the gymnasium of St. Luke's
Church last Monday night.
The committee, chaired by
Dave Williams, was formed to
spearhead a' fund - raising
campaign to reinstate the sports
and extra- auricular activities
that have been cut by the
austerity school budget, and the
meeting was called to hear
reports from the heads of the
various activity chairmen.
Dave Williams outlined the'
Door - to - Door campaign, which
will be held this Saturday, August
2. Student representatives will be
calling on residents and asking
for donations. A bumper sticker
with the fund- drive slogan,
" Keep Farmingdale # 1," will be
given out in return for donations
of one dollar or more. Dads' Club
[ Continued on page 9]
DISPLAYING STICKER: Russ Watkins, member of Key Club,
football and track teams, and Jeri Kraver, member of tine Honor
Society and Paper lion, display the bumper sticker given to con­tributors
to the Dad's Club fund.