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Historical Society Protest Gas
Station on Beau Sejour Site
The Farmingdale - Bethpage Historical Society's
Board of Directors protested via hand delivered
letter to the Town of Oyster Bay Town Board on
Tuesday the application for a variance by Humble
Oil Co. and the Wilsons to erect a gasoline station
on the Beau Sejour site, Stewart Avenue, Bethpage.
The letter was signed by Caroline Bunting Klesh
as a charter officer of the society and as Farmingdale
Village Historian.
The letter read in substance that although the
society were sympathetic to the need for tax relief
by the Wilsons who owned the Beau Sejour
restaurant and surrounding 3.9 acre grounds, that
there were other ways to obtain tax relief than
erecting a gasoline station on what they termed an
historic site. The board pointed out that Beau
Sejour was one of the historic points of interest
in the Bethpage Purchase area pointed out on bus
tours. The site should have a New York State
Department of Education historic marker, since
the house was erected in 1850 and Presidents of
the United States and other Long Island figures
such as the Vanderbilts dined in this fine establishment.
New York State legislature for historic preservation
was being prefiled by Assemblyman Martin
Ginsberg to bring relief to owners of historic sites,
homes or business establishments. Nassau County
also needs to include on its books relief from increased
assessed valuation on any house or business
establishment tnat is ib50 or earlier.
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Checking in at the dress rehearsal headquarters for the Third Annual
" Spirit of Christmas" Cotillion and Scholarship Benefit held on Sunday,
at the Northeast elementary school in Amityville are: Cynthia Johns ( right),
a' junior at the Farmingdale Senior High School, who has just turned in
over $ 1000 that she sold in advertisements for the souvenir journal, which
will be distributed on Friday, December 6 at the Garden City Hotel to Mrs.
Florence Allen Holmes, President of The County Line Guild of Career
Women, the sponsor of the event and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Johns of
Farmingdale. The debutante's mother is: Jeanette Johns, a librarian at
the Farmingdale Public Library who has nearly completed her degree
in Library Science at CW P o s t . Cindy's father is a teacher in the New
York City school system. Photo by Jackson Pokross
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County Line Guild Career Women present'Spirit
The County Line Guild of Career Women, Inc.,
a non- profit local and national organization, an
affiliate of the National Guild of Career Women,
Inc., will present its annual '' Partnership with
Youth" scholarship fund raising project, the third
Annual " Spirit of Christmas" Cotillion Dinner
Dance Benefit Ball, in the Georgian Ballroom of
the Garden City Hotel, Seventh Street at Park
Avenue, Garden City, N. Y., Friday evening December
6, 1968 at 7: 30 P. M.
The purpose of this affair is to help deserving
youth who are trying to help themselves toward
a better life and becoming useful local, state and
national citizens, this can only be possible by
securing a good education thereby making it
possible to be gainfully employed in a highly
competitive society. All of the students whom
we have helped go to school full time and ther
work from three to five hours daily, Saturday
and summer vacation.
Cynthia Johns is being sponsored by Caroline
Bunting Klesh, President of The Observer Inc.,
publisher of The Farmingdale Observer and The
Massapequa Observer newspapers. She is
competing for the Martin Luther King Memorial
Scholarships of either $ 5,000, $ 1,000, $ 500 or
$ 200 Bond. Mrs. Klesh and her escort will be
members of the Honor Guard at the Cotillion.
Mrs. Lee Dennison, wife of the Suffolk County
Executive and Mrs. Eugene Nickerson, wife of
the Nassau County executive are co- sponsors.
Dinner tickets are priced at $ 15 each. Reservations
should be made by November 23.
Northeaster Storm Damage In Farmingdale
Without reasonable warning; a taxed to the hilt most for man- elaborate modernization pro- direct effect upon town losses and when they have a comparatively
storm, called a Northeaster hit power, equipment, material and grams. what can be done about it. good record on anything.
Long Island on this day, Nov. 12. know how during this storm. In essence, a lot of our pop- Islanders complain when they Disagree?? Write: THE OB-All
Police, Fire, Municipal and More than a decade ago, our ulation who suffered a loss want are made uncomfortable. Nobody SERVER, 113 Front St., Massa-
Military organizations were local utilities began to execute to know all about the storm its blames them. They are proud pequa Park, N. Y.
