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An Official Newspaper for the Village of Farmingdale
Vol. 58 No. 45 Second Class Postage Paid
in Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735 Thursday, September 1,1977 Copyright 1977 by
The Farmingdale Post price 15c - $ 5 per year
Back To School
For Fewer Kids
Farmingdale students will be going back to school
next Wednesday, September 7, again in fewer numbers
than in the previous year. The district's student
population will drop 678 pupils to a low enrollment of
9,240.
The declining enrollment was predicted in the
superintendent's report of several years ago when
school closingswere^ projected, fo date the figures have
been fairly accurate. According to the report, Far­mingdale
can look forward to a continuing decline in
enrollment. The report, a five year projection, sees
Farmingdale's student population down to 7,200 by 1980.
NEW CLUB YEAR begins with a new president at a recent meeting of the Rotary Club at St. Thomas
Episcopal1 Church. Outgoing president Benjamin J. Giminaro and Chflijes Ms Schmidt, a past
president, present the gavel as the hew president to Gregory W. Carman. The new directors are Dr.
Giminaro, [ at large]. Carl A. Dittmeier, crab service; Al Matera, membership; Al Eisenkraft, special
projects; Darwin Bacon, community service; Joseph Gallick, international service; Alphonse Perry,
vocational service. The new board of officers include Anthony M. Tonachio, vice president; Joseph D.
Malloy, secretary; Norman Krasnow, treasurer; Al Perry, asst. treasurer: Victor H. Olsen, asst sec'y
& bulletin ed.; Weldon E. Howitt, historian. This club year will mark the 50th year of the Farmingdale
club and many events are now being plannedio celebrate the anniversary.
New Bus To Use Fulton St. The Metropolitan Suburban
Bus Authority, after announcing
two weeks ago that they were
abandoning their proposed
Staples Street route to the
Sunrise Mall because of com­munity
objection has selected an
alternate route which will go into
effect Sunday, September 4.
The new N71 bus will remain on
Republic Airport
Busiest In State
Republic Airport in Far­mingdale
is running some 25
percent ahead, of 1976 in flight
operations with a total of 160,384
recorded through the month of
July, it was announced by the
Metropolitan Transportation
Authority.
Now considered the busiest
General Aviation airport in New
York State, Republic exceeded
last year's record of flight
operations for the first seven
months by more than 45,000. In
May this year Republic, operated
by MTA since 1969, set an all- time
high for operations with a mark
of 29,796. In January 1967, the
first month of the flight
operations tower, a total of 3,119
. operations were handled.
Of the grand total of
operations, 60 percent was listed
in the flight training category and
the remainder, or some 63,000,
was general aviation activity, up
some 20 percent this year over
the corresponding 1976 period,
there were 18 days in each of the
months of May, June and July
that Republic had 1,000 or more
operations.
" At the current rate of activity
we should easily set a record of
250,000 flight operations for 1977
and exceed the 206,002 made in
1976," MTA Chairman Harold L.
Fisher said.
" We attribute the significant
increase in operations to several
factors, including the addition of
a second fixed base operator to
the facility in the past- year; a
general uptrend in general
aviation and flight training ac­tivity;
greater understanding by
Long Island companies that
corporate air travel is time-saving
and efficient; Long
Island's improving economic
health," Fisher said.
Republic's busiest periods
during weekdays are from 9 am
to ll am and from 3 pm to 5 pm.
Saturdays and Sundays, the
airport is used for the most part
for pleasure flying and flight
training. The airport's flight
" operations tower is open seven
days'a week from 7 am to 11 pm.
At the present time a total of
420 aireraft are based— at
Republic, ranging. from small
single engine planes to turbo jets.
county roads, leaving Hempstead
Turnpike at the fork onto Fulton
Street ( Rt. 109) and make its
right turn onto South Main Street
at the Fulton St. intersection. It
will continue on Main Street
( construction permitting) . to
Carmans Road on its route to the
Mall.
The extension of the N71 south
from Farmingdale will provide
residents of South Farmingdale
and Massapequa Park with
direct bus service to major points
along the Hempstead Turnpike
such as the Nassau County
Medical Center, Hofstra
University, the Nassau Coliseum
and Mid- Island Hospital.
The new N71 service will run
once an hour, Monday through
Saturday, from 8 a. m. until 10
p. m.
As part of the N71 im­provement,
all buses on the new
route will run via Hempstead
Turnpike* between Hempstead
and Farmingdale. Formerly the
N72B ran via North Levittown
and Bethpage on its way to
Farmingdale. This restructuring
along the length of Hempstead
Turnpike will provide a uniform
half- hour- service between
Hempstead and Farmingdale
from early morning until late
evening. The N71 schedule will
also be ten minutes faster bet­ween
the two villages than the
former N72B schedule.
The schedule of the new N71
will also be timed to make con­nections
with north- south bt
routes at Division Avenue and tt
Hempstead Turnpike, Levittow
Robber Hits
Fulton St.
Gas Station
An armed robbery and a home
burglary were reported in the
Farmingdale area during the
past week by 8th precinct police.
Saturday afternoon at 2 p. m. a
white male with a gun entered the
Sunoco service station on Route
109 and forced the station at­tendant
to turn over the receipts.
He escaped with $ 50 in cash.
Eighth squad detectives are
investigating.
On August 23, the home at 52
Radcliffe Ave. was entered by a
burglar between 10 a. m. and 5: 30
p. m. through a rear window. $ 500
in cash was reported missing.
The largest drop in the number
of returning students will be at
the elementary level, with 350
fewer students than last year.
Only 408 new children are
enrolled in the starting kin­dergarten
classes. Last year 460
started on the first day of school.
There was a drop of only 100
students at the junior high school
level, in spite of smaller classes
moving up. A, larger than an­ticipated
number of parochial
school students, who graduated
from the eighth grade in Catholic
schools, enrolled for the ninth
grade in the public junior high
schools. ,
At the high school level, 225
fewer students will be attending
than last year. With the exception
of drop- outs, most of the decline
is due to- each year's class being
smaller than the one before it.
It's not too difficult to project
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Colby Urges Action
On Tax Deductions
Having the moratorium until
1981 on court- ordered 100 percent
reassessment should hot be
considered license for the State
Legislature to put reform of the
property tax system on the back
burner, according to Supervisor
Joseph Colby who called on
Nassau's legislators to im­mediately
press for homeowner
protection.
" I am pleased that the State
has granted the moratorium on
the court- ordered full value
assessment but I am concerned
that this may lessen the urgency
for action by the State to bring
about the ultimate reform of the
property tax system," Colby
said.
" For that reason I would like to
see the Legislature immediately
pass one basic reform which
would provide that owner-occupied
homes be given a $ 7,500
deduction from the full assessed
value, which, at this point, is still
a reality that has merely been put
off," Colby said.
In urging passage of this
deduction from full assessment,
the Supervisor indicated that
'' this method is being used
legally in other States and it is
simplest to initiate while at the
same time recognizes that the
property tax burden should be
less for someone using land as a
place to live than for someone
using land to produce income."
. In a letter addressed to the
State Senators and Assemblymen
from Nassau County, Colby
urged they take immediate ac­tion
on this " very simple" reform
for two reasons: " It will provide
homeowner protection until the
full reform of the property tax
system can be developed, and, it
' will give the State Legislature an
opportunity to act again on it if
the Governor for some unknown
reason decides to block it."