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VOL. 56 NO • XVi Second Class Postage Paid''
in Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735 Thursday, May 15, 1975 Copyright 1975 by
Island— Wide Publication, Inc. price 15f - $ 5 per year
Budget Cut Another * l/ 2 Million
Rate Hike Down To * 1.37
Hope For Added State Aid
The count- down to voting day on the Farmingdale
School Budget has been a month by month reduction in
the tax rate increase initially proposed in the
preliminary budget in March. The most recent cut of
$ 489,427 makes the total reduction $ 880,084 since the
preliminary budget was introduced to the public.
—^ ^~ " The preliminary budget
notary utes
16 Residents t -
CAREER EDUCATION is the theme at Weldon E. Howitt Junior High School. Students have made
taped interviews and taken slides of various businesses around town to attempt to depict what the
business world is like. Anka Kavelj, Donna Gulla, Laurie Austin. Bernadette Da Hon, Mr. Valentine and
Mr. Guarino listen to the interview made at Andre's. Other merchants that participated in the program
are The Farmingdale Meat Market and Udells.
Newspaper Separation
To Be Enforced June 1
The Town's newspaper
recycling program, successful as
a pilot project sinqe 1972, will be
expanded to include the entire
unincorporated area of Oyster
Bay Town by June 1, according to
Supervisor John W. Burke.
Legislation previously enacted
by the Town Board making the
separation of newspaper from
other refuse mandatory had not
been enforced due to the energy
shortage and vagaries of the used
paper market.
The Town is now prepared to
" phase- in the full program of
mandatory newspaper
separation," stated Burke.
Those in the pilot areas will be
required to continue separation
of newsprint on the days already
in effect, Homeowners in other
unincorporated areas will be
notified by the Public Works
Department when mandatory
separation will take effect and on
what days separated newsprint
should be left at curbside.
" Newsprint separation will
now be required for ap­proximately
64,000 homes,"
Burke said, " and, with full
compliance, the sale of newsprint
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Procession To Launch
Hardscrabble Fair
The ceremonies for the Hard­scrabble
Country Fair on May 24,
will be officially launched by the
Hardscrabble Procession at 11
a. m., followed by a short
ceremony at the Village Green.
The procession will assemble
north of Main Street, near Front
Street at 10: 30 a. m. and will
proceed down Main Street.
Distinguished guests marching
in the procession, along with
representatives from community
organizations, will include long
time resident and Parade
Marshall Weldon £. Howitt;
Junior Marshall Gary Ham­mond;
Parade Co- Chairmen:
Mrs. Nancy Gillies and George
Cooke of the Farmingdale
Bicentennial Committee; Orrin
B. Dow, director of the Far­mingdale
Public Library;
Parade Organizer: Mrs. Ruth
Slansky of the Farmingdale -
Betbpage Historical Society;
Marlene Begeal, Fran Von
Hasseln, Master and Miss
Hardscrabble: Eric Kuck and
Tammy Angwin.
Highlighting the Parade
procession will be over forty
Model T Fords,
Sixteen Farmingdale residents
will be cited for their acts of
courtesy and kindness Saturday
morning, May 17, by the Rotary
Club of Farmingdale. Citations
will be presented by Far­mingdale
Mayor John T.
Hallahan to those cited during the
Rotary Club's " Courtesy Month"
campaign during March.
The citations will be presented
at Village Hall at 10: 30 a. m.
Fifteen of the 10 to be cited were
recommended through letters to
the Farmingdale Post during the
contest period.
Receiving citations from
Mayor Hallahan and the Rotary
Club will be:
Mrs. Josephine Blankman, 30
William Street; Mr. & Mrs. Lou
Cohen J& J Shoe Store 322 Main
Street; Green ft White Taxi
Service, 387 Conklin Street;
Postmaster William Purcell,
Farmingdale Post Office;
Tommy Fusaro, 17 Lyons
Avenue; Mrs. Thomas Fusaro, 17
Lyons Ave.; Mr. ft Mrs'.
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Youth Council
25 Years Old
Twenty- five years ago a group
of representatives from several
clubs, civic and church groups,
formed the Farmingdale Youth
Council, Inc,, a non- profit
membership corporation to guide
and help all interested in youth
programs.
Through the years, the
membership has grown and
today the Farmingdale Youth
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carried a proposed tax rate in­crease
of $ 2.30. The April budget
cut dropped it to $ 1.90 and now in
May the additional cuts have
further reduced the increase to
$ 1.37 per hundred dollars of
i i f l l i i n H « « a .
It is hoped that new legislation
in Albany will provide added
state aid to Education, par­ticularly
in Farmingdale with the
MTA bill, to bring the increase in
the tax rate even lower.
The most recent cuts came in
expenditures for supplies, fuel,
repair and replacement, and nine
additional professional staff
positions. The staff reductions
are expected to be eliminated
through retirements, attrition
and declining enrollment.
A new contract for basic
transportation will save $ 50,000
next year and additional bidding
and renegotiation of the
remaining 30% of the tran­sportation
line is still underway.
The lower price is a result of a
lower per bus cost, not a
reduction in service or mileage
limits. The contract will not be
awarded until after the public
has expressed their opinion of a
three- year contract at the June
election.
The cost of living index for the
year was established at 8.4%,
giving the teachers an 8.2% in­crease
in their total contract
package ( salary and fringe
benefits). This reduced the
estimate by $ 170,000 from the
preliminary budget.
The first registration day for
the school election will be held
Saturday, May 17, at Weldon E.
Howitt Jr. High School from 10
a. m. to 10 p. m. Anyone who has
not voted in the school election in
the past two years must re­register
to be eligible to vote. A
second registration day will be
conducted on Wednesday, June 4.
The final budget hearing will
be held at Farmingdale High
School next Wednesday, May 21,
at 8: 30 p. m.
As the deadline for candidates
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