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THE I E A D E R .THURSDAY, -FEBRUARY• 21,; 1952
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16th Year, No. 41 FREEPORT, N. Y., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1952 FIVE CENTS BER COPY
Freeport Bank Given
Permission to Raise
Capital to $350,000
10,000 Shares Offered
Are Over-Subscribed;
Preferred Stock Retired
W. Sargeant Nixon, cashier of
the Freeport Bank, announced this
week that the State Banking De-partment
has approved the bank's
•plans to increase its capital stock
from 25,000 shares, par value $10,
to 35,000 shares with the same par
value. This will increase the bank's
capital from $250,000 to $350,000.
10,000 -additional shares of
stock with a par value of $10 per
share will be sold for $16 a share,
and will have a book value of $20
a share, Mr. Nixon said. The pre-mium
of $5 a share will increase the
bank's surplus from $210,000 to
$260,000. The proceeds 'Of the sale
of stock will enable to'bank to're-tire
its 50,000 shares of preferred
Augie Johnson Retires Again;
Plans To Start Third Career
Freeport Man Has Been
In Comptroller's Office
Since January 1, 1931
A popular old-time resident of
Freeport is winding up his second
career tomorrow and proposes to
loaf a couple of months before em-barking
upon his third.
August V. Johnson of 16 Russell
place, better known as "Augie" Is
retiring frm the County Comptrol-ler's
office as of February 29, 1952,
after working for the County for 21
years and one month. Recently Mr.
Johnson has been a supervising au-ditor
for the Comptroller's office,
engaged in making audits of var-ious
County departments and agen-cies
as assigned by his superior,
County C o m p t r o l l e r Theodore
"Dory" Bedell, Jr., also-a Freeporter.
Mr. Johnson is retiring because he
has reached the County's retirement
age of 70.
stock, par value $3 per share, which) "Angle's first career was more col-is
held by the Reconstruction Fi-nance
Corporation.
The Freeport Bank Issued" its pre-ferred
stock in 1934, (the year after
the bank holiday during the econo-mic
depression of the "Thirties. The
original issue of $220,000 has been
reduced to the $150,000 which will
4>e retired in connection with the
Bale oNaddltkinal common stock in
the bank.
Mr. Nixon said the issue of 10,000
new shares is already over-sub-
' scribed. It has been handled by the
bank itself and will result-in an in-crease
In the stockholders of the
banK from a/bout 150 to 200". Mr.
Nixon.said,stotkliolders of the bonk .tor
rtharHes- -arid* that 'attbuV"4,000
to new stockholders. said
that if. any Freeport resident who
has not subscribed seeks to buy a
small f>lock of-the stock he can
still do so. This will be accomplished
,by apportioning the shares available
among local people wha.seek them.
One of .the benefits the 'bank hopes
to flccbmpUSftx by increasing its cap-ital,
Mr. Nbcon said, is to interest
more Freeport residents in the bank
as an: investment.
The bank ha^been paying a 6 per
lit cent' annual dlvideht on the par
value of its stock. There was also
a stock dividend in 1947.
Red Cross Campaign
Personnel Announced
Tv/o High^SchooI Girls
District Co-CEairmen;
Village Goal $11,000
Maura Battin, ifrand Joan Sager-man,
16, high school girls, are co-chairmen
of District "41>.ia..the an-
Freeport Red Cross Fund rais-
Ing-Gaanpaign which will get under-way
on Saturday. Mothers of both
girls have long been active in Red
Cross work.
Mrs. Harold W. Battin, 391 Penn-sylvania
avenue, is chairman of the
.. Freeport Red Cross Branch and has
served both the local branch and
the Nassau County Chapter in many
capacities,. Mrs. Samuel Sagerman,
"368 Penhsslvania avenue, has done
considerable statff work for the or-ganization.
Maura and Joan have received a 1 staff of 21 women to assist in con-ducting
a house-to-house canvass
in the district starting Saturday
TCJpntiriued on Page 4) AUGIE V. JOHNSON
V.F.W. Paper Collection
Scheduled for Sunday
Another month has rolled around
and on Sunday members ~of Henry
Theodore Mohr Post, V.F.W., will
again collect waste paper and other
materials to be sold for the bene-fit
of its welfare, fund, Commander
S. Raymond Strauss announced to-day.
Paper should be tied In bundles
weighing about 15 pounds each, and
left at 'the curb before 9 o'clock
when the veterans will start bhetr
rounds of th village.
Cozzens Testimonial
Draws Crowd of 250
Veteran Vamp Praised
As Real American By
Mayor and Many Others
Walter B. Cozzens, for 58 years
as member of the Freeport Fire
Department was lauded as being a
real American <by Mayor Robert L.
dinner
Northwest President
ies to Editorial
On Irresponsible Talk
Van Baar Brown Holds
Village Officials i^ax
On Expressway Matter
Von Ba'ar Brown, president of the
iNorthwest Civic Association, de-fends"
attacks on the village admin-istration,
made at the last meeting
of the Association, where one mem-ber
proposed that Mayor Robert L.
Doxsee and the Board of Trustees
be impeached, in a letter sent to
t,he editor of The Leader this" week
by registered mail.
Mr. Brown's letter replies to "The
Lender's editorial of last week which
Look the stand that .Mayor Doxsee
and the Village Board could not be
held responsible for 'action taken by
lihe County officials. The Leader edi-toriai
declared opponent-sol the Mil -
burn Creek route for the proposed
Freeport-Roslyn Expressway were
traounn faa"lrd. that such takir
Decker Smith, Dayman, Dies;
Son Of Famous 'Caf>tain Abe'
Mervin K-, more familiarly known an Decker Smith, almost
a life-long dayman, 83 Raynor street, died Saturday affer a
long illness. The Rev. A. CJordon MacRury, pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church, officiated at funeral services conducted
in the Parlors of Chester -A. Pulton & Son, 49 West Merrick road,
Tuesday afternoon with burial following'in Greenfield Come-
Doxsee and others at the
given In his honor Thursda
in .the South Shore Yacht Club.1, ., .. ... ... »,,„„ „,„„
More than 250 firemen, public of- peaching the village fathws was
ficiaLs, civic leaders and friends at- J;?150!? „ :e* 4 F „» „ ,. !»**„„
tended the banquet. I The full-text of Mr,Browns letter
Sheriff H. Alfred Vollmer. a mem- ;?!, s'
ber of Engine Co. 1, officiated a$ I Editor, .N- ortthhiwmfecs.t
TL ea^der:
toastmer. Chief Julius C. Jacob pre- f President of the
sented a purse of approximately ?lvic Association I feel tha-t your
$500 to the guest of honor who also lead editorial in last weeks Leader
received a diamond -studded service re3Iu ^th?isn,k * y*o au^ hswaveer- p.l aced. .t.h e w_o r.ds
The Rev. Reginald H. Scott, rec- "unfair" and "irresponsible" on the
wrong ; group. •
Mr- itottiat
a'son- of the late Oapt. Abe i Smith,
who maintained the old oyster
house on Hianse avenue, where the
baymen and numerous prominent
residents of Freeport used to gather
to discuss old times. Yearly on his
birthday. February 27, Capt. Smith
gave a party in the old building at
which all types of fish dishes were
served.
Until pollution of the local waters
forced discontinuance of the oyster
business, father and son engaged in
.tttjfc industry,_At one. time Freeport
was the"- center of a large oyster
business, two and tihree car loads of
the bivalves being shipped out of
here by train dally in addition to
those which were, carted to the city
by trucks. Until a heart atttack
forced him to discontinue active
work, Decker Smith conducted the
Decker Bait Station on Swift Creek,
is still being-operated for the family.
Named for Family Boat
Mr. Smith got his nick name of
Decker "early, in life and many
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Krowl Elected Head
OF Departmental .Unit
At the annual meeting of -the:
Freeport Highway and Water De-partment
Employees Association
neld last Friday in the Municipal
Oarage, Harry Krowl, of the High-way
department, was elected -to
succeed Michael " Venisko as presi-dent.
The rest of the staff comprises
R^,lph Raynor, Water Department,
recording secretary; John Almeyd'a,
Highway, financial secretary; Pat-rick
Cbniniglex, Water, treasurer,
and John CVang'cmi, Sewer, ssrge-morning.
Mrs- Marion Banker, Village
Campaign Chairman to-day an-nounced
the personnel of the or-g&
nizatlon which will conduct a
to raise $11,000 in 'Free-and
$1,000 . in Roosevelt,
•which, constitute the local Bed Cross
Branch. A. E. Young, of the Meadow
National 'Bank, Freeport
office, Is treasurer, Julius L. Birgen-chairman
of advance gifts
and Russell E. Hotaling of clubs and
organizations.
District captains have been named
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•Plans were gotten under way for
the annual outing to be held in
June.
Lenten Season Opened
At Our Holy Redeemer
Lent was ushered in yesterday in
Our Holy Redeemer R£J. Church
•with the distribution .of ashes at
three masses, the 7, 8:15 and 9
o'clock, a service for children' at 3
o'clock and one for adults at 8
•o'clock at night.
Regulations for the penitential
season were~ announced at the
masses last Sunday. Lenten devo-tions
of the Stations of the Cross
are to be held each.-Friday night at
8 o'clock arid Sunday at 5.
"GirT^ou^ljeaclew-"'" "*7 7-
Receive Service Pins
Olrl Scout leaders in Freeport
received service pins at the monthly
meeting of the Freeport Town Coin-mi'Otee
in the home of Mrs. Enho
Harger. 104 Lillian avenue. Mrs.
John Malarick made the presenta-tion.
Mrs. W. Douglas Maihewson
awarded a 15-year pin, Mrs. P.
George Le*ch and Mrs. Harger, 10-
year pins7' ana""Mrs. Wesley Min-nerly.
the local chairman; Mrs.-Lea*
Study, Mrs. Eugene Sullivan, Mrs.
William Buck, Mrs. Cornelius O'-
Keeffe, Mrs. Malarick and Miss
Naomi Lewis, 5-year pins. Mrs. Min-nerly
presented the pin to Mrs.
Malarick.
Mrs. Lerch, 36 West Dean street,
Juliet/te Low chairman, entertained
the chairmen of the various inter-mediate
and Brownie troops-at-her
home at a "Thinking Day" party.
The same girls are to attend a lun-cheon
in the Stevens Steak House,
Baldwin, on Wednesday,* "April 16.
tor of the P,E. Church of the Trans- wrong ; group.
figuration- and - -- l- Dd
partment, gave the invocation. Sup- Vup*° ag°
intendent-ol Sctoools^jfim .-W,,r>oddVaTltl Village^ Board professed ignore.-
led a <toast wishing Mr. Obziens good ance of
v.the existence ol plans- (which,
health and happiness for many v. must have taken county 6 en-ears*.
ce- eimr-itiralce.'^-.oito-.- -
ton Corners, president of (the New <fch(J proposed Expressway? Ts this
York State Fire Chiefs' Association M*61"* responsible?
and a member of the Division df 2- Did, you know, Mr. Kditor that
Doxsee credited the guest of honor
with possessing the qualities of the
American pioneers ,a type of people
who are rapidly dying out.
Village Trustees Leonard D. B.
Smith, Sewards J. Baker and Cord
Viebrock added their commenda-tions
and Police Chief Peter. Elar
said Mr. Cozzens was special police-
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Safety of the State, spoke. Mayor onlv flfter one of our Northwest
Bruce M. Cook Joins
Tufts Air Force Unit
Bruce M. Cook", son of Mr. and
Mrs. William Cook of 111 Center
street. Is a member of the Air Force
ROTC unit at Tufts College, Med-ford,
Mass, where he is a frsehman
in the_Scho'ol of Liberal Arts.
Cook was graduated from. Free-port
High School in 1951. He was
a member of the Honor Societ-y and
on the business publications staff.
Leaders in March of Dimes Benefit
Earl Faber, master of ceremonies, and Allan 'flyman, chairman of
Freeport'a March of Dimes, smile as they view prospects for fall house
at Freeport Theatre Benefit Show Tuesday, March 4, as indicated by
sale of tickets. . ' —Bagatelle Photo
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Rotary Hears Georgi
On Drug Preparation
Chemist Tells of Care
Taken in Compounding
Medicine for Public
Paul Georgi, chemist for E. R.
Squibb & Sons, manufacturing drug-gists,
and a amember of the Rotary
Club of Freeport, told of the care
that .la taken In the compounding of
every product in a talk to his fel-low
Rotarlans Thursday night tn
the Elks clubhouse. .-He cited- In
detail the tests that are yiven as
the product passes through "the var-ious
steps to make sure that H is
perfec ln_Hs final stage.
~ "The activity of potent -drugs de-r——
pends upon the presence of power- *
ful constituents, usually present in.
smalLJbut naturally varying quan-tity,"
he...sald. "Sometimes the po^
tency-can be determined by chemical
Ineaiis by separating—very carefully
and completely the aotive_ consti-tuents
from a given quaintly of the
leaf, root, bark or other part of
the plant used, and measuring or
weighing the amount obtained.
"In other cases, where no chemical
means are available for measuring
the quantity, of active constituents
present, as, for instance, in 'the
case of digitalis leaves, biological
assay methods have to be used.
These depend -upon measuring the
activity by administering the drug
In carefully graduated doeses to *
test animals. It is obvious that the
potency or strength of drugs, as
well as preparations prepared there- '
from, must be accurately known,
hence all products of this nature
are assayed by one of these means."
Mr. Georgi was presented by Pro-gram
Chairman Walter J. Miranda
and President Theodore R. Lang
presided.
RABEN'S PHARMACY
OPEN All* DAY SUNDAY
Ra/ben'g Pharmacy, 152, South
Main street, will remain op^n Sun-day
after ,the other druggists in
Freeport close at 2 p.m. The £?\e-phone
Is PReeport,8-7777.
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