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42iMlYEARN6.1 FREHX)RT, NEW YORK, APRIL 28,1977 PRICE J5t PER CX)PY
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FREEPORT - The Frceport
Mathlctes finished first In the
second annua] tong Island Inter-olasdc
Mathematics Champ-
-lonship held at Frecpott High
School Wednesday, April 20. The
Nassau County champions led the
list of 13 teams with.a-total of 20
points. The next three finishers
were South Shore, the New Yorl;
City champions, with .1$ pointsrl
Midwood, with 18; and Great
_ Neck North, with 17..
". Outstanding performers for the
- Ffceport-team were Eloaa Coop.
per, Tom Meyer, Jonathan
: Nagler, Daimy Plotnick and Leah
Sigal. , . :t : .
' The Long Island .cbmpeUtion
.. was sponsored _ by the teachers
«.4ind«apeTvisQTS.of-the NewJfork ^
. - . - - . . -, _. - " City,- Nassau Md" Suffolk math
Public Sdhools.nicketa, at $4 each, to hearOlzry GlUespleahd hl«.Ja2z coaches, teachers and supervisors
Enijemblo, are atJJI available by mall.ICheckspayablelo theFreeport" "associations.'Invitations to paili-
Am Council ahould bezant, wlth^aatamped^f-addra^ envelope -, cipate were sent to. those teams
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Queens League was repre­sented
by Canarsie,-Forest Hills,
Midwood and South Shore (Bayi_
side) High Schools. Nassau was
represented by' Freeport.. Farm-ingdale,
Great Ne<± Worth, Great
Neck South,and Lawrence High
Schools. Suffolk was represented
by Benport, THalf -Hollow Hills..
Walt Whitman (Huntington) and
Ward-Melville (East ScUuket)
HighSchools. . ,
FJI.S.Mathi«n>s Sl9.06i.693J*roposaiWttt
. By RIctiard Stndart
FREEPORT - With the vote less than three.weeks away, the Freeport
Board of Education has annoliiiced that its budget for 1977-78 has been
set at $19,061,693. with a tax increase of .766. Board members will
explain the budget a); a public heating scheduled (or Monday. May 2 at
Freeport High School. In addition, budget outlbes are being mailed to
all residents of the district, and
HE'LLH£ARQREATJA2Z-:C6ngrenm«n NormahLisnt (c.)r«c«hrm
'. ticKetsi lo the Dizzy. Gillespie bbhcert to be held at Freeport High Sdwol
^ jSatiirday, May:7:at«:30PM^'MayOr- VWlllfiim White (r.) and Freeport
- School.Bbaixi.Presldent Hfu^ld Levlne 0-) presented the Congressman
;;.^wltH;tktkfii8 jor- lhe-«)n6erti^::i^>a^^ ty/Ube..FreepQirt-Aits Council,^
. which Is funded jointly by.the^VJIWge of; Freeport and thaiFreeport
the full 80-page budget will be
Imade availableforpubUcJnspcc-.:!
: tion one week before the May 17'
•vote. ;.,. .
-The, Board formally approved the
-Sl^'Wlltlon ngure-at Its regular
meetinc ; held last Wednesday
nightl At the session,' the Free-'
port'Memorial Library's annual -
outlay of $677,060 was "also san­ctioned
to be induded bnihe May
'Ballot.-:TT[je^two;b*udgets;win be"
listed as separate prbposttiohs.
Besides voting on the budgets,
district residents will be choos-ing
two candidates to fill" the
School Board seats now occupied"
"Slghtfol Share"
~Hetiirning~tcr-fiscal- matters,'
Levine pointed out that the Con­necticut
. Supreme Court had
recently ruled i^hat its state's
property tax is unconstuutionai.
"1 hope that New York will
soon- toUow" suit,", Levlne com-
.mented. "Perhaps this is the time
to put pressure on our legislators.
.^v{iy do we always';wait,for.the
cdurts~fb:teirus What.lo:do?*'
lie reialed that a similar, court
decision had been handed dowm
in New Jersey, and that itsun-
-prepared Ifglslatiire was_!!nQgL
•P
( ^ e Inforcement^Actlvi^^
:]^keri Over By Buijding DepL
FREEPORT -.At their open voting scssibnTJonday'night.-t&e'Free-pott
BoardofTrusiees approved the placiilg of iail code ehforceincnt
activities under the Pepartment of Buildings. -1 .'
~ At a previous VQlage Board meeting, the resignation of Raymond La-vaiee,
Code Enforcement "AttSrney for the, past six years, had been
accepted. Mayor William White called the departmental consolidation
"in line with the Board's continu-" . -• '' ' . : ~"
(Cont. on P. 16)
^
ing program of increasing effici­ency
and consolidating'tae^jacti- -
vities of. Village " departments
wherever possible for savings to
the taxpayers."
Izra Bello, Superintendent of
-Bandings, will now du-ect ail code
enforcement activities whkh in­clude
over-occupancy isitaations
tions. Earlier in' the agenda,
the Beard appointed two addition­al
part-time Deputy Village Attor­neys
to assist. Genry and Deputy
Attorney Micfaiel SolomonV
While the.Board voted unani- mJccDriDT n^^:^^ A« , r^^
Enforcement offices structure, p,^,.^^ T;«I» t»<.„„. vidll
Little League
Opens Season
by Keverend tranx- hmmamiel
and Joseph McAndrews. Both
men were "present Wednesday
7nlghtr8nd.-ThhDugh theirterms—
will not expire tmtil June, Board
President Harold Levine took the
opportunity to thank them "for
the years of dedication they've
given to the children of Free-port."
Levine then observed
that three of the five Boaid can­didates
--Jim Parola, Pauline
-Washington • and Ed Monroe-were
sitting in the audience. .
Responding to a question from
resident Gewge' Manttzas, the
Board sdd that space on the bal­lot
will be provided for the names
of write-in candidates. Manitzas
was assured that any write-in can­didate
who receives triore votes
than his opponent will be seated'
on'the Board..
-%:shamblesr
.With that btroducti.on. Le­vine
read a letter-the Board had
sent-Ja. .Statc„Senatpr Norman
Levy fiod Assemblyman Armand
D'Amatb. Noting that the dis­trict
will receive a state aid in­crease
of $200,000 for 1977-78,
the Board :thanked the legis­lators
for their efforts in fightmg
Governor Carey's proposed cuts.
However,-the letter continued,
because of declining enrollment
in other districts, the "save harm­less"
provisions, and the per­centage'
limitations on state
. fiinds, Freeport'is being denied
an additional $263,000. Over the
past several years, the Board e?-
• timated; the district has been
"unfairly deprived" of, a total
$1,286,000.
• .^^ .„ . - - _ . . •. U}c appointment of two new atfof- Saturdav, Anril 30 "Ceremonies
5anndch I-TaI5etnria!le grtaxlr-ntwiinoe-f ahmouSkye-sb.o Tuhsees ---ffgy.. b-um-ht a 4-1 v o t e -wi th-^« i-l^Lj^E^n ' * - ^ ^ ° ^ ' ^ and illegal rooming .houses. The ^^±'"^tlTZI^J^:^}V --wiil-begnt-at-lO-am-at-GlackeB
zoning investigator. Warren
Greenwood, and -senior, steno-. '
grapher, Marilynne Moynihan,
- prcyionsly-^ssigned -4o- Lavalee-—
will now become members of the
Department of Buildings. Accord- -
ing to White, they wiD continn#\
ccSe enforcement activitiK as
well as other matters assigned to
them by BcDo, JBuilding Depart­ment
staff members win also be
availabfe for assignment to code
enforcement . axrti^-ities as' the
need arises. White dted thA dose
:^fclat?onthip—betwegn^Jthe.
departments in the past '~3ni
thdr similar activities and physi­cal
proximity.
TTje Board also c&ected that
Village Attorney Oakley Gentry
Jr. provide whatever legal ser­vices
are.required by the Build-
: ing Department indutUng prose-
- cotioo of rr>df mfriTtrmmt vinla-
Trustee Wayne Jordan dissent- Fjeld.
ing. Jordan suggested a fiill-time -present will be over 500 repre-counsel
to be assisted by a part- sters in uniform and their mana-time
attorney. He explained that gers and coaches, representing 35
a~"BwLrd'stnd/~ ma3e~5everal—teams; Abaoaliaad for the festi-vears
ago, showed $60,000 in vifies will be ihc-Uizgac Officers
legaTfees'paid byl5e-village:-He~g?<^-^^.age-<>gi«aIs^'ncliiding
felt that this amount merited' a
full-time position. Gentry and
Solomon are also part-fime.
Trustee Dorothy Storm explained
tiiat some fees come firom federal
CD A funds, "rather than the vil­lage
budget.
With the same 4-1 vote, the
^•'^— -Board approYcd.the appotntniftnts*
of^ V; ^Roy Cacciatpfe and
Harrison Edwards Jr. to the tT*o
new part-time attorney positions.
They wiD each rcceivx $6,000 an­nually
and win work in the code
enforcement area as weQ as on
other legal matters.
fCnrrf f>^V> If.)
Mayor Wdliam'White
.The season will begin wth a
double header scheduled to start
immediately after . the cere­monies.
This will include a major
league . hardball and sofibal)
game.
An added feature this year will
be team pictures. A professional
photographer-will'-be-prcteDt to
take pictures of each team and the
player will be able to purchase a"
photograph of his or her team. ^»
Refreshments will- also be
served and will be-free of charge
to any youngster wearing a Free-port
little league uniform. Also
available will be Littie League
Partceandrafiletickets.-
PASSINQ THE PENCIL- (Father) Ed Riley (I.) hands a writing pen­cil
to Steve Wenk who will be taking over the functions of
. Executhr-a Secretary of the Freeport Fire Department. Blley had the Job
for the past IBconsecuttve yeara and Is now retiring. Wenk Is a mem­ber,
of the department's Truck Company i^. Rilsy belongs to Hose
Company f3. • ~* ',