1977-06-16

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An Official Newspaper for the Village of Farmingdale
Vol. 58 No. 34 Second Class Postage Paid
in Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735 • Thursday, June 16,1977 Copyright 1977 by
The Farmingdale Post price 15c - $ 5 per year
Voters Approve All 3 gets
Election Restilts
School Budget
YES 1683
NO 548
Library Budget
YES 1481
NO 742
Youth Council
YES 1502
NO 719
CANDIDATES
School Board
Raymond Parcels
[ unopposed]
1461
Stanley Martyna
[ unopposed]
1485
Library Board
[ Vote For Two J
Paul Gatto
1179 **
Edward Lynch
1011
Helen Spinetta
1377 *
• High Vote- 3 Yr. Term
•• 2nd High Vote - 1 Yr.
Unexpired Term
1000 FHS Seniors
Graduate Sunday
John A. McLennan, principal of
the Farmingdale Senior High
School, has announced that the
sixty- first Annual Com­mencement
Exercises will be
held Sunday, June 19, at 1: 30 p. m.
at the Agricultural & Technical
College, Farmingdale.
The class of 1977 numbers
about 1000 graduates, ap­proximately
70 pet. of whom are
planning to continue with various
types of post- high school training.
The Salutatory will be given by
Julie Peipert and the Valedictory
by Jamie Powers.
The members of the class will
be presented by Charles L.
Manso, retiring Superintendent
of Schools. Frank Ranieri,
president of the Board of
Education, will present the
diplomas.
Also being honored at the
commencement will be eight
members of the class of 1927 and
the retiring Vice- Principal of
Farmingdale High School,
Clinton Spahr.
The High School Band will play
under the direction of Alfred
Fiore.
Administration advises guests
to use Route 110, instead of
Melville Road, to enter the
university campus.
ROTARY CLUB'S SUMMER CLEANUP: President Benjamin J.
Giminaro, Willie Oxendine, painting and decorating advisor; French
Oxendine, who has been for the past few years painting and repairing
the two bench's on Conklin Street and Main Street by the European -
American Bank; and Carl A. Dittmeier, chairman of public relations,
spruce up the Club's project. If obstacle's can be overcome, there may
be benches on another corner used by the senior citizens and others
waiting for transportation in the near future.
Town Plans HUD Suit
Farm ingda le Corner
Tops In Accidents
Oyster Bay Town Supervisor
Joseph Colby has the Town At­torney's
office looking into the
possibility of court action as a
result of a denial of planning
funds by the U. S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development
on the grounds that the Town has
refused to comply with HUD
demands for construction of low-income
family housing projects.
" The amount of money, $ 17,000,
is not that significant but we
believe that HUD is going beyond
its authority in attempting to tie
our annual planning grant to a
demand for low- income family
housing projects," Colby ex­plained.
" When Community Dev­elopment
funds were denied
us on the grounds that we refused
to comply to HUD's will, we
understood that the law ( 1974
Housing and Community
Development Act) allowed at­taching
this housing string to
community improvement fund-s,"
Colby continued. " We knew
that the problem was in the law
itself in that it refused to recognize
that different communities have
different needs and that all
communities should be required
to solve whatever problem HUD
decides has a priority.
" But in ( his case, we do not
think that HUD is correct when it
attempts to deny planning funds
to the Town on the grounds that
we have not complied with
demands of that federal agency,"
Colby said. At Colby's direction,
that exact question is currently
being given careful examination
by the Town Attorney's office to
determine if court action is the
most appropriate course.
. Colby noted that the denial of
the planning funds ( 701
Program) came close on the
heels of the official denial of a
Community Development
program that would have
provided homeowners in the
Oyster Bay hamlet area with low-interest
home improvement
loans.
" In denying the home im­provement
loan program, HUD
simply said straight out, that
unless we construct low income
family housing projects we will
not get these funds. In other
words, unless we start complying
to HUD's will and start changing
the complexion and character of
this Town to have it developed as
HUD would like it, we are going
to be unable to obtain HUD funds
to assist us in meeting the needs
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The intersection of Merritts
Road and Hempstead Turnpike,
Farmingdale, tied for first place
in Nassau County as the corner
with the most auto accidents
during 1976.
The intersection tied with
Hempstead Turnpike and
Wantagh Ave., Levittown, with 45
accidents each. This information
was contained in a study recently
completed by the Nassau County
Police Dept. that revealed that
the most accident prone major
roads in the police district are
Hempstead Turnpike and Sunrise
Highway.
Hempstead Turnpike ac­counted
for 48 percent of all
accidents at various high ac­cident
frequency locations, while
Sunrise Highway was credited
with 32 percent.
Most of the accidents occurred
between 9 a. m. and 5 p. m. under
optimum weather conditions with
the intersections under control of
traffic signal lights.
Farmingdale's total o* ac­cidents
at Merritts Road and 25
more at Main Street, placed
Farmingdale in third place
behind East Meadow and
Levittown in total number of
accidents.
The study did not include all
accidents, only those at 25 in­tersections
which had the most
number of accidents during 1976.
Howitt Mathletes
Tops In Nassau Co.
The Howitt Junior High School
Math team has captured the
Nassau County Math League
ninth grade championship in
competition against more than 35
other public and non- public
schools.
In addition, individual honors
were won by two Farmingdale
students who were among the top
scorers in the league. Scott Klein
was the number one ranked
student in Nassau and Linda
Sperling placed third highest
among the hundreds of students
in the competition. The team
award was accepted by Frank
Krebs.
Awards were received at a May
17 presentation at Merrick
Avenue Junior High School which
featured Professor Gene Zirkel
as guest speaker.
Students were accompanied at
the awards evening by their
parents and faculty moderator
Bernice Glidden. Scott Klein lives
on Bleeker Drive and Linda
Sperling on Pine Street in North
Massapequa; Frank Krebs at on
Cheryl Lane North in Far­mingdale.
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