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fACE TWELVE LEADER THURSDAY^ DECEMBER, 10, 1942
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SANTA IS THE "SPIRIT OF GIVING" —
ETERNAL, PEACE-BRINGING, PRICELESS
To */ie — o Person
Kol)-puly, red-faced old Scarlet Coat, with his
reindeers and bog of "toys; is the first symbol of
Giving. The seed-thought thus planted, matures
to the realization that Getting is the love-child
of Giving.
Xmas Music
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The Chamber of , Commerce
Inter-Faith Clergy Council,
and .Village Christmas Com*
milieu gratefully ucknowlcdgr
the able and untiring services
of those public-minded citi*
zcns and organizations who
are giving us our Xmas Pub-lic
Music. Broadcast frorn the
ruof at the corner of, Main
and Sunrise, patriotic, home
nnd folk songs, and appropri-ate
hymns and carols, will
brighten our Jives and give
us the tone**and zest of the
Yuletide. Details will be
found oh page 1.
f Ae Sery/ce — Deyof ion
On land, in the air, on the water and beneath
it; at home and overseas; those REAL Ameri-cans,
in whom we take such a fierce pride, are
remembering nnd giving; giving and remember-ing.
Oh Cud I their Spirit of Giving is trans-
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We of Home — UnseWed Love
In all truth, the perennial lift to our morale that
comes from Giving, is a token of our Sonship.
The more we sacrifice to Give, the more deep-hearted
satisfaction we gain. Santa Claus real?
We uplift,our own souls when we carry on the
symbolism.
— Grofifude
Families of every, race a-nd every^ faith
cannot but feel Supreme gratitude to the
Giver of Givjn'g, w&o gave""us His love, and told
us "'to "go and 3?" likewise. Santa ' Clatis" is@- an
ageless human expression ,pf the greater, the
divine Spirit of Giving.
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7TH YEAR-NO. 29 FREEPORT N Y., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1942 FIVE CENTS A COPY
CALLED IN DRAFT
FIRST mHERF.
Judge H. R. Johnson
Addresses Group
Entering Service
Several married men were in-cluded
in the contingent of draftees
sent out by Selective Service Board
717, covering Freeport and Merrick,
for the first time Tuesday. The
usual exercises were conducted in
the Court Room of the Municipal
Building with Chairman Peter
Stephen Beck presiding.
Village Judge Hilbert &. Johnson
gave the ' address/ "while the Rev
Dr. E. A. Pollard Jones, mirdstei
of the Freeport Methodist Church,
represented the Inter-Faith Clergy
Council. He distributed religious ar-ticles
among the Catholics, Protest-ants
and Jews who left for an in-duction
centre, gave the invocation
and pronounced the benediction.
Colors were advanced and re-tired
by the Color Guard of Wil-liam
Clinton Story Post, A. L., and
Commander W. W. Davis presented
~" Leg*on pamphlet; $o
YULE MUSIC PROVES
BOOM TO MAIN ST.
The innovaLion of having pro-grams
by local musical organiza.
tions broadcast over a loud speakci
at Sunrise Highway and Main
street during the pre-Christmas
season has proven very popular.
Miss Rosabelle Weiss, organist/
opened the, program Saturday night
with a program originating in the
high school auditorium; Monday
night David J. Frcudenberger and
his bill-billy band appeared on the
air; Walter Blaile gave an organ
recital Tuesday night and Mrs. Carl
H, Tewksbury a similar recital last
night.
- 'The ' music * and the increased
lighting have been an inspiration
to Main street.
The program leading up to
Christmas eve is as follows:
Tonight, 8-8:30 p. m., Frceport,
High School « Band, J. Maynard
Wettlaufer.
Friday, Frceport Athena Choral.
Mrs. J. Maynard Wettlaufer, chair-man;
Mrs. John McClure Chase,
director.
Saturday, George Porter Smith!
violinist; Cornelius VanRees, or-
Singers accompanied by the W. P.
A. band, directed by Carl Johnson.
Judge Johnson said he realized
the apprehension and pride on the
part of the relatives of the men
who were leaving. He denied the
Srst World War was a failure, as-serting
that the high taxes now be*
ing assessed w^ld have been
much higher had Canada become
a German possession and the bor-der
line had to be fortified, and
Bermuda become an airfield.
The judge also said Americans
could be thankful that China had
been reducing the resources of
Japan, England had stood, out
against the Nazis and that Russia
was holding the Germans in check.
He concluded by quoting the fol-lowing
statement by Theodore
Roosevelt:
"We shall never - be successful
over the dangers that confront us;
we stia.ll never achieve true greaf"
nessr nor reach" the lofty ide§]T
Which the founders and preservers
of our mighty federal republic' have
set-before -us," unless we are'Amef/
icans in heart and soul, in spirit
and purpose, keenly alive to the
responsibility Implied in the very
name of American, and proud be-yond
measure of the glorious privi-lege
of bearing it."
Refreshments were served at the
station by "the Freeport Red Cross
Branch canteen workers.
In thu contingent, were: „
Arthur J. Abrams, Eugene Ayers.
Frank R. L. Bcnkn.
Leo C Canalixo. Thomas Chinie-lenpkv.
Christ Ghristopulos, Walter
TC. Chuk, Jr.
Alfred R. DnnhfL,cr. William C.
Dowliny. • 4
Julius F. Ellison. Hilton H. Ev-sns.
John Hulpin. Joseph F, %f. "Hin-ton.
Karl W. Ho%e lander, Edward
J. Hory. Howard B. Homan. "*"
Charles W. 'Jenkins.
Howard D. Kent. Charles P
"Chorus, nirlanT^&oberts, di-rector.
Tuesday, St. Margaret Singers,
Patrick Killikclly. director.
Wednesday, Robert T. Tavis. Jr..
baritone; Betty Gccr. organist.
Thursday, 7:30-8 p. m.. Christ
Lutheran Church Choir. Harry
Magnussen. director.
SOLDIER GETS^DELAY
ON BUILDING REPAIRS
At the request of Dcnnison E.
Judge, who is In the service at
Randolph Field, Tex., the Village
Board Monday night voted to delay
proceedings concerning the razing
or improving of the. building at 679
South Bayview avenue. Superin-tendent
of Buildings W. F. DeMott
has called the structure unsafe. In
& letter to the board Mr. Dennison
promised to have it repaired or
boarded up.'
Women Aid Rice
In Celling Oul
Christmas Mail
Used For First Time
In Post Office Due
To Mon-power Lock
For the Orst time in the history
<f the Fi'ecport Post office women
::rc Hssisting in getting out the
Christmas mail. This situation ha*
heen necessitated by the shortage
of manpower to do the work, Post-master
Edward A. Rice announced
Everyone is doing his best to keep
the mail moving, though it is »
tcugh job and Postmaster Rice ex-pects
that on Christmas E«t every
letter and parcel will be" on* the
floor if everyone will co-operate
by getting their Christmas mail ou;
immediately.
Some of the public—but not
enough—are heeding the warnings
of the Post Office Department thai
Christmas gifts must be mailed
this year earlier than ever before.
if reports from seven of the larg-est
post offices in the United States^
prove to be typical. Six of these
offices, queried on Ohristmas
The Village Board, at .its m'cetiny
Monday.,.night. .levied the cost of
the construction of sidewalks on
Bay street and Stokes avenue, cost.-
ing $679.31 against the properties
benefited. Exception was taken in
the case of three lots when James
A. Warner, counsel for one of the
owners, revealed that, one of th"
tUTPls had .been snlrl.
mails
than in previous years. The sev-enth
reported some rise in parcel
post but no broad gain in Christ-mas
mailings.^ Christmas cards-one
of the most difficult problems
because of the public's habit nl
mailing them in a last-minute del-uge—
also have started to move
but in only small numbers.
But, postal officials warn, tht
early mailings are no.t yet in suf-ficient
volume to prevent delay in
deliveries of gifts until after
Christmas unless mailings arc in-creased
sharply at once, and prac-tically
completed immediately.
Wartime burdens on transporta-tion
and on the postal service
make it essential that the peak of
mailings be far earlier than in norr
mal times.
; Postmaster General Frank C
i Walker, who has held repeated
I conferences with high officials of
| his department on the Christmas
I mail problem, .again has called at-t-
elTUon- to -The absolute necessity
of public cooperation.
HOY SCOUTS SELL CAKES
Members of Boy Scout Troop
215, sponsored by the First Pres-byterian
Church, realized $8.75 at
» cake sale conducted in a store
at West Merrick road and Church
street, Saturday. The cakes weiv
;*imiUcU Uy the mothers of the
hoys. Cake salu.smcn. 'were William
I*nv,w. John Twl;ii' ;uid Willia*:
Aiitlf'ison. The uou|) incuLs even
\'.;:nM(i,ty night.
Duvitl M. Mckilit. Ji Ki'jnk H.
\Ionulian. ;
j n- m,i-> .1. Pamji-r.
J< nn J KnvuHrm Gerald W.
RowlesV
U. J.
Si/ltx, Clifford SmU'h. James Stan-hi.
William A. Sweet."
Charles W. Thompson.
Basil Vallone.
William J. Watson, Wiliiam L.
\Vllscn. Irving C. Wood.
1YSTH ( 1K(I,K MKHTS
Four (run members uf the Mystic.
(.':!(!•• ol Mystic Hebckah Lodge,
I o.O.K. attended a meeting in
til** home of Mrs. Florence Shlmcr,
, Rock'.vm\l avenue. Baldwin. Friday
|nf'Mnoon. Th"y duvirhd tb have «
Christmas party at the home ol
jMrs. Anna Pnulsen. president of
'h? i lid'.', on Raynnr ^u?;'
t.nv af'«
Ernest Mochenboch and Wife, Bessie;
Henry A. Avidon Die of Burns, Wife of Latter
Still on Critical List; Four Others Hurt
Seldom has a Uugcd) so shorkcd residents ni Krecpprt as She
accident at Bedell and Archer sheets, early Sundoy morning in
which three ivwprcied residents ol Kieeport lost their lives, and a
fourth ip still nn the critical list »t the Mcadmvbiook Hospital.
WqferTox Penalties
To Be Made Uniform
Village Clerk William J. Marvin
called the attention of'the Village
Board at its meeting Monday night
to the fact that whereas owners of
property who had water meters'
were allowed only one month grace
before being charged a penalty
after receiving their bills, those
Xvho were charged on the basis of
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The victims of the fatal crash
were Henry A. Avldan, 56, of 343
South Bayvlcw avenue, who had
been in the real estate business at
111 West Sunrise highway for
eleven years; Ernest Machenbach,
57, ancl his Wife, Bessie, of 240
South Long Beach avenue.
Mrs. Mildred A. Avldan, wife of
roaltor, buma
In the Are that followed the col
llsion, but is given a
chance of recovery by the
at
The board instructed Village
Counsel Samuel M. Levy to prepare
an amendment to Section 15 of
the Water Rents und Regulations
making the period two months for
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Mr. j&vlclah was (driving his car;
at the time of the accident, and
Cashier Nixon Bock
At Desk in Bonk
W. Sergeant Nixon, cashier pf the
Freeport Bank, who recently un-derwent
a serious operation, re-returned
to his desk after
an absence of- six weeks.
He assured friends who called to
greet him that he' was feeling
was operated by Robert T,
Steldelman, 31, of 105 South Bay
avenue, who had Jack Chambers,
17, of 50 Lester avenue, as a pas-senger.
They were burned about the
hands and face in attempting to
rescue the four persona trapped in
the blazing car. Al Swanson of
Franklin Square was burned as he
joined in the rescue work.
Thomas Wclden, a fireman, fell
from the truck of Hose Co. 5 at
North Main street and Seaman
avenue, and was rushed to the
South Nassau Communities Hospi-tal
suffering from a possible skujl
fracture. -
The Avldana and Machcnbacha
much better than he had in a
long time.
Mr. Nixon announced that thru; *en? members of a group that got
holiday season'there would be together every Saturday .
night at
a program of'Christmas music on
*he bank's 6kctric organ—daily
Irom 2:30 to 3 p.m.
freeport Honor Roll
To Be Enlorged
Space for J.OOO more names on
(he Ficcport Honor Roll on the
Memorial Library Kiounds is to be
by Uie addition of another
ut (lie present
various homos. Saturday Jthej
in Merrick. Shortly after 1 o'clock.
.#•: linn ua
structure.
This ac
they slarted for home-m the
dan car. Mr. and Mrs. Avldan
aupied. the frontraeat and Mr.
Mrs. Machenbach the fe"afT ."'"""T
As they drove west through
Archer street ShlT star ted tp crosa^
Bedell there was a crash, with the
machine operated by Steldelman,
which was proceeding south. The
Avidan car waa hurled onto its
side and Its occupants pinned hi-
. Gasoline :
u,km by
')tii<i
Hi"
plU'
of installing
over the ex-second
the ma-was
a ma'ss of flames. !
Stcldclman and Chambers did'
every I hi: <n they could to .save the
fm:r. They kicked In I he top of the',
car ;md surceedej in making a
hole lar^r enough to enable them..
Mr. Avidan, who
AL (,h« in^tnm nr the Villm^ ^^^ °ut jiuxt, nnd then
IJourd Monday niijht. Village. Clerk |''Hbn;'h, but, liia wife was
William J. Marvin was instructed on the floor between the
to send a letter of condolence tn
Charles U. Shrcve, Jr.. whose wife.
v.ell known as the friend of ani-mals.
died recently.
front)
and. buck seats and* it was ImposV
sible 'to release her.
Mr. Swan son., who had arrived
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