Bethpage-Newsgram_1941-11-26

              Crramman Plant to Be Opened on Dee. 7
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VOL. 1. NO. 51 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1941 PRICE: 5 CENTS
Service Stations Test 45 Cars
In Police Safety Campaign
Houston Urges
Commuters To Join
At Their Homes
As Red Cross
Drive Nears End
Local Stations Find All Cars Tested
To Be In Good Condition
Scales Announces
L. I. Photo Winners
As the Nassau Chapter, Amer-ican
Red Cross approached the
half-way mark in its twenty-day
drive to enroll 75,000 members,
general Roll Call Chairman Ray-mond
W. Houston turned special
attention to Nassau's thousands
•of commuters.
"Join where you live," Mr.
Houston urged. "Give your mem-bership
contribution to the vol-
^ who calls at your home."
— -'A good many men and women
will be asked to join on the job.
Thousands of business houses
this year are making a special
effort to enroll 100 per cent of
their employes.
"If, for any reason, you feel
that it is necessary to join with
your business group outside of
this county, please be sure to give
your home address," the chair-man
asked.
"By doing this you will have
satisfied your obligation to be
part of the group enrollment in
your firm and you will also have
made sure that your contribution
will be returned to Nassau Coun-ty
for the support of your home
Chapter."
It would be impossible, Mr.
Houston declared, to overempha-size
the necessity of supporting
Nassau Chapter now. A huge
army of trained volunteers and
a small professional staff are
working day and night to amplify
its health education program; to
strengthen its emergency resour-ces
and facilities in event of dis-aster
of any kind; fill the defense
requirements of the army and
navy for blood plasma, surgical
dressings and medical supplies
and to carry out its special ob-l^
ation to serve the men of the
armed forces in camps, to solve
their problems and aid their fam-ilies.
Although it is still too early to
make any definite statement with
regard to Roll Call returns to
date—the campaign opened No-vember
11 and continues through
November 30—Mr. Houston said
;,liat section aiid village chair-men
were determined as well as
confident they will reach their
respective quotas—totaling 75,0u0.
Winners of special County
prize awards in the Long Island
Photographic Contest which end-ed
November 1, are announced
by Victor ScaJes of Flushing,
Chairman of the Contest Com-mittee.
Kings County — ($15): —
"Whitestone Bridge" by Vincent
S. Barker, Great Neck; Second
prize ($10):—"Winter Evening" '
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Ladies' Auxiliary
Discuss Fund
Raising Plans
Mrs. Charles Ludwig, chairmiin
of the auxiliary to the Bethpa^e
Mre Department has shown in
a report of the card party'spon-sored
by the auxiliary that the
affair was a success. In a meet-ing
held at the fireball on Stew-art
avenue, Wednesday nigbt,
plans ' were discussed regarding
the raising of funds for the
pui-chasing of uniforms for the
members. Mrs. Hans Benkert.
president of the organization,
cpnducted the meeting.
In the first week of safety
campaign conducted by the Sec-ond
Precinct Nassau County Po-lice,
two officially designated ser-vice
stations tested a total of
45 automobiles.
According to John Page, pro-prietor
of the Bethpage Service
Station, and Hans Benkert of
Benkert's Service Station, all the
cars which they have tested were
found to be in good condition.
There are 25 service stations
and garages which^ have been
designated as official Testing Sta-tions
in the second precinct.
These stations will inspect free
of charge the lights, brakes, horn,
tires and steering apparatus of
all automobiles whose owners re-quest
an inspection. Cars found
in satisfactory condition will be
provided with a windshield stick-er
bearing the words "Nassau
County Police Legion of Safety
Member." The owner of the au-tomobile
also receives an identi-fication
card. A record is then
filed in the precinct of each car
tested.
Any patrolman of the second
precinct can direct an tlutomobile
owner to one of the official test-ing
stations Or they may be rec-ognized
by an official poster
which will appear in the window
of the station.
The Official Testing Stations
in Bethpage are: Benkert's Serv-ice
Station on Baldwin place and
the Bethpage Service Station, of
which John Page is proprietor,
cn Central avenue.
WONDER HOMES RECEIVE
PRIORITY RATING FROM 0PM
The Wonder Homes, a develop-ment
located at Bay and Waters
avenues in Hicksville, one of the
largest housing projects in the
area have received their priority
raiting from the Office of Pro-duction
Management and can
now assure the home purchaser
of delivery. Being under the
PH.A. as well as O.P.M. supervi-sion,
the buyer is assured of qual-ity
as well as delivery.
According to statements by
those who have seen and inspect-ed
the Wonder Homes, there is
nothing to compare with these
homes anywhere in this vicinity.
The builders of Wonder Homes,
the Sidehill Realty Corporation,
have taken the utmost care and
time in order to give the home
buyer more for his money tha.;
he ran get elsewhere.
The Wonder IComes are truly a
seiisational buy. Locaied in
Hicksville a few minutes iu3e
from the an craft factories, where
taxes are low and the property
owners are not burdened with as-sessments,
they are a boon to the
defense worker.
These homes are truly unusual
in layout and value. The living
room is 16ViXl2, with access to
all rooms from the centre foyer,
there is ample closet space, in-cluding
a cedar closet. The base-ment
is large enough for a recre-ation
room and work shop.
Every convenience is within
your reach. The schools of Hicks-ville
afford every facility for a
fine education. There are grade
schools, parochiiTl schools, and a
high school within walking dis-tance.
There are churches of
every denomination nnd shops of
every kind are available to meet
every dally need. The close prox-imity
to tne station offers con-veiiient
commuting service on the
Long Islnnd Jlailroad.
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Fire District
To Elect Commissioner
The Bethpage Fire District wili
hold a meeting of elections on
Thursday evening, December 2 in
the Fire House on Stewart avenue
between the hours of 7 and 10
o'clock for the purpose of elect-ing
a commissioner to /ill the
vacancy of Herman Klingeihoefer.
Only qualified voters who are
residents of the Bethpage Fu'e
District are eligible to vote an.'l
only resident taxpayers whose
names appear on the last assess-ment
roll are eligible for elec-tion
to office.
HUBBARD SPEAKS
AT KIWANIS
MEETING TODAY
Walter W. Hubbard ^ill. be
guest speaker at the Kiwanis
club of Hicksville at their meet-ing
today. The subject of his
address, according to Dr. Charles
J. Masek, president of the club,
will be "Highways and National
defense.. The meeting place will
be in the Hicksville inn on
Broadway, Hicksville, at 12:10
o'clock.
Mr. Hubbard is Eastern rep-resentative
of the National High-way
Users' conference, Washing-ton,
D. C., with offices in New
York City.
To Hold Fall Dance
At Garden City
The Hempstead Chapter of the
Order of DeMolay will hold a
Fall Dance at the Garden City
Casino on Saturday evening, De-cember
6. Music will be supplied
by Duke Gary and his twelve-piece
ocrhestra, which is well-known
on Long Island.
The Garden City Casino is lo-cated
next to the Garden City
Railroad Station, and may be
easily reached by car or train.
Besides the large dance floor
there are several lounging rooms.
The entertainment committee
in charge of the affair consists
of Walter Willets, chairman, as-sisted
by Donald Alexander, Rus-sell
Landeau, Henry Brengel and
Robert Brendel. Tickets may be
obtained from any member of the
DeMolay.
The Masonic Lodge of Hicks-ville
will hold their annual din-ner-
dance Saturday evening, No-vember
29, at Leo Gerard's on the
Jericho Turnpike, Huntiutnton.
Grace Predicts
Shortage Of
Defense tfousing
In a statement made last week,
Thomas G. Grace, state director
of the Federal Housing Admin-istration,
said that should there
be any large importation of de-fense
workers to man the ex-panding
industrial plants in the
B e t h p a g e - Farmingdale and
Greenport areas, a serious hous-i
n g shortage would develop.
However, in this area there are
now completed or approaching
completion between 1,500 and 2,-
000 new single family homes.
During the past month, 250 of
these homes have been sold and
there is a ready market for the
balance.
Wihait is needed at the moment
is the immediate production of
rental units and those can only
be provided through the con-version
of existing single family
homes to two, three, and four
family lonits. While a fair start
ha« been made ^ this directio* l..
not nearly en^-^^h has befen done
the fact that more than
sixty financial institutions in
these two counties operating un-der
title one of the housing act
stand ready to finance sound
projects.
Grace predicted that as soon
as tliere is better understanding
of the exceptions made by the
division of housing coordination,
the office of Production Man-agement
and the Federal Reserve
system in the matter of "defense
housing considerable i m p e t us
would be given to remodeling
work. In the matter of mate-rials
for needed work in defense
areas he pointed out preferential
ratings are given to such projects
and the installment limitations
for borrowers have been remov-ed.
Nassau and Suffolk civic as-sociations
estimate that there are
between 2,500 and 3,000 single
family homes in their area which
are immediately susceptible of
conversion into two, three, and
four family quarters. The ini-tiative
for such alterations must
come from the present owners
of these properties. Neither the
FHA nor any other government
agency comes into the picture
until application for loans have
actually been made.
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Jaeggl
and their son Kenneth, of Mel-ville
road, Farmingdale, were
guests Thursday at a dinner in
honor of Mr. and Mrs. Jaeggi,
who celebrated their 34th wed-ding
anniversary. The clinrov
was held at thi ' • ue of ti.nr
son and daugb*^( -f'.i iw, M. ind
Mrs. William A. Jaeggi of Mti-vUle.
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