1946-12-26

              tWENTY-FOUR THE—LEADED THURSDAY, DECEMBER
SEAMAN.AVE. SCHOOL P.-T.A."
DINES PtTPILS AND DADS
About 160 pupils of the Seaman
ave. school, and their fathers en-joyed
a holiday dinner party Fri-day,
night in the high school cnfe-teria,
sponsored by the Parent-
Teacher Association.
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A student, Anne Yarrow, said
Grace. Musical entertainment was
furnished by the school glee club
under the direction of Miss Helen
Bruett with Miss Margaret Harlng
at the piano, and the school or-chestra
directed by Robert Tavis.
Bits. Horace Weed was-In charge
of decorations, and Mrs. - Carlos
TJlry was general chairman, lor the
affair. -*-; . ." .1
COLUMBUS AVE. PUPILS
IN CHRISTMAS PLAY
A group of Columbus Avenue
pupils, under the direction of Mis«:
tfoyd, third grade teacher, present-ed
a two act play entitled "The
Christmas Candle," yesterday. The
following took part: Norman Pos-ner,
Carol Helwig, Stuart White,
Jimmy Miranda, Mary Ann Kin-nelly,
John Millang, Jay Schnibbe.
Margaret -Miranda, Taylor Gush-more,
Everett Drake, Jimmy Flint,
Paula Munkelt, Judith Flint, Dou-
•"H Kelton, Jean McAndrews, Fred
Rose. •,
The solo, parts were sung by
Judith Flint, Paula Munkelt, and
Donald Kelton.
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Bids for the hist&ilatiorrpf water
mains In Irving and Sterling aves.;
Meis.er Beach, are to be opened
at the next meeting of the Village
Board, Fiiday night, .Jan. 3. This
was voted at the meeting last Fri-day
night. . . • '.-••:
:The contract for the removal and
recorvtruc ioa_o£; fire-brick linings
of both.' furnaces of Jbe incinerator
was awarded to George Allen &
Son, of Manhattan, on ft bid of
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as follows; T.. D, McCor-mack
Contracting Co., Inc., Man-hattan,
$4,867, and M. W. Hellogg
Co., tManhattan, $4,500.
Village Counsel Margin. H. Wey-rauch
advised the Board there was
no provision in the Village Law.
which prohibits owners of boat"*
from using them for residential
purposes. "Nor do I think that such
an ordinance would be effective,"
he added.
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out • in,; conjunction
with the county Health Depart-ment
since under the County Char-ter
the village has been deprived
of authority, over health conditions."
On the suggestion of Victor C.
Wade,.retiring president of the At-lantic-
South Civic A ^Delation, t tat
the village adopt an ordnance
limiting the time boats may be
docked in local waters, the matter
was referred to counsel.
The Board voted to place a "Full
Stop", sign at Miller and Atlantic
aves., to control traffic on scliool
days.
Police Chief Peter Elap advised
the board the probationary period
of-Patrolman Anthony Elar, "Wilton
I. Hammcrl; Clifford Raynor, Albert
R. Jones, Harry T. Leonard and
.Joseph, T. Quinn; exported on Dec.
..._14(_and they were thereupon named
regular members <of the force. ""
iCHief;7Asks -Fire -Ropes—
For 3d Story Occupants
Pointing out that due to the
housing shortage many people arc
living on the third floors, or attics,
of numerous houses in Freeport,
Fire Chief Frank S. Chapman this
week issued an appeal that safety
precautions be taken to prevent a
catastrophe in case of fire.
, He recommended -that ia houses
•where the third floor is occupied,
a bar or bolt be installed and a
rope attached to be used as a fire
escape should a blaze break out and
other means off escape 02 shut olf.
GLORY TO THE CHILD
^ Some Lay Thoughts At Christmas
BIRTH:—Now more .than at any other time of the year we glorify the child; we
bring it gifts; we even lift it op-above its parents, as they are-forever only an incident
to its being. The mystery of birth is again seen and-felt;, for the thinking soul knows
that an unseen Presence, working through both father and .mother, builds the new life
that is to be—they of their own will being unable to shape a single one of the child's
myriad cells or members or form or functions. In the roughest shelter or the richest
palace this is true.
INFANCY:—The precious child arrives through the narrow gates of life. Unlike
any other creature, it is swaddled and cherished every . moment. Its slow, but, growing
responses to light and sounds are eagerly watched for bv those who have taken it into
their hearts—the natural impulse of parents (indifference is unnatural). Its whimper-ing,
its helplessness, its frequent needs are all part of the age-long story since human
life began to be. The mother- is the priestess in the temple of life. She never
slumbers, nor sleeps until she knows that all Is .well with the child.
GROWTH:—The parents, as the child thrives, will make any shift of home or
even go to a far country that the^child may be safe from harm. The child first; the
parents second while-its helplessness lasts! The little one learns its confining crib and
its rattling toys. At last, no longer confined, it explores on hands and knees Jts en-larging
world. • Then erect. It toddles into the great outdoors with its unknown
dangers; from^which parenthood helps to shield it without destroying its own alertness
or caution. H speaks {Oh Joy!) it makes sentences; it thinks.
ADOLESCENCE:—Its eager eyes now open to read wondrous things out of human
scrolls and books and from nature's spreading canvass. Its hands come into trained •
use. 'it follows its father's teaching and gives tooled form to things. It asks questions;
it speaks out its own developing ideas. It is sometimes puzzled; it argues with others:
it gives and takes its share in a world of earnest convictions. It reverences recorded
truth and with the eye of the mind it looks ahead over the way of the workish world
in which it must inevitably play a part.
MORE GROWTH:—It learns that for it, and for all, some things are good and
help towards an understanding of the laws of the universe; and some things are bad,
tempting; the .beautiful young being to turn aside from its honor as an inheritor and
a'donor to life's future. Choosing between good and evil, it finds that ANY FORM
.OF WOHK WELL DONE increase? the total of deeds, triumphs and sacrifices of the
human race. In its' growth it comes to know that every other child, in even the
farthest clime, is of the same origin as it—here through the same Presence.
MATURITY:—It puts away childish things, even childish employments. It finds
its task in a wide, wide worloU ItVBhrlnhs, not from doing its duty even if others
-oppose it~^It-secs -.the^jwtltoeSi--^^^ ML far1: from, the _placjB
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200 Recruits Sought;
To Drill in Dugout;
Officers in Charge
Freeport Is
United States Naval Reserves with
its own armory and a naval craft,
and Lieut.~uom. Kenneth Billhardt,
of Garden City, as its commander.
Weekly drills 'are to be started
shortly wlih.. the Legion Dugout as
temporary headquarters.
The formation of the unit is to
be the outcome cf the recruiting
for a volunteer unit which wits
started scveial months ago. The
close to 100 recruits, veterans of
World War I and II., are to be
mastered into the new O-l unit
which has been designated ns the
36th division of the United States
Naval Reserves.
Recruiting, designed to complete
the full compliment of 200 men,
was started this week in a build-ing
of the Columbian Bronae Corp-,
270 North Main st., owned by the
Navy Department. The ofQce will
be open daily except Sunday after
9 A.M. chief JSfeoman.'.George F.
Quinn, ol North. Merrlck, Mi to be-in
charge CUT assistant^'*"
Antnoriy 3.
tlve officer
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Freepbrt Red OosS -''"
Quota About $9,000
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Nassau County has been assigned
a quota of $256,000 in the 1947 Red
Cross- fund raising campaign to
start March 1, Robert L». Hamill,
the chairman, announced this week.
Last year the county's assignment
was $256,000.
^ Freeport's quota for 1946 was_
$15,500; so that on the basis of. the
amount Nassau is asked to raise
nj?xt yoar( the Village's share should
be approximately $9.000. It went
over the top last March.
Drowning Victim, 4
Buried in Amityville
The Rev. LeRoy F. Noon, of
Baldwin, officiated at funeral ser-vices
in the John W. Southard par-lors
Monday afternoon for Gerald
Anthony Combs, 4, who was
drowned during,__the £now_ storm
Friday in Sportsmans CanaT UTthe
rear'of hU home, 174 Gfirfield pi
Burial followed in Amityville.
The boy's mother, Mrs. ' Flora
Meyer, saw him about 4 o'clock
and when he failed to enter the
house, she investigated and found
his body half out of the water on
the bank'of the canal. Efforts to
revive him faUed. The father is
John Combs. 33 Johnson pi.
Sales of Yule Seals
Now Total $84,515
rSaleT"or"Christmas- Seals to date
have totaled $84,51536, Mrs. G«org2
]B." Brower, president of the Nassau
County Tuberculosis and Public
Health Association, has announced.
This Is-$12,000 more than for this
period' a year ago, and Mrs. Brower
Is .confident the $100,000 goal will
3t>e. attained. .
Library to Close
Xmas and New Years
Tile Freeport Memorial Library
will be closed on -Christmas anrt
New Year's Days, Mrs. Elizabeth
P. Kelly, the librarian, announced
this week. It will be open the days
PiSPeding _these holidays frgml .9
to 12 A.M.
Because the schools will be closed
for .two weeks, the Columbus ave*
branch will not be open until the
week of Monday, Jan. 6.
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Do your Christinas shopping in
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a:>>T^^^:£^ «.*^^:^ >•-•*% * ~<jrV -V'-f •••*<- f --ir »-* - - - •**•- •-- Electric Rates In Homes
Cut 53 Percent Since '27
VanRiper Cites Interesting Figures
Of Municipal Plant to Home Rulers
Freeport's municipally -operated power plant is. supplying
electricity for the lighting of and other uses in the homes -of resi-dents
of the village for considerably less than half of what they
paid in 1927, Milford P. VanRiper,* '• =
chief clerk of the Light and Water
Department revealed in a talk given
at the December meeting of the
Home Rul? party in Exempt Fire-men's
Hall.
Other speakers the same evening
were Clinton H. Walling, superin-tendent
of light distribution, and
Thomas F. Dunn, «* chief engineer
at the power house. *
Mr. VanRiper cited records tc
show the average revenue received
by tire "village from residential con-in
1927, that it was reduced to
$.0533"ten years-later and that for
the current year (1945-46) it was
but $.0379,. a total reducetion of
53 per cent. He added power com-panies
were boasting reductions
they had made in recent years, and
remarked few of them could equal
Freeport's record.
The chief clerk also cited statis-tics
concerning the operating in-come
from the power plant. In
1937, the total was $153,344.76, in
addition to which free service was
given in the amount of $54,249.20.
For 1945-46 operating income total-
*ed $131,516,30 Uie lesser amount be-ing
due to three rate reductions
made since 1937. In addition free
service totaled $61V708.96 and $14,-
JL40i54,_e^iuiyalent to what a private
company would have had to pay in
taxes, was paid into ^the general
funds of the village. *
Mr. VanRiper anticipated that for
the fiscal year1 ending Feb. 28 next,
the opei ating income would be
$13^!000/ free service, $58,000 with a
contribution of $14,140 fcrthe ;gen-fund.
He exhibited a graph
showing that the output of the
plant kept on an even upward
trend from 1927 until 1942, and'
1943( when there was a drop dur-ing
the war. However, from then
en the upward trend continued
until at the end of the current
year It will reach that which pre-vailed
prior to 1942.
In 1927, he said, 48,000.000 kilo-watts
of electricity were generated
at the municipal plant, in 1937 the-number
was_12,300,000 and this year
it is expected to total 22,000,000.
Mr. VanRiper said he believed th^
village should plan to celebrate the
50th anniversary of the establish-ment
of the municipal power plant
in 1948.
Mr. Dunn spoue^on the advan-tages
of a Diesel engine operated
plant, and Mr. Walling traced tihe
history of the plant since 1928.
Dr. George A. Newton was re-nominated
, for the presidency of
the party, the rest of the elate com-prising
Robert S. Preyer and
Arthur Olsen for vice-pre Idents;
David J. Freudenberger, recording
secretary, and Thomas, A. Lltsch,
treasurer. ""
Applications for 639 persons for
membership in the party were
approved.
be. assigned to. tralijS-fcliev:
of the unit, brills will be con-ducted
in tiie -Dugout one night a
week until the Armory is ready,
and the Reserves will bo expected
to participate in a two-week's
cruise annually for which they will
receive the regular compensation
paid men in tihe Navy.
Plans for the use of the Dugout
were made at a conference Friday
night with officers of William Clin-ton
Story Post, AX. It was at-tended
by Lieut. Maloney. Yeoman
Quinn .and Legion officials. Appre-ciation
Was paid Mayor Cyril C.
Ryan and Michael J. Coffey, acting
superintendent of public works, for
their co-operation with the navy
offlcialsi and Commander Charles
P.: -BUckley, who handled the pre-liminary
arrangements and de-clined
to accept office as command-er
of the new Division. ^ /
Rice Awaits Orders
On Helicopter Tests ^
Officials of the Freeport Post Of-flce
have received no word other
than that contained in the press
releases concerning the selection of
this village as one of. the com-munities
in the metropolitan area
in which an experimentailrielcoptcr
rnal- service is to bo tried out start--
ing Monday, Jan. 6.
Postmaster Edward A, Rice ex-pects
to receive official instructions
shortly as to how the plan is to
be carried out.
BAYVIEW PHARMACY
OPEN ALL DAY SUNDAY
The Bayview Pharmacy, 379 At^
lantic ave.t will remain open Sun-day
after the other druggists in
Freeport close at 2 P.M. The tele-phone
is Freeport-8-0124.
School Janitors
And Clerks Get Raise
The proposal to increase the
salaries of members of ttie Jani-torial
and secretarial {orces-of the
-Department_Qt .Education $250 each * *-«——— -t —.... . _, ;
a year was approved by a vote of •
152 to 2 at the special election la,
the high school Friday. The pro-.'
posal v-fovided for the taking of;
.$10.500 out of surplus funds ol the •
department to give the necessavy-funds
this year. ' '
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