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Vol. I, No. 29 FRIDAY. JUNE 27, 1941 Price Five Cents
Supervisors Approve
Stewart Ave. Project
Construction To Start Soon;
Estimate Cost At $124,000
Substitution of the improve-ment
of Stewart Avenue for the
proposed improvement of the
Hicksville-Plainview road, Farm-ingdale,
on the state-county road
program for 1941 has been auth-orized
by the board of super-visors.
Public Works Commissioner
John C. Guibert recommended
to the board that the Farming-dale
road project, estimated to
cost $77,000, be withdrawn and
that the Bethpage project be
substituted at an estimated cost
of $124,000.
Mr. Guibert indicated that the
Bethpage road project would be
of more value to the defense
"program than., the earlier pro-posal.
It wull be the fourth on
the state-aid program for the
year. The resolution making the
change was adopted by the board
on Monday on motion of Super-visor
Harry Tappen of Oyster
Bay.
Appoint Gibbons
Dist. Supervisor
Frank E. Gibbons has been
appointed District Supervisor of
the WPA Historical Records Sur-vey
for Nassau and Suffolk
Counties, succeeding Dr. John
S. Curtiss who was recently ap-pointed
as archivist at the
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library,
Hyde Park, N. Y. ^
'^ssau ^tes
Edgar Luckenbach, of the
shipping lines family and Sands
Point once worked for three
dollars a week. Now that he's
boss of the Luckeni>ach lines,
they pay the Panama Canal over
•a million dollars a year. He
must have gotten a fairly good
raise to afford that!—The Port
Washington R. R. branch carries
many Third estaters back* and
forth. Seen in the smoking car
recently were Cas Adams,
Everett Morris, William Taylor
and Stanley Woodworth reading
the Tribune; Robert Kelley and
Reginald Cleveland reading the
Times; Mario Cooper and Wil-liam
Chessman with Collier's.
We didn't want to be different
so we pulled out a copy of that
scintillatitjg column "Along Long
Island!" Ho-hum—Us newspaper
men.
Newsgram Changes
Date of Publication
Newsgram wishes to announce
to its many readers and sub-scribers
that the publication day
of Newsgram will be changed
from Friday of each week to
Wednesday, effective as of Wed-nesday,
July 3nd.
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Long Island WPA
Cooperates With
Legion Post
Lester W. Herzog, State Ad-ministrator
of the WPA, today
directed the Long Island unit of
the New York State Writer's
Project to cooperate with Com-mander
William Kane of the
Smith-Wever Post, 651, Ameri-can
Legion, in the preparation of
a souvenir historical booklet of
the 33 Suffolk County Posts. The
illustrated booklet will be dis-tributed
at the Suffolk County
Legion Convention to be held at
Sayville on July 25th and 26th.
Villages Pass
Quotas In Boy
Scout Fund Drive
At a meeting by the village
chairmen of the Nassau County
Boy Scout Fund Rrive, held in
the Bar Association building, at
Mineola, on Monday evening, re-ceipts
of $4,952.14 were reported,
bringing the total of contribu-tions
so far to $21,317.47.
Three more villages passed
their quotas and were awarded
ornamental plaques by Judge
Cortland A. Johnson, chairman
of the drive. They are: Farm-ingdale,
Louis Jacobs, chairman;
Oyster Bay, William D. Sted-man,
chairman; and Seaford,
Robert L. Richter, chairman.
Bethpage and Hicksville have
passed their quotas in the Boy
Scout Fund Drive, some time
ago.
* * *
Mrs. J. J. Gifford of North
Broadway entertained Mrs. Emre
Altmann of Sycamore Avenue
and Mrs. E. F. Gifford of Queens
.Village at a luncheon on Tuesday.
Award Contract,
Appoint Amendola
To Board Vacancy
As School Board
Meets Tuesday
A regular meeting of the Beth-page
School board of education
was held on Tuesday evening, at
the schoolhouse.
A transportation contract for
the 1941-42 term was awarded
to Mrs. Mamie Benkert of Beth-page
at a price of $4,500.00.
Mr. Raymond J. Amendola of
Broadway, was appointed to fill
•the vacancy caused by the resig-nation
of Francis J. Looney as
school trustee.
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Mrs. Julius Braunschweiger of
Plainview Road, Plainview, has
undergone an appendectomy at
the Nassau-Suffolk G e n e r al
Hospital, of Copi'ague.
Plainedge Pupils Pcrticipate
In Field Day Celebration
Honor Graduate
Margaret Cava Graduates;
Now Registered Pharmist
Margaret Cava, 21, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carmine
Cava, Broadway, Bethpage, recently graduated from St.
John's University of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Miss Cava was awarded the
highest honors at the Bethpage
Grammar School in 1933 and
graduated v/ith high honors from
the Farmingdale High School in
1937, winning a scholarship
award.
At the St. John's Uaiversity
"Marge" was the Pharmacal
Women, President; Phi Delta
Zeta, Secretary, Botany Club;
Class Secretary 1, 2, and 3 years
and Pharmalog Staff, Women's
Editor.
Miss Margaret Cava
Wife of Local
Printer To Have
Majer Operation
Mrs. William DeFanis of
Harrison Avenue, has undergone
a major operation at the Nassau
Hospital, Mineo/a, N. Y. on
Wednesday morning. Her many
friends wish her a speedy re-covery.
Mrs. DeFanis is the wife of
William DeFanis who has been
engaged in the printing business
in this community' for the past
10 years. .
The Plainedge School cele-brated
Field Day last Friday.
The pupils of the Third, Fourth
and Fifth Grades participated in
the various sports events which
were won by the following:
Sack Race—Irene Horwath,
Anna Schwamberger and Fran-ces
Pietrie.
Fifty Yard Dash — Anna
Schwamberger, Francis Pietrie,
Nancy Papole.
Broad Jump—Frances Pietrie,
Olive Zerrenner.
Potato Race—Audrey Whaley,
Olive Zerrenner.
Basket Ball Throw—Audrey
Whaley, Olive Zerrener, Frances
Pietrie, Margaret Bergold.
Sack Race—Jack Mahoney,
Louis Kunzig, Louis Schwart-ing,
Kenneth Hawkins.
Fifty Yard Dash—Jack Ma-honey,
Robert Benson, Louis
Schwarting nad Kenneth Hawk-ins.
Potato Race—Howard Hor-vath,
Louis Schwarting and Ken-neth
Hawkins.
Basket Ball Throw—Jack Ma-honey,
Louis Kunzig, Louis
Schwarting and Kenneth Hawk-ins.
Basket Ball Throw in the
Basket—Emil Schwarting, Char-les
Wallentine and Matthew Pol-izzi.
Emblem Winners—Jack Ma-honey,
Louis Schwarting, Ken-neth
Hawkins, Frances Pietrie,
Olive Zerrenner, Audrey Whaley
and Anna Schwamberger.
Edward Reckner received first
and second prize in sciencet
The following are a list of
the winners in the sack race,
potato race, relay race and a
walking race in the lower classes:
Kindergarten—Betty Ann Gar-ret,
Helen Hovarth, Arthur
Clark, Jr.
First Grade—Elise Miller, Rob-erta
Mallo, Virginia Benson.
Second Grade—Louise Hart,
Elizabeth Whaley, Esca Hakens,
Frank Kunzig, George Morris.
The prizes consisted of balls,
balls and jacks, jump ropes and
an airplane.
Those promoted to the sixth
grade to attend Farmingdale
school are: Charles Wallentine,
Louis S c h w a r t i n g , Anna
Schwamberger, Matthew Polizzi,
Frances Pietrie, and Kenneth
Hawkins.
The highest average was ob-tained
by Louis Schwarting.
Bethpage School
Grads Feted
At Party ^
Last Monday evening, Mr. ani
Mrs. Frank Roever of 31 Central
Boulevard entertained the 1941
June graduates, of the Bethpage
Public School, which included
their son Frank.
The rooms were decorated in
blue and gold, the class colors
and roses dressed the table. Re-freshments
were served and
games and dancing made the eve-ning
a merry one.
The following graduates at-tended:
Joseph -F. Belcastro,
Helen Brown, Raymond Caffrey,
Ellen Ebisch, Irene Fornari,
Lenore Fox, Rodman Hartjen,
Edmond Hartmcnn, Robert G.
Holzmacher, Lorrain^^ Ketcham,
Anna Maini, Willianr.'"^^T,'^got.
Raymond Masino, Jacquelfll^ -
Myer, Henry Kassinger, Johanna
Okula, William Regan, Frank
Roever, Anthony Simone, Evelyn
Spagnoli, Julia Spina, Dorothy
Spindler, William Vigliotta, Mar-jorie
Weber, Richard Winter,
4th, Clifford Zeblisky and Jean
Zoeller.
Also present were Charles
Tallman and George Roever.
Miss Browning j
is Assigned To
Childrens Project
Geoffrey W. Dare, District
Director of the WPA, today an-nounced
the assignment of Miss
A. Elizabeth Browning to the
new Children's Museum Project
to be located at Adelphi College,
Garden City. An extensive visual
aid program is planned for cir-culation
among the Nassau and
Suffolk schools.
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