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Vol. 5 No. ll
AH OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE INCORPORATED VILLAQE OF FARMINGDALE
SERVING GREATER FARMINGDALE. BETHPAGE & MELVILLE
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Thursday, November 2 , 1967
OEMS, GOP BOTH PREDICT
TUESDAY VICTORIES 25,000 potential voters in the greater Farmingdale area will
play a key role in the outcome of the elections on Tuesday on
the County and the Town of Oyster Bay levels. The growing
number of voters in East Farmingdale and Melville will also
play as important part in Suffolk County results.
Farmingdale* s Republican Leader Frank Hynes, who is also
Councilman of the Town of Oyster Bay, expects a Republican
plurality in Farmingdale of 3,500. Last year Farmingdale
had a Republican plurality of just under 3,000 in the 18 election
districts.
Hynes also said that the Conservative Party vote can be
expected to be higher than any Conservative vote in the history
of the Town or County, but emphasized that the tax issue,
is paramount in the eyes of the voters. Hynes pointed out that
Wachtler, the GOP County Executive candidate, is dedicated
to cut the Nassau County budget by 20% and that Ralph Marino
Town Supervisor candidate, will also cut expenditures on the
Town level.
Hynes predicted that the race for Supervisor of the Town of
Oyster Bay will be relatively close.
Of special interest to Farmingdale is the contest for District
Court Judge with Farmingdale* s own Willis B. Carman running
for reelection.
Farmingdale Democratic Leader Stanley Wasserman predicts
a Democratic victory.
On the Nassau County level, the latest Democratic poll
shows Nicker son with 42%, Wachtler with 28%; Pleus with 7%
and Holwell with 2% and the rest ks undecided.
Leaders all agree on the importance of casting a vote on
Tuesday.
LIRR Has Surprise For 648 Daily Daler Commuters
The 648 daily regular Long
Island Rail Road commuters from
Farmingdale will get a brand new
evening train, smack in the
middle of the peak homeward
rush, starting diis Friday evening,
November 3.
It'll be made up of die same
string of ten stainless- steel Silver
Streak cars that began a daily
morning dash from Northport to
Hunterspoint Avenue on Wednesday,
November 1.
The new train will leave
Jamaica at 5: 22 p. m., arriving
at Hicksville at 5: 44, Bethpage
at 5: 51 and Farmingdale at 5: 57
and will have connections leaving
Penn Station and Hunterspoint
Avenue at 4: 55 and Brooklyn at
4: 56
Purchase by the Metropolitan
Commuter Transportation Authority
of 15 former New York
Central long - distance luxury
coaches and their modification
for commuter service have made
the expanded service possible.
A $ 57 million order has been
placed with the Budd Company
for 270 new high- speed stainless-
steel electric cars, the first
of which are expected to be delivered
by next September. Meanwhile,
work is being pushed for
extension of the present third-rail
electrification to Hicksville
and on to Huntington by late 1969
or early 1970 as part of the
MCTA's $ 47 million, federally-aided
electrification improvement
program.
Studies are being made by consultants
retained by die MCTA
on changes needed in die present
signal system and track layout
to permit higher speeds, up to
the 100- mile- an- hour capability
of the new electric cars. As the
various phases of die improvement
program develop, schedules
will be revamped to take
full advantage of these improvements.
Hicksville, Bethpage and
Farmingdale theater- goers also
will find the return schedule of
the Silver Streak cars to Jamaica
tailored just for their convenience.
It'll leave Farmingdale
at 6: 26 p. m., Bethpage at 6: 31
and Hicksville at 6: 37, with connections
at Jamaica scheduled
to arrive in New York at 7: 22
and Brooklyn at 7: 21.
The Silver Streak cars will
accommodate an average of 110
passengers each.
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Jim Ketcham Nominated
For State Bravery Award
Farmingdale Lion Club President David Weinblatt ( left) congratulates
Jerry Marcus ( right) Executive Director of the Farmingdale Youth Board
and Director of the Town of Oyster Bay Youth Board on a talk given to
Farmingdale, Lion Club members. Marcus discussed the operation of a
Youth Board and how 144 youths were helped to a better life. He also explained
the Big Brother and Big Sister movement in Farmingdale which is
the first of its kind being operated by a community on Long Island.
Jim Ketcham, age 15, of 955
Fulton Street, Farmingdale, and
a sophomore at Farmingdale High
School, has been selected by
Governor Rockefeller as a
nominee from the State of New
York for the Young American
Medal for Bravery which will be
awarded by the President of the
United States.
Young Ketcham's nomination
was a result of his heroic acts
in personally rescuing three persons
and initiating and directing
the rescue of nine other-swimmers
in the ocean surf at
Montauk Point on August 24,1966.
He has previously received
awards for his heroic rescue effort
from Nassau County, Town
of ( tyster Bay, Farmingdale
Youtti Council, Nassau County
Police Boys Club and the National
Association of Mutual Insurance
Agents.
