The-Leader_1973-11-15

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FIRE CLEANUP, FrMpoit Fire
Department memtjeriworked un­its
9pm Saturday to demoiiih the
remalni of the Howard Prliiti,
Inc. hsadquartflrtatSSMili Road,
which was destroyed in a fire
.which liepn thortfy after 1 pm
A wallpaper plantr a V«rtt'n8
motor let off chemicatt. No one .
was hurt in the Waze that was
so intense its smolce was teen in_^_
Watt Hempstead. Deputy Chiefs
Casntasina and Cominos called
tfie Baldwin, Merricic and Ocean-,
side Departments to stand by.
the structure was owned iiy
State Senator Norman Levy's
motlier and his late father's part­ner.
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Heroic Fathir Buried
Eight-year old Levi Gold Jr..
was stiU listed in poor condition
with third degree bums over 90%
of his body as we went to press
TuMday. On Monday hisJJr^fian-old
father, Levi Qold was buried
in St. Charles Cemetery following
a Mass of the Resurrection at Our
Holy Eedeemer Church. He_
succumbed-early Friday morning •
to the burns and other injuries he
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• The Freeport Democratic
Organization, at a press con­ferenceSunday
morning, an­nounced
that they would deliver a
letter to Nassau County District
Attorney "William Cahn. th6
following day requesting his
office to investigate the recent
Newsday "Influence"
allegations. On Monday morning
THE LEADER r«:elved a call
from the organization which
quoted Cahn as saying, '*! will
iiegin an immediate investigation
to determine whether or not this
matter should be placed before a
grand jury."
Mayor Responds
Tuesday. Mayor William H.
White denounced the attempts of
"a small group of self appointed
Democratic spokesmen" to make
a criminal investigation from.the
Newsday stories as "nothing but
• political opportunism of the worst
kind."
"This small band of
politicians," Mayor White said,
"has seized upon the recent
Newsday stories as a vehicle to
try to ruin the traditional
Freeport system of local in­dependent
parties. They won't be
happy until Republicans are
pitted against Democrats in
Village elections, which would be"
the beginning of the end of local
government In Freeport, .
•i don't blame the District
Attorney's office for responding
to the loud political cries for an
Investigation," Mayor White
said, "He can't ignorie such a
request, no matter what the
source.-Although Idldn't' want to
dignify their politically
motivated demands, 1 am sure jin
investigation by the District
Attorney will finally put the
Newsday lies and distortions to
rest, .
"I have directed the Village
Clerk to cooperate fully'and
provide any information"
requested by representatives of
the District Attorney," Mayor
White said. "We know we have
nothing to fear from the truth,
and we, know that, unlike the
dishonest Newsday reporters, we
will get adeterminatlon based on
the facts -and the facts are that
at no time did I ever tiklany
action to benefll^myself or any
other individual at the expense of
the Village."
To illustrate the purely
political motivation of the few
Democrats involved, Mayor
White pointed to an unsigned
flyerdistributed Just before last
wek's election.
'•This nameless sheet bore the ^
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Village, Schools, Town Ener0 Plans
Both the Village Board and the
Freeport School District-an­nounced
plans,; this week to
conserve energy as_ciljed-^ by
President Nixon.
Thermostats in Village Hall
and-other-Village buildinp will
WH0^WiLL-6li4ARSr4MERRY CHRISTMAS? Freeport Chamber o^
Commence Director Donidd Pantina presents tfie five Freeport ladles
selected as semi-finaltStt in this yesir's Mrs. Merry Christmas contest
The winner vrill be selected today CThuradaylatthe 12:30prn finals at
The Schooner Restaurant and will ride iri thie place of Honor In Satur­day's
Toyland Parade. The semi-finalists are IL-R) Nancy Ahnf
Huggard, Doris Schmeling, Patricia Megale, Lorry Fitch and Georgia
Biller. {Photo by Oscar)
Big Parade Safifrday
Freeport's holiday season
officially begins this Saturday at
9:30am when the fhrst of 37 units
marches from Freeport High
School to signal the beginning of
the Freeport Chamber of Com­merce's
16th Annual Toyland
. Parade.
Organized and funded through
the Chamber, its Retail Division
and many Village merchants,
thousands of. Freqx)rters and
residents of nearby commtmities
of all ages are expected toilne the
route ^ the parade which will
proceed .south op.Brookside
Avenue, west-on Merrick Road,'
north on South Main Street, past
the reviewhig stand at the in­tersection
of Newton Boulevard,
west on.Llttle Pine Sb'eet to Pine.
Street and on to South Grove
Street where the units will
disband at the John W. Dodd
Junior High School parking lot.
Mrs. Mildred White, .wife of
Freeport's Mayor, will do the.
commentary on the parade from
the reviewhig stand. According to
the event's chainnah, Chamber'
2nd VP Butch iOuiaamhrian,
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be set at 68 degrees, to conserve
fuel oil. Mayor William White
announced. In addition, all lights
that were previously left burning
in Municipal buildings will be
Extinguished, except the-minimum
number—heeded for
safety of nl^t woricers.
"The step-wearcrTiking with
the greatest regret," Mayor
White said, "is the .elimihation of
~—the4reditional aemmal lights In
the business district. It wHl make
. our Holiday Season a little less
merry, but we canpot justify this ,
heavy usiif'of electricity at a time '
when real hardships might be
caused by the energy shortage. (A
spokesman for the Freeport
Chamber of Cpmmerce, ; the
brgahization that - annually
provides the lights, did say. that
mKti-lighted hoUday;^ ttecorations
would beiptitiiV'^ittakes millions
of galloni of fuel oU to qperate our
electrical generators, and we
A RAISE COMING. Mayor William H. White signs a new two-year alriady areexperiewelng seridus
contract between the Village and the Civil Service Employees' proWems in obtaining an
Association. The contract provides; for most mdnkipal employees, adequate siMJjf m the special
salary increases in fiscal 1973 «id 1974. Seated are (L-R) Nassau ^%^^S^\^iA n^Jifm^.
CSEA President Irving Flaumenbaum, FrMtport Chapter President H ^ i S ! » S M . i ? ! l SS
William JakubbwskL the Mayor, and Freeiwl CSEA 2nd VlethPresi- J ^ ' J f r ^ ^ ^ J T A ^ J S ?
dent Joshua Cnrfton. Standing are Village Thittees Dorothy Storm, ^^^^^jLs^HaL^^^
Ralph Franco, Deputy Mayor George Fairberg, and Thomas Love- ^^^^^^^^^"^^
hdp of a. State mMliilor and • fwt-finder. (Photo By Oscar) . ^(contteoed on Page 12) •
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