The-Leader_1953-03-19

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Hnh Year »«. 47 *^ FRSEPOET, ».' ¥., THUESDAY,, MAEOH ifl, 1953 iOTE OlENTS PER COPY
GkckentoJoDrnay
Ti a n ' . 1 oAlbanytoleiini
EGmnalion Status
Mayor-EIect to Seek
To Get Lowdown OB
Long-Delayed Project
So varied am reports concerning
.Qie progress of plana lot thflf-Pree-port
Grade Crosslnf EltoiltoaBon
ppojeet eminAting from the PaMlc
Swvlce Commisslcm', the State Pub­lic
Worka Department and ttie
Ijegislatuie that Mayor-elect' W11-.
llam P. Glacken la going to Albany
to get the low-down tn tlie matlef.
He Is trying to arrange the neces­sary
appolntaaewts .belore making
t l » trek, but hoped K. wtwld^lje in
time to enable blm to do so today.
Mr. Gladken madie this announce­ment'at
the monfiily meeUsf 01 Uie
Noa-theast Clrto Association In tli«
jMsne of Harry J. Berisowltz, 215
North Ocean a-venue, Friday night.
He asserted Chat the P.S.C, and
Public -Works Department were not
co-operattag In the matter and
{fiat reports concerning' the state
reached In the drafting of plans did
- noi agree. Meanwhile, he added,
Freeport Is stiftering because of Hie
•delay in getting the Improvement
imder-way and he intends .to do
something ftbmit It.
, At the jmgReBtton ol Mayor_Bijg=,
Seriaee'''"'Coam]ssi^r'-''"-!Benjainl»|fa^^ Mrs; l*on Swisher,
Weinberg, Sta4e Sena.tor John D.
Bemwti and Assemblyatan Joseph
F. Carlino. Tfte l*gislature is ex­pected
to adjourn dwrlng, Jiie weefe-end,
but Mr. Doxsee expressed hope:
scanethlnig could he dOne to obtain
•funds <U) Jiaance the eUmlnation
before It giilts.
The Mayor-elect repeated the
talks he has given elsewhere on Oie
^protolenis -facing the incoming ad-miaisttatlon
-which -will take office
on Monday, April 6,
TrMtee Liconard D. B. Smith also
•was present, but Trustees-elect Se­ward
J. Baker and Edmund' T.
Ciheshh* were unable to attend.
Menxbers of the association lurged
(that steps be taken to c<Hnplete the
Northeast park, Begret-also was ex-
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Flags Stolen From Altars
Of Tivo Freeport Churches
ThieveK invaded two FVeeport clinrchcs t h i s week a n d Htole
Ami ri<'nii und Chri.stian flags from the a l t w s.
They entered the Freeport Metho­dist
Church Thursday and took the
fluss from the {loles on eltlier side
of* the -pulpit. The same day tJie
Transfiguration Bpisoopal Church
was entered and the American flag
taken. The next day the Intruder, or
Intruders, returned and took the
Christian flag.
The Bev. Dr. John W. Latshaw
pastor of the Methodist church.
characterized the actions of; the
thieves as desecration of the hltar,
and SBnounced that if the flags
were returned to the church, no
questions would be asked.
The Bev. Beglnald H. Seott, rector
o{ the Episcopal church, has rer
ported the thefts to th6 Freeport
police.
Now at Indiantown Gap
M-m^M
MountcastleNames Captains
To Serve In Red Cross Drive
l'liarlp« P. Miiuntcastie, ohairmHii nt Freeport"K Red Cross
Pimd Drive, this week a n n o u w e d area captains for, the four
F r e e p o r t ' d i s t r i o t . s into %vhieh the riUagre has been tlivided for
the cHrnpaign. .
Mr. Mountcastle had previously
announced that Van Baar Brown
of 20 Beverly Parkway, presidenl of
the Northwest Civic Association,
would be vioe-chalnnan for the
Northwest area and that Mrs. Jack
Zender of 363 _Boosevelt avenue
would be vice-chatrma-n for the
Southeast area.
Cantatas to aerve in the four areas
iiMi'aa^tollo^si,
Meititt to Address
Athena Chb Monday
County Historian Slated
To Show Colored Film
On Elarly Long Island
_ . '^The-,Civlcs„ Dejjaptme&t ol 1iie
|;ii^p?fSiiaj-|}W'yw^ aes^" Merritt,'.- the 'Nassau.
Mrs, Jo Anne Salomon, Mrs. Jer­ome
Loe-wy. Mrs. Victor Hlrsch.
. NOPtheast: Mrs. Charles Blewett,
Mrs. Hannsih Vbn Elm, Mrs. jQuy
Russell, Sirs. Ralph Ottegan.
Southwest; Mrs. Cornelius Free­man,
Mrs. Jerome Foley, Mrs. Da­vid
JKadane, Mrs. A. J,. MacKen^is.
. Southeast: Mrs. Abbe -Kerr. Mrs.
Jean Voorls,-Mrs. Ethel Botchford,
Mrs. Henry Hs'rr," Bev. R. G. Har­ris,
Mrs, Melvla Holbrook.
CJHUBBUK'S DRUG STORE
OPEN ALL DAY SUNDAY
Chubbuk's Drug Store, South Main
.strait at Sunrise Highway, wiU re-mato
open Sunday alter the other
pharmacies in-Freeport close at 2
o'clock.- The -telephone is FReeport
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wns
- - r i r e e ;"ameii^«fflts.,M:cft£:f tf J ^ f t t t S y ^ law;"desisraed to hu:
s t t r e ^ b o r i n i p n s against eon1a*olbMiBi¥ersiY® ^S^ crimiiial ele­m
e n t s were deinanded b y 14ayor tiobm ti. Doxsee in h i s address
a t the dedication «f the $135,000 firehouae of Ho.se Co. 5, on
Lconai'd a v e n u i , S u n d a y afternoon.
They would provide that: ;
^ Hiotoody but a cItiiBen of the unit­ed
States tie permitted to hold off-
Ice in a ttdlon. . *
. That DO sitsn WQi a friixilnal sec-l>
nl.toe pesflnaittH to hold such office.
That «»iaijr."mea ffte «t led MOll-taats
l»e,i>&nitted to be of IIcerBi i
The NEayw declaadddWafihlnfetoi
shoiild te baml^f^ea lirtai d e m a ^
for 'tSe. lE<atirio»--<^:;||s|9B.;festaffc-''
tlons In •Oie'Iia'faaff/.flbtr:'••••••,,/.•'•••""•
donuttentiag #jat liBison.-v!&ol».-
ert u Boxsee.»., ^wito Is aanemlier
of £ta IT-giirOTAlResenres toiflie
Isea-Bee s«^lcn'#>d->awiUUiig-'::cail|.
staifted;, B»uidj^."an''---«'!"tird-week'|.
(traliaing l>eiiofl -In Shod^.JCsIaMi
i f c Oassee said l i i .wa? pmi 4o
haTC'-'aaaja'' Eaa.in','>M(«W'W«f/'M,
and anaifcr son" wM was ready 4o
go wJien called Inil-JieVdlii i*}ept
to people telaig cailfidlitole lAtoor
:^ (CjAitlnued.OTi.l'age .It) ,^
Dolores Wurtzel Named
|F.H.S. Valedictorian
DoI»«9'Wnrtiel, wtamer of tlie
WilUan Clinton-StoiT Post, Am-
\ erican •• l e ^ o n , piiiblle speafcins
contest, also has been praelataued
vsIedlctOiiaii of tbe senior class
of tbe Freeport High School. Tlua
annotmcemeiit was made at tlie
. «neekly Ivncbeoh of the Rreefiort
Exchange Cbib in the EBis clob'
h o u s e Iqr - Smperlmtendent of
Schools. ^ofani.W. Podd.
;'-• Drr')D'oa(l'-isil*..;iais»'-WttrtMl
cnointaiiied ^ B e i ^ t s n t i i i ^ of
':SMZ':ilotli^''i^'Uuee> and a^bilf
'•jsaaiB 'In^ 'the'|s^br_^.Wg*i-«Ji<«»^
vae of'the, highest r»tlnts"oiti"i»ts-"
-';'ord#,lBlss"'5W'iirfcBdl reclfed'het'^'iMtt''-'
ning'-. jselectlon'.'. ^emociracy '"Is
- What :ilfk-Mm li." • • .-••
I. •, •^WaM"1Bf^iSkmy, ,wltfi''a"*atlitg
' 9f 95.SI, has won'the ^otatOrlki,
;"iMiaiira..,., .„ ,-»,,.,-'•. **.,.. I-- - '^.•;•.--••"-
County Histonan, at a meeting 'on
Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock m
•the Visual Education KoOln In the
Caroline G.. Atkinson School.
There will be a colored movie of
Long .'Island deaMng with places pt
interest on the Island fann early
times m its history to the present.
Among those on -view wlU be Sag
Harbor, Stony Brook, and "Home'
Sweet Home." This Is a very fine
movie and will be of particular In­terest
to'the club members who are-planning
to make the "Tour of HJs-torleaj
Places" which will start the
last week in March.
The Merrltt land was deeded to
Mr. Merrlfs' family by the Indians.
Mr. MejTltt will- have witH him
copies "of old- desds "and tMe'-types
of beads used in ""these transactions.
Mrs.' Hugh Hamilton, chairaaan of
the department, .wUl intrpilttce the
speaker. ..,j^_ " " " " - , , , "•
The Drama jOepartment 'wtU en-
I'tier the-.play _contest-atthe-; I>rama
Pestlval<ito-l)i'"iSven"'by the-Ijong IB-~
.land- Federation-April-'23L In- tbe-ctabSoUse
of the Woinanas eiutf JBC
.01d:;Mlll road Qieat'Meck. MJiVKlt:
'an Oarver. of feeeport and the. head
of the Athena Club Worksboi^ Pro-gram
Is chairman of the-'Feltival,
Contest to Feature
Teent-Age Dtace Friday
A dance contest, to be Judged ,by
three Inembers of the Freeport; High
School faculty, will, be the hfeh-
U«ht of the Teca-Age Dance to
be held Friday evening a t the fiay-vle-
HT Avaaua School from tlie hours
of 8 to l.'The tiouple selected by 1!he
Jiiidges is •the .JKBt dancers wlU le-celvB
a urtese.
lixni Traeman wfli be in charge of
the arrangemients for. tbe danoe,
whicto Is sponsoreid tts'the Freeport
Ccanmuni^ Council; He .ips aa."
nownc«.d tWat Mr. and Mrs, <3, Tar-f<
nf:'««id iSi;:}miA:MTs.-^piosSrJper:
land wlUbe cIiftt>Wones,'':an<l ^ t
inusjc and Mfre^hmente -wUl be pftjc
•itt(fc<l?v;-'--"l''""' '-•••4-.-/ "-. .'•-•/••- •
Mcs..iBfuis6n Blats, asslstiitg Mirs.
i^'eiyainto 'Weme, xhatanani of the
.Xotjitli*; pommltfee of- tbe |*e?port
CoinaHM^' CoimisU,' 'Will te adull;
;6ijtpeirt(isor *f,Tt3iB,'dance,-.v„ :..:.-.'..
PVT. R.OBEBT S. WEISS
GlkkenLf^ Ticket
Wil!il4i»|»tesm
Unmtestd l y don
FavdrableEndor^ent
Given Administration;
Party Leaders Pleased
William F. Glacken, who led ttae
Unity Party ticket In the uncon­tested
Freeport election Tuesday
night, received a compllmen-tary''.
vote of 1,169 and was elected may»
or of the village.
Edmund T. Cheshire, running for
Trustee received 1,143 votes, and
Trustec-Seward J. Baker, who .was ...
re-elected got 1,140; Mr. Glacken
led or was tied In 14 of the 17,'dlst„,
trlcts. Mr. Baker was .top .In'-the
second by 2 votes over both ;i»ls ^
running motes, whlW Mr. Cheshire '
led by 1 each In the 40th ajid 44tli
districts, so that the total .*ote.J*fts
1,170, which' Campaign Maijager,
Walter J. Miranda and oaier'parfcy
officials considered an .excellent
showing under the circumstances,.
The banner district -was No. -49,
with polls in Hose Co. 4 on Sunrise
Hlgliway,aear Long Be««h avsntie;.
which gave an undivided vote-of
101 to all three candidates.
The new board wiU meet for the
Pvt. Robert S. Weiss, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Herman Weiss of 139 Har­ris
avsnue, who was Inducted into
the service In PebruaiT, has been
assigned to Company M 3rd Battal­ion
lllh Infa-ntry Regiment of the
Fifth Olvlsbn and Is now training
at the Indiantown Gap. Penna., Mil­itary
ReservdMon-
W^ws, who 18 a graduate of Free- i
per- High School, attended the Long I Purpose of organlzhn! on Monday
ISLMid Agilcultuial and Technical I night, April 6,
InsUtute. at Patmlngdale to stwdyl. The vote by ^ t r l c t s - w a a - a a £ol-agricultui-
e, k e ' speolaVJStd Va caitt\e\J«^« ' "^
^eealng arid"- slioswnanship hc^d at r
the Institute February 22, 1052, dur- ] 34
Ing its annual Open House Week,, 35
•won the Holsteta heifer and Grtnd.SS
Qbamplonshlp prlae. *?• j
A|ter grad-uattag at Parmlngdale . -^
Weiss went to work on a farm in
Connecticut lor a while. According
to his grandfather, AuSfUst V. John­son'of
16 Russell place, .he had re­ceived
an attractive offer to help
run a dairy farm Upstate Just before
he was called into the ssrvlce.
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Buchard Sroitli to Speak
At Realtors* Luncheon :
The Hon. G. Bufohard Smith of
FKeport, Cotmty Attorney lor Nas­sau
County will br^tranPrtnclpal
speaker at the meeting of the South
Shore CJhapter of the XiOnjr IslRWd
Real Estate -Board sgheduled. tor
ThnrSiay, MaMh '26ri»Jncheon.-.i2.:30
n*ioii' a!t_^,ia»-Jilta' cMib,", ; $ e e p r t .
.•|^.-*smlte"%'su"bJei»'wlll-6e'""Nassati:
County :Pro'bieiai«i"-0. -O. MaiXiiElii;
^tenta-fipk, 'P resldenf of 'W& "£a«#5iv.
announces; ^ a t "-"tiie- -powp wlU" also'
have as honored guests, WilfeAW.
Hutohtosoa;: Ohiief Clerk, Ootuity
Mtomeys Otilce and Harry Schrod­er,
Chief Negotiator for the County
Attorney.
Miss Harriet WaOace
Dies In Manftattan
Daughter of "Pajfcer
Of Nassau County";
Active in DAR Chapter
Fiineral. services were conducted
m the Freeport Methodist Church
Friday afternoon for Miss Harriet
U. Wallace,'63 North Ocean avenue,
who died on Tuegflay, MaaSh 10, in
the Doctors Hospital, "Jdiiiljflrtt an,
after «-mon.'ttfrjJllt6Sr,---Tho..'.^v. Dr.
John li, Mtshasy, t«© pastor, offl-lirtated.
Daughters, of .'.the American
Revfllullon rites wera conducted by
MTB. Oeo^eN.. WOW, regent, and
Miss iilarlon L, Crowell.'chaplahi, of
; | ^ t h Wolrthail Ctoa]pter';of whlcli
"Mte^l^alltee^-wflS-a ••ni"Hnfe*'r Burial
followed In Gieenfleld. Cemetery,
Hempstead,
Miss Wallace was born in Freeport
80 years ago and lived here all her
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27 New Members Received
By Freeport Republican Club
The F r e e p o r t Bepublican Club has gotten off to a .woU
s t a r t in i t s determination to help President Gordon Bimonsoii
a t t a i n his aml>it.ion to establiwhl a membcrHbip' record dnnnjj his
y«ar in ofilee. Twenty-seven pe^Bons who never belonged to the
group before, were received at the monthly meeting Tbursday
n i g h i making, a total paid-up enrollment of 652 for the first
meeting after t h e new officers took o v e r , , . .
And, despite-the stoipy .night, '"' '
there wa« a n ximisuaUy. large tum-
-outfor a social evening. ISiejsferi-big
f e a t u r p ! ttie sBowlng of the
•'•New "York Tclfl^pge_iOo,5s tateresit-
Jaf piotajrei oil ""Ehe Long "island
Story:" s a t when WttUam Stevens,
wliQ,vnls to.present the fOms was
delayed, Curtis s a d tMdle Bmll t66k
over. As 4ib« latter D^eslded at the
pllmq, iMr. IBr3i led- In canrnnmlty
a l ^ t o g in. •whloh aB-iolned-^hearHly.
. ."With «h« colored slides, .Mr. Ster­eos
took bis audience on a tour of
Iiong Island going east' along the
south shore and returning via the
ndrth. i *' '. -
'X social hour lyltlj. reifreahments
followed the meeting. . . ' •'•
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