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36th YEAR, No. 12 FREEPORT. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1971 PRICE; TEN CENTS PER COPY
Costlow Named
School Superintendent
Football in Freeport in July
"Freeporl is a great football
town, and they will have, in the
(7hiefs, a team they can be proud
of" So spoke Leo O'Donnell,
manager of the Long Island
Chiefs, a member of the New
York Football League. The
Chiefs will be playing at the
Freeport Stadium next fall and
boast of a 39 and 6 record over the
past five years. Tryouts are
presently being held Monday,
Wednesday, and Thursday
evenings at 7:30 PM and
Saturday at 10:00 AM at the
Stadium. Ninety men are trying
out for 40 positions under the
watchful eyes of owner coach
Lennie Feldhun. Jim Tooms.
offensive coach, Frank Hunter,
defensive coach, and manager
O'Donnell,
The squad has some well
seasoned players in Tom Staffutti
who did the kicking for Hofstra
last year. Paul Notale, Hofstra
quarterback and Jim LeClair,
quarterback with San Francisco
for 3 years and 2 years with the
Denver Broncos.
The Chiefs will play an
exhibition game July 30th at
Scranton. Penn.. against the
Scranton Miners, and will open at
home in the Stadium Sept. 12th
against the Huntington Giants.
Mgr. O'Donnell invites all
hopefuls to try out for the Chiefs
and extends an invjtatiwi also lo
all Freeporters toctMne down and
watch the Qiiefs wraii out.
"We are very happy to be
here." says O'Donnell, "and hope
to give Freeport a championship
club."
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Donald L. Costlow. acting superintendent of Freeport
schools for one year was appointed su|>erintendent by the
school board Monday evening. Mr. Costlow has been in the
Freeport schools since 1948 when he started as a student
teacher. After 10 years of teaching bu.siness education lie
assumed various administrative duties and was named
Acting Superintendent
in August 1970 upon
tlie resignation of then
Superintendent Chris­topher
Warrell.
In a personal inter­view
with The Leader
on Tuesday, Costlow
emphasized the impor­tance
of icpresenting
the entire community,
parents and children
and "to be tuned in
to their needs and sug-gestHJns.
All segments jiie new Superintendent discusses his
of the community must app«ntment.
be considered." said the new Superintendent, who also
intends to "repair and improve upon past projects and
programs." Another area of vital interest to Superintendent
Costlow is the expansion of Freeport school's athletic
programs including a soccer learn for the boys and an all-round
athletic program for tlie girls which would serve to
build school spirit.
The energetic and peisonable Superintendent says "it
will be a challenging j o b " but he is optimistically looking
forward to the new school term which will enroll approxi­mately
8500 students.
Costlow has been a rejadent of Merrick for 18 yeare
and with his wife, Dorothy, is proud of two sons, David
18, Donald 9 and two d a u ^ t e r s Debbie 21, and Leslie, 16.
Freeport Welfare Assistance Reduced
Hopeful tryouts listen m coach makes a point.
Tom Sufftitii limbers up his
kicking foe.
For the first time since early in
1969, a reduction in the pubUc
assistance caseload was reported
today by the Nassau County
Department of Social Services
for the second quarter erf 1971.
In releasing a br^kdown ot the
number of cases for communities
in the County, a drop irf 189 cases
for the months of April. May and
June was noted by Social Ser­vices
Commissioner James M.
Shuart in a report to County
Executive Ralph G. C^o.
Exceptionally large reductions
were made in Freeport, Great
Neck, Mineola and West Hemp­stead,
the figures show. Levit-town
leads the list of ovn-munities
reflecting high^ tallies.
In addition to the drqi in
number of cases, Mr. Shuart
(4)served that the numlier of
individuals receiving public
assistance also dii^ied by G56
persons.
The improvement, according U>
Commissioner Shuart, probably
is based on changes in the
economic conditions on Long
Island as well as better
management and procedural
techniques.
Except for this three-month
period, there has been a steady
climb in the number of cases
receiving public assistance for
the IB-months beginning
January, 1970. The average
monthly increase, according to
Mr. Shuart, has been 517 cases.
Since the beginning of the year,
when Commissioner Shuart took
office, there has been an increase
of 656 cases representii^ 2,313
additional persons.
The trend in the April through
June caseload curtailment was
fxmcentrated in the low-wealth
conununities, the Commission^'
continued, while the welfare
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