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TWENTY . -_T_HE LEADBE — N. THUKSD2TTMCSBCH;- ISi 1948
J Miss. Cynthia-Smith,.*,-, sophomore
'.at the .Northfleldj School _for .Girls',
ZEast Northfield, Mass., is home to
spend her>Easter vacation with her
mother, Mrs. Zella Holaday. Smith,
.156 Wallace-st. .
For Easter Give
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America's
Smartest^
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tee, introduced Grand. 'Knight
Frank J. Slnnott, 'as"~-toastm aster,
arid he in turn introduced Father
McGlynn and Father Madden.^
There were: solo's by^Mlchael .A.
Conigllo arid William. P. ,£ahn,: ac-
'cbmpanied- by Arthur \R. Knight.'-
Among the guests introduced
were Mayor, Cyril C. Ryan, the Rev;
John H; Gorman of St Christo-pher's
Church, Baldwin; the Rev\
Thomas Daly, assistant .pastor ,of
-Cure^±of ~ Ars; Merrlck; -John J..
Brady, grand knight of HSmpstead
Council; William" V. Keen an of St
Mary's Council, and Salvatore J.
Napalotano-of Daniel J. Bradley
-Council, Baldwin. -'
. The men attended mass before
the breakfast, heard a sermon by
Father Madden and partook of .holy
— Raymond-Rnipe-
37p be Confirmed ••
Lutheran Church
of the Freeport Police Department
and 60 members of the Fourth De-gree
led the Knights from the
church tor the Elks clubhouse.
Sewer Bonds
* A class of 37 3J111; be confirmed
Sunday at. 10,: 45 A.M. in Christ
Lutheran^Church. The pastor, the-
Re^. David G. Jaxheimer wttl^cjpn-
"diict the, rites and preach1 a sermon.
appr.ppriate_toJPalm_Sunday._There
wilt. ;be special rmuslc. .
/ Holy Thursday the're.TviU be ser-vices
at -night 'at which the Lord's
Supper 'will be partaken.
Good Friday' night; the choirs of
Christ Church and' St Thomas'
Church, Malverne, will combine in
singing the cantata, "The Seven"
Last Words from the' Cross." Os-car
M. Magnussen, will- direct the
60 singers and preside at the organ.
The soloists will-be Adele Fowler
Butt, Wilkes Cpnoway and John ,
Chalmers. . :
" TCorTfihueTl "froin Page 1)
are".- flrehouse, 76 to 19 and 69. to
23; No. 39, North Main st. flre
headquarters, 22 to 16 and 23 "to
18; No. 41, gas station, Mt. Joy ave.
and North Main st, 29 and. 18-and
28 and 20; No. 43, Municipal Bulld-ng,
47 and 23 and 45 and 22; No.
44, Memorial Library, 32 to 25 and
31 to-26; NO.-46—Bayview^ave. fire-louse,
42'to 14 for each; No. 47;
Seaman ave. school,"54 to 17 for
each, and No. 48, Exempt Firemen's
Hall, 40 to 20 for each.
The Board now will proceed to
take stenjs necessary to float the
bond issues and get the. various
projects under way.
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A. PRINCES PAT... 17 Jewels... M250
-BrPRESIOEN-T-.-.. .-21-Jewels T,J65B
~prlc« Include Federal Tu
3rd Generation of Jewelers
WINDOW SHAPES
See Page Seven
FURRIEFTTO ADDRESS-HOME
BUREAU NIGHT UNIT
Harold Weiner, a furrier, will
give.'"Facts about Furs," at a me*
ing of Freeport Home Bureau^
nlght group,"in~tHe "Roosevelt Pres
byterian Church, Babylon Turn-pike,
Roosevelt, tonight. Mrs. Guy
Partridge, the president, will pre-side.
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FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
PLANS BAPTISMS SUNDAY
The ordinance of baptism will be
administered at the Palm Sunday
services in the First Baptist
Church Sunday at 10:45 A.M. The
Rev. James L. Hynes will preach
on "The March of the King."
HO MATTER. WiAT YOU'VE TRIED
FOR BRONCHIAL
ASTHMA-HAYFEVER
For PosiHvo Temporary Reliof
Osuttoni UM Only *• Directed
WM1X PHONI OR CALL ATt
Freeport Drug Shop
. .H. J. COHEN:
76 SOUTH MAIN STREET
FReeport 8-0077
(at Sunriac'Hwy)
43 So. Main Street
FRefport 8-9898 .
STATION LIQUOR SHOP
PETER and JOSEPH PALAGONIA ,
26 BROOKLYN AVE. FREEPORT, N. Y.
North Side of Railroad Station'
_. ^Offers—PRO MPT Delivery
OP YOUR NEEDS IN WINES, WHISKEY,-COEI)IALS,
GHAMPAGNES-A-ND-ASSOETED ITEMS •
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VIEBROCK'S YOU1L FIND FREEPORT'S
OUTSTANDlNje Easter GHQCOLATE
an
Our candy makers have worked for the past month to produce the finest .
_pure milk chocolate bunniesrmilk"chpcolate eggs, cream egga.and^Easter
Easter ^:candy- plus"" a pure -mu K-cfiocoTate
bunny handsomely decorated SOLD AT ^ REASONABLE^ PRICES, SEE
O.UR WINDOWS and inside store .display where you will be delighted to
find just what you want for the. happiness of your children.
bC Candy we have a fresh supply of our FAMOUS JJ'rencn and"
Assorted Chocolates at $1.49 pound plain box with .Easter band, 2 pound
$2.98 also fancy -Easter Gift boxes -filled with fresh and assorted choco-lates
and on our .candy shelves, you will find a full selection of Whit-,
njan's, Schraffts, Page & Shaw antT other outstanding standard brands
of candies. • •' .. , . -=- -
- 40 So. Main St., Freeport
iCMREAM
CAKES
SPEOffiLLi
FOR EASTEE
10
SERVINGS
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Please Phone Orders Early
18$5 •
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Jamiss Smith
So* Main St., Freeport
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FANCY LARGE ~
FOWL Ib. 42C
BONELESS
POT ROAST Ib.
LOINS YOUNG
PORK
Corned Beef Ib.
FRESH KILLED
Broilers or Fryers Ib
TOP SIRLOIN CROSS RIB or BOTTOM ROUND
Pot Roast lb.75C
SHOULDERS
V E A L
39; Ib.
FRESH or SMOKED
CALTHAMS
47clb.
Whole or-Half
F RE S H
^Shopped
BREAST OF
33
N^VEL or PLATE
-C0RNEITBEEF
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South Shore's
Leading Weekly
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Memorial Library,
__; 12th Year No. 44 FBEEPQET, N. Y., THURSDAY, ;^IARC)H 25, -1948 <. FIVE GENTS A COPY
$2,804.45 Raised,
Ais Red Gross^Drive
Gains Momentum
', Chairman Pellicio
Still Confident, of
"Hitting $10,001) Goal
Contributions to the Red Cross
. fund . campaign picked up during
the past 'week, as the workers be-came
better organized in the vari-
.ous: districts with the result that :the reports presented -at a meeting
in the Municipal Building Monday
night showed additional collections
aggregating $1,845, making the
total receipts to date "$2TSTPT45 to-ward
the Freeport quota of $10,000.
Dominic Pellicio, the chairman, ex-pressed
confidence the community
would eventually attain its goal.
Reports were received from
workers In -several districts that
had not previously been heard from.
Francis Min'utola, who took over in
the Northeast only at the beginning
of- last week, has obtained captains
for most-of his districts and-^xpects
to be able to submit an encouraging
report next Monday night.
Workers In four election districts
in the Northwest under the chair-manship
of Edgar Roseneau report-ed
-contributions totaling $777.65.
. Mrs. O. B. Pinkney, captain In the
43d district reported $321.65 and
Mrs. Alfred J; Brady in the 47th
$201. Mrs._Pearl Jones, captain in
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McCloskey Memorial Trophy Presented - - - - . . . tf ^ . ^ . j ^ .• , • - _
To County Head on Old Timer's Night
Past Legion Commanders-Attend Exercises-
In Dugout; Review History of. Stpry Post .
Twenty-one of the surviying 25 pas.t commanders of William
Clinton Story Post, A.L., attended old timer's night-:iu the-Dug-
HHT^fcGloskey^aVnirericnTiisnr
36th district, turned in $39.40, mak-ing
a total of $52 raised to date.
The figures for other districts"
were as follows: No. 34, $19; 38,
$13.35; 4V $68; 44, $204,10; 45,
$140; 46, $34.50; 48, $187; 49, $144,
•and 50, $157.50.
Asher Nlckelsberg, chairman for
_lhfi_hliai nRftq diatyict, reported ro-coijjte
of $214; Mrs. Arthur., East-wood
for organisations, $15 while
.collections in the two banks netted
$88.
Elementary Council
Jr. R. C., to Mcet_
Plans for a large spring meeting
to be held 011 Wednesday, May 21,
-at 2:30 P. M., were made at a meet-ing
of the Nassau County Junior
Red C r o s s Elementary School
Council officers held in the Colum-bus
ave. school Monday afternoon;
";A11 officers and three of the four
members at large attended. Dana
Smith, elementary' school advisor,
-presided; :
Two 'delegates from each, element
tary school and the officers, of |
junior and senior high schoorcoun-cils
are to attend' the
_ Reports were submitted by dele-gates
from six—schools that had
'done outstanding work in.bejialf Of
-.the Junior-Red . Cross. Motion-pic-
__ tures werfi shown. .a magician^ en-
__ tertalned. music, was provided ,by
^ the Freeport elementary school
memorial trophy was formally turn-c-
d over to County Commander Wil-liam
C. Haifsler, by State Adjutant
Miiu'rice Stember, a past command-er
of the-post. "" ~~
Past Commander« Herman C.
Hunker presided during" the Eve-ning,
and former executives occu-pied
th'e chairs. Frank Post as first
vice-commander, Walter Schmidt,
second- Jacob K^denburg, third,
Paul A. Weill," adjutant, and Wil-liam*
A. Suyder, corresponding ad-jutant.
All past commanders were called
ton for remarks and recalled inci-dents
during the terms they served
as head of the post. Those who
served during the trying days when
the post was faced with difficulties
in financing the^ dugout referred
lightly to incidents that were very
serious at the time.
Major-Gen. E. M. Podeyn, a post
member, Edward McDonald, "of
Oyster Bay, a past county com-mander
and now service officer; N.
Forest Jones, county director of the
Veterans' Welfare Agency and
others also spoke.
Mayor Ryan Lauds' Legion
—Before—Mr:™SteraBei'~maae"~tK^
presentation J3 f the McCloskey
trophy in memory of the~man~who
.commanded the post In 1925-26 he
Plumber Drives Pipe __ : . i_ . , ^-'—.—~ —. ^- Into Telephone Cable
Disrupting Service
More Than 350 Lines
Cut by Mishap Under
Church st. Monday
More than 350 telephone lines
were puU ouT of service Monday
morning about 11 o'clock when a
plumber drove a copper water pipe
through a cable containfng~S.100
pairs of wires under Church st. It
was Tuesday morning before norm-al
service was restored.
The plumber was laying a line to
connect with a main on the west
side of the street to—provide water
for three stores being erected by
Charles Maier just north of the
Woolworth atore; The pipe was
being driven from the cellar of one
of the buildings and cut right
Dr. Willis A.15utton "^
To Spe^k Here April 9 _
Dr. Willis A. Sutton,.past.presi-dent
of the National Education
Association and superintendent
emeritus of the schools of-Atlanta,
i( who spoke here a year-ago, will
the school and community^program
to be sponsored bv the Board of
called on Mayor Cyril C. Ryan who
said the village owed a great debt
to the Legion.. He also referred to
the fact that Mr. McGloskey was a
leader in the movement to provide
the stadium for dPYeeport to .benefit
tee Leonard D. B. Smith and
Trustee-elect Robert L. Doxsee also
were presented.
Past Commander C. Howard Lar-sen,
second district vice-command-er,
introduced the members of the
county staff who were present. --"
Mr. Stember in presenting the
trophy, said Mr.' McCloskey "was
a driving, force in keeping us to-.
gather when were were at a low
ebb.'" He added Mr. McCloskey
helped to lay the foundation for the
present successful county organi-zation.
He gave.County Command-er
Hausler_credit_f or.suggesting the
type of memorial selected, a trophy
which is to be. awarded annually at
the. COUtity. rdnvontinn tn .Mm
which is adjudged to have done the
most to promote Americanism.
Education in the high school audi*
torium on Friday night, April 9.
Dr. Button was invited to ~ speak
here .again "by the school authori-ties
as a result of. .the requests'of
many who heard liinTlas.t year.
There also will be a musical pro-gram.
A chorus of ~175~boys from
all- the local" elementary schools,
will sing under the direction of
Miss Wilanna Brunei1, and tho
high .school band, directed by J.
Maynard Wettlaufer, will play.
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six cables running t h rough con d u i t B
under Church st. ..and just missed
hitting the Fire Department cable.
Soon complaints of disrupted ser-vice
began to pour 'in" to' the* New-
York Telephone Co. and tlje 'cause
of the trouble was discovered. It
was necessary 'to dig a hole about
eight feet in length to get . below
the deepest .cable and remove the
tile- -conduits— in— which the—cables
were located.
• Service was cut off entirely in
the -Municipal Building, two of the
'three wires In Police Headquarters
were put out of commission as was
the emergency flre alarm telephone.
However, the police maintained
South Nassau Auxiliary
To Have Lunch Wednesday
Ttio Freeport Auxiliary- .of the
South Nassau CommmiHi,es Hos-pital
will sponsor, a covered dish
luncheon In the home of Mrs. Gor-don
F_ Waaser, 378 Pennsylvania
ave., next ""Wednesday afternoon.
Plans for the event were completed
at tho monthly meeting o!' the Aux-,
iliary in 'the Transfiguration. Parish
House Tuesday afternoon. Mrs.
Paul Georgi, the president, presid-ed.
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Mrs. .Jack Zeudcr was" named
chairman of a committee to plan.
for ii card party in the Coral House,
Baldwin, on Thursday al'ternoon,
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Freeport TcriGet
Internal Revenue
Office by^fuly
Nassau Headquarters
To Be In Building
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On Church Street
The Nassau County office of the
Federal Bureau, of Internal Revenue
is to be moved to Ereeport"lt was
learuod -th-ia-weefe—It-is-tb be lo
ciited in n building now in course
of construction on; Church st. ad-joinlng-
the—Woolwor.thJ_ve_and_ten_
cent store to the north.
When the new building is com-pleted,
"the present county head-quarters
1n Hemj>stead will be
closed and thereafter all activities
of the Bureau of Internal Revenue,
including handling, of Income tax
matters will be transferred* to Free-port..
government has " taken a
Miss Alice Clark, Nassau County
health nurse spoke. She sajd heart
disease was the greatest killer
.among the various, diseases, fol-lowed
by cancer.
Six new members were received
Mrs. Harold Richel, Mrs. Eston
Young, Jtlrs. Herbert Acley, Mrs
Frederick Rommell, Mrs. D. C
ler.
Airs. WJIlJnta H. Slrohsahl, pro-duction
chairman, reported 267
article's made for "the Hospital dur-ing
the month.' Refreshments were
served.
Communication with the patrol cars I Chiropractor Groups
by using the two-way radio sys-tem's.
Many stores/were without
.telephone service. / " _--
All jthe wires cut by the pipe had
to be spliced/before service was
restored.:—^ . '
K. T.-Teaih Confers Degree
On Eight at Spartan Lodge
. The degree team of Nassau Com-mandry,
K. T., attired in full uni-
'orms, conferred the third degree
The county commander in accept-ing
the trophy declared no -finer
thing could have been done'to per-petuate
the memory of Mr. Me-
.Closkey than in selecting the type
of "memorial it did. He paid tribute
:o -the memory of the-man being
honored. He said the American
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Ira^igufafioiLjChurch to Collect
Canned Foods and Clothing for England
-Th^Trflhsfiptlrat.inTi
_ in the Long Island Episcopal Diocese in a cami&igh to
^cblledt..clothing and canned foods to be sent to needy parishes
in England. 1 T— : —=-
A year ago Bishop James Par-nette
DeWolfe visited England and
called on. the Bishop of London.
During the conversation he in-
"quired-what'the churches of "Long
Island^ could do to assist those of
England. The Bishop of" trtmdon
replied' he would appreciate- it- if
clothing.and provisions,^especially-canned
goods, would bo "collected
for 100 nee'dy parishes in England.
• .On his return, 'Bishop DeWolfe
put a plan in motion to provide-the
'article*s"needed. Consequently the
Rev. Reginald H, Scott,, announced
tpday the local church would be
open on Wednesday;:—Thursday,-
Saturday and Sunday during the
"week starting April 5 to- receive
articles to be sent to England.
Canned _ goods,- especially - fruits,
vegetables and, meats, are desired.
"While parishioners of the church
are expected to contribute liber-ally
to the cause, Rector Scdttadd-ed
gifts-from others interested in
assisting the people -.of."-England
would be welcomejJL * '
Children in all four counties of
tlrtrisland are being spurred on in-their
efforts to wi.n :one of $250
scholarships that are being award-ed
* by, the "Bishop's Committee of
the laity to_the_boy and'girl who
collects the most pounds "of food and
clothing during the campaign. The
scholarships are for-St. Mary's and
St Paui'a.achools in Garden City.
- I)r. Hubert S. WftQd^ Dean "of
the Cathedral of the Incarnation,.
Garden City and the Rev.-L^man .C:
Bleecker, - rector of St.- VJohn's
Church, Cold "Spring Harbor, are
directing Jjthe .campaign in Nassau
County. . : " . . ' • .
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"candidates at a meeting
of Spartan Lodge, F. & A. M., in
Sprrtan Temple, Tuesday night.
Tho ceremony was witnessed by
173 persons- Including delegations
From neighboring-lodges...- ChrlstcK
pner-Miller, "master lot the "lodge
presided/ • --
. The degree was conferred on
•William Vance, Kurt -O. Schmidt.
Hold Baldwin Meeting
Afc a meeting of the Long Island
District of the New York State
Chiropractic Society and its Aux-iliary.
Sunday, afternoon In .the.
home oC Kenneth M. Young, 212
De Mott ave., Baldwin, John Carlln,
iLJTreeport,—distr-lGt—ohairman—of-tlre
"American .Military—Chiroprac-tors,-
announced -arblH to aufhorize
appointment of chiropractors ..to the
ten-year lease on one of three
stores Charles Maier Is haying built
on Churt!h st. It will have, a front-age
of 16 feet, extend 112 feet deep
including an "L" in the rear of the
building to-Uie-north, 33: feet; by "36,
for a total of 2;GOO sq\iare-ree(> AH
the' buildings are to be one-a^ory
in height.
Plans call for the building to be
completed so the government cair
take possession in June, or by July
1 at the latest, as the lease on the
iresent Internal Revenue offices, in
iiempstead expiresi""bnT~tTiaT~3 a£e~
and the premises -must be vacated
by that time. t
Selection of Freeport aa the loca-tion
for the'Nassau County office oC
the Collector o£ Internal Revenue
adds another link -to the chain of
Federal buildings erected ;, ;
here and planned in1 the near fu
ture. First the government decided
to locate an armory on-Hanse^a-rer
for the use of the U. S. Naval Re-serve
units in this vicinity. This
was followed by -the decision to
locate a New York National GuaVd "
armory In the Northeast Watershed
for which I he Village Boarcl has.
provided the-site-nt a -nominal cost
iml for which funds probably will
>e appropriated by Congress short-y,
making three federally operated
projects to be established here. -
ar., John—W: Lowe, jr.. WiHiam C.
Hoffman, Robert M. Beartty and
Edward Newport. •—-.
FREEP_ORT PUPILS SPEAK_
IN SHUBERT SCHOOL DEBATE
Two sixth grade pupils from
Freeport participated in a debate.
on "Junior High School Boys" and
Girls Should Rece-ive a Weekly Al-lowance"
in the Shubert School,
Baldwin, y e s t e r d a y afternoon.
Peter Lo Truglio was a member of
the team-representing- Mrs,"A'rline
Breive's class, and Virginia Molinet
of Miss Shirley Handel's* .group.
The-\vJiin'er will"nieeCa~-ifceam from
Miss Christa Fulton's cl^ss after
the.Easter, .vacation. 1_JL*; „,- _*.
'- Mrs/'Norman McClfntok;, Mrs. Al-bert
Campion and Mrs, Philip Ever-est
of the Parent-Teacher-Associa-tion
officiated as judges/- The
teams were selected from the best
debaters of each class.
medical staff of the Veterans
ministration has been Introduced In
Congress by Congressman James T.
Patterson of Connecticut'1
Plans were jiacusBed~by~the.
iAuxJUary l'Qi^-a-1 u n c 1 1 eo n to
_be sponRored *by the women of the
state, the on''mial' educational
symposium to be held at the Hotel
Anrll
T / T h e auxiliary president is
Madeline ^Touhg. The auxiliary
plans to hold a. rummage sale May
-12 and 13 In-RockVilie-Centre^
LIBRARY TO CLOSE-GOOD
FRIDAY AT NOON
The Freeport Memorial Library
-and—its—branch—will—observe UoocT
Friday by closing tomorrow, at
noon.
During Easter vacation, the -Co-lumbus
Ave. School will be closed,
but the-library Branch In the school
will be open"the "regular" hours-on"
Tuesday and Friday' from 2 until
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?ulton and.Elar Differ
OntCost of Ambulance —
Chester A. Fulton & Son have
sent a letter to Police Chief Peter
submitted to "the Village Board re-cently
concerning the cost of am-
•buIanGe-calls -during- WJ47, — J - — •
— The letter reads as follows:
"In the MarclUSth edition of The
Leader_y_au stated that Uie Free-
JLQrt.ILo_li9e DepiU'tment had receiv-ed
accident calls which required
the use of-anzanibulance 141 tiroes,.
mU that by calllng-the Fulton 'am-bulance
on 29_calls"y6u saved the
village the difference... between
"From Jan;;;l, i947no December -
1—19-17 your De_p_arLment called us
66-tIjneB. In -th«at perIp,d^32_£aUs_
wore paid" by the jndivldurtis, if by
the-Village of'Freeptfrt and 7 are
at this time still unpaid.
"Based on the percentage of calls
-pa I d-by—th e—Vill age~and-Tcal i s~p al d~
by Individuals and using your own
figures the cost of "using our service
forjill cases would have been about
one-third of $1,410 or $483.
"Our figure of $483 minus_y_our-figure
of $206 leaves a cost of $193,,,
more if our services had always
•been
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FRIEDMAM'JS DRUG STORE
OPEN ALL DAY SUNDAY
Friedman's Drug Store, South
Grove st.'at Sunrise Highwa'yrwill
remain open Sunday after the other,
pharmacies In Freeport close at 2
P.M. The telephone is FReeport
8*001. •
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today and mail to The LEADER, P. 0. Box 2857 Freeport,
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