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36th YEAR, No. 32 FREEPORT. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2. 1971 PRICE: TEN CENTS PER COPY
Boy's Slaying
Stirs Community
S a l v a d o r i ^ How It Happened by JTachk eH eaAlv fterm^^a th
Fired Again
Holiday Ball committee chooses decorations, above, while Chef
.G.G. prefiaret to carve, assisted by Terry Oosra and Nelson Cruz.
t'reeporters Will Glisten
at Holiday Ball
One of the main attractions at
the First Annual Holiday Ball
sponsored by the Freeport
Chamber of Commertx will be a
grand march of VIPs and their
lovely partners. The sparkling
affair to be held at the South
Shore Yacht Qub on Saturday,
December 11th wiU begin at 8:30
and last until the wee hours of the
morning. Tickets incdude two
bottles of cheer per table,
unlimited buffet indudiag prime
ribs <rf beef, baked and Wed
clams, baked ziti, turkey,
Virginia ham, salads and dessert
and coffee. Entire menu
arranged compliments of Mike
Ocera. owner of the popular
Mariners Haven Restaurant in
Island Park. A band fm yow
dancing and listening pleasure
rounds out an enjoyable evening,
all for the nominal cost of $20.00
per couple. Dress is optional and
the committee recommends
earJy reservations. l)ae re­servation
coupon on page 11.
John Salvadore former Urban
Renewal head of Freeport was
"fired" again Monday night for
the second lime in four months.
At the end of last July, The
Village Board dismissed
Salvadore from his $17,000 post
for reasons undisclosed. Since the
Board had hired him 2 years
before. Village officials declared
thai legally, his dismissal should
also be a decision of the Board.
"Not so," ruled Supreme Court
' iTndge-ISiff ia Mineola, Mcmday,
on the very technical point.
"Salvadore's dismi^al should
have been handled by Freeport's
Urban Renewal Commission and
not the Village Board." Since the
same members comprise both
groups, the board meeting
Monday night was opened by the
Village Board, the meeting
immediately adjourned, and
reopened with the grwip con­vened
as the Urlian Renewal
Commission. Salvadore was fired
(again) and the meeting was
closed.
In conforming with Judge Liff's
ruling on the technicality, the
decision was also made to pay
Salvadore back pay for the four
month period between "firings".
Salvadore reportedly will
return to the courts to continue
his suit to be reinstated as Urban
Renewal Commissioner of
Freeport.
Student
IJOSSS A ISM
Dunng a disturbance among
black and white students at
Freeport High School last March
4lh, a student. Kevin Gaines of 54
Leonard Avenue was charged
with striking a teacher and en­couraging
others to do the same.
A( the hearing of the charges
later in the month the school
determined that Gaines had
struck the teacher but had not
been guilty of encouraging others
lo do the same. He was ^ispended
from school for the rest of the
school year
Through his attorney, David
Kadane, Gaines appealed to the
State Education Department to
set aside the school decision.
Monday the State Education
Dept rejected the student's
appeal. Commissioner Nyquist
commented that "there is no
tiasis for a conclusion that the
penalty was disproportionate to
the offense."
Lawrence Blaylock died
early Saturday nwrning. end­ing
a chase through five
towns and involving four
police cars. The 16-ycar-o!d
Blaylock wa.s killed by a
single shot a.s he and a
companion attempted to flee
on foot following the wild
aul(miobilc chase.
At 3:55 AM on Saturday,
according to the Police De­partment,
Patrolman James
Coan of the Lynbrook Police
Depl. .spotted a car going
I he wrong way on Ross Plaza
in Lynbrook. Patrolman
Coan got out of his car to
Rag down the other vehicle.
He was forced to jump clear
when the driver accelerated
and attempted t(j hit him.
Patrolman Coan gave
cha.se in his scjuad car as the
other vehicle, a stolen 1964
Plymouth sedan headed east-bound
in the westbound
lane of Sunrise Highway
Another patrol car af-lempled
to block the speed­ing
vehicle at Carpenter Ave.
in Lynbrook but was forced
off the road .
In Rockville Center, with
the two patrol cars in pur-
.suit, the speeding vehicle
rammed a third police car
which had joined the chase.
Patrolman Donald Carter in
the third car was slightly
injured by the ramming.
Continuing east through
Baldwin and Freeport, Blay-lock's
car turned north on
Babylon Turnpike towards
Roosevelt where the chase
was joined by the fourth
police car.
Nassau Palrolmen Frank
Parisi and William Hall in
the fourth patrol car forced
the sedan to stop at Delise
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Al the Columbus Ave.
School, on a nigh I that made
you think that it was (he
second coming of the flood,
about I 50 members of the
black community responded
to a meeting called by Mr.
Alan Calhoun. Mr. Calhoun,
Democratic committeeman
from the 26th ED said that
while the meeting was n<»t
officially called by the
Democratic party, he felt
that the situation called for
political action.
The situation referred to
was the shooting early Satur­day
morning of I 6-year-old
Lawrence Blaylock by
Nassau County Patrolman
Pari.si.
Mr. Calhoun's opening
remarks set the tone for the
meeting. He said that the
Black community must lake
political action, not violent
and unlawful action. He fur­ther
suggested thai petitions
' be signed calling for the
immediate .suspension of
Patrolman Parisi and a grand
jury investigation of the
shooting. Other suggestions
called for telegrams to be
sent to county officials from
County Executive Caso on
down.
One after another of
people stepped forward to
speak in agreement with the
proposal but all were in
agreement that official action
must be swifl. Even after
the young man's mother
cried out in tears, "Why did
he have to kill him" before
being helped from the room,
emotions were held in check.
Again the pleas for unity in
the Black community were
heard.
Several people said that
they knew Patrolman Parisi,
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