The-Leader_1976-02-05

              FREEPORT
BALDWIN
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LEABEB FREEPORT'S
OFFlIint
NEWSPAPER
40th YEAR, No. 41 FREEPORT, NEW YORK, FEBRUARY S, 1976 PRICE: 15^ PER COPY
Famed Dancers PubficLHeciriiigs Consider
To Perform Applicafion For $300,0()0
In l^reeporf
FREEPORT — The world
_ renown modem d^nce group, The
Paul Taylor Dance Company, Is"
currently in Frceporf under the
"^"SQsplCB~of Uie Freeport Arts-
Coundl. The company, recently
opened the. 1976 season on
BroadwayiQllDwing_a. Eiiropean
tour. . ». •
FREEPORT — The first" of two scheduled public hearings on a
proposed application, to be" submitted by the Village, for $300,000
in additional funding for the homesteading project, was held Mon-'
day night at Village Hall. Few residents came^out, in the sub-freezing
temperatures, to hear Commissioner of Urban Renewal
James Dunne explain the "innovaUve" and that it-Oes in
discretionary grant.- • with work already being done in
^r^?^^''?^IMt^^^5^"^~thB-Housing Improvement Area.
Meitropolllan Statistical Area, Brewster telt-that the planning
On Thursday evening,.Fd). 5,
two of the featured dancers will
conduct a Master Dance Class for
SO dance teachers and students
from throughout Long Island, at
ibe .Freeport Recreation Center,.
Dunne explained, has received
approximately $4.2 million in thfe
form of a Community
Development Discretionary
Grant.- The Village would apply -
the' $300,000 it ^eda toward
improving . Its ; recently
designated Freeport Housing
Improvement Area Number One,
by-buying up boarded up homes,
owned , byi- the ^ Veteran'* Ad-now
underway wpuld-qualifyJhe_
!^-^^^'!S'^J^?'^^i^^ ministraUon bi-. private cor
Paul Taylpr Dance Company
. ifivital^ to view" U» class. On
Friday, meibbers of the Com-
' pany will give two lecture-demonstrations
for music,-
english and humanities students
at Freeport Hi^ Sdiool.
BIcenfehnidr BalF Tickets Biefing Sold
FREEPORT — Is your costume "in the works" IOT the Free-port
Spirit of "Ve Bicentennial Committee's Presidoitial BirtH-day
Party Ball to be held .at-the Freeport Recreation Center;
Saturday evoiing, Feb. 21? .While many residents are presently
maiking, or, having made. Colonial attire .to wear. Committee
-'members stress that "costumes" - ' .
do m^ have .to reflect the
Revolutionary-period.:/ •>.
Committee Director Robert
Raynor states, "The: birthday
Party, Tjirtiile htmoring Presidents
Washington and'Li^nln, is ac-
- tually the beginning of • our
reflection of the past 300 years,
the present and the future.
Therefore, anything from Miles'"
Stahdish and Prisdlla Alden to a
visiting couple from Mars to
anythMg in your.closet is ap­propriate.'^
lul. prizes win be
awarded in all categories.",
Ticket prices have been kq>t at
$5 per person. A 15-piece band
will provide dancmg music wiiile
the Freepcnl Community CSiorale
will present a half-hour of
Americana music. Also included
in the price is-a late evening
buffet featuring nam, turkey and
fish cakes.with traditional side
dishes, cider and spiked punch,
coffee and a variety of deserts.
Set-ups. win be available for
purchase by those wishing to
bring their own liqun-. Tables for
eight to 12-:-persons inay be
reserved when purchasing a
block (rf tickets..
Tickets are available through
THE I£ADER, FR 8-3133; the
Freeport Chamber of Commore,
.378-7402; Ticket'Chairman Cart
Gould, 378^894, hi tlie evenings;
or through any Committee
member. In addition, tidcets
have been disfributed to various
dvie and service organizations
for sale to their men^jers.
Denis (toe New Leaite'.
FREEPORT - George Jackson,
of 416 Archer SL, haa_heen
unanimously elected Democratic
Zone Leader of the Freeport
South Zone to replace Dorothy
Forman wixi resigned because dT
pocH* health. The meeting of the
Democratic Committee mem­bers
of that Zone wa9 held at the
home of Hal Levy and presided
ova- by Mickey Rapaport, ISth.
Assembly District oo4eader. In
accepting Forman's resignation
in bdialf of County Leader, Stan
Harwood, Rapapcfft recaned that
"Dorothy and I came into politics
together during the'difficult days
of the middle sixties and I have'
always found her to be a source (rf.
.strength and inspiration. I win
sorely miss ber as wffl aU of us
active in. Democratic politics in
Nassau Comity."
--In-Jier. "farewen _remarfcs,l!_
Forman recaned the history of
the Democratic party dining her
Gve years as zoncfleader. "While
much remains to.be done, she
said, "I fed that we have made
significant strides. The
, Democratic Party in Freeport is
sneoewn at(asC kaoen nsto inusuerrceideo ouofsn lly iPf.e a Iagtne d i6s )s onuonwd
On Saturday evening at 8:30
pin, the entire Paul Taylor Dance
Company win appear on the
stage of the Freeport High Sdiool
with highlights of the. Company's
repertoire Induding "Sports and
Fonies;" "From Sea to Shining
Sea," "Runes," which had its
premiere on Broadway this
season; and "Aureole," a role
originaUy created by Paul Taylor
which so. insph«d baUet star
Rudolf-Nureyevjhat he flew from
Paris to dance the part himself
with the Company at no fee, '.
' Choreographer Paul Taylor
studied under Martha Graham
and Antony Tudor. He was a
soloist with tiw Martha Graham
Dance Company and guest artia
with George Balanrhine's Nev
York a ^ BaUet before fcrmini
his own company in, 1966. Hi
was elected to knighthood by tb<
French .Government, namet
Dancer of the Year by London'f
Dance Magazine, received the
Festival ct Nations' International
Award for Choreograph/and th(
Capezio Fellowship for
Qioreography.
.-A limited number of tickets win
'be available at the door for
Saturday's performance. Cost is
$2.50 for adults proving Freeport
residency and $1 for seiiicr
- citizens- and students.- Non­residents
pay $3.50.
The three-day event is made
possible with pubUc funds from
the vniage of Fre«port, the
Freeport School Distrirt, the New
York State Coondl on the Arts
and the New York Focodation for
the Arts.
poiratidns' stidi as banks, and
nehabnitatihg them for owner-occupants.
The' money, to-be
distributed by the U.S. Housing
and Urban Dievdopment Agency
(HUD), would be in addition to
the. monies aUocated to the
homesteading program under
Community Development Act
funds. Ttie Village has also
received a grant of 21 boarded uf>
homes, owned by~the"~Federar
itousing Administration'(FHA),
- and some $100,000 guaranteed in
loans, for their rehabnitation. -
It is expected Ihiit, if the ap-pUcation
is'approved, the same
guidelines for owner-occupancy
and rehabnitation would cover
these acquisitions as in the total-
Homesteading program.
Accordtag to Uairy Brewster,
(rf.Xhmne's staff, last year an the
aSnmunlQes who appUed for
these discretionary . funds'
deceived them, tnit competition is
stronger this year. The Village
must prove .that its program is
Vniage as engible'arid wiUilh the-'
criteria estabUshed by HUD.
_ _ A second pubUc hearing witt be_
held on February 9, as requked
bv law. Pre-appUcation must be
fued by the Village no later than
February 15.
Compactors
. The Bpar() of Trustee^ directed
Village Counsel, .fit'tte earlier '
S~ bUc voting setision, io draw, up
jislation toset giddeUnes fen*
solid waste redu6Uoh (com-
* paction) or incineration in any
-new construction of apartment
dwellings. This was the result (rf a
pubUc hearing held last month
which pointed out that to Insist,,
upon compactors In buUdings
already erected wouldin effect
cause ~ rent Increases to the
tenants.
Central Botbesa District
Two stores m South Main
Street, one occupied by Record
Road and oneionoedy-oco^led-by
Fashion (Mty are to be taken
by the VUIage through con­demnation
. proceedings and
demolished for a walkthrough
from the parking lots. A
memorandum from Dunne ex­plained
that the owners had not
been fully coq)eraUve in ob­taining
appraisals for their
proper^ when solicited for them,
which.had delayed matters.
(Clontinued on Page 12)
A COMMUNITY DONATION. Salvation Army Optain Robert
Reel, President of the Freeport Inter-faith Clergy Coundl accepts an
S80 check for the Coundl't Emergency Food Fund from the com­mittee
members who had arranged the recent Village obserrancs of
the lata Rev, Martin Luther King, Jr's birthday. They are O.-f.)
Elaine Perkins, Marian Douglas, Village Human Relations Com-
. mission Director Michael Kirwan, Ed Harding, Margaret O'Connor,
Reel, Alma Smalls and Jeannstta Caines, The funds vtera donated fciy
the several hundred persoru attending the ceremdhles at Dodd
Junior High SchooL