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Page Efgh* THE LEADER, THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1944
Q Mutin r*^Ac ^°"*' "^"= Charlotte Harbor
.p. 1YAUM1/ SJlUU^ stomp," recently dedicated to
In-8prln^Goncert J}%%;^%
Orchestra. Choruses %%«/^"pSye7bJ Ha%"Ln!
And Bands Participate way.
In G. O. Program The nnale was a patriotic
' number In j which the choruses,
The General Organization of band and orchestra assisted by
the Frceport High" School spon-1 vocal and instrumental soloists,
sored its 12th annual spring piano and organ participating,
concert by the music clubs of gave "America My 'Own," by
the school last night in the au- Noble Cain; "This is Worth
dltorium. The program was Fighting For" by DeLange and
provided by the orchestra, cho- Stept, and "American the Beau-ruses
and band. tiful," by Samuel A. Ward.
The orchestra played^Jeromet There were two specials.itcs,
Kern's "Show Boat" and Ketcl- an organ solo. "Poupee Val-bey's
"In A Persian Market. "^ sante/- by -Poldini, played by
Numbers by the Eight Grade Joyce Burkhard, and a piano
Glee Club were ''Down in the duet, "Scotch Poem" (Mcbo-
Valley," "O Soldier, Soldier/' veil), by Ernest Dotter and Ed-
"Dark Eyes," "Night herding ward Stevenson.
Song" and "Red River Valley." Miss Miriam Roberts is direc-
Sclcctions by the Senior Girls tor of the choruses, and Mr.
Chorus were "Onward Ye Pco- Wettlaufer of the band and or-plesj'-"
Softly as a Morning Sun- chestra. Accompanists for cho-
:s arc: Marie Sanrocco, Jean-
Newbergcr and Joyce Burk-ed
in singing "There She Lies hard. Band and orchestra man-se
and "List "tKc Cherubic
Host/' The two groups combin-fn
Slumber Deep" .and two se-lections
from "Oklahoma,"
^People Will Say We're in
.Love," and "Oh, What a Bcauti-
?m
The band played Sigmund
Romberg's "Student Prince"
overture as arranged by David
Bennett; "The United Nations
Rhapsody/' which includes, se-lections
from all the/United Na-
MMAT
prompt,
como roltuf ..from throat tlon due
to CODOffH .COLOR,
agers are: Fred Frankcl and
Sandy Danziger. Soloists with
the choruses were Joan Coker
jfunc^ BHggs, Irene Him. .Gloria
Ijaycoxl Joan ^Wood, Dorothj
Woodbury and William Goonan
The string ensemble which ac
companicd the choruses on two
numbers was composed of Jo-seph
Eisenberg, Margare^ Bos-worth,
Mary LaBella, Lester
Woodcock. Jane Conway, Gor-don
Gissel, Paula Goldstein
Salvatore Nania, David Wolsk
and Ruth Parmiter.
— "The tlirnot
within a bottle"— h«» hcen aa effec-tlvo
iKniwrlinlU remedy fur uU
f»mlly for mure tlmn
PAST ORANDS MEET
The Past Grand*s Association
of Mysic Rcbekah Lodge
I.OjO.F., met yesterday at the
)^o?ne o( Mrs, Betty Arnold, on
Hplloway at., Roosevelt. Thcr
w*M be a meeting of Myatic
Circle to-morrow afternoon at
the home of Mrs. Ella Daven-port
on Sportsman's ave.
LOOK to Feature
Freeport High Band
The Freeport High School
band; directed by J. Maynard
Wettlaufer, is to receive nation-wide
recognition. It is to be
featured in one of the May Ss-sues
of Look magazine.
Photographers and writers for
the magazine arc coming to
Frceport Saturday when the
band will take over the stadium
during the afternoon. Photo-graphs
will be taken of the band,
cheer leaders and other features.
Arrangements for the story
and views were made by Miss
Barbara Reid, associate editor,
who after conferences with Mr.
Wettlaufer, came to Freeport
and watched the rehearsals and
performances at various func-tions.
The magazine was inter-ested
in a high school band pic-ture
story and finally decided on
taking the Frceport musicians as
the subject.. ^ .
Two weeks- ago the band play-ed
at the Red Cross benefit
game between the Yankees and
Giants at the Polo Grounds. It
has also appeared at national
events and in " 'Round the
ts, television
and Movietone Sports News
Boy Scout Tfoop 215
Mothers Stage Sale
Mothers of members of Boy
Scout Troop 215, sponsored" by
the F r e-e p o r t Presbyterian
Church, are conducting a three-day
rummage sale u% the vacant
store at Newton blvd., and Hen-ry
st. It was opened today and
will continue tomorrow and Sat-urday.
On the committee in charge
are Mrs. Warren Millard, chair-man;
Mrs. Sol. Barone, Mrs.
Merton Thayer, Mrs. Joseph
Thomas, Mrs. Donald McColIi-gaii,
Mrs. Norman Tucker, Mrs.
Earl Prentiss and Mrs. Alvin
Lang. Members of the group will
assist.
Athena to Elect
Officer* Monday
This will be the third national
magazine to honor the local
musicians.
"WHAT WE MOST NEED"
A Christian Science program
will be broadcast over Station
WEAF on Sunday at 8:30 A..M.
under the auspices of the Chris-tian
Science Committee on Pub-lication
for the State of New
York. The subject of the address
is "WHAT WE MOST NEED."
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Hightstown, N. J., April_2?,—
The Cum Laude Society of the
Peddle School has announced-thc
awarding of two honors in Latin
to Richard Green, son of Dr. and
Mrs. Morris B. Green, of 160
West Merjick road, Freeport, N.
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8TH YEAR FREEPORT, N. Y., THURSDAY,
V&ga Budget
Session Lasts
But 2"_Mlnutes
Oukkly Adopted
A* Nbne of Mve
Present Speaks
Freeport's $658,445.70 * budget
was adopted in record time fol-lowing
a "hearing" Friday
night.
The meeting was called to
order at 8.09. Mayor Clinton M.
Flint announced it was the oc-casion
of the hearing on the
proposed 1944-45 budget. He
asked if anyone wished to speak
in opposition to
the budget.
any item in
When no one arose to^socak.
Mayor F|ihT declared- the hear
ing closed, and Trustee Horace
F. Carpenter started reading the
resolution of adoption. Trustee
Joseph H. Gallo seconded its
adoption.
The vote was taken, and at
8.11%, Mayor Flint banged the
gavel, adjourning the meeting
two and a half minutes after
the call to order.
Attendance consisted of Rve
spectators, the wife of one of
the board members, two ofnctals
±he rwrjten Even 4he "other
For Freepod Institute
On @. W* Spko? *o Give Principal
Address a( Tuesday N#gh* Even*
Everything is ready for the fourth annual institute of
Freeport Community Affairs, sponsored by the Freeport
Inter-Faith Clergy Council to be held in the social hall of
Christ Lutheran Church Tuesday night. Rabbi B. Leon
Hur witz of Temple Israel, junior past president, will pre-side.
This year's institute theme
o%&
$658,445,70, grow. Anticipated
receipts from sources other than
taxation amount to $160,853.84,
leaving $497,591.86 to be raised
by taxation. The tax .ra^e will
be $1.33 the same as for the
year just closed.
Anticipated receipts include a
cash balance of $4,455.74 from
last year $4,000 in state mer-cantile,
manufacturing and mort-gages
taxes, $22,000 from the
state income tax; $33,000 from
the state beverage tax, $3,800 in
dog licenses, $1,200 in billiards,
venders, taxi, sidewalk and
amusement licenses, and $800
from building, oil burner and
sewer permits.
Incomes from local sources
expected arc as follows;- $662.-
91, disposal
Plan! sewage; $1,900 police
fines, $6,000 Interest and penalty
"The Enrichment of Our Com-munity
Life.7 The invocation
will be given by the Rev. Romer
J. Harris, pastor of the Second
Baptist Church, Bcnnington
Park. Dr. George Washington
Spiccr, of the University of Vir-ginia*
, C
ivc an address on "The Amcr-can
Institutes — WHIiamstown,
harlottesville — Frceport."
The following will give five*
minute talks: Mrs, William A.
Clcary, "Freeport and Its Par-ent-
Teacher Associations;" Mrs.
B. Knapp, "Frceport and
Its Youth Council"; Trustee
Cyril C. Ryan; "Freeport and
Its Village Government;" Ed-ward
B. Thompson, "Freeport
and Its Housing Authority" and
George A* Scaver, ^Frceport and
Its
Road Repairing
Undet Way
Centre Strips Cfome
First, Then Fixing
Of Other Streets
Under the direction of John
Willets, Superintendent of
Highways the streets of Free-port
are being put into condi-tion.
Work was started on Mon
day, when workmen laid 28 tons
of Walkerlight, furnished by
the Standard Bitulithic Co., of
Baldwin, on the centre lane of
Church st. This work is to be
continued and within two
weeks all the streets provided
for in th%s year's) budget will
have been repaired.
4, 1944
Baldwln^&dds $10,000
for School Buses
With the assistance of resi-dents,
of Steams Park voters of
the Baldwin school district ad-ded
$10,000 to the budget at the
annual meeting in the Baldwin
High School Tuesday night to
restore the former school buses
next fall if the New York State
O.D.T., in Albany grants its
permission.
This will increase the net
school and library budgets to
$565,840 and add about three
points to the tax rate, making
it $1.17.
John D. Gardiner and Louis F.
5 CENTS A COPY
Hiltz were re-elected to the
Board of Education and Mrs. M.
H. Guthrie to the library board
yesterday.
available.
meantime other types
of road are not to be neglected,
that are in mich bad
they must be gone
on iaxes bank balances,, _
"atadrnm, $11,001) rental-from
light and water plant, $2,-
092.50. from bus terminal* ,
554.19 amount equivalent to
taxes, $2,000 from miscellaneous
sources and $44,928.50 from
*scwcr assessments.
^* Superintendent of Buildings
Wallace T. Wells recently
reported that because of neglect
in past years, the Municipal
Building had fallen into a se-nous^
state of disrepair, which it
would cost several thousand dol-lars
to repair. As a result an
appropriation of $3,000 is in-cluded
in the budget to get the
work under way.
BLUME IN HOSPITAL
William Blume, sr., of 79 El-liott
pL, has been under obser-vation.,
» in the Meadowbrook
Hospital for three weeks and
expects to undergo an operation
shortly. He %a tyler of the Elke
club.
KrasnoM Brothers
Return *o Camps
Back on duty after furloughs
of 13- and eight days respectively
ate- Flight ,OE6cer Irwhr--M;
Krasnoff and .Els brother. Pvt.
Stanley lj! Krasnoff, sons
f 61
Ray st.
F/O. Krasnoff served with the
Royal Canadian Air Force until
last July when while in active
servicd in England, he was trans-ferred
to the U.S. Army Air
Force. Now he is stationed at a
field in Texas awaiting assign-ment.
While on furlough he and
Mrs. pharlotte Nasht, of New
York, .were married. The flight
officer is a graduate of Frekport
School and at "the time of
his enlistment; in the R.C.A.F.
was a senior at the Ameritan U-nivcrsity,
Washington, D.C.
Pvt. Krasnoff, also a graduate
of Freeport High, was a sopho-more
at Hofstra College when he
enlisted. Until recently he was
in training as 'a member of the
Army Specialized Training Prog-ram.
He now is stationed at a
training camp in .Louisiana with
an infontry unit '
council who will apeak on
"Freeport and Its Inter-Faith
Clergy Council."
Mrs. J. Maynard Wettlaufer
will sing accompanied by Mrs.
Jaxheimcr, The Rev. John J.|^ completely are to be scar-
Mahon, pastor of Our Holy Re-deemer
R. C. Church will pro-nounce
the benediction. There
will be a social hour with re-freshments
following the formal
exercises.
George Orth is chairman of
hospitality. Mrs. Robert King-ett
of hostesses and Arnold
Yongcn of the youth committee.
graded, rolled, oiled and
sanded. The work of scarifying
will be gotten under way im-mediately
and the oil applied as
soon as it comes time to do so.
Mr. Willets expressed the hope
that the oil companies would be
able to complete their contracts
with the village so as assure
the completion of the work.,/
After the roads have^been
gone over the gutters will be
honed and covered with cinders
where ever this is necessary.
This will be the Rrst time in
streets of the
get was adopted as submitted.
President James Seery was re*
ejected for his fourth term. Mrs.
Hazel Brown who will retire on
July 1, on completion of her sec-ond
term, will be succeeded by
Mrs. Mary Saunders.
A fire alarm was sounded, du-ring
the meeting, necessitating
a recess of 20 minutes as the
man left to fight the flames.
Elected
To School Board
Budget
Adopted by Vote
Of *B to 1 Tuesday
Leo F. Giblyn and Harold E.
Pearson were re-elected mem«
bars of the Board of Education,
and Dr. E. Freeman Miller .waa
named to fill out the
expres
of the
E. Williamson which
next year yesterday,
without opposition,
Mr. Giblyn who has been prea*
Ident of the .Board for nine
years, wHl start his fifth term
Pattenon
Chhmbe? Committee*
while Mr* Pearson will. begin
second term at the same time.
Only 179 residents of the v*l*
lage registered to vote at the
election in the corridor of the
high school, and many of them
failed to vote.
The annual budget was adopt*
ed as submitted by a vote of 65
to 1 at the annual meeting"!:*"
the h&gh school auditorium Tuea*
day night. It totals' 9673,965 .
gross, including $16,000: (<*?/4ba.
maintenance ^ of vv the V v%K»epdtk :
for the year
Finance — Cord Viebrock*
chairman; David Levy and Sid-ney
Abelson.
Membership — W.
*Jlxon, chairman; Mr. Vlebrock
and Norman Kupersmidt.
Ethics — Mr. Levy, chairman;
fohn D. Easterlin and M.
3irschthal.
Park and Parking Fields —
Irving Grcbinar, -chairman; Da-vid
Daniels and John H.
Oicmer.
Post War Planning — Mr..
Abelson, chairman; Abraham
Siegel and Theodore Spitzler.
Economic Development — Mil-ton
Danziger, chairman; Mr.
Dicmer and Jack Green.
z3kan@portation — Mr. Vie-jrock,
.chairman; Mr. Daniels
sen chairman and Frank
son secretary. President
lyn then outlined the proposed
budget. in detail.
that though 97
percent of the schools of the
state gave cost of living bonuses
to their teachers a year ago,
Freeport made no provision in
its budget for such increase*
and none was granted during
the present school year. He
complimented the teachers on
the fact that they made no de«
mands for salary raises. Conse*
quently for the next year each
teacher and all other employee*;
of the school system are to re*
ceive an additional \$100/ ac«
been gone 'over and. Abel,itwak
thoroughly. The-Village Bos«l-obtain
any x*il; -which : prevented it
carrying "out the projecL_JK.brk
would have been started sooner
but for the unusual amount of
rain that fell during April.
Retain*
Committee
Howard E.
director of civilian protection for
Freeport, has announced that
the personnel of the Advisory
Council would be continued as
here-to-fore, namely: Fred C.
Berge, assistant deputy and
treasurer; O.. Brooke Bowen,
secretary and public relations;
Willis M. Summers, civilization
mobilization director; with Fred-erick
S. Pattefson, Morris Lei-bowitz,
Douglaa Trayer, John
Brownlie, Cyril C. Ryan, Peter
Elar and Joseph Manz, as the
other %nem.bers. Mr/ Pearsall re-mains
as property omcer.
from Odeht^
1st Lieut. Merrill L. Easterlin,
son of John D. 'Easterlin/"of 218
South Grove st., a U.S. Army
transport pilot is home after
spending eighteen months in In-dia,
Burma and China. Lieut.
Easterlin is one of the group of
such flyers who have be?n trans*
lies "over the hump"
in the Himalayas for the armies
of the. United Nations and the
Chinese pending the reopening
of the Burma road. ,
The lieutenant arrived home
last Thursday on a three-weeks'
furlough. He is wearing an Air
Medal and hia outfit also re-ceived"
the Presidential Unit Ci-tation
for extraordinary and ha-zardous
work. Lieut. Sasterlin
will have been three years in
t)%e army In July and ha* seen
action almost all over the globe.
He haa 48 mission; to .hia cred-it
and 700 (.combat hot&ra.
counting for t^e only substantial
increase, in the budget,
-As soon as— Mr,. Giblyn fin?
ished speaking, Williajn
phy- m6ved^he^a^o#tiOH'" of "
and I motum
Lutheran* Announce
"D-Day" Service*
Tnere will be special services
in Christ Lutheran Churqh on
"D-Day", the day of the open*
ing of thd second front in west*
em Europe, the Rev. David G.
day;
"pastor, reported to*
Announcement by radio
that the invasion has started
will serve ad the call for the
meeting. Thereafter the church
wiir be open every day until
peace comes, for meditation and
prayer.
^Pastor Jaxhcimer will preach
at the matins service Sunday at
9 o'clock on "Givo and Re-ceive/?
At. 10.45 the topic will
be "The Engrafted Word."
There will be a apecial ingather-ing
for Lutheran World Action
for men in the Armed force*,
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