Bethpage-Newsgram_1941-06-13

              Service Men Back Grumman Defense Work
Story on Page 4
Photo by courtesy of Drennan
The family bids farewell to Walter A. Looney at the
Hicksville station Monday. Standing left to right, are Pat-rick
Looney, Patrolman Michael Looney, Miss Mildred
Looney, sister, Walter A. Looney, who was inducted. Miss
i\Iarita Looney, sister and Francis Looney, also a Patrol-man.
LOCAL SOLDIER BOY
DROWNS AT ARMY CAMP
Clarence Skellington
Drowns Swimnning
In Leaf River
Clarence Skellington, 19, of
Stewart and Farmers Avenue,
Bethpage, attached to Company
. B, 102nd Anti-Tank Battalion at
Fort Shelby, Hattiesburg, Miss.,
was drowned Sunday while swim-ming
in the Leaf River, near the
camp, wliere a number of the
soldiers were bathing, according
to a telegram received from the
U. S. Army headquarters, signed
by Capt. E L. Bell, commanding
officer,
Skellington v/as one of a fam-ily
of nine and he was recently
home on leave At one time he
liad been a boxer and before
going South with the 102nd he
had been attached to the Hemp-stead
Armory.
Funeral arrangements were by
Henry J. Stock and interment
in the National Cemetery, Pine-lawn,
N. Y.
'^ssau TSptes
Mrs. Sally Mackreth, editor o!
the Malverne Herald, has be-come
a Walter Wincheless and
conducts her 'Don't Say I Told
You But' column over station
WGBB of F;-eeport every Tues-day
at 7:30 . . . George Selkirk
of the New York Yankees, spoke
recently at Freeport Young Re-publican
Club. How democratic
of him! . . . Some Nassau kida
are going to be rich soon when
the winners of the Historical
Essay contest are announced.
Paul Bailey, editcu' of the "Long
Island Forum," Jacqueline Over-ton,
Westbury librarian; Jesse
Merrit, Birdsall Jackson, authors,
are among the judges . . . The
Samurai sword from the Emper-or
of Japan, a warrior's suit of
arn or from Admiral Togo, a rug
from ,(ie i^hali of Persia, and
elephant i'ivl<s from Menelik of
Aircraft Workers
Urged To Buy
Homes Now
Mr. E. C. White in charge of
the Wonder Homes Development
at Bay and Waters Avenues,
Hicksville today urged aircraft
workers and anyone interested in
purchasing a home, to buy now
to safeguard against fast rising
prices of homes today. Mr. White
announced that W^onder Homes
through their foresight have pur-chased
large supplies of mason
and building materials enabling
them to give the buyer more
for his money than any other
builder constructing homes of
this type.
Mr. White says, "Before buying
compare our homes with other
much higlier priged homes as to
the following points.^Construct-ion,
quality of material, work-manship,
layout, locality and
such features as found in Wonder
Homes which are not found in
homes mucli higher priced."
White also made the following
statement, "Why pay high rents
and have nothing to show for
hard eai-ned money but a batch
of rent receipts. Guard against
rising rents. Buy a Wonder
Home."
Wonder Homes have sold moi'c
than twenty homes since their
advertisement appeared in this
paper, proof that these homes are
all and even more than their
builder claims for them.
Visit these homes and see for
yourself. Ask the man who owns
one.
Abbyssinia are all over in Oyster
Bay. They were presented to a
former resident of that area. Can
you guess who whe was? This
is a tough one. His initials were
T. R.
VoL I. No. 27 FRIDAY. JUNE 13. 1941 Price Five Cents
Research Workers
Are Needed For
As a part of the comprehen-sive
planning for national de-fense,
mineral economists are
needed to do research in the
fields of minerals, coal, and pet-roleum.
Civil service examina-tions
for these positions arc now
open. The salaries range from
$2,600 to $5,600 a year. Comple-tion
of a 4-year college course
with major study in such sub-jects
as geology, metallurgy, min-ing
engineering, or economics,
and professional experience deal-ing
with the economics of min-eral
industries are required. Sub-stitution
of additional experience
for part of the education, and
likewise appropriate graduate
study for experience is permitted
under certain conditions. Persons
who may be qualified for these
important positions are urged
to file their applications with the
U, S. Civil Service Commission
in Washington at once. Appli-cations
will be rated as received
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Church Society
HoSds Annual
Entertainment
The Dorcas Aid Society of St.
Paul's Lutlieran Church of Beth-page
held its annual strawberry
festival and entertainment W^ed-nesday
evening. In charge of the
a f f a i r were Mrs. Theodore
Damm, entertainment, and Mrs.
Charles Keucher, refreshments.
"How the Stoi'y Grew", a play,
was presented. The cast included
the ]\Iesdames Thomas Morselli,
Fred Ludwig, Frank Lackert,
Joseph Baldwin, Alfred Scluiltz,
Charles Ludwig, Edward Seng-stacken
and cGorge Seitz.
An accordion solo by Miss
Cynthia Ecklund, piano solo by
Miss Lois Seitz, trombone solo
by Robert Damm and readings
by Mrs. Edward Sengstacken
were on the same program.
Dance Club
To Give Square
Dance Tonight
The Old Fashioned Square
Dance to bo given by the Beth-page
Dance Club will be held to-night,
at the Tlieodore Roose-velt
Republican Clubhouse on
Washington Street. Music to be
furnished by A1 McLeauden and
his orchestra of Freeport, N. Y.
Tickets may be puivhsed from
Alice and Ruth Ludwig, Muriel
Benkert, Agnes Gilbert, Edward
Koenderman and George Roever.
Indue
First Nassau C o p To Join Army;
Leaves Four Brothers On Force
Patrolman Walter A. Looney, 25, of Fifth Street,
Bethpage, was inducted in the U. S. Army on Mc-nday. He
is the first member of the Nassau County Police Depart-ment
to be drafted.
Walter A. Looney in Army un-iform.
Looney left 31onday to-gether
v.'ith Demo Anselnii and
Enire Altnuinn, two other Beth-p.
ige boys.
P..T.A.
Meeting June 5,
The Bethpage Parent-Toacher
association held its final meeting
of the season last Thursday eve-ning.
Installation of officers and
a farewell party for the teachers
of the school completed the
year's activity.
Mi's. Henry Ebisch, president;
Mrs. Henry Gerhardt, \'ice-pres-ident;
Miss Geraldine Martin,
treasurer and IMiss Ina Stalter,
secretary, are the officers for the
coming year.
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Furness
of Bethpage were admitted as
new members at the meeting.
Mrs. Ebisch appointed as chari-men
of standing committees Mrs.
Mildred Banks, ways and means;
Mrs. Fred Kramer, program;
Mrs, John Gifford, publicity; Mrs.
Anthony Messina, membership;
Mrs. Joseph Ellinger, friendship,
and Mrs. William Michaels and
Mrs. Emma Cassinger, i-efresla-ments.
Those present at the farewell
party were the Misses Lia Stal-ter,
Mai\v Ri.sley, Geraldine Mar-tin,
Sophia Bondar, Hope Orcutt,
R o s e Moulton, Mrs. Bessie
Lacker, Alfred LeCausi and
Douglas O'Brien.
Last Tliursday evening the
Second Precinct of the Police
Department of Syosset, N. Y.
hold a farewell dinner at Deubels
in Looncy's honor, at which time
lie was presented with a signet
ring.
On Saturday evening the Beth- •
page Fire Department feted
Patroiman Looney at a farewell
;iinnoi' at the fire house and pre-sented
him with a travelling
kit and wallet.
At the railroad station to see
him of: were his four police bro-thers,
Francis 24, Michael 31,
l-Iaroid 27 and James 28. There
arc two other bi'others in the
family, John J., attached to the
Police force in Cove Neck, and
Patrick J., a fireman stationed
at Engine Company 20, Lafayette
Street, Manhattan.
The Looneys, a pioneer Beth-page
family, are the sons of the
late Patrick Joseph Looney and
the late Mary Jane Looney of
Broadway, Bethpage. The latter
died a few months ago at the
age of 61. Their late father v^'as
a well known farmer in this
vicinity. It was learned today
tliat another of the brothers may
be drafted soon.
Westby Resigns
From School Post
TIio resignation of Robert V,
Westby, treasurer of the Beth-page
Board of Education, was
accepted at a meeting of the
board in the schoolhouse Monday
evening, to be effective June 16.
On that day Westby will be in-ducted
into the U. S. Army as a
selective service draftee.
Treasurer of the board since
July 1940, Westby's resignation
will leave the board for the
remainder of the month of June
without a treasurer. His term
would have officially closed June
30th.
School Graduation
Exercises To Be
Held Next Friday
The graduation exerci.ses of the
Bethpage Public School will take
place next Friday evening and
arrangements for a graduation
speaker are being made by Vic-tor
L, Miller, principal. ;
At the school board meeting
held Monday evening, diplomas
were signed. ^