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THE L E A D E R THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1946 *
Ensign Wm. V. Shaw
G^ts Navy Discharge
NEW ORLEANS, La., July 18—
JEnstgn" William V. Shaw, 28, son
of Mrs. Elizabeth A. Shaw, 487
Bayview ave., Freeport, N. Y., re
ceivcd his discharge from the Navy
nt the local Personnel Separation
Center on July 3.
He entered the Navy, June 10
1943 and served sixteen months
overseas. He' was gunnery officer
of the U.S.S.. President Monroe
(A.P. 104 > ten months and execu
live, officers of the U.S.S. L.S.M. 360
two months. Ensign Shaw attend
cd the University, of California al
Los Angeles and1' when "he joined
the Navy he wafl circulation man
user of the New Hollywood Citizen
of Los Angeles, pe plans to return
to college to finish 'his education
Johnnie Sweir Wins
Fifth Midget Meet
Johnny Sweir Is finding midget
racing at the Freeport Stadium
most profitable. He won the fea
ture event for the second sucres
pive time Tuesday night for a
total of five times since the season
opened. As the attendance totaled
11,332 he got the lion's share of
a $2,760.45 purse. Friday night
11.372 paid to see the races and
the drivers' share of the intake
•was $2,744.
Everything is in readiness for
the Eastern States 50-lnp cham-pionship
to be run Saturday, start-ing
at 3 P.M., at the Stadium.
fFRCIENCY KITS
for
SIMPLIFIED SKIN CARE .
Designed to do the most for
the skin In the shortest
ipeasure of time.
Kit for Normal Skin — 6.25
Kit for Dry Skin— 5.50
Kit for Oily Skin — 6.00
Kit for Blomtshed Skin — 5.50 .
prlcti plui to*«i
Bach K7f hofds flv* (o i/x
Elizabeth Anton prepare f/oni,
Freeport Drug Shop
H. J. COHEN
"MA1N-.ST.
Freeport 77
;V ••?.-; SPORTSWEAR
SPORTING GOODS
TOYS
GAMES
LUGGAGE
70 SOUTH MAIN STREET
T«t FBEEPOET 4489
Open Frlv and Sat: Evenings
ROOSEVELT LINE GETS
SCHOOL BUS CONTRACT
The Roosevelt Bus Line 'has the
contract for operating the school
buses in the Freeport' school dis-trict
for another year. It submit-ted
the only told, one of $45 a day,
received by the Board of Educa-tion
at'tis July meeting.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
At the First Church of Christ,
Scientist, West Merrick rd., at Elm
pi., Sunday at 11 A.M., the lesson-sermon
will be "Life." The golden
text (Psalms: 112: 17, 27.) will be
"I shall not die, but live and de-clare
the works of the Lord . . .
God is the Lord, which hath
shewed us light." The sermon will
bfe from Psalms 27: 3, 13.
LEGION TO GIVE FLAG
An American -flag will be pre-sented
to Brownie Troop 131 of the
Girl Scouts by William Clinton
Story Post, A.L.. at its meeting in
the dugout tomorrow night.
The revised by-laws will be sub-mitted
for adoption and William
McCloskey will report on the suc-cess
of the recent carnival.
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WE OLD GOLD - SILVER
BUY WATCHES-JEWELRY
JEWELRY I SHOP
"THIRD GENERATION
OF JEWELERS"
DIAMONDS - WATCHES - JEWELRY
Authorized Agency for
GRUEN, ELGIN, BULOVA, WALTHAM and HAMILTON
43 So.jMoin St. at Sunrise
Highway Freeport 9898
Daily 9 to 6 P.M. Fri.-Sat. 9 to 9:30 P.M.
SPRAY
AWAY
WEEDS
amazing now weed con-trol—
ScotH 4-X—bring* death
to Dandelion*, Plantain and
.other lawn weeds. Just empty
the packets of powder In
water, apply with sprayer or
sprinkling can. Weeds wither
away—grass Is not harmed, /
not even discolored. . &
50c $1.25 $3.85
T*X.
Eckhardt Feed & Coal Co.
81 CHURCH STREET
Baldwin 1340
80 CHURCH STREET
Freeport £818
MEM'S SHOP
80 South Main Street
FREEPORT 3371
CLOTHIER — HATTER — HABERDASHER
TUXEDOS TO HIRE
"~_"-, STORE HOURS:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday: 9 A.M. to 6 P.M.
Friday:. 9 A.M. to 9 PM. . Saturdays: 9 AJM. to 10 P.M.
5
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YOUR TERMITE PROBLEM SOLVED
WRITTEN GUARANTEE GIVEN
Estimates Cheerfully Given
Grosser Bros.Exterminating Co.
216 Roosevelt Avenue
JTOEEPORT 72M
Phones Day or Night
HEfMPSTEAD. 4872
V4fe*j?
Serve Descrimindting Home Owners
Complete Exterminating Service
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Your family will come on. the run when
it's Bohack chicken. They know it's always
tender, always juicy —.DAY-FRESH.
Yes, Bohack chickens are in your market
within 24 hours after they've been dressed
at our Delaware poultry plant The pick of
the finest Eastern birds - you can be sure
Bohack's chickens are always, the best.
C HIC K E NX
As Good As They Are
VIEBROCK'S FAMOUS
FRESH FRUIT PEACH and STRAWBERRY
SODAS
ARE ONLY
NOT 30c AS ADVERTISED LAST WEEK
CREAMY - RICH - SMOOTH
TRULY DELICIOUS
STRAWBERRY
ND AES
VIEBROCK'S
Of Course
40 SoufH"Moin Street ..Freeport
CLOSED ALL DAT TUESDAY
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BONDS
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llth Year. No. 9
Greenbaum Plans
irt; Ferguson/
Case Inquiry Ends
Gehrig Among Final
Withesses^Romeika
Tells of Shootings
•Lawrence's. Greenbaum's inquiry
into the Pergruspn case ordered by
Oov. Thomas E. Dewey came to a
close..Tuesday at the third session
In the New York City Bar Associa-tion
Building, 42 West 42d St.,
Manhattan, at the conclusion of
which Mr. Greenbaum announced
he would submit his findings to the
Governor as soon as ho could pre-pare
a report.
District Attorney James N. Geh-rig
was among the witnesses heard
at the final session. He was ques-tioned
by Sol Gelb,'counsel for the
inquiry.
Polieman Joseph Romeika, who
fatally shot Charles and Alfonso
Ferguson, Roosevelt Negroes early
on Feb. 5, testified last Friday. He
traced the events of that morning.
He said he was investigating -Hhe
breaking of the window in Ray-nor's
coal office on Henry st., when
the . four brothers, Richard and
Joseph in addition to Charles and
Alfonso, approached him, called
bun vfle names and someone said:
"We're not afraid of you."
"All four came at me with their
'. fiats," the patrolman continued,
adding ..that...he kicked, .one, and
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and told them they were under
arrest. I marched them to a police
signal box near the bus terminal."
Romeika then lined them up
against the wall of the coal com-pany,
along with Herman.L. Crum-mei.
of Roosevelt, he related, who
bad seen the group ,0:1 his way
frum a nearby restaurant where he
was employed and had stopped to
ask what was the matter.
'"They were getting worse," Ro-meika.
went on. "Charles threat-ened
to kill me the next time I-came
down to Bennington Park
He said, 'I got a .45 in my pocket
and I'll kill you.' ,1 told them to
keep their hands up. The patrol-man
then told how, with the abuse
of him still continuing, "as Charles
reached toward his rear pocket;
Alionao jumped lor my gun. My
gun was level with my hip and I
didn't raise my hand at all."
Asked aoout the second shot he
fired which pierced Joseph's
fiiioukler and wounded Alfonso so
- that he died. some.hours later, Ro-meika~
said this bullet was dis-cUarged~
lrnmeciiately after the first.
He was surprised, he' said, -when
Alfonso fell and^thougfit he was
"pulling a phoney." '
fionieika said ne .did not-aim at
either Alfonso or Charles and that
jhe did not exchange curses. with
•them while he was arresting them.
Others who testified the same
day were Chief Medical Examiner
Tneodore J. Curphey, of Nassau
County, Police Chief Peter Eiar,
Sgl, Arthur L. Wulfl, Herman L.
Crummel and Arthur St-epnensoa,
Roosevelt Negroes who were on the
sceue at the time of the shooting.
'Stanley Faulkner counsel for the
American Labor Party and the
ttrgusou family, was permitted to
.«ak seveiai questions of the -wit-nesses.
Frankun H. Williams.
counsel for the National Associa-tion
for the Advancement of
FREEP0RT, N. Y., THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1946 PRICE: FIVE CENTS A CORt
s
* The following Freeport residents
were cat^hai-ged from the service
during the past week from the
stations indicated:
..FORT DIX
Lt. J. F. Asch, 15 Maryland .ave.
T/5 Frank J. Smith, 16 Atlantic
ave. >
T/Sgt. Ellsworth R. Smith, 340
S. Main st. .
Pvt. James X. Watson, 23 Lillian
LIDO BEACH
S 1/C Ettore A. Rellone, 3 Rose
st.
S 1/c Walter Kesselman, 60 N.
Grove st.
CM 3/c Peter Locascio, 420 N.
Main -st.
S 2/c Thomas J. Varelas, 119 S.
Main st.
Culored People filed a statement
in -which he charged Freeport;
a-.community in vhich "'
.etlon and segregation are rife;"
Story A. L. Post
Revises By-Laws
13 Members Received
Making Total 857;
Give Flag to Brownies
William Clinton Story Post. A.L.,
adopted its revised by-laws at its
emi-monthly meeting Friday night
.n the Dugout and they now will
be sent to the judge -advocate tor
approval. The principal voha*ige Is
at providing -lor holding; the an-mini*.
: meeting - in- Juno- itajUjuV-iot ••}',Tv;~^St'-r-i^T^f-*«'r-'gyW'.»fJ--i*---t*.V"--- ~-i***-±-"t*lM BIJtetobersteriing1 in-1037. *>as
Commanders Herman C. Dunker
and Frank Post conducted the con-sideration
of the amended by-laws.
Membership Officer Austin Mont-i
oss, reported a total enrollment
of 857 and announced the cam-paign
to increase the total to 1.000
jefore the annual meeting in Sep-tember
would be pressed to the
limit.
Thirteen members were admitted
as follows: Donald P. Williamson,
Jack G. Paras, Thomas G. Batcher,
Kenneth E. Vought, Dominick F.
Valone, Howard A. VanEh, Eugene
C. Lynch, Jules D. Mazor, Frank
Brown, John Nicolich, Daniel Val-enti,
Louis B. Schneider and Rich-ard
G. Leggatt.
An American nag was presented
by Commander William A. Snyder
to Brownie Girl Scout Troop 131,
-which meets in the Archer st.
school. Mrs. Georgp "Harmon was
present to receive it with her
daughters,. Hope and Marguerite",
.Judith Armstrong- and Carol Hope.
Leon Hong whO-jej?resented the*
post at the Empire Boys' State in
Manilus, N. Y., spokerHe expressed
his appreciation for the benefit the
•experience was to 'him^ from^aa
educational standpoint concerning
tHe government of cities, counties,
the*"state~ and the Nation. . He tola
ol the group being addressed by
Jesse Canter, assistant district at-torney
of Onondague County.
A citation' was received from the
F.B.I., in recognition of services
given by the post last year in pre-venting
sabotage and concerning
Communism.
William McCloskey chairman of
the committee whieh conducted the
recent successful carnival thanked
the members for the assistance
given him. He also spoke of the
condition of the softball diamonds
at Randall Park and said Jie had
been promised by Village Trustee
Joseph H. Gallo the matter would
tjeT altende3"Tb. Mr. Mcdloskcy
Moves to Acquire 2
GI Pre-Fabricated Homes
Proposed in Gro ve St Area
Hearing Called for August 9th to Consider
Zone Change—Other Zoning Matters
A hearing has bjeen called by the Village .Board for Friday
night, Aug. 9, on a proposal lo amend the zoning along Grove St!.
south of the Freeport Yacht Club, so as to permit veterans lo creel
asserted players nhp used the
risked tn_eir limbs In doing
so;
pre-fabricatcd homes in the
The district included extends
from the Woodcleft basin to the
north side of Layton st., and, Irom
South Grove st., on the west to
Hudson ave., and probably wduld
provide room for 75 homes.
Though lots in the area are 20
by 100 feet, it is proposed to re-quire
that the plots on which the
veterans' homes could be erected
be limited to minimum of 50 by
100. The only easing of the build-
Ing restrictions would be that re-ducing
the required footage from
800 to 700 square foot for a house.
The Board proposes to permit In-dividual
G.I.'s to purchase building
lots in the section and select the
types pi buUdinga. Jfljejr jiesire Irom
fa brlca ted~houses.
Cost of Homes Reduced
John J. Randall ownes most of
the property in the district and
he has agreed with representatives
of the Vetreana' Agency to sell lots
to former servicemen at a reason-able
figure. As the houses can be
erected at from $6.100 to $6.900
each, a veteran should be able to
establish a home ai a cost of from
$6.850 to $7,650 instead of from
$10,000 to $12,000 the amount they
would have to pay for some of the
buildings, now under construction
and have a better building1 in the
bargain.
The plan was submitted to the
Board at Its meeting Friday night
by Judge Hubert R. Johnson, who
investigated the matter at the re-quest
of Mayor Cyril C. Ryan.
However, Asa A. Trenchard, chair-man
of the Freeport Veterans'
Service and other veterans who
have been studying the situation
for several months were understood
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Board Considers
Requiring Licenses
For Restaurants
Instructs Counsel
To Draft Ordinance;
White's Suggestion
At the suggestion of Al B.
White, the 'Village Board at its
meeting Friday nightT directed Vil-lage
Counsel Martin H. Weyrnuch
to prepare an ordinance requiring
restaurants Jn _5vree.port . to_.be
licensed.
Assembles Land
For Interior Plot
Back of Merrick Rd.
To Purchase Area
On Henry St.; Room
For Nearly 600 Cars
The Village Board this week
took steps toward acquiring two
permanent parking fields with
accommodations for close to 600
:'ars. At the Board meeting Fri-day
night, Judge Hilljrrt RrjohTf"
son reported he had succeeded in
usseinbling l a n d for Interior
irking Field No. 2. bounded by
be rear of the buildings on West
derrick road the Freeport High
S-hool grounds on Pine st., and
lie rear of properties fronting
m South Grove and Church sts.
Just us soon as detailed drawings '
are complete, a contract is to be
signed for the purchase of a park-ing
fleld 225 by 250 feet in area,
on the $ast side of Henry at., be-;
-tween -Newtown -blvd.,- -and:
rd*.—This.
L_.i qu- or A*u«th!o-rit.y* f,o r a l,i.c ense an,d, Century cyirecaur it Inc., to o-ipnedruatcoer tohfa
receive it. He reported that three
or four places were being estab-lished
monthly some of which are
not a credit to the village.
If restaurants were licensed, he
explained, and it was found ad-visable
to revoke the permit, the
liquor license also would be auto-matically
canceled and could not
be renewed. He said the situation
was serious and demanded hasty
action. Mr. White added Freeport
was the only large village In Nas-sau
Gounty that does not require
restaurants to be licensed.
Mayor Cyril C. Ryan thanked
Mr. White for his interests and
promised an ordinance would be
drafted as promptly as possible.
Gift By VanNostrand
George E. VanNostrand presented
to the Board a framed pen point
tribute to Abraham Lincoln. In the
center Is the resolution adopted
at the Customs House in New York
on April 16, 1865 to Lincoln's
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Shirley and Smith Pearsdlt
Returning to Civilian Life .*•* *
Miss Shirley M. Pearsall, A.F.D., and her""brotKer 2nd Lieut.
Smith G. Pearsall U.S.M.C.K., are returning to civilian life.
Miss Pearsall, a graduate of FreeporL High School and Hofstra
College, then of N.Y.U., went over-*-
6eas as an American Red Cro&s
field secretary in February, 1944,
and served 13 months in North
Africa.
She returned on emergency leave
and later was assigned to the
Philippines as an assistant field
director. She Is now completing
an assignment in Japan as an act-ing
field director ana is expected
home about Aug. 1.
Lieut Pearsall was graduated
from -Sreeport High School .and
Cornell University. He receivediM^,
commission on May 9, 1045 *at;
Quantico, Va., and was tent \to
Camp'-Pendelton, Cat, from
he was put In charge of the- U. S
Marine Corps detachment on. the
U.S.S. E. W. Eberte.
He received his discharge after
the Eberie .was ..decommissioned at
*-l Seattle in May and on June 22 ru
•and Miss Betty I. Tuthill of James-port,
L. I., were married in Grace
Church, Riverhead.
The young couple flew to North
'Hollywood, Gal., where they are
mixklag their home for. the present.
• Miss Pearsall and her brother
.are children i
of 174 Whaley st., end the late
rHoward E. -Pearsall, former village
the Orove Theatre and owners of
other properties facing: on Merrlcfc
rd., to cede a portion of their hold*
ings -to the village as a parking
field. It was not untiJ Wednesday
of last< week he succeeded in win-ning
over the final real estate
holder to the plan.
New Street Planned
Lots in this area are more than
300 feet in depth. According to
arrangements made by Judge John-son
the owners will retain prop-erty
averaging about 200 feet in
depth and turn the balance over
the village. A new 50-foot
street is to be established with a
15-foot sidewalk in the southern
part of the fleld. This will permit
the opening of stores fronting on .
the parking field, in compliance
with a suggestion made by Judge
Johnson as an inducement to get
ihe owners of the land desired to
grant it to the village.
Property _.has . already -been ac- -
quired on Grove-st., to be used __§$__
an entrance to the field. In the
center of this, there will be a mall,
which— will be extended the -full
length of the fleld providing, a .
roadway to the new stores on the
property. Parking - will be -per-mitted
along the curb of the side-walk
and^ diagonally on both sides
of the mall. Immediately in back;
of the high school room -will 'be
left for s&veral rows of cars pro-viding
facilities for taking care of
close to 300 machines.
Project To Cost $45,000 -t
The entrance on Grove St., is
91 feet in depth. The parking
fleld itself will extend 420 feet from
east to west and 142 .feet, north Jinc}
j»outh. The driveway west of -the
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TAIBER'S PHARMACY
OPEN ALL DAY: SUNDAY
The Taiber Pharmacy, 152 South
after .the ii
port close at a 'P.M. The teiepiiuna
Is Freeport 8-7777.
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