The-Leader_1976-11-18

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41st YEAR No. 30 FREEPORT, NEW YORK. NOVEMBER 18.1976 PRICE 15t PER COPY
JHS G>rnerstone
Ceremony Sundoy
FREEPORT - The cornerstone
ceremony for the I%ase 0 class-
'room wing of the John W. Dodd
Junior Higb School will be held
sonday, November 21, 2 pm, in
" the'school's cafeteria. With this •
completion of Phase JI, a new .
building now h(Hises the seventh
andei^tbgrades.. .
The q»«nonies wjB m^
opening instrumental selection by
-the Dodd Band, the flag salute led
by Dodd Principal:tlan}mg_Mor-gan
- and' the" National. Anthem
performed by.tlw-Dodd Orches-tra.
Rev. BurtoaXlavlsdn of Free*.
iport's Uojted Methodist "Churdi
^nU deBvcf the Jnvncatimi. _:i.
Large Refdif Dairy Will
R&ipejrSupermarket^
-. FREEPORT - Cotnmunity Development funds will be used to help, a
40-year-old Long Island retail dairy establishment reopen the former
Finast Supermarket on North Main Street and Grand Avenue. Qosed
for more than two years, the store will eventually house Goui Dairy,
an Elmont-based family busbess.
At Monday night's Village
Board meeting, the Board of
Tftnstees agrei^. to &^ proposal,
that would'use Community Dc-vel^
mient funds to pordiase the
^ from'Hrst National Stores
(Finast) for S2S0,«)0. The village
win then resell it to Gooz while
_ ap> the ciottgk^. T1»
not a fiiQ line Goux explained.
The store carries so caoiMid goods ^
or grocery items, but doe* euty
a fun nne <tf fum {dodiice and
assorted ddfcatefsea items; "
In Ebnoot. Gdoi's Kptrtstto
has tniltitp;(>v<».40 y i ^ . Their
tNSf oiql tiiliiJit^'^S^ • Efafiont-
'lutjwidttll "imKmm. ^^pi*,» ^_^_ _ ^ _ _ ,. LgtlDop.- of thA^iichitW'::; HUa H" *^ .i*.;-^-^ ...t^^ic:.- • .'^^^J'^^
"RqKf. -The. Miiy'SafidJi«'tn6titS^^
jid|^ ipfi^liJK^fta^^^^^ ^^aihlnatbn. 33'
Ha arafiiiKN^lKnpecr. Edwatl } x >^
iivuti;0^m§l0tittaimwb)r:aikf.irmactiti^bery. inMMjAinwKtino
thi»~ work of tr»ip<^^tt)%^C^i^ ie^-prateid th» paiistoQ obttHtat
irtWM aiinl <y i ted.to^lw B(SMy irnst of the suspw
- i ;
JCHifie Dovirn/ Sk>ries^^ U^ t
. Lothrop,"
';tnnl ,-firmj.wh^: desig:ned the:
striicture. Schoc^ ficard Flrdcident:
^Har^d^ LeVine .will .iccept the~
.buSdiiig wiih.the forma)-accept-rabce^
of .the. building' keys .by
'--Morgan.'.. •: <
; • V. (Cant.OTPlige20> .^^
FREEPORTri^Whae -several/
criinei/.in.' (ik'yfrrtrtevenpot.r axd
• have rniently fdond thdrw^y into
the;;da2y. ••«- electrtHlic—preSjS
ntedia, a rqxnt, frmii; the viHi^.'
shows thaf there-wis.sctu^ a/
drpp.tn reportable J3iines.ilai|ng'
. the - period of'.^'J«iQary t l u m ^ •.
-(ktober of this year bom tiiat of ^
last", year.' Tliere^ were 1,673
cases of reportable criines in tb^'
firstlO months; of 1975;; and 235;.
less 01*1,438. this year daring the
same time span.' - -" ' • • '': -
. - /Those W.the fads,'' Mayoi'
WHnaitt White pointed out. "but
. for «, two week period recetrtly.^
" Freeporteis as well as the wbde
metropoCtan area, heard' snd-rcadaboot
'crime in-Freeport'
as the daHy :me£a sought to
prove that tbe'~ Village was ex-
. periendrig the ironbles of New.
YorkGty."
:ThiE cases which the Mayor
. referred to indode the- assault
and robliety. iof 8S-year old
Wilaana feoner two week ago
(THE' LEADER, Nov. 11). the
. assash of a .24^year old schtxrf
bns driver by several teniagers in
sobth Freeport Novend>er 9, the
robbery ar^ shonting of a Sooth
•Grovi. Street stationery store—Kansas "farmlands and in the
'andbeguibiBiEting^UiD with • tire;
iroti or pipe.. Ttey.were arrested
and c i u u '^ with second degree
.assaqltK""••: ;•."•'-•.•.•-.'
. Nidc .Wis. the 74-year, old '
owner of Grove StatJbnery store."
bis- since beoi li^eiaed fiom
lydia E-HaD Hospital where be
had been ii'dtnJtted last Tuesday
mght with a bullet' wound of the'.
left dbbw and laceratioos.' Levis
wts;fa.'lds jstore that ni^t; a t '
about 8 pm'. when' two. men, "be-neved
to. be'iij tfteire«rfy^20$,
' eiitered. lliey Impcked inm to the
floor-and tried to drag him'into
the bade room'of the store. As,
Loris rc^sted; he was shot.
The NoVecdjcr lO-incidenf net-.
tedno rctam for the one male
- who knocked da the door of Eddie
Sams bonose on Rutland Road.;
The 71-year cid Freeporter was.
n6t alone in'the boose, but the in^
tmder, who it was reported had
two g;nns. kimcked idm to.the
floor*, and .. demanded money.
Sam kept.telling'the stocking-masked
bandit that be had no
nxmey and the man finally left.'
Mzfcr White pointed oot that
week that iriule "crime iocs exist
in Freeport as it does in the
owner November 9. aiid the at­tempts
robbery of a 71-year old
man in his home on November 10.,
The school bus driver. Kevin
Medtan, had stopped to dts-charge
fan passengers at Suffolk
and Miner Streets at about 2:30
pm when some local teenagers
started to throw eggs at Ws bus.
Two of them then entered the bus
city...We can be assoTed.»J»y the
fact that we have not seen the
growth in' crimina} activities
plagning other cotmnunifes."
He remarked that the Board of
Trustees shared the view of "the
residents who overwhelmingly
disapproved of the proposal (to
disband the local police force)
(Cbnl.onPage20)
OiiFwi^
^ ; , ^ ^ P O B t - A,paper ballot
vote win be held by the Freeport
School District Tuesday, Novem-,
"ber^O. to obtafareadent support
for filing a $400,000 plan to re-!
novate 25 classrooms fa Ccdum-
' bus Aveirae Sduol. '
. The vote actually authorixes
xa expenditure.' not to exceed
$7,500, to cover the cost of the
votinflmd updating the renovt-tion^
ans whidi widbe submitted
"to the Federal Government for
funding.
Several years ago. the SdbtxA
Board.began « renovation pn>-
' gram to modeniize the boildmg,
but economic. • developments
farced the,Board to shehe the
plans. Under the-Public Works
Capital Development and Invest­ment
Act of 1976, the District
would apply for part of the
$200,000,000 the Federal Govern­ment
has already authorized win
: be given to New. York State to be.
spent on delayed construction
.projects. ".^ "
The paper ballot vote wiU be
condocted from 3 to 9 pm onfy at
Bayview Avcnne SdjoeJ.
A "Yes'- vote wiH antborixe
~ the Schod district to go after Fed­eral
ddIars_for the renovation
project. There would be no in­crease
in school taxes.
Registration foe new voters in
the District wiD be held at the
Administration Building, 3 to 9
pm, Monday, November 22.
win jbie Mtiitoed wiidi^ ^^
: company - complielea',' lmpnmii-1.
a»ntr which are p ^ of th6
oatiact.. These r indiide roof
repair, redecorathig of the build*.
iflg. repair of .waOs end: patkinB
}ai. •:';• ' ".: .":- ! ^ - . : . - •
T W : legal :clorings' are in-wdved,
but ViQage Oerfc. Tom
DeViwenxo, a'memher of the
vfflage's Commmiity; Devdop-.
meat task Fbrce; said the d a ^
WDold nke to move fa before the
be^nnfag tf the new year.
Aldioagib the viSwe wffl buy
the npperty with ODA funds,
teseSfag it to Gniz keeps it on the
tax ndes. TT» ten year raort-gage
carrieia9% interest rate..
According to Allan Gooz of the
dairy firm, the store fa Freeport.
like the one fa Ebaontr win sen
inilk. «^gS5.' cheese, orange |uice
and freshly kffled poultry. Some
.frozen foods atealsd stored, but
^-noiahdi^ CRiiixpMu^lysald:
: Explaining (hat the cbotracts
between his tmxiness ind'. the
viUage have been^jmed. Gooz
; ,e:q>hiaed that his fimiQy had
chosen Fbeeport as ihi secood site
because "it is « v«ay. vital «r«u"
Actaqwledgfag. that tome 'mer-damti
have left -the Freeport
trea, Gooz pointed oot that the
'vQlage's'central loadion 'oo the
Sooth' S3iore intd -the nmnid-paSiy's
desifte to Kndvato the
IvQIage, the mut and. otittr '|ao-jects,
would midwFjreepoct "the
bnsfaess heart" M'tltetrea and
, tite-Gooz enterprisejrw^Ihted to
.beparti^it.
0€berHattata
..The Board alsojgreed, Mon-
' day ni^;, to estabUsh a mora-
- .torium on tign p e r n ^ No new
.- store-or buSdlng signs would be
. permitted fa the Antral Business
<; (CoDtoaPageS)
THE NEW MRS. MERRY CHRISTMAS and her runner-up recleve
their trophies from Norman Schmeflno, President of the Freeport
Chamber, of Commerce. Mrs. Merry Christmas 1970, JoAnn DeAngells
(2nd r.) was chosen from eight contestants In the Chamber sponsored
contest held last week el Salty Bay Yacht Club. Rrst runner-up, Ora
Nyhan (l-). Bnd second ruhher-up Sharon Renz, Joined her on floats In
the Chamber'a Toyland Parade this past Saturday.