1941-09-18

              The Leader, September 1 1 , 1 94 1
RomaneHi
150 Head I
Annual Mr?. Anna Romanelli
Instated as president of tl?e
More than 150 members 01 the
•cr:^
Instruction Planned
Also In Water Safety—
Tliat of Classes
A number of first aid and
watet safety course* to be given
by the NasSSU County Red Cross
Chapter were announced this
week. Information concerning
the courses can be obtained by
writing to Dr. Harry S. Loomer,
121 Sunrise highway or telephon-ing
Freeport 8899,
Those fn charge of the courses
are Dr. J. C. Fellcetti, chairman
of first aid; F. Howard Covey
chairman of water safety; Elvln
N. Edwards, chairman of accident
prevention; Henry Hartmenn, uT
rector, and C. Maury DeGhuee
assistant director, and Isabel
Roach, secretary, of these three
divisions.
A list of the proposed courses
Flrat AM Conrsea
JanTbr First Aid Course — 15
hours of Instruction designed for
boys and girls bet wen the ages
nf 12 and 17 or for those under
"12 whgThave completed the sixth
f?racfe requirements In public
school.
Standard First Aid Course — a
minimum -of 20 hours of instruc-tion
given over a .period of 10
weeks, one lesson a week, 2 hours
^ach' session. Requirements ' for
eligibility — applicants mult be 17
'/ears of a'ge or have completed
+he second year requirements for
high school. The course
?ove"rs Instruction In anatomy and
physiology, care of wounds, con-
+r/)l of bleeding, care of burns,
head Injuries, Internal Injuries;
nbisons taken internally and com-emergenc4?
sr Time la also de-jt*
T"ban Aa%ln%,
rea, artificial
A- transport a,t Iph" 'of "t in
— ThrdugKout the" Course accident
Prevention is stressed; On satis-factory
completion of the course
ft certificate is issued and recipi-
._ .cot is qualified to give Intelli-gent
first aid care In any type of
pmergency.
.:. Advanced First Aid Course—10
hour? of instruction. To be ellgl-
Me for this course applicants
must have successfully completed
Standard course within a rea-sonable
time. This course con-
Msts almost entirely of practical
;1 problems dealing wltK"~accIclen'ts
that may occur. It Is of great
"alue to fire and police depart-iments,
rescue squads and groups
'("hat will work together. It 16 also
recommended for Motor Corps
typrk.
%—Water iSafety_jCourses
The Red Cross offers four
Intcrmc-
George Murphy might have
been a broker on Wall Street with
a seat on the Exchange —but he
thinks he did better. He's a lead-
Ing man in motion pictures and
right npw*,^ ,PN%1"S opposite
Ginger Aogers 'in KKO Radio's
"Tom, Dick .and Harry," a gay
?5Hia»tlc comedy In which Alan
.Marshal and Burgess Meredith
essay the other top male roles
which soon will be shown at the
Freeport Theatre.
"I get: "to ""looking around at
those brokers and I see the low
quotations on the price of Ex-change
seats," he explains, "and
I'm glad .1 learned how to do on
five hours sleep. And how to live
seven days a week.
"I was just, out of college when
the father of a classmate called
me down to Wall Street. He of-fered
to put up half the money
to buy me a seat on tho-Ex*
change. But there was a catch In
it. I was told I had to learn the
brokerage business first—and the
place to start was as a runner.
For a year I ran from house to
house and bank to bank. Trouble
was with the salary system. Run-ners
were .paid a weekly_ wage
thai could last only* until Thurs-day.
TRey all starved Friday and
p#Jf of Saturday, by which time
Tney were so weak they had no
fUh on week-ends. ,
"I- couldn't see that, so I said
no thanks' to the Exchange seat
dangled before me and went Into
s"how business.
"I still kn.ow a lot of brokers
—and I still think I'm right. They
lead a terrible life the»6''days."
Exempts*
To Conduct (luting
Plana for an outing a*t pelmont
Cake State Park were .made at a
meeting of the Women's Auxiliary
of the Freeport Exempt Firemen's
ABsoclation Tuesday night In the
Exempt's hall on North Long
Beach nve. Mrs. Frank D. Horn-beck,
the president presided.
Bridge was played following the
Walker Is Elected
New Commander Of
Poat—Hi» Staff
...County Commander. Sherman
Moreland, jr., of Rockville Centre',
will install the 1941-42 officers of
William Clinton Storey Post,
342, A.L., on Friday night, Oct.
17, w'th appropriate ceremonies
In the Dugout, it was announced |
following the annual meeting last'
Friday night.
At that time Klchard P. Walk-er
was advanced from First Vice-commander
to Commander to
succeed James T. Williams. Mr.
Walker was 111 at his home, so
on motion of Past Commander C.
Howard Larsen, a telegram ad-vising?
him- of his election and
wishing him a speedy recovery
was sent to him. ;
The rest of the slate as recom-mended
by the nominating com-mittee
was elected, the record-
Ing adjutant casting the ballot
for, each officer. It follows:
Davis, first vice-com-mander;
W. W. Sutton, second
Freeport Teachers Association at-tended
their annual fall outing at
the Nassau Shores Country Club,
Massapequa, last Friday. During
the afternoon the teachers enjoy-ed
golf, tennis, swimming and
bridge, after which dinner was
served, William Tirrell, presi-dent
of the group, presided <%s
toastmaster. " .,;,
A group of high school teachers
furnished a musical program,
Robert Tavls, ^Walter Joy, J.
Mayhard Wettlaufer and Cecil
Mahood, constituted a vocal
quartet, while -Mr. Tavls sang
several baritone solos and Mr.
Joy played an accordion.
Guests at the dinner included
Leo F. GIblyn, president of the
Board of Education; Clifton B.
Smith, vice-president; Harold
Pearson, a member of the board,
and his 'wife, and Supt. and Mrs.
John W. Dodd. New members of
the teaching staff were intro-duced..
On the Committee In charge
with president Tirrell were Miss
Gertrude Oldach, Chapln Moger
and George Hollander.
buBlnesa meeting being
awarded to Mfe, Hyman Schloss,
.Mrs. Charles Epplei Mrs. Bertha
Randall, Mrs. peorge Raynor and
'Mrs/Flora Dixoh. r
In addition to Mra. Hornbeck,
the officers are Mrs. Burford
Southard, vice-president; Mrs.
Ross IKeega'ni' treasurer; Mrs.
Dixon, recording - neoretary;.. and
'Mrs. Silken, financial secretary.
nners,
Advanced
..'s ability. 14 covers instruc-in
stroke mechanlcs,*floating,
__ dll%K32Rter and simple diving;
^•j with some time ^devoted to per"
ronal safety.
Junior Water Safety—nges 12
17—15 hours of instruction in
Ing victim, teaching methods of
releasing holds, recovering bodies
20- hours "of Instruction In Wate?
Sa/tfty and rescue, —.devoting a
great deal of time ..to equipment
from .depths rofg%ajej? and art if 1^
cfkl respiration: ' "^L ...... —
- -Senior Water Saf efy^»ages__lZ
years" T^n^pyerj^ra .minimuni of
rescue /. ( bpa(sr toj^ec^o
too, safe methods of rescue are
stressed through proper ap-proaches
aqd safe, carries.
C^e.r-t^iff)iJc_a*t_e_s a_^r*^ aM,w«a;»r,ded on
Water Safety and safe methods of satisfactory completion of these
•approach and, resbue of a drown- courses. ]
vice-commander; Edmund Robson,
third vice - commander; Alex
Reynolds, recording adjutant;
Daniel J. Carmichael, correspond-ing
adjutant, for his sixth suc-cessive
term; Robert Preyer, per-sonnel
officer; Paul Mclnfsh,
treasurer; Joseph McCloskey,
trustee, and the following execu-tive
committee: Junior Past Com-mander
Williams; Charles-Bar?
bera, George Maurer, John * N.
Hartmann, Paul A. Weill, Frank |
Murphy and Gene Wagstaff.
Mr. Williams submitted his an^-
hual report, outlining the main
accomplishments of his year in |
office. He^tlso..j^j%)r.tejLor,a^y. o"_'
the Nassau County convention
held In Glen Cove, and the State
convention In Rochester. Senior
Past Commander Robert t)<
Campbell presented a past com-mander's
badge to Mr. Williams.
A delegation of members of
Hejsser Post of Brooklyn, headed
by Vice-Commander John Hagen
attended the meeting. The band
of this post headed the Freeport
Legionnaires *n.the parade at the
annual county convention and"!?
was In appreciation that the
Brooklyn veterans were Invited
to the meeting. Eighteen Helsser
post members made the trip In a
chartered bus. Steamed clams
constituted the principal Item In
the repast that was served fol-lowing
the meeting.
Past Commander Larson, who
1& marshal of the parade to be
held prior to the unveiling of the
Rainbow .Shaft:..in,. Qarden City
'<*n -§SK 12, "Invited the mamberw
of_Story"2*bst to participate -In
the procession." ^"Officers -of- 4h&
post Inxfted the Heisser Ppit
members_lo.:_cpme our*wTth their
band a What time, but no-formal_
answer was given.
"It Is necessary to the happi-ness
of man that he be mentally
faithful to himself." — Thomas
Paine.
i WOMEN MEET
To open the fJll season, the
March-June groups of the Wom-
I en's Society for Christian Ser-vice
of the Freeport Methodist
Church had a games afternoon
at the home of Mrs. Frank
Hornbeck, 96 Smith street, last
Friday. Mrs. John T. Raynor
and Mrs. John Low received f
awards. The group wiu meet \
.again on Friday, October 3, at the
hom.e of Mrs. Russell Minard in
Baldwin. ;
Auxiliary of William
ton ftory Post, A. L., by
Marfret Egel, the county _
dent, at exercises to be conducted
, DEDX-TO
EARNEST
[SERVICE FOR OUR
ENTIRE COMMUNITY
v ..•_•.. County
in Dugout on Thursday a
A VOICE AND CHAMP-ION
OF EVERY WOAL
GROUP AND WORTHY
MOVEMENT
noon, September 18. She succeeds;
Mrs. O. Howaid Larsen, pres%*
•ient, during the. past year.
Other officers elected with Mrs."
Romaneili at the annual meeting
last Thursday afternoon
Mrs. Madeline Gray and Mrs*
Sally Loewy, vice-presidents;;
Mrs. Anna RIchensteen, . secre-tary,
Mrs. Vera Walker, treas*
urer; Mrs. Emily Christ, Mrs.
Nbrma Maurer, Mrs. Elsie Morse,
the president and vice-presidents,
executive committee; Mrs. Lar-sen,
welfare officers, and the
president and vice * presidents,
with Mrs. Theresa Goldblum, del-egates
to the county organization.
FBEEPOBT, LONG ISLAND, N. Y. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 10*1
"Self-respect is the noblest
garment with which a man may
clothe himself ,the most elevat-ing
feeling with which the mind
can be Inspired."—Samuel Smiles.
pk Chosen
Attltuda*
U. S. Youth
Plans for the annual Boys*
to be observed in the Free-
High School beginning Mon*
, Sept. 29, were announced to-by
Principal Martin M.
isper^eh The tticme for the
is "The Attitudes of Ameri-
Youth."
By vote of the inter-Faith Cler-
Council, pastors of all the
churches in the village will co-perate
by preaching appropriate
the previous Sunday
prnlng, thus adding a spiritual
s to the occasion,
On* Monday, September 29, at
:30 .a. m., Dr. Allen A. Stock-reptesontlhg<
the
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17A 1?. SUNRISE
T^l
.Mothers
do all the worrying about
those noon School » day
lunches for thp young"
sters I I
Crowds at our tables
and fountains each noon,
it's true — there ip a reason. Good Food, Hot
Dishes or Sandwiches — priced moderately
Quality considered. '
/U4D THERE'S ALWAYS
ROOM FOR ONE MORq AT
Attitude of Youth Toward
ivlilfe's "Work." He will speak at
|p<LO:45 a. m., In the Baldwin High
School. At night there will be a
3oint mass meeting sponsored by
"ihe Freeport and Baldwin P.T.A.
groups , in the Baldwin High
/ School,, at which Dr. Stockdale
will speak again.
Citizenship Day
Through the cooper atiqn of the
%8sau'bounty Board of Election^!
-two voting machines will be set
jup ui the corridor outside the
auditorium on Tuesday, which will
jbe Citizenship Day and the boys
will be taught citizenship through
^participating in the machinery of
election. Names of candidates for
all positions in the village govern-ment,
to be selected at a "Red
and "White" P&nary election the
previous Friday_ wIlL.be..placed on
_6*e.H"ichineB. ^^ the "boys will
vote for their choices" fof Ihe
various offices-during the day?
There will be-another- assembly
-Wednesday -T%t " 8:3(Ta"." 'mi, = at
^wAioh" Jbel B. Guin,_ of_the-Na-tional
Porunf^wili "(jellver a'n, ad-drew
oh "What's right with Am?,)
erica." "Bigger and Better Sports"
will be Thursday's topic, when
there will be a night of games at
the Municipal Stadium, Including
a varsity and faculty football
game, to denote "Youth's Atti-tude
Toward Sports."
To Rule Village
"Youth's Attitude Toward C^t-
Izenshlp/' will be considered Fri-day
afternoon when the boys
chosen at the Tuesday election
will take over the offices of the
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40SO.MAINSTREEt
Whitpaan • Louis Sherry Candies
THE BEST SODAS AND ICECREAMS
IN THE VILLAGE
BESTOME
The Freeport Sousing Authority,
hich Is working out plans for the
rehabilitation of conditions in Ben-
Jark, will resume its week-meetings
tomorrow (Friday) after
)f wverarweeX^ Ohairman
B. Thompqph .announced'
week. ^ . ,
Leader In Many Activities
Dies After Brief Illness
.^ Ernest A. Nathan was lauded for hia service to the community
in jho eulogy by the Rev. Reginald H. Scott at funeral services con-ducted
ihl the Transfiguration Episcopal Church Sunday afternoon.
Rector Scott said Mr,]Nathan was owned mure by the community,
than by his family and^his friends.
"He was a servant of the peo-®— = ;
pie/' he added, asserting that a
person who was not the servant of
others was not of much account in
this world. Dr. Scott spoke also of
the happy home life of Mr. Nathan
who died last Friday after a brief
illness in the South Nassau Com-munities.
.Hospital, Oceanside. His
home was at 41 South Long Beach
avenue.
Mr. Nathan was born in London
on January 13, 1858, and came to
this country 70 years ago, locating
in New York City. We was the
"father of the tea business" in New
York City, having been in that line
since 1876, when he entered the em-ploy
of Hamilton & Oholwell. Four.-
teen years later he had mastered
the business so well that he was
admitted into partnership and the
name..wa&Jdia"nged/ tbVGaotge
W '—' ' ' 'n"XF"
time of his d^ath Mr. Nathan was
the senior partner.
Foremost Tea Expert
In 1904, at the insistence of com-missioners
from India, Ceylon, Ja-pan
and China, he was selected as
the foremost American expert to
judge the tea exhibits at the St.
Louis Exposition. At the conclusion
of the.exposition he..w^us....awarded
diploma and gold.medal in recog-
3pition of his services. ^
Mr. Nathan came to Freeport
from Brooklyn about twenty years
ago. He Immediately interested him-self
in community affairs and be-came
a member of the South Shore
Yacht Club. Though he 'did not
own a yacht, he was active in the
"rocking chair fleet," and at hia
death was & member of the Board
Governors, pn June 21+-last{ he
was honored at a dinner given by
the club and presented a gold life
membership card in recognition of
his services to the organization. Six
members of the-chib officiated as
honorary pall bearers at the
Mkhrlge
By Write-In
Democrats Score
Up-Set In 99th
District Vote
There was only one up-set in
the Primary elections in Freeport
on Tuesday. That occurred In the
99th Election District where Rob-ert
Merhlge, was elected a Demo-cratic
Committeeman by a write-in
campaign that eliminated Luke
Domey, one of the regular nomi-nees.
Mehrige received, 11 votes.,
against
past Rear Commodore Fred Hallam,
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Carl Re-elected
BIM6 School Head
Kenneth Carl was re-elected su-perintendent
of the Sunday School
of the First Baptist Church at the
annual meeting Tuesday night in
he home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
3. Dennett, .155 North Columbus
avenue: A social time followed
he business session.
Other officers, all chosen unani-.
mously are: John Carl, assistant
superintendent; Mr. pennett,
treasurer; Miss Myrlam Were,
secretary;.Miss Ruth Lechtrecker
and Miss Margaret "Buss, assistant
secretaries; Miss Margaret Al-brecht,
pianist; Miss I^uth Rauter,
assistant pianist; Mrs. Dennett,
superintendent of the primary de-partment,
with Mrs. TV. W. Jones,
as assistant.
got 7.
All the other elections came out
as expected. There was only one
change from' last year among the
Republican committeemen. That
also was In the 99th Election Dis-trict,
where George
named to succeed
Schneider who was
nated.
Norman F7 Lent was nominated
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Maurer was
William H.
not rcnomi-
Owe
Councilman Davfd Levy pull-ed
stakes ten days ago and
headed for Bethlehem, N, H.,
because of his annual hay fever,
only to develop something that
promises him more trouble than
the "sniffles" ever did.
Playing golf on the sporty
Bethlehem course, Dave made
a hole In one. And Dave sank
with the ball,
We understand there is no
fever In the world to compare
with Golf Fever, after a golfer
has made a hole in one. Ye re-porter
is hereby applying for
the cnddy privilege and expects
to work seven days each week,
fifty-two weeks a year.
Hof stra Adds
9 to Faculty
• The appointment of nine new
members to the faculty of Hofstrn
College was announced this week
by Dr. Truesdel Peck Calkins, the
president.
Five the new members, Dr..
Leslie
of
E.
Dr. Henry J. ^Riblet and Professor
Stanley E. Rodgers, Jr., will be in
the division of mathematics and
science. Paul W. Schem will join
the faculty in an administrative
capacity, while Dr. Spaulding Rog-ers
is to be in the division of hu-manities.
Miss Georgia B. An-heiser
and Edgar Smeltzer join the
division of physical, education and
health stafT.
a^
EasteHin Call*
Retail Drive
Here Suctea*
ro
WFPK
Eere we Sre,' stepping forth in a. new fall outfits-new type
—new set-up— a cleaner job from top to bottom, ^--
JEyen the^ publisher . h im self is -tickled- with the results T
readers.
. ... The
will be delivered to. six thousand Freeport homes, and
That means twenty-thousand possible
Mainly we confine our columns to Freeport news, social
and business. But we do cover that field niore thoroughly
than any other medium. G«t the news to %# aad we will print
it. "We dig up colrnnns each week, we can use more.
Freeport merchants n*e onr colnmns to advertise values,
styles and services thafare outstanding. " Their adis'each week
are just as much news as an ante accident or a bridge party.
Mr,-ajid Mrs. Reader yon will find it pays to read The 1EADEB
front Bifst to lagt page,
Defense stamps are selling rap*
Idly in the stores of the village,.
John D. Easterlin, president of tho
Chamber of Commerce and chair-man
of the retailers' drive an-nounced
today. Though Mr. East*
erlin was unable to place any val-ue
on the number of stamps sold"
since Monday, he said it must be
considerable since about 125 mer-chants
had joined in the cam-paign
to dispose of the stamps
and aid in raising funds (or de-fenso*
parade in. .which - so } Aumii; ^
M4NMi^Rp^t*Jy^M^ll^
bring the matter to the atteritfon
df local residents. The procession
took half an hdbr to pass a given
point, and as it was gotten up at
short notice, Mr. Easterlin express-ed
the opinion that the showing
was an excellent one.
It was led by the High School
band, most of the Fire Depart-ment
apparatus participated, and
there were delegations -from the
American Legion and Veterans of
Foreign War Posts, as well as Boy
and Olrl Scouts and a large.con-tingent
of Nautical Cadets. Mr.
Easterlin was grand marshal and
Samuel D. Gerbcc..headed the par*
ade committee. The line of march,
took the procession through a large
section of the community, and —
consequently attracted the atten-tion
of a large proportion of the
residents. ^
The sale of stamps will be-con*
tlnued in tho stores through"^2116—
rest of the week in cooperation!
with _pQsjm@Aterl:-E4%ard A. Rice —
ana it probably will be 6ome"Hine
next week before the Chamber of
Commerce officials.-wJlL.be An-a-pp# -'*?
sltlon to"TS5ce'fWh tha—value of
the stamps sold, They are in de^
nominations of ten, 25 and 50 .
cents, $1 and $5. The merchants
have the necessary books In. which,
to paste them and are doing all in
their power to make an excellent
record for the village. .
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3,513 Enrolled \
InSchootSystem
The total registration of the
schools of Freeport is 3,513,-Super-intendent
John W. Dodd announced
this week. TDis figure-includes 1,682
students in the junior and< senior
high schools and 1,821 in, the grade
schools divided as follows: Cleve-land
avenue 213, Orove street 235,
Sqaman, avenue 370, Columbus ave«
nue 472 and Archer street 631. .
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