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.FREEPORT - This yearns Greater New Yotk Boat Show will ran
Fonger and promises to be more famU; oriented than the-in-the-water
. boat shows held the pasi three years. Billed *s the '^Greater New Yotk
Boat Show and Nanncal Festival." the event will indude activities for
-family members of an ages.- ^^^'••isi ^
Sponsored by the'Marin'e Trades Association of New Yoric. the Town
'of HemjKrtead and the.Freeport
Chamber .of ..Cammerce,- the' ten
day I show wilK open Friday,
Septunber IQ^and run through
Sutitiay,^ September ^28. "More
Slow-hoars at the Town's
Gny Lombardo Marina, foot^
Goy Lomibardo-Avenue in Free—>|
port, are 12 noan-8mi weekdays;;^.
than;40 ezhihitors^ will display . and,Sinidaysr)mdnrr^un'-9 pm
^tfaett^iMMtii:^ saodsSarttrf-rtte-'^Fnda^^^d SatiSdC»ysrrr '"'
'^vrafer.* and'otKer'-nautical equips •^-•'•-'
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Seeond Shooting On Mernck Road .
V- - - PREVENTING BURGLARIES. Fr'eeport Police Sergeant Joseph King (c.) and Police Officer Gregory.
Turner polnTout a possible entry point for a house burglar to Derilse Boocallrio (r.) and her husband,
Tom, along with their Hillside Avenue neighbor, Etta Botsakbs. With statistics showlnathat burglar-'
1; les.are the fastest growing criminal activity In the United States, King, who has received special
burglary prevention training, arid Turner, are available for consultation with horheo'wners, business
owners and organlzations:.The police officers', visit followed the September 10 arrest by the FreiBport
, pollceof Jerry Walden,'16, of 160 Colonial Avenue, and Anthony Olxonj 19, of Roosevelt, on burglary.
-charges after they were Been by a neightxir brea]<lng intoah East Seaman Avenue address. King aned
' Turner point out that one of the greatest preventive measures continues to be XM "40,000 Pairs of
Eyes" program wherein neighbors watch each others homes and prompti/report any suspicloas
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- '.FREEPORT - Another eariy
'^'ra^rning shooting was reported
• i n ^ e village this week.. At
4:36'am Monday,; September 15,
- • Angel Perez reported at Lydia E,
Hall Hospital, where be had gone
for. treatment^ that he had been
sh«jfm tile right arm. ; ,
Perez aDefged, through an
interpreter, that an uinown
male had fired two- shots at
him while he was in front of
7 East Merrick Road. Only one
shot hit Perez.
According to the police^Eerezl
said he bad been having a beer in
a sodaL'^Sgjtor'T-.West Merrick
Road: Thenrounknown men, and
a giri,. aHegedJ^ were, sitting at
another \toble^.^erez said he
bodgiit the girl a drink because';
5he was "a mce giri." When Uie
• meotried to buy him one. he said
he refiised claiming he had to
leave.. According to Perez, the
two men followed him from the
club and one of them subsequent­ly
fired the two shots at him.
In_ the fcst inddent' 11 days
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FREEPORT - in answet to pleas'for help from a North Long Beadi
resident :Monday n i ^ . September 15, Mayor Winiard H, WKte
explained tiiat the increase in-the nomber.of bni^glaries is being feh
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. North Long Beadi Avenue raidentjKeph Babitz. accompanied
by several •• fellow residents." . - .. . . ..
spoke up at the village Board of oentt. magfof-which apparently
Trnstees* open public meeting,
Bahitz tdd the bcard.tbat three'
houses in his. area .were victims'
of borglaties in a recent nine-day
period; In each case,' Babitz
'said, police responding to the call
did not appear to. know' of the
other occurrences in the ndgh-boriuxjd.
He asked the board if
more patnd cars at night could be
assigned to the ares tahelp curb
the crimes. •.
In suggesting that the increase
of burglaries was not peculiar
' to Freeport. WKte pointed to
.occur dormg dayH^ bootsJle-told
of two such incidents at Ms
own. home—;in the south part
of tJJwn.T— over an eight day.
period. In one, he.said, he wife
was in the house at 6:15 pm and
the car was tn-the garage, ^ving
an indication that the;hoase was
• not empty. Entry at the tinie. he
s ^ . was attempted through a
rear window. Last wedc. he said,
-entry was'aSempted thtougb a
friont window fodng the street.
White cited the various ele­ments
within the village police
force toat are working to prevent
stories appearing in' the^local burglari^anTlo-atdj those who
newspapers of other areas. He comlnit such crimes. Besides the
Si-J the problem was also one of _, . - • ^.. . . , . .
tiie "brazenness" of Uie iiid- . (Com;_onPage16r .-.._.
6lpter"Crcish";
jusf A Lqnding
. FREEPOOT_T Rjst gportsof a^
^belic«^>ter crasB'Tiie^^' nighf,'.
September 16. jat: the-foot. of
Wooddeft Avenoe; turned oat to^
bejost '.the man who ome to ;
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In tins case, tile nuQ was Dr.
rharifs KrlTnan^whoJanded.lmL_
helicopter co .usually.- unused
property south'of The Sduoner's -
parking lot. just, west- of Wood-cleft'Ayemie.
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_ Dr." .Kelman,. a* noted eye
surgeon.who operates st Lydia\^
- E. Han Hospital in Freepott;'
often lands there, according to
local t»isinessmai and area resi­dents.
He has dinner at The
Schooner, whose owners also own
or'lease the prupetty on whidi
Kehnan landed. According to
Frank Fiiieo of The Schoonet,
Kriman had their permission to
nse the land for the landing'.
—Becatise.of the report of a heii-copt^
crash anonymously tde-
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A^PECIAL WEEK; Freeport MayorWlHIam White presents repre­sentatives
of the Daughters of the American Revolution with a procla­mation
setting September 1 7 ' ^ ^ Constitution Week. Accepting are
;'Mrs. Edward Davis (c), Otainnan of Constitution Week,*and Mrs.
William Daube.'^Regent. Ruth Rbyd WoodhutI Chapter. DAR. The
- pAR win have an exhibit at the, Freeport Memorial Library during the
week and lirges all Freeporters to fly the American flag during that
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