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HISS am* R1 THE L«I« BtSiO\*^\ * PIERRPONT & CLINCH WPS. BR00M,ttI *t '«'• Y V * c^ >4 Pm^ Winning Weekly Serving The Greater Farmingdale Area Since 1920 ^V9K ^4» Official Newspaper far the Village of Farmingdale VOL. 58. NO. 13 Second Class Postage Paid in Farmingdale, N.Y. 117.35 Thursday, February 10, 1977 Copyright 1977 by Island-Wide Publications, Inc. price 1 bi - $5 per year Measles Shots Postponed A measles immunization program, scheduled to begin Friday in Farmingdale schools, has been postponed because the district's insurance carrier issued a disclaimer of coverage for any such program. Shots were to have been administered in the upper grades. So far three cases of regular measles and 40 cases of German Measles (rubella) have been confirmed in the district. The vast majority of the cases are in the senior high school and Howitt Junior High School. Two cases have been discovered at St. Kilian's Parochial School, but none as yet at Mill Lane. The outbreak has not affected elementary aged students in the district because the im- munization program for younger students, developed in more recent years, has prov$4 ef- fective. The district recommends immunization to regular measles with a live virus vaccine to all students who have not had the disease, the killed virus vaccine only, shots before the age of 12 months or a vaccine before 1965 of an unknown exact type. The German Measles (rubella) vaccine will be offered to boys only in the school district, because the district can not risk administering a live vaccine of rubella to a girl in the early stages of pregnancy. Rubella has its most deforming effect on the fetus in the first three months, which could be before the detection of pregnancy. Girls are advised by the district to contact their own private physicians or Nassau County Health Department clinics. The telephone number for the Health Department Clinic in Plainview is 420-5200 for an appointment. Hot Lunches For Seniors A hot lunch program' *cr Farmingdale's senior citizens, funded through the auspices of Catholic Charities, is scheduled to begin on a daily schedule at St. Luke's Lutheran Church next month. The lunch program arranged by the Village of Farmingdale, Catholic Charities and the In- terfaith Council will be the topic of discussion at a meeting of the Interfaith Council next Tuesday evening, February 15, at 8 p.m. in St. Luke's Fellowship Hall. Guest speakers on the program \Concerned Action for Senior Citizens\ will be Mayor John T. Hallahan and Mrs. Elizabeth Raynor, a representative of the [Continued on page 12] KICKING OFF the district fund drive for sustaining memberships in the Boy Scouts are Connie DeZego district SME chairman, Dave Osborne, district scout executive, and Councilman Gregory W. Carman, Farmingdale community enroller. The drive will continue through the month of February, which is Boy Scout month. [Post photo by Bob Starrett] Children 9 s Day Collection Set For Sunday, Feb. 20 Plans for the annual children's door-to-door collections of small coins sponsored by the Far- mingdale Children's Day com- mittee have been set for Sunday, February 20, and will coincide with the Intersevice Clubs annual Brotherhood Observance. Proceeds of the collection will create a special fund to purchase Achiever Chairs which will position Cerebral Palsy children giving them greater in- dependence and flexibility in therapy, school and other daily activities at the Cerebral Palsy Center in Roosevelt. The Farmingdale Children's Day committee will once again provide a central collection center where youngsters may bring their cannisters between 1:30 - 3:30 and share simple refreshments in a spirit ot community brotherhood. They will also have an opportunity to join the Interservice Clubs presentation at 2:00 pm of the East Memorial School's award winning chorus. Farmingdale Children's Day is a unique program designed to promote an awareness in local youth of the lives and needs of children less fortunate than themselves while fostering an awareness of their respon- sibilities in the world at large through their active participation in a charitable function. The project is sponsored by the Farmingdale Women's Interfaith Council, which also conducts the Community Interfaith Collection for National Unicef Day which raised $722 this past October. Parkway Lighting Hearing Set Here Regional Director of Tran- sportation Austin H. Emery announced that a public hearing will be held on Thursday, February 17, to consider alter- natives for maintaining Pakway lighting in Nassau and Suffolk Counties. The hearing called by the State Department of Tran- sportation will convene at 8 p.m. at the Albany Avenue Public School in North Massapequa. Emery said, \I urge all in- terested parties to attend and express their views so we in DOT can be sure our proposals are fully responsive to public needs and desires.\ The Parkways included in this lighting proposal are the Beth- page, Northern, Sagtikos and Sunken Meadow, and portions of the Robert Moses, Southern and Wantagh. The lighting modification proposals to be discussed are as follows: ALTERNATE 1: Replace the existing lighting system with a new modern system only at interchanges and where lighting is needed to illuminate hazardous portions of roadway. In areas where in- terchanges are closely spaced at less than one-half mile apart, continuous lighting would be provided. ALTERNATE 2: Install a modern lighting system to provide continuous lighting for the entire parkway system. ALTERNATE 3: Retain the existing lighting system as it presently exists. Department representatives will be available one hour before the hearing and also after it and will explain the alternates and outline their advantages and disadvantages as well as thetr costs. [Continued on page 12] School Bd. OKs Purchase Of Library The Farmingdale Board of Education adopted a resolution for the purchase of the South Farmingdale Branch Library during Monday night's regular February meeting. The district will sell bonds to pay $250,000 to S.F. Shopping Center, Inc. for the purchase of the building. The library board will be responsible for the general upkeep of the building, but the school district will be responsible for the structural repairs and will retain title to the building and property. All problems concerning the- contract, such as parking lot maintenance and availability in the event of the sale of the shopping center, right of ways, cesspool-sewet systems, etc. have'been resolved in the con- tract With the present owner. The board authorized a con- tract for a $5,000 engineering survey of the high school swimming pool to be awarded to Peter DeJongh, consulting engineer. The survey is to establish the condition of the pool, which is leaking around the filter-drain system, seeping into the electrical conduits and causing short circuits. [Continued on page 12] Fire Damages High School A $25,000 fire broke out at Farmingdale Senior High School Sunday afternoon destroying the office and storerooms used by the mechanical drafting department The office and storeroom were said to be totally destroyed by a school district spokesman, a second storeroom received major damage, an adjacent classroom received minor damage and some water damage was caused in one classroom below the fire area. The fire was apparently of electrical cause and no arson is suspected. It was confined to the South West Corner of the high school building by South Far- mingdale Fire Department volunteers. Firemen had to cut a 30 square foot hole in the roof of the high school in order to fight the fire. The $25,000 estimated damage should be completely covered by the district's in- surance. The Board of Education publicly praised the firemen for their response and efforts in extinguishing the fire at Monday night's board meeting.
