The-Leader_1977-05-19

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'rJACi:^^ CTi HISTORICAL MUCEUU
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42nd YEAR No. 4 FREEPORT. NEW YORK, MAY 19,1977. : PRICE ISt PER COPY
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'ft'-- Recreation Center
Membership On Sale
School Budget loses By
—FRFFPORT- Snlr hns hrsiiiml
Fieeport Activity Cards and the
Summer and Annual .discount
Plans for use bfthe Recreation
Center's Health Wing.- Both
cards and plans may. be pur­chased
"ait the Center rTuesday
through Sunday, 11 am to 4 pm
and 7 pm to 9 pm.-
Fees for the Health Wing re­main
the same for .residents as
fast year. A" Summer' Discount
Plan Is SSS for a family and $25
for" Individuals with senior citi­zens
receiving a further 50% dis­count.
The Annual Plan, which
wni be sold only between now and
LaborDay, ii-S125-for a family
and S60 for individuals. The
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- FREEPORT - After a year on austerity, Freeport School District
voters went to the polls and aijaln defeated a school budget proposal.
A total of.1.945 residents voted against the proposed 1977-78 budget,
while 1,587 voted "yes." School Board Prosldent Harold Lavlne
told THE LEADER, following the vote. "The Board will meet Wednes^
diy. May 25, with the two newly
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'Afl'Artiyit^ Cards,; necessary-elected
Board mwnbers, to devel­op
a contingency budget and plan
future action."
The two new Board mernt>ers
Who will meet with the Board, al-
'though they will not take office.
: officially until July.1, are Peoples
Party candidate jEd Monroe, and-
: Jim Parbia, candidate of the'Tax->
payers._ United! - For- Freeport
/ (T.U.F.P.yJ-Monrbo was tHe victor,
in a "thre».way"race'for/the.teat-
Four ' of the five candidates
running had urged a protest vote
the first time around, although all
of them luid said they were
opposed- to austerity;. Only
Pauline Washington had urged
•a - "yes" vote., Ttia Freeport.
Chamber of Commerc«. had also
urged • "ho" vote at this time
and untlL.the ('bottom Una" |n
th« praieenl'- t^achart' contract
nfligotiatloqt ira khftwn.
^ ^, , ^ , /^rea#ntly:?>eW by:T»wr^,tfc FraoK
-fafcJMlMttanteiaffiitfe.C^ . ..Unilka-. the .school ^ote; the
T ^ ^ * 1 i 5 ^ 5 ! ^ ? "^?2.!5*°^^ :vol«k, W»l{a:PauMn*WfiMhaton, ^reipdrf; •Memorl^ tfbrary
^ - M. - V >^^^ " registration, wlio ran as in indeipendent, buddet was passed ^XOS.!*^^-!
' wilL:cxpi»UhU_Jttne-ri --New---dnBW-^ 'i;39V-"rio" votes,
ones may now be purchased at Suchan (T.O.F.F. candidate) ' Azea&rakdowa
the annual S2 fee.-The person for- received 813 votes. By poillng.^]«ca,. the ' vote
whom the Card is purchased must The Winner for tha second posN broke dowh'as follows^:
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as ft pBotogiep&^^.g^
taken. .; Proof of residency b
also required.
: 'A brochure, outlining the
•Recwiation .Department's
programming and facilities, will
be mailed to each Freeport resi­dence
by this weekend.
^e To Appeal
Hostel Decislbn
A FUTUREMISS'AMERJC^ might b» cm of t hm contestant wtw FREEPORT - the Village, of
votes to Johti'Marahall'a (Peoples
Party - candidate) 1,401 votes.
Paroltj will take theaeat presently
occupied by Joe McAndrews.
Immediately after the vote was
announced, Levlne said ."I Jim
terribly disappointed.In tha resi­dents
of Freeport. 1 ttUhk-it Is
high time that this town begins to
think poeitlvBly not n»gatlvely...lf
. we ara to grow and prosper...and
turn off tha negative attitude."
: jCreftwngfrsaf Bctiool: . Ochobr
Budget. 324 yea--452 no. Mon­roe,
285; VVashlngton, •208;'and
Suchan,- 207." Parolaf—383—to-
- -1|
Marshall, 344. - .
. Atklntoit School: School Bud-,
get, 314-314. ' Monroe, 107;
'Waahingtbp, 193; Suchan, 163.
PATDla,* 324 to- Marshall,- 206.
BayvtewAvenua Scftoo/; School
Budget, ~ .340 yM~564, no.
(Cost. oaPl«e 12)
are among the 12 seleged to qompete f«E-ihe-flrat Miss Long Island Fi
SeboJarBhlp Pageant. The.flnats will be held this Sunday, May 22.
beginning-at 8:30 pm, at the Freeport Recraatton Center, .where this
photograph was taken. Tickets, at SI for adults and SOf for students
: and senior citizens, will tie .sold .at the door beginning at 7 pm. The
-Paiaeant'a winner win go on to thS-Miss NewiYorfc State Pageant and
a chance at the Miss" America title." From top of lAdder to bottom are
Maureen Swan, Cathy Pollard, Deborah Jones, Sultlna Smith and
Jeanne Svanilrillk. Standing (I- to r.) are Erika Wachtei. Gloria Fritz,
courtdedsion that would prevent
it from barring the Association for
the Help of Retarded Children
(AHRQ from maintaining a' 'bos-ter*
at7 Cedar Street. Frecepori
Mayor William White told THE -
^^^^^ _ ^ LEADER this week that he had
f7eb5Sfi^iBinyT6IKsn"'^
garten ' ceed wtth the appeal. - -
. I n March, State Supreme Court -
Justic David Gibbons ruled that
the AHRC's proposal was not "an
institution, tnit rather is designed
to replace the usual institutional'
"setting" With"-** thencreaSon "of a.~
fainily unit, living as a single
housekeeping unit."
The Village had argued that the
hostel for eight mentally retarded
could"
Miss Long Island TpJBe
^Chosen HcireSundoyl
FREEPORT - Preliminary jnd^g in the first Miss Long Island
Scholarship Contest was held last Friday night. May 13, at the Freeport
Recreation Center. Over lOO people were on hiid when 21 young
i,^i^c frnm T/mg UlaTif^-rmnp^^ to becmne cntite^ants in the contest
which win be held Sunday, May 22, at the center.
Th? Miss Long Island Scholar­ship
Pageant is a- first ^ep
toward the Miss America title.
The E)geant's winner will have
, a chance to go fo" the^'Css New
York State contest. Among tfie 12 .
nnmarried ladies', 17 to 26 years
of age, firom Queens, Kings,
Nassau and Suffolk counties, •
who came through the prelimi­naries
are two Freeporters, I.JTfian
Knoeller and Shelly Peiken. The
others are Ellen Ann Salka,
Hempstead; -Jeanne Svandrilik,
Xevittown; Sahini" Smith, Hemp-"
" s t ^ r TErika Wadilel and
Deborah Jones, Baldwin; Snsan
Alpem. Rego Park; Cathy
Pollard, Brooklyn; Gloria Fritz,
(Cont. on Page 12)
young "• women could t>e consi­dered
cither a "boarding hous^'
or "an institution" or a "multiple
dwelling.' AH of thiise are specif-icaHy
forbidden on the proposed
site by local zoning ordinances.
~ At fee time of the Court de-'
cision. White had pointed out that
while he did not believe the
presence of the hostel would
necessarily lowpr property values
in the area, the village already
(Cont- onPage 12)
THE RRST SHOVELFUL OF DIRT from South M*ln Street marked the
offk:iaI groundbreaking for tha new Freeport Mail. Present at the cer»-
-monles wae (1- to r.) Larry Qieblriai. of iiTlnga. Aiax Khanamlrlan, ct •
Hunter's, co-Chalrman of the Retail DMslon; David Schlff, of Free-port's
Community Development Agency; James Dunne, the village's
Director of Planning and Community Development; Gerald Cruise,
Proflram Manager, New York Area Office, HUD: Freeport Mayor
William While; the Malt's architect Barnard Rothzald; Carl Kalser-
.man,.of the archllecfa office; Arthur GeIder,.Mlcon Construction
Company, the "contractor for tha Mali; Norman Sctuneiing. l>re8ideot
of the Freeport Chamlw of Commarca; Norma Brauxi, who represenl-
'ed Congressman Mbrman Lent; Jim Lyont, Village Treasurer and
member of tha village's CDA Task Force; and Superintendent of
Public Works, Ed Prefer, another Task Force member. Greetings were
sent from .Congressman Lent and Rotjert Cunningham, Assistant
Director of New York area HUD. (A LEADER photo).