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FREEPORT
BALDWIN
ROOSEVELT
MERRICK
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44th YEAR. No 6 FREEPORT. NEW YORK. JUNE 7.1979 PRICE 20'PERCX)PY
Trustees Question Planning Board O.K.
Emplojfee Charged Seek Clarification Of
ARTS COUNCIL RECPVES GRANT. Robert W. Mays (1.). manager of
the Preeport branch of Chemical Bank, presents a SI ,000 check to Hale
Smith, president of the Freeport Arts Council. The grant will t>e used to
provide tickets for the Councit'a Performing Arts Series to the AssocI-ation
for the Help of Retarded Citizens, the Woodward School and
. some sentercitizen gcoups. The presentation was made at a recent Arts
Couneit concert performance atFreeport High School..
Thousands View Power Boat
Race Held Off Freeporl
FREEPORT -Thousands of visitors descended on Frecport last
Thursday^ Friday and Saturday. May 3l-June-2. for the Second Annual
Guy Uimbardo/Halter Gasslc offsh(?re power boat race. The visitors
came by helic^pt^. yacht, motorized coach home, trains and cars, from
places as far aN^-ayVs AustraFta lu as hear as Merrick and Baldwin. Race
Headquarters was at the Town •
uf Hempstead Guy Lombardo Hallandale, Fla. in the Kevlar
Marina. ^ constructed Scarab hull, "Miche-
The largespectator riect iirw-T6bTighi:l!lT
Howard Qium. a 47-year.old
pancake house chain owner from
Fort Lauderdale, Fla. upset a
premier Geld of open class power
boats. Quam went from' last to
first place to win the 179-mile
race which was the third in a
seven-race natimial - circuit.
Average speed of Qoam's "Flap
Jack, was 77.6 mjA.Tt was the
first open dass win for Quam who
. has been racinj> in the off-sbo^
competitions for two years
Quam's "Flap' Jack" ivas
powered by iwin 625 h.p. fuel
mjected . Merciuiser engines.
"Top Banana" uses a set of
Kiekheader .Aeromarine units
with the same horsepower.
Riding shotgun with Quam was
Ft. Lauderdale marina owner
Keith Hazell who worked the
throtties on " Flap Ja^." -'
IppoUtio moved up from fourth
to second place nationally in
IKjUUfwith bis Freeport win
With Power
Plant Shooling^
FREEPORT - An early morning
—shooting-in-the vUlage-a-munlcl'i
pal power plant #2 led Nassau
County policy to attest an
employee of the Freeport Dectric
Department as the alleged as­sailant
both there and of a
Baldwin woman.
The man charged with shooting
his friend and co-worker and of
knifing his estranged wife is
52-year-old Michael Gerdyk.'who
had been employed by the village
since . September,' 1973 aa a
meduinic with the Electric De^_
paitment. The two victinu. were
Cornelius Regeer. said by police
to be a friend of Gerdyk'>. and
:49->^ar-d4 Marie Gerdyk. A
•i»Uce source said that Gerdyk
and Regeer had been drawn
together by their speakbg of
Dutch. Gerdyk originally came
frt>m the Dutch West Indies:
Regeer from Holland.
According, to police reports
Gerdyk was attested following
the 6:50 am shooting in the
parking lot of the Buffruo Avenue
Extension po^yer plant. Gerdyk
allegedly then ran into the power
plant and hid. but gave himself
up after police had surrounded
^he plant. _. "^
About „30_.ihinut« "later;—he-supposedly
told detectives"
questioning him that he lud also
"kUled" hb wife, a Valley Stream
elementary school teacher. A
squad - car and ambulance im­mediately
dispatched to the
(Com. on Page 10)
Two Chase
Purse Snatcher
Waiver By Lower Board
FREEPORT • The chairman of the villaRc's Planning Board (old
THE LEADER this .week that he would be willing to hold a second
public hearing on the matter of a pmptncd "sub-division on South'
-6ayv«e\^-T\venuer-John DiGrazia-said-lhalJicJclLvcr5".llhadly"jlut no
one had attended the Planning Board's public.mcciin&ji>n""ihc Halo
Home pn)p«)sal which was '~^' •
tiriijinally held Fcbruar>-14.
Although a legal notice had
appeared in THE LEADER prior
to the piiblic hearing, special
notice was not sent to owneis of
property within 200 feet of the
land. According (o a village
spokesperson, such Individual
The Trustees also requested
the Planning Board to transmit to
it the findings on which they had
based their decision. DiGrazIa
said that his Board had memos
from the viliige't Electric De­partment.
Public Works Depart­ment
and police showing no
notice fa not necessary Jot matters undue strain on services if the
—^=Defggdi!ifri;U.S^'andr-fonnfr ". Longi-lslaad rwideatr Jettyr
world diampioa,-55'yeaz old "Jaco&jr of "Did WestBunr.. came
Cbofc of Newport^ Beachr hnmr fhrrd. his 37'4^ "AJ<g_
. toed; out hecnew ^—for Hiwk" only four.numites behind
Otis year —vessel, a S2fla,(XKl the" winner. Fboitb was New.
FngBfh built and desisted Jersey driver BiBy Martin io a 39':
catamanfl.-H^ "KMaBU" locked
nke tiie wimidf^ieo. jost 16
miles:before the-fiidsh 1tae..it
blew a motor. Qaam later poiitfed
out that be was posUi^ tbe "Flap
Ja<&" forcing Cook tQ posh bet
100 mph boat as wdl. After tbe
^one driver, was beard to
^renatk that no "cat*- {crtaiittrssl:^
had yet GaUied a natknal noe. '.
Mbrntesbefbretbe "KumVliJi
bntkOown, ChazQe HcCaithy of
Wanocfc. U.U had slowed to a b.p
38'.'nop Banaa^" tittAiJUl
Cigarette named "Bounty
Hooter." Martin won eight races
on tbc I97JB world drcait. Former
AtntraDan natiooal dumpioa
Arnold Glass was'fiftb and last
open diirer to finish fai his 38'
Bertram. "Copper Kettle/'
^ Overall winner in tbe combimd
- FREEPORT j ^ Quick reactions
,and:faa'(bo(work-^'twb local
-men resulted in the capture of an
-alleged teeo'aged rougger-last-
Frk&y.Jnhel, r
The two men. John Collins, a
villige electric meter reader, and
Robert Paolik. an employee of
discussed before the Planning
-Board/ Su^ notice b required in
tnatteis before the vUlage.'s
Zoning Board of Appeals.
\ At the VlUage Board's open
legislative session on May 28, the '
Board noted, that. the Planning
Board had approved plans for the
five house subdivision which
would extend back along a cul-du-'
sac from South Bayview Avenue,
between Smith and Rose Street.
The plans would allow use of the
present vacant, fire-damaged
residence', facing South Bavview,
which would be repaired, and
four new dwellings along the new
street.
The Planning Board approved
the plans for the four new houses,
^although they would not have 75
- foot frontagesPlTpte;rtfluislte_-in -
the "AA" Zone in which the site
is located. While the presently
built house would have a 79 foot
frontage,' the four . yet uncon-structed
dwellings would have
only a 50 foot frontages. All,
DiGrazia said, would have a
minimum '^uare footage of
.7£Jffl)_tquare feet.
/ DiGrazia pointed out that the
Planning Board has the right to
waive the frontage restriction
'only in cases-or.>ub.-di3tljlein_
£Uns; other types g(x»nstruction
must seek variances before the
sub-division were-^-to-'b*--eon-stnicted;
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Residents of the area ezprcssed
some dismay to THE LEADER,
pobting out that although they
favored repair" arid reuse of the
property, they were questioning
the right of any village commis­sion
to ignore "AA" zoning
requirement*. The feeling was
that fewer homes, perhaps three,
would allow for adequate and
legal frontage.
Freeport Elks
Plan Program
ForFlag Day
FREEPORT • The annual Rag
Day program of the Freeport
Elks Lodge 11253 will again Cake
place this year, rain or shine, at
the aub House, 171 West
Merrick Road. Flag Day is Thurs­day,
June 14, and the program is
scheduled to begin 8 pm sharp.
The Elks were the founders of
Flag Day.
_^ .Tne:.cvcning!t_Bucstjpcakcr_
will be former Nassau County
Ezecutive Ralph Caso.
bait in his
McCarthy.
Gray Cadillac, gave chase to the
13: year old boy after hearing
screams from a .79 year dd
woman.
The woman had been about to
enter ber Rne Strtet apairtnient
an Township. . ' « 2 f « ^ * ^ K . 1 ^ ^ **"^
Cigarette powered b* two 400 \"S^*^K!??**'^*'™--
^^ Mercrriser envies, tach < " * y**5* P * ^ ' - . .
vwiHiloo i»K>uo. »-«. — aroond the boOdlng as the
village's Zoning. VtOtr^~'ot AfP ^^-
peals. One of the questions raised The community is invited to
by tbe Board of Trustees -is—'"end. Ezpectcd are members of-iwhether
or not the Planning fnfemal and patriotic organ-
Board really has this legal tzatioos located in Freeport and
aotooomy. ~ —'•— neighboring towns.
tbe race cn-> -tt^.
enipnes.
•ihe- ran
total points, each having taken a
first and tUrd ptaoe hi tbe pre-jnonttwDBalioualnce^
Less tinn Vnnnaie htHoi first
place Qom was last year's U.S.
lunoMBp. Joey ^ppoCtio of
sbact»_ .103.3': lule •ptodoctibBl
raccloefotbdat to fidsbjras:
'llAUi 0.^ « W CilwB.ifriwnr
by Joe Colt of R. Uoderdale,
Ha. but it WM pesafized-.five.
r'i*"^'* foe ranntng jhnwgh tbe.-
spiectainrfleeitwioel-—.. .^. /L
Thirteen open boats started
e-snatcber then
Hdlng as
wtMBsn-sereaflMd. Coibns- and
PatOik etdr jotted the. rtmaing.
ah and gwre chase, "
iat5anrnenigbway"i
Beach Aventie.' . .
The vicda later indentified tbe
caaghtyocth as ber assagant. He
~wftf takes tot NassaaCbantyc
Famity CMzt and then to the
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A SOLEMN OCCASION. FfMport's OoQ SlarMottier* ww« honorwl
Mitm r«o*nt M«merfaU3»ye«r«mehi«» field following pm pvadt this
1>«sr May 30: The {^vadr.'whlch began a^the high MtM^t, condudod at
th« Freeport Mentorial Ubrary. where the oeremoniM were Md.
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