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PAGE .TWENTY L E A D E R — F E E E P OR ;T N. Y THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 2S, 1948.
KfclrOff"Dinner Given
March of Dimes ^Workers
More "than" 250 persons who have
volunteered to serve in the 1949
March of Dimes attended the kick-off
dinner Saturday night in the
.Garden City Hotel, Garden City.
Every village In Nassau County
was represented and all pledged
their untiring efforts toward the
$150,000 goal of'the, Nassau County
Chapter, National Foundation foi
Infantile Paralysis.
A film, "Rehabilitation,' taken
at the New York Recbnstruction
Home -. in 'West Haverstraw, ai
Knickerbocker Hospital -and at the
Bellevue Rehabilitation'Center, wa
shown.
Rehabilitation work being done
in the state was described by D.
. J. Arnold, associate supervisor of
the Slate'Uepartment of Education,
division of vocational rehabilita-tion,
with which the Nassau
County Chaptetf NFIP works
closely.
BAPTISTS TO ADMINISTER
ORDINANCE OF BAPTISM
A class of candidates will re-ceive
(Jio ordinance of baptism
at the First Baptist Church Sun-day
at I0:-If» A.M. The pastor,
the Rev. Dr. Louis H. Losch, will
preach on the subject "Believer's
Baptism."
Red Cross Volunteers
Aid.Many at Pinelawn
Red Cross volunteersr who- man
the ARC Hut.at the-lxmg Island
National Cemetery In Pinelaw.n,
served 30,860 relatives 'and friends
attending repatriation burials of
the War Dead there during^-the
first six mouths the hut wa6: in
operation, Mrs. Jay D. Whitham,
of Harbor Green, Massapequa, an-nounced
today.
Working on regular schedules,
281 volunteers from the Nassau
County, North Suffolk, West Suf-folk
and Babylon* Red Cross
chapters served a total of -1,729
houhs at 89 burial
the. Red Cross hut
cemetery last April
man reported. Slip
sessions .since
•opened at the
6, Mrs. Whit-
Is coordinator STEAM
of Red
lawn.
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Year No. 28 FREEPORT, N.Y., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, J!U8 FIVE CENTS A COPY-Chamber
to Seek
New Bus Route to
Hofstra College
Result of Polls Kills
Plans for Line for
Northwest Section
Now that plans for a bus line
through the Northwest section of
the Village have been killed, the
Chamber of Commerce will move
soon lo propose another route for
a line to Hofstra College, officials
said today.
The death knell of the project
was sounded at a. meeting of Ihe
Village Board Friday night when
Stanley Livingston, presented the
report concerning the canvass con-ducted
by. a group of opponents
of the bust route, which showed
a majority of the residents of the
area were against buses iu the
section.
Members of the group personally
canvassed, 1,323 homes, and re-ceived
replies from 1,170 families.
only 153 refusing to take a1 stand
on the matter or being away. Of
the total 7-16, or (M percent, went
on record as being opposed to a
bus line, and -12-1, or 3C percent,
favored buses.
The first question road: "Do
you or do you not want a bus
running 'through the residential
section ol' Northwest Freeport'.'"
Tills was followed by "Provided
your answer is Yes io (juesLion
No. 1 above, are you willing to
have 'said bus use (lie sin-el in
front of your house?"
To t h i s L'^7 i n d i c a t e d they would
not objert 10 buses r u u n i im in
front ot lheir homes, and llM ob-jecled,
while SO did not answer the
question.
There was a t h i r d question which
read:
"Provided your answer is Yes
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Choice of Best Essay Stumps
Judges in Elks9 Competition
Have to Postpone Selection of Winner
Of $100 Bond—School Prizes Awarded
AY hen -^ri/.es \ven> presented to
ton schools represented in liio B.P.O.
the subject, "Why"Democracy Works,
room Friday night, it was planned
to award a grand prize of a $100
U.S. Savings Bond to the writer
of i be best composition.
However, three judges—a su-preme
Court Justice and two col-lege
officials,—found the ten es-says
so uniformly excellent they
could not determine which was
better than the others. Consequent-ly
it was decided not to make the
award until later, either on Thurs-day
night Dec. 16 or 23, on which
occasion the winner of the annual
Elks' scholarship will be an-the
\vinncis from
Elks CSSHV contest
the
on
in the' Frecport lodjre
nounced—this year's to Hofstra
College.
In the meantime the judges,
Justice Thomas J. Cuff, Dr. John
Cranl'ord Adams, president of Ailel-phl,
and Dean Rol&ml Boetting, of
Adelphia. will make a close study
of the ten esays, and instead of
awarding only the $100 bond, will
select the second and third best
essays, the writers of which will
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SHOPPING,
Sammis is Low Bidder
On Water Main Contract
George W. Sammis and Pellicio
Bros., submitted almost identical
bids for the laying of water mains
in .Milburn ct., and Virginia and
Oakfield aves.
\Vlien the bids were, opened at
a meeting- of the Village J.toard
Friday night, it was found the
tolals were only $J9.50 a part. Mr.
Sam mi.- was low with $3.15::, fol-lowed
b'y the Pellicios w i t h
TELEPHONE
FOR POLICE
PROGRAM
BOYS' CLUBS
5(1. The bids were referred
age I.'n^inet-r Ilerben .M.
or sfndv.
to VII-
\Vood
.Milton J. MacWIiinnii1 , of ihe
i e c l u i e bureau of t t i e New York
Telephone Co.,- is to put on a pro-gram
:or i l i e iin-mbei's of ( l i e Free-
I'olTce McTys Club Wednesday
in the Holy Redeemer School
J l a l l . He will show motion pic-tures.
including comedies. Patrol-man
.Joseph Rpmelka, the director,
announced today.
poi-i
Social Security Office
!n Hempstead Is Moved
I John Form, manager of the
Mempstead Field OlIlcG ol1—the
Social Security A d m i n i s t r a l i o n , an-nounced
today his offiee had moved
to more adequate q u a r t e r s a I LM
L i t t l e Main st., Ilempstead.
1 Tiie new ollice faces on the en-trance
to Searing Field as well us
on L i t t l e Main .st. —
.Mr. Form pointed o u t . b i s ofiicn
has the t a s k of sei'vitig I0,i|0il hem-ficiaries
throughout Nassau' County
and issues aoo new ami duplicate
account number cards a week.
F.H.S. '5* Meets-Mmeola^Tuesday
With Four Veterans In Line-up—
jicxt
High School's
-1:1 season jiirjiinst Miii"(
"TiH'sdnv at 4 I*. aAI.
basketball team
in"ola on t'Jie local hi;
\viUi hrijrht prospects
w i l l cipi'u the
:li school court
for a successful
Safety Council Backs
Film At the Freeport
Nassau Police Exhibit
Features the Showing
Of 'Drunken Driving'
Sponsored by (he Frceport Sa'Vl'y
Council, the Century Thratres,
Inc., ami ihe Nassau Counly
Police, the motion p i c t u r e "Drunk-en
Driving." is beiii); shown lor a
week at Ihe I'Yecport Theatre.
In connection w i t h (he f i r s t pre-s
e n t a t i o n l ; t s ( n m h l . I'M ward VMS II,
a member ol the Safety Couneil.
nave a t a l k on "Safety". Capt. .1.
Mch ilie Ila^en. I he •council chair-mail,
will speak tomorrow ni^ht
and Stanley Mlack Saturday ui^ht..
Tiiey will tell ol the village ordin-ances
rcgulat.ions t'nr motorists
and other safety measures.
The Safety Division of ihe Nas-sau
County Police Department has
installed an exhibit in the corridor
of the Iheal re. There are simis.
and other features. Mem-t
l i e squad will be on hand
Mie week i n i l i i i K Tile, day lo
the exhibits.
Hoss and K e i i n i - i h \\'il-managers
of the Freeport
Power House Bonds
Sold at Premium
And 1.30 Interest
$250,000 Issue Taken
. By Solomon Bros. &
Hutzler; 6 Bidders
The Village Hoard has awarded
the $250,nnn power house bond
issue 10 Solomon Ilros. and Ilul/Jor,
u! . M a n h a t t a n , which s u b m i t t e d the
best offer when the bids were
opened Tuesday afternoon in Ihe
The company offered a premium
ol' fL'L'f* and charged only Mil) per-
• i - n t intercsl on ihe issue which
•xnii'e.s in li)~>'l.
Six birls Wen- received, each e<m-
•ern offer in;: a premium ami f i x i n g
in lnfy.v.s.1 rate below 2 percent.
'I lie o i l i e r bids were MS f o l l o w s :
I-'reejiorl (Sank. I',', pcrceni.
IV.r.n premium; d-orgr It. ( J i b - :
posters
bers of
during
explain
-Mac
Hams,
Theater are co-operating in the
efforts ol (lie Council to make
residents of Freeporl safety con-scious.
"Orunken Driving" will In-shown
e-very al'tr
ing during I he run of I tie picture
Chief Coach Harry C. Erehart
reports jour" letternian "from" lasf
years team on the squad with
every prospect, of retaining their
positions, and 11 men up from
t h e - 1IMS.49 Jay-Vees.. who had a
successful season to form a strong
reserve force should any of the
regulars falter or be injured. -
The veterans on the squad are
'•Hill Dodd, (j foot three center,
whos'c injury last year upset the
'prospects of the team for the
championship; Jimmy Nelson/and
Don Fellman, .forwards, and Jack
Plunkett, .a guard.
The Jayv'ee reserves are -Jack
Schmidt, Fred Fellman, Dave
Jone&i Alien—Harris, Dave Pear-sail,
Gene Schaeffer, Gregory Meh-rige,
Jim Biggs, Charles Jordan,
Ed. Morant and Alex MacLeod.
Coach Erehart-is hoping history
of the past two' seasons will not
repeat itself. Ih 1946 and 1947. the'
Red Devils started off' like world
beaters. :ln the former year it
went through December without a
jjpleat,..bllt grew stale. during the
holidy lay-off and never recovered
its early season form. A year ago.
it was the same story, only the
fact that Rill Uodd, suffered a
broken wrist which kept him out
of the game for most of the second
half of the' schedule accounted
for the failure of the team, to
live up to its early season form.
In both years the Sewanbaka High
School five had the jinx on the
locals. : - f,. *-
The schedule is as follows:
Dec. JO, Mariht'issei, home, 4
P.M.; ]-!, Garden City, home, -1
P.M.; 17, Central (Vrirtey Stream),
away; 2], Oyster Bay, away. • fc
Jan. -1, Mineola, away; 7, Se-wanhaka,
• away; 11, .Mepham,
home, 4 P. M.; 1-1, Hempstead,
home, 4 P. M.; 21, Lawrence, awify.
Feb. 1, Oceanside, away; 4,
Baldwin, Jjome; 11, Central, .home;.
15, Sewanhaka, home, 4 P.M.;
IS, IVlepham, away; 21, Hempstead,
away; .25, ^awrence, home, and
March 4,. Baldwin, away.
Mayor Named Committee
For Community Christmas
_ Mayor Cyril C. ' R y a n this week
announced the appointmoni of a
committee to arrange for tin*
F r e e p o r t Community Christmas
program.
" Haymond T. TCeirriah, Chairman
last year, has been dewignalcd- to
again head the group. Associated
with him are Dr. John \V. Dodd,
Martin M. Mansperger, W. Rar-geanl
Nixon, Cord Viebrock, Rus-sell
K; Hotaling, Mrs. Harold W.
BaUin. Mrs. William J. Martin,
Mrs. William S. Hughes, and Ray-mond
Russell. • '--•" . 1 It Is planned to have a carol sing
In the park south of the Municipal
Building on Monday night, Dec. 20.
Mr. Keir.nan -has requested leaders
of Boys • and Girls Scout troops,
the 'Nautical Cadets and other
groups that would like to partici-pate,
to notify him as soon as pos-sible.
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SAVALU DRUG STORE
OPEN ALL-DAY SUNDAY
Tht^Savail Drug..Store, S3 West
Merrlck rd., will 'remain open Sun-day
after the other pharmacies
close'-at 2 P.M. The telephone
is FReeport 9-3722.
1 \/2 percent, $i;!5.fin
premium; Firsi ol .Michigan Corp..
I \/y pen-out, $1(1 premium; lioose-veft
.t Cross, 1.-to percent, $]fiS pj-e-niium,
and Francis "I. U u l ' o l n t &•
Co:, and Tilney Co., I . f i n percent,
and fUU-.nn j n - i i n i i u i n .
The bond issue \-~- in f i i u n i c f ihe
tiu.'il j t a y n i e l i t s on l i t e hie.-.-l e i i ; - i t ) e
beiiii,' insialled in and oilier ini
| i r o v e i n e i i t s lo Ihe power house.
The bids were opened b\ N'illage
Clerli (Jeortfe F. I l a s l i r u i i ; i: in I l i e
pj-eseiic-e of V'ill ige Treasurer
Stephen W. H u n t . The l a i l e j - said
t h a i the low i n t e r e s t rale charged
was exceptionally co m pi i men l a c y
!o the good ( i n i i n e i i t l credit ol the
village.
Parking Field 2
Land All Assembled
V i l l a g e Counsel M a r t i n M. Wey-ranch
advised I he Village Hoard al
its meeting Friday • n i g h ! that all
the property bad been assembled
l o r J f P J i r k i n g Field 2 comprising the
land in the rear of the drove
Theatre. Mortgage adjust nfents
have been made .and every 111 ing
is in I'eadincss to proceed with
the advertising Tor bids lor the
construct Ion* of Urn field, be said.
Committee to Move
After Three Civic
Groups Take Stand
Meeting of Atlantic-
South, Northwest and
Southwest Ass'ns. Set
After three civic associations
have met to take their stand on
the proposed "Plan No. 3," Tor
the elimination of grade crossings
in Freeport within the next ten
days, the civic committee which
prepared the plan in collaboration
with experts on Ihe subject and
after consultation w i t h Long Island
Rail Road olncialH will submit
its recommendations to the Vil-lage
Board.
The' Atlantic-South Civic As-sociation
will take- action at Us
monthly meeting tonight in the
South Shore Yacht Club, the
NorthW|CSt Civic Association will
meet Monday night in the head-quarters
of Hose Co. -1, on Sunrise
Highway, and the Southwest Civic
Association is due to meet Monday
night, Dec. 13, in Exempt. Fire-men's
Hall, North Long Hoach -mid
•Hrpoklyn lives.
At its November meel ing the
Northeast Civic Association re-scinded
its previous action snp-
'portiug (.he Cohen Plan, inul voted
(o endorse /'Ian No. 3, with two
re.ser\'»t/ons. One of these pro-vides
for s u b s l i t u l i n g ^ d i r t (ill lor
the proposed columns in the em-
'banluiient m1 South Columbus a \ e .
i The ol her provides' TOP ii ' riTffie
.' circle north of i ) i e i r ; i c k f . The
' K\ch;inge Club nl Freepnrl also
has gone on record as bein^: in
f.-ivor of the plan.
Features of Finn No. 3
"Plan No. I!." d:-;iiled as ;i siih-s
l i l u l e fnr Ilie original so. called
•'.Mid-Town Plan" was prepared by
a rommiUee consisting of .Willlam .
J. Martin, president of I ho Chamber
of Conuncrcl, Curd Viobrock, past
president of the Chamber; Hobert
K. Pal lerson, chairman '" __Utl.'
M u n i c i p a l Planning lto;inl. ami
\Y;it!er J. Mlr:ii:d::, :i c i v i c \vnrl; er,
[' mler I he proposed phi n. i in:
most western slairway to ihe ,-M-lion
platlorm would be >•" leet
wi -t ol Mil in si., where t ' - i e ex- .
press ol'ice no\v is located. The
com in it l e i - "lias i e c o n i P i e i n l e i ! i h u t
a t i c k e t ollice could be provided at
t b l K s l a i r w a y lor Hie, conveiiieiu-c
ol commuters.
Tile lealnre of the plan is a
parking' field w i t h arcnmniodai ions
I'or (i"0 cars in a lot * extending
from Henry St.. lo Mensem pi., and
fronting .on .Sunrise Highway _jnst
souih o; the s t a t i o n . After con-sult
ing authorities on the subject,
the committee has announced it
is convinced the cost of, t h i s Held
w i l l be included :IH- incidejilal to
the. elimination project, and .will
not-bti-a-villagi! -charge
Section Already Village OwneJ
However, members of the group-have
pointed out, part of the ,i!'»t
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