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38t!iYEARNo.l7 FREEPORT, NEW YORK, AUGUST 23,1973 PRICE; 10^ PER COPY
'^elf0F^Di$pi^ Anew,
The Long I^latid Humane
Society's Board of Directors, at a
meeting Monday night, voted 12
to 1 to set up a three^member
Shelter Committee, to' gather
previous reports and recom­mendations
on the operatipn of
the Society's Rider Place ahinial
^shelter. The committee's purpose
is to rectify what one faction of
the strlfe>ridden organization
claims, are problems which
otfiers. including Board-Chair'
man Wilbur Friar, say do not
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Newspaper headlines last
weekend c[ii^tioned whether - or,
not too niany animals were betag
put toi dea& at the Shelter. A
story quo^ Society Presldeiit;
Sidneys^Weber as saying 14,923;
animals had been destroyed in
19f?2 while 2,644 animals were
adopted. Retorting to that
statement Friar's attorney
James Leonard wrote, to the
reporting paper, that "from
January l,to July 31, 1973, 914
dogs were adopted, 342 dogs were
Ifut to sleep, on orders of, shelter
give animsils <to famili^ with
young children, Leonard writes,
"Shelter piersonnel advise that
not more than 5 or 6 animals have
been refused to young children in
the last 8 months. When a child
h'sThatTnm Renllaw To Be Enforced
Buildings said that U a dwelling is
in gqaJ condlt(6n,and meets the
Buildings Di&partmcnt stiindards
starts to tear an anirtial a|Sart
while the empldyees watch, the
paldii employees (not incliiding
FrlarJ refuse to allow the
adoption of young animals; They
will suggest that a child have an
older animal instead. Animals
have been Munied to the Shelter
badly mauledjjby. young children
and th6 shelter personnel love
animals."";':.:::;-'.,': •^-,•-:;'^" ;•
: The three-member Shelter
Committee #111, be chaired by
Evelyn DeLuca, a Director.
Among the things the committee
will consider is the cdntracturat
services of a veterinarian, who
would either be on call'to daily
inspect; the Shelter arid the
animalsV making suggestions in
health areas and whidh animals
are hopelessly ill and shoidd be
destroyed.
. , _ , .^JheBoardon^oncJaynight, by
«inployees <^riar is not asheMr ^a ll-2,margin (the minority being
employee), and 366 dogs were put' Friar and His Wife) voted to
tb'sleep on orders of their owners.
No dog is put to sleep except for
medical reasons." Critics of
Friar also claim he refuses to
malte up a proxy, listing two
slated for the October 29 election
of five Directors. The courts,
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Village Pays Homage To Otis
Freeport parents and offspring
may view the news from a dlf-'
^erent light but thesevenschools
of Freeport Union Free School
District (a change in name from
JOistrict 9) as well ias the
elementary schools of Our Holy
Redeemer Church and the
Church of the Transfiguration,
will open their doors on Sep­tember
B.
Within, the public school
system, 7,500 will be seated
behind their desks that Wed­nesday
mbming. Archer Street
School, holding grades 1 to 4, will
have 695 students; Atkinson
School ^will have 1,137 attending
fifth arid flxth; Bay view Avenue
School^ grades I to 4, Wit .
iColumbus Avenue will have %9
from kindergarten to fourth;
Giblyn School, grades 1 to 4,646;
Dodd Junior High School will
open the doors -to 1,091- and
Freeport High School a whopping
2,240.
In this week's LEADER We
have published several it^ims^
Which wlU/ba.'-ofvlihterest- tb"'
parents and educators alike 'atid
plan to \.piiblisfa, adc^itibnal
material next""weeR7' THE
LEADER would like to thank the
School 0istrict and others-for all
the miaierlal |irovided to us'in
response to our' short notice
request. v;
The Building Department is
strictly enforcing the • new
Freeport Rental Ordinance
which requires all owners of
rental property to obtain a permit
for every house or apartment
they are renting; Superintendent
of Buildings E^uis Bello declared
today, V'^;,,.: .;'>;;.-:.----,^
"If an application Is not on file
by September 4, the property
owner will be in violation .of the
law and our department will take
immediate action in Issuing a
summons," Bello said. He
pointed out that the law calls for a
minimum fine of $100 for each
infraction and/ or up to fifteen
days in Jail. *
"The purpose of this ordlnarice^
is to keep Freeport "heigh*
borhoods on the upgrade and
maintain a high residential
standard," Bello said, "and we
intend to use every means at our
disposal to strictly- enforce^ the
rental, law.
the inspection will be routine and
there will be no problem In ob­taining
a permit. If the property
hos violations or conditions
detrimental to health of safely
the Building Department will so
notify the owner and direicl him to
make the necessary corrections.
Applications for rental permits
can be obtained from the
Building Department, 46 No.
Ocean Avenue, Freeport. The
landlord's license fee for a two-year
period Is $20.00 for renting a
one-family dwelling. For
buildings with more tiMiii one
family, the fee W$W,tO for the
first dwelling unit and $4.00 for
each additional ^welling unit,
and $4.00 whenever a turn-over In
tenancy- occurs. In the case of a
two-family house in which the
.w..v-.,.-^. owner lives, th^ fee Is half.the
The ; Superintendent;_ ^6t •:,,regular^jfee.^ . , ,'=.-... VK-.4;
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Village Is New Home To Olrls —
. It wasn't so much -what they
said from the pulpit as the look on
the faces in th_e pews. J t was a
took of bewifderment, disbelief,
wake - me/ujhfrom-thls-drea^,
Freeport turned,out'^to honor a'
son, A soil they knew; too short a
time - but knew'well, '
, Otis S a u h i ^ ; . Jr.', l8-years-.
Otis was held by his peers and the
school.staff. Costlow said, J!.'0tis
was a leader ... (he) brought a
sense of responsibility, pride and
honor..." to whatever he did. He
concluded with "...; he left a
legacy difficidt to^live up to ... a
challenge to yoiing people to'work
together, respect each other ... a
Special Programs .
Planned for 1973-74
The Freeport Public Schools"
operate a series of spe.ci|i
programs to meet the n^dss^of
Jhe students and the community.
The i^re-Klndergarten J Pro­gram^
which utilizes the facilities
of CampJBatimann Isjlesignediio"
' assist Freeport children to learn
ba^ic educational skills and ^ to
develop a - sense -of self-importance.
Seven 16-year-old girls, moved
into 89 SouUi Ocean Avenue last
Thursday. It|s their first "home"
as each has spent the last six to
seven years In a sta|e mental
hospital. They were not,
however, ''mental patients."
They are either the offspring of a
patient; orphans or had no
established home, They were In
the hospitals because no: foster::
homes could be found for these
black chijdren. These seven
represent some 1,000 such
Jeenagers in the state. ! ; : , _ . -
Thirae are Uie facts given to
THE LEADER by Dr; Richard
Greene, Clinical Director of; the_
Long ;lsland Jew|8h-Hill8ide;
.MediciU-Center;v-c:'.:-'^:':i o.%::
^ the SbutHJi:Oceah Avenue
building, directly behind the £c^t
At the high school ieVeL there--^^^^*^M'*-^h«l by^^
old, was buried last friday froip ^Jegacy that calls for each of us to,
the Bethel A.M;E.. Church dn^j love each other."
' Helen Avenue. "The day was bleak,., Derek Richardson, friend and
and grey/;the?skies ovci'cast'aSj', classmate speaking for his
family,' neighbors.^,. friends,, ^ generation said,' ','... the inner
fellow-students.' aiid) tjeachers] Otis was much more than football
' >ntejredtJie'i^frame"chufcKand,, ,and basketbaUv... his .spirit and
AcHn^bed-^ the;;^flight''--6r,%stairs.,, men^
Young and oldftblac^. and white,;. \ And inThis -eulogy . Rev.
. ^ theyikriw;10tis>, respected ,his,^ \ Emanuel, speaking.;of. Otis' in-achievem'ents.'.
loved him.^ Frorn* - volvement with the ybungstjerB in
eyerywhere>'Freq>brters came,|| the Village recreation program,
fliey fdled'.tHe; pews; nhe extra: | noted that"... he Uught the kids
chairs, the stairs to the chapel;. ^ hot jiist how to play the game of
the church entranceiand out into, • basketball - but' the game of
the street::'; \ . ' ' ' - . :'
From the pulpit, the Reverend
'S.' Frank Emmanuel recounted
^fhe>V'accomplishments iO^s
life.f'
Ail the crowd filed out of the,
church the faces weren't quite as
grim. The neighbors, the friends.
are ,a variety of special
programsr^lTlTRrHs- for—ther
youngster under sixteen who has
difficulty functioning in a
traditional school program. It
offers SRiaU^lass instruction and
counseling :until - the student is
prepared to return to the regular
classroom situation."
The;|Conimimity iSchool,,. o^
feri[ig§ nighttime course of study,
leading to a high school diploma'
is for stiudents over'sixteen, It Is
coupled with placement for
daytime jobs. It is also open to
adultdVIn' the, community ,who
seek a full high school diplonta.
. ' In addition,/the'High School
offers course work at.Hofstra for
certain seniors. The Dodd School
features a computer-assisted
iristrucUon pro-am' in'imathe-matics.
The Atkinson 'School
correlates classroom ^thi^ahd
science work with t^real:llfc; ex-perienciBs,
throu^-its ^, Outdoor
ProgranDi;,;l;t'aD-'
Jarvis who for many, years
maintained his home and offices
there. Upon retiring to Con;
necticut he offered to rent the
premises to Abbott House, a non­profit
child ..care agency which
has operated in Manhattan for
close to ten years, according to
its Director, Robert Await. His
agency was chosen to receive
New York City and state funds to
help the institutionalized children
when the Civil Liberties Union
successfully brought suit to have
them released. Working wilh
Believue Hospital in the city and
now with Hillside, small groups
are being set up in such homes
while receiving speclaljzcd
orientation treatment to ease
Ihclr return to the normal world.
Both the city home and the one in
Freeport are pilot projects ac­cording
to Await. '
Dr. Greene stressed that while
siich children are .not psychotic,
neither are they normal In that-one,
for instance, has never been
inside a store. Another, taken by
hospital personnel tpja post of­fice,
said, "Oh, I knbvrwhei that
Is. . . It's the mailrooml'i^'Such-children
need—specialized
treatmenii and our experiences
with longtime POW's Is--the
closest We come to that. But with
the POWi-you'rejipallng with an.
adult who spent the first twenty
years of his life normally. In this
instance, we're dealing with
children who remember nothing
but the /regimen; , and un­pleasantness'
of hospital life.
This is where the sUff of Hillside
comes in/. The,!!,girls live In
Freeport ,bMl,'^rtvcl to the
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Education
(SauriderariilTrr/crowcled'into'iB; the schoolmates''seemwl to , her divi'duallz'ed regulariT^Vi^nd
\shoityjeare.''rV;-' i;. '-: -" ' ' reassured that Otis Saunders,. Jr. remedial math artd\ri^diiig,in-
„'jv^.:.''^ -..-.-. . « 1. jjgj made hismarjc - and they , struction '» avaOabie/ih.all'pf
knew that Otis was sniilkig down Freeport's ,elenarat^ry.^schodIs^
on'them... because the sun came
out'
Donald -Costlow, ^Freeport
SupeHntendent::;of j;SCho6ls,, ad-
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i'.v'vpressed^thp esteeni:,with which <
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