Bethpage-Newsgram_1941-07-23

              Grumman Answers Republic^s Open Letter
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Vol. I. No. 33 WEDNESDAY. JULY 23. 1941 Price Five Cents
Quota Passed
In Local Drive
For U. S. 0. Funds
Contributors' List
To Be Published
With one-fourth of its territory
yet to be canvassed, the Beth-page
chapter of the United Ser-vice
'Organizations has ah-eady
surpassed its quota of $250.00,
according to James Norman,
chairman.
Only four refusals have been
recorded so far in the campaign,
which is being sponsored by the
Bethpage Fire Department.
To Publish Names
At the conclusion of the drive,
the name of every contributor
will be published in a book to be
exhibited in the firehouse, and
names of those who refused will
be printed, also.
Chairman Norman commented,
"Contributions have been vei^
good, and it has been a pleasure
to serve on the committee.'-'
Rumscho Resigns
In addition to handling this
U.S.O. drive, the fire department
has been having several changes
within its ranks. Upon the
resignation, after twenty-five
years of service, of Mathias Rum-scho,
chairman and member of
the board of commissioners, Ed-ward
Sengstacken was named to
take his place. Herman Klingel-hoefer
was elected chairman of
the board, with John Westby as
vice-chairman.
Wiliam De Fanis also handed
in his resignation as captain of
the fire department, since the
law prevents a fire commissioner
from holding other office. To re-place
De Fanis, Eugene Albert-son
was promoted from the office
of lieutenant, while, in turn,
George Seitz became lieutenant.
^ssau J^tes
The Red Barn Theatre at
Locust Valley is open again. Ac-cording
to Nassau paper. Rex
King, the leading man "quick-ens
female pulse beats." He
should be employed by an aspirin
company . . . The Lake is now
really a success now that the
Sperry plant is to be there. Hope
it's on the level. One nice thing
about a gyro is that it has scope.
. . . Finished "Gone With the
Wind ? Now you can start on the
new Nassau Telephone Book.
There was only Scarlett O'Hara
in the former but there are 104,-
900 good numbers in the latter.
They give you their aid—and
they need your aid Give to the
U. S. O.i
Boy Scouts To Make Rounds Here
Nassau Leads Nation!
According- to national officials
of the Bundles for Britain Or-ganization,
Nassau County holds
a nation-wide record for making
the largest contributions. In the
past year, approximately 80,000
knitted and sewed articles have
been sent out from Nassau head-quarters
at Cedarhurst to Brit-ain.
This means that more than
$35,000 has been spent upon
these things, as well as upon
other monetary donations. Good
for Nassau!
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Jones Beach Has Thursday and Friday Evenings
July Circus Day Bethpage drive to collect unwanted aluminum for
Today signalled the second an-nual
July "Circus Day" at Jones
Beach, with crackerjack, saw-dust,
a midway, a "big top", and
an honest-to-goodness c i r c us
troupe. There are clowns galore,
animals from the Central Park
zoo, sideshows, freaks and funny
miiTors. All children under 15
receive free pink lemonade and
crackerjack, and have an oppor-tunity
to win prizes on varied
games of skill and luck.
aid in the national defense pro-gram will be started tomor-row
night under the auspices of the local Boy Scouts,
according to Mr. John Ward, scoutmaster. The Boy Scouts,
working with.the Nassau County Defense Council and the
American Legion, will call at the home of each Bethpage
resident on Thursday and Friday of this week, July 24
and 25.
The Office of Civilian
Monster Bazaar Held at Parish Hall
To Raise Money for St. Martin's Church
Many prizes have already been won by visitors at the Monster
Bazaar being sponsored by St. Martin's Church, according to Harold
Looney, publicity chairman. The bazaar, which was held for two
days of last week, July 18 and 19, will have a "Bang-up" finish on
Friday and Saturday of this week, July 25 and 26, at the Parish
Hall, Broadway, Bethpage.
To Pay Church Debt
The purpose of the affair is to raise sufficient funds to pay
for the debt of the church. It is hoped that a sum of about
$1,000.00 will be obtained. The entertainment consists largely of
raffles and wheel spinning com-petitions.
The most valuable
prize, a case of liquor or $10.00
in cash, will be raffled off this
week-end. The prizes have been
procured from local merchants
and from gift houses in New
York City.
Large Committee Serves
A large committee, under the
chairmanship of Joseph Ellinger,
has put much effort into the
bazaar, working to n.ake it as
entertaining as possible, and pro-viding
refreshments for the vis-itors.
Michael Sirrione assist-ing
Mr. Ellinger as vice-chair-man,
while the remainder of the
committee includes:
Mrs. A1 Guerin, Mrs. Lewis
Damm, Mrs. Violet Schatzel, Mr.
Charles Hartigan, Mr. Fred
Baerast, Mr. George Baerast and
Mr. Harold Looney.
Extend Invitation
The committee again wis'^cs
to extend a cordial invitation to
enjoy an evening of fun and ex-citement
at the bazaar to all
local residents and to all em-ployees
of the Grumman plant.
Local Hardware Store
Supplies All Tools
The Bethpage Hardware and
House Furnishing Company, one
of NEWSGRAM'S newest adver-tisers,
wishes to inform all air-craft
employees that it can sup-ply
them with any tool in de-mand.
The company carries in
stock several well known makes
of tools.
Through connection with large
wholesalers in New York, this
concern can supply any tool
desired within 24 hours.
Since tools are in great de-mand
at this present stage and
are often impossible to procure,
this new firm may prove a val-uable
addition.
Baldwins Feted
On Anniversary
Three Sons Honor Parents
At Surprise Party
Mr. and ^Irs. Joseph Baldwin
of Stewart Avenue, Bethpage,
were given a surprise party in
celebration of their 33rd wedding
anniversary Sunday evening by
their three sons, Walter, DeWitt,
and Everett Baldwin. About 25
friends and relatives were pres-ent
to honor the occasion.
The guests included Mr. and
Mrs. George Dieffenback, Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Engler and
daughters, Helen, Margie, and
Josephine Engler, and Mrs. Wil-liam
Gouse, all of Hicksville.
Also Mr. and Mrs. Edward Smed-ecker
of Brooklyn, Mr. and Mrs.
Clifford Lee and son, Robert, of
Rockville Centre, Miss Naomi
Snyder of Farmingdale, Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Drinkwater and
Frank Drinkwater, Jr., ]\Ir. and
Mrs. William Drinkwater of
Bethpage and Miss Audrey
Becker of Amityville.
Muriel Benkert
Wins Campership
Will Leave Saturday
For Peconic Bay Camp
With Local Scout
Miss Muriel Benkert, to whom
a campership was recently
awarded by the Nassau Daily
Review-Star, will leave Saturday
with Adele Sengstacken * for
Peconic Bay Girl Scout Camp,
which is owned by the South
Shore Council of Girl Scouts.
The Nassau Daily Review-Star
provides the Mid-Island Council
of Girl Scouts with five camper-ships
to distribute among the
six towns under the Mid-Island
Council: Farmingdale, Bethpage,
Hicksville, Plainview, Westbury
and Jericho. Thus five girls are
chosen from approximately 337
to attend camp.
Both Muriel Benl*ert, winner
of the campership, and her com-panion-
to-be, Adele Sengstacken,
are officers of the local Senior
Girl Scout Troop. The former is
president of the club and the
latter, treasurer. Both girls are
students of Farmingdale High
School.
BETHPAGE MAN WEDS
IN SURPRISE ELOPEMENT
Miss Viola Miller, daughter of
Mr, and Mi's. John Miller of
Jericho, N, Y. and William
Drinkwater, son of Mr, and ]\Irs.
Frank Drinkwater of Bethpage,
motored to Elkton, Maryland on
Saturday where they were mcu-ried.
Defense, headed by Mayor
Guardia, has urged the people
to contribute only alumiiium not
actually needed. In addition to
pots and pans, such articles as
curlers, brush handles, badges^
tooth brush containers, camping
equipment, fly rod cases, vacuum
bottle parts, laundry tags, some
toothpaste tubes, ice box trays,
soap boxes, combs, buttons, toys,
medicine • containers, thimbles,
radio parts, motor parts and
cig'ar cases will be useful.
W h e n interviewed. Scout-master
Ward said: "Whatever
you contribute will aid national
defense. If you won't be at
home, please leave it on the front
steps and it will be picked up."
May Company Advisee
Customers To Await
Opening of Branch '
]\Iay Company, Hempstead's
oldest friendly credit jewelers,
V hose advertisement appears
regularly in NEWSGRAM, re-cently
released information to
anyone interested in the purchase
of jewelry, advising consumers
to await the opening of the new
May store, to be located at 2.19
Main Street, Farmingdale. The
iKW store will be in the latest
style, equipped in "ultia-modern-
. islic trimmings", and will fea-ture
a complete stock o. blue-white
diamonds, nationally ad-vertised
watches and gifts galore.
]\Iay's have been well known
on Long Island for cooperation
with customers, as well as for
their fine quality diamonds,
watches and other jeve'.ry.
The new store in Fcsrmljjgdale
will probably be one of ihe most
modern stores of its kind any-where
on the island.
W.^tch NEWSGRAM for the
announcement of the opening
date of this branch store.
I n T h e A r m y No w
* These men have been inducted into t he Army by Selective Service Board No 712,
Hicksville, N. Y.
*Emre Altraan .
Frances R. Amendola,
(Marine Corp.)
•Gustave R. Aanderson
*Demo Anselmi
Martin D. Candito
(Reg. Army)
*Lawrence E. Cramer
•William Doyle
•Sidney C. Ellerby
*Fred Facardi
•Alex J. Galla
Frederick Hildenbrand
(Navy)
Albert I. Johnson
(Reg. Army)
*James H. Klingelhoefer
*Henry J. Kowalski
•Walter Looney.
John J. Lorigan
(U. S. Naval Reserve)
•David Maltz
John M. Michaels
'(Ar-my N. G.)
Lester Muller
(Navy)
William P. Panciroli
•Hem-y J. Reilly
•William J. Starke
Arthur F. Smith
(Army N. G.)
William J. Starke
Edward J. Temme
(Army N, G,)
Robert Temme
(Reg. Army)
•Ronald Wilson