The-Leader_1976-06-10

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41stYEARNo.7 FREEPORT, NEW YORK JUNE 10.1976 PRICE: 15« PER COPY
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Two Freeport0rs ^eVdrd Loses By 800
r ! : ' ^ . : ^ ^tf>"'nr Bucfgef Posses
ONE HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW. Membera of the Freeport High
School General Organization's Bicentennial Time Capsule Committee
show Deputy Mayor Ralph^Franco (sieated) some of the Item's to t>e
: burled for 100 years oh a site In the Village Green^ Others'to be Includ-
Ved'art-THE LEADER" and'.several other, publications,- a :llat of all.
:-^^eiwntehnlal.volunteers, typlcalclbthlnp4tefiw,fwt»u>aiit iuBniisami.
FREEPORT-Tvyo Freeporters
Kcni named to nih in tne Novem-ber
electioffby the Nassau County
Democratic - Committee' at their .
June 2 convention in -East Mea­dow;
Gerald.Halpem, an attor­ney
with ofBces in Mineola,
was nominated to oppose Repub­lican
Congressman Norman Lent
in the Foiuth Congressional Dis-':
trict. Freeport ' attorney Al
Dorfmaii .will oppose incumbent
.Republican -Annand D'Amato in
the race for the State Assembly in
the iSth A;p. Both nominatins
were unanimous. '; - • >
•Hllper
FREEPQRX--. The Freeport4>dK><d-Pi>Uiefs annual budget was •
defeated by more than 800 votes Tuesday night as mote than 4,800
residents went to the polls. The voters also rejected the incumbent,
Gloria Nevard, who was seeking her second term on the Board of
Education, and swept to victory. John D. Rqilly. The budget for the
Fretport Memorial Library, on
mer "ftfiti-fftCKr
a prw^Jflmallon from MiQrqrvyiinmiVVhlfefmdlng.Vlhe biptti(»l9h^^ ' attorney for the WaterftohiCom-'
• the'over 4d,(X»»ideiii»<rt ioday, tathe FreepbHer«pBftha^
Slandlngfl.toV.)arieGO CorfospdhiarngSdcretaty'Tracey ftobfnsoh,'
QOSecrelary Elizabeth TaubVCk>mmittMnlember'Qreg
; GO Ai^vl9or:Alan Llssaiierand Cohi'mlttee Chajrinan ^aam Ladd_. The.
Capsule will b^.dlsplayed during Sat'urday.night'a Bldehtenhlal Parade
while the $10, limited edition, comjinemoratlve platiai held by T^ub and
. the $4 file depleting Village Hall shown by Mr: Llssauer will be sold at
the'Fair, to' be. held .Saturday and Sunday on the grounds of the'Elks
: Club.•':-';V:.:::":r^^•u•-^•^••^- -^ ; • • :.w.-V--- •••.-• :•:
the other hand, passed by dose
:to the same margin as the school
budget was defeated.
The proposed $18,594,000
school budget received 2,024
yes votes to 2,830- no votes. In
only two of the six school election
districts did the" voters react
favwitbiy to.the budget request,
-whidiwqfuldlwve increased tales
.-M.8i per SlOO
For
;, FREEPORT -; t he tiny twirlepidf the Freeport Recreation Depart-'
ment wiU be just one of the many groups to parade past the„ wheel-chaired
patients of the Sooth Shore Nursing^me this corning Sator-
^y^night, as Fteeport's.GalaBioeiiteonial parade proceeds dowq .
KferrickRoad. --v. •..•'. -. . " :-. :
Village residents and visitors,
of aD -ages, are exjjected to -
gather -together dnnng this
weekend not only.fof the Parade,
bat for a two-day Old Fashioned
: Country Fab- and for a Block
• Party following the Parade. ' .
Kicking off tlie events will' be
the Grand Opening^'of "the Fair.
; .on Saturday, at 10:30 am, on the
grounds' of the Fiv< Qub, Merrick
Road and Bergen Place. Famed_
Freeporter Guy Lombardo has
been invited to participate in the
short- ocremonies whidi will
incl:.de the reading of excerpts-ftx)
m th.e Declaration of Indepen­dence
by Freeport High School
student Gregory Groover.
Admission to the Fair,-which
' will run from 10:30'am to 6 pm
. on Satanlay.and-tptu lu-7 pHTdh'
Sunday; is free; as is the almost
continuous entertainment to be
presented on stage.
J Featured-will be the Student-
Faculty Jazz Group of the Jolm
W. Dodd Junior High School, a
- BicentennialTrr^'-spooT.' by - the
. Little Theatre Group of the Free
Committee's Heritage Committee
. headed by Doris Ni(±erson; Start­ing
with ''Daniel Raynor's New
Houje,". resident ''actors" will
take the audience through the
eariy days of the Village induding [
"School Days," "Raynor Rock
Smith,. A Famous Iiero,""The
. First - Fire company," "The
Oysterinen," "A Summer At
The Seashore," "The lights
Qub." "The Flying Flapper of
' Freeport," and "The Incredible'
Caroline G.-Atkinson." Resi^
dents partidpating include Mar­tin
and Fran' Dwycr, Anthony
and Mary Veneralo, Douglas
Donald, the Martin Fox family,
Walter and Betty ligon, Donald
Giordano, „ Henry . Ankcrman,
Homer Weed, Edgar Mapes, the
-families of Allen Butterfield and
Thomas O'Brien, Edward and
Ruth Voelker, Ralph and'Alma
Atkinson, 'Judy Reilly, : Joan
Kcimedy, Patricia Bessel, Norine
Lawson and Jackie LaMar.
Narrators will be Harold Levine
and RutirKickerson. The tabltsux'
will be presented at_Dopn.-2T3Q-liCLAxts-
Coundl^and^Americana—ana'4:l5 on Saturday and at 1:30,
music by the Freeport Com- 2;30 and 4 JO on Sunday after-munity
Chorale.- noon.
A spedal series. of Freeport Demonstrations of colonial
historical tableaux will be pre- crafts will be presented by the
s:ented "by the BiamtcnniaL . (Cont. on Page 12)
mlssioii ot. PTST.'^roi'-'HaftOTV
vra^ i member of the County Drug
and Addiction v; Commission
under then ^-County ^ecutive
Eiigene-NickersMx.. As such he
served as liason to drug pre­vention
programs in South Shore ;
cornmratitiies. "Currentiy, he is "
.Counsel- .and .Director of
PRIDE, " a, commui^'.ba5ed
fiadlitytn Freeport dealing with
yimith involvement in alcohol and
drugs. • ' / ' • ' ,
" Halpem has also served as
a Commissioner of the Freeport
Human Relations" Commission. -
He and his wife Carol haye
lived, in Freeport for 15 years •
and have' three teenaged. chil- .
dren,' •,'/ "... - ,'• ;.'. • : ! • '. '
. AIDddEman..
, Dorfrnan, who has been active
in criniinal and dvil practice,
for .18. years, filed'the first Free-,
dom of Information "suit in New
York State,' under the new.
statute, in behalf of Denis Dillon '
(prescntiy Nassau County District
. Attorney) against then ' D.A.
William Cahn. That case resulted :
in a landmark decision that help­ed
establish tliat government
business is th£ public business.
A Vice-President of the South
Shore Chapter of the American
' Jewish Congress, Dorfrnan b a
member of its National Governing
CounciL He is also a member of
the Nassau and State Bar Assod-ations
and is on the Board of the
Nassau Chapter of the American
CivO liberties Union, j
Dorfrnan and .Ks. wife,
Rochelle, have four school-age
children. He has tiis law.ofBces
in the Village..
Labor Support .
Halpem's candidacy was sup­ported,
at_ the" convention, by;
:- Eocdo;. CampanOTr,- -Executive
l_.Direct0t:31iriEelt.U-Fcderation-of
.Labor, who said that the
"working men ind women of the
Fourth District and their labor
orgaiiizations are determined to
defeat Lent tliis year" because of
(Cont. on Page 12)
tipti^ Ai.^\.5l«<te»41.L.Airei5«a:.
i?<*OM there were: 171 yes'votes"
counted, to 14 no votes; while at
Cohimbiia ] Avenne: there. Were'.
332. yes votes to 14 noes. The
.other votes; as tabulated.-were: i
Aidier Street School} 415 no,
697 yes; AtUnspn Sdnol 350 yes, '
516 no; Bigrvlew Avenne ScbDol-
432 yes, 801; no;; and. GIblya*.
324 yes, 651 no. - . .
: Winner Jack, Reilly received
2,721 votes to Nevard's 11954.
At Aicfaer,' Reilly pulled 655
votes; Nevard, 423. At Attlnaoa
School,. Reilly 462 to 371 for
Nevard. Bayvlew Avcnae-
School District went 720 votes fin
RelDy to 444 for Nevard; and'
GIblyn showed 612 for Reilly.
. 325 for Nevard. In the devtiand
SdKwl District Nevard won with
140 votes oyer 40 for. Reilly; and
she; barely> took the' Goteznlnis
Avem^ Sdibdl District with ,251
to her opponent's 234 votes. .
/Reilly baJi campaigned upon a
platform of fiscal economy and
cutting back;oh the costs of
administrative 'personnel, while
; Nevard had backed the budget as
. being the best way to continue to
give the chUdren of the district
; a continued sound education.
Superintendent of Sdiools
Donald Costiow issued a state­ment
following; the . budget's
defeat in which he said,' Today's.
voter- defeat of our proposed
1976-77 school district budget. Is
a disappointment. TTierbtwd of
Education aadXcntrallAdmiris-itktioh
Will meet during the nekt
. ACVttal;, days - to' 'detennlae - out -
': next course of action. As soon 'as
all. of the avaflable Options have
been; evaluated and a -dedslon
, reached,; we ' will Immediately
inform the public." . ^: • .'
School Board' President Joe .
McAndreiii^ told THE LEADER
tiiat i t i s his "own feeling" to
comeback to the voters witii the
-budget. He classified the vote as
• a "more or less • protest' vote '
, against everything "' in . the
country,.'saying that, be would
like to see how mahy of the voters
come back to the polls the same
way next time< He stated that be
would, peisonally,., advocate
bringing the budget up again at
the same level next tiniie', with an
additional $5,000 in it to pay
for the secondvote. He stressed
however that the ^entire Board
would be niMting the next day, at
a previously.^ called Workshop
' meeting, at which time he would
express his opinions to them.
The final figures on the LOirary
j^^ budget were 2,792.yes.votes and
\ 2,021 no'votes. The new budget
. will show an bcrease'of .06i5<
over last year's tax rate.
PREPARING FOR T H E FAIR, Residents of Freeport's'South Shore
Nursing Home, W, MerTlckT?oatf;4ra tufty.fim«hlnfl.Mp_^ramIcsjwa^
"omajTian^SfaTr^lferns forTale at" their booth atjraepgjl!ij31drFa>h--- -
-lonod-Country^^alfrThe-BICBmennTai ovenTwITl be hold Saturday and
Sunday, June 12 and 13, on the grounds of the Freeport Elka Club.
Shown with some of their own works are (f.-r.) Elsie Golden. 83 years -
old;.Harrlfitiielch,-68 years old; Carolyn Schlrmukly, 88 year* old;
Veronica Shoman, 88 years old; Mary Belles, who at 99 years old Is the"
Home's oldest resident; and Mae Cherok, 80 years old.
CA LEADER photo)