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NASSAU'S LAReEST WEEKLY"
FREEPORT
Z'o Cade 11520
33rd Year. No. fl
BALDWIN
zip Ctiia 11510
MERRICK
Zip Coda 11580
Freeporf's
Official
Newspaper
25,000 READERS
ROOSEVELT
zip Cod* 1157S
FHEIPORT. N. y.. TmraSDAY. JUNE 13. 1968 -®*" PRICE: FIVE CENTS PER COPY
i NEWS &. VIEWS
By
EDDIE VASIL
N. Y. Neiisiittiifr Ufjinrten Atsa.
Ji, • i\'niit»ml I'rena- feyndiCTle
^' LiiiM. I., iiif "timm: VASIL SHOW"
J . •••' Ou WTIfK, Um on the Dial , -»«,-r,.;><s..,-.««, |
BDDISTOH'S NOTES . . . Looks like JWs yoor's FREEPORT
GOP CUTS INSTALLATIOM will be bigg«r and bettar ihm
ever, (Tcttiaiomal to BILL GAYLOR will honor HALPH G.
CASO) , , , Murray "Think Thin" SIEGEl. «l»lod as guesJ s|>oak-er
of thi» Long Island Execulive Breakfast 'Club , . , More #x-paniion
for FREEPORT FURNITURE OUTLET (Morrick Ri.
End Church St.) LOtllS NEUWIRTH 'onnouncad another n»w
addition of lO.QtlO M}. feet which will make it the blffffosf in lhi«
area . . , HAPPY JUNE BIRTHDAYS to GUS SHEBAH, TED
LAHG, LOtriS BLOOM. GEORGE MORTON LEVY. Suwogato
JUDGE JOHN ». BENNETT, HARRY EBBETS, RALPH FRAN-CO,
ANDY MOKESTBRE amd TOM MURPHY . . . Freeporl's
17-year-old musical whiz-kid DON MURO picked to presemt his
onc-mBD band show at the Town of Hempstead openias of in
i!«w Oceanside Park Pool on Juno IS . . , PUBLIC SALUTE io
two of Freeporfa finest: PATROLMAN ROOSEVELT HEN­DRICKS
who facsd a loaded rifla to wrMt a'man suspoetied of
rho«tinff Ms brothsr. and SERGEAHT JOSEPH BOLAME) w l ^
ceiight a flend whd abducled «.girl (a tnlnotlj^-'*''^*-*-••*-'"'•
"mSaSsaiJ . . . The EDWARD WENDELBOE FAMH,Y extra
happy^ these'days 'cause their son, MATTHEW, a cadet at Fort
Schuyler Maritime Collegro again made the Dean's LwL (CADET
WENDELBOE and CADET RUSSELL BHIGGS saBed io Europa
last weeJc on a training cruise. Both FreojHjrter* soraduate In
June.)
• • •
AFTER DARK - . , Look's like IRNIE SWANSON and his manager.
Jwiy, are doing big things with the OUTRIGGER ROOM. . . Paclt-
€d hoiise over the weekend . . . Freeport KIWANIS CLUB held their
aiinuul LADIES KITE Wednesday there and TONY DeNICOLA and
cnramitlee praised for their arrangoments ..: . Host ERNIE SWAN-SON
picked anither Freeporler for key spot as head mixologist. He's
MICKEY McNALLY. This popular tall and handsome young man
rucently operated his own swining place in N.Y.C. (His wife PAT is a
charmer and serves as head waitress) . . . Now with summer here
(Continued on page 4)
"ANOTHER McCOIXOUGH"
COURT OF APPEA
itULES IN FAMOUS
"GENERATOR CASr
Sweeney, Altengarten And
Somers Not Personally
Responsible In Rulln/
Taxpayers To
Stanley Roth Wins
State-wide Post
The New Y'oric State Associa­tion
of Urban Renewal Offidsls,
at its eleventh Annual BpAig
Confertnce held rtctnily in Ellen-viU,
N. Y„ elected Freeporf's Urb-an
Renewal Director, Stanleiy J,
noth< at Its Fixsi Vice PzeudiMit.
Mr. Roth also serves oi, Preit-d
»nt of i]^.l«ong IIUUMI Blxccten-
'"''"-"-' ' iwliiriftTttBiiiJBiiJhit
le. cmiference oi
Mayors.' '•
Offer Free Happy
Vacation Show
Recreation Supt, Richard Hanak
announced that the Recreation De­partment
of the Village of Free-port,
through the courtesy of Cen­tury's
Freeport Theatre, will pre­sent
as a corarhuiiity service, a
"Happy Vacation Show" for the
children of Freeport from Kinder­garten
through sixth grades, on
Saturday, June 15. Doors will open
at 9:30 a.m.
Tickets will be distributed at
the Freeport Schools anB must be
presented at the flbor of the Free-port
Theatre.
I^IOO^ PfK^H^
iti a rasuUot a decision handed down thii» week by the Court
of Appeals, highest court In thosatale and final arbiter of dcciBions
appealed from lower courts, the Village of Freeport will bo able to
keep .tt controversial $750,000 electrical generator Installed several
years.»go-ih the municipal power plant.
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The • village will also recoup i
about $175,000 in damuge.<s from I Bering with this exorcise of dia-thc
roonfncturer, the NArdberg I crelion." The CBMB was argued in
Compnny. The generator was the the Court of Appeal in behalf of
subjwt of years of court battles Ibe Mayor iiiid Trustees by at-
Instiluted by Freeport attorney torncy Edwin J. Fraedman, who
Julius M. Gorzof, who charged! "> addition to being In private
the purchase was illegal due to [ practice is also Police Ju»tice of
improper competitive bidding j the Village of Freeport.
procedures, and who asked the I The court abo affirmed the Ap-courts
to void the purchase and | pdlato Division decision' that
hold Mayor Robert J. Sweeney 'counsel feus for Mr. Germf would
BHS Band Benefit
Set For June 14
The Beneflt,_ConcBrt by the
Saldwln Senior High School Band
.»lginally scheduled for Saturday,
Tune 8, has been postponed unUl
Friday, June 14, at 8iI6 p.m. in
jeference to the late Senator Rob­ert
F, Kennedy.
Tickets purchased for the June
8 concert will be honored, "ricket
holders who arc unable lo attend
•>n the new date will have their
money refunded by contacting the
Baldwin High School Music De­partment,
Photo above shows Mr. and. Mrs. William A. McCouough cele­brating
Iho birth of their ith grandson, Michael Francis Mc-
Collough, Bt a special family cUnner h^ld at Guy Lombaido's
East Poliit House. Mr. MeCoUough is Executive Vke-PresideBt
of American News Co. of which Savarin Hestauraals Is a division.
Guy Lombardo's is operated by. Savaiin mansgraneiit ai are
other major r^aurants and suppl^f «lubi coast-to-coast.
757 Admissions At
Doctors Hospital
Admisslbns to. Doctors Hospital,
Freeport, were recorded at 757
during May, according to James
J. Ryan, Administrator,
During the same period, 72
babies were bora. Of the new ar­rivals,
41 weer boys, 81 girls.
Patient days for Medicare pa­tients
reached 1,630 in May, Ryaij
(' s a i d . • • .
and Trustees Henry Altengarten
and Fraiik Somers personally li­able
for financial damages.
The^ Court of Appftals decision
bq paid in the amount ol $25,000.
Mr. Gerzof had asked that hto fe»i
bo fixed at $200,000.' IJie 125,000 ,
will be paid out t>f ihe funds re.
also held that the Mayor aiij'covered from Nordbcr^. .
Trustees would nol be held liable, I The Court of Appeals findings
"Since Special Term found—and; altered th(J previous Appellate
the Appellate Division affirmedYDivision decision in ope irnporj-the.
ftndihft' that nothing of value,) anf respeci, Tho lower court had
had been received by th» indi-: ri4led that Nordberg-was to pay
vidual defendants ahcl~sihce it j back to the village the full pur-evidently^
decided that judgment'chise price of~~tlie=- generatcir
against Nordborg atone wouId7af-i ($760,000) but that it could retake'
ford the Viltagu" suflieiont redress,' the machine upon prsisting a bond
we perceive no basis for inter-I IContlnucd on page 6) .
raiEPORl GOP 1968
EVENT ANOTHER HIT
The combined traditional Freeport Republican Club Inatallatien ,
and Testimonial Dinner to C. William Gay]or,4o be held on June
27 at Carl Hoppl's in Baldwin, already looks like another outstand­ing
success. • • ' " . '•
Leader, Julius L. Mintz and Executive Committeeman.Alan W.
Vollmer announced that this year's traditional event will be evca
more-spectacular since It honors Ralph <5, Caso, Preiildlng Super­visor
of the Town of Hempstead. ; . .
WllliBm Thompson, general chairman, and Patricia Collins, ticket
chairman, announced thai due to the set policy of limiting the num­ber
of tickets to BOO people, the demand and firm reservatlans al­ready
received have reached the sot capacity;
Extra hlghlighta.,ol the evening will inclufle the sorprise ap­pearance
of Vop state, county and town dignitaries.