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IREIPORT
BALDWIN
ROOSEVELT
MERRICK "" UADEH
FREEPORT'S
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43rd YEAR. NoTle FREEPORT. NEW YORK. AUGUST 17.1978 PRICE 15< PER COPY
Tax Set At 10
Arrest Made In Cousecf By Decline In
Becrt4ng-Robbery
Property Assessments
~A?tQTOBICflUlSSA«IPS3Tl»;T>e*r.E«Hr'tod»T'B^
fjort FIrar t^^rtfwntrfnicK-Conipany J n : f ^
they broirohttiackto Freei)o.rt this past Sunday. Aufltist 13..Tha.local
volunteer fireman again took first place In the Second Battalion Annual
f(JurnamBhf.'fffeat they achieved eight out of.tha last nine yeara. They-competed
agal/ist Baldwin'OceansIde,J"6lnt Lookout, Long Beach and
Island Park: Merrtbers of the tournament learn on hand for the picture-taking
Include (L to r.) U; Rick ribldener. H. Jim Varrlchlo. John
Mauersberger, Hank Mo'lle. First Deputy Chief EJonald Mauersberger..
and Capf. Steve Wenk. ' _ .
Fire Alarm Boxes In Residehtiat
c Areas Will BerRemoyed
-FREEPORT-A request by the village's Fire^ Department to have
most fire alarm boxes removed from residential areas v^as unanimdusly" -
agreed toiby the Freeport Board of Trustees at their Monday night
meeting. August 14. The three members present -— Mayor William
• -• White and Trustees Tom Lovclidge and Wayne Jordan — approved the
motion toliave the boxes removed _.. " ,', ' ; .
An application had been received
by GB-MS Reality to change-the
zoning froin Residential "A"
to Busintes "A". The attorney ;
for the company explained last,
week CTHE LEADER. 8/10/78.
p.l2) that his client was consider­ing
the property for retail stores. .
-White suggested' the public
bearing be Scheduled, a month
away to allow for the piiblic to _
learn of the, proposal. He.nicn-';;
tipned that tie had already beard -
-from r some residents on the
matter.—- - _-"-• •
FREEPORT - An arrest has
been made in the brutal beating,
knife-point robbery that occurcd"
Woinesday, August 9, at a Grove
Street stationery store.
The incident first became
known through a phone report
from what police describe as "an
excited female," a report that
sent Police Officer Locke to 47
South Grove Street There he
foun d theistoreV76iyearDld pro­prietor,
Nicholas Loris, lying m a
pool of blood.
' At approximately 8 pm, ac­cording
to Lbris, a male with
blonde curly hair entered the
stbre ,and. asked-,foc a'-pack' of
«i^m.ttes;-Biit as Lprls.moved Me'z
;luBdr.the tastotefi' thlsTBiiJa.fdl-'
lqw'»i iumT^bbed Jiiin, held a:-
kiiife to his throat and demanded
money. Lwis ernptied his pock­ets,
handing over betweeen S50 to
S70. v:..;,; - : • . .
The man then began repeatedly
striking Loris, fracturing his nose^
and several bones on the left side*^
of his face.
By the time Locke arrived, the
. injured Lqris was' having difficulty
remembering the assault dearly.;
but he did recall seeing another
man in the store: a white male
with his leg in a cast, standing oh
. crutches. , • .
- __Suhsequentty_i_pickcd -^ap_b'yir.
FREEPORT - At a special public meeting held last Monday night,
August 14, the Freeport Board of Education set the school tax rate for
1978-79 at $17.89 per $100 of assessed valuaUon. The $17.89 figure Is a
10< increase over the .928f tax rate approved by voters June 20. The
additional 10< does not reflect any change in the budget which, passed
on its second submission, re-^ . ^ , ^. „ . - _ „^ ^u J
mains at $20,890,998. Instead. °°^ «>« '»« of properties that
the increase is needed tocompen-Wd '>^° granted reductions In
sate for a decline in the distnct's "*«"°5°!f • A gentlemen ^ o
assessed vahiatiom -^ .^Identified himself only as Mr. K.,
from residential -^as except
where' they were' near schools,
hospitals and 'commercial, esta­blishments.
A fire;dpeartment;
spokesman Iater„ pxpl^ed that
' each box would b'e.judg|ed on an.
individual basis. In answer to a
question from THE LEADER, he •
noted that-^Joxes in pnnrimi^ to
aparbnent houses w ^ d cert^unly
be evaluated.
•. Presently, there are-approxi-r
faiately 190-195 fire alarm boxes
throaghout the village. During
the first half of 1978, there were
353 general ilams, 154 of whidi
. were false alarms. Of these, only
r 28 were telephoned in. The rest of
tbie false alarms — 126 of them
-^.were box calls, -t
--^TTie aepaieiitiEia'srEbft'-ftiunciin
nptedthatihe Insurance Service '
' Orgaidzation, the agency that
..rates the variooi fire d^tricts/bai:
indicated tiat - the .village's
•carrent .rating'would be un-
"danged of the " boxes were
•" removed. —. . '
. It-would cost appnndmately
;,'$4(Tto remove each box.'
' Atlantic AveimeSezonlng
The'Boapl set September 18 for
jdate olx public heating on the_
rezoning of the southwest comer
of Sooth Main Street and Atlantic
Avenne. The property b adjacent
Freeport officer Michael Wood^
ward, the inan on crutches was
found to have not been involved
in the actual robbery and was
released.
' A'day later, on August 10, a
suspect matching the blonde imir.
description provided by Loris was
OYertakei*—in the Bronx and
charged with first degree rob­bery.
He was identified by the
arrestingofficer,'Detective John
Labarbra of the First Squad, as
David Hann(Jn,-19 years old, .a
former Freeport resident.
Seniprs Featured
On The Air
. The assessment drop, which
became known August 1 when the
Nassau Coiinty Board of''Asses­sors
released its latest tax roles
took the-Schpol Boud by sur­prise;
-When^lhe budget was first
submitted .^lasUJsJayjVeiplained;
the .BMid - 'president -.-Janes
Parola.-"the assessed valuation
figure available to us gave DO-reasonto
expect a dedine." on
•August 1. however, it be(»mc
apparent that the district had lost
a total of .$824,000 in assess­ments.
The Board had originally called
a special 'meeting.for Wednesday
night, August 9, at which tiine —
according to their printed agenda
— they were going to set the fax
rate. With the. new information
they received, however th^
tabled that point and called the
second meeting. •.- •
In the interim>.th<L£REEEP.R'L
LEADER had called the County
Assessor's office!to attempt to
at first did not Want hrrelease any—
of-the names. Aft^r giving THE
LEADER, the block, lot and
sectioo.iluiniben of tpme!6f,the
properties,' he-cautioned that it
would not,be "a smart idea for
the c6mpames'Jlifwc listed titem ..
aidrtheic-jredactiona;. (B)nt)£' .
N0TE;'S6me of tfae^sdWtantlal •-
:i:eductions .we obtained from^the—
County office* others thtoagb the
schod-district ° at - ^ e r special
meeting, and still others, later,
from the assessment roles. There ~
are many more, some much
smaller.-Most of the cominerinal '-
propertiesr we have learned at''
press time, were court ordered .
certidraries based on the recent
"Twin Towers';' case that went up
to! the State Court of Appeals.- In
otheh'tases, that we. noted, the
building on the property had been
the victim of a fire, or was empty
for several years.)
^bstanttal—reductions were—
(Coht. on Page 12)
-to the^GBB-transmissioa-tower.^—the law—--;
- . Other Blatters' ,
• The Board, agreed to "the '
-expenditure of S103.000 to inak&;
improvements in Northeast Parl^^
aid Rajuul Paiki rilmJi aii,lioUi
^in' Honsing'Impfove^ient AT»U.
The monies, '518,000 o^ whidi;
-would be eh^neers' fees, are'an-^
!eligible Community Deydopmenf'
expense and xothori^tion was
given to dsecontingeDcy funds
from year one and two of CDA
monies. -
, No one was present to cdimmeht
either fat or against a proposed
local law which would amend the
_code,of.9r^inancesJ»y adding a.
definition 'of rebuttable presnmp-
' tion of over-occupancy. The board
unanimous^ (3.<>)~vet«d to pass
•: FREEPORT --The ."Something
Special From. Freeport" program
to be heard Sunday ni^t, Angnst
20,iover_WGBB_(12.4PAM).win;
Ttatmc the eaotdiiiaW at Seaieif.
cttizeri activifiS'^fTlBrFJRparr
Secreatkm- Department;' Louise
AUndi. and Rec'Center- art.
teacher; Edith Batxm^
. Partidpants in the two Recrea­tion
Department- programs will
_also disqoss the pleasures they
derive from'the Center;
' 'JJetafls" of a contest in. wlucb
listenns are invited to partidpate ...... . .
win be announced on the progranj' QATHERI'N'Q AROUND THE BIGGEST FISH caught fn the recant
_which begins at 11 pm..Erizes wiIL_Ereepoc(-B«hlnfl J^e*tlyaJJara_oiemberj ofithejcornmme«_fro»n_the_
be given out rarh month. The Freeport Tuna Club which planned the event. Ttie flah, a 565 lb. Mako
cnrfent moiith'J prize will be • shark, was hooked byUoeDamaIno of ShellbankAnglera. (More photos
dinner for two at the Harbor View and Information on .the Fasthral In this Issue's Waterfront Supple-.
• •RfettanranttoFreeporiF^^^ cignt^.- — ^ .-.