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THE L E A D E R /-..
.THURSDAY. AIK^OTT.1952
Due to Illness DeLEON'S
must Sell Out. Outfit entire
family. SAVE up to 50%.
for additional SAVING ----- with
all purchases of over $25.00 you
can select FREE - $5.00 worth of
unseasonal merchandise.
Floors Stocked to Capacity,
Sacrificed Regardless of
Wholesale cost.
intfre Family, such as Work Clothes, Under-en's
Teen-aqe Wear, etc., too numerous to
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Men's and Boys
JACKETS:
MACK1NAS
Save from
25% to 50%
Beg. Prices 12-39 to 24.98
BOY'S SHIRTS
Flannel, Broadcloth and
Cowboy Shirts
SALE
$1.50
Reg. Prices to »2.9fi
ONSAIJE $||.00to$ ^wv
SOYS
Men's and Boy's
PANTS-and SLACKS
Expertly Tailored
Save up to 50%
Gabardines, Corduroys,
MEN'S WORK PANTS
.00 up
Boy's
JERSEY SHIRTS
Beautiful New Designs
.Reg. Priced to $1.98
BOY'S SWEATERS
Small - Medium - Large
Reg. Priced to $2.96
Ladies
RAYON PANTIES
Keg. Priced at 49c
SALE
2 for $1J
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SALE
$150
c
Good Selection
SNOW - SUITS
and Legp;iu£ Sets
Tots — Boys — Girls
•25% to 50% Off
Hats to Match—Free!
$£89.00 Up
Worth More than Double
S A L E
3 lor $1.00
Reg. Prices $16.98 to $29.98
Sizes 8 yrs. to 20-years
ON SALE
X) up
Men's Pants — '$<*".00 up
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BROADCLOTH
& COTTON FLANNEL
SHIRTS
Reg. Prices $2.98 to $3.98
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SALE -50 up
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Famous Make Children's
PAJAMAS - SLEEPERS
Reg. Priced to 82.98
Well-Known Brands
Children's Underwear
SHORTS and SHIRTS
Reg.; Priced to $1.49
SALE
$158
SALE
2 for $1.00
Children's Rayon
And Wash Dresses
Complete Assortment
Sizes 2-6 and 7-16
Reg. Prices $2.98 to $7-9?
ON SALE i
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17th Year, No. 14 FREEPORT, .N. Y.* THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1952 39 FIVE CENtS PER
PoHce Boys' Member
Helps Chief Arrest
Marijuana Peddler
Romeika Directs Lad
To Pass Marked Bill;
Man Has Prison Record
Austin Chervino, 41, of 56 Archer
street, is awaiting the action of the
Grand Jury on a charge of selling
and possessing marijuana cigarettes
because William Mahoney, a 14-
year-old member of the - Freeport
Police Boys' Club, obtained the ev-idence
on which the charge is based
acting on instructions of Patrol-man
Joseph Romeika, the P.B.C.
director. He waived examination
when arraigned before District
Court Judge Cecil Brown in Mln-eola.
According to Patrolman (Romei-
-ka, Chervino approached the lad,
Sunday, August 3, In the vicinity of
Randall Park and offered to sell
Training At Quantico
:£*
him the cigarettes.
director had
Recalling that
advised P-B.C.
members to be on the lookout, for
dope peddlers, Mahoney said he
had no money, Romeika added, and
made an engagement 'to meet him
the following Wednesday.
However, on Tuesday, August 5,
Patrolman 'Romeika received a call
in a woman's voice advising him
his young sleuth, who has been a
IPJB.C. member for [two years, want-ed
to see him at Randall Park im-mediately.
Romeika Tells. Story
" "I arrived at' Randall Park at
1:115 pjn.," Patrolman Romeika
added, "and Bill told me a man
wanted to sell him marijuana cig-arettes.
I gave the lad a $5-bill
marked 'JlR.,' and the date 8-5-52,
and had him mark .the same with
his initials and date.
-*We drove 'to South Grove street
and Woodcleft avenue, where we
spotted, the defendant walking
south on the east side of Wood-cleft
avenue. Bill approached him
and said he had $5 .and would buy
the cigarettes.
""Defendant asked Mahoney,
"Where did you get the money so
quick?'
"He replied he obtained it" from
his motlier in the Randall apart-ments
on South Ocean avenue, op-j
(Continued on page 10)
ROBERT L. SHATTER
Marine Sergeant Robert L. Shaf-ter
a member of the Marine Corps
Platoon Leaders Class at George- i
School Tax Rate Up
8 Cents to $2.44 in
District 9, Freeport
Roosevelt Levy Rises
24 Cents to $2.69 as
Baldwin Awaits Figure
The tax rate for the fiscal year
1952-53 for\he Freeport School Dis-trict
9, has been fixed at $2.44 for
each $100 of assessed valuation, an
increase of 8 cents over 'the year
just closed, "Leo F. Giblyn, presi-dent
of the Board of Education,
announced this week. The final fig-ure
is one point less than was es-timinated
at the time 6f the annual
school meeting in May when the
gross budget of $1,873,465 was
adopted. This is due to the increase
of $2,071,337 in the assessed valua-tion
for the district..
The assessed valuation for 1951-
52 totaled $47.642,733, while that
fQT nfiw scnool year nag
town University, recently arrived at j i71creased lo $49,714,070, which, bas-
Quali'tico, Va., for his final training,^
course. Upon graduation from col-lege,
..he will receive a commission
in the Marine Corps. Shafter is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Ruland R.
Shafter, 150 N. Long Beach avenue.
Freeport's 1U;V.Z Dollar Day was the "most t e r r i f i c ' 1 in the
history of the village, in the opinion of Milton II. Fre.ilich,
chairman of the Merchants' Division of the KVeopbrt Chamber of
Commeivt1. lie e.Hliinated thin1 127 p a r t i c i p a t i n g merchants did a
combined business of $750,000 on Thnrsday, with excellent sales
following on Friday and Saturday during which the low prices
offered on Dollar Day were continued.
Mr. Preilich pointed out the total
of 127 participating merchants ex-ceeded
by 40 per cent 'the number
that ever co-operated in the annual
summer sale before, which he said
is an indication of the improvement
in the relationship among the
Republicans Plan Outing
At Town Park Saturday
The annual outing of-the Freeport
Republican Club will be held Satur-day
at the West Beach, Point Ix>ak-out,
Town Park. A" card of athletic
events will feature the day's pro-gram.
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^Members and guests are to assem-ble
at Ocean and Broolclyn avenues
at 11 o'clock. For those who have no
cars of their own, a bus is to be pro-vided
to convey them to the scene
of activities.
Picnickers are expected to supply
their own lunches, but refreshments,
including hot dogs, ice cream, soda,
coffee and other beverages, will be
served by the club.
A parldng''ticfcet will be issued for
each car entitling the owner to free
parting'at ;$ie park. George Hesser
is chairman of the outing committee
Julius L. Birgenthal is the club pres-ident.
. A $500 -Defense Bond will be dis-posed
of in connection with the
outing as a means' of raising the
annual campaign funds of the club
Goldschmidt Attends
Conference at Yale
President of CKamber
Says Institute Helpful
In Planning Program
Robert O. Goldschmidt, President
of the Freeport Chamber of Com-merce,
was the only Preident from
Long Island arid one of six from New
York Qtate, who attended the recent
conference of Chamber Presidents at
Northeastern Institute, Yale Uni-versity.
Chamber 'Presidents from
Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Mass-achusetts,
New Hampshire, New Jer-sey
and Pennsylvania were repre-sented.
The conference was sponsored by
Yale University, The Chamber of
Commerce of the United States and
state associations of Chamber Ex-ecutives.
This is the seventh year
that the Northeastern Institute for
Commercial and Trade Organization
Executives has been held at Yale.
Donald G. McLaren, Executive Sec-retary
of the Freeport Chamber of
Commerce, is a graduate of the In-stitute.
"This_conference gave me a new
and enlarged concept and vision of
what the Chamber of Commerce
movement is,"-Mr. Goldschmidt said,
n reporting his general .reaction to
the Yale sessions. I"n particular, It
has given me a much better idea of
(Continued on page 3)
en the net budget, of $1,209,564,
•the amount to be raised by taxation,
^results in the $2.44 tax rate.
In the Roosevelt School District
which includes part of the north-eastern
area of Freeport, the tax
rale Is to be $2.60 per $100 assessed
valuation, as compared with $2.45
for the year Just ended. The as-sessed
valuation is $14,154,137, an
increase of $543,735 over the $13,
610,402 for 1951-52. The net budget
totals $379,753.50.
The Baldwin Board of Education
is to meet tonight to~Tix the tax
rate for the district which takes in
a large section of northwest Free-port.
The assessed valuation for the
district is $41,598,550.
THE CANNON PHARMACY
OPEN ALL DAT SUNDAY
'The Cannon Pharmacy, 6 South
Main street, -will remain open. Sun
day after the other drug stores In
.•Freeport are closed at 2 o'clock,
telephone Is FReeport 8-0041.
East Nassau Section
To Celebrate Birthday
The East Nassau Section, Nation-al
Council of Jewish Women, will'
observe its third birthday and cele-brate
on the lawn of Mrs. Harry
Diamond, 17 Alice Avenue, -Merrick,
Wednesday afternoon, August 20, at
1:30 o'clock. Games will be ^-played
and prizes awarded. Proceeds of
the event will go to the organiza-tion's
welfare fund. Refreshments
will be served."
Mrs. Milton Lieberman of Mer-rick
is chairman, assisted by Mrs.
Joseph Nassau and Mrs. Robert,
Euckerman.
Grant Asks Variance
For Its New Store
Company Asks Omission
Of Five-Foot Setback
Along Sunrise Highway
The W. T. Grant Co.. 10 West
33d stree^, Manhattan,' has applied
to -the Zoning -Board of Appeals
for a variance from section 21, sub-division
2 of the Municipal Zoning
Ordinance to permit the omission
from the required five-foot front
yard on Sunrise Highway on- a
building to be erected at -47-49-51
South -Main street, with other en-trances
on Sunrise Highway and
Newton boulevard.
A hearing on >ih« application has
been called for Wednesday night
at 8:30 o'clock in the Municipal
Building with iF. Gordon Edwards,
chairman of the board, presiding.
If the desired permission is
granted, the building to be erected
will join the Sunrise Storage prem-ises,
which, having been built be-fore
the present zoning ordinance
was adopted, has no five-foot set-back.
Also if the application is ap-proved,
work of demolishing the
former Temple of Music, Maler's
Bakery and the Rappaport & Eller,
Inc., stores on Main street, is ex-pected
to be started by September
1, and const/ruction of the new
Grant store should be gotten under
way early in October.
A similar application has been
filed by Mrs. Elizabeth E. Nolan,
302 Wallace street, for property at
111 West Sunrise_High.way_.where
the 'Nolan & Glacken building is
to-.-be constructed.
store keepers of the village.
He gave credit lo Donald J. Mc-
Laren, new executive secretary _ of
the Chamber of Commerce, and his
associates as executives of the -Mer-chants'
Division.
He spoke of the success of opera-ting
free buses from the .three near-.
est central points to Free port for
the three days. These were West-bury.
AmltyvlUe and Farmingdale.
He -added thatt -though some- mis- l
.takes were made, the committee
would taHe advat^vge of .tbett)L.;in ,
planning, for next y fiof/s poll^r I>ay^=-
One of these - will— probably-je
start'lD\ittfici£rng "6he"salfe'^'lh' out-lying
villages earlier so the shop-pers
can plan in advance to get to
Freepor.fc to take advantage of them.
Some individual merchants re-ported
increasing their sales for the
day. Cord Viebrock said he had
23 persons employed lii his Lunch-eonette
on Thursday, twice the
usual number and reported he did
not have a dull moment from 11 to
3 o'clock. Business continued about
16 per cent above the average on
•Friday and Saturday, he added.
Frank Weisenfeld, proprietor of
Frank's Jewelry, complimented the
Dollar Day committee on "its splen-did
Job, especially -the free bus ser-vice—
to Westbury, Acni-tyville and
Farpingdale, and the newspaper
advertising.
Besides-, chairman Freilich those
who had a^arge part in making a
Freeport Theatre Plans
Bathing Beauty Contest
A bathing beauty contest to select
(1Miss Freeport" is to be staged at
Century's Freeport Theatre Thurs-day
night at 8:15 o'clock, Manager
Leonard W. Freund announced to-day.
Girls from all over Nassau
County have entered the contest
and the finalists are expected to
give the judges a difficult time in
reaching at decision.
The winner of the competition will
be awarded an attractive prize by
Joseph Goldbkvbt of Forest Jewelers.
The regular "movie'* program will
be shown during the evening. The
feature pictures ore the FJ3J. fUm
"Walk East on Beacon" starring
George Murphy, F-inlay Cunrie and
Virginia Gilmbre and "Paula" with
Ix>retta Young, Alexander Knox and
Kent Smith as the stars.
Unity Party's Annual Picnic
At Point Lookout August 23
Invitations to the annual picnic and outing of the Unity
Party of Freeport were mailed out this week by Cord Viebrock
and Walter Miranda, chairman and co-chairman respectively of
the Outing Committee. The invitation reads as follows, and a
clipping from The Leader may be used as an invitation.
Dear Neighbor and Friend:
success of tw~3ay included Philip
Markowitz of Waverly Decorations,
JSck Green o^-^Carrol Green's.;
Joseph Goldblatt of (Forest Jew-elers,
Milton Jacobson of Town
Shop, Ixmis G\rant of Lynn's Dress-espWarren
-Samet of"Samet*s; Bur-ton
Schilling of the Burton Dress
Shop, Theodore Spitzler and Robert
O. Goldschmidt, president of the
Chamber of Commerce.
Dr. OVA. Newton and the officers
of the Unity Party of Freeport ex-tend
to you, your family and friends,
a cordial invitation to be their guest
at the Annual Outing to be Jield
Saturday, August 23, 1952, at Point
Lookout TOwn Beach Park, from 11
. on, to enjoy'with, them a day
of sunshine, entertainment; refresh-ments,
and games for both adulte
and children.
Your local District Captains and
Officers of the Unity Party will be
on hand to greet you. Our good
Mayor, (Bob Doxsee, and hJs Board
of Trustees, together with other
leaders Sn our local-community af-faira
will welcome this opportunity
to meet with their neighbors and
friends.
[Pood, Ice cream, soft drinks and
coffee will be provided by the Re-freshment
Committee. Just fill out
the attached Refreshment coupon
and present H to a member of the
committee in charge at the picnic.
Come and bring a neighbor and
his family to enjoy a gala day.
Games for the children and events
for grown ups too will be held. Enter
Bank Boards Approve
Consolidation Agreement
The Agreement of Consolidation
between the -Peoples National IBftnfr
of 'Lynbrook and The Meadow Brook
National iBank of Freeport has been
executed by the 'Boards of Directors
of Both Banks at meetings held this
week.
Each Board has called a special
into the spirit of the occasion and 'j meeting of stockholders to ratify the
win your share of the excellent
prises selected by the Special Events
Committee, under the 'able leader-ship
of our old friends Warren Mil-lard,
(Mrs. Ralph Marshall and Jack
Mulldowney. Special entertainment
will be provided to round out the
day.
You may enter the Park free of
charge by 'presenting the attached
(Continued on Page 13)"
agreement. The Meadow Brook Nat-ional
Bank stockholders meeting will
be held on September 23, 1962 at
3:30 F.M. The stockholders of the
Peoples National Bank of Lynbrook;
will meeet on September 24, 1052 at-
3:30 (P.M. Two-ttUrds of the stock-;
holders of both banks must ratify
and approve the Consolidation
Agreement before it will become
effective.
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