Bethpage-Newsgram_1941-05-30

              Plan To Increase Grumman Production
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Boy Scout Rally
Well Attended
Annua! A f f a i r Draws 100
The Farmingdale-Bethpage Boy Scout troops held their
annual rally Friday night at the Farmingdale High school
gymnasium. Troops 53, 56, 172 and 228 of Farmingdale
and Troop 118 of Bethpage participated in the first aid,
knot tying, and fire making contests.
About 100 people attended the
rally and heard the welcoming
address delivered by District
Chairman Charles Tilgner, Jr.,
Scoutmasters supervising the af-fair
were Dr. John A. Forst,
Charles Lindros, Leonard Arnold,
Walter V. Anderson, all of Farm-ingdale,
and James Klingelhoefer
of Bethpage.
All five troops participated in
the first aid demonstration that
included artificial respiration,
the application of a splint for a
leg fracture and an arm fracture,
bandaging, and the methods of
transportation of injured persons,
A semaphore signaling contest
in which the scoring was based
on the speed and accuracy with
which a coded mesage of approx-imately
100 letters v.'as sent,
was followed by a psuedo ice
rescue. During the "ico rescue"
scouts tied a succession of knots,
all us,cd for different purposes,
and then hauled the victim to
f.afety.
Presentation of meritt badges,
i;econd and first class awards
was made by Thomas D. Rae,
scout commissioner, at the close
of events. Phillip Denton, Troop
53 committeeman, was master of
ceremonies.
'^ssau '^tes
James Roosevelt, formerly of
Harbor Acres, Port Washington,
married Romelle Schneider after
he was divorced from Betsy
Gushing formerly of Port Wash-ington.
The wedding took place
at the home of Mrs. George
Converse who is none other than
Anita Stewart of the movies.
Great Neck and Brightwaters,
L. I.
The ladies are trying to outdo
each other. Detective Mary Shan-ley
shot up a barroom in Jackson
Heights and got demoted and
now Barbara Taylor of Roslyn
got into the jug because she
had the habit of tearing police
booths apart. Gee whiz, officer,
can't you let the girls have a
little fun? "Navy Day" at Adelphi
isn't what you think it is. It does-n't
mean that the fleet is in and
the gobs are all over-at Garden
City but the girls are just hold-ing
a field day.—A big, new
shipyard is to be built at Oyster
Bay to cost four million dolalrs.
Wonder if thy're building it out
of mahogany?'
Vol. I, No. 25 FRIDAY. MAY 30, 1941 12 Pricc Five Cents
U.S. Needs Skilled
Labor For Defense
Urge Shipfif+ers,
Machinists To Apply
In the past eight months of
intensive effort to locate quali-fied
skilled machinists and ship-building
workers for arsenals,
army air depots, and naval shore
establishments, the U. S. Civil
Service Commission announced
today, over 10,000 highly skilled
munitions and shipbuilding work-ers
have been put on the job at
establishments where, because of
the labor supply or geographical
location, these skilled positions
are particularly hard to fill. This
number of placements does not
include those in localities where
little or no difficulty in recruit-ing
has been experienced, and it
is but a small fraction of the
total number of placements made
in the War and Navy Depart-ments
as a whole, where the
figure for the 8-month period
is over 270,000, including various
grades of skilled, unskilled, and
professional positions in both the
field and "the departmental ser-vice.
The needs of the various Na-tional
Defense Agencies for
skilled workers have increased
rapidly.
For example, 135 shipfitters
are urgently needed at the navy
yards at Mare Island, Calif.,
Bremerton, Wash., Philadelphia,
Pa., Charleston, S. C., and Ports-mouth,
Va., although in the past
8 months over 1,400 shipfitters
have been put on the job at these
and other navy yards.
Over 400 machinists are now
needed at the arsenals at Water-vilet,
N. Y., Rock Island, II!.,
Philadelphia, Pa., Watertown,
Mass., and Edgewood, Maryland,
and at the navy yards at Phil-adelphia,
Pa., Washington, D. C.,
Mare Island, Calif., Boston,
Mass., Charleston, S. C., and at
Bremerton, Wash., as well as at
the Naval Station at Key West,
Fla. In the past eight months
well over 4,000 machinists have
been put to work at Government
arsenals and navy yards.
Over 300 qualified toolmakers
are needed at the arsenals at
Watervilet, N. Y., Philadelphia,
Pa., Dover, N. J., Watertown,
Mass., and Springfield, Mass.,
and at the navy yards at Wash-ington,
D. C., Philadelphia, Pa.,
Charleston, S. C., and Bremerton,
Wash. Approximately 775 tool-makers
havft ^ n ^ppQinted at
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V.F.W.
Dead At awn
Past Year
New Industries
To Nassau,
Nassau County gained five
industries and Suffolk County
two along the lines of the Long
Island Railroad during 1940,
accoi'ding to the Long Island
association.
Of the industries, two in^
Nassau county and one in Suf-folk
county are new ones. The
increase is due largely to
national defense demands, the
association said. More than
$100,000,000 in aircraft and ship-building
contracts have been
allocated in Nassau and Suffolk
Counties.
Some of the established in-dustries
which expanded their
plans are the Ranger Engineer-ing
corporation. East Farming-dale,
Grumman Aircraft En-gineering
corporation, Bethpage
and the Republic Aviation com-pany
at East Farmingdale.
P.-T. A. Holds
Annual Election
At a meeting of the Parent-
Teacher's Asociation last Thurs-day
evening, the annual election
of officers was held. The officers
for the coming year will be
President, Mrs. Henry Ebisch;
Vice-President, Mrs. Henry Ger-hard;
Treasurer, Miss Geraldine
Mirtin and Secretary, Miss Ina
Stalter. With the exception of the
presidency, the offices were held
by the same members. Installa-tion
of officers will be held in
June.
Five thotisand Nassau Veterans attended the f i f th
annual memorial service for war dead at the Pinelawn
Cemetery, jheld Sunday afternoon. Forty-six American
Legion posts from Nassau County joined 28 Suffolk posts,
the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled War Veterans
^ ^ and other organizations in the
services, which were conducted
by the Rev, Christian Kirke-gaarde,
Christ Lutheran Church
of Lynbrook, County American
Legion Chaplain. An address was
made by Captain Paul J. Gieg-erich,
'Catholic chaplain at Mit-chel
field.
Thirty Women Sign
Up In Plainedge
The Parent-Teacher Asociation
of the Plainedge School have
'^announced that thirty women
have registered for the National
Defense Program. Mrs. Catherine
Allen and Miss H. Burkholder
made a house to house canvass in
the community on May 19th and
Mrs. Kenneth Hawkins, Mrs.
Catherine Allen, Mi's. Demmerle
and Mrs. Arthur Clark solicited
registrants on May 26th.
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100 Turn Out
To Visit Wonder
Homes Sunday
Over 100 people turned out
Sunday to visit the Wonder
Homes located at Bay and
Waters Avenues in Hicksville.
Mr. C. H. White in charge at
the development announced the
sale of eight more of these homes
over the past week-end, seven of
these being sold to aircraft
workers.
Many of the aircraft workers
who visited these :iomes Sunday
declared that nowhere on Long
Island can be found homes as
well built and as reasonable as
Wonder Homes.
Every worker who is con-templating
purchase of a home
should see these homes before
buying.
Defense Training School To
Open At Oyster Bay June 1st
To Offer Machlnisf
Training Courses
Mr. Albert G. Bergesen, Dis-trict
Director of the National
Youth Administration for Long
Island, today announced the
opening of a National Youth
Administration Work Experience
Center in machine shop trades,
in the town of Oyster Bay, which
will be officially opened between
May 15th and June 1st. This
machine shop will be located in
the Primaiy School Building,
School Street, Oyster Bay, in
which National Youth Adminis-tration
woodworking and sheet
metal shops are already in oper-ation.
This shop, the first of its
kind to be opened in Nassau and
Suffolk Counties, is equipped
with all types of up-to-date
machine shop equipment, and
will provide young men, between
the ages of 17 and 25 years,
with the opportunity to obtain
practical work experience and
training in the operation of var-ious
types of engine and turret
lathes, milling machines, shapers,
drill presses, metal band saws,
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Wreaths were laid at the base
of a monument, erected in the
cemetery last year by the com-bined
veterans' organizations,
after a short parade into the
cemetery at 2:30 p. m. There
were 300 stands of colors massed
on the main mall in front of the
monument during the exercises.
Rev. Captain Giegerich, in his
address, advised those pi^esent
not to be sorry for the dead, "as
they have passed the trials of
this life, and have attained a
better life, the hereafter". The
chaplain urged the continuance
of the yearly visit to the cem-etery
to "perpetuate the memory
of the men who died defending
our country."
Paul S, Lawrence, senior state
vice-commander of the eVterans
of Foriegn Wars, who was chair-man
of the committee arranging
teh services, said in his address
that he was "glad that the pow-ers-
that-be are waking up to the
fact that a strong national de-fense
is necessary."
Local Resident
Volunteers For
Army Service
Mr. William Doyle, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Samuel Doyle of Mas-sapequa,
former residents of
Bethpage, volunteered for the
United States Army Service and
is stationed at Fort Dix, N. J.
Food Supervisor
Warns Merchants
William P. Bauer, Nasau pro-gram
supervinsor for Surplus
Marketing Administration, issued
a warning to Nassau County
merchants for disepnsing beer,
cigarettes and other "luxuries"
to needy pereons in exchange for
blue stamps, intended only for
surplus foods.