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VOL. 57 NO. 20 Second Class Postage Paid
in Farmingdale, N. V. 11735 Thursday, April 1, 1976 Copyright 1976 by
Island- W; de Publications, Inc. price 15$ - $ 5 per year
Dr. Kinzler Accepts
Post In California
William A. Kinzler, superin­tendent
of schools in Far­mingdale
since 1965, is leaving
the district to take up residency
in California. Dr. Kinzler's move
will take place this summer when
he will become Superintendent in
Coronado, California, a suburb of
San Diego. The move was
prompted by the Kinzler's desire
to live closer to their children
who have relocated to the coast in
recent years.
Robert Weiss, president of the
Farmingdale School Board, tried
to express his feelings about the
move. " I am personally very
happy for Dr. Kinzler and his
Police Nab Killers
Of Station Attendant
Dr. William A. Kinzler
Hardscrabble Contest
Entrees Registering
Nine contestants were signed
up by their parents at Chaire
Studios this past week to compete
for the title of Master and Miss
Hardscrabble.
The seven week contest,
sponsored by the Farmingdale
Merchants Association and the
Farmingdale Post, will run until
May 3 and the winners will be
announced in the Post on May 6.
Contestants, accompanied by a
parent, may sign up and have
their contest pictures taken at the
photo studio any Wednesday
afternoon between 2 and 5 p. m.
Contestants must be between the
ages of 4 and 12 years.
The first nine contestants are
Shirley Cote, age 4, and John
Cote, age 5, of 40 Melville Road;
Georgette Hearty, age 8, 157
Yoacum Ave.; Tracy Conrod, age
8,154 Prospect St; Eugene Swift,
age 4, 4 Leanore Lane;
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Johnson Says Sell
Republic Property
In a strongly- worded letter to
MTA Chairman David Yunich,
State Senator Owen H. Johnson
stated his reasons why the
Republic Airport undeveloped
land taken by eminent domain
should be immediately offered
for sale.
Johnson cited the real estate
burden the takeover has caused:
•' The Farmingdale School
District was deprived of
$ 1,962,915 in assessable land
value. Since the initial takeover,
homeowners and businesses of
Farmingdale, Massapequa Park,
North Massapequa, and North
Amityville have already paid
over $ 1,000,000 in added twaes."
" This land has sat undeveloped
ever since, and with the current
economic condition it is doubtful
that this development will take
place in the foreseeable future."
' The alleged purpose of the
takeover of Republic Airport by
the MTA was to relieve the air
traffic at the major New York
City airports - Kennedy and
LaGuardia. This simply has not
happened and the utilization of
Republic, if anything, is less than
it && in 1969."
" As part of my legislative
efforts to grant some relief to the
taxpayers in the area, I have
consistently introduced bills to
establish a special transition
assessment. Unfortunately, the
bills have been vetoed under the
guise that this would have
provided an unacceptable
" special" assistance to the school
district."
Nassau County detectives have
arrested three suspects in con­nection
with the murder of a 16
year old attendant who was shot
to death during a robbery at­tempt
on a Farmingdale gas
station last month.
Garry Thompson, 20, and
Donald Evans, 17, both of 33 State
Ave., Wyandanch, and Edwin
Fuller, 22, of Central Islip, were
charged with second degree
murder.
Thomas Moran, who worked at
Tommy's Gas Value Station at
the corner of Main Street and
Motor Ave., was found Feb. 18
sprawled behind the cashier's
desk. He had been shot once in
the back.
Moran, who lived in Bethpage,
had begun working part- time
nights at the station to help
support his family. He dropped
out of Hicksville High School last
June and was earning $ 2 per
hour.
Lt. Joseph Chambers and
Detectives Daniel Stark and
William Coningsby of the Nassau
Homicide Squad and Eighth
Squad Detective Frank San-tamaria
reportedly received a tip
last week that. led to Saturday
night's arrests.
Police said two girls found a
gun on a Hempstead street which
had been stolen during a robbery.
The gun was traced to the owner
of Spirits Unlimited, a liquor
store at 908 Straight Path Road,
West Babylon. The gun was
reported stolen the day before
Moran's killing.
The gun was tested and found
to the murder weapon. But,
police did not say how the gun
was traced to the three men
arrested.
Moran's body was discovered
by a gas customer who alerted
two policemen at a callbox across
the street. It was not discovered
that Moran had been shot until
after he had been pronounced
dead on arrival at Mid- Island
Hospital. There was no blood on
the ground, nor visabte signs on
the body, leading police to believe
at first that the youth had taken
ill.
Police List 3 Bomb Scares
The bomb squad was kept busy
searching buildings in Far­mingdale
this past week as they
received three calls threatening
bomb explosions at two banks
and the post office.
The first bomb scare was
phoned to the police emergency
number 911 at 1: 30 a. m. March
23, saying the bomb would go off
in the First National City Bank
branches in Farmingdale and
Freeport at 8: 30 a. m. A search of
the banks revealed nothing. The
deadline past and nothing hap-
The second call was made to
the European American Bank
Branch at 266 Main Street at 11
a. m. Tuesday. The caller said
that the bomb hidden in the bank
was set to go off at 11: 30 a. m. The
bank was cleared and the bomb
squad searched the building,
again with no results. Again, the
deadline past and nothing hap­pened.
The third call came at 4: 15 a. m.
March 26,. The caller said the
bomb was hidden in the Far­mingdale
Post Office and was set
to go off at 7: 32 a. m. The bomb
squad again returned to Far­mingdale
and conducted a search
and again the results were
negative.
wife in that he has found what he
was looking for. I am glad for him
but we are sorry to see him leave.
I don't have to tell anyone that we
are going to miss him and his fine
leadership irTthe very difficult
times ahead."
" Bill has been part of the
school administration since 1956
and has given extraordinary time
and effort to the schools and
community. I can understand his
desire to make the move now
when the opportunity presents
itself and I'wish him and Connie
the best of luck in California. The
Board and community will really
miss the Kinzlers."
Dr. Kinzler has been
Superintendent of Schools in
Farmingdale since 1965, a
position which he attained after
working his way through
positions as teacher, co- Director
of Guidance, iunior high prin­cipal,
and assistant superinten­dent
in Farmingdale. He taught
in grades five through eleven and
specialized in mathematics,
English and Social Studies as a
teacher and student.
He has had a long- standing love
of the West Coast which started '
during World War H when he was
attending the University of
California at Berkeley as part of
his naval training. Dr. Kinzler
encouraged his two sons to attend
school on the coast and his older
son, William, recently completed
Law School at^ he University of
San Francisco. His second son,
Peter, is a second- year student at
Evergreen State College in
Olympia, Washington, which will
give Dr. Kinzler and his wife,
Constance, much closer contact
with their children.
The Superintendent has been
through the rapid periods of
growth and decline in the Far­mingdale
district. Farmingdale
moved from a one- building
operation to one of Long Island's
largest districts with enrollment
peaking at 13,000 students under
his tenure as Superintendent. He
has also managed the district into
the new era of school population
decline.
He has been a member of the
Vocational Education and ex­tension
Board of Nassau County
and a member of Inter- district
Committees Studying Shared
Services. He has served on the
Curriculum Committee of the
State Unviersity of New York at
Farmingdale and has been Vice
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