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I f^EWS •& VIEWS •
;BY
IDDiE VASIL
N.' Y. Kruxpaprr HFiiarlen Asuti.
LtMon t» thr '•KFHtlK i'ASIL SHOW
On WTIII-; Ji20 on llw- Uml •
• | ' I-Witltoui
or w i i l i offense to lri«n«t« ox io«t—
( ' I tiMteh ^ronr •world McacUr as It gone—^^on
EDDIETOR'S NOTES . . . Freeport Gluing Exec HY POSNER
and his charming yriia relumed from thsix coatl-to-coiiil motor
lour . . . Give ihe BABKES. BBOS. (Bill & Kenny( credit be­cause
Ihey Iceep the cars of their BAHNES BHOS. TAXI CO.
(Cannon Square) In immacuiate condition . . . BILL CASMA-SIHA,
popular Freeport Fire Depl. volunteer and Town ol
flempstead Building Dopt. Inspector recuperating at home a{ier
recent DOCTORS HOSPITALizaiion . . , AL B. WHITE, wide-ly-
lcnawn restaurateur and iMWtpapor columniit, declined a
50G per, year (name Ms own condition*) o«er in a lield not re­lated
to Ihe food Induilry . . . DON MITTHAUEH, former FTD
CHIEF oiit of DOCTOHS HOSPITAL after knee surgery caused
. : {Continued on page • 4)
Ifeisteif Beach
Beeomes Hot Issue
The Meister Beach Civic Association, represented by Atty.
Elliot Samuelson as president, urged both Senator Robert Kennedy
anil Senator Ja<^ Javits to give their nssistance to obtain 'Federal
Funds for the acquisition, of a 5-acre tract of land, located in the
Meister Beach area, for recreational purposes. ' '
Sy Korn, Executive Secretai-y
Big Dope Arrest
B/Frerport Cops
Detect I vo Bob Gordon, Patrol,
m,™ Frnnlt Past and other mem­bers
of the Freeport Police Dept,
made another sensational narco­tics
arrest when «hey picked up
four youths last Sundny night
In the parking fltid at Grove and
Pine Streets.
After "a thoroush search they
found heroin, marijuana and
harbituatps. (We'll withhold
names of youth hoping they learn
a lesson but will publish all facts
if they becotnc second ollendors).
of the Freeport Council of Civic
Associations sent similar letters
exjilaining this controversial sit-ijution.
They claim that action should
quire Fcdc.al Funds becfsuso the
sum of mo;»ey necossary to con­demn
the land was far in ox-cc.<
5s of the Village's fiscal re­sponsibility.
An application has already
bo taken immed»tely before the i ^een filed for the resconing of this
NCS*D Marine Chief
Addresses Chamber
Inspaelor George Huyiman,
CoRimandins Officer of the
Marina Divlaion. Naissu County
Police D«pt„ will be the gueit
speaker at the regular Thunday
luncheon meeting of the Free-port
Chamber of Commerce.
The meeting. Aug. 4. 12:30 p.m,.
will bo hold at Al B. White'i
Hestaurant, 10 Brooklyn Ave.
Wilfred "Bill" Allen serves as
program chairman.
cost of condemnation becomes
tod ' expensive and prohibitive.
Mayor Sweeney contacted Con­gressman
Tenier in order to ac-land
to erect several factories
but the civic association was able
to persuade the owner to con-
(Continued on page 10)
GARY L ROTH HONORED
Phottt aboT* abows Stanley J. Botb (right), dinetec'of FIM-"
port Orb&Q !teii«wal, proudly pinning the Peavey Award Medal
on hl» son, CSaiy t , lolli, BittaJ&in caiief, JuiOor nvni IIMOTW.
•• Tlie*"aw«»l wa» priieitiBd' lor W» ou^tanding «ir*iea^*nd-.d*»e-'
tion'fo the Battalibii. Chief RoUi, IS year* old. U llw im of Mr.
and'MM; Stanley J. Rolb'of 122 Gulield St. FrMpo*** Ha ^ «
junior at FrBeport High ScbooL
FFD Band To
Celebrate 45th
With 2 Concerts
"The Freeport Fire Department
Band, celebrating Iheir 45th An­niversary,
will present two con­certs—
in connection with The
Village of Freeporfs Summer
Recreational Program.
The concerts will be held at
Randall Park, So. Grove and
Front St.,"Freeport, Friday, Au­gust
12 and August 28 starting
at 8:30 p.m.
The programs will include
Popular Marches, Semi-Classical
and Light music under the Di­rection
of Conductor William
Dayton. -
ING SHOW
STADIUM
Harold Richardson meets Elliot Miller in the lO-round middle­weight
slur bout Iciicduled for Freeport Municipal Sindium, Wed-iwadoy,
August lOth, according to Promdter John O'Rourko.
RIchnrd.-ion recently defeated Wilbert McChire in fli» semi-ilnal
to the Archer-Griffith championsliiii battle ut MaditHm Square
Garden. i
-'•..•i,'""" • '., Milkr us th e '"y' •o-'•u ng^ -U„ rc•"n t.w o•—otl, IK G^o.pl„d en^ ^G^l ov,„e,sj ^c h^ujn lpionship has
tlio boxing
boxc. whose rise from the 10(15 (Continued on pnge 18)
PHONE COMPANY CITES
DOROTHY E. SCHNEIDER
West Point Band
At Town Park
A concert by the United States
Military Academy Band is sched*
uled for Saturday, August 20,
at 8:15 pjn. in the Town of
Hempstead's Mcarick Road Park.
Merrick. Admission Is free.
The 75^iece United States
Military .Academy Band pre-datei
the Revolutuinary War and
was formally. Ofpuiiz^ in 1812.
It'i the oldest military tmit at
West Point and the oldest band
in the United States Army.
REAL GOOD NEIGHBOR—Mrs. Dorothy F. Schnoider of Free-port,
a drafitman in Now York Tolephone's Engineering De­partment,
Mempttoad office, accepts ihe company's Central Has-iBu
Good Noighbot Award from Ralph Q. Caso, protidlng su-peiYisof
of the Town of Hempilcad. The genial grtindmother
w-M died for her "untiring eflorts" bilh in Iranicriblng books
into Braille for blind youngijari and her acliviiloa helping the'
elderly at A Holly Patterson Home for the Aged.
Inside Freepprt
b y • ,••
Edward A. Vasll
** Frlendi! ol Charles C, Mohrmann, Associate Pollc; Justice of
Freeport, liave already pledged to donate |5,000.00 to County Re­publican
Chairman SIN BDW. J. SPENO for campaign funds If
and when Charles Mfihrmann receives.a GOP nomination for a
District or Family Court Judgeship. (Contributowr indudc bankers,
businessmen and other close fricnd.i) . . . That handsome whiz of
a sandwich-makcr at VIEBROCK'S is named ROY CACCIATORB,
Not the "Roy Cacciatoro" the political dynamo and expert on in­dustrial
planning, but his IJ-year-old son who was graduated from
FHS and wlU attend IOWA UNIV. this faJL (Public compliments to
HELEN WEEKS and her associates who help many ambitious stu­dents
throughout the ycaw . . . Freeport'» JERRY McDCUGAL, who
knocked the pins lr<wn under JOl CARUNO'S politiiBl dynasty,
now rated as No. 1 nrna under Nassau County Dethocratic Clialrman,
) (CoDtinued on page 9)