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PACE EIGHT THE LEADER, THURSDAY, APRIL 8,
Postor, Priest
And Robbi Speck
At Library Rites,
f A*p pcak, f,o r peopl,e *to read
more worthwhile books, especially
religious works, were made by
speakers at the observance of
Religious Book. Week In the Free-port
Memorial Library Thursday
might. Tho exercises were spon-
Aorcd by the Inter-Faith Clergy
ICouncil, or which Rabbi B. Leon
Kurwitz Is president.
The Rev. Reginald H. Scott,
chairman of the Memorial Li-brary
board, presided. Mrs. Lena
Ruppert, the librarian, welcomed
the assemblage and' said the li-brary
was willing to co-operate
In any movement of interest to
the village. She added that "this
Inaugurates -a new kind of book
week," and told of the exhibit
of religious books owned by the
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If Oordnrr Hynes;' pastor Of the
First Baptist .Church; the Rev.
(John J. Mahon. pastor of Our
Boly Redeemer R. c. Church,
and Rnbbi Hurwitz, of Temple
(Kara el.
Dr. Hynes said these books
fiyould be. a credit to any minis-ter's
llbrnr) and would raise the
library, and loaneo by the Rev.
itone of any public library.
(Father Mnhon, who recently re-
Ikurned from a vncaUon spent in
(Hollywood. Fin., said books, mag-
BZlnes and papers were an ab-solute
necessity. Some people
*ead to3 much without discre-tion,
while others don't read
/What they ought, Jie continued.
Be condemned tempting people
4o read books that are indecent,
knmoral or glorify criminals and
told of the Catholic Legion of
Decency and its crusade against
cuch works and motion pictures.
The Bible is the world's best
seller, Father Mahon said, but
be expressed doubt If many peo-ple
knew the Bible.
"The country has become so
secularized, especially since the
abolishment of religious instruc-tion
In the schools that the peo-ple
have become so minded," he
asserted. . "Institutions such "as
this should endeavor to promote
the reading of religious books. I
want to gnt children and the
adult public to become readeds
of" religious literature.'
Rabbi Hurwitz spoke along" the
Bfime lines. Hr said the plastic
arts^"w.ere barred to the -
they .i»id to devote lliei
bookmaking. H« told" of the high
regard in which the Jews regard
literature. He added that It was
Impossible to destroy . a good
book, as though it were burned,
enough people would know parts
of It by memory to reconstruct
It In its entirety.
"We of the Inter-faith Clergy
Council are determined to make
Mie reading of religious books a
lvalue to life// he,declared.
Members of Freeport Triangle,
D.E.S., were guests of Freeport
ChnpFci', O.E.S.. at its meeting on
Monday night in Spartan Tem-ple.
Mrs. Emma Dunlop, the
matron, greeted Mrs. Teresa V.
Taylor, chairman of the super-visors
of the Triangle, Who pre-sented
Betty Stiegelmaier, be-loved
queen. Eleanor June Cur-ley
was initiated as a member
of the gi'oup. Eileen Yongen sang
several selections and Betty Nrw-house,
who, will be installed as
queen next Thursday night, was
introduced.
An invitation was extended to
the members to attend the in-stallf&
Mofi of officers of Nft?o—
roth Shrine, Order of the WMite
Shrine of Jerusalem, on Friday
night, March ' fdr' wnen Miss
Harriman will become noble high
priestess of the group.
The Rev. Arthur-J. Pennell., the
patron, greeted Frank Mervin,
past patron of Ridgwood Chap-ter,
76. a member of the Ma-sonic
order for 53 years. The
capsule pals were thanked for
their cards. Mr. Pennell invited,
the members to .attend a special
service in his church on Sunday
evening. May 2, and plans were
announced for a jamboree card
)arty on Saturday night, May 15.
Announcement was also made
that ladles' night would would
be observed by Spartan lodge,
r notice was', tnat O.E.S.
emergency fund cards were be-ing
distributed and the members
were urged to fill them as quick-ly
as possible.
Refreshments were served by
Mrs. Dorothy Martin. Mrs. Ma gel
Raynor and Mrs. Florence Am-mato.
First Notional To Lend
Money To Buy Bonds
As an inducement for re.sld.ents
of Freeport to purchase as mnny
two and one-half per cent U.S.
Treasury gonds due 1968 as pos-sible
during the Second Whr
Loan campaign which starts on
Monday and continues until May
1. Clark I. Scott, executive vice-president
of the First National
Bank and Trust Company an-nounced
today tliat the bank
would grant loans from $500 up
for thla purpose.
Bond subscriptions will be ac-cepted
to Apr! 30. he said on
payment of ten per cent or more
down. The bank will lend the
balance on Lhe buyer's note, se-cured
with the bonds, at two per
cent interest to be repaid in
monthly installments. Bonds are
Issued .in denominations of $500
up.
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F. H. LAUPPE
26 CHURCH STREET TEL, FREEPORT 6020
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Ask Fteeport Women
To Boldwin A.W.V.S.
Mrs. George Bergkamp, chair-man
of the Baldwin A.W.V.S.,
has issued an invitation for the
women of Freeport to attend the
monthly meeting on Thursday,
April 29, at 2 p.m., in headquar-ters.
2 Sunrise highway. Baldwin
The Baldwin organization car-ries
on activities handled by sev-eral
groups of women in Free-port.
It handles the War bond
and stamp sales, serves refresh-ments
to selectees as they leave
for an induction centre and car-ries
on Red Cross work in Bald-rit
and Percy Mcrrit.
S. & D. OF A. REHEARSES
FOR DISTRICT MEETING
The nnal rehearsal before a
district meeting of the Sons and
Daughters of America, to be held
in Pythian Hall on Friday night,
April 30, will be conducted at n
meeting of Alpha Council Friday
night of next week in the same
place.
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brook councils jolncti with tne lo-cal
unit in a rehearsal last Fri-
Auxilipry
Plons Rummoge Sole
Plans for a rummage sale to
be conducted in a vacant store
at West Mcrrlck road and Church
street, on Thursday, Friday and
Saturday of next week were made
at a meeting of the Women's
Auxiliary of William Clinton
Story post, A.L.. in the dugout.
Mrs. Madeline Gray, the presi-dent,
appointed Mrs. Mary Too-mey
chairman of Uie committee
in charge.
Mrs. Sally Lowcy. membership
chairman, reported a paid up
membership of 115. Mrs. Emily
Christ, war activities chairman,
introduced Lieut. Geneva Mr-
Quatter, of the Woman's Army
Auxiliary Corps, who outlined the
duties and requirements of wo-men
in the WAACs.
Mrs. Christine Wulnng and
Mrs. Madeline Vollmer were hos-tesses
during the social hour.
day night. Mrs. Elisabeth Meyer,
councilor, conducted a meeting
before the rehearsal. Mrs. Myrtle
cllor*, win 'at tend the -district ses-sion.
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PET SUPPLIES— POULTRY FEED— GARDEN TOOLS
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COMPANY
35 CHURCH ST.,
31 CHURCH ST.,
TEL. FREEPORT 2% 18
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StTNBXSE at BAYVIEW AVETMJE
Manager aqd Partner, Td. Ffqppor*
MERKXCK ROAD at LONG BEACH
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FREEPORT'S
OFFICIAL
PAPER
7 TH. YEAR, NO. FREEPORT, N. Y. THURSDAY, APRIL 15. Q943
Freeporl Exceeds
Red Cross Quota
Wilh $14,500 Tolal
Lenders Jubilant
As Reports Show
Successful Drive
There was rejoicing at the
Victory report meeting w h i c h
wound up the Red Cross war
fund drive In Freeport last night
and it was revealed that $14.500
had been realized, or $500 more
than the quota of $14,000 assign-ed
to the village .
Mayor Word en E. Winne, the
general chairman, thanked all
who had assisted in making Me""
. -There was no doubt but that
Freeport had gone over the top.
since contributions totaling $13,-
892.26 had been reported prior to
last night. Consequently interest
centered in how much the quota
would be exceeded. The figures
I'f-portcd do not Include the $1,-
829.51 realized by contributions
taken up In the Grove, Freeport
and Plaza theatres, which will be
credited to the village later.
Up to last night $2,378 had
been taken in through organiza-tions;
the special gifts commit-tee,
had collected $3,332.50, the
liduse-Co-house canvass had het-
:$ed'
Goal Of $540,000
Set For Freeport
War Bond
Would Build Torpedo Boot
To Be Named For Village
has two heavy bomber? named in its honor as
result of having disposed of more ihan $()()(),()00 worth of
nds in the first War Loan drive of last XovemNy and
Now it is out to sell $540,000<^
during the second campaign ,end-fng
April 30, with a view to hav-ing
a "P.T." boat—a motor tor-pedo
boat—named "Freeport."
Tills is the goal set by Robert
E. Patterson, chairman of the
Fieeport Bond and Stamp StafT.
a%ld lAduetry group had realized
$4,013.03.
increased
meeting,
Among
reported
All these figures were
nt the final report
the late contributions
were William Clinton
Story Post, A.L., $100; Freeport
Lodge of Elks, $100; Freeport
Senior-Junior High School Junior
Red Cross, $213.56; Freeport Fire
Department. $10; Pride of Iro-quols
Circle. $5; Women's Soci-ety
of Christian Service. Freeport
Methodist Church. $25; Home
Bureau. $10; Girl Scoiqt Troop
6, Christ Lutheran Church. $1.50;
Women's Guild, Transfiguration
Episcopal Church, $10; Freeport
Council. Jr. O.U.A.M., $10. and
Freeport- Lodge. K. of P., $10.
Among those he congratulated
were Mrs...7_.E... Freeman Miller,
chairman of the Freeport Red
Cross Branch; JTeriry .VoiiElm",
f.. the house- to -hollse
u s s e 1 1 E. Ho La ling.
iiid Mrs
Lhe women's division in the. na-
»n's drive to dispose of thirteen
billion dollars' %or.th-of bonds in
hree weeks ta help finance the
var.
The village has Just success-fully
completed a $14,000 Red
Cross war fund campaign In
v hich the money was given out
right with no thought of return.
Row H Is asked to lend the
money at, a reasonable rate of
interest. So buying war bonds
this month and every month is
the safest Investment possible.
If Freeport attains Iks goal, It
will receive a. plaque from- the
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ch airma n of oi%a » 1 z& Uons •- • Jos- |
eph HT McCfoskey, chairman of
special yifta; George A. Seaver.
chairman of commerce and In-dustry;
Mrs. Richard G. McChes-ney,
treasurer, and Mis. Norman
Githens, secretary of thr com-mittee.
LOBAUGH IS STARTER
AT WEST POINT MEETS
Lawrence C. Lobaugh. principal
of the Seamon avenue school,
has been selected to officiate as
starter in the Army-Navy track
meet to be .held at 'West Point
on Saturday, May 29, Col. Law-rence
McC. Jones, graduate man-ager
of othletics at the U. S.
Military School announced this
week. He will perform a like
service at the home meets with
Brown,* Columbia and MttsTmrgh.
the torpedo boat Is launched will
be sent here and a replica of
the shield received by the village
%ill be placed on the craft an
whoever sees it % ill know that,
i* was paid for by the residents
of Freeport.
All types of bonds, in add It lor
to stamps sold, will count in
the total. There are the Scries
K bonds, ranging In value from
$25 to $1.000 maturing at their
face value in ten years, and the
Series F. fmm $25 to $10.000
reaching par vv.lue in t w e l v e
years.
Series G bonds will bear in-terest
at die rate of 2'^ percent
nnd mature in twelve years. Then
there is the new series of bonds
for this special drive which are
dLted 'April 15. and expire on
June 15.—14)69. They are issued
'iu-^denominations of from —$500
up. Th.ere a ho is a 2..pZi''c?W
Jssue «rhich"runs from this month
U_- Sept.. 1952 and also ranges
linm $500 up. ' " 1 - -
There also arc certificates of
indebtedness yielding 7 8 percent
R.nd Tax Series C. for Federal
tax payments and short term i^i-vgstments.
Residents of Preeport
should choose that form of bond
v.hich corresponds to their fi-nancial
standing in the commu-nity.
Four reasons have been ad-vanced
for buying bonds. First
people will help to provide equip*
ment. munitions, clothes, rations
and all other supplies for thj
armed forces. Next by buying
bonds with their excess Income
people will help to stave oS in«
Bation. Third . the more people
invest in government securities
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Mass Celebrated
For J.J.Donaghy
Former-preeporte?-
Wos f Comment In
Dry Goods Trode
Tlie Rev. Thomas Sheehan. as-siftant
pastor of St. Agnes R. c.
Church. Rockvllle Centre, cele-brated
mass yesterday In that,
church for John J. Donaghy. o
former resident of Free port, who
died Sunday In his home nt 26
R o y a l i%ace. Rorkvtllr Centre
Burial was In St. John's Ceme-tery.
Middle Village. Mr. Dpna-ghy's
death was due to a heart
ailment from which he ha<& aut-fered
?lTM% laat. August. .
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two years ago and Jived in
pork for more Uinn twenty years
ore moving to RockvJlle cen-tre
two years ago. His wife is
the former Miss Florence Rhodes
of FreLport. She survives him
with two sons. Sorgt. John J.
Donaghy. Jr.. now in the U. S.
Air Curps at Camp" Studtguardt.
Ark., who recently was home on
furlough, and James V.. a stu-dent
in Lhe South Side High
School. Rockville Centre, and two
brothers. M a r t i n Dona.ghy. of
Potchtyue. and William Donaghy
ol Baldwin.
Mr DMnnyhy was well known
ii, the dry **oods trade through-out
the country and hud served
as controller of stores in New
Vni-k and .Chicago for many
years. He was formerly assistant
cnnU'bHcr of R. H. Mncy & Co.
then controller.for Russek's"Fifth
nvemie. In New York. Later he
served for 3e"vcn years Iri *a
capacity as well as..secretary
treasurer of Th? Hub in Chicago.
Foi the past two years he had
bren employed us controller and
assistant to tVe president of
Browning King & Co. of New
York. He was a member of th«*
National Retail Dry Goods Asso-ciation
and the Holy Name So-ciety'of
St .Agnes Church. While
n resident of Freeport he was
active in .the Northeast Civic
Association.
Karl Brown Resigns
As Chief Observer
Karl Brown haa resigned as
chief observer of the Frecport
post of the First Interceptor
Command, the observation post
oi which is located on top of
the First National Bank & Trust
Co. Tn his letter to Harold Ray,
of Port Washington. t,he district
civil director. Mr. Brown ex-plumed
that pressure of other
duties would prevent him from
continuing In office.
However, he announced Unit
lie would continue to co-operat"
1th Assistant C h i e f Observer
Fomund A. Robson. who is in
(harge temporarily. A meeting of
the of? leers of khe post will be
called shortly to recommend i
successor to Mr. Browii.
JZOPY
$645,709 Aiked
ToRunlchools
And Library
1943-44 Tax Rota
$1.15, Point Roise;
Meeting Moy 4
According to the proposer bud-get
adopted by the Board of
itlon for submission to the
taxpayers of Preeport oh ^Tues-day
night, May 4, It will cost
$045.709 to nm the school system
Rr,d operate the Memorial Li-brary
during the coming fiscal
of William Clinton. Story . post, J
A.L.. has been associated with '
Jic ])ost .since Us organization. I
He was assistant chief u n d e r
J times T. Williams until the l»t-ei
resigned his position with the
illage to enter the personnel de-partment
of the Grumman Ali'r
raft Engineering Corp. He suc-cedcd
Mr. Williams as chief.
Us resignation took effect lasl,
Sunday.
Run Of (Tie Vote
For Deputy
The allowance for the library
JA»AlG*000._.iRa,vL»g_..jg29.JOQ__foR.^
of tJie schools. Esti-
6f tl52,dbO and
$215,000 taken from surplus, re-duce
the net budget, the amount
tu be raised by taxation, to $468.-
106. The tax rate, if the budget
Is adopted as submitted, will be
$1.15 for each $100 of assessed
valuation, one point, more than
for the current year.
The 1942-43 b u d g e t totaled
h27,39l. Anticipated receipts
mounted to $1&2,7QB. Fifteen
louaand dollar** was taken from
surplus, leaving the amount to
be raised by to.xa.ttbn nt $459,623.
or $8,486 leaa than lot the new
Vdngen for second deputy
of LMe Freeport Fire De-partment
will be held tonight
n headquarters oil North Main
reet.
At the a n n u a l meeting last
rhursday nig lit each received JOB
'otcs necessitating a second elec-ion,
which according to the by-sws
must be held within ten
nys. A meeting of the Fire
7ouncil was held the same night
0 set the new dan*.
The tie vote was the first that
1 as occurred for a major office
n the Freeport Fire Oepartmcnt
'i the 50 years It lias been in
»x.stance, and none of the ofdcr
numbers nan Lumemher a similar
in any other depnrt-
Nassau County..
i Lewis was elccliid. .to
succeed Kdwnrd Andrews ai
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nry
be
n!
each tenoher
a $JOO increment. Afem-of
the clerical nnd jnnf tor-forces
have been given pay
'a»es dur to (he increased
ost, of living.
Out; to the fnKj tlmt the Ar-ler
Street School kindergarten
ns an enrollment of ninety chil-dren,
he added, ant! a survey In-'
die«t«s that next year the num-ber
will be Inrrrrscd. ;m addi-tional
teacher lias been added
for this assignment.. Another
teach(.'i' has had to be added due
t ) the overcrowded conditions In
the seventh year of Lhu Junior
High School. "
The budget invlude.s $4 33.390
for salaries; $15.h5t) tor fue\
\v»ter, light and power: $96.363
.for redumption of "bonds" nnd In-
.tci'est on bqnds; $7.116" for ln-m:
d Joseph Manz was nnmcd-lh* m-anuo of. various l,.v1 pe&_;i $1^.^1.j...6 4.5
for TBXTr-bookb "aixT school, library
books and |ibrary'.:HMppHes;-"'$2!B65-l
foi printing, advertising, lega't--
strvices. business supplies and
supplies, of-instructiomU
Jtuati.mi
ni In
\\as chosen as JJie IKUcBaic-. to
the second battalion for a three-year
term.
Tlie dep:n'tmRnt heads and
company olTii.rrs will be installed
next Wednesday night, at exer-cises
in the Elks cluh house.
MISSIONARY TO SPEAK
Miss Alice Gregg, an Episco-pal
missionary now in this coun-try
because qf the war in China,
will be the guest speaker at a
meeting of the Women's Guild
of Lijn Tran«Aguration Episcopal
Church next. Thursday at 3 p.m.
27 TO BE
AT LUTHERAN ( Ht R<H
A class of 27 young people
will be confirmed at Chriat Fpls-copal
Church at the Palm Sun-day
service Sunday at 10:45
A.M. The pastor, the Rev. David
G Jaxheimer, will officiate and
preach on "The Victory of Palm
Sunday." At the 9 AM., service
h& topic will be "The Peace
Makers." Sunday School will be
held at the Roosevelt Branch a*
0.30.
$17.650 for
fices ol principals,
supplies, comme act-men t expenses
and other expenses of operation.
Also $7,585 for janitors' sup-plies,
telephone service and other
expenses of operation; $12,990
for upkeep of grounds, repair of
buildings, heating, lighting .and
replacement of other equipment;
$10,855 for i m p r o v e m e n t of
grounds, alterations of buildings,
furniture, equipment, plumbing,
vcntlaltion and electrical instal-lations;
$13,400 for supplies used
in health service, recreation and
other expenses of auxiliary agen-cies,
and $16,000 (or the library.
The annual school meeting wiU.
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