The-Leader_1979-03-08

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FREEPORT
BALDWIN
ROOSEVELT
MERRICK
LIERARIAM ., ' '
UASS.M' CT.' HISTORICAL UUSE^JU
ElStUliOiER PARK
EAST UEACOir. N Y 11554
43rd YEAR, No. 45
THE LEABER FREEPORT'S
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NEWSPAPER
FREEPORT. NEW YORK, MARCH 8.1979 PRICE 20* PER COPY
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II le Wilts Twice in Court Cases
Officers Installed CSEA/Green Cases On
At Woodward • ,^^, _., , -
Sanitafion Dismissed
HOLDING THE GAVEL OF OFRCE. Audrey Sander* (c.) of Freeport.
newly InsUlled {iraaident of the Board of Directort ot Woodward
Mental Health Center Jajlankediby^w aUfI otftoort. From (I. tor r.)
are Irving Zipfnf second vlc8^)re8ldent; Joan'l.evy, aecrelary; Philip
Rothtjium. treasurer, and Seymour:.Blum."tlr»t-vlce^>realdent^ The
-Installation ceremony took.place VVedneaday nloht,-'Tebruary,,2&i_
during a dinner meeting at the Cenfer. ;• •
Village Clerk Upheld In
Ab£^ltf<^Bollbt
FREEPOBT - Village Ocrk Tom De Vincnoo has been upheld b;r •
Nassau County Supreme Oxirt Judge Beatrice Bont^ ia a sod
brought against him by Viliage Trustee Wayne Jordan, a candidate for
reflection in the March 20ui villas;e election. Jordan had broo^t a
lawsuit against De Vincenzo, to require him to provide a member of the
Democrat's campaign staff with absentee ballot applications, wfaidi
could then be mailed by his ptditical party to but-oi-town college stu­dents.
against fraud tn the inspection of
the.application and the ballot, she
pointed out that "reason and
logic do not prevail" for. pur­suant
to BectioQ Law the applica­tions
forms4ibI] be snppQal only
upon the request of trc, person
aathorired to vofte,-his or her
spouse, parent or child, a person
residing with the applicant as a
^jnember-of his hotisehdd or the
._,„ - ^ v^ — applicant's duly authorized
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ W b T ^ ^ . ' ^ ^ Harriet KuriandSnrti^
Jordan had argued that the
practice of distributing the appli­cations
biy other than the derk of
the election fm Freeport. De
Vincenzo)' is"fblk7wed by the
Nassau County Board of ElMtions
and *-i>y many other election
boards throughout the State."
De N^ncenzo argued that a.
letter be had received from the
Ijtew-yortSute-Board of Hec-
' tkns, the enforcement agency for
^^—.:?tcdts&]yca zsisdividasl basis to^
those-entitled to receive them.
•j'-Tbe-Vmage Clerk ooted.that be.
' bad asked for the written deter-miiu^
oD from the Election Board
; because there had been a dispute
- t, dtsiag tbe'1975 village dectioo
: . - campaign..-
-,.-b her opinion. Judge purstein
' noted that tfae. <fispote was not
bow absentee baUots axe (fis*
"^ -~ ftSmted dsewbere or at « prev-
. ions, fine. .^Ttipr'firactke aiid
^" 7'napbpdert's motiyatignf." abe
. wrote,-"ant bjott Itirieraiit to, tbe.
issue at.' Vaxi- ttspaoiax's
naOeilhttim/'' - __ _ .
jaagBT "• • •h»e-Vg>ie=43qC
.ofni&ia.^ the ^ Jaw: ^ipGeaUe; to
i^ge^ -tlections tcgmiea • > -
"quaBfied eiectnr.'wbe dcjJrea,>.
baBot. to. make wiAtea appiici^
fSoo to tb^ v3bge derk oo. •iarai'
prescdbed by the tfatebocrdoT
", cfcriiOBS-'and SBppfied by the
TiBacecieifc. Aftboa^ Bntsteia
'.notes thexe . ate <a£q;Batds
bad^^requerted 100 appIicalkMMr—
did not Kffl«tKn'My~eirOMic^
categSfcs. ' • •' .
Pe Vincenzo said he antld-.
pated other lawsuits by the
politial candidates.' "This is a
cfaeap'^way for a candidate to
gennate pubfidty." he charged.
-'Tbe absentee baDots are bot a •
sign£Rcant factor' in Village
electioas. Tbere may be 50 to 100
ssdi ' badoU. depending on
wfaptber it is a mayoralty eiectioo,
oat of maiy" thousands of vofes
cast.: and the absentee -votes
.fividc-jecty evenly among
'nudofcandicbtes."- —_..,-__•._.
Bofcii>-that,
FREEPORT - VUlage resident
Audrey Sanders vb-as installed as
the new president of the Wood­ward
Mental Health Center
Wednesday night. February 28,
at the Cditer's annual board of
directors' dinner-meeting. Swxart
ing in Sanders, and the rest of the
slate of officers and members of
the board of directors, was Thel-ma
Schroones of the U.S. Depart­ment
of Health, Education and
Welfare. Schmones is Chief, Fa­cilities
{Yojects Grants and Man­power
Development, Rehabili­tation
Services Adminlstradon.
Commenting on Sanders' as­sumption
of the presidency, the
HEW spokesperson noted that
this is the first time in the' 22-year,
hlstoiy oLihe Frceport-based fa­cility
that a woKuia bas1>e& B£-
'tect£d as tlie-ddef-officer ofthe-
- Vbax6 of directors. ,Stie pointed
bat. libwever, .that, the feminine
touch lias never really been lack­ing
at Woodward, given its active
volunteer group, and tlie pres­ence
over that span of time of its
Executive-Director, Gertrude
Berman.
Woodward Mental Health Cen­ter's
other officers are Seymour
Blum, First Vice-President; Irv-bg
Zipin, Second Vice-President;
IMip Rothblum. Treasurer; Joan
Levy, Secretary; and James Led-erer
and Morton Pollak, Past
Presidents. Board members are
Fred Aocarino. Lawrence EDner.
Robert Erwig, Jadith Evall, Mar­tin
Gach. Bas-Ami .G,rodfflan,
Charles Lazarus. Larry Levy,
Daniel Mandel. Mvron Mills,
Marvin Price,'Adolf Spsenman,
Jr., Martiti Rotiibtum. Andrew
" (Cont.onPageie)
Fireman Dedicate
Memorial T o ^ -
FallenJDommde^
FREEPORT - The private caning of village resident's garbage will
probably begin by March 15. Mayor William H. White said at Mondsy
night's village board'meeting. The prediction was'ln respon&e to a
scries of questions asked by a representative of the local CSEA unit.
White referred to a Supreme Court decision rendered earlier in the
day — Monday, March 5 — which
dismissed a petition brought
against the village by the CSEA.
"Now." White said, "he (the
private carter. Five Counties
Carting] can go full blast."
. Although the contract with Rve
Counties was approved by the
board of trustees on January 29,
two law suits had sloM^ed down its
implementation. The CSEA case
was the second of the tM-o. both of
which have Ijcen decided in the
village's favor.
, The CSEA had claimed that the
village's contract with . Five
Counties was the awarding of a
"franchise." for which there
must first be. their brief said, a
public hearing.
In his decision. Judge Beriuud
McCaffrey quoted Webster's
definition that a franchise b a
contract for public woriu or public
services. Semantics should not t>e
the issue, the Judge said, basing
his decision instead on sections of '
the State village law which says
that a village can collect garbage
either directly through its em­ployees
or by contacting contract­ing
with another person. Another
section of the law, McCaffrey
pointed to as he dismissed the
CSEA's petition, specilies the
powers of the t>oard of trustees
and allows them to grant such a
contract.
In the other sanitation law suit,
a Freeport resident,-Dorothy
Green, had asked to "have the low
bid voided because the bidder did
not submit a complete operational
~ plan explaining exactly how each
odDection route would be covered.
_ in {good weather or bad.
Tbe'viDjige cooteoded that thir
was a "minor technicality." and
the award of the contract to the
low bidder, rather than a higher
bidder, was in the best Interests
of the tnmayers who would save
about $450,000 a year (over what
had been estimated the municipal
department would-cost)-with the
low bid contract.
State Supreme Court Justice
Andrew DiPaola dismissed the
law suit, stating that there were
no legal- gtounda. DlPabla .said
that the a^ardiag of the «(Mitract
to Five Counties was. within the
discretion of the village board.
A village spokesperson pointed
out this week that the- current
issue of Reader's Digest contains
an. article detailing now munici­palities
throughout the nation are
going to private carting for the
:economics realized.
Petferauace Bond
WmCotneWlth
TbeCootract
Mayor White also told Joanne
Schrank. of the CSEA. Monday
evening that the carter's per­formance
l>ond will be delivered
with the contract. He agreed that
it would only be for the first year
pointing out that the contract
specified that the bond be posted
for each year in the amount of
each year's contracted cost.
In answer to a question posed
by Ellen Extract, another resident
and a candidate for Village Board.—
White noted that the 60 days
during which the municipal
sanitation employees were to -
-remain-on the village's payroll——
unless _thcy_were-pl«tyd some- 1
V-.
where else — had not expired and
(Cool. onPioi~15r~'
FREEPORT - A special memor­ial
will ~t>e dedicated by this
Freeport Fue Department to their
late brother firemah. Jerry P.
Cotignota. Tbe cerernonies will t>e
held Sunday March II, at Village
Han beginning 1 pm.~and the
public is invited to attend.
Tbe special memorial has been
created by the firemen of En^ne~
Company, who foagtrt side-tnr
side with Cotignola onta bis death
to a fire on tne Freeport MalTin
Jasnaty. 1978.-
Fbnowiag the dedication, the
be bid -told: tiie .Detnbcxat's ,
'attorney; Afvin Doffman. ibat be^
cbold; caS (be New Yot*-State:
BowdofEIcctinnsfeeaa
In expectation of anothear- uwsiut:
before Elecdon Da^y. De VbioeazD
said tbat. in 1973, ajcandidatr had;
lost one in en ytteaipt to dumge
(Cant on Page 16) .
MieiJuial '"wgi- be petuuueudjp'
placed bi tbe-vestibale «f VilUte
Han. dear the main.cintraaoe.lo^.fASMIONS ON PARADE. 94mbmt of'tlw oammitlM. piMnbtg a
Aand as: s tnooanientvtd tbe nibil^«Mon sbo«i for.the Cittiotle OHigMar* of America, vieot to
dbebp faifretm iae tnbte's I t5iine to f6 dfeaitBya. a-to4oie- -diacma tht4vttU^Ttm thorn wllttoatiaki Tiiawtiy. Martiti 27,-4pm^al
. Mayor IVaSam While- and
other nOtgc- &ffatuie% are
expected to attend tiie'dedication
deremony.' . . '
tha Fraeoon Mamoriai Ubrarv. Tickata are S2.90; and faahJorti w«t be
byStratch 'n Saw of Oraat NacK. Maidng piaos ara (aaalad i. to r.)
nagant Mary Biahay and ChairnianAgnaaLevaiidga: and (stabding. U.
to r:) committaa (nambara Jaanna Barrtatt, Floranca White.'Gloria
Flaherty and iaanna O'Kaef fa.