The-Leader_1978-09-28

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GUY LOMBARDO-GOLD CUP
IWCE SPECIAL
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FREEPORT
BALDWIN
ROOSEVELT
MERRICK "" LEADER FREEPORT'S
OFFItini
NEWSPAPER
43rd YEAR. No. 22 FREEPORT. NEW YORK. SEPTEMBER 28. 1978 PRICE 15< PER COPY
Power Boat Race Back In FreepI oI rt
Village Receives Lombardo Gold cJp Will
Safety Award '^
SAhE STflEET^^.Theviliaoe'of.FrMport received especial:citation
frbmvihe'AmericanAutbmqblle'Association for significant Improve-nwhtslin
its.pfldratrla4^8afely |>rogram. ph hand, to receive the pre-
' sentatioh>Bt si JuhchMn cei^fhony.'lrt NeWvYorK-City were Deputy
Mayor Dopthy Storm (second from r.)and vljla^e police Lt. Jpseph M-Bpland
(second from I.) Theiward'was presented bsTJames P^Metton
(r:). New YorK.State CommissIoher.or'MQtor. Vehicles, and Harold <:.'.
- Meyers (I.), president of the Aiitomobiis Club of New York. --'.
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first Sciiodi^i^^
Season Report On Pre-K, Work
Expierienc^;^rpgram, Donferences
"- .; " -byMeredithMaiiitzas
FREEPORT - The Work-Experience Program offered to students" at
Freepori High School was the featured presentation to a larger than
usual audience at the first Freeport Board of Education Meeting of the
sch(X)l year; held last Wednesday evening. SepteiTiber'20. In addition,
(he board introduced "an innovation in its meeting format: hereafter,
the board will make a Board Re- . •.
who do not yet.speak english. we
"were able to hire some teachers,
this year, who are themselves bi­lingual,-
,as replacements for
teachers who resigned. The
superintendent emphasized that
the thrust of the Freeport pro­gram
is the "English-as-a-second-
Iangiiage approach."
Twenty-fwo differei^ cultures are
represented in our schools.! he,
s«d. "Our first priority is to get.
port' to the public each" month
about conferences they have at­tended,
visits- to legislators,
problems confronted' by the
board, and similar activities.
School board member Sara
Holly, in this first Board Report,
described the Nassati-Suffolk
School Boartls Association Work­shop,
held at Huntington Station,
which, she attciided as the repre-
, sentatfvet fnini ^FreeporL'r .The. ^
;^-;Levittgwn.;dedsion-Gai-whidi.the.^the;chil
~ "' ' as soon as
NEW YORK CITY - At a
luncheon meeting held in New
York City on September 2(). the
village of Freeport received' a
Special Citation for significant
improvements in its pedestrian
safety program.
The award, presented by the
American Automobile Associ­ation,
was accepted by Deputy
Mayor Dorothy Storm and village
police Lt. Joseph M. Boland.
The citation is based on what
the AAA terms a -dramatic"
50% increase in. the village's
pedestrian program activities
during the past year. Th? im­provement
encompasses 'the
areas of school safety aiid public '
- information and education, school
6idetyy^attsis. -.'_ police jptesetitai-tians
«and.pre-schoolet andsenior
cftizeo'progrlinsi-^-'"-- •
Thc'lucheon honored represen-
• lattves -tjf /award-witming": com­munities
in New York State's
southernmost counties, the area
served by the Automobile Club of
New York.JThc; club is the local
affiliate of the. AAA. which coti-ducts
an inventory of community
pedestrian safety programs each •
year. • .
This year, reports -from'more
than 2.500 communities in all
parts oTthe nation were evaluated
by a panel of leaders in highway
and . traffic engineering, motor
vehicle administration, enforce­ment,
education and traffic
safety. •
. Judging is dope by a National
Board of Judges, composed of
leaders in the fields of. highway
and traffic' engineering.' motor
vehicle administration, enforce­ment,
^ucation and geiier'al
traffic safety. .. _
Defermlne National Champ
FREEPORT - After a 13 year absence, offshore power racing is re­turning
to this waterfront village as the First Annual Guy Lombardo
Gold Cup is run Saturday. September 30. The race is the last of this
season's offshore circuit events and will determine the national cham­pionships
in a sport which sees compel iiors going up to 90 miles per
hour;
Famed Pianist
in Concert :
A close battle is in the offing in
the open class (larger boats)
as Joe Ippolito and Betty Cook,
the only fenule participant, begin
with points accumulated to give
them the number one and two
standings respectively at nee
• time. Cook is 55 years old and
took up .the sport five years ago.
. Sponsored by: the South Bay"
Petforniance Association.of Bay-port,
the race is name^l for Guy'
Lom'biirdo,-late bandleader and
raceri wJiq was a ioag-ilme resi­dent
of Fn^port. - :'•'.'•
Boats On Panide'
Twenty of the boats, which
range up to 35 feet long, will
inake their first appearance on
Thursday. September 28. at
6:30 pm when they will be pa­raded
through the village. The
parade.route starts at the Guy
Lombardo Marina (foot of Guy
Lombardo Avenue).' north on
Lombardo to. Atlantic Avenue,
east to South Main Street, north
to Merrick Road, west to Lom­bardo.
south to Front Street,
west to Ocean Avenue, south to
Richmond Street; east to Wood-deft
Avenue*! north to Front
Street, east to Lombardo and
south to the Marina. The boats
will be accompanied by the Free-port
High School Marching Band
With the Freeport Fire Depart­ment
Band playing at the review-
. i n g : stand immediately outside
the Marina. -' " _: ^
. The'crafts will also be on public,
"rr d&play at the. Marina all day"~"
Friday. September 29.
At 9 am Saturday. September
PobUcCaa
FoUoWRace .
At 9 atn Saturday, Seiptember
30. upwards of 40 boats will
leave the Marina for Jones Inlet
for the • race start at- 10 am.-
The race course is 178 miles for
the larger open boats and UO
miles JTor the smaller peif ormance
craftsiThc etilire. race expected
to take between two and rwo-and-a-
half hours..'; "•;
With the cpiirse extending from
IHre Island to the Ambrose Light,
viewing from the barrier beaches,
particulariy from Jones Beach,
should be excellent. Spectators
will also be allowed to watch
from pleasure crafts in designa­ted
areas. There will also be a
"Hot Wire Room" at the Marina
where the progress of the race
can be followed via telecom­munications,
charts and black­boards.
There is S25.(XX) in prize money
for the winners of the Guy Lom­bardo
Gold Cup.
APhisFor
- The Waterfront
."The decision by the South Bay,
Performance Association to hold
'uthe national championship race
in Freeport was not made until
tnid-August when village volun­teers
had just completed a special
" Waterfront Weekend.....' Still
ahead, and in the planning at the
time, was the, Second Annual'
(Cent, on Page 19)'" ft''^
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.t»urt5:2i^nnd., unconstitutional
HewJSpA State^smethod of ftind-,
ing^- ediicatkni). ^ tEe - passage^ of
Propositibn 13 in Cal'tfomia; 'and
their im{»ct onitong Island.were
the topics most discussed.-Holly.
tioting that'this was ;the largest
. attendance at a workshop she bad
.' cvetseen, said 'They .were there
Tbecaqsp'tS^'r^all havin^'prbV
^iexas.'* :.-. - ... '^ .. ^ . i ^ -^
English. language
possible." _ .. .:. .
Pre-KFonda '
In the cariy part of the suinmer,
the district was. notified that
fiederal-ftinds for its pre-kinder-;
-gartcn'^^irogram'were to be cur
radically. The district fifed ao
•' amended plan for additional fund-.
- togrJJitimately. with the Help of;
many peopleJndudfnf^ parents,
. , • ,—- ...commanity wofkeis.-aaJ.iCbh--
. IPiogrnn • -~ gressnan Nonnan Lent's staff;
. rrrTbe SepteinbCTiop^nmg of ,he district picied ap iMagh.
• -_*chorfspro«dM very .smoothly^ extra faiMBngfo par an additional
Donald Ostlow. Sup«intendei5t pre-K tescfan^ so that they might
rinrPreepprt
; - FREEPORT .-.David. Bar-min,:
who has been hailed as "among ;
the greatest of the. great":1)y..» /
Dutt^'hewspaper.'will be'playiog'-
fh concert in Freeport this conung, v
Saturday night, ^September' 30.'*
Sobscripj^ tickets to the event. .^
the opening presentatibnjif this^
season's;.- Freepon ;, Community",
Concert series, are sold otit. The
- pianist'wiD be petfomung at:
. Freeport High School,/
~ P a y TT1>** • M J J T ^ ' I ^ S ^ R^-*^ TW^</V» "
of.-Sdxxils,. aimounced. There
wee two problems resulting from ;
cut-backs in federal funding..
" Costkw reminded the audience
of the termination in'late June o f
funding for the BOCES-<jperated
experimental bilingual program
and of the concern over this loss
by some parents; He explained
that to meet the needs of children
c^eTMX least a (faree-dajr progranf
;to an cinldren enrolled in pre-Kor
on the waiting list. '^'•~"
. Jobs Far Stadoii
Ronald-Braz.- the distrkt>
Work-Experience. .Cbordinator,
outlined the Woirk-Experience
Prograin whidi has been offered
(Cont. on Page 20)
. appearaaoeUni the international
-cjEUge in fi& IUtive^ Israel with the -
^itsraiel. Pfolharmonic-tander'thei
' batdo of'-Dimitri Kfttropoulds'.'''
.Maestro Mitropoalos was so .
; impressed witb' the'pianist's-
' rendition jof Robert - Stanx^'
•'Second Piano Concetto." that
be immediately urged Leonard
(Cont. on Page 3) _
' : P^llc ;H0ari^ Planned On
J " $ 1 i ? ^ l i t t n 1^
r-FREEPbBTrTwo;publicheair- "; an^vin'g/for''fai>ds;iflader the
ings have been sch^led b y ^ . - - Sinall Cities Pr%rim; Ireeiwrt is
ySage Board of .-Trustees .nexK; comjpeting -again«r.,ev«y' com-
.-week to Itear oomiaents frpni-resi--- \ ihtinitjf b the n a ^ wiuix pi^-
deiitsregardngfreeport'sfederr - latioifirfliesa than 50.00K . . "^
•ai-SnM Oties-Grant aBpiisation.- . ; In iti preapplication; the FTM-Thehearings
are'scheduled for pon ^Community; Dievelontnent
Tuesday..October 3. .and -Thurs- Agency requested- S5I5.00& for
-Ttjj, fVt.ili..r g, « pm mt VWUjjir' Noftfi Maiw^tTget ecooomic de-
H^.;Deadliiie for the appBcation
to be subuun'ed to the U.S. De-
. partmenr of Hooniig and Urban
Development is October I6..I_ -
-. Frceport's preappticatioolfor
, $1.950.(XX) over three years re-
. ceived the approval of the federal
. govemmenf but public hearings
are ihandatory before the final
application cari be submitted. In
Velopinent iodwfing the acqais-tion
of vacant oop'^rendential
buildings, vacant l a ^ and snb-stanilard
buildings as weQ as the
rehabilitation of non-residential
-buildings J.0 create new business
facilities. Also requested" was
S300.000 for housing rehabaha-.
tipn in' the. Stevens Street area
, (Conj. on Page 6)