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Elernentary School
Legion Finals
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prize speaking; ^;<^ncest'rspons6fed^by
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^A; tdtal of iaf-^ade/scripbl pupils
has , entered' the .preliminary- con-tests
...whfcdT~wili be conducted as
follows; Seventh.- - .grade; --Grpve st,,
rtiditorluiBirf.-^dncsd$y, "Jp1- 1$;
Eighth' grade^.Grrpye .st., ,Mondajr;
ian..j12;! Ninth ''.grade/ -high school
audltpljiuin, '^^uraclay," . Jah~ .J15.;
Teritli: iia4;hi^Vfichool; Tuesday;
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"tritests ^
^^ .will
Select \thej " Rsji-
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V>MreArDbrotJiy: Sieg-?
, Tenth; Miss Vielriette Sickelsi
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Essay Contest
--..- .'Students1 of the Freeport High ;ScHool are eligible to compete
in , the. eighth'annual,* Long. Island 'historical essay coTrtest to be
sponsoreSf by>the Long Island Association, the 'Nassau County His- i * ,'••".' • .• * -'- '•- - ?•*• - '• -,.".> r_ .' • • • ' . * •_ toricaV'-and
and the Suffolk County .Histbrica
Society, William'S. Pettit, chalr-
•mari; of 'Uiei joint, committee, an-nounced
-thls^week. The subject -Is
'"Lphg'i Island, .Cradle of Liberty."
• •-.' tTwo .hundred- dollars and three
honorable mention certificates will
be awarded as .prizes. The money
.awards will be ^divided as follows
First prize, $1'OD; second, $75 an'4
third ,$25,
L -Essays1 must be submitted to the
committee not later than April 15
and- may be 1,600 -to 2,500 words
Jn -'length. -Prizes will, be .-awarded
in May .with-appropriate ceremonies
will compete /against the Eighth;
the' Ninth against the Tenth, -and
the. Eleventh, .against the Twelfth
-P-upils^imilng in. the. preliminaries
will" jceceiye :$5 each while -those
recelvisd'" second and -third place
ratin.gs^wiU :be given American Le-gion1
gold arid silver medals the
night t>f the final. contest by Prin
In -the schools of the winning- con-testants.
High., schools* may con-duct
thelr:'owri elimination contests
for the selection o'f one to three
best essays rfronv each/school, y >•
Mr. Pettit, vlc^-presWent1. of.- the
Nassau County •Society and a direc-tor
-of the .Association,-jheads the,
following committee, which wffl
select judges: Jesse Mervitt, .Earm-fngdale,
"Nassau County historian;
^Dr. Oscar Darlington, 'Hempstead,
Hofstra College,, apd ' Jaquellne
Overton, Westbury, librarian, 'for
the Nassau historical group; John
D. Hallock, .^Riverhead., president,
"Suffolk .Society; : Morton. Penny-packer,
T2ast .Hampton, CSUffolk
County historian, and Paiil -Bailey.
Amityvllle. editor of the ;Long Is-land
Forum,.for the Suffolk 'hls-
Musicqn A Yule;Ploy -
A::'musical'.-.presentation arid , an
^play*:"W)3y the/ Chimes Bang," by
Elizabeth- A.; McFadden; featured
the annual Christmas assembly of
the Freeport" High--School^ Alan.
•Shaler and Kenneth -Reed opened
the program 'with a,; piano and
organ duet,—"Christmas Overture!"
Betty Lou Bond read the' Bible
and offered prayer, after, which
there was a candlelight procession
;With the Senior girls' chorus sing-ling
-"Adeste Fideiis'1' moving slowly
dpwn the cente'r; aisle. -'6n btirig
seated the girls jgave Moore's "In
David's Town". and,.Gounod'sY'Naz-.
areth." Later as a recessfonal they!
sang, "Angels We Have Heard on
High," /
Incidental solos toy Carolyn
Bedell, 'Lynn Cole, Janet Powers,
-Lucretia Simons and a soprano
torical group, and Walter Hammltt,
Brooklyn; William..F./Ploch, :-Min-eola,
president-ol the'L. T. Associ-ation,
and Meaae C. Dobson, the
association's Managing Director.
Lorralne Form} concluded the"first ^
half 'of""UieTprogram. 'It• waarhdl-;;1;;-:.
rected by Miss MiriamvRobertB^of;;;j,
trie 'hittsic department! ] $$f^'-f\
Next'the play, wa's: given. 'fn_,th&^£
cas} were Harold CantilU, Balp)v>^
Dowaeswell, ' Donald Brody; -Mitzb: J;
Petrovits, Laura Jean Vought, Jojinj ^
Byrnes, Harvey Soil, Charles Hut-v,:-;;
chinsoh, Patricia Bree, GaryeriV.-
Mecking, Dorothy Fennema, Eileen fi,;'
Shiel and Rlbert Pultz, . / .''•. - .;
The play was"" directed by Miss' ;
'Doris. GroesbetSk and ,Mrs.yporpt;hyt ^,
Rleger of the English 'tdejaartrnen't.' V
Lighting effects were arranged by' ^i'-
Eugene Deslsles and George Sea--, •••'.
man, while the scenery was j.iar^,:J
ranged 'by "John Mqreton arid :
Thomas Copeland. Simulated-stained,
glass .windows were con-tributed
by the art students under.-
the dlreptlon of Miss Maud Con- ;
Stable of the art department.
South Shore'*
Leading Weekly
1 12th Year. No. 33
Freeport's
Official
Newspaper
FREEPORT, N.Y.)'£HU1RSDAY, JANUARY 8, 194S FIVE CENTS A COPY
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Reason shows me that. If my
happiness is desirable, and a good, .
the equal- happiness of :any other ;
person-must be equally, desirable, .
—Henry-cipal
JMartin M/ Manspcrger,
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THis^Little Message
TTfe Tune of "Jingle Be/fs"
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ven with G_ood Luck
Your Car -May .Refuse to . Go.
Ge.tl>e"Drift of Our Thought
Keqr Watrn* Why Get Shivery
W.hy Take the Risk of. Getting Caught
WJSen' We" Giv'e" Free Delivery.
(Chorus)
- Our- Bell, Ring It All the Day
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Northwiest Civics :
Asks P. I C. Probe
Of L I. Breakdown •»
Also Protests the
Police Failure to
Call Local Ambulance
The Northwest Civic Association
at its monthly meeting Monday
•night In the headquarters of Hose
Co—4, on Sunrise highway, auth-orized
J. W, Brubaker, its trans-portation
chairman, to write to
the Public Service Commission re-questing
an Investigation of the
breakdown on the Long Island
Rail Road during the record snow-fall
of Friday, Dec. 26.
Mr. Brubaker submitted the out-line
of a letter he proposed to
write. In It he questioned whether
the railroad had enough snow re-moval
equipment of the right type;
whether the most was made of the
equipment available, and whether
the performance of the personnel
was satisfactory, and if not if it
was the fault of the employees
or the management.
He asked also if the available
steam equipment was used to the
best advantage in providing emerg-ency
service when it became neces-sary
to rescue stalled trains, if
the crews -reported immediately
w|aen trains w£re halted and If the
platform forces in"l*fenn station,
Vi!||ge Finally Emerges
FrolHectic Storm Week
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All Streets Plowed Three Times
BeforflSnowfall Is Conquered
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Exccpt for emergency -regulations limiting the parking of cars
to one side of t*ie street in the business area, Freeport has about
gotten over prob.<&ly the most hectic period in its history resulting
from a snow storm. But it., took*"
strenuous and loyal work on .-the
part of the employeescof the vari-ous
Municipal Departments to bring
orcUr out of chaos in BO short a
time, much shorter than in other
villages of Nassau County.
Flatbush- -station- -arid" 'Jamaica
could not have been augmented.
Copies of the letter are to be
sent also to the Long Island Rail
Hoad and County Executive" J. Rus-sel
Sprague. •
Francois L. Ballot, chairman of
ambulance committee, com-plained
of the failure of the Free-port
police to_ call the Fulton am-bulance
In every instance where a
person was injured seriously enough
in' an accident to "require the serv-ice
of an ambulance. He explained
that Chester A. Fulton had assured
the village authorities he could
A week ago Sunday afternoon,
Harry Chuisano, acting Superin-tendant
of Highways, thought his
troubles were about over when after
24 hours of arduous work he suc-ceeded
in opening all streets fol-lowing
the 26-inc4i record snow
fall. But as subsequent events
proved his worries had just begun,
Tuesday, when the snow jsoftened
and chains on automobiles cut the
snow to the consistency of beach
sand, there we're few motorists wrjo
got through the day without being
stuck several times. Then Supt.
Chuisano had to start all over
again, and 'before he could call the
job complete every street in the
village had been plowed three
times. Men worked around the
clock Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs-day
(New Year's Day), and Friday
before it was safe to travel around'
the village without fear of being
bogged in the snow.
The,Superintendent was forced tq^
employ, .additional men to give^ the
"regular nighway^i^pioyecs arT op-portunity
to get a little rest. Much
more work than was contemplated
had .to be, done on Sunrise hlgh-but
the village will toe reim-bursed
by the State Department of
Public Works for every cent it
spends in clearing the highway.
Work clearing the openings to
drains to let . the water escape
should there be a »thaw is now In
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Edwin McKeeman, superintendent
of the Sanitation Department
loaned a bulldozer and crew to
the Highway Department for a
of an accident anywhere in the
village ~ten mEules~^ftef "receiving
a call, and then asked why the
police should run the risk of having
to wait half an hour or more for
an ambulance to arrive from the
Meadowbrook Hospital.
Mr. Ballot cited figures as to
the number of calls for the Fulton
ambulance and for the Meadow-brook
vehicle, and said Chief Elar
had explained the choice of an
ambulance was left to the doctor
who responded to -the accident call.
It was voted to again appeal to
the -Village -Board to Instruct the
police to call for the Fulton am-bulance
whenever ope is needed
at the scene of an accident-
Joseph H. Gallo, who was present,
promised to look personally into
w^rkjl_clearing the:_s_nqw_fro:m the
cinerator. Sanitation Department
employees worked all day Sunday
in an effort to catch up 'with col-lections,
held up since Christmas.
Employees of the Water Depart-ment
under Superintendent Arnold
'Yongen kept the flre hydrants
clear of snow.
Lucky Here In Ice Storm
Freeport got off lucky in the ipe
storm last Friday morning which
put electric wires In other com-munities
out of commission for
days. Clinton M. Walling, Super-intendent
of the Light Department,
reported that only one primary
line -was hit, and the current in
the area served by the line was
completly restored In 55 minutes.
This line served the entire district-north
of the railroad tracks and,
west of Long Beach ave^ north to j
the Roosevelt-line.
About 50 individuals in various
sections of the village were without
current for varying lengths of time
up to the afternoon when wires
were pulled down by falling limbs.
Fortunately for Freeport the • salt
air quickly cut the Ice off wires
and trees early In the morning
School Board to Open
Bond Bids Wednesday
Bids for the sale of $1,885,000 of
bond-T to be issued toy the Board
of Education to finance the con-struction
of the new Seaman ave.
school and the acquisition of the
site for anothe? school at South
Bayview ave., and West MerricK
rd., are to be opened next Wed-nesday
at 3:30 P.M.. at a special
meeting in the board room, Leo
F. Giblyn, the president, announced
today.
Of the total $1.710.000 is for the
construction of the Seaman ave..
building and $175,000 for the pur-chase
of the slta in 'the south-western
area. Mr. Giblyn explained
the meeting was scheduled in the
afternoon because the law requires
that bond bids be opened during
business hours.
Adult Courses
To Be Resumed
Tuesday Night
Dramatics, Dancing
Cooking Added to
List of Subjects
Business 'AA' Zone
Is Proposed for
Sunrise Highway
Board Sets Jan, 22
For Public Hearing
On Proposed District
The Village Board has called a
hearing for Thursday night, Jan. 22
on a proposal to establish a special
zoning classification to be designat- -
cd as Business "AAJ' tflft entlro
lengtlj of Sunrise : Htghway^ It Is
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now a Business ^
This would be ;; amending
-the
Zoning Ordinance-- Nov. 13$,fco pro-vide
for all restrictions -applicable
to Business "A" and other business
districts and in addition to provide
that there shaH.be:
" (1) No wares or merchandise
displayed .except within a building,
the least construction of which
shall conform to the requirements
o: the Building Code Ordinance No.
324, Art. Ill, subdivision 301, under
the following classifications:
"(a) Class I—Fireproof,
"(b) Class II—Fire Protected,
"(c) Class III—Ifpn-flreproof.
"4(24 Lunch wagons and similar
structures shall be prohibited.
(3) Proper legal advertising slg.i
Several interesting cours-s have'space shall be provided for each
been added to the adult education separate building, store or business
classes being conducted by the ''establishment. ./ ^
Board ot Education, the second | ""Said change _of stoning •*$*& *
term of--which will get under way Business ~
.next week, Clarence penner, the trlct shall
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"The clecisibn^ib limit 'parking to
one side of the business "streets
was reached at a conference: at-tended
by Mayor Cyril C. Ryan,
^ The tjflet along the north •' : taj
high' -SchooL rsAlLJje open this eldes^of
fe'ttoe
(Thursday) evening .Irom 8 to .10, easterly
o'clock for registration of students, of the VlUae;pf7l*reeprt and shall-
Police c^_^^_er ^ ^JS.ir':H«*w* :TrTavis^.^.-who
Chlel Frederick Buss.
Registration will toe continued 1 coyer an properties .alops. the said:
through Tuesday night. I Sunrise Highway as presently con-
:ie;ot&clal may ol.'ttie
jeui
has:.
motorists'were Inconvenienced the | ~CQn^ Q;class m~ o5amatl5;
action of the group was taken to
assure safe passage for flre appa-ratus,
ambulances and other vehi-cles
In case of emergency. Just
as soon as the snow Is cleaned
away the temporary restrictions"
will be removed.
Half the misery in the world
comes of want of courage to speak
and to hear thTTrulh
dumps In the vicinity of the In-' in a "spirit" of love.—H. B. "Stowc.
J. H. Gallo to Lay Last Brick
In Telephone Building Addition
ing Wednesday night.
A course that seems destined to
prove popular, is that -In; ballroom
to be" taught 'toy Arthur
_Merga_nti,_a physical training ^teachj-er
in the high school, and will
meet In the Columbus ave. school
gymnasium Tuesday nights. Couples
are required to enroll for this
class.
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Village Gets Time
For Dredging Appear ,
The VJHage Board his been given;.
the matter.
It was " voted to congratulate
Branch Rickey, jr., on his appoint-ment
as chairman of the Municipal
Park Commission.
George H. Peters, district en-gineer
of the Nassau""CoUlTty De-partment
~bf Public Yorks, gave an
Interesting talk on the plans for
tht? -development of1 the Salisbury
.golf, links Into a public park. Presi-dent
Mark Hroncich presided.
ZIPPER'S PHARMACY
OPEN ALL DAY SUNDAY
Zipper's Pharmacy, 51 South
Grove st.-, will remain open Sunday
after 2. P^L, when the other drug--
, gists in Freeport close for the day-
' Tfie .telephone .isJEreeport 8-0277.^
The last brick .In the exterior i
framework of tho $500,000 addition
to the New York Telephone Co.
Building at 120 South Grove st. is
to be laid this Thursday morning
by Trustee Joseph H. Gallo, acting
tor Mayor Cyril CrRydn. W. B*
Billmeyer, the company's manager
for Nassau County, will be on hand
with W. Sargeant Nixon, Chester
A. Pulton, Cord Vltbrock, Emll
Prenger, H. S. Koeppel and others
to witness the event.
The guests will be escorted
through the four-story, structure,
Including the original building and
addition, ' wnich will be laid out
after various .re-arrangements have
been made, as follows: First floor,
business office, cable vault and
boiler room; second, and third
floors, Central office equipment an(l
some * office space; fourth rfloor,
operating room, traffic quarters and
repair service bureau.
Mr. - Billmeyer has announced
that the company is already util-izing
a part of the addition to
make room for new central office
equipment, even though the struc-ture
itself will not be-entirely com-pleted
until summer. ,~ 4
The new equipment will be part
of the Freeport 9 central office, Mr.
Billmeyer said, and will have a
capacity for about 1,500 additional
main stations. Wh.n installation
4s completed, certain subscribers in
the Freeport 8 office will be trans-,
ferred to Freeport 9, leaving lines
available for the new customers in
Freeport 8.
"Alter the building addition Is
completed later this year," Mr. Bill-meyer
stated, "the Telephone Com-pany
will begin Installation of new
crossbar, dial central office equip-ment
which will replace all of the
Freeport 8 and 9 and Baldwin 3
manual equipment." "We expect
to be able to convert a large num-l>
flrEoJ our telephones here to dial
operation sometime In 1940," he
added.
The -addition, construction of
which began last April,-consists of
partitioned second and third floors,
.measuring 74 by -81 feet and a
complete fourth floor, B5 by 142
leet. The general contractor Is the
"White Construction Co. Voorhecs,
Walker. Foley and Smith are the
architects.
budgeting for brides and prospec-tive
brides, is to be held Tuesday
nights and there will be a course
on Selection of Books for Adults
especially for persons interested in
becoming librarians. Sessions will
be held Wednesday nights In the
Memorial Library.
Dr. John Finnesy, superintendent
of schools In Tuckahoe. N. Y., Is
to return to Freeport to conduct
a Bourse In Child Psychology on
Tuesday nights.
The adult band which has been
meeting Tuesday nights will have
its practice sessions Thursday
nights beginning with the new
term.
All the courses which were con-ducted
during the fall term are
•to be resumed including one In
Men's Physical Fitness which meets
Thursday nights In the Columbus
ave. school.
Posts Aid Veterans
To File Bonus Blanks
Members of "William Clinton Story
Post, A.L., and Henry Theodore
ilbhr -Post, V.F.W., are assisting
veterans to prepare their New York
State bonus applications.
The ' Legion Dugout on 'Sunrise
Highway and the V.F.W. "Clubhouse
on North Columbus ave.. are to be
kept open nightly tor the benefit
of those desiring aid in filling In
26 in which to file An appeal from -
•the decision of the District Army .
Engineers In disapproving of the
application for Fedenal funds with
which to dredge Mllburn and Swift
Greeks -and-adjaoent-Wa"CeTS,-Leoii^:±z
ard D. B. Smith informed the mem-bers
of the Atlantic South Civic
Association at the monthly meet-ng
Monday night in Junior Order
Hall. He read a letter from Col.
B. L. Dunn, the district engineer,
announcing this fact.
The association went on record
as commending the municipal de-partments
responsible for the clear-
Ing of the streets of snow follow-ing
the recent storm, on the way
they had handled the difficult task.
President P. Russell Meyer said
his duties had taken him into
numerous other communities and
nowhere else was the Job done
so quickly and efficiently as here la
Freeport.
Mrs. Eleanor Schmidt was named
chairman of the membership com-mittee.
President Mey.r was auth-orized
to appoint a committee to
select the chairmen of other stand-ing
committees.
Edwin McKeeman, superlnt.ndent
of the Department of Sanitation,
outlined the duties of -the various.
divisions of the department.
Judge Johnson's Salary
Fixed at $4,000 a
The Village Boaia at #-special
meeting on New Year's, .eye^jaxed^
the- salary of Village Magistrate,
Hllbert R. Johnson at $4,000 Ji year
for the three-year, tirm,,starting
the "blanks. > • Jan. 1, and ending, Jan. 1, 1952;--
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