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41st YEAR No. 23 FREEPORT. NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 30.1976; PRICE 15* PER COPY
Chamber Selects ,/i^sks For llason Role
^^^'^^ While Blasting Rand
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FREEPORT. - The Bo;|rd of
Directors of the Freeport Cham­ber
of Commerce met this past
Mnmlay;]evcritng.—Septembcr-27r-trt
accept" "with regret""the~ rev
signation of the Chamber's
; President. . Vartan "Butch"
•"Kh'ananiiriah.''Tfie local retailer
• "— he'has-been associated with
i Hunter Clothes on South Main
;, • 'Street-r^ had resigned because of.
iil-health. X^e Board of Directors;
chose Norinan Schmeling; a
principal of Schmeling Agency,
Inc.. a . Freeport insurance
agency, to, fill the ^vacant spot
until' elections- are -heW next
April. Schmeling had bcca First
Vkx-Prcsideht. .;;•;'-"^ ' , '
Along .-with; a runanimously.
^ta^pccwntKhan--
amirian with a'spedal-plague for
his .setvice to the .orgumatibn.
FRl^EPOKT - The Executive Board of the Freeport Council of FT As
met last Thursday night and unanimously called for better communi-
-cationsbetwecnthrftceportSdiool DisttictTindthrparentstof'*'aaicVi'
ate the situation which led .to a sit-in demonstration in the District's
adminisfration building.',* '
- . The sit-in had ended the evening before when Village police ofRccrsr
rSecshpooonl dDinisgt ritcot , ae ncdaeldl ftrhoem t htrheee^
day and two night demonstration
by escorting the 20 residents who
were present at the time out of
Ihb building.. They- were In­formed
of the legal consequences
of any-.refusal to leave Super­intendent
of Sdiools Donald-
Costlow's, office • and therefore
went to" the -Village court; house
where Ihey held a "pressconr
fc^encel'^ Jomet, Rand, president
which was heard on the local
radio, the PTA Eiecutiye Council,
while stres$ing its role as liason
bet^veen the Board of Edacatiori,
administration, teachers and •.
parents, termed Rand "power
hungry" . and his • followers
"confused and sincere jiarcnts.-"
- Council President Gerry Dalola
said the l^up's.-.VOte followed
discussion, .of. .Rand's' ^ history
. Jnvo>lving^^ a • i ^ e t of- episodes
purefttw^hle Udte* from F f M p^
.'. ad^tfw'?6aHa|r;fiHi^o.B«p^
• on^oftheflbriori&ychafrj^^ ~ '
;,totalse.furids id ^ ' f o f fclroor-fnitslc an'd »pdrt« aiSh^^^ curtailed
;v'du88^to"ift9irapenl«ehodf<ilstrIct'budget defeat. Donations to attend
:^ • JRed poW^Jilght.?^ OnlJclobei; 26, are $10 per ticket and ar0>falUtble
at'varU>u9.(Q»t]oMTn'Frseport: by'writing ttj Freeport Alliance, Box
261,FfTOp6rtf4e^Yor1c;T)rbietelephofilnoFrt8-400p. : . .:- _ : ^ .
.ijf:tIieftceplil4aJ4J*yeA«i.Aaab>i-:]4bc^
ciatf^tt..wjg.leadertand--spokesr"- .not-only;been/Jdlsni^tivcto-the
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FREEPORT - The Frepdrt Boird of "Tnistees.Mondiiy.night-, voted
to rezone.the southeast (x>rner of Atlantic Avenue and South Ocean
Avenue from Business AA to Business A^'The property, adjacent to a
string of small retail store, will now bs able to be developed in. the same
way .The AA zoiung allowed by professional or. office buildings, but the
owner of the property told the
-tibns;- as"^ the' new: First, Viccr.
-President: and Sid Uebermah; of,.
Sjd" liebetman Realty; • Second
Vice-President. The'new-Third
Vice-President - was not chosen,
biitAvitl be filled by the nominal-;
Ing cotnmittee^of the Chamber at
a future tinie.: "~- .
Chbitileto Do
bfTh^lSliig"
property
Board that be had been, unable to
solicit interest i i renting space^
that way; ^' : '• _ . .: •
, Two residents of the area, Mr. '
Semprini - whose htfuse is on the-^
west side of Ocean Avenue, and
Claire .Langfelder,.who owiis a
rooming house fiirther south on
Ocean Avenue,"expressed their
fears ^that new stores could bring
youth' hangouts, increased traffic
and litter, . " . " ; ;
•It was explained that' under the
- Code of Ordinances bars, rest­aurants,
ice Icream pariors,
discoteq'ues etc. "were spedfically
barred from Business A zones.
The builder promised a land-
. scaped barrier on the Ocean
Avenue side, from'whidi there
-would be no ingress or egress-
The store would be one story
high, consistent witlj the other
stores on the block.
Jack Extract, of Nassau Aven-ae,
told thg. Board that if the
_ architect amf builder conformed
to the other, stores in' tfiat
area it would be an asset
and he would be in favor of it-
Smoke Detector*
The Board also approved a local
law that would mandate heat and
smoke detection devices in aD
new one-family homes and apart-.
ments to be constructed.
^ Supt. of Public Worts louBeUo
explained that thesystems con­nected
.to elecfric. current had
proven, by Federal tests, more
efficient and safer that those
which Were battery operated.'
CatsandDogs ~
At the suggestionof the Village
Clerk, the: Board voted to propose
for public hearing a law to restrict •
dogs and cats to a total of sir per
', houJsehold within the village. De-
Vincenzo, the Village' Clerk,"
spoke of some of the problems
caused by animals, dting the
•>dogs that run loose and the fear
of some children to go out. Hfr
also.mentioned odorous and lit-tered^
conditions. Explaining that
"sample legislation had been for­warded
to them by Jhe.agency
that handles the coding of Village
• laws, DeVincenzD recommended
that Freeport - restrfct . such
animals. ._ •
At the recommendation of
Bal3win and Cornelius, the vil­lage
engineers, the Schmeling
Agency, carriers of the village's
insurance, were asked for their
suggestions on the extent of such
coverage necessay on public
works contracts, Schmeling
(ContoirPagelS)
. FREEPORT - T h e Freeport
Community. Chorale has an-nbiinced
that this year's produc-lion
will be. "Of Thi^ 1 Sing."
,tn be presented at Freeport High
School. NovelnberS. 6.12 and 13,
If will be' the Chorale's 3plh
Broadway show.'
. "Of TheeT Sing." with- its
particularly*^:- topical .political
•theme, will also be of interest to
Frecporters ; because Victor,
Moore, the - istage. and screen •
• personality and a former Freeport
resident, starred in the original. ,
show. ." .'' . ;
. Jerry Kirby. the director, was
responsible for last year's Cho­rale
production of "Finian's
Rainbow."
Pistrict Holds
Art Festival
FREEPORT - An outdoor "Sa­lute
To The Arts" festival, spon- .
sored by Creative Resources In-,
stitute, was held Saturday, Sep­tember
18, at the Atkinson Ele­mentary
School. The program in-^
eluded the Hariem Cultural Conn-cfl's
Dance Mobile, the Jazz,Op
Ensemble and the Afro-American
Poetry Theater as well as per­forming
artists from the Frecport
Community. An indoor perform­ance,
at the same time, featured a
(Cont.on'PagelS)
the demonstrators,
'rpad-^' stitciiniar^ wtitferi^hy:
-SchpolBoardineniber'Jack ReiDy:
(see'.'-'AMilboi,*' Vpage.' 4).T- in -
which be gave his support loathe
parents and••said.be was' "In.
agreement and folly support(s)
those parents who cftnnot or \«d}I
not pay. for consumable «applies
paid for Vy the Sdiool District."
The sit-in protested the billing
of parents for Instrn'ctional sup­plies
considered "consumable",
by the State Dcfortment of Edu­cation.
- The parents.: hiwi .de­manded
a complete inventoiy of
all supplies on hand sis of July 1,'
-when the school district officially
went on austerity, and the "right to
check every, classroom and every
supply closet in each of the dis;
. trict's schools to be certain that
the inventory was correct." When
- Costlow rehised th^ request (an
April 1 inventory had been used
and the parents were told they,
would be provided with that) as
questioning the "honesty of his
staff," the parents sat-in.
PTABlaxURud
In their stateoiein to' thc-press-
•educatioo of- oui- duldren, but
costiff ;•;•* irii :pelfltaf.0iit5!ut,
'accprding, tct' xUstHctC infprma-tlpji.'^
cost "to^ the:;taxpayers .to
"dlspfDvb Rand's charges last year
of misuse bf Title I funds was as ,
hlghas$10,()00.' ..
• Hie PTA has asked the Board
of Education to assess Rand's
group for the cost involved in
occupying the school building for
three days and two nights.'Nor-rnally.
community groups using
school fadltties only pay a small
custodial fee, but under austerity
a. higher fee must be charged by
state law. "Let Mr. Rand pay
as the rest of us must, niere is no
way he can pay back for the bad
publicity to oiir Village," Coundl'
•said. "Neither can he repay us for
the 'misuse andabuse^ of oiir ad­ministrators,-
professionals who
had to act as babysitters when
we pay them to be concerned with
-the educatin of our children."
The Council urged all''district
parents to- communicate ques­tions'
regarding tlie austerity
budget-tC_thetf school PTA
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'THE SIGN TELLS of the Gala Bazaar to bo held for 11 days t>eglnnlng
Friday, October 1, at Our Holy Redeemer Church In Freeport. Giving
thein support to the event which will feature games, r^es, food and
prizes, are (I- to r.) Sisters Kathy Summervllle, DarIa>Shannon and
Geraldlne O'Neill, principal of OHR School; George'Krakora, Co-chairman,
and Peter Anglim, Chairman of the Bazaar. .
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